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I have added deletion tag for lack of notability. There is only one source, and only a few videos available on youtube with low-hundreds of views.--Eezurr (talk) 18:39, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

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Requesting update to outdated career information

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I am the subject of this article. It currently states I am "currently" director of orchestral activities at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; I left that position in 2014, and the article doesn't reflect my activities since then. I'd like to propose replacing the biographical text with the following, which also adds information about Ensemble: Périphérie (which I co-founded) and a current project:

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Joseph Dangerfield (born 1977) is an American composer, pianist, and conductor. He received a BFA from Marshall University (1999), studied composition at Bowling Green State University under Marilyn Shrude and Mikel Kuehn, and earned a PhD in composition from the University of Iowa (2005) under David Gompper.

Dangerfield was a Fulbright Scholar to the Russian Federation and the Netherlands (2009–10), serving as composer-in-residence with Ensemble Studio New Music at the Moscow Conservatory and lecturing at the Maastricht Conservatorium. He has also held residencies at the Leighton Studios at the Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada) and at Yaddo.

He served as associate professor of music theory and composition and director of orchestral activities at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from 2006 to 2014, and has also served on the faculty of West Virginia University, the University of Florida, and McNeese State University. He is currently an adjunct instructor at West Virginia University and teaches performing arts at Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he resides with his wife, Ami, and their three children.

In 2010, Dangerfield co-founded Ensemble: Périphérie with composer Luke Dahn, and serves as the ensemble's co-artistic director and a conductor. Périphérie, dedicated to commissioning and performing new chamber works, made its Carnegie Hall debut in October 2013.

Dangerfield's awards include the Aaron Copland Award (2010), the Indianapolis Chamber Symphony's Composition Prize (2010, for Two Vestiges), the Henry and Parker Pelzer Prize for Excellence in Composition (2005), the Young and Emerging Composers Award (2002), and ASCAP Standard Awards.

His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Eastman School of Music, Boston Conservatory, the San Francisco New Music Festival, the Moscow Conservatory, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris, and the Conservatorio di Milano, among other venues, and he has conducted in New York, Vienna, and Prague.

As of 2026, Dangerfield is completing Cryptidology, a concerto for piano and orchestra inspired by the folklore of his native West Virginia, including the 1967 Mothman sightings in Point Pleasant and the 1897 Zona Heaster Shue case, scheduled to premiere in May 2026 with the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Beverly Everett, with pianist Ann DuHamel as soloist.

His music is published by American Concert Editions, with recordings available on Albany Records.

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Sources:

• Existing citation already in the article (The Advocate, Jan 30, 2016) can be retained for whatever it currently supports.
• Ensemble: Périphérie, "Artists" page (confirms co-founding, role, Carnegie Hall debut): https://ensembleperipherie.wordpress.com/artists/
• Ensemble: Périphérie homepage (founding year, co-founder Luke Dahn): https://ensembleperipherie.wordpress.com
• American Composers Alliance composer page (education, awards, Fulbright, residencies): https://composers.com/joseph-dangerfield
• My own website, used only for plain, uncontroversial facts about myself per WP:ABOUTSELF: https://josephdangerfieldmusic.com/about.html and https://josephdangerfieldmusic.com/current-work.html
• My current position (adjunct instructor at WVU; performing arts faculty at Winchester Thurston School) is self-sourced; I don't yet have a public page to cite for this and can supply one if needed.

