User talk:Snowmanradio~commonswiki

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1. 17 March 2007 – 25 May 2009
2. 26 May 2009 – 25 April 2012

File:Hirundo rustica -Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England-8.ogv

File:Hirundo rustica -Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England-8.ogv has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

McZusatz (talk) 17:22, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Flickr location data

Hi Snowmanradio - please always remember to include any location data given at Flickr images that you upload, see e.g. my edit to your upload File:Anser albifrons -Iceland-8.jpg. Locations are very important with scientific items; very often they allow (as in this case) further identification information like subspecies determination. If you use the Flinfo upload tool, the location is added automatically. Thanks! - MPF (talk) 11:10, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Permission to use photo of hornbill

Dear Snowmanradio May I use photo of hornbill in KL Bird Park for school books? Contact me at [email protected]

Thanks

Sandra Poon Pearson Malaysia

• It is not my photograph. However, the author has released it under a Creative Commons licence, which will tell you how to attribute and distribute it. Snowmanradio (talk) 09:44, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

File:Painted Desert Indian Centre, Arizona, USA-25April2010.jpg

File:Painted Desert Indian Centre, Arizona, USA-25April2010.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

FunkMonk (talk) 17:16, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

• File:Banksy -fisherman mural -Regents Canal, Camden, London-21March2010.jpg

And also:

• File:Banksy -fisherman mural -Regents Canal, Camden, London-26April2010.jpg
• File:Banksy or not? -High Rd -Tottenham -London-24Sept2009.jpg

Regards Psychonaut (talk) 16:18, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

File:Jessica Ennis -Barcelona, Spain-31July2010.jpg

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Edgars2007 (talk) 08:26, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Possible fault in the file upload bot you're using?

Hi Snowmanradio - happened to notice you'd uploaded a series of Melopsittacus undulatus pics: File:Melopsittacus undulatus -Karratha, Pilbara, Western Australia, Australia -flock-8 (5).jpg et seq. — you should have got a warning from the upload bot that these were duplicates (I'd already uploaded the same pics a few days ago). If you didn't get a duplication warning, there's a fault in the upload bot you're using, which I guess should be reported. I've deleted the duplicates now. - MPF (talk) 15:21, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

There was no warning from the Flicker upload. Snowmanradio (talk) 18:32, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

I think that you should have merged the file information and added "Category:Birds of Western Australia" to the ones you kept. Snowmanradio (talk) 18:35, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

There ought to have been a warning! There is with the flinfo tool if I attempt to upload a file that duplicates an existing one, so certainly worth taking up with Magnus. I rarely bother with Categories:birds by location, but if you want to add it, please do. The file information provided in this instance ("budgerigar season madness") is not worth having in Commons's context, which is why I cut it when uploading. - MPF (talk) 19:28, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

If you do not add location categories yourself, then you should have kept the better categorised images. Also, I think that my files had more descriptive and better names than yours. My images did not contain the phrase "budgerigar season madness" either. I think that you may have had a conflict of interest in keeping the images that you uploaded and perhaps you should have added a dupe tag for a neutral person to deal with. Snowmanradio (talk) 19:33, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Probably only about 1% or so of bird pics are categorised by location; without a bot to remedy this, adding it is fairly futile. And if categorisation by location became common, it might result in newbies categorising their pics only by location and not by species, which would be a far worse option. As for which to delete, I did it strictly on a priority basis, first uploading wins; otherwise you open the floodgates to people repeatedly uploading new duplicates and deleting the earlier ones on the pretext of what they considered a better description or filename. If it had been my upload second, I'd have deleted that instead (it's happened several times that the flinfo tool has told me a file is on commons already, I then abort uploading). Of whose filename is better, that is very open to discussion; mine is shorter (easier to type out accurately if need be), but still distinct and meaningful, and the location is in the file text; yours conversely while including the locations (yep, better than mine) is excessively long and also includes your personal secret code (if that's what it is; what is the purpose of the peculiarly one-sided-spaced hyphens and the 8 that appear in every file you upload??). I have memories of an image you uploaded where the species was misidentified (by the flickr user, not you); in renaming it to the correct species I also stripped out the superfluous hyphens and 8, and you came down on me like a ton of bricks and immediately renamed the file yet again to put the hyphens and 8 back in. That strikes me as contravening wiki's principles of not 'owning' files and not renaming files more than is essential for accuracy. - MPF (talk) 22:10, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

