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W. H. Davies image
Many thanks for the excellent 1913 image of Davies by Coburn - I had run out of luck in the UK. What a coincidence - I had only recently requested permission from NYPL by email, haha. A great improvement to the article. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:44, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
What a beautiful image of Ina Coolbrith!
Thank you for adding the image of
Dickens image
Hi Scewing, can you say where you got File:Dickens Gurney head.jpg from exactly? Cheers, SlimVirgin TALK contribs 00:19, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
- Okay, thanks. SlimVirgin TALK contribs 00:37, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Engineer signature
Hi, re {{infobox engineer}}
; I'm puzzled why you did it this way:
|data22= {{#if:{{{signature|}}}|'''Signature'''<div style="padding-top:0.3em;">[[File:{{{signature}}}|128px|alt={{{signature_alt|}}}]]</div>}}
instead of:
|label22=Signature
|data22= {{#if:{{{signature|}}}|[[File:{{{signature}}}|128px|alt={{{signature_alt|}}}]]}}
See John Hancock for an example of how signatures generally appear in infoboxes. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:45, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
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User:Redrose64/Sandbox6- yours above, mine below. BTW I watch all talk pages where I leave a question/comment, so you can reply here; I find that it's best to keep a thread all in one place. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:58, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
William Keith
Thanks for your additions! I hope to see some William Keith paintings at St. Mary's College in a few months, and look forward to expanding the article then. Jim Heaphy (talk) 04:20, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks! You'll have to ask St. Mary's College to digitize some of their paintings so they can share them on Wikipedia... Scewing (talk) 18:40, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Amazing Daguerreotype
The Photographer's Barnstar | ||
Every time I chase vandals away from the Susan B. Anthony article, I say to myself, "wow, what a beautiful photograph!" Thank you so much for finding and uploading it. Binksternet (talk) 17:26, 8 March 2010 (UTC) |
- ...Still true! So beautiful. Binksternet (talk) 03:24, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks !
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For adding the excellent new photo and infobox to William H. Prescott, I hereby award you this barnstar. It's improved the article to no end. Claritas (talk) 17:37, 16 May 2010 (UTC) |
Mary Engle Pennington
Thanks for starting the Mary Engle Pennington article. I'm intending to clean it up a bit, and was wondering if there are other articles you started based on material from the 1914-1915 edition of 'Woman's who's who of America'. Carcharoth (talk) 13:27, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
- Hi. :) Related to the above, I notice that you have created at least one other article using public domain text. That's not at all a problem, but I did want to let you know that the community consensus on importing public domain text is that we have to explicitly note that content is copied. This is addressed specifically at Wikipedia:PLAGIARISM#Public domain sources). (I'm certainly not suggesting you have plagiarized here; you've noted your sources scrupulously. It's just that the current Wikipedia approach is that citing your source is not quite enough to mark that some or all of the article's content may be public domain. This can be important in part to avoid inadvertent copyfraud. Wikipedia's content is copyrighted, and we can't claim new copyright on public domain text.)
- If copying a small amount into a larger work, block quotes work well, but when establishing an article as this one and Clement Finley, the attribution template is probably the best approach. We have a whole lot of these at Category:Attribution templates. I've gone ahead and added templates to Clement Finley and Mary Engle Pennington. If there are other articles into which you've imported content, please pick whichever template seems best. And please let me know if you have any questions about the process. I'll be watching your talk page for a time, as I typically keep conversations in one place. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:40, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Request
Is there any chance that you could find a half-decent daguerreotype of James K. Polk, or Richard Mentor Johnson? I've also been searching for John L. Helm with no luck. If you could help with any of these, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Connormahtalk 17:45, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
- Look here for an old Polk, Collection 784 for JLH, and maybe request a high resolution copy of this RMJ engraving. Good Luck!
