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If Harveywetdog did Wikipedia - 15 years as an equestrian videographer

In April 2020, and in the interest of legacy, I penned a Wikipedia entry recording the thoughts and notable achievements of myself as Harveywetdog. I admit I was ignorant of the rules concerning self promotion on Wikipedia at the time; consequently my entry was unfortunately, although arguably correctly, deleted and my account expunged from the system. As a result my original words and links were sadly lost but nevertheless here is an attempt at a rewrite. Perhaps when I'm gone someone will be able to enter it onto Wikipedia on my behalf, to serve as a fitting epitaph for the exciting times I spent on the Harveywetdog Project.  
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Using Geograph - a Salutary Tale

I mentioned previously that I've restarted submitting images to the Geograph website in the UK. I've always seen this as a mostly harmless activity, especially if one takes every effort to anonymise one's input.

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Anyway the other day I was down near the coast at Widemouth Bay south of Bude and I took a photo through the car windscreen of the bay from the cliff top car park. As I wanted to convey the fact that you could capture this view without getting out your car then I cropped the image to just leave the edge of the bonnet in shot.

I was asked to resubmit with the car roof? cropped out. As I was not prepared to have my artistic integrity challenged in this way I refused.

 

Widemouth Bay from the clifftop car park featuring the tip of a Disco bonnet
© Harveywetdog

There was a bit of toing and froing but in the end I was told that it is not Geograph policy to allow parts of cars to appear in photographs and so we reached an impasse.

Thinking this was all rather silly and in a fit of pique I reached for the "delete account" button only to find that it is not possible to delete your account with Geograph. They claim that this has something to do with the Creative Commons License that subscribers sign up to, but that sounds like a bit of nonsense to me.

Either way once you're in you're in - a bit like Hotel California!  


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Harveywetdog/Author - David Robinson CEng FIET 
David spent approaching 50 years in Her Majesty's Electricity Supply Industry before retiring
He was part of the highly successful design team on the Sizewell B Nuclear Power Station Project before spending 25 years producing safety cases to keep our aging AGR fleet generating for the good of the nation
He is responsible for the Harveywetdog YouTube Channel which he maintains as an outlet for his creative talents
David has twice experienced blood cancer treatment but absolutely refuses to be a victim
All views are of course his own but might be influenced by the medication he's having to take
 


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