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Hello! Kevin from the Walton family office here. I posted an edit request for the Alice Walton article and thought you might be interested in taking a look. I've appreciated your help over the years and it'd be great to continue collaborating if you are available. Thanks, and happy new year! Kt2011 ( Talk · COI:Walton family) 14:27, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
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Today's featured article is Osbert Parsley, not by me but Amitchell125 where I commented, including the beginning of my songs. - The image of Andrew Szydlo who gave a speech at my friend's birthday concert (YouTube on top of my talk) is not on the commons, - could that change, perhaps? Plus a crop, for DYK? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:30, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm on vacation, - click on songs! I tell my own stories now, instead of relying on DYK. - Still the same image question. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:46, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm back. - Melitta Muszely died, RIP. I remember how you worked on her pics, with thanks. I could imagine the lead image cropped a bit. Thoughts on the chemist (for my last DYK)? - The other story today is 10 years old OTD ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:50, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
-- GRuban ( talk) 18:24, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
On 11 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ruby Tandoh, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when baker Ruby Tandoh (pictured) publicly came out, she mocked critics who suggested that she had romanced a male contest judge? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ruby Tandoh. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Ruby Tandoh), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
BorgQueen ( talk) 00:02, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
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GalliumBot ( talk • contribs) (he/ it) 03:27, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Happy New Year. I hope your magic is intact because I just finished this and need some help with photos for this new article.
Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. SusunW ( talk) 19:55, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Siehe da! -- GRuban ( talk) 00:16, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, you rejected another editor's draft of this High Court judge a few months ago because the article did not meet GNG, but I believe that the subject would have presumed notability under WP:JUDGE. A High Court judge being a national post in the English legal system. I am not sure if it is too late to reconsider this or how the review works -- I was a naughty boy and skipped the process for my first article. Best wishes, Solipsism 101 ( talk) 16:04, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
I may be making this more difficult than I have to, but I'm just gonna lay it out and let you do magic. I found this photo, published in the US in 1939. No mark on the masthead or publishing data. No entry in Periodicals for 1939 for the Charlotte Observer. But then I noticed in one of the sources Ipigott had found, the same photo. If you click on it, it says the creator was the Atelier Pietzner & Fayer. Googling that, I came up with this photo, by the same guys. Georg Fayer died in 1950, so 70 years later would be 2020. But Pietzner's data says "Carl Pietzner junior (1884 – 20th century)", which doesn't really tell me he's dead. So, I googled it and came up with a Find a Grave entry that says 1884-1963. We don't call that a RS, so I googled "Karl Pietzner (1884-1963)" and found an entry for someone else at the ÖNB, which confirms those dates. I looked up both of them in the 1939 Artist/works and find neither. She was living in North Carolina from 1938, and there are no newspaper/journal articles about her after 1937 in Austria, so I have no idea if it was made in the US or Austria. So, is it not usable because it won't go out of copyright until 2033, or it is usable because it's actually stamped only by Fayer and they didn't comply with US regulations? If we can't use that, can we use this one published in Austria in 1914? SusunW ( talk) 23:14, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
The second one is here:
The first one will take a bit longer. I can see the highest resolution here: https://onb.digital/result/10E03474 but it's an OpenSeadragon image that I can't quite get the full resolution of. I do think we can call it public domain - you can see the stamp on the image that says Fayer, and we have an article on him, Georg Fayer, and he died in 1950. Yes, you do have a web page that says that it was from Atelier Pietzner & Fayer, but I think we can argue that even if that meant the photographer was the two of them together, that still meant Pietzner senior at the time of the photograph, who also passed before 1952. Sure, later that was taken over by Pietzner junior, but we can argue that either Fayer (most likely) or at worst Fayer and senior should be considered the photographer. Let me play with dowloading a bit ... -- GRuban ( talk) 19:41, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for reviewing my DYK nomination and providing such valuable feedback. I appreciate the time you took on this.
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Hi George. I see you're a native Russian speaker. Could you please tell me if this Old Believers website is a RS?: https://ruvera.ru/
I came across the site recently while translating a Russian Wikipedia article that uses it as a source. It does appear to be reliable but I'd like an opinion from you. BorgQueen ( talk) 19:30, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
I've finished this one and just need photos. I have only been able to locate 2 images. 1 I think we can use, the other, I have asked RickinBaltimore for an assist. I am 99% sure that 1959 photo can be used, but as there are zero copies of it that aren't horrible, it will depend on if a decent copy can be found. The one I think we can use is this photo p. 6 Proof of publishing with no mark or photographer named. No mark on Masthead or Publishing notice. No listing in Periodicals for Journal-Every Evening, News-Journal Company, or Wilmington. If you concur, can it go in the info box as the lede photo? Thanks for your help. SusunW ( talk) 17:46, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
On 27 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Laura Bergt, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Laura Bergt was said to have gained millions of acres of land for Native Alaskans by Eskimo-kissing Vice President Spiro Agnew (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Laura Bergt. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Laura Bergt), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
-- RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
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I am hoping that you can help me with photos on di Brazza. I have several and all are pre-1906, but the last 2 I am unsure of.
