User talk:Weathervane13

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Weathervane13!

First steps tutorial Our first steps tour and our frequently asked questions will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy (Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content). You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold when contributing and assume good faith when interacting with others. This is a wiki. Getting help More information is available at the community portal. You may ask questions at the help desk, village pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons (webchat). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at the copyright village pump.

Goodies, tips, and tricks Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your graphic abilities. You can find the files you have uploaded in your Uploads. Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~. To link to an image page without embedding the image, type: [[:File:Foo.jpg]], which produces: File:Foo.jpg. You may enable gadgets (custom features) for your account. There are several tools to upload files. Have you edited Wikipedia before? This guide might be useful. Made a mistake? Do you want to have a file renamed or moved? Use the move link and wait for an authorized user to rename it. Do you want to have your recently uploaded picture removed? Tag it as {{speedy|reason here}}. For more information read the deletion guidelines.

-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 00:40, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

hello wikimedia commons. didn't know there was a message for me. am working on a stub biography article that Wiki did an AFC on. This morning I saw a speedy delete nomination somewhere in WikiWorld, I don't recall exactly where. However, I don't think this will or should happen, so it is now contested. A quick read would tell most users there is some significance to the article and the subject has some 'noteworthiness', even if assessed 'low'. There are sufficient cites and refs that are verifiable. See Wikipedia user talk weathervane13. The lede and article needs greater editing to improve presentation and interest I know. But, speedy delete??? Thanks for the welcome, by the way. Weathervane13 (talk) 21:46, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Media Files from Microfilm and Archival Collections, Optical Scanning and Uploading to WikiMedia ???

There are still numerous daily and weekly newspapers with back issues only available in microfilm or fiche format. Am looking for a publisher to cover expenses of converting these materials (or some of them) to a format usable by Wikimedia and the whole world. Unless I'm wrong, this is history collecting dust. For example, while New York Times has scanned their back issues, many other dailies have not, such as Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Oregonian, Santa Barbara News-Press, Des-Moines Register, etc, etc. In the 60's and 70's, when some of us were young, there was a series of underground countercultural and radical political newspaper weeklies, all catalogued by the official Audit Bureau of Circulation, that only exist in micro format only, except for a newspaper cover here and there. What to do. Such a project improves cites and refs, provides contextual meaning to historical social movements that have been absorbed by the mainstream society and its institutions half of a century later --as in today. I could be wrong, but then again I'm a trained historian. Any advice, or agreement/disagreement with such a project. It has to be a personal project, if expensed by a publisher, of course. The product would then be made available to Wikimedia, after due diligence re copyrights, etc. Any opinions? Weathervane13 (talk) 03:05, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

File:Ddmc logo 160 (2)-1.png

File:Ddmc logo 160 (2)-1.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. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Bri (talk) 16:51, 29 May 2018 (UTC)