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Prosfilaes (talk) 05:33, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Samuel Insull photo & TIME cover[edit]

Thanks for the restoration work on the NPS copy -- and the detective work re its use on the cover of TIME. Good work! Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 00:06, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Ww2censor (talk) 00:01, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Yann (talk) 21:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Yann (talk) 21:39, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category change[edit]

Happy new year ! Do you know this tool ? Cheers, — Racconish ☎ 07:22, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I certainly didn't until now! I'll figure out how to use that — thanks a ton. I can't believe how many files you've created for these films, it's wonderful. — WFinch (talk) 14:51, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Vœux[edit]

En route pour l'aventure !

Bonne année WFinch !

Je te souhaite de belles découvertes
En agréable compagnie !
Au plaisir de te croiser,
Cordialement,
— Racconish ☎ 12:26, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Seattle Times[edit]

Can you explain why you removed Category:Seattle Times from File:Seattle Daily Times - big press - 1900.jpg and various other related files? Your summary gives no explanation, just says you are removing it with HotCat. - Jmabel ! talk 05:52, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there — I removed it from files categorized under Category:Seattle and the Orient because that category is already a subcategory of Category:Seattle Times. — WFinch (talk) 14:50, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ah; I'll revert my edits of the files specific to the staff and operation of the Seattle Times newspaper. — WFinch (talk) 15:19, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Yes, it's an odd case where the fact that they published the book puts them somewhere up the hierarchy, but these photos are directly about them, and no one would normally think to go down that branch without a more direct inclusion. Thanks. - Jmabel ! talk 16:30, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Lobby cards[edit]

I can leave them as is-thought what was important was that they aren't posters but lobby cards. We hope (talk) 16:17, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Okay good, thanks — I'll make a note to circle back to the lobby cards and create subcategories by year. — WFinch (talk) 16:41, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Punch Almanack[edit]

Not sure why you recognize that the "Punch Almanack for 1885" was likely published in 1884 for File:1885 Punch three-volume-novel-parody Priestman-Atkinson.png‎, but refuse to recognize that the "Punch's Almanack for 1855" was likely published in 1854 for File:1855-daguerrotype-familyphoto-joke-Punch.gif. If you have specific information on the publication dates of those two volumes, that's fine; but if you don't, then the File:1855-daguerrotype-familyphoto-joke-Punch.gif edits are problematic. Churchh (talk) 08:39, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi there. Punch Volume 28 is dated 1855, so that's why I changed the date from 1854 when I found the illustration via HathiTrust. But I'm sure you're correct: in the bound volume, the Punch Almanack precedes the first issue of Volume 28 (January 5, 1855). I've changed the relevant categories from 1855 to 1854. — WFinch (talk) 15:16, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

PD-text[edit]

FYI, PD-text does not apply to 3D objects.[1] Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 02:54, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, and thanks for doing the cleanup of the file. — WFinch (talk) 12:56, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notification about possible deletion[edit]

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Yours sincerely, - Alexis Jazz 21:37, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Farm Security Administration by US state categorization[edit]

Hello Walter,
by checking my watchlist I have noticed that you have started creating subcategories of Category:Farm Security Administration and are sorting in images now. I'm sure that you do a good job in general and as a result are helping to push this project forward (as far as I can tell by some of your edits which appeared on my watchlist in the past) but I do doubt the usefulness and moreover the practicability of this category tree which you are creating here. Due to the fact that most of the photographs don't show the work of the Farm Security Administration itself but instead this collection mostly is a huge photo documentary series comprising of many different aspects of people's everyday life I doubt the adequacy of listing these pictures in a category labeled "Farm Security Administration" at all. I've run into a few pictures showing some FSA employees or buildings. In my opinion I would only list these ones in the FSA category.

