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[edit] Images

You have done some excellent work on the Auden article! I also see you have some experience of uploading images to wikipedia, which is something I have struggled with and finally abandoned as way too complex. I have some images of Jacob Epstein sculptures taken by myself last Sunday at the Birmingham Art Gallery and they would enhance his article no end...any ideas on how they might be added? For example, shall I send them to you and then you upload them? many thanks in advance Peter morrell 17:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the good words! To upload an image, look at the "toolbox" box to the left of the page; click on "Upload file"; and fill in the blanks. Assign a name to the file, and choose the copyright status from the dropdown menu next to "Licensing". Since you took the photos yourself, you can simply give away all the rights, using one of the options on the menu. Spell out all the details (you took the photos, you're giving away the rights, etc.) in the summary box; use whatever format you choose for this. It's extremely easy once you work your way through the menus - though it does look a bit forbidding at first. Good luck! Macspaunday 19:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

thanks I have now accrued a good collection of images of Epstein sculptures at the BMAG...thanks for your help and I will 'give it a go' soon! I added 2 new links to the Auden piece... kind regards Peter morrell 09:13, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Francis Turville-Petre

Thanks for correcting my mistake. I see you have contributed a great deal to Wikipedia about W. H. Auden - could I pick your brains? I have read about Auden's lost play from 1930, The Fronny, but cannot find out if it is named after Francis T-P. Do you know if it is? I would like to add this to the FTP article if it is true. By the way, how did you find the FTP article an hour after it had been created? I'm a relative newcomer to Wikipedia - is there a way of being alerted when search terms crop up? I find using the 'search' facility itself rather cumbersome/time-consuming. Many thanks. Jasper33 13:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

"The Fronny" is definitely named after Francis Turville-Petre, although the character of the Fronny in the play is a fantasy version of him, not a portrait; it's more or less the same figure as Sir Francis in "The Dog Beneath the Skin". (For documentation, see Humphrey Carpenter's biography of Auden and the critical books by Fuller and Mendelson.) I think I found the new page because the page on Christopher Isherwood is one of the dozen or so pages on my "watchlist" (look at the "my watchlist" link at the top of the menu to add pages to this), and I think you added a link to the new page on the Isherwood page. I can't be certain, but that's what seems most likely.

I seem to remember that Spender records a visit, perhaps in World within World, which might be worth noting. I'm very pleased to see FTP get his first encyclopedia entry! Friendly warning: Wikipedia can be very time-consuming for people who want to get things right. Macspaunday 13:52, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I don't have access to the books you mention, so I'll have to add the info once I've got them from the library. Unless you fancy doing it... I'm going to copy this to the FTP talk page as it's where it should sit, I think. Jasper33 17:41, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Have replied on the more appropriate page! Macspaunday 20:17, 9 February 2007 (UTC)