Hi Subhashish,
Stamps are Indian govt works and retain copyright for 60 years after issual.
So image of any stamp issued after 1951 cannot be uploaded to commons. It
should be uploaded to the local wiki with a fair use rationale. (and under
fairuse, a stamp cannot be used to identify the subject like a infobox
picture, it can only illustrate the fact that a stamp was issued on the
subject and the line should be in the text for that to happen)
regards
Bala
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhashish(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Hi everyone,
Here
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madhu_babu_%28Madhusudan_Das%29.jpg>is
a Postage stamp of Madhusudan
Das<http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%A7%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%B8%E0…
was tagged for deletion, Can anyone please help me about this? What's
the policy for uploading Indian Postage stamps in Wikipedia/Commons?
And recently I have gone through few regional language Wikis where the
actual facts are changed.
P.S. the English article <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayadeva> here and
the Bengali article
here.<http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%A6%…
the English article clearly states that at the end of the controversy
historians and researchers have come to an inference that Kavi Jayadeva was
from Odisha there not a single line which says the same in Bengali
Wikipedia. In this situation I would like to ask what would be the
credibility of an article from an user's prospectives, is he going to get
the right and valid info from a regional Wikipedia?
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