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Feel free to re-enable https://wikilovesmonuments.us/upload now that October 1 has arrived.

See User talk:Kevin Payravi#Hi_Kevin, just wanted clarification on submission dates for USA Wiki Loves Monuments 2024, for example. -- DanielPenfield (talk) 01:44, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@DanielPenfield: will have it enabled soon! The upload period formally starts once October 1 begins in US Eastern time. Thanks, ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 01:49, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

The contest rules clearly state "but must be uploaded during October 2024" with zero mention of timezone. A reasonable person would interpret this as "between 00:00:00 1 October UTC and 23:59:59 31 October UTC+12 (that is, the last second of 31 October at the International Date Line), inclusive", in other words "any time during October anywhere on planet Earth". If you're changing the rules by requiring a starting timezone that is not UTC (but apparently not a concluding timezone) after the contest starts, then I request that you make that change explicitly in the contest rules at COM:Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 in the United States. -- DanielPenfield (talk) 01:59, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@DanielPenfield: Fair enough! I wouldn't mind following UTC, though the standard for WLM events is that they start and end per the most eastern and western timezones for that country, respectively. I've updated the rules. I've also enabled the upload portal, and I will update the landing page with the upload links closer to the contest start. ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 02:35, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Do you have a written source for the claim "the standard for WLM events is that they start and end per the most eastern and western timezones for that country"? We both know that the contest rules for WLMUS have never really been enforced that strictly and you've given people several days into November to submit for each contest. You've even allowed one contest winner to enter multiple old uploads as if they had been submitted during the contest window. -- DanielPenfield (talk) 03:28, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@DanielPenfield: see upload campaign setup and the list of campaign times. Note that not everything that is submitted via categorization on Commons is what goes into the judging pool; through the Montage tool we use for judging, images are filtered out by upload date before they are reviewed by the jury, so late submissions are not included. ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 03:39, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

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Ohio public records

Hi Kevin --

I recently stumbled across this discussion where you explained the current state of research and discussion around the freedom of Ohio public records.

This is relevant to a current deletion discussion, so I wonder if you would mind contributing a comment there about the current consensus on this topic please? (As the original nominator, I'm specifically not asking you for an opinion on whether the file should be kept or not; but you are of course free to provide one.) --Rlandmann (talk) 23:45, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

@Rlandmann: Thanks for letting me know! What an interesting set of circumstances...I'll take a look. Thanks, ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 02:40, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. There's a lot going on in some of these NWS-related cases, but it's the "public record" bit that makes this one different.

Having delved into both the Ohio code and into the case law a little, I actually wonder whether most of these types of public records are in fact free to use. As I understand it, subsequent copying is explicitly permitted, commercial use is explicitly permitted, and modification is arguably implicitly permitted. And there doesn't even seem to be a right to attribution retained by the State.

If so, it seems to me that such records would have a "CC-zero"-like status: the state would own a copyright derived from federal law, but via statute and common law be unable to actually exercise any of the rights that a copyright holder normally can.

And if that's so, then dire copyright warnings like we see on the ODOT website are actually a bit of overreach. As a precaution though, we'd obviously want to be very sure of that before we decided to disregard such warnings!

But I'd definitely love to hear more from you or any other folks who've been looking at this and thinking about it for a lot longer than I have! --Rlandmann (talk) 04:00, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

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Request for Image Removal

Hello,

I am not sure if I am reaching the correct person or doing this right (so excuse me if I made a mistake), but I wanted to request the removal of the following images due to personal privacy concerns. Since this picture was taken, I was unaware at the time that the images would be publicly posted in this manner, and I was merely a guest at the event, not a notable attendee at South by Southwest.

Thank you very much. I appreciate your understanding and assistance in this matter.

Have a great day! Andrea Rampone

P.S. Here are the pictures I would like to request be removed:

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrea_Rampone_at_SXSW_on_March_12_2024-2.jpg 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrea_Rampone_at_SXSW_on_March_12_2024-Landscape_2.jpg 3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrea_Rampone_at_SXSW_on_March_12_2024-Landscape.jpg 4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrea_Rampone_at_SXSW_on_March_12_2024.jpg Rampone (talk) 08:57, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Rampone: Thanks for reaching out. I'll work on getting those removed. ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 08:09, 30 October 2024 (UTC)