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Diliff[edit]

Just a pointer to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#License fee demands for Diliff’s images since he was one of our prolific FP creator. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 11:42, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see one of Diliff's images was nominated for delisting, so I'll elaborate here on what's been going on over on Commons. What we know is that Diliff works with Pixsy, which has a rather bad reputation among free culture communities for "copyleft trolling". It's a process that exploits the "please use this!" signal that Creative Commons licenses communicate by subsequently demanding money anyone who doesn't comply with every aspect of the license. From Diliff's own words, this applies to minor violations and to independent/small-time reusers, and not just e.g. unattributed use by for-profit companies. It's a practice that Creative Commons itself has explicitly condemned as out of line with the principles of the license. There are multiple discussions on Commons about this, and it's unclear what there will be consensus for. Forced watermarking a la Larry Philpot's images (example) is possible, which would itself raise questions for FPC (do we want FPs with big destructive watermarks). But at least as likely is no action, in which case it will be up to this FPC community to decide if this sort of behavior should factor into the promotion/delisting of images here. I don't see much point in delisting one in particular, unless I guess it's being used as a test case for future nominations. As a related aside, anyone interested in this subject is welcome to provide feedback on a draft document about copyleft trolling on Commons: commons:User:Rhododendrites/Copyleft trolling. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 17:54, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nominating two images?[edit]

Is it possible to nominate two images to be 'one' featured picture? The images in question are shown at Fight-or-flight response. I understand I could edit the images to be a single image but that'd worsen the article quality. Traumnovelle (talk) 08:56, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. You can nominate them as a featured picture set. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 09:37, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The only problem with nominating those two images are that their resolutions are too small. See Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria. —Bruce1ee ^talk 09:47, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, I took it to mean 1,500 pixels eg 500 by 300 pixels would be appropriate. Traumnovelle (talk) 09:52, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you nominate your own image?[edit]

Can you nominate your own image? TheNuggeteer (talk) 02:15, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TheNuggeteer: Yes, you can nominate your own images. However, they must be under a comparable license. For more info, see WP:FP?. _ZZ^Z 'S 02:20, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Two Gibson's albatrosses[edit]

Hello all

We appear to have two FPs for the Gibson's albatross in flight – File:Gibson's Albatross 0A2A4153.jpg and File:Gibson's Albatross 0A2A8124.jpg. They look slightly different to me too, although I'm no expert... Could they be male and female? No idea. The former one is no longer used in the article... Please advise on what should happen here? — Amakuru (talk) 10:02, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]