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Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Needle Galaxy 4565.jpeg/nom 2

If the picture is already FP, why then she continues open? ArionEstar (talk) from Google Translate. 13:32, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

ArionEstar, en:Wikipedia:Featured pictures and Commons:Featured pictures are different. The other close was also invalid, even per five day rule. In Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Kuwait Towers RB.jpg, you put not the best category. Although we appreciate new comers, FPC closing is a bit trival, and fixing mistakes are a tedious task for us. So it is intended for very experienced users. Hope you understand. Jee 13:40, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
So we have to wait the nomination ends? Note that in the description page of it, it is already marked as FP. ArionEstar (talk) from Google Translate. 13:52, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Most Wikipedias have there own FPs. See File:The Day the Earth Smiled - PIA17172.jpg. It is featured in EN and in Commons. Jee 14:01, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:More_London_Office_Development_at_Dusk,_London,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg

Hi Jee. Just wondering if adding my FP to the appropriate category (and leaving a message on my talk page!) was still on your list of things to do or you forgot to do it? ;-) Also, it seems like the campaign to get Wikipedia to take the issue seriously regarding the Creative Commons licence 'applying to the original files and not just the image licensed' has ground to a halt... I saw Jimmy Wales responded dismissively when you mentioned it on his talk page. What next? Diliff (talk) 17:45, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

  • Hi Diliff, it seems that image is already promoted by the bot. We interfere only if the bot failed to do so.
  • Yes; the CC issue has ground to halt, unfortunately. See the last attempts here and here. :( Jee 04:33, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Apologies. I somehow missed the bot's edit on my talk page! It's a shame that others don't take the issue as seriously as they perhaps should. It is a big flaw in the CC license. It's a tricky situation, but I wonder if we can just state that we don't license the original files when we release a particular version of an image under the CC license. It may not necessarily hold legal water if it ever came to that, but it would at least assert the wishes of the author and would make a re-user think twice (I assume most re-users don't have a good grasp of copyright law to begin with). However, does that make the image ineligible for the CC license? I've never understood precisely what Commons' stance is on additional requirements beyond the CC license. I've seen comments that it is very much frowned upon, but is it specifically disallowed? Perhaps we could even go so far as to state on the image page in pseudo-legalese something like:
  • "In all applicable jurisdictions, only this version of the image and all derivatives thereafter are released under the Creative Commons license. No other version of this image is released under CC unless otherwise specified".
This leaves the re-user to identify whether it's legally applicable in their own country. It's the best I can think of to state our intentions while not making a specific legal requirement that breaks the terms of the CC license. What do you think? Diliff (talk) 13:01, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Diliff, Saffron Blaze made an interesting move yesterday by creating User:Saffron Blaze/license. Even though whether Commons accepts such a "custom license" is not sure, adding a clause in our license tag stating "This license is only applicable up to the highest resolution of the licensed material provided here." may acceptable so far. I didn't do it so far. The main problem we are facing is the lack of a group effort from our side. :( Jee 13:14, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Diliff, CC have said if you try to add restrictions to a CC licence then you can't call it a CC licence and can't use their logo. I would think WMF would adhere to that and delete such pages as a violation of the terms of the licence (by the user, not the reuser). One of the benefits of using CC is that one gets a well known licence where the reuser's legal folk can examine and know from one usage to the next -- as soon as variants start sprouting up then nobody knows where they stand. I have my doubts now that any file or copy based licence will meet the Definition of Free Cultural works. I'm thinking that the whole point is to reduce one's copyright claims on the "work of copyright". Think of a photograph that gets printed in high-quality and then scanned. How could one tell if the resulting image was based on one file variant or another? I suspect file-based licensing would only work well in the digital domain along with some kind of digital signature to link the licence with the file. -- Colin (talk) 15:51, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Yes; any additional restrictions can be neglected. Colin, what about this template as it can be used as a friendly warning without breaking the CC terms? Jee 15:57, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Not keen on that template which kind of says the uploader didn't know what they were doing and isn't even clear about what they are saying now :-). A non-enforcible request to not use higher-resolution versions (or to make the reuser doubtful about such usage) isn't worth writing. Our motivation should be to make life easy for the reuser, not to make them worried. To be honest, I think the only people likely to "steal" a high resolution version and try to apply the licence for a low-resolution version are .... people on Commons. Everyone else wanting to use a "free" image doesn't have the money to hire a lawyer to work out if what they are doing is legal or not. So probably the best solution to this problem would be to
  • stop encouraging people to donate low-resolution versions with CC while thinking their higher-resolution versions are differently licensed and
  • get the Commons community to agree voluntarily to not acquire high-resolution images that are not explicitly freely licensed.
I think both tactics stand a good chance of acceptance because CC have said neither practice is safe in all jurisdictions or for all images -- you might get lucky and might not and nobody knows. So our precautionary principle should apply. -- Colin (talk) 17:02, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Hope Commons:Same work will help to educate our media contributors.
We have three types of volunteers: 1. Media contributors 2. Volunteers help to maintain the media, respecting media contributors 3. Volunteers who have zero respect to media contributors. We have no way to deal the group 3. :( Jee 17:10, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

