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[edit] Cincinnati

Your photo is outstanding. One of the best cityscapes at Wikipedia. Can you id in the caption the tallest tower? Were you standing in [[Covington, Kentucky[[? That would be more precise.--Wetman 22:47, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)


Very nice photo of the Gateway Arch. -- Decumanus 23:31, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

American Museum of Natural History Ouch. I certainly didn't do anything to remove the photo. I added a reference to it in the text that's all. You must have fixed it, though, because it looks okay to me now. Sorry to give anxious moments, especially over my favorite local landmark! Wetman 06:55, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Sorry - I was asleep. I've changed the tag - I didn't notice that you were the author. For a list of tags look at Wikipedia:Image Tag Team. Sorry again. Secretlondon 13:04, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

Rdikeman -- I'm loving the pictures you're adding of the sportsmen. Great shot of Super Mario, particularly... GWO

I'm adding a draft of the Speedway table to Indianapolis Motor Speedway; since that page seems mostly your baby, and since that page is the most developed speedway page, I wanted your input on how well it works. What changes should be made, or should it be nixed altogether? --Golbez 17:46, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. :) Now a logistical question... please look at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Now, I'm starting to think, maybe we shouldn't list the races in the table. Races can come and go on a regular basis, and not only that, not all are major enough to be listed, and that's a difficult line to draw. Also, perhaps only static stats should be in the table, like physical dimensions. Or, maybe just the most important races (Nextel Cup, IRL and Formula One come to mind). What do you think? Also, any suggestions for more info to put in the table? Ownership (major when dealing with NASCAR, since about a dozen speedways are owned by two companies), seating capacity, etc? --Golbez 04:26, 24 May 2004 (UTC)
Well, I'd still list all the races in the body, so no information would be lost. I just wanted to keep the table for the most pertinent info. OK, I'll list the major races (again, Nextel, IRL and F1, maybe Busch and Craftsman) and put a full list of races in the body as necessary. Indy is easy - there's only three races there, I think. But Lowe's and California and Daytona become more difficult. I'll figure it out. :) --Golbez 18:20, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi! I just started to wonder more about Image:Olympic_flame.jpg. Do you know where it was taken, the date, and perhaps the name of the torchbearer? Those would be helpful on the image description page. Thanks! -- ke4roh 03:12, Jul 5, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Baseball.jpg

You have given no source or copyright info for Image:Baseball.jpg. You really must. Ed g2s 15:41, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Yes, please do. I just came here to let you know that. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 15:01, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

Image:Baseball.gif suffered from severe dithering, so I cleaned it up and saved it as Image:Baseball.jpg. Anything to be learned about the source of the original image must come from Soze, who uploaded it. Rdikeman 21:58, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

Hi Rick,

After seeing your Ralf Schumacher shot on Formula One) I've just been looking over some of your photos - good job! -- Solipsist 07:58, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thought you might like to know I've now nominated this image on WP:FPC. Good luck. -- Solipsist 19:28, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
And I might as well nominate Image:Baseball pitching motion 2004.jpg whilst I'm at it. I'm not much of a sports fan, but I'm still impressed to see your portfolio. -- Solipsist 19:45, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] photos from around the world?

Hello there. :) Press Corps has been slow recently, but we *did* get some decent footage of the political conventions this past month. Do you have any print-quality images from around the world? We are planning a newsletter and trying to include a nice diversity of photographs. +sj+ 00:06, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar!

For your excellent illustrative sports photographs, two of which are featured pictures, I award you this Photographer's Barnstar. Solitude (29 Nov 2004)
For your excellent illustrative sports photographs, two of which are featured pictures, I award you this Photographer's Barnstar. Solitude (29 Nov 2004)

Hey there Rick, I would like to give you this barnstar. I think you do an excellent job on Wikipedia, obviously not merely with your sports photography, but as Sports seems to be "your thing" I award you for that specifically. Cheers, [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 12:38, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)


[edit] Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following images:

We noticed they currently don't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 03:26, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

[edit] Use of your photos under another license?

