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Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United States edit

Dear Wingerham52,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United States. The images you uploaded will help illustrate Wikipedia articles on historic sites in the United States. We are delighted to share the winning images and our top 10 finalists with you.

Click here to read our press release and view the winning submissions »

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Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013! Please help with this survey.

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In case you haven't filled in the questionnaire yet, you can still do so during the next 7 days.

And by the way: the winning pictures of this year's international contest have been announced. Enjoy!

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Copyright status: File:Grand Ledge Clay Products.jpg edit

Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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Yours sincerely, Green Giant (talk) 23:30, 10 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

File:Grand Ledge Clay Products.jpg edit

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Commons:Photo challenge/2015 - June - Collections, Collecting and Collectables/Winners edit

Latest comment: 8 years ago3 comments1 person in discussion

	Photo Challenge Winner
	Congratulations! Your picture License Plate Collection.jpg won the 1st place in the Photo Challenge Collections, Collecting and Collectables, in June 2015. You can find the results of the challenge here.

Chosing next month's theme (September) edit

Hello Wingerham52,
we decided some months ago to invite the challenge winners to help us decide the themes for the next month needing themes - in this case September.
If you are ready to help, I just started the section September themes on commons talk:Photo challenge, where you can post your suggestion / decide which of the posted suggestions (e.g. from the other winner or me) you like best. If you are looking for ideas, here's a list of suggestions that are waiting to be chosen, but you are welcome to propose another theme.
Best wishes, --Anna reg (talk) 07:53, 25 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hello Wingerham52,

I answered on my talk page. --Anna reg (talk) 06:25, 27 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hello Wingerham52,

I posted your suggestions insects and fossils on the Photo challenge talk page, where we are discussing next month's themes. If you'd like to give some further input, it would be great if you could do that today or tomorrow, as I'd really like to have the themes ready tomorrow evening - giving us time to organise the page creation and the translations.

Best wishes, --Anna reg (talk) 11:44, 28 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Categories and sub-categories edit

Latest comment: 8 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Category:Michigan -> Category:History of Michigan -> Category:History museums in Michigan -> Category:Michigan Heritage Park . I made Category:Michigan Heritage Park for your pictures. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 10:54, 27 August 2015 (UTC)Reply
I'll help you on learning how to Categorize your pictures.
Here are your uploads.
Look at the very bottom of File:St. John's Episcopal Church - Mt. Pleasant.jpg and you will see categories that someone else put in for you. This is a typical example how all your pictures should be placed into correct categories - with at least 1 category for each picture. More categories even better.
Here are my uploads. Look at the bottom of any of my pictures to get an idea how pictures should be categorized.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:42, 27 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Michigan cathedrals edit

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi. I see you have uploaded several photos of churches, mostly historic, in Michigan. I have been working to get photos of the Catholic cathedrals in the US. Among others, we need St. Mary, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral in Gaylord and the Cathedral of Saint Augustine in Kalamazoo. If you are near those places in the near future, could you photograph them and upload the pictures? I realize you may not live near them, and I realize they are not near each other to begin with, but if you are near to them at any point I would appreciate your help. Thank you for considering this request. Farragutful (talk) 01:07, 19 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

that's not ivy edit

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello Wingerham52,
the photos you uploaded to the photo challenge "Windows" do not show ivy, but a plant called "Virginia creeper" (Parthenocissus quinquefolia). Best regards from Germany and good luck for the challenge! --Maimaid (talk) 09:46, 4 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Commons:Photo challenge/2015 - November - Windows/Winners edit

	Photo Challenge – Third Place
	Congratulations! Your picture 1870 Shop Window.jpg won the 3rd place in the Photo Challenge Windows, in November 2015. You can find the results of the challenge here.

Commons:Photo challenge/2015 - December - Red and white/Winners edit

	Photo Challenge – Second Place
	Congratulations! Your picture Storm Tossed Waves.jpg won the 2nd place in the Photo Challenge Red and white, in December 2015. You can find the results of the challenge here.

File:Bishop Baraga.jpg edit

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

File:Bishop Baraga.jpg 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.

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Copyright status: File:St. Mary-Marne.jpg edit

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Copyright status: File:St. Mary-Marne.jpg

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File:Richard E. Martin House.jpg edit

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Thanks for all photos you upload to the Commons. Unfortunately, this does not appear to be the Richard E. Martin House. Based on what I could see on Google maps, and on the house's National Register of Historic Places nomination form, the Martin the house is next door on the right. It might also be hidden behind trees; it's difficult to tell on Google Maps. I have removed the image from the pages you posted it on. If you are in the area you might want to check this out, and if I am correct, upload a new photo in this one's place. Sadly, I have had to do the same on more than one occasion. The nomination does include photos of the exterior. Thanks for your attention to this matter. Farragutful (talk) 17:01, 15 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

You are probably correct on this. The GPS Coordinates are in between the two houses. The mailbox had the correct address on it. I did go up that drive for a better perspective on the picture I took, but I didn't think there was another house up there. I have made another error on a picture. Can you delete this one also? It would be called, Dozier Farm and it is in Davidson County. I did not post it, it would be on my commons uploads. What does it take for me to be able to remove my own photos, or edit the name?

Wingerham52 (talk) 16:48, 18 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

While I am thinking about it, there is another photo error. If you go Michigan's historic page and go to Chippewa County, look at Kinross Township Hall and school. Someone posted a picture of a house that was just built a year or so ago. This is the site of the Historic place, but it was torn down. You can actually see the historic building on Google Maps Street view. I was up there looking for the building and it was already gone. This is the only error I have found in Michigan.

199.195.15.43 04:40, 19 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

More house photos edit

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I'm sorry to have to bring this up, but I have found a few more problems with some of the house photos you have taken in Tennessee.

File:Samuel F. Glass House.jpg: this should be a two-story, brick, Italianate house based on its NRHP nomination form.

File:Thomas Holt House.jpg: appears to be Homestead Manor based on its NRHP nomination form.

File:William Steele House.jpg: appears to be the James Webb House based on its NRHP nomination form.

File:Thomas Chute House.jpg: I'm not sure what this is. There is a Thomas Shute House, but as you can see, it looks different, it's spelled differently, and it already has a photo.

Respectfully, Farragutful (talk) 23:59, 24 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Image Use Notice edit

Latest comment: 19 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I don't know if you track the usage or file your own copyrights on the images you upload. I am dealing with a copyright dispute with a company that took my images off, wikicommons and did not comply with the terms of attribution.

While doing an audit of other images that were used without proper attribution, I found your images File:Cherry Bowl-Honor, MI.jpg which was published by you under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. It was published on https://www.exploremichigan.travel/5-of-michigans-best-drive-in-movie-theaters/ without any attribution to you or with the wiki project.

Just an FYI. Jsgoodrich (talk) 23:10, 4 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

I have around 4,000 photos on Wikipedia. The majority of them are historic places, both national and in Michigan. Over time, I have found many of my images published on many different platforms, from other wikis, travel brochures and even in newspapers. And if you search a specific place in Google Images that I have photographed, it generally is the first image they show. And anytime they may show an attribute, it is for Wikipedia. I don't believe Wikipedia requires any attribution. You are not allowed to have copyright images on Wikipedia. And everything on this platform is copyright free and anyone, anywhere can use the content. When you upload a photo, you have to attest it is copyright free and of your own work. If you feel the need for having a copyright image, Wikipedia is not the platform. There are other web sites for selling copyright stock photography. You could earn a whopping $50 a month. I do this because it is fun hunting down these places, and I don't have to gut it. Wingerham52 (talk) 18:06, 5 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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