User talk:Animalparty
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. 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. |
|
|
File:Washington Times Artists - June 30, 1918.jpg
[edit]How do you come across amazing articles like this? Do you just read old papers for entertainment, or are you looking for a specific person, and while looking, stumble on these treasures? RAN (talk) 03:31, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- A lot of it is serendipity and stumbling upon. I like bringing obscure figures to light. I might be looking for a certain name or topic (for Wikidata, Wikipedia, or my own interests), and sometimes I find a relevant photo or illustration. Other times, I'll come across an interesting but unrelated image on the same page , and will upload it for historic value. --Animalparty (talk) 04:06, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- I am hoping that the next upgrade to newspapers.com will be the identification of people in newspaper images, and indexing them. They already identified obituaries and pulled relationships from them, then just a few weeks ago used AI too identify birth and marriage announcements and index them. Genealogy Bank has done the same thing and the index is at Familysearch. I have been correcting year only birth dates at Wikidata. They seem to come from obits and are calculated by the age at death, and can be off by a year or so. A great book to read , lamenting the destruction of the original newspapers after microfilming is w:Double Fold. --RAN (talk) 17:54, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
File:Bucking Broadway poster.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.
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. |
hinnk (talk) 07:54, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
Notification about possible deletion
[edit]Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry.
If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. |
Affected:
Yours sincerely, Darwin Ahoy! 01:41, 23 September 2024 (UTC)