I see the problem here is that you did not merge information when you selected one duplicate for keeping and the other for deleting for each of the set of seven wild budgie photographs. I also note that you did not add the missing location categories after I prompted you to add them. Please note that location categories are important for wild birds. I have no wish to see Commons degraded, so I have added the location categories to the duplicates that have been kept; however, I think that it was your responsibility to do this since you should have merged the information in the two files when you deleted one of them. I am not happy with your reply. I have asked an administrator to watch this discussion. Snowmanradio (talk) 13:10, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi. I got a tip about this discussion so allow me to make a few comments:

First. Bots should avoid uploading duplicate files. So if it don't that should be reported.

Second. When deleting duplicates the admin should make sure that all usefull information is added to the file that is kept.

Third. Is it a good idea to Categorize by location? I think there is no obvious answer. I can see benefits of doing so as long as it is not done in the extreme but I can also see cases where it is not relevant. In this case I have no strong feelings about it and I'm not really into birds. But if MPF thinks that the category is useless why not nominate the category for deletion instead of just removing it from one single file?

Fourth. About file names. Personally I prefer not to have a number in the file name unless there is more files with the same name because it could create confusion if there is a "number 2" or a "number 8" but no "number 1" etc. --MGA73 (talk) 21:07, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for looking in! Also thanks Snowmanradio for adding the location categories; perhaps I should clarify, I'm not hostile to them (so won't be nominating them for deletion), just that I consider them low priority so rarely take the trouble to add them myself. If others want to add them, that's fine. There are other aspects I consider more important to occupy my time, like constructing good galleries of verified located wild birds / plants etc.; and while I can spend more time on Commons than many, I can't spend 25 hours per day on commons to add location categories as well. On the merging data in duplicates, there was no additional data to merge; this is merely a minor dispute over the presentation of that data (whether as categories, or as text). The duplicates guidelines do not mandate anything about the presentation, or about categories. - MPF (talk) 22:28, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

COM:OVERCAT

Hi Snowmanradio. Category:Birds of the Pantanal is a subcategory of Category:Birds of Brazil. --Leyo 13:00, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

... but the Pantanal includes parts of Bolivia and Paraguay, so I think that you have got it wrong. See File:Chauna torquata NBII.jpg, which in in the Pantanal in Paraguary and relevant categories are added. I am going to add the missing "birds of Brazil" category that you removed. Snowmanradio (talk) 11:53, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Category:Birds of the Pantanal was Category:Birds of Brazil before you changed it. --Leyo 12:25, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

The Wiki is not always correct, so it is always better to check information. I corrected it the category structure. Snowmanradio (talk) 12:27, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

I am not sure if your “correction” was good. There is probably a reason for {{CatDiffuse}} in Category:Birds of Brazil. --Leyo 12:30, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Obviously the categories were wrong and I corrected them. If you are concerned about the number of images in Birds of Brazil, then the obvious thing for you to do is provide a better location for your own photographs from Brazil, such as providing the state. Snowmanradio (talk) 12:40, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

You could simply have asked me this question instead of blindly adding categories to my photographs. --Leyo 12:51, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

I note that you have just added more precise location categories for some of your photographs on Commons which is helpful, and perhaps you will follow this by adding the more detailed location details to the image description. I am not sure why you have deleted a comment I made on your talk page requesting better location details of your photographs. I have asked an administrator to comment on the level of your discussion here. Snowmanradio (talk) 12:58, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

(EC) As noted in the edit summary, you did not respect #3 of the editnotice box. I cannot stand scattered discussions. --Leyo 13:27, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Where did these guidelines come from? I do not know of any Wiki guidelines that says that I can not ask you to put better locations on your photographs. Further, the topic that I started on your talk page was different to the topic you started here and it was not a direct reply to anything that you said here. I note that when you deleted my comment your edit summary was; "see #3 in the editnotice box", but I have not seen "#3" before and I did not know what it is nor where to find out what it means. I think that your edit summary could have been clearer. Snowmanradio (talk) 13:41, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

IMO the topic is the same, just different aspects. Not respecting my wish (i.e. standard practice) concerning talk pages can be considered impolite.

