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Notability of George Turnbull: "The first railway engineer of India"

A tag has been placed on George Turnbull: "The first railway engineer of India" requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Kyle1278 (talk) 19:56, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

George Turnbull

I stumbled across your work on George Turnbull through the link on Abbots Langley ~ thanks for leading me into some interesting stuff I'd never come across before. I hope you don't mind the changes I've made: I made George Turnbull a disambiguation page and renamed yours to a pithier George Turnbull (engineer), switched repeated refs to named references, and removed some accidental signatures from articles.
Nice work! Bazj (talk) 21:07, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

George Turnbull (engineer) is now George Turnbull (civil engineer) (it's the "move" tag at the top of the page). Cheers, Bazj (talk) 14:08, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Bermuda lily field 1920s.jpg

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Speedy deletion of File:Duncanmemoirspics 006.jpg

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File copyright problem with File:LawrenceOgilvieandsonskiingEastDundry1947.jpg

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File copyright problem with File:Lawrence Ogilvie, Bermuda 1920s.jpg

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File copyright problem with File:DHines&family1969.jpg

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Difficulty of understanding copyright

I load photos that I have taken and declare that they are available for anyone else to use worldwide but somehow they always seem to be rejected for copyright reasons. Your procedures are just too complicated to understand. 1. Please allow all the photos that I have submitted to be displayed. 2. Please advise me how to upload photos without this hassle or I shall give up contributing material.

Duncan Ogilvie, Bristol, England--Duncanogi (talk) 21:02, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

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File:Nicola Ogilvie from UK helping in Romanian orphange near Iasi.jpg missing description details

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Namibia

Hi, the once-off ultra-marathon should not be in the country overview for Namibia. There are many such events year after year, and they are all covered under the mentioning of "extreme sports" in the main article. I therefore reverted you edit. Please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page should you have further questions. --Pgallert (talk) 15:39, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:English 1956 Westminster Bank cheque of Doris Ogilvie.jpg

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Proposed deletion of RacingThePlanet: Namibia

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File copyright problem with File:Ivon Hitchens -Shade- 1936 oils.jpg

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Old photos

I see (above) that you have been busy. I noticed your post to Glen Coe and posted a comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland#Old Pictures - an idea. Good thinking - and I hope you don't mind my amendment to the Glen Coe image legend - no disrespect to your parents intended. Ben MacDui 14:00, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Alexander Hall and Company

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Signatures in edit summaries

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There's no need to put signatures (four tildes) in edit summaries, but only in talk pages (such as this one, your user talk page). Edit summaries can be seen in contributions and histories, you can see your contributions at Special:Contributions/Duncanogi. Cheers, Cenarium (talk) 00:02, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Heron Cross Pottery

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November 2009

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Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to William Hines (Staffordshire potter), without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Favonian (talk) 15:20, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Just a note to say...

...that you don't need to sign edit summaries. The software lets everyone know who made the edit. Mjroots (talk) 20:22, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

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Boxed Ruler

I have started to research William_Simms_(instrument_maker) and came across this file File:G_Turnbull_-_boxed_ruler_1853.jpg

Since I am distantly related (by various marriages, including my own!) I wonder if you have any information about Simms.

Also, where is this ruler kept? A museum or privately held? Gordo (talk) 19:18, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

About the ruler, I have it here in Bristol if you want to see it. --Duncanogi (talk) 18:34, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I would! Gordo (talk) 23:30, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Hector Turnbull (disambiguation)

Hello, just to let you know that this dab has been nominated for deletion using Template:db-disambig. If you have any questions about this, please contact me. Best wishes, Boleyn3 (talk) 19:28, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi, Do you have more antique pics from Assam Untilwhen1 (talk) 05:32, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Childers backpackers fire painting.jpg

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Please do not repeat the deletion of this and similar photos in this article which is such a valuable memento for the families of 15 young people killed in the arson attack. Both the artist and the photographer have given their written agreement and encouragement for publication of the pictures.

I have scanned this photo taken by Mary Lewis in 2002 of the painting of her son Michael Lewis and the 14 other young people killed in the arsonist attack on the backpackers' hostel in Childers, Australia. She, Mary Lewis has requested me to upload the photo to Wikipedia (see authority below) and the copyright-holding artist of the picture Josonia Palaitis has today 13 April 2010 emailed me in England from Australia to give permission as well (see below also).

Dear Duncan,

Thanks for your contact. Your entry is a very respectful way to give continued support to those who lost loved ones.

