George Gastin

Hi George.
I've seen your photos and have been amazed by their quality. They would nicely illustrate some of the articles on Scotland, and that would be great if you could just upload them on Wikicommons so that everybody can use it, whatever the language. There is a new login system so that you only have to register once (which you did on wikipedia-english), and from there on you can access all wiki things, such as Wikicommons. Don't hesitate to tell me if you have any problem with that stuff.
Philippe Giabbanelli | Speak with me

Bonjour Philippe,

Merci vraiment pour votre jolie mots sur mes pictures (I shall talk in English now as my french is not so good) - I was wondering if you could help me with uploading my pictures as I tried to log in to Wikimedia Commons but it said I didn't have a user-name?

Thanks for your time,

George.

(1) If you go on this page it should ask you something like "do you want to merge all your accounts?" In other words, the account that you have on the english wikipedia (George Gastin) will also be created automatically on every other thing related to the Wikimedia Foundation. As a result, you will be able to log on Wikimedia Commons with the same user-name.

(2) Once you are on the Commons, you have this form to update your picture.

(3) The section Permission: is important for you as it defines what kind of copyright you'd like to place on your photos. You probably want to write {{cc-by-3.0}} in there, as this licence is as follows: "you are free to distribute and modify the file as long as you attribute its author(s) or licensor(s)."

(4) In the menu called licensing, the same thing is called Multi-license with Creative Commons Attribute-Share Alike 3.0 and GNU Free documentation License' (yes, it's quite wordy!).

I hope this "step-by-step" helps. If you have any problem, let me know. I'm not a big fan of those forms but after your complete the first ones, you get used to it and can get it done pretty quickly. Philippe Giabbanelli | Speak with me

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File:Forthrailbridgefromsouthqueensferry.jpg

Hi George,

I was wondering if you had this image in higher resolution? I could imagine that the reason why you've uploaded it with limited resolution is to protect it from commercial exploitation? I'd really like to see it in more detail, and I think it could be considered as a Featured Picture, although the garish nature of the lighting might count against it. Anyway, just thought I'd ask!

David. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 17:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi George,

I have a question about the image of the Carrion Crow you have uploaded to wikipedia. Here is the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow and here is just the image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crowinflight.jpg

I have just started to become involved with an armchair treasure hunt and thought your image was used. Can you verify that it is your image and possibly give me some insight as to what they mean by "bird's number". http://www.tenthleaf.com/chapter1/index.php

Thank you so much for your time.

Tterr6ab (talk) 17:49, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

File:Grey heron flight.jpg

Thank you for uploading this media,

However, it would be nice if you could give some kind of indication as to what license the media is under. That way other people can be confident in making use of it for many varied purposes :)

Adding license information also helps prevent media you've put effort into creating from being deleted :)

You may wish to read Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags#For_image_creators which will assist you :)

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:06, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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Request to use photograph

Hi George (Ruy). I work in Scotland's public sector industry and I'm currently working on a project and would like to use one of your photographs for our website. Wondering if you could be so kind as to message me back to discuss?

Many thanks,

kentas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kentas (talk • contribs) 12:53, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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I'm just dropping you a quick note about a new Wikipedian in Residence job that's opened up at the National Library of Scotland. There're more details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland#Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland. Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 15:33, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Photo permission

Dear George,

I am looking to reproduce one of your photographs in an exhibition publication, namely 'Jencks' Life Mounds at Jupiter Artland' on Charles Jencks' page.

Would you be able to message me back so we can discuss this?

Many thanks,

Caroline — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maclenn1 (talk • contribs) 09:20, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

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