Hi. Please excuse my possibly deficient English, this is not my mother tongue. I am part of a forum community that has launched some weeks ago a french-speaking (multilingual if volunteers ask) wiki-based encyclopedia dealing with Motor-racing and Formula 1, named WikiF1. The content is under Creative Commons by-nc-sa (Personally, I was pushing for the choice of the GFDL --in order to have our content integrated more easily in the french Wikipedia, that is deficient about motor-racing, to be a real help for it-- but the community vote has chosen this license --less free than the GFDL or the CC by-sa, with this "nc" clause-- that will complicate the exchange.

Would you accept your photos to be redistributed under the Creative Commons by-nc-sa? If it is not your will, we probably use them under the GNU FDL licence, tagging it clearly with it, but licensing will be confusing for the readers I think.

Thank you very much by advance, for your consideration. --Mayfoev 14:36, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pic of the Day

Hi Rick,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Baseball pitching motion 2004.jpg is up for reuse as Pic of the Day today. I've reused the same caption as last time, but you can make any changes at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 17, 2005. Sorry for the late notice, but I've been struggling against the database being frequently locked over the last couple of days. -- Solipsist 08:51, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image source

Thank you for uploading Image:Brawn usgp 2003.jpg. Its copyright status is unclear, so it may have to be deleted. Please leave a note on the image page about the source of the image. Thank you. --Ellmist 04:58, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Basketball.jpg

Hey there. Image:Basketball.jpg is a great picture. Can you fill in some of the details about it? Such as the date, location, the teams, and the players in the picture, if any of these things are known. I'm a big fan of detailed captions. Thanks a lot & keep up the good work, Wile E. Heresiarch 05:43, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] panning

I just added your common-Image:M schumacher2.jpg picture of Michael Schumacher to the german article de:Mitziehen (panning). I guess you took this picture yourself, perhaps with a digital camera where exif data is saved with the image. I'd be curious (just for the panning-article) what the shutter speed was.
I try to check back this discussion; I you can't reply soon, please contact me at de:Benutzer Diskussion:Thire,
Thomas
PS: I like Image:Williams f1.jpg very much. Why isn't it on Wikimedia Commons?
--128.131.219.28 12:35, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay in replying; my computer's power supply went out last week and I just got a new one yesterday. Anyway, I found the data for the image you inquired about and added the shutter speed (1/160th) to the de:Mitziehen article caption.
Rdikeman 19:10, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Jo, I saw it, thanks a lot! :) (Thomas) --128.131.219.28 22:16, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Alonso usgp 2004 pits.jpg

Hey, want to change this to GFDL-self or make it more clear that you are the author (assuming you are Rick Dikeman). It would make it easier and avoid the confusion of them getting marked for deletion according to the new no source policies. gren グレン 01:54, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I was not familiar with that variation of GFDL; it is appropriate in this case, and I have made the change. Thanks!
Rdikeman 02:00, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Baseball on Wikicities

Hello Rdikeman, Googie Man here and I'm writing to you because I'm very familiar with your pictures of baseball players on Wikipedia. Jimbo and Angela have made a new webstie called Wikicities. This link in particular will take you to the baseball Wikicity. As you'll see it's similar to Wikipedia, but my hope is this will allow baseball fans to do more and different things, like reporting on games, in depth statistics, create mulitple pages for pictures, and whatever else baseball fans care to create. You've done great work on Wikipedia and I was hoping you could help get this baseball Wikicity off the ground. Please let me know what you think either at my talk page, or you can email me at terry@wikia.com. Thanks! Googie Man(Talk), 22:37, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture of the Day

POTD
POTD

Hi Rick,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Baseball pitching motion 2004.jpg is due to make a reappearance as Picture of the Day on the 1st February. I've reused the same caption as last time, but you can make any changes at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 1, 2006. -- Solipsist 19:50, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

... and Image:Webber usgp 2004.jpg is due up again tomorrow. I've changed the caption to be more relevant to Mark Webber as this photo no longer appears on Formula 1, but you can make any changes at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/February 13, 2006. -- Solipsist 23:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Truly gorgeous pictures

