User talk:Lubensky

Hello, Lubensky, welcome to Wikisource! Thanks for your interest in the project; we hope you'll enjoy the community and your work here. If you need help, see our help pages (especially Adding texts and Wikisource's style guide). You can discuss or ask questions from the community in general at the Scriptorium. The Community Portal lists tasks you can help with if you wish. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page. :)

email notifications

Hi, after a proposal to enable email notification, Wikisource is now able to notify you of any changes to pages on your watchlist and/or changes to your talk page. In order to take advantage of these features, you need to enabled them in your preferences. --John Vandenberg ^(chat) 14:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Moving Your Files to Wikimedia Commons

Don't worry. He's watching your back. And yes, he's hosted on Commons.

Hello Lubensky!

First, thank you for your contributions to Wikisource. Any contributions are always very much appreciated. While searching around, I noticed that you have some files that you uploaded to Wikisource that would probably serve the community better if it was on Wikimedia Commons, a media file repository. You can view your files to see which ones I'm referring to. See the Image Guidelines for more information.

Why should you do this?

As an example, let's pretend you extracted a hard-to-find image from a book written in 1870. If you upload it to Wikisource, only Wikisource users can use it. What if a user from Japan is writing an article about a similar topic? If your file is on Wikisource, it's unlikely he'll find it, and if he's lucky enough to find it, he still won't be able to use it easily. However, if you uploaded it to Commons, it's much more likely he'll find it and be able to use it. (Files hosted on Commons are accessible from any sister project) The same goes for any PDF or DJVU files you upload as well.

• Upload a file to Wikimedia Commons
• Wikimedia Commons Welcome Page
• A guide to contributing content to Wikimedia Commons

Note: To "move" a page from Wikisource to Commons is simple, but somewhat confusing if you don't know how to. First, upload the file to Commons with the same file name as you did here. Add the same information, making sure you put in the correct license. I suggest adding the {{Wikisource image}} template to its Commons page. Then edit the file's page at Wikisource and add the template {{Now Commons}}. Soon an administrator will complete the "move" by deleting the Wikisource copy (as it's no longer needed). You don't need to change any tags on Wikisource as they'll automatically point to the new file. Awesome!

If you have any questions or concerns, don't be afraid to ask.

The Haz _talk 04:20, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Copyright issue with Elemoont illustrations

Hi Lubensky.

While doing some maintenance on our image files an issue related to the copyrights on the illustrations for Elemoont has cropped up. The information provided on the work credits Dmitry Boyarchuk and Alexandr Saphonov as the author of the images, but the copyright release that was provided through the OTRS system only provides a release for Boyarchuk. This means we do not have a release from Saphonov on file and so cannot document that we have a valid license for Saphonov's copyright in the images. Since our policy does not permit us to host any material that is copyrighted without a valid and documented license, this may mean that we will have to delete these images.

The images I have found that are affected by this issue are (the cover, and the riddle images from chapter 11 and 16):

• File:Слун англ.jpg
• File:11text.jpg
• File:11texta.jpg
• File:16texta.jpg
• File:16texta1.jpg
• File:16textb2.jpg

I realise it's been a long time, and we really should have addressed this at the time the images were uploaded (I can only offer my apologies that that did not happen), but I am hoping you will be able to help us resolve this. For example, did both Boyarchuk and Saphonov contribute to all the images? Or did both collaborate on the cover design, but only one person drew the interior illustrations? Or perhaps they drew the cover but you drew the interior illustrations yourself?

As mentioned, we have valid releases for your and Boyarchuk's contributions, so the unresolved issue is determining what Saphonov's contributions were and then obtaining a valid release for those (through our OTRS process; for legal reasons, that part can't be handled by volunteers like me on a talk page here).

Again, my apologies that this comes up now so long after you initially uploaded the work! --Xover (talk) 09:14, 19 October 2019 (UTC)