User talk:Roberta F.

Please mind WP:3RR on article Neo-nazism.You have broken the rule already. Thanks. Respos 04:49, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

3RR

Hi Roberta, you've been reported for a 3RR violation at Neo-Nazism and have been blocked from editing for 24 hours. When you return, please discuss your differences on the talk page. Cheers, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 08:01, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Need help in discussing a list

Greetings; if you would visit the call for discussion at this page, I'd be grateful for your input. Thanks! Talk:List_of_German-language_philosophers Best, Universitytruth 13:16, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I note you corrected my entry for KOSIR - if you are interested in the Billhook (english) please contact me.. Thanks, Bob (UK) aka BillhooksUK

Purodha on hr:wiki

Hi, Purodha. I'm Roberta F., bureaucrat from Croatian wikipedia. If you want me to grant bot status to your bot, please make a request on this page. :-)) --Roberta F. (talk) 14:00, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My request is at hr:Wikipedija:Botovi#Purbo_T. Thank you for your hint and for your assistance. --Purodha Blissenbach (talk) 15:57, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bot status on hr:wiki granted. :-)) --Roberta F. (talk) 17:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you again for setting the bot flag so quickly :-))) --Purodha Blissenbach (talk) 17:46, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Motovun image

Hi, I've seen you've included a picture taken from flickr in the Motovun Film Festival article. Pictures in infoboxes usually have captions to explain what is shown in the picture, please include some description. Thanks :-) Timbouctou (talk) 23:59, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

South Slavic languages

Calling a good editor a "vandal" for cleaning up a dreadful article suggests you are not editing in good faith. Please take any points you have to the talk page, but don't revert to a barely legible version of the article. kwami (talk) 11:42, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The edit wasn't unsourced either - I added the reference to a standard academic textbook on the Slavic languages. Your edit also wiped out an interwiki link, and reintroduced numerous spelling and grammatical errors. It's an easy mistake to make, but please take more care in reviewing edits, and avoid wholesale block reverts where possible. Best, Knepflerle (talk) 12:02, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For me there is no good editor per se, but only good and verifiable sources, do not call on good editors, but on arguments and sources. Your edits regarding South Slavic languages are actually original research. --Roberta F. (talk) 11:42, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"original research"? Please see directly above: "The edit wasn't unsourced either - I added the reference to a standard academic textbook on the Slavic languages". Here's the edit, sourced to Roland Sussex, The Slavic Languages, Cambridge University Press (2006). Knepflerle (talk) 18:48, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here's scientific opinion against.
Miro Kačić, first director of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics.
He opposed the grouping of Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin and Serbian into a diasystem, because in his opinion the application of the term "diasystem" to a language is very questionable. He gave the following argument: "The question is, how to determine the language as a "diasystem"? It would be easy to put all Slavic languages into the category of a diasystem (it is only a matter of criterium), so it could easily be said: Slavic language as diasystem etc". Source: Hrvatski jezik Miro Kačić: Zašto hrvatski ne može nikako biti hrvatskosrpski (excerpt from the book Jezikoslovna promišljanja, Pergamena, Zagreb, 2001., ISBN 953-6576-12-2 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: checksum.
This might help. Kubura (talk) 02:41, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Prozivanje

Da si procitala znala bi: iako se u drugim stvarima sa tobom ne slazem, slazem se da se u njegovom slucaju radi o originalnom istrazivanju kao sto si ti iznad navela. Imas mozda jos pitanja? --WizardOfOz (talk) 19:48, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dobar je :) --WizardOfOz (talk) 15:56, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Na hr:wiki ne znam da se dogodilo trajno blokiranje prijavljenog suradnika bez ijednog upozorenja, jesi sigurna? :) --WizardOfOz (talk) 18:09, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Možda sam pogriješila, ali navela sam konkretan slučaj i ako imaš za usporedbu ovakvu blokadu s još uvijek praznom stranicom za razgovor bez ijedne riječi upućene prijavljenome suradniku s prihvatljivim suradničkim imenom, bez prethodne povijesti neprihvatljivog suradničkog ponašanja (vandalizam, uznemiravanje, zloporaba više suradničkih računa...) i skretanja pozornosti u čemu griješi s ovakvim - 16:40, 23 April 2010 Opiaterein (Talk | contribs) blocked Sokac121 (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of infinite (account creation disabled - logom blokiranja, slobodno iznesi primjedbu na stranici namijenjenoj za iznošenje primjedbi. Lijep pozdrav :-)) --Roberta F. (talk) 23:22, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ne mogu je iznijeti jer sam jos uvijek trajno blokiran... bez upozorenja... a nemam se namjeru preko proxija uplicati u takve rasprave kakve se na toj stranici vode, jer me ne interesuju. :) --WizardOfOz (talk) 14:22, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Croatian

