User talk:MtBotany

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, MtBotany!

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File:Vanilla odorata flower 1.png

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AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 20:38, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

@AntiCompositeNumber Looking again at the iNaturalist page, I made an error. I don't know how I misread it as Creative Commons when it is actually Creative Commons Non-Commercial. MtBotany (talk) 20:45, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Don't worry, it happens. iNaturalist's interface can make it easy to confuse licenses. If you upload unedited images from iNaturalist, they will be automatically checked by iNaturalistReviewBot, but I and others have to manually review images that have been cropped/retouched. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 20:45, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

iNaturalistReview

Hi MtBotany, Thank you for the many uploads from iNaturalist. It would be nice if you added {{INaturalistReview}} to uploads, then a reviewbot reviews its license (which only succeeds if the image is in original format, not cropped). Thank you! --Lymantria (talk) 08:29, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I've reviewed the documentation on the template, and I'll do that going forward. MtBotany (talk) 15:07, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

@Lymantria Not sure if I placed the template correctly. I read over the page a second time and it was not clear if there was any particular place that it should be placed. I used it in the "Other Information" field of the upload wizard. Waiting to see if it works correctly there or if I should have put it somewhere else. MtBotany (talk) 01:53, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

I checked your latest uploads and your placement of the template is fine. --Lymantria (talk) 06:24, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for checking. MtBotany (talk) 20:18, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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