User:Megapixie
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Welcome to my vanity page.
Checkout User:Megapixie/Photographs, User:Megapixie/Diagrams, some of the images I have contributed to the wikipedia and put in the public domain.
Also see User:Megapixie/OldPDfinds for public domain images that I have found and uploaded.
Working on A copyright flowchart for images on wikipedia.
If you'd like to contact me - please leave a message on my talk page. If it's urgent drop me an email but I will probably reply via your talk page.
I also have an account on the commons that I use to upload images.
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[edit] Completed
Examples of some of the better articles I have churned out:
- AT-3 Sagger - which didn't exist surprisingly since it's linked from several places BMP-1 Yom Kippur War.
- MIM-23 Hawk - spent months on the re-write.
- D4 video connector.
- Cinemiracle.
[edit] Photo repair
I occasionally dabble in fixing very old PD photos:
- Before
- After (Going back to the original 22 mb TIFF and cloning a lot of the image and blurring the background. Then recompressing.)
If you have something you'd like me to take a look at - let me know on my talk page.
[edit] Currently working on
- Category: Weapon stubs (it's like trying to hold back the sea)
- Random article patrol. Always a trip.
Currently hiding in Japan
[edit] Things that make me smile on wikipedia
- Hitting random article and seeing an article that you started - odds of probably about 4000 to 1. Times its happened:
- Pendulum and Hydrostat Control 19 Dec 2005.
- Aerospatiale SS.12/AS.12 Didn't start it - but did substantially expand it. 3 May 2007
- Main page image w00t - the bomblet
[edit] My thoughts on IP
It can be summed up as:
- 30 year copyright protection for "major works" : films, novels.
- 15 year copyright protection for "minor works" : software, photographs, drawings, paintings, articles (say less than 10,000 words) video camera footage (that is not part of a larger work - i.e. news footage).
- 10 year patents - with the caveat that it is challenged in a mock trail before it is granted.
- No software patents, but software can be copyright. But reverse engineering is legal.
- No DRM legal protection (DCMSS, EuroDCMSS), you can implement whatever you like - it's just not protected by law.
I'm not crazy about the copyleft, GNU stuff (I hate that stupid logo for one). But Wikipedia seems like a good idea.
[edit] Todo
- SA-19 Grisom move to Grison ?
- ZSU-57-2 - cite "hole in the sky.."
- User:Charles Matthews/Imperial Japan
[edit] Useful stuff
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| Multi-licensed into the public domain | ||
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
WP:COPYREQ#Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries
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This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. |
[edit] Awards
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
| For your fine work answering intellectual property questions over at WP:MCQ Sarcasticidealist (talk) 21:09, 28 November 2007 (UTC) |
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The Graphic Designer's Barnstar | |
| Your help provides others the understanding to obtain and use libre and fair use content. Taric25 (talk) 16:43, 16 December 2007 (UTC) |
