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Possibly unfree File:George Griffin Statue Georgia Tech.jpg

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:George Griffin Statue Georgia Tech.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 23:21, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

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File:George Griffin Statue Georgia Tech.jpg

I wanted to let you know that I've deleted File:George Griffin Statue Georgia Tech.jpg due to the deletion discussion at WP:PUF. On En.WP we do have to be concerned with Freedom of Panorama (FoP) because quite simply, the statue is copyright owned by the owner. If we have photos of it, they are technically copyright violations. We cannot host copyright violations. This being the case, there are situations where we can keep images of copyright statues. The image can be tagged as free, but it would still require a non-free rationale for the statue. (See File:King of Kings Statue.jpg for a free photo, but not-free statue). Being that we would treat the file as non-free, it must meet all of the requirements of WP:NFCC. In its current use, the statue photo was used for identification, which is not acceptable per WP:NFCC (although a non-free photo would be, as a historical photo). If there were critical commentary (WP:NFCC#8) about the statue itself (which was only mentioned in the caption) probably in the legacy section that required the need for the average reader to see the statue to understand that part of the article, we could have the image. I know this is confusing and it is a lot of information. If you understand and can get the sourced commentary added, let me know (on my talk page or ping me) and I will restore the image myself. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to me. Copyright is a messy thing. I dealt with the same issue you are going through over a year ago with the King of Kings Statue image. Cheers, TLSuda (talk) 01:26, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

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Survey for editors who mentor newcomer

Dear Wikipedia Ambassador,

I am seeking input on your experience as a mentor to new Wikipedians. This survey is designed to provide insight for the development of a new mentorship support tool on Wikipedia. If you have a moment, please take this survey, it should not take more than 10 minutes of your time to complete.

https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V2SSrhU2NFOVAV

Also, if you are able to, I would greatly appreciate it if you would send the following survey to the mentee you worked with:

https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V1quUdMZ1By3Ah

Thank you in advance for your participation, Gabriel Mugar 13:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:GT deletion

Template:GT deletion has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ricky81682 (talk) 21:49, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Film-fiction

Template:Film-fiction has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. George Ho (talk) 05:53, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

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P. J. Daniels photo

You uploaded File:PJ Daniels.jpg seven years ago or so. Do you still have contact with the photographer? I'm not sure the rationale given is enough these days. There should be an OTRS ticket made I believe that will formally track the permission. Also, the author requested attribution in the caption whenever the image is used, and that's not typically how images are attributed, so I don't know if that changes the author's thoughts on releasing the copyright. Thanks. — X96lee15 (talk) 12:32, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Don't worry about the caption bit. Looks like his website moved, I updated that on the photo. His email is info@jamiehowell.net. Disavian (talk) 02:34, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Still think an OTRS ticket is needed. — X96lee15 (talk) 03:32, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Four "missing" GT All-Americans

Hey, Andrew. As part of a clean-up project for WikiProject College football, I recently created articles for four of your former Georgia Tech football players -- Ashel Day, Phil Tinsley, Jim Breland and Rock Perdoni. All four were consensus All-Americans, which is a Big Deal in college football, as I'm sure you know. I discovered your GT to-do list when I was double-checking the links for the new articles, and thought I would give you a head's up. BTW, there's an interesting story about Ashel "Bum" Day, if you can help piece it together: he was a consensus All-American under John Heisman in 1918, but finished his football career at UGA in 1920 and 1921, where he was All-Southern. Day was the first Southern player ever selected to Walter Camp's first team, which was a Very Big Deal at the time. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:20, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for working on that! I haven't had much free time to devote to Wikipedia as of late, but I'm around every now and then. :) Disavian (talk) 23:07, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
Let me know if you ever want to upgrade the GT All-Americans in a tag-team effort some weekend. It's easier when you have the GT media guide and the NCAA records book open, and you can find a lot of commonality among players from the same university. I'm a Gator alumnus, but I live in Atlanta now and I enjoy working on the old-timey GT and UGA players because it's an education in the lore of local Atlanta football. Regards, Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:24, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

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Geographic locations

Hello — I noticed that you removed the tag asking for geographic coordinates from the article Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering because the College of Engineering is not all in one building. Please excuse me if you already know all of this, but Wikipedia coordinates aren't limited to single points, they can also indicate areas; an entire campus can have valid and legitimate coordinates. Notice that, moving up in scale from the College of Engineering, all of the wider-scope articles do have coordinates:

Ideally, each of those should also include a scale or radius, a general indication of how large an area is meant to be indicated. So far, the article for Georgia does include an explicit scale, the article for Atlanta uses an implicit scale, and the article for the South-east US lacks a correct scale. The article for the College of Engineering would, ideally, use a scale appropriate to show the entire Engineering section of the campus, including its various buildings. Given that perspective, do you think it's appropriate to keep the (hidden) category for Atlanta articles without coordinates?

 Unician ∇  22:14, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

My mistake. I don't know how to provide that in the template, though. For example, you can go to map.gtalumni.org and click the blue checkbox for academic buildings - that's more or less what we're looking at here. Disavian (talk) 22:38, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

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Nomination of Laurent Clerc Award for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Laurent Clerc Award is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laurent Clerc Award until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:59, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

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