The two I am not sure of are:
Any help you can give to sort it out would be fabulous. Thanks! SusunW ( talk) 23:32, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Also started https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cora_Slocomb_di_Brazza - which might need an accent on the last a, now that I think about it. I see the Italian Wikipedia article just calls her Cora Slocomb. -- GRuban ( talk) 15:05, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
More:
@ SusunW: I think I'm done. The images that you asked for are above, I think the button is also fine, printing an image on a button is no less publishing it than printing it on cardboard or canvas or newsprint. The image of the mother - eh. I'm going to stamp it with https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-US-unpublished, second or third clause, made before 1903 and unpublished before 2003. It's hard to prove a negative (never published before 2003), of course, but you looked a lot and I looked a bit, and at worst we'll take it down. -- GRuban ( talk) 20:34, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
Will do if you want, but how about a modern color photo? -- GRuban ( talk) 19:07, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
Both ways, and the cannon/museum cropped a bit. -- GRuban ( talk) 23:15, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
While I'm here, I'm going to list this one too, which I hope to finish up tomorrow. I can't figure out which photo is best for the lede. I have:
Based on this, I am pretty sure that I can use any or all of these, but want to see if you concur and can upload them. You know I appreciate you and your magic. SusunW ( talk) 00:31, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
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my daily stories |
Thanks to your efforts, I could give Muszely a new pic in my daily stories for all four days she has been on the Main page! Tomorrow, however, it will be a Bach cantata even if she remains ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:44, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
yesterday's cantata, 300 years later -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:59, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
... and today the regional festival - DYK of 13 years ago ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:08, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:15, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:37, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
On 14 February 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Iszac Henig, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that trans man Iszac Henig alternated wins against trans woman Lia Thomas on the way to the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming Championship? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Iszac Henig. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Iszac Henig), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
theleekycauldron ( talk • contribs) (she/her) 02:56, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
On 18 February 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Erna P. Harris, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that African-American journalist Erna P. Harris (pictured) was called a "fearless critic" of the internment of Japanese Americans by the US government during World War II? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Erna P. Harris. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Erna P. Harris), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
BorgQueen ( talk) 00:02, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
This has been a really tough article to write. Don't know her birth name, her legal name is different than the name she became known as, lack of access to the black press, vilification of her during the scandal and then nothing, and I mean nothing from the end of the trial to when she published her book. People are truly shameful. That said, it's a difficult period for photos in the UK. I've worked on 3 other articles and we haven't found any that work. Mujinga literally went to Brixton and took photos of some of the buildings. Jamaica copyright was the same as UK until 1993 and since then is 95 years from publication. UK is of course 70, so I think our only hope is fair use, unless her son Chris is willing to help. I have found potentials: the best photo, performing (available from the WP library), this, and these videos (but I have no clue if or how that works). I'd love to have her performing as well, but think I can only do one fair use photo? Any help or advice you could give would be lovely. If you are too busy to work your magic, no worries. SusunW ( talk) 14:37, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
I am frustrated and need help. Many of the Italian archive websites seem to be blocked to me. For text, I can open the cached version and put in the "quote" of a ref cite the pertinent bits, but I cant save it in wayback and I cannot do that for photos. So, I found two photos already on WP (see the article), but I would prefer other ones. The link doesn't work at all, but wayback has p 8 and p 9 Rather than separate photos of she and her parents, I'd like D011377 (1895) on page 8 and D011385 (1909) the one with her children page 9. The photographer is Matio Nunes Vais (1856-1932). (I tried to search Instituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione and though there are 6 different links to the site, I cannot access any of them to see if there are others.) There is a lovely photo of her here, but although I am sure it dates to 1895-1900, I can't prove it. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. If you are too busy, no worries. SusunW ( talk) 18:17, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
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The woman I'm now interested in (as she was a red link on her husband's page): Johanna Geisler, - any chance for an image. There's one in a role, but unclear which (trouser's role, looking like Rosenkavalier but that's a mezzo role, not mentioned in online sources, and I have no access to the others, and I wouldn't know one soprano), and another. Completely different question: do you know why User:Vejvančický/Archive 21 shows the yogo not in the current version, but - I guess - the one before? Could that be avoided by giving the one before a different name? ... or how? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:53, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Now found this of Johanna G. or K.! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:57, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
But new request: the only image we have of Aladár Tóth shows two people, - any chance to separate them? The description which gives me no clue but the fact that two anniversaries were celebrated. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:46, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
sharing impressions from vacation on Madeira 20-30 March, pics now at 24 Mar from the peaks -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:10, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
On 11 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kae Miller, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the support of conservationist Kae Miller (pictured) for people recovering from mental illnesses resulted in the establishment of Te Rae Kaihau Park in Wellington, New Zealand? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kae Miller. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Kae Miller), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
BorgQueen ( talk) 00:02, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello GRuban,
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This one can wait until after you do Abby Day Slocomb above, but I am pretty confused about whether the photo can go on commons or not. this photo was published in this book in Hungary in 1913 (you should have the passwords to Alexander Street Press to access p 31) All the photos in that book were taken by Olga Máté (1878 – 1961) and from 1884, p 12 Hungary's copyright term was 50 years (70 since 1995), thus it wouldn't have been out of copyright by 1996 in Hungary. But according to the US chart, because it was published abroad in 1913 it is in the public domain and doesn't meet the exception "published in a language other than English" because the book was published in Hungarian, English, French, and German? Or is it saying it does meet the exception because it had languages other than English and isn't in the PD until 120 years have passed, i.e. 2033. Any help you can give would be beneficial as I have no clue. SusunW ( talk) 17:38, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
On 20 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Helene Scheu-Riesz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Helene Scheu-Riesz created the first German translation of Alice Through the Looking-Glass but struggled with Lewis Carroll's made-up words? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Helene Scheu-Riesz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Helene Scheu-Riesz), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
BorgQueen ( talk) 12:03, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
On 22 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cora Slocomb di Brazza, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Cora Slocomb di Brazza designed the peace flag adopted by the International Council of Women, and her mother Abby Day Slocomb designed the Connecticut state flag? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cora Slocomb di Brazza. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Cora Slocomb di Brazza), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Aoidh ( talk) 12:02, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
On 22 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Abby Day Slocomb, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Cora Slocomb di Brazza designed the peace flag adopted by the International Council of Women, and her mother Abby Day Slocomb designed the Connecticut state flag? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cora Slocomb di Brazza. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Abby Day Slocomb), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Aoidh ( talk) 12:03, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
On 26 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bertha McNeill, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bertha McNeill challenged policies of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom that excluded Black women from full membership in the organization? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bertha McNeill. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Bertha McNeill), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Aoidh ( talk) 00:02, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for "her"! - My story today is about the Alchymic Quartet, the last DYK from last year, - thank you for the image crop, - I don't understand why it wasn't taken. - The songs are about vacation. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:33, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
I loved to see Marian Anderson and her story of protest against discrimination by singing on Easter Sunday 9 April 1939 on the Main page yesterday. - One more day of vacation pictured, including getting wet. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:16, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
My story today, Messiah (Handel), was my first dip into the FA ocean, thanks to great colleagues. - a few pics added, one day missing -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:02, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
I added, finally ;) - today's stories are about Johanna Geisler and Huub Oosterhuis, a singer and a songwriter. More here if you have time, including your praises. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:38, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
Today is the 80th birthday of John Eliot Gardiner. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:02, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
Okay, so weird situation. Dobelli disappears from the record after 1931, so I have absolutely no clue when she died. I have been working with Maria Grazia Suriano to put together Dobelli's biography and we're close to being able to publish. No photos of her have been found, but I did find this (her translation of Upton Sinclair's The Brass Check, 1926 ed) and this (her translation of E. D. Morel's The Black Man's Burden, 1923 ed). I am kinda confused because we don't know when she died, but I also think there is something about a cover of a book being okay if there isn't any illustration? Does the signature on the Morel book cause a problem? Any help you can give would be appreciated. SusunW ( talk) 19:19, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
@ SusunW: So, finally got to this; between being busy with real life and these being more complex issues than they may at first appear. The license on the text-only book covers you're presumably looking for is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-text - basically non-artistic text isn't copyrightable, and a few simple words and names generally aren't sufficiently artistic. Unfortunately each of those book covers have a non-text image on them, the logo of the publishing house. The first one is a logo of Corbaccio, Milan publishing house, which is probably the one we have an IT article about https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbaccio - it's only probably, because it is not the raven logo mentioned in that article, so there is a tiny chance it's a different Corbaccio Milan publishing house, but I doubt it. Now our IT article says the logo was designed by Mario Bazzi, https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bazzi who that article says lived until 1954. So that raven logo will be copyrighted for 70 years after that or 2024; that EC isn't that logo, but I couldn't find information about it. The signature on the second book (is that Dobelli's signature? I can't decipher it!) probably isn't a problem due to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-signature; Italy isn't one of the countries listed under https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-signature_tag one way or the other, but it does look like most countries will accept standard signatures as PD, so I'd be willing to risk it. However, that second book has a logo of Casa Editrice La Rassegna Internazionale, which I haven't found details on, but it looks like they only published in the 1920s - I have found multiple books by them from that decade but not otherwise. Now for this second case, we can try to claim that the logo is an anonymous work; after all, the publishing house is no longer in existence, and there don't seem to be indepth studies about its history so there is an excellent chance no one knows the artist. If so, then the Italy copyright would have lapsed 70 years after publication, which is fine, and the US copyright on it would also be fine since it was published before 1928. I'm not comfortable doing that with the first case because the Corbaccio publishing house is still in existence (here is their web site! https://www.corbaccio.it/), and there is a reasonable chance that if we merely asked them persistently enough (and in Italian!) they could dig through their records and tell us the author of that EC logo, and it might very well also have been Mario Bazzi. But even on that second book it's taking a slight chance; in practicality, there is very likely no owner of that logo, but in theory, there just might be, so the chance we're taking isn't that the real owner will complain, but that a legalistic editor will complain. So - as Dirty Harry once said - do you feel lucky?
