User talk:JonathanleveyWelcome! Jonathan Levey 16:45, 2 August 2010 (UTC) Your question at Requests for feedbackYou said, I guess you are suggesting that a photograph of my dad's high school and college diploma's or transcripts would be helpful to show verification. Would a letter from the Dean of the college and the principal of the high school be sufficient? Actually no. This is a confusing place, I agree. In short, Wikipedia tries to rely on WP:SECONDARY sources. The items you mention would be considered primary documents, and as odd as this may seem, are not preferred. The good news is that you need do nothing (I hope). References are required if someone challenges the claim. It is not very likely that someone is going to challenge the high school. If it were central to the article, for example, if you were making an astounding claim about his grades, it might be necessary to prove it. I suggest working on other areas, and if someone does challenge the name of the high school or attendance at a college, get back to me and we can talk about what to do next. We actually do have provisions for accepting some forms of primary documents, but they aren't trivial procedures, so I'd prefer to wait until needed. The desired reference is a secondary reference- a notice in a newspaper mentioning where Harris went to school. If you have one, fine, let's use it. If not, let's not yet worry.--SPhilbrickT 17:40, 1 August 2010 (UTC) All good points Sphilbrick. I am stil la newbie at Wiki and wanting to learn in my few spare hours. But you are right, I don't yet understand or fully appreciate how (on Wikipedia) primary documents are not as valid as secondary documents. I know that I will need to read Wiki's rules and reasoning in more detail to understand this better. For now, I will work on providing more secondary sources, as you suggest. For example, if you clik on th efollowing link, you wil lbe taken to DeWitt Clinton's site that verifies their artic contributors to their well-known (and respecte) Magpie publication: http://newdeal.feri.org/magpie/archive/author.htm#l Once on this site, scroll down and you will see: Harris Levey, '40 IMG "NO!! you MAY NOT SWING this march!" (Cartoon) IMG Art of Terpsichore (Illustration) Woul dthis be a good link to put into the article? If so, can you please help to modify the article accordingly? If you are too busy, I will understand and try to do it myself. Again, many thanks for your help to date. :) Jonathan Levey 19:10, 1 August 2010 (UTC) 1940 is when Harris Levey graduated from De Witt.Jonathan Levey 23:55, 2 August 2010 (UTC) Your recent editsHello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 23:53, 2 August 2010 (UTC) My apologies for not signing some of my posts. I am still relatively new to Wiki and seem to forget to put those "tildas" in sometimes. I will try to be more diligent about signing in the future. Jonathan Levey 23:58, 2 August 2010 (UTC) :)
Thanks for the heads-up PianoTech --I was not certain, but thought this was the case. You can never be too polite to an automated bot, you know! ;)Jonathan Levey
...whoops I forgot my tildas again, so I re-edited my comment above by sticking them in! ;) Jonathan Levey 01:55, 3 August 2010 (UTC) Conflict of interestWelcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. This includes an article about your father. 69.181.249.92 (talk) 02:20, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
PS: I went to the wiki FAQ page for organizations, as you so thoughtfully suggested, and I tried to find the information about COI and advise for people writing about their father, but could not find this specific info. Perhaps I am looking on the wrong page. Please provide a specific link or advise. Many thanks! Jonathan Levey 03:11, 6 August 2010 (UTC) I went back again to the FAQ page and realize that you likely meant that this information, in general, would be helpful to someone that is writing about their father... is that right? In any case, "it is". Many thanks! :) Jonathan Levey 03:14, 6 August 2010 (UTC) Your recent editsHello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 02:37, 6 August 2010 (UTC) TalkbackHello, Jonathanlevey. You have new messages at Pianotech's talk page.
Message added 02:45, 6 August 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Replied Pianotech Talk to me!/Contribs 02:45, 6 August 2010 (UTC) Your recent editsHello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you must sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 03:01, 20 August 2010 (UTC) TalkbackHello, Jonathanlevey. You have new messages at Pianotech's talk page.
