Talk:St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights

Photo needs cropped

I'd like to crop the photo – as it is now it's pretty useless – but am unfamiliar with the upload procedure at Commons regarding cropped images as they relate to the original. It's actually been done using this exact image to create File:Blossomland Bridge.jpg (@Chris857: That's yours; can you help?). Mapsax (talk) 15:10, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

@Mapsax: Hi Mapsax. (It's been a while since I was highly active on here.) Do I assume correctly that you want to crop the lower left of the image to get the lighthouse(s)? It does not look there is a special upload form for this, so (apologies if you know any of this already, just want to be thorough):

• Go to the upload form
• At Release Rights, click "This file is not my own work."
• For source and author, use "[[:File:St Joseph Michigan aerial view.jpg]] - originally from the US Army Corps of Engineers website: [http://web.archive.org/web/20041107093358/http://images.usace.army.mil/images/Hires/3998-70.Jpg Archived link]" and "US Army Corps of Engineers" to match my crop
• For license, select "Another reason not mentioned above", and paste in {{PD-USGov-Military-Army-USACE}}
• On the Describe page, give some description about the lighthouse
• Put the date as "pre November 2004" (click on the pencil icon "Use custom date format")
• Add it to some categories (Lighthouses in Michigan, perhaps)
• Under "Add location and more information">"Other Information", put {{Extracted from|File:St Joseph Michigan aerial view.jpg}} (this is what points out what it has been cropped from)
• Finish the upload
• Change the file in the article to use the new one
• Go to Commons:File:St_Joseph_Michigan_aerial_view.jpg, and under the tag about an extracted image ({{Image extracted|File:Blossomland Bridge.jpg}}), add another line about your new extracted image.

One particular to note is: do not try to overwrite an existing file (the original is useful to keep). Hope this helps. Chris857 (talk) 16:56, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

@Chris857: Thank you. I probably could have figured this out myself, but your details saved me what probably would have been frustrating time-consuming trial and error, especially regarding consistency with your crop. I assume that my slight enlargement of my crop from the original size doesn't need noting. Mapsax (talk) 14:10, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

@Mapsax: Glad I could help. A slight enlargement probably doesn't need to be noted (not even sure if there is a standard template or not). Chris857 (talk) 20:36, 12 October 2016 (UTC)