- Any others for Polk? Just wondering if there's anything else out there other than what we already have in his Commons category already. Also, for JLH, I've email the Filson, but I've received no reply. Perhaps you could search in your usual sources for these types of photos (I've tried everything, all with no luck), with Johnson and al george M. Dallas (another I've had trouble with) also? Thanks. Connormahtalk 04:37, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Images
You upload very nice pictures you should think of nominating a few on English Wikipedia. Spongie555 (talk) 22:12, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hawthorne
Just wanted to say "excellent work" on your updated version of the main image at Nathaniel Hawthorne. Well done. --Midnightdreary (talk) 15:39, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Claude Bernard
Hi Scewing, any chance you could locate a decent portrait of
]- For Bernard, check 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. You can click twice to get full resolutions like this. For Gauss, there's some images here. Couldn't find anything for Avogadro. Hope this helps. Scewing (talk) 22:25, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks a bunch, much appreciated! Connormah (talk) 21:48, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry for the bug, but could you also maybe look for a photographic portrait of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac if possible (if they even exist)? Thanks. Connormah (talk) 22:14, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- I don't think any photographic images of Gay-Lussac exist, but there's a few addional engravings here and here. Sorry! Scewing (talk) 23:06, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- No problem - I guess the same would go for Gauss? Connormah (talk) 23:33, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- This image is a photogravure, but I don't know if the original is artwork or a photograph... Scewing (talk) 23:46, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- No problem - I guess the same would go for Gauss? Connormah (talk) 23:33, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- I don't think any photographic images of Gay-Lussac exist, but there's a few addional engravings here and here. Sorry! Scewing (talk) 23:06, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry for the bug, but could you also maybe look for a photographic portrait of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac if possible (if they even exist)? Thanks. Connormah (talk) 22:14, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Scewing. Just happened upon your page again and saw this thread. The image of John Gadbury at the site you have linked [1] seems far superior to the one currently used in his article. Is it freely available for use? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:25, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply. So, I just copy ot across into Commons? Martinevans123 (talk) 15:36, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry for bugging you again, but could you also do a search for photographic James Prescott Joule, William Murdoch, Jean-Baptiste Biot and John Dalton if they do exist? Thanks again. Connormah (talk) 21:28, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
- @Martinevans123, it should in the public domain because of it's age, so you should be safe, but I am in no means a copyright expert. Connormah (talk) 21:29, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
- William Murdoch died before the first portrait photograph was taken in November 1839, but I found a decent photo of Biot, and I uploaded 14 other new or larger/improved images. Hope this helps. Scewing (talk) 06:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
- Awesome, thanks. Connormah (talk) 13:33, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry to ask something again, but I've been looking for quite some time for a photographic portrait that is useable of Theodore Dwight Woolsey - any chance you can lend a hand? Connormah (talk) 04:13, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
- Awesome, thanks. Connormah (talk) 13:33, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
- William Murdoch died before the first portrait photograph was taken in November 1839, but I found a decent photo of Biot, and I uploaded 14 other new or larger/improved images. Hope this helps. Scewing (talk) 06:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
RE: Unknown French General
Interesting one, the name seems to be completely wrong given the utter lack of any google hits. The number of medals and their type suggests there would be mentions of him somewhere. The ones I can identify and was hoping to tie together to one person are commandeur of the
- I can add that he has served in the Imperial Guard of either Napoleon I or III, the Aiguillette on his right shoulder was only worn by present or ex members of the Imperial Guard at this time. Carl Logan (talk) 19:37, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Timothy Shay Arthur
Hi - I see you've added an image to Timothy Shay Arthur - I got curious and started googling, and I found a photographic portrair of him, here - it's pretty bad quality, is there any chance that you can find a better quality version? Thanks. Connormah (talk) 03:00, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
DYK for Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon
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Zachary TaylorNice find - I've been looking for a decent photo for quite some time - is there any chance you could find anything for William R. King, John Tyler, James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce, 2 others that I've been searching for? Thanks. Connormah (talk) 22:29, 25 October 2010 (UTC) Hi Scewing; I want to let you know that I started this article today, especially in response to your having added these Winslow Homer images to the commons. Thanks, JNW (talk) 23:33, 25 October 2010 (UTC) SignatureI have no strong opinion on the parameter, but per Template talk:Infobox artist#Signature Parameter, this addition is controversial. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:09, 19 December 2010 (UTC) GinevraThe version you have added is very high res. However, if the painting has been cleaned, which it appears to have been, then the colouring of the smaller version is more accurate. This cannot be fixed by running an automatic digital adjustment. It needs to be done very carefully, preferably by someone whose colour balance is very well adjusted and who can look at the original. If this isn't possible, I could have a fiddle with it. Don't save anything over your original upload which will contain more fine detail than any adjusted version. Amandajm (talk) 23:52, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Emperor Pedro II of Brazil
Colorized Jeff Davis photoHello Scewing, there is a discussion involving one of your photos here. Your input is welcome. Urbain Le VerrierHi Scewing, any chance you could find a photo of Urbain Le Verrier? Thanks! Connormah (talk) 23:25, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Uploaded FS
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Daniel WebsterHi Scewing - I was wondering if it'd be possible to clone out the damage in this portrait of Daniel Webster: File:Daniel Webster - circa 1847.jpg? Thanks in advance. Connormah (talk) 03:24, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