Message added 11:59, 20 August 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Replied to you Pianotech Talk to me!/Contribs 11:59, 20 August 2010 (UTC) Harris LeveyHi, Jonathan. Of course, I'd be glad to help. I'm assuming by the name you're ostensibly his son? From a cursory glance, the piece isn't too bad at all. When I get back to Wikipedia, probably tomorrow, I'll show you one of the standard ways we do footnote citations and such. In the meantime, please look over the Five Pillars of Wikipedia for general policies. I can see right offhand we'll need newspaper citations for a lot of this -- is there a link to his obit that you can provide, or at least a newspaper, date and page #? Obits often are a good source for things like exact birth dates and original names. We can't use anything that doesn't have documentation — anything coming from anyone's personal knowledge, which by its nature can't be independently verified, is unusual under the policy of no original research. Let's start with that -- get us all the biographical documentation you can -- if it's not online, give us the citation information, and maybe it can be tracked down another way. With regards, --Tenebrae (talk) 23:32, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
OK. Thanks for putting this iinto perspective Tenebrae, and for your continued thoughtful work in an effort to make this article on Harris Levey more credible. At this point, I beleive I have given much of what I can give to provide the facts and information as I know them to be. If verifications and citations are lacking and you, or other memebrs decide (hopefully jointly) to remove or modify (ie. thin down ) certain sections of the article, in order to strengthen it, then I will trust your sound judgements and initiatives. The fact that you, Tenebrae, have helped to establish merit and notability for the DC Comic Artwork of Harris Levey, means a great deal in itself and is deeply appreciated. Keep up your great efforts (as your limited time allows). Perhaps you have some sage advice for my comments on the Talk page of another article Tarantula (DC Comics). However, I am starting to see that my questions and requests for interest on help, in terms of requestin ghelp from fellow WCP wiki members in determining the value of my dad's Tarantula (DC) artwork, may no tbe apporprie on the Wiki Talk forum. Instead, I guess I should try and contact Comic Book Goldsen Age authorities on my own, outside the wiki theater. Is that right, tenebrae? If so, do you have any respected experts in this field to recommend? Jonathan Levey (talk) 20:51, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
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Message added 11:48, 23 August 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. "Straw poll"According to the page Wikipedia:Straw polls, the idea of a straw poll was a failed proposal that did not achieve consensus. I couldn't find where a straw poll on Harris Levey is ostensibly being held, but if it is being held, it's improper. If someone wants to initiate a former deletion discussion (the article does not meet the criteria for [[WP:SD|speedy deletion), then that's another thing, and a lengthier process. --Tenebrae (talk) 19:38, 24 August 2010 (UTC) I apologize, Tenebrae. I thought I deleted my concern about a Straw Poll from your Talk page, but it seems I did not. I tseems that the "Starw Poll" anouncement may have been for Watchlist pages, in general and "not" intended specifically for my Harris Levey article page. In fact, it seems to appear at the top of my "MY Watchlist" page... just curious, does it also appear at the top of your "My Wactchlist" page? As you suggest, the Starw Poll seems to have been an experimental idea that has been eitehr done away with, or left to lapse into oblivion. In any case, there does not seem to be an issue of a Straw Poll in relation to the Levey page, nor does there (currently) seem to be any furtheer suggestion of the article's merit on Wiki or call for deletion. Again, I apologized for the confusion and thank you for lookin ginto this for me and for your re-assurance. I am very pleased with the way concerned and knowledgeable wiki editors and members of WCP have invested their time and thought to modify, improve and streamline the article --I know too that your input in particular has been both encouraging and practical (ie. in terms of actual modifications to text, images, etc. Many thaks! Jonathan Levey (talk) 21:37, 24 August 2010 (UTC) SourcingYou understand correctly: A document from someone at the agency would be considered a primary source, and wouldn't be usable. The reason why? Because a private document is not something that anyone else could access. Here's the whole thing with WIkipedia sourcing: It has to be to something that anyone could look up and check for themselves. Even a book that would require a library or bookstore visit is still something that, theoretically, anyone in Pierre, N.D., or Dijon, France, or wherever could get and see the source of a claim for him/herself. You're right again when you suggest that a newspaper or magazine article is generally the best sort of source. Books and reliable websites are good sources as well. The key thing to remember: "Can the average person, if he or she wanted to, look this material up for themselves?" Hope this helps. And hey — we're a community here! --Tenebrae (talk) 02:16, 25 August 2010 (UTC) This puts it all in perspective. Many thanks Tenebrae! Jonathan Levey (talk) 10:46, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Tenebrae. Very