User talk:Vajzë Blu: Difference between revisions

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Non-free album cover art like File:English Teacher - This Could Be Texas.png is generally OK when it's used for primary identification purposes at the top of or in the main infobox of stand-alone article about the album the cover represent like This Could Be Texas, but album covers are pretty much never allowed to be used in other ways or in other articles as explained in WP:NFC#cite_note-3. A WP:BOT would've removed (most likely today or tomorrow) per WP:NFCC#10c and WP:NFCCE because you failed to provide a separate, specific non-free use rationale for the file's use in the band's article; however, there's no way to write a valid rationale for that type of free use anyway so I've removed the file instead. Please don't re-add it or any other non-free album covers to band's article. If the band wants their album covers to in the article, the band can release a version of their album covers under a free license acceptable to Wikipedia.

Wikipedia's non-free content use policy is quite restrictive and can be tricky to understand; so, mistakes are easy to make and in fact are expected. You, however, are really starting to make too many mistakes which isn't a good thing at all. I strongly suggest you seek assistance at WP:MCQ or WT:NFCC before trying to upload any more non-free files or add already uploaded non-free files to Wikipedia articles because if you continue to make mistakes when it comes to relevant policv, an administrator may decide enough is enough and block your account. They are plenty of people at WP:MCQ at WT:NFCC who are happy to answer any questions you have about non-free use. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:49, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're simply trying to be helpful. I know that. But I am so frustrated!

The second time I posted an image, it was removed at my request for my protection.

If I do something here that seems to make sense and don't look up the rules, it stays. But every time I look up rules and try to follow them, I get a warning. The rules don't make sense. One of my instructors said Wikipedia rules don't make sense to him. And he writes for NBC. He said going by NBC's rules is much easier than trying to go by Wikipedia's. Vajzë Blu (talk) 19:26, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You archived your user talk page after you last post regarding screenshots; so, I'll respond here. I suggest you take a look at c:COM;SCREENSHOT and c:COM:2D copying because creating a screenshot of someone else's copyrighted work is in almost all cases considered to be nothing more than a slavish (i.e. mechanical) reproduction that is insufficient in creative input to generate a new copyright for the screenshot creator. The only copyright that exists is for the original source material and the only copyright holder is the original content creator. This is essentially no different from going down to your local library, taking a book off one of the shelves, and photocopying a few pages from the book. You may physically possess the copies you made (especially if you paid for them), but photocopying the pages of the book is not sufficient to generate any new copyright for those particular pages, and there's no transfer of copyright from the book's author/publisher to you just for those particular pages. In some cases, you might incorporate someone else's copyright content into your own WP:Derivative work, and thus indeed establish a new copyright for that derivative work. Even then though, the copyright of the content you incorporate is still in force and needs to be considered. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:04, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can archive your user talk page if you want, but the way you tried to do so was incorrect. This is why an adminmistrator named Liz deleted you're archive page. You can look at WP:TALKARCHIVE for more details, but you might want to ask Liz to restore your archived talk page back to it's original title and then make this one your archived page. You can move the new posts I made above back to your old talk page or you can delete them. Liz should know how to do that. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:10, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did look up rules for archiving a talk page. And I did what it said. But that was a different set of rules than are at Help:Archiving_a_talk_page Wikipedia has a bunch of rules spread out all over! Vajzë Blu (talk) 19:30, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I believe you're doing a lot to help me. Thanks. :) Vajzë Blu (talk) 19:32, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]