There is also the image editing solution: since the logos are relatively small on both book covers, I could just blur or paint over them in the images. Then it would take more than a simply legalistic editor (of which there are a few), it would take an insanely legalistic editor (of the kind we might not actually have any of). Please see this image of the Obama campaign poster that I uploaded a few years ago for the article Si se puede. It had the Obama sunrise image in the middle, and it was found by a ... conscientious, diligent, well meaning, etcetera ... editor of the kind I mention, who kindly, politely, but firmly objected until I painted it over with the background color. So presumably that solution would also be acceptable even to those, and the book cover images would look something like this image I show here, except since the logos are smaller, there would be an even less obvious gap. Your option, madame. -- GRuban ( talk) 20:23, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
You can see the smudges where I removed the logos if you look for them, but I think they're OK otherwise. That first one was really dark, so I brightened it a bit. Maybe I didn't pick the right point between legibility and authenticity; I can return to a darker version or go even brighter. -- GRuban ( talk) 15:54, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I've promoted that hook about the cute couple to Template:Did you know/Preparation area 5. I've amended it just a little: international to more precise Lithuanian. And de-linked followers and Instagram. I think most people know what they are nowadays. We don't even usually link TikTok or Facebook on DYK, lol. Nice article btw! BorgQueen ( talk) 06:10, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
I know, I know, you're still working on Dobelli, but I think this one is okay, maybe, if Puerto Rico falls under US copyright. As a commonwealth, that seems likely, but I don't know for sure and am hoping you do. I found this photo of her and her dad in 1970. El Mundo went defunct in the 1990s and I see no photographer name. There is no notice on the masthead or publishing data page 2. There also isn't anything for El Mundo in the Periodicals registry for 1970. So, are we good? SusunW ( talk) 20:14, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
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Hi there! In case you missed it, I wanted to let you know I uploaded the Alice Walton photo. It's linked in our discussion here. Thanks Kt2011 ( Talk · COI:Walton family) 18:38, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
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Greetings! This is to request your assistance to add the image for the article of William Marks Simpson. One image is found at the Archives of government of New Zealand, which is given as one of the references in the article. I am not sure about the copy right issues related with this image. Kindly help. Thank you for your valuable time and assistance. With thanks and regards, Thirukannan ( talk) 14:09, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
Will also add (one of each) to article, here just for comparison. -- GRuban ( talk) 00:38, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
I seem to recall from one of the articles you helped me on in the past that during the Soviet period, photographs were not copyright protected, but I may be remembering wrong, and have no clue if that applies to Estonia. There are a lot of great pictures of her in newspapers and in this film, but I don't know if we can use any of them given that she lived between 1911-1978. Should I just go for a fair use image? SusunW ( talk) 20:20, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Needs your four tildes to be complete. Thanks for doing the reading and taking it on. Sorry for my nitpick, but somebody else will say it soon. BusterD ( talk) 00:13, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving that article and others in May, and all the image help. - I had a good story on coronation day: the Te Deum we sang that day. And the following day we sang it for the composer ;) - I took some pics of bright scenery - click on songs. -- (ad then forgot to sign)
File:Cathinka Buchwieser 1813.tif - is there a chance to get rid of the line on the left? - I like the contemporary writing, compared to File:Cathinka Buchwieser 1813.jpg. She is on the Main page, born OTD. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:15, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
Pentecost was full of music, - sorry that I didn't get to pics for the mezzo. I thank you for making them available, and a great choice! - my story today is that 300 years ago today, Bach became Thomaskantor, with BWV 75, writing music history. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:47, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
I fear you may have accidentally omitted a word or two in your comment re partially striking an earlier comment. XAM2175 (T) 12:40, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
This one is very, very confusing to me, so I'll just lay out my stuff. These two women wrote letters between 1859 and 1868. Primus died February 21, 1932 and Brown died January 11, 1870. The Connecticut Historical Society acquired their correspondence in 1934. From the 1990s, the letters were transcribed and published in various books, sometimes with images of the letters themselves, sometimes not. As far as I can tell, then, first publication occurred in the 1990s, or does the fact that the Connecticut Historical Society took them into a public collection count? The letters are here. While I have found other images for Rebecca's article, I am having trouble locating any for Brown's. I can't figure out if I can use her letters as obviously she has been dead for 153 years, or if I cannot, since they were apparently first published prior to 2006. Can you help? SusunW ( talk) 17:42, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
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Soňa Červená is now a GA, and I am sure that is because of the images you added, - it gave her life! Thank you! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:46, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
I need help and am really, really confused. She died in Yugoslavia in 1964. Our guide says "Generally 50 years after the author's death, with the exception of photographs or a works of applied art, respectively 25 years since published." The successor state was Croatia, which says
"A Croatian work is in the public domain under the Yugoslav Copyright Act of 1978 and the succeeding Croatian Copyright Act of 1991 if it entered the public domain on or before 27 July 1999, when the law was changed. These acts provided for a copyright term of the life of the author plus fifty years, or of 25 years for a photograph or a work of applied art. The work must meet one of the following criteria:
Anything that you can do to help with images of her or her work would be really, really appreciated. My goal is to nominate it for the Women in Green GA editathon this month, but I can do that with or without photos. SusunW ( talk) 14:54, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
Aha! I'm not completely useless. Found an absolutely wonderful photo in so many ways: it's a photo of her, facing front, looking into the camera, at work, painting, in her studio, and it's by Onslow, her partner! Onslow died in 1950 (source says 1949, but whatever), so 1950+70=2020, so PD in Croatia; also unpublished before 2003, so PD in US. I see you grabbed a couple of images from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nasta_Rojc already, there are also a few more, but I don't recommend the government official portrait painting as above. Haven't found a good usable photo of Onslow and her husband, but still looking; maybe we should go for fair use there, they were rather important in her life. Agree? -- GRuban ( talk) 01:02, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for another good one! - You found images for singers, - how about Rachel Yakar? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:27, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
