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Hello. With regards to your recent changes to 1981 Egyptian presidential confirmation referendum, MOS:DATE means that dates should be written as simply "6 October" not "the 6th of October". Cheers, Number 57 21:12, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

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Please don't distort infobox row order while changing or editing pages. It's unnecessary and time-consuming, Egeymi (talk) 09:33, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

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Hi, I see you added the election symbol for the Liberal Democrats (UK). Could you please add the election symbols for the Green Party of England and Wales and the Scottish Greens to their Wikipedia pages please? Helper201 (talk) 12:56, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Of course! thank you for the suggestion. German2000 (talk) 16:03, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

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Why are you editing on someone else's user page? Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 06:39, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

It's my Alternate account. German2000 (talk) 06:48, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Judging from your latest contributions, it seems like you tried to rename your username. If so, you could've renamed it at WP:RENAME. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 06:53, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

It's an unregistered, non-existent editor account. You can't just write on a User page and have it be recognized as an account. Follow the procedures I mentioned, go to WP:CHU or the Teahouse. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:19, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you for your message. I uploaded this file due to a misconception I had about the correct club svg logo. you can go on delete it. Dylam X (talk) 12:43, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

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The entire point of the fair use carve-out is for articles where there is no acceptable free alternative. The idea that the "official" SVG rendering of the same specification for a coat of arms is one of those situations is totally absurd. Remsense ‥ 论 17:38, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Ok before anything, please, you do not have to be mean about it. Now my question to you is, do I have to gain consensus first, and have general acceptance for the change? or is it unacceptable in the first place to have to present the official coat of arms as an alternative to the Wikimedia Commons version, even if it is only on the main University of Cambridge page?

I had uploaded the coat of arms to serve as the official visual identification of the University of Cambridge, and to be only used on the University of Cambridge page. You've reverted my edit, saying "says who? this is categorically not an acceptable thing to get touchy about, so please refrain". So, without being mean, please elaborate more on reasoning of your actions, or else I'll contest your nomination for this file's speedy deletion. Dylam X (talk) 18:38, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind me jumping in here to try to explain the issue.

There is information on the copyright on coats of arms at Commons:Coats of arms. What's relevant here is that the blazon is normally public domain and that anyone can make a representation based on the blazon, but an individual representation based on the blazon is a separate work of art and is, as such, subject to copyright in most countries in the same way as any other image. In other words, the university's official version of the coat of arms is a copyright image. That can't just be simply used.

Unless an image has been released under an acceptable licence, it is only usable in accordance with the WP:Non-free content criteria policy. This includes: "1. No free equivalent. Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose." For the case of the University of Cambridge coat of arms, you would need to show that the free equivalent does not serve the same encyclopedic purpose. As the coat of arms is illustrated by the free version, it is unlikely that this criterion would be passed.

Another relevant criterion is: "8. Contextual significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the article topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding." One of the most common cases where non-free images are used is for WP:Logos. However, the university logo is the coat of arms plus the words 'University of Cambridge', already shown in the infobox. Per WP:NFC#CS, "To identify a subject of discussion, depiction of a prominent aspect of the subject generally suffices, thus only a single item of non-free content meets the criterion." The addition of a separate non-free image showing just the coat of arms in addition to the university logo would therefore not be valid under this criterion.

Failing any one of the free use criteria means the use of a non-free image is not allowed. It is likely that the university's own version of the coat of arms fails at least two of the criteria. This is a legal policy issue that cannot be overridden by local consensus. Robminchin (talk) 21:58, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much! That really helped me understand more about Wikipedia's copyright policies towards university heraldry. I understand that my judgement was wrong on this issue and that I had to have more knowledge about the copyright policy and what criteria have to be met when uploading to Wikipedia University heraldry. Dylam X (talk) 22:13, 22 November 2024 (UTC)