Talk:Rainis

message: All my Rainis books indicate "J. Rainis" as the author, not "Rainis." I believe the article should be renamed at some point to reflect the correct nom de plume.  —  Pēters J. Vecrumba 18:22, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Better not - Rainis is widely known and uncontroversial name, while there are enough of people who argue that his pseudonym was Rainis, while Jānis was his real name and therefore he shold be called Rainis and Jānis Rainis is a mistake. Also I've read some autobiographical works by Aspazija and she refers to him using only "Rainis", thus he himself also might have used only "Rainis". ---- Xil/talk 16:06, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: More data, dug out my copy of Latvju Rakstniecība Portrejās published while Rainis was alive, either "Rainis" or "Jānis Pliekšans-Rainis" (which is also how the article about him is titled). So, we can confidently observe contemporary usage. :-)  —  Pēters J. Vecrumba 02:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of Article

message: I found some pictures, however there is a slight problem - most of the Latvian photographers of the time have been quite lively and haven't managed to die until 1937, which means that most of these are copyrighted. Now I think I read somwhere that if a picture has been published before 1923 the pictures can be used and for some of these author is unknown. So does anyone know if we can use these images ? The pictures (from ):
* 1880  I have better version of the picture, the author is Robert Borchardt, date of death unknown (however he started working in 1860s - likely was dead in 1937)
* 1897 Mugshot made in Liepāja's prison, should be enhanced before use
** cleaned it up a bit, let me know where you'd like it or I can email —  Pēters J. Vecrumba 00:19, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've uploaded other images of the monument to commons - :Image:Rainis Monument in Riga Esplanaade 3.jpg, :Image:Rainis Monument in Riga Esplanaade 2.jpg and :Image:Rainis Monument in Riga Esplanaade 1.jpg----Xil...sist! 21:21, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: I just wrote to the Latvian Academic Library to ask about reusing one of the pictures of Rainis in their collection for the article. I'm tight for time, but I'll scan the pages on Rainis and Aspazija in "Latvju Rakstniecība Portrejās" so folks have some more material to work with.
  For the simplified section list, we might put his philosophy (personal, as expressed in writing,...) —  Pēters J. Vecrumba 18:47, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional references 

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