I deliberately did not try to do what this fellow did as indeed the restriction may be ignored according to CC. I am not certain why they think the license trumps the restriction. Regardless, that is why I made my own license using 3.0 as a guide. From my reading of Commons licensing there is no prohibition to using a bespoke license so long as it meets the criteria of being free, which this does. Saffron Blaze (talk) 22:20, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Yes; and there are so many license tags with such warnings, ads and threats. But as far as I know, they can only help to discourage the reusers from using our original files; not able to firmly stop them. I have a look at http://freedomdefined.org/Definition/1.0 It says "Availability of source data: Where a final work has been obtained through the compilation or processing of a source file or multiple source files, all underlying source data should be available alongside the work itself under the same conditions. This can be the score of a musical composition, the models used in a 3D scene, the data of a scientific publication, the source code of a computer application, or any other such information." So I assume we can refrain from publishing source. But ever it is published, they too fall under the free license, if we had published a final work with a free license. :(
I appreciate if you (Saffron Blaze, Colin, Diliff, or anybody interested) can initiate a discussion at http://freedomdefined.org/Talk:Definition/Unstable per http://freedomdefined.org/User:Erik_M%C3%B6ller/Announcement_draft Jee 06:54, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
  • The key word in that notice is "should" as opposed to "shall". The former is a request the latter being a requirement. If I make a collage then I should make available each of the source images not necessarily the original files; however, it is not a requirement. Here is an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antalya_city.jpg of what I think they are asking people to make available.
While people that re-use works with custom licenses, like the one I am proposing, may not have all the bells and whistles of CC license it is sufficiently legally binding that violating its terms, which include the restriction, would be a copyright violation and very much legally enforceable. If placing a restriction on a license was not enforceable then CC restriction from placing DRM on adaptations / derivatives could also be ignored.
The prospect of getting into a discussion with Free Culturists about the validity of providing restrictions... I think I'd rather chew live bees. Saffron Blaze (talk) 18:02, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Question

Jee, if an image has not become a FP, it can be nominated again? If yes, there is a time for that? Is that this nomination was not promoted and I decided to open another nomination. This is forbidden? Thanks. ArionEstar (talk) from Google Translate. 19:48, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Yes, can nominate again. But I recommend that you wait for a few months first, preferably at least half a year. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 03:15, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
We have no concrete rules (as AK said above); but the "accepted practice" is to renominate only at least after one moth and if any modifications are done to satisfy the complaints raised in previous nom. If the failure to promote is just by marginal votes (like 6 support; less than 3 oppose), a renomination after one moth without any modification to the work is acceptable. But if no support at all other than you and the contributor or too many oppose in the early nom is a bad case for re-nom (as here). Jee 04:42, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Question

Jee, I can make a Set with two images of a mushroom? I think both are the same mushroom, but the pictures were taken in different angle. The images have the same description. ArionEstar (talk) from Google Translate. 20:02, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Yes; and it seems they both collectively help to describe it in a better way. Jee 02:07, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Two chocolates as a thanks: one for you and one for your wife.

Hallo Jkadavoor! I would like to thank you for adding the picture into the article on en.wp. The wiki-drama is over. We all have learned something from it. Now it is high time to forgive, forget and move on. Greetings. Seleucidis (talk) 08:56, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Seleucidis; and you're most welcome. Jee 09:34, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Picture of the Year 2013 R1 Announcement

Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!

