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List of Companies in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center
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File copyright problem with File:Southern cornerstone close-up.jpg
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May 2010
Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Cathedral of Learning, as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. &mdash;Notyourbroom ( talk ) 03:53, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Oakland photo
Your photo of Oakland looking west from the Cathedral of Learning is valuable in some contexts, but please stop foisting the large display of this photo into articles where it is barely relevant. If you want to discuss its relevance to an article, please do so on the discussion page. Below are reasons it is not appropriate at the prominence you have reinserted it back into two articles:

Cathedral of Learning: the main issues with its inclusion at the large size within the Cathedral of Learning article is that it does not illustrate any relevant information from the article itself. As you had it displayed, it is much larger than any one image of the Cathedral itself, either exterior or interior, and thus is inappropriately out of proportion considering the context to the article which discusses history, architecture, stonework, ironwork, glasswork and interior usage of rooms and spaces within the building. For example, almost none of the Wikipeidia articles on skyscrapers devote any space, especially at that size you inserted your photo, to panoramic photos taken from the buildings, with the exception of the Empire State building where a panoramic photo appears in a section specifically about its observation decks. Therefore, I do agree your photo is relevant to the Honors College and should remain there because it helps describe the physical location and situation of the Honors College which is discussed in the Honors College article itself. For the Cathedral of Learning article, I have thus moved your photo into the photo gallery which preserves your image on the page and is wholly more appropriate sizing for a photo whose subject is really Central Oakland along Forbes and Fifth Avenue, and not directly related to the article content, which is the Cathedral of Learning itself.

Schenley Farms Historic District: very little of the photo shows any of the national historic district, which encompasses the local Oakland Civic District and Schenley Farms District, the vast majority of both lie to the East and north of your frame of reference. At the size you had inserted the photo into the article, only the Schenley Apartments (Quadrangle) can be clearly seen. The far-west edge of the historic district, primarily along University Place, along with Allen Hall on O'Hara, are the only other historic buildings that can be seen, and at the angle and displayed size, these structures are not easily or clearly identifiable by description in the caption. Further, analysis of your photo shows that only 15.4% of your image contains buildings and grounds considered to be in the Schenley Farms Historic District. In addition, out of the approximately 31 contributing properties to the Oakland Civic District portion of the historic district, Schenley Apartments (Quad) counting as one structure, only 7 buildings can be seen, with small fragments of three others. That is less than a third of just the Oakland Civic District portion of the Historic District by number of contributing properties, and does not include the actual Schenley Farms District portion. It obvious then that your photo, with its content and at the size and prominence which you had it displayed, is out of scope and context for the Schenley Farms article. Primarily, the view is of Central Oakland, and its inclusion in the Oakland article would be more relevant.

Your photos are valuable, but in the future please consider the size, scope, relevance, and prominence of the images you are inserting them into articles. It may also be helpful to review Layout, MOS:IMAGES, and WP:EW. BTW, you should also consider moving your photo to Commons, where it could be included with various photo galleries of both the university and the Cathedral of Learning. It also would provide the ability to label the buildings with mouse rollovers thus avoiding the necessity for labeling directly on the photograph. CrazyPaco (talk) 19:27, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Rally to Restore Sanity
Great picture of the rally! -- Mahanga (Talk) 00:17, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Love the picture. The vantage point is very close to where I was in the rally (we were to the right of your position, on the gravel walkway which borders the lawn).. Wondering if you might have other pics which might show me in them. Pfurrie (talk) 02:15, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

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 * Dear Something Original - it seems that your photo of the Stone of Hope, along with a number of mine, are being challenged on the basis of the fact that the sculpture is copyrighted and the sculptor is alive. I am surprised, because this is a national memorial--but I checked with the wikimedia image administrator that I normally go to for advice, and he agrees these photos cannot be used.  However, I have just found and uploaded four official U.S. government photos of the sculpture (from www.nps.gov website) and am replacing your photo and my photos with those.  If you disagree with my decision (although I think the deletion of our photos is a fait accompli) please go ahead and restore your photo.  It is a beautiful photo -- but I think this is a losing battle for both of us. NearTheZoo (talk) 19:33, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

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 * I feel as though Wikipedia is quickly becoming pathetic.--Something Original (talk) 18:08, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

More licences added
Images - File:USCAE Bay Model - San Francisco Bay Detail.jpg and File:USCAE Bay Model - San Pablo Bay Panorama.jpg needed an extra license to cover the 3D artwork (there is NO freedom of panorama for modern 3D works in the USA), Since they are US army, it's not a problem, and I picked PD-USGov-Military-Army-USACE from ICT/ALL for you.  Ron h jones (Talk) 00:03, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

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Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument
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