Talk:Ian Sprague

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I have started to remove all references which are to be found only in the work of Judith Pearce on the website of Australian Pottery at Bemboka, an admirable but unoriginal site. Until this revision is complete of course I'll leave the copyright warning as it stands. Erictimewell (talk) 08:39, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can see, removing copyright material from the article is now complete. Erictimewell (talk) 09:16, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am Judith Pearce and my short biography on Ian Sprague on the Australian Pottery at Bemboka website that was cited as infringing copyright is already licenced as CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AU. I am happy for any of this content to be used in the entry on Ian Sprague although Eric is right to say that it i all based on other sources. A better reference if one is to be used would be the one in the Identifying Australian Pottery group on Flickr, as the biographies on my website are ephemeral: [1] Flickr: Discussing * Ian Sprague / Mungeribar Pottery in Identifying Australian Pottery 1960s to date. Drofe (talk) 23:11, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Judith. This is high courtesy. Erictimewell (talk) 01:12, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Willy Weazley 22:54, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dear OTRS, thanks for the response, but we seem to have offered you the wrong end of the stick. The original version of the website was found to have possibly breached the copyright of Judith Pearce on her website Australian Pottery at Bemboka, specifically the entry for Ian Sprague whom the wikipedia article is about. Rather than confront such a knotty question, I straight away removed all the material which could only be found on that website and in that order. Therefore the material currently under the template does not breach her or anyone else's copyright. Presumably this can be verified by rerunning your copyright breach detector.

It is true the owner of the original copyright wrote immediately to say no breach had occurred. (See above.) But by the time she wrote no controversial material remained. Could we now please do something about this? Erictimewell (talk) 04:11, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have further rewritten the queried paragraphs. The Duplication Detector shows nothing more now than the repetition of personal and place names. I have deliberately chosen the rewrite rather than copyright route, although the author of the potentially offended article has written (above) giving her permission. There is a further problem: Zpeopleheart initially imposed the copyright violation template but is now unable to remove it because he has been banned from editing for six month in relation to another article. So I will now contact the OTRS noticeboard. Erictimewell (talk) 09:37, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Galleries

There are now three galleries of photos, each corresponding to a section heading. The form and content of these are by no means final. But the basic idea is that no amount of published criticism can equal the reader being able to see the work itself. Two groups of work are missing so far: 1970s pottery mannikins; and 1980s pen and pencil drawings of landscape. Erictimewell (talk) 15:14, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We now have plenty of drawings, but still lack any 1970s mannikins. The 1960s pottery section is wide but short on the big vases and breadcrocks Sprague made in that decade. Erictimewell (talk) 18:17, 22 March 2016 (UTC) Also half the drawings have not-up-to-standard resolution and will have to be re-photographed. Erictimewell (talk) 23:40, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]