No rush, Storye book found one. -- (and forgot to sign)
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Thanks for trying! - My story today pictures a friend whose birthday is today ;) - we listened to music she helped publishing - at a fancy place (which looked different when Bach played there). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:59, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Finally: June pictures updated, with three great RMF concerts! - My story today is very personal: the DYK appeared on Wikipedia's 15th birthday, and describes a concert I sang. I was requested to translate the bio into German for a memorial concert ... - see background, and we talked about life and death. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:37, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
On today's Main page, you can find a cantata that Bach first performed 300 years ago, and an iconic saxophonist from East Germany. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:05, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
File:1915. Обложка журнала «Любовь к трем апельсинам» работы А. Я. Головина.jpg - can you tell me what this is? - I'm looking for something to be used for Prokofiev's bio, would like some autograph music, but found only this. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:18, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! Kevin from the Walton family office here. I have a draft in my user space I would like to see if you want to review. It is for an article on the Art Bridges Foundation, which is one of Alice Walton's foundations. Given our work in the past, I thought you would be interested. As always, thanks for all the assistance. Kt2011 ( Talk · COI:Walton family) 13:14, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Hope all is well. I need help if you can spare a bit of time. So, I’ve found this trophy photo. There is no mark or notice on the masthead or publishing notice, nor any entry in the 1970 periodicals catalog. But, the image is very washed out. Can you fix that? Also found this cowboy hat photo. There is no notice on the masthead or publishing notice. The paper does not appear in the 1973 periodical catalog nor does the Associated Press in the 1973 artwork/photograph catalog. But, I am not sure if there is another name I should be looking for for an AP photo. Would love to have a current image, she's a public servant and so possibly there is one available somewhere, but I don't have a clue about how to find current photos. I appreciate you. SusunW ( talk) 18:58, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello @ GRuban! I know that you have restored the articles of Miss USA with pictures. Could you also do the ones for Miss Universe? I also changed some articles into redirects because they do not have references. Feel free to revert them back but add two or more references so that i won't be reverted back into a redirect. Allyriana000 ( talk) 03:26, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
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In my most recent images (click on songs), two wedding cakes are hidden. - Today's story is about the Inkpot Madonna who returned to "her place" 9 years ago, and also has aspects of early learning, remember? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:22, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Today is Debussy's birthday. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:03, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi GRuban, hope you are well. I wonder if you or any friendly page watchers could give me a second opinion on the copyright status of two of the four images at The Cormac McCarthy Journal. Dust jacket images for The Road and Suttree are being used with (different) rationales I haven't seen before for a book cover. I actually think in both cases the rationale is good, but I'd be happy to get a second opinion since I'm doing a GA review. Thanks for any help! Mujinga ( talk) 12:58, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
I am in need of your magic. If you start on page 222 (pdf 234) you will see a group of photos that appear to have been published because of the labels. The Guardian published better images, but I can't figure out where they came from. Although it says Museum Victoria, that website returns nada. There are also descriptions of photos (but no images) listed here (search Louisa Briggs), but I cannot tell if they are the same photos. They say they are in the The Aldo Massola Collection, but I cannot find that on the AIATSIS website. I get that you aren't an expert on Australia, but you are my go to person for photos. Can you help? or point me to someone, somewhere? SusunW ( talk) 22:53, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
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GRuban, I reuploaded the portrait and it looks much better! I have hopefully resolved the four text comments and I realise I forgot to reply on Seema Biswas - I actually really like that pic (I find it a proper actor pose) but will happily change it if anyone else objects. Cheers! Mujinga ( talk) 12:40, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hi there. Last week, while investigating that errant Talk page ping, I saw you mentioned taking a look at the Art Bridges draft. Your feedback would be most welcome! Another editor stopped by and said it looked about ready and asked for just a couple changes, which I made. So hopefully, if you agree, it's ready to be moved into Mainspace. Thanks! ~~~~ Kt2011 ( Talk · COI:Walton family) 19:11, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
I need your help and I don't want to rush you, so I'm going to ask now although I haven't finished the article I am writing for the Women in Green October editathon, so the article has to be finished by the 31st. I should also probably note what Kusma told me about the two Yoko Matsuoka's (actually there are four that I have run across, but mine isn't confused with the illustrator or the actress). Mine is 松岡洋子 and Yoko McClain, née Matsuoka is 松岡陽子. In Japanese not confusing, but in English McClain and my lady are confused. So, here is what I have:
Any help you can give will be appreciated. SusunW ( talk) 18:34, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
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Today, it's a place that inspired me, musings if you have time. My corner for memory and music has today a juxtaposition of what our local church choirs offer. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:44, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
Still waiting on a critical source on Matsuoka so I'm working on an alternative bio for WIG's editathon. It's a bit confusing because western sources typically call her by her husband's name Ngo Ba Thanh. The photo on the Vi.WP is fair use and I cannot access the source of it. So, here's what I've found and hopefully you can help with these.
As always, any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. SusunW ( talk) 23:32, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
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This is to seek your help for adding an image of Ida Magli, which is found in different news portals and online encyclopedia of other languages. Some of them are given in references. Could you add if there is any copy right free image is available. Sorry to bother you again. Thank you so for your valuable time. Thanks and regards, Thirukannan ( talk) 08:17, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
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How were the names selected? Some stubs are preserved, some were moved. Xx236 ( talk) 11:48, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
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I need help with photos on Popova and it will likely require your skill with Russian.