I followed to your user pages from Image:Statue of liberty crown.jpg. Some featured images I see via your talk page. Nice! Just want to say Thanks and Cool! TransUtopian 16:25, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Brian mcbride ffc 2005.jpg

Hi, this image was missing its licensing information. Since it appears you are the photographer, I've tagged it with {{GFDL-presumed}}. You should go and update this to either {{GFDL-self}} or another compatible license (for example {{cc-by-sa-2.5}}). Thanks, BrownCow • (how now?) 17:24, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] regarding Barnard's Lincoln

and the city of Mancchester. I was the one who wrote that and am about to double check myself. i swear that I don't have any fingers or toes crossed. later, Carptrash 23:27, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

whooooops
  • Cincinnati Lincoln dedicated on March 31, 1917
  • Manchester Lincoln unveiled on September 15, 1919
  • Louisville KY Lincoln on October 26, 1922

[edit] "Honest Abe" Barnstar Award

Honest Abe Barnstar
Honest Abe Barnstar

For your attention to the honest-to-goodness details that help wikipedia the reliable source of information that it has become, you are awarded this "Honest" Abraham Lincoln barn-star. "SMACK - SMACK" (a kiss on each cheek) Carptrash 01:32, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mighty Ducks

Thanks for the clarification, Rdikeman. Who would have thought that the two goalies would have the same number? lol thx again paat 22:21, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request

Hi Rdikeman,

My name is Fernanda Viégas and I have been studying Wikipedia for a while now (you can see a paper I published on the subject here). I would like to ask you a few questions about your activities as a Wikipedia "photographer" and "illustrator." I am fascinated by the pictorial side of Wikipedia and it would be great to hear about this community from one of its members. Would you be available for an email interview? Thanks, Fernanda.

[edit] CC-BY-SA

My dear and fellow Cincinnatian (I'm assuming);

I'm working on Wikitravel and was wondering if there would be any way you would make your photo of Cincinnati from N. KY. available under dual licenses GFDL and CC-BY-SA so we at Wikitravel could use your image on our article regarding Cincinnati [1]. Thanks. 71.72.212.152 21:56, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm happy to share it anyway you like; what do I need to do for you?
Rdikeman 23:43, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Apologies for not responding any sooner. If you want you can upload it here [2], however, you will have to create a user name. I normally check new additions every couple of days and will added it to the Cincinnati article. Or if you would like you can just add the CC-SA or CC-BY-SA disclaimer (I'm not sure how Wikipedia does it but on Wikitravel you can do this by writing {{Dual}} . For the legal jargon on Creative Commons please visit [3] Otherwise I'm certain it would suffice if you wrote "I release this image under GFDL and CC-BY-SA" on the image's page and that would give Wikitravel enough permission to use it. Would you like us to link back to your Wikipedia user page to give you credit or should we use a real name? Thanks! 71.72.212.152 09:09, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
I've added the CC-SA tag to the image. Use it in good health. ;-)
Rdikeman 01:05, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! 71.72.212.152 05:25, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Ingalls building cincinnati 2006.jpg

I've uploaded your picture of the Ingalls building to Commons. Hope it's ok? Theo06 11:48, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging for Image:Carlos_reutemann.jpg

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[edit] Gramophone record

Just out of curiosity, did you "fuzz out" the album cover on this photo? I liked it that way, although some didn't; it has been un-fuzzed by somebody, and I can't figure out how to put it back. - DavidWBrooks 12:40, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I did -- in response to requests for "fair use rationale" for the image. I have decided to let others decide which version is more appropriate and acceptable. :-\ Rdikeman 12:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joe Nuxhall

Howdy, fellow Cincinnatian! I saw that you made Nuxxy's Wikipedia article, and I figured I'd enlist your help on keeping Wikipedians current on his cancer/pneumonia hospital stint. I've updated it recently, give it a look and let me know so far how it is. Rockhound 20:54, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Webber usgp 2004.jpg

Hi,

Is there any chance you can upload a higher resolution and higher quality version of your image of Mark Webber ?

