User talk:BrianAsh

Welcome!

Hello, BrianAsh, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! --Rkitko ^(talk) 21:51, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proper Image copyright tags

Image Copyright problem

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI 12:53, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I didn't know how to tag this information properly. I fixed the problem long ago. I retain this helpful note for reference. --Brian Ashman (talk) 21:54, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding original research

Hi, BrianAsh! I ran across one of your contributions to Wikipedia and decided to check out your userpage. I just wanted to leave you a note regarding a statement you made there, so that you were aware of policy:

Hopefully, I find an employer who is fine with me sharing many professional findings here.

Check out WP:OR. Unless the information you discover is peer reviewed and published elsewhere, Wikipedia would not be the place to share your professional findings. We must rely on primary and secondary sources to build this encyclopedia. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 21:50, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clarification. While Wikipedia does not present original findings, it can cite details of such findings once published elsewhere. The matter rests on the authority of official report, or peer reviewed material. I may use other Wikimedia to share original research. To cite it in Wikipedia I'd need to properly resolve ethical matters of self reference and insufficient peer review. It is premature for me to research such hypothetical details.

Wikipedia is a good place to share the fruits of one's literature reviews. Wikipedia has helped me locate some obscure, yet publicly available references, and I hope to enhance that capacity. I will need consent from anyone with a claim to my time and/or work to do so.

My immediate concern is weak references to non-peer reviewed pamphlets from local government agencies in the rain garden article. I have good reason to believe all the facts are accurate, but tracking down original sources and well respected sources needs further effort.--Brian Ashman (talk) 23:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikimedia :)

Hi BrianAsh. You seem like one who would be interested in some of the other Wikimedia projects as well, so thought I'd drop you a note. For performing and collaborating on research projects, Wikiversity is the only project where that's fully acceptable (see, for example, the Bloom Clock, which is a research project). If part of your interest in writing about rain gardens will include how to install and maintain them, instructional (testbook) materials are hosted on Wikibooks (see. e.g., A Wikimanual of Gardening). Finally, for uploading images, Wikimedia Commons is generally the best place, since images uploaded there can be used on Wikipedia (in any language... there are many!), Wikibooks, Wikiversity, etc. (the only issue on commons is that they don't allow "free use", but if they're your images and you want to release them under GFDL, that works fine). Commons:Upload is designed to walk you through the process. I'm SB_Johnny on all of those projects as well, if you need assistance anywhere. Happy contributing! --SB_Johnny | ^talk 22:02, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

File:7sigma raingarden.JPG listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:7sigma raingarden.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Calliopejen2 (talk) 17:02, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

They don't state why they deleted this photograph that I took. The discussion of why was deleted. That annoys me. I don't live on Wikipedia, and just learned of it. Perhaps storage space is the issue, since it was merely here for those seeking to browse examples of installed rain-gardens. I find no discussion of a copy right issue.

I will rant here because whatever the problem was, I was not allowed to fix it. I'll look for a way posts to my talk page can get emailed to me if improving a Wikipedia article becomes a priority. I'm glad this wiki accepts rain gardens as a thing now, and hope contributors in other countries broaden the perspective on that thing.

A key feature of that garden is a flat concrete edging that retains the asphalt pavement without impeding runoff into the garden. Raised curbs are abundant, sometimes arbitrarily specified by code, yet in my view many specific erosion situations would be avoided if raised curbs were not channeling runoff water into restricted outlets. I don't understand why examples of functioning alternative details get hidden from public awareness. It is not intentional, yet it is a trend by which the desire to standardize narrows options to solve real world problems. Innovation is fostered by exposure to concepts and ideas. Architects like working examples. Perhaps wiki-images are not a place for that. It is a thing; it exists; it is enlightening to a trained eye; yet it is not vital to understanding what a rain-garden is. Perhaps the opinion I just wrote will be deleted from my talk page because it is my personal viewpoint:)--Brian Ashman (talk) 17:03, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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