User talk:Scewing

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W. H. Davies image

Many thanks for the excellent 1913 image of Davies by Coburn - I had run out of luck in the UK. What a coincidence - I had only recently requested permission from NYPL by email, haha. A great improvement to the article. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:44, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

What a beautiful image of Ina Coolbrith!

Thank you for adding the image of Ina Coolbrith as a youngster. Marvelous! I wonder, though, how you know when this image was published. What publication showed it? When? Otherwise, it could have been in private hands until digitized by the Online Archive of California, in which case it is not public domain. I have been slowly prepping this article for WP:GAN, and all the images must be in order. Thanks again for that moody and beautiful image! Binksternet (talk) 23:18, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Dickens image

Hi Scewing, can you say where you got File:Dickens Gurney head.jpg from exactly? Cheers, SlimVirgin ^{TALK contribs} 00:19, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. SlimVirgin ^{TALK contribs} 00:37, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Engineer signature

Hi, re {{infobox engineer}}; I'm puzzled why you did it this way:

|data22= {{#if:{{{signature|}}}|'''Signature'''<div style="padding-top:0.3em;">[[File:{{{signature}}}|128px|alt={{{signature_alt|}}}]]</div>}}

instead of:

|label22=Signature

|data22= {{#if:{{{signature|}}}|[[File:{{{signature}}}|128px|alt={{{signature_alt|}}}]]}}

See John Hancock for an example of how signatures generally appear in infoboxes. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:45, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

See User:Redrose64/Sandbox6 - yours above, mine below. BTW I watch all talk pages where I leave a question/comment, so you can reply here; I find that it's best to keep a thread all in one place. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:58, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

William Keith

Thanks for your additions! I hope to see some William Keith paintings at St. Mary's College in a few months, and look forward to expanding the article then. Jim Heaphy (talk) 04:20, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! You'll have to ask St. Mary's College to digitize some of their paintings so they can share them on Wikipedia... Scewing (talk) 18:40, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Amazing Daguerreotype

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		Every time I chase vandals away from the Susan B. Anthony article, I say to myself, "wow, what a beautiful photograph!" Thank you so much for finding and uploading it. Binksternet (talk) 17:26, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

...Still true! So beautiful. Binksternet (talk) 03:24, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

thanks! currently up for COM:FPC feel free to vote Scewing (talk) 03:33, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks !

		The Modest Barnstar
		For adding the excellent new photo and infobox to William H. Prescott, I hereby award you this barnstar. It's improved the article to no end. Claritas (talk) 17:37, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Mary Engle Pennington

Thanks for starting the Mary Engle Pennington article. I'm intending to clean it up a bit, and was wondering if there are other articles you started based on material from the 1914-1915 edition of 'Woman's who's who of America'. Carcharoth (talk) 13:27, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi. :) Related to the above, I notice that you have created at least one other article using public domain text. That's not at all a problem, but I did want to let you know that the community consensus on importing public domain text is that we have to explicitly note that content is copied. This is addressed specifically at Wikipedia:PLAGIARISM#Public domain sources). (I'm certainly not suggesting you have plagiarized here; you've noted your sources scrupulously. It's just that the current Wikipedia approach is that citing your source is not quite enough to mark that some or all of the article's content may be public domain. This can be important in part to avoid inadvertent copyfraud. Wikipedia's content is copyrighted, and we can't claim new copyright on public domain text.)

If copying a small amount into a larger work, block quotes work well, but when establishing an article as this one and Clement Finley, the attribution template is probably the best approach. We have a whole lot of these at Category:Attribution templates. I've gone ahead and added templates to Clement Finley and Mary Engle Pennington. If there are other articles into which you've imported content, please pick whichever template seems best. And please let me know if you have any questions about the process. I'll be watching your talk page for a time, as I typically keep conversations in one place. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:40, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Request

Is there any chance that you could find a half-decent daguerreotype of James K. Polk, or Richard Mentor Johnson? I've also been searching for John L. Helm with no luck. If you could help with any of these, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Connormah^talk 17:45, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Look here for an old Polk, Collection 784 for JLH, and maybe request a high resolution copy of this RMJ engraving. Good Luck!

