File talk:LTG (USA) Edward H. Brooks, final formal military portrait.jpg

Permission and source

I have updated the source information to clarify that this photograph is MINE. I scanned it and uploaded it. It is a US Army photograph and therefore has no copyright restrictions to its posting.

Please do not delete. Contact me if any questions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkempster (talk • contribs)

Is there a possibility to find out who was the author? Or at least a prove that the author was employee of the government?

See also: Commons:Helpdesk#Warning_about_source_attribute... -- RE rillke questions? 18:50, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

If necessary, I could scan and post the reverse side of this official U.S. Army photograph, which includes blanket permission to redistribute along with a request to credit as "U.S. Army Photograph". Some of these old, official photos (usually the wartime journalists' photos) have the actual photographer's name on them. This one does not. -- User:Tkempster

Scanning the backside would be great. If you have privacy concerns, you can send the scan to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org and some text that is belongs to File:LTG (USA) Edward H. Brooks, final formal military portrait.jpg. Or just upload it and set Permission-file for "File:LTG (USA) Edward H. Brooks, final formal military portrait.jpg" as the description. Then, please add [[File:Permisssion-file-name|thumb]] to the permission section of this file.

But maybe we don't need to make so much trouble. I asked the one who tagged the file. Should answer here. -- RE rillke questions? 18:42, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

I think the explanation is clear enough. A scan of the backside wouldn't be really more convincing (as it might as well be another backside, if you really want to find a problem). So that trouble of sending a scan indeed is unneeded. The written note is not troublesome either. I have removed the "no source" note. Kind regards, Lymantria (talk) 22:43, 18 July 2011 (UTC)