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davidhcrocker
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:46 am Post subject: Someone's Moving My Photos |
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Noticed that a photograph I shot of the Wright Flyer back in the 1980s at the Smithsonian in DC, was recently moved to the airport section and placed under the IAD profile. Since the Smithsonian isn't anywhere near IAD grounds, I'm wondering why this switch was made and who made it? This photograph was originally posted in the aircraft section when I first joined A-D. I have other photos from the Smithsonian collection that have not been changed (as of yet). These photos should not be assigned an airport code since they weren't shot at an airport. I'd like my photo of the Wright Flyer put back the way I originally uploaded it, if possible.
By the way, over the last several months I've noticed that many of my photos have been "tampered" with, mainly photos of aircraft that I had uploaded with an "unknown" tag. These photos were also switched from the aircraft section to the airport section. I realized this when all of a sudden these photos showed up in my profile as "unorganized, no folder," when they had been previously organized.
I assume this was A-D management trying to clear up a bunch of unknowns. However, why my photo of the Wright Flyer has been all of a sudden switched, I don't know. Soon, I may find my photographs of the Spruce Goose given an KLGB tag, even though that plane was never housed on airport grounds.
Can someone explain to me why this stuff is happening? |
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Chris Hall
Joined: 18 Jul 2008
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:18 am Post subject: |
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Hi David
It was me that moved the photo to the airport section as I could not find an ID or reg number for it, and as you have entered WRIGHT FLYER in the field where the reg number should be, it appeared in the Aircraft photos without a profile list.
The reason I moved it to the IAD location is because there are already close to 50 images at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in this airport profile.
If you can supply the correct ID for the image I will create a profile for it.
As we on the admin team work through the Aircraft photos without a profile list, we will either move an image into the UNKNOWN profile or the airport section. By doing this other members of this site have helped with identifying several hundred previously UNKNOWN images, as can be seen in this thread.
http://www.airport-data.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4226
There have also been several requests over the last few months by members of the admin team for photographers to review their own collections and make any corrections and add profiles. Yesterday (Sunday) I spent six hours working on the database adding profiles, correcting profiles, deleting duplicate profiles. delinking profiles, etc. On Saturday I spent four hours doing the same thing. In the past I have sent PM's and or emails to members asking them to correct their errors, but very rarely get a reply or response. If the Admin team can spare the time to research the info to create a profile, then why can't the members who upload the image??
At the end of the day, all we are trying to do is make this site a much better, more organised and more accurate place to add your aviation images, we are not tampering with them.
If by moving your image to a place where it will be seen with other images in the same location i.e. the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum and this has upset you, then I apologise, but ask you to provide more information so it can be placed in the correct profile rather that it falling back into the Aircraft photos without a profile list.
Regards
Chris _________________ My Photo's on Airport-Data |
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