helpful. I understand now that Harris Levey is notable for his Airwave illustrations, especially since they were done in relatively large volume and at the threshold of the Golden Age of comics , and that, as you have pointed out, the Air Wave character has stood the test of time. I did believe that added information about an illustrators activities and interests prior to and subsequent to the period in which they were noted for (in this case DC Comics Air Wave etc.) would have served the purpose of showing his life thread and how one event (or artistic involvement) might have led to anotehr event (ie. success in the advertising field. In any case, I am very please with what currently is left of the article as I believe it gives the fair weight to what is of prime signiciance (and most verifiable) which is his illustrations while ad DC comics (in particular , Air Wave). I hope the the peripheral information that comtes after this experience will remain, and I am in the process of trying to contact the various ad agencies where he worked to see if they have a 3rd party source to prove his success in these areas (ie. a company's official web site with a list of past employees). I realize now that the interview article on him that was done at Foote Cone & Belding and highlights much of his advertising career, was published in an in-house newsletter that liekly was not sold to the general public (but might have been --so I am trying to check that out as a verifiable source). Again many thanks Tenebrae for your timely thoughtful and Wiki-centred efforts to turn this article into an article that meets the primary Wiki criteria. Respectfully, Jonathan Levey (talk) 00:59, 26 August 2010 (UTC) WithdrawingHey This is just a note from me the founder of the Spider-Man work. You don't have to withdraw to the group just becuase you're not good at tagged edits. All you have to do is being interested in editing in Spider-Man type articles every once in a while and making them better. That's all. You can do that in the small things too. Jhenderson 777 00:13, 31 August 2010 (UTC) Thanks for the clarification JHenderson777. I do appreciate it. However, I realize, now, that my time is much to limited to make any contributions at all (at this time). Should my situation change, I will be glad to re-join and provide editing/proofreading related input, which I seem to have some degree of skills in. However, in the meantime, I will simply have to bow out and benefit from your thoughtful work and further modifications as they continue to unfold and enhance the current body of work on this valuable subject. Thanks for your understanding in advance. Keep up the great work! Jonathan Levey (talk) 00:20, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
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Message added 21:44, 8 August 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Pianotech Talk to me!/Contribs 21:44, 8 August 2011 (UTC) License tagging for File:Harris Levey (aka Lee Harris) at art table circa 1940-43.jpegThanks for uploading File:Harris Levey (aka Lee Harris) at art table circa 1940-43.jpeg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information. To add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 04:05, 8 February 2014 (UTC) License tagging for File:Photo 4 Harris and Weisinger Art table.jpegThanks for uploading File:Photo 4 Harris and Weisinger Art table.jpeg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information. To add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 06:06, 8 February 2014 (UTC) Please help me to contest the deletion of this photoUnfortunately, I have spent hours trying to learn hoe to upload a photo given to me by the owner/author onto th page of Harris Levey (comic illustrator), bu obviously did not rage the image correctly. As a result it is pending immediate removal. I request the help of a knowledgeable wiki editor to instruct me step by step on how to properly tag this photo so it remains posted on the page. I must have checked the wrong boxes off when making the upload, about licensing, etc. I really could not find the right boxes to check to indicate that it is a photo that is in my possession, that I one as I was given it as a gift by the now deceased owner. Please help me in any way you can, so as not to force removal of the photo. I want to respect the rules and regulations of wikipedias, but because I am not a regular contributor and not tech savvy, I have trouble understanding and soloing the tutorials to add this image. Thank yo for your genuine concern and willingness to understand the situation and to help. JonathanJonathan Levey (talk) 13:43, 8 February 2014 (UTC) A tag has been placed on File:Harris Levey (aka Lee Harris) at art table circa 1940-43.jpeg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. ww2censor (talk) 10:42, 8 February 2014 (UTC) TalkbackHello, Jonathanlevey. You have new messages at WP:MCQ.
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Message added 14:30, 8 February 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. ww2censor (talk) 14:30, 8 February 2014 (UTC) License tagging for File:Harris Levey Art table.jpgThanks for uploading File:Harris Levey Art table.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information. To add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 19:06, 21 February 2014 (UTC) TalkbackHello, Jonathanlevey. You have new messages at OlEnglish's talk page.
Message added 05:16, 25 February 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Ϫ 05:16, 25 February 2014 (UTC) Hi, |