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And also:
- File:Mata Tripta.jpg
- File:Bidhi Chand Chhina.jpg
- File:Rai Bular Bhatti.jpg
- File:Nawal Singh of Bharatpur.jpg
- File:Guru Nanak With Parents.jpg
- File:Mardana with Nanak.jpg
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Yours sincerely, Yann (talk) 21:16, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
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And also:
- File:Bhai Bala.jpg
- File:Battle of Kasur.jpg
- File:Bhai Jaitha delivers recovered severed head of Guru Tegh Bahadur.jpg
- File:Mata Gujri with child Guru Gobind Rai.jpg
Yours sincerely, Yann (talk) 15:56, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
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EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:59, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
Please delete it. I have replaced it with a fair usage image instead. Thank you. ThethPunjabi (talk) 15:12, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
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Long file names
editHi, instead of requesting to rename File:Janamsakhi mural painting depicting a scene from Guru Nanak's life, possibly him saying goodbye to his sister Nanaki before he sets off on a journey, from the Ram Rai Darbar complex at Dehradun.jpg to File:Janamsakhi mural painting depicting a scene from Guru Nanak's life, possibly him saying goodbye to his sister Nanaki before he sets off on a journey or saying hello after returning from a journey, from the Ram Rai Darbar complex at Dehradun.jpg [1], please try to make it shorter. We should not incorporate our doubts and uncertainties into title, those should only be added to descriptions. File names should be stable. Also, see Commons:File_naming#Length, very long files can cause inconveniences when downloaded. Thanks —Vis M (talk) 19:11, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Vis M Okay, point noted. Thank you! ThethPunjabi (talk) 19:13, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
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editHi, ThethPunjabi. See your uploads here. What you may have done here is overwrite the original sketch with an engraved print of it. Even if both are prints, they came from different printings. Art is different from photographs. Different versions, as such, are treated as unique, and they are uploaded as different files. The same goes if you were to crop an image, they too are uploaded as new and different images. Please upload as different images linked together using the other versions parameter. Broichmore (talk) 09:23, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
- @Broichmore - Understood, thank you for letting me know. Cheers, ThethPunjabi (talk) 16:28, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
- Allow me to take a liberty and slightly change your edit, as one of these images is either an original drawing or more likely a different published print from another publication of the same drawing. Broichmore (talk) 11:22, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- @Broichmore I believe it’s from the same source, the Instagram page I got the original file from just uploaded a fuzzier quality image with a slightly different colour filter (I noticed the same things with other files I took from their Instagram page). However, I could be wrong. ThethPunjabi (talk) 11:40, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- You might be right, still there are enough differences to make it unique. This is why I try to steer clear of crap sites like Instagram. You run the risk of copyright violations (because of the photoshopping) andpossible incorrect attribution, also they copy on poor documentation. I only go there if desperate. I always look for the original uploaded to the internet, from a reliable source. tineye gives 6 or 7 versions. Google gives a few too, including one from columbia.edu. Despite its prestigous sounding name, columbia is a dubious source, most of its images are actually from the "British Library" or ebay and it has a habit of promoting errors from other dubious sites. This is fast becoming a serious issue for us, with the development of AI. Sites like Alamy and pinterest, scrape the web with little or no thought of attribution. The original source of our image is pretty much lost at this point, aside from referring to a book. Broichmore (talk) 12:05, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- @Broichmore A bit of an unrelated question but I wanted to post some of my own photos (that I took with my camera on a trip) onto Wikimedia Commons. However, I don't want image scraping websites like Alamy to steal the images I upload and charge the public for them. I've also heard of Alamy stealing images from Wikimedia Commons and then claiming to own copyrights to it, putting the original uploader in jeopardy. Is there any copyright licence I can upload them under to prevent this? ThethPunjabi (talk) 16:29, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- I'm afraid to say there's no way of stopping them from using your images if you publish on commons. The site requires you to provide copyright information for this work, to make sure everyone can legally reuse it. Broichmore (talk) 09:03, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
- @Broichmore A bit of an unrelated question but I wanted to post some of my own photos (that I took with my camera on a trip) onto Wikimedia Commons. However, I don't want image scraping websites like Alamy to steal the images I upload and charge the public for them. I've also heard of Alamy stealing images from Wikimedia Commons and then claiming to own copyrights to it, putting the original uploader in jeopardy. Is there any copyright licence I can upload them under to prevent this? ThethPunjabi (talk) 16:29, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- You might be right, still there are enough differences to make it unique. This is why I try to steer clear of crap sites like Instagram. You run the risk of copyright violations (because of the photoshopping) andpossible incorrect attribution, also they copy on poor documentation. I only go there if desperate. I always look for the original uploaded to the internet, from a reliable source. tineye gives 6 or 7 versions. Google gives a few too, including one from columbia.edu. Despite its prestigous sounding name, columbia is a dubious source, most of its images are actually from the "British Library" or ebay and it has a habit of promoting errors from other dubious sites. This is fast becoming a serious issue for us, with the development of AI. Sites like Alamy and pinterest, scrape the web with little or no thought of attribution. The original source of our image is pretty much lost at this point, aside from referring to a book. Broichmore (talk) 12:05, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- @Broichmore I believe it’s from the same source, the Instagram page I got the original file from just uploaded a fuzzier quality image with a slightly different colour filter (I noticed the same things with other files I took from their Instagram page). However, I could be wrong. ThethPunjabi (talk) 11:40, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- Allow me to take a liberty and slightly change your edit, as one of these images is either an original drawing or more likely a different published print from another publication of the same drawing. Broichmore (talk) 11:22, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
