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Photographs/media work

I have always been a prolific uploader of media to our projects, and have been also been pro-active and prolific in obtaining media under relicencing and the like from a multitude of photographers, organisations and governments. As I go through my uploads, I make it a point to get relevant media into relevant articles at that time. An example of this is File:Ralph Gonsalves (cropped).jpg which is in use across multiple projects on a multitude of articles -- this photo is not in use at all on English Misplaced Pages, which instead still uses this poorer quality image. Due to the sheer amount of image work I do, I get images into use where relevant as I finish working on them, as can be seen by my contributions on, for example, Polish Misplaced Pages, and then I move onto the next image. Below are examples of such media.

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Firdaus Latif

Firdaus Latif is a professional news photographer from Malaysia who relicenced his photos to CC-BY-SA from (C) ARR after a request from myself. His photos are found at Commons:Category:Photographs by Firdaus Latif

Amongst his photos which could be on this project include:

Matt @ PEK

Matt @ PEK is a regular world traveller who relicenced his photos to CC-BY-SA from (C) ARR after a request from myself. His photos can be found at Commons:Category:Files from Matt @ PEK Flickr stream

Amongst his photos which could be on this project include:

Austrian Airlines

Austrian Airlines relicenced their Flickr stream to CC-BY-SA from (C) ARR after a request from myself. Their photos are at Commons:Category:Files from Austrian Airlines Flickr stream

Amongst their photos which could be used on this project include:

Brussels Airport

Brussels Airport relicenced their Flickr stream to CC-BY-SA from (C) ARR after a request from myself. Their photos are at Commons:Category:Files from Brussels Airport Flickr stream

Amongst their photos which could be used on this project include:

Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility

The Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility relicenced their Flickr stream to CC-BY-SA from (C) ARR after a request from myself. Their photos are at Commons:Category:Files from the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility Flickr stream

Amongst their photos which could be used on this project include:

Aerocardal

Aerocardal relicenced their Flickr stream to CC-BY-SA from (C) ARR after a request from myself. Their photos are at Commons:Category:Photographs by Aerocardal

Amongst their photos which could be used on this project include:

Bahrain International Airport

Bahrain International Airport relicenced their Flickr stream to CC-BY-SA from (C) ARR after a request from myself. Their photos are at Commons:Category:Files from Bahrain International Airport Flickr stream

Amongst their photos which could be used on this project include:

Uri Tours

Uri Tours relicenced their Flickr stream to CC-BY-SA from (C) ARR after a request from myself. Their photos are at Commons:Category:Photographs by Uri Tours

Amongst their photos which could be used on this project include:

World Trade Organization
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Department for International Development
RAF-YYV
Congress of Peru
Grzegorz Jereczek

Grzegorz Jereczek is a Polish photographer who relicenced his Flickr stream to CC-BY-SA from (C) ARR after a request from myself. His photos are at Commons:Category:Photographs by Grzegorz Jereczek

Amongst his photos which could be used on this project include:


Jetstar

Jetstar Airways relicenced their Flickr stream to CC-BY-SA from (C) ARR after a request from myself. Their photos are at Commons:Category:Photographs by Jetstar Airways

Amongst their photos which could be used on this project include:

AusAID

AusAID relicenced their Flickr stream to CC-BY from (C) ARR after a request from myself. Their photos are at Commons:Category:Photographs from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Amongst their photos which could be used on this project include:


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Aviation

Numerous aviation photographers have relicenced their photographs after requests from myself.

Amongst photos which could be used on this project include:

Adding NFCC images which arent suitable for Commons

Article work

Articles which I will be working on include:

Articles which I intend on creating, mainly by way of media I've uploaded include:

Other articles I was looking at creating:

Dealing with copyright and image issues

Moves

WikiProject work

Re:Biman interior

Hi Russavia, thanks for adding those images from Flickr! Please try to add some Biman interior pictures thanks. - Ahnaaf (talk) 05:55, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Air Caribbean (Puerto Rico)

Dear Russavia: Thanks for creating Air Caribbean (Puerto Rico)! For a guy from Perth, you sure know a LOT about Puerto Rican aviation history! (I sure wish I on the other hand, knew as much about Australian Aviation history, but I can only go as far as Qantas and Ansett Airlines, lol!)

God bless!

Antonio weirdo kangaroo Martin aqui 23:26, March 24, 2014 (UTC)

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 photos of aircraft involved in search

A local photographer here in YPPH has kindly emailed to me 3 photos of some of the aircraft involved in the search for MH370 -- there is one for the USN P-8 Poseidon and 2 for the Chinese PLAAF aircraft. You can find the photos in Commons:Category:2014 at Perth Airport. These photos are appearing here on Misplaced Pages before they hit airliners.net, so it is nice of Darren to do this for us; please get them into use as you see fit. Russavia (talk) 11:14, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

@Lynbarn: in reference to Talk:Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#Photo_of_IL-76_assigned_to_MH370_search, it is at YPPH, not Pearce. Russavia (talk) 23:42, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Unusual edit -- did the New York Times change a story without a note?

I came across an edit on English Misplaced Pages article for Berkut which was done by Jimbo Wales (talk · contribs). The article is basically just a quote from the New York Times, but when checking the referenced article, I can't find the quote, nor even reference to what is asserted in the article. The linked article was snapshotted 3 times on 28 January 2014 by the Wayback Machine, but again the quote is not contained in any of these snapshotted articles. The Kyiv Post does have a reference to the article, but when one clicks on their link it goes to the article which doesn't contain the quote. I can also find no reference on the NY Times website to this article using varying quotes.

Whilst the case of Mykhailo Gavrylyuk, the Euromaidan protester who was made to stand outside naked, is true, the case of Yury Verbytsky is less clear; there being no clear firm evidence that Berkut was involved in his kidnapping, torture and death.

One could assume that the NYT pulled their article, for whatever reason. It is in instances such as this that webcitation.org can come in handy, but even then if an organisation pulls an article one can assume that there were factual errors that made the article untenable to keep in print, and our projects should follow the lead and pull information from our articles. But in this instance, the information is still sitting in the article at the time I write this. I did raise this on IRC in #wikipedia-en but nothing was done with it.

Major international events such as the protests in Ukraine and the resultant coup/revolution and accession/annexation of Crimea to/into Russia often see English Misplaced Pages articles reflecting what is in English-language media at the time, and as one can see from Jimmy's edit this can turn editors into unwitting quasi-propagandists. One really should be careful in using media sources on such issues, because the information is due to change at the drop of a hat, and sometimes people will not see these changes but the information is left in our articles.

But what makes this situation odd is that the NYT will usually notate corrections in articles, but in this case they haven't. This is odd. Could someone please ask Jimmy if he may have used webcitation.org or still has a copy of the article available on his local machine. Russavia (talk) 12:17, 24 April 2014 (UTC)