Any help you can give with the photos would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to jump in and correct any transliteration errors or information in the article as well. Thanks. SusunW ( talk) 22:02, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
Couldn't decide how tightly to crop. Your choice! -- GRuban ( talk) 14:10, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
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Vacation pictures offered if you click on songs, and my story today is a DYK hook from 13 years ago OTD: about the great music at one of my churches. Mozart's Requiem to come on Sunday, coupled with Arvo Pärt's Da pacem Domine. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:17, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
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Are you back? I need help with photos on her. See talk page. SusunW ( talk) 17:52, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Medea Amiranashvili, soprano from Georgia, died, and I am looking around for references, for biography and music. I don't speak the language, and something in Georgian is the only reference for the Italian Wikipedia. I see surprisingly many YouTube videos but those can't be used. Any help? I hear her singing Verdi in Russian, - perhaps there are traces of reviews? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:19, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! Kevin from the Walton family office here. I posted an edit request for the Alice Walton article and thought you might be interested in taking a look. I've appreciated your help over the years and it'd be great to continue collaborating if you are available. Thanks, and happy new year! Kt2011 ( Talk · COI:Walton family) 14:27, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
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Today's featured article is Osbert Parsley, not by me but Amitchell125 where I commented, including the beginning of my songs. - The image of Andrew Szydlo who gave a speech at my friend's birthday concert (YouTube on top of my talk) is not on the commons, - could that change, perhaps? Plus a crop, for DYK? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:30, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm on vacation, - click on songs! I tell my own stories now, instead of relying on DYK. - Still the same image question. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:46, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm back. - Melitta Muszely died, RIP. I remember how you worked on her pics, with thanks. I could imagine the lead image cropped a bit. Thoughts on the chemist (for my last DYK)? - The other story today is 10 years old OTD ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:50, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
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On 11 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ruby Tandoh, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when baker Ruby Tandoh (pictured) publicly came out, she mocked critics who suggested that she had romanced a male contest judge? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ruby Tandoh. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Ruby Tandoh), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Happy New Year. I hope your magic is intact because I just finished this and need some help with photos for this new article.
Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. SusunW ( talk) 19:55, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Siehe da! -- GRuban ( talk) 00:16, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, you rejected another editor's draft of this High Court judge a few months ago because the article did not meet GNG, but I believe that the subject would have presumed notability under WP:JUDGE. A High Court judge being a national post in the English legal system. I am not sure if it is too late to reconsider this or how the review works -- I was a naughty boy and skipped the process for my first article. Best wishes, Solipsism 101 ( talk) 16:04, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
I may be making this more difficult than I have to, but I'm just gonna lay it out and let you do magic. I found this photo, published in the US in 1939. No mark on the masthead or publishing data. No entry in Periodicals for 1939 for the Charlotte Observer. But then I noticed in one of the sources Ipigott had found, the same photo. If you click on it, it says the creator was the Atelier Pietzner & Fayer. Googling that, I came up with this photo, by the same guys. Georg Fayer died in 1950, so 70 years later would be 2020. But Pietzner's data says "Carl Pietzner junior (1884 – 20th century)", which doesn't really tell me he's dead. So, I googled it and came up with a Find a Grave entry that says 1884-1963. We don't call that a RS, so I googled "Karl Pietzner (1884-1963)" and found an entry for someone else at the ÖNB, which confirms those dates. I looked up both of them in the 1939 Artist/works and find neither. She was living in North Carolina from 1938, and there are no newspaper/journal articles about her after 1937 in Austria, so I have no idea if it was made in the US or Austria. So, is it not usable because it won't go out of copyright until 2033, or it is usable because it's actually stamped only by Fayer and they didn't comply with US regulations? If we can't use that, can we use this one published in Austria in 1914? SusunW ( talk) 23:14, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
The second one is here:
The first one will take a bit longer. I can see the highest resolution here: https://onb.digital/result/10E03474 but it's an OpenSeadragon image that I can't quite get the full resolution of. I do think we can call it public domain - you can see the stamp on the image that says Fayer, and we have an article on him, Georg Fayer, and he died in 1950. Yes, you do have a web page that says that it was from Atelier Pietzner & Fayer, but I think we can argue that even if that meant the photographer was the two of them together, that still meant Pietzner senior at the time of the photograph, who also passed before 1952. Sure, later that was taken over by Pietzner junior, but we can argue that either Fayer (most likely) or at worst Fayer and senior should be considered the photographer. Let me play with dowloading a bit ... -- GRuban ( talk) 19:41, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for reviewing my DYK nomination and providing such valuable feedback. I appreciate the time you took on this.
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Hi George. I see you're a native Russian speaker. Could you please tell me if this Old Believers website is a RS?: https://ruvera.ru/
I came across the site recently while translating a Russian Wikipedia article that uses it as a source. It does appear to be reliable but I'd like an opinion from you. BorgQueen ( talk) 19:30, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
I've finished this one and just need photos. I have only been able to locate 2 images. 1 I think we can use, the other, I have asked RickinBaltimore for an assist. I am 99% sure that 1959 photo can be used, but as there are zero copies of it that aren't horrible, it will depend on if a decent copy can be found. The one I think we can use is this photo p. 6 Proof of publishing with no mark or photographer named. No mark on Masthead or Publishing notice. No listing in Periodicals for Journal-Every Evening, News-Journal Company, or Wilmington. If you concur, can it go in the info box as the lede photo? Thanks for your help. SusunW ( talk) 17:46, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
On 27 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Laura Bergt, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Laura Bergt was said to have gained millions of acres of land for Native Alaskans by Eskimo-kissing Vice President Spiro Agnew (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Laura Bergt. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Laura Bergt), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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I am hoping that you can help me with photos on di Brazza. I have several and all are pre-1906, but the last 2 I am unsure of.
