I uploaded your picture of Bill Monroe's gravestone at commons [1]. It's avaiable under the terms of GFDL. The yodeling cowboy ( talk) 11:11, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
This is a friendly heads-up. Your images at Mattress Factory ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are copyright violations, since they are derivative works of copyrighted material. If you would like to keep them on Wikipedia, you will need to tag them with {{ Non-free 3D art}} and write a Fair Use Rationale. This image ( Image:MattressFactory-PoemHouse.jpg) is a good example to work from. Thanks and let me know if you have any questions.-- HoboJones ( talk) 03:45, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Do you have any references that confirm that the concerts Robeson played following the HUAC incident were specifically protest songs? Otherwise, I'm not sure why Robeson is in this article. There were many people unfairly persecuted by HUAC, but that of itself does not make them relevant to an article about protest songs.-- Edgewise ( talk) 20:07, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
BJBot had it correct. While you did take the images, in the United States there is no freedom of panorama. What this means is that if you take a photograph of a copyrighted statue, the statue's artist retains rights to the photograph, as it constitutes a derivative work of the original 3D art. I've re-removed the images from your image sub page.
I also found two additional images that were improperly tagged:
These images now require fair use rationales.
Note that according to your fair use policy at Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria #9, the use of non-free images outside of the article namespace is not permitted. Thus, you can't not visibly display these images. However, you can create a list of them without displaying them as I did above with the two statue images that now require a rationale. I've removed the rationales for your userspace that you added to the images that BJBot removed because they are invalid rationales (no rationale being allowed to display the images in userspace). -- Hammersoft ( talk) 22:47, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I've responded on my talk page. Can we keep the discussion in one place please? Thanks, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 17:54, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I found three more images that are non-free. I removed them from User:Leepaxton/Images and added them in a section at the bottom. See User:Leepaxton/Images#Non-free_images. This is a demonstration of how you can still list them without displaying them. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 21:08, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the new NRHP photos; I'm glad to see a better image than mine for the Heinz plant. I took that picture while a passenger in a car that was driving by, only intending to get a casual picture of an impressive building; only later did I realise what it was and start to wish that I'd gotten a better shot :-) Nyttend ( talk) 00:30, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello, and thank you both for the comments. GrapedApe basically summed up my views on things as far as the photographs are concerned. I mainly take the photos for use in the articles. If someone feels that a photo could be used in an article in a different language on Wikipedia and they would like to move it to Commons for use in an article in that way, then I ask that they please list the images exactly as they appear in their original descriptions (with proper coordinates and everything) and that they follow the style as listed in this image. If my images are moved to Commons, I would like them to appear listed like that (with the information under "Source" and "Author" to appear as listed there). The person who moves the images doesn't need their goddamn name listed up there, that information can be found in the history anyway, and that is what pissed me off before. I do not intend to quit this dang Wikipedia website though, I've just taken a little break because some motherfuckers on here act with no regard towards others. GrapedApe is cool though, and so are some other folks on here. So, my feelings about Wikipedia are like that quote from that Buttcrack Mountain movie, "I just can't quit you." Actually, the quote was, "I wish I knew how to quit you", and I just looked that up on Wikipedia (see, this can be a useful website). So, I'll probably be back in the Blazing Saddle before too long and taking some more pictures and adding more information to Freakipedia when I've got some more funky stuff to contribute. Right now I'm mostly just messing around with old record players in my spare time. It would be cool if I could start taking some artsy-fartsy pictures of nude women instead of just buildings, but I figure I'll got back to taking pictures of architecture again. There are some Alden & Harlow houses in this region that I know about from some of my old funky books that aren't on any of the historical lists too. I like their style. Leepaxton ( talk) 14:40, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
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Many wonderful pics. I especially like the image you added to the infobox for Crafton Dincher ( talk) 02:09, 3 November 2009 (UTC) |
Thanks for the explanation; I was unaware that this specific piece of land was part of McKeesport. Just one point that needs to be clarified: where does the bridge end? When the McKees Rocks Bridge reaches the southwestern bank of the Ohio, it's in Stowe Township, but we list it there and in McKees Rocks because the bridge ends in McKees Rocks. Given that the NRHP lists the bridge in both communities, I'm just curious if perhaps this bridge continues past the Glassport borough boundary. Nyttend ( talk) 03:36, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
The Experimental Mine is not open to the public. I went there, and there is a security guard and a big metal fence around the extent of the property. There's a sign on the gate that says, "No unauthorized photography." The site is owned and maintained by the U.S. government, and there is a research facility there too. The brick building by the main gate says, "U.S. Department of the Interior", and, "U.S. Bureau of Mines" (like this symbol). I spoke with the guard (a nice guy), and he said that he could not let us in to see the exterior portion of the mine (even supervised, with or without a camera). The old mine shafts are on the hill above the main entrance, and I found no way to see them from the road, or anywhere else around the exterior portions of the fence. We drove around the extent of the property, and could not see the mine shafts from any location that we encountered. There is a sign near the main entrance that says the following: "Bruceton Research Center - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - Pittsburgh Research Center - U.S. Department of Energy - National Energy Technology Laboratory - Pittsburgh Site - U.S. Department of Labor - Mine Safety and Health Administration".