As the copyright holder of the 2002 Childers Memorial Portrait entitled 'Taking a Break in the Field' I am happy to authorize the use of an image of this painting in conjunction with your Wikipedia text entry.

Please pass on my kind regards to Mary Lewis whom I remember clearly from the unveiling gathering in Childers.

Sincerely,

Josonia Palaitis

Artist

www.jpstudio.com.au

File:Childersfirepicagreement.jpg

The photographer has also given authority to publish:

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File permission problem with File:Childers backpackers fire painting.jpg

Please do not repeat the deletion of this and similar photos in this article which is such a valuable memento for the families of 15 young people killed in the arson attack. Both the artist and the photographer have given their written agreement and encouragement for publication of the pictures.

I have scanned this photo taken by Mary Lewis in 2002 of the painting of her son Michael Lewis and the 14 other young people killed in the arsonist attack on the backpackers' hostel in Childers, Australia. She, Mary Lewis has requested me to upload the photo to Wikipedia (see authority below) and the copyright-holding artist of the picture Josonia Palaitis has today 13 April 2010 emailed me in England from Australia to give permission as well (see below also).

Dear Duncan,

Thanks for your contact. Your entry is a very respectful way to give continued support to those who lost loved ones.

As the copyright holder of the 2002 Childers Memorial Portrait entitled 'Taking a Break in the Field' I am happy to authorize the use of an image of this painting in conjunction with your Wikipedia text entry.

Please pass on my kind regards to Mary Lewis whom I remember clearly from the unveiling gathering in Childers.

Sincerely,

Josonia Palaitis

Artist

www.jpstudio.com.au

File:Childersfirepicagreement.jpg

The photographer has also given authority to publish:

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If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

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Possibly unfree File:Childers backpackers fire painting numbered.jpg

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Proposed deletion of Michael Lewis (arson victim)

16 April 2010. Despite the comments below, please keep this article which commemorates a life cut short by Australia's lax fire safety laws. There are few events that result in 15 arson deaths. The details of the arson event and its victims were given worldwide publicity because of the countries from where the victims originated. You can mention "Childers" to millions of people with sure recognition of the arson. I am confident that the TV and other media publicity particularly across Europe, Korea and Japan (about youngsters killed from there and warning their inhabitants of the risks in Australia) satisfies Wikipedia's "notoriety" requirements.Duncanogi (talk) 13:39, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

The article Michael Lewis (arson victim) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

WP:ONEEVENT

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Ironholds (talk) 08:14, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Michael Lewis (arson victim)

I have nominated Michael Lewis (arson victim), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Lewis (arson victim). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Ironholds (talk) 17:08, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

16 April 2010. Despite the comments above, please keep this article which commemorates a life cut short by Australia's lax fire safety laws. There are few events that result in 15 arson deaths. The details of the arson event and its victims were given worldwide publicity because of the countries from where the victims originated. You can mention "Childers" to millions of people with sure recognition of the arson. I am confident that the TV and other media publicity particularly across Europe, Korea and Japan (about youngsters killed from there and warning their inhabitants of the risks in Australia) satisfies Wikipedia's "notoriety" requirements.Duncanogi (talk) 13:39, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

File:Childers backpackers fire painting numbered.jpg

Hi Duncanogi. I see you've uploaded File:Childers backpackers fire painting numbered.jpg. Please note that pasting an email on the image's description page is insufficient for Wikipedia. Rather the email should be forwarded to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, noting the name of the image (File:Childers backpackers fire painting numbered.jpg) and the image's copyright stats (i.e. is it public domain? is it GFDL, is it Creative Commons, ect.) For more on this, see WP:DCP and WP:PERMISSION. I'll give you a wee to do this, otherwise, I'll delete the image. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 04:12, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Many thanks. Will do. Duncanogi (talk) 10:06, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Deleted image

If you're referring to File:Childers backpackers fire painting numbered.jpg in your message on my talkpage, I was not the one who deleted it. I merely operate the computer program that cleaned up after User:Explicit deleted it.