I'm quite sure that you are aware that we have a lot more images. Category:PD US FSA/OWI lists some 9500 images because they have the {{PD-USGov-FSA}} so they are either FSA or Office of War information photographs. (I don't know who had the idea to mix them into one license template. Maybe this could be split up.) In addition we host quite some FSA images which are licensed as PD-USGov and therefore not listed into this category. I'm not sure If you are going to sort these presumably 15000 images, will you? I'm just telling you because I think you should know, that there is a pretty large-scale development project going on to improve the usability on Commons by developing very powerful features which will eventually make many of the intersection categories obsolete. This project is called Commons:Structured data. In the meantime performing an advanced search may be sufficient despite the fact that the current solution is not implemented in a user friendly way. --Zaccarias (talk) 20:12, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. My objective is to make it easy to understand the scope and impact of the New Deal in concrete terms; see Category:New Deal by U.S. state. Documentary photographs of everyday life are of considerable interest. But I'm not planning to categorize FSA images beyond those that are presently in Category:Farm Security Administration. I'm happy to hear that a project is under way to organize images that are in such massive categories. — WFinch (talk) 20:43, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your immediate reply. Thinking of my own categorization work in the past with many hours performing tedious tasks I just wanted to tell you this. (Not everybody has to waste as much time on Commons working in a complicated manner as I did.) I hope you're not annoyed by my suggestions. If you want to find images you can perform search inquiries like typing hastemplate:"PD-USGov-FSA" insource:"Oregon" just in case you don't allready know this. With a little tryout some tasks can be done much more efficient. With a precise search operation you get pretty specific results. Then you may perform a sorting of them using Cat-a-lot directly on the search results page. --Zaccarias (talk) 21:04, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the tip. I always seem to do things the hard way, but I'm done with that particular task now. Good luck with your efforts to make things easier to find here. — WFinch (talk) 21:57, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome. Thanks for the job you did here. Best regards. --Zaccarias (talk) 04:45, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Time 1942[edit]

Dear WFinch, please read the deletion request.--Maher27777 (talk) 13:36, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks—I did read the entry and added my comments that the category should be deleted. I see that the entry has been modified since, I'm not sure why. — WFinch (talk) 23:51, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion requests[edit]

Please contribute to deletion requests below:

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Frol Kozlov-TIME-1959.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Aleksandr Nesmeyanov-TIME-1958.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Anastas Mikoyan-TIME-1957.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Nikita Khrushchev-TIME-1957.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Nikita Khrushchev-TIME-1956.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Nikolai Bulganin-TIME-1955.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Georgy Zhukov-TIME-1955.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Nikita Khrushchev-TIME-1955.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Kliment Voroshilov-TIME-1934.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Joseph Stalin-TIME-1937.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Leon Trotsky-TIME-1937.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Konstantin Rokossovsky-TIME-1943.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Aleksandr Vasilevsky-TIME-1943.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Filipp Golikov-TIME-1943.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Vyacheslav Molotov-TIME-1940.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Semyon Timoshenko-TIME-1941.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Semyon Budyonny-TIME-1941.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Joseph Stalin-TIME-1941.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Boris Shaposhnikov-TIME-1942.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Maxim Litvinov-TIME-1942.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Dmitri Shostakovich-TIME-1942.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Semyon Timoshenko-TIME-1942.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Georgy Zhukov-TIME-1942.jpg--Maher27777 (talk) 11:42, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More files:

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Marshal Novikov-TIME-1944.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Nikolai Voronov-TIME-1944.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Vyacheslav Molotov-TIME-1943.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Joseph Stalin-TIME-1945.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Andrei Gromyko-TIME-1947.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Andrei Zhdanov-TIME-1946.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Karl Marx-TIME-1948.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Vyacheslav Molotov-TIME-1946.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Joseph Stalin-TIME-1940.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Joseph Stalin-TIME-1943.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Vasily Stalin-TIME-1951.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Joseph Stalin-TIME-1950.jpg
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Kremlin Courier-TIME-1951.jpg--Maher27777 (talk) 12:53, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for identifying all of those files. I've supported those deletion requests, and added one more: for File:Georgy Malenkov-TIME-1950.jpgWFinch (talk) 15:14, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Image without license[edit]

File:Nunnally-Johnson-1939.jpg[edit]

