User talk:Ah1954

Help. I'm new here, & have no idea what I'm doing.

The article on Edmund Blampied mentions my grandfather, Thomas McKeggie as one of EB's early teachers. I'm trying to find the source of this information. Can anyone help? (possibly Ah1954 who, I suspect wrote the article)

If I'm using the wrong method to ask this question, please point me in the right direction.

tcmck

Tcmck 16:40, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It seems some of the images I have uploaded for a biography of the artist Edmund Blampied have been marked for deletion because they are OR and CV. They have been inserted within the entry so are not orphans. When I uploaded them I gave them a wrong licence, which I have since changed to FAL, Free Art Licence. This seems the most appropriate, but I may be wrong, so any guidance would be appreciated.

I have been given permission from the Estate of Edmund Blampied to use the images, and they have provided the photograph of the artist. I can provide a postal address if someone would like to check my permissions.

This is my first submission to Wikipedia and I would appreciate helpful support while I find my way around.

Ah1954

Mèrcie bein des fais pouor l'articl'ye sus Bliampid! The images may well be problematic, though. Unless the Blampied estate has had a change of heart recently, I'd be surprised if they really intended to permit distribution and commercial use under the Free Art license. Copyright works that are restricted to use on Wikipedia are currently deprecated and liable to deletion (see Template:Copyrighted). But if the permissions from the copyright owners are compatible with Wikipedia requirements, it might be an idea to quote the text of the permissions on the relevant image description pages. (BTW, IANAL!) Man vyi 18:01, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would the person who added the reference please add the date of publication and publisher, so that someone could obtain the document. If it is about Blampied, then it could me moved to the bibliography. Ah1954

Stubs

Hi - you seem to misunderstand how to mark articles as stubs. For some reason you are copying and pasting a section of Wikipedia:Stub relating to the creation of new stub templates, rather than actually adding a stub template to the article. To mark an article as a stub, simply add the relevant template from the list at WP:WSS/ST - for example {{Food-stub}} or {{Artist-stub}} (or, if this is too long a list to look through, simply add {{stub}}). Please don't copy and paste the "how to" example from WP:STUB, otherwise the stubs will be lost in a non-existent category called Category:B stubs (which is what happened with Salomon van Abbé and Ernest Stephen Lumsden!) Grutness...wha? 13:23, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nasrin Pervin Huq

Could you upload the image to wikimedia commons, so that we can use it on an article on her in the Bangla wikipedia (http://bn.wikipedia.org )? Also, do you speak Bangla? if you do, can you please start an article there as well? Thanks. --Ragib 21:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nasreen Huq

I will upload the photograph as you ask. Sorry I don't speak Bangla but someone is very welcome to translate the article. Regards --Ah1954

Edmund Blampied

Edit away! (And you still can't believe everything you read in the newspapers...) Man vyi 17:49, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OrphanBot is on a bit of a rampage, ignoring fair use rationales all over the place, judging by reaction. I have removed the delete template, added a PD template to flag up your PD justification and laid out an exposition of what I understand to be your reasoning on the image talk page. Please amend as necessary if I have mis-stated your case. Man vyi 07:38, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You could, if that is your claim, use the PD-stamp template to place in Category:Public domain stamp images. I'd be dubious, personally, that the Blampied estate didn't claim copyright in the artwork, though. Man vyi 08:20, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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John Nicolson (artist)

You just created a page called "Create new entry". I have "moved" it, i.e. changed its title, to John Nicolson (artist), which seems the right title for it. It could do with some references. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:59, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

John Nicolson (artist)

I was wondering how to do that. There was an incorrect link from a page on Edmund Blampied to a cricketer named John Nicolson, so to solve the problem I have started work on an entry on the artist. I have added two references and will send the entry to the artist's daughter to get more information. --Ah1954 (talk) 11:08, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. It is a scan of an envelope in my personal collection which I uploaded many years ago. I don't really understand what you are saying. The file is replaceable in the sense that there are lots of other examples of covers with these stamps on the internet, including my web site on Blampied, which has the approval of the Estate of Edmund Blampied, here:

https://www.threeisacollection.org/blampied/blampied_stamps.html

If there are some words I should use perhaps you can tell me what they are? I find this whole issue to be unclear and difficult to follow, so some examples would be helpful. But if you want to delete it if you feel that's justified, then please go ahead. Ah1954 (talk) 19:03, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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