Forwarded with permission of sender, [[User:SlimVirgin]]. Is anyone
with a camera wandering in the direction of Battersea Park in the next
week or two?
- d.
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> David, do you happen to know any Wikipedians with
a camera who live
> near Battersea Park?
>
> I'm looking for someone to take a photograph of a statue in the park.
> It's for an article I'm quickly trying to get to FA status - the Brown
> Dog affair.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Dog_affair
>
> I just realized a couple of days ago that December 10, 2007 is the
> 100th anniversary of the Brown Dog riots, apparently some of the worst
> riots in London before the Poll Tax riots.
>
> I'm therefore going to try to get it through the FA process in the
> hope it can go on the front page on December 10. (It's still being
> worked on; not ready yet.)
>
> At the heart of the dispute was the Brown Dog statue, destroyed in
> 1910, but recommissioned by Geraldine James in 1985. It now stands in
> woodland near Battersea Park's Old English Garden, and looks like this
>
http://www.batterseapark.org/images/dogsculp.jpg
>
> It would be great to have a free image of it, but all the images I've
> found online are of uncertain copyright. The one above on the
> Battersea Park site was copied from a postcard, for example.
>
> Do you know of anyone who might be willing to take a photograph?
On 11/22/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not that spring to mind. I know Secretlondon has been
going wild
taking pics of anything useful she sees, though. So you may care to
ask her (probably email as well as talk page).
Okay, thank you, I'll ask her.
I can forward this to wikimediauk-l if you like, that might be
productive in a short time.
That would be very helpful. We have just 18 days to finish the
writing, get all the images sorted out, get it through the FA process
(!), and onto the front page.
I've been writing to the sites that have posted images of the statue,
trying to pin down the copyright holder, but it's all "Oh, an old
girlfriend copied that from a postcard she found in an antiques fair
in New Zealand." :-)
