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Liguus

I only placed it in the correct category. It was placed in Liguus, but the genus Liguus comprises a lot of species an subspecies. So I placed it together with the other pictures of this species in the species-category. --Llez (talk) 06:12, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro

Hello, remember this? Do you want to come and weigh in at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro a trabalhar.jpg? -- Tuválkin ✉ 23:52, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Gas Works Park

It's on the latest Weekly List, listed 1/2/2013, NRIS# 02000862. Wow, I only just now looked at that ID number - it's been on nomination for 10 years?!? I was, however, too lazy to add it to the tables on en... — Werewombat (talk) 18:27, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations! :-) — Werewombat (talk) 22:19, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Ape image

Resolved

File:Something in latin sitting on a stump over water.jpg, ooops, my bad. I had just prepped the rename template in case someone from en:wp reference desk/science came over to give it a correct name. They think it should be File:Hylobates lar sitting on a stump over water.jpg. Here is the link. --Canoe1967 (talk) 18:31, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

• Fixed now. Sorry, the incorrect template setup leapt out at me, I didn't notice that you'd proxied the name. - Jmabel ! talk 20:25, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. The two re-directs can be deleted if they are taking up resources. I resolved the en:wp section that is the only link to them and added a blue link there to the new file.--Canoe1967 (talk) 21:14, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

• We never really know who might have referenced from outside of WMF, though, so usually these redirects are worth leaving. - Jmabel ! talk 22:22, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Known bug

Hi Jmabel, in answer at the Commons Help Desk about images not updating, you said that it was a known bug. Any idea how long we have to wait, it's been over a week now since I uploaded a higher res version of File:USGS Balanced Section.png? Thanks, Mikenorton (talk) 23:14, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

• No, I have on idea. This has been going on for weeks, and if you look through you'll see that something like 15% of questions on the Help desk & Village pump have been effectively the same question. - Jmabel ! talk 15:38, 1 February 2013 (UTC)71666

• Ah well , patience is a virtue they say - thanks. Mikenorton (talk) 11:37, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

from many years ago.. now NNS needs help

Hey Jmabel, I'm Ling.Nut from a billion years ago. I saw your sig when I went to the help Desk; I'm happy to see you active. Alas, I have a request. I have no idea who does what on Commons. A speaker of English as a second language is asking for my help with image licensing issues; the owner of the relevant license-tagging-bot is very long AWOL (very poor form, that). Please forgive the intrusion, but I wonder if you could help User:Krupski Oleg with File:Bonus-Sweden.png..? Thanks and again, apologies... ServiceableVillain (talk) 12:23, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

• I've now done what was necessary. There was nothing here that specifically required an administrator. - Jmabel ! talk 16:24, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
  • Thanks! I didn't think an admin was needed. But hanks for your help. happy CHinese New Year. ServiceableVillain (talk) 17:31, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
    • Gong hay fat choy. - Jmabel ! talk 17:54, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Jmabel

I think you made a typo at the VP you've said 'Please make germane common on the "categories for discussion" page, not here' Penyulap ☏ 01:38, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks. Will fix. - Jmabel ! talk 07:22, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi again ! I am sorry that Ottava upset you, I wrote a note on his talkpage, and I think that if he doesn't change what he said, that you should march yourself over there and poke out your tongue at him thus 8^P and if you get in any trouble, tell them I put you up to it and it was ALL my idea ok? please have a read of the comment I have written there first though. Penyulap ☏ 01:35, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

• Nope, sorry, I'm done talking to Ottava Rima. I don't really care whether he insulted me based because of a refusal to assume good faith on my part, misreading what I said, or what. The point of my remarks was that the change proposed ("active curation" at the level of individual photos) would drive away some good contributors, and I used myself as an example. He chose to read umpteen things into that, and ignored my categorical denials, and even used the AN:U about his conduct to keep insulting me. - Jmabel ! talk 03:19, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Well, I understand and don't blame you. But I'll keep trying to settle things down, and although you feel bad about it, and rightly so today, I do hope that will fade, I know you can't see the day, but I hope you'll feel different on another day. Everyone has a 'thing' or two about them, and it's not always their fault. I hope later on you can be dismissive of it if nothing else. I best not talk anymore, and let you settle. If you want my help with anything, art, whatever, do let me know. Penyulap ☏ 03:56, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

You asked me about a picture I categorised

Hola

He estado tiempo sin conectar, así que no había visto tu pregunta [1]. Preguntabas por cómo sabía que lo mostrado en File:Infoshop.jpg era un local okupado / squat. No conozco el sitio. Supongo que en su día lo categoricé así porque vi la imagen en algún artículo de Wikipedia. Tanto ahora como en el momento de mi edición [2] la imagen se usa en es:Centro social okupado, pero ya no recuerdo si la vi en ese mismo artículo o en algún otro. Salud. --Javier ME (talk) 16:36, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

• Bastante bién. No importa mucho. Creo que yo estaba allí (en la misma Infoshop) en 1996, y no no era obvio que era una okupa. Debe haber sido un okupa para mucho tiempo para mirar tanto como una tienda de libros tan normal (aunque anarquista). - Jmabel ! talk 19:13, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Por otro lado, ¿ya sabes que tienes la imagen File:Seattle - Panama Hotel sign at night.jpg dos veces en tu página de usuario? --16:54, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

• No, no sabía. Grácias. - Jmabel ! talk 19:13, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Re: Order of categories

I know of no mandate regarding category order. My preference is for categories to be in alphabetical order, so I often make changes accordingly. --Another Believer (talk) 14:48, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

• Seems like a bad idea to me, since it is likely to leave closely related categories nowhere near each other. - Jmabel ! talk 15:05, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
  • The term "related" is subjective to me. I wish categories were sorted alphabetically automatically, for all Wikimedia wikis. --Another Believer (talk) 15:13, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
  • Is there a page at Commons dedicated to categorization? I cannot find any policies or guidelines. --Another Believer (talk) 15:19, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Walker on portable style of treadmill desk.jpg

This image file was originally tagged as a copyvio from http://drmcbabe.com/product-detail/ on on Mar 17th (likely uploaded by the owner, but has they have never provided evidence through permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). Shortly after being taggeed, someone else changed the tag to a missing permissions tag ... which you then removed today, I am assuming because of the existing tagging in the image file claiming it to be under both the GNU Free Documentation License, and the CC-BY-SA-3.0. Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to resolve the original copyvio issue as I can't find anything on the source page explicitly releasing it, so I've retagged it - as the original uploader doesn't appear to have yet emailed the require evidence of it being released. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:46, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

It appears it has been deleted again, although the user has since also uploaded it to File:Walker on portable walking - treadmill desk.jpg. I've also added a comment on this at Commons:Undeletion requests/Current requests#‎File:Walker on portable style of treadmill desk.jpg --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:02, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

OK. Deleter didn't indicate that problem at all in the deletion log. And all it had on it at time of deletion was a "no permissions since" tag and a permissions tag, so I just assumed someone had deleted without looking. - Jmabel ! talk 17:29, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Import a gadget from Spanish Wikipedia

In Spanish Wikipedia we have this Gadget. It shows the history and all specials pages (like contributions) as a numbered list. Can you import it? Please move theses pages without a leaving a redirect.

• User:Vivaelcelta/MediaWiki:Gadget-historyNumbered → MediaWiki:Gadget-historyNumbered
• User:Vivaelcelta/MediaWiki:Gadget-historyNumbered.css → MediaWiki:Gadget-historyNumbered.css

And add this code in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition below all in the section Interface > Other.

* historyNumbered|historyNumbered.css

Regards --Vivaelcelta {talk  · contributions} 19:16, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

• I have no idea why you singled me out to do this. I don't work with gadgets at all. Please take this to Commons:Administrators' noticeboard and I'm sure someone will deal with it appropriately. - Jmabel ! talk 22:32, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Because others admins don't want add it, but I think that it is a good gadget. But okey, I request it to another admin. --Vivaelcelta {talk  · contributions} 23:49, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

• If other admins don't want to add it, and you came to ask me to do it without mentioning that it has been controversial, that is pretty out of line. You should not be venue shopping if admins are saying "no". - Jmabel ! talk 23:57, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Your clicks

Hey... I came to appreciate your File:Thornewood - formal garden detail 02.jpg but now realized that you have clicked way too many good images. Carry on with your good job. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 04:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

One more favor?

Hi Jmabel. Thanks for the advice earlier this month regarding pUblic domain for photos from the Missouri House of Representatives website. Could I ask one more small favor? Would you take a peek at how I set up the licensing and description for File:RepNateWalker.JPG and/or File:RepCraigRedmon.JPG to make sure I've done it properly enough? I'd hate to upload more licensed in that manner only to have them deleted later. It would be a misuse of my time and more importantly a hassle for the admin that cleans up my mess having to delete them. Tnanks and have a great Wiki kind of day! Sector001 (talk) 22:09, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

• Convenience links File:RepNateWalker.JPG, File:RepCraigRedmon.JPG - JM
• Mostly good. Three things:
  • Categories are not just tags. You want to try to use ones that already exist. For example, Category:Missouri Politicians doesn't exist; Category:Politicians of Missouri does. Category:Missouri Republicans doesn't exist; Category:Republicans from Missouri does. You can find these things pretty easily by navigating the hierarchy from a known point such as Category:Missouri.
  • Your note "This photo is public domain and free to use per e-mail from Tim Bonnell, official Missouri House of Representatives photographer. Confirmation e-mail was sent to Wikipedia on 4/22/2013" is probably a bit much. What you really need is {{OTRS pending|year=|month=|day=}}, where you specify the year, month, & day the email was sent, e.g. {{OTRS pending|year=2013|month=04|day=22}}.
  • You probably want to mark the date you gave in the information template as {{upload date|2013-04-22 15:04:50}} instead of just "2013-04-22 15:04:50". It's when you uploaded, not when the picture was taken. - Jmabel ! talk 23:25, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

File:MOHAI - SST model.jpg

File:MOHAI - SST model.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 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!

178.10.107.102 13:32, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Galleries and Categories

Thank you very much for your answer. Really useful, and I like your style. --iopensa (talk) 06:18, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Mass deletion dispute

You once commented that of tens of thousands of uploads, you have never seen any requirement that the reverse of an image must be shown. However, numerous valuable PD images were recently mass deleted based on that rationale. Any comments would be helpful. Thanks. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 00:50, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Tipis

Hello. I left you a reply on my talk page. Cheers, --Skeezix1000 (talk) 21:56, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Paint

You said i could use microsoft paint to alter this image. But M paint won't allow me to alter the written text box on the bottom-left. Do you have an alternative? Pass a Method (talk) 09:40, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

• Paint will let you alter the text box, but you do have to know how to use it pretty well. The easiest approach to do this with Paint is probably to remove the text box & completely rebuild it. It may be that you can build that box more easily in some other application (e.g. Word) and then save a screen shot, crop it, and paste it into paint. Sorry I don't have something more concrete, I have done this sort of thing but not often. - Jmabel ! talk 15:27, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Trujillo

Ya he deshecho la edición de esa foto. Enhorabuena por sus preciosas fotos. Un saludo.--Lancastermerrin88 (talk) 09:25, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

• Grácias. - Jmabel ! talk 14:43, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

COM:AN/U

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  Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems#Disruptive editing by Ottava Rima. This is in relation to an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

--Fæ (talk) 17:04, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks, I've responded there. - Jmabel ! talk 17:57, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

new Commons brochure draft

Thanks for your comments on the Commons brochure draft. We're getting close to a final version, and I've put up a new draft that includes a lot of the suggested changes from the previous version. Please look it over if you have a chance, and post any final suggestions or corrections.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 14:21, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Re:Images don't belong directly in a meta-category

Actually I thought there were more images of that topic. But then I realized I was wrong. Anyhow I reverted my edits. And about the meta-categories: I insert images in this type of categories because sometimes is convenient. For example here Category:Graffiti by language. I don't know the language of some of this images or I wait to find other images in the same language so, in the meantime, I put them here because I hope someone would recognise it and create a new specific category. I wish I were comprehensible, my English is not perfect. Thank you to monitoring my edits.--SunOfErat (talk) 13:57, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

• You might consider making a Category:Graffiti in unidentified language, etc. See, for example, Category:Unidentified locations in Seattle, Washington which I created. - Jmabel ! talk 14:27, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

thanks!

