User talk:Pi Delport

An article you recently created, Recursive Length Prefix, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Mccapra (talk) 05:50, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 06:02, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

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Hello, Pi Delport. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Recursive Length Prefix".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:50, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

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The file File:Piet Delport.jpg has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unused personal photo. Out of scope.

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Good Day Fellow Wikimedian

I write to invite you to a Wikimedia ZA birthday celebration which will take place on 22 February 2025 at the Goethe Institut in Parktown, Johannesburg and Code Bridge in Cape Town as well as online if you will not be able to join in person.

Wikimedia South Africa is a chapter founded on 25 February 2012 after being approved as a chapter by the Wikimedia Foundation on 26 March 2011. Our chapter seeks to promote local awareness of the projects and their proper academic use, encourage translation efforts into local languages and support the creation of local free knowledge and media

We are always looking to support South Africans or Africans in the promotion of free knowledge and to promote the enhancement of local knowledge in local languages on wikipedia and online for the benefit of all.

As a chapter engagement is an important strategic initiative and we would encourage you to check out the chapter on the links below. Links:

Meta Page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1FtVdvzjnr/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Twitter: @Wikimedia_ZA

Instagram: @wikimedia_za

Website: https://www.wmza.org/

Each month the Chapter hosts In-Person Meetups in Cape Town and Johannesburg where fellow Wikimedians and newcomers meet to enjoy refreshments and snacks and to discuss Wikipedia, Wikimedia South Africa initiatives and to isolate community needs.

In February our next Chapter Meetups will occur in person in Johannesburg at the Goethe Institut:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Meet-up_South_Africa/_Johannesburg_14

and in Cape Town at the Codebridge offices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Meet-up_South_Africa/_Cape_Town_45

The Meetup will occur on Saturday the 22nd February 2025 between 10:30am and 12:30pm.

This meetup will be special as we will be celebrating the 13th Anniversary of Wikimedia South Africa and the 24th Anniversary of Wikipedia. There will be refreshments and entertainment.

We will be reflecting on our past year as well as our plans for the Chapter in 2025 and would love for you to participate. If you are able to attend in person please RSVP so we can appropriately plan by completing the form by 12th February 2025:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefPqXHFf1DJIWM8yqX7CHNMOVHQz9Io_dI6RtAqPGcPynAFA/viewform

Can’t join in person no problem online participation will be available and an option is available in the form above as well.

Best Regards,

Wikimedia South Africa Herschal Jackson (WMZA) (talk) 13:03, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading File:Pi Delport.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. Here is a list of your uploads. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:12, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi Pi Delport. Just want to clarify why the file you uploaded has been tagged as having a "permission problems". The way Wikipedia is licensed for reuse requires all images and other media files be released as explained in WP:COPY#Guidelines for images and other media files. The {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-4.0}} license you've licensed your photo under is a type of free license that Wikipedia accepts, but it's also a license intended to only be used by copyright holders to upload their own photos to Wikipedia. The copyright holder of photo is, in principle, considered to be the person who takes the photo, and it's only that person who can release the photo under the free license you're trying to use.

In the descriptions for two of older versions of the file (19 January 2017 and 28 May 2019), you state the photo was taken by someone named Una Karlsen. So, Wikipedia is going to need someway of verifying that Una Karlsen has given their consent for you to upload their photo to Wikipedia. Since you didn't attribute the other two versions of the file you uploaded to anyone in particular, it's not clear whether you took them yourself or whether you are Una Karlsen.

As explained in the above notification message, Wikipedia is going to need whoever took the photos (i.e. the copyright holder) to send a WP:CONSENT email to Wikimedia VRT so that copyright holder consent can be verified. If you took all four photos yourself, you can send one email for all four. If someone else took any of the photo, that person will need to send an email. If copyright holder consent can't be verified for any of the versions of the file, those versions will end up being deleted. If, by chance, the file itself (or a particular version) ends up being deleted before you see this message, it can always be restored by a Wikipedia administrator after copyright holder consent has been verified as explained in WP:REFUND. If you've got any questions about this, you can ask them below or at WP:MCQ. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:38, 3 September 2025 (UTC); post copy edited. -- 23:08, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for taking the time to write this.

Una Karlsen was my partner, but she died last year. She left her estate to me , so in principle, that would make me the copyright owner now? What would the procedure be for this?

—Pi Delport (talk) 13:32, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi Pi Deport. Thank you for clarifying things. The copyright of images and other types of intellectual property is, as far as I know, considered to be an assest that can be passed from one person to another as part of an estate; so, if you were legally the heir to your partner's estate, then you would be the copyright holder of the photos. I believe your rights would only extend to any commerical rights associated with the photos, not any moral rights, but you will need to ask a lawyer about such things if they're a concern of yours. If the copyrights of your partner's creative work were specifically mentioned as being part of the estate, then that (I believe) would make things beyond reproach; if they weren't, then it could depend on how the local estate laws where you live deal with such things. Current US copyright law, in principle, follows the practice of "70 years p.m.a" in which copyright eligible works remain protected for 70 years after year the creator of the work has died. Wikipedia and Commons both recognize this kind of thing, but verification tends to be required. The copyright license c:Template:PD-heirs is often used on Commons for such things, but an acceptable Creative Commons license should work too on English Wikipedia. The basic difference between the two is that public domain means there's essentially no copyright restrictions that reusers of the work need to consider, whereas a CC license still means a work is copyrighted but can be reused freely in accordance with the terms of the CC license.

Probably the best way for you to verify you're now the copyright holder of these photos is to send a WP:CONSENT email to Wikimedia VRT. In your email explain the situation and that you, as the copyright, are OK with the photos uploaded to Wikipedia as licensed. Emails sent to VRT are private and VRT members won't discuss the details anywhere on Wikiepdia or any other type of public page. Once your email has been processed and reviewed, a VRT member will either add a template to the file's page stating its licensing has been verified or a template stating its licensing is still being reviewed; in the latter case, VRT will most likely contact you via email explaining what's still needed. If you have a more specific questions about how VRT works, you can ask them at WP:VRTN.

Finally, Just for reference, you might want to take a look at c:Commons:Enforcing license terms just for a general idea as what it means to upload a personal photo to Wikipedia/Commons since the contents of that page pretty much apply to Wikipedia. Wikipedia only accepts licensing that's minimally restrictive (i.e., much less restrictive than the standard licensing of most social media and other websites), and you as the copyright holder will be responsible for enforcing the terms of the license. Anyone can, in priciple, download the photos from Wikipedia and use them as they want as long as they do so in compilance with the terms of the license you choose. I'm not saying it will happen, only that it can happen; so, it's probably good to know the possibility does exist. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:08, 5 September 2025 (UTC)