Thank you for reviewing. Composerchronicler (talk) 15:01, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

Following up with proper inline citations for the two independent, editorially-published sources above (American Composers Alliance, and I Care If You Listen), attached to the specific claims they support. Revised proposed text:

Joseph Dangerfield (born 1977) is an American composer, pianist, and conductor. He received a BFA from Marshall University (1999), studied composition at Bowling Green State University under Marilyn Shrude and Mikel Kuehn, and earned a PhD in composition from the University of Iowa (2005) under David Gompper.<ref>"Dangerfield, Joseph". American Composers Alliance. Retrieved September 5, 2026.</ref>

Dangerfield was a Fulbright Scholar to the Russian Federation and the Netherlands (2009–10), serving as composer-in-residence with Ensemble Studio New Music at the Moscow Conservatory and lecturing at the Maastricht Conservatorium. He has also held residencies at the Leighton Studios at the Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada) and at Yaddo.<ref name="aca">"Dangerfield, Joseph". American Composers Alliance. Retrieved September 5, 2026.</ref>

He served as associate professor of music theory and composition and director of orchestral activities at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from 2006 to 2014, and has also served on the faculty of West Virginia University,<ref>"5 Questions to Joseph Dangerfield (composer)". I Care If You Listen. April 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2026.</ref> the University of Florida, and McNeese State University. He is currently an adjunct instructor at West Virginia University and teaches performing arts at Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he resides with his wife, Ami, and their three children.

In 2010, Dangerfield co-founded Ensemble: Périphérie with composer Luke Dahn, and serves as the ensemble's co-artistic director and a conductor. Périphérie, dedicated to commissioning and performing new chamber works, made its Carnegie Hall debut in October 2013.<ref>"Artists". Ensemble: Périphérie. Retrieved September 5, 2026.</ref>

Dangerfield's awards include the Aaron Copland Award (2010), the Indianapolis Chamber Symphony's Composition Prize (2010, for Two Vestiges), the Henry and Parker Pelzer Prize for Excellence in Composition (2005), the Young and Emerging Composers Award (2002), and ASCAP Standard Awards.<ref name="aca" /><ref>"5 Questions to Joseph Dangerfield (composer)". I Care If You Listen. April 2015. Retrieved September 5, 2026.</ref>

His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Eastman School of Music, Boston Conservatory, the San Francisco New Music Festival, the Moscow Conservatory, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris, and the Conservatorio di Milano, among other venues, and he has conducted in New York, Vienna, and Prague.

As of 2026, Dangerfield is completing Cryptidology, a concerto for piano and orchestra inspired by the folklore of his native West Virginia, including the 1967 Mothman sightings in Point Pleasant and the 1897 Zona Heaster Shue case, scheduled to premiere in May 2026 with the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Beverly Everett, with pianist Ann DuHamel as soloist.

His music is published by American Concert Editions, with recordings available on Albany Records.

Two other pages were suggested to me as possible sources but I've left them out: a Fandom wiki page (user-generated wikis aren't accepted as reliable sources here) and a University of Washington course-site page that returns no retrievable content. Happy to supply anything else needed. Composerchronicler (talk) 15:15, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

A number of additional independent sources have turned up (news, university/festival pages, publisher listings). Consolidating everything into one final version of the proposed text below, which supersedes the drafts above. I've left out a stint teaching K-12 music in the Fayette County, WV school system that one source mentions, at my own request, to keep this focused.

Joseph Dangerfield (born 1977) is an American composer, pianist, and conductor. He received a BFA from Marshall University (1999), a Master of Music from Bowling Green State University (2002) under Marilyn Shrude and Mikel Kuehn, and a PhD in composition from the University of Iowa (2005) under David Gompper.

As a student, he received the Cleveland Chamber Symphony's Young and Emerging Composers Award (2001) for A Parable of Shadows.

Dangerfield was a Fulbright Scholar to the Russian Federation and the Netherlands (2009–10), serving as composer-in-residence with Ensemble Studio New Music at the Moscow Conservatory and as composer and guest director of the New Music Ensemble at the Maastricht Conservatorium. He has also held residencies at the Leighton Studios at the Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada) and at Yaddo.

He served as associate professor of music theory and composition and director of orchestral activities at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from 2006 to 2014. He subsequently was composer, theorist, and conductor of the New Music Ensemble at West Virginia University (2014–15) and then at the University of Florida (2015–17), and has also held a faculty appointment at McNeese State University. In 2019 he served as resident composition faculty at the Alba Music Festival Composition Program. He is currently an adjunct instructor at West Virginia University and teaches performing arts at Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he resides with his wife, Ami, and their three children. (This last sentence is self-sourced; I don't have a public page for it yet.)