		The Commons Barnstar
		Thanks so much for giving feedback on the Commons brochure! You can see the print version here. Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 15:16, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

File:Zhengzhou Ferris Wheel.jpg

File:Zhengzhou Ferris Wheel.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 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!

-- Tuválkin ✉ 03:27, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Everett - Riverside Roof tar truck

Did you get a shot of the front end of File:Everett - Riverside Roof tar truck.jpg? It would determine whether or not this was a GMC HM-Series, or GMC JH-Series. ----DanTD (talk) 17:30, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

• I doubt it. Probably just got the one shot. - Jmabel ! talk 18:47, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

re: Cosplay

I know that Wikipedia is not a primary source, but you can forgive me if I use en:Cosplay :)

Cosplay [...] is an activity in which participants wear costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea from a work of fiction.

So why can't those people be considered cosplayers? They're wearing costumes of Joker and Batman (although not 100%). --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 15:55, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

• Because we wouldn't normally call marching in a parade "play" or "cosplay" in this sense. I see that en-wiki's article is clear on the term excluding theatrical performance, but I suspect no one writing it thought of this other similar exception. I'll raise the question on the talk page there. - Jmabel ! talk 15:58, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
• Question asked at en:Talk:Cosplay#Parades - Jmabel ! talk 16:10, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

File:Fremont Solstice Parade 2008 - Statue of Liberty 01A.jpg

File:Fremont Solstice Parade 2008 - Statue of Liberty 01A.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 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!

Kulmalukko (talk) 21:12, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

You deleted Category:Bridges over the North Sasketchewan River...

You deleted Category:Bridges over the North Sasketchewan River in favour of Category:Bridges over the North Saskatchewan River. Isn't it counter-policy to delete long-standing categories, even if someone figures out they were misnamed? The deleting administrator can have no idea how many external sites link to the category under its old name -- correct? So, since deletion can break links and cause chaos, doesn't policy call for a redirection, not deletion? Geo Swan (talk) 07:55, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

• I believe that what you are describing is the policy for individual images (or other media items), but not for categories. There has been a pretty strong consensus on Commons to remove misspelled categories. When I first became an admin, I wasn't doing that, but I found that other admins always came in behind me and did it, and told me I should have, so I started doing it as well. - Jmabel ! talk 15:55, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
  • I agree, some administrators are extremely aggressive about removing empty categories. Some administrators even take the high-handed step of first emptying all the content from categories they don't like, into newly created categories -- and then deleting the original category, because it was then empty.

My personal opinion is that the category feature, as it exists today, is an unsatisfactory tool for contributors to use for organizing pictures, or articles.

1. It does not keep track of what elements have been in a category, when they were added or when they were deleted. Hence, an administrator can come across an empty category, that had been full of content until recently emptied by a vandal, kook, or simply by someone overly-hasty.
2. The current category system provides no mechanism for those who add an element to a category, or remove an element from a category, to leave an explanation for their action in a log associated with the category.

There are other serious weaknesses in using categories for organization. Unfortunately, until the wikimedia software is updated with a superior organization feature that supercedes categories, we are going to have to continue using them. However, I suggest it is absolutely essential that we use them in a discipline manner, to keep the chaos to a minimum. The same arguments apply for not deleting categories, but turning them into redirections as for turning redundant images into redirections.

Another factor deleting adminstrators may be overlooking is attribution. Most categories have no content of their own, beyond metadata, like the pointers to the parent categories. But when a category has even a single sentence of explanatory text, I suggest it has passed the bar and its contents is no longer de minimus, and that content should not be cut and paste into a new replacement category. Doing so violates the creative commons license under which that sentence of explanatory text was contributed.

In my opinion, so long as contributors are using categories to organize content, every category should have at least one sentence of explanatory text. We are using our category system like a database, and, in a properly managed database, there is a database schema -- something that says what goes where. We have no schema now -- instead we rely on guesswork.

categories creep when there is no schema

When I went away to University, several decades ago, I joined a food coop near the University. During the fifteen years I lived in that small college town I held several offices in the food coop, including the guy who met the truck from our central distributor. I'd meet the driver, help unload the shipment, and sign off that we received everything on the shipping list, which, for various reasons, could diverge from our invoice. We kept track of our inventory on a rolodex, one card per item. And it was my job to update the card for each item we received, with an entry that included the date, the amount, and the price. I shared that rolodex with the treasurer and the purchaser, and with every other coop member who wanted to look up a product that seemed to be out of stock. No one person had responsibility for enforcing the organization scheme those cards were organized. When I first took on the responsibility of meeting the shipments we mainly received dry bulk items, including raw grains of millet, wheat, barley, and the rolodex had a section for "cereals". If one wanted to be high-falutin, those grains were all cereals. The cereals section also included rolled oats. Well, I went away for a while, and when I returned we were carrying bulk, organic, crunchy granola, which had also been shoehorned into the cereals section. I went away a second time, and when I returned, we had had a buyer who had experimented with buying a range of prepackaged boxes of organic equivalents to cheerios and other similar breakfast foods. These shortlived product lines had been shoehorned into the cereals category. Someone who realized this was a mistake had started a new category entitled "breakfast foods", and someone else had started a new category for "grains and nuts", and had moved all the cards for raw grains of millet, wheat, barley and oats out of the cereal category into grains and nuts.

If you are looking for it, we experience the same kind of chaotic reorganizations here -- they are a complete wast of time, and might be at least partially avoidable if every time someone started a category we expected them to leave at least one sentence of explanatory text describing what should be put in the category, and perhaps what should be left out. Geo Swan (talk) 17:32, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

• I don't really have an opinion on that, and my talk page is probably not the place to try to hammer out a change in policy. When operating in my capacity as an admin rather than just a contributor, I try to work in accord with what appears to be the prevailing policy, whether formal or informal. As I said, earlier I was not making deletions like this, but it became clear that they would happen anyway in my wake, so I decided I might as well do this myself instead of leaving it for someone else to clean up after me. - Jmabel ! talk 19:12, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

• I accept at face value that the feedback more experienced administrators gave you may have looked like them educating you about a policy, or a policy-like unwritten consensus, based on meaningful, substantive discussion.

If I were an administrator I too would "work in accord with what appears to be the prevailing policy, whether formal or informal". I suggest this is not what we have in the long tradition of administrators deleting empty categories. I am not aware of any passages in policy that recommend deleting empty categories. More importantly, I have not heard of any meaningful, substantive discussions that ever arrived at a well-thought-out conclusion that empty categories should be deleted rather than redirected. I very strongly suspect that if anyone were to make a concerted attempt to track down discussion that reached those conclusion all they would find would be a series of assertions that we should keep deleting empty categories because we have always deleted empty categories in the past.

If I didn't think the practice of deleting empty categories wasn't a wasteful, chaotic, counter-productive practice, I would let sleeping dogs lie, and ignore it.

I think I have offered strong arguments as to why this practice should be deprecated. I think I have meaningfully challenged your suggestion that it is a policy, even if an informal one. I think your options include restoring the deleted category, and changing it to a redirect; doing nothing, waiting for me to initiate a central discussion, staying neutral there; or waiting for a central discussion, and voicing an opinion there. Geo Swan (talk) 19:46, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Feel free to recreate the category if you actually think it is useful, but it is hard for me to believe that any detectable number of people would accidentally type "Sasketchewan". - Jmabel ! talk 02:04, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

cc08

I moved your comment. Evrik (talk) 17:03, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the help!

thanks for fixing those derivative images for me. Those additional steps seem pretty easy so I should be able to do them myself next time. TheRedPenOfDoom (talk) 23:30, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

In this particular case I just forget to create the category...

Sometimes I do this kind of edit because I wait to find similar files to fill the category. Then I create the category. Or someone could create it because it's in this list: Special:WantedCategories. I don't see why this edit is wrong.

Anyway now the category is ok. Sorry for my english. Goodbye!--SunOfErat (talk) 21:24, 26 November 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. 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:Romanian Opera A.JPG

Yours sincerely, Eleassar ^(t/p) 11:53, 3 December 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. 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:Opera Bucharest 1.jpg

And also:

• File:Opera Bucharest 10.jpg
• File:Opera Bucharest 11.jpg
• File:Opera Bucharest 18.jpg
• File:Opera Bucharest 2.jpg
• File:Opera Bucharest 22.jpg
• File:Opera Bucharest 25 A.jpg
• File:Opera Bucharest 25.jpg
• File:Opera Bucharest 3.jpg
• File:Opera Bucharest 3A.jpg
• File:Opera Bucharest 7.jpg
• File:Opera Bucharest 8.jpg
• File:Opera Bucharest 9.jpg
• File:Romanian Opera A.JPG Eleassar ^(t/p) 11:57, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

File:Seattle - City Church 01.jpg

And also:

• File:Ye Olde Curiosity Shop brochure circa 1907.jpg

Hi Jmabel. Some of your files are listed in Category:Pages using Information template with incorrect parameter. Could you please have a look and try to fix the syntax errors? Thank you. Leyo 09:37, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

• These two are now done. I don't have time now to look through the 3,000+ in that category to see if any are mine. - Jmabel ! talk 16:45, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

  Thanks. There were only these two according to VisualFileChange. However, there might be some more in the subcategory Category:Pages using Information template with syntax errors‎. --Leyo 17:35, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Category:Seattle,_Washington_in_the_1950s

Category:Seattle,_Washington_in_the_1950s has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

174.26.43.163 16:15, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Armoiries république française.svg

Thanks for your edit but could you please add Category:Pelta and Category:Fasces in heraldry (just like this)?--Carnby (talk) 10:13, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

• Both of those are supercategories of Category:National Emblem of France (that is, Category:National Emblem of France is in these categories) so, in fact, according to our policies it is wrong to have them on File:France-Coat_of_arms.svg (which is in Category:National Emblem of France) and would be wrong to have them on File:Armoiries république française.svg. Categories are not tags. If an image is in category A, and category A is in category B, then with a few specialized and very rare exceptions that image should not be in category B. - Jmabel ! talk 10:58, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

I tried to fix the problem (check this category). Cheers.--Carnby (talk) 20:08, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

File:Bucharest Operetta.jpg

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.     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 15:44, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

• Obviously, if Romania's unusually severe limitations on FOP will not allow images like this in a way that Commons considers adequately free, there is nothing I can do about it. - Jmabel ! talk 16:11, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

File:Tanase 1.jpg

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.     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 15:55, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

• Obviously, if Romania's unusually severe limitations on FOP will not allow images like this in a way that Commons considers adequately free, there is nothing I can do about it. - Jmabel ! talk 16:11, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

File:Bucharest Novotel 10.jpg

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.     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 16:07, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

• Obviously, if Romania's unusually severe limitations on FOP will not allow images like this in a way that Commons considers adequately free, there is nothing I can do about it. - Jmabel ! talk 16:11, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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Affected:

• File:Old Goldwasser bottle.jpg

Yours sincerely, -mattbuck (Talk) 15:12, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Re comment at Commons:CFD on Middle Geyser Basin

@Jmabel – re your comment at here about my deletion request for Category:Middle Geyer Basin. If Commons:CFD is not the correct place for this circumstance, please point me in the right direction. If this deletion requires no discussion, then where (or how) does this category get deleted? Thanks --Mike Cline (talk) 21:38, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

• You can use {{delete}} to mark it for speedy deletion. - Jmabel ! talk 21:44, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
  • Thanks. That's easy enough. --Mike Cline (talk) 21:50, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Re: Problem with toolserver

Jamabel! I just though I should say thank you ever so much for showing me this tool to upload images from flickr. It's made my life so much easier!!! Also, I noticed you have translated many articles about Spain's geography into English, which is very useful. Best regards, tyk (talk) 22:10, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

• Thanks! - Jmabel ! talk 01:43, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

we can

we , me and you, can do a Cooperation , if u intersting to the East.--Sonia Sevilla (talk) 09:28, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

• Cooperate on what? - Jmabel ! talk 16:28, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

nothing.--Sonia Sevilla (talk) 22:00, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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Affected:

• File:Monorail & EMP-SFM 01A.jpg

And also:

• File:Monorail tracks enter EMP-SFM 01.jpg

--  Gazebo (talk) 12:38, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Plz

plz check ur inbox. its important.--Sonia Sevilla (talk) 10:44, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

• Please don't send me 3 emails in less than an hour.
• As for my father being dead: I was born in 1954. Probably the majority of people my age do not have a living father. - Jmabel ! talk 15:56, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Jmabel mentioned you on the Help desk talk page in "HOw to contact M Disdero U...". 28 days ago | View changes

Hi

Seems that you tried to get in touch with me, and that the post was deleted

what can I do for you?

