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Bala Jeyaraman

28 Apr 28 Apr

10:48 a.m.

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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

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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? * ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia-or(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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Shiju Alex

10:57 a.m.

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Stamps/Public_domain#India See this link also. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

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I will answer the first question (regarding stamps) 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?

The deletion tag is appeared because you have used Non-free media rationale<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Madhu_babu…d=53687542>. Commons won't permit non-free images. You need to use proper license. Need to cross the license used in similar stamps. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:38 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? > > * > ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi > ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list > wikipedia-or(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or > facebook.com/OdiaWiki > Tweet @OdiaWiki > * > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >

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Bala Jeyaraman

3:46 p.m.

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The date of issual needs to be mentioned in the summary. Rest looks fine. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhashish(a)gmail.com

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Thanks a lot for the info. Here are the two pics. *1<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_on_Madhu_babu_%28Madhusudan_Das%29.jpg> *and *2*<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madhu_babu_%28Madhusudan_Das%29.jpg> If there is any issue with the license and other details pls help me. _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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Bala Jeyaraman

4:24 p.m.

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Yes it applies to coins as well. Anything from pre 1951 India is in PD. Anything post 1951, GOI has the copyright. But even for old coins, if you take a photo of a single coin you cant claim copyright and add a CC SA 3.0 license (its like taking a photo of a old painting and claiming copyright). it has to be added with a PD licence. But i believe if you take a photo of an arrangement of coins (two and more), it becomes a new creative work and you can claim copyright as the photographer (i am not sure on this, just recollecting what i read in old deletion discussions in en wiki and commons). Please confirm with editors like moonriddengirl in en wiki (who are much more familiar with tricky situations like this) - Bala On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < rsrikanth05(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Bala, I had a question. Does this apply to Coin as well? I have a bunch of coins of 1862, 1900, 1907, 1919, 1941, and one of Post Independence. I want to know if this is a problem. Also, can I licence it under the standard Creative Commons<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons> Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en>, which I use for all my photographs? --Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan On 28 April 2011 21:16, Bala Jeyaraman <sodabottle(a)gmail.com> wrote:

The date of issual needs to be mentioned in the summary. Rest looks fine. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi < psubhashish(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks a lot for the info. Here are the two pics. *1<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_on_Madhu_babu_%28Madhusudan_Das%29.jpg> *and *2*<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madhu_babu_%28Madhusudan_Das%29.jpg> If there is any issue with the license and other details pls help me. _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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