User talk:Mollylou12

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Sirs: I already cleared this matter with you a year ago. Want to see the email chain. Let me know. Thanks, Molly

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[edit] Molly Louise Shepard

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Sirs:

I've already corrected the listing of this matter. Please remove these messages.

Thanks, Molly B.

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:100 2401.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:100 2401.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. LegoKontribsTalkM 07:01, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image credit

Credit for Wikipedia images is given on the image's page, not on the articles where this image is used, where that information is for all encyclopedic purposes irrelevant. Also, I'd notice your comments more quickly if you left them on my talk page. They are good images, but inserting image creators in articles (unless they are relevant to the topic at hand) is not normally done. Circeus (talk) 06:39, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Los Angeles landmarks

Hi Mollylou12 -- I've noticed your several new articles and photos of Los Angeles landmarks. Nice work with both the pics and the writing!

As Circeus(sp?) mentions above, it seems not to be conventional to include photo credits in wikipedia articles, and i have not been including self-credits for my own. Also, with some or all of your photos, you have indicated "(c)" and your name, but you when you release them under Creative Commons or any other free license that is appropriate for Wikipedia, you do not keep copyright over that image version. Wikipedia does not allow use of copyrighted images, in fact, besides for "fair use" exceptions, so it is confusing to see (c) in image captions in the articles or on the photo page.

I wonder if you have visited List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles, a list-article that i helped develop recently, reflecting many recent photos and new articles by Cbl62, especially. I am also drafting a similar list-table of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. Hmm, perhaps i should get that out in wikipedia mainspace, so others feel more free to add to it....

Anyhow, keep up the good work! Cheers, doncram (talk) 20:40, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually, Doncram, when using a CC license, you keep copyright (as you do for GFDL-released material, but unlike when released in the public domain). You just can't assert control over further uses that do not violate the license. I'm not clear whether there is an actual policy or Manual of Style entry on including image credit in articles, but I know none of those ever flew through a Featured Content nomination, so it might as well be in the MoS for all practical purposes. Circeus (talk) 21:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for clarifying. I thought technically that with GFDL you could use your own photo again, and that other version could be copyrighted, but did not think the version released under GFDL was still copyrighted. Whatever the semantics of it are, I think it is confusing to post "(c)" on images released under Creative Commons, it implies that the photo is regular, copyrighted. So if (c) is ever used here, then also there should be mention of CC or GFDL or whatever is the free-type license (which there is in the photo page itself). I browsed in wp:MOS and eventually find my way to Wikipedia:Captions, which gives examples of photo captions. No examples or mention of using image credits, ever. I've never seen photo credits in articles about historic sites. doncram (talk) 00:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)