Based5290

Carrying the flame (Thank you for your contributions!)

	Big K
	Yes, WE are Charlie Kirk in the big 1 AK ❤‍🩹✌ Darer101 (talk) 21:57, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

I think charlie kirk is haunting me though this image anyways thanks Based5290 :3 (talk) 08:27, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

		The Original Barnstar
		Every DYK nominator worries when they see their article hits the main page that suddenly there will be a bunch of edits for it in their watchlist. So imagine my delight to see those edits were your wonderful, public domain images! Thank you for your excellent contributions to Sachio Ashida. I hope this barnstar will serve as a small token of my appreciation. Best, ThaesOfereode (talk) 10:45, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

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Thanks for the photo + basic copyright question

Hey, nice photo of Jim Buck (dog walker)! I'd like to upload more photos from old newspapers like this, but I'm still learning the copyright rules. I understand that in the United States, photos taken 1931–1977 are public domain if they were distributed without proper copyright notice, but in this case, how would you check if the Times had attempted to assert copyright? Thanks, and I hope this isn't a dumb question! :-) Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 20:02, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

That's a very good question, actually. The best proof of this would be the original wirephoto lacking a copyright notice (see for example File:Anthony K. Roberts 1974.jpg). At this point, the only possible way that File:Jim Buck walks six dogs in Central Park.jpg would not be public domain would be that the AP inexplicably omitted notice in violation of a contractual obligation with the NYT and risked a lawsuit from the biggest newspaper in the United States. Needless to say, this was unlikely.

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there is no copy of the original wirephoto online, so we have to settle for the next best thing: showing that every republication we have access to lacked an individual copyright notice for the photo. In general, when the wirephoto sent out by the AP had a copyright notice, newspapers dutifully reproduced it. For example, this photo of the Kent State massacre had a copyright notice on the original wirephoto. If you look through your newspaper archive of choice, you'll very quickly find that republications included said copyright notice (with newspapers.com, the first two results for this photo have the copyright notice, with only the third omitting it). In this case, we assume that the publications without a copyright notice were in violation of some contractual obligation. However, for the Jim Buck photo, literally every republication I found omitted a copyright notice for the photo. The chance of this happening if the original wirephoto had a copyright notice is basically zero. At this point, we essentially revert to the situation discussed in the previous paragraph and conclude that the photo is probably public domain to the extent that it passes c:COM:PCP muster. Based5290 :3 (talk) 22:55, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	Great addition to Walter Preston Battle. Wikipedia is lucky to have you here. Viriditas (talk) 01:28, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Re: Did you know nominations/Walter Preston Battle

I have given you credit for Template:Did you know nominations/Walter Preston Battle. Please consider adding a new hook if you are interested. Otherwise, you will receive credit for this nomination based on your image work alone. Viriditas (talk) 00:47, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Note, even though you only have seven hooks under your belt, I think you're better at writing hooks than I am, so I'm hoping you will add one. Viriditas (talk) 00:51, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

a barnstar for you!

I give this to you as well. Kinda based… (chuckles) -Alexa