The two I am not sure of are:
Any help you can give to sort it out would be fabulous. Thanks! SusunW ( talk) 23:32, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Also started https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cora_Slocomb_di_Brazza - which might need an accent on the last a, now that I think about it. I see the Italian Wikipedia article just calls her Cora Slocomb. -- GRuban ( talk) 15:05, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
More:
@ SusunW: I think I'm done. The images that you asked for are above, I think the button is also fine, printing an image on a button is no less publishing it than printing it on cardboard or canvas or newsprint. The image of the mother - eh. I'm going to stamp it with https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-US-unpublished, second or third clause, made before 1903 and unpublished before 2003. It's hard to prove a negative (never published before 2003), of course, but you looked a lot and I looked a bit, and at worst we'll take it down. -- GRuban ( talk) 20:34, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
Will do if you want, but how about a modern color photo? -- GRuban ( talk) 19:07, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
Both ways, and the cannon/museum cropped a bit. -- GRuban ( talk) 23:15, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
While I'm here, I'm going to list this one too, which I hope to finish up tomorrow. I can't figure out which photo is best for the lede. I have:
Based on this, I am pretty sure that I can use any or all of these, but want to see if you concur and can upload them. You know I appreciate you and your magic. SusunW ( talk) 00:31, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks to your efforts, I could give Muszely a new pic in my daily stories for all four days she has been on the Main page! Tomorrow, however, it will be a Bach cantata even if she remains ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:44, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
yesterday's cantata, 300 years later -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:59, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
... and today the regional festival - DYK of 13 years ago ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:08, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:15, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:37, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
On 14 February 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Iszac Henig, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that trans man Iszac Henig alternated wins against trans woman Lia Thomas on the way to the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming Championship? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Iszac Henig. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Iszac Henig), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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On 18 February 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Erna P. Harris, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that African-American journalist Erna P. Harris (pictured) was called a "fearless critic" of the internment of Japanese Americans by the US government during World War II? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Erna P. Harris. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Erna P. Harris), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
BorgQueen ( talk) 00:02, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
This has been a really tough article to write. Don't know her birth name, her legal name is different than the name she became known as, lack of access to the black press, vilification of her during the scandal and then nothing, and I mean nothing from the end of the trial to when she published her book. People are truly shameful. That said, it's a difficult period for photos in the UK. I've worked on 3 other articles and we haven't found any that work. Mujinga literally went to Brixton and took photos of some of the buildings. Jamaica copyright was the same as UK until 1993 and since then is 95 years from publication. UK is of course 70, so I think our only hope is fair use, unless her son Chris is willing to help. I have found potentials: the best photo, performing (available from the WP library), this, and these videos (but I have no clue if or how that works). I'd love to have her performing as well, but think I can only do one fair use photo? Any help or advice you could give would be lovely. If you are too busy to work your magic, no worries. SusunW ( talk) 14:37, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
I am frustrated and need help. Many of the Italian archive websites seem to be blocked to me. For text, I can open the cached version and put in the "quote" of a ref cite the pertinent bits, but I cant save it in wayback and I cannot do that for photos. So, I found two photos already on WP (see the article), but I would prefer other ones. The link doesn't work at all, but wayback has p 8 and p 9 Rather than separate photos of she and her parents, I'd like D011377 (1895) on page 8 and D011385 (1909) the one with her children page 9. The photographer is Matio Nunes Vais (1856-1932). (I tried to search Instituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione and though there are 6 different links to the site, I cannot access any of them to see if there are others.) There is a lovely photo of her here, but although I am sure it dates to 1895-1900, I can't prove it. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. If you are too busy, no worries. SusunW ( talk) 18:17, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
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The woman I'm now interested in (as she was a red link on her husband's page): Johanna Geisler, - any chance for an image. There's one in a role, but unclear which (trouser's role, looking like Rosenkavalier but that's a mezzo role, not mentioned in online sources, and I have no access to the others, and I wouldn't know one soprano), and another. Completely different question: do you know why User:Vejvančický/Archive 21 shows the yogo not in the current version, but - I guess - the one before? Could that be avoided by giving the one before a different name? ... or how? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:53, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Now found this of Johanna G. or K.! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:57, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
But new request: the only image we have of Aladár Tóth shows two people, - any chance to separate them? The description which gives me no clue but the fact that two anniversaries were celebrated. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:46, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
sharing impressions from vacation on Madeira 20-30 March, pics now at 24 Mar from the peaks -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:10, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
On 11 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kae Miller, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the support of conservationist Kae Miller (pictured) for people recovering from mental illnesses resulted in the establishment of Te Rae Kaihau Park in Wellington, New Zealand? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kae Miller. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Kae Miller), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hello GRuban,
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This one can wait until after you do Abby Day Slocomb above, but I am pretty confused about whether the photo can go on commons or not. this photo was published in this book in Hungary in 1913 (you should have the passwords to Alexander Street Press to access p 31) All the photos in that book were taken by Olga Máté (1878 – 1961) and from 1884, p 12 Hungary's copyright term was 50 years (70 since 1995), thus it wouldn't have been out of copyright by 1996 in Hungary. But according to the US chart, because it was published abroad in 1913 it is in the public domain and doesn't meet the exception "published in a language other than English" because the book was published in Hungarian, English, French, and German? Or is it saying it does meet the exception because it had languages other than English and isn't in the PD until 120 years have passed, i.e. 2033. Any help you can give would be beneficial as I have no clue. SusunW ( talk) 17:38, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
On 20 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Helene Scheu-Riesz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Helene Scheu-Riesz created the first German translation of Alice Through the Looking-Glass but struggled with Lewis Carroll's made-up words? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Helene Scheu-Riesz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Helene Scheu-Riesz), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
BorgQueen ( talk) 12:03, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
On 22 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cora Slocomb di Brazza, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Cora Slocomb di Brazza designed the peace flag adopted by the International Council of Women, and her mother Abby Day Slocomb designed the Connecticut state flag? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cora Slocomb di Brazza. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Cora Slocomb di Brazza), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Aoidh ( talk) 12:02, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
On 22 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Abby Day Slocomb, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Cora Slocomb di Brazza designed the peace flag adopted by the International Council of Women, and her mother Abby Day Slocomb designed the Connecticut state flag? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cora Slocomb di Brazza. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Abby Day Slocomb), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Aoidh ( talk) 12:03, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
On 26 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bertha McNeill, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bertha McNeill challenged policies of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom that excluded Black women from full membership in the organization? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bertha McNeill. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Bertha McNeill), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Thank you for "her"! - My story today is about the Alchymic Quartet, the last DYK from last year, - thank you for the image crop, - I don't understand why it wasn't taken. - The songs are about vacation. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:33, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
I loved to see Marian Anderson and her story of protest against discrimination by singing on Easter Sunday 9 April 1939 on the Main page yesterday. - One more day of vacation pictured, including getting wet. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:16, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
My story today, Messiah (Handel), was my first dip into the FA ocean, thanks to great colleagues. - a few pics added, one day missing -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:02, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
I added, finally ;) - today's stories are about Johanna Geisler and Huub Oosterhuis, a singer and a songwriter. More here if you have time, including your praises. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:38, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
Today is the 80th birthday of John Eliot Gardiner. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:02, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
Okay, so weird situation. Dobelli disappears from the record after 1931, so I have absolutely no clue when she died. I have been working with Maria Grazia Suriano to put together Dobelli's biography and we're close to being able to publish. No photos of her have been found, but I did find this (her translation of Upton Sinclair's The Brass Check, 1926 ed) and this (her translation of E. D. Morel's The Black Man's Burden, 1923 ed). I am kinda confused because we don't know when she died, but I also think there is something about a cover of a book being okay if there isn't any illustration? Does the signature on the Morel book cause a problem? Any help you can give would be appreciated. SusunW ( talk) 19:19, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
@ SusunW: So, finally got to this; between being busy with real life and these being more complex issues than they may at first appear. The license on the text-only book covers you're presumably looking for is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-text - basically non-artistic text isn't copyrightable, and a few simple words and names generally aren't sufficiently artistic. Unfortunately each of those book covers have a non-text image on them, the logo of the publishing house. The first one is a logo of Corbaccio, Milan publishing house, which is probably the one we have an IT article about https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbaccio - it's only probably, because it is not the raven logo mentioned in that article, so there is a tiny chance it's a different Corbaccio Milan publishing house, but I doubt it. Now our IT article says the logo was designed by Mario Bazzi, https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bazzi who that article says lived until 1954. So that raven logo will be copyrighted for 70 years after that or 2024; that EC isn't that logo, but I couldn't find information about it. The signature on the second book (is that Dobelli's signature? I can't decipher it!) probably isn't a problem due to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-signature; Italy isn't one of the countries listed under https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-signature_tag one way or the other, but it does look like most countries will accept standard signatures as PD, so I'd be willing to risk it. However, that second book has a logo of Casa Editrice La Rassegna Internazionale, which I haven't found details on, but it looks like they only published in the 1920s - I have found multiple books by them from that decade but not otherwise. Now for this second case, we can try to claim that the logo is an anonymous work; after all, the publishing house is no longer in existence, and there don't seem to be indepth studies about its history so there is an excellent chance no one knows the artist. If so, then the Italy copyright would have lapsed 70 years after publication, which is fine, and the US copyright on it would also be fine since it was published before 1928. I'm not comfortable doing that with the first case because the Corbaccio publishing house is still in existence (here is their web site! https://www.corbaccio.it/), and there is a reasonable chance that if we merely asked them persistently enough (and in Italian!) they could dig through their records and tell us the author of that EC logo, and it might very well also have been Mario Bazzi. But even on that second book it's taking a slight chance; in practicality, there is very likely no owner of that logo, but in theory, there just might be, so the chance we're taking isn't that the real owner will complain, but that a legalistic editor will complain. So - as Dirty Harry once said - do you feel lucky?