If you look at the deletion history for that image, you'll find that it was deleted after this discussion. I don't have access to the OTRS system, but the emails you posted on my talkpage simply grant permission for the image to be used on Wikipedia, which is not the same thing as releasing the image into the public domain (what you claimed on the image description page). This discrepancy, and the fact that Wikipedia-only permission is not sufficient for an image to be used on Wikipedia, is why the image was deleted. --Carnildo (talk) 21:48, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Childers backpackers painting.jpg

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Proposed deletion of William Paton Ogilvie

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Articles for deletion nomination of RacingThePlanet: Namibia

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Your contributed article, RacingThePlanet: Namibia

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Yet another file copyright issue

Please refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files/2010_May_3#File:Childers_backpackers_painting.jpg Simon-in-sagamihara Like a previous editor did, I'll wait a week for you to request the appropriate permissions from the copyright holder before tagging the image for deletion. (talk) 03:43, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

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"Yet another ..." but James Alexander of Wikipedia "permissions" is handling the situation. The artist Jo Paliatis has given permission ... but Wikipedia needs adjusted wording for this. Please Simon-in-sagamihara be more sensitive. I have met the mother of one of the youngsters killed, still mourning her beloved son ten years after the event, and she is horrified by the continued contention. I am still trying to get useful information about this widely publicised arson adequately covered in Wikipedia. Simon-in-sagamihara: could you please add to articles instead of so often harassing others. Harassment reduces the willingness of people to contribute to Wikipedia. --Duncanogi (talk) 12:20, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

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Duncan, I'll ignore your personal attacks and focus on the issues at hand. "Yet another" refers to your latest misunderstanding of copyright in this list:

1. 4 File copyright problem with File:Bermuda lily field 1920s.jpg
2. 6 File copyright problem with File:Ryujo 1870.jpg
3. 8 File copyright problem with File:LawrenceOgilvieandsonskiingEastDundry1947.jpg
4. 9 File copyright problem with File:Lawrence Ogilvie, Bermuda 1920s.jpg
5. 10 File copyright problem with File:DHines&family1969.jpg
6. 11 File copyright problem with File:George Turnbull (1809-1878).jpg
7. 13 File copyright problem with File:RobertRaikes(Gloucester).jpg
8. 18 Problems with upload of File:QuickTide south east 2009-2010.jpg
9. 23 File copyright problem with File:Ivon Hitchens -Shade- 1936 oils.jpg
10. 31 File copyright problem with File:Ilaro Court new garden 1925.jpg
11. 32 File copyright problem with File:Ilaro Court - site of new garden 1925.jpg
12. 36 File permission problem with File:Childers backpackers fire painting.jpg

Second, your friend's feelings are irrelevant to Wikipedia articles -- unless your friend is notable as per WP:N! Third, you have been advised time and again about how Wikipedia is not a memorial site, nor a soapbox, nor a free web host. You have been directed to Wikipedia's offical policies on every point that you seem to have trouble grasping, and yet you continue to push the same point of view. Fourth, I direct you to the notice that is shown under every "Save page" button: "If you do not want your writing to be edited, used, and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here." Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 12:54, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Also regarding your edit to RacingThePlanet: Namibia: another editor reverted your edit. Did you see the notice in the "This article is being considered for deletion..." box? It says "Feel free to edit the article, but the article must not be blanked, and this notice must not be removed, until the discussion is closed." The bolding is in the original. Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 12:56, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

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Again, Simon-in-sagamihara: could you please add to articles instead of so often harassing others. Harassment reduces the willingness of people to contribute to Wikipedia.

You reasonably list 12 pictures for which I did not correctly add the copyright authority. 10 of these are photos/pictures etc taken by me or my family (some of them dead). The Wikipedia copyright procedure is complex as explained by many others: please do not continue to harass people who willingly contribute but have tried to understand Wiki procedures. Please concentrate on adding to Wiki rather than deterring others.--Duncanogi (talk) 13:43, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

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Ad-hominem attacks, Duncan. Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 13:47, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

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Agree with you. Simon-in-sagamihara: could you please now concentrate on adding to articles instead of so often harassing others such as me. I have spent many hours contributing information that I have researched. Your activity disinclines people to contribute: are you doing the same with many other people?--Duncanogi (talk) 15:46, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Salvador Calvo Redondo

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May 2010

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Thank you for your comments below. Notability: please note the London Daily Telegraph obituary that is already referenced in the article. Your major concern seems to be to attack notability even though there is an internationally respected source already posted. Please look at the obituary which was thoroughly reviewed by this reputable newspaper. The newspaper accepted the obituary because of the hundreds of thousands of African subsistence-farmers that had improved living standards because of David Gordon Hines and his team. I was very impressed when I interviewed him. May I suggest that you review the obituary, identify other sources and add information to Wikipedia? -- Wiki needs more about Africa and about co-operatives.Duncanogi (talk) 09:35, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

