Penny Richards

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Penny Richards!

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Caroline Gardner Bartlett

hi, love the upload of this news photo. however, note the custom photo template (that i added) which uses the metadata from Library of Congress. also better to go to loc website than flickr, where higher resolution is available (link at flickr). Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 03:19, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

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✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 11:18, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Your query on my talk page

Hi sir as per your request I have checked your image again just to brief you about source u must provide the exact link where the image is found. U have provided a link that reaches to the book and not the image for such reason I have tagged it. Just provide Commons the exact source and just give me the confirmation I'll be there to remove the tag. Hope u don't have any more query if so just hit me back on my talkpage or ping me I'll be there to assist --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 16:16, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

@Tiven2240: , I have given a link to the exact page where the image is. I'm not sure what more I can give. I've uploaded over 100 photos from old magazines and newspapers on Google Books, always using the same format, and never run into this question before. Here's the link again, bare this time, in case that helps.

https://books.google.com/books?id=8tVKAQAAMAAJ&dq=Una%20Abell-Brinker&pg=PA204#v=onepage -Penny Richards (talk) 16:25, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Sir I believe it inappropriate so I tagged it I request you consult an administrator if he consults to remove I'll do it --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 16:37, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

@Tiven2240: , respectfully, it doesn't matter what you believe, it matters whether I have provided all the information required. I have done so. I will contact an administrator now. - Penny Richards (talk) 16:40, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

@Tiven2240: , Penny has provided a source. It's a waste of time to tag properly sourced files for some minor hassle. Try using the full word "you" not "u" for additional respect points. Yes it is great to have a direct link to every image, but it's obvious in this case that the image is from the book. And FYI - this one really annoys me - not all administrators are male, so "if he consults to remove" is sexist, patronizing and rude. I'd suggest you re-read the guidelines on COM:AGF. Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:12, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

@Ellin Beltz: thanks for the same I'll take note of it --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 17:17, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

File:StellaAslingFeb1904.tif

File:StellaAslingFeb1904.tif has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Hiddenhauser (talk) 19:41, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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• File:EleanorSouray1907.tif

Yours sincerely, Gestumblindi (talk) 21:42, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Fanny Baker

Hi! You recently uploaded this file to Commons. Do you think that could be the portrait of Fanny Baker Ames? If so, it could be used in the article and linked to the Wikidata item. But I have not been able to clearly establish that it is the same person, maybe you can find out better. Thank you!--Señoritaleona (talk) 17:46, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi! I don't think it's the same person. I wanted to write up an article about this Fanny Baker but the sources were slim. Penny Richards (talk) 17:58, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:JennieQuigley1914.png

Copyright status: File:JennieQuigley1914.png

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No required license templates were detected at this file page. Please correct it, or if you have any questions please check my FAQ or contact me on my talk page. Yours sincerely, Jarekt (talk) 11:48, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks @Jarekt: you're right, it's missing the link. File is from History of Lady Washington Chapter, No. 28, O.E.S. Chicago (1914): 21. So it's PD because it was published in the United States before 1923. Not sure why this didn't get included in original upload, and it's not immediately clear to me how to fix it. I'll work on it. Penny Richards (talk) 17:09, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

I think I fixed it now, @Jarekt: . Penny Richards (talk) 17:18, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

File types and captions

Hello! Thanks for the multitude of images you have submitted. I notice the majority of scanned files you upload are in PNG (.png) format. This makes it a little more difficult to modify/retouch the images if need be (e.g. convert from blue/sepia to B/W, reduce Moiré effect, touch up blemishes, etc.), especially since most are probably stored as .jpgs online already, and common image editing programs like Photoshop or GIMP don't handle PNGs as well. Commons:File types suggests "if the original file is in JPEG, it generally makes no sense to convert it to PNG". While PNG does seem to be preferred due to its losslessness, for low-quality scans I think the versatility of JPGs might be the better option. But if you have a good reason for choosing PNGs, don't change on my account!

Secondly, I notice that many of your historic images come from Google Books. From my experience I've found that higher quality scans of the same publication can often be found on Internet Archive (compare Google versus Archive). In addition Internet Archive often has multiple copies of scanned books from different libraries, allowing for the best version to be selected, and often full color versus Google's black & white scans.

Lastly, it is largely unnecessary, and sometimes unhelpful, to include original text captions or borders in images. The captions won't be able to be read by machines or web searches anyway, and when the images are used in Wikipedia or other projects, the embedded captions may be redundant, distracting, or irrelevant. A "clean" image striped of captions and borders is more versatile: it can be used in any language (including those with non-Latin alphabets), and novel contexts, allowing for custom captions and descriptions. To be preserved and machine searchable, original captions can be typed into the file descriptions if needed. Anyways, just wanted to give you some things to think about. All the best! --Animalparty (talk) 03:27, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks! Some of that I was wondering about, some of it I never thought about and most of it I can change without much hassle. And I will try. I think my "grab" application does .png files as default--I'll check if I can fix that, I think it used to do .tiff and then suddenly changed, so it must be changeable. I agree that Internet Archive has nicer images, but sometimes it's a little clunkier for me to use; not sure why. I often keep the captions when I capture images for my own purposes, so I'm absolutely sure that the face matches the name--but I can remove them for Commons, no trouble. I appreciate the ideas and will work on improving how I contribute. Penny Richards (talk) 03:38, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

ShelomithVincent1922

Okay, just so I don't forget (and so you know I'm trying), I just uploaded an image that addresses the issues you raise. My latest upload (ShelomithVincent1922) is a jpg, it's from Internet Archive, it doesn't have a border or caption. Not so difficult, can definitely try to do all of this in future. Penny Richards (talk) 04:08, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Just an observation: You mentioned your "grab" app uses .png by default: in general, it's best to upload the original file, if possible, rather than a screenshot of the photo. The original file may be larger than what's displayed on screen, and often has valuable metadata associated with it. For instance, File:JFK with 1963 Federal Woman's Award winners.png is only 416 × 276 resolution, with none of the original EXIF metadata. However, right-clicking and saving the image from the source yields a 984 x 1000 .jpg image with embedded metadata (photographer, date of negative digitization, etc.). While right-clicking an image directly sometimes allows highest resolution download, it may also just be a thumbnail: e.g. in this source, right-clicking downloads only a 297 x 240 thumbnail, but the associated download menu allows download of a high resolution 2824 x 2282 image. Cheers! --Animalparty (talk) 18:05, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

That makes sense, I'll try it. I suspect it won't work with Newspapers.com or Google Books, which are my usual sources of images), but when it does work, I'll try to do it. Penny Richards (talk) 18:14, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for restoring proper photographer's credits following actions of various sockpuppets. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 04:39, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

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Yours sincerely, Rosenzweig τ 20:40, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

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• File:EthelHansa1917b.png

Yours sincerely, Rosenzweig τ 14:43, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

No, that sounds reasonable, no objections. Penny Richards (talk) 15:54, 6 January 2023 (UTC)