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[edit] Hannah Montana

May you please mark where you found this image at. We would really appriciate it. Tcatron565

[edit] RGGI

The image Rggi_map.GIF adds a lot to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative article, but it is now out of date and I don't know how to update it. Can you update it to include Rhode Island and Maryland? Thanks. -Fagles 01:36, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for updating the map! I'd hope to learn to edit maps eventually. -Fagles 17:25, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:VivienCardone.jpg

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[edit] Delia Brown

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[edit] welcome to WikiProject National Register of Historic Places

Hi -- Welcome to WikiProject National Register of Historic Places, from a fellow member. I noticed you stated interest in sites in upstate New York as well as in MA, CT, VT. I and a few others have been working hard over time on the List of National Historic Landmarks in New York, effectively an honor roll of NRHPs in the state. I also have been working on List of Registered Historic Places in Onondaga County, New York. Could you please take a look at either or both of them, and consider if you could add to the lists or to any of their articles? There are similar NHL and NRHP lists for CT, VT, MA, too, all with lots of red-links to address and stub articles to develop further.... If you could use help finding sources or anything, feel free to post a note on the WP:NRHP talk page or on my talk page. Cheers, doncram (talk) 19:12, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi again, got your message. Thanks for your kind words. Nice pic for the John Trumbull Birthplace, too, and thanks for adding it to the List of NHLs in CT, too. To clarify, the lists of NHLs in New York State and List of National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut are complete lists; I already made sure to create an article for each one. As you can observe, there would be much to add to most of those articles however, and the short descriptions in the list pages sure need help. And it would be really great if you could snap pics for sites like the Saratoga Spa State Park and St. Paul's cathedral as you mentioned you might be able to do. We hope to get a pic for every NHL in NYS, as part of preparing to nominate the list to "Featured List" status. But there are no NHLs to add to those lists until any new ones are designated.
On the other hand, there are many NRHPs which are not also NHLs that are lacking articles. All of the NRHPs are probably listed, e.g. via List of Registered Historic Places in New York, then choose a county to drill down into. But most of the sites are "red-links" with no articles yet. You can create a new article for any one of them that you are interested in, then announce that you have done so in the New articles listing on the mainpage of the WP:NRHP. I sometimes announce stub articles there that don't have a pic yet, but most others announcing new articles there don't create an article until they have a pic to include in it. To find a NRHP to start with, try browsing any one of the county-wide lists of sites with addresses, like List of NRHPs in Onondaga County, New York, but change the county name in the URL to one you are interested in. You could take a pic, then create the article. There's a useful tool, the Elkman NRHP infobox generator, which creates the NRHP infobox for a new page, which you cut and paste into your new article.
Is that too much information right away? I have more, and am enthusiastic to have a new New York wikipedian involved. cheers, doncram (talk) 21:05, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Albany, New York)‎

Nice photo for St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Albany, New York)‎. I noticed it being added to the List of NHLs in New York. I've had trouble keeping the very top of a steeple included into pics of similarly shaped churches, glad you got it all in! Thanks so much for filling in this gap in the NYS NHLs list. cheers, doncram (talk) 00:57, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Go ahead and announce it in the list of new photos at WP:NRHP, by all means. doncram (talk) 01:06, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Got your reply and question. I think it helps most to add the additional pictures to the article right away, even though it may look strange for the article to be so short relatively. Challenges, motivates, and/or makes it easier for others -- or you! -- to improve the text, too. Saves time to advertise that the pics are available right away. I notice another new wikipedian has added multiple pics into NYS NHL articles that are otherwise very short, at Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall and William H. Seward House. I like how that person added them in thumbnails and wrote short thumb explanations for each one. Less nice are my own pics of building and of a plaque for Utica Psychiatric Center. Note how currently awkward is their placement in the article. Another alternative is to put them in as a gallery, but I like the multiple small thumbnail format, as it should be easier to move them around left right center, for better placement as the article evolves. Please do add your additional pics, i for one would like to see them. :) I am really enjoying getting to see real pics of these places i have been wondering about. doncram (talk) 02:27, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
The gallery presentation is fine. I was worrying that the short descriptions you might create would not be included in a gallery, but i see you were able to write and include them in the gallery format. It does motivate me to extend the article.

I like that u explain from where u took the pic from above. I like your plaque photo as it is an informative plaque. Contrast to my plaque photo included in Wilcox Octagon House, where there is just a generic "This is a NRHP" statement, not customized to the house at all. The only thing that plaque adds, really, is that it does show the true current color of the housepaint, behind it, while the overall view pic of the house is not colored right. Anyhow, I learn from yours, and am glad u included it. :) doncram (talk) 04:10, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] other Albany area pic or two?