I think it is a great photo, and I would like it to stay as a featured image, but by today’s featured image qualifications the resolution is too low, and it is too compressed. --Windsok 10:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Sure. The "original" is a 3072 x 2048 18Mb TIFF. What resolution/file size is appropriate?
Rdikeman 12:31, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I am a believer that images should be uploaded in as high resolution as possible, so the full resolution would be great, I assume you have photoshop, so highish quality jpeg compression of it would be great. Thanks! --Windsok 13:51, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Happy to oblige. It is now a 3072 x 1750 1.1 Mb JPEG. BTW, that Mark Webber article is quite a piece of work! Take care.
Rdikeman 16:49, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks alot mate. The Mark Webber article was rewritten by User:Albinomonkey, not me :) --Windsok 05:22, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photos?

Hey! I was just wondering how you are able to upload pictures on the wiki articles. I know that we need to prove copyright, but how does one do that? Any insight you could give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!! Bleach Babe 22:54, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

To upload a photo, click the "Upload file" link on the left side of any page (maybe you knew that already). As far as copyright, I'm not a very good resource for understanding all the issues involved. Almost every picture I have uploaded was taken by me, so I just select "GFDL (self made)" as the Licensing type on the "Upload file" page.
The Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags page lists the options available to you.
HTH, Rdikeman 01:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Academic Freedom

Hi Rdikeman. I am writing a page of Academic Freedom in Wikipedia Spanish and I have used some of your text. While traducing the section of Academic Freedom of Professors, I think I found that the citations (ref) do not correspond to the text. Please, could you check them? PR 15:23, 25 July 2006 (UTC)This is my nikename. My real name is Tasc, but it is already used by someone else in w:en. (please, send me an email with your response, since I am normally loaded in w:es). Regards, Tasc.

[edit] Template:F1 race report infobox

Since you seem to be the only other one actually using this template, I figured I'd ask you specifically, in addition to asking the wikiproject.

What do you think about combining the Template:F1 race report infobox with Template:F1 race report? Two of the info variables are already used in the infobox, and the remaining 4 could be copied straight from the F1 race report box at the bottom of said pages. The main reason I suggest, is that I saw a similar design at this page, and I though it looked nice. A design for my proposal is available at my sandbox. The two changes made: addition/merging of two templates, and widening of the template by 2 em. (The template was not originally designed with flagicons in mind, as such, longer names wrapped, causing the infobox to lengthen.) Let me know what y'all think. -slowpokeiv 15:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright Questions

I noticed your name under some baseball card images and wondered if you could help me understand the copyright issue of adding images to articles. I wrote an article about my father Hap Moran and would like to add an image, but the photo I have in mind was obviously a PR photo taken by the New York Giants (football) but I seem to have the only copy and there are no credits on the back. In fact, when the book New York Giants 75 years was published, I was paid for the use of the photo (from 1930) and it was credited "Moran family collection." Also, I'd be interested in writing an article about the Diamond Matchbooks with football players on them from 1933 - 1938 - there is no copywrite on the covers, so being that old aren't they now in the public domain? I have a number of them on my website. I'm just not sure how these items fit into the categories I've read about image use on Wikipedia. Thanks. Revmoran 20:18, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Revmoran, I am far from an expert on copyright issues; almost all of the images I upload are my own. I consider the baseball card images to be an example of Fair use, though I took the pictures of the cards. In the case of your photo of your father, it seems the Giants now consider you the copyright holder. That's a pretty strong case, as far as I can tell. It seems to me you could upload it with the Licensing option, "The copyright holder gave me permission to use this work in Wikipedia articles."
HTH, Rdikeman 20:07, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Rick,

I am a new entrepreneur and I have a new product I'm developing related to baseball catchers. I came across your picture of a catcher in my research. I would like to use a portion of the picture on the product packaging. Just the actual catcher. I'm new at Wikipedia but from everything I could read it appears that the image is not copyrighted and I could copy the image. BUT, I want to do the right thing and not assume I can copy and/or use use the image without your permission. I am happy to give you credit as needed. I'm hoping this is the best way to communicate with you. I want to do my due diligence to get your permission and could not find contact information anywhere else. The summary of the article and image is as follows. Thanks!

