Request for high quality fish images
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Fellow Itinerant Anglers. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I do a fair amount of work on Wikipedia. Over the last couple of months I’ve been working with several other editors to improve the quality of the articles on Rainbow, Brown, Brook and Cutthroat trout. Moving these articles to “Good article status” and ultimately “Featured Article status”, Wikipedia’s highest quality standard takes some doing. One of our biggest challenges is getting quality images that can be licensed in the Creative Commons. At the moment we need high-quality images of all four fish species (and any sub-species) that display the unique coloration each have. We are not looking for “grip and grin” type photos as these Wikipedia articles are not about angling, but encyclopedic articles about the fish themselves. If any of you have great images of these fish that you would be willing to contribute to the Creative Commons (no copyright protection) it would be greatly appreciated. Here’s a link to a gallery of Brook Trout that contains the type and quality of images we are seeking. http://easternbrooktrout.org/resources/photo-gallery-for-ebtjv
If interested please contact me at mikemac1@sprynet.com and I will work with you to get the images uploaded to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and properly attributed and licensed, most likely: Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA. Thanks
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Zach, Thanks. A quick review of the trout pics looks like we can use 3-4 of them. I will download from the blog, upload to commons.wikimedia.org with a Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA license attributed to you. Once that’s done, you will get an email from me with some language that you must send directly to Wikimedia via email stating that you agreed with the licensing. It’s painless. Thanks again.
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Zach, they are uploaded and I’ve sent you an email.
Thanks again.
Strategy without Tactics is a Slow Route to Victory, Tactics without Strategy is the Noise Before Defeat - Sun Tzu
Mike feel free to browse through some of mine as well. If you find some you want I’ll have to send them to you.
http://www.trophyfishingtn.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=15
http://www.trophyfishingtn.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=16
Mike feel free to browse through some of mine as well. If you find some you want I’ll have to send them to you.
Mike, many thanks. I’ve gone through the albums and identified 4 images that I can use. Please drop me an email at mikemac1@sprynet.com and I’ll get you the specifics. Thanks
Strategy without Tactics is a Slow Route to Victory, Tactics without Strategy is the Noise Before Defeat - Sun Tzu
Mike I sent in the form you were nice enough to provide and bcc:ed you. Let me know if you need anything else.
Zach
Ha! Mike, look what became of one of those photos we submitted to Wikipedia!
http://www.thefeaturedcreature.com/2014/01/10-sneakiest-conniving-animals-world.html
This super weird website run by a girl waaaaay too attractive to be the only one in charge over there snaked one of the photos!
Zach
Zach,
That’s what happens when you contribute to the commons. You never know when or where your photos are going to show up. Imagine my surprise when I picked of a copy of Nate Schweber’s Fly Fishing Yellowstone National Park (2012) and turned to page 260 to see a photo of my gloved hand holding a Brown Trout and a bugger at Muleshoe Bend. Schweber didn’t credit Wikimedia (didn’t have to) but at least the pretty girl gave you credit. A couple of your photos are now in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_trout article. It’s undergoing Featured Article review at the moment and should be rated the highest class of WP article sometime in the next couple of weeks. Thanks again.
Strategy without Tactics is a Slow Route to Victory, Tactics without Strategy is the Noise Before Defeat - Sun Tzu
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