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contributing photographs to wikipedia.

Hello: I am brand new here and finding my way around. I have several photographs that my father took (he was a photographer both free lance and employed by union pacifi) late 40's to early 80's I would like to contribute to your information pages on Sun Valley Idaho and surrounding area. I also have some great shots (I think) he took in different states in the North West back in the day. Do I need to fill out a form to donate pictures? I have scanned the negatives and have digital copies in a 72 dpi jpeg format. Also I have a collection of old press photographs (ACME) that I have scanned can I donate those images to wikipedia? They have already been "published" so I am not sure what the rules are. some other photographs/post cards that I have where taken before 1923 scenic shots..postcards etc. But I have no idea about copy right issues with images that old.

Let me know,

Thanks :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocketz95001 (talk • contribs) 03:52, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

@Rocketz95001: Hi, thanks for your question. Sorry for having to ask this, but is your father still alive? Copyright law can be very complex and that makes a difference for determining if the images can be used on Wikipedia. --Nick⁠—⁠^Contact/_Contribs 05:28, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Nick..yes my dad is still alive but he has dementia and I am his POA .I have his signed consent form to use and share is pictures as I see fit. His wish was/is to "share" them and not "sell" them. That letter was signed in the 90's. So I have have copyright and had submitted some of the digitalized copies to the local library but they lost them! Anyway I would much rather have them on wiki.. do you know about the press photographs or post cards? Those have already been published.

Thanks for getting back to me so fast :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocketz95001 (talk • contribs) 06:13, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

@Rocketz95001: Your dad's images should be releasable by him (via you) under a free license of your choice (either fully into the public domain, or under a Creative Commons and/or GNU license). This certainly applies to his photos taken as a freelance photographer. You should upload these images over on Commons, not locally here on Wikipedia. Commons is a collection of freely licensed images for use on any Wikimedia project, including the English Wikipedia. I have to point out that by releasing them under a Wikipedia-acceptable free license, you will be allowing the images to be reused off-Wikipedia as well, including by people for their own commercial interests if they want. You can put some conditions on image reuse by using a Creative Commons license, but you cannot restrict them from being used commercially. See commons:COM:Welcome.

As for the press photos and postcards, if you can prove they were published (not simply created) before 1923, they should be in the public domains in the US. They can also be uploaded on Commons if that's the case. If they were published after 1923, it gets a little more tricky and involves looking up whether copyright was claimed and/or renewed. See commons:Commons:Licensing#Material in the public domain. --Nick⁠—⁠^Contact/_Contribs 06:33, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Nick …me again. I am really lame at this new wiki (t0 me) interface:) I am used to Facebook, smugmug and email. anyhow . I think the GNU License is probably the way to go How did it get to be so complicated?. There are only a couple of dad's images that he took as a freelance photographer that have been "released into the public domain" I do have a smugmag account and have been getting dad's pictures to the families that are in them by email. I can upload there and share them out to the wiki team folks. On the smugmug site i can label the images & get the location of the shot listed under captions and who is that picture. Most of them are landscapes so I don't need to worry about that. Does wiki do smugmug? or dropbox?.. no idea. I don't have a flickr account. I would like to do a photo credit to him (dad) as the photographer which I have already done in photoshop in the web 72 dpi images does that work in wiki ? Again I have no idea.. :) it would be really cool to have dad's pictures on wiki I would love that and so would he. Thanks for helping me =^..^= Thanks. Mw :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:301:773A:AB50:6593:A84D:1BDC:1DCC (talk) 08:36, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

You would want to upload them directly to Commons using this link. We can't link to files in dropbox or uploaded on other websites. There is a place in the form where you can put a description, and credit him as the photographer there. Does that answer your question? ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 19:46, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Public domain images

Firstly, I want to make sure the images are in the public domain. The images in question are here. The pictures were published in the late 19th century and the photographer died in 1922. I also need help uploading them to Wikimedia Commons. I've uploaded images from Flickr before, but this is sufficiently different that I'm not sure I'd upload/tag them correctly. Thanks for the help. Xochiztli (talk) 06:48, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Reading up on US copyright law, the pictures are clearly in the public domain. I've gone ahead and upload one, but I would appreciate it if someone made sure everything looked alright. The picture. Xochiztli (talk) 14:25, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Looks fine to me. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 19:50, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

user name

Hi
I am asking this question on behalf of an organization named fpi.
i tried to create a user page for this philanthropic organization. But i got a message from wiki web when i choose a username.
i chose fpi as its user name, but i got a reply from wiki like this user name is similar to fp1 .(it(fp1) is different than my username(fpi))
So i am humbly asking you this, how can i choose this user name (fpi) for the organization of humanity.
I hope that someone will give me an answer very soon. Thank you
www.fpiinternational.org

— Preceding unsigned comment added by FPI-86 (talk) 19 May 2015 (UTC)

You cannot have such a name, as this would contravene Wikipedia:Username policy which does not allow usernames which "represent the name of a company, group, institution or product" which you clearly are trying to do - Arjayay (talk) 10:15, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello, FPI-86. What Arjayay says is right, but I'd like to expand on it. If you are wanting to create an account on behalf of an organisation, you are almost certainly intending to edit Wikipedia on behalf of the organisation. Please don't. The only interest that an organisation can legitimately have in a Wikipedia article is getting false information removed (and not even necessarily that, if the information comes from a reliable source). People in an organisation are welcome to edit Wikipedia as individuals, and can certainly create accounts as individuals; but in editing they should remember that they are editing for Wikipedia, not for the organisation. If they edit articles connected with the organisation, they need to keep it neutral and based on independent sources, and they need to remember that neither they nor the organisation owns any articles. Please read WP:CORP and WP:COI. --ColinFine (talk) 17:04, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Edmund Minahan and Cotton Minahan

Hi,

I don't speak English very well. Edmund Minahan and Cotton Minahan are/is the same person. How do only one article ?

