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I'm working on The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, about a ballet. I found a couple of images ( [1] and [2]) on Flickr that I thought is useful, but they were deleted from Commons a few years ago. Both are indicated to be in the public domain, and I believe they are uploaded by the press office of Liceu, an opera house in Barcelona. I'm wondering what exactly was the problem and whether you can help with that. Thanks. Corachow ( talk) 20:50, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
Got a response, you can read it there. Sigh. Do you write Portuguese? Here's what I wrote to RGPD@liceubarcelona.cat, but in English, because I don't, and didn't want to risk automatic translation. If you can write a similar email in Portuguese, that might be more effective.
-- GRuban ( talk) 15:07, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
@ Corachow: Woo! Due to the kindness of User:Yann and User:RP88 and User:De728631, at https://commons.wikimedia.org/?title=Commons:Undeletion_requests/Current_requests&oldid=683329019#Two_Flickr_PDMark_owner_images_from_Premsa_Liceu the images have been undeleted! -- GRuban ( talk) 14:33, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I created the article Ashley Ellis a few days ago, and there's a YouTube video of her dancing with Creative Commons license ( [3]), would you mind making a screenshot of the video? Corachow ( talk) 13:49, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Done No one frame was ideal, so I grabbed three hoping the combination would suffice. Pick one or all, as you choose. If you have the energy, could you rename the images? Right now they're just 01, 02, 03, but I imagine those poses each have specific names. I did a quick search, but only found first position, second, position, etc., which seem to be separate for feet and arms, and the more interesting names, like arabesque, plie, don't seem to apply. -- GRuban ( talk) 13:48, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello again! I just expanded the article Episodes (ballet). I found two images from Commons (from a photo shoot, not an actual performance), but they are photographs of printed photos, with visible edges, so I'm wondering whether you can crop the edge out? According to the rights and restriction information, cropping is discouraged but not an enforced rule, and I don't think that applies here. Corachow ( talk) 19:59, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
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today: violin solo and you can listen Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:24, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
yesterday I attended a unique concert - the 18th Thomaskantor after Bach conducting - and with some good luck caught him happy afterwards! - I'm less happy with the green-haired Alfred Koerppen image, - any help? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:50, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
... and another 14 July: Voces8, pictured - I have a FAC open, in case of interest -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:21, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
more July songs, from Swiss Alps and a funeral -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:55, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
This says her photo is in the 1933 edition of the Makio Yearbook of Ohio State University. I can't find it on archives.org, but possibly on your side of the pond, or possibly her daughter http://catherinecreed.com would give us one? I've been working on Eunice Foote for GA and possibly FA and I just could not pass up the irony that the woman who rediscovered Foote's contributions also lost her own record of contributions. I've asked Ian to look it over, but I'd like to nominate it for GA fairly quickly and do a double DYK hook for them. SusunW ( talk) 21:39, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
Ok, there's an identification problem. Please zoom in on these images. Page 89 seems to identify Wagner as the third from the top, right column, correct? And Page 151 seems to identify Wagner as first row, third from the right, correct? Well, those look like different people to me, most obviously the one in 151 is wearing glasses. The one identified as Wagner on page 151 seems a lot closer to the fourth from the top right column on page 89. Any chance the page 89 switched the pictures of Wagner, Elizabeth and Waite, Margaret Louise? Do you know whether Wagner wore glasses in college? -- GRuban ( talk) 17:22, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks again for your empathy and understanding - I look forward to continuing to work with you, and very much appreciate your image-finding skills. Beccaynr ( talk) 15:12, 21 July 2022 (UTC) |
My goal was to do 5 articles for Women in Green's editathon this month and since it looks like Max won't get me the info on Miller in time for the end of the month, I decided to do one more. She's Ukrainian. (I googled variations of her name and the most frequent citation is Evdokia Reshetnik. Would you be willing to look it over before it is published to check on the transliterations of names etc? I am doubtful that we have any usable photographs, but both p 19 and page 143 have photos that apparently were provided by her son. The 143 one is used as "fair use" on uk.WP. If you're too busy, no worries. I appreciate you and your skills, very much, and am thankful that you are so willing to collaborate. SusunW ( talk) 17:26, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Hey, I wanted to ask you if I am wrong here. You are now my resident image expert. lol I de-blurred the image of Amund Dietzel with Remini software, but one editor has twice reverted back to the blurry image. Is the other editor correct? Should I upload the new version of the file separately or should I leave it be? Thanks! Bruxton ( talk) 15:45, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
-- GRuban ( talk) 17:30, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, there are no photos of Mary, but I found a drawing of the academy which could be used for both articles. As far as I can tell first published in 1903, but this version is terrible. Published again in 1927, with a better version. I have no idea how to flip it. Can you help? Off to a check up for my husband's ear infection, but will be back. SusunW ( talk) 14:35, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