2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.

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Plant profiles

Jeevan, thanks for visiting my pictures. Whenever I add pics from third party I invariably add {{License review}}. --Vinayaraj (talk) 13:36, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Vinayaraj. Jee 13:42, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Alabarracín pano or not pano

Dear Jee, as you saw (and thanked) I changed the category of the FP File:Albarracín, Teruel, España, 2014-01-10, DD 051.JPG not just because I believe that the fortification is the main subject but also because it is possible to do real panomaric views out of that as you can see here. That's a pano, isn't it? :) Poco2 12:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

@Poco a poco: Indeed. In fact, I failed to identify it in any existing FP categories; so finally added it to panorama as it has a nearly 2:1 ratio. Thanks for choosing a better category. Jee 12:27, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Suggestion in Commons: Featured picture candidates

Jee, I have a suggestion in Commons: Featured picture candidates. When a registered user enters the page, he/she will receive suggestions for nominations that have not been voted on and/or that he/she has not yet voted. How about the idea? It is good? ArionEstar (talk) from Google Translate. 13:49, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

@ArionEstar: You are welcome to make any suggestion at the relevant talk page. Jee 14:21, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:Centre_Block_-_Parliament_Hill.jpg

Jee, just note regarding the category this is to be placed... well, it is neither a castle nor a fortification. It was purposefully built as the seat of the Canadian government. As such it doesn't seem to fit correctly in any of the special categories. Saffron Blaze (talk) 22:58, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

I had no better idea what to do with representative government buildings (like town halls, parliaments etc), and on Commons_talk:Featured_picture_candidates/Archive_14#Commons:Featured_pictures/Places/Architecture no one had any further suggestion. Many public buildings of this kind are very similar to palaces, so the borderline is fluent and I put everything there to have comparable buildings in the same category. Now we could either remove all entries which aren't called palace and put them back to Places/Architecture (overflow again), or create a new category (not sure what one exactly), or rename the existing one (again, no idea yet for an alternative name). --A.Savin 10:10, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
@A.Savin: I endorse your decision here. They look like palaces of the modern/republican times. :) Jee 10:18, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
I think the current solutioin makes sense, the only thing I'm not happy with is the name: castles and fortifications doesn't sufficiently match its content and may be irritating for users who aren't familiar with our FPC process. --A.Savin 11:09, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
@A.Savin: You can elaborate the explanation "For example: castles, palaces, manors, city walls / gates, citadels, fortresses." to "For example: castles, palaces, manors, city walls / gates, citadels, fortresses, city halls, legislative buildings, ..." or something similar. Jee 11:16, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Done, thanks. --A.Savin 11:29, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Away for a day

Jee 11:13, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Look what they did in Template: Potd/2014-06 and Template: Potd/2014-07

Hey Jee. Look what they did in Template: Potd/2014-06 and Template: Potd/2014-07. Brazil is my country, but what they did here is not good. ArionEstar (talk) from Google Translate. 15:25, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Hmm; I just warned him and made a request at COM:AN for a mass revert. BTW, I hope others will fill those slots with existing FPs. Jee 02:40, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you & Goodbye

A thanks for your valuable contributions to Commons: beautiful pictures and wise comments
The beautiful rose is for your wife

Hallo Jkadavoor!

Before I leave Commons I would like to thank you for your kind cooperation and efforts to make Commons a better place. From the bottom of my heart I hope you will stay in contact with Russavia and help whenever necessary, because you immediately notice when things can get out of control and know how to avoid escalation. Although Commons is the subject of criticism I had a good time here. The ambiance is nice, completely different than on en.wp. I think I will miss it, but I have other things to do and I have not much to offer to Commons. I wish you and your wife all the best. Greetings. --Seleucidis (talk) 21:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi, Seleucidis; thanks for your kind words. In fact, I have no personal issues with any user here, including Russavia. I'm not a blind supporter of Jimmy too. As I said somewhere else, there are different types of volunteers here based on their viewpoints. I am a middle-ground man; like free culture and striving for it. But at the same time, I respect third party rights and don't like people infringing such rights for the sake of freedom, freedom of expression, or whatever they call it. I'm not against nude or sexual contents as far as we can ensure the subjects are fully consented (not just to take a photo but also for such a free release).
I see no reason for you leave this project. Hope you come back occasionally. I like Poland (I think you know it from the quotes in my user page); love to visit those places, one day. Hope you have a wonderful time. Jee 03:09, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Away

