User talk:Yabobay

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Marchjuly (talk) 02:38, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Ivy the Kiwi? Wii cover.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Ivy the Kiwi? Wii cover.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of non-free use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:34, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

File:Logo of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party.svg

Hi Yabobay. I'm not sure File:Logo of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party.svg is clearly {{PD-logo}} per either c:COM:TOO US or even c:COM:Belgium. The lion imagery seems like it would be a borderline case even under the relatively low TOO of the US and Belgium's TOO isn't clear. While I'm sure you relicensed the file in good faith, I've asked about this at c:COM:VPC#Logo of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party to see what some others might think. Commons' policy requires a logo to be below the TOOs under the copyright laws of both the US and the country of first publication, which is unclear in this case but seems to be Belgium. If it's not, then a file can't be really be licensed as "PD-logo" even for local use on English Wikipedia. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:09, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Since the thread got archived and only one person weighed in and they're supportive of the idea that the image is PD, I'll just mark it as PD. Yabobay (talk) 12:01, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

I'm sure you meant the best, but one person (who has made less than 500 edits on Commons in more than 15 years) opining that the logo is below the TOO of the US doesn't mean that's the case; moreover, their opinion was limited to the TOO of the US, not the TOO of Belgium. Licensing something as {{PD-textlogo}} is stating that it's below the TOO of not only the US but also of the country of first publication, which seems to be Belgium in this case. The point about asking about the logo at Commons had to do with the US not being the country of first publication, i.e., asking about the TOO Belgium follows. If there was a strong consensus that it was PD per Belgium copyright law, then the file could've been moved to Commons. Now, it's possible that this file is below the TOO of the US and could be relicensed as {{PD-ineligible-USonly}}, but it would be better to ask about that at WP:FFD for local use on English Wikipedia only. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:30, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

My point isn't that it's below the threshold of originality because that person said so, but that since no conversation sprung up around this, it's not really a big deal. Yabobay (talk) 15:17, 13 June 2026 (UTC)