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 ( That's yours; can you help?). Mapsax (talk) 15:10, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 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: Archived link" and "US Army Corps of Engineers" to match my crop
 * For license, select "Another reason not mentioned above", and paste in
 * 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 (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, 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)