User talk:GordonVG

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lots of issues | leave me a message 04:00, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Bio
Howdy. You seem to be doing just fine, but in case you weren't already aware, please check out the guideline page on Autobiography. Thanks :) -- Quiddity (talk) 19:24, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

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File permission problem with File:Richard Van Gelder, Mozambique, 1973.jpg
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F&SF
Thanks for the edits to the F&SF article; I assume from your username that you know what you're talking about. I'm hoping to get the article to featured status, which would make it eligible to be on the front page of Wikipedia for a day. If you'd like to keep an eye on it over the next two or three weeks and fix any errors, or post a note on the article talk page if you see problems, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:20, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Mike. Will do. ---Gordon V.G.

F&SF cover copyrights
I saw your note about the copyrights; I was wondering about that as it seemed unlikely the copyrights would not have been renewed. I assume all covers are copyrighted?

The usual way to find an online proof of copyright is to go here and search; for everything except the first issue the F&SF results should be in the database. I was unable to find that cover listed in there -- can you find it? Or can you give me a bit more information on what to search for? I tried searching for just the title and couldn't see it.

Thanks for the offer of licensing the covers. Images used on Wikipedia are of two types: fair use, and images uploaded to Wikipedia Commons. "Fair use" means that there's no change to the copyright status, but Wikipedia can use the image anyway because it's a reasonable use of a copyrighted image. Typically this would allow us to use, say, the image of the first issue in an article on a magazine, and perhaps other cover images if they are specifically discussed in the article. Images on Wikipedia Commons are ones for which either the copyright has expired, or the owner has released the images under certain licenses. However, there are minimum requirements -- see this page, particularly the "Acceptable licenses" section. If you're willing to release any of the covers under these licenses that would be great, but they're all irrevocable and they all allow free use to any other user, so you may not wish to do that.

Either way I'd be glad to help, both in getting rid of the incorrectly licensed existing cover scans, and in helping get the licensing sorted out if you decided you do want to release any covers. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:38, 24 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I was able to find the copyright renewal. The cover of the Winter/Spring 1950 issue has been deleted from Wikipedia. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 16:17, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, GordonVG. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. --Animalparty! (talk) 22:07, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:GordonVanGelder by Al Bogdan.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:GordonVanGelder by Al Bogdan.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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