As far as that image goes, I don't know what the proper license would be, but I figure it would be a "public use" type of image from the United States Department of the Interior. "PD-USGov-Interior". The reason I think that is because the National Energy Technology Laboratory page says, "1910: The U.S. Dept. of Interior ( Bureau of Mines) established the Pittsburgh Experiment Station in Bruceton, Pennsylvania." Well, that's the Experimental Mine they're talking about, and that image is dated 1910, and the image was found on those government web sites associated with Interior - Mines - CDC - NIOSH. The U.S. Department of the Interior was established in 1849, and the U.S. Bureau of Mines was established in 1910. The main agency, of course, being the Interior. So, I would say that's the logical source of the image. Leepaxton ( talk) 04:38, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
To the person ( Hammersoft) who would like to remove my images of the interior of the Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, I disagree with your view that the three images in question ( File:Phipps5.jpg, File:Phipps4.jpg, File:Phipps2.jpg ) are not acceptable for use in the article just because they show some depictions of three dimensional art glass by Dale Chihuly in them (even though there's a fair use rationale included for use in the Phipps article). Also, I notice some people have included pictures of Dale's art glass in the article about him, some in a gallery too, clearly "depictions of three dimensional art" somehow with completely free licenses and no fair use rationales in any of them. If it's all right for those images, then why not for my images? Anyway, the main reason I disagree with your view that the three images don't have a "proper" fair use rationale for the Phipps article is because there are no other images on Wikipedia of the interior of the Phipps Conservatory to demonstrate what the inside gardens of this historic place actually look like. Therefore, I think it's important to the article, in an encyclopedic way, that is, if anyone is interested to see some inside views of the Phipps Conservatory. It's kinda pretty in there, but that's my opinion (though I know I'm not the only one with that opinion). The plants are there, growing around the art glass. Well, I don't know, but I'm not going to take just one person's opinion on this matter. If you would like to press this further, then I'd like to request that this be reviewed by others who can help decide in a consensus-based way whether or not these images are important enough to be included in the article. Leepaxton ( talk) 11:51, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
I think the images add to the article, and I don't think they are superfluous or gratuitous either. I guess it's too much to ask that people should be able to see each image on Wikipedia in the gallery relating to the Phipps Conservatory article, but I would rather they are able to see one image than none. Leepaxton ( talk) 20:49, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for adding all of those pics to the List of Pittsburgh Landmarks! Did you take them yourself or just find them on here? I originally created the list, and I searched for images but couldn't find any of the ones you uploaded. I also noticed that you went on a mass relinking escapade haha.. You know you can link to a redirect page, right? That's what they're there for... Linking to the redirect page still gets the user to the right place and also makes the list page size smaller, which is desirable for long lists, although it probably won't make much difference on a list of this size. Thanks again! -- Dudemanfellabra ( talk) 21:46, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
I just saw that you finished the Beaver County list; thanks! If you'd been a few days later, I would have filled it out, since I too was in the area on Saturday. Did you participate in the bike race at Raccoon Creek State Park? I too photographed this cabin in campground #1 in the late morning, at which time lots of cyclists were riding in the Grass Roots Racing event. Nyttend ( talk) 21:12, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
The high school is in Barnesville, but the Friends school is slightly outside. If you look at Google Maps, you'll see that there's a darker area surrounding the village streets. Look at page 12 of this Census Bureau map of Ohio, which includes Belmont County; you can see that the darker area on Google Maps equals the village's corporation limits that are marked on the Census Bureau map. Google shows corporation limits in this way for communities nationwide, so you can typically use it alone to decide whether or not a community is in a municipality. Please note that incorporated minor civil divisions aren't included in the dark areas, while census-designated places are; consequently, if you look at northern Allegheny County, you'll find that Curtisville and Russellton are highlighted but that the rest of West Deer Township isn't. Nyttend ( talk) 02:21, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
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Just a heads up: I have used your image of McMillan's log cabin as a "Selected picture" at Portal:Washington & Jefferson College. It's located at Portal:Washington & Jefferson College/Selected picture/5. Thanks for the great picture. I'd love to see any more that you have from Canonsburg or the rest of Washington County!-- GrapedApe ( talk) 05:23, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, and thanks for the explanation. The reason why the Commons is not my preferred choice is because it's more of a pain to use than standard Wikipedia image uploading (and that's my opinion, and I go into further detail about that elsewhere on this discussion page), and then some people move some of my images to Commons and drastically edit the descriptions. It's happened a number of times, and some people don't even give me a "heads up" about it (at least you did, so thanks for that). But, sometimes I don't even see this type of stuff happening until the image has been completely moved to Commons and the original image that was uploaded to Wikipedia has been deleted. When that happens, a record of the original image description from the original upload is gone, and if they've drastically edited the original description then I can't always remember all the details that I typed in the original. That kinda pisses me off, because I try to get all the information correct with coordinates and dates and whatnot. Some of these places are in "B.F. Egypt" too. Then, some jag-off will move the images to Commons, screw up the descriptions, and put their name ("moved to Commons by such-and-such") right up there by the name of the author, and I think that's bullshit. I also think Wikipedia should integrate their image upload process so that all free-licensed images uploaded to any Wiki will automatically go to Commons (compatibly) with the same descriptions and everything intact from the original. So, in my opinion, it shouldn't matter if I upload something from this or that Wiki, if it's free licensed, it should all go to the same place anyway and be listed in a way that is compatible with all Wikis. The reason I prefer uploading through standard Wikipedia is because I can more easily copy and paste the whole shabang of my images (as far as licenses and whatnot) all at once. Through Commons, they give you these little lines you have to fill out individually for this or that field, but on standard Wikipedia I can just copy and paste the whole template from a previous image, change a few things here and there, and it's on. It's a lot faster and easier when you upload a lot of images at one time (as I sometimes do). Plus, I just think it's a lot better and easier all around. The images that I take are meant for specific use in Wikipedia articles, that's my intention anyway, and I don't really want to just upload a bunch of images into a free image dump. I could go elsewhere if I wanted to do that, but that's not what I'm here for. I want my images to be used to try and help improve the articles and lists on Wikipedia. Sorry to let it pour out on you, I'm not ticked off at you, but that's the way I feel about this issue. Leepaxton ( talk) 01:48, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Lee, thanks again for all your work on the photos. Your thorough descriptions on the image pages are great. I think many of them could be turned into full fledged articles if you had a few references to add to them. I think they all would pass notability concerns since we can point to them as landmarks. Also, I wanted to bring your attention to one discrepancy (really the only one I found) between the info you have about the Heinz Lofts, and what was listed in the PHLF plaque booklet (page 26). You have Frederick J. Osterling listed as the architect, while the PHLF lists the architects for the five buildings (1913-27) as H. J. Heinz Company, R. M. Trimble, and Albert Kahn. Any insight into this discrepancy? CrazyPaco ( talk) 19:37, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Nice work with all the photos! They really complement the Pittsburgh-related articles. All is One ( talk) 21:34, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Lee, just wanted you to know I split the Pittsburgh Landmarks article into List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations and List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks. I went ahead and did this after discussion on the Historic Sites Wikiproject page about how to best integrate the landmarks into their infobox designation. That infobox will be needed to for articles on the landmarks which aren't listed on the NRHP. As some properties have received both City and PHLF designations, that infobox should be able to reflect that. In any case, it obviously doesn't have to be permanent, but if you have any suggestions or concerns let me know.