Concerning the location: IMO Pantanal or Pantanal, Brazil is sufficient. I took the photos close to the border between Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul (the only two states in the Pantanal). If I would know the exact locations, I would add them, but I do not have a GPS device. --Leyo 13:57, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Please note that location details can be critical to animal photographs. Sometimes the location helps to identify a species to sub-species level. You seem to be saying that you were not 100% certain of your location when you were taking photograph in the Pantanal. This makes my slightly concerned about the location details on your photographs. If you are not sure of the Brazilian state, then please remove the location details that are at state level. You could just put "close to the border of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul" in the image description, and leave the categories as "Category:Birds of Brazil" and "Category:Birds of the Pantanal". I have asked for another Commons user to comment about this discussion. Snowmanradio (talk) 14:18, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

(Most) birds can fly. They could have reached Mato Grosso do Sul in a few minutes from where I watched them. --Leyo 14:26, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Some birds make very long journeys. Nevertheless, location details in the image description and location categories are to provide the location of where the photograph was actually taken. Snowmanradio (talk) 14:31, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes: Pantanal, Brazil. --Leyo 14:40, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

The Pantanal extends over the borders of Brazil and is a very large place, so it would be more precise to add "close to the border of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul" in the image description, which is consistent with what you knew about your location, if I have understood you correctly. Snowmanradio (talk) 14:46, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

It took me more than an hour, but I was finally able to find our lodge on the map. I added the coordinates to the pictures taken in its vicinity (example). --Leyo 22:09, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Some people might be able to use the locations to help identify some of the animals to sub-species level or at least to consider the appearance of animal from this particular location. Snowmanradio (talk) 22:22, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

File:Painted Desert Indian Centre, Arizona, USA-28June2011.jpg

File:Painted Desert Indian Centre, Arizona, USA-28June2011.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

FunkMonk (talk) 00:41, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

en:Italic type#Parentheses

Hi Snowmanradio. Are you sure that The Chicago Manual of Style is not applicable? --Leyo 22:37, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

I think that it is an en Wiki tree of life consensus to use upright brackets around italicised species names. I heard about it when it was discussed on the WP Birds en Wiki project. Snowmanradio (talk) 11:54, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

File:Woman sitting on a bench at Woodland Park Zoo-29May2008.jpg

File:Woman sitting on a bench at Woodland Park Zoo-29May2008.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Sarah (talk) 18:50, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

FYI

I'm a bit confused by the ID of File:Contopus_virens_-Madison,_Wisconsin,_USA-8.jpg. Could explain on the nomination page. The image is very good. -- Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 08:30, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Well spotted. I have replied over there. Snowmanradio (talk) 12:22, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Almaden Lake Park or Santa Teresa County Park?

Hi,

I see that when you uploaded the description for File:Zenaida macroura -California-8.jpg (all the way back in 2 September 2008 - so quite a while ago) you wrote Photograph at Santa Teresa County Park, San Jose, California, USA. However, both the Flickr title (Dove by Almaden Lake) and the Flickr caption (Scene from Almaden Lake Park) indicate the photo was taken at Almaden Lake Park (around Almaden Reservoir) not at Santa Teresa County Park. According to my use of the ruler tool at wikimapia there is 5.9 kilometres (3.7 mi) distance between those two separate parks in southern San José. So where was that photo taken? I am curious since I'd like to create some park categories for such images and I wanted to be sure that photo (and its derivative) went into the correct category. Thank you. Pedro Xing (talk) 03:20, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Well spotted. I think that the flickr location must be correct. I have made corrections. Snowmanradio (talk) 08:59, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying where the photograph was taken. I have gone ahead and placed both photos into the new Category:Almaden Lake Park. Pedro Xing (talk) 04:29, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Toyota FJ Cruiser - Copyright Ritchyblack

Hello Snowmanradio, you can not change a License, which I as author and owners forgive (this is illegal). If the License is not correct, you can set a deletion request. Then we'll see. Incidentally, the picture of the year 2011 has the same license. Stay away from my image rights. Greeting Ritchy Black --Ritchyblack (talk) 07:17, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

The picture has two licences the free art licence and the restrictive non-commercial CC licence. The problem is that the restrictive CC licence is not allowed on Commons, so I have made a comment on the FP nomination that I hope will prompt discussion. Snowmanradio (talk) 08:14, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