With or without caption. Or I can turn the sepia tones black and white, if you prefer. Text says it was originally a watercolor, drawn circa 1830, and there is an 1856 color copy at https://connecticuthistory.org/sarah-pierces-litchfield-female-academy/ here is that as well, which I uploaded, then cropped and brightened. From there, there is a picture of Academy founder Sarah Pierce, which we already had a version of, but I think this one is better, being straight rather than a bit off center with borders. I also cropped and brightened it to more human rather than orcish skin colors, if you prefer. Here are all three versions of that picture as well for your discretion. -- GRuban ( talk) 14:53, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
Can you please move your responses to the evidence to your own section entitled critique of evidence by yourself Andrevan @ 19:01, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
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Once again, I need your help. Working on a bio of this Cherokee woman for Indiginous month at WIR. I think I do not want to use any of the "costume" photos in the lede, and thus it seems to me that the best photo for the lede would be the one on p 141 (Callam) (published 1925 [4]). Supposedly there are a 75 photos at the Smithsonian, but the only ones I find are here ( proof that the VP Curtis photo was published, but I can't find proof of publishing on any of the others.) This photo was widely used in newspapers, but I think a better copy can be found in Callam at page 85. There are 3 versions [5], [6], [7] of the portrait setting with Remington Schuyler. None are particularly good, but I think I would like to use one. On the other hand, the final portrait was produced on this magazine cover. Perhaps you have access to things I don't. Anyway, any help would be appreciated. SusunW ( talk) 17:07, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
Aha! I found this 1926 photo from the New York Daily News. Could be useful if you don't want more Native American costume images. Also made a Commons category for the images, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atalie_Unkalunt -- GRuban ( talk) 00:49, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
@ SusunW: I'm afraid that I'm reading our article and am troubled by the strong focus on discrimination being definitely what stopped her from non-Amerindian opera success, and forced her into "playing Indian". I'm not finding it nearly as strongly stated in the sources. I'm reading the sources that say that Unkalunt was quite focused on her Amerind identity before, during, and after her opera work. She may have invented the word Amerind, she wrote books and poetry with Amerind focus, she did political lobbying for Amerinds, etc. This part in your article is sourced mostly to Callam, who doesn't come out and say that Unkalunt was really interested in European opera, and only did Amerind work due to discrimination. In fact, she says "Much of what Unkalunt truly thought – about her repertoire, about being expected to “play Indian,” to use Deloria’s phrase – is absent from the archival record." (In fact, Callam seems to be sucking up to Deloria here, who is very focused on "playing Indian", but wasn't writing about Unkalunt specifically! Deloria seems to have been Callam's advisor or something? Here's what Deloria had to say about Unkalunt: https://uwpressblog.com/2019/05/28/bringing-indigenous-artists-to-the-forefront/ He had never even heard of her! I'm pretty sure he means Callam as the student here, and seems somewhat condescending about Callam's work, though that's just my impression from reading that.)
The most that I can find in Callam to support that is
That's a noticeably weaker statement than the ones in our article, either "By 1921, she was living in New York City and hopeful of becoming an opera performer. Unable to break through the color bar, she performed as an "Indian princess"" or "Unkalunt's musical career and dreams of performing as an operatic soprano, were thwarted by the public demand for her to promote Native American culture and perform Indianist music.". Even Callam only says "the wording is striking" and "seems to suggest", and I don't see any other sources we're citing that use stronger terms about Unkalunt specifically; we're citing sources about how other Amerind performers hit the color bar, but not Unkalunt specifically. Note that even Callam focuses on Nitana, the opera that Unkalunt worked hardest at, which is specifically about performing as an "Indian princess". Yes, it's possible that actually Unkalunt really wanted to play Brunhilde and only played Nitana because she had to, but our sources need to actually say that. Instead I'm reading them to say she was quite proud of trying to bring Amerind culture to white American culture. We shouldn't go beyond our sources, and we shouldn't deprive Unkalunt of agency in her own life choices unless we have to. I think we should weaken our statements, and remove the "playing Indian" bit entirely. I would not be surprised if Unkalunt would have found it offensive. She was quite proud of being Indian, or as she would have put it, Amerind. -- GRuban ( talk) 12:33, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
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pics and thoughts on 13 August -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:56, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
Look at the church where I heard VOCES8, look for blue for it's interior, second in blue light. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:43, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for the substantial help with the images of Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56 , crucial on its way to featured article! - images of a rich summer, especially in music -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:00, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
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Just started on this, but I would like photos. This photograph was taken in 1913. The photos from the Wanamaker expeditions are credited to Joseph K. Dixon but he was the leader of the expedition, not the photographers, according to this. The book says the photographs were located in the American Museum of Natural History, but I cannot figure out how to search their catalog [9] and have been unable to locate a publication date prior to this book. It was copyrighted in 1971 by Charles R. Reynolds Jr. on the acknowledgements page. There is no record of same in the 1971 books and pamphlets nor art. It is however, in the 1972 books as A321921 filed 17 November 1971. Searching on-line catalog for renewals of title "American Indian Portraits from the Wannamaker Expedition of 1913" nada; for the name "Charles R. Reynolds Jr. nada'; for registration number A321921, nada. The photo was probably sent out as PR, as it is shown in numerous newspapers, the first of which was masthead, publishing data, photo none of which contain any marks, but I am always nervous as to whether I searched the database correctly. (Much easier for me to be sure if it is in print .)
