Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
On OTRS I received a complaint that some photo's were taken from
a website. As the photo's were located on Commons, I informed the
gentleman to go to the Commons administrators. In this case they
were world war II photo's of machine guns. I told the gentleman
that even if the photos were taken from his website, it would not
matter when the photos are already in the pubic domain.
The question, as it is not possible for a Dutch admin to remove
photos from Commons and as it has no impact to remove the
pictures from an article, is it correct to refer this gentleman
to the Commons admins or is there / should there be a procedure
for these issues.
On Commons, if you think there is a copyright tag you can throw on
images you think are in dispute, which is the {{Copyvio}} tag, and
any user can add that onto the image. You don't need to be an
admin. Please make sure you put in a reason on the image page when
you think there is a problem, or try and contact the user who
uploaded the content (to be kind to a potential new user who
thought uploading random stuff from web pages was appropriate).
The tag will get flagged to a category which the admins on Commons
check very regularly, and will delete if it is against Commons
policy.
Hoi,
In this case Commons states that it is public domain. There is this
user who has just another WW II website and is the opinion that we
copied his website. I am not completely aware of how these things
are done on Commons and, I do not agree with some of the procedures
that I do know. The thing is with OTRS, I am not just some user. By
notifying me of this issue the gentleman may think he is talking to
the WMF itself while in fact it has nothing to do with the
nl.wikipedia. So the issue is also a bit bigger than just this and
that is why I ask for some guidance.
Thanks,
GerardM
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