User talk:Pmlineditor/Archive 1

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Flickr reviewing

Hello Pmlinediter, and thank you for your application to be a flickr reviewer. The application has been removed as successful, and you've been added to the list of reviewers. Congratulations! Please see Commons:Flickr images if you haven't done so already, and the backlogs at Category:Flickr images needing human review and Category:Flickr review needed. A helpful script for easy-tagging flickr images is at importScript('User:Patstuart/Flickrreview.js'); (which you can add to your monobook.js), and you can add {{User reviewer}} or {{User trusted}} to your user page if you wish. Thank you for your work on Commons! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:37, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Hello, I just evaluated User:Bart ryker Flickr uploads. This user is always uploading small size photos instead of full resolution originals. You reviewed his upload File:Vin Nolan.jpg and passed without uploading original image, please evaluate not only license but image size too. Thank you and good luck --Justass (talk) 19:45, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for my carelessness. I'll keep that in mind. Pmlineditor ∞ 08:55, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:The burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:The burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 08:14, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Reviewer closure

Hey Pmlineditor, about this closure, non-administrators are not allowed to close Flickr reviewer requests. Thanks, Blurpeace 05:33, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Trusted reviewers are allowed to close requests, actually. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 13:16, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Ah, my bad Pmlineditor. For some reason I was under the impression that the reviewer list was full protected, and from there I assumed the closure was invalid. Archive the next one so you won't have to deal with incompetent sysops bugging you! ;) Blurpeace 13:38, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your vote on my RfCU

I would like to thank you for taking the time to review my request for checkuser rights. I hope one more CU will make a difference, at least for the other CUs' workload! Regards, --Eusebius (talk) 16:31, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Patrolling edits (COM:CVU)

Hi Pmlineditor,

In case you've missed it, since yesterday the patrolling functinality has been enabled for all edits, no longer just for page creations. This enables us to track, for example, anonymous edits on Commons. I'd like to invite you to check out the Anonymous edits list and maybe patrol part of a day. See also the updated Commons:Patrol.
If you have any questions please leave message on the CVU talkpage, my talkpage or on IRC. -- Krinkle^talk 23:39, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Cool, that's good news. Thanks for the note. Pmlineditor ^discuss 15:35, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

User:38.101.18.2

please see your warning and the following edit. thanks in advance, --JD {æ} 15:06, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

I can't really get it... If I warn a user, does it mean that I'll follow his/her edits (especially when I'm semi-active inactive?). I might be entirely missing your point, so it'd be nice if you clarified. Pmlineditor ^discuss 15:46, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

well... :)

i just reverted the ip's edit and after that saw that you warned him before. so i thought i could bring your attention to it so you could possibly block that user... --JD {æ} 14:25, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh... I'm not an admin here. ;) Also, blocks are preventative and not punitive and thus blocking for an offense committed few months back would be wrong. Cheers, Pmlineditor ^discuss 15:20, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Flickr review notice

Hello Pmlineditor. You are receiving this message because you have recently or regularly participate in Flickr review requests. A proposal to move Commons talk:Flickr files/reviewers to Commons:License review/requests was made and no objections were raised and thus transferred. Please watchlist this new page for further requests. Commons talk:Flickr files/reviewers will continue to display for a period of time but new requests will not be raised on your watchlist. Thank you, ZooFari 17:26, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

For tagging the out of scope stuff. Can you please let the creator know so that they understand not to recreate the material - thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 10:18, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, sure; will notify them from next time. Regards, Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 10:20, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks from me too. Just a reminder though: on Commons the Template:Project scope is used for this kind of notifications (not Template:Offtopic). And yes, for cross wiki vandalism fighters that is a bit confusing. :-)   Regards, Wutsje (talk) 17:07, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Oops; I automatically though {{Offtopic}} would be used for such warnings. I'll remember that from next time. :) Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 17:14, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

File:Santa-lucia-gate-intramuros.jpg

Hi! You reviewed this file. I was asked about this and a few other files so I checked the license (again). It is currently licensed as cc-by-2.0 and not {{Flickr-no known copyright restrictions}}. Do you remember the file? Does your review tell you saw it was licensed with "Flickr-no known..." or that you agree with the PD-old? --MGA73 (talk) 10:09, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

(Belated reply) I am afraid I don't remember the file. I'll try and take a look, however. Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 14:20, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank You...

for you rename refusal of the 4 waterway icons - I completely forgot that all icons have to have "BSicon " as a prefix - because they all have the prefix, we don't usually include it in discussions.... doh! I've asked for a rename with the correct name now  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:31, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Fast and efficient service!

Thank you very very much for renaming those three files - you amazed me with your speed! – Jwkozak91 17:25, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

File:Bul01BirdP021.jpg

I see you moved File:Bul01BirdP021.jpg to File:New-Zealand Harrier, Circus gouldi (adult and young).jpg.