There is also the image editing solution: since the logos are relatively small on both book covers, I could just blur or paint over them in the images. Then it would take more than a simply legalistic editor (of which there are a few), it would take an insanely legalistic editor (of the kind we might not actually have any of). Please see this image of the Obama campaign poster that I uploaded a few years ago for the article Si se puede. It had the Obama sunrise image in the middle, and it was found by a ... conscientious, diligent, well meaning, etcetera ... editor of the kind I mention, who kindly, politely, but firmly objected until I painted it over with the background color. So presumably that solution would also be acceptable even to those, and the book cover images would look something like this image I show here, except since the logos are smaller, there would be an even less obvious gap. Your option, madame. -- GRuban ( talk) 20:23, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
You can see the smudges where I removed the logos if you look for them, but I think they're OK otherwise. That first one was really dark, so I brightened it a bit. Maybe I didn't pick the right point between legibility and authenticity; I can return to a darker version or go even brighter. -- GRuban ( talk) 15:54, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I've promoted that hook about the cute couple to Template:Did you know/Preparation area 5. I've amended it just a little: international to more precise Lithuanian. And de-linked followers and Instagram. I think most people know what they are nowadays. We don't even usually link TikTok or Facebook on DYK, lol. Nice article btw! BorgQueen ( talk) 06:10, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
I know, I know, you're still working on Dobelli, but I think this one is okay, maybe, if Puerto Rico falls under US copyright. As a commonwealth, that seems likely, but I don't know for sure and am hoping you do. I found this photo of her and her dad in 1970. El Mundo went defunct in the 1990s and I see no photographer name. There is no notice on the masthead or publishing data page 2. There also isn't anything for El Mundo in the Periodicals registry for 1970. So, are we good? SusunW ( talk) 20:14, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
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Hi there! In case you missed it, I wanted to let you know I uploaded the Alice Walton photo. It's linked in our discussion here. Thanks Kt2011 ( Talk · COI:Walton family) 18:38, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
On 26 April 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Maya and Yehuda Devir, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after being featured on a Lithuanian website, Maya and Yehuda Devir (both pictured) got so many followers that they thought Instagram had broken? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Maya and Yehuda Devir. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Maya and Yehuda Devir), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Greetings! This is to request your assistance to add the image for the article of William Marks Simpson. One image is found at the Archives of government of New Zealand, which is given as one of the references in the article. I am not sure about the copy right issues related with this image. Kindly help. Thank you for your valuable time and assistance. With thanks and regards, Thirukannan ( talk) 14:09, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
Will also add (one of each) to article, here just for comparison. -- GRuban ( talk) 00:38, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
I seem to recall from one of the articles you helped me on in the past that during the Soviet period, photographs were not copyright protected, but I may be remembering wrong, and have no clue if that applies to Estonia. There are a lot of great pictures of her in newspapers and in this film, but I don't know if we can use any of them given that she lived between 1911-1978. Should I just go for a fair use image? SusunW ( talk) 20:20, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Needs your four tildes to be complete. Thanks for doing the reading and taking it on. Sorry for my nitpick, but somebody else will say it soon. BusterD ( talk) 00:13, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving that article and others in May, and all the image help. - I had a good story on coronation day: the Te Deum we sang that day. And the following day we sang it for the composer ;) - I took some pics of bright scenery - click on songs. -- (ad then forgot to sign)
File:Cathinka Buchwieser 1813.tif - is there a chance to get rid of the line on the left? - I like the contemporary writing, compared to File:Cathinka Buchwieser 1813.jpg. She is on the Main page, born OTD. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:15, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
Pentecost was full of music, - sorry that I didn't get to pics for the mezzo. I thank you for making them available, and a great choice! - my story today is that 300 years ago today, Bach became Thomaskantor, with BWV 75, writing music history. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:47, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
I fear you may have accidentally omitted a word or two in your comment re partially striking an earlier comment. XAM2175 (T) 12:40, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
This one is very, very confusing to me, so I'll just lay out my stuff. These two women wrote letters between 1859 and 1868. Primus died February 21, 1932 and Brown died January 11, 1870. The Connecticut Historical Society acquired their correspondence in 1934. From the 1990s, the letters were transcribed and published in various books, sometimes with images of the letters themselves, sometimes not. As far as I can tell, then, first publication occurred in the 1990s, or does the fact that the Connecticut Historical Society took them into a public collection count? The letters are here. While I have found other images for Rebecca's article, I am having trouble locating any for Brown's. I can't figure out if I can use her letters as obviously she has been dead for 153 years, or if I cannot, since they were apparently first published prior to 2006. Can you help? SusunW ( talk) 17:42, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
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Soňa Červená is now a GA, and I am sure that is because of the images you added, - it gave her life! Thank you! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:46, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
I need help and am really, really confused. She died in Yugoslavia in 1964. Our guide says "Generally 50 years after the author's death, with the exception of photographs or a works of applied art, respectively 25 years since published." The successor state was Croatia, which says
"A Croatian work is in the public domain under the Yugoslav Copyright Act of 1978 and the succeeding Croatian Copyright Act of 1991 if it entered the public domain on or before 27 July 1999, when the law was changed. These acts provided for a copyright term of the life of the author plus fifty years, or of 25 years for a photograph or a work of applied art. The work must meet one of the following criteria:
Anything that you can do to help with images of her or her work would be really, really appreciated. My goal is to nominate it for the Women in Green GA editathon this month, but I can do that with or without photos. SusunW ( talk) 14:54, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
Aha! I'm not completely useless. Found an absolutely wonderful photo in so many ways: it's a photo of her, facing front, looking into the camera, at work, painting, in her studio, and it's by Onslow, her partner! Onslow died in 1950 (source says 1949, but whatever), so 1950+70=2020, so PD in Croatia; also unpublished before 2003, so PD in US. I see you grabbed a couple of images from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nasta_Rojc already, there are also a few more, but I don't recommend the government official portrait painting as above. Haven't found a good usable photo of Onslow and her husband, but still looking; maybe we should go for fair use there, they were rather important in her life. Agree? -- GRuban ( talk) 01:02, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for another good one! - You found images for singers, - how about Rachel Yakar? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:27, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
No rush, Storye book found one. -- (and forgot to sign)
