User talk:Wellingtonia

Hello, Wellingtonia! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking

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File copyright problem with File:TheStar6thEdn 4Oct1855.png

Thank you for uploading File:TheStar6thEdn 4Oct1855.png. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright and licensing status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can verify that it has an acceptable license status and a verifiable source. Please add this information by editing the image description page. You may refer to the image use policy to learn what files you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. The page on copyright tags may help you to find the correct tag to use for your file. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please also check any other files you may have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:44, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:Star 6thEdn 1855.png

Thank you for uploading File:Star 6thEdn 1855.png. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright and licensing status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can verify that it has an acceptable license status and a verifiable source. Please add this information by editing the image description page. You may refer to the image use policy to learn what files you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. The page on copyright tags may help you to find the correct tag to use for your file. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please also check any other files you may have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:47, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:1862masthead.png

Thank you for uploading File:1862masthead.png. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright and licensing status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can verify that it has an acceptable license status and a verifiable source. Please add this information by editing the image description page. You may refer to the image use policy to learn what files you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. The page on copyright tags may help you to find the correct tag to use for your file. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please also check any other files you may have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 09:51, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyrights

You have a misunderstanding about image authorship. I just changed the licensing of the three Ballarat Star uploads you made to the Wikipedia Commons. Because you uploaded the images or scanned a portion of the newspaper to upload them does not make you the creator or author or source of the image. The author of the image is the Ballarat Star Newspaper (or some artist they commissioned over 100 years ago). The source of these uploads is also not you, it's the Ballarat Newpaper. To put it in perspective, if you upload detail from a Vincent Van Gogh painting, you do not become the author, Vincent Van Gogh remains its author. I have tagged all three images as in the public domain using the Commons Template {{PD-Australia}} given their age, rather than what you licensed them as, as "self". Regarding the two local uploads that you asked me about on my talk page, two things: Why did you upload them here, rather than on the Commons as with the prior images? Who is Jennifer Burrell? If that's you, then you're making the same error of thinking the author is the uploader. These both look like they belong on the Commons, marked as PD-Australia, and having the source and author be the Ballarat Star newspaper.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:55, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]