There is a set of images that are depicting the pages of the book "A History of NZ Birds" - ie the subject of the image is the page from the book, not the bird itself. So the file name Bul01BirdP021 is actually descriptive (although criptic) - Buller Volume 1 Bird picture from page 21. There are often also cropped versions of these images just showing the bird or other illustration eg File:SwampHarrierBuller.jpg. So there is no great reason to rename this series of files, and retaining the original name is useful for the gallery pages that illustrate the contents of the book.

I accept that it almost inevitable that over time people will rename just about every one of the files (what I see as filename churn), and at present the redirects of the old names have been retained, so it is not a huge issue (though I expect that sooner or later someone will take it upon themselves to delete redirects).

Another point about renaming is that I see no point in putting the scientific name as part of the filename of any animal or plant picture as (especially with birds) there seems to be an ongoing reorganisation of species names (much due to DNA analysis), and the scientific name is not very stable. Inevitably someone is going to rename every illustration using the old name to the new name - a lot of unproductive churn. Whereas the common name is often ancient and quite stable! (In the case of this file you have given it a scientific name which was out of date before you even used it!).

Lastly, file naming on Commons is not actually particularly important! (ok, I know others disagree :-), we do not search for files by filename, the filename can be in any language as this is a multilingual site so you are unlikely to find what you want even if you could just search by filename. - the description pages are the important aspect, a good description in multiple languages is what is needed. So unless it is a totally meaningless name such as DSC0001.JPG, I wouldn't waste resources by renaming it.

Sorry for the long message :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 19:50, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

After reading through your comments, I have decided to revert my move. Personally, I feel that file names should be descriptive, and give a user sufficient information about the media they are viewing. In this case however, since the page where I moved to is incorrect (I am not an expert in taxonomy, and I trust that you are correct), it is better to restore the original name, so I have renamed it accordingly. I understand your point that these names although apparently appearing to be meaningless actually do have a meaning, but in my opinion, it is better to move them to more descriptive names (if possible), such as, say "Buller Volume 1 Bird picture from page 21.jpg" or "New-Zealand Harrier - Buller Volume 1.jpg" in this case, since that would be descriptive and help people (like me) who have a bad Internet connection and often view Category pages, which take a long time to load, without viewing the images. From what I can see, the policy isn't quite clear about what is a "misleading" name, for what the uploader finds descriptive may not be descriptive to another person. Either way, my initial move was to an inaccurate name, so I have reverted it. Regards, Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 12:31, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for that :-). I am no expert on the scientific names, but it appears to be called a "circus approximans" (at the moment!). I have been having more thoughts about the whole question of file naming and have posted a new topic here :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 23:18, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

File

Sorry, maybe it is true that it seems. But it is not. It is my job, I know it's a bit 'enriched, but it is my work. If you have any doubt I can upload a less decorated.

Well, from an image search, I discovered certain files very similar to this one (not entirely the same, but it looks like parts of pictures have been used in this). Since the original pictures are copyrighted, I would assume this one is too. If you created this, then you need to send proof of permission through OTRS. Regards, Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 16:35, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Yes, you are right also I have seen pictures like this. But not quite. But the image, even if such is not the same then I do not think that is a copyright violation or reason to delete it. Please, could you be more precise what you mean?

Also I'm Italian so I have trouble understanding what you say. And I'm sorry, but I registered just so I doubt it.

The image you uploaded was very close to other images. These images were all copyrighted. The image you uploads seems to be made by using these copyrighted images. If you are the copyright owner of these images, you need to contact permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. For more information, please see this page (in Italian). Regards, Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 16:49, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I ask you to wait just a bit of time. Soon I will have the permission of the copyright holders of similar images. They can not appoint or remove the file. You can only wait one week? Thanks for your patience.

I'm sorry, but the copyright holder of the image similar is Cris Morena and Florencia Bertotti.But, if the picture is similar but not equal is a cause for cancellation? If it is, I can not do anything because he is a Cris Morena.

I am very sorry, but since this work is made using a copyrighted image, it is not allowed to be used. I believe it will be deleted unfortunately. You can easily upload a picture without using the copyrighted material however. Regards, Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 17:30, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

and you could not you upload a new version of the file without copyright infringement? I am inexperienced. Please.

As long as you don't use pictures or logos that are copyrighted (ie, you must create the work entirely on your own, and not use copyrighted material), you can upload a newer version. A modification of a copyrighted image without permission is not allowed in any wiki. You can upload copyrighted images to English Wikipedia with a fair-use rationale. You can see this page and read what is said there. However, as I said, you cannot upload modified versions of a copyrighted picture even there.

If you want more help, I think it would be best to ask in Commons:Village pump where more people (who may even know Italian) will be able to help you. Regards, Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 17:46, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Wait, a site that says the image is not copyrighted. But it is possibbile or wrong?

Could you please give me a link to the site? I will go and check the license. The page has been deleted by Túrelio (talk · contributions · Statistics) as a copyright violation, so I would suggest contacting him. :) Regards, Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 07:21, 11 March 2011 (UTC)