Separately, I also split out the City designations into their four categories (4 separate tables): Districts, Objects, Sites, and Structures. CrazyPaco ( talk) 23:52, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Lee, great job on the Garden Theater article. CrazyPaco ( talk) 02:14, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
BTW, I should let you know since you are into Pittsburgh history, if you come across any good dates for the Pittsburgh Portal "On this day in Pittsburgh history..." feature, they can be added here. CrazyPaco ( talk) 02:17, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey Lee, just an update for you on the historic article stuff. I created a new infobox template ( PAhistoric infobox) which is modeled after the NRHP ones. This infobox is intended for state or local historic sites and landmarks that are not listed on the national registry, but are designated as historic by Pennsylvania and/or regional or local authorities and organizations. Like the NRHP ones, it will place color-coded banners at the top of the infobox for PA Historical Markers, City of Pittsburgh designations, and PHLF designations. I placed an example of it in your Garden Theater article (you can revert it if you want). The Allegheny Arsenal article is another example of its use. The new infobox should help standardize how all the Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh historic site and landmark articles are presented. I just got tired of waiting for the Historic Sites Wikiproject and I didn't want to deal any further with the unreasonably narrow definitions of how one of their project members wanted to define "historic site" and attempt to keep out the PA markers designation... plus, I just like the NRHP infoboxes better with the historic designation banners at the top of the infobox that draws attention to the subject's historic status. Anyway, I wanted to let you know because of your involvement with all the Pittsburgh landmarks in wikipedia. CrazyPaco ( talk) 05:33, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Lee,
You commented about Fantastic Architecture on its talk page. Could you please help everyone out there as you seem knowledgable? Is it different from Novelty Architecture? Is the article that applies it's the same as Novelty completely off-base? Please comment further on the talk page of that article ( Talk:Fantastic architecture) D O N D E groovily Talk to me 05:33, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
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For an outstanding job overseeing and acquiring an ever growing collection of images illustrating historic landmarks throughout Western Pennsylvania. CrazyPaco ( talk) 19:38, 13 November 2010 (UTC) |
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I noticed that you completed the photos at both the Pittsburgh and Allegheny County NRHP lists in August and September. Congratulations! That is a big achievement! You obviously deserve all those photographic barnstars above. If you complete other NRHP lists please include them on the list Wikipedia:WikiProject_National_Register_of_Historic_Places/full_illus_list#Fully_illustrated_lists:_National_Register_of_Historic_Places, so that we can keep track of what needs to be done :-) 208 listings in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County is the 4th largest NRHP list completed to date. Thanks. Smallbones ( talk) 15:40, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
I recently created a page for the Troy Hill Incline, and I saw that you took a picture of the summit station. Could I use your photo for the page? Mvincec ( talk) 15:43, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
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If you're still taking pictures of historical locations in Pittsburgh, here's a good one: 184 38th Street. Here's an image from the county's assessment website.-- GrapedApe ( talk) 05:58, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
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I was looking for the beefy sopapillas that we have in Newark, and thanks to you I now know that they can ONLY be found there! (yay Newark) Floppybelly ( talk) 17:24, 23 August 2011 (UTC) |
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If you're ever in the area near the Wigman House, it might be interesting to get a photo of the funeral home that was trying to purchase the property to turn it into a parking lot. Just a thought, if you're ever back in that area. Cheers!-- GrapedApe ( talk) 11:57, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey diggin' dude,
I would like to "borrow" your userbox.
But I'm wondering about the image -- Tyner and Baby Trane? Two of your Favourite Things perhaps?
I will take a giant step and guess that there is nothing more on target in Commons?
Cheers,
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Hello Varlaam,
A peculiar dictionary of the late 1960s or early 1970s (the cover is worn off from use, so if you know the source please inform me) says the following:
"Funk·y (fǔng’kē) adj. funk·i·er, funk·i·est. Slang. 1. Having a lively, pulsating quality with a mixture of jazz, rock, and blues, often with soul-music overtones: funky music. 2. Marked by self-expression and originality; modish and"... the rest of the page is torn off, but I would like to find the rest. Wait a moment, another piece just fell on the floor (I ain't bullshittin'), and it continues, "unconventional: funky clothes. 3. Outlandishly vulgar or far-out in a humorous manner: a funky movie. –funk’i·ness, n."
This reference has been the source of the main definition(s) of that word for me since I was a child, because this book was one I grew up with. Now I realize there are other meanings, but the definition of the "Funk" doesn't always just mean the P-Funk, or "funked out with a gangsta twist".
I think that a part of understanding this is how white people can begin to comprehend African-American music. In my opinion, African-American music is the greatest music EVER. Don't get me wrong, white music is good, Asian music too, even Prog-Rock, all is good, but African-American (in my opinion) is the SUPREME music (from The Supremes to A Love Supreme).