Any others for Polk? Just wondering if there's anything else out there other than what we already have in his Commons category already. Also, for JLH, I've email the Filson, but I've received no reply. Perhaps you could search in your usual sources for these types of photos (I've tried everything, all with no luck), with Johnson and al george M. Dallas (another I've had trouble with) also? Thanks. Connormah^talk 04:37, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Images

You upload very nice pictures you should think of nominating a few on English Wikipedia. Spongie555 (talk) 22:12, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Hawthorne

Just wanted to say "excellent work" on your updated version of the main image at Nathaniel Hawthorne. Well done. --Midnightdreary (talk) 15:39, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Claude Bernard

Hi Scewing, any chance you could locate a decent portrait of Claude Bernard, Amedeo Avogadro or Carl Gauss? Many thanks in advance. Connormah (talk) 23:13, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

For Bernard, check 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. You can click twice to get full resolutions like this. For Gauss, there's some images here. Couldn't find anything for Avogadro. Hope this helps. Scewing (talk) 22:25, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch, much appreciated! Connormah (talk) 21:48, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the bug, but could you also maybe look for a photographic portrait of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac if possible (if they even exist)? Thanks. Connormah (talk) 22:14, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't think any photographic images of Gay-Lussac exist, but there's a few addional engravings here and here. Sorry! Scewing (talk) 23:06, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

No problem - I guess the same would go for Gauss? Connormah (talk) 23:33, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

This image is a photogravure, but I don't know if the original is artwork or a photograph... Scewing (talk) 23:46, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi Scewing. Just happened upon your page again and saw this thread. The image of John Gadbury at the site you have linked [1] seems far superior to the one currently used in his article. Is it freely available for use? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:25, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. So, I just copy ot across into Commons? Martinevans123 (talk) 15:36, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for bugging you again, but could you also do a search for photographic James Prescott Joule, William Murdoch, Jean-Baptiste Biot and John Dalton if they do exist? Thanks again. Connormah (talk) 21:28, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

@Martinevans123, it should in the public domain because of it's age, so you should be safe, but I am in no means a copyright expert. Connormah (talk) 21:29, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

William Murdoch died before the first portrait photograph was taken in November 1839, but I found a decent photo of Biot, and I uploaded 14 other new or larger/improved images. Hope this helps. Scewing (talk) 06:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks. Connormah (talk) 13:33, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to ask something again, but I've been looking for quite some time for a photographic portrait that is useable of Theodore Dwight Woolsey - any chance you can lend a hand? Connormah (talk) 04:13, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Well, you can have one for $60!... I'll look around for something Scewing (talk) 04:57, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

RE: Unknown French General

Interesting one, the name seems to be completely wrong given the utter lack of any google hits. The number of medals and their type suggests there would be mentions of him somewhere. The ones I can identify and was hoping to tie together to one person are commandeur of the Légion d'honneur (the front medal around his neck), the Crimea Medal (British medal with clasps second from the right of image), the British Order of the Bath (large rectangular ribbon second from left on ribbon bar). It all suggests he was prominent in the Second French Empire, not one of my areas of expertise I'm afraid. It has me intrigued so I will keep trying to identify some of the other ones... Regards, Woody (talk) 17:39, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

I can add that he has served in the Imperial Guard of either Napoleon I or III, the Aiguillette on his right shoulder was only worn by present or ex members of the Imperial Guard at this time. Carl Logan (talk) 19:37, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Timothy Shay Arthur

Hi - I see you've added an image to Timothy Shay Arthur - I got curious and started googling, and I found a photographic portrair of him, here - it's pretty bad quality, is there any chance that you can find a better quality version? Thanks. Connormah (talk) 03:00, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Nothing on tineye, but you can contact the uploader here. Scewing (talk) 03:09, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chopin polonaise Op. 53.jpg

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Zachary Taylor

Nice find - I've been looking for a decent photo for quite some time - is there any chance you could find anything for William R. King, John Tyler, James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce, 2 others that I've been searching for? Thanks. Connormah (talk) 22:29, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Right and Left

Hi Scewing; I want to let you know that I started this article today, especially in response to your having added these Winslow Homer images to the commons. Thanks, JNW (talk) 23:33, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Great article! Thanks for the heads up. Scewing (talk) 00:12, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Signature

I have no strong opinion on the parameter, but per Template talk:Infobox artist#Signature Parameter, this addition is controversial. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 22:09, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Ginevra

The version you have added is very high res. However, if the painting has been cleaned, which it appears to have been, then the colouring of the smaller version is more accurate. This cannot be fixed by running an automatic digital adjustment. It needs to be done very carefully, preferably by someone whose colour balance is very well adjusted and who can look at the original.

