Commons:Village pump

‎A load of potentially out of scope uploads
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:To quote [[COM:SCOPE]] about when PDF files are not considered within scope, ''"The content is essentially raw text (such files are not considered media files). Note that scans of existing books, reports, newspapers etc of historic or other external significance are not excluded on this ground, even if they contain no images"''. Unless there is some indication that these are historically important, they are out of scope. The personal snapshots could be considered personal images for a userpage, but if they aren't in use, they aren't in scope. [[User:Delicious carbuncle|Delicious carbuncle]] ([[User talk:Delicious carbuncle|talk]]) 17:04, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 
:To quote [[COM:SCOPE]] about when PDF files are not considered within scope, ''"The content is essentially raw text (such files are not considered media files). Note that scans of existing books, reports, newspapers etc of historic or other external significance are not excluded on this ground, even if they contain no images"''. Unless there is some indication that these are historically important, they are out of scope. The personal snapshots could be considered personal images for a userpage, but if they aren't in use, they aren't in scope. [[User:Delicious carbuncle|Delicious carbuncle]] ([[User talk:Delicious carbuncle|talk]]) 17:04, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 

 

 
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[[File:Alataneqier.jpg|thumb|150px|[[:W:Uudam|The next winner of China's got talent ?]]]]
 
There is a request [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab/Illustration_workshop#Improvement_of_portrait_painting here] six months old, all images of the performer that are on commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_of_User:Amirul_bunkerzs have to be deleted] because they are not free. I ''could'' make a portrait to complete the request, but if you want to describe a Mongolian child visually for an article, you can't. What do Mongolians look like ? [[:Category:People of Inner Mongolia]] there is not even one woman or child. So as for warping an existing image into a portrait to complete the request and illustrate the article, well, we can't. Maybe there are some 'personal' pictures out there over-zealously deleted, maybe not. These 'personal pictures' as you say are going to be on the server whether they are deleted or not, so what is the point of deleting them so they can't be used ? There are many singers, dancers, actors, for whom you wouldn't immediately recognise just by the name of their article without their face to go with it, in many cases no free images will ever be made available. So in my case, nothing to work with to complete the request, and as for the countless geography articles, well, how can they be illustrated properly, what is a land without it's people. [[User:Penyulap|'''Penyulap''']][[User talk:Penyulap| ☏]] 17:40, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 
There is a request [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab/Illustration_workshop#Improvement_of_portrait_painting here] six months old, all images of the performer that are on commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_of_User:Amirul_bunkerzs have to be deleted] because they are not free. I ''could'' make a portrait to complete the request, but if you want to describe a Mongolian child visually for an article, you can't. What do Mongolians look like ? [[:Category:People of Inner Mongolia]] there is not even one woman or child. So as for warping an existing image into a portrait to complete the request and illustrate the article, well, we can't. Maybe there are some 'personal' pictures out there over-zealously deleted, maybe not. These 'personal pictures' as you say are going to be on the server whether they are deleted or not, so what is the point of deleting them so they can't be used ? There are many singers, dancers, actors, for whom you wouldn't immediately recognise just by the name of their article without their face to go with it, in many cases no free images will ever be made available. So in my case, nothing to work with to complete the request, and as for the countless geography articles, well, how can they be illustrated properly, what is a land without it's people. [[User:Penyulap|'''Penyulap''']][[User talk:Penyulap| ☏]] 17:40, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 
:I have no idea what you are trying to say here, but please stop littering discussions with unnecessary images. Thanks. [[User:Delicious carbuncle|Delicious carbuncle]] ([[User talk:Delicious carbuncle|talk]]) 20:48, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 
:I have no idea what you are trying to say here, but please stop littering discussions with unnecessary images. Thanks. [[User:Delicious carbuncle|Delicious carbuncle]] ([[User talk:Delicious carbuncle|talk]]) 20:48, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 
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::That's quite ok, you're not the only one in the chat here. I'd like to show a typical example of why we so totally need these 'personal' images. We need them to illustrate articles about the different peoples of the world, and I want to show just how empty our categories are. The picture is as close to a teenage Mongolian boy as we can get afaik. Not exactly close, I don't think I could convert that the way I can convert other peoples pics. [[User:Penyulap|'''Penyulap''']][[User talk:Penyulap| ☏]] 04:09, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 

 

 
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