The reason I say this is because I think the best music is the most organic, raw, natural, and expressive/cathartic type. This doesn't mean that it can't be sophisticated or complex, because it can, but it doesn't necessarily need to be too complex either. It has to be true and come from the very inner being of what one IS, and one must try and give it their all, every time, as best they can no matter what. It doesn't necessarily have to be a matter of life or death, but sometimes, it might be, and sometimes that's the way it is. The reason I think that hard bop and the styles of jazz that it influenced are the highest form of musical expression that humans have attained thus far in history is because it is the most intense form of musical expression that is focused around a solid "groove", without being too aimlessly meandering, but with an atmosphere that can still reach as far (creatively) into the musical cosmos as a person can reach through improvisational virtuosity (in low, middle, and high-end grooves) with and without structure and/or form and then slide (seemingly effortlessly) back into the main structure of the groove again, well, I think this is the epitome of sonic expression, beauty, strength, love and joy (it is chaos and order mixed in a truly FUNKY aural cocktail that is "loose as a goose" and "so tight it's out-of-sight" too – or, as one honest but raunchy dude once said, "loose but tight, just like the best Vaginas!" OH, HOT SUGARY SHIT, that raunchy fucker was none other than me!)
The organic folk and roots music that I grew up with was really the initial basis for my explorations into sound. I am originally from Southeastern Ohio, and the music was mainly Appalachian. That is to say, "hillbilly music". My grandfather saw all the pioneers of Bluegrass music in their "heyday". This was back when a person could go to the Grand Ole Opry and go right up and shake the hand of Ernest Tubb or Roy Acuff. This music informed me, and I have made the pilgrimage to the homestead of Bill Monroe - The Father of Bluegrass Music. This is akin to Mecca for Appalachians! I have touched the hand of Norman Blake, and I have sat at the right hand of Doc Watson! I have heard that "high lonesome sound" through the pines, which is really the white American equivalent of a thousand Buddhist monks chanting the holiest of mantras in the Himalayas! The Appalachian mountains are older than the Himalayas - they are probably the oldest known mountains on earth! Native American civilizations, like the Adena and the Hopewell, lived there thousands of years ago, their FUNKY earthen mounds still remain, and then a mixture of European settlers moved in and took over (at first, primarily a mix of English, French, Scottish, and Scotch-Irish, and then Germans and Dutch, and later Irish, and all of these people are my ancestors). This music lingered and developed for many years, from Stephen Foster to the Carter Family, but in the 1940s, Bill Monroe combined the folk music and traditional styles brought to America from the British Isles with the Blues he heard from an African-American man named Arnold Shultz – and Blues-grass (or Bluegrass) was born. A more in-depth analysis of this true " hillbilly" music can be found in Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound by Robert Cantwell (2003).
My mother grew up hearing bluegrass music but she also listened to the popular folk music of the 1960s, such as Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. I grew up hearing her strumming acoustic guitar and singing their songs. She really liked John Denver, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell and Carole King too (among others). When my father was growing up, he rebelled against the "hillbilly music" because he thought it was "hokey" and "corny" (he loves it now - through my influence), but after he saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show he got into "rock n' roll". Some of the records that he had in his collection that I used to sneak out and listen to as a child were among the following: Cream, The Doors, Santana, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd. Around the time I was born, the Sex Pistols came out and the Bee Gees were on top of the charts. So, that's a bit of where I'm coming from musically.
My point in this "discursive" message is to highlight the fact that American music (rock, blues, jazz, etc.) is primarily a mix of European American and African American styles - a culmination of black blues and white hillbilly tones which led to Rockabilly, Rock music (and all of its sub-genres), and to the freaky funky fusion and modern electronic phantasmagoria of the present day. But, of course, I'm sure you probably know all of this stuff since you have those Penguin Guides to Music and that ultra-funky doorstop known as the All Music Guide. It probably says somewhere in there that the syncopated "ragtimey" blues of Mississippi John Hurt and Bo Carter is kinda like the hillbilly murder ballads of Appalachia (like the ones strummed on a dulcimer by Jean Ritchie) and the grooves from medieval England thus marinated and dipped in the funk of ages eventually led to the likes of Snoop Doggy Dogg. I mean, holy shit, my man, Bo Carter's Please Warm My Weiner (circa 1928) is as raunchy as today's raunchiest grooves! "I don't want you to warm half my weiner, I want you to warm him all!" (I think I saw something like that on a bathroom wall once).
America can be a crazy place sometimes where a lot of crazy, wild stuff happens. This history, as well as the unreasonable oppression of various peoples over time has taken a heavy toll on our society. Nevertheless, the music that America has spawned, because it is so culturally diverse, is that which has significantly and artistically enriched the world.
Well, now that I got my funky shit out of the way, I shall now address the points that you made.
I think I've rambled on enough for now. Until next time, take care, and keep on gettin' funky in every sense of the word! Leepaxton ( talk) 11:15, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
I stumbled across your picture File:PointofViewSculpturePittsburgh.jpg recently while trying to think something through and decided to try for a second opinion, from you. Partly because your attitudes and experiences while posting pictures of sculpture seem to parallel mine quite closely. Anyway, currently the article that you have so ably illustrated shows up in a Category:Cultural depictions of George Washington. Were the picture of Abraham Lincoln it would be in Category:Abraham Lincoln in art. It seems to me that we should be using one or the other (probably not both) in all cases. I have just discovered this anomaly and don't yet know how it is used elsewhere. I favor the "art" category but am inclined to ask around a bit before charging in and slash and burning all over the place. Any ideas? Opininos? Theories? Suggestions? Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 15:48, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
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I saw on the Commons website that you uploaded pictures of Pittsburgh museum, that's the reason why i send you this message.
I'm looking for pictures of the Nimatron, an automata built in 1940. The Nimatron ( google translation) should be at the "Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science Building". Are you, in any way, able to go there and take some pictures of it and then upload them to the Commons website ?