Please do not place personal attacks, such as calling other editors psychotic, in article talk pages. Legitimate points can be made without attacking people. — kwami (talk) 14:13, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How am I attacking you? I'm asking you not to place attacks of other editors on talk pages.

Removing personal attacks is not vandalism. Please stop restoring them. If the author wants to make those points legitimately, he can. — kwami (talk) 15:39, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kwamikagami: "Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Vandalism cannot and will not be tolerated. Common types of vandalism are the addition of obscenities or crude humor, page blanking, and the insertion of nonsense into articles."... "Committing vandalism violates Wikipedia policy. If you find that another user has vandalized Wikipedia you should revert these changes; you may also warn the user (see below for specific instructions). Users who vandalize Wikipedia repeatedly, despite warnings to stop, should be reported to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, and administrators may block them." Sorry, but this is a vandalism. And please, do not attack me (No personal attacks). Have a Nice Day --Roberta F. (talk) 15:28, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

:Um, perhaps you didn't review what you were doing? You're accusing me of attacking you because I asked you not to place personal attacks on talk pages? — kwami (talk) 15:38, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kwamikagami, what are you talking about? Where do you see that I wrote something about "psychotic"? --Roberta F. (talk) 14:13, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted edits which contained personal attacks, from an editor with a history of such edits; you restored them and accused me of vandalism. I didn't mean that you wrote it, but you did put it back on the page. — kwami (talk) 15:26, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Nove fotografije

Roberta F, molim vas da mi objasnite u cemu je problem sa fotografijom na Zoran Milanovic clanku da je toliko zelite ukloniti. Znam da se nas dvoje nismo slagali na Commons, i zaista se nadam da osobni razlozi ne stoje iza ovoga. Uvjeravam vas da ni iz daleka nemate temelj za optuzbe harassment-a. S postovanjem --DIREKTOR ^(TALK) 11:02, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

INA building photos

Thanks! I really believe that the Croatian independence referendum, 1991 article benefited from that one! Btw, the article passed DYK review and is scheduled to make its appearance on the main page on 15 January.--Tomobe03 (talk) 17:22, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Interwiki order

Hi Roberta, thanks for adding interwiki links. However, please try to add them in the correct place. It's a little confusing, but the English Wikipedia orders interwiki links by the name of the language in its native tongue. So Croatian (Hrvatski) should go between Hindi (Hindi) and Italian (Italiano), before Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia ... the "Bahasa" part doesn't count in this case because it means "language" in Indonesian). See my edit to fix your link addition at Dentistry, where I discovered this minor issue, for an example. Graham87 05:56, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Nažalost, budući da u ovom svojstvu ne koristim mail niti druge slične kanale, za komunikaciju mi je na raspolaganju samo stranica za razgovor... GregorB (talk) 09:07, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ovako bih rekao o pojedinačnim slučajevima:

Panorama Rijeke - i meni je sumnjivo, ali osobno bih bio malo oprezniji pri sumnjičenju suradnika.
Morčić - svaka umjetnina koja nije u javnoj domeni i ne potpada pod FoP je legitimno upitna kao motiv. Srećom, po diskusiji bih rekao da je problem riješen.
Zastave - vrlo slično kao morčić. Rekao bih da ne potpada pod FoP ("autorska djela koja su trajno smještena", itd.), čak ni uzevši u obzir da zakon nije sasvim dorečen: strogo gledajući, ništa nije trajno tj. ne traje vječno, pa ovdje treba ocijeniti namjeru da se djelo trajno izloži. I moguće rješenje je slično kao za morčić: dokazati da je motiv u javnoj domeni. Ovo neće biti lako, budući da je, kao što znaš, credit odnosno attribution kod nas za vizualne radove u medijima zamalo pa nepoznanica (u tiskanim izdanjima posebno, osim pod novijim, strogim komercijalnim ugovorima - mislim da nitko nikad nije "zaboravio" potpisati npr. Cropix) i da se pitanja autorskih prava obično dočekuju s čuđenjem.