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Redtigerxyz (talk) 04:13, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Redtigerxyz - It's a slavish reproduction of a two-dimensional artwork (19th century fresco). It's not copyrightable as a result. MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 04:14, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
- Changing it to a nomination for further input. Redtigerxyz (talk) 04:22, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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Things wrong with the "Anandpuri Marco Bir" uploads
editThere is a prevalent misconception that the Anandpuri Marco Bir located in New Delhi, held in possesion of the Marco Family, is a manuscript of the dasam granth. This is incorrect. Although attributed to the 10th Sikh guru, it is in fact a manuscript of the Adi Granth. You can refer to SGGS Academy's publication "Dasam Granth: facts beyond doubt" where they cite this manuscript as a Adi Granth birh rather than a Dasam Granth Birh. I myself have also transcoded certain sections of the birh and found that it is not a Dasam Granth Bir. Please make ammendments if possible. Usingh0663 (talk) 18:42, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Usingh0663 - Thank you for letting me know. I will try to correct any mistakes in my uploads of content related to the manuscript. MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 19:19, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Ranjit Singh seated wearing the Koh-i-Noor. Portrait by Jivan Ram, 1832
editYoo overwrote your original image, when you should have created a new file. The sources you give for Jivan Ram are non existant, and or crap. So you need to sort it out. Broichmore (talk) 18:01, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Broichmore From: https://www.bonhams.com/auction/26591/lot/237/an-engraving-of-maharajah-ranjit-singh-seated-against-a-bolster-germany-mid-19th-century/
- “This German image is apparently based on a British engraving, which itself derived from a painting by Jivan Ram, an Indian portrait painter who did a great deal of work for British patrons. He accompanied the Governor-General, Lord William Bentinck, and Captain Wade, the Political Agent at Lodhiana, to their meeting with Maharajah Ranjit Singh in 1831.” MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 19:15, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
- Yes. I kmow that, because I uploaded the German image, so what about the other two? Broichmore (talk) 19:26, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Broichmore - the reupload was of the same British engraving depicted in the original upload. I reuploaded it with the caption/border. I don’t have details on the British artist (I am assuming he was C. Brandt based on your upload of the German version) who made that engraving but it was after an original work by Jivan Ram. I’ll correct the page title when I have access to a desktop. MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 19:42, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
- Please hold your horses till I look at this tomorrow. Brandt is a German. We don’t know anything about the British original. Your engravings look like they come from a much later schoolbook. Broichmore (talk) 20:14, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
- I've created this category, to cover the many different versions.
- If you want to, there is other work by Jivan, which you can upload. See here for the collection at ArtUK.
- This is the original engraving made after Jivan Ram, see here - Broichmore (talk) 18:21, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Broichmore Thank you for looking into this! MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 20:55, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- Please hold your horses till I look at this tomorrow. Brandt is a German. We don’t know anything about the British original. Your engravings look like they come from a much later schoolbook. Broichmore (talk) 20:14, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Broichmore - the reupload was of the same British engraving depicted in the original upload. I reuploaded it with the caption/border. I don’t have details on the British artist (I am assuming he was C. Brandt based on your upload of the German version) who made that engraving but it was after an original work by Jivan Ram. I’ll correct the page title when I have access to a desktop. MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 19:42, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
- Yes. I kmow that, because I uploaded the German image, so what about the other two? Broichmore (talk) 19:26, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
Panjab Digital Library
editPlease stop using these watermarked images. They are all available on the internet elsewhere, and often in finer detail. The PDL are also guilty of cropping out or erasing artist signatures. Broichmore (talk) 14:01, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
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how we can transfer our data together
edithi i have a question how we can transfer our data together cause i have some question about a topic/rug you know \ 5.237.10.74 21:11, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
way to talk
edithow i can connect to you cause i have some questions about "Kirman pictorial rug and Raja Dhian Singh and Maharaja" soo kinda i need your help M.mehdi.m76 (talk) 21:17, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- @M.mehdi.m76 - Sure, what would you like to discuss? MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 21:47, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- I am writing an article about "A wool Kirman pictorial rug from Southeast Persia depicting the meeting of two Sikh rulers and their entourages, possibly Raja Dhian Singh and Maharaja Sher Singh" and one of the images I want is this image
- But as you know, there is not much information about this image on the internet, I wanted to know what information you have about this image or similar images.
