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Unspecified source/license for File:ColoradoDesertRegion.jpg
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File source problem with File:ColoradoDesertRegionOfCA.jpg
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...sorry, I'm not sure how to do what you requested. I obtained the base satellite image from a NASA web site and added in the names and outline of the larger Salton Sea myself. So it's a government photo modified by me.

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...sorry but I'm not sure exactly how to do what you requested. I think I corrected the issue.

I obtained the base satellite image from a NASA web site and added in the names and outline of the larger Salton Sea myself. So it's a government photo modified by me. I looked at another similarly licensed image and copied the appropriate 'code', modifying the copyright information as necessary. Hopefully that fixes it. If not, may I request you modify it to reflect my statement above that it is a NASA image from circa 1970 that I modified. Thank you. Terrawide (talk) 17:50, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Do you have a link to that NASA web site? --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:37, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Here are two links.

NASA.gov Web Site: https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-36/html/iss036e011034.html ...also found it on WikiCommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISS-36_Salton_Trough.jpg

I made a mistake on the date. I have another similar NASA picture from the 1970s, but it looks like I picked the 2013 picture from the international space station as my base image. I thought I had used the early photo. Oh, well. Terrawide (talk) 21:31, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me, thanks for helping to fix the issue! I've moved the file to Wikimedia Commons (c:File:ColoradoDesertRegionOfCA.jpg because it's easier to do the derivative work attribution properly there. Let me know if you've got any questions. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 01:31, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

...no, thank you for making all the changes and additions to the image page. I should have included that from the beginning. Sorry. Terrawide (talk) 01:44, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

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Charles Robinson Rockwell, WP:GLOBAL
I have rewritten (though not completely reverted) the article on Mr. Rockwood, in acknowledgment of your concerns about avoiding the assumption that all readers would know where a particular geographic location is, and that "America" would apply to South America, Central America and North America. And, like the editor above, I appreciate that you created a Wikipedia article about a person whom most of us had not heard of before, but who made remarkable achievements in bringing water to formerly desert areas. That said, there are less awkward ways of doing this than to refer to every place name with a full tag (such as "Los Angeles, California, USA") by establishing that point at the outset rather than with a label. Going to the example that you raised concerning Kenya, it would be awkward to write that Jomo Kenyatta "went from Nairobi, Kenya, to Nakuru, Kenya, stopping in Naivasha, Kenya, and Gilgil, Kenya". Try reading your version out loud and you will see that it interrupts a very good article about Rockwell when telling the story. I appreciate your concerns, and respect them by rephrasing the edits. There's no such thing as a perfect writer; but good writers become better writers as they write more, and Wikipedia is a good way to sharpen your writing skills. Mandsford 20:52, 24 September 2021 (UTC)