GabrieL (talk) 11:53, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

A merge is required.--ukexpat (talk) 12:25, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Please, An Englisk spoken can do the procedure for me. The explanation in English is too complex for me. The articles in German are already same article. GabrieL (talk) 15:35, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

 Fixed I've performed the merge. The article is now at Cotton Minahan, Edmund Minahan is a redirect to this page. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:44, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata also fixed. Cotton Minahan now linked to the Edmund Minahan on other wikis.Naraht (talk) 19:11, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Wallingford, Connecticut

Issue with the content of the page:

The article refers to Allnex, as the highest volume polluter in the area, but without citing information to substantiate this claim. It also links Allnex to the former owners Cytec. Allnex has not been part of Cytec since April 2013. It is now an independent company and should no longer be associated with Cytec. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.79.227.82 (talk) 12:56, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

References

 Fixed - I have removed the reference to Allnex as completely unsourced.--ukexpat (talk) 13:27, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Updating page on Genpact

Hello,

I would like to request an update to the opening paragraph on the page covering Genpact.

Location: Genpact

The newly proposed content can be found at the top of the Genpact Talk page at: Talk:Genpact

The content is also below. I have several citations to add, when it's published.

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Genpact is a multinational business process outsourcing and information technology services company, with executives headquartered in New York City, NY. As of 2015, the company operates through the following segments: Automotive, Banking and Financial Services, Capital Markets, Chemicals, Consumer Goods, Healthcare, High-Tech, Hospitality, Industrial Manufacturing, Insurance, Life Sciences, Media and Entertainment, Retail, Telecommunications, Transportation, and Logistics.

In 2014, Genpact reported net revenues of US$2.28 billion with 68,000+ employees in 25 countries. Genpact’s clients include one-fourth of the Fortune Global 500 and of those, 10 are in the top 25.

Genpact was established in 1997 as a business unit within General Electric (GE) to transform GE Capital’s back-office services operations into one of the first large-scale captive companies in the world, GE Capital International Services (GECIS). In January 2005, Genpact became an independent company to provide Lean Six Sigma process expertise to clients beyond GE. In August 2007, it became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange, under the symbol G.

N. V. Tyagarajan, president and CEO of Genpact, has led the company since his appointment in June 2011.

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I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Wzt5zb (talk) 16:35, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Wzt5zb, Your second suggested paragraph in particular sounds rather promotional. In any case, when making such a request, please provide cites to reliable independent sources before any edit is made, so that the editor can evaluate the sources and see if they support the proposed text. Also please indicate exactly what test you want replaced, and whether the existing citations are now obsolete and why. Finally, it is best to add new requests at the bottom of the article talk page. Thank you. DES ^(talk) 17:03, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

CSD and PROD logs

I'm trying to find my CSD and PROD logs (or if I even have them). I've never used Twinkle, which is the only means I'm finding of tracking that, and even then I'm not seeing how to get Twinkle to load pre-Twinkle CSDs and PRODs into the logs.

(Can/How would) I find my CSD/PROD logs without Twinkle? If that's not possible, is it possible to get Twinkle to load old CSDs and PRODs into a new log? Ian.thomson (talk) 20:03, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Twinkle creates CSD and Prod logs as you tag pages with Twinkle. If you tagged pages without using Twinkle, I do not believe there is any way to easily create any logs, Twinkle will not do it. If you notified the creator each time you added a CSD or Prod Tag then you can go back through your contributions, find all of the notifications and manually create the logs. -- GB fan 20:14, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Ew... Well, thanks. IIRC, I usually did notify them of the tag, but would sometimes do so thought modified warnings rather than the regular tag. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:29, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Article translation

Hi All, what should I do to have this same page in the Wikipedia English Version? https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_economy Thanks. Reinaldo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reinaldopamponet (talk • contribs) 21:01, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Reinaldopamponet see WP:Translation for guidance on how to translate an article to English from another Wikipedia. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:35, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Please create an article on New Year Lake, Nevada.

I am not so very computer literate and I'm afraid that trying to figure out how to request an article to be created is very confusing. I'm not even sure that I'm in the right place. But I'm trying to find information on New Year Lake in north, west Nevada. I can not find any information at all which is very strange for a lake that size especially in the driest state in the Union. Very mysterious.

Thank you for your time! Robin Samala — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.173.237.201 (talk) 21:42, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

You can go to WP:Requested Articles and make an entry, but it is very backlogged. You might do better by going to WP:WikiProject Nevada and ask for help. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:54, 19 May 2015 (UTC)