--Disdero (talk) 09:57, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

• I was probably just explaining to someone else how to get hold of you. I'm one of the two or three main people who answer questions at the help desk. - Jmabel ! talk 15:17, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Categories

Eep. Sorry about that - thanks for the correction. I thought I'd weeded out everything that needed weeding out when I made the transfer. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talk) 14:32, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

• No big. But of course not everyone is monitoring their past uploads to the extent I am, so this kind of mistake isn't always reliably reverted. - Jmabel ! talk 15:25, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

daguerreotype King Mongkut

Is the dezoomify version of this image any larger than this.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 07:21, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

The former certainly appears to be higher resolution in terms of number of pixels, but I think the latter is either a better scan of the underlying photo. If you look at them at equal resolution, the latter looks better. Which is to say that the apparent precision of the former exceeds its accuracy. I'd go for the latter (the nara.gov one). - Jmabel ! talk 16:45, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 18:15, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

PDF converter

Hi do you have a good PDF to jpg converter? My computer has been glitchy lately and won't let me use online converters. Can you help me extract an unaltered version of File:Three Princes of Hawaii at San Mateo without caps (restored).jpg from page 13 of this PDF file and upload it to File:Three Princes of Hawaii at San Mateo without caps.jpg? Thanks.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 23:47, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

• I think I've always done this with just a screen grab, occasionally stitching together a couple of screen grabs with GIMP. I believe that at least in theory ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick should be able to deal with PDFs. Also, InkScape definitely takes PDFs. - Jmabel ! talk 23:53, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
• I just tried just drag-dropping a PDF into GIMP. Not bad, you might try that & see if it's good enough. - Jmabel ! talk 23:56, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

RFC on Media Viewer

Hi, I think the frustration you voiced here is my doing -- I probably should have anticipated that bringing the topic up would elicit "voting" type responses, rather than what I was seeking, which was assistance in getting a proper RfC set up. OK. I'm working on that now -- and I don't know if you've done them here before, but if you happen to be available to look it over before I make it live, I would appreciate any input. -Pete F (talk) 00:35, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

• I haven't ever set one up on Commons, it's years since I set one up on Wikipedia, and I am very backlogged with other tasks so, sorry, I'm not the one to help out here. - Jmabel ! talk 00:39, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
  • OK. I appreciate the nudge regardless -- you were right, it's time to just get something going. I'll post the RFC shortly. -Pete F (talk) 16:46, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Category:San_Francisco_earthquake_of_1868

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Mercurywoodrose (talk) 23:53, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Category:Warner_County,_Alberta

Category:Warner_County,_Alberta has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

—Odysseus1479 (talk) 02:54, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

RfC on the scope of file renaming criterion 2

Pursuant to the closing of the RFC "Proposed overhaul of the "Which files should be renamed?" section", a second RfC has been opened at Commons:Requests for comment/File renaming criterion 2 specifically to address the scope of criterion 2, which currently reads "To change from a completely meaningless name to a name that describes what the image displays." Since you participated in the initial discussion, I am notifying you of the follow-up RfC.

Please note that I fully anticipate that the first few days will see a number of additional options proposed, so it may be a good idea to check back periodically on the RfC.

Thank you. Sven Manguard Wha? 01:43, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Talkback from Allen4names

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One question...

Hello! One question... How translate this template → {{Cc-by-3.0}} to kazakh language. I don't fully understand your answere --Мұхамеджан Амангелді (talk) 14:50, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

• Please don't split the discussion. Discussing at Commons:Help_desk#Translate. - Jmabel ! talk 16:23, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

I figured my problem out

You deleted my post before trying to help. Not that I'm complaining, I'm clueless. I realized I was on wikimedia commons and not wikipedia. All my stuff is there. Thanks for the non existent help anyway.Fungal vexation (talk) 18:14, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

• No, I did not delete your post (assuming that you mean your question on the Help page, but I didn't delete anything else of yours, either). As of this writing it is still there, though of course it will eventually be archived. - Jmabel ! talk 18:46, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Need help to delete photos....

Need help to delete files I have loaded without enough evidence on rights. I will greatly appreciate your help. Many thks. Coryphe (By the way, I am the son of the photographer).

Pictures are including all versions:

• File:Femme sur confident - Photo Louis Fattal.jpg
• File:Mets tes mains sur les joues....Photo Louis Fattal.jpg
• File:L'homme a la cigarette - Photo Louis Fattal.jpg
• File:Reception Studio Louis Fattal.jpg
• File:Studio de prise de vues de Louis Fattal.jpg
• File:Louis Fattal avec son graphlex.jpg
• File:Enfant à la bougie - Portrait de Louis Fattal.jpg
• File:Enfant surpris à lire - Portrait de Louis Fattal.jpg
• File:Lilli - Portrait de Louis Fattal.jpg
• File:Acteur - Portrait de Louis Fattal.jpg

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Coryphe (talk) 10:48, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Category:Queen_Anne_Anne_Boulevard

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SounderBruce 23:50, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) Media Viewer RfC

You are being notified because you have participated in previous discussions on the same topic. Alsee (talk) 17:31, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Sorry for the broken cross-wiki link. I should have double checked it. This one should work.

Alsee (talk) 22:10, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

File:Photo Seattle Commons draft plan, 1993.jpg

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Brianhe (talk) 17:38, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

• Responded at its entry. - Jmabel ! talk 19:02, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

thanks & one more question

Thank you for your quick answer on the Help Desk. What license can you put on photos you took yourself ? Thank-you, Prune123 (talk) 17:40, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

• I personally use {{cc-by-sa-3.0}}. Basically, this license means that anyone can reuse your photos (including making derivative works) but they must credit you (if you want to be credited as something other than "Prune123" you'd have to indicate that) and their derivative works must be similarly licensed. - Jmabel ! talk 17:44, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

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File:Extent of the Hansa.jpg

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Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 01:59, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

• Now a redirect - Jmabel ! talk 23:07, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Category:7th_Regiment_Memorial_(Central_Park)

Category:7th_Regiment_Memorial_(Central_Park) has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 22:57, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

• Deleted, now at Category:7th Regiment Memorial by John Quincy Adams Ward - Jmabel ! talk 23:07, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

File:Unidentified actors on stage, Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, 1973.jpg

File:Unidentified actors on stage, Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, 1973.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 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!

Mike Hayes (talk) 19:46, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Category:Holy Trinity Church, Bucharest

Hi. There are several churches in Bucharest dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Can you tell me which one is represented here? An approximate location should do. Thanks!--109.100.41.154 11:34, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• I took these photos nearly nine years ago (before I even had a decent digital camera), so I'm afraid I just don't know any more. - Jmabel ! talk 17:13, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi

Hi. Could I ask you to help me transwiki/re-upload the file discussed at Commons:Deletion requests/American Merchant Mariners' Memorial to en?--Father Goose (talk) 21:41, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

• Sure. Which of the two files do you want? - Jmabel ! talk 18:13, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

File:Battery Park 2012 05 04 0186.jpg. Thank you very much.--Father Goose (talk) 13:59, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

• Now uploaded on en-wiki and transcluded in en:Battery Park. Should be OK; any further issues should be internal to en-wiki. - Jmabel ! talk 15:56, 23 March 2015 (UTC)\

Thanks again.--Father Goose (talk) 19:07, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Adding an "other photo"

Thank you for your help last week with my question at the help desk. I'd like to crop this photo, and then add it to the Akron, Iowa article. While I've added many "new versions" of photos, I'm not quite sure how or where to add an "other version". There doesn't seem to be a link to that. Any help you can give would be appreciated! Magnolia677 (talk) 14:18, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

• You upload it just like any other photo, then link them by using the "other_versions" portion of the {{information}} template. Look at the wikisource for File:Bucharest - Biserica Sf. Anton 05.jpg and File:Bucharest - Biserica Sf. Anton 05 B&W.jpg to see how to do that. - Jmabel ! talk 16:03, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

That's what I don't understand. I did some editing to the TIF file, and now I want to add it as an "other photo". To get the new edited photo onto the Commons server, I need to upload it as a new file. This means adding all the information about it, such as the date and photographer. Essentially, this creates an entirely new photo file. This isn't like adding a "new version", where the new photo gets merged into the existing photo file. But this is what I'm trying to do. I see this done with Library of Congress photos all the time. I'm not sure I explained my concern, but if I'm going to add a new photo, with all new information, why don't I just use that one (which creates two unique photo files, containing identical photo information, but two versions of the same photo, one edited and one raw)? I hope you can figure out my concern. Thanks again. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:03, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

• Assuming that by "that one" you mean "the 'upload new version' button", once you add it as a "new version" of the photo (rather than a separately loaded "other version"), (1) the old version is no longer accessible for inclusion in articles and (2) there is no way to give any different information in the description (e.g. "cropped by..."). - Jmabel ! talk 01:35, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

My edit to this photo seems to have worked. Thanks for your help. Magnolia677 (talk) 12:51, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

UW Bothell erratic

Hey Joe, I noticed you put up some pictures of UW Bothell campus from 2009. I'm looking for any images of a glacial erratic that was there, where the ballfields are now. I uploaded some pictures today of the remnants (Category:Cascadia College erratic), but am really keen on getting an image of what it looked like before it was jackhammered into pieces. Thought you might have gotten some. I think your trip preceded the construction. -- Brianhe (talk) 00:17, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

• Nope, sorry, wasn't something I was looking for; I was up there mostly in the context of getting a couple of NRHP-listed buildings. - Jmabel ! talk 01:40, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
• By the way, there is a small erratic at NE 82nd & 31st NE in Seattle, sort of a little brother to the Wedgwood Rock half a mile away. I could get you a photo of that, if you like. - Jmabel ! talk 01:42, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Yes please! We can probably add it to Draft:Glacial erratic boulders in King County, Washington. Do you happen to know if it's been talked about in print or online? Any other contributions to the draft are also welcome, of course. We have a parallel one going for Sno County as well. -- Brianhe (talk) 17:07, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Local Wedgwood historian Valarie Bunn might have mentioned it some time; it's not that big (smaller than a car), so it's not quite into the range where it's likely to have been much written about. - Jmabel ! talk 18:55, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks; found her piece and added it to the draft. Brianhe (talk) 21:43, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Took photos today & put them in Category:Parklet with glacial erratic, Wedgwood, Seattle, Washington. - Jmabel ! talk 22:47, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Joe. I think it's called Wedgwood Square by the way. City parks site: [3] Brianhe (talk) 01:43, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Huh. I live 5 minutes walk from there, and I've literally never heard anyone in the neigborhood call it that, but I guess official is official. - Jmabel ! talk 03:25, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Por favor No quiero que BORREN las imágenes

• File:Antigüa avenida Victoria, ahora avenida Hidalgo , Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Parque antigüo, palacio antigüo municipal y Catedral, Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Palacio antigüo municipal, Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Bulevard calle Allende, Teziutlán 2.jpg
• File:Barrio del Carmen calle Nigromante con Avenida Zaragoza, Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Portales del palacio municipal y Catedral, Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Vista parcial, Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Antigüa Plaza de toros, Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Iglesia del Carmen, Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Kiosko antigüo, palacio antigüo, y patio antigüo de Catedral, Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Parque antigüo y palacio municipal, Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Bulevard calle Allende, Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Barrio de San Rafael, Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Vista general de Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Estadio municipal de Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Hospital Regional de Teziutlán.jpg
• File:Mercado Victoria de Teziutlan y su antigüo parque.jpg
• File:Antigüo parque histórico de Teziutlán y patio de Catedral.jpg

Es enserio quiero las imágenes para el proyecto que estoy realizando, por favor no quiero que las BORREN, por favor, necesito estas imágenes. Ó díganme ¿Cómo puedo conservarlas? ¿hay alguna manera de que pudiera conservar las imágenes?, éstas imágenes son fotos antiguas e históricas y es por eso que quiero conservarlas CDGJ965commons (talk) 23:00, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

• Léese Commons:Alcance del proyecto. Para retenerlos como en el dominio público Vd. necesita mostrar que los imágenes son libre de restricciones de copyright. Véase Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/Mexico (yo no sé donde hay un sumario similar en español, pero nada allí es especifica a Commons). ¿Son anónimas las obras? Si son, y si son de 1965 o más temprano, son en el dominio público. Si no, no son, porque no puede h pasado un siglo desde la muerte del fotógrafo. La responsabilidad recae sobre Vd. para demostrar la fuente original, y que son anónimas. La única otra posibilidad para retenerlos, que en estan instancia no me parece posible, es obtener un licensia apropriada desde el dueño de los derechos de copyright.
• Para Commons, no hace nada que Vd. tiene un proyecto. Lo que importa es, ¿están en nuestro alcance, o no? - Jmabel ! talk 02:54, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

re: File:New York NY 1st Presby PHS817.jpg

Moved to User talk:Smallbones to keep conversation in one place. - Jmabel ! talk 00:59, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Run CommonsDelinker?