I already asked this 2 times without answer here ( Pittsburgh portal, village pump). I also leaved a message today here [5]
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I uploaded your picture of Bill Monroe's gravestone at commons [1]. It's avaiable under the terms of GFDL. The yodeling cowboy ( talk) 11:11, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
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Do you have any references that confirm that the concerts Robeson played following the HUAC incident were specifically protest songs? Otherwise, I'm not sure why Robeson is in this article. There were many people unfairly persecuted by HUAC, but that of itself does not make them relevant to an article about protest songs.-- Edgewise ( talk) 20:07, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
BJBot had it correct. While you did take the images, in the United States there is no freedom of panorama. What this means is that if you take a photograph of a copyrighted statue, the statue's artist retains rights to the photograph, as it constitutes a derivative work of the original 3D art. I've re-removed the images from your image sub page.
I also found two additional images that were improperly tagged:
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Note that according to your fair use policy at Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria #9, the use of non-free images outside of the article namespace is not permitted. Thus, you can't not visibly display these images. However, you can create a list of them without displaying them as I did above with the two statue images that now require a rationale. I've removed the rationales for your userspace that you added to the images that BJBot removed because they are invalid rationales (no rationale being allowed to display the images in userspace). -- Hammersoft ( talk) 22:47, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I've responded on my talk page. Can we keep the discussion in one place please? Thanks, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 17:54, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I found three more images that are non-free. I removed them from User:Leepaxton/Images and added them in a section at the bottom. See User:Leepaxton/Images#Non-free_images. This is a demonstration of how you can still list them without displaying them. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 21:08, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the new NRHP photos; I'm glad to see a better image than mine for the Heinz plant. I took that picture while a passenger in a car that was driving by, only intending to get a casual picture of an impressive building; only later did I realise what it was and start to wish that I'd gotten a better shot :-) Nyttend ( talk) 00:30, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello, and thank you both for the comments. GrapedApe basically summed up my views on things as far as the photographs are concerned. I mainly take the photos for use in the articles. If someone feels that a photo could be used in an article in a different language on Wikipedia and they would like to move it to Commons for use in an article in that way, then I ask that they please list the images exactly as they appear in their original descriptions (with proper coordinates and everything) and that they follow the style as listed in this image. If my images are moved to Commons, I would like them to appear listed like that (with the information under "Source" and "Author" to appear as listed there). The person who moves the images doesn't need their goddamn name listed up there, that information can be found in the history anyway, and that is what pissed me off before. I do not intend to quit this dang Wikipedia website though, I've just taken a little break because some motherfuckers on here act with no regard towards others. GrapedApe is cool though, and so are some other folks on here. So, my feelings about Wikipedia are like that quote from that Buttcrack Mountain movie, "I just can't quit you." Actually, the quote was, "I wish I knew how to quit you", and I just looked that up on Wikipedia (see, this can be a useful website). So, I'll probably be back in the Blazing Saddle before too long and taking some more pictures and adding more information to Freakipedia when I've got some more funky stuff to contribute. Right now I'm mostly just messing around with old record players in my spare time. It would be cool if I could start taking some artsy-fartsy pictures of nude women instead of just buildings, but I figure I'll got back to taking pictures of architecture again. There are some Alden & Harlow houses in this region that I know about from some of my old funky books that aren't on any of the historical lists too. I like their style. Leepaxton ( talk) 14:40, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
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Many wonderful pics. I especially like the image you added to the infobox for Crafton Dincher ( talk) 02:09, 3 November 2009 (UTC) |
Thanks for the explanation; I was unaware that this specific piece of land was part of McKeesport. Just one point that needs to be clarified: where does the bridge end? When the McKees Rocks Bridge reaches the southwestern bank of the Ohio, it's in Stowe Township, but we list it there and in McKees Rocks because the bridge ends in McKees Rocks. Given that the NRHP lists the bridge in both communities, I'm just curious if perhaps this bridge continues past the Glassport borough boundary. Nyttend ( talk) 03:36, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
The Experimental Mine is not open to the public. I went there, and there is a security guard and a big metal fence around the extent of the property. There's a sign on the gate that says, "No unauthorized photography." The site is owned and maintained by the U.S. government, and there is a research facility there too. The brick building by the main gate says, "U.S. Department of the Interior", and, "U.S. Bureau of Mines" (like this symbol). I spoke with the guard (a nice guy), and he said that he could not let us in to see the exterior portion of the mine (even supervised, with or without a camera). The old mine shafts are on the hill above the main entrance, and I found no way to see them from the road, or anywhere else around the exterior portions of the fence. We drove around the extent of the property, and could not see the mine shafts from any location that we encountered. There is a sign near the main entrance that says the following: "Bruceton Research Center - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - Pittsburgh Research Center - U.S. Department of Energy - National Energy Technology Laboratory - Pittsburgh Site - U.S. Department of Labor - Mine Safety and Health Administration".