In 2010, Dangerfield co-founded Ensemble: Périphérie with composer Luke Dahn, serving as the ensemble's co-artistic director and a conductor; the ensemble made its Carnegie Hall debut in October 2013. After a hiatus, the ensemble is currently being reformed, with Dangerfield continuing as co-artistic director.

He is also a pianist and composer with the Leviathan Trio.

Dangerfield's other awards include the Aaron Copland Award (2010), the Indianapolis Chamber Symphony's Composition Prize (2010, for Two Vestiges), the Henry and Parker Pelzer Prize for Excellence in Composition (2005), and ASCAP Standard Awards.

His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Eastman School of Music, Boston Conservatory, the San Francisco New Music Festival, the Moscow Conservatory, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris, the Conservatorio Giuseppe Tartini in Trieste, and the Conservatorio di Milano, among other venues, and he has conducted in New York, Vienna, and Prague.

As of 2026, Dangerfield is completing Cryptidology, a concerto for piano and orchestra inspired by the folklore of his native West Virginia, including the 1967 Mothman sightings in Point Pleasant and the 1897 Zona Heaster Shue case, scheduled to premiere in May 2026 with the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Beverly Everett, with pianist Ann DuHamel as soloist.

His music has been published by European American Music, PIP Press Music Publications, Murphy Music Press, ADJ•ective New Music, and American Concert Editions, with recordings available on Albany Records.

Thank you again for reviewing — happy to answer any questions about sourcing. Composerchronicler (talk) 15:39, 5 September 2026 (UTC) Composerchronicler (talk) 15:39, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

One more addition — an independent critical review, which also speaks to notability given the 2021 deletion discussion above:

Dangerfield's chamber concerto Winter Rites (2008), written for cellist Olga Galochkina, was reviewed in Fanfare magazine, with critic Colin Clarke writing that "Dangerfield has a keen ear for sonority" and describing the piece as beautiful and "exuberant and often joyful."

This could go into the body near the other performance/awards material, or as a short "Critical reception" note — happy to defer to whoever implements this on placement. That's everything I have for now. Composerchronicler (talk) 15:43, 5 September 2026 (UTC) Composerchronicler (talk) 15:43, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

One correction/strengthening: Copland House's own official list of past winners confirms the award — and gives its precise name, "Copland House Residency Award," for 2010–11 (not just "Aaron Copland Award," which was my own imprecise phrasing). Suggest updating that part of the awards sentence to:

...the Copland House Residency Award (2010–11), the Indianapolis Chamber Symphony's Composition Prize (2010, for Two Vestiges)...

(replacing "the Aaron Copland Award (2010)" in the awards paragraph above with this more precisely sourced version). Composerchronicler (talk) 15:49, 5 September 2026 (UTC) Composerchronicler (talk) 15:49, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

Two more independent sources on the Ensemble: Périphérie / critical-reception side:

1) A professional review of the Carnegie Hall debut concert itself, which also pins the exact date (October 26, 2013) and reviews a Dangerfield work performed there:

Suggest adding, after the Carnegie Hall debut sentence: The October 26, 2013 concert closed with Dangerfield's The Wild, a chamber arrangement of the first movement of his Piano Concerto based on the Barnett Newman painting of the same name; a reviewer for New York Concert Review wrote that the ensemble's performance kept the work's "raw, untamed qualities" from "deteriorat[ing] into amorphous cacophony."

2) A second, separate Fanfare review (different critic, different work) of the Piano Quintet (2007, premiered March 4, 2007 at the University of Iowa, dedicated to David Gompper):

Suggest adding to the "Critical reception" material: His Piano Quintet (2007) was reviewed in Fanfare by critic Peter Burwasser, who called it "highly compelling and even provocative, in a subtle way."