I just happened on Commons:Categories for discussion/2014/05/Category:American craftsman style in the United States, which apparently nobody's touched since you left a question for me in September. Could you get CommonsDelinker to change the categories? I'd be happy to move the categories themselves, but the contents need a bot, because we have twelve categories that will be moved, meaning hundreds and hundreds of images; just one of them has more than 200 files. Nyttend (talk) 14:46, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

• Noted. I won't get to it this minute, but I will get to it. - Jmabel ! talk 15:07, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 15:27, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

• Done. - Jmabel ! talk 17:49, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

File:Seattle City Councilmember Sally Clark at Seattle Animal Shelter, 2010.jpg

Hi Jmabel, I've taken the liberty to crop away the bystander. Hope that's o.k. for you. --Túrelio (talk) 06:53, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

• That really should be uploaded to a separate name. I'll do that. It's a photo from the Municipal Archive and much like anything else from an official source, we should preserve the original. (I also think that just as a photo the original is a better composition, although your crop is probably a better illustration for the article on Clark.) - Jmabel ! talk 14:58, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Ticket no.

Hi!Jmabel.I sad to say that I can't remember the first two ticket no. I received because I deleted the confirmation of receipt together with the ticket no. in the subject. But first, I sent a message to OTRS twice.That is why I sent a message for a third time and finally I received another ticket no., which is [Ticket#2015050310002357] — Preceding unsigned comment added by RenRen070193 (talk • contribs)

• Taken up at Commons:Undeletion requests, which is where this should be (not on my talk page, I had nothing to do with the deletion). - Jmabel ! talk 17:26, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

6x6 again

Thanks for your answer at help desk, but I'm still a bit up in the air. The problem seems to be with the first two, Kyarra and St Ives. When I click on them, I get a blank screen, instead of the large image. What problem did you see with the last two?

1. File:(1)Kyarra_Hunters_Hill.jpg
2. File:(1)St_Ives_Hunters_Hill.jpg
3. File:(1)Vailele_in_Hunters_Hill_(1892).jpg
4. File:(1)Waiwera_in_Hunters_Hill.jpg

Sardaka (talk) 07:50, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

The first two appear roughly square (1,133 × 1,024 pixels and 1,021 × 1,024 pixels, respectively). They look fine.

File:(1)Vailele_in_Hunters_Hill_(1892).jpg is 1,280 × 859 pixels. If this started out square, then part of it was lost.

Similarly, File:(1)Waiwera_in_Hunters_Hill.jpg is 601 × 1,024 pixels. If this started out square, then part of it was lost.

Have you cleared your cache? If you are getting a blank screen, I can't think of any other reason. - Jmabel ! talk 15:15, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

- Jmabel ! talk 15:15, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. It worked. (A couple of them aren't square because I cropped them when I scanned them.) 27.99.121.102 07:32, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Back to Commons:Categories for discussion/2014/05/Category:American craftsman style in the United States

Hello, could you have CommonsDelinker finish implementing the CFD? Right now, the parent and nine of the twenty-seven subcategories are at "craftsman", but all should be at "Craftsman"; see en:American Craftsman, for example. Nyttend (talk) 12:49, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

• Requests all in. Delinker may take some time to process them. - Jmabel ! talk 15:46, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Category:Elliott_Bay_Water_Taxi

Category:Elliott_Bay_Water_Taxi has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

SounderBruce 03:25, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Look2See1

Since you recently participated in a discussion related to User:Look2See1's actions, it would help if you participated in discussion at the "Look2See1" section of COM:AN/U. Nyttend (talk) 23:01, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Don't bother; the first response was by an admin who's blocked Look2See1 for one month, so further input won't affect anything. Nyttend (talk) 00:54, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

List of Cascadia topics

Joe, for your reference, here's the Cascadia page you saw at the Wiknic: http://cascadia.wiki/List_of_Cascadia_topics Cheers and it was good meeting you again. -- Brianhe (talk) 22:43, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks, & good to see you, too! - Jmabel ! talk 23:29, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

There are Wiknic pics up at Category:Wiknic Seattle 2015. Brianhe (talk) 19:37, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Late July meetup to revitalize & prioritize WikiProject Seattle

Joe, hi, I wanted to ping you about a suitable date, time, & place for a late July meetup to revitalize & prioritize WikiProject Seattle. I will be away for Wikimania 2015 & returning late on Monday, 7/20. Evenings that I am available are Wed 7/22, Thu 7/23, Mon 7/27, Wed 7/29, & Thu 7/30. I am unavailable Tuesday evenings. What evening would work best for you? I would like to meet for 2½ to 3 hours, so we could get some editing done. I also will leave it to you to suggest a suitable place. I do not know where you will be coming from, but as I am generally off work in Bothell by 4pm, I can pretty much get anywhere in the Seattle area by 6pm or so. Peaceray (talk) 21:50, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

• Replied at w:Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Late July Meetup to revitalize & prioritize WikiProject Seattle. - Jmabel ! talk 00:10, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Category:Charles Daniels Collection Photos

Thanks for your message. Sorry - I made an error in adding your images, now corrected. I did a mass transfer (much needed) of Charles Daniels images to the category, and the search evidently picked up your stuff without me noticing. PeterWD (talk) 14:56, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks. I figured it was something like that, but contacted you on the off-chance that this actually was correct. - Jmabel ! talk 15:15, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Licences to upload logo

Hello Jmabel. As questioned some days ago (I was on holiday in the meantime) I would like to upload the SFS Logo and adapt the same licences as SIKA (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sika_Logo.png?setlang=en). I dont know which one of the Creative Commons Attributions are the appropriate ones. You requested to have an example of the SFS Logo: Please see here: http://sfs.biz/en/web/homepage.html (the one in the upper left corner). Thank you very much for your help. --Franziska at SFS Group (talk) 13:02, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

• That can definitely be licensed as {{PD-ineligible}}. - Jmabel ! talk 18:20, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Requesting Permission to use photo for book of Homa Jahansouzi-Danesh

PLEASE BE SO KIND AND SEND ME PERMISSION QUICKLY: MY BOOK IS GOING INTO PUBLICATION SOON!

Dear Sir, I would like to have permission to use your photo of Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ft_Worth_Modern_11.jpg in my humorous new book on architecture and city planning, titled "Hillary can bellydance too: a quest to save piazzas". Please be so kind and send permission directly to mbookwalter@services.lulu.com (ID no. 702288)and cc to me at hillarydanesh@yahoo.de

Sincerely,

Homa Jahansouzi-Danesh (Hillary)

Title: Hillary Can Bellydance Too: A Quest to Save Piazzas Publisher: Lulu.com Publication date: August 28, 2015 Format: Paperback and the print run is based on demand The territory: Architecture and City Planning, Humor

• As indicated on the page, it is free-licensed. There are several ways to comply with that; in a book, I believe that the simplest is that the credit would read "Joe Mabel, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license". Your copyrights page would explain that the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en.
• If you want to make some different arrangement, let me know what that might be.
• I'd appreciate (but do not require) bibliographical information for the book (publisher, place of publication, ISBN). - Jmabel ! talk 17:50, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Tipology > typology

Of course you are right! I'll change it! MM (talk) 08:30, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

File:Red-haired man.jpg

Hello, thank you for answering me at the help desk. Because you did, I'll try to please you. Please remove the image as soon as possible. I'll pay you if this doesn't violate the rules, how much do you want? Best, --2A00:4802:260:0:0:0:0:2A12 06:54, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

• Yes, paying someone to take administrative action would violate the rules.
• It looks like on my recommendation, User:Denniss decided to close this and delete at an earlier date than the process would normally take.
• I reiterate a remark I made earlier: please, in the future, don't upload images you don't want used. - Jmabel ! talk 15:24, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I just made the Bell's theorem category

I noticed that you just edited Category:Bell's theorem. It's my first category. Is there anything I should do now? See also my post at Bell's theorem talk page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guy vandegrift (talk • contribs)

Really, the only thing for you to do at this point is to observe what the more experienced editors to do it, and try to learn from that. - Jmabel ! talk 00:36, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks--Guy vandegrift (talk) 00:54, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Heads-up

Hi, as an active colleague on upload projects, I thought I'd drop you a personal heads-up for my request for adminship, today being the last day for views. RFA's tend to only have a small proportion of the community taking part, so it can be difficult to judge if this is representative. --Fæ (talk) 13:26, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Quong Tuck Company safe

Hi Joe, I didn't notice this safe in the museum; where does it stand there? You wouldn't have a sharper image; the duilian is hardly readable. SebastianHelm (talk) 18:41, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

• Not currently on display. I took that years ago with a pretty primitive digital camera back when the museum was in its prior location. You will notice on that page, however, that there are two linked shots showing just the duilan in detail. - Jmabel ! talk 22:19, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Request for metadata help

Joe, I realized after uploading that File:Teddy's blue raspberry soda.jpg has location metadata on it that probably should be redacted. Is that relatively straightforward to do? Thanks in advance - Brianhe (talk) 05:32, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

• Use any standard editing tool to remove that data from the EXIF (on your machine), upload the new version over the old ("Upload new version"), delete the old version (which I can do for you if you don't have the privileges, just let me know). - Jmabel ! talk 14:50, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Joe. Your instructions were helpful; I uploaded a new revision w/o the location metadata. Appreciate your offer to delete the original, could you do that for me now? -- Brian

• Done. - Jmabel ! talk 17:19, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Jmabel ! talk 17:19, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Puyallup River crossings

Hey Joe, thought you might want to know I just added your image File:Gog-le-hi-te Wetland, SR-509 and other bridges 02.jpg to a list I'm putting together: Draft:List of crossings of the Puyallup River, if you want to contribute, suggest or add pictures, or whatever. - Brianhe (talk) 16:26, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks. Glad to have it used; anything I've got should be in the more or less obvious places on Commons. - Jmabel ! talk 17:00, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

I need an advice.

Hello, Jmabel!
I want to ask you two questions, if you have time to answer them.
I want to erase some works of my own, some are useless, some have uncertain sources(sources exist, but when i got to primary source, it was a dead end) and are used in community, regardless of this, and it is a bad thing.
If you can give me a code, or a page where i can post them to be erased i would be very happy. There is such page or code?
And if i uploaded versions, can i erase some of them, to to not fill commons with surplus data?
Viuser (talk) 18:08, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

• Once you've uploaded a photo and granted a license, you can't revoke that (unless these are very recent, accidental uploads). You can, however, nominate them for deletion just like anyone else's photos. There should be a "nominate for deletion" link on every file page. (If you can't find that, there is a procedure explained at Commons:Deletion requests, but it's more complicated than using the button.) When you do so, explain that you were the uploader.
• Removing files or versions from public display does not save Commons any space: they are permanently on our servers. The only difference is whether they are publicly visible. - Jmabel ! talk 18:59, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Ok, Jmabel, thank you very muck for your answers and time, i find that in tools section. It will be a good thing to put the button where is Download/Use this file/Email a link.