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Thanks for trying! - My story today pictures a friend whose birthday is today ;) - we listened to music she helped publishing - at a fancy place (which looked different when Bach played there). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:59, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Finally: June pictures updated, with three great RMF concerts! - My story today is very personal: the DYK appeared on Wikipedia's 15th birthday, and describes a concert I sang. I was requested to translate the bio into German for a memorial concert ... - see background, and we talked about life and death. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:37, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
On today's Main page, you can find a cantata that Bach first performed 300 years ago, and an iconic saxophonist from East Germany. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:05, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
File:1915. Обложка журнала «Любовь к трем апельсинам» работы А. Я. Головина.jpg - can you tell me what this is? - I'm looking for something to be used for Prokofiev's bio, would like some autograph music, but found only this. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:18, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! Kevin from the Walton family office here. I have a draft in my user space I would like to see if you want to review. It is for an article on the Art Bridges Foundation, which is one of Alice Walton's foundations. Given our work in the past, I thought you would be interested. As always, thanks for all the assistance. Kt2011 ( Talk · COI:Walton family) 13:14, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Hope all is well. I need help if you can spare a bit of time. So, I’ve found this trophy photo. There is no mark or notice on the masthead or publishing notice, nor any entry in the 1970 periodicals catalog. But, the image is very washed out. Can you fix that? Also found this cowboy hat photo. There is no notice on the masthead or publishing notice. The paper does not appear in the 1973 periodical catalog nor does the Associated Press in the 1973 artwork/photograph catalog. But, I am not sure if there is another name I should be looking for for an AP photo. Would love to have a current image, she's a public servant and so possibly there is one available somewhere, but I don't have a clue about how to find current photos. I appreciate you. SusunW ( talk) 18:58, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello @ GRuban! I know that you have restored the articles of Miss USA with pictures. Could you also do the ones for Miss Universe? I also changed some articles into redirects because they do not have references. Feel free to revert them back but add two or more references so that i won't be reverted back into a redirect. Allyriana000 ( talk) 03:26, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
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In my most recent images (click on songs), two wedding cakes are hidden. - Today's story is about the Inkpot Madonna who returned to "her place" 9 years ago, and also has aspects of early learning, remember? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:22, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Today is Debussy's birthday. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:03, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi GRuban, hope you are well. I wonder if you or any friendly page watchers could give me a second opinion on the copyright status of two of the four images at The Cormac McCarthy Journal. Dust jacket images for The Road and Suttree are being used with (different) rationales I haven't seen before for a book cover. I actually think in both cases the rationale is good, but I'd be happy to get a second opinion since I'm doing a GA review. Thanks for any help! Mujinga ( talk) 12:58, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
I am in need of your magic. If you start on page 222 (pdf 234) you will see a group of photos that appear to have been published because of the labels. The Guardian published better images, but I can't figure out where they came from. Although it says Museum Victoria, that website returns nada. There are also descriptions of photos (but no images) listed here (search Louisa Briggs), but I cannot tell if they are the same photos. They say they are in the The Aldo Massola Collection, but I cannot find that on the AIATSIS website. I get that you aren't an expert on Australia, but you are my go to person for photos. Can you help? or point me to someone, somewhere? SusunW ( talk) 22:53, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
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GRuban, I reuploaded the portrait and it looks much better! I have hopefully resolved the four text comments and I realise I forgot to reply on Seema Biswas - I actually really like that pic (I find it a proper actor pose) but will happily change it if anyone else objects. Cheers! Mujinga ( talk) 12:40, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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I need your help and I don't want to rush you, so I'm going to ask now although I haven't finished the article I am writing for the Women in Green October editathon, so the article has to be finished by the 31st. I should also probably note what Kusma told me about the two Yoko Matsuoka's (actually there are four that I have run across, but mine isn't confused with the illustrator or the actress). Mine is 松岡洋子 and Yoko McClain, née Matsuoka is 松岡陽子. In Japanese not confusing, but in English McClain and my lady are confused. So, here is what I have:
Any help you can give will be appreciated. SusunW ( talk) 18:34, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
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Today, it's a place that inspired me, musings if you have time. My corner for memory and music has today a juxtaposition of what our local church choirs offer. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:44, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
Still waiting on a critical source on Matsuoka so I'm working on an alternative bio for WIG's editathon. It's a bit confusing because western sources typically call her by her husband's name Ngo Ba Thanh. The photo on the Vi.WP is fair use and I cannot access the source of it. So, here's what I've found and hopefully you can help with these.
As always, any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. SusunW ( talk) 23:32, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
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This is to seek your help for adding an image of Ida Magli, which is found in different news portals and online encyclopedia of other languages. Some of them are given in references. Could you add if there is any copy right free image is available. Sorry to bother you again. Thank you so for your valuable time. Thanks and regards, Thirukannan ( talk) 08:17, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
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How were the names selected? Some stubs are preserved, some were moved. Xx236 ( talk) 11:48, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hi GRuban, just wanted to share a story and a thanks: Followed your playbook to get a high quality image released for Wallace Smith Broecker, a pioneering climate scientist, so it could go from this to this. Feels like a big win! Eddie891 Talk Work 16:53, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
I need help with photos on Popova and it will likely require your skill with Russian.
Any help you can give with the photos would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to jump in and correct any transliteration errors or information in the article as well. Thanks. SusunW ( talk) 22:02, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
Couldn't decide how tightly to crop. Your choice! -- GRuban ( talk) 14:10, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
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Vacation pictures offered if you click on songs, and my story today is a DYK hook from 13 years ago OTD: about the great music at one of my churches. Mozart's Requiem to come on Sunday, coupled with Arvo Pärt's Da pacem Domine. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:17, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
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Are you back? I need help with photos on her. See talk page. SusunW ( talk) 17:52, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Medea Amiranashvili, soprano from Georgia, died, and I am looking around for references, for biography and music. I don't speak the language, and something in Georgian is the only reference for the Italian Wikipedia. I see surprisingly many YouTube videos but those can't be used. Any help? I hear her singing Verdi in Russian, - perhaps there are traces of reviews? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:19, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
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