Talk:William Garnett (photographer)

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moved from User talk:Gamaliel--Isotope23 18:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

I wrote the Wikipedia article on William Garnett that you have flagged for possible copyright problems. I believe that I have followed all Wikipedia guidelines in writing this article and that I did not violate any copyrights. The copyright flag you posted indicated that I should assert my copyright on the William Garnett talk page, but the link to that page indicates that there is no such page. Therefore, I am posting my reply to your page.

My primary source for the article is "William Garnett Aerial Photographs," 1996, published by the University of California Press. Other sources include recent obituaries in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and an artist profile at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu.

There are 21 factual assertions about William Garnett in my article and each fact is corroborated by at least two of the reputable sources mentioned above. Most facts are corroborated by three or four of the sources. As a postscript to this note I have listed the 21 facts and then included an indication of what sources corroborate that fact. After that listing I include links to these online sources and a bibliographical reference to the book I cite.

If you consult these sources you will see that I have not violated any of their copyrights. I have simply laid out the salient, skeletal facts of William Garnett's life in the chronological order in which they occurred, according to these sources.

I hope you will examine the sources I have cited, agree that there are no copyright violations and remove the copyright flag from the article.

Sincerely,

H Lewis

The 21 factual assertions and their sources:

Birth year (explicit or implied): nyt, lat, sfc, wgap, getty

Birth city: nyt, lat, wgap, getty

Move to Pasadena: nyt, lat, sfc (implied), wgap (to Altadena)

John Muir High School: nyt, lat, sfc, wgap

Art Center School: nyt, lat, sfc, wgap, getty

Crime scene photography: nyt, lat, sfc, wgap, getty

Signal Corps service: nyt, lat, sfc, wgap, getty

G.I. Bill & flying: nyt, lat, sfc, wgap

Bought first plane in 1947: nyt, lat, sfc, wgap (cites 1949)

Guggenheim grants: nyt, lat, sfc, wgap, getty

Fortune magazine appearance: nyt, lat, sfc, wgap

One man show at Eastman House: nyt (says 4 man), lat, sfc, wgap

Family of Man exhibition: nyt, lat, sfc, wgap

Use of a Cessna 170B: nyt, lat, wgap, getty (no model number cited)

1958 move to Napa: lat, wgap

UC Berkeley employment: nyt, lat, sfc, wgap

Museum collections: nyt, lat (getty only), sfc, getty (getty only)

Wife Eula Beal & three sons: nyt, lat, sfc

Death date: nyt, lat, sfc

Death city: nyt, lat, sfc

Books by Garnett: lat, sfc, uc berkeley library

Getty Art Museum (getty) http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1580

Los Angeles Times (lat) http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-garnett5sep05,0,6657309.story?coll=la-home-obituaries

New York Times (nyt) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/obituaries/09garnett.html

San Francisco Chronicle (sfc) URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/10/BAG0CL2UHU1.DTL

"William Garnett Aerial Photographs," 1996, University of California Press, Berkeley. (wgap)

UC Berkeley Library http://sunsite5.berkeley.edu:8000/

If the article cites these sources (see Wikipedia:Citing sources) I have no objection to removing the copyright tag. I apologize for being suspicious, but a first time user who posts a high quality article with no sources immediately raises such suspicions due to frequent problems we've had with copyright violations in the past. Gamaliel 18:19, 12 September 2006 (UTC)