As far as that image goes, I don't know what the proper license would be, but I figure it would be a "public use" type of image from the United States Department of the Interior. "PD-USGov-Interior". The reason I think that is because the National Energy Technology Laboratory page says, "1910: The U.S. Dept. of Interior ( Bureau of Mines) established the Pittsburgh Experiment Station in Bruceton, Pennsylvania." Well, that's the Experimental Mine they're talking about, and that image is dated 1910, and the image was found on those government web sites associated with Interior - Mines - CDC - NIOSH. The U.S. Department of the Interior was established in 1849, and the U.S. Bureau of Mines was established in 1910. The main agency, of course, being the Interior. So, I would say that's the logical source of the image. Leepaxton ( talk) 04:38, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
To the person ( Hammersoft) who would like to remove my images of the interior of the Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, I disagree with your view that the three images in question ( File:Phipps5.jpg, File:Phipps4.jpg, File:Phipps2.jpg ) are not acceptable for use in the article just because they show some depictions of three dimensional art glass by Dale Chihuly in them (even though there's a fair use rationale included for use in the Phipps article). Also, I notice some people have included pictures of Dale's art glass in the article about him, some in a gallery too, clearly "depictions of three dimensional art" somehow with completely free licenses and no fair use rationales in any of them. If it's all right for those images, then why not for my images? Anyway, the main reason I disagree with your view that the three images don't have a "proper" fair use rationale for the Phipps article is because there are no other images on Wikipedia of the interior of the Phipps Conservatory to demonstrate what the inside gardens of this historic place actually look like. Therefore, I think it's important to the article, in an encyclopedic way, that is, if anyone is interested to see some inside views of the Phipps Conservatory. It's kinda pretty in there, but that's my opinion (though I know I'm not the only one with that opinion). The plants are there, growing around the art glass. Well, I don't know, but I'm not going to take just one person's opinion on this matter. If you would like to press this further, then I'd like to request that this be reviewed by others who can help decide in a consensus-based way whether or not these images are important enough to be included in the article. Leepaxton ( talk) 11:51, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
I think the images add to the article, and I don't think they are superfluous or gratuitous either. I guess it's too much to ask that people should be able to see each image on Wikipedia in the gallery relating to the Phipps Conservatory article, but I would rather they are able to see one image than none. Leepaxton ( talk) 20:49, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for adding all of those pics to the List of Pittsburgh Landmarks! Did you take them yourself or just find them on here? I originally created the list, and I searched for images but couldn't find any of the ones you uploaded. I also noticed that you went on a mass relinking escapade haha.. You know you can link to a redirect page, right? That's what they're there for... Linking to the redirect page still gets the user to the right place and also makes the list page size smaller, which is desirable for long lists, although it probably won't make much difference on a list of this size. Thanks again! -- Dudemanfellabra ( talk) 21:46, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
I just saw that you finished the Beaver County list; thanks! If you'd been a few days later, I would have filled it out, since I too was in the area on Saturday. Did you participate in the bike race at Raccoon Creek State Park? I too photographed this cabin in campground #1 in the late morning, at which time lots of cyclists were riding in the Grass Roots Racing event. Nyttend ( talk) 21:12, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
The high school is in Barnesville, but the Friends school is slightly outside. If you look at Google Maps, you'll see that there's a darker area surrounding the village streets. Look at page 12 of this Census Bureau map of Ohio, which includes Belmont County; you can see that the darker area on Google Maps equals the village's corporation limits that are marked on the Census Bureau map. Google shows corporation limits in this way for communities nationwide, so you can typically use it alone to decide whether or not a community is in a municipality. Please note that incorporated minor civil divisions aren't included in the dark areas, while census-designated places are; consequently, if you look at northern Allegheny County, you'll find that Curtisville and Russellton are highlighted but that the rest of West Deer Township isn't. Nyttend ( talk) 02:21, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
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Just a heads up: I have used your image of McMillan's log cabin as a "Selected picture" at Portal:Washington & Jefferson College. It's located at Portal:Washington & Jefferson College/Selected picture/5. Thanks for the great picture. I'd love to see any more that you have from Canonsburg or the rest of Washington County!-- GrapedApe ( talk) 05:23, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, and thanks for the explanation. The reason why the Commons is not my preferred choice is because it's more of a pain to use than standard Wikipedia image uploading (and that's my opinion, and I go into further detail about that elsewhere on this discussion page), and then some people move some of my images to Commons and drastically edit the descriptions. It's happened a number of times, and some people don't even give me a "heads up" about it (at least you did, so thanks for that). But, sometimes I don't even see this type of stuff happening until the image has been completely moved to Commons and the original image that was uploaded to Wikipedia has been deleted. When that happens, a record of the original image description from the original upload is gone, and if they've drastically edited the original description then I can't always remember all the details that I typed in the original. That kinda pisses me off, because I try to get all the information correct with coordinates and dates and whatnot. Some of these places are in "B.F. Egypt" too. Then, some jag-off will move the images to Commons, screw up the descriptions, and put their name ("moved to Commons by such-and-such") right up there by the name of the author, and I think that's bullshit. I also think Wikipedia should integrate their image upload process so that all free-licensed images uploaded to any Wiki will automatically go to Commons (compatibly) with the same descriptions and everything intact from the original. So, in my opinion, it shouldn't matter if I upload something from this or that Wiki, if it's free licensed, it should all go to the same place anyway and be listed in a way that is compatible with all Wikis. The reason I prefer uploading through standard Wikipedia is because I can more easily copy and paste the whole shabang of my images (as far as licenses and whatnot) all at once. Through Commons, they give you these little lines you have to fill out individually for this or that field, but on standard Wikipedia I can just copy and paste the whole template from a previous image, change a few things here and there, and it's on. It's a lot faster and easier when you upload a lot of images at one time (as I sometimes do). Plus, I just think it's a lot better and easier all around. The images that I take are meant for specific use in Wikipedia articles, that's my intention anyway, and I don't really want to just upload a bunch of images into a free image dump. I could go elsewhere if I wanted to do that, but that's not what I'm here for. I want my images to be used to try and help improve the articles and lists on Wikipedia. Sorry to let it pour out on you, I'm not ticked off at you, but that's the way I feel about this issue. Leepaxton ( talk) 01:48, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Lee, thanks again for all your work on the photos. Your thorough descriptions on the image pages are great. I think many of them could be turned into full fledged articles if you had a few references to add to them. I think they all would pass notability concerns since we can point to them as landmarks. Also, I wanted to bring your attention to one discrepancy (really the only one I found) between the info you have about the Heinz Lofts, and what was listed in the PHLF plaque booklet (page 26). You have Frederick J. Osterling listed as the architect, while the PHLF lists the architects for the five buildings (1913-27) as H. J. Heinz Company, R. M. Trimble, and Albert Kahn. Any insight into this discrepancy? CrazyPaco ( talk) 19:37, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Nice work with all the photos! They really complement the Pittsburgh-related articles. All is One ( talk) 21:34, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Lee, just wanted you to know I split the Pittsburgh Landmarks article into List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations and List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks. I went ahead and did this after discussion on the Historic Sites Wikiproject page about how to best integrate the landmarks into their infobox designation. That infobox will be needed to for articles on the landmarks which aren't listed on the NRHP. As some properties have received both City and PHLF designations, that infobox should be able to reflect that. In any case, it obviously doesn't have to be permanent, but if you have any suggestions or concerns let me know.