This is my final message to you off article talk pages. Please do not contact me via my talk page any more. If you have a specific concern about an edit to an article, feel free to post it to that article's talk page. If you continue to ignore established Wikipedia policies and attack me personally I will report you to the Administrators' Noticeboard. Thank you. Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 10:07, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Please clarify (without using threatening language again): you are not wanting comments on your talk page but you put them on mine and those of other people.Duncanogi (talk) 10:32, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

East Dundry

Hi. Good work on East Dundry. I notice that you've not put it in any categories though. Any objections if I add some? SP-KP (talk) 09:54, 6 August 2010 (UTC) Go ahead with whatever you think fit. I lived there during that time.Duncanogi (talk) 16:16, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

File:MichaelErnestLewis.jpg listed for deletion

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• I saw this image was listed for deletion but you seemed to have not been notified. I also wanted to touch base because a search of the OTRS system did not turn up this image in connection with the other images from the mother of this victim. I wanted to check to make sure where it came from - did it also come from the mother? If so is it possible to have them include this image in their OTRS release? Soundvisions1 (talk) 16:33, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

• The photo was indeed provided by Michael's mother in Bristol, England -- she is much saddened that her murdered son has had his photo removed. Can you reinstate it?Duncanogi (talk) 17:29, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

References

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Original research

I reverted your addition to Chew Magna because it is original research (WP:OR) and is therefore not allowed on Wikipedia. An interview in a pub is not a reliable source (WP:RS). --Simple Bob (talk) 11:21, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Pullman train (Chile)

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I would suggest to Simon-in-sagamihara that this article has been unreasonably deleted as there are links in Pullman (car or coach) to other Pullman services such as to the UK. Would you please be so good as to reinstate it or at least include the contents elsewhere?Duncanogi (talk) 12:50, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Storran Gallery

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Nomination of Eardley Knollys for deletion

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Nomination of Lawrence Ogilvie for deletion

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Nomination of Hector Turnbull (businessman) for deletion

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File:Nicola Ogilvie from UK helping in Romanian orphange near Iasi.jpg listed for deletion

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Possibly unfree File:QuickTide south east 2009-2010.jpg

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Original research

I just reverted your addition to Dundry. You cannot use original research on Wikipedia. Content must be based on verifiable sources, not the memories of someone who used to live there. --Simple Bob ^{a.k.a. The Spaminator} (Talk) 21:18, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Doris Katherine Flinn

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Possibly unfree File:Lawrence and Duncan Ogilvie, Dundry 1947.jpg

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Proposed deletion of Heron Cross Pottery

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Your contributed article, Hines Brothers

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Possibly unfree File:Hines Bros - Heron Cross Pottery - Pottery Gazette 1903.jpg

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• My wife (nee Deborah Hines)is a direct descendent of William Hines, one of the Hines brothers who ran this business: we presume that the surviving family (two sisters and one brother who have authorised publication) have copyright in this advertisement presumably developed for and paid by the firm Hines Brothers in 1903. Please advise me what other copyright is needed.Duncanogi (talk) 14:33, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

So once again you are trying to use Wikipedia to document your family tree? HAve you learnt nothing? Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 22:32, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

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Greetings

Hello. I'm an image expert here on Wikipedia. I see you've been having problems with some of the images you've uploaded. The process can be quite byzantine, and some people can be rude; for that I apologize.

We have to be very careful (some would say paranoid) about copyright on Wikipedia, since we are such a prominent website and so liable to be sued. As a nonprofit, Wikipedia would soon be sued out of existence if we weren't overly cautious about copyright. It shouldn't lead to rudeness on our part, however. I wanted to thank you, sincerely, for the images you've uploaded, and try to help save the ones under discussion.

When you upload a photograph that you created yourself (such as File:Chew Magna WWII decoy pill box - 2.JPG), it's a relatively simple process. As the photographer, you hold the copyright, and you have the right to either release the image into the public domain or release it under a free license. When someone else created the photograph, however, things get more complicated. Even if you scan an old photograph you own, you don't hold the copyright on the image; the original photographer does. In some cases, the copyright will have expired on the old photograph. (This is why I changed the copyright tag on File:Doris Turnbull in a pram, Nowgong, Assam 1902.jpg and File:Joseph Cubitt (civil engineer).jpg, for instance.) In other cases, you may have inherited the copyright from a family member, and would therefore have the right to release it into the public domain: File:Ilaro Court - site of new garden 1925.jpg is like that. But in still other cases, the old photo might still be under copyright.

