User talk:Ancientcoinsofindia1

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Happy editing! Abecedare 18:38, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great coins

Hi Ancientcoinsofindia1 and welcome to Wikipedia! I can see that your insertions of direct links to the Ancient of India website is creating spamming issues, but if you are indeed the owner of the website, you are very welcome on Wikipedia! You have some great coins that could greatly contribute to the Wikipedia editorial effort. Would you like to license some of your coin images to Wikipedia (under GDFL for example?). You would just have to be a little bit softer in advertising your site: just mention the image is uploaded from your site and that you generously contribute it to Wikipedia, but you will have to take away the direct signature on the images or direct mention of your site in the articles (you can however mention your site on the image pages). Best regards. PHG 21:10, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Ancientcoinsofindia1! Thank you for your generous contribution to Wikipedia. As you agreed, as will upload a few of your images under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license (Use with proper attribution to my wesite). Best regards. PHG 22:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ancientcoinsofindia1! I have uploaded the following image Image:EranVidishaCoin.jpg under the license you requested. Best regards. PHG 23:48, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question about license

Hi Amol,

Thank you contributing some great coin images to wikipedia! However, as some other editors have pointed out, there may be some licensing issues with regards to the images you have uploaded. Can you please clarify the following two points:

Have the photographs that you have uploaded been taken by you ?
On your website you say that

The owner of the copyright allows use of any images , information in the Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license

and also

Permission is granted for linking over Internet, distribution in print form for educational nonprofit purposes and personal use. Electronic redistribution for nonprofit purposes is permitted, provided this notice is attached in its entirety and please indicate the source, with link to this Website enable reader to get latest version. Unauthorized, for-profit redistribution is prohibited. NO permission is granted for commercial use, without request ed and authorized approval.

However these two statements are incompatible, since any image released under the the "Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license" can be distributed and modified for any purpose whatsover, including commercial use, as long as you are given credit for the original. You can prevent non-commercial use by using, say, the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, but such a license is not allowed on wikipedia and if you choose to license your images for non-commercial use only, they will unfortunately will have to be deleted from wikipedia [1]. So can you please confirm that you appreciate what "Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license" engenders and are ok with licensing your images under that license ?
It would really help if you could clarify the above two points, so that we can continue to use your images here. Thanks.Abecedare 00:10, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note that while attribution-based licensing is common on Wikipedia, some editors, including myself, object to the use of images that require ongoing advertising of a web site, which is the effect of "strings attached" attribution-based licensing models. While attribution-based licenses are common and permitted on Wikipedia, an additional alternative is to make images available tagged as {{PD-self}} which releases them into the public domain by the uploader who created them. While uploading images into the public domain releases users from attributing them to you, it also eliminates objections by those editors (who I think are in the minority on Wikipedia) who feel that the public domain model is preferable to attribution-based licensing. Buddhipriya 07:39, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know, "license with attribution required" is a perfectely legitimate way of providing images to Wikipedia. I wouldn't go as far as requiring the copyrighter to release his images in the Public Domain. Here's an image I uploaded following User:Ancientcoinsofindia1 requirements: Image:EranVidishaCoin.jpg, and it seems to me totally in line with Wikipedia practices. PHG 08:07, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have edited my previous comment to make it more clear that attribution-based licenses are both permitted and common on Wikipedia, and that my preference for public domain images is entirely a personal opinion. Clearly, images with advertising watermarks are inappropriate and should not be used on articles. I agree that the image you uploaded (Image:EranVidishaCoin.jpg), which is free of a visible advertising watermark, is consistent with Wikimedia licensing policy if the photograph was taken by the uploader, as is now stated in the remark below. Buddhipriya 05:51, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Message from Ancientcoinsofindia1( Amol)

All coins are mine and the scans / photographs are taken by me . So don't hesitate to use the image or information .

You can remove the copyright tag and add the copyright details as the image used by PHG Image:EranVidishaCoin.jpg, If you follow the same i dont have not have any objection .

IFD Tag

Hi Amol, Removing the IFD tag from Image:Alaud2.JPG will not in any way prevent the image from getting deleted, since the tag only provides a link to the page where the image is being discussed. Instead you can add you comments to the discussion here and explain why the image is correctly licensed.
On another issue: you can and should sign your messages on wikipedia talk pages by adding four tildas (~~~~) at the end of any comments you leave. That will enable one to know who left the comment and when. Cheers. Abecedare 18:36, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate images uploaded

Thanks for uploading Image:Shunga.JPG. A machine-controlled robot account noticed that you also uploaded the same image under the name Image:Sunga.JPG. The copy called Image:Sunga.JPG has been marked for speedy deletion since it is redundant. If this sounds okay to you, there is no need for you to take any action.

This is an automated message- you have not upset or annoyed anyone, and you do not need to respond. In the future, you may save yourself some confusion if you supply a meaningful file name and refer to 'my contributions' to remind yourself exactly which name you chose (file names are case sensitive, including the extension) so that you won't lose track of your uploads. For tips on good file naming, see Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions about this notice, or feel that the deletion is inappropriate, please contact User:Staecker, who operates the robot account. Staeckerbot 19:30, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Information

Hello, first I love your article on your website, I have used some information with citations, but can you help me at all with this article Indian coinage, there is much information and I love this topic. Sooner or later I wish to split the larger articles off as they will get too long. Anyway Hooroo Enlil Ninlil 05:17, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]