User talk:Fastily

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Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drew.ward (talk • contribs) 04:14, 22 February 2012‎ (UTC)[reply]

Adding time stamp. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 09:14, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Closure of Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files/2012_January_13#File:NorthwesternWildcats.png

You closed as "delete", however, I see 2 major problems:

There was no reason for deletion. The image was used previously as a proper Fair Use image. Whether it was non-free or not, it shouldn't have been deleted under any circumstances.
The image was used prior to 1989 without a copyright notice specifically prior to 1981 (noted on that page with Chris Creamer Sports logo website...though Closeapple misinterpreted the claim as the website being the place of location rather than a record of the date of usage for the logo).

Had I known that someone responded 2.5 weeks later, I would have responded. Buffs (talk) 04:23, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Eagles247 beat me to the fix. Thanks for letting me know though. Regards, FASTILY ^(TALK) 10:39, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. One team, one fight. Could you restore the file history? Buffs (talk) 20:52, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell, by looking at the logs, any revisions that could be restored have been restored. Regards, FASTILY ^(TALK) 22:13, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Old revisions

Why weren't the old revisions for File:Loma linda university church front.jpg, File:Romania chamber of deputies colleges diaspora.svg and File:CardsRetiredMic.png moved to Commons before you deleted them? WP:CSD#F8 states: "All image revisions that meet the first condition have been transferred to Commons as revisions of the Commons copy and properly marked as such." Of course, as I can't view the deleted revisions, I can't tell if the old revisions meet "the first condition" or not. --Stefan2 (talk) 00:09, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell, they were either exact duplicates, scaled versions, or obsolete versions. I don't think Commons needs those and I doubt they would survive a DR even if uploaded. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 08:56, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:Louisville Helmet.gif and File:LVilleCards.png

Can you please check to see if File:Louisville Helmet.gif is a sufficiently identical and unimproved copy of File:LVilleCards.png that was deleted at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2011 December 30#File:LVilleCards.png if so would you consider it for WP:G4 ? Mt king^(edits) 01:11, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

They are the same exact file.

Page deleted. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 08:57, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah & Martin Luther King, Jr..jpg deletion

Fastily; would it be possible for you to have another review at this image deletion please?, I have just realized that the image has been deleted since the 25 February 2012, because I was on a short break from Wikipedia editing, and I came across this today when I clicked on the deleted image's link:

00:52, 21 February 2012 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted "File:Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah & Martin Luther King, Jr..jpg" ‎ (F7: Violates non-free use policy)

Fastily, the image was kept as it was the only image of its type and their was no other free image available, and as it was also a historical image. The image was put for deletion somewhere in mid January 2012 as far as I could remember but it was decided to be kept due to the following reasons that I stated above.

The tag Template:Non-free historic image was placed under the image's rational template, straight after the image was decided to be kept. Please Fastily, I would be very grateful if you could restore this one image as their is no other image and free version of its kind, and that was the reason it passed the "non-free use policy" and then was decided to be kept in mid January 2012. MarkMysoe (talk) 06:01, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The image depicts Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah & Martin Luther King, Jr at a meeting in Ghana. It clearly failed WP:NFCC#8, contextual significance, as the article doesn't contain critical commentary about the image and the image doesn't enhance the readers understanding of the topic (it was used on Kwame Nkrumah). Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 09:12, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Provisional re-instatement of images in the case of OTRS pending

Hi Fastily

Many thanks for your response to my query about image deletion from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_Gordon_Pugh. I understand & appreciate the Wiki position.

I have submitted to the OTRS to request that these images be cleared on the basis that permission exists & has been extended to me by photographers in all cases.
I'd maintain that the same, existing licence is still valid (since this is why I chose it in the first place).

In the interim, & whilst my request is being processed, is it possible that you could provisionally re-instate these images for use, with the {{OTRS pending}} caveat?

Essentially, I'm asking if it's possible to be granted a 7-day grace period so that my site can be up & running?

Most grateful for your feedback & for considering enabling this.

Kind Regards Lewispugh (talk) 08:01, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'd prefer to wait a few days for OTRS to confirm the email you sent and restore the file then and there. Files on Commons tagged with {{OTRS pending}} live dangerously (can literally be deleted at any time), so I'd prefer not to restore them at this time; lest someone else should re-delete the file. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 09:13, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review for Template:New York cities and mayors of 100,000 population

TonyTheTiger has asked for a deletion review of Template:New York cities and mayors of 100,000 population. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 08:50, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am sure you have a lot of talkpage stalkers :-) Anyway just wanted to say "well-done" on your DRV close. Agathoclea (talk) 15:50, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fbot

