User talk:Colin/Archive 1

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Colin 11:36, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Colin!

Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

BotMultichillT 10:08, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

• Image:Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.

Quality Image Promotion

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Quality Image Promotion

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Quality Image Promotion

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Quality Image Promotion

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Quality Image Promotion

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Quality Image Promotion

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Quality Image Promotion

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FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:King's Cross Western Concourse.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:King's Cross Western Concourse.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 13:02, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Blog Feature

Hi Colin,

My name is Elaine and I'm a communications intern with the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco. We're starting a new feature on the Foundation blog [1] to profile the photographers behind the beautiful photos that become Picture of the Day (POTD) on the Commons home page. You can see some of our past POTD posts here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/communications/picture-of-the-day/

Given that your photo is scheduled for 7 May 2012, we'd love to do a short interview with you either by phone, Skype, or email to discuss your work and your POTD. Please let me know if you think you'd be interested! You can reach me at communicationsinternwikimedia.org

Thanks,

Elaine

Sorry about that, that's what I get for copying and pasting...I meant to change the fields on that one, but I must have forgotten! We're reaching out to several of the POTD photographers, and I'd be very interested in talking to you as well, if you're up for it :) Elaine Comm Intern (WMF) (talk) 21:21, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Sure, by email works fine. I have a list of questions I can email you. Could you shoot me an email at communicationsinternwikimedia.org? Elaine Comm Intern (WMF) (talk) 07:37, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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Quality Image Promotion

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Quality Image Promotion

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FP Promotion

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/FPCBot (talk) 21:02, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

image

Done. Thanks so Much. Monfie (talk) 14:46, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Without your help it was likely to not succeed. --Monfie (talk) 09:09, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:King's Cross Station Euston Road 2012-05-27.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:King's Cross Station Euston Road 2012-05-27.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 05:01, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Lophius piscatorius MHNT

I continue on your page to avoid overloading FP. The reality of this picture is much more complex. This specimen is usually poorly lit. That evening I went through this gallery and there was a ray of sunlight falling on it. I pulled out my equipment and I'm in fact 5 images. 3 images for the front, stacked by Focus staking and two images to the rear. Then I add the two parties. But the sunshine I was not expected, which explains the different color temperature that I have not corrected. In final I had no preconceived idea of what I was going to do and I've taken here as an exercise. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 09:32, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Well this information makes it all the more remarkable. I think you should consider adding some of the above to the FP and/or image description. We can learn a lot from discovering how a picture was taken and the circumstances. Your image looks like a carefully taken studio shot and I guess I've judged it as such, when the reality was less flexible and more chance. Still, the defects are there, IMO, though everyone has their own opinion about their harm or even benefit. It is a good picture, just not perhaps FP and to some extent your own previous FPs raise the bar on what one expects!! :-) You should be very proud of your contributions. Colin (talk) 14:57, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

A Question

Hi, Do you believe is it likely to succeed if I nominate this? What about this one? Any betterment you suggest?

Thanks --Monfie (talk) 08:45, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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Breisacher Munster Hochaltar

Hallo Colin,

sorry, but please have a look at the full altar. There is not Christ figure so Christ was not croped out. Maybe you make a conscientious investigation next time. And the argument why a detail picture could not get a FP is not comprehensible for me because we have many examples which refute your theory. --Wladyslaw (talk) 18:31, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Commons Barnstar
		For the quality and featured pics you've uploaded. Your contributions are appreciated. INeverCry 21:47, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

• I've also made you autopatrolled. INeverCry 21:47, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	Thanks Colin for pointing out errors in my submissions to Commons. I have done as you have guided. Please check and if there is an issue, please guide me again. Asitjain (talk) 14:46, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Colin. I have made the required changes. Thanks again for your kind help.

Dear Colin, I made a mistake while uploading some files, some of them has the same title and they appear as versions of the file. Can you please guide me how to separate them? They are here : Udaigiri Cave 6 Images Asitjain (talk) 10:31, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

FP Promotion

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/FPCBot (talk) 05:11, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

GFDL 1.2 & FPs

Hi Colin,

Thanks *a lot* for this proposal. It is both brave and much needed. I really believe this can be of huge importance on Commons.

