Obriens86

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Thanks Ww2censor. If I'm honest, I am very confused with Wikipedia and have seen that 2 of the images I uploaded have been deleted. I work for the company who made the FDCs and I have been given permission from them to use the images. The files are of a lower resolution and are therefore not a high enough resolution for replication and use, so I am free to put them in the public domain and everyone may access them. Unfortunately I am not at work so cannot provide an email to prove this. I would appreciate any help you have to offer but I won't be able to access my account properly until Monday. Obriens86 (talk) 14:59, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Yeah it can be a bit frustrating for new editors but there are certain rules that must be followed and you will likely make some mistakes as we all did. The policy on copyright is one of the more complicated ones. I have been working with copyright issues both here and on the commons for several years, especially with philatelic files. BTW, I was pretty certain you are connected to a dealer of some sort so I was correct is suggesting that you may have a conflict of interest so you need to be careful how and what you write. Nothing promotional is allowed and can get you blocked. So, about the deleted covers, you should be aware, if you are not already, that British stamps, issued by the General Post Office or probably more correctly Royal Mail are covered by Crown copyright which lasts for 50 years, so even if the cover design is free the stamps are not, so you can't put the covers as a whole into the public domain. That's why they were deleted. Yes, I know you can find such covers on the internet but that is a different matter and we have a very strict copyright policy which does not even allow commercial or derivative uses. Well, there are some rare exception but that's a discussion for another day. I corrected the other two covers and they have been moved to the commons which is where you should upload images that are freely licensed so other language wikis can use them. If you can upload a new version of the Penny Black FDC showing the datestamp it would be great. Just overwrite the existing one and I'll review it, but it may get moved to the commons before you do that so just upload the new version over there. I'll be happy to try and help you get more acquainted with the way things work, so just drop me a post on my talkpage and I'll try my best. ww2censor (talk) 17:06, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks, that has definitely offered some insight, and with regards to the stamps, I didn't actually know that! So that will help for uploading in the future. My only interest is to educate people on the world of First Day Covers, so no conflict of interest here. It's a dying art and there is not enough information (in my opinion) readily available for people. There are so many vast layers and topics within it that I wanted to write my article to offer people the chance to learn more on the subject. It is from an information stand-point only. I certainly have a lot to learn about the world of Wikipedia! Obriens86 (talk) 17:18, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

It might be of interest for you to read my image copyright information page that covers most of the issues you might find on this topic. You may also want to familiarise yourself with these two commons pages: Stamps copyrights and Public domain templates for stamps. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 09:32, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

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Redlinks

Please stop adding redlinks to several articles per WP:REDNOT; they have all been removed. There is already an article First day covers that is well enough illustrated, so the redlinks to a non-existent article of the same topic are totally unnecessary. Based on your uploads it also appears you have a conflict of interest, so you should be aware of WP:COI.

BTW, there is no evidence this cover File:Penny Black cover, first ever First Day Cover from 6th May 1840.jpg is actually a 6 May use unlike File:Stamp GB-Penny Black first day cover.jpg which has a postmark verifying its use on that day. It could be any Penny Black use unless you also show the dated postmark. ww2censor (talk) 21:14, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Obriens86: I am extremely new to Wikipedia so I am grateful for any feedback. I've written an article which delves deeper into first day covers, just didn't have time to upload it so the links didn't actually go anywhere, apologies! I will edit the image of the Penny Black

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Thanks for your message. If you want to continue working on your draft, you'll need to add references and make the tone more encyclopedic. Furthermore, your draft only discusses the Royal Mail. "First day covers" are issued all around the world so a good encyclopedia article would need to address this rather than focusing on a single country. 97198 (talk) 09:50, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you. seb26 (talk) 04:33, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

I have the permission from Royal Mail to show these stamps, they know that they are being used for Wikipedia and that the images can be used elsewhere. The question of permission was raised a while ago and the images were passed, so why you're trying to say they're not now doesn't make sense. Please review

Obriens86 (talk) 08:31, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Obriens86, the deletion discussion linked above is the best place to comment if you would like to contribute to the debate. Cheers, seb26 (talk) 00:41, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

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