Composerchronicler (talk) 15:56, 5 September 2026 (UTC) Composerchronicler (talk) 15:56, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

More material. First, the Fanfare Archive's own composer index (https://fanfarearchive.com/indices/itop/composers/dangerfield.html) shows three additional reviewed works beyond Winter Rites and the Piano Quintet. The individual review pages are subscriber-only and blocked to automated tools, so I can't quote them, but the bibliographic facts are independently verifiable via that index:

His works Geometric Etudes, Nomina sunt omina (for violin and cello), and Remnants have also been reviewed in Fanfare, as part of roundup reviews of the albums The Mapp: Midwest American Piano Project, Quest, and a collection featuring pianist Ryan Fogg, respectively.

Second, a 2013 Fayette Tribune piece confirms he was named to the Fayette County Sesquicentennial Committee's "Wall of Honor" for his musical contributions, and adds a performance venue (Haydnsaal, Esterházy Palace) not otherwise sourced:

In 2013, Dangerfield was named to the Fayette County, West Virginia Wall of Honor in recognition of his musical career. His conducting engagements have also included the Haydnsaal at Esterházy Palace.

I also found a 2018 Fayette Tribune profile with some useful non-K-12 biographical detail: he is a Fayetteville, WV native from a family of musicians (parents, both sets of grandparents, and an aunt), began piano at age four and started composing at seventeen, and — as of 2018 — was resident pianist as well as composition faculty at the Alba Music Festival, and toured seven Chinese cities that year with the Leviathan Trio. Happy to add any of that if useful; I've left out the parts about his K-12 teaching positions per his earlier instruction to keep this focused on the composition/performance side. Two further links he sent me (on a 2019 Theatre West Virginia directing stint, and a profile of one of his piano students) fall in that same K-12-era territory, so I haven't proposed adding those either. Composerchronicler (talk) 16:08, 5 September 2026 (UTC) Composerchronicler (talk) 16:08, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

One more item, from a physical newspaper clipping the subject shared with me: a Register-Herald (Beckley, W.Va.) profile from May 1998, written when he was 21 and finishing his junior year at Marshall University. As independent, contemporaneous newspaper coverage, it corroborates and adds detail to the "family of musicians" background and Marshall University education already noted above: his father was band director at Collins Middle School and his mother taught music and choir at Oak Hill Elementary, and an aunt, Cathy Young, gave him his first piano lessons starting at age five. It also documents that in summer 1998 he attended the Aspen Music School and Festival, studying under Michael Czajkowski. Composerchronicler (talk) 16:09, 5 September 2026 (UTC) Composerchronicler (talk) 16:09, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

References

Response: 2026-09-14

Not done: See WP:NOLLM. Packrat3860 (talk) 01:23, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

This update was written by me. The new career information was written by me, as indicated in the request. I am following the protocol of wikipedia by requesting a non-biased editor to check the provided references. The article has outdated information, and all of the references are from reputable resources, including journals, printed newspapers, and published concert reviews. I had my assistant input most of the information regarding those references. (~2026-49781-18 (talk) 01:59, 14 September 2026 (UTC))

Are you saying that you are User:Composerchronicler? Whoever that is wrote a trail of comments to themselves over the course of two hours in which they lose track of whether they are the subject or are being instructed by the subject. That is pretty clearly LLM generated. Wikipedia does not accept LLM generated content. Packrat3860 (talk) 02:30, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Yes. This page was shown to me by a student, recently. I had no idea it existed. It was clearly created a long time ago, as it has some outdated information. I don't know much about html, or how to update, etc., so I hired an assistant to do it. I sent her my current bio, and several sources that would prove the information in the bio per the wikipedia policy that I read. I have no idea what method she used to do so. She later told me that it was "under review," and should be updated soon, given how many reputable sources I had (newspaper articles, Fanfare reviews, Copland House, etc.). I paid her, and she went on her way. It seems she didn't do it correctly. How do I get the information updated? Is that something you can do? ~2026-49781-18 (talk) 10:51, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

At the risk of oversimplifying, I would say you have three good options.