As long as one free/accepted license is in use all other noncommercial or nonderivative license types are permitted as aditional license. --Denniss (talk) 11:07, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

I did not know that. Snowmanradio (talk) 12:00, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Found some links regarding this: Commons:Licensing#Multi-licensing and Commons:Multi-licensing--Denniss (talk) 15:06, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

And here a similar discussion: licensing: CC-BY-NC-ND at the POTY 2011 image. Best regards, --Alchemist-hp (talk) 15:11, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Sayornis phoebe -Madison, Wisconsin, USA-8.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Sayornis phoebe -Madison, Wisconsin, USA-8.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 13:05, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Swallow tailed gull

Yor opinion here is appreciated. -- Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 08:14, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

File:Nuneaton WEB.jpg

Hi Snownmanradio, I am writing in relation of the image of the Nuneaton town centre which has been used on the following page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuneaton). We are going to use it for the exhibition entitled 'What's history in Nuneaton? Young people's reflections on the town's past, present and future'. The exhibition is the result of a project 'Community memory and young people's civic activism: Mining communities of West Midlands in times of socio-economic transformations, the 1950s, the 1970s-80s, 2008-12' run in partnership by the University of Warwick (Department of Sociology) and the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. For the exhibition purposes we asked young people to produce photographic works using their photos taken by themselves or archival images. In the case of the Nuneaton town centre image the young person used it to represent the changes in the town: He used Photoshop to merge that image with another one taken in the beginning of the 20th century. This image will be used for the slide show which will be part of the exhibition. The initial idea was to print out the photographic work containing the image on the large size panel or pull-up display stand for the exhibition. But unfortunately the resolution of the image available is too low for this. Therefore, I would like ask you whether it is possible to provide this photo in higher resolution (perhaps as a jpeg file). It would help us to continue with the initial plan for exhibition. We will follow all copyright requirements and acknowledge your contribution to the exhibition. Thank you in advance for your help.Please email me ussing the email address below. Kind regards, Anton Popov [email protected]

• I have edited the file details, but I am not the author of the image. Looking at the file history, I see that the author is Cap on the English Wikpedia. I do not use e-mail for my replies. Snowmanradio (talk) 15:02, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

F2ComButton

Hi. You recently posted that you were having trouble with my F2ComButton. I have since updated the script and it should be working. Please let me know on my enwiki talk page if you have any other problems. --Odie5533 (talk) 05:37, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

File:Lincoln Park Zoo -entrance-10May2005.jpg

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cmadler (talk) 19:12, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

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Weird and cumbersome file naming systems

Hi Snowmanradio - once again, I find myself exasperated by your peculiar naming / numbering systems for sets of related images uploaded from Flickr. It means when adding images to a gallery, I have to open each page individually, and copy and paste its title separately into a gallery, which wastes a lot of my time. If you used logical sequential numbering, I only have to open one file, copy its name, paste the name in the gallery several times, and then just renumber the rest quickly. And what is it with the unbalanced hyphens, and 8, that you feel you have to add to every filename?? They are baffling, and very difficult to type out accurately for anyone who isn't familiar with copy-paste routines
Example:
File:Geopelia cuneata -Pilbara, Western Australia, Australia-8.jpg
File:Geopelia cuneata -Pilbara, Western Australia, Australia-8 (1).jpg
File:Geopelia cuneata -Pilbara, Western Australia, Australia -drinking-8.jpg
File:Geopelia cuneata -Pilbara, Western Australia, Australia -drinking-8 (1).jpg
Please insead, name them more concisely and logically:
File:Geopelia cuneata Pilbara, Western Australia 1.jpg
File:Geopelia cuneata Pilbara, Western Australia 2.jpg
File:Geopelia cuneata Pilbara, Western Australia 3.jpg
File:Geopelia cuneata Pilbara, Western Australia 4.jpg
That makes things vastly easier for other users.

