[Wikimediauk-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England

2009-08-10 Thread Andrew Turvey
I've recently come across the following website that publishes a large number of old photographs held in local council archives in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire: http://tinyurl.com/nydpcj Many of the pictures are still in-copyright and have been released for private use only. However, many

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: UK Deletionists - a request

2009-08-10 Thread Michael Peel
Hi all, Anyone interested in the below? As I understand it, they want to cover the range of philosophies on Wikipedia - they already have people involved with an inclusionist or middle-ist point of view, but no-one from a deletionist viewpoint. Thanks, Mike Begin forwarded message: > From

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England

2009-08-10 Thread Michael Peel
Rather than taking that approach, it would be much better if we could try to co-operate with them to upload their photos to Wikipedia, complete with metadata, etc. As such, I've just emailed them to see if they're interested in uploading some of their images to Commons. Mike On 10 Aug 2009,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England

2009-08-10 Thread Andrew Turvey
It would be good to see what they come back with. They already release low res images on the website for free personal non-commercial use, and they say they've researched all the copyright holders, so we may be lucky with this one. Having said that, I don't think it's an "either - or" situation

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: UK Deletionists - a request

2009-08-10 Thread geni
2009/8/10 Michael Peel : > Hi all, > > Anyone interested in the below? As I understand it, they want to > cover the range of philosophies on Wikipedia - they already have > people involved with an inclusionist or middle-ist point of view, but > no-one from a deletionist viewpoint. > > Thanks, > Mik

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: UK Deletionists - a request

2009-08-10 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/8/11 geni : > 2009/8/10 Michael Peel : >> Hi all, >> >> Anyone interested in the below? As I understand it, they want to >> cover the range of philosophies on Wikipedia - they already have >> people involved with an inclusionist or middle-ist point of view, but >> no-one from a deletionist vie