With all that in mind, do you know who created File:Lawrence Ogilvie on Bermuda-NY ship for a Cornell University 1923 conference.jpg, or if it's ever been published? Do you have any info on the photographers of File:Justin Ogilvie, northern Svalbard late 1970s.jpg, File:Department of Agriculture, Bermuda 1926.jpg, File:L Ogilvie lilies Bermuda 1926.jpg, File:Lawrence Ogilvie & Brian Mulligan, Long Ashton Research Station 1930.jpg, File:L O + mum 1911, 70 Gladstone Place, Aberdeen.jpg, File:Lawrence Ogilvie, Bermuda 1927.jpg, or File:Rosehill, Abbots Langley 1907.jpg? Do you know who the painter was for File:Ryujo 1870.jpg? Also, do you still have the brochures that File:Lowthorpe School 1920s main house.jpg, File:Lowthorpe School 1920s brochure.jpg, and File:IBM 1755 Operator Desk.jpg came from? Can you see if they had a © notice anywhere on the brochure?

As for File:Presentation gold-plated AO drill.jpg, I see that Roger Evely created the photo, so he holds the copyright. If he is willing to release the image into the public domain, then there is no problem; however, if he only wants to authorize Wikipedia to use the photo (but doesn't want to allow others to reuse it), then I'm afraid we can't accept the photo. We only accept "free" photos, meaning photos that anyone (not just Wikipedia) can reuse for any purpose (including modifications and commercial use). If he is willing to release the image under such a license, let me know and I'll start the process to get this image protected. If not, though, I'm afraid it will have to be deleted after all. (The case of File:ROCgroupphoto.jpg is similar.)

Again, your photos are excellent, and really help Wikipedia. Any answers you can give to the questions above will help. Thanks very much, – Quadell ^(talk) 13:57, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

• • Thank you for the very time consuming, detailed, and helpful note above. I shall try to identify the source of each photo -- nearly all of which I have here in Bristol, England:

File:Doris Turnbull in a pram, Nowgong, Assam 1902.jpg: photo of my mother taken by her father. Both now dead.

File:Joseph Cubitt (civil engineer).jpg: I cannot remember. Cubitt was a colleague of my mother's grandfather George Turnbull (civil engineer).

File:Ilaro Court - site of new garden 1925.jpg: indeed a photo by my mother, now dead -- she was the landscape architect working there for a year.

File:L O + mum 1911, 70 Gladstone Place, Aberdeen.jpg: photo of my father and his mother by his father.

File:Lawrence Ogilvie on Bermuda-NY ship for a Cornell University 1923 conference.jpg, File:L Ogilvie lilies Bermuda 1926.jpg and File:Lawrence Ogilvie, Bermuda 1927.jpg: photos by my mother (now dead) who was "courting" him then.

File:Lawrence Ogilvie & Brian Mulligan, Long Ashton Research Station 1930.jpg: photographer not known, original with me.

File:Justin Ogilvie, northern Svalbard late 1970s.jpg: photo by my son Justin's friend James Durie, who releases this photo of a schoolboy trip to the Arctic.

File:Rosehill, Abbots Langley 1907.jpg: photo of forebears understood to be by taken by one of them.

File:Ryujo 1870.jpg: the artist is T J Culpan.

I have had a number of other photos deleted, I feel unnecessarily, (for instance recently one of the Yangtze Gorge, China): I would love to get these reinstated as it is tedious to copy them and upload them, and dispiriting to have them deleted (sometimes somewhat rudely).Duncanogi (talk) 17:14, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

File:Lowthorpe School 1920s main house.jpg, File:Lowthorpe School 1920s brochure.jpg: I do have the brochure. It has no copyright statement on it.

File:IBM 1755 Operator Desk.jpg: IBM copyright I am afraid.

File:Presentation gold-plated AO drill.jpg: he has told me that he is happy to release it into the public domain.

File:ROCgroupphoto.jpg: unknown source. A neighbour asked me to load it.

I have had a number of other photos deleted -- most dispiriting. Grateful if you can reinstate them.Duncanogi (talk) 17:17, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your detailed reply. A few of these image I won't be able to save, since we don't have enough information about the original copyright holders. But for most others, they will be just fine. I have updated a few of the image description pages to better reflect your intentions. For example, please carefully check the text at File:Rosehill, Abbots Langley 1907.jpg... I stated there that "If copyright exists anywhere, the uploader (heir to the photographer) releases the photo into the public domain." Is this exactly correct, and does it reflect your wishes?