Oh, and as I said over there, I found your summary of the situation really good.

Cheers, Jean-Fred (talk) 19:43, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank-you. Btw, although I count your comment as being "in support", I wondered why use used the "comment" template rather than the clearer "support" one. I know some people get worked about about "not voting" at WP/Commmons but clarity here can only help. -- Colin (talk) 19:53, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Not really a vote/not vote thing. To put in bluntly, I usually avoid commenting at Talk:FPC, as I believe me and my opinions are unwelcome there − that is the taste my few attempts there have left me anyway. Jean-Fred (talk) 08:42, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

FYI: edited my message accordingly, for the sake of clarity. Jean-Fred (talk) 11:51, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Cheers, Colin (talk) 13:15, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

• Colin, the title of the proposal was changed by RD232; so the link provided on the main page is not working (exactly). -- Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 06:16, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Hmm. Well it is still fairly easy for folk to find even if the link is only half working. If you want to try to fix the links then go ahead, but let's just leave the title/anchor as it is now. Colin (talk) 08:01, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

• I had gone through all the discussions so far including User:Colin/GFDL. My findings in the current issue:

• Commons:Licensing#Acceptable_licenses only says some points as "the license must meet the following conditions:" and "the following restrictions must not apply to the image or other media file:"; it nowhere says which are the currently available licenses that follow them. So we have to specify "a list" (which includes PD, CC variants, FAL and excludes GFDL, GPL, LGPL, etc.) here or any other suitable place. If separate list of licenses are available for different type of files, it should be specified clearly.
• I think the license of a "software" and license of a "screen shot of a free software" are very different things. So I didn't understand the point "Certain derivative works that require a GFDL or similar licence (like GPL) may continue to be permitted for upload, such as screenshots of software.". -- Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 05:41, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

• I found a list at Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags#For_image_creators; but it is outside Commons. -- Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 05:57, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

• Have a look at Commons:Copyright tags too. -- Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 10:10, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

File:Haapsalu linnuse varemed1.jpg

Thank you for the remarks. I will try restiching tonight. Regards, --Ivar (talk) 05:22, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

File:Elymnias hypermnestra male by kadavoor.jpg

Hi Colin:

I didn't understand the entire humor in your comment because of my poor English language skills. But I assume you are talking about the low resolution of the picture in the last line. This a straight out of camera picture as my all uploads. I crop images to correct the composition only; never down-sample. This type of pictures are taken with the help of "extended zoom" facility of my poor camera which is somewhat similar to the use of a TC in SLR. It is easy to compose an image having 10MP in my camera; but the result will very bad, without much details. Instead I tight the frame with help of that feature and compose giving full strain to my eyes. You can imagine how difficult it is to keep the entire subject in frame in such a tight shot. Further, I think the resolution is not very bad for a macro "in vivo" when comparing with File:Sympetrum_striolatum_qtl5.jpg by Quartl. BTW, I like your comment about the license. :) -- Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 05:55, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

• Re: Yes; I don't want it get featured because of the less details comparing to the female; probably due to the low lights and the dancing palm leaf on the breeze. The only importance of this image is the host plant it is perching. I know many people keep silent on the GFDL issue because they don't like to attract revenge votes on their nominations. I'm not in a greed for any more FPs. :) -- Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 08:56, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Epilobium hirsutum - Seed head - Triptych.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Epilobium hirsutum - Seed head - Triptych.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 13:01, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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Quality Image Promotion

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FP Promotion

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/FPCBot (talk) 21:02, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Re: That 1%

Replied there. :) -- Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 08:50, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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A special barnstar for you!

The no-GFDL barnstar!

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I love it. The licence expander thingy is great. Thanks. :-) Colin (talk) 10:00, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

I too like it; but what a big license for such a small barnstar! -- JKadavoor Jee 16:08, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Your cut-off in my request at COM:ANU

you are right, thank you, it make the discussion a bit more clear !--Jebulon (talk) 12:51, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

FP Promotion

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FP Promotion

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about the Winning pic

Hey Colin, Pranav7 this side, sorry for the late reply as i wasnt notified of anything. You asked me for a RAW image of my pic which won the 2012 contest of WLM. Please get back to me with the instruction on how to send it across to you.

