User talk:D Monack

Alt Text
Hey. Thanks for fixing my Alt Text on Template:Washington DC landmarks. My only question is that i do not think that what you changed it to fulfills WP:ALT, it doesn't explain what the picture looks like. I am only doing this because i am trying to get List of Smithsonian Museums to FL status, and in the review i got they told me i need Alt texts. You appear to have more experience at this so i am just wondering why you changed the alt text so drastically.--Found5dollar (talk) 14:43, 4 January 2010 (UTC)


 * The idea behind the alt text is to describe the image for the benefit of anyone who can't see the image. Just reading your alt text, someone wouldn't get the most important thing: that this is an image of the Washington Monument. I.e., you write "A white obelisk..." It's not just any white obelisk; it's the most iconic obelisk of them all.


 * When writing alt text ask yourself how you'd describe the image to a friend over the telephone. In this case, "The Washington Monument" conjures up the image readily. You could elaborate on my alt text by writing about the flags, the angle of the photo, the color of the sky, etc. but these things are all incidental. This image is relevant to this template because it's of a particular monument, not just any "white obelisk" which is a bit of an understatement. —D. Monack talk 07:54, 5 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Ah. Ok. Thanks. I understand it now. If the picture appeared as the first image in an article about the Whashington Monument then you would describe it as a white obelisk. got ya. Thanks!--Found5dollar (talk) 14:27, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello D Monack! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 3 of the articles that you created  are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the list:

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Philip Roth
Hi,

I think I just interfered with your edit. Feel free to delete any quotation marks you don't like, I was just after the deletion of two words without which the sentence didn't make much sense.

Gunnar Hendrich (talk) 22:36, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I wasn't the one who took those words out. Those were from the previous edit. —D. Monack talk 23:11, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Re: Poet
Hi D Monack, I undo the redirect to poetry, because the article poet is encyclopedic, a profession how advocate, architect, engineer, nurse, physician, physicist, professor, scientist and many other. As we have the article poet, makes no sense a redirect to poetry. Before doing the redirect of this article, we would have to discuss the issue of all other articles of professions. Another issue to not do the redirect, are the interwikis; there are many interwikis for this article. Thanks. OffsBlink (talk) 22:54, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

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Meetup/DC 11
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DC Meetup #12
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 * I originally uploaded this file as a fair-use, copyrighted image. Another user incorrectly tagged it as public domain. The license has been reverted. D Monack (talk) 21:00, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * How is it copyrighted? postdlf (talk) 21:06, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Book covers are creative works that automatically fall under copyright unless the copyright term has elapsed or the copyright holder explicitly releases it into the public domain. D Monack (talk) 21:12, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Where did you get that idea? Because it's not correct. No type of work or object automatically gets copyright protection without regard to the form it actually takes; all works must actually contain copyrightable expression. Excluding the painting, which is in the public domain because of age, what about the remainder of this cover do you believe is copyrightable rather than just PD-text? postdlf (talk) 21:20, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I did oversimplify what the law says. My layman's understanding is that what qualifies as an original work for copyright purposes is not always cut and dry. When uploading book covers, I work under the assumption that they fall under copyright and tag them with a fair use license especially when it's unlikely the image would ever be used on a page other than that for the book. The finer points of copyright law don't interest me, so feel free to change the license tag on the page. I won't fight you on that. You may want to take up the issue with User:Sfan00 IMG who first accused my of using the wrong license. D Monack (talk) 21:57, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I appreciate you saying that now, but assuming such a thing is not a good practice when another editor has given a cogent explanation to the contrary, as I did in my edit summary when I changed it to a PD tag. Plus it's a waste of resources to maintain something here under the assumption that it's non-free when it's not, as we waste time fussing over size reductions, NFUR details, etc., for something that we didn't have to. So please do try to identify future uploads properly. You'll see not even Sfan00 IMG assumes book covers are public domain, as he has tagged for moving to Commons many of the book cover images I have tagged as PD. I've already started a discussion with him on his talk page about this one, as I still have no idea what his claim about it is, particularly given that there never was a claim it was "licensed" so "permission" is irrelevant. postdlf (talk) 22:05, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

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The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly
I was thinking about some copyediting of James Hampton (artist) but my thought then became that the artwork should be the primary subject, with a section on Hampton in side it. Your opinion? Seyasirt (talk) 14:21, 20 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't have an opinion on the issue. It might be better to ask the question on Talk:James Hampton (artist) where more editors interested in the article will see it. D Monack (talk) 19:16, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

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