User talk:PhotoMary

October 2011
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! As a contributor to National Register of Historic Places related articles, you may be interested in:
 * WikiProject National Register of Historic Places and related projects

Please consider visiting the project page and learning more about it. If interested, join in! Thanks for your contributions. --‖ Ebyabe talk

Omaha
Hi PhotoMary! Thanks for your contributions to some of the articles I've created about Omaha. I have actually been wanting to see what the Harry Buford House looked like for years! You can see some of the other articles I've written about at []. I would love to collaborate on anything you're interested in, so please don't hesitate to get in touch. • Freechild talk 20:22, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Photos!
Greetings, O PhotoMary! Nice to have another photographer at work in Nebraska. I've done a lot of illustrations for WP articles, but I'm based in Kearney and most of my travels have been outstate. It'll be an excellent thing to have another photographer working on Omaha: I don't get there very often, and when I do it's almost always cloudy, or rainy, or after dark... Looks like you've had really nice light for some of your pictures, and they add a lot to the articles.

If you wouldn't mind, could I make a few suggestions?


 * When you illustrate an article, go to the "Discussion" tab. On that page, you'll usually see a box with a picture of a camera, and the text "It is requested that an image or photograph be included..."  When you've added a photo to the article, edit that page and delete the line  .  That takes the article off a list of articles that need illustrations.


 * If you take a photo of a place that's on the National Register of Historic Places, could you go to National Register of Historic Places listings in Nebraska and put a thumbnail of your photo there? If you're doing a county with lots of sites (like Douglas), there's probably a separate list just for that county; put your photo in there.  That way, other photographers interested in NRHP sites in Nebraska (mostly me, but some WP photographers like User:Smallbones travel cross-country and might pull off I-80 and try for a few sites) know that the site's already been illustrated.


 * When you upload a photo to Commons, could you try to categorize it? For NRHP sites, there're categories like  .  If you've shot a site in a city or village, you'll probably want a category like  .  If you know the year or the architectural style of a building, it's a good idea to put in categories for those, too.  I'll try to categorize the photos you've already uploaded, so you can look at them and get an idea how it might be done.

If you've got questions about this or anything else related to WP, please feel to drop a line at my talk page. Just click the "Talk" following my username, and then edit the page (putting new stuff at the bottom, and starting a new category with a pair of equals-signs, like "==Help!==" or "==Sorry, but you're wrong==" ).

Hope you're enjoying your editing experience so far. For me, at least, it's been a terrific way to learn all kinds of interesting things about the state. Look forward to seeing more of your photos on more articles&mdash;

--Ammodramus (talk) 18:13, 22 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I hadn't realized: when you're categorizing a building in Omaha, there's a subcategory,, for the location.  Ammodramus (talk) 18:38, 22 October 2011 (UTC)