Nisam siguran da članak 89 generalno pomaže. On naprosto preciznije definira situacije koje se imaju tretirati kao fair use. Činjenica da se djelo smije iskoristiti ne znači da se njegov copyright status time mijenja: to bi npr. značilo da su riječke zastave legitiman fair use, ali još uvijek potpadaju pod "reprodukciju" u smislu našeg ZoAP, što znači da na takvu vlastitu fotografiju čovjek ne može staviti CC-BY-SA ili sličnu licencu. Ovo je siva zona: recimo, rekao bih da je ova fotografija u redu, ali već ovu bi netko mogao osporiti (slika Ede Murtića, pod copyrightom, prikazana gotovo u cjelini).

Ne mogu reći da Elleasar griješi u kriterijima: primjenjuje ih pedantno, što pridonosi atmosferi koja se možda nabolje može opisati kao kafkijanska, uz odgovarajuće frustracije. I sam sam bio frustriran dosta puta: cijenim vlastite živce pa zato nastojim biti maksimalno oprezan pri uploadu i posebno pri unosu metapodataka da se ne bih dovodio u takav položaj. Pritom Elleasar sigurno ne nastupa iz nekakvih loših namjera - upravo suprotno, moj dojam je da izvrsno vlada problematikom i nastoji maksimalno razumjeti zakonske i druge okvire, što nije uvijek na štetu fotografija na Commonsu (v. npr. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Croatia/Archive_3#Copyright_rules_on_photos_in_Yugoslavia i posebno zaključak).

Cijenim tvoj rad - jednom sam rekao da si ti sa svojim fotografijama praktički među najproduktivnijim članovima WP Croatia ovdje na en wiki, iako formalno ne sudjeluješ - i zato mi je krivo zbog ovakvih situacija... GregorB (talk) 20:16, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, ova dva primjera koje daješ su za trenutno brisanje. A daleko od toga da su jedini. Neki put ih ljudi stavljaju iz neshvaćanja copyrighta, ali često ga krše sasvim svjesno...

Postoji razlika između totala, i fotografije koja je ograničena na neki motiv. Kad ne bi bilo razlike, ne bi bilo uopće moguće imati na fotografiji većinu događaja i motiva, što nije ideja zakona. Npr. u Sloveniji ne postoji FoP, a ipak bih mogao iz aviona s 1000 m snimiti panoramu Ljubljane na kojoj se kao detalj vidi zgrada XY, dok bi fotografija iste zgrade u krupnom planu snimljena s ulice došla pod udar zakona. Na izložbi slika bi isto tako bilo nemoguće snimiti smislenu fotografiju, jer bi se na svakoj vidio barem dio neke slike. Međutim, slike na fotografiji su vjerojatno u redu kao dio šire scene ("Predsjednik Mesić razgleda izložbu slika Ede Murtića"), a nisu ako su jedini motiv. Dakle, totali su prihvatljivi, a fotografije usmjerene na zaštićeni (u slučaju Commonsa: potencijalno zaštićeni) motiv nisu. Budući da je teško povući granicu između ta dva slučaja, ovo je nužno siva zona.

Nisam odvjetnik, tako da ne mogu tvrditi da je ovo ispravna interpretacija, ali vjerujem da bi na Commonsu, kad bi postavila pitanje, dobila slične odgovore. Dapače, ono što kod Commonsa ne volim je određena prisila da se postane odvjetnik da bi se razumjela pravila, a najviše mrzim što čak ni to nije dovoljno. No, što je - tu je: kao i kod Wikipedije, prijeđimo preko mana i iskoristimo vrline... GregorB (talk) 11:39, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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