User talk:Jackehammond

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Jackehammond!

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High Contrast (talk) 09:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

"United States Army PAO Photo" is no sufficient source. Please specify the source as you give the complete URL. Thanks in advance. --High Contrast (talk) 09:01, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

So, if you do not have this file from the internet. Where is it from? Did you scan it from somewhere? --High Contrast (talk) 09:25, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

I scanned it from a b/w sent me by the US Army for an article about the AT4. The photo was sent me in 1983 and was taken in 1981. In those days, there was no internet with photos. The first graphic file protocol was not available till the late 1980s!! So contractors and the Defense Department PAO (Public Affairs Officers) sent you photos (usually black and whites as they were cheaper) and sometimes color photos and miracles of miracles color slides every now and then. The Viper was a disaster with a lot of public discussion in the press and Congress. The US Army after 1983 was not to happy about holding on to photos of it. But I had one in my old files that I hunted four hours to find. And it is US government. Check this photo from Red Stone Arsenal of the Viper in carry mode with US Army soldier (source Redstone Arsenal). Look at that soldiers face and the one I got back in 1983 that I scanned and posted. I have hundreds of these photos that poor draftees took who knew how to handle a camera. The US Army basically picked a few and sent the negatives of the rest to the US government archives where you have to go in person and find. I was just happy as all heck get out when I found that photo and posted it. It was rare as all heck get out. It all started with the M72 LAW article[1] and it mentioned that the FGR-17 VIPER was suppose to replace it. And then the AT[2] which did replace the M72 LAW. But they had no article on the Viper to link to. So I dug out all my files and old notes I had and got up and article. When I found that old US Army photo it was "icing on the cake." Now this, which I do not consider fair. I also today posted another photo of the MILAN II antitank missile that I took in 1986 and I thought I was doing right by posting it to public domain with no restrictions, etc. Now it will probably get deleted! Note, the photo for the 57mm recoiless rifle. It comes from a non-US Government webpage, but it is accepted without challenge. I could easily just post a photo to Army Reconn where I am a moderator and then post it back to WP Commons with Army Reconn as the source and as a US government photo. But instead I do the right thing, and I get a delete notice two weeks

later!!!!?????!!!--Jackehammond (talk) 11:01, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

The image won't be deleted if the source is better: What you were writing above sounds good. Give this information on the imagepage. By the way: what you were writing in the end about "Army Reconn" and "post it back to WP Commons" won't work either. Army recognition is not considered as a valid US-Gov source; only primary sources are accepted on Commons. That's why the image we discuss about is problematic.
All in all, I removed the tag and you give a complete source description on the file page, such like this: author, title, year, publisher. --High Contrast (talk) 11:21, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

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Thank You! I get so upset over the problems that idiot from Tennessee caused a few years back that makes WP be a lot more careful over copyright issues to the point that a lot of good photos can't be posted. I have a ton of b/w that the US military sent me. All they required if I used the photos was to state either "US Army" or "Department of Defense". That was it. Some photos I have, have a print on the back that tells what the photo is about, date and even the soldier or sailor that took it. If I post any of those photos, I will post that with the source, and if need be I can scan the back of the photo with the information. But I still think we need to go find that one idiot that posted that false WP bio article and take him back to the wood shed. The reason I am helping WP is that a lot of information will be lost, about items like the Viper if articles about it and the photos I have along with other old times are not posted in articles. A lot of this stuff, the US Department of Defense would like to see go down the Orwell "memory hole". But the problem is, that if it is lost, it will be replaced with half-truths and myths like a lot of history. I apologize also for the attitude. But it was the "perfect storm." I found a photo "I had taken" of an antitank missile and had just posted it about two hours before I got your notice. Up until then I was sort of on a Cloud-9 of at last posting my own photos (that I took) to WP Commons. I know we are not suppose to have egos when we do WP articles, but anyone who says they don't, isn't lying, they are just massaging the truth. And that message coming so fast aft er my first posting of my own photo was sort of like a guy getting married and an hour after the ceremony some comes in and announces the bride is already married to him. <GRIN><GRIN> --Jackehammond (talk) 12:09, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Jackehammond!

Tip: Add categories to your files

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Better source request for Image:1st TOW concept mockup.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:1st TOW concept mockup.jpg. You provided a source, but it is difficult for other users to examine the copyright status of the image because the source is incomplete. Please consider clarifying the exact source so that the copyright status may be checked more easily. It is best to specify the exact web page where you found the image, rather than only giving the source domain or the URL of the image file itself. Please update the image description with a URL that will be more helpful to other users in determining the copyright status.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source in a complete manner. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. If you have any questions please ask them at the help desk or me at my talkpage. Thank you. High Contrast (talk) 12:49, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Here, I have corrected the source. Like this it is done correctly. Please always state your sources like this. Thanks. --High Contrast (talk) 17:59, 21 April 2010 (UTC)