ThanksI wanted to thank you for your cleanup of the Landis image. I know such work isn't easy and thank you for doing it.--Wehwalt (talk) 03:16, 13 June 2011 (UTC) SignatureHi Scewing, could you do John A. Macdonald's signature, from here? I tried, but I couldn't come up with anything decent (I usually trace with the pen, it doesn't quite work as well with varying pen pressures..etc) Thanks. Connormah (talk) 00:54, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
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List of Austrian School economists -- suggestionsScewing, there is nothing wrong with your actual edits to WP:ME has various criteria, and some of your edits go beyond those criteria. Thanks for considering this word to the wise. --S. Rich (talk) 04:34, 8 February 2012 (UTC) ]
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DYK for Hill and AdamsonHello Scewing! I did a DYK review of this new article, which I liked. Quite a bit of it is taken from the David Octavius Hill article and from one of the sources. That's OK after everything is attributed properly, but I've realized that the remaining length probably won't meet the 1500 character requirement for "original prose" (see Wikipedia:Did_you_know). For this reason I'm planning to change my recommendation to a negative one, but I didn't want to surprise you with it. Best, Easchiff (talk) 20:59, 16 March 2012 (UTC) TUSC token 350a658a98d8590b23a98d4b4acf32cfI am now proud owner of a TUSC account! Tom SayersI'm interested to know more about the letter which you have added to the entry on Tom Sayers -- which is very largely my work. I wrote a book about the Sayers-Heenan fight, and had always understood that Sayers was illiterate. Not quite, it seems. What information do you have on the letter? Iain07 (talk) 14:01, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
John C. FremontHi Scewing, there is a discussion concerning one of your images which was removed from the article. Just wanted to let you know. Btw, would you like me to setup archiving for this talk page? I notice that it is getting lengthy. :) POTD notificationHi Scewing, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture chat} 16:26, 31 May 2012 (UTC) ]
John HuttAny chance you can look for a photo of John Hutt? Surely there must be something (he died in 1880). Thanks! – Connormah (talk) 19:14, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
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Allen3 talk 00:07, 12 September 2013 (UTC) Hi. Sorry I've waited this long to thank you for the great Paul Legrand photo on the Pierrot page. I've never come across this one before! It's a gem. Beebuk 09:20, 12 September 2013 (UTC) El GrecoHello Scewing, I have nominated El Greco's (self-)portrait for Featured picture. You're the user who has uploaded the current version of the image on September 20, 2013. Can you please indicate the direct source of it? Your edit summary says "Higher resolution color correct version from original source". The only source provided at the file page is this. --Երևանցի talk 14:47, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Infobox architect and signaturesSaw your edit at Frank Lloyd Wright. It appears that this template does not support the signature parameter. I imagine some of the other templates you're adding the images to don't support it either. If your any good with templates, it should be easy to add. -- John Reaves 22:46, 31 January 2014 (UTC) Frederick RobsonHi Scewing, I see you replaced the colour image in the Frederick Robson article with a b+w one. Is there a reason? The previous image was from a private portrait in the possession of his family, and put there with their permission. There's nothing wrong with the one you've put in its place, but it doesn't seem immediately superior to what was there already. (And I will admit I really liked the portrait, it's a sensitive face.)RLamb (talk) 08:11, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Scewing: Regarding your comment at
Calotypes and salt prints in Hill & Adamson article
Hi, Scewing. Lately, I've found myself doing battle with the widespread confusion of Talbot's calotype and salted paper processes. I corrected, or so I at first thought, an instance of it in the Hill & Adamson article, which I see that you founded and largely wrote, but I self-reverted after contemplating the context more carefully. The meaning of the passage in question is unclear. It is: "Their partnership produced around 3000 prints, but was cut short after only four years due to the ill health and untimely death of Adamson in 1848. The calotypes faded under sunlight, so had to be kept in albums ..." If the latter sentence refers to the prints, it should be "prints" or "salt prints", not "calotypes", but now it seems more probable that "3000 prints" should actually be "3000 photographs" or "3000 calotypes", since the portraits for the group painting alone presumably number into the mid-hundreds and 3000 prints is a very improbably small output of salt prints during five years. On the other hand, a developed-out calotype, unless not hypo-fixed or incompletely washed after fixing, should be far more resistant to deterioration, especially due to exposure to light, than a printed-out salt print, so the statement about keeping them in albums—presumably, original negatives would not be left lying around in the open in any case—then seems odd. Can you clarify? AVarchaeologist (talk) 19:40, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
After belatedly checking the Robert Adamson (photographer) article, it is clear that "3000 prints" is a misstatement, but the business about keeping calotypes in albums is still somewhat of a head-scratcher. I gladly leave the needed correction(s) to you, but will change "3000 prints" to "3000 different photographs" and probably change "the calotypes" to "the prints" if no reply and no action after a few days. AVarchaeologist (talk) 20:36, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. I made the planned correction to the "3000 prints" error, but ended up deleting the statement about fading and albums—the source cited by that paragraph is inaccessible, so no way of finding out what was intended—and tightened up the ill-composed statements that immediately followed. Cheers! AVarchaeologist (talk) 23:05, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Scewing, I am trying to find the origin of this picture of Gustave Doré by Nadar. A comment on the file you uploaded links to the art Institute of Chicago, but this is not exactly the same image: the one posted on Commons was modified in between (framing, contrast). Do you remember if you found this image on another website, or if you modified it yourself? This edit dates back to 2010 so I understand this is very far, but any hint will help! Thanks, Seeris (talk) 16:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln image ("Trial of conspirators in Lincoln's assassination")
Hi, Thank you for adding the image of the "Trial of conspirators in Lincoln's assassination". I looked closely at it, and it seems to be a drawing, and not a photograph, perhaps contributed by two photographers. Could you please look into it, and reword the caption to be more clear about what it is? Thank you. Misty MH (talk) 02:48, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
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