User talk:Sestoft

File permission problem with File:MadsTofte.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:MadsTofte.jpg, which you've attributed to Jørgen Staunstrup. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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The photo was taken 20 March 2002 by a professional photographer for the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). (The camera was a Kodak DCS560C, original retail price 15,000 USD).

Mads Tofte (pictured) was the creator of the ITU and headed it 1999-2018.

Jørgen Staunstrup, who gave me the photo file in 2019, was the second in command at ITU, now retired. He wrote yesterday in an email to me: "I can confirm that I have given Peter Sestoft an electronic copy of this picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MadsTofte.jpg taken in 2002. Jørgen Staunstrup"

Unfortunately, none of us can recall the name of the photographer now, 21 years later.

I hope this suffices to keep the photo online at Wikipedia.

Best regards,

Peter Sestoft, head of the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen Sestoft (talk) 20:05, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of File:MadsTofte.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:MadsTofte.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

WP:F11: File tagged as permission pending with no ticket in the VRT system for more than 30 days

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

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