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The copyright tag was missing the closing brackets and it also contained a typo. It's corrected, now. Can I remove the tag, or will this be done otherwise? — WFinch (talk) 23:46, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I've removed the tag myself, and I hope that's okay. — WFinch (talk) 23:51, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dear WFinch..can you help me in saving this file?--Maher27777 (talk) 15:24, 22 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I believe User:Yann has resolved the question. I did prepare some comments but it was difficult to even find a place to put them since there was no deletion request. The source and copyright holder was Time and it was not renewed; and no separate copyright notice appears for the photograph, which would be required. — WFinch (talk) 16:14, 22 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Rosenzweig τ 18:56, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@WFinch: since you edited on that category I was wondering what the difference is with Category:Chapman & Hall books. I might have made a mistake but I am not too sure. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 15:03, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thanks for adding the category "Chapman & Hall" to the "Chapman & Hall books" category, so it's nested within that family. Chapman & Hall also published All the Year Round, a magazine; I spent a lot of time organizing those images by year, so perhaps there could be a parallel category for magazines, now. I think the distinction is that the main Category:Chapman & Hall might also contain categories for the people who founded and ran the company, images of the company buildings, and company logos. Fortunately, there's already a subcategory for books—and I'd put Our Cruise in the Claymore into that subcategory. That's my take, anyway. — WFinch (talk) 15:48, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@WFinch: ✓ Done, and thanks! Lotje (talk) 16:00, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@WFinch: could you take a look at the images? Looking at the clothes and little details, it seems like this and this file also date from 1986. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 16:11, 8 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I agree that those two images are almost certainly from the same sitting. I'd even categorized one of them as 1986, at first, but then I categorized them both as 1987 as dated by the creator/uploader. I do suspect they're from 1986, though, if all of those other photos are from 1986. — WFinch (talk) 16:30, 8 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Riverside Press[edit]

I found this category: Category:Books published by Riverside Press and Riverside Press printed books for the Houghton Mifflin Company who were the publishers. To my understanding, if you are a publisher and you don't have a printer, you don't have any books.

I am going to just move the stuff from that category into the original category, but in a nice way. If you don't mind.... --RaboKarbakian (talk) 19:42, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Here's is the notice...[edit]

I have set the books up by year by using the following syntax: [[Category:Riverside Press| year]] The year being YYYY with a space in front of it so they don't all go under "1" alphabetically.

Further, I am going to make categories for all of the djvu files that are there. I like the title page for wikidata and I think it looks very respectable in the Infoboxen.

So, the notice will show you where to argue with its deletion, and if you win, my contributions will show what files to put back. (I don't really like these notices).--RaboKarbakian (talk) 19:57, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]


RaboKarbakian (talk) 19:57, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Communication[edit]

Attempts have been made to communicate with you.

Is the failure mine?

I am working on a document from my state which has a list of books that were made available to our schools to fill their new libraries with. I think it is really cool. This "who is the publisher or not" stuff is just silliness. Many publishers appeared on that list.

All of these books also have images. Many have two sets of images. Some were (perhaps) stolen from England by those publishers. It is far more interesting to sort through them as they are than it is to have "problems" with doing that.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 00:04, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kate Wiggins died in 1856[edit]

That Kate Wiggins died in 1856 means that her books were probably first published before 1856. Subsequent versions of those books have been published after that.

That first publication probably had different images. Maybe no images.

Your Kate Wiggins texts category has an audio version in it.

For a positive exercise in categorization, try starting with Kate Wiggins works. Separate the audio from the texts. Try to put the book into the year it was published. Try to find out when the book was first published for the main category.

Are you helping s:User:Akme? If so. How are you helping?--RaboKarbakian (talk) 02:02, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what the 'thank you' is for. It is easier and more accepted for you to revert your own edits. Also, quite possibly, you have messed things up elsewhere.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 20:46, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Evelyn Nesbit in 1913[edit]

I really doubt that File:Evelyn Nesbit Thaw by Bain News Service, 1913.jpg is a photograph of her in 1913. I think it's probably from around 1901–1902. She looked rather different by 1913. Perhaps the Bain News Service published it in 1913, but I'm pretty sure that is not the date of the photo. BarrelProof (talk) 18:34, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes—I've removed the year from the category. — WFinch (talk) 18:37, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It's a stunning picture – even if neglecting Nesbit herself, the shoes are amazing. BarrelProof (talk) 01:42, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It sure is. After replying to your message I did a search through 1913 newspapers using the Library of Congress's "Chronicling America", hoping to find it published via Bain News Service. It would be great to identify the year the photo was taken and credit the photographer ... That search came up empty, though. But you never know, the information might turn up someday. — WFinch (talk) 02:58, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:14, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category removal[edit]

