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Glad you are happy and congratulations on the article recently moved to the main space. Your other articles in preparation look good too.... be aware of WP:COI and WP:AB (particularly if Keith Fowler is you or a relative).
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And congratulations on getting your article in the main space --- Most WP:ABs fail to make it! Regards, Ariconte (talk) 08:01, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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KFFowler, CET here, we talked a few days ago. Please do not create articles with promotional material, especially when taken from elsewhere. Per the message right above, we talk copyright violations very seriously - write in your own words, and in a neutral tone. Thank you. CharlieEchoTango (contact) 22:44, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Pol430talk to me 13:19, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Please use named refs instead of ibid, etc. Here is a tool that makes it easy: There is a "Cite" toolbar at the top of the edit window which allows you to automatically generate the required wiki code.
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Once you have named a ref, you can reuse it by clicking on the 'Named refs' clipboard of the cite tool.... see picture above. Regards, Ariconte (talk) 23:05, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi - I was looking at your article about William Needles, and I noticed that you are a little short of arms-length references. There are dozens of good references to him in the Toronto Daily Star newspaper archive at pagesofthepast.ca. You need a subscription to see the pages, but a lot of public libraries have a subscription. By using my library card number I am able to access pagesofthepast.ca at home.
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It's an honor to have a content expert like yourself engaging with other editors on the subject of the history of 20th century U.S. theater. Like other editors, I suggest you stop contributing to the article about yourself, but it would be to everyone's benefit if you continued to bring to our attention sources about your life, works, and related subjects. Thank you for your many very sensible edits and please continue to edit boldly. BusterD (talk) 17:09, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
BTW, I noticed your work because I'm researching the history of the Belfry Players, an article you created. I've found a substantial amount of newspaper articles but am interested in any reliable secondary sources on the subject of which you are aware. If I can be helpful in any way, please call on me. BusterD (talk) 17:15, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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First of all I suppose I should welcome you to Wikipedia, even though you've been here for years already. But looking over your contribution history and user talk page I don't see a lot of discussion, so I fear all you've been met with are the more or less automated messages that a lot of new contributors find so Kafkaesque and disheartening. I really hope you've gotten more, and more personal (human), interaction through the Articles for Creation process I see you've made use of, but as it is, like many such processes on Wikipedia, perennially backlogged, I fear that too may have consisted mostly of perfunctory status updates.
So, in any case, a warm welcome to Wikipedia from me! I'm always happy to see more contributors here, and even more so subject matter experts such as yourself. My apologies on behalf of the project if your contributions have seemed to have been funnelled into an uncaring black hole: it's just the inevitable result of an entirely volunteer-driven project—with a, frankly, insane level of ambition and volunteers spread across all the globe—and made all the worse in under-served topic areas like this, which is often what motivates subject matter experts to contribute in the first place. Please don't be disheartened: your contributions are very much both valued and welcome!
Secondly, since you asked for it in a comment elsewhere, I've looked superficially at a couple of your contributions and must say you've done an admirable job of staying neutral even on articles where you have a close personal connection or where you clearly care very much about the article's subject. There are of course issues such as overemphasis on certain aspects or details, and the word choices aren't always as purposfully dry as is the norm on Wikipedia (what we tend to refer to variously as "encyclopedic language" and "neutral point of view"), but my personal take (others may disagree) is that these are minor issues and will be sorted out eventually. So, kudos for that: it's not easy and you appear to have managed it admirably!
Now, to the meat of the matter, and why I'm leaving this message in the first place. I stumbled across your contributions by way of the article on Hamletmachine and the image File:Hamletmachine 1992.jpg that you uploaded. My interest on Wikipedia is Shakespeare, and with copyright law and Wikipedia's copyright policy being what it is, finding more modern images to illustrate articles in that area is a chore: we have plenty of centuries-old paintings, but almost no decent photograps. In other words I was immediately intrigued by this photo and looked through your uploads to see what else was there, and was happy to find a small treasure trove of good photos relevant to our Shakespeare articles. Thank you for uploading these!
However, I'm a bit concerned about the licensing status of at least several of your uploads. I see most of them are labelled as "own work", but this includes images of you in character that you cannot possibly have taken yourself. The way copyright works, the fundamental rights to a photograph vests in the person actually holding the camera, or, if it is a "work for hire" (there's a specific legal definition for that term and one cannot automatically assume that a common sense understanding applies), the rights vest in the entity that caused the photograph to be taken. That means that the copyright for these images most likely vested in either the photographer personally or the theatre company that hired the photographer. In the case of the theatre company, having been the director or manager of the company (as I believe would have been the case for several of them) is not sufficient to give you personally the right to license the images to a third party (in this case, Wikipedia): the theatre company is a separate legal entity, and even after it is shuttered its rights do not cease to exist (its rights are "inherited" along with other valuables like so much office furniture). Also, crucially, owning a physical copy of a photograph or the act of scanning such a copy does not create any copyright that is relevant to this situation.
I go on at length here because I know from experience that this mess is hard to wrap one's head around (to the average person, none of it makes a lick of sense). We've had wonderfull unique contributions from subject matter experts like yourself that have had to be deleted because it was impossible to determine the licensing situation for them. In some cases because the uploader didn't actually own the rights (those were sold along with the desk lamps and makeup tables when the company ceased operations), and in some cases because the uploader wasn't around any more and even though they probably did own the rights, the files were not sufficiently tagged to be able to verify this to Wikimedia Legal's satisfaction (even on Wikipedia, the lawyers have the final say on matters within their purview).
So in light of that I have a request: for the images you have uploaded, would it be possible for you to clarify the copyright situation? If you're willing and able, I could make a list of those of your uploads that most obviously needs further details added for you to look through. And I would obviously be happy to help in any way I can.
If, in view of that beurocracy, you are still motivated to contribute more images in the future, those of us working on Shakespeare-related articles are always on the lookout for photos to illustrate: a particular play; a particular character in a play; a particular scene or speech; a particular adaptation or production; or a particular actor, director, or scenographer's (etc.) work. While not something I often work on, I know we have several articles on Shakespeare festivals where it would be useful with images that illustrate the festival overall or a particular current or historic performance venue for the festival. I realise, of course, that this is in effect asking you to jump through hoops while asking for handouts, but in the case that you have some inner motivation to help improve Wikipedia, this listing of areas sorely lacking will hopefully be of some use in picking areas where your contributions would do the most good.
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Hello Xover:
Is this the right place to reply to your message of 15 July? It has been a very long time since I used this aspect of Wikipedia, so forgive me if I am writing in the wrong place.
I read your message with understanding but also with some despair. Wikimedia does not offer many designations or subtleties to attach to the shots we upload. Your clarification of copyright regs is helpful but problematic too, only because it is at odds with the general (lay) practice in theater. We are quite used to claiming ownership of photos taken *for* us, and I am sure that in many cases the photographers, many of whom were amateur or semi-pro, would be surprised (a) that we should return to them for clearance and (b) that we should even know decades later how to reach them!
In some cases I did take photos of my own productions, and in a few instances I set up shots (now called "selfies") of myself. I would need to see a list of questioned pictures to know which fall into these categories.
If you wish to take the time to identify the photos that trouble you, I'll do my best to recall their origin. My best guess is that this will lead to withdrawing some photos, as I am now retired and not about to undertake much research. It would be helpful to us all if Wikimedia/Wikipedia had its own system of researching copyright based on the information we can supply in response to a short list of legal questions. If such a process exists I have not seen it. I know this is asking a lot of a consumer-edited site, but I'm sure it would greatly increase the quantity of photos available to articles. MacDUFFY (talk) 02:36, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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