Separately, I also split out the City designations into their four categories (4 separate tables): Districts, Objects, Sites, and Structures. CrazyPaco ( talk) 23:52, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Lee, great job on the Garden Theater article. CrazyPaco ( talk) 02:14, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
BTW, I should let you know since you are into Pittsburgh history, if you come across any good dates for the Pittsburgh Portal "On this day in Pittsburgh history..." feature, they can be added here. CrazyPaco ( talk) 02:17, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey Lee, just an update for you on the historic article stuff. I created a new infobox template ( PAhistoric infobox) which is modeled after the NRHP ones. This infobox is intended for state or local historic sites and landmarks that are not listed on the national registry, but are designated as historic by Pennsylvania and/or regional or local authorities and organizations. Like the NRHP ones, it will place color-coded banners at the top of the infobox for PA Historical Markers, City of Pittsburgh designations, and PHLF designations. I placed an example of it in your Garden Theater article (you can revert it if you want). The Allegheny Arsenal article is another example of its use. The new infobox should help standardize how all the Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh historic site and landmark articles are presented. I just got tired of waiting for the Historic Sites Wikiproject and I didn't want to deal any further with the unreasonably narrow definitions of how one of their project members wanted to define "historic site" and attempt to keep out the PA markers designation... plus, I just like the NRHP infoboxes better with the historic designation banners at the top of the infobox that draws attention to the subject's historic status. Anyway, I wanted to let you know because of your involvement with all the Pittsburgh landmarks in wikipedia. CrazyPaco ( talk) 05:33, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
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You commented about Fantastic Architecture on its talk page. Could you please help everyone out there as you seem knowledgable? Is it different from Novelty Architecture? Is the article that applies it's the same as Novelty completely off-base? Please comment further on the talk page of that article ( Talk:Fantastic architecture) D O N D E groovily Talk to me 05:33, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
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I noticed that you completed the photos at both the Pittsburgh and Allegheny County NRHP lists in August and September. Congratulations! That is a big achievement! You obviously deserve all those photographic barnstars above. If you complete other NRHP lists please include them on the list Wikipedia:WikiProject_National_Register_of_Historic_Places/full_illus_list#Fully_illustrated_lists:_National_Register_of_Historic_Places, so that we can keep track of what needs to be done :-) 208 listings in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County is the 4th largest NRHP list completed to date. Thanks. Smallbones ( talk) 15:40, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
I recently created a page for the Troy Hill Incline, and I saw that you took a picture of the summit station. Could I use your photo for the page? Mvincec ( talk) 15:43, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Since you're a member of WikiProject Pittsburgh, I wanted to invite you to the Wikipedia Tenth Anniversary celebrations we're having in Pittsburgh on Saturday, January 15. During the daytime, we're going to be having a photo contribution drive where anyone can bring in their digital photos or prints and Wikipedians will teach people how to upload them and add them to articles, and maybe introduction to Wikipedia workshops as well. Then in the evening, we'll have fun at the Carson City Saloon. There will be free Wikipedia t-shirts and other goodies, as well. See the Pittsburgh meetup page for more details. I hope to see you there!-- ragesoss ( talk) 15:02, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
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If you're still taking pictures of historical locations in Pittsburgh, here's a good one: 184 38th Street. Here's an image from the county's assessment website.-- GrapedApe ( talk) 05:58, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
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I hope this is ok. Just letting you know. Panyd The muffin is not subtle 14:45, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
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For your prolific article building on Pittsburgh registered buildings. Keep it up! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:01, 18 August 2011 (UTC) |
Lee I created Template:Location map Pittsburgh central for you also see Heinz Lofts. You may use this for more central articles. Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:19, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
I was looking for the beefy sopapillas that we have in Newark, and thanks to you I now know that they can ONLY be found there! (yay Newark) Floppybelly ( talk) 17:24, 23 August 2011 (UTC) |
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If you're ever in the area near the Wigman House, it might be interesting to get a photo of the funeral home that was trying to purchase the property to turn it into a parking lot. Just a thought, if you're ever back in that area. Cheers!-- GrapedApe ( talk) 11:57, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey diggin' dude,
I would like to "borrow" your userbox.
But I'm wondering about the image -- Tyner and Baby Trane? Two of your Favourite Things perhaps?
I will take a giant step and guess that there is nothing more on target in Commons?
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Hello Varlaam,
A peculiar dictionary of the late 1960s or early 1970s (the cover is worn off from use, so if you know the source please inform me) says the following:
"Funk·y (fǔng’kē) adj. funk·i·er, funk·i·est. Slang. 1. Having a lively, pulsating quality with a mixture of jazz, rock, and blues, often with soul-music overtones: funky music. 2. Marked by self-expression and originality; modish and"... the rest of the page is torn off, but I would like to find the rest. Wait a moment, another piece just fell on the floor (I ain't bullshittin'), and it continues, "unconventional: funky clothes. 3. Outlandishly vulgar or far-out in a humorous manner: a funky movie. –funk’i·ness, n."
This reference has been the source of the main definition(s) of that word for me since I was a child, because this book was one I grew up with. Now I realize there are other meanings, but the definition of the "Funk" doesn't always just mean the P-Funk, or "funked out with a gangsta twist".