What is the reason for this category removal? It seems relevant and not duplicated as far as I can see. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 04:44, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for catching that and letting me know. I've created a category for that file and others, and categorized it under "World War I homefront in the United States". That's a crowded category that I've been giving some attention, but I shouldn't have just removed it from that poster file without creating a subcategory. — WFinch (talk) 13:07, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You put this in a category related to Washington state. Photos say the funeral was at Arlington National Cemetery. Am I missing something, or was this just an error? - Jmabel ! talk 02:49, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Boy, that is a confusing one. It seemed like Arlington National Cemetery to me until I read the caption on this file: "U.S. Sailors salute Chief Navy Counselor Billy Spillers as his coffin is lowered into the ground during his funeral at Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Wash., April 16, 2014. Spillers and three of his children died in a March 22, 2014, mudslide that struck his home and others in Oso, Wash., a rural community 55 miles northeast of Seattle." Spillers' memorial at Find a Grave has him buried in Washington state. — WFinch (talk) 03:17, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oof. OK. I missed that! - Jmabel ! talk 16:38, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
So you are saying that the title & caption of File:U.S. Sailors fold a flag over the casket of Chief Navy Counselor Billy Spillers during his funeral April 16, 2014, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va 140416-N-MM360-070.jpg are wrong? - Jmabel ! talk 16:40, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
(Based on a Google search, I bet you are correct, and they are wrong. Want to fix that, or should I?) - Jmabel ! talk 16:43, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Please, you go ahead and fix it — I'm so glad this came up. Thanks again. — WFinch (talk) 17:15, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Seattle Times, redux[edit]

While I think your recent "Seattle Times" category changes are mostly reasonable, Category:The Seattle Times people seems really awkward. When the name of the paper is used adjectivally, "the" is never included. If you really want to keep "the" it should be something like "People associated with The Seattle Times". - Jmabel ! talk 17:52, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Baker headstone[edit]

I'm trying to understand your removal of category: medal of honor recipients buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia from File: Charles Baker headstone.jpg. He is a medal of honor recipient buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery. Dwkaminski (talk) 14:03, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi — I've added that category to his entire category, Category:Charles Baker (Medal of Honor), which contains that image — WFinch (talk) 14:13, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Suspected Vandalism[edit]

What is your reason for deleting two categories (my edits) at File:Minidoka Relocation Center. G. Kenneth Hikogawa. Polishing "grease-wood" to make furniture. - NARA - 536584.tif. Broichmore (talk) 12:21, 31 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there — no, this wasn't vandalism. My edit summary reads "categorized jpg"; please see Category:NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs and its talk page. Like many images from the National Archives and Records Administration, this image has duplicate tif and jpg versions that are linked. It's preferred that only the jpg version carry the categories. The jpg version of this image has the two categories you added, as well as categories that I added. Image selection is so much easier when categories aren't crowded with duplicates. Please revert your edit or join the discussion at Category talk:NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs. — WFinch (talk) 13:49, 31 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm Sorry, why are you not in this conversation? It's in 2012, are you having me on? Regards Broichmore (talk) 14:32, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with the consensus of that discussion. I encouraged you to join it if you don't agree and feel that the tif versions need to be categorized. The consensus is that they should not be categorized. — WFinch (talk) 14:50, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Overcat[edit]

Isn't it overcategorization to put Category:Gordon Hirabayashi on images that are already in Category:Courage in Action, a direct subcat of Category:Gordon Hirabayashi: it was a symposium on the occasion of the presentation of Hirabayashi's Medal of Freedom to the University of Washington Library Special Collection. - Jmabel ! talk 00:37, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there — I'd considered that, but since those files included photographs of Hirabayashi, and a document he completed and signed himself, I thought that it wouldn't hurt to have them directly available in his category, as well. If you think that's not right, please revert my edits. Thanks. — WFinch (talk) 00:44, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Radio Annual and Television Yearbook, 1949[edit]