Will be away for 3 more days. Jee 05:42, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

FP category

Hi Jkadavoor, thanks for closing my FP nomination. However I'm a bit confused about the category you chose, after all there is definitely no bridge to be seen in the image ;-). Could it be that you mixed something up there? Best regards, --DXR (talk) 17:09, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

@DXR: FP galleries are a bit ambiguous in their names. I'm trying to keep roads, bridges, canals, ...(all transport related constructions) together. Pinging A.Savin to look in to it and make any renaming of that gallery if necessary. :) Jee 02:37, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
For me, bridges are just all that fits in Category:Bridges. Roads and canals are rarely architectural works. For pictures like the mentioned one, I'd use Commons:Featured pictures/Places, which is a gallery for anything that cannot be places in a more specific category. --A.Savin 10:24, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
✓ Done OK; it makes sense. Jee 11:24, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for the quick clarification. Have a nice weekend! --DXR (talk) 13:08, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Arch.

No worries. I respect that some people hold that opinion. One FP per subject. I don't subscribe to it as I see that more applicable to en:FP. However in this case I was actually looking at this pic for this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_arch I think this image represents a limestone arch better than the one in the Durdle Door article. Cheers... Saffron Blaze (talk) 03:30, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Saffron: I too not that much tight on the one FP per subject similar view concept; glad to give allowance for famous subjects like Taj Mahal or Eiffel Tower. The Wikipedia concept is also not one FP per subject. Some articles have more than one FPs. They only check whether the two images are necessary in a single article. They have no problem if both images are in differen articles too (as in your case). But in Commons, there no scope for two FPs for File:Common Lime Butterfly Papilio demoleus by Kadavoor.JPG and File:Lime Butterfly Papilio demoleus.jpg in my opinion. BTW, my opinion is not final; we have so many such FPs but with my "oppose" vote. Good luck. :) Jee 05:11, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Away

I will be away for a week. Jee 04:18, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Blanking

I understand what you hoped to achieve but all it has done is forced the discussion to be repeated at ANU. Saffron Blaze (talk) 20:00, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

The best thing we can do whenever seeing an oversight request is to blank the content and forward to an oversighter or admin. Hope they will take care of it. Jee 02:45, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

fyi

Hi :), Thanks for your edit but reverted, this let users thinking that this is not the ogrinal photo. the withe border at the rights site was removed (cropbot has a little bug and say croppen hz too ;)). A lot of Bundesarchiv pages was cropped and it was never a problem. I don't understand the drama? :( --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:46, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Steinsplitter, no offence indeed. It is pity that Commons community has no much knowledge about the developments that happened recently. People may not be aware that how a small edit like a crop will affect the moral rights. I already provided the links at Commons_talk:Overwriting_existing_files#Mentioning_the_modifications_made_to_the_original and Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard#Commons:Deletion_requests.2FFiles_uploaded_by_Nana_Ntumba. This discussion briefly covers all the concerns raised during the process of finalizing CC 4.0 You may argue it is irrelevant for PD; but IMHO, it is an industry standard (per ethics) now. :) Jee 12:14, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
For me this is resolved. I really hav no time to arugung with other users.--Steinsplitter (talk) 12:18, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

