Talk:St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights

Michigan Low‑importance

	Michigan portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Michigan, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Michigan on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MichiganWikipedia:WikiProject MichiganTemplate:WikiProject MichiganMichigan
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Lighthouses Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lighthouses, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of lighthouses and other water navigational aids on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LighthousesWikipedia:WikiProject LighthousesTemplate:WikiProject LighthousesLighthouses
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

National Register of Historic Places Low‑importance

	National Register of Historic Places portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject National Register of Historic Places, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of U.S. historic sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.National Register of Historic PlacesWikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic PlacesTemplate:WikiProject National Register of Historic PlacesNational Register of Historic Places
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Photo needs cropped

I'd like to crop the photo – as it is now it's pretty useless – but am unfamiliar with the upload procedure at Commons regarding cropped images as they relate to the original. It's actually been done using this exact image to create File:Blossomland Bridge.jpg (@Chris857: That's yours; can you help?). Mapsax (talk) 15:10, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Mapsax: Hi Mapsax. (It's been a while since I was highly active on here.) Do I assume correctly that you want to crop the lower left of the image to get the lighthouse(s)? It does not look there is a special upload form for this, so (apologies if you know any of this already, just want to be thorough):

Go to the upload form
At Release Rights, click "This file is not my own work."
For source and author, use "[[:File:St Joseph Michigan aerial view.jpg]] - originally from the US Army Corps of Engineers website: [http://web.archive.org/web/20041107093358/http://images.usace.army.mil/images/Hires/3998-70.Jpg Archived link]" and "US Army Corps of Engineers" to match my crop
For license, select "Another reason not mentioned above", and paste in {{PD-USGov-Military-Army-USACE}}
On the Describe page, give some description about the lighthouse
Put the date as "pre November 2004" (click on the pencil icon "Use custom date format")
Add it to some categories (Lighthouses in Michigan, perhaps)
Under "Add location and more information">"Other Information", put {{Extracted from|File:St Joseph Michigan aerial view.jpg}} (this is what points out what it has been cropped from)
Finish the upload
Change the file in the article to use the new one
Go to Commons:File:St_Joseph_Michigan_aerial_view.jpg, and under the tag about an extracted image ({{Image extracted|File:Blossomland Bridge.jpg}}), add another line about your new extracted image.

One particular to note is: do not try to overwrite an existing file (the original is useful to keep). Hope this helps. Chris857 (talk) 16:56, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Chris857: Thank you. I probably could have figured this out myself, but your details saved me what probably would have been frustrating time-consuming trial and error, especially regarding consistency with your crop. I assume that my slight enlargement of my crop from the original size doesn't need noting. Mapsax (talk) 14:10, 8 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Mapsax: Glad I could help. A slight enlargement probably doesn't need to be noted (not even sure if there is a standard template or not). Chris857 (talk) 20:36, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]