Option 1: If you have reliable independent sources about information you want changed, and you have the time to write the prose yourself, you can submit a COI edit request (like this one). It's okay if you don't know how formatting on the wiki works, you can just write up your intended change as plain text and a reviewer can add formatting if they think it's appropriate. I would suggest reading WP:CHANGEXY for a discussion on how to write a specific and actionable change request.

Option 2: If you have reliable independent sources about the information you want changed but you don't have the time to propose a specific change (or you just don't feel like it, we are all volunteers after all) then you can start a discussion on the talk page for the article (i.e. here) about those sources. Then an editor who comes through later can make updates based on what the sources say. It's best to cite the sources you'd like someone to use in detail, because if you save them the trouble of how to find it they're more likely to pick it up, but again if you don't have the time get into the intricacies of different citation formats you can just put a "raw" link in here and a brief note about what info it has.

Option 3: If you see something on this page that is wrong and is not attributed to a reliable source (i.e. no inline citation or the source cited doesn't say that) then per Wikipedia's policy of Biographies of Living People you can request that it be removed even if you don't have a source of your own to provide. However this is only for removing content, if there's something you want to add we will need a source. Again, WP:CHANGEXY has a good explanation on how to specify exactly what you want deleted.

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For all three of these my strong suggestion is not to use AI/LLM tooling for any part of it. A human written draft that is rough or incomplete is generally still usable, and can be improved over time. But if you use an LLM to polish the draft, even if the initial input was yours, an independent editor is likely to reject the change outright. Wikipedia is written by humans and most of us would much rather help an inexperienced human than haggle with a well spoken robot. Packrat3860 (talk) 14:02, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

So, something like this? My bio was rewritten years ago, and I have used it in multiple place, since. A lot of the information is the same, though. I copied the links from the previous references, because they are direct sources, but the hyperlinks did not follow. I'm not sure how to fix that here.

Joseph Dangerfield has lived and worked professionally in Italy, Germany, Russia, China, Holland, and New York.

He is the recipient of many awards and recognitions, including the Aaron Copland Award, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra's Composition Prize, the Henry and Parker Pelzer Prize for Excellence in Composition, and the Young and Emerging Composers Award. He was a Fulbright Scholar to the Russian Federation and the Netherlands, where he served as composer-in-residence with the Ensemble Studio New Music at the famed Moscow Conservatory, and lectured at Maastricht Conservatorium. He has been a resident in the Leighton Studios of the prestigious Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, and the Yaddo Colony in New York. Recordings of his works are available on the Albany Records label, and his music is published by American Concert Editions, ADJ New Music, and Murphy Music Press, LLC.

Over the past several years his creative voice has garnered much attention, with performances of his works throughout the United States and abroad. American presenters include Carnegie Hall, the Eastman School of Music, Boston Conservatory, the San Francisco New Music Festival, and the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music, among others. His instrumental and chamber compositions have also been performed at such international venues as the Moscow Conservatory, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris, the Frankfurter KünstlerKlub, the Conservatorio di Milano, and in Cairo, Egypt.

Originally trained as a pianist, Dangerfield is also active as a performer and conductor throughout the United States. He has conducted chamber and orchestral concerts of music both new and from the canon in New York, Vienna, and Prague, among other cities, and has served on the faculty of West Virginia University, the University of Florida, McNeese State University, and Coe College. He currently resides in Pittsburgh with his wife, Ami, and their three children, where he teaches at Winchester Thurston School, and is an adjunct for WVU.

"Dangerfield, Joseph". American Composers Alliance.

"Young & Emerging Composers". Cleveland Chamber Symphony.

"The 2019 Program". Alba Music Festival Composition Program.

5 Questions to Joseph Dangerfield (composer)". I Care If You Listen. April 2015.

"Copland House Residency Awards". Copland House.