CC BY-SA

Because I did not notice it was you who tagged the file as a copyvio (if I did I would have asked you, here, first) I have requested undeletion of the YouTube video. Could you please show me a CC or CCwiki page saying what kind information is definitely required for considering a work CC-licensed? I know of creativecommonswiki:Marking your work with a CC license but it only seems to be presenting best-practise examples instead of telling what is absolutely necessary. Although of course the question is whether or not CC BY-SA is a license at all the existance of a version number is no explicit requirement stated in COM:L#Acceptable licenses ... If you are absolutely sure the file is a copyvio I will apologise for requesting undeletion and welcome redeletion (it is of course more important that we host no copyvios than that I know why the file has been deleted), if not we should maybe start a regular DR.    FDMS  4    07:56, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi FDMS4, hope you already understand the issue there. According to COM:L, an eligible media should be explicitly freely licensed. There is a difference between each CC license versions, we can't assume lack of version number=1. As I said there, you tagged with {{Cc-by-sa}} which is only a redirect of {{Cc-by-sa-1.0}}. There is no such a license like CC BY-SA without version number and we need an explicit statement from the author. Let me know if you have any further doubts. Jee 10:39, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
I think that when copyright holders use CC licenses without giving a version number we can assume that they mean version 1.0, but at #cc (IRC) I have received confirmation that you were right telling me that CC BY-SA is not a sufficient free license. Thanks for your explanations, I am not going to upload or review such files in the future.    FDMS  4    13:12, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Could you assign rollback permission to my account?    FDMS  4    19:56, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) No. Only an admin may do so. You may request for rollback here, or request for it at an admin's talk page. Some admins here are INeverCry, Russavia, Hym411 and Natuur12. But please read the guidelines first. --(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 02:07, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I knew that (from the guideline), thought Jee was one (quite experienced).    FDMS  4    13:14, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
@FDMS4: I'm not an admin as AK said above. Jee 13:25, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/Lagoon Nebula by ESO

Hey Jee. The Set Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/Lagoon Nebula by ESO is acceptable? ArionEstar (talk) from Google Translate. 20:43, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

ArionEstar, I think it has "enough" supports now. :) Jee 02:03, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Yes, but does not have enough support for FP. Cheers! ArionEstar (talk) from Google Translate. 16:25, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Milvus

I've commented, thanks Jimfbleak (talk) 07:06, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

@Jimfbleak: Thanks for your opinion. Jee 07:10, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

The 3 pics from Taiwan

Hi Jee, thanks for using my images on enwiki. =) I apologise for troubling you to do that because of my block over there; I was waiting for a time when my block is lifted and I can use the images there. I hope you can help me for future uploads. Anyway, please don't nominate my images, whether at en.wiki or here at Commons, for any awards (FP, VI, QI) yet. I want to upload different versions of the images first, and I will nominate when that time comes. As for enwiki, may I trouble you to help me by that time, if my block is not lifted yet? Thanks. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 12:35, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes; off-course. :) Jee 12:42, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Boeing 777-200ER Malaysia AL (MAS) 9M-MRO - MSN 28420 404 (9272090094).jpg

I only compensated for ambient light, using clues in the image. You may think of it whatever you want but expressing your private opinion as "Poor edit" is rather rude. Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 10:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Then may I know how he should have expressed that? IMHO "poor edit" is just a normal comment; it's perfectly fine. You have to accept critiques, unless they are too far-stretched. --(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 10:26, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Note

I kind of got what you were to say to me yesterday, and I would like to apologize for being such an ass to you. —Blurred Lines 12:36, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

It is OK; I personally don't care such small things. Try to learn how to be more friendly to others. Otherwise it is difficult to continue in a collaborative environment. Cheers, Jee 13:02, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Oulema_melanopus_by_Kadavoor.jpg

As you state, the legs should be orange. Does not look like that on image.

Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by BubikolRamios (talk • contribs)

Thanks for the info; will search again. Jee 17:38, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, BubikolRamios; ID fixed. Jee 16:28, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Personal Photograph

Does commons allow user to photograph their image in front of famous place/building and upload and use across Wikimedia projects? Check the last 3 images here. --AntonTalk 05:42, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I made DR. However, it seems error on DR. Could you have a look and fix it? --AntonTalk 07:30, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
✓ Done Jee 07:52, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. --AntonTalk 07:54, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Rapala manea

A lovely photograph of a lovely butterfly.Very warm regards Notafly (talk) 17:21, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

@Notafly: : Yes; she has two interestingly projected false eyes on flaps! I uploaded two more pictures. Thanks for the appreciation. Jee 17:32, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Invalid nomination on FPC?

