File talk:Archbishop John Hughes - NARA - 526780.jpg

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It is impossible to find anything on this site that tells a reader in a simple and clear fashion how to submit an error report. I finally found this page after nearly thirty minutes of searching, to no avail. The site seems to have how-tos on everything except that - as important and fundamental as an error correction would surely be! I found the runaround experience quite frustrating. How does Wikipedia Commons hope to receive feedback from readers on errors if they can't even find out how?

So, I shall report an error in this message, but then that's it - if that doesn't do it, then it's Wikimedia Commons loss, not mine. The photograph on this page is not of Archbishop John Hughes - it is a photo, and a common one, of John Cardinal McCloskey, his successor, who was the first U. S. prelate made cardinal, by Pope Leo XIII in 1875.

And, by the way, when I tried to register, I got an error message, saying that that email address was already taken; then when I tried to enter it, I got another error message saying, in effect, that that email address was not on record and I needed to register first. Nice, eh? So, next time I see an error here, you can bet I won't be the one to correct it. I wonder how many of your readers have had the same experience; I'll leave that speculation to the people responsible for this idiocy. And now I can't even find a "send" button! So, I'll click the "save page" button; if that doesn't do it, then too bad. And thanks for the info on Wikimedia but not for this absence of clarity.

Robert Taylor roberttaylor@pathcom.com

Hi Robert Taylor, the description and thereby the identification comes from the associated NARA record. Please contact them and let us know when they have changed the descripition. --AFBorchert (talk) 22:35, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]


I want to second this complaint. The photograph is NOT Abp John Hughes of New York, it is a photograph of his successor, Cardinal John McCloskey of New York. I have posted notes in the past (two years ago) regarding this error. PLEASE remove Abp Hughes' name from this photograph and give it its rightful title, Cardinal McCloskey. Consult Google Images if you need further proof: https://www.google.com/search?q=cardinal+mccloskey&rlz=1C1SAVM_enUS534US536&espv=2&biw=956&bih=619&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAkQ_AUoBGoVChMI9JWim_iByAIVxVseCh2bqQl5 A. K.