I was also able to restore File:Upstream on the Yangtze Gorge about 2004 before the dam.jpg and File:Lawrence and Duncan Ogilvie, Dundry 1947.jpg, moving them both to the Commons so that all Wikipedia projects can access them.

Finally, I would love to be able to keep File:Presentation gold-plated AO drill.jpg, but to do so, the Wikimedia Foundation will need concrete evidence that the copyright holder releases the image into the public domain. If you can convince the photographer to send an e-mail to permissions-enwikimedia.org, that would be perfect. The e-mail would have to include a link to the image in question -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Presentation_gold-plated_AO_drill.jpg -- and a statement that says something like "I am the photographer, and I release the image into the public domain". If you prefer, you could have the photographer e-mail you (or me) and then you (or I) could forward the e-mail on. Either way, that would work. If this doesn't happen, though, the image will probably get deleted, which would be a shame.

Again, thanks for all your efforts. – Quadell ^(talk) 18:46, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Upload free media to COmmons, please

It is better if your free images can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as opposed to Wikipedia. Freely licensed or public domain media are more accessible to other Wikimedia projects if placed on Commons. Thank you: Jay8g (talk) 22:02, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I did not understand the difference.Duncanogi (talk) 16:20, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

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I do not understawnd the concern. I release the photo for anyone to use.Duncanogi (talk) 21:11, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi. Perhaps you could add a formal license on the file. For example {{PD-release}}. --MGA73 (talk) 21:22, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

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I declare that I invented and patented QuickTide 11 years ago and have waited for modifications to the article "Tide tables" for six years to reflect this new method of determining tidal information. I feel that the purpose of Wikipedia is to have up-to-date information: you and Wikipedia are clearly trying to prevent this. For instance, how can there be an illustration of a presumably copyright (California?) tide table on the page when you have deleted an illustration of a European one (QuickTide) for which I have the copyright and have authorised its diplay on Wikipedia? Duncanogi (talk) 09:34, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

I will reload the picture of QuickTide, following my logic stated above. I am the copyright holder, having designed QuickTide myself.Duncanogi (talk) 17:02, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you for your comments, which I do not understand. Your advice above about "Non-free use rationale guideline|non-free rationale" appears only to apply to USA law.

• Please advise your understanding of the English law status of the document: I am confident that English law does not prevent publication of this document.
• Please advise me what wording you suggest should be added.Duncanogi (talk) 20:38, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia's servers are hosted in the US, so US copyright law applies. --Closedmouth (talk) 08:37, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Please, most of us do not have the time or skills to research US copyright law. We do not understand the dozens of categories of copyright available under Wikipedia. Please advise me what category you would think it is sensible to store this under. Duncanogi (talk) 09:37, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

You seem to have trouble with the smallest of tasks, Duncan. You might want to just log out and not edit Wikipedia any more. It'll stop you getting so confused. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.30.174.200 (talk) 13:30, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

I suggest that this is a rather unhelpful comment for a worldwide information source. The list of American-oriented copyright law dissuades many people from contributing worldwide I suggest.Duncanogi (talk) 09:24, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you for your comments. I can only add that my father was born in Scotland and lived some 78 years of his life in his native Britain. In Bermuda, a British colony, he was employed in the 1920s for about 5 years by the British government as a plant pathologist. He was travelling (probably on a British ship) to New York paid by the British government to speak (at age 25) about his saving the then-vital Bermuda agricultural economy at a US academic conference. One can presume that he was photographed using his own camera by a European colleague with whom he was travelling (my father was a keen photographer). I, his son, have lived in Britain all my life.Duncanogi (talk) 07:46, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks. Quite right, I do accept what you say. I was the IBMer in the 1970s and 1980s responsible for most of the European English-language telephone-related publicity material. I will put more links in. I am thinking that really "IBM Audio Distribution System" should be a separate page: work needed to do this.

New links added. Thanks.

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Portrait of Col. George Turnbull

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"Col George Turnbull 1729-1810.jpg More details Scan by submitter of old photo of picture of Colonel George Turnbull 1729-1810.Duncanogi (talk) 21:31, 27 October 2009 (UTC)"

I am wondering if you have more information on this photograph? Are you in possession of the original?

