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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 47 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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File:Christy Turlington I'd rather go naked than wear fur.jpg

Request a check on the ticket for this image, as it was added by the uploader, not an OTRS member. Kelly ^hi! 22:37, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

@SlimVirgin: Ping. Mlpearc (open channel) 23:24, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

@Kelly: I'm suspicious - the claim in the ticket this is public domain appears to be countered by the website this was taken from at the time (which displayed a copyright symbol). I don't think this is a valid permission for the file, so have removed the ticket from it. Mdann52 (talk) 16:43, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

@Mdann52: - there are other files with the same ticket by the same uploader. Would I be correct in removing the ticket from those files, or are there any photos for which the permission is valid? Kelly ^hi! 17:35, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

@Kelly: this is a blanket ticket, however I'm not happy it's covering the files tagged with it (as it is just too broad, and there are clear cases, such as the one above, where it isn't valid). I'd say it can be removed from all as invalid. The email itself doesn't actually include a release, just what someone interpreted a statement on the site as. Mdann52 (talk) 18:02, 22 June 2016 (UTC)