User talk:Craigthornber

Hello Craig. Welcome to Wikipedia. I have long been an admirer of your excellent photographs, and in a number of my articles I have added links to the your web pages containing them. So I am delighted that you are adding your photographs to Wikipedia (WP), so that they can be enjoyed by more people, and used freely without copyright limitations. I was pleased see the photos you downloaded to Commons and copied into the article on St Helen's Church, Sefton. But I have taken the liberty of adjusting them somewhat in the article, because WP is not keen on multiple images in an article, and would prefer them to be distributed, as appropriately as possible, throughout the article. You can read about this at WP:IG. So what I have done is to add the category of the church to the photos on Commons, and add a link to them (and others) to the article (the Commonscat link). This has allowed me to distribute some of the photos and delete the others. Nothing has been lost because the absent ones are available through the link. (I have copied this message to Commons, because I am not sure where you are more likely to see it.) Best wishes, --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 13:00, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Hello Peter,

Thanks for the information and for your help by adjusting the site to conform to standards. I have only ever submitted one picture to Wikimedia before and did not know how to arrange them on the page. Having visited Sefton last summer with an adult education group from Alston Hall College near Longridge I thought I would add some shots of the interior. Perhaps in future I should upload pictures as they arise to the Commons with suitable category or indexing terms and allow authors to select those they wish. I have 66,000 digital images dating back to 1999, many of historic buildings with a particular bias towards Cheshire and Staffordshire as I live in Macclesfield. On long winter evenings it will be a good project for me to sort through that would be useful.


 * It would be really great to have more of your work available - you do realise though that you will be introducing it into the public sphere, and would lose all copyright protection. But if you did so, it would be a wonderful gift to the public.  Yes, download your photos to Commons, learn how to provide suitable categories, and then the images will be available both for people to see and, where appropriate, to add them to articles.  I have written many articles on Cheshire churches (some illustrated by my own photographs) and some of them would benefit from better photographs.  I also suggest you become a registered user, and also learn to use the signature thing (the funny blue icon at the top of the editing page) to end your messages. Best wishes, and good luck. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 08:57, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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