If you don't think this is sufficient for commons, I suppose we could upload it fair use, when the article is done. But, if we do that, then the question becomes which is the better photo? This one, or this one. The quilt was made for FDR during his first presidential run, so is dated to 1931 or 1932 and per this p 666 was made by Brooks Studio, Shawnee, Oklahoma. Unfortunately, that book was published in 1978, so I am fairly sure it is copyrighted still. (Note that the comment thread on Flickr says there were actually 3 quilts made.) As always, your help would be greatly appreciated. SusunW ( talk) 14:31, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello, can you please review Draft:Mallu Traveler. He's a YouTuber from Kerala. Hope the subjects meet GNG. Thank you 117.230.19.104 ( talk) 04:47, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
I'm working on expanding a stub that somehow made it into main space with issues: Barbara Dawson. At first glance, I mistakenly thought she was a non-notable academic, and have since learned that she is the first female director of the Hugh Lane Gallery. I'm working against the clock to get that BLP shaped into a decent start article (if you can help it would be greatly appreciated), and I was hoping you could find some images we could use. For example, I'm going to include the material about the stolen painting and need a PD image of this painting. BBC and other news sources used it, so it must be available somewhere. There is other artwork mentioned in the article - I found one on Commons, and did not look further, but I'm thinking there's probably more. Can you help? Atsme 💬 📧 01:03, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
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Could ru:Щорс (опера) go to the commons? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:39, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
I began National Library of Ukraine for Children, and it's not much more than excerpt from the founder's article. I struggle with the language. Would you have anything to add? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:09, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
Different q: the RD article is Barbara Stamm. I like her image on the German Wikipedia better, but it's not on the commons. Could it be? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:03, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
-- GRuban ( talk) 21:43, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
The Ella van Poucke orchestra photo is very fuzzy, cropping to just her looks bad. There were two other photos in her category on Commons that would be better. Finally I rotated and cropped one of them (and removed an errant nose) that may or may not be better.
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Still working my way through this one, but am hoping to wrap it up in a few days for WiG's editathon. I would appreciate your help in reviewing these photos (names are totally arbitrary, just to ease our discussion):
As always, you know I rely on your magic and appreciate any help you can give in reviewing these. Oh how I would love to see the expression on Johnny Carson's face when she handed him that oosik. SusunW ( talk) 15:17, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
About time to turn to October. Today is the birthday of a dear friend who is a choral conductor. I'm excited that OREYA will (we hope!!) make it to our area for a concert again (as in 2009 first - pictured - and 2016 so far last). I'd like to update their article, and add biography of the conductor. Can you find Ukrainian sources? Depending on what you might find I'd keep it within the choir's article (as in your model) or make a new one. Yesterday, I had another pictured DYK (but not pictured by me this time): look at power work tensions (if you translate) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:11, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
today's DYK: two facts from the two concert of this years Rheingau Musik Festival I liked best, both a cappella singing. If you follow the songs, you see a circus, where I performed singing, and in the end the whole tent joined for Dona nobis pacem. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:22, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
who shall separate us -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:47, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
Courage, dear Gerda! Tapferkeit? I am quite sure we can link to almost all pages and even pages with videos, you must be referring to a very special case. Anyway, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IreHnw5d2o is not licensed Creative Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Where_is_the_license_on_various_sites%3F#YouTube explains how to figure that out. For example, you can see that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zZFzND2XF4 the "Meet the Composers" video I got the above images from, has a "SHOW MORE" link, which, when clicked on, shows "License Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)" which is what I'm talking about. That's the main thing. Maybe 1% of the videos on YouTube are Creative Commons licensed, and those are mostly the ones we can use. Now there are some exceptions - there are some people who mark their videos Creative Commons that shouldn't, and there are even a few videos that are public domain whatever the YouTube marking is, but this one is a clip from a 1974 film, presumably a Soviet film, and that film is very likely still in copyright. Similarly with the other search results, I'm afraid. -- GRuban ( talk) 18:59, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
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Another one if you can help that'd be great. Photo appears in Musical America in Vol 63 Iss 7 25 April 1943. Says copyright on the publishing data on page 2. 1971 Renewals book shows Musical America, Billboard and High Fidelity are joined under Billboard Publications, but I find no renewals for Musical America, High Fidelity, nor Billboard Publications. Billboard renewed 1943 publications (starts with Vol 55 no 28, 10 July 1943) but nothing matches this volume. The fact Billboard's renewals started in July made me check 1970 Renewals but there is nothing for Musical America. So then I thought just to be safe, check the number and I went to the 1943 Periodicals. p 182 shows vol 63 no 7, was registered as B583940. Rechecking both 1970 and 1971 renewals, I get nada, so I am fairly sure the photo is fine to use. Do you agree? (I would just like to point out these last 3 articles had no scandals, I must be slipping.) SusunW ( talk) 16:31, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi GRuban. I saw your use of famechain.com in User:GRuban/Deprecation, and wondered what you think of it as a reference. -- Hipal ( talk) 16:34, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
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that was good! - celebrating GW60, or: the birthday of my first subject --(forgot to sign)
3 concerts in 3 days can now be found together: a Ukrainian chamber choir, my cellist and composer friend's 60th birthday music (with a world premiere and that overview about his career), and Bach's ultimate statement about life and death -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:05, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for the article below, done in collaboration. It's also featured on Project Opera's talk, and archived in that project's two DYK records. I'm back from vacation, more pics under "songs", two of them actually about singing. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:58, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
Thanksgiving in the U.S. - Bach said it in music for peace -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:19, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
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Still trying to figure out the @#)$^&! Italian monastery bit, and I need to expand the lede, but I think I am mostly done. (Been a loooong haul - French (ugh), Georgian, Dutch, and German sources). I found this photo p 13 proof of publishing 1913 in Saxalxo Gazeti Suratebiani Damateba which I think would be good for the lede image. I'd also like to use the photo of the ergography machine here, but I am unable to find it on gallica. (The link in the article doesn't work.) I found a copy on commons, but I am unsure if the licensing is right. Can you verify for me that I can use it with that licensing? As always I appreciate your help. SusunW ( talk) 18:57, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