Hi,

Why did you remove this nomination? [1] Why is it invalid? Regards, Yann (talk) 19:03, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

At that time, no such page existed. Seems to be repaired now? --A.Savin 20:44, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Yes; and I had advised that user how to create one. :) Jee 02:11, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Copyrights

These files looks like copyright violation as it low resolution, found in websites, etc. Could you take necessary steps? --AntonTalk 13:01, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Anton: Just report at COM:AN or COM:AN/U so that an admin will take care of it. Or you can make a mass DR using COM:VFC. Jee 16:08, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you. Informed at COM:AN/U. --AntonTalk 08:21, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Whitelist for Flickr streams?

Hi,

You mentioned something about a whitelist for Flickr streams in Fastily's talk page, and said that I was against that. As I don't remember such a proposal, and even less being against it, could you please explain me what was this? Regards, Yann (talk) 11:27, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Yann, if I remember will, it was in a similar discussion on Jim's talk page. Will try to find it. Jee 11:45, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Yann, I find it. Jee 11:52, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Sorry, I don't think there was a clear proposal in that discussion. And I didn't say that I am against it, since because of that. What I mean to say is that such kind of proposals is like "putting a band-aid on a wooden leg". It wouldn't be really effective. The only effective mesure, specially on the long-term, is more admins. Regards, Yann (talk) 12:01, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Its OK; I respect your opinion, and you are much experienced user here. :) Jee 12:12, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Bridges

Hi Jee, to finish this gallery, I do not have more than to verify if some images are not missing and it is good. After that I think that I am going to make the towers gallery, but I am perplexed for the Bridges there is a category and a gallery but for the towers there is no category, I think it will be also usefull to create a Category:Featured pictures of towers. What do you think? Christian Ferrer (talk) 07:23, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Christian, I think it is a good idea. Jee 07:31, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Happy Easter

I will be on vacation from today onward as we are going to visit our parents. So please follow up Daniel. Have a hopeful Easter. See you next week. Jee 06:26, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Indenting

With regard to diff, I was actually focusing on Thryduulf's comment rather than yours. I'll refrain from adding more to the thread though, I think there's enough being said by others. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 12:52, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

@Fæ: Yes; I know, and my comment was very generic in nature, targeting many admins I know well. It was not a problem of a single admin alone; more of our system. BTW, here frequent electricity problems due to summer rain and lightning; so I will be off and on nowadays. The rainy season (forthcoming monsoon season) is very romantic here. Have a nice time. Jee 13:15, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Many years ago I was on the train from Bombay/Mumbai to Delhi, and I recall that at many stations I could see scruffy looking chaps with long ladders busily repairing phone lines. At best it seems remarkable that the phonelines were ever working, but I was impressed at how very determined Indian engineers could be in adverse circumstances with little more than a few screwdrivers. Enjoy the excitement of the monsoons, followed by all the interesting flowers. :-) --Fæ (talk) 13:47, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Away

Will be away for a week; have a nice time. Jee 06:30, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Towers

Hi Jee, I almost finished this gallery, I created this category and I replaced on the files like this one the Category:Featured pictures of architecture by the Category:Featured pictures of towers whitch is a subcategory.
But for the lighthouses I left two categories : Category:Featured pictures of lighthouses and Category:Featured pictures of towers because all the lighhouses (like this one) are not towers. IMO it is thus relevant to keep the both (like on this one). --Christian Ferrer (talk) 16:13, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Christian, I'm just returned after a small vacation; will catch up soon. Jee 16:05, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Help wanted

Would you be willing to help with the on-wiki side of Cameras for Commons photographers grants? --Pine✉ 23:44, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

@Pine: : Sure' let me know what I should do? Or better discuss on COM:FPC to find a more experienced user? Jee 01:53, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi, it's not necessary for a user to be an FPC contributor to help with this project, but experience with closing community discussions is important. If you think you can do what I described on the Village Pump Proposals page would you please add yourself as a participant on the camera grants proposal page on Meta? --Pine✉ 02:39, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
@Pine: Done. Jee 02:49, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Away

Will be away for a while; may be on and off. Jee 16:11, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Mail

Received. Thanks for the Info. --Denniss (talk) 10:01, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Bot move

I think we should fix this after all move done :), affected files (now) for Jee --Steinsplitter (talk) 14:43, 9 June 2014 (UTC) 
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Thanks, Steinsplitter; will look into them. Jee 15:12, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Merci