Thankyou

Pranav Singh pranav7@gmail.com 9999226640

Merry Christmas

Wish you a Merry Christmas and a very very happy new year. -- Joydeep _Talk 18:00, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

FPC

Thanks a lot, I do really like it. Poco a poco (talk) 18:05, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	Hi, I really appreciated your photos and they're great. Keep up the gooodwoork mi amigo.... and GODSPEED Always!!! Ryn910 (talk) 12:30, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

File:Kingfisher eating a tadpole.jpg

Hi. Your kingfisher picture is excellent but a review at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Common Kingfisher has found some problems with it. Would you be able to comment, particularly on the "white ear coverts" that look touched-up. Do you have the original raw file?

-- Colin (d) 17:17, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi. The picture is overexposed, the white are burnt,

−− User talk:Kookaburra 81

File:Trump International Hotel and Tower, Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos, 2012-10-20, DD 05.jpg

Hi Colin, I have been observing the picture for a while and I couldn't see anything on the left side that was not vertical, or did you mean the right side? On the right I could find some room for improvement, and finally decided to update a new version. Please, let me know whether I addressed your issue or not Poco a poco (talk) 22:57, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I lined the window frame edge up with the left of the browser window then scrolled up and down. Actually, the slope on the left is enough that you can see it without moving the image, also on the latest version. It is harder to see on the right, because of the changing reflections, but I think your latest version is quite vertically correct there, whereas before there was only a very small slope. So it is just the left that slopes to any degree. -- Colin (talk) 17:05, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi, yes, finally I saw what you meant. I have been doing some tries and finally uploaded a new version where the result overall is better, but not 100% perfect. I have decreased the barrel correction by 1 degree resulting on a better result on the left and a worse result on the right but very minor. If I'd only focus on the left side the fix would have been an additional vertical correction of 1 degree but the result on the right was not acceptable anymore. Summary: it got a bit better after some tries with rotations, barrel distortion and vertical distortion but it is not perfect since I cannot apply corrections with decimals with the Adobe SW. The subject is so big that to get a perfect result I feel that I'd have to apply an additional 0,5 vertical correction and 0,5 CCW rotation. Is the last version good enough? Otherwise, could you give it a try? Poco a poco (talk) 12:35, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

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Commons:Photographs of identifiable people

I have now moved your draft into the guideline place. This will retain all editors contributions. In kind regards, heb [T C E] 13:16, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

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Namib-Naukluft

Hi Colin, I was just reading your comment on the Namib-Naukluft image. Thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure how to use the retouch template so I just uploaded the original uncropped (but resized) version of the file (converted from RAW to JPEG) - hoping it would help. About the image: It was a cloudy day, after a crazy storm that morning, with a spot of light through the clouds on a younger yellowish-brown dune (the bright spot in the middle) but the Namib dunes are that red color of the Kalahari sands (I'm sure you can find examples on the the internet). Let me know if you need any more information about the image and I'll be glad to provide it. And I don't like to play too much with photoshop so I just hit the "auto" settings and put them up if they look alright and alright for me is close to what I saw. Cheers! :)

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Behaviour display

"I would like to see more interesting pictures of birds/etc where their is either behaviour on display and/or there is strong artistic composition, even if these are at the expense of species identification qualities." I too like such works; but unfortunately not much available here, in Commons. I think the main reason is that they are priceless (compared to pictures of same subjects in a static pose; which are easy to take and generally available); so people are not willing to giveaway the rights. That JJ's bird was such a moment (somewhat) but my oppose was only on the ground of small size. I expect a better resolution because people like Kevan use the same equipment. (I lost my interest to participate in general talk pages; they are very hard to me.) JKadavoor Jee 07:26, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

The kite you link to is 873x1239 in the maximum available size (cropped close to the bird). JJ's bird was 1542x366 close-cropped. Hard to judge as they are quite different poses. They eye of the kite is 20x16 and the eye in JJ's bird is 20x20 -- though it is difficult to select consistently. The kite was apparently (according to EXIF) 58.5m away and JJ's 45.7m. However the kite was taken with an 800mm lens at f6.3 but JJ's only 500mm at f4. Both were ISO 800. Hard to compare but I don't think there's a clear winner in terms of resolution. Neither are close/sharp enough to show fine feather detail. Were you suggesting the kite is higher resolution?