FYI, the List of National Historic Landmarks in New York has gathered numerous other photos by various wikipedians recently. I notice in the Albany and Schenectady counties, that James Hall Office and Irving Langmuir House look like the easiest ones yet to be added, out of those lacking any pictures of their sites. Any pics that are merely of a historic person associated with the site, ought to be replaced, and also the old B&W pics for other sites (some of which I added) oughta be replaced too. Hope u r well. cheers, doncram (talk) 20:45, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Hey, i only just now noticed you had added a pic for the General Electric Research Laboratory article. Thanks! Your label calls it "iconic" and that it is a "plant" not a laboratory. How sure are you that it is the research lab building, for inclusion in this article? I just wonder if we should describe it as a building in the vicinity of the research lab, or that it "may be" the research lab. P.S. Nice work you have done on List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts! doncram (talk) 00:18, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Gibson House Marker 29Jan2008.jpg

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[edit] new pic for Old Blenheim Bridge etc

Hi there. Would be very happy to get a new, color pic of Old Blenheim Bridge, and same for many other articles where have just a black&white HABS pic. I think it is always helpful to have several pics of a site, and would always want a recent one to be part of an article, if possible. I note, above, that someone is targeting a pic of urs of a plaque. That is happening all over now, it seems we do not have freedom of panorama or something like that here in the U.S., so artworks and plaques which have any originality cannot generally be photographed and published, and so we seem to be losing these all. There is some discussion about this in talk page for WP:NRHP. I made a point to write out the text on ur Albany church plaque in the church talk page i think, to capture the text at least, for that one, where the plaque pic was especially helpful i thot. Not sure what the Gibson house pic is for, but too bad it is likely toast, too. regards, doncram (talk) 05:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Got your response. The most thorough discussion on plaques that i've seen recently, is one that i chimed in on, at Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Moundsplaque.jpg. Yes the plaque has to have some originality, i think that is mentioned in the possibly-lawyerly-type comments. If the Gibson one is a NPS / other Federal plaque, then you should explain that and then it would survive the attack, as the Federal text would be in the public domain. The ones failing have been Minnesota state ones and local ones, as far as i know, where it seems we might have to get explicit permissions/releases of the material into public domain. doncram (talk) 07:37, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Historic plaques

I also find the stance (of deleting photographs of historical markers) ridiculous. This website [1] even makes money from them - although it's not clear whether they were all put up by the Federal Government or not. These seem to be non-profits: [2] and [3]. The ones that I had removed were all post-1978 (thus not covered by Template:PD-Pre1978), and erected by the Minnesota Historical Society and branches of the state of Minnesota. It seems to me that I could quote the exact text of the plaque with attribution, and that would be legal (if not according to WP:Style). So why can't I post a photograph of a plaque of the same words, with the source clearly visible in the photo? This one Image:Moundsplaque.jpg is still under discussion at WP:Commons. I asked the Deleter about Image:Priestley Burning Lens Replica.jpg and Image:Smithwick's billboard NYC May 2005 Wikipedia.jpg (why are they acceptable) and got highly hypocritical answers (here: User talk:Appraiser#derivative images). Thanks for your interest - I find the whole issue extremely frustrating and discouraging.--Appraiser (talk) 14:10, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Climate registry map.svg

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[edit] to nominate List of NHLs in NY to FL

Hi! Thanks for adding the Kate Mullany House pic. I was just visiting the List of NHLs in NY article. With recent completion by Lvklock of descriptions editing in it, i want to put it up for wp:FL now. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to take care of first. I trust this meets with your approval. cheers, doncram (talk) 23:32, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, how about that? I have to go to Albany on Monday and was going to get that while I was there. Did you take any sort of views looking at it from an angle so you can see both the front and side? The way it is at the NHS website? I always try to shoot buildings that way if the light and space permits (see John Brown House, Bridge Street Historic District and Thomas Nast Home, for a few examples from my own work). You reveal more of the architecture, and it's more visually interesting. A basic principle of photographic composition that I don't see in enough NRHP pics. Just for future reference. Daniel Case (talk) 02:03, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I know that part of Troy, or at least of Route 7 (I think I should get the Collar City Bridge, too, like I got the Congress Street Bridge on a previous trip). It's just above the road. But Hudson Valley got a similar shot a couple of issues ago, so it's not impossible. I bet you could do it on Sunday mornings, the least-trafficked time of week. I'll see what I can do on Monday. Daniel Case (talk) 02:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I got that picture (it's in the article now), as well as a new one of Harmony Mills (I also got a lot of pics of the RHPs in and near downtown Cohoes ... I'll eventually upload and write the articles, but that will take a couple of months. I also got one for the Hall Law Office as well, and should upload that soon (sorry, it's been difficult to work during this current heat wave as we don't have air conditioning at our house (and don't really want it, days like these last four notwithstanding). Daniel Case (talk) 20:36, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jeremiah Wright controversy - title

Hi Cg-realms, There is currently a proposal to change the existing title "Jeremiah Wright controversy" that we supported last month. If you could "Oppose title change" on the talk page [[4]], it would be appreciated. Thanks, IP 75 75.25.30.215 (talk) 07:01, 8 June 2008 (UTC)