Thanks! - MPF (talk) 09:39, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

• The names are internationalized using binomial names and generally the place names in the native language of the locality. It is a system that works well for me. When I upload a dozen images showing different views of a similar object or animal then it is inevitable that some numbering or further descriptive details are needed. Descriptive file names are recommended in the guidelines, so I have sometimes add an key feature of the image at the end, such as drinking, flying, eating, female, male, adult, juvenile, nest, date and so on. I think that this will ultimately reduce confusion for readers in many different languages and I think that I would be correct in assuming that most people can copy and paste file names easily. Further you will find that the official "upload a modified image software" makes suggestions for file suffixes, which are not dissimilar to the system I use and also that the brackets are automatically added by the flicker upload tool. I have absolutely no intention of changing my system that is in keeping with guidelines and works well when uploading thousands of images. I would find the system that you suggest confusing to use, since the numbers 1, 2, 3 or 4 are not descriptive and have no obvious link to the image. If you have any objections about the brackets, then I guess that you might like to take this up with the author of the flicker upload tool. Snowmanradio (talk) 10:13, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

• I recently stumbled upon two files, which have a long names: Snowmanradio (talk) 09:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

• "File:US Navy 070731-N-7029R-153 Yeoman 2nd Class Sze Tsang holds a parrot during a community relations project held in support of Partnership of the Americas (POA) 2007 deployment.jpg" Snowmanradio (talk) 09:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
• "File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Jet Breeman in een ligstoel met een kaketoe en een poes wordt op de galerij bediend door de baboe van de familie C.H. Japing in Bandoeng waar zij op visite is TMnr 10030166.jpg" Snowmanradio (talk) 09:57, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

• File:Reykjavik, Iceland-13July2011.jpg

Eleassar (t/p) 08:18, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

• File:Krugerrand 1oz 1975.jpg

Yours sincerely, Stefan4 (talk) 14:53, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Misuse of images

Hi! See what Richard Bartz sent me: http://www.zazzle.de/eines_ruppells_geier_gyps_rueppellii-256666370950693129 I have started a topic here to see what we can do. Cheers, --Kadellar (talk) 11:38, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Rallina eurizonoides

Please read discussion here File_talk:Rallina_eurizonoides_-Baan_Song_Nok,_Phetchaburi,_Thailand-8.jpg Ariefrahman (talk) 03:25, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

File:Psephotus haematonotus -Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne, Australia-8.jpg

I guess this bird is misidentified - it looks like Platycercus eximius --Kersti (talk) 19:18, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Well spotted. File moved to File:Platycercus eximius -Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne, Australia-8.jpg. I have requested deletion of the original file name. Snowmanradio (talk) 22:21, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

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Dunrobin Castle east view.

review

 Support Good choice --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:28, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:15, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

File:Panthera leo -Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania -mating-8.jpg

File:Panthera leo -Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania -mating-8.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

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23:08, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

I do not want it changed. My name here is snowmanradio and not snowman, so it sounds like you have are in error. Snowmanradio (talk) 12:10, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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05:33, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

File:Rory Cellan-Jones -Golden Gate, San Francisco-3Jan2010.jpg

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BabelStone (talk) 18:19, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

File:Rory Cellan-Jones -filming live from the a university-4June2008.jpg

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BabelStone (talk) 18:25, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

File:Hugh Pym-1June2007.jpg

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Dtonlass (talk) 10:43, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Category:Uniforms_of_the_United_Kindom

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BethNaught (talk) 09:54, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Important message for file movers

A community discussion has been closed where the consensus was to grant all file movers the suppressredirect user right. This will allow file movers to not leave behind a redirect when moving files and instead automatically have the original file name deleted. Policy never requires you to suppress the redirect, suppression of redirects is entirely optional.

Possible acceptable uses of this ability:

• To move recently uploaded files with an obvious error in the file name where that error would not be a reasonable redirect. For example: moving "Sheep in a tree.jpg" to "Squirrel in a tree.jpg" when the image does in fact depict a squirrel.
• To perform file name swaps.
• When the original file name contains vandalism. (File renaming criterion #5)

Please note, this ability should be used only in certain circumstances and only if you are absolutely sure that it is not going to break the display of the file on any project. Redirects should never be suppressed if the file is in use on any project. When in doubt, leave a redirect. If you forget to suppress the redirect in case of file name vandalism or you are not fully certain if the original file name is actually vandalism, leave a redirect and tag the redirect for speedy deletion per G2.

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Quality Image Promotion

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--QICbot (talk) 05:27, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

File:Pezoporus occidentalis.jpg

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FunkMonk (talk) 22:15, 10 April 2021 (UTC)