User talk:Polyglottalstop

Your image question

I'm not entirely certain about this, but there once was a big discussion about old USSR copyright terms and public domain status, here. Apparently, part of the result was that "Pre-1943 Soviet documents published anonymously, by a company, or by the state are in the public domain" (owing to a 1993 Russian law that retroactively restored copyrights until 50 years after creation, and a US law that makes foreign works PD if they were PD in their country of origin in 1996. It's all very confusing, but it might fit your case. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:10, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Fut.Perf. Thanks for your response. I read through the talk page you linked to. I was discussing the problem with a few people on the help web chat, and here's what we came up with:

These two tags detail Russia's current copyright law:

Template:PD-Russia-2008

Commons:Template:PD-Russia-2008

These tags suggest that the specified law replaced the 1993 law and that the copyright laws therein apply to works created in the Soviet Union. This doesn't necessarily answer the issue about the Soviet state media theoretically having no restrictions. Given the substantial ambiguity of the tag and the newness (and therefore untested state) of the law, I've done the following: File:Vitaly_Bianki,_1938.jpg. Let me know what you think or if you can shed any more light on the subject.Polyglottalstop (talk) 17:37, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that makes sense. I'm not a big friend of that particular tag (see [1]), but it's what most editors use. This Russian/USSR copyright situation sure is a mess. Now you only need to quickly get the actual article online, otherwise somebody will tag it as an unused non-free file. When you create the page, please don't forget putting a link to it into the use rationale.

By the way, cool username :-) Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:49, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. How do these look? I've added the image to the existing stub until I get my replacement/expansion article written.

File:Vitaly Bianki, 1938.jpg

Vitaly Bianki

Thanks Again,

Polyglottalstop (talk) 18:02, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Very nice! Congratulations on your very first Wikipedia article. If you can expand the text to about twice its present size within the next few days, you could get it on the Main Page as a "did you know?" hook. Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:10, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, I'll see what I can pump out. I've been doing a bunch of research, mostly in Russian. Mostly online encyclopedias and magazine articles, but they'll do for a start. I've switched the fair use tag to the one you recommended. Polyglottalstop (talk) 18:15, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, wait :-( I hadn't noticed the article already existed; I thought it was quite new. In that case it will take a bit more of expansion for a DYK credit. Rules, rules, rules, that's Wikipedia life. But with the material you have, you might still make it. Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:22, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, fine either way. I ran across the stub a few days ago and decided to rewrite/expand it. In any case, with the material I have so far, I should be able to expand the text by a considerably more than twice its present size. I'm also hoping to add a Works section and a "Further Reading" section in addition to the expansion of the main text. I think the main obstacle I'd run into with a DYK nomination would be that the hook image has to be free, and thus far I only have the fair use photo. Polyglottalstop (talk) 18:29, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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