User talk:Mike Cline

Welcome to the Commons, Mike Cline!

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Image:Union Pacific Yellowstone National Park Brochure (1921).JPG

Hi. Could you please clarify the description of Image:Union Pacific Yellowstone National Park Brochure (1921).JPG -- is it from 1921, or something you created this year to look old? Thanks. Nice image, either way. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 02:28, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

This image was extracted from a PDF version of a 1921 documents downloaded from the Internet archive [1]. I have added the URL to the image description. I doubt seriously that I would have the ability to create such a nice image. --Mike Cline 12:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I thought that more likely, but as it wasn't quite clear from the description I wanted to make sure before adding the chronological category. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 16:29, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:Firehole River Fountain Flats.jpg

Hi! I see your photo Image:FireholeRiverFountainFlats0904.jpg uploaded to the English Wikipedia too, with name Image:Firehole River Fountain Flats.jpg. Please don't make duplicates at the future and delete the unnecessary pictures from the Wikipedia! I did it at this picture at this time. Thanks --Beyond silence 18:07, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Mike, you may have a hybrid bass there. Note the broken lines below the lateral line. http://www.outdooralabama.com/fishing/freshwater/fish/bassstriped/white/ http://www.outdooralabama.com/fishing/freshwater/fish/bassstriped/hybrid/

Copyright on Danish stamps

It seems unlikely that you are the copyright holder on Danish stamps such as Image:15ore1925.jpg, unless you're much older than average and used to work as an engraver in Denmark :-) . The copyright holder is going to be either the Danish government or the stamp designer, and a 1925 stamp may or may not be old enough to be PD; I don't think anybody has carefully researched this yet. Stan Shebs 20:37, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Stan you may be right. How do you suggest I permission these at this time until it gets researched?--Mike Cline 21:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Next to all of the Stamps of Denmark category will have to be deleted (although images predating 1923 may be used on the English Wikipedia under US law. In that case, the relevant tag for such uploads would be "PD-US" and "Do not move to Commons"). The problem is that Danish law lacks the nice loopholes in American law. 1) No "work for hire" clause exists, so the copyright belongs to the original artist(s), i.e. the artist and the engraver, and they and their heirs hold copyright until 70 years p.m.a. This excludes roughly all stamps from at least 1933 [introduction of a steel press] and till the early 1950s since the engraver (Friedrich Britze) died in that decade. Taking into account that the relevant designers/artists must also have been dead for at least 70 years, that will leave out most of the older material as well. 2) US law operates with a 1923 cutoff date before which works are copyright exempt. No similar clause exists in Danish law. The law's § 9 speaks of government works but in a very narrow definition, so very likely no luck there either.

http://www.infokiosk.dk/ is an official copyright website operated by the Danish Ministry of Culture but they don't mention stamps at all. You might take a shot contacting them at kum@kum.dk but expect a negative reply. Expect the same from PostDanmark (mail: skrivpost@post.dk ) and bear in mind that it is very unlikely that PostDanmark would have the authority to release such works from copyright anyway. You can find the full text of the Danish law at http://www.kum.dk/sw4550.asp If you have the artists' names on hand, some of them will probably be listed on http://www.kulturarv.dk/kid/Forside.do ("søg kunstner" is the search function you'll need). 83.89.43.14 10:26, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Clearly based on the above, the images of the 1925 and 1934 series airmail stamps cannot remain in the Commons and I will mark them for deletion today. I am not sure that it applies to the proofs and essays images, since these represent original artwork which I own. When an artist sells the original of a work, does not the right to use of that work pass to the new owner?--Mike Cline (talk) 11:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Transfer of physical objects doesn't usually change anything about copyright; you would have had to have gotten a license from the artist, just as for the original works uploaded to commons. We should add the info about Danish stamps to Commons:Stamps/Public domain for future reference; the France section is a good example, listing the various artists. Stan Shebs (talk) 13:55, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Not sure about the laws in your country, but not under Danish jurisdiction. However, special rules apply for museums. To top things off, Danish copyright is granted automatically, no formal registration takes place. Of course, if PostDanmark can dig up a contract stating that X for all time transfers his rights to a work to his employer, I guess that a judge may be influenced by it, but that's just my guess. Trouble is that it is very unlikely that anybody cared about such formalities back then, not to mention that few companies would preserve employment records that old, and Post & Telegrafvæsenet was a very large employer. In fact, the artist behind the 1925 issue died in 1972.[2][3] Regarding the 1930s issue, Johannes Britze [4] ("Johs" is short for "Johannes") died in 1960.[5] I've been unable to dig up a record for Poul E. Johansen but an (apparently minor) artist by that name is buried in Hillerød. Can't find a date of death though. It is a very nice article, the quality of the images is fine, and it is always a pleasure to see foreigners writing about one's own country. Unfortunately, the copyright status doesn't look very positive (unless the Ministry of Culture puts any weight to the fact that the works were published without an accompanying signature, but I very strongly doubt that a work may qualify as "anonymous" if the artist behind it was identified before his own death). § 63 art. 2 defines anonymous works but cases like this seem to be expressly excluded by § 63, art. 3; in other words: standard rules apply. 83.89.43.14 10:18, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Tip: Add categories to your files

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• Image:BenjaminStickney.JPG is uncategorized since 25 December 2008. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:56, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
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File:LowerFallsJackson1871.jpg

Hi Mike, you are probably not the author of this image ;-) Could you please correct the information? Thanks --:bdk: 15:25, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

… same issue: File:TowerFallsMoran1875.jpg and some others you uploaded recently. --:bdk: 15:27, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Authorship

