User talk:HCNicholls

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Hi there. Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw your comment on the Talk page for David Griffiths (portrait painter) about not knowing how to get him to show up in the right place in the categories. The trick is to use a pipe symbol straight after the name. I have done this, so you can see what I mean by looking at the source again. I have also made a number of other changes. I think they're all mentioned in the edit summary. One thing I have left untouched for now but which other editors may not is the note "Regarded as one of the U.K's foremost portrait painters". You really need to say who regards him as that: currently it's his website, which may not be entirely unbiassed. I'll try to find something in the National Library stuff.

Incidentally, the way to sign your comments is to type four ~ marks in a row: when I type ~ without escaping it with the appropriate tag, I shall sign off as.... Telsa 18:18, 4 December 2005 (UTC) :)

Image:David_Griffiths_self_portrait.jpg listed for deletion
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 * You will probably need http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS from the painter and the photographer. Mr. Griffiths may be interested in my fledgling project that is mainly meant for sculptors. Painters are invited as well. Hope this helps.--Canoe1967 (talk) 00:20, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Dear Canoe,

I have been trying to add a relevant image to a Wikipedia page and it keeps getting marked for deletion. I have uploaded it several times now in different ways and you appear to be the last person to mark it for quick deletion. I have now marked as 'public domain' in commons and it appears elsewhere on the artist's website. I cannot understand why you said that it should be deleted. I have tried before to clear this up and had an email exchange with permissions-commons Ticket#2013031910008909. I don't know whether this is the issue but the text follows. It has been very difficult to do what should be a simple thing and I do not know where to go next to get this on Wikipedia. Are you able to help me?

Regards,

Howard.

- Original Message - From: "Permissions - Wikimedia Commons"  To: "David Griffiths"  Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [Ticket#2013031910008909] Osian

Dear David Griffiths,

Thank you for your email. Our response follows your message.

03/19/2013 14:27 - David Griffiths wrote: > > To: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org > > I hereby affirm that I, David Griffiths am the creator and sole owner of > the exclusive copyright of Osian_Ellis.jpg (also found at http://www.david-griffiths.co.uk/#/gallery-1/4572298026) > > I agree to publish that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0" (unported) and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). > > I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in > a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. > > I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related > sites. > > I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right > to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me. > > I am aware that the free license only concerns copyright, and I reserve > the option to take action against anyone who uses this work in a libelous way, or in violation of personality rights, trademark restrictions, etc. > > I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the work may > or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project. > > David Griffiths > > Copyright-holder > > 19 March 2013 >

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Yours sincerely, Stephen Philbrick
 * I wasn't the one that tagged it for deletion. I left a note under the green deletion box that riana_dzasta posted. I will pop over to OTRS at commons and see what is going on with the ticket for File:Osian Ellis.jpg. They probably just need the file name to add the license. They will probably need an email from Mr. Griffiths for File:David Griffiths self portrait.jpg as well. One image is on commons and the other is here at the English Wikipedia. I don't know if the same OTRS volunteer can deal with both.--Canoe1967 (talk) 16:37, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Canoe. Any help you can provide will be most appreciated. HCNicholls (talk) 11:32, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Both images are at commons now. See: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS/Noticeboard#Match_file_to_ticket Does the other ticket number cover the other image?--Canoe1967 (talk) 02:33, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

David Griffiths does want both images in commons and hopes that the same ticket can be used. HCNicholls (talk) 10:34, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * File:David Griffiths PD.jpg still doesn't have a ticket number. He may have to send an email and let them know the file name so they can find it easier.--Canoe1967 (talk) 16:31, 16 July 2013 (UTC)