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February 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, you are reminded not to attack other editors, as you did on Talk:Sukhoi_Su-47#Stealth. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. You are welcome to rephrase your comment as a civil criticism of the article. Thank you. EW_{_i}kist^Talk 18:30, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, edited as appropriate. Won't happen again. I just get annoyed when people are trying to protray their fantasy's as fact on an Encyclopedia talk page. - Heaney555z (talk) 18:35, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

March 2011

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II‎

When making major changes to articles, it is prudent to discuss the changes beforehand on the article discussion pages. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:35, 5 March 2011 (UTC).[reply]

May 2011

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Oculus Rift images

Thank you for uploading the Oculus Rift image. However, I note that you have marked it as public domain. Normally, press images are released under fair-use. Oculus themselves claim ownership over the content and do not mark it as public domain. Can you please point to the section on the Oculus website that marks the press images as public domain? Alternatively, if the image is not freely licensed, we'll have to remove the new one and revert back to the previous one. Wikipedia doesn't permit us to use fair-use images when a freely-licensed one is available or could reasonably be made available. --Yamla (talk) 13:41, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, wrong licence. Can you please fix it? I don't know how to edit the licence on wikipedia. Heaney555z (talk) 13:49, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If it's not actually available under a free license, I'm afraid you'll have to delete it; we can't claim fair-use there. Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion explains how, though I'm not sure if that applies to Wikimedia. You should be able to revert back to the prior image on the article page, but let me know if you'd like my help in doing so. --Yamla (talk) 14:13, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

But it is available under free licence. If I show an email from Oculus saying I can use it is that fine? Or is even that not enough for Wikipedia? Don't delete the Rift image for some 2012 prototype... Heaney555z (talk) 14:23, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you post the body of the email here, I'll take a look. I must admit, I'm not sure how you'd translate that into sufficient proof, but I'm sure there's a way. Note that it's not sufficient for them to grant Wikipedia permission to use the image. It must be freely licensed and available for others, including commercial use. --Yamla (talk) 15:17, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Heaney. You could request the people who sent you the email to follow the process for donating copyprighted materials. Permission to reuse the image can be registered with an OTRS ticket. Diego (talk) 10:13, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay this is quite confusing and I doubt they'll do that (effort), but I believe the issue is that I marked it as public domain and put it on Wiki*media*? If I mark it as fair use and upload directly to English Wikipedia, it'll be fine, right?

They can use this simple contact form. If you mark it as fair use it will be likely be contested and deleted, as people will soon be able to take free photos wearing the device - either at tech previews or when it is released. Diego (talk) 10:21, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ignore all the above links, this is the page that people from Oculus can use if they want to donate the image to the project. Diego (talk) 10:25, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, it would not be acceptable for Wikipedia to use a fair-use image. A freely licensed image is already available and it would be fairly easy to produce a new freely licensed image if we are concerned that the existing one is for an older version of the hardware. In summary, no. We cannot use a fair-use image on that page. --Yamla (talk) 13:19, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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