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Hello editors,

I have a question about Follow my dreams page. It is about a hand-painted mural by the italian artist TVBoy in 2022 in the city of Barcelona. This mural was originally called "Super Alexia" where you could read in the background the phrase: "Follow your dreams" with the footballer Alexia Putellas stepped out painted in a Superwoman outfit with a cape clearly visible on her back. In 2023, due to the multitude of vandalism acts, the artist decided to redo the mural, but neither the phrase nor the drawing of the player were the same. You can see the clear differences with the 2022 painting: [1] and the 2023 updated painting: [2]

In the Talk:Follow my dreams I proposed to make different articles because the new painting of 2023 should be treated as a completely different one even if it is located in the same place and on top of the old painting. The painting and the message in the background is totally different as you can read in the article: [3]

Throughout history, many painters have painted over other paintings and they have never been treated as updates of these but yes as a different works. It is currently an active dispute with user Kingsif that recently moved the page (Super Alexia to Follow my dreams) and reverses the edits I made because he wants to fix the date of the old 2022 painting but the name "Follow my dreams" was created in the year 2023 not in 2022.

What do you think?

There is currently a discussion at the reliable sources noticeboard about the reliability of Dani Cavallaro's work. Members of this WikiProject may be interested in joining as her publications are cited in multiple articles related to Gustav Klimt. The relevant thread is at § Dani Cavallaro. Thanks! Harizotoh9 (talk) 21:24, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Self-explanatory (not about the Wikipedia Monument). Randy Kryn (talk) 00:37, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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An alert that there are now many ongoing deletion nominations of Henri Matisse paintings, such as Goldfish (1912), Bathers with a Turtle (1908), his La Danse images, his Notre Dame paintings, etc. The same for Derain. Too many to keep up with on July 4 and 5, and seems to be taking a sieve to Wikipedia collections of these paintings, most of Matisse's have articles. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:04, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The deletion nominator's complaint is that even though they were made before 1929, a paintings counts as being "published" from the point when official copies are first made available to the public. I'm not sure how to go about finding out the dates of when the first copies of these paintings were first made available.

As I understand it, works are considered to be in the public domain 70 years after the death of their creators if they were published post-humorously or never technically published. Matisse and Derain both died in 1954, which was 70 years ago. That means that these paintings will all definitely be in the public domain by the end of the year, even if they were technically first published after 1929.

I hope this helps. GranCavallo (talk) 19:15, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is semi-correct. There are some odd quirks that come from the "publication" rule. There are definitely instances where a work can still be copyrighted in the United States 70 years pma. It's not common, but it can happen, mostly when it comes to works first published outside the U.S., and usually only in select American states that are under the jurisdiction of the 9th circuit (you can read more here). Unfortunately, because WikiMedia's HQ is in California, that means all US WikiMedia entities are also subject to the 9th circuit's ruling. So to prove that these works can stay, someone would need to find the first instances of their publication abroad and/or in the U.S. If you check the Hirtle chart, I believe these works would be categorized under "Works First Published Outside the U.S. by citizens of foreign nations" in the first "Special Cases" example ("1 July 1909 through 1978").

I would note that these deletion requests may seem a bit overwrought, but the nominator is not incorrect to point out the issue. Les Héritiers Matisse (the legal managers of Matisse's estate) still claim copyright over basically everything Matisse made and they're represented by the Artists Rights Society on U.S. copyright issues, so they clearly care about their copyright. Obviously they're probably just making broad claims to preserve (read: profit off) as much intellectual property as they can and ward off would-be re-users of the artworks, but they could definitely be right about any number of the works. I'm going to re-post part of my comment on the first linked deletion request to give my two cents.

I agree that Wikipedia would be better off if these images were kept. But without proof, we can't know for sure that these would pass legal muster as public domain in the (entire) United States. 19h00s (talk) 22:14, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Each of Matisse's paintings with articles should have a fair use template on it so the images are kept. Simple as that. The only reason those templates haven't been placed before is that we thought the early 20th century paintings were in public domain. I've asked the nominator to place those templates but not done as far as I know. Randy Kryn (talk) 09:34, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A further attempt to cull Wikipedia's art collection. Randy Kryn (talk) 09:34, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

An attempt to lowercase some of them most well-known names of artists groups is now at Talk:Bolognese School#Requested move 26 July 2024. They include the Hudson River School which has very few equals as a known uppercased name. I've added the overwhelming n-grams for uppercase of the Hudson River School at the discussion. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:11, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, more comments please (there)! Johnbod (talk) 13:58, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Please note that List of public art in Chicago, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 July 2024 (UTC) on behalf of the AFI team[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/100 great paintings from Duccio to Picasso, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Ham II (talk) 20:04, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]