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.1.195.142 (talk) 15:18, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello, yes: I have the original.92.23.227.97 (talk) 15:49, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Would you please contact me privately regarding the Turnbull portrait? My email address is louismi@umich.edu We are working on a publication in which Turnbull figures, and would like more information. Thank you very much, Louis Miller — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.1.173.103 (talk) 15:31, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

umich eamil address seems not to work92.23.227.97 (talk) 16:22, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Hmm, that is very strange. louismi@umich.edu is definitely the correct email address. You could also try my personal address loumiller4@yahoo.com Thank you very much for your prompt replies to my messages — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.1.183.145 (talk) 17:33, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

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There appear to be many, many theatre companies worldwide that are in Wikipedia. For instance there is an Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, California. The HK Aurora is one of the two top companies in Hong Kong. Leave it in please.Duncanogi (talk) 09:12, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

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Bevin Boys

Hello. I've had to revert your change to the Bevin Boys page. References need to be verifiable and 'Interview 29 August 2019 with ex-Bevin Boy Kenneth Jones' just isn't suitable I'm afraid.Obscurasky (talk) 20:42, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your message and all the work that you do. Please be so good as to revert your changes because I had already on 2 September sent fuller details of my Kenneth Jones interview to the Bristol Archives (they are so glad to receive WW2 information following the massive Nazi blitz devastation here), Smeaton Road, Bristol BS1 6XN. On receipt by me of the Archives Office response, I shall add this information in the Wikipedia footnotes.Duncanogi (talk) 09:43, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

I'm not being pedantic - as far as I'm aware citations such as yours simply aren't acceptable on Wikipedia, nor is original research allowed which appears to be the case here too. You will have noticed that I added a couple of reliable citations to that section, but I could not find one to support your claim that Bevin Boys received £240 per year plus education fees and it just isn't sufficient just to say in the citation that someone told you that's what happened - there needs to be a verifiable citation to support such claims. Obscurasky (talk) 15:43, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Many thanks for your note. I am completely confident that the gentleman Mr Jones (90-odd years old) did not lie about all this information. You will see that on 3 September at 19.05 I modified the text to " many Bevin Boys received" to make clear that far from all Bevin Boys received £240. You can refer now to the official Bristol City archive to determine this.

You may not be aware that in the UK there was until about ten years ago payment by the government of all university fees and a contribution towards living costs -- indeed I a 78-year-old had this paid by the government when I was at university 1960 to 1963.

Please reverse your changes.Duncanogi (talk) 10:30, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

University grants are not relevant to your point. Have you got a reference other than one mans recollection? Something other than a vauge its in the Bristol City archive. You should probably read WP:reliable sources and WP:verifiability. noq (talk) 10:48, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

And this; WP:original Obscurasky (talk) 18:54, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

In fact the grant to cover living expenses under the FETS scheme was means tested up to a maximum of £426, (the amount depended on your marital status, number of dependent children etc). I have modified the original sentence in the article and have provided a reference to reflect this information. I can find no source to back up a claim that the Bevin Boys were treated differently to the Forces veterans under the FETS scheme. Mertbiol (talk) 16:33, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

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Response. Thank you for your comments discospinster. Please rapidly reinstate the page. You are concerned (I suggest wrongly) with establishing publicly the sources of the information for the page. At age 79, I have had many, many years experience of establishing the Wikipedia sources of information. I have done so to support this worthy theatre company in Hong Kong that improves the Cantonese/English-language skills and political situation in these difficult HK times (I live in England) – for this I have fully and carefully done so in and for the page, fully satisfying your requests:

1. Link from another page … see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Hong_Kong#Theatres
2. In the page to state the source of 80% of the page … www.auroratheatrehk.com
3. In the page to state the source of 20% of the page Awards and credits … www.hkeld.com

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As you have been asked to do previously, read WP:verifiability, WP:reliable sources, WP:significant coverage and WP:notability. The article has been moved to draftspace to allow the article to be worked on to meet those standards. As for your points above, 1) You adding a link in another article is not relevant. 2) the theatres own website is not significant coverage independent of the subject. 3) a website home page that does not mention the theatre is not a valid reference for anything - if it was the only reference needed anywhere would be www.google.com. Once yuo have made the required improvements, you can get the page reviewed independently and if properly done it will be moved back to main space. noq (talk) 11:09, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

With additional lengthy research I have now improved the Aurora Theatre Hong Kong item by including verification by 13 drama journalists' reviews of plays.Duncanogi (talk) 09:44, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Not sure what is holding up publication on Wikipedia after listing 13 separate journalists' reviews.Duncanogi (talk) 12:41, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