Hi, WFinch, since you created this category and I created Category:Radio Annual, 1949, following Category:Radio Annual, 1947, I am a bit confused now. What do you suggest? Thank you for your time. -) Lotje (talk) 07:00, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I redirected the category I created, and added a "year in television" category to Radio Annual, 1949. That year was the first time the cover stated this yearbook was now also a television yearbook, as well. It's a title in transition, but the copyright title refers to it still as Radio Annual. (BTW, it looks like the copyright licenses on those yearbook pdfs needs to be revised — they're subjects of deletion requests.) — WFinch (talk) 13:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if you notice but in this edit you moved the image from Category:United States photographs taken on 1943-03-11 to the parent Category:Photographs taken on 1943-03-11. Is there a reason why you did that? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 02:09, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for spotting it — it was an error. I've put the image back into the more specific category. — WFinch (talk) 02:12, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Seems like you did it for a number of others. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 06:37, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Delano[edit]

Apologies for adding the category Photographs by Jack Delano to photographs already in category Union Station, 1943 (a dozen times). I should have looked deeper. Vysotsky (talk) 14:55, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for getting in touch, that was no problem at all. So many of those FSA and OWI photos are so poorly categorized that I was actually happy to see them get some attention. It seems to have become my life's work here. — WFinch (talk) 15:07, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And I was glad to be able to rightly add a dozen photos to the category, like this one. And I added this tool (image uptake stats). Vysotsky (talk) 15:27, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Outstanding. It's upsetting when these photographers aren't getting their due, not to mention the Federal agencies. The images tend to get buried — sometimes in the wrong place entirely, like Category:1939 photographs. — WFinch (talk) 16:10, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Grand Illusion image[edit]

This is a little after the fact, but you didn't provide an edit summary in your revert on File:Grand-Illusion-1937.jpg - what was your reasoning for reverting to a lower quality revision? --Iiii I I I (talk) 19:06, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In the edit that followed, I added the number of the specific promotional still to the file description: "Photograph is numbered GI-3 at lower right". This number is visible in the original upload, showing the image's magazine publication. A screen capture from a video release is not the same image. You could upload it separately, but please do not overwrite this image. — WFinch (talk) 20:32, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Wonderful work[edit]

Just read this fascinating essay then after a Wiki wander found your Resettlement Administration category. Great work. No Swan So Fine (talk) 12:38, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thank you, and thanks for the link to that essay, too. I've learned so much in the process of organizing these images, and others in the FSA-OWI category. Since reading that essay it's clear that the hole-punched negatives deserve their own category, so I'll create one. There aren't too many of those rejected images in the Commons yet, but there should be. — WFinch (talk) 15:44, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Three images as yet, or even more? Vysotsky (talk) 16:41, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi — I'm seeing only three photographs, all from the Resettlement Administration. I've created a category for those — Category:Rejected photographs of the Resettlement Administration, subcategorized within Category:Rejected FSA-OWI photographs. This hole-punching practice continued into September 1942, the Farm Security Administration period, per a search at the Library of Congress. — WFinch (talk) 17:05, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Palosirkka (talk) 08:04, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Post office mural[edit]

Thanks WFinch, I fixed the tag as PD-USGov-Treasury. Best, --Taterian (talk) 00:51, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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WPA vs. Treasury[edit]

What is your basis for using the "Treasury" license rather than WPA? Not saying you are wrong, but it was in an exhibit specifically of WPA art. Were the curators wrong about how this was funded? - Jmabel ! talk 01:03, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there — it’s been awhile. Yes, that mural was created for the Renton post office, one of two post office murals Jacob Elshin did. Those were contests run by the Section of Fine Arts, not WPA. The Renton mural is written up at The Living New Deal. Elshin is listed in the September 1938 issue of the Treasury Section’s Bulletin, when he won the commission for the University Station post office in Seattle. His earlier murals at West Seattle High School were created for the WPA, though.
The Archives of American Art has an oral history interview with Elshin. At one point he tries to clarify the distinction between his WPA murals and Section murals when the interviewer is confusing them. — WFinch (talk) 03:16, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I'll get some of that into the description. - Jmabel ! talk 16:30, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

File:Floral Park Post Offc 35 Tulip Av 11001 jeh.jpg[edit]

