Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Free book covers

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: Hello. Can you tell me please if the title page and N. C. Wyeth illustrations in the copy of Treasure Island at the Open Library are truly out of copyright? If they are I will happily replace the book cover in Wyeth's article. I wonder if Scribner's and or the Wyeth estate does or does not own the artwork. Thanks for any advice. Best wishes for your project. -Susanlesch 20:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say that these illustrations really, truly are in the public domain in the U.S. The book has been published in 1911, and any U.S. work published before 1923 is in the public domain in the U.S. Lupo 22:35, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

text: *Thanks. One more question. Is this book cover upload from eBay allowed? Or does the photographer have to okay it (in which case I will ask for speedy delete)? Thank you in advance. -Susanlesch 06:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *As the cover is in PD and the photo is only of the cover, then You do not have to ok it with the photographer. feydey 09:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

text: *Although there is a slight tilt in that image and: Note that only plain reproductive photographs of two-dimensional objects are ineligible to copyright (see Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.). Modern photos that show only the title page or the front cover are ok, but modern photos that show the old books as 3D objects are covered by the photographer's copyright: do not use those, unless the images themselves are explicitly released under a free license. Perhaps cropping it to a two-dimensional will do? feydey 10:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Advice

message: I'm sad to see the inactive label here, but I won't remove it right now, 'cause it's true.  The problem is that it rapidly falls out of date, both because links die and because articles are changed.  If someone can think of a more productive/efficient way to organize this, do let me know.  There are still hundreds of unnecessary fair use book covers on Wikipedia. Chick Bowen 00:36, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inactivity 

message: Hello. Do you happen to know if a photograph of the spine of a book with its cover removed is copyright-free? Example is this book, Happier (McGraw Hill 2007). Thank you in advance. -Susanlesch 04:40, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As minimal as the content there is, it is copyrightable, so no.  Any creative design can be considered to be under copyright.  Chick Bowen 04:43, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo of a book spine

message: ;List of cleanup articles for your project
If you don't already have this and are interested in creating a list of articles which need cleanup for your wikiproject see:  Cleanup listings A list of examples is here
;Moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation pages" 
If you are interested in moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation page",  contact me, User talk:Ikip
;Watchlisting all unreferenced articles
If you are interested in watchlisting all of the unreferenced articles once you install Cleanup_listings, contact me, User talk:Ikip
Ikip  02:13, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Tools to help your project with unreferenced Biographies of living people

message: Anyone who could shed some light on the book cover issue here, and help resolve the matter, it would be much appreciated: Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#Non-free book cover or public domain? Cheers, Ma®©usBritish[chat] 05:13, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cover copyright confusion 

message: Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment on the WikiProject X proposal 

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thread_title:  WikiProject X is live!