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I am confident that the British and other governments have encouraged and never disputed the Wikipedia inclusion of wartime medals. Please view the Wikipedia articles for instance of countries' supreme medals: the British medal Victoria Cross and the French medal Légion d'honneur. The 30,000 or so Bevin boys (teenage boys) were government-forced in wartime to do their wartime duty to mine coal for the armament factories.Duncanogi (talk) 07:18, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

I am reasonably confident of my ground. Most medals were established long enough ago for their designs to be out of copyright. The design of more modern medals such as the Queen's Volunteer Reserves Medal will be protected by copyright, and that article is illustrated by an image with a non-free media raionale (File:Qvrm.jpg). The circumstances of the Bevin boys do not affect the copyright position. For more information see c:Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United Kingdom. If you want to challenge my proposed deletion then you should delete the {{proposed deletion/dated files}} notice from the file page, as described above. We would then follow the Wikipedia:Files for discussion process. Alternatively, you could add a non-free use rationale to the file page, see Wikipedia:Non-free content – you might use File:Qvrm.jpg as a model for this. Verbcatcher (talk) 08:51, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Good faith, but cringe inducing nevertheless. Clearly the image is of public interest and used only to illustrate the organization's intended purposes in a way that words alone could not convey. It's highly unlikely that its use here contravenes Wikipedia policy or any country's copyright laws. Might I suggest you work positively to find a way of actually keeping the image, instead of working to remove it - which would be to the detriment of the article. Obscurasky (talk) 09:19, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I forgot to add that I scanned the neighbour's Bevin Boy's "badge". I little knew him and visited him a few weeks before he died (he was a teenager in WWII). He and his family were delighted with this. I suppose I have copyright of the "photo" (scan) but have given this to Wikipedia. Please keep it in Wikipedia for his family and the world.Duncanogi (talk) 09:41, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm afraid all that's irrelevant. The question of copyright relates to ownership of the badge design, not the actual photograph. My point is that it would be better all-round if Verbcatcher approached the issue constructively. Obscurasky (talk) 10:08, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

@Obscurasky: as I wrote above, the file can be kept if a valid non-free use rationale is added. Verbcatcher (talk) 11:51, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

As you suggest, and grateful if you please could modify the image to "valid non-free use rationale" as I have no experience of this.Duncanogi (talk) 12:56, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

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As you suggest, and grateful if you please could modify the image to "valid non-free use rationale" as I have no experience of this.Duncanogi (talk) 12:56, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

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Many thanks.13:26, 6 April 2020 (UTC)Duncanogi (talk)

Thank you. So is it ok to remove the tag under the photograph in the article?Obscurasky (talk) 17:11, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

The FFD discussion remains open until it is closed by an administrator, and it is possible that the image will assessed as not qualifying for fair use. The notice where the image is used in Bevin Boy is not obligatory – I added it to alert other editors to the issue. I favour leaving the notice for a few days, but I won't object if someone else removes it. The notice will probably be removed automatically when the FFD is closed. Verbcatcher (talk) 17:37, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

OK, thank you. Obscurasky (talk) 17:58, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

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Many thanks. I do appreciate your concern, but I suggest that Wikipedia can be improved with a few attractive, less boring pictures: they must be relevant to the contents. Duncanogi (talk) 16:52, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

The thing is, those images were not particularly relevant to the content. -- Whpq (talk) 18:00, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

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• Grandfather clock -- My suspicion is that few Warry grandfather clocks have survived -- for instance, I added Warry to the list of British clock makers. Somebody I met many years ago (I am 80 now) felt reasonably confident that the wooden "top" in the photo (I know extremely little about grandfather clocks) is a Warry top removed from a clock. I thought this would make a good photo if it included a child.
• Shoulder – I suggest the page also needs to have a picture of garment-covered shoulders, not just a bare shoulder and the inner parts of shoulders.
• I would ask you to accept reinstatement of these.Duncanogi (talk) 19:04, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

No. I completely disagree with the addition of those images. You are welcome to start a discussion on the talk pages of the articles as other editors may have other opinions. -- Whpq (talk) 19:16, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks for your position about this and your comments. There are a variety of views about most things. Many thanks again.Duncanogi (talk) 10:00, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

As noted above, You were invited to start a discussion about adding the image if you disagreed and not just add it in again without discussion. I have reverted your image addition and made a note in the article talk page. Do not add it back again without gaining Consensus. -- Whpq (talk) 12:12, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

I propose again that the subject Shoulder should include its 1% excellence and 99% its problems, as for Table , Clock etc etc. Duncanogi (talk) 12:48, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

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