I think JJ does downsample his images somewhat but probably so as to obtain a sharp image and avoid pixel-peeping comments about softness, rather than to keep the full size images for commercial purposes. His pictures often do seem to have been taken in difficult conditions or after a long wait or stalk, whereas some folk expect to get a gold star for taking a snapshot of a stone on some sand :-). My feeling is that people can donate to Commons/Wikipedia whatever size images they wish to, but that FA shouldn't reward "resized for web" "preview-quality" images. I don't have a problem with people downsizing to some degree as long as there's no significant loss of image detail. Colin (talk) 08:39, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

I didn't used the word down-sampled (I think). I said low resolution, that may be due to tight crop also. I'm not a pixel peeper on the subject details. I consider only the total resolution of the entire frame. I don't like pictures cropped tight to make as a static one (feel). I will not support that kite that picture if cropped in a 1000x2000 format. JKadavoor Jee 09:20, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback

Hi Colin- Thanks for the FP feedback. I'm new to this (Commons) and it's been hardest figuring out what constitutes an FP image. Some are obvious, but many are not. Anyway, thanks --Godot13 (talk) 22:29, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

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File:Colosseum interior 2012 sweep panorama.jpg

I had a look at your photo a few minutes ago and I promoted it. I think there's only a very slight problem left, just above the place where the second note was, on the left of two big black stones... But is it pertinent to upload another copy of such a picture for such a slight problem ? You can do it if you want, of course, but this is QI and not FP imo. -- I've reviewed your picture because I saw your previous panos and I liked them very much (I usually like what I'm not able to do, especially when it's good work !). Keep on doing well ! -- Sorry for my English. -- Best regards. JLPC (talk) 23:03, 4 March 2013 (UTC).

Quality Image Promotion

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Talkback

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And another. Not sure if you're still interested, just leaving a note here. Kyores (talk) 02:35, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

There are times when…

…I seriously despair of some people in our community, when I see horrors like User:JÄNNICK Jérémy/Licence JÄHNICK 1.0. (FYI, I opened a thread on Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Custom_license)

Anyway, I really look forward to the day when user:Colin/AppropriatelyLicensed is approved − if I can be of any help with this, please ask.

Cheers, Jean-Fred (talk) 10:02, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes that person doesn't seem to understand "free content" at all. I was hoping to publish the proposal already but I contacted a couple of people to help review and suggest and they were on holiday. So after the Easter holidays I'll get on with it. This is yet another example of folk knowing that GFDL is not a free licence for images, so re-users are forced to pay them for their images. Colin (talk) 10:31, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

While re-reading species:Help:Image Guidelines, I noticed the point "If you are the original author of your images, you must be willing to release them under Wikimedia Commons-accepted licenses. You can release your images under several Creative Commons licenses. If you are not the original author, you need to ensure that you are not infringing copyright while publishing the images. Images in the public domain, or images released under the GNU Free Documentation License or GNU General Public License are allowed in Wikimedia Commons, as well as some Creative Commons licenses." I wonder how helpful if we include the if you are the original author clause in the new proposal. I think we can thus avoid some opposition from people who argue for the free contents transferred from other places which are initially available only in GFDL. JKadavoor Jee 04:42, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Hmm. I think the "original author" aspect is included there because only such a person (the copyright holder) can actually choose a licence. If you aren't the original author, the licence is determined by someone else and so the advice on choosing a licence isn't relevant. I think we should keep the licence rules plain and not depend on who is doing the uploading. A change such as you propose might allow an institution to upload their images under GFDL or someone to upload their spouse's images under GFDL. I'm not aware of GFDL being used for images outside of Wikimedia projects. Are you? If we did find a repository of such images, that were valuable to the project, then we could perhaps amend the grandfathering clause to allow the import of files published elsewhere before the deadline that already had GFDL and couldn't be changed. I see no reason why any new images should be published under GFDL anywhere, other than to restrict reuse, because we've had perfectly decent images licences (CC, etc) for quite a while now. I think it is time we move this gestating proposal into action.... Colin (talk) 09:10, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes; chances that people may misuse it. In my knowledge, this is the only gallery where I see GFDL works outside Wikimedia; and it seems an old collection. JKadavoor Jee 13:30, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Appropriately licensed