So, the first image (from where exactly? What is an Aneuli? A Georgian magazine? Printed in 2021?) is clearly a better image, because the second is so fuzzy. However, since it's tilted and the oval is different, it's not an exact copy of the one published in the Gazeti (I'm guessing that's a Georgian newspaper?), so there is some slight chance that someone might complain that we don't know the Aneuli one was also printed in 1913. It would be nitpicking, I mean, they're clearly originally from the same photograph, but I'm not quite sure how the decision there would go. I tried to increase the contrast on the Gazeti one, but I'm sure User:Adam Cuerden would be able to do a better job of that, maybe even get it to the standard of the Aneuli image (at which point it would be better, since she isn't tilted to one side for no known reason). -- GRuban ( talk) 14:11, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
No, I understood. I also looked for Annie B. Salmon and could not find anything I could be sure was about her (a surprisingly common name!). Which is a shame, because it's a 1915 publication so quite likely she died more than 70 years ago, which would make that photograph public domain per UK copyright law, as well as US law since it's pre-1927. But 1915 is only 107 years ago, not 120, or we could have assumed it per {{ PD-old-assumed}}. I don't recall anything about not being able to alter a fair use image - if you can find where you were told that, it would be good to see the specifics. We alter fair use images to reduce their resolution all the time. There's also a strong argument that the weird purple shadows are an artifact of the scanning process, rather than the original image, so removing the purple shadows is being more faithful to the original, rather than less, since it's highly unlikely the 1915 book was printed in black-and-white-and-purple. Anyway, if you can find the place you were told about no modifications please say, if not, I'll assume something was misunderstood somewhere and will upload it for you as fair use. -- GRuban ( talk) 14:36, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
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Several weeks back Kusma and I began working on unraveling the daughters of Andrew Planta. We have found enough information to confirm that they are all notable, except Anna (the first) and Barbara (the last). Anna has proved particularly elusive, but we cracked all the other stories, which Kusma is writing. Anna Elisabetha (neither Anna nor Elizabeth) "Eliza" when in England, left London after her husband died and moved to Russia. Her daughter Elizabeth Stephens married Mikhail Speransky and they were the parents of User:SusunW/Elisabeth Bagréeff-Speransky. I can tell from the bits of Cyrillic that I recognize that there is information here on Eliza Planta, but I have no clue what or if it repeats information we already know, but think it probable that there are things we haven't discovered. I don't know how to convert this type of PDF, so 1) is it possible to convert it to OCR and if not, would you be willing to read it and assist with the draft on EBS?
2nd issue. We now have access to ancestry through the WP library. I noticed when sending info that I found to Kusma that the links die (like Proquest links) and are only active for a short time. I figure that has to do with the whole proxy thing in the link, but you know how untechnical I am. I figured out that if instead of this, if I use only the first part, i.e. this I can go back to it, but I also know that some bot/person will come bleep out the link because of the proxy. Is there a way to cite the link without using the wikipedia library as a proxy and actually be able to return to it? As always I appreciate you and will be thankful for any help you can give. SusunW ( talk) 16:07, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
Meh. See, the footnote continues on page 276, and there it says "...was then sold to the Privy Councilor Dubensky and completely rebuilt a long time ago; but among the St. Petersburg old-timers, not one still remembers this modest two-story dwelling, with a small garden, then even more than now remote from the center of the city." I think "not one" means "more than one", in other words many people still remembered it at the time Korf wrote, since Speransky was a Big Deal and. But the key point is that the building was rebuilt completely, so whether it was 62 or 63 is not nearly as important as it could be since the house no longer looks anything like it did at Speransky's time; for example, when he lived there, it was two stories, the picture you have is four stories. Look also at the page you cite, which says the same thing about the rebuilding since Speransky's time. So I question the value of including a picture of the 4 story building in the article, whatever the license. -- GRuban ( talk) 22:16, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
* Next query. I haven't found a source which gives the name of son #2, but her Russian article says he was Alexander, cited to "Крещен 13 декабря 1830 года в Казанском соборе, крестник графа В. П. Кочубея и графини В. П. Полье // ЦГИА СПб. ф.19. оп.120. д.167. с. 30. Метрические книги Казанского собора." Any clues on how I might find these baptismal records? SusunW ( talk) 20:28, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
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Volodymyr Kozhukhar died, and I used the translated obituary. Could you please check if I understood it right? Any further help also appreciated. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:59, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
I even found more in the meantime, and like to share vacation pics again. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:50, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
Today was a day rich in music, with two new pictures, and also rich in WP:QAI contributions on the Main page: the TFA, 2 DYK and 2 RD with members as principal editors. The church pictured there (not by me, nice snow dust and tall evergreen) comes with memories, detailed on my talk. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:04, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
Latest pics, with an opera discovery and some snow. Today my talk has a DYK that was planned for 22 November, among the recent deaths the author of Duck, Death and the Tulip, and now a choir pic of "our" concert last Sunday, likely to become next year's lead image. Enjoy. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:25, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
Enjoy the season, dreaming of peace! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:39, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Today, pictured, the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt#DYK for Talia Or, in case of interest. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:52, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I started an article for an NRHP house ( Rainbow Ranch (Nashville, Tennessee) in Tennessee. In looking for photos I found that the NRHP has a Flickr account. They have set their images to "all rights reserved". My question is this: if the images are the work of a federal government employee, can we use them? Here is a link to the images. Thanks in advance. Bruxton ( talk) 16:58, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
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I'm working on The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, about a ballet. I found a couple of images ( [1] and [2]) on Flickr that I thought is useful, but they were deleted from Commons a few years ago. Both are indicated to be in the public domain, and I believe they are uploaded by the press office of Liceu, an opera house in Barcelona. I'm wondering what exactly was the problem and whether you can help with that. Thanks. Corachow ( talk) 20:50, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
Got a response, you can read it there. Sigh. Do you write Portuguese? Here's what I wrote to RGPD@liceubarcelona.cat, but in English, because I don't, and didn't want to risk automatic translation. If you can write a similar email in Portuguese, that might be more effective.