If this isn't possible, I could have a fiddle with it. Don't save anything over your original upload which will contain more fine detail than any adjusted version. Amandajm (talk) 23:52, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

• I did not make any adjustments whatsoever to the image posted by the National Gallery of Art here.

• I didn't mean to suggest that you had already adjusted it.

To my eye, the tiny spots of reflected light on the crazing of the surface, and the white strips of gesso on the outer edge both look yellowish, rather than true white. This confirms that the whole image is just a little more yellow than the painting is in reality. (rather than the yellowing being a sign of old varnish or candlesmoke as is common to uncleaned paintings)

I'll see if I can make a slight adjustment for this, and put it up separately. Haven't got time right now!

Keep a watch on your image, because there are is a Commons editor who persistently runs auto-colour-adjusts on things and then uploads the ghastly mess over the original in the misguided belief that the computer gets it right. Amandajm (talk) 00:50, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

• That makes sense. I haven't seen the original image, so I don't have much to compare to. I'm surprised the NGA would scan and post a discolored image at such a high resolution! Any adjustments you make that would accurately reflect the true vision of the painting would be much appreciated! Scewing (talk) 14:07, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Emperor Pedro II of Brazil

Scewing, could you help me out again? The colored photo of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil that you colorized is almost perfect. There are 2 small issues (I believe):

1) His left hand color does not match his face or his other hand which is hidden beneath his cloth.

2) A small piece of the photo at the top was cut off. Could you fix it?

Also, could you colorize another photo? This one:

• File:Dom Pedro II circa 1887.jpg -> This is the main picture used in his article. By then, his hair had become grey/white.

If you accept my request, know that there is no hurry. Once you're done with both, I'll add both to the article. Thanks again, and a lot. Kind regards, --Lecen (talk) 20:12, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Colorized Jeff Davis photo

Hello Scewing, there is a discussion involving one of your photos here. Your input is welcome.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 01:30, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Urbain Le Verrier

Hi Scewing, any chance you could find a photo of Urbain Le Verrier? Thanks! Connormah (talk) 23:25, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Couldn't find any photos, only 1, 2, 3, 4 from here.

Don't worry about it. Thanks for looking! Connormah (talk) 20:35, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Uploaded FS

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Self portrait 1660

Problems with this page:

• Don't copy whole slabs straight from a different source. The source is your reference, but if you copy directly without the inverted commas, it is plagiarism.

Those who happen to be familiar with the self-portrait of a year or so earlier, belonging to Henry C. Frick, will find a comparison of the moods of that picture and our work an interesting one. This is very obviously copied directly from another source.

Public Domain sources & attributed. Not plagiarism Scewing (talk) 16:45, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

• Don't talk to the reader as if they were an audience.

OK Scewing (talk) 16:45, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

• Give the article a proper name! Every artist who has ever painted has done at least one self portrait, and Rembrandt did numerous. You can't call any article "Self portrait", even if you give it a date! It needs to include the artist's name and an identifying feature eg. "Rembrandt: Self Portrait in a Black Hat" (1660)" or "Rembrandt: Self Portrait 1660 (Washington)" (or whatever). If you don't give the article a better name, no-one will find it.

Renamed Scewing (talk) 16:45, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Amandajm (talk) 16:23, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your prompt response!

I'm still not sure about the name. I think the inclusion of the "Altman" is a good way to go, but bracketting it with Rembrandt is not a good idea. It would be better to have "Rembrandt self portrait (Altman)", because of the greater importance of the artist, and the fact that this is the way that your readers will locate it. Amandajm (talk) 16:51, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Done Scewing (talk) 16:56, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Oh, very good!

Well, I'm going to bed! I've just realised it's nearly 3.00AM and I'm nearly frozen to my perch. Over and Out! Amandajm (talk) 17:00, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Daniel Webster

Hi Scewing - I was wondering if it'd be possible to clone out the damage in this portrait of Daniel Webster: File:Daniel Webster - circa 1847.jpg? Thanks in advance. Connormah (talk) 03:24, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Did a quick cleanup, hope this helps Scewing (talk) 00:34, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Awesome job. Thanks! Connormah (talk) 00:36, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi Scewing, any chance you could do the same and generally cleanup this image: File:Landis portrait.png? It'll be used in an upcoming FAC, and I'm sure that the article's principal author, User:Wehwalt will greatly appreciate it. Connormah (talk) 20:14, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Done. Hopefully it helps the article! Scewing (talk) 21:27, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Awesome job. Thanks. Connormah (talk) 20:02, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