Baseball catcher, 2004, by Rick Dikeman from en:Image:Baseball catcher.jpg 2004-05-18 07:11:47 Photo by en:User:Rdikeman, 2004.

Mr. Entrepreneur, Indeed, I appreciate your request for permission, but you are free to use the catcher image as you wish. All the best, Rdikeman 01:25, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Rick,

Thank you for your timely response and permission to utilize the catcher image. I'm confident your kindness will come back to you. My sincere thanks! All the best to you! Mr. Entrepreneur —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.106.141.122 (talk) 23:29, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brian McBride

Hello,

Could you put the picture of Brian McBride on Wikicommons? In that way the picture is available for all Wikipedia's over the world, so I can use it on the Dutch one! Roelzzz 11:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't have an account on Wikicommons. Certainly, anyone can snag the photo and upload it there.
Rdikeman 10:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Big Apple

Hey, letting you know I removed Image:Bigapple.jpg from Big Apple; see Talk:Big Apple. ~ PseudoSudo 03:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Clown chili peppers.jpg

I accidently reverted your image and now the clown has a sad face (seriously), please advise me how to revert it to the correct version sorry, Jaedza 23:41, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Lol! Is this the one you're looking for? Rdikeman 01:33, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah that's the one, I was scrolling with the middle mouse button and accidently left clicked and hit rev and it just reverted it to the sad face clown. Thanks for clearing that up. Jaedza 02:39, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] US Grand Prix reports

Hi Rdikeman, I notice that in several of the US Grand Prix reports, you have updated the results tables so that only the first instance of each constructor or engine is wikilinked. While this is standard Wikipedia practice, it's inconsistent with the remainder of the Grand Prix reports, where all instances of constructors and engines are wikilinked. Would you object if I updated the tables in the US Grand Prix reports to make them consistent with the other races? DH85868993 13:33, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't feel strongly about it, but my question would be, why not change the other reports to be consistent with standard Wikipedia practice? :-\
Rdikeman 14:08, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photography Question

Hi Rdikeman,

I am working on the Ohio Wesleyan University article and trying to get it to FA status in the near future. I was wondering if you might have some suggestions where I can get some advice on the images used in the article (specifically their quality and photography aspects). For example, we have two (though there are more in Wikimedia) of the University Hall (the Neoromanesque building currently featured in two photos) and I would like to get somebody's opinion on how to evaluate which one is better from a photography perspective. I am not sure how to evaluate them except for saying "I like A better than B". Can you help me? LaSaltarella 04:42, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

While I love photographs (as you apparently have noticed), I most often believe that less is more. Twenty-five images in one encyclopedia article is a bit many for me -- you're not covering the history of the Western world here. I would concentrate on those things that describe unique or exceptional features about OWU and its campus, and whittle the images down to, perhaps, five to eight. Sulphur Springs, Elliott Hall, University Hall (one or the other, I like the spring version better) are significant features to depict. Things only peripherally related to the school (Jackie Robinson's signing, the town of Delaware) should have their own articles where the pictures belong. Other things that are not unusual about this university (a lacrosse team, a new track surface, a football stadium) do not add anything to this article.
As for selecting one image over another, trust your instincts. I think in the case of University Hall, it's a pretty easy choice. A flowering tree in spring adds much more to the photo than a bare one mostly obscuring the photo's subject. HTH, Rdikeman 20:31, 12 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Steve Howe

Good work on the references you added.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 22:56, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Josh Hancock

