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When I created the title "Terrace Park High School (1913)", the idea was to simply identify and describe just the one building built in 1913 that is presently standing, but is no longer used as a high school but as part of an elementary school. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear to me that the name I selected was not the best name and was not what it was really called. After much thought, review of the historic names, and discussion with local historians, it was more clear to me that both the name they used, the name that comes up in records most frequently is "Terrace Park School." Unfortunately, I didn't know how to change the name on Wikipedia and you beat me to it. That was the name that held longest in village records and is probably more accurate than "Terrace Park High School." Can we agree on changing it to that name? If so, I think it might be necessary to create a separate entry for Terrace Park Elementary School, which partly includes this building, because Terrace Park Elementary school is a larger building. Let me know what you think. David Tornheim ( talk) 06:47, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Above you say you want an image. I do too. Of the outside -and- the insides. I have been working on that, but now I'm exhausted. A week of looking at the various pages about copyrights and request for GPLv3 and Wiki or Creative Commons licensing requirements is so dizzingly confusing--like getting patents--the easiest solution is to give up--and I don't give up easily either!
My friend took a bunch of pictures of the building AT MY REQUEST specifically for posting them on a public web-site like Wikipedia, so that people could see the building and its insides before the school district demolishes the inside. He posted them on Facebook, and granted me permission via e-mail to use them as planned, to educate others. I posted an image of the front of the building on the Wikipedia entry but a bot promptly deleted it. I told my friend I need more permission. He was furious: He gave me a lecture about the hours of work he had done traveling to and from the site, taking the images, uploading them (took forever), giving me permission to use the, and discussing it all, and how annoyed he was that I keep asking for more and he is just sick of it. He doesn't object to giving permission, he just doesn't want to have to spend any more TIME. And it's hard not to blame him when he DID give me permission already.
I told him the last step would be easy, I would do all the work, and he could copy & paste the appropriate e-mail granting the permission and send it back. But after reviewing the numerous Wikipedia postings about how to deal with images like this, the odds of my doing this right the first time seem slim to none, and even if I get it right, it may be months before the pictures are approved. One of the recommended methods might take him another to deal with--unacceptable. This is more work than filing the necessary documents to start a divorce lawsuit. I'm so overwhelmed and confused by the various methods and their uncertain prospect of success, the simplest path to a predictable outcome is to give up.
FYI, there is one image of the building on Flickr too:
But it is protected of course! The other images I found for the article are supposed to be "public domain" whatever that is. But the posters are no more eager to deal with the rigamarole of the copyright than my friend is. I'm really bummed that Wikipedia has such prohibitively difficult standards for posting images.
Anyway, I'm open to suggestions on a method of getting these images up in such a way that I only need to send ONE e-mail to my friend that refers to his facebook postings and he doesn't have to attach the images. David Tornheim ( talk) 03:53, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
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When I created the title "Terrace Park High School (1913)", the idea was to simply identify and describe just the one building built in 1913 that is presently standing, but is no longer used as a high school but as part of an elementary school. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear to me that the name I selected was not the best name and was not what it was really called. After much thought, review of the historic names, and discussion with local historians, it was more clear to me that both the name they used, the name that comes up in records most frequently is "Terrace Park School." Unfortunately, I didn't know how to change the name on Wikipedia and you beat me to it. That was the name that held longest in village records and is probably more accurate than "Terrace Park High School." Can we agree on changing it to that name? If so, I think it might be necessary to create a separate entry for Terrace Park Elementary School, which partly includes this building, because Terrace Park Elementary school is a larger building. Let me know what you think. David Tornheim ( talk) 06:47, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Above you say you want an image. I do too. Of the outside -and- the insides. I have been working on that, but now I'm exhausted. A week of looking at the various pages about copyrights and request for GPLv3 and Wiki or Creative Commons licensing requirements is so dizzingly confusing--like getting patents--the easiest solution is to give up--and I don't give up easily either!
My friend took a bunch of pictures of the building AT MY REQUEST specifically for posting them on a public web-site like Wikipedia, so that people could see the building and its insides before the school district demolishes the inside. He posted them on Facebook, and granted me permission via e-mail to use them as planned, to educate others. I posted an image of the front of the building on the Wikipedia entry but a bot promptly deleted it. I told my friend I need more permission. He was furious: He gave me a lecture about the hours of work he had done traveling to and from the site, taking the images, uploading them (took forever), giving me permission to use the, and discussing it all, and how annoyed he was that I keep asking for more and he is just sick of it. He doesn't object to giving permission, he just doesn't want to have to spend any more TIME. And it's hard not to blame him when he DID give me permission already.
I told him the last step would be easy, I would do all the work, and he could copy & paste the appropriate e-mail granting the permission and send it back. But after reviewing the numerous Wikipedia postings about how to deal with images like this, the odds of my doing this right the first time seem slim to none, and even if I get it right, it may be months before the pictures are approved. One of the recommended methods might take him another to deal with--unacceptable. This is more work than filing the necessary documents to start a divorce lawsuit. I'm so overwhelmed and confused by the various methods and their uncertain prospect of success, the simplest path to a predictable outcome is to give up.
FYI, there is one image of the building on Flickr too:
But it is protected of course! The other images I found for the article are supposed to be "public domain" whatever that is. But the posters are no more eager to deal with the rigamarole of the copyright than my friend is. I'm really bummed that Wikipedia has such prohibitively difficult standards for posting images.
Anyway, I'm open to suggestions on a method of getting these images up in such a way that I only need to send ONE e-mail to my friend that refers to his facebook postings and he doesn't have to attach the images. David Tornheim ( talk) 03:53, 13 April 2011 (UTC)