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Media request (07 September 2025 19:15:02)
[edit]Link to the work: West Indies Cricket pictures in Flickr
Name or alias of the author: Windies Cricket (West Indies Cricket Board)
Contact information:
• West Indies cricket in Flickr
• West Indies cricket official website contact page
• West Indies cricket official Youtube page
• West Indies cricket official Twitter/X page
• West Indies cricket official Facebook page
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Many photos relating to West Indies cricket are available in their Flickr account, which will be useful to be uploaded in Commons
Gpkp (talk) 19:17, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
File:Mezquita-MarDelPlata -Argentina.jpg VTR request
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link of work:- File:Mezquita-MarDelPlata -Argentina.jpg
Author:- Clay KSB
Contact:- Clay KSB Instagram page
I have a permission on the post's comment. Another user inform me that I should go through the permission vtr option. 獅眠洞 (talk) 13:36, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
Media request (07 October 2025 12:21:10)
[edit]Link to the work: https://www.artstation.com/
Name or alias of the author: (Many artists)
Contact information: https://help.artstation.com/s/?language=en_US
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Please make it possible for artists to specify a creative commons license in the upload's settings – such could be used to for example illustrate art genres & styles, topics & objects etc of fiction, and art techniques among other things
Prototyperspective (talk) 12:21, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
Media request (07 October 2025 12:25:06)
[edit]Link to the work: https://klimadashboard.org
Name or alias of the author: klimadashboard team
Contact information: team at klimadashboard.org
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Up-to-date good-quality charts about climate change are useful. Permission for free use is given but no specific license is named/set. From the site's FAQ (translated) Can graphics and data be reused?
All graphics may be reused, whether for teaching, reporting, or other purposes. Each graphic can be exported as an image or interactive iFrame in the top right corner. Furthermore, we link to the raw dataset for almost all graphics. These datasets may be used to create your own graphics, provided you acknowledge the original source (and comply with the respective regulations of the source).
Prototyperspective (talk) 12:25, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
Media request (07 October 2025 12:28:06)
[edit]Link to the work: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2219564120
Name or alias of the author: See authors of the study (and study infos?)
Contact information: Retrieve contact info from the study authors online
Reason the work is useful to include on Commons: Those are CC BY-NC-ND data graphics from the study "The global human day". They are super interesting and would be useful in lots of articles in lots of context. They are charts on the global average day in terms of contemporary human time use. Maybe and hopefully some of these can be licensed under CCBY/CCBYSA.