I think that a part of understanding this is how white people can begin to comprehend African-American music. In my opinion, African-American music is the greatest music EVER. Don't get me wrong, white music is good, Asian music too, even Prog-Rock, all is good, but African-American (in my opinion) is the SUPREME music (from The Supremes to A Love Supreme).
The reason I say this is because I think the best music is the most organic, raw, natural, and expressive/cathartic type. This doesn't mean that it can't be sophisticated or complex, because it can, but it doesn't necessarily need to be too complex either. It has to be true and come from the very inner being of what one IS, and one must try and give it their all, every time, as best they can no matter what. It doesn't necessarily have to be a matter of life or death, but sometimes, it might be, and sometimes that's the way it is. The reason I think that hard bop and the styles of jazz that it influenced are the highest form of musical expression that humans have attained thus far in history is because it is the most intense form of musical expression that is focused around a solid "groove", without being too aimlessly meandering, but with an atmosphere that can still reach as far (creatively) into the musical cosmos as a person can reach through improvisational virtuosity (in low, middle, and high-end grooves) with and without structure and/or form and then slide (seemingly effortlessly) back into the main structure of the groove again, well, I think this is the epitome of sonic expression, beauty, strength, love and joy (it is chaos and order mixed in a truly FUNKY aural cocktail that is "loose as a goose" and "so tight it's out-of-sight" too – or, as one honest but raunchy dude once said, "loose but tight, just like the best Vaginas!" OH, HOT SUGARY SHIT, that raunchy fucker was none other than me!)
The organic folk and roots music that I grew up with was really the initial basis for my explorations into sound. I am originally from Southeastern Ohio, and the music was mainly Appalachian. That is to say, "hillbilly music". My grandfather saw all the pioneers of Bluegrass music in their "heyday". This was back when a person could go to the Grand Ole Opry and go right up and shake the hand of Ernest Tubb or Roy Acuff. This music informed me, and I have made the pilgrimage to the homestead of Bill Monroe - The Father of Bluegrass Music. This is akin to Mecca for Appalachians! I have touched the hand of Norman Blake, and I have sat at the right hand of Doc Watson! I have heard that "high lonesome sound" through the pines, which is really the white American equivalent of a thousand Buddhist monks chanting the holiest of mantras in the Himalayas! The Appalachian mountains are older than the Himalayas - they are probably the oldest known mountains on earth! Native American civilizations, like the Adena and the Hopewell, lived there thousands of years ago, their FUNKY earthen mounds still remain, and then a mixture of European settlers moved in and took over (at first, primarily a mix of English, French, Scottish, and Scotch-Irish, and then Germans and Dutch, and later Irish, and all of these people are my ancestors). This music lingered and developed for many years, from Stephen Foster to the Carter Family, but in the 1940s, Bill Monroe combined the folk music and traditional styles brought to America from the British Isles with the Blues he heard from an African-American man named Arnold Shultz – and Blues-grass (or Bluegrass) was born. A more in-depth analysis of this true " hillbilly" music can be found in Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound by Robert Cantwell (2003).
My mother grew up hearing bluegrass music but she also listened to the popular folk music of the 1960s, such as Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. I grew up hearing her strumming acoustic guitar and singing their songs. She really liked John Denver, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell and Carole King too (among others). When my father was growing up, he rebelled against the "hillbilly music" because he thought it was "hokey" and "corny" (he loves it now - through my influence), but after he saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show he got into "rock n' roll". Some of the records that he had in his collection that I used to sneak out and listen to as a child were among the following: Cream, The Doors, Santana, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd. Around the time I was born, the Sex Pistols came out and the Bee Gees were on top of the charts. So, that's a bit of where I'm coming from musically.
My point in this "discursive" message is to highlight the fact that American music (rock, blues, jazz, etc.) is primarily a mix of European American and African American styles - a culmination of black blues and white hillbilly tones which led to Rockabilly, Rock music (and all of its sub-genres), and to the freaky funky fusion and modern electronic phantasmagoria of the present day. But, of course, I'm sure you probably know all of this stuff since you have those Penguin Guides to Music and that ultra-funky doorstop known as the All Music Guide. It probably says somewhere in there that the syncopated "ragtimey" blues of Mississippi John Hurt and Bo Carter is kinda like the hillbilly murder ballads of Appalachia (like the ones strummed on a dulcimer by Jean Ritchie) and the grooves from medieval England thus marinated and dipped in the funk of ages eventually led to the likes of Snoop Doggy Dogg. I mean, holy shit, my man, Bo Carter's Please Warm My Weiner (circa 1928) is as raunchy as today's raunchiest grooves! "I don't want you to warm half my weiner, I want you to warm him all!" (I think I saw something like that on a bathroom wall once).
America can be a crazy place sometimes where a lot of crazy, wild stuff happens. This history, as well as the unreasonable oppression of various peoples over time has taken a heavy toll on our society. Nevertheless, the music that America has spawned, because it is so culturally diverse, is that which has significantly and artistically enriched the world.
Well, now that I got my funky shit out of the way, I shall now address the points that you made.
I think I've rambled on enough for now. Until next time, take care, and keep on gettin' funky in every sense of the word! Leepaxton ( talk) 11:15, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
I stumbled across your picture File:PointofViewSculpturePittsburgh.jpg recently while trying to think something through and decided to try for a second opinion, from you. Partly because your attitudes and experiences while posting pictures of sculpture seem to parallel mine quite closely. Anyway, currently the article that you have so ably illustrated shows up in a Category:Cultural depictions of George Washington. Were the picture of Abraham Lincoln it would be in Category:Abraham Lincoln in art. It seems to me that we should be using one or the other (probably not both) in all cases. I have just discovered this anomaly and don't yet know how it is used elsewhere. I favor the "art" category but am inclined to ask around a bit before charging in and slash and burning all over the place. Any ideas? Opininos? Theories? Suggestions? Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 15:48, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
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