Gone live: Commons:Requests for comment/AppropriatelyLicensed. -- Colin (talk) 22:30, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

\o/ Jean-Fred (talk) 01:12, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Sincerely thank you for your work that honors our entire community. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:18, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for trying. I didn't really participate in the debate because most points have already been made, not only in this discussion, but also in previous ones. For example de.wp banned all gfdl 1.2-only uploads 5 years ago (de:Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/GFDL 1.2-only für Dateien), but since using gfdl 1.2-only files from commons was still allowed it was more a statement from the community than a real change in things. --Isderion (talk) 22:07, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Worth repeating

The no-GFDL barnstar!

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Thanks a lot. Got to use it while you still can :-) Colin (talk) 19:17, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

The state of the debate

Things are getting heated and personal. Hardly constructive at this point. Saffron Blaze (talk) 20:16, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

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Wiki Loves Monuments in the UK

Thanks for registering your interest in the competition. Are thinking that you might be a supporter or contestant? (There's no reason you can't be both of course.) Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 10:25, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Contestant. Not sure what "supporter" would entail. I had a look at some of your tasks but wouldn't be any help creating websites or doing publicity stuff. Is there on-wiki stuff to do? Colin (talk) 10:36, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Having seen your user page I thought that might be the case, there are some very impressive pictures there.

There's some stuff on the English language Wikipedia. We're getting the lists churned out by a script, but need to add images by hand if they already exist. So this script-generated list ends up looking like this. That is a short example though.

Come September there will be plenty of chances to take photographs. And if you've got some lying around on a memory card somewhere, they still count regardless of when they were taken as long as they're uploaded in September. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 10:54, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I guess I could help find images and pop them in boxes if that is useful. Have you got a way to split up the work? Colin (talk) 13:12, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

someone will (probably) be with you shortly

I know what you mean, 80% of people do, probably more, but there will likely be someone come along to point out the difference between someone's face and a picture of someone's face. Some random person will no doubt mention it. So I mention because you can add a word if you want to now and future-delete their comment sort of thing. Doesn't worry me in the least though, but thought yeah, maybe you'd want to know. Penyulap ☏ 08:25, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Colin (talk) 09:07, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanx for notting that HUGE error on church. I have corrected it. Hugin did it OK, this was "human" error from smudging. Otherwise I did stitching on my own. In this case wasn't problem since church is shot twice verticaly. Thanx again, too bad I haven't noticed on my own before, that's why lack of votes I suppose. --Mile (talk) 19:06, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

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why? --Steinsplitter (talk) 08:28, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry. I got an edit conflict, and I thought my edit just added my image. Looks like it lost your edit. I think you've fixed it now. Thanks. Colin (talk) 08:40, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Okay --Steinsplitter (talk) 08:48, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

I know. It was not the best idea to add the necked woman to the DR... But we see, the Commons Users are humans- not robots :) --Steinsplitter (talk) 20:42, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

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Onam greetings!

Have a nice Onam tomorrow! JKadavoor Jee 17:18, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Colin. I've suppressed the notes. You've done a great work with Paisley abbey for WLM. I hope you'll be a prizewinner. Best regards. --JLPC (talk) 08:43, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

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Paisley abbey

I think all of them will pass if no submitted together. File:Paisley Abbey from the west - crop.jpg gives me a better idea about the entire abbey complex. File:Paisley Abbey from North West - Leaning western gable - 125mp.jpg is a classical view of a church. The new view let me know how big it is. A difficult choice. I think you can nominate them all in some intervals as Alvesgaspar does always. :) JKadavoor Jee 11:03, 30 September 2013 (UTC) I think you can try one gargoyle too. :) JKadavoor Jee 11:06, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Well the North West view will fail tomorrow night due to not enough support and too much in shadow. The West view isn't exactly setting the world alight but might make it -- we'll see. I just wondered if the South East view answered any concerns about lighting and angle, or would another defect be found.