-- GRuban ( talk) 15:07, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
@ Corachow: Woo! Due to the kindness of User:Yann and User:RP88 and User:De728631, at https://commons.wikimedia.org/?title=Commons:Undeletion_requests/Current_requests&oldid=683329019#Two_Flickr_PDMark_owner_images_from_Premsa_Liceu the images have been undeleted! -- GRuban ( talk) 14:33, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I created the article Ashley Ellis a few days ago, and there's a YouTube video of her dancing with Creative Commons license ( [3]), would you mind making a screenshot of the video? Corachow ( talk) 13:49, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Done No one frame was ideal, so I grabbed three hoping the combination would suffice. Pick one or all, as you choose. If you have the energy, could you rename the images? Right now they're just 01, 02, 03, but I imagine those poses each have specific names. I did a quick search, but only found first position, second, position, etc., which seem to be separate for feet and arms, and the more interesting names, like arabesque, plie, don't seem to apply. -- GRuban ( talk) 13:48, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello again! I just expanded the article Episodes (ballet). I found two images from Commons (from a photo shoot, not an actual performance), but they are photographs of printed photos, with visible edges, so I'm wondering whether you can crop the edge out? According to the rights and restriction information, cropping is discouraged but not an enforced rule, and I don't think that applies here. Corachow ( talk) 19:59, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
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today: violin solo and you can listen Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:24, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
yesterday I attended a unique concert - the 18th Thomaskantor after Bach conducting - and with some good luck caught him happy afterwards! - I'm less happy with the green-haired Alfred Koerppen image, - any help? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:50, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
... and another 14 July: Voces8, pictured - I have a FAC open, in case of interest -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:21, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
more July songs, from Swiss Alps and a funeral -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:55, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
This says her photo is in the 1933 edition of the Makio Yearbook of Ohio State University. I can't find it on archives.org, but possibly on your side of the pond, or possibly her daughter http://catherinecreed.com would give us one? I've been working on Eunice Foote for GA and possibly FA and I just could not pass up the irony that the woman who rediscovered Foote's contributions also lost her own record of contributions. I've asked Ian to look it over, but I'd like to nominate it for GA fairly quickly and do a double DYK hook for them. SusunW ( talk) 21:39, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
Ok, there's an identification problem. Please zoom in on these images. Page 89 seems to identify Wagner as the third from the top, right column, correct? And Page 151 seems to identify Wagner as first row, third from the right, correct? Well, those look like different people to me, most obviously the one in 151 is wearing glasses. The one identified as Wagner on page 151 seems a lot closer to the fourth from the top right column on page 89. Any chance the page 89 switched the pictures of Wagner, Elizabeth and Waite, Margaret Louise? Do you know whether Wagner wore glasses in college? -- GRuban ( talk) 17:22, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks again for your empathy and understanding - I look forward to continuing to work with you, and very much appreciate your image-finding skills. Beccaynr ( talk) 15:12, 21 July 2022 (UTC) |
My goal was to do 5 articles for Women in Green's editathon this month and since it looks like Max won't get me the info on Miller in time for the end of the month, I decided to do one more. She's Ukrainian. (I googled variations of her name and the most frequent citation is Evdokia Reshetnik. Would you be willing to look it over before it is published to check on the transliterations of names etc? I am doubtful that we have any usable photographs, but both p 19 and page 143 have photos that apparently were provided by her son. The 143 one is used as "fair use" on uk.WP. If you're too busy, no worries. I appreciate you and your skills, very much, and am thankful that you are so willing to collaborate. SusunW ( talk) 17:26, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Hey, I wanted to ask you if I am wrong here. You are now my resident image expert. lol I de-blurred the image of Amund Dietzel with Remini software, but one editor has twice reverted back to the blurry image. Is the other editor correct? Should I upload the new version of the file separately or should I leave it be? Thanks! Bruxton ( talk) 15:45, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
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As far as I can tell, there are no photos of Mary, but I found a drawing of the academy which could be used for both articles. As far as I can tell first published in 1903, but this version is terrible. Published again in 1927, with a better version. I have no idea how to flip it. Can you help? Off to a check up for my husband's ear infection, but will be back. SusunW ( talk) 14:35, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
With or without caption. Or I can turn the sepia tones black and white, if you prefer. Text says it was originally a watercolor, drawn circa 1830, and there is an 1856 color copy at https://connecticuthistory.org/sarah-pierces-litchfield-female-academy/ here is that as well, which I uploaded, then cropped and brightened. From there, there is a picture of Academy founder Sarah Pierce, which we already had a version of, but I think this one is better, being straight rather than a bit off center with borders. I also cropped and brightened it to more human rather than orcish skin colors, if you prefer. Here are all three versions of that picture as well for your discretion. -- GRuban ( talk) 14:53, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