I wanted to thank you for your cleanup of the Landis image. I know such work isn't easy and thank you for doing it.--Wehwalt (talk) 03:16, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Signature

Hi Scewing, could you do John A. Macdonald's signature, from here? I tried, but I couldn't come up with anything decent (I usually trace with the pen, it doesn't quite work as well with varying pen pressures..etc) Thanks. Connormah (talk) 00:54, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

done File:John A Macdonald signature.svg Scewing (talk) 21:19, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Connormah (talk) 21:21, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Brilliant! Thanks. I appreciate it. I utterly suck at anything that requires artistic skill!--Wehwalt (talk) 22:40, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Also think you could try the trace on File:Appletons' Conkling Alfred - Roscoe signature.jpg? I tried a manual, again to no avail. Thanks. – Connormah (talk) 04:57, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

done File:Roscoe Conkling signature.svg Scewing (talk) 15:58, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Swamis surf break, encinitas.jpg

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Also the following images:

• File:View from Runyon Canyon Park.jpg
• File:Checking the surf at swamis.jpg
• File:Swamis Setup.jpg
• File:RunyonCanyon Meditation Inspiration Point.jpg
• File:Runyon entrance.jpg
• File:Sunset over Cahuenga Peak.jpg

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Brown or Blue eyes?

Hi, Scewing! Since you are an excelent graphic editor, I'd like to ask your opinion about something. I'm right now writing about Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, a 19th century Brazilian military hero. Some of the sources say that he had brown eyes and other say that he had blue eyes. How is that possible, I have no idea. There is a close-up photograph of him (here) that could help. There is also a painting based on this photograph that seems to portray him with blue eyes (here). With your experience, which one you believe is the correct answer? Did he had blue or brown eyes? Kind regards, --Lecen (talk) 16:24, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Authority control tags

According to WP:Authority control, the tags go on the articles next to the PERSONDATA, not on the talk page. Can you fix these, please? Thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:06, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Request

Any chance you can find a hi res version of this photo of Mark Hanna by W. J. Root, Chicago, 1896? I'm going to upload a close up (all I could find of decent resolution), but a full version would be preferable. Thanks in advance. – Connormah (talk) 04:37, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Couldn't find a higher resolution online. You may want to contact the website that posted the image, they have a contact page here. The only hi-res photo of Hanna I found was at the Library of Congress here. Also, Archive.org has a book about Hanna with illustrations such as portraits from 1864, 1871, and 1901. Scewing (talk) 00:11, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

List of Austrian School economists -- suggestions

Scewing, there is nothing wrong with your actual edits to List of Austrian School economists except for the fact you do not provide edit summaries and you mark many of them as minor. The WP:ES helps your fellow editors figure out what is going on with particular edits. The WP:ME has various criteria, and some of your edits go beyond those criteria. Thanks for considering this word to the wise. --S. Rich (talk) 04:34, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer. In the future, I'll be sure to provide more detailed edit summaries. Scewing (talk) 15:51, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

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A cupcake for you!

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DYK for Hill and Adamson

Hello Scewing! I did a DYK review of this new article, which I liked. Quite a bit of it is taken from the David Octavius Hill article and from one of the sources. That's OK after everything is attributed properly, but I've realized that the remaining length probably won't meet the 1500 character requirement for "original prose" (see Wikipedia:Did_you_know). For this reason I'm planning to change my recommendation to a negative one, but I didn't want to surprise you with it. Best, Easchiff (talk) 20:59, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

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Tom Sayers

I'm interested to know more about the letter which you have added to the entry on Tom Sayers -- which is very largely my work. I wrote a book about the Sayers-Heenan fight, and had always understood that Sayers was illiterate. Not quite, it seems. What information do you have on the letter? Iain07 (talk) 14:01, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

I only have the description from Heritage Auction Galleries, where I found the letter:

1859 Tom Sayers Handwritten Signed Letter Accepting Heenan Fight. Though the prizefighting world has been populated with shady characters and dirty dealings throughout the entirely of its history, puritanical forces had rendered professional fisticuffs illegal and driven the sport deep underground in the mid-nineteenth century, where it was virtually ignored by "polite society." But the public imagination of both sides of the Atlantic was captured when word of a meeting between British Heavyweight Champion Tom Sayers and American Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan caught wind. The Times in London reported, " this challenge has led to an amount of attention being bestowed on the prize ring which it has never received before," while The New York Clipper pronounced, " Whate'er we do, where'er we be, fight, fight, fight is the topic that engrosses all attention."

