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W. H. Davies image

Many thanks for the excellent 1913 image of Davies by Coburn - I had run out of luck in the UK. What a coincidence - I had only recently requested permission from NYPL by email, haha. A great improvement to the article. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:44, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

What a beautiful image of Ina Coolbrith!

Thank you for adding the image of Ina Coolbrith as a youngster. Marvelous! I wonder, though, how you know when this image was published. What publication showed it? When? Otherwise, it could have been in private hands until digitized by the Online Archive of California, in which case it is not public domain. I have been slowly prepping this article for WP:GAN, and all the images must be in order. Thanks again for that moody and beautiful image! Binksternet (talk) 23:18, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Dickens image

Hi Scewing, can you say where you got File:Dickens Gurney head.jpg from exactly? Cheers, SlimVirgin ^{TALK contribs} 00:19, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. SlimVirgin ^{TALK contribs} 00:37, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Engineer signature

Hi, re {{infobox engineer}}; I'm puzzled why you did it this way:

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instead of:

|label22=Signature

|data22= {{#if:{{{signature|}}}|[[File:{{{signature}}}|128px|alt={{{signature_alt|}}}]]}}

See John Hancock for an example of how signatures generally appear in infoboxes. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:45, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

See User:Redrose64/Sandbox6 - yours above, mine below. BTW I watch all talk pages where I leave a question/comment, so you can reply here; I find that it's best to keep a thread all in one place. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:58, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

William Keith

Thanks for your additions! I hope to see some William Keith paintings at St. Mary's College in a few months, and look forward to expanding the article then. Jim Heaphy (talk) 04:20, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! You'll have to ask St. Mary's College to digitize some of their paintings so they can share them on Wikipedia... Scewing (talk) 18:40, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Amazing Daguerreotype

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		Every time I chase vandals away from the Susan B. Anthony article, I say to myself, "wow, what a beautiful photograph!" Thank you so much for finding and uploading it. Binksternet (talk) 17:26, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

...Still true! So beautiful. Binksternet (talk) 03:24, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

thanks! currently up for COM:FPC feel free to vote Scewing (talk) 03:33, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks !

		The Modest Barnstar
		For adding the excellent new photo and infobox to William H. Prescott, I hereby award you this barnstar. It's improved the article to no end. Claritas (talk) 17:37, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Mary Engle Pennington

Thanks for starting the Mary Engle Pennington article. I'm intending to clean it up a bit, and was wondering if there are other articles you started based on material from the 1914-1915 edition of 'Woman's who's who of America'. Carcharoth (talk) 13:27, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi. :) Related to the above, I notice that you have created at least one other article using public domain text. That's not at all a problem, but I did want to let you know that the community consensus on importing public domain text is that we have to explicitly note that content is copied. This is addressed specifically at Wikipedia:PLAGIARISM#Public domain sources). (I'm certainly not suggesting you have plagiarized here; you've noted your sources scrupulously. It's just that the current Wikipedia approach is that citing your source is not quite enough to mark that some or all of the article's content may be public domain. This can be important in part to avoid inadvertent copyfraud. Wikipedia's content is copyrighted, and we can't claim new copyright on public domain text.)

If copying a small amount into a larger work, block quotes work well, but when establishing an article as this one and Clement Finley, the attribution template is probably the best approach. We have a whole lot of these at Category:Attribution templates. I've gone ahead and added templates to Clement Finley and Mary Engle Pennington. If there are other articles into which you've imported content, please pick whichever template seems best. And please let me know if you have any questions about the process. I'll be watching your talk page for a time, as I typically keep conversations in one place. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:40, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Request

Is there any chance that you could find a half-decent daguerreotype of James K. Polk, or Richard Mentor Johnson? I've also been searching for John L. Helm with no luck. If you could help with any of these, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Connormah^talk 17:45, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Look here for an old Polk, Collection 784 for JLH, and maybe request a high resolution copy of this RMJ engraving. Good Luck!

Any others for Polk? Just wondering if there's anything else out there other than what we already have in his Commons category already. Also, for JLH, I've email the Filson, but I've received no reply. Perhaps you could search in your usual sources for these types of photos (I've tried everything, all with no luck), with Johnson and al george M. Dallas (another I've had trouble with) also? Thanks. Connormah^talk 04:37, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Images

You upload very nice pictures you should think of nominating a few on English Wikipedia. Spongie555 (talk) 22:12, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Hawthorne

Just wanted to say "excellent work" on your updated version of the main image at Nathaniel Hawthorne. Well done. --Midnightdreary (talk) 15:39, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Claude Bernard

Hi Scewing, any chance you could locate a decent portrait of Claude Bernard, Amedeo Avogadro or Carl Gauss? Many thanks in advance. Connormah (talk) 23:13, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

For Bernard, check 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. You can click twice to get full resolutions like this. For Gauss, there's some images here. Couldn't find anything for Avogadro. Hope this helps. Scewing (talk) 22:25, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch, much appreciated! Connormah (talk) 21:48, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the bug, but could you also maybe look for a photographic portrait of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac if possible (if they even exist)? Thanks. Connormah (talk) 22:14, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't think any photographic images of Gay-Lussac exist, but there's a few addional engravings here and here. Sorry! Scewing (talk) 23:06, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

No problem - I guess the same would go for Gauss? Connormah (talk) 23:33, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

This image is a photogravure, but I don't know if the original is artwork or a photograph... Scewing (talk) 23:46, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi Scewing. Just happened upon your page again and saw this thread. The image of John Gadbury at the site you have linked [1] seems far superior to the one currently used in his article. Is it freely available for use? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:25, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. So, I just copy ot across into Commons? Martinevans123 (talk) 15:36, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for bugging you again, but could you also do a search for photographic James Prescott Joule, William Murdoch, Jean-Baptiste Biot and John Dalton if they do exist? Thanks again. Connormah (talk) 21:28, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

@Martinevans123, it should in the public domain because of it's age, so you should be safe, but I am in no means a copyright expert. Connormah (talk) 21:29, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

William Murdoch died before the first portrait photograph was taken in November 1839, but I found a decent photo of Biot, and I uploaded 14 other new or larger/improved images. Hope this helps. Scewing (talk) 06:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks. Connormah (talk) 13:33, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to ask something again, but I've been looking for quite some time for a photographic portrait that is useable of Theodore Dwight Woolsey - any chance you can lend a hand? Connormah (talk) 04:13, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Well, you can have one for $60!... I'll look around for something Scewing (talk) 04:57, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

RE: Unknown French General

Interesting one, the name seems to be completely wrong given the utter lack of any google hits. The number of medals and their type suggests there would be mentions of him somewhere. The ones I can identify and was hoping to tie together to one person are commandeur of the Légion d'honneur (the front medal around his neck), the Crimea Medal (British medal with clasps second from the right of image), the British Order of the Bath (large rectangular medal second from left on ribbon bar). It all suggests he was prominent in the Second French Empire, not one of my areas of expertise I'm afraid. It has me intrigued so I will keep trying to identify some of the other ones... Regards, Woody (talk) 17:39, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

I can add that he has served in the Imperial Guard of either Napoleon I or III, the Aiguillette on his right shoulder was only worn by present or ex members of the Imperial Guard at this time. Carl Logan (talk) 19:37, 11 October 2010 (UTC)