[Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Postage Stamps upload in Commons

Hi everyone, Here is a Postage stamp of Madhusudan Daswhich was tagged for deletion, Can anyone plea

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Postage Stamps upload in Commons

Hi Subhashish, Stamps are Indian govt works and retain copyright for 60 years after issual. So image of any stamp issued after 1951 cannot be uploaded to commons. It should be uploaded to the local wiki with a fair use rationale. (and under fairuse, a stamp cannot be used to identify the subject l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Postage Stamps upload in Commons

I will answer the first question (regarding stamps) Here > is > a Postage stamp of Madhusudan > Das

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Stamps/Public_domain#India See this link also. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Shiju Alex wrote: > I will answer the first question (regarding stamps) > > > Here >> is >> a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Postage Stamps upload in Commons

Thanks a lot for the info. Here are the two pics. *1 *and *2* If there is any issue with the license and other details pls help me.

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The date of issual needs to be mentioned in the summary. Rest looks fine. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > Thanks a lot for the info. > > Here are the two pics. > *1 > *and > *2*<

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Postage Stamps upload in Commons

Bala, I had a question. Does this apply to Coin as well? I have a bunch of coins of 1862, 1900, 1907, 1919, 1941, and one of Post Independence. I want to know if this is a problem. Also, can I licence it under the standard Creative Commons Attributi

[Wikimediaindia-l] 1 user. 20 hours. 300 articles

Hi, Tamil Wikipedia added another 1,000+ articles in the last 3 weeks. Behind this is a remarkable story of 1 user who created 300 articles organically in 20 hours. P.M.Puniyameen ( http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:P.M.Puniyameen ) from Srilanka is a retired academician, prolific writer and ind

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Postage Stamps upload in Commons

Yes it applies to coins as well. Anything from pre 1951 India is in PD. Anything post 1951, GOI has the copyright. But even for old coins, if you take a photo of a single coin you cant claim copyright and add a CC SA 3.0 license (its like taking a photo of a old painting and claiming copyright).

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 1 user. 20 hours. 300 articles

Creating 300 articles in 3 weeks... such news should make us to introspect ; surely should not be encouraged ! Once the news used be like this. " Dr. Modi performed many eye operations ..." In my opinion although Dr. Modi was a great eye surgeon, and a great soul-still as for the Eye Operation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 1 user. 20 hours. 300 articles

I would like to add, that the user in question, asked the community's views (well in advance), that if it was ok to undertake such an effort. And there were other editors (including me), constantly checking, proofing, recategorising and maintaining the articles created. This was no slapdash effort.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Postage Stamps uploaded in Commons - Correct picture

Hi everybody, I'm a member of WikiProject Philately. Uploading images of Indian stamps are forbidden as per Indian Copyright of 1957 : Anonymous works, photographs, cinematographic works, sound recordings, *government works*, and works of corporate authorship or of international organizations *e

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding Postage Stamps uploaded in Commons - Correct picture

Hi Ashwin: > So it is completely incorrect to add any images of Indian stamps printed > later than 1951 to Commons. Fair use rationale is not applicable under > Indian law to the best of my knowledge, anyway with that it cant be loaded > to Commons only concerned Wikipedia. And unless the article