Hi Mike, thank you for your contributions and your work on Commons. Im not happy with the authorship claims on many images, the author is the person who originaly created the content, not someone who transfered the image to Commons. Of course the images are public domain, nevertheless a correct sourcing would be good. Im starting to fix this for you National Park Service images, feel free to help. --Martin H. (talk) 18:51, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I noticed, that this were only your oldest uploads, so keep on with your good contributions. I also noticed the Category:William Henry Jackson-Hayden Surveys, there are a lot more maybe usefull images on http://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/slidefile/history/jacksonphotos/Page.htm, all images are (probably) {{PD-USGov-USGS}}. --Martin H. (talk) 19:41, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Re:Advice on getting license correct

It looks already fine to me, you should use the license templates

• {{PD-author|Merton J. Parks}} or
• {{PD-heirs}}

to remove the "I, the copyright holder...". At best you have the permisssion in written form, Email or Scan, and can forward it to COM:OTRS. --Martin H. (talk) 15:38, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

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Better source request for Image:SepulcherMountainYNP1977.jpg

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Image: Spotted Bass

I read the article on spotted bass and wanted to know details and specs on the rod and reel in the picture if you have them. -bobbowobbo

Bobbowobbo The rod is a custom rod on a 5' Loomis IMX Black. The guides are Gold Cermet. The reel is a Shimano Stradic 1000.--Mike Cline (talk) 13:58, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Would that be the s6010 blank? -bobbowobbo

Indeed. Makes a great little ultralight rod.--Mike Cline (talk) 08:51, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

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HABS categories

Hi, in making changes like this, you are removing location specific categories to a more generic one for the archive. Considering there are nearly 300,000 HABS "documents" the category you are moving to seems to be a duplicate of the hidden bucket category. Do you have a plan for moving these a second time? --Fæ (talk) 09:42, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Actually yes. I plan on moving individual photos, documents into the more discrete categories related to the subject of the photo/document. I just needed to get them off the main category page first for ease of access. The Yellowstone category tends to get tons of stuff dumped into it without regard to all the available sub-categories, so I try and keep it cleaned up. --Mike Cline (talk) 14:51, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Okay. It is a shame that cat-a-lot no longer works from searches, it used be to great for this sort of thing. If you don't use VisualFileChange, this may be worth investigating, I have used it for complex sub-category sorting in the past. --Fæ (talk) 16:28, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

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.     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 15:01, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Yellowstone NP Categories

Hi there,

I was going to move the below Yellowstone categories to clarify their name (mostly by adding "National Park"). Seeing that you created some of these and know the category well, I'd like to see if you have any comments or objections.

• Category:Aerial views of Yellowstone‎ to Category:Aerial views of Yellowstone‎ National Park
• Category:Angling in Yellowstone‎ to Category:Angling in Yellowstone‎ National Park
• Category:Yellowstone bridges to Category:Bridges in Yellowstone National Park
• Category:Yellowstone buildings and structures to Category:Buildings and structures in Yellowstone National Park
• Category:Hotels in Yellowstone to Category:Hotels in Yellowstone National Park
• Category:Yellowstone ranger and entrance stations to Category:Ranger and entrance stations in Yellowstone National Park
• Category:Lakes of Yellowstone to Category:Lakes in Yellowstone National Park ("of"? or "in"?)
• Category:Campgrounds of Yellowstone to Category:Campgrounds in Yellowstone National Park
• Category:Yellowstone geothermal features‎ to Category:Geothermal features‎ in Yellowstone National Park ("of"? or "in"?)
• Category:Historic drawings of Yellowstone to Category:Drawings of Yellowstone National Park (to go into the "in art" category)
• Category:Art of Yellowstone to Category:Yellowstone National Park in art
• Category:Hot springs of Yellowstone to Category:Hot springs of Yellowstone National Park ("of"? or "in"?)
• Category:Postcards of Yellowstone to Category:Postcards of Yellowstone National Park
• Category:Vehicles and roads in Yellowstone to Category:Transport in Yellowstone National Park
• Category:Yellowstone wildfires to Category:Wildfires in Yellowstone National Park
• Category:Landscapes of Yellowstone to Category:Landscapes of Yellowstone National Park

If you agree, I'll go ahead and move the cats (I don't think this is a controversial change in need of a cat-move discussion, but can open one if you (or anyone else reading this) feel it needs it). Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

Thanks and kind regards, -- Deadstar (msg) 14:26, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

No objections on this end Mike Cline (talk) 14:45, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Moves done (mostly) by delinker. -- Deadstar (msg) 10:40, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Yellowstone geothermal features maps

Hello,

Recently I created an article called 'Sapphire Pool' on the Dutch Wikipedia. I wanted to add a map of the location of it and looked for it in Commons, but couldn't find one. I did saw some maps with the locations of other features, like Grotto and Old Faithful, uploaded by you. Here's the question: If I want to upload a map with a location in Yellowstone using, for example, the image File:NorthernSectionUpperGeyserBasin.JPG and a red dot to highlight the feature, which license should I be using, or should I not upload it at all because of copyright infringement of the US Government? --DarkShadowTNT (talk) 14:16, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

The original image is in the public domain, so you can modify it for your purposes and load a new version with the PD License. --Mike Cline (talk) 17:01, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, but which one of the numerous licenses? {{PD-self}}, {{PD-USGov}}, {{PD-user}}, {{PD-ineligible}} or another one? I like to give the maximum amount of credit to someone, to be safe. --DarkShadowTNT (talk) 17:35, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

I would use {{PD-USGov}} --Mike Cline (talk) 14:44, 27 July 2016 (UTC)