User talk:Jbspear

Jbspear: Can you go into a bit more detail about the source of that William J. Hughes picture? If it's a work of the government, then it is public domain, but a URL would help here. SnowFire (talk) 06:30, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SnowFire -- not sure what the correct format is for reply to a message but thanks for the question (I am a relatively new user). The photo is property of William Hughes and used in Wikipedia with his permissoin, but he has now informed me he would like to retain some rights to the photo -- so I need to figure out how to correctly post it. In the meantime, I've taken it down.

I can handle the formatting if need be. It's just that the source and license terms need to be specified. Unfortunately, Wikipedia policy is pretty restrictive on what licenses for pictures are allowed. Since Hughes is alive (yes that's what matters), Wikipedia won't use a "fair use" picture of him, meaning that the rights have to be very widely shared. Notably, the three main options are "public domain" (free for all, anyone can use it), "Creative commons attribution" (anyone can use it but must credit the owner), and "Creative commons attribution / share-alike", which basically restricts the image to other sites that agree to share it and any modifications made. If any of those licenses sound acceptable to Hughes, then the image can be re-uploaded with the noted license and a brief note saying so. (The date of the picture would also be nice). If he's not willing to use one of those licenses, that's fine, but then Wikipedia can't use the picture. (Which would be a shame.) As a side note, any works of the federal government - which would include his official Congressional portrait - are automatically in the public domain, so if you can find any of those, they can be uploaded with no problems whatsoever. (I've looked around the William J. Hughes Technical Center site before but no such luck; they don't mention Hughes at all in their history page... guess it might be awkward to say "And our existence was totally fought for in Congress by Hughes and later Lobiondo! Thanks!") SnowFire (talk) 04:26, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

First, it's a pleasure to work with you on this. Thank you for lending a helping hand. Regarding the picture, Hughes is a little fuzzy on the date it was taken but 1997 would be in the ballpark. The "Creative commons attribution / share-alike" option sounds best under the circumstances. I have another photo that was his official House portrait back in 1975 but the color picture is his preferred one. Regarding the Tech Center, it would make sense for them to have at least a plain vanilla explanation about who they are named after but your point about appearances is well taken. To introduce myself, I worked in Hughes' DC office for 14 years and remember well the huge effort it took to keep the Tech Center from being moved to Oklahoma. The naming was well deserved and I'm sure the work goes on today to prevent further erosion of its presence. All of that said, I'm trying as hard as I can to update Hughes' wiki profile in an unbiased way but let me know if I'm not being neutral enough :-) Jbspear (Jon Spear) [[ 11:07 24 August 2010 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:WJH portrait -- 2.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:WJH portrait -- 2.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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permission sent to permissions-en@wikimedia.org

Hello Skier Dude. I've arranged for the copyright owner to send a permission to the above email address. Thanks for calling this to my attention. --Jbspear