User talk:Rleplin

Calling Huon
Is this where I write you? Thank you SO MUCH for converting my format to a gallery. So all I had to do was get rid of the brackets, and the words File and Thumb? Good grief! (Let me know if this wasn't where I was supposed to write you. I've never Talked before.) Rleplin (talk) 00:35, 25 August 2013 (UTC)


 * You also need the   tags to create a gallery.
 * To make sure another user sees your message you may want to either add a link to their user page (that will notify them) or add a note to their talk pages (User talk:Huon in my case). I do keep an eye on talk pages I've written on, so simply replying here obviously worked too. Huon (talk) 01:31, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

User:Huon
Two questions Huon. 1: Where on your Talk page do I add the note? 2: Everything I've tried has seemed impossibly difficult to do, yet turned out to be incredibly easy. So, is there an easy way to delete a file (image) from Wikimedia Commons? I have three of the same image, and two of another. Thanks! Rleplin (talk) 01:42, 25 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Notifications are usually placed at the bottom of the talk page; you can use the "new section" tab at the top of the page to add a new section. The  template is a standardized way to leave such notifications.
 * Regarding the Commons images, the relevant policy page is Commons:Deletion policy; the Commons offers a "Nominate for deletion" link in the left sidebar of the image pages that will guide you through the process. There's also speedy deletion, which you can request by adding   (with an appropriate reason instead of "Reason", of course) to the image page, but I don't think that's necessary here, and since the image formats differ I'm not even sure it's applicable in the first place. Huon (talk) 02:32, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

How does X work?
How do I convert the current format for the paintings under "Paintings" into a Gallery? Rleplin (talk) 04:23, 24 August 2013 (UTC)


 * See Help:Gallery. I've done so here to provide an example. Huon (talk) 04:32, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

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User: Huon
Although I will continue to tweak it, I'm ready for this article to be incorporated into Wikipedia. What do I have to do? Please and thank you.


 * I have moved the page to WT:Articles for creation/Emanuel Leplin, the preferred location for drafts, and submitted it for a review. It may have to be edited some more before it can be accepted. For example, the most heavily-used source contains a link to a San Francisco Public Library web page that doesn't even mention Leplin, and for all I can tell the Emanuel Leplin Collection itself is a primary source whereas Wikipedia content should be based on secondary sources. Someone with better access to the sources than me will have to look over the others. Huon (talk) 23:33, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Deleting mistakenly renamed file
I didn't see the "rename" function until after I renamed many images in order to upload them (when the names had already been in use). Should I now use in order to delete these files, and if so, where do I place it? Thank you.


 * I don't think those are exact duplicates; for example the colors on File:Tea Garden Bridge.jpg and File:Japanese Tea Garden Bridge.jpg slightly differ (the former looks better to me). Thus duplicate is not applicable. (If some images indeed are exact duplicates, you can edit the page of the image you want deleted and add  to the very top, with the name of the correctly named image instead of "Example.jpg".)
 * I expect you'll have to use a slightly more complicated route. At the Commons, in the left sidebar of the image pages you'll find a "Nominate for deletion" link. You can use that to tag them for deletion one-by-one. You can also bundle the deletion requests (since the rationale will be the same for all of them); see commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Mass deletion request on how to do so. Huon (talk) 23:33, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

To User:Huon.
Hi Huon. The Emanuel Leplin Collection in the San Francisco History Center  contains physical copies or originals of all of the articles, reviews and programs attributed to it in San Francisco newspapers and Symphony programs. These are secondary sources. I didn't write them, nor did I publish the newspapers and programs in which they appeared. All I did was give physical copies to the History Center.

Currently, the Collection description contains less than half of what the Collection contains. They have not updated their description pending further additions. Rocky Leplin Rleplin (talk) 03:55, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Emanuel Leplin at piano with pipe, 1945.png
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How do you put images on left side of an article? Thank you. Rleplin (talk) 21:10, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Reply to Jim Woodward re. Emanuel Leplin
Hi Jim,

I am responding to your response to my commentary about the circumstances surrounding the deleted photo File:Emanuel Leplin at piano with pipe, 1945.png. You were generous enough to clarify the Precautionary Principle. Would you please indulge me in a few questions? Can you tell me what is involved in the process of transferring a copyright of something to someone else? What constitutes the "formal agreement" you spoke of? Absent this, how can it ever be possible to prove that someone who is in every likelihood deceased, and when his heirs if any are unknown, transferred rights to a photo? Why isn't the gift of a photograph a transfer of copyright for its use? I have two large photographs of Pierre Monteux, both containing inscriptions celebrating the likelihood of Leplin's future "brilliant carrière." Do I need to find the heirs of Monteux (who know nothing about these photos, one of which is undated and the other dated 1939) to ask them to carry out the formal agreement transferring copyright before I can legally publish them? Or would this be irrelevant, since Monteux himself may never have owned the copyrights?

I have photographs of Emanuel Leplin going back 84 years, and I don't know who took any of them. I gave dozens of photographs of him to his archive the San Francisco History Center at the San Francisco Public Library. I was told that once something is gifted to the History Center, the History Center owns the material. Is this an infringement on a possible but unproven copyright? I have yet to find a biography in Wikipedia that does not have a photo of the subject at the beginning of the article. Can you tell me what I can do to add a photo to the beginning of the Emanuel Leplin article? Having a photo at the beginning of the article might actually make a difference in a prospective conductor's consideration of a performance.

Thank you. Rleplin (talk) 19:49, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

How do I insert a 69-year-old photo taken by an anonymous person?
I need to place a photo of Emanuel Leplin at the beginning of his page. I had one that was deleted by James Woodward because I couldn't prove I own the copyright of one which was taken 69 years ago, before I was born. Many photos of Emanuel Leplin taken over many decades were handed down to me, none of which show any indication of who took them. Every biography of a composer or painter (Emanuel Leplin was both) that I've seen has a photo at the beginning, except E. Leplin's. To the best of my knowledge, there are only two places that have photos of E. Leplin: my house, and the San Francisco History Center of the San Francisco Public Library. Can someone please tell me what I can do to represent E. Leplin properly, in the way I've seen every other composer or painter's page enjoys? Thank you. Rleplin (talk) 21:16, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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