User talk:Alan Griffiths

Greetings,

Many thanks for your comments - did you check...

http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Karl__Blossfeldt/A/

it contains the only place where all the photographs from the key works are included. The site contains vast amounts of unpublished items - authentication material (studio stamps etc), reference, examples images, interviews etc that are only found in that one place on the Internet. If it is a question of a poor choice of a username I'll change that obviously and with pleasure and I fully agree to abide by any rules that Wikipedia specifies. The contain on Luminous-Lint is certainly of the caliber of George Eastman House and the Victoria & Albert Museum indeed many of the leading curators have provided it.

I must of over stepped a rule here that I don't fully appreciate but I'll be happy to abide by any rules - after all I'm an Information Scientist by training.

Best wishes,

Alan

April 2008
Please stop adding links to your own site to the photography articles. Thanks. Channel &reg;  19:35, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


 * All the articles added are directly related to the photographers concerned and contain information provided from the best sources. alan@luminous-lint.com. Isn't good relevant content allowed?


 * You're not adding articles, you're only adding links to your own site. About 25 so far. I don't think an external link is the same as "good relevant content" (which is, of course, allowed). Channel &reg;   19:44, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia, because your account is being used for promotion and spamming.


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 * As noted above you have been blocked for spamming and for having a promotional username. If you feel that you can contribute constructively you may post an unblock request as explained above. If you choose to do so you would be required to select a new username and promise to abide by Wikipedia's spamming policy. KnightLago (talk) 19:53, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Have you read Wikipedia's spam policy that I mentioned above? Please also read Wikipedia's external link policy (which I forgot to mention). Do you agree not to continue adding external links to your site? KnightLago (talk) 21:03, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I've read the spam policy and the external link policy very carefully and I certainly hope that I'm abiding correctly. I'll change my User name from Luminous-Lint to Alan Griffiths (the reason I selected the first was in a genuine attempt to be clear about sources and content creation rather than an attempt to spam. The tricky thing for me is that the Luminous-Lint website contains vast amounts of unpublished material that would be useful for serious photo-historians including rare photographs, sources, rights issues etc. If I can't include links to it we can't expand the Wiki content effectively. For example:

http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/vexhibit/_PHOTOGRAPHER_Timothy_H__Osullivan_01/1/0/0/

provides an exhibition of all the photographs taken on a particular mission - this is an essential resource but would I have to put the link to that rather than the top of the Timothy O'Sullivan page:

http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Timothy_H__Osullivan/A/

that gives all the bibliographic references etc? I certainly have no intention to spam but to provide a solid resource to the community that has been created by almost 1,000 leading experts. Once the core links are sorted out then we can contribute to the articles effectively. Does this make sense?

Alan


 * Hello, Alan. I've taken a link at the two links you gave above, and I do agree that some of these photos could be useful for the project. However, I don't think we need all of them. That gallery you linked has about 100 photos in it, and some of them don't really provide much encyclopedic content (for example, the very first image, which is simply the back of a stereocard; the text of which is provided in the caption for the next image. There is also the problem that this is your site, or at least one you work for, and so you've got a bit of a conflict of interest in regards to it. Now, that isn't to say these images can't still be used. Since the photographer, according to the bio you provided, died over 100 years ago, these images are considered to be in the public domain. Rather than use all 100 pictures, we/you can select which ones best illustrate the mission and upload them to the Wikimedia Commons, a site that all Wikimedia Foundation projects, in all languages, can pull images from for use. This way, we don't risk violating the external links policy, and don't overwhelm readers with a slew of images, most of which are duplicates anyway. Would that work out for you? Hers fold  (t/a/c) 22:49, 12 April 2008 (UTC)