Are you sure the Floral Park Post Office on Tulip Avenue is a former post office? If so, where did they move? --DanTD (talk) 19:36, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I was going by the information at The Living New Deal: "The historic former post office building in Floral Park, New York was constructed with Treasury Department and Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds in 1936. The building presently serves as the Floral Park Public Library. Postal operations have been moved to a new facility a few hundred feet down Tulip Ave."
So thanks for your question. You're quite right about this photograph, which shows the "new facility", an active post office. I'll revert my edit, and I'll also move the "New Deal post offices in New York (state)" category to this photograph of the library up the street. — WFinch (talk) 20:45, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Silent film lobby cards[edit]

Heyo Walter, I am doing some work in Category:Silent films, and I see that you've created a couple of subcategories for silent films' lobby cards. I think that it would be sensible to move the files up one so they can be consolidated. I just don't think it's worth it to have two categories for only 3 to 6 files. Would you be okay with that? SWinxy (talk) 01:12, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there — thanks for checking in. I'm not sure which specific lobby card categories you've seen that I've created for silent films; I'm sure I've created quite a few. There are a great many categories for lobby cards for years that fit into the silent era: see Category:Lobby cards of the United States by year. A lobby card is a film poster format that has a particular graphic design interest. Each lobby card category — even if it contains only two files — is subcategorized within a corresponding film poster category, and part of a larger scheme of fairly long standing. Please keep the lobby card categories. Let me know if I'm not explaining things well, it wouldn't be the first time. — WFinch (talk) 02:25, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm noticing categories like Category:Environment (lobby cards), Category:Everybody's Sweetheart (lobby cards), Category:Folly of Youth (lobby cards), and so on. (Though I'm now noticing you're not the only one who created all of the categories.) I never knew what a lobby card was, so thanks! Is there a particular reason for having them? Is it like, it's always been that way? If the subcategories with only two or three files were removed, the files inside could still inherit the categories. Would a larger discussion need to take place for my idea to happen? SWinxy (talk) 04:51, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Lobby cards are a distinctive type of advertising. The lobby card categories are useful, consistent and correctly subcategorized. When multiple lobby cards for an individual film are uploaded here, they're also categorized by film title. I personally don't understand the rationale for doing what you propose. Yes, I believe deleting dozens of categories would require a discussion. — WFinch (talk) 11:09, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
What exactly makes them useful, though? I find that having dozens of categories with so few files in them rather pointless. SWinxy (talk) 18:37, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Removal of "The Vietnam Memorial" photo[edit]

Good morning, Hope all is well. I received an email this morning requesting that this phot be taken down. Why? I took this photo as an interpretation of an event in our history. Giving the due respect to those who answered the call of our nation. Please let me know what the issue is, maybe we can resolve.....Thanks for your attention. 2601:147:8201:2940:658C:A138:6FE8:C687 13:19, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and thank you for getting in touch. Please read the discussion I started on the talk page for Three Soldiers — which includes a link to a deletion discussion of Korean War Veterans Memorial photographs. Photographs of permanent monuments and sculptures in public spaces cannot always be hosted by the Commons. In this case, the subject of your photograph is a sculpture that was also actively copyrighted by the artist and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund in 1983. Their permission is required before any images of the sculpture are uploaded at the Commons. — WFinch (talk) 14:08, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

File:Big White Fog - original.tif[edit]

Hi, I just want to explain my categorizing the above named file. It does not have a categorized jpg so it cannot go in "LC TIF images with categorized JPGs". So I re-categorized it. Krok6kola (talk) 15:38, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Got it — thanks for your note. — WFinch (talk) 15:43, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks[edit]

Thanks for improving the category for Gorton's Minstrels. Concision is always better. Krok6kola (talk) 03:11, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to participate in/contribute to a photo contest.[edit]

English[edit]

Dear WFinch,

We’re excited to share with you our first-ever art and photo contest for this year’s #VisibleWikiWomen, on Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports!

We’re inviting submissions of photos, illustrations, and other forms of art depicting womxn and non-binary people in sports — as athletes, fans, cheerleaders, referees, journalists, and much more. Our #VisibleWikiWomxn contest celebrates the bodies of womxn in sports by centering their voices, images, stories, and experiences in all their diversity, plurality, and glory.

You can find all the information on our landing page: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports

Spanish[edit]

Hola WFinch,

Queremos invitarte a participar de nuestro primer concurso de arte y fotografía "Cuerpos plurales en el deporte" en el marco de la campaña #VisibleWikiWomen de este año.