Why everything except task 16 is stopped? Bulwersator (talk) 15:45, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Because someone found it fit to block my bot for 'editing too fast'. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 21:18, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ech... Is it possible that Fbot will return to a slower (to protect us from creating Skynet) editing? Bulwersator (talk) 22:15, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In the near future perhaps, when I actually have time to make the necessary arrangements and code adjustments. Is there any task in need of an urgent run? -FASTILY ^(TALK) 01:08, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Larson Financial page

Our page was recently deleted due to (Expired PROD, concern was: This is not a notable commercial organization. Please reconsider and repost our page. Additions such as Awards and Recognitions were recently added to the page as well as more internal links to other pertinent articles. If these are not sufficient changes, please advise as to other necessary additions 205.214.85.146 (talk) 16:38, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Would you consider asking at WP:REFUND? I'd like a second opinion on this before restoring. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 01:06, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:HIM Damsyik.jpg

Hi Fastily, I was wondering what kind of licensing information was missing from the file linked above. You can still read the FUR, so I probably don't need to post it here. I listed both the source and copyright holder (as much as was published). It appears the bot that handles this tagging sometimes doesn't read the template I use correctly, so it may tag files incorrectly. Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:58, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My bad, I didn't see the license tag.

Restored -FASTILY ^(TALK) 21:22, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Improper speedy deletion of Gift of the Givers

Hi again!

I finally got around to reading the text of Gift of the Givers that you pasted to your talk page. I now realize why you deleted it! Someone from the organisation had been puffing it up very badly, but because it's been deleted, I can't go and sort through the page history to find the last good edit and keep the useful stuff to improve the page. Can you please undelete it, revert to my last edit and drop a note on my talk page? I'm unfortunately not as active as I used to be, so the speedy delete slipped past me in a time when I was out of my home country for work.

This is actually an undoubtedly encyclopedic topic: I have seen them featured on CNN and BBC news lately in connection with their disaster relief actions; it just needs to be watched for ill-advised PR work from well-meaning people who need education on how to use Wikipedia. --Slashme (talk) 19:59, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'l resturn the text of the page to you. Click here to view it. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 21:26, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think you missed the point of my request: I didn't ask for the text of the last version of the page: I managed to get that from your talk page history without any problems. The issue is that the version of the page that was speedily deleted was a bad version, and I need the page to be undeleted so that I can recover the version before it got edited by someone from the organisation. I think you'll find that the last version that I edited was not great but not a candidate for deletion. --Slashme (talk) 06:28, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Aram_Haigaz_-_at_70_a.png

Hi, This upload has been deleted twice I suspect because I keep messing up on the copyright. The image is a family snapshot, provided by the authors daughter and has been used widely in many publications. It was taken by a family member who is dead. I have resubmitted it as Public Domain and now added a copyright tag PD-Pre1978. Could you please provide some guidance? Is this how it should be tagged so it does not get deleted? When (date) was the photo taken and where (country) was it taken? Also, when did the photographer (year) die? -FASTILY (TALK) 00:20, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, this scrolled off into your archive, the picture was taken sometime in 1970 in the United States, the photographers death date is unknown

Jabellas (talk) 20:54, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:New York cities and mayors of 100,000 population

I don't understand what happened here. On what grounds did you overturn your correct decision to delete this useless template? Powers ^T 21:28, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I sent you an email -FASTILY ^(TALK) 04:14, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for restoring the South Park Image

Thanks for restoring the Christian Rockhard image, and sorry for being rude to you earlier on. Let me know if there's any specific changes i need to make to keep the file with in fair use standards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Green-Halcyon (talk • contribs) 08:54, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Blue

Okay apparently no one wants to follow the rules when it comes to this song Rimes is most known for the song not Mack or anyone else. As I keep point out to them the sources can be contradicted plus no source states that Mack ever released the song as a single. The page needs to be restored back to Blue (LeAnn Rimes song) instead of Blue (Bill Mack song) as it follows WP:COMMON since Rimes is most known for the song. But no one will listen and people want to do what they want and tell me what to do like they got any business too.

Don't go off on any more tangents. Seems to me it would be rewarding for you to honour your "Retired" banner, to go away for a bit to recharge, and then come back refreshed sometime in the future.

