Wikipedia:Peer review/German occupation of Luxembourg in World War I/archive1

German occupation of Luxembourg in World War I edit

This has been created almost exclusively by the hard work of User:Bastin8, who has turned this article from non-existence to (IMO) FA standard in only a very few weeks. All comments appreciated; but particularly, are the photos appropriate and are the two that are not PD fine from a licencing and tagging POV?

Please see automated peer review suggestions here. Thanks, AZ _t 01:39, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think this is an excellent article. Nice work! The only thing I found amiss were the image labels assocated with the image in the "Invasion" section. For some reason those appeared over the text section in my IE browser, rather than over the image. There are a few red links on the page, which may need to be addressed if this is take for FA. (But the page is definitely GA quality, IMO). The Marie-Adélaïde and Grande Duchesse Charlotte images have a deletion warning on its page, so you might want to take a look at that. Thanks. — RJH (talk) 17:02, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the praise. Two of the three issues raised, I predicted on the talk page, so they'll be addressed in no time. I'm in the process of fixing the red links (by creating stubs). I didn't upload the pictures, so I'm not au fait with their status; I think that the pictures of the Grand Duchesses will have to be Fair Use (they're only allowed under a non-commercial basis, although the Marie-Adélaïde one may be public domain, as it was taken before the First World War).

A pressing issue is that of the text links; using both Firefox and IE, the text links are in the right place for me (and that's for all resolutions and several different settings, too). If any more people have trouble with it, I'll just change it to labels in the image; the only reason that the labels are overlaid is that I thought that it would be a neat way to help users come to grips with Luxembourgian geography. Bastin 18:27, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Based on the style information for the label templates it should have worked. I'm not sure why it didn't unless there's a bug in my version of IE, or else it has something to do with my security settings. I'm using version 6.0.2900.2180... — RJH (talk) 16:42, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That might explain it. My IE is 7.0.5450.4 (although I use Firefox for just about everything), so the problem may have been fixed with the newer version. If that's the case, and those using IE 6 do have trouble viewing the map, I will make the afore-mentioned changes. Bastin 18:09, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I've now resolved all the red links, some with stubs, some with full articles.

Luxembourg's Service Information et Presse (a government agency and the publishers of the pictures) have informed me that they aren't aware of any factors that might have released them into the public domain, and that they are unwilling to change their licence situation (i.e. non-commerial use only). Since they can't qualify under Fair Use (because the topic isn't related closely enough), I've deleted them from the article and am looking for alternative pictures; I've contacted a few websites that offer alternatives, asking if they might allow free licensing of their images. Bastin 10:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Since my last update, I've had no responses to my requests to webmasters, which is irritating. A picture of Marie-Adélaïde would really be useful; she was an instrumental character to the political discord, relations with Germany, and the subsequent revolutions, and her youth (20 when the war broke out) ought to be emphasised. Nonetheless, the article doesn't hang on such a picture, and there are many images already, so I think that it is acceptable as is. Are there any more comments or criticisms to be made? For one, I could imagine it having more categories, but I can't find another one that's suitable. Bastin 22:15, 13 August 2006 (UTC)