The gargoyles are fun but not technically wonderful. I cropped and resized them all to be the same sized character, though the originals vary in size as they get further away. The uploaded version is too small for FP (though the original might pass). I wondered about making a collage of them but ideally they'd all be shot from the same angle -- which isn't easy to do but not impossible.

There's a black and white version of the South East view. I think this shows off the brickwork and carving better. No idea how the FP community would react to that. Possibly we are suffering from WLM fatigue at present. Needs some butterflies! -- Colin (talk) 11:18, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Yes; I noticed it. Details are more visible there. I remember a recent fountain FP in b/w. JKadavoor Jee 11:32, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

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Is the #9 in other versions is intentionally omitted; or a mistake? JKadavoor Jee 09:00, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

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I've just nominated some Swedish and German medical images for deletion / tagged them as having potential problems (including Hellerhoff's). Have a nice day. --Eleassar ^(t/p) 12:25, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

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You FPC review: an alternative is submitted

Hello Colin, Thank you for you review of Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Ajaccio phare citadelle.jpg. Taking account of criticism about the composition, I propose an alternative. Would you be kind enough to have a second look? Regards, --Myrabella (talk) 20:58, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for your help offer which I've appreciated very much. But I've decided to withdraw my photo (nominated by Leitoxx) from the nomination list as to limit (time-) efforts involved with nominations and followups. Kind Regards --EpsilonEridani (talk) 20:18, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

WMUK bounty board?

Hi Colin, would you like to comment on a discussion that's going on on the WMUK Water cooler about ways to support highly active editors? I have posted a comment here. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 19:37, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

I'll think about it. I'm very busy this week. Not sure I count as a "highly active editor" compared to some! -- Colin (talk) 21:53, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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--Steinsplitter (talk) 12:39, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Gargoyles

Marvellous featured image! Now I'm looking for a good one of the Mima mounds of Washington state for en:Patterns in nature. Maybe someone's taken one... Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:26, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

+1. JKadavoor Jee 15:35, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Front page

Congratulations on getting the 12 gargoyles on the front page. I saw the individual ones come through in September. I reckon the one of the Alien's my favourite just because it's so unexpected. Nev1 (talk) 21:28, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks folks. I wonder how you go about getting planning permission to update the gargoyles :-) -- Colin (talk)

Unfortunate error on my part with the Silhouettes

I thought that the "insert image here" was an invitation to begin posting. I'm not sure I have another image that would work. Thanks-Godot13 (talk) 23:09, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

File:Mephenytoin.png

File:Mephenytoin.png 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!

Leyo 20:15, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you for taking part in the Wiki Loves Monuments participants' survey! Dear Colin, Thank you for taking part in the Wiki Loves Monuments participants' survey. Your answers will help us improve the organization of future photo contests! In case you haven't filled in the questionnaire yet, you can still do so during the next 7 days. And by the way: the winning pictures of this year's international contest have been announced. Enjoy! Kind regards, the Wiki Loves Monuments team

FYI

28 April 2013: Russavia, this statement is so horrific that I am more convinced than ever that commons is ethically broken. You should be ashamed.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 01:27, 28 April 2013 (UTC).

8 June 2013: The video is uploaded.

Merry Christmas and Happy New year

I wish you and your family a very happy Christmas and a wonderful new year. --Joydeep _Talk 11:05, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

File:SMP May 2008-9a.jpg

Merry Christmas to you too, Colin!

Regretfully I cannot count with my best silhouette images because they were uploaded long ago. That is also the case of File:SMP May 2008-9.jpg from which the present B&W version was prepared. If I could, the obvious choice would be this one or even this one! -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 19:34, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your work on Commons, Merrry Christmas and Happy New Year! Yann (talk) 11:59, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Yann. And the same to you! -- Colin (talk) 15:30, 27 December 2013 (UTC)