Wikipedia Article: The article I used the image in or the article I want to use the image in.
Photo Author: The Flickr user who created the image.
Image's Flickr Page: The image's page on Flickr.
Status: There are five possible options for status:
- Free Image: The image already had an appropriate license to begin with.
- Accepted: The image's owner licensed the image under a free license after being requested to.
- Pending: No response to my request has been received.
- Expired: I got tired of waiting for a response.
- Denied: The user responded saying they did not want to license their image for free use.
Image's Wikipedia Page: The image's page on Wikipedia. (if image was uploaded)
Start Date: This is the date of the original request.
End Date: Depending on the result of the request, this may mean several things:
- Accepted: The date the image was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
- Expired: The date I got tired of waiting for a response.
- Denied: The date the image's owner notified me that they did not want to license their image for free use.
Start Date and End Date: If the image already had an appropriate license to begin with, the date shown is the date the image was uploaded to Commons.
Details of unfulfilled requests
editPhoenix freeways
editPhoto relicensed with a non-commercial license almost immediately after I sent the request. Photo owner notified within 5 minutes that Wikipedia images cannot have non-commercial licenses. 9 days passed with no response.
Prong-billed Barbet
editPhoto owner emailed me saying that while he would be willing to license the image for one-time use on Wikipedia, he did not want to license his image for free commercial use.
Lou Ye
editPhoto owner said they would create an account and upload their image themselves.
Sebastián Leto
editMore than one month passed with no response.
Joe Jonas
editAlmost four months passed with no response. I became an admin, and then college started, so I completely forgot about this page.