User talk:SharonPapierdreams

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File:Grimm-Schultz Farmstead.jpg

I noticed you have requested the deletion of this image of yours because it is incorrectly named. You might consider having this image renamed instead. There is a "More" button with a down arrow at the top-right of the image. When you hover your cursor over it you will see "Move." Click on it and follow the instructions in the box that pops up. It's a nice photo and there is no reason to get rid of it. Farragutful (talk) 13:18, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

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File:Seneca Kansas Post Office sign with history.jpg

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File:Herrington Kansas Post Office mural.jpg

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Ww2censor (talk) 12:47, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

24 September 2021 (UTC) Looks like the date is 1935 and the artist is H. Louis Freund. https://www.kshs.org/resource/national_register/MPS/Kansas_Post_Offices_Artwork_mps.pdf

SharonPapierdreams (talk) 13:16, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

File:Seneca Kansas Post Office Mural.jpg

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Ww2censor (talk) 12:48, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Sign your posts

See Commons:Signatures. It's a requirement. Ww2censor (talk) 11:30, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

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thanks for your KS and NE historic sites pics

Hi SharonPapierdreams, thank you for your many contributions about historic sites in Kansas and Nebraska. I see you've just added pics for w:Robbers' Cave (Lincoln, Nebraska) (currently a redlink in Wikipedia, and listed on the NRHP in 2021). I found my way to you through your pics that I just included into new article w:Big John Farm Limestone Bank Barn (maybe located at w:Draft:Big John Farm Limestone Bank Barn temporarily). I mostly edit in Wikipedia, creating and developing articles on places listed on the NRHP, and am sort of starting to doing a bunch of Kansas articles. It is much more satisfying to have photos available! And, about this one, your photos are great for illustrating the topic (that it is a w:bank barn with entries on two levels). And, the coordinates available in the corresponding NRHP list-article were unsatisfactory, were pointing to an empty area near modern buildings, but the coordinates included in your photos allowed me to find it and pinpoint it in Google satellite view. Thank you, and keep up your good work! --Doncram (talk) 17:20, 11 January 2022 (UTC) P.S. If you ever wanted to reach me, posting to my Wikipedia talk page would be quickest probably. And you are hereby invited to join the NRHP wikiproject on Wikipedia, by adding your name there, and either way please feel free to post at its Talk page. Like for help addressing copyright challenges in Commons, as i see above that you have experienced. The postal murals from 1930s are definitely in the public domain! I'd be glad to try to help about the other images referenced above which were deleted. --Doncram (talk) 17:24, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Glad to hear you found my photos useful. Please let me know if there are any sites in Kansas or Nebraska you would like photos of and I will see if I could take them. I appreciate your offer of help as I am fairly new to Wikipedia. Not sure how I would add my name to the NRHP wikiproject, actually.

SharonPapierdreams (talk) 03:59, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

@Doncram: Thank you for thanking SharonPapierdreams because I wanted to do so also, and because your invitation led to Sharon's addition to the WP:NRHP and thus I followed likewise. Same here, I want to invite Sharon to ask me for any help on my Wikipedia talk page because I am an experienced Wikipedian and I'm a photographer on Commons. I'm very clumsy on Commons and I rarely come here but I have a clue about how to get things done like establishing copyright. I'm very good at inserting images into Wikipedia where appropriate, and at editing images for cleanup like cropping and rotating and GPS and technical things and whatnot. If you have anything more personal, send me a private email via my Wikipedia talk page. Some of my favorite historical photos I took, and articles I wrote, are at w:Tiffany Castle and w:City workhouse castle.Smuckola (talk) 00:22, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, I appreciate your offer to help.

I did start an article but didn't realize what was required so I didn't follow up on it. I do read over the NRHP nomination and registration forms in order to add descriptions to my photos and thought it would be good to gather some of that into a short article but it appears that would take more time than I have right now.

SharonPapierdreams (talk) 02:08, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Chimney that Almanzo built, if i overheard a tour guideperson correctly

All good. Maybe pings to me from here do reach me when I am on Wikipedia, and/or perhaps I received a ping from here because I happened to just log in on Commons. SharonPapierdreams, I'm glad you have found your way to NRHP nomination documents to inform your picture-taking and picture descriptions. I definitely find the nomination documents helpful in my photography when they mention some important detail about a place, like how w:Laura Ingalls Wilder's husband Almanzo himself built the stone chimney of their house in their later years, in Missouri, so I then know to be sure to take a photo or two of that detail. On a few trips recently i have been taking photos and uploading to commons, but by far most of my online activity is in creating new articles.

And yes it can be time-consuming, and it is simply a different kind of thing to do, to create an article. And each of us volunteers should indeed do whatever we like to do, and not do what we don't want to do. How about notifying me of articles that need creating, corresponding to new pictures you've uploaded, and I will then create them? I think you could ping me, i.e. have the system notify me that I have been mentioned, if you include "User:Doncram" in an edit summary, so like you could say "User:Doncram, article needed for this pic" in an edit summary in Commons or in Wikipedia and I think i would be notified. Another way to ping me is to include "User:Doncram in a Talk page message in which you also add your signature (i.e. by including "~~~~". The system then knows that a ping notification is intended. And/or you could occasionally post a list of article requests at my Wikipedia talk page. I have enjoyed collaborating closely with others in the past in other ways, and I believe I would be very happy to try to keep pace with you in this!!!! Hmm, and maybe i could browse your recent contributions in Commons and look for opportunities, but in fact I think getting reminders/requests helps me. cheers, --Doncram (talk) 03:13, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

P.S. Or you could start to create an article in Draft space, with just some rough draft stuff, like including your photo(s) and maybe not much more, but giving it a start, and notify me so I can develop it more. If a place is listed on the National Register, then I am pretty sure i can develop it well enough to request it be promoted to mainspace. I do myself start almost almost all my articles in Draft space, such as w:Draft:Glenwood Cemetery (Homer, New York) which is in extremely rough shape right now (while w:Glenwood Cemetery (Homer, New York) is not yet an article at all), but I wanted to help another editor upload related photos. --Doncram (talk) 03:34, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Cathedral of St. Joseph

Hi. I see you have recently expanded your picture taking to Northwestern Missouri. If your ever in the vicinity of St. Joseph, Missouri could you photograph the Cathedral of St. Joseph? It is a contributing property in the Cathedral Hill Historic District. There are also numerous pages on Wikipedia that would use the images.

As an aside, you do such a great job of photographing your subjects from various points of view. I enjoy working with your photographs and learning about the places you photograph. Farragutful (talk) 13:38, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

I hope to get to taking pictures in the St. Joseph area at some point. Our travels have not yet taken us in that direction.

Thank you for all the work you have done on the photographs I have taken. SharonPapierdreams (talk) 00:29, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for categorizing my most recent photos.

I noticed some earlier photos have not been added.

Please let me know how I can get these added.

Douglas County, Nebraska

Stephenson and Williams Livery

Clifton Hill Commercial Historic District

Union State Bank Building

Firestone Tire and Rubber Building

Shawnee County, Kansas

Ritchie Cemetery

Park Plaza Apartments

James and Freda Lippitt House

Charles and Dorothy Kouns House

Thank you for any help you can provide. SharonPapierdreams (talk) 18:32, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States 2023

Hello! In 2021, you contributed to Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States. Thanks to people like you, it was a great success with over 500 people contributing over 5,500 photos of cultural and historic sites from all over the country. Hundreds of these photos now help illustrate Wikipedia articles, improving our open knowledge about United States history, culture, and heritage. You can see the top-ten winners of the US competition here.

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