Estamos convocando a presentar fotos, ilustraciones y otras formas de arte que representen a mujeres y personas no binarias en el deporte - atletas, personas aficionadas, animadoras, árbitras, periodistas y personas ligadas al deporte en todos los aspectos. Nuestro concurso #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra los cuerpos de las mujeres en el deporte centrándose en sus voces, imágenes, historias y experiencias en toda su diversidad, pluralidad y gloria.

Puedes encontrar toda la información en la página del concurso.

Portuguese[edit]

Olá WFinch,

Ficamos felizes em convidar você a participar de nossa primeira Wiki-competição de arte e fotografia, como parte da campanha #VisibleWikiWomen deste ano, sobre "Corpos plurais no esporte"!

Estamos recebendo fotos, ilustrações, e outras formas de arte que retratem mulheres e pessoas não-binárias nos esportes — como atletas, torcedoras, juízas, jornalistas, e muito mais. Nossa competição #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra os corpors de mulheres e pessoas não-binárias e coloca ao centro suas vozes, imagens, histórias, e experiências em toda sua pluralidade e glória.

Você pode encontrar todas as informações necessárias em nossa página: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports.

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FP Promotion[edit]

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Category:Ministry of Information[edit]

This Category:Ministry of Information is a redirect you created in 2018 to the UK's Ministry of Information.

I have found an Indonesian Ministry of Information (MoI) that published their post-WWII constitution here:File:1950 Constitution Eng.jpg

Should this category not be a redirect, since there are at least two and maybe other nations with MoI? Thanks, -- Ooligan (talk) 18:32, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes, it should be a disambiguation. Please feel free to change that redirect, or I'll circle back later and take care of it. — WFinch (talk) 19:59, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have not done that yet. Please, take cate of it when you are able. Thank you, -- Ooligan (talk) 03:48, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Thanks for suggesting this; I did find a few existing categories and added them to the list on the disambiguation page. — WFinch (talk) 05:55, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Farm Security Administration / Resettlement Administration[edit]

Hi, How do know which images should be in which category? Thanks, Yann (talk) 20:05, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Yann. I think the best resource is the 1988 book Documenting America 1935–1943. A good bit of it can be searched via Google; I finally bought it in hardcover. When I was categorizing FSA-OWI images a few years ago, I scribbled this on a post-it that's still in my work area — the dates that one program transitioned into another:

RA > FSA — September 1, 1937
FSA > OWI — October 1942

The Resettlement Administration was created May 1, 1935, and was folded into the Farm Security Administration on September 1, 1937. The Office of War Information photography division began in June 1942, but it took until October 1942 to move the FSA photographers (with the exception of Russell Lee) into it. When an image has a FSA-OWI license I refer to those transition dates, then try to confirm the image date as best I can via LOC and other resources. It can be a tangle. WFinch (talk) 21:46, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OK thanks, but then most of files under Category:Farm Security Administration are in the wrong categories. Yann (talk) 12:10, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh dear. If you see particular files, please put them where they need to be or let me know and I'll do some more work. I created categories for individual photographers in Category:Farm Security Administration photographs — and likewise Category:Resettlement Administration photographs and Category:United States Office of War Information photographs. — WFinch (talk) 12:26, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A play vs. a particular production[edit]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:The_Yellow_Ticket_(play)&diff=prev&oldid=866405867: unless I'm mistaken, The Yellow Ticket was a much-produced play. Should we really lump all productions of it under one producer? - Jmabel ! talk 14:50, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was considering the same thing when dealing Arthur Hopkins, A. H. Woods, Katharine Cornell and other theatre producers who should be given their due. I agree there should be subcategories for individual productions. For now, though, I've been adding producers to the play category, just to get the connection on the record. All of these categories should be built out, really, with the subcategory structure of Category:Productions of Romeo and Juliet. — WFinch (talk) 15:28, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
PS — In the case of The Yellow Ticket, A. H. Woods was the original producer, so I think his name belongs on the play itself. — WFinch (talk) 15:32, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe something like a Category:Plays by original producer? Just like playing Falstaff doesn't make you Will Kemp. - Jmabel ! talk 20:23, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]