Have a nice day ! Viuser (talk) 09:48, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Personal acquaintances project

Moved from User:Jmabel
If you haven't checked your ENWP pings yet, you and I are both one confirmation away from being able to confirm other users. Do you recognize anyone else on the user list who can give you your third confirmation? -- Brianhe (talk) 15:02, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
END Moved from User:Jmabel

• "Participators"? Obviously not a lot of native English-speakers involved. - Jmabel ! talk 05:52, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
• No one else. The two people I know on here have confirmed me. It is really obvious that this started from a single nucleus in Germany and doesn't even seem to have extended to confirming, for example, WMF employees. - Jmabel ! talk 06:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Agreed, I think it has promise though, which is why I translated the FAQ from German to English. I think once it passes the tipping point on ENWP, we coild see a lot more users adopting it. Brianhe (talk) 01:29, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi Jmabel, help me, my Category problem

Hello, Jmabel! Please help me, the Category does not include the uploaded images; Yesterday, almost all my uploaded images were fixed and the Categories included my images after some hours; but now, I have upladed many images, but not even 1 has been put into the categories: Category:Santo Cristo Parish Church (Cupang, Balanga City, Bataan); Category:Cupang North, Cupang Proper, Cupang West and Central, Balanga City, Bataan ; Category:Cataning, Balanga City, Bataan; Category:Poblacion, Balanga City, Bataan; Category:Bagumbayan, Balanga City, Bataan, even if I use this debug in uploading; please help me, thanks and best regards --Judgefloro (talk) --Judgefloro 16:37, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

• Again: they are in the categories. If you click on the file page for the image, you will see the categories correctly listed. The problem is strictly with the display of the categories, it's some sort of caching issue, and I presume it will be fixed sooner or later. Yes, it's annoying, but only the techs can do anything about it; as an admin, I have no more ability to change this than you do. - Jmabel ! talk 16:46, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your reply and explanation; unlike yesterday night, when the display in the Categories came to have appeared in 2 hours, until almost all of them were there after about 12 hours, when I woke up, but now, tonight, here in Philippines, it seems that my Created Categories never show even 1 image I uploaded, despite all the files display the blue link categories, advance Merry Christmas and best wishes --Judgefloro (talk) --Judgefloro 17:11, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks, my Categories do now show the more than 500 images with blue links now in the Category: Barangays of Balanga City among other, sincerely, and best regards --Judgefloro (talk) --Judgefloro 14:28, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Large TIF

Joe, is it possible to upload the original 159 MB TIF file here: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/det.4a11410/ ? The upload form told me that I'm limited to 100 MB. Brianhe (talk) 01:26, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

• Commons:Chunked uploads. But I've never done it myself, so if you have problems I'm not the one who can advise you. - Jmabel ! talk 01:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Joe; that worked beautifully! From my tablet, even. Brianhe (talk) 14:40, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Wrong link?

In your recent reply at COM:HD#Uploading an image from Journal Article you provided a link to COM:SCOPE. Didn’t you mean COM:OTRS?—Odysseus1479 (talk) 02:06, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks. Corrected. - Jmabel ! talk 02:08, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Pictures by Britchi Mirela (talk · contribs)

Hi, you (rightfully) requested the deletion of several pictures from this user. You may want to know she feels persecuted and vents about it on ro:Wikipedia:Cafenea. Several users on ro: and myself here on Commons have tried to explain things, but I'm afraid she doesn't really want to understand. Anyway, thanks for going through pictures of Romania. There are quite a lot of FOP problems on Commons I'm afraid. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 19:00, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks. Since I don't normally monitor that page, and she didn't ping me, I had no idea. - Jmabel ! talk 19:21, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi Joe. Do you think it's feasible to blur (or grey) the painting here? The image might be relevant for more than one article, as one can see both the building the HQ of Pegas. Thanks--Strainu (talk) 22:20, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

• Absolutely. By the way, we do have several unproblematic images of that interior that are taken at more of a diagonal. See Category:CICLOP Building, Bucharest. I've uploaded a version with Gaussian blur at File:CICLOP Building (Bucharest) interior with artwork blurred.jpg. By the way, do note that I'm not certain whether the building itself might raise copyright issues; I've just been going after blatantly obvious stuff. - Jmabel ! talk 23:53, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! I also have another request: please be careful when adding the codes: every letter ad digit is important, and mixing m (monument) and a (ansamblu/ensemble) makes the code unusable by the robots.--Strainu (talk) 16:03, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Romanian FOP

One night, in 2009, I uploaded several dozen images from Romania, unaware of FOP. Like many contributors I find FOP counter-intuitive.

When one of them was nominated for deletion, and someone tried to explain Romanian FOP to me, I put those images into a list: User:Geo Swan/Romanian buildings. I think some of them don't measure up to the Romanian FOP restrictions, while others are OK. I link to the list every time one of the images is nominated for deletion. Geo Swan (talk) 14:35, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Quite a few of those (e.g. File:A Bucuresti street scene -c.jpg should be no problem. The emphasis is clearly on Biserica Nașterea Maicii Domnului; the modern building is just inevitable background. I guess is someone had an issue with it, it could be cropped. On the other hand, I hope you won't take offense that File:Bucuresti flats -c -- Victoriei Square, Bucharest, Romania.jpg almost certainly should be deleted.

I guess I'll run through the list at some point and see what I'm pretty sure should be deleted. I'm not really going after, say, 1920s buildings that might be in copyright, just stuff 1950 and later that almost certainly is. Thanks for pointing these out. - Jmabel ! talk 17:37, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

I took a pass through and nominated the ones that looked most problematic to me. I guess we should see how those go. If some of those are deemed OK, then the others should be safe. Some of these are certainly OK: for example, the Filaret bus station is a former train station and goes back to the 19th century. - Jmabel ! talk 18:07, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks for helping out. Geo Swan (talk) 19:56, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Commons:Categories for discussion/2015/11/Category:Carul cu Bere

Hi,

Yes it looks strange. When I check/edit : I simply do not know what I have done and how to change it. I wanted to add category for discusion. If you can change it please do it. I do not want to spoil other requests. TIA --Adam majewski (talk) 22:24, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Now I know what I have done wrong : I did it manually, but I should put template on category page . Thx for help. --Adam majewski (talk) 16:18, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

• The other thing you did wrong was to edit the wrong subpage of Commons:Categories for discussion/2015/11. I usually just use the "nominate category for discussion" tool in the left nav; there are also instructions for doing it manually at Commons:Categories for discussion#Listing a single category on this "Categories for discussion" page. - Jmabel ! talk 16:35, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

VFC?

It would be good if you used COM:VFC for DRs like this one: File:Bucharest Day 4 - AFI Cotroceni (9434231871).jpg -- much faster for you and three times faster for the closing Admin. .     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 16:36, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

• Ah. I've never used VFC for DRs, just for making mass changes (e.g. category moves). When you say "DRs like this one" (emphasis mine), what would characterize DRs where VFC is in order rather than the "Nominate for deletion" tool in the left nav? - Jmabel ! talk 16:39, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

• • Well, use your judgement -- I know that sometimes I'll be working along and I'll nominate one, then two, then three.... of a user's images before I realized that it was going to be more than one, so not those. But, if the user looks hinky, then I'd guess that copying the user name to the clipboard and pasting it into VFC probably takes as long as doing two nominations using the left column -- and that only if you've copied the DR comment to the clipboard so you don't have to type it twice. VFC gives you some of the information you need to add an image to a DR, so sometimes you can just click on the ones you want to DR without loading them, but you can also easily load them from VFC to look more closely. So for me, as soon as realize that the user looks like a problem, I'll go to VFC -- but you'll develop your own rhythm with it.
  • For the closing Admin using DelReqHandler, closing a single image DR takes (A) a click on "Delete (the image)", the an Enter to accept the default closing comment, and then (B) a click on Close Deleted, entry of a comment, and another Enter. Combining two or more with VFC allows you to do part B for the whole batch only once.
  • BTW, although I don't think you close many DRs, if you ever switch to that mode, note that Admins can also use VFC to delete images. That's helpful if the DR has many images -- 50 or more -- from the same user. .     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 23:27, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
    • Ah, I see, you are assuming these were from a single user or constituted a large part of a single category. They might have been, but I ran across them one-by-one when going through a couple of thousand images in Category:Bucharest. Since they we scattered through there, VFC would not have been at all easy to use (would have had to let all of them load, go through and identify the ones at issue again, instead of just clicking through from the category page as I noticed these in and among other stuff). - Jmabel ! talk 00:36, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

File:Tina Majkowski 02.jpg

File:Tina Majkowski 02.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 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!

69.117.1.129 07:22, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Copyvios post "final warning"

You might want to have a look at User talk:Deepakhmwiki. - Brianhe (talk) 22:04, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

• @Denniss: You gave the warning; is there followup you want to do here? - Jmabel ! talk 22:08, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

I can't see new copyvios uploaded by this user. --Denniss (talk) 23:11, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

• OK. @Brianhe:, is there something in particular you have in mind here? - Jmabel ! talk 23:13, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

• The several copyvio corporate logos, mainly. -- Brianhe (talk) 09:33, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
  • Unless I'm mistaken (I looked on the 20th, and so did Denniss) they were all older uploads. The issue is if the user uploads new copyvios, not whether we determine that some additional older uploads were copyvios. Also, uploading something like a logo could be an entirely innocent mistake; the issue was passing off others' work as their own. - Jmabel ! talk 16:39, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

ANU

I saw your Ping on Fae's page but I won't respond there because Fae doesn't wish it. I agree you "included the possibility" of carelessness in your expanded explanation. But it wasn't in your initial comment that accused me of using "apophasis". I gave you, per Hanlon's razor, the benefit of the doubt in assuming you misunderstood the term, and meant something different that didn't require such a huge dollop of bad faith on your part. But your laboured expansion of your usage of that word made it quite clear you believed I was (to quote our favourite encyclopaedia), making a "subversive ad hominem attack". All these terrible crimes you expanded upon in words of absolute confidence, whereas the remote possibility that I was acting in good faith, if insensitively, was left as a questioned and unlikely option. Honestly, if you really still believe I was conducting a nasty homophobic attack on another editor, then I don't see how "knock it off" should rescue me. I don't think such an editor should be shown any tolerance on this project so just press the block button if that's your solid and confident assessment. But I rather hope that you now regret your bad faith comments and naivety in being swept up in Fae's ridiculous accusations. I have apologised for my misjudgement in the matter and that should be the end of it. -- Colin (talk) 19:57, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

• I agree that should be the end of it. - Jmabel ! talk 23:29, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Regarding my close (that Fae questioned on my talk) I hope you don't mind my squashing that. There could be legitimate complaints about Colin's 'method of argumentation', but I really don't think the particular comment was illustrative of any 'raging homophobia' on his part... it was instead just a particular example of his debating style (which is, itself, IMO questionable, but a conversation about it based on the premise given by Fae was rather obviously not going anywhere useful). Colin rather specifically doesn't use actual 'ad hominem attacks', from what I have seen... he uses a rhetorical method that stays short of that, by stating his 'disappointment', etc... it's basically a method of ad hominem argument, while not actually being an attack. Any complaint about Colin should not be based on a particular comment (as any such block would be short and inherently punitive), but on his general level of discourse, and I would expect to see a 'very' broad consensus before he was blocked, because it would really be more of a 'cultural' thing. Revent (talk) 01:23, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Ballard Locks categories

I've started uploading photos to Category:Hiram M. Chittenden Locks large lock maintenance 2015. I think I'll put the pump well photos in a subcategory under Category:Hiram M. Chittenden Locks Administration Building. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:06, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

• Agreed. By the way, would you rather be identified or not in pictures where you appear prominently? Fine to go whichever way you prefer on ones where I may appear. - Jmabel ! talk 18:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
  • I don't mind if you identify me. How about you? --Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:05, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
    • As I said, it's fine to go whichever way you prefer on ones where I may appear. - Jmabel ! talk 19:08, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
      • I'm under the weather today and having trouble concentrating. :\ I'll probably put off uploading most of my photos since it takes a while to figure out the correct title and description of each one. I just added a link to the bottom of w:Ballard Locks that had some detailed terminology on the Stoney Gate valves and their plans for hydraulic replacement. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:22, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
      • Sure. I'm still going through mine, making panos as appropriate, etc., haven't even started uploading. I really don't have a lot of technical knowledge about the locks, and you may want to go through some of mine once I'm done and improve descriptions, since it looks like you are going pretty deeply into the topic. - Jmabel ! talk 19:43, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm finished uploading, describing, etc. Feel free to supplement descriptions (and add further categories) on anything I did if you have more specific technical knowledge. - Jmabel ! talk 07:27, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

