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The photo of Le Guin on the article ( File:Ursula Le Guin (3551195631) (cropped).jpg) is dated to 2009, according to the caption. This date comes from the Oregon State University's Flickr page linked in the image description. I believe this date is incorrect. The picture is credited to Marian Wood Kolisch, who died in 2008. I suspect the 2009 date might be a mislabeling by OSU, or the date that they digitized the photo, not the date that it was actually taken.
I bring this up because I noticed that the copy of The Wind's Twelve Quarters that I checked out from my local library contains that photo (lower-resolution, but still the same photo, and credited to Kolisch). The copyright page says "Reissued in Perennial 2004", so I believe it must have been taken no later than 2004. I have been unable to find the actual date from searching the Internet though. -- cathartid - talk 04:54, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
I contacted the Oregon Historical Society Research Library (libreferenceohs.org). This is what I wrote:
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Hello, I am seeking information about a specific photograph of Ursula K. Le Guin, which was taken by Marian Wood Kolisch. The image is on the Oregon State University's Flickr page at https://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonstateuniversity/3551195631/ , the Wikipedia page for Le Guin at /info/en/?search=Ursula_K._Le_Guin , and it also seems to be used as the author portrait in almost every recent printing of books by Le Guin. I am specifically looking for the date that the photo was taken, so that it can be labeled properly on Wikipedia. The OSU's Flickr page is dated May 21, 2009, but I doubt that is the date of the original photograph because Kolisch died in 2008. I believe the original physical photograph (in the form of a negative, I assume) might be in your Marian Wood Kolisch collection, based on the listing at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv23693 , though I am not sure (LeGuin is listed multiple times, but it is possible that this specific photo is somewhere else). So, if it is possible, I would like to know whether the original physical copy of this photograph in your possession (and labeled with the date), and if so, the date that it was taken. If it is not in your possession, would you know who might have it? Thanks, [my name] |
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So it seems that the best available information indicates that the photo was taken in August 1995. @ Vanamonde93: would this be good enough to update the caption on the article and the image descriptions on Commons? Does this date need to be cited somehow? cathartid - talk 00:33, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
Recent NYT article (8/17/2023),
[1] entitled "The Essential Ursula K. Le Guin"
, seems relevant - however -
ref added recently,
but then reverted.
QUESTION: Is the article reference [1] worth adding somewhere in the main article? - or not? - Comments Welcome - in any case - Stay Safe and Healhty !! - Drbogdan ( talk) 21:40, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
She and many other scifi authors are mentioned in the videogame Stellaris, should this be included in the article? https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Patch_2.2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2806:267:7400:871A:2046:8B2E:1001:F6F6 ( talk) 17:38, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
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The photo of Le Guin on the article ( File:Ursula Le Guin (3551195631) (cropped).jpg) is dated to 2009, according to the caption. This date comes from the Oregon State University's Flickr page linked in the image description. I believe this date is incorrect. The picture is credited to Marian Wood Kolisch, who died in 2008. I suspect the 2009 date might be a mislabeling by OSU, or the date that they digitized the photo, not the date that it was actually taken.
I bring this up because I noticed that the copy of The Wind's Twelve Quarters that I checked out from my local library contains that photo (lower-resolution, but still the same photo, and credited to Kolisch). The copyright page says "Reissued in Perennial 2004", so I believe it must have been taken no later than 2004. I have been unable to find the actual date from searching the Internet though. -- cathartid - talk 04:54, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
I contacted the Oregon Historical Society Research Library (libreferenceohs.org). This is what I wrote:
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Hello, I am seeking information about a specific photograph of Ursula K. Le Guin, which was taken by Marian Wood Kolisch. The image is on the Oregon State University's Flickr page at https://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonstateuniversity/3551195631/ , the Wikipedia page for Le Guin at /info/en/?search=Ursula_K._Le_Guin , and it also seems to be used as the author portrait in almost every recent printing of books by Le Guin. I am specifically looking for the date that the photo was taken, so that it can be labeled properly on Wikipedia. The OSU's Flickr page is dated May 21, 2009, but I doubt that is the date of the original photograph because Kolisch died in 2008. I believe the original physical photograph (in the form of a negative, I assume) might be in your Marian Wood Kolisch collection, based on the listing at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv23693 , though I am not sure (LeGuin is listed multiple times, but it is possible that this specific photo is somewhere else). So, if it is possible, I would like to know whether the original physical copy of this photograph in your possession (and labeled with the date), and if so, the date that it was taken. If it is not in your possession, would you know who might have it? Thanks, [my name] |
And they responded with:
So it seems that the best available information indicates that the photo was taken in August 1995. @ Vanamonde93: would this be good enough to update the caption on the article and the image descriptions on Commons? Does this date need to be cited somehow? cathartid - talk 00:33, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
Recent NYT article (8/17/2023),
[1] entitled "The Essential Ursula K. Le Guin"
, seems relevant - however -
ref added recently,
but then reverted.
QUESTION: Is the article reference [1] worth adding somewhere in the main article? - or not? - Comments Welcome - in any case - Stay Safe and Healhty !! - Drbogdan ( talk) 21:40, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
She and many other scifi authors are mentioned in the videogame Stellaris, should this be included in the article? https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Patch_2.2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2806:267:7400:871A:2046:8B2E:1001:F6F6 ( talk) 17:38, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
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