"Geometric Etudes (in "Midwest American Piano Project")". Fanfare. Vol. 32, no. 5.

"Nomina sunt omina (in "Quest")". Fanfare. Vol. 34, no. 5

"Remnants (in "The Fogg Project")". Fanfare. Vol. 35, no. 3.

"Wall of Honor choices profiled". Fayette Tribune. July 1, 2013

Williams, Jeffrey (October 28, 2013). "Ensemble: Périphérie in Review". New York Concert Review.

"Postcards". ADJ•ective New Music.

"Valhol". Murphy Music Press.

"Fame's Bright Sky". Bemidji Symphony Orchestra

~2026-49781-18 (talk) 14:30, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Ok I went through some of these sources. We can't generally use a source that is a profile supplied by you, and the sources that just list your name for a particular award are primary sources which we want to avoid relying on. That leaves a few options.

There's some sources from "news" articles:

1. 5 Questions to Joseph Dangerfield (composer)
2. Fayette resident guiding WWHS band
3. He can, he does, and he teaches

There's also some good sources from reviews of your work:

1. Ensemble: Périphérie in Review
2. "Geometric Etudes (in "Midwest American Piano Project")". Fanfare. Vol. 32, no. 5.
3. "Nomina sunt omina (in "Quest")". Fanfare. Vol. 34, no. 5
4. "Remnants (in "The Fogg Project")". Fanfare. Vol. 35, no. 3.

The ones available online I can take a look. The ones from Fanfare I am very interested in, but I will need to see if the university near me has a copy I can read. Thank you for providing sources. Packrat3860 (talk) 02:45, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

OK, thank you. The sources from ADJective, Murphy Music Press, and American Composers Alliance were to prove that my work is published by those companies. That's all. The Copland House website also lists me as a recipient of that award. I posted it, since someone in the thread at the top of the thread indicated an issue with proving it. ~2026-49855-16 (talk) 12:02, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

I have done my best to clean up the article with those sources in mind. Packrat3860 (talk) 22:31, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Significant Cleanup

Persuant to the conversation above, I have done some major cleanup of this article. I've added sources for most things and removed what I don't have a source for or what does not seem notable. The only remaining claim that really needs a citation is the publisher, which I think is relevant and probably can be sourced, but I have not found one yet. As sourcing is greatly improved, I have also removed the maintenance templates (with the exception of the {{cn}} I added). Packrat3860 (talk) 22:30, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! There are links provided to the granting organizations of the Copland House (for Copland Award), and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony award. I also do not work at WWHS. I work at Winchester Thurston in Pittsburgh and WVU. I'm happy to provide you with copies of my contracts, if that's what you need. ~2026-49855-16 (talk) 12:15, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

If you don't currently work at WWHS I can update the bio to reflect that this was true as of 2022. However to add in your current position(s) instead we would need independent secondary sources. Your employment contract is a primary source (and I'm not sure how much your employer would like you publishing it? I don't know if they can actually stop you, but my job would not appreciate it if I did that I think).

Statements by the award giving body are also not independent sources. They are promoting the award they have given.

The issue is not that I think these claims are not true, but that Wikipedia wants to trust independent sources with the decision on what is important enough to record. There are of course many employment contracts and many awards and I don't want to make it sound like your achievements are not important (for what little I know of the world of professional music your resume seems quite impressive, and bravo to you for teaching on top of all that), but for Wikipedia coverage by independent secondary sources is the standard. If you can find some that document your awards and your current position then and (unfortunately) only then can we include them. Packrat3860 (talk) 21:52, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

I also can provide a professional headshot, with permission to use. ~2026-49855-16 (talk) 12:15, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

If you'd like to upload a picture you can follow these instructions. I don't know much about the Commons side of things so I apologize that I don't have more guidance to give.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:First_steps/Uploading_files Packrat3860 (talk) 21:40, 28 September 2026 (UTC)