User talk:Southern.historian

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Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Southern.historian!

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File:BlossomHill.png has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

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Guanaco (talk) 16:22, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

File:Anatok Bardstown KY.png has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

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Guanaco (talk) 16:23, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

File:Arcadia - Shelby Family Plantation.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

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Guanaco (talk) 16:25, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

File:Alexander Plantation.png has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

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Guanaco (talk) 16:26, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings: I kept this file per the discussion, the reasons are listed in the closing comment. If you want help with your uploads of historic properties, just ask! Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:52, 26 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Ellin Beltz. I wish I had known the rule before all the other images were deleted. --Southern.historian (talk) 14:56, 2 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, we don't delete the files, they're hidden. So if we can come up with actual source/photographer which would let them be undeleted, they can be. Also if it's a matter of "undelete in X-year" there are categories for that under the assumption that the project will persist through those years. If you can prove publication prior to 1923 in the U.S., the license is {{PD-1923}}. You may find additional possibilities for the priorly removed images at COM:HIRTLE which is also a logical flow chart of the confusing territory which is United States Copyright law. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 01:08, 3 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ellin Beltz, I suppose I just don't understand why they (Blossom Hill, Anatok, Arcadia) were hidden and Alexander Plantation - though marked for deletion - was not, since the were from the same sources (NPS) and cited similarly. Can you shed a light on what was done differently and how I might correct that in the future? I do have a 1900 photo of Anatok, but can't seem to track down the original photographer and if and where it was originally published. It has appeared in more recent publications but doesn't seem to be cited to the original owner. --Southern.historian (talk) 13:38, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi again: I didn't close the three about which you have questions - although they do appear to all be NPS application images - administrator Jameslwoodward (call him "Jim"), did. I'm summoning him to join the discussion to find out myself! Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:48, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ellin, I'm sorry to say that I think you did not close the subject DR correctly. There is nothing in US law which suggests that if I take a photograph of a house and it is submitted to the NPS in conjunction with a NRHP application that somehow my copyright becomes PD. I have read the NPS disclaimer:

"Information created or owned by the NPS and presented on this website, unless otherwise indicated, is considered in the public domain. It may be distributed or copied as permitted by applicable law."

It is poorly worded -- but note that it refers only to "Information created or owned by the NPS" -- photographs submitted with NRHP applications are not "created or owned by the NPS" unless they were taken by an NPS employee.

I should add that I am very familiar with the NRHP process -- as noted on my WP:EN user page, User:Jameslwoodward, before I became very active on Commons, I wrote a variety of NRHP articles and supplied almost 500 NRHP photographs. It is very uncommon for a photograph accompanying an NHRP application to have been taken by a Federal employee..     Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 19:00, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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