File talk:Cholera in London 1866.gif
I am the director of the research project which created this image, and it has been uploaded to Commons without my permission, and with a completely incorrect description. Most basically, it is in fact a map of a cholera epidemic in 1866, not 1830 (and anyone familiar with the history of vital registration in England would know that such a map could not be created for 1830.
The image has been online at my own project's web site since 2000, and on an earlier version of that site in London since, I think, 1996 or 97. The caption on the original copy saysː
"The information from the [death] certificates was transcribed by Patsy Pinedo-Tuck for Graham Mooney of the Centre for Metropolitain History. These were processed at QMW to produce the animation above. The weekly interval was chosen arbitrarily, we could have used a moving average of daily deaths but this produces too many frames."
http://www.port.ac.uk/research/gbhgis/aboutthegbhistoricalgis/mapsamplers/thelondongis/3deathsfromcholerainlondon/
I am happy for the image to be in Commons, under a CC license, but it needs to be correctly described, and the people involved in its creation need to be given creditː Patsy Pinedo-Tuck, Graham Mooney (now of Johns Hopkins University), Ian Gregory (now of Lancaster University) and myself. I tried to upload a copy that I was going to include correct information with, but the system identified that it was identical to an existing image and blocked the upload.
Humphrey.Southall (University of Portsmouth)
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It is now six years since I pointed out that this map was mis-attributed, someone at the United Nations having include it in one of their publications without attribution, or contacting us. Nodoby has ever responded, or revised the information appearing with the file, so I have now corrected the authorship and also revised the copyright notice, as the United Nations have no rights whatever in this work -- it is exactly as we created it at QMUL. I will note here that I am certainly not the sole author, just the team leader as explained above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Humphrey.Southall (talk • contribs) 15:13, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Humphrey Southall (Humphrey.Southall@port.ac.uk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Humphrey.Southall (talk • contribs) 15:14, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
