User talk:Lucy Kemnitzer

Hi, Ms Kemnitzer. I don't suppose you'd have a photo of your father that you'd be willing to upload under a Wikipedia-compatible license?

Thanks in advance, and my very belated condolences. DS (talk) 00:53, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I do have several I can scan in. It's funny you should ask me this today because I was just looking for a picture online to illustrate something and Google refuses to display them any more, insisting that I am obviously looking for Luis Camnitzer.

Tell me how to get them to you, and I will send them. I am missing some of the best pictures, but I'll send what I have. Lucy Kemnitzer (talk) 01:26, 1 May 2014 (UTC)Lucy Kemnitzer[reply]

Because you have a registered Wikipedia account, you also have a registered account on the Wikimedia Commons, where you can upload the images yourself — iff you're willing to release them for use by anyone, free, without asking, for any purpose including commercial, as long as they give credit where it's due. These should be personal photos by you or by other Kemnitzer family-or-friends, such that you personally have the copyright, or can reasonably be considered the inheritor of the copyright, or can get the copyright holder (typically this would be the person who was holding the camera) to explicitly agree to the release. If you'd rather not make a release of such sweeping scale, that's okay: as your father is no longer alive, photos of him are considered 'non-replaceable', and we can thus justify using a (single, relatively small) non-free image of him as per "fair use". I've asked for your assistance instead of just grabbing the "smiley medal" pic from the Chronicle's article because our general principle is that free images are preferable to nonfree (and because you no doubt have access to more information about the photo — for instance, what is that medal? And when was the pic taken?).

If you're okay with the copyright release as I've described it above, you can use the basic, highly detailed upload form on Commons, or the simplified Upload Wizard. If you'd rather not make such a release but still have a preference as to which photo is used for the article, just put your choice on your LJ along with some useful metadata (when/where it was taken? by who? If anyone else is present, who are they and why are they there? Are there any other salient features?), and then provide the URL here; I'll snaffle it from there and upload it (or a reduced-resolution version thereof) with the details you supply. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I'll do my best. DS (talk) 13:44, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll do that. It will entirely depend on which photos scan best, honestly. Lucy Kemnitzer (talk) 15:36, 1 May 2014 (UTC)Lucy Kemnitzer[reply]