Presented is one of the most historically significant pugilistic artifacts ever made available for public sale, the British Champion's handwritten acceptance to the terms of what boxing historians consider to be the sport's first World Championship. We see the evidence of Sayers' poverty-stricken upbringing in a Brighton slum in his childlike scrawl, transcribed without editing:

Dear Sir, I aksep yor Chalang tue fite without gloves oktuber 24. Yrs. truly Thomas Sayers. staiks £500 a side, J.C. Heenan Esq.

Vocal efforts to halt the lawless proceedings were overcome, and the feverishly anticipated contest was waged in a Farnborough meadow in Hampshire on the morning of April 17, 1860. Despite conceding forty pounds and five inches to the American, and injuring his right arm early in the bout, Sayers appeared to slowly gain traction, bloodying Heenan's face and closing his right eye. But after more than forty rounds, Heenan appeared to gain the upper hand as he choked Sayers against the top rope, causing the crowd (populated by the likes of Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Thomas Nast and various aristocrats and members of Parliament) to cut the ropes and spill into the ring as the police moved in to bring a halt to the contest. The English and the American spectators continued the battle in the form of heated debates over which fighter had held the advantage, though England's authoritative Saturday Review later let down its nationalistic guard when it wrote, " We are not without our suspicions that the ring would have been better kept if the English Champion had been fighting a manifestly winning battle."

The 4.25x6" page is heavily creased with scattered stains and chipping, but the writing survives with remarkable boldness. Included with the letter is an August 14, 1965 clipped article from London's The Daily Telegraph which pictures the letter along with this letter to the editor:

Sir--In view of your report of the theft of the Champion of England belt from the Sporting Club, Regent Street, the original letter (above) of acceptance of the challenge written to T.C. Heenan, Esq. may be of interest. The letter provokes a mental picture of the writer's tongue protruding with the effort of putting pen to paper. It was found among the papers left by Dr. Robert Clarke, of Settle, Yorkshire. Clarke was a collector of old letters of note and famous signatures. Yours faithfully, T.G.D. Burgess. Fairlight, Sussex.

Also here is Mr. Burgess' copy of the letter mailed to The Daily Telegraph, and the August 11, 1965 reply from the editor's secretary which accompanied the Sayers letter when it was returned to the owner by mail. Both PSA/DNA and James Spence believe this piece to be authentic, but are unable to issue paperwork due to an absence of exemplars. Scewing (talk) 15:14, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks so much. Most helpful. I might try to follow this up. It tells me something about Tom Sayers that I simply didn't know. Iain07 (talk) 20:27, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

John C. Fremont

Hi Scewing, there is a discussion concerning one of your images which was removed from the article. Just wanted to let you know.

Btw, would you like me to setup archiving for this talk page? I notice that it is getting lengthy. :)
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 22:34, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

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POTD

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John Hutt

Any chance you can look for a photo of John Hutt? Surely there must be something (he died in 1880). Thanks! – Connormah (talk) 19:14, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Only found a better version of the current image... Scewing (talk) 14:02, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Any chance you can look for Littleton Waller Tazewell as well? Surely there must be a daguerreotype or another portrait of him out there... thanks. – Connormah (talk) 22:34, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

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In case you don't have it under surveillance, this is to alert you that I recently reverted your image swap in the Henry Fox Talbot article.

Surprised to see the very rare (and to my eyes very pleasing) 1840s urban view gone, I investigated and found that the replacement is a ringer. According to the Bonhams catalog listing, "Nikolaas Henneman ... was responsible for printing ... from albumenised glass plate negatives and calotype paper negatives by Claude Marie Ferrier and Hugh Owen respectively." In other words, Talbot was not the photographer, nor did he make the prints. The portfolio is simply one of the fifteen copies given to him in lieu of payment of patent license fees. In fact, the salted paper prints made from glass plate negatives, rather than from calotype paper negatives, cannot properly be called calotypes at all, even though the portfolio itself apparently lumps everything together under that name.

The three uploaded images are certainly valuable contributions both visually and historically, but the attributions need correction. AVarchaeologist (talk) 22:03, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

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Hi. Sorry I've waited this long to thank you for the great Paul Legrand photo on the Pierrot page. I've never come across this one before! It's a gem.

