Grandfather 1917: colour please ?

[Polldoll]

Seeing as you have a number of super coloured versions I'd restored to the old sepia tone .  

 I had intended to colour also but  not sure if this thread is still open  for more input....

[Polldoll]

Well  I decided  to do a coloured  one seeing as most of the work was done in the restore .
 It seems quite a lot of people either  mark a thread as "completed"or "closed"  so very soon after posting for a restore...    It seems unnecessary to me  as a thread usually just naturally falls to the bottom of the list when people are no longer responding to it  and one can feel a little deflated when one has spent time on a photo only to find it maybe feels surplus to requirements when finding the thread is annotated as such. 
I 'm sure Sydney Researcher is just doing what lots of other people have maybe been encouraged to do  but for the life of me I cannot  see what advantage there is to anyone  in continuing the practice when it is related to restores ....   Maybe  I 'm just a bit of a slow coach   

[Ronbucks]

Great work Polldoll!

[Polldoll]

Thank you RonB

Great work Polldoll!

He looks a dapper chappie doesn't he ?
Just checked out your Scottish connections...  It seems we are not related ...but you do have impeccable taste ....
Poll

[Niksmum]

Poll it is now in the Etiquette and guidelines posted by Prue

COMPLETED REQUESTS


Owners, when you feel the topic is now finished, please use the modify button to add the word *completed* to the titles of the first and last entries in your topic.  However, please be aware that it can take some time for all the restorations to be completed, so don't be too hasty to "complete" a topic - give time for everyone from around the world to have a go (at least 48 hours please


Irene

[Polldoll]

Hi Irene ... Thanks ..I know .... those guidelines have been around for a while  ... the point I was making was why.?..
What purpose does it really serve to put completed ?.   Do people then say to themselves that should another restore turn up that they don't want it  ? I doubt it . Every restore is different and it's not as if people are duplicating information unnecessarily like one does, say, in a Census or BMD" look up"  Under that circumstance I can see the validity of annotating a thread with  " Completed".
I sometimes choose 6 or 7  pics to restore and then may not log on to Rootschat for a week whilst I am working on them.
Sometimes we used to restore a photo weeks  later if we had missed it initially when I first started to restore on here. I just think it may sometimes cause people to feel they may have wasted their time when they log on to post a restore and it says that the thread is closed or completed . How does it make you feel ... it 's probably happened to you too in the past .  I'm not criticising the people that do it ...  just questioning the logic of the  advice in the guidelines ...

[Niksmum]

Poll I dont see the logic to it either.

and yes it has happened to me. Sometimes I post regardless or I just bin them and say goodbye to two/three hours work (sometimes more)
Its the same as we cannot color unless it is requested. If this is because if it is not wanted then we have wasted our time, then surely the same thing applies to posts that have been completed 

I dont make the rules I just try to follow them 

Irene

[saddles]

Hi SR.....I hope I am doing the right thing posting after the thread has been closed.

I agree with Poll and Irene it is a silly rule closing the thread.


regards Carolyn 

[Pels.]

Beautiful work from everyone ! 

For Stephen's future reference, Prue's recommendation is at least 48 hours :

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,528438.0.html

    Owners, when you feel the topic is now finished, please use the modify button to add the word *completed* to the titles of the first and last entries in your topic.  However, please be aware that it can take some time for all the restorations to be completed, so don't be too hasty to "complete" a topic - give time for everyone from around the world to have a go (at least 48 hours please).

Pels.

Speaking for Stephen, this might be my fault because previously I'd put emphasis on the forty eight hours. But it might help other posters to be aware that a thread was started about this subject. Three pages and every restorer agreed :

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,436923.0.html

When I was searching for the above link I put the word 'completed' and Pels into the search. The number of times I've repaired a pic for it to be posted after completion is terribly embarrassing - for the person who's restored it.

Pels.