• I'm starting to upload these. I have a few hundred and I will probably try to avoid duplicating yours. I just uploaded a set from when I climbed to the bottom of the pump well. Here is one of you. I think our photos are at least as good as the Seattle Times got. Their culvert photo has camera shake. They were lucky they got to see the top of a Stoney Gate being worked on, but they didn't go in the pump well. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:57, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

People

If there's any policy, it's one of the most obscure policies around here. See my edit summary here, but aside from Ohio, everything's so fractured that I would demand a link to policy before believing anyone who said that there was such a policy. For example, while we have almost everything as "from" in Ohio, Category:People of Pennsylvania by city and Category:People of Pennsylvania by county are almost (but not entirely) "of". Nyttend (talk) 17:05, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

RE:Seattle

Not problem. I'am sorry. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Albertomos (talk • contribs)

Thank you

Thank you for participating in the caption challenge, Please feel free to encourage other contributors to participate as well.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:48, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for participating in the caption challenge, Please feel free to encourage other contributors to participate as well. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 21:38, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Weird licensing

Joe, regarding File:USMC-05313.jpg. This looks like a family snapshot but is licensed as PD-DOD, which seems unlikely. The source link given by the uploader doesn't work. The uploader happens to be a bot that I'm not familiar with. Thought you might want to have a look at it. - Brianhe.public (talk) 01:19, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

• Feel more than free to nominate it for deletion on that basis, or to contact User:Slick, who owns the bot. I would add that the Internet Archive has no record of that URL having existed. - Jmabel ! talk 06:56, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Yes this image was imported from the given source with a bot. At this moment the image was published under PD-DOD. The source page was changed later, so the original source is no more accessible. If you think that this image is wrong, suggest it for deletion (please refer to this comment), but in the moment of the import all was fine and official published by DoD (and the bot did not check the content of the image). Maybe there are more affected images like this, see Category:Import by User:Slick-o-bot/Marines.mil images --Slick (talk) 08:34, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. Looks like the DOD probably got that wrong, and no particular reason to think they owned the rights they granted. - Jmabel ! talk 01:08, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Re. Category:Folk music festivals in Argentina

Hi. I am classifying about 1,600 photos per day. Thanks for correcting me. Regards. Allforrous 16:14, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Berlin Brandenburg Gate

Hallo Jmabel, Du kannst mein Foto Brandenburger Tor bei Nacht ( Brandenburg Gate by night auf Deiner privaten Homepage verwenden, wenn Du eine Link zur meinem Foto auf der Wikimedia-Seite setzt und meinen Namen nennst: Pedelecs by Wikimedia.

-- Pedelecs (talk) 16:23, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

• I'm missing context here. I don't remember ever asking to use your picture, and I'm certainly not currently using it. Perhaps this relates to someone else's query on the Help desk or Village pump, where I answer a lot of the questions. (Ich vermisse Kontext hier. Ich glaube nicht daran erinnern, jemals zu fragen, um Ihr Bild zu benutzen, und ich bin sicher nicht gerade benutzen. Vielleicht bezieht sich auf Abfrage die jemand anderes im Helpdesk oder Dorfpumpe, wo ich beantworten viele der Fragen.) - Jmabel ! talk 17:36, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Industrial laundries

I don't think I had any other options:

• You're probably right about it being a dry-cleaning place, but dry cleaning isn't something that would have come to mind
• The description for Category:Laundromat read "Laundromats, launderettes or laundrettes are commercial laundries where the customer can operate the machines". So-and-so Cleaners doesn't sound like a place with customer-operated machines.
• Category:Laundries was created in 2011, and Category:Laundries in the United States just last year.

I'm not seeing any other laundry-related categories that would be applicable to buildings, except for stuff created after I uploaded it with Category:Industrial laundry. Thanks for letting me know, as I'll fix it, but I don't think I could have done any better in 2009. Nyttend (talk) 01:54, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Category for one item redux

Category:William C. Gover as an example. Wikidata gives a slot to link to Wikicommons. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 19:01, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

• Yes. Next time, there's also this one more step. - Jmabel ! talk 19:14, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Usually a bot fills that in, but I do not know how often it is run. If one is filled and the other empty the bot migrates it to fill the field. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 23:11, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

It would be nice if Wikisource was as cooperative. My last interaction had an editor delete what I was adding mid-transcribing it, and they do not allow links back to Wikipedia. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 23:29, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Category:Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge—Evergreen Point

I honestly don't remember creating the Category:Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge—Evergreen Point. Do you know of a way I can get a history? ----DanTD (talk) 03:09, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

14:03, 18 September 2011 . . DanTD (talk | contribs | block) m (85 bytes) (added Category:Washington State Route 520 using HotCat)

14:02, 18 September 2011 . . DanTD (talk | contribs | block) m (45 bytes) (added Category:Evergreen Point Floating Bridge using HotCat)

• I can't really show you more than that without undeleting, which doesn't seem worth the effort unless you really want me to. And I'm unaware of any particular way to get a history of what might once have been in the category. - Jmabel ! talk 06:07, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Well, I've seen instances where you can get histories of articles and categories, and instance where you can, even without restoration. I just looked up my history from that time, and I don't even see my name attached to either category. As for restoring this, don't even bother. ----DanTD (talk) 13:33, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

File:Anacortes - Eagles Building 01.jpg

File:Anacortes - Eagles Building 01.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 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!

68.186.121.41 01:35, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

File:Baist Seattle 1905 legend - alt - raw.jpg

File:Baist Seattle 1905 legend - alt - raw.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 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!

Kopiersperre (talk) 15:23, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Caption Challenge

Would you be willing to take on the task of uploading this weekly, so I can concentrate on other projects?ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:41, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

• No, sorry, I think it's fun and all, but I really wouldn't care much if it went away. I'm much too busy to take on something I don't care strongly about. - Jmabel ! talk 16:05, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Bot removal at VP

• Hello Jmabel, could you have have a look at your reversion here? I was trying to find a comment that appears on my watchlist but on VP is missing. Thanks. Anna (Cookie) (talk) 02:57, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

• Hi Jmabel,

When you removed a lot of stuff from VP, you also removed a request from a :EN: arbiter to delete a potntially libellous image. Fortunately I had already initiated the delete. Will you please reinstate stuff that should not have been removed. Martinvl (talk) 09:47, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

@Cookie: @Martinvl: My apologies. Should now be fixed. - Jmabel ! talk 16:11, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. Anna (Cookie) (talk) 03:22, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

File:Korean acorn jellies.jpg

Nice to meet you. First, thank you for your contribution. Please check my feedback on the photos you uploaded.File:Korean_acorn_jellies.jpg I read the first description and current description too. I can't convinced that but your photos looks like '다식 ko:다식, en:Dasik, Gooogle Image Search'. Please check it out. If this is the correct 도토리묵(Dotorimuk; acorn jelly). I'm sorry. Is my mistake. Thank you for reading. (I do not know English well. These statements were translated into Google Translator. And it was modified.)

반갑습니다. 우선 당신의 기여에 감사드립니다. 올리신 파일에 대해 확인을 바랍니다.File:Korean_acorn_jellies.jpg 나는 처음의 설명과, 현재의 설명을 모두 읽었습니다. 나는 확신할 수는 없지만 당신의 사진이 '다식 ko:다식, en:Dasik, Gooogle Image Search'인 것 같습니다. 확인을 바랍니다. 만약 확실한 도토리묵이라면 미안합니다. 나의 실수 입니다. 읽어주셔서 감사합니다. (나는 영어를 잘 못합니다. 이 문장들은 구글 번역기로 번역하였습니다. 그리고 수정했습니다.) -- 메이 (talk) 10:27, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

File:Vancouver, WA - Esther Short Park - The Pioneer Mother 01.jpg

Sorry about that -- the other three in the cat were by AB and I was a little too broad with the cut and paste. .     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 16:50, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

• No problem. Easily fixed. (Although I sometimes wonder: given that I have to fix/revert something messed up on one or another of my 40,000+ files roughly once a day, what's going to happen someday when I'm not here...) - Jmabel ! talk 16:57, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

File:Seattle Collage White.jpg

Hi! Thank you for the notice. Is it okay now? --Dominikosaurus (talk) 14:42, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_-_Moore_Theatre_-_electricals_01.jpg

Hervorragendes Bild und gut kategorisiert! --Achim Hering (talk) 15:19, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

• Danke schoen. - Jmabel ! talk 15:51, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Licensing problem for businessman

FYI I left a new user this message regarding an image of a Tacoma chef/businessman with dubious licensing, if there's anything you want to add. Their username implies that they are probably an employee of his company, Pacific Grill. - Brianhe (talk) 23:12, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks, I clarified a little further. - Jmabel ! talk 23:23, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

New-for-you (?) template

See this edit to one of your uploads; I use the template heavily and thought you might find it useful, both because it autotranslates and because it transcludes a category for the date when the photo was taken. Nyttend (talk) 13:57, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks. - Jmabel ! talk 14:09, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Northgate and Ravenna-Bryant maps

I await your response to my response to your complaint about my map uploads. I must admit I don't see how I could have done them otherwise given the upload devices built in questions, and I do assert that both files as I uploaded them were "my work" in the sense that I had modified public domain materials to make them. --Haruo (talk) 07:34, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

• Replied at User talk:Haruo. - Jmabel ! talk 15:21, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks! I'll take your advice in future cases. --Haruo (talk) 20:01, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

YMCA in Everett

Moved to User talk:Xnatedawgx to keep this in one place.

Image request - views from SR 520

Joe, do you have or know where to find any images of the views from SR 520? Especially to the north? I'd like one to illustrate what people would be able to see from the pedestrian belvederes on the new bridge. Thanks! - Brianhe (talk) 08:10, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

• I don't see anything in Category:Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, so I suspect there is nothing. Of course, there is now going to be an opportunity to take such photos! - Jmabel ! talk 15:36, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

My DR

Is Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Bubba73 being seen by people who make deletions? It isn't listed at Commons:Deletion_requests#Most_recent_deletion_requests. Bubba73 (talk) 18:54, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

They are there, under Commons:Deletion_requests/2016/05/08. Bubba73 (talk) 19:01, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Bardahl sign

Do you know why there's no pictures of the Bardahl sign? Are there copyright problems? Even as a logo it probably doesn't meet the threshold of originality. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:57, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

• No good reason. I guess no one's uploaded one. Certainly not a copyright issue, and for trademarks just mark it with {{trademark}}. - Jmabel ! talk 00:52, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

File:Four Romanians.JPG

File:Four Romanians.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 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!

Josve05a (talk) 11:57, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Cat deletion

Hi Jmabel,
Sorry to be a pain but could you delete Category:Paintings in Musée d'Orsay so I can move Category:Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay there please?,
You're the first admin I've seen on and figured asking you would be quicker than CSDing,
Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 02:38, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

• I don't see how a deletion would help. It seems to me that you need to:
  1. Copy the page content of Category:Paintings in Musée d'Orsay to Category:Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay.
  2. Turn Category:Paintings in Musée d'Orsay into a soft redirect to Category:Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay.
  3. Use User:CommonsDelinker/commands to move the content. I believe that needs an admin, so come back to me when you are ready for that step. - Jmabel ! talk 02:45, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

I thought we preserved the history and all that ? I assumed it would need to be deleted so the former could be moved to the latter with the history with it ? ...,

Anyway someone's objected for the moment so I'm going to stick my head in an oven and hope it does some good! , Thanks for your help anyway, –Davey2010^Talk 02:53, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

The trivial history of a category like this isn't of much relevance. Nothing rises to the level of copyrightable. - Jmabel ! talk 02:55, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Ahhh right, Now it all makes sense , Anyway thanks for your help. –Davey2010^Talk 02:59, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

File:White Genocide Illustrated.png

Would you have a look at File:White Genocide Illustrated.png? I suspect that it is not original work and may be a copyright violation as it may have been created without credit by combining graphics from this source: Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America - William H. Frey - Google Books.

I also object to the name of the file, which I do not believe represents the data in the graphic. Ipso facto from the data, it is absurd to conclude that anyone is actually carrying out genocide against whites.

