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a relative was employed by Edward Mourier Boxer, can you get in touch? dantemortem@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.232.49.230 (talk) 00:18, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposal for standard infobox for History of [country] templates

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Hello Ray

I was really impressed by your Wikipedia contributions and wondered if I could entice you to contribute to a free education project based on the Ragged Schools. Yours Kindly Alex Dunedin alex@raggeduniversity.com 82.41.211.213 (talk) 15:24, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Premature edit

Hi Ray, I just mindlessly edited your Sweeny Todd article before realising that it was a userspace article - sorry, my bad form. Cheers Hbachus (talk) 21:32, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ray,

After reading Sweeney Todd by Peter Haining, I came across your article and realized that someone had probably altered it incorrectly. I have edited the date of birth and death of Sweeney to the dates mentioned in the book. However I have tried to check Haining's claims and many of the items mentioned such as Daily Courant newspaper reports do not exist as far as I can see as the Daily Courant had changed it's name long before 1875. I have checked a number of databases without success if you have anymore info please contact me.

Thanks Jenny — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.200.172.114 (talk) 15:24, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Replaceable fair use File:Sarah T Stewart planetary scientist McArthur Fellow Sept 2018.jpg

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Thank you. I need help! It's the first image I have uploaded and I found the process somewhat confusing re copyright. I just went back to the source and if you follow the download photos link, it goes to a section about MacArthuer Fellows images and it has this: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. I think somewhere I should have put that on the image details? But I followed the instructions which relate to publishing my the media and it says just to quote the copyright notice which says "...used with permission" - can you advise what to do? I don't really understand about replacement with a free image, only others I can see are on news sites where presumably they are copyright of the website owners. The MacArthur site seemed to be the correct source to use. I am pushed for time to make sure I comply before Saturday deadline since I am travelling/working. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ray3055 (talk • contribs)

Hi.

Thanks for your note. I can see that there is indeed a free license for the images on the site. So this image is acceptable. There should have been an option for a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license when you uploaded the image. I will update the image to reflect the correct licensing. Images and licensing can get very confusing om Wikipedia. For future reference, if you get confused or have questions, you can post at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 18:14, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I saw you uploaded a cropped version of the file. I reverted it for a couple of reasons. The primary reason is that the crop was from the lower resolution image. I've uploaded a much higher resolution image and that should be the source for the crop. As well, it;s a significant crop, so I would suggest that the image be uploaded as a new file with a name like "File:Sarah T Stewart planetary scientist McArthur Fellow Sept 2018.jpg (cropped)". Finally, as a free image, the preferred location for uploading these files is Wikimedia Comons. Files at Commons are accessible to all Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedias in other languages. Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 19:24, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I had a message from a bot saying the image was too big, that's why I uploaded the cropped version. But I think you are correct I believe I changed the resolution also. I think for now I will leave it and upload the image as you suggest when I get time. Thank you for your assistance. Ray3055 (talk) 19:44, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Hi,

I just wanted to thank you again for pointing out the free license for images on the MacArthur Foundation web site. It's a great source for high-quality freely licensed images. I've been able to use it to add images to the Matthew Aucoin and Julie Ault biographies which lacked photos. And of course, there are more! Cheers! -- Whpq (talk) 16:09, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Great!I am still confused how to get 'free' images, I need ones for Lou Burnard and Harold Short bios, but , wary of downloading from their respective uni sites.Ray3055 (talk) 23:47, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Generally, thoese images are non-free. You might try requesting copyright permisson. -- Whpq (talk) 00:53, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

MacArthur Foundation images

I just found out there may me issues with the licensing on the MacArthur Foundation images. See this Commons discussion. I have removed the image from Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay for now. I've posted on Commons to get an admin to provide some guidance on whether this is still an issue. -- Whpq (talk) 02:55, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Antonio Zamora for deletion

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Zamora

I removed the wikilinks because they are essentially redirects to the article already wikilinked in the same sentence a bit below, with clear explanation: "Smallest Set of Smallest Rings (SSSR), [2] a cheminformatics term for the minimal cycle basis of a molecular graph". Anyway, I've read around and I think I will write a separate article about SSSR, an an application of minimal cycle basis in cheminformatics. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:37, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I hadn't noticed the other link to cycle basis page. Great if you could make an SSSR article. Problem with Zamora's article is that Google is really awful to try to find old stuff and Zamora is a really common name. I think I will stick to non bio's, my interest is trying to write about historical software/hardware etc. before it's all forgotten :) I had come across Zamora's work many times in the past, but trying to find it online now is too time consuming. Ray3055 (talk) 23:19, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Plimsoll

Noted on talk page of Plimsoll, that a note in 2013 disputed use of term 'devised'. Refers to a John Hall as true inventor?

Search online gets: Founded in Newcastle in 1864 by the brothers John and James Hall. James was a forward looking shipowner and was the first to set up a Merchant Navy training establishment with the ship Wellesley moored at North Shields. He was also instrumental in instigating load lines in ships. By 1867 the brothers owned 16 sailing ships and 3 steamers.

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Hall,_Russell_%26_Company Brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper founded the company in 1864 to build steam engines and boilers

Seems the use of waterlines goes back way before the Plimsoll line https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Waterline

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/SS_London_(1864) sinking in 1866 lead to parliamentary debate

Trencher

Need to locate source for info given at Pembroke Castle, re 'upper crust' and 'dole', being parts of the trencher and hence the common usage in recent times in UK. Period - William de Valence Ray3055 (talk) 11:10, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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