- For example, have you seen pictures of Maharaja with a bird on his hand or something like that and do you know anything about it?
- Thank you for your reply M.mehdi.m76 (talk) 15:29, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- hi i was searching about this Picture of Maharaja and still couldn't find anything new
- so whenever you have free time to answer i'm really interested to have conversation with you M.mehdi.m76 (talk) 10:45, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
duleepsingh.com
editduleepsingh.com is a well meaning, hobbyist website. Similar to the Panjab Digital Library, they get their images from the web. We do the same! The don't own these images, they are not the actual source of same. Neither is commons, when it comes to that.
Why are you uploading their catalog data, I don't see any need for that. We want the original source. Ninety-nine percent of the time that's a GLAM or an auction house. Another site that flatters to deceive is columbia.edu, virtually everything on it (perhaps put there by students for projects) comes from ebay or the British Library.
As needs fit, I'm not against using them, just bear in mind they these people are fronts for others.
I must mention that GLAM's sometimes, by agreement with authors or retail outlets, don't always publish the actual image, or indeed publish a degraded version of it. Nevertheless duleepsingh.com is not a similar outlet. Sometimes their websites are patially down, the British Library currently. The should still be credited though, because if you want to see it or get a better copy you have to go to them. Bear in mind provenance is everything here, and that can only come from recognized experts, curators at GLAMs or auction houses (who commission) GLAM people. Broichmore (talk) 11:31, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Broichmore - Hello, of course I try to use original Internet sources for images as they tend to have the most info surrounding the image and retain the highest-resolution, for the most part. However, trying to find the original Internet source for all the images I uplaod on Commons is very time-consuming for me, though I do try to reverse image search on Google to find more info/higher-resolution versions on specific images. I wanted to get all the images from this website uploaded. I can replace the files with higher-quality versions and link their GLAM page whenever I come across them. Some of the images I uploaded are claimed to come from Peter Bance's personal collection (who runs duleepsingh.com), so I do not believe they would exist elsewhere. Peter Bance is a historian, so I consider him reliable. A lot of historical material related to Sikhs is not professionally documented (Sikh Studies is a small field in academia) but rather comes from amateur hobbyists or the general public. MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 15:55, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- Well, you have me confused now, I jumped the gun. I haven't gone through everything on his website, just the two items you added Peter Bance ID info, into. Your correct in saying the items on his website are unique to his collection, they don't come from commons or Bonhams. Our images come from Bonhams. They are not the same as the items in his collection, so his ID information is not applicable to them. We shouldn't add ID information that's not applicable.
- Though I grant you, if we were unable to get dimensional data from Bonhams, we could use the Bance data in lieu. Even though measurements, colouring, and finish for this kind of work in the 19th century can vary piece to piece. So if we suse it we would have to say its estimated perhaps.
- He's also good for reference data, whatever that is, for sure.
- There's nothing stopping you from uploading those variants from the duleepsingh.com website, though IMO we dont particularly need them. Bearing in mind a website like his can hold non PD items. Broichmore (talk) 16:43, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
Sketches about Kurrah, Mannickpore (1831)
editIf you dont mind you could help me with this category, I've just finished work on. I'm happy about their association with Kara, Uttar Pradesh, but I think I need to delete Manikpur, Chitrakoot, and Daraganj as not applicable.
Most of the places mentioned are off the Kara-Kanpur Road, except the Gossain's Fort. I've only been able to identify the Rajah Jychunde Fort, which is in Kara itself. Need to know the modern place names etc. Gossain's Fort?
Can you assist? Broichmore (talk) 16:52, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Broichmore - I tried looking for forts near Kara and although some were architecturally similar, none of the images I saw online match the depicted fort exactly. Maybe it does not exist now? MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 17:16, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
- Think, its Allahabad Fort, only the problem is, I think they are too far apart to see each other in the distance. Broichmore (talk) 18:06, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
Source of derivative work is not properly indicated: File:Detail of Buckam Singh from a photograph of him with a group of Sikh men, ca.1907–1915.png
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Belbury (talk) 09:42, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Belbury - Hello, I added information about the documentary the photograph was shown in. Hopefully that will suffice. MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 21:35, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- It does. Thank you! Belbury (talk) 08:44, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
Descriptions
editI just stumbled across File:'Fighting and taking policy decisions', from a painted scroll documenting the joint Dogra-Sikh invasions of Ladakh, Baltistan, and Western Tibet, ca.1840's.jpg while working on an unrelated backlog and I saw that it contained a very long description, taken from a copyrighted 1984 book. Unfortunately, text also has a copyright, and taking such a large amount of text from the description will often violate that copyright. I removed the quote and asked for a revision deletion at COM:AN, but please do bear in mind that unstructured text on Commons is released under CC-BY-SA and any external source used for more than an uncopyrightable snippet must comply with that. Felix QW (talk) 14:18, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Felix QW - Thank you for alerting me. I will be mindful of this going forward. MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 17:08, 10 November 2024 (UTC)