User talk:Djr13

Why IWW?

[1][2]: Why add Category:Industrial Workers of the World? I can't imagine anything more antithetical to the IWW than the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen. - Jmabel ! talk 08:17, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

The LLLL's purpose was primarily to deter IWW organizing, making it historically relevant to the IWW. I'm new to Commons though, so it's entirely possible I'm categorizing wrongly. Thanks, djr13 (talk) 10:24, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

I just did some recategorizing based on Category:Spruce Production Division and have subcategorized that with the IWW category. If this is incorrect or should be done in another way, please correct it. Thanks, djr13 (talk) 12:58, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

While it's not an absolute rule, putting something in a category means "is part of this", not "is relevant to this". So, for example, you don't stick a photo of one person in another person's category unless the only reason someone would ever be likely to care is the other person (e.g. you might do this with the utterly unknown child of a very famous person). When the relations are trickier, we try to put in an intermediate category so, for example, we wouldn't put John Wilkes Booth directly under Abraham Lincoln: we have an intervening Category:Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. A similar principle applies here: I'll create a Category:Opposition to the Industrial Workers of the World. - Jmabel ! talk 19:03, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

That said, Spruce Production Division was a good choice, also. - Jmabel ! talk 19:05, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback. I do seem to err on the side of overcategorization (or even miscategorization perhaps) sometimes when I'm not sure. The intermediate category is a great idea though. To reduce redundancy I'll subcategorize the SPD cat rather than the individual LLLL logos. Thanks, djr13 (talk) 19:30, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

That last change, again, seems wrong to me. The Spruce Production Division was primarily exactly what its name says, an operation to produce high quality light wood for military use. It had nothing to do with the IWW, but when the latter started attempting to organize SPD workers and, even more so, to use that organization to call for work stoppages centered on opposition to the war rather than on labor concerns as such, people at the top of the SPD created the LLLL to counter the Wobblies. The LLLL survived for a while after the war for a few years as something akin to a company union, though a bit more independent than that. So it is wrong to categorize the SPD itself under opposition to the IWW. - Jmabel ! talk 08:17, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Unless I'm mistaken (I could very well be), the SPD was formed to counter the IWW's 1917 LWIU organizing which was already leading to strikes. By that time the IWW had long had a reputation for being anti-war and quick to strike if its relatively high goals weren't met, which often led to images and accusations of foreign-driven sedition by those who didn't want to make consessions to workers but seen their production drop. However, the IWW wasn't, from what I've read, so actively anti-war as to attempt to subvert war efforts, but often rather found itself in conflicts speaking out against conscription and war production being used as an excuse to stagnate or worsen working conditions. Besides this, categorizing SPD as I did makes sense as the SPD were there not only to put soldiers into production but to act as a security force to force out organizing attempts. djr13 (talk) 08:53, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Based on our article Spruce Production Division, you seem to be more correct than I realized. I'll leave this as you have it. - Jmabel ! talk 17:10, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

I hate to be on the same note again (especially because you were right last time and I wasted your time) but why Category:Centralia Square (building) in Category:Wesley Everest, rather than the specific photos that show the mural? Seems odd to me to place File:Centralia Square Building 04.jpg indirectly in Category:Wesley Everest. And would be even odder if we ever get photos of the interior. - Jmabel ! talk 16:11, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, you're probably right about this one. I wasn't sure how to best sort the category tree between all of: Category:Centralia Square (building), Category:Wesley Everest, Category:Centralia Massacre (Washington) and Category:Industrial Workers of the World, including considering redundant cats, avoiding circular cats, and all that. I guessed at it so that at least it'd show up in Everest's category in some form, since he's being depicted in particular. However, despite briefly looking into the mural, I don't know much about it or the building. I don't think the building owner is an IWW member nor the shop within unionized. It's further complicated because the mural is currently blurred out to avoid possible copyright infringement. djr13 (talk) 23:52, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Yup. The building has no particular affiliation with the IWW -- it's currently an antiques mall. The owner simply allowed this wall facing the town square to be used for a mural. Now, in Centralia, the Massacre is by no means a dead issue, and it was nervy of him to do that: probably a lot of people boycotted him for it. But certainly my intent in posting the pictures was mainly to depict the building, not the mural: I don't think there is any way we could do the latter without the artist's permission, which is why I added Gaussian blur. - Jmabel ! talk 23:59, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

I think I could try finding the artist's info and asking permission, no idea if that'll be successful though. Do you still have unblurred copies? In the meantime, feel free to sort it as you see fit and I'll trust your judgment. Putting the photos themselves under Category:Wesley Everest and Category:Centralia Massacre (Washington) seems like a good idea if the blur, as it stands, doesn't make these categories irrelevant. djr13 (talk) 01:23, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I should have the unblurred photos on disk; also, there's a picture of the mural as such on my Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmabel/7968841846. If you want to contact the artist, Mike Alewitz, he's alewitz comcast.net. - Jmabel ! talk 18:15, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

I should probably mention, having not done so over the past month, that I decided not to try requesting permission for photographs of the mural. I don't feel familiar enough with Commons's requirements to try formally requesting it right now, and don't yet see a pressing need for images of the mural to get me to overcome that. djr13 (talk) 00:55, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

OK. - Jmabel ! talk 04:47, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Good work!

With the interwiki care. Thank you Orrlingtalk 06:01, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! djr13 (talk) 06:47, 1 March 2013 (UTC)