Sorry, I have to remove this image on the left

File:Aegirocassis benmoulae artist view.jpg

from the article, because it is clear rip-off of one of mine. I uploaded the original instead. Hope you don't mind.

Cheers Nobu Tamura (talk) 03:07, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Come to think of it, it is very possible that all the reconstructions uploaded by this particular editor are rip-offs. Take the image on the right

File:Pelagornis sandersi (artist view).jpg

. It is a slightly modified image from artist Liz Bradford (check: http://phys.org/news/2014-07-world-largest-ever-bird.html). NobuTamura (talk) 03:37, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Strange, I'll look into this user's uploads... Probably make some deletion requests. FunkMonk (talk) 04:58, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have started a first DR here if you have anything to add:[1] FunkMonk (talk) 17:44, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Good. Could you request deletion of the Aegirocassis image as well (original: http://spinops.blogspot.com/2015/03/aegirocassis-benmoulae.html)? Thanks. NobuTamura (talk) 02:42, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yep. Might be tricky, because the original is CC licensed. But I'll try... At least the author info etc would have to be changed in the derivative. FunkMonk (talk) 19:35, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

DR:[2] FunkMonk (talk) 20:32, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm retired now, but before this, I wrote under a lot of Nobu's drawings "artist's view by Nobu Tamura". My derivative works ARE NOT ART. But only some palaeontological restorations, and my restaurations are not creative works, but must thereby being in order to stay within the limits of what is allowed by researchers at the time it is made, and must necessarily be inspired by other pictures already scientifically proved. If one confused the artistic creative process with the derivative scientific process of « conjecturally reconstituted being » (whose most impressive examples are the « real size Dinosaurs » sitting proeminently in the gardens or in the front square of various Museums, or else prehistorical Hominidae presented in dioramas by many Museums), this one will consider as « inaccurate » and/or as a « copyviol », the whole of the artist's views, of the computer-generated images, of the volumic reconstitutions, and Paleontology, Archaeology or Naval history will be deprived of all its iconography intended for general public, apart from the scientific pictures in specialized magazines, that will evade this iconographical « cleaning », possibly concerning even some proeminent illustrators as Mauricio Antón, Nobu Tamura, Dimitri Bogdanov, Zdeněk Burian, Heinrich Harder or Charles R. Knight, says une of my collegues. Now, you can delete Aegirocassis if Nobu wants it, but not my Compsognathus in the Natural Historu Museum of Toulon where I'm working as a illustrative provider !! Be rational and do not get upset plase, --Spiridon Ion Cepleanu (talk) 19:28, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

One thing is being "inspired", another is to directly copy existing images, which is entirely different. FunkMonk (talk) 19:38, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how to thank you for all your hard work in shoving Bluebuck toward success in FAC, though it was supposed to be a collaboration between us I'm sorry I've not been able to help out really at the FAC. But you've handled all those comments so efficiently that my absence couldn't even be felt! Maybe I can thank you with a surprise which you'll soon be getting.. wait a week and you'll know :) Sainsf (talk · contribs) 05:23, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Exciting! And well, you did most of the work on the actual article, so it's just fair that I do a bit more at the FAC.... FunkMonk (talk) 19:36, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Yay! FunkMonk (talk) 12:42, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey? FunkMonk (talk) 15:09, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi FunkMonk, I saw your name on the list of FA mentors. I am keen to bring Balfour Declaration to FA status ahead of the 100th anniversary next year (which will attract a lot of media interest). But I have never taken an article to FA before. Would you be willing to mentor me on this?

Cheers

Oncenawhile (talk) 09:26, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Great! I have been working on it slowly since 2011, and am now the main contributor by edits. I brought it to GA between February and April this year, and have had a peer review open for the last 4 months. A lot of sources are used throughout the article, with perhaps the main one being Schneer's 2010 monograph on the subject, together with Huneidi, Gelvin and Friedman (although the latter is not referenced there yet). Oncenawhile (talk) 16:43, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, seems it was requested you use Arab soruces as well? I can recommend A History of the Arab Peoples by Lebanese historian Albert Hourani (read it years ago) for soem context maybe, some excerpts here:[3] FunkMonk (talk) 16:48, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I have responded at the PR page as I suspect it'll be easier to follow. Oncenawhile (talk) 20:56, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Great to see our first collaboration work out so well :)) Tomorrow wait for your gift! Thanks friend Sainsf (talk · contribs) 14:19, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Weeee! And yep, we should do it again! FunkMonk (talk) 16:33, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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