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Once again, I need your help. Working on a bio of this Cherokee woman for Indiginous month at WIR. I think I do not want to use any of the "costume" photos in the lede, and thus it seems to me that the best photo for the lede would be the one on p 141 (Callam) (published 1925 [4]). Supposedly there are a 75 photos at the Smithsonian, but the only ones I find are here ( proof that the VP Curtis photo was published, but I can't find proof of publishing on any of the others.) This photo was widely used in newspapers, but I think a better copy can be found in Callam at page 85. There are 3 versions [5], [6], [7] of the portrait setting with Remington Schuyler. None are particularly good, but I think I would like to use one. On the other hand, the final portrait was produced on this magazine cover. Perhaps you have access to things I don't. Anyway, any help would be appreciated. SusunW ( talk) 17:07, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
Aha! I found this 1926 photo from the New York Daily News. Could be useful if you don't want more Native American costume images. Also made a Commons category for the images, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atalie_Unkalunt -- GRuban ( talk) 00:49, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
@ SusunW: I'm afraid that I'm reading our article and am troubled by the strong focus on discrimination being definitely what stopped her from non-Amerindian opera success, and forced her into "playing Indian". I'm not finding it nearly as strongly stated in the sources. I'm reading the sources that say that Unkalunt was quite focused on her Amerind identity before, during, and after her opera work. She may have invented the word Amerind, she wrote books and poetry with Amerind focus, she did political lobbying for Amerinds, etc. This part in your article is sourced mostly to Callam, who doesn't come out and say that Unkalunt was really interested in European opera, and only did Amerind work due to discrimination. In fact, she says "Much of what Unkalunt truly thought – about her repertoire, about being expected to “play Indian,” to use Deloria’s phrase – is absent from the archival record." (In fact, Callam seems to be sucking up to Deloria here, who is very focused on "playing Indian", but wasn't writing about Unkalunt specifically! Deloria seems to have been Callam's advisor or something? Here's what Deloria had to say about Unkalunt: https://uwpressblog.com/2019/05/28/bringing-indigenous-artists-to-the-forefront/ He had never even heard of her! I'm pretty sure he means Callam as the student here, and seems somewhat condescending about Callam's work, though that's just my impression from reading that.)
The most that I can find in Callam to support that is
That's a noticeably weaker statement than the ones in our article, either "By 1921, she was living in New York City and hopeful of becoming an opera performer. Unable to break through the color bar, she performed as an "Indian princess"" or "Unkalunt's musical career and dreams of performing as an operatic soprano, were thwarted by the public demand for her to promote Native American culture and perform Indianist music.". Even Callam only says "the wording is striking" and "seems to suggest", and I don't see any other sources we're citing that use stronger terms about Unkalunt specifically; we're citing sources about how other Amerind performers hit the color bar, but not Unkalunt specifically. Note that even Callam focuses on Nitana, the opera that Unkalunt worked hardest at, which is specifically about performing as an "Indian princess". Yes, it's possible that actually Unkalunt really wanted to play Brunhilde and only played Nitana because she had to, but our sources need to actually say that. Instead I'm reading them to say she was quite proud of trying to bring Amerind culture to white American culture. We shouldn't go beyond our sources, and we shouldn't deprive Unkalunt of agency in her own life choices unless we have to. I think we should weaken our statements, and remove the "playing Indian" bit entirely. I would not be surprised if Unkalunt would have found it offensive. She was quite proud of being Indian, or as she would have put it, Amerind. -- GRuban ( talk) 12:33, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
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pics and thoughts on 13 August -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:56, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
Look at the church where I heard VOCES8, look for blue for it's interior, second in blue light. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:43, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for the substantial help with the images of Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56 , crucial on its way to featured article! - images of a rich summer, especially in music -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:00, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
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Just started on this, but I would like photos. This photograph was taken in 1913. The photos from the Wanamaker expeditions are credited to Joseph K. Dixon but he was the leader of the expedition, not the photographers, according to this. The book says the photographs were located in the American Museum of Natural History, but I cannot figure out how to search their catalog [9] and have been unable to locate a publication date prior to this book. It was copyrighted in 1971 by Charles R. Reynolds Jr. on the acknowledgements page. There is no record of same in the 1971 books and pamphlets nor art. It is however, in the 1972 books as A321921 filed 17 November 1971. Searching on-line catalog for renewals of title "American Indian Portraits from the Wannamaker Expedition of 1913" nada; for the name "Charles R. Reynolds Jr. nada'; for registration number A321921, nada. The photo was probably sent out as PR, as it is shown in numerous newspapers, the first of which was masthead, publishing data, photo none of which contain any marks, but I am always nervous as to whether I searched the database correctly. (Much easier for me to be sure if it is in print .)