And from what I've been told by Status Moriori is and admin and should know better. They wouldn't be admin if they didn't know to follow the rules and use most common known. That's what makes me sick of this site. An admin abusing POWER to get their way. That's messed up. Swifty*^talk_contribs 17:17, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm afraid that this is not something that I can help you with. You may wish to initiate a thread at WP:DRN or WP:ANI as appropriate. Regards, FASTILY ^(TALK) 06:50, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Need help re: Garfield images

When you have a minute, please take a look at this article. Garfield statues. Many of the images there went through FFD and were deleted. Most have been "recycled" under slightly different file names and have gone back to FFD. New ones also sprout up File:SpeedkingBasketballGarfield.jpg. This one File:FirefighterGarfield.jpg has both free and non free licenses, so I'm not sure where to list it as it's been to FFD before. Not sure if the editor needs an explanation about not reuploading files that were deleted for those reasons or what. Would appreciate a bit of help on this. Thanks! We hope (talk) 17:54, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I previously deleted these photos at PUF, which is a process restricted to establishing the copyright status of files. Since the original issue (that the files were originally uploaded as free when they were clearly derivatives of copyrighted content) has been remedied in the new uploads (as far as I can see, they have been properly tagged as non-free content), G4 does not apply. I think the best approach would be to nominate these files at WP:FFD, and I can see that you have done that. Regards, FASTILY ^(TALK) 06:53, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ImageRemovalBot has removed the file Andy Johnson-Laird Streak Image - Daisies.jpg

Hi Fastily: Sorry to bother you again, but now the reference to the image has gone away -- presumably because the image has been deleted for too long. Could you tell me the correct way to proceed, please? I can have Mr. Johnson-Laird email again. The text of his last message, sent on February 16 to permissions-en@wikimedia.org read as follows:

Attention: WP Administrator Fastily.

I apologize -- in my previous email I selected what I thought was required by Wikipedia, but got it wrong. Please discard all previous emails for the subject image.

So, regarding the thumbnail image uploaded as "Andy Johnson-Laird Streak Image - Daisies.jpg".

Please take this email as explicit, irrevocable, permission to use this image subject to the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Regards

Andy Johnson-Laird

I'm not sure how to proceed. Do I need to start over or will the image and WP page be restored?

Thanks QueenieBeeIsMe (talk) 18:08, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the delay. I've archived the email in the system and updated the file description page appropriately. Thanks for patience. Also, please thank Mr. Johnson-Laird for his donation to Wikipedia, we appreciate it :) Regards, FASTILY ^(TALK) 06:58, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of |Homesteading and the City: The Journals| Page.

Hi, I know it was deleted under the PROD. But, I'd likme to inguire the reason propesed which had been "Unremarkable E-book, or blog.". And I have to say that,the reason diddnt really seem to make a fair case in my part as "Unremarkable" shouldn't be used in most cases to delete a page, considering this is an encyclopedia, and even with only ~500 copies of this book sold, I think it would help if people learned about this book and mabye figure or notice thing for the good as the author had, and sorry if I sound like I am advertising it XD. I try my best in being a memorable person in society. Now have a nice day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jared631 (talk • contribs) 20:32, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted Page

Hi,

You deleted our page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-America_Technology_Center which is a public school page. I did edit the page a few months before you deleted it and just added all the education services we offer. I apologize if it read like an advertisment but I simply listed the services we provided. Facebook loads a page about our based on the Wiki page, before I edited the page it was very very very outdated and was not a represenation of the service we offer to pur taxpayers and stakeholders.

72.9.80.224 (talk) 02:29, 29 February 2012 (UTC)Randy Henderson[reply]

I've restored the last clean version. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 07:01, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File talk:BCS13TitleLogo.gif

This is a redirct also that should be deletedFile talk:BCS13TitleLogo.gif since you just deleted the other redirect.Theworm777 (talk) 07:30, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done -FASTILY ^(TALK) 08:06, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy declined

Hi! Regarding your nomination of Mid-America Technology Center for speedy deletion. Educational establishments are explicitly exempt from speedy deletion under WP:CSD#A7. Stephen! ^Coming... 10:17, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:Wesley A. Clark and LINC, 1962.png

Reposting - second question may have been missed. Martin (talk) 14:20, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I see you deleted this because there was no free alternative photo available. What makes you think this photo is available for a price? Or is available at all in other than the public domain? I obtained the photo from public articles, there is no evidence that the photo is available in any other way, and, as I wrote today, it was probably associated with (and published as part of) a Government project whose resources were in the public domain. Also, no one has stepped forward to assert copyright violation (although I recognize that a lack of complaint is less relevant to my argument, given WP policies concerning copyright). Since there is no evidence that copyright applies to this photograph, the deletion should be reverted. David Spector (user/talk) 02:54, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please provide evidence indicating that the file is indeed free? -FASTILY ^(TALK) 04:53, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fastily. You state: "Under Wikipedia non-free content criterion #1, any non-free/copyrighted file which could be replaced by existing (or easily/readily create-able) free alternatives are strictly prohibited on Wikipedia. While you may not personally possess the means to locate/create a freely-licensed alternative, the omission of non-free content whenever possible is intended to encourage individuals with the means and ability to create/locate such a file, to upload that file to Wikipedia."

Please could you indicate the nature of the "existing (or easily/readily create-able) free alternative" to this image that you envision. I do not believe that such a free alternative exists, as I indicated in the image justification section. Thanks. Martin (talk) 19:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]