User talk:Motamanx

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 * I believe I have a photograph of Jack Hall, architect somewhere in my files. Motamanx (talk) 17:07, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

==Speedy deletion nomination of File:Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.) - NARA - 542015.tif==

A tag has been placed on File:Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.) - NARA - 542015.tif requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image page for a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.

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but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 00:54, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * You may have a credit but a) you must provide sound evidence as to who the photographer was and b) you must place the credit on the image description on the Commons. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 08:45, 10 July 2013 (UTC)


 * You claim to have received an e-mail from me. I certainly do not think so. What you received was an automated e-mail produced as a result of a setting in your user preferences. Assuming the date on your e-mail is UTC, then I had already written my message above two hours before you sent your e-mail.


 * To spell out the problem more clearly: you do not place photo credits in the article/s that use the images nor do you do so in an image description here on the English Wikipedia when the image is on the Commons.


 * But the first thing you must do is provide sound evidence . I am prepared to believe that Rowland Scherman took these photos but that is not good enough for Wikipedia. Slightly irrelevant, I note that a stone's throw from where the civil rights march took place is the Library of Congress which will almost certainly house suitable evidence but it is better if you can find it on the web. I found the page commons:user:Yann/NARA. I have asked this user if they can help.


 * Once you have the evidence, then you may most certainly annotate the image description on the Commons of every one of your images. If I am allowed commons: category:images by Roger W Haworth, then you would certainly be allowed commons:category:images by Rowland Scherman. [see below] Also if you annotate commons:category:March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with a note that many/all of the images are yours that will probably stick. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 11:21, 12 July 2013 (UTC)


 * You haven't done much research - commons:category:photographs by Rowland Scherman already exists and has a few of your images. Please see this edit. Clearly user talk:Yomangani will probably be able to help. Also, can you please provide a photograph of yourself for use in the Rowland Scherman article and add your date of birth. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 12:09, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello and thanks for your concern
There are dozens if not scores of images from the March on Washington that bear my credit. I was the US Government's official photographer on that day. NARA declined to give me credit until I proved my case, so I did, and they obliged. For a very recent "proof" I submit the following URL which will take you to a movie about me and the experience: It is the recent AARP magazine. http://www.aarp.org/videos.id=2498752061001/. I wish I knew more about doing this wiki thing, but I appreciate your help in the matterMotamanx (talk) 14:38, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Uncle DaveS.jpg


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