If you don't think this is sufficient for commons, I suppose we could upload it fair use, when the article is done. But, if we do that, then the question becomes which is the better photo? This one, or this one. The quilt was made for FDR during his first presidential run, so is dated to 1931 or 1932 and per this p 666 was made by Brooks Studio, Shawnee, Oklahoma. Unfortunately, that book was published in 1978, so I am fairly sure it is copyrighted still. (Note that the comment thread on Flickr says there were actually 3 quilts made.) As always, your help would be greatly appreciated. SusunW ( talk) 14:31, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello, can you please review Draft:Mallu Traveler. He's a YouTuber from Kerala. Hope the subjects meet GNG. Thank you 117.230.19.104 ( talk) 04:47, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
I'm working on expanding a stub that somehow made it into main space with issues: Barbara Dawson. At first glance, I mistakenly thought she was a non-notable academic, and have since learned that she is the first female director of the Hugh Lane Gallery. I'm working against the clock to get that BLP shaped into a decent start article (if you can help it would be greatly appreciated), and I was hoping you could find some images we could use. For example, I'm going to include the material about the stolen painting and need a PD image of this painting. BBC and other news sources used it, so it must be available somewhere. There is other artwork mentioned in the article - I found one on Commons, and did not look further, but I'm thinking there's probably more. Can you help? Atsme 💬 📧 01:03, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
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Could ru:Щорс (опера) go to the commons? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:39, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
I began National Library of Ukraine for Children, and it's not much more than excerpt from the founder's article. I struggle with the language. Would you have anything to add? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:09, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
Different q: the RD article is Barbara Stamm. I like her image on the German Wikipedia better, but it's not on the commons. Could it be? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:03, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
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The Ella van Poucke orchestra photo is very fuzzy, cropping to just her looks bad. There were two other photos in her category on Commons that would be better. Finally I rotated and cropped one of them (and removed an errant nose) that may or may not be better.
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Still working my way through this one, but am hoping to wrap it up in a few days for WiG's editathon. I would appreciate your help in reviewing these photos (names are totally arbitrary, just to ease our discussion):
As always, you know I rely on your magic and appreciate any help you can give in reviewing these. Oh how I would love to see the expression on Johnny Carson's face when she handed him that oosik. SusunW ( talk) 15:17, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
About time to turn to October. Today is the birthday of a dear friend who is a choral conductor. I'm excited that OREYA will (we hope!!) make it to our area for a concert again (as in 2009 first - pictured - and 2016 so far last). I'd like to update their article, and add biography of the conductor. Can you find Ukrainian sources? Depending on what you might find I'd keep it within the choir's article (as in your model) or make a new one. Yesterday, I had another pictured DYK (but not pictured by me this time): look at power work tensions (if you translate) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:11, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
today's DYK: two facts from the two concert of this years Rheingau Musik Festival I liked best, both a cappella singing. If you follow the songs, you see a circus, where I performed singing, and in the end the whole tent joined for Dona nobis pacem. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:22, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
who shall separate us -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:47, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
Courage, dear Gerda! Tapferkeit? I am quite sure we can link to almost all pages and even pages with videos, you must be referring to a very special case. Anyway, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IreHnw5d2o is not licensed Creative Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Where_is_the_license_on_various_sites%3F#YouTube explains how to figure that out. For example, you can see that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zZFzND2XF4 the "Meet the Composers" video I got the above images from, has a "SHOW MORE" link, which, when clicked on, shows "License Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)" which is what I'm talking about. That's the main thing. Maybe 1% of the videos on YouTube are Creative Commons licensed, and those are mostly the ones we can use. Now there are some exceptions - there are some people who mark their videos Creative Commons that shouldn't, and there are even a few videos that are public domain whatever the YouTube marking is, but this one is a clip from a 1974 film, presumably a Soviet film, and that film is very likely still in copyright. Similarly with the other search results, I'm afraid. -- GRuban ( talk) 18:59, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
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Another one if you can help that'd be great. Photo appears in Musical America in Vol 63 Iss 7 25 April 1943. Says copyright on the publishing data on page 2. 1971 Renewals book shows Musical America, Billboard and High Fidelity are joined under Billboard Publications, but I find no renewals for Musical America, High Fidelity, nor Billboard Publications. Billboard renewed 1943 publications (starts with Vol 55 no 28, 10 July 1943) but nothing matches this volume. The fact Billboard's renewals started in July made me check 1970 Renewals but there is nothing for Musical America. So then I thought just to be safe, check the number and I went to the 1943 Periodicals. p 182 shows vol 63 no 7, was registered as B583940. Rechecking both 1970 and 1971 renewals, I get nada, so I am fairly sure the photo is fine to use. Do you agree? (I would just like to point out these last 3 articles had no scandals, I must be slipping.) SusunW ( talk) 16:31, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi GRuban. I saw your use of famechain.com in User:GRuban/Deprecation, and wondered what you think of it as a reference. -- Hipal ( talk) 16:34, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
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that was good! - celebrating GW60, or: the birthday of my first subject --(forgot to sign)
3 concerts in 3 days can now be found together: a Ukrainian chamber choir, my cellist and composer friend's 60th birthday music (with a world premiere and that overview about his career), and Bach's ultimate statement about life and death -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:05, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for the article below, done in collaboration. It's also featured on Project Opera's talk, and archived in that project's two DYK records. I'm back from vacation, more pics under "songs", two of them actually about singing. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:58, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
Thanksgiving in the U.S. - Bach said it in music for peace -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:19, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