Peaceray (talk) 06:27, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

• Quite possibly nothing copyrightable there: it may be all so simple as to be ineligible. But if all the colors are straight from the book, then it could possibly be problematic. And I certainly agree about the contentious name. Is there any reason you wrote to me rather than nominate it for deletion? - Jmabel ! talk 14:21, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
  • Yeah, am much more familiar with deletion templates in en.wikipedia than commons. Next time I'll figure out how to do that! Peaceray (talk) 22:17, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Code issues in User:Jmabel/common.js

Hi Jmabel, I am a bored bot (this is kind of a computer program) that is watching the recent changes and tapping buttons like I did now.

Curious about the reason? Possibly not but I will tell you anyway:

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BN

Hi, there's a discussion at Commons:Bureaucrats' noticeboard#'crat action requested which includes evidence from your talk page history. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 07:23, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

• I don't really have anything to add. I think you and Colin both do good work, don't get along, and should do the best to stay out of each other's way. - Jmabel ! talk 15:10, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Coffeehouses / Cafés

Moved comment to User talk:An Errant Knight to keep conversation in one place. Jmabel ! talk 03:26, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

• • If you only read half of a requested response, it won't make sense. Read ALL of it.An Errant Knight (talk) 04:21, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
    1. I did read all of it.
    2. Why do you insist on splitting this conversation across multiple pages? - Jmabel ! talk 04:35, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Buildings in the US by former function

Just wanted to say thanks for setting up all these categories. I think they'll be really helpful. --Auntof6 (talk) 04:12, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

• You're welcome. I got tired of the hodgepodge and especially of the nonsense of extant buildings often being classified hierarchically as "former buildings" just because they were (for example) former post offices. - Jmabel ! talk 04:14, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

According to your Guiding

@Jmabel: FYI - Please see - Restoration of pictures (now well-founded): Files: ... on Commons:Und... Thanks Khurshed.yusufbekov (talk) 21:58, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

• @Khurshed.yusufbekov: As I advised elsewhere, you need to provide your explanations (including your having taken pictures as a child) in the relevant section on Commons:Undeletion_requests. You can't expect someone else to sort through a complicated discussion elsewhere to work out whether to undelete these. - Jmabel ! talk 22:05, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Authority control

Hello Jmabel, could you possibly help with this? -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 13:40, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

• Responded there (but not sure I can help). - Jmabel ! talk 14:41, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	Thanks for all your recent Southern Oregon-related photographs! MB298 (talk) 04:01, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks. - Jmabel ! talk 04:06, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Advice?

Hi, Jmabel. I wonder if you would mind sending me an email. There's something I'd like your advice on. I'm not able to use the email function (something about Yahoo! emails not working with it), but I can reply if you send one. Thanks in advance. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:37, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

• You don't have "email this user" on your user page, so I can't do that. I'm guessing you have to add your email address to your preferences, or some such. You can find my email address elsewhere online easily enough, but I have no problem stating it here: jmabel AT speakeasy DOT org. - Jmabel ! talk 15:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you...

... for re-categorizing some of my recent Georgetown uploads (Category:2016 photographs of Seattle by Another Believer). Much appreciated! -Another Believer (talk) 00:06, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Image File: Hierarchy of Effects

While I created the image, using Word and Photoshop, it is based on ideas taken from the cited source. On review, and after re-reading the original article from 1961, it is clear that the diagram is similar, but not identical to a diagram used in the article. I think that the safest route would be to withdraw my request to reinstate the image. Thank-you for trying. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BronHiggs (talk • contribs) 06:25, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Incorrect government photo permissions

Joe, as far as I know all government employee photographs should be public domain. However it appears that the Vienna Embassy photos on Flickr are all tagged "no derivatives". I wanted to pull one from this album but the flickr2commons tool won't do it, probably because of this. Any idea why they are doing this, and do we maybe have a formal way of requesting that they re-tag their albums? - Brianhe (talk) 20:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

P.s. I went ahead and uploaded File:Wesner Zeitlhofer and Gürtler.jpg with the PD-DOS tag. But it would still be nice to alert the embassy that their Flickr uploads are incorrectly tagged. - Brianhe (talk) 20:35, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

@Brianhe: They are PD if they are taken by a government employee in the performance of his or her duties. It's not absolutely clear to me that is the case; for example, what if the photo was taken by a volunteer? You might want to contact them and ask for that to be clarified. - Jmabel ! talk 21:09, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

I can do that, then send in the official response for OTRS documentation, I suppose. It seems unlikely the whole photostream is on somebody's off time though. Brianhe (talk) 00:37, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Agree, but any individual photo could be. - Jmabel ! talk 00:41, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

A consultation regarding Podkarpackie Voivodeship or Subcarpathian Voivodeship

Since you are an administrator with very extensive experience at Commons and have created, three days ago, Category:Historical Park Blizna, I would like to consult with you regarding the subject mentioned in the above header.

As a result of the August 2011 Wikipedia discussion at en:Talk:Podkarpackie Voivodeship#Requested move, a decision was made to move the main title header "Subcarpathian Voivodeship" to "Podkarpackie Voivodeship".

On Commons, however, the main title header is still the Polish form, Województwo podkarpackie (created 7 January 2009 as Podkarpackie, and moved on 24 April 2014 to Województwo podkarpackie), with Subcarpathian Voivodeship (created 4 January 2009) redirecting to it and Podkarpackie Voivodeship remaining as a redlink.

I just moved Category:Blizna (województwo podkarpackie) to Category:Blizna (Podkarpackie Voivodeship) and adjusted that category within two files (File:Blizna Church.JPG and File:PL-PK Blizna, przydrożna kapliczka 2014-06-21--19-11-50-047 cr.jpg) as well as within the category that you created, (Category:Historical Park Blizna).

As a result of these adjustments, however, your creation, Category:Historical Park Blizna, is now in two categories with competing voivodeship names, Category:Blizna (Podkarpackie Voivodeship) and Category:Museums in Subcarpathian Voivodeship.

Furthermore, Category:Subcarpathian Voivodeship has 30 subcategories, all of which contain the term "Subcarpathian", a term that also appears in a substantial number of files.

Thus, before embarking on any further changes which would have to be fairly extensive, I would like to consult with you whether it would be best to leave well enough alone and move Category:Blizna (Podkarpackie Voivodeship) to Category:Blizna (Subcarpathian Voivodeship) as well as adjust the categories to that form in your creation and the two files, or whether to start numerous moves to bring the name "Subcarpathian" in compliance/harmony with the form used in Wikipedia, "Podkarpackie".

Finally, it should be noted that there are numerous other such inconsistencies: for example, all 25 subcategories in Category:Churches in Subcarpathian Voivodeship by powiat use the Polish form instead of the form which appears in English Wikipedia's main title header. To use the first of these subcategories (Category:Churches in powiat bieszczadzki) as an example, "powiat bieszczadzki" in English Wikipedia is en:Bieszczady County.
Roman Spinner (talk) 21:06, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

@Roman Spinner: I personally would go with "Subcarpathian Voivodeship". Both Subcarpathian and Voivodeship are English words well understood by any English-speaker with an interest in the region. Similarly, unless there is a strong reason not to consider a powiat a "county", I'd go with the English there as well. (By "strong reason" I mean something like that we don't translate the Spanish comarca as "county" even though they are largely analogous, because they Spanish has a distinct word condado that specifically refers to an area historically ruled by a count, and so "county" for comarca is definitely not appropriate.) Certainly we use "county" for the Romanian judeţ.

I have very little Polish, so I can't really judge the Polish-language issues here, but certainly Commons policy is for category names to use any common English words when they exist. - Jmabel ! talk 22:17, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

My appreciation for your advice and, since I am wary of Commons forms differing from those existing on Wikipedia, I will solicit additional input at en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland. The consensus at en:Talk:Podkarpackie Voivodeship#Requested move was not unanimous and the participation was relatively small, but the form has remained in place since then. The Polish county names at Commons will also need to be moved per your suggestion.
Roman Spinner (talk) 23:20, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Hi Jmabel. OK. Thank you for your notice. --JMCC1 (talk) 05:52, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Tinker Field original interior

Could you take a look at File:Tinker Field original interior.jpg and see if my changes are sufficient? Thank you! ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:04, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

• I did some further work, including moving comments to talk page. - Jmabel ! talk 16:42, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
  • Thank you! ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:59, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Galleries

Aloha! I totally forgot to reply on VP regarding Galleries. I must say your gallery Seattle and the Orient certainly is excellent. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 04:39, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks! - Jmabel ! talk 04:43, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

NYC reservoirs

Yes, all of them are entirely within the state. Or at least the reservoirs proper ... as can be seen here, some of the Croton Watershed (the smaller one closer to the city) overlaps into Connecticut.

As I was creating and filling the category, I realized I was glad for that. Years ago there was a proposal, if more Catskill reservoirs could not be built, to work things out with Connecticut and Massachusetts (by land swap, yet!) and dam the Housatonic along its upper reaches to create adequate capacity. Instead, damming the branches of the Delaware and Schoharie Creek became technically and politically feasible, and that's where we are today. Daniel Case (talk) 20:02, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks! - Jmabel ! talk 20:09, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

	Merry Christmas, Jmabel!
	Hi Jmabel, thank you for all your valuable contributions on Commons. This help fulfill the number 1 goal of Commons: To be a free, educational media repository for everyone. I wish you and your family a merry Christmas and a happy new year.    ★ Poké95 01:38, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Jmabel!

Happy New Year!

Jmabel, a new year is like a blank book, the pen is in your hands. It is your chance to write a beautiful story for yourself! Happy New Year 2017. Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 18:20, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Robert Meeropol

I have tweaked it less, if you are not happy please revert again and I won't touch it any more. Unibond (talk) 18:24, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

• <responding where conversation was started> - Jmabel ! talk 18:36, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Wine barrel valves

We are working, Mr Mabel.[4] However, thanks for the notice. And happy year 2017. --Latemplanza (talk) 09:18, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

File:Pro-jallikattu-protest-tn-2017.jpg

Hi Jmabel, I picked your name from the Commons Help Desk. I'm an admin on enwiki. Images and related copyrights aren't my area of strong knowledge. I happened upon File:Pro-jallikattu-protest-tn-2017.jpg, which was labeled as the user's own work, but the middle image is identical to this Financial Express image, which leads me to believe it needs some scrutiny from the community. Sorry to dump this in your lap, and any edification you can provide me would be appreciated. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:15, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Neighbourhoods

Yes, the fact is that at upper level, Neighborhoods is a granchild cat of Political geography which is in turn child of Geography. Thus is not necessarily wrong to place "Neighborhoods in city" as child cat of "Geography of city". -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 12:33, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

• <responding where the conversation was started> - Jmabel ! talk 15:58, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

File:Seattle - Frye-Bruhn beef room - 1900.jpg

File:Seattle - Frye-Bruhn beef room - 1900.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 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!

Elle India (talk) 13:16, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Re: Episcopalian Altars, etc.

Hi, Jmabel, I reponded to your post on my talk page, don't know if you saw it. I also wanted to let you know that I intend to make another change to the category Anglican Bishops. I see that there are separate sub-cats for various provinces of the Anglican Communion, including Bishops of the Episcopal Church, Bishops of the Church of Ireland, Bishops of the Church of Uganda, etc. etc., BUT, there is not a sub-cat Bishops of the Church of England. I intend to create that category, and populate it with the various diocesan bishop subcats. Then, I want to move the subcat "suffragan bishops in England" (which is the only entry in the cat Anglican bishops by diocese in England) into the newly created cat and delete its old parent, Anglican bishops by diocese in England, which would then be empty (and which is titled ambiguously anyway, since it never contained all of the Anglican bishops in England). The reason for this is that "suffragan bishops" should be a subcat of "Bishops". Hope that makes sense, let me know if otherwise. Drbones1950 (talk) 19:46, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

User Vicond

Frist of all:Thank you very mutch by your amability.Sadly and in adiction I have to say that I loose the works...Even the four that you see is corresponding to others uploads made by others users made more recently.In fact if you go to the pages of the files, you can note that the names of the pages is not correspondig with the names of the primary files, like one kind of redirecting. In any way I will be gratefull to recover this works or at least the most part of them, if you believe is possible that. I promisess to be more carefull when I made my uploads in the future.Honestly:I thinked that I´s could served to ilustrate the culture and the social rroyalty of my country. Thank you very mutch aggain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vicond (talk • contribs) 17:38, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

• I assume the relevant list is the red links at Commons:Deletion requests/Vicond's uploads. Probably the simplest thing would be for me to undelete about a dozen at a time for you to download to your machine. It would be greatly appreciated if when I do that, you could do the downloads within 24 hours, then get back to me to let me know to re-delete those and go on to the next batch. Would that work for you? (Y si eres, como sospecho, hispanohablante, puedes escribirme in español, si sea más fácil.) - Jmabel ! talk 18:38, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

*Tengo que decir que usted en alguna forma ha descubierto mi idioma primario.Espero que realmente podamos comunicarnos en Español.

