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Question on picture uploads
Hello, ServiceAT. Did you really take these pictures? ,, , et al. I don't mean to come off wrong but this is quite the variety of photos from one photographer and I just wanted to make sure they were in-line with the image-use policy.--NortyNort  (Holla) 08:23, 1 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, absolutely! I have a large slide collection of photos taken personally by me in the 1960s through 1980s and have scanned them all to digital.  These are all places that I have personally been and photographed, so the copyright is mine.  Thanks for asking. ServiceAT (talk) 16:57, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, well that's impressive. They are a great addition to the Commons.--NortyNort (Holla) 21:44, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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Harold Agnew
It seems odd that Harold Agnew (Harold M. Agnew) has no WP page, since he is referenced multiple times, and is quite a noteworthy figure. It occurs to me that perhaps he did have a page but, as a living person, requested its deletion. I've searched recent deletions and don't find anything there, but this might have been long ago. I'd be happy to contribute a page, but I don't want to be wasting my time. Could some administrator tell me if there was previously a page "Harold Agnew" or "Harold M. Agnew" and, in a few words, why it was deleted? Thanks! ServiceAT (talk) 18:23, 17 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I got this response asking the same question on IRC chat:

[11:29] <+Chzz> I'm looking [11:31] <+Chzz> I can't find anything anywhere, except mentioned in other articles and as "missing articles" and so on. It looks like we have never had a page about him. No page called "Harold Agnew" has ever existed... and I can't see anything similar [11:31] <+Chzz> so, go for it [11:32] <+Chzz> Keegan [11:34]  Thanks, Chzz (Keegan)! If you don't mind, I'll copy your response to my talk page, where I put an adminhelp request. [11:35] <+Chzz> sure. I'm not an admin, but I can see logs of deletions and things, ServiceAT. Unless it's been 'oversighted', it's never existed. And it's pretty unlikely that it's been OS'd, because there is no discussion of anything about it anywhere on wiki [11:36] <+Chzz> and yes, you can copy what I've said here; no worries. ServiceAT (talk) 18:40, 17 December 2011 (UTC)


 * If a page existed at those names, it would show as a log entry when viewing Harold Agnew or Harold M. Agnew (see Connor warden for an example how it would look like). So if you can write an article about him and he is notable by our standards, feel free to do it :-) Regards  So Why  18:44, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

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Manhattan Project
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 * Thank you, bot. Problem fixed as noted in Anita K. Jones talk page. ServiceAT (talk) 23:12, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * OK, fixed the links. Thanks, helpful 'bot. ServiceAT (talk) 21:21, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

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 * Hello, and thanks for your note.
 * While I agree that my contribution "Chandler M. Brooks" is based on a single source, I don't believe that it violates the copyright of that source. I have gone through the article sentence by sentence. Where there are indeed stretches of words exactly in the source, these are of the nature of lists of facts that, by their nature, are not "particular expression". For example, a factual phrase like "destruction of the hypothalamic ventromedian nuclei produced obesity in rats" is a statement of scientific fact that can't really be said in any other way, except for trivial paraphrase. To summarize, precise scientific terminology, when it is generally accepted as the preferred way to state something factual, is not subject to copyright. I would ask you to reconsider -- or to point out to me specific passages that, in your view, go beyond specific facts (not copyrightable) and into particular expression (which is). Thank you. ServiceAT (talk) 19:18, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I have done quite a few copyright cleanups and am aware of the issues with certain types of articles and content, and my assessment is that what you've published is not acceptable. You can view the extent of the overlap using this tool. There's quite a bit that uses the same text in the same order as the source document. There's plenty that can be summarized or re-worded or omitted. There will still be some unavoidable overlap with the source when you are done. Please let me know if you have any questions. — Diannaa (talk) 01:16, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Respectfully disagree. When I try the tool, virtually all the overlap is either standard scientific/technical terms (see my previous explanation) or things like "attended Oberlin college in Ohio" which is simply factual (and in fact credited to the reference). Using the same text in the same order is not a copyright violation when the text consists of purely factual material in a factually logical (e.g., biographically chronological or list of successive achievements) order. The famous example is telephone directories, but there is also a lot of case law on lists of other kinds.
 * But, really, it is not worth this effort to save Chandler M. Brooks from obscurity! So, if you are unable to reconsider, and there is no standard path of appeal, please delete the article. ServiceAT (talk) 17:03, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I have cleaned the article myself. — Diannaa (talk) 01:56, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Wow! Thank you very much. ServiceAT (talk) 17:45, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

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