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Still trying to figure out the @#)$^&! Italian monastery bit, and I need to expand the lede, but I think I am mostly done. (Been a loooong haul - French (ugh), Georgian, Dutch, and German sources). I found this photo p 13 proof of publishing 1913 in Saxalxo Gazeti Suratebiani Damateba which I think would be good for the lede image. I'd also like to use the photo of the ergography machine here, but I am unable to find it on gallica. (The link in the article doesn't work.) I found a copy on commons, but I am unsure if the licensing is right. Can you verify for me that I can use it with that licensing? As always I appreciate your help. SusunW ( talk) 18:57, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
So, the first image (from where exactly? What is an Aneuli? A Georgian magazine? Printed in 2021?) is clearly a better image, because the second is so fuzzy. However, since it's tilted and the oval is different, it's not an exact copy of the one published in the Gazeti (I'm guessing that's a Georgian newspaper?), so there is some slight chance that someone might complain that we don't know the Aneuli one was also printed in 1913. It would be nitpicking, I mean, they're clearly originally from the same photograph, but I'm not quite sure how the decision there would go. I tried to increase the contrast on the Gazeti one, but I'm sure User:Adam Cuerden would be able to do a better job of that, maybe even get it to the standard of the Aneuli image (at which point it would be better, since she isn't tilted to one side for no known reason). -- GRuban ( talk) 14:11, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
No, I understood. I also looked for Annie B. Salmon and could not find anything I could be sure was about her (a surprisingly common name!). Which is a shame, because it's a 1915 publication so quite likely she died more than 70 years ago, which would make that photograph public domain per UK copyright law, as well as US law since it's pre-1927. But 1915 is only 107 years ago, not 120, or we could have assumed it per {{ PD-old-assumed}}. I don't recall anything about not being able to alter a fair use image - if you can find where you were told that, it would be good to see the specifics. We alter fair use images to reduce their resolution all the time. There's also a strong argument that the weird purple shadows are an artifact of the scanning process, rather than the original image, so removing the purple shadows is being more faithful to the original, rather than less, since it's highly unlikely the 1915 book was printed in black-and-white-and-purple. Anyway, if you can find the place you were told about no modifications please say, if not, I'll assume something was misunderstood somewhere and will upload it for you as fair use. -- GRuban ( talk) 14:36, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
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Several weeks back Kusma and I began working on unraveling the daughters of Andrew Planta. We have found enough information to confirm that they are all notable, except Anna (the first) and Barbara (the last). Anna has proved particularly elusive, but we cracked all the other stories, which Kusma is writing. Anna Elisabetha (neither Anna nor Elizabeth) "Eliza" when in England, left London after her husband died and moved to Russia. Her daughter Elizabeth Stephens married Mikhail Speransky and they were the parents of User:SusunW/Elisabeth Bagréeff-Speransky. I can tell from the bits of Cyrillic that I recognize that there is information here on Eliza Planta, but I have no clue what or if it repeats information we already know, but think it probable that there are things we haven't discovered. I don't know how to convert this type of PDF, so 1) is it possible to convert it to OCR and if not, would you be willing to read it and assist with the draft on EBS?
2nd issue. We now have access to ancestry through the WP library. I noticed when sending info that I found to Kusma that the links die (like Proquest links) and are only active for a short time. I figure that has to do with the whole proxy thing in the link, but you know how untechnical I am. I figured out that if instead of this, if I use only the first part, i.e. this I can go back to it, but I also know that some bot/person will come bleep out the link because of the proxy. Is there a way to cite the link without using the wikipedia library as a proxy and actually be able to return to it? As always I appreciate you and will be thankful for any help you can give. SusunW ( talk) 16:07, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
Meh. See, the footnote continues on page 276, and there it says "...was then sold to the Privy Councilor Dubensky and completely rebuilt a long time ago; but among the St. Petersburg old-timers, not one still remembers this modest two-story dwelling, with a small garden, then even more than now remote from the center of the city." I think "not one" means "more than one", in other words many people still remembered it at the time Korf wrote, since Speransky was a Big Deal and. But the key point is that the building was rebuilt completely, so whether it was 62 or 63 is not nearly as important as it could be since the house no longer looks anything like it did at Speransky's time; for example, when he lived there, it was two stories, the picture you have is four stories. Look also at the page you cite, which says the same thing about the rebuilding since Speransky's time. So I question the value of including a picture of the 4 story building in the article, whatever the license. -- GRuban ( talk) 22:16, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
* Next query. I haven't found a source which gives the name of son #2, but her Russian article says he was Alexander, cited to "Крещен 13 декабря 1830 года в Казанском соборе, крестник графа В. П. Кочубея и графини В. П. Полье // ЦГИА СПб. ф.19. оп.120. д.167. с. 30. Метрические книги Казанского собора." Any clues on how I might find these baptismal records? SusunW ( talk) 20:28, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
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Volodymyr Kozhukhar died, and I used the translated obituary. Could you please check if I understood it right? Any further help also appreciated. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:59, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
I even found more in the meantime, and like to share vacation pics again. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:50, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
Today was a day rich in music, with two new pictures, and also rich in WP:QAI contributions on the Main page: the TFA, 2 DYK and 2 RD with members as principal editors. The church pictured there (not by me, nice snow dust and tall evergreen) comes with memories, detailed on my talk. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:04, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
Latest pics, with an opera discovery and some snow. Today my talk has a DYK that was planned for 22 November, among the recent deaths the author of Duck, Death and the Tulip, and now a choir pic of "our" concert last Sunday, likely to become next year's lead image. Enjoy. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:25, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
Enjoy the season, dreaming of peace! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:39, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Today, pictured, the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt#DYK for Talia Or, in case of interest. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:52, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I started an article for an NRHP house ( Rainbow Ranch (Nashville, Tennessee) in Tennessee. In looking for photos I found that the NRHP has a Flickr account. They have set their images to "all rights reserved". My question is this: if the images are the work of a federal government employee, can we use them? Here is a link to the images. Thanks in advance. Bruxton ( talk) 16:58, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
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