Some questions have arisen around Image:Baseball pitching motion 2004.jpg. Specifically, who is the baseball player featured? The image has been reversed and altered, and so there is some doubt about whether or not it is of Josh Hancock. If you could explain on the image's page when and where the image was taken, who it was taken of, and what manipulations where done to this image, I would greatly appreciate it. Rklawton 23:14, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

The description on the Image page (Pitcher's motion, Brandon Claussen (image is reversed), Cincinnati Reds, 9/15/2004, by Rick Dikeman) is correct. Rdikeman 21:59, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Great. Could you go ahead and update the image to the unaltered version? I think it would be preferable, and it wouldn't affect its use in any of the articles. Rklawton 23:15, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
I've uploaded the "non-reversed" version as Image:Baseball_pitching_motion_2004r.jpg. The image had been moved to Wikimedia Commons and I didn't have an account there until just now, so I am not allowed to replace the existing image yet. :-\ If you would like to remedy that and are authorized, feel free. Rdikeman 01:33, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, the image has been delisted from Wikipedia:Featured pictures per Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Baseball pitching motion 2004.jpg but it seems that you were not notified of the nomination for delisting. Please let me know if you would like to address the concerns voiced there. --KFP (talk | contribs) 13:07, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Baseball_pitching_motion_2004r.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:Prophet of the sandlots cover.jpg

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[edit] US GP Reports

Hi. I notice that you made some massive improvements to the race reports for United States grands prix, very well done on that score. However, I notice that you make quite frequent use of the blockquote formatting and I am curious as to what these sections are actually quoting. If these are direct, verbatim quotes from the published sources which you cite at the bottom of each article then we could well be in trouble from a copyright infringement, as these are not transcriptions of speech, but composed prose and as such may be copyright of the original author/publisher. Of course, if you have just used the blockquote as a highlighting method then that is different, but you need to confirm exactly what you have done. Thanks! Pyrope 12:02, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, the formatting technique to which you refer is intended only to highlight, and in addition to sourcing my contributions as well as I know how (almost always with at least two sources), I have worked hard to paraphrase and blend the content of those sources in the text. That is my confirmation that I have not "quoted" any sources improperly; please let me know if this does not satisfy your concern. Thanks for your attention! Rdikeman 17:35, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
No, that all sounds fine. A perfect example of my preferred sourcing method. I find that people who assiduously cite every single line tend not to do a very good job of forming a coherent text. Nice work! Pyrope 13:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Home run

Image:Mark mcgwire.jpg

We now have an editor who insists on removing this photo from the Home Run article, on the grounds that it is not clear whether McGwire is actually hitting a home run on that swing. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. Since you uploaded the photo, I wonder if you could clear up this little mystery. Thank you! Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 02:35, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

This picture was taken during a Saturday afternoon game against Detroit on July 14, 2001. It depicts McGwire's 10th home run of the season and 564th of his career, moving him ahead of Reggie Jackson for sixth on the all-time list. HTH, Rdikeman 23:00, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you! Now it can resume its proper place on the Home run page, if it's not already back there. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 23:41, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Francois_cevert.jpg

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[edit] Image:Francois_cevert.jpg

Hi Rick,

First, thank you for contributing so many of your own professional photos of auto racing. They are an asset.

The image Image:Francois_cevert.jpg is under a deletion review and I wanted to ask if it possibly was yours? If so, and it is under a free license, then the image can be saved. If not, it still can be saved under a free use license.

If possible, would you please consider contributing info about the status of the image to the deletion review? The discussion is at Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_images/2007_September_17#Image:Francois_cevert.jpg.

Cordially, -- Guroadrunner 17:39, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Spencer Kimball

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[edit] Perryville battle maps

Hal,

Outstanding job with the diagrams to accompany the Battle of Perryville article. I've been there and have read a couple of books about the battle; it's not an easy one to get a handle on and your maps greatly enhance the impact of the article.

Thanks!

Thanks, and you're welcome. I drew these after visiting the battlefield (see http://www.posix.com/CW07/#Perryville) and I wish I had done them before because I think I missed some key understandings there. I hope to go back some day and iterate the maps. Hal Jespersen (talk) 00:14, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

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