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Please keep this in mind Wikimedia's volunteer response team (OTRS) handles copyright permissions, email inquiries from the public, reuse inquiries, article errors, and a wide range of non-public inquiries. The email service is operated and managed by a cross-project team of volunteers at the Meta-Wiki level and not by the English Wikipedia community. Actions by OTRS volunteers on English Wikipedia are ultimately subject to review by the Arbitration Committee. Please be aware that there is sometimes a backlog in processing tickets sent to the permissions-en queue. This backlog is currently 31 days. This noticeboard is primarily for Permissions verification and inquiries for text and files (hosted on the English Wikipedia) said to have been granted permission via OTRS. Requests for OTRS volunteer review of matters that have been described as OTRS comments or actions. Other inquiries to OTRS volunteers that do not involve, disclose or reference private material. Do not post Private information or links to private information (including but not limited to emails, phone numbers, physical addresses). Fishing requests (asking for all details of a ticket or generally probing ticket information). You should make a specific request and clearly state the reason for your request. Additional questions on a point, once an OTRS volunteer has indicated they cannot answer due to privacy issues. (Further inquiries and any complaints should be made via email.) Requests for OTRS access (use meta:OTRS/volunteering instead). Questions regarding media hosted on Wikimedia Commons (use Commons:OTRS/Noticeboard instead). Media questions unrelated to OTRS (use Wikipedia:Media copyright questions instead). Disputes For disputes over OTRS actions on English Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team#Dispute resolution and Wikipedia:Dispute resolution#Sensitive issues and functionary actions. Useful OTRS email addresses Removal of private or defamatory information Requests for oversight or oversight-en-wpwikimedia.org Submission of photos to be used in a Wikipedia article photosubmissionwikimedia.org Follow the instructions here Confirmation of copyright permission permissions-enwikimedia.org Follow the format given here Reports of threatened harm to self or others emergencywikimedia.org Guidance: Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm Reports of child pornography legal-reportswikimedia.org See Wikimedia Legal Policies Issues with an article about you or your organization info-en-qwikimedia.org Guidance: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help Any other inquiries involving private information info-enwikimedia.org

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Norm Sartorius page, image copyright

The image NormSartoriusHomage2.jpg copyright release has been submitted to permissions. The rights hold holder is photographer Jim Osborn. He listed it as "NormSartoriusHomage.jpg" in his permission email. You can see that is it is the same image. Or I can rename it to correspond to his written permission.

Thx, Craig — Preceding unsigned comment added by Craiger19 (talk • contribs) 08:05, 12 October 2015 (UTC+9)

File:Jasun Martz.jpg

Could someone please verify the image license on this file? When the OTRS ticket was added, it was public domain...but afterwards another user showed up (possibly the photographer) and changed it to {{attribution}}. Thanks! Kelly ^hi! 17:00, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

@Kelly: Clear PD declaration in the ticket, I've tagged and moved to Commons accordingly. Mdann52 (talk) 21:44, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Stile Project

Stile Project contains: __NOINDEX__ <!-- do not remove this. It is an OTRS-related insertion -->... why? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 02:16, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Pinging Lexein (talk · contribs), who added the line in January 2014. I wasn't able to find any relevant records. LFaraone 17:55, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Relevevent ticket is actually Ticket:2013031410000461. This looks like a temporary fix, so feel free to remove if needed The Quixotic Potato; I don't think this is an OTRS issue any longer. Mdann52 (talk) 20:22, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I have removed it. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 02:19, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Moved from User_talk:LFaraone: LFaraone 06:41, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

I added the NOINDEX because the individual with alias "Jay Stile" begged that the page " be taken down or blocked or something" because it was ruining his life, as it contained his real name. I told him the best I could do was NOINDEX after removing his real name. I would not say that the intention for removal was temporary at all. I haven't been policing the page, and cannot devote my life to doing so. So I'd say that the NOINDEX should stay, as long as there's a risk that the real name could be added back at any time. Lexein (talk) 06:33, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

@Lexein: Could we move this discussion back to the noticeboard? In any case, I don't think blanket NOINDEXing because someone could add some information to a page is appropriate. And, if it isn't supported by sources, such an allegation should be reverted and considered for suppression. LFaraone 01:41, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

NOINDEX is pointless here - if the name is readded without reliable sources, we can easily remove it, and if Google picks it up, it can easily be purged - feel free to send cases to me if you don't know how this is done. Personally, I don't think NOINDEX should ever be used on stable articles, especially on the back of a 2 year old ticket with no repetition since. Mdann52 (talk) 09:51, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

File:Lloyd and Bailey.jpg

Requesting a ticket check for correct attribution. The name of the photographer was changed by an IP editor after the OTRS ticket was added. Kelly ^hi! 02:14, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

The ticket doesn't provide attribution. And to be honest, I don't think the license grant is sufficient; "free to be used" isn't "free to modify" per se. LFaraone 01:44, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm afraid I no longer have access to OTRS, and I don't remember the details of this specific photograph. Was the response "free to be used indefinitely, throughout the entire universe, etc." a reply to a formal question about whether it can be used for any purpose, including resale and modification? If so, I'd argue that answer with "etc" means "yes to all the above". But that's just my opinion. – Quadell ^(talk) 12:00, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Daniel Clitovnici

Draft:Daniel Clitnovici has just been restored after a request at WP:REFUND; however, the title Daniel Clitnovici was salted in 2009 after articles were twice deleted due to ticket#2009010910019026. Please comment here or on the draft page as to whether this ticket gives any reason why the draft should be declined if it is otherwise acceptable. JohnCD (talk) 13:49, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

@JohnCD: I suspect this is ok and a case of mistaken identity, so ok to restore. Mdann52 (talk) 18:12, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Based on the list of teams played for, the subject of the present draft is the same person as the subject of the deleted articles from 2009. Do you mean that the 2009 caller to OTRS was not that man? JohnCD (talk) 18:17, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

It's borderline enough for me to say that I'm not going to hold the OTRS ticket against this, and I don't think that under the current procedures, this would lead to deletion. Mdann52 (talk) 18:39, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I have unsalted the title so that the draft can be published if accepted. JohnCD (talk) 22:20, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

File:Governor White 70th Leg 1987.jpg

Request a license check on the above file (OTRS ticket added by non-OTRS member). Kelly ^hi! 19:52, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Task Force 1-41 Infantry photos

Emails have been sent by the owners whose photos needed verification. Thanks.Don Brunett (talk) 21:22, 20 November 2015 (UTC)Don Brunett