User talk:Mu301

Candidate for Custodianship
Hi Mike,

Just dropping you a note re Candidates for Custodianship/MathXplore and wondering if you would be able to take a look some time and close if/when you see fit? I nominated MathXplore, so ideally you could close. Dave Braunschweig on a wiki break.

Hope you're well.

Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 09:45, 15 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Yes, I'll review this weekend. I'm doing well. Thanks for asking. --mikeu talk 22:19, 15 March 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅ See  --mikeu talk 14:36, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Can we save this depression-era photo?
See File:Untitled-91274a-1024.jpg, |original|jenikirbyhistory. The latter two claim (insinuate?) that it is a PD loc image. Is this good enough to get it on Wikiversity? If this does not satisfy "fair use", I don't know what "fair use" is. Come to think of it, I don't know what fair use is. Period.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 01:16, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The most suitable license on commons is . See, for example: File:Spark_gap_transmitter_bandwidth_-_2.png. I recommend that we move the image to commons and delete the local copy. We should probably give it a more descriptive file name. I'll take a look at this in a short while. IMHO, there's no point in us hosting a PD. On commons it can be fairly used here and cross-wiki. --mikeu talk 20:20, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ - I've moved the file and deleted the local copy. The resource that uses the image looks fine. --mikeu talk 22:26, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ - To clarify - my previous post was the move of File:Depression-overview.jpg. I've just now moved File:Untitled-91274a-1024.jpg. Most of the archival images in the Federal Writers' Project are likely . By definition, these photos were commissioned and/or published by the US Gov't and are PD. I wouldn't trust a bot to automatically move them. They need to be checked by a person to verify the status. --mikeu talk 03:53, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * If you want, I can delete these images, but need someone with more knowledge of copyright and WV policy than I to verify. All or most of the scientific images are essential to imported PLOS articles, so we might want to delete the PLOS articles if we delete the images. The photo of two men are on of user:Jtneill's resources and are likely not essential to the page. Let me know and I will be happy to delete.

Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 21:41, 31 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I'll take a look at this. --mikeu talk 22:26, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Bayesian.png was a duplicate already on commons. I've deleted it and update what links here resource pages. --mikeu talk 00:37, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 01:41, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Update: I'm still working my way through these files. I'm not sure what the copyright status is for many of them. --mikeu talk 01:47, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

I've had trouble tracking down the specific image sources. In general, PLOS uses CC BY, CC0 Universal, or Open Governmental License. So, the issue is not so much fair use. It is attribution. It is reasonable to assume that the authors of the PLOS articles that we host created the images included in the article (unless otherwise stated.) This does create a bit of a mess in that there is no clear link from the image back to the creator. --mikeu talk 14:23, 29 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I agree that the LoC files should be moved to Commons and I moved some of them. Sadly the PLOS files have a bad source and we do not know which license creator have chosen. If it is one that require attribution we need to know the creator. So I think the files should be deleted. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 20:12, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm generally in favor of keeping files that appear to be free. In this case I support deleting due to the uncertainty of authorship. If we can't be sure that we are correctly attributing the creator then they should not be hosted here. I support deletion. --mikeu talk 02:49, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Requests for Deletion
You might be interested in it, as a subpage of your userpage has a link to that module. Liuxinyu970226 (discuss • contribs) 11:43, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, that module is deprecated. It appears unused. A deletion is appropriate. --mikeu talk 01:27, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Deleted. --mikeu talk 03:24, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Should I delete these pages?
I am 90% confident that these pages should be deleted, and I can do them quickly with my touch screen. But there are so many files that I would appreciate verification. Could you take a look at Requests_for_Deletion?--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 16:30, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I support deletion of all these unused files. --mikeu talk 01:22, 12 April 2024 (UTC)