En primer lugar, quería agradecerle sinceramente su gesto.Como le decía anteriormente, mi interés en subir estos dibujos no fue tan solo artistico sino educativo y sobre todo informativo.Sospecho que Cuba es un país del cual los agloparlantes de los Estados Unidos conocen relativamente poco.Mi interés fué abrir una ventana en ese sentido.de cualquier manera le estoy agradecido de poder recuperar mis dibujos que como ya les había dicho los perdí. En efecto LOS DE LAS LETRAS ROJAS son los que ya no están ni en commons ni en mi propiedad.Sería de gran utilidad para mí si usted pudiese recuperar como dice usted estos dibujos al menos, por un día para que yo tuviese la posibilidad de volver a tenerlos de vuelta conmigo.Sin más, sientase libre de hacerlo, yo desde ahora le quedo agradecido.

    Saludos
                            Vicond

Soy norteamericano, pero mi padre era hombre de negocios, y estaba brevement encarcelado bajo Batista.

Por primero, voy a restorar 5 dibujos (serán enlaces azules en Commons:Deletion requests/Vicond's uploads). Escribe aquí cuando están descargados, y podemos seguir a los próximos. - Jmabel ! talk 05:33, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Echo!Muchas Gracias.Interesante historia la de su padre!.Ya estoy preparado para recibir los otros 5.Guando guste! Vicond

• Esta vez, 10. - Jmabel ! talk 17:43, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Perfecto, ya los salvé.Disculpe amigo, me he descuidado de salvar el primero File:Girl with a chick.jpg, podría por favor hacermelo llegar de nuevo? Prometo que esto no volverá a ocurrir.De paso,esta vez si quiere, puede descargarme 20.Yo estoy dispuesto a pasar la mayor parte del tiempo posible en esto, de manera que esta operación termine rápido y usted no tenga que gastar mucho tiempo en esto.Muchas Gracias, por todo.

Vicond (talk)

• 10 más, incluso esto. (10 a la vez me conviene más.) - Jmabel ! talk 05:29, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Ok,ya los bajé.Muchas Gracias por su comprensión.Puede seguir al siguiente grupo. Vicond (talk)

• Y otro 15. - Jmabel ! talk 18:03, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Listo.Gracias! Puede seguir al siguiente grupo. Vicond (talk)

• Otro 15. - Jmabel ! talk 16:08, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Listo.El grupo que sigue... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vicond (talk • contribs) 06:29, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Echo!El siguiente grupo, cuando guste. çVicond Ok, el siguiente.Un detalle importante:En el siguiente grupo aparecen algunas imagenes EN AZUL, que cuando las abro NO SON LAS MIAS.No las subí yo.Podrá hacer algo al respecto? Sino no se preocupe, ya ha echo mas que suficiente.Saludos. Vicond

• Es porque File:Bust.jpg (etc.) que ya existe no tiene ninguna relación con tu archivo del mismo nombre. - Jmabel ! talk
  • Favor de recubrir File:Bust.jpg tan pronto que puedes, y escríbame cuando lo las hecho. ¡Grácias! - Jmabel ! talk 21:10, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Hola amigo!No entendí lo que me quiso decir con ´´recubrir´´ al archivoFile:Bust.jpg .¿Como se hace esto? El caso es que FELIZMENTE, mi imagen YA APARECE EN EL ARCHIVO! Como lo logrò? Bueno ahora el punto es que el archivo File:Asian woman 7.jpg se ha quedado en ROJO, no me explico porquè? No sè si podrà tambièn con este pequeño inconveniente. Saludos y una vez màs gracias. Vicond

• File:Bust.jpg es un "redirect"; entonces, el asunto es como no existía.
• Si File:Asian woman 7.jpg ha cambiado, no sé como.
  • Ahora entiendo. El enlace se convirtió en rojo, no el imagen. - Jmabel ! talk 02:39, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
• Empecé con la trancha siguiente. - Jmabel ! talk 02:30, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
  • Otro docena, incluso File:Asian woman 7.jpg. - Jmabel ! talk 02:51, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Amigo, no habia terminado de descargar el grupo anterior.!Lo estaba haciendo justo ahora!Disculpe es que en mi país la conexión es muy lenta, le prometo descargar los anteriores mas este grupo en las proximas cinco horas.Por favor si puede baje los anteriores.Estoy trabajando en esto de lleno ahora mismo, Gracias. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vicond (talk • contribs) 03:02, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

• ¿Exactamente cuales necesito restaurar otra vez? (Una lista de archivos, por favor, o primero y último si son consecutivos.) Salgo ahora, pero puedo hacerlo cuando vuelvo. - Jmabel ! talk 03:10, 23 February 2017 (UTC) Jmabel ! talk 04:18, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Ahora estoy intentando guardar el grupo nuevo (no lo borre).La conexion es pésima, pero si fuese necesario no dormiré hasta terminar con lo que me ha descargado. Del grupo viejo me faltó:

File:The big bed.jpg

File:Asian woman 13.jpg

File:Fine Lines.jpg

Saludos Amigo ya practicamente lo logré, solo que: 1-el archivo:File:The big bed.jpg es demasiado grande para bajarlo por esta vía.Debo hacerlo mañana en una oficina del estado.Por favor si puede no lo borre por ahora, yo le digo cuando. 2-Si va ha seguir para el siguiente grupo, tenga cuidado de no borrar el archivo: [File:Not yet please.jpg]. Este es el único de mis dibujos que me quedan en wikipedia, y ahora se está usando en la wikipedia en Portugués.Gracias. Vicond

Amigo, ya pude salvar :File:The big bed.jpg, pero ahora estoy trabajando y no puedo seguir con esta labor.A la noche bajo el grupo nuevo y le respondo a su correo.Gracias.

Vicond

Hermano, por cuestiones ajenas a mí, no he podido abrir hoy mi correo electronico (E-Mail).No quisiera abrumarlo con las contrariedades e imprevistos de mi país.De cualquier manera ya descargé los archivos restantes, menos estos tres, que usted me ha dicho:

[File:White butterfly.jpg], [File:Relation.jpg], [File:Resting.jpg].

Hagamos algo:Descarge el último grupo que queda y deje estos tres archivos para el final.Yo espero poder cargar mi correo electrónico mañana.Gracias y Saludos.

PD:Recuerde ahora,tener cuidado de no borrarme [File:Not yet please.jpg].

Vicond

Amigo, finalmente....ACABO DE SALVAR EL ULTIMO GRUPO.Desconozco como le habrá ido a usted con esta labor, pero para mí a sido una tarea bastante engorrosa y penosa, teniendo en cuenta la cantidad (mas de 100), el ancho de banda y el tipo de conexión que he utilizado y finalmente y no menos importante, el echo de tener que rescatar un trabajo, donado con igual o mayor dificultad, que en algún momento pensé que podía haber resultado de alguna utilidad a Wikipedia.

Quería saber si finalmente ha recibido mi mensaje.De ser así, podrá enviarme ahora los últimos tres archivos que me faltan por salvar: [File:White butterfly.jpg], [File:Relation.jpg] y [File:Resting.jpg]. 

Sin más, quedo despedido por ahora, esperando alguna respuesta que confirme si ha recibido o no mi mensaje.

Saludos!

Vicond

Sorry

Sorry...I was wondering if you could transfer this file to Commons...I would be grateful to you for this --Pietro Di Fontana 18:56, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

• That file -- which is a photo I took -- is already on Commons, so I don't know what you are asking for here. - Jmabel ! talk 18:59, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.

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Image spam

Joe, can you think of a reason why a paid job like this would exist? Why would somebody want their specific Commons image injected into an ENWP article? - Bri (talk) 19:26, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

• Probably increases your cred as a photographer (there's no doubt that the inclusion of my photos in so many Wikipedia article has done so for me). More directly fungible if your images are watermarked, I guess. I personally have never particularly capitalized on this to get paid photography work, but it was really nice to be honored by Docomomo WeWa, and it's certainly given me far better access to photograph things that would not always allow someone to come in and do so. And as I'm sure can be easily verified, I've been very reticent about adding my photos to articles that already have images unless mine are clear improvements; if in doubt, I tend to mention the availability of my photos on the relevant talk page and more often than not leave it to someone else to make the call.
• But if they get one account to insert a bunch of the another account's images in articles, that's going to come off as a meatpuppet if anyone ever spots it, especially since it sounds like they want someone to do paid editing and not disclose that. - Jmabel ! talk 20:52, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I have watchlisted a few of the dice-related articles and will let you know if I see anything funky. - Bri (talk) 04:01, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Explicit disclaimer of edit?

Hi, Jmabel. I appreciate your image corrections at File:Map of Pioneer Square Historic District - cleaned and corrected.jpg. Thanks, also, for fixing the "other version" that I had dropped (because of a circular link).

Would you care to add a license or disclaimer to your image corrections? That would help downstream use. When I crop or fix a PD image, I tend to use {{cc0}} for my corrections. Up to you, of course. — hike395 (talk) 03:34, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

• Sure. I just figured what I did was to minor to change the PD status, but OK. - Jmabel ! talk 04:31, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Panoramio bot operator

I opened a complaint about User:Shizhao and his Panoramio uploads at the Administrators' noticeboard. You are invited to share your personal experience and opinion about this user and his abuse of his bot operator rights. Thanks, --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 10:14, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Copyright Watcher Barnstar

Thank you very much for the quick response regarding the "Copyright help regarding Campoalto.png" enquiry. I don't understand why you had issues getting in the website http://campoalto.edu.py/. It is the official site of the Campoalto School, where you can find the logo I wanted to use for an article related to the school. Nevertheless, as the article will be written in Spanish, I will look to the rules related to that language. Thanks again! Cheers! Regopy Regopy (talk) 00:50, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Catholic Church

Moved to User talk:Grabado#"Roman Catholic" vs. "Catholic" to keep conversation in one place. - Jmabel ! talk 15:44, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

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Duplicate images in the Commons advice

Thank you for the duplicate template for the images of the coronation. Duplicate_images_in_the_Commons I have inserted the template in the lesser quality image. Do I need to go and change all the pages that link to the deprecated image or is this something that is taken up by the editors interested in those pages. I am leery of editing pages that are not in my native languages. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ouvrard (talk • contribs) 20:15, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

• When it's resolved, either name of the deleted image becomes a redirect to the image we keep, or CommonsDelinker will substitute all references in other Wikipedias. Either way, all articles will automatically show the correct image. - Jmabel ! talk 20:31, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you.

Hi Jmabel,

I want to thank you for the good work you do at Commons:Help desk. Keep up the good work. Wikicology (talk) 09:23, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

File permission error

File:Ray Hill.jpg has contradictory information -- it says it was uploaded with permission of the subject but it also says the uploader has released it. I'm not sure what tag to use, or if I should just tag it for deletion? - Bri (talk) 20:29, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

• @Bri: Have you asked the uploader for clarification? They did turn on the email feature. If the uploader is the photographer (as claimed), there is nothing wrong (though maybe redundant) with indicating that you had the subject's permission. The subject would have only personality rights, not copyright. But I'm guessing (from the small resolution and from the fact that this person has no other contributions on Commons) that the uploader is not the photographer. So you could go straight to nominating for deletion, or you could first discuss with the uploader. - Jmabel ! talk 22:36, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Rodin Museum

RE File:Rodin Museum - Joy of Museums - The Secret 2.jpg Hi, This is now fixed, In the description I added: "Rodin Museum in Philadelphia". Sorry, I am trying to learn how to use the Talk Function? Not sure if this is how I respond? Thanks for your help — Preceding unsigned comment added by GordonMakryllos (talk • contribs) 10:37, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for organizing Category:The Grotto (Portland, Oregon) by creating some helpful subcategories. -Another Believer (talk) 15:04, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

• You're very welcome. If you can improve on what I did, feel free. - Jmabel ! talk 16:56, 18 July 2017 (UTC)