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Thanks Beebuk! Scewing (talk) 13:35, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Scewing, I see you replaced the colour image in the Frederick Robson article with a b+w one. Is there a reason? The previous image was from a private portrait in the possession of his family, and put there with their permission. There's nothing wrong with the one you've put in its place, but it doesn't seem immediately superior to what was there already. (And I will admit I really liked the portrait, it's a sensitive face.)RLamb (talk) 08:11, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

No particular reason, feel free to switch it back! Scewing (talk) 15:58, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for this, I sweated blood getting that colour image accepted by the Wikicommons editors. The portrait-owner practically had to sign his life away. Am I okay to keep your picture elsewhere on the page, or will that be considered excessive illustration for a small article?RLamb (talk) 19:00, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

No problems, great work on the article. I'd just remove my image from the page, but add a Commons Category link. Cheers! Scewing (talk) 19:06, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

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No Problem! Here's the source. Scewing (talk) 01:44, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

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Greetings, Scewing. Thank you for your recent contributions to List of breweries in Illinois. I just re-added All Rise, Arcade, Vice District, and Aleman to the article, with this edit. Here are a few points of interest about all this: (1) For the footnotes for the individual breweries, we want to use third-party sources. So, we're not using the breweries' own webpages as references, and anyway those might be considered a form of citation spam. I believe that was why IronGargoyle objected to those entries. There's a discussion about this at Talk:List of breweries in Illinois#Notability, and links. So I found appropriate references for those four entries when I put them back. (2) The main "Breweries" table lists breweries in the sense of actual physical locations where beer is brewed. Some beer companies don't operate their own breweries, and those are listed in the "Other beer companies" section of the article. If they later open their own brewery, they can be moved from there into the table, as was done recently with Ale Syndicate. Since the Aleman brewery is not up and running yet, I put them into the "Other beer companies" section instead of the "Breweries" table. Feel free to discuss this further at Talk:List of breweries in Illinois#Other beer companies. (3) Note also that to be listed in the article, a brewery or beer company must actually be up and running, and selling beer commercially -- see Talk:List of breweries in Illinois#Planned breweries for more on this subject. Anyway, thanks again for your help with the article. There are a lot of breweries, or beer companies as the case may be, that are starting up in Illinois these days, and it's hard to keep track of them all, which is a good thing of course. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 19:45, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

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Here you go! Scewing (talk) 16:04, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

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Hi, Scewing. Lately, I've found myself doing battle with the widespread confusion of Talbot's calotype and salted paper processes. I corrected, or so I at first thought, an instance of it in the Hill & Adamson article, which I see that you founded and largely wrote, but I self-reverted after contemplating the context more carefully. The meaning of the passage in question is unclear. It is: "Their partnership produced around 3000 prints, but was cut short after only four years due to the ill health and untimely death of Adamson in 1848. The calotypes faded under sunlight, so had to be kept in albums ..." If the latter sentence refers to the prints, it should be "prints" or "salt prints", not "calotypes", but now it seems more probable that "3000 prints" should actually be "3000 photographs" or "3000 calotypes", since the portraits for the group painting alone presumably number into the mid-hundreds and 3000 prints is a very improbably small output of salt prints during five years. On the other hand, a developed-out calotype, unless not hypo-fixed or incompletely washed after fixing, should be far more resistant to deterioration, especially due to exposure to light, than a printed-out salt print, so the statement about keeping them in albums—presumably, original negatives would not be left lying around in the open in any case—then seems odd. Can you clarify? AVarchaeologist (talk) 19:40, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

After belatedly checking the Robert Adamson (photographer) article, it is clear that "3000 prints" is a misstatement, but the business about keeping calotypes in albums is still somewhat of a head-scratcher. I gladly leave the needed correction(s) to you, but will change "3000 prints" to "3000 different photographs" and probably change "the calotypes" to "the prints" if no reply and no action after a few days. AVarchaeologist (talk) 20:36, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the diligence. You're clearly much more educated than me on these matters, so please feel free to edit as you see fit. Keep up the good work! Scewing (talk) 20:44, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I made the planned correction to the "3000 prints" error, but ended up deleting the statement about fading and albums—the source cited by that paragraph is inaccessible, so no way of finding out what was intended—and tightened up the ill-composed statements that immediately followed. Cheers! AVarchaeologist (talk) 23:05, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

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