User talk:Silvergirl27

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Silvergirl27! Thank you for your contributions. I am Mabdul and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! mabdul 09:10, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
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As Mentioned in the live chat, I can confirm that your submission is waiting for a review now. For your information: your submission is now located at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Frank Edwin Snodgrass and not longer at your user page. mabdul 09:12, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
 Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved.
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Frank Snodgrass
Hi Peggy, I took a look at your progress (great going!) and made a few edits for formality of language. ("Snodgrass" is preferred to "Frank", unless there's a reason to leave him as "Frank"). I also took out the cleanup tag which referred to excessive use of copyrighted material (your long quotations) since I see you have rewritten most of the material. Had I reviewed the article as it is now, I would have passed it without hesitation. If you would like to, submit it again and I, or another editor, will put it online, where you can continue to work to improve it. Otherwise, if you want to continue with it where it is now, that is also perfectly ok; I will then tag it with the Draft: work in progress tag, which will stop people from jogging your elbow while you're busy. I don't think there's much left to do to get the "Wikify" tag off either, possibly both of the remaining tags, but I will have a closer look when I have a little more time. Let me know either here or at my Talk page whether you would like to go online with it or whether you would prefer to continue under "Draft" status. Really well done, I have to say!  David_FLXD  (Talk) 13:45, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

PS if you need help uploading the pictures, or clarity on copyright, just let me know.  David_FLXD  (Talk) 13:45, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
 Frank E. Snodgrass, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you are more than welcome to continue submitting work to Articles for Creation. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!  David_FLXD  (Talk) 15:44, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
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Talkback
It's up! See the article Talk page too.  David_FLXD  (Talk) 15:52, 8 July 2012 (UTC) Hi David, I do not see how I can answer the questions on the pictures. First of all, thank you for the compliments about Frank - this is a tribute to my father - so thank you again for all your help. The pictures would have been taken who knows when during his working life at Scripps. They are in the Scripps Library (I think that is how they would have come into the possession of my step-mom who sent them to me. To be sure it was ok to use them, I contacted Scripps Library (the name I gave you and said I wanted to put them on Wikipedia. His answer was: Hello, you have permission to use these materials in your publication. May I have your permission to reprint your publication on the Scripps Archives website at scrippsarchives.ucsd.edu ?? I will put it in the BIOGRAPHIES section of our website. Did you see the “Waves Across the Pacific” film clip with Frank Snodgrass, that I posted in our FILMS section of the Scripps Archives website? Peter  This is now available there. But I cannot say they are mine free and clear - and I cannot answer the questions about when they were created, etc etc. Perhaps I should write to Peter again and ask HIM to upload them? I actually have no idea if there is a copyright attached to it or not. What do you suggest? Kindest regards, Silvergirl27 (talk) 17:47, 8 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Peggy. I am confident that Peter is in a position to release the images on whatever basis he thinks right, although he may have to consult with a board of some kind first. For your guidance, you might like to try to upload the images again; I'm confident that Peter would back you on this route:
 * Look ahead to where I say "Post the evidence"; make sure you have that ready before you start!
 * Start File Upload Wizard
 * Select your file
 * Give it a clear and UNIQUE (lengthy helps!) file name eg: "FrankSnodgrassAboardSnark19620317.jpg"
 * Describe the contents eg: "Photograph of Frank E. Snodgrass" (use the article title where you can) "aboard research ship Snark in 1962". Put a wikilink to the article page.
 * Choose "This is a free work" from the radio buttons.
 * Choose "This file was given to me by its owner" from the next set.
 * Fill in Scripps or the relevant organization as the owner.
 * If you don't know date of creation, just write, "Unknown".
 * Identify Peter as the supplier / channel, with his title (Curator, whatever)
 * Identify in what form the permission in your possession is: email, letter etc.
 * Choose the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike licence option: May be freely copied, published and distributed, BUT may not be altered, and must be attributed to the copyright holder.
 * Post the evidence, either online or emailed to the permissions office as described, referencing the file name/s and the article name. If your permission evidence is a letter, scan it and make it available. Wikipedia takes copyright protection very seriously and will not allow anything to be used which does not have the rights in place.
 * You don't have to fill in the "any other information" box
 * Select Upload to Wikipedia only. (Nice if you can upload to commons, but that's a whole different pattern, and you have to log in to commons first. Worth it if you have a file in public domain.)
 * If the upload button is greyed out, check that you have filled in all required fields, that you have selected a file to upload, and that the wizard has accepted your destination article as in place already. Maybe that will be some help to you! The copyright guidelines on WP are an absolute labyrinth, and not just to the uninitiated!  David_FLXD  (Talk) 18:26, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Profile photograph of Frank E. Snodgrass.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Profile photograph of Frank E. Snodgrass.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to , stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to .

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Eeekster (talk) 19:33, 8 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Yeah, see my first bullet point above. If you did that, you need to know that not only do the permissions people have to have it in hand, they have to have registered that they've got it. Your file is uploaded, and you should be able to use it on the article. In the meantime, copy the OTRS pending template to each of your photo pages: go to the page where the photo is stored (click on the photo itself), edit, and copy the template to the description page. If you see a licensing section, put it in near the top of that, otherwise anywhere on the page will do. If you uploaded to WP Commons, then put it on the WP Commons description page. Did I ever mention that I hate the way WP handles copyrights? But it's necessary. Regards,  David_FLXD  (Talk) 05:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi David -

I have no idea what you did or how you did it, but you are an angel. The page looks very nice and I am going to just leave it as it is and not upload any more photos for now. Thank you thank you thank you. Silvergirl27 (talk) 08:20, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Profile photograph of Frank E. Snodgrass.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Profile photograph of Frank E. Snodgrass.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to , stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to .

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. VernoWhitney (talk) 20:53, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
 David_FLXD  (Talk) 15:18, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
 David_FLXD  (Talk) 06:08, 7 October 2012 (UTC)