User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )

American League Owners photo

Not much luck identifying them, I did manage to find a 1914 Reach Guide from the Smithsonian: https://archive.org/details/reachofficialame19141phil/page/n13/mode/2up ... There's a photo of all the owners on page 8, I think the one identified as Charles Sommers might be ES Minor from Washington. The photo above his matches 3 on the bottom (sitting) row, but I can't make out his name in the Reach guide; my guess is Nixey Callahan based on this eyebrows looking somewhat similar. Oaktree b (talk) 01:43, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

I'm off to bed soon, here's the reddit post I made, the responses are slowly coming in. https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/osdwf1/wikipedia_photo/ Oaktree b (talk) 03:14, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Excellent, I also wrote SABR, but they rarely respond. --RAN (talk) 03:17, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Bain News Service

Hi, One problem here is that the "George Grantham Bain Collection" has been made a hidden cat. Also presumably the GGBC comprises more than just Bain News Service items or not? Broichmore (talk) 17:04, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

@Broichmore: Are you looking to distinguish between images that the studio took themselves versus images that the news service distributed that were taken by other studios? If you want to go though all 30,000 I think it would be a good project. We can move the small subset that shows the studio from "Bain News Service" to "Bain News Service studio" which would free up "Bain News Service" for you, but historically images taken from other studios are just marked with "George Grantham Bain Collection" and the name of the other studio or the name of the known photographer. For instance File:A. Babel LCCN2014686265.jpg and File:AtleePomereneBakerPortrait1.jpg are copied from another studio. Maybe it would be easier to create a category for those images, since they represent a minority of the 30,000 images we already have uploaded. BTW, if you like the Bain Collection, each Friday the Library of Congress releases 50 images the from Bain Collection that they are crowdsourcing context for. You can participate at Flick Commons. This is the last image loaded at Flickr Commons they are stored in an album called News in the 1910s and we are on page 267. The current tranche is from 1923, so the correct date needs to be transferred to Wiki Commons and a category added. All the images are already here but have the default date of "1900" and most have no categories. I also create a Wikidata entry for any new people identified in the images. This is the last image loaded at Flickr Commons. See Luella Frances Smith (1859-1952) for a Wikidata entry for someone pictured in the collection. --RAN (talk) 17:41, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

I just feel that unless there is a cat called, say: "Photographs from Bain News Service" then you will continue to have the Admin chore of clearing out unwanted extras in the studio cat. Broichmore (talk) 13:52, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

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Methodologies

Wanted to be sure you were aware of the methodology described here, which you may find useful. DS (talk) 13:21, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

• @DragonflySixtyseven: Excellent! Do you also have a subscription to newspaper.com? Do you make an entry for the clipped article in Wikidata and transcribe at Wikisource? --RAN (talk) 14:17, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
  • a) I do not - just take from Chronicling America and its affiliates. No possibility of licensing issues that way. b) Would that be relevant? What would be done, with, for instance, "The American Adventures of Marmaduke Squeezledene"? c) Mostly I just tag them as needing transcription because sometimes the captions can be quite bulky. DS (talk) 14:23, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
• @DragonflySixtyseven: Great work! I mostly work on obits. The list of papers that renewed copyright is available online, most small papers didn't spend the money to hire a lawyer to renew, so most are PD up to 1964. I have been adding copyright info on each paper to Wikidata and Commons. I am going to introduce new fields to contain "first copyrighted issue" and "first copyrighted article" to Wikidata soon. Check out Category:Jersey_Journal_articles where I write a blurb about copyright status for that publication. You can get a free account for Newspapers.com through Wikimedia. --RAN (talk) 15:18, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
  • Can get a free NP account, but I've got so many other concurrent projects I'm not sure I could justify it to myself. DS (talk) 15:21, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Dragsholm castle

In the note for Anders Örbom you are mentioning the destruction of Dragsholm castle and the battle of Seland. -That destruction actually happened around 1660 when the Swedes were leaving Denmark in the years after the Treaty of Roskilde. Have a read on da:Dragsholm Slot. -So what you are referring to as the battle of Seland in 1700 is probably en:Landing at Humlebæk which in the end resulted in the en:Peace of Travendal. -- Sturban (talk) 10:47, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Pskov is Pleskow in archaic english and the "battle of Pitzur" would most probably be Battle of Petschora -- Sturban (talk) 11:11, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

And the "battle of Lakowitz" is probably the siege of Lachowicze. -- Sturban (talk) 11:24, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

• Thanks again! I will make the changes and merge the duplicates. --RAN (talk) 14:36, 10 November 2021 (UTC)