Thank you for your thanks on this diff, it's always nice to have that and feel welcome by others. This is what makes a friendly space in our virtual world. \o/ --PierreSelim (talk) 10:36, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome! Jee 10:58, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Away

Will be away for 2-3 days. Jee 09:42, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Back. Jee 03:25, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Marking your works

Hi, I've read your discussion on the FPC talk page, I just want to be sure, is my way to mark my work ok? an exemple here. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 18:45, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

  • Hi Christian Ferrer, that discussions are more about people who are using custom license tags or customized messages under "permissions". It seems you're using only a "creditline" without mentioning where or how the attribution is specified which is perfectly OK with the license conditions. Jee 02:22, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Follow-up to your revert

Hi, This is to follow-up on your revert on the photo I contributed of St. Joseph Church, Gowanda, New York. Another member suggested that I add the additional tag to ensure that users would know that the photo is usable and not copyrighted in any way, and that it is my original work, Daniellagreen (talk) 15:42, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

  • Okay, well, I didn't know where to put it, but wanted to include it because it was suggested to me. I thought it silly to have to include another release of copyright, but I did as directed, Daniellagreen (talk) 15:57, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

File:Mycalesis perseus of Kadavoor.jpg

Hi, I promoted this file in the QIC page, but I uploaded an other version of it (not very different, in summary more sharp but with a personal process). If you don't think it's an improvment you can revert. If you like the result and if you're interested, I can describe exaltly what I've done. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 18:18, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

to see the difference look at the fine details -- Christian Ferrer Talk 18:23, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
@Christian Ferrer: Thanks for the help; it is always appreciated. I'm still very poor in post processing. Hope you like her wing scales. :) Jee 02:18, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the link, after to see that I was surprised to see only four legs on your butterfly... So I search a reason and I found in this page : An adult butterfly has six legs, but in the nymphalids, the first pair is reduced. I learnt something. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 05:06, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Macro

Hi, for macro photography of insects, is close-up filters a good solution with my material? or maybe dedicate zooms lens? do you know good ones? -- Christian Ferrer Talk 12:02, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

  • Hi Christian, closeup filters will work with any lens; including primes, macros, and zooms. But they have very high magnification and shallow DOF. So whether they are suitable for your needs depends on your photography habits. I've one; the picture you edited for me is taken with it, setting my camera at 154mm.
I've a friend in Flickr who is using the same filter with DSLRs. Jee 15:37, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the links, apparently this material allows nice compositions. Can you precise so that I understand well, you say "...setting my camera at 154mm" but what is the focal length whithout the closeup filter ,I did not see it on your exif datas? For exemple with my 105mm what will be the result (what is the calculation?)? -- Christian Ferrer Talk 18:03, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

154mm is the focal length of my camera lens. The closeup filter will not affect/change the focal length. But the subject distance must be in 3-4 inches (76-101 mm) for the DCR250, as it focuses only in that range. The longer the focal length, the greater the magnification. But DOF will decrease when focal length increases. (My freeware NR tool remove the EXIF; that's why no data in the file.)
These pictures ([2], [3], [4]) are with a 105mm in a cropped sensor camera. There will be a slight difference in magnification and DOF in your full frame.
Canon has a pro grade 5x macro; people like Richard Bartz can share you their experience.
A great macro photographer that you can ask for advice is Kurt G. He is an expert in night macros while the subjects are sleeping! Jee 02:26, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Thank you very much for all these explanations, these links and thus the time spent here, you are really very kind. I am going interested in the subject and to analyze all this. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 04:41, 17 July 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)

Gallery of flowers

Hi Jee, I begin to classify the flowers of this galleries by families. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 07:03, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

I also put the orders and maybe that we could classify out the images only with orders because there are many families?...Can you take a look and can you say your opinion please? -- Christian Ferrer Talk 07:42, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
Finaly I think it's not too bad with the families AND with the orders. More generally I think that we should reflect to have more attractive and elaborate layouts for our galleries, I've no precise ideas but... -- Christian Ferrer Talk 07:50, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
Yes; "order" and "family" concept is very nice and useful. <gallery mode="packed-hover" heights=150px> may give it a better look. (Sorry for the late response; I was away for two days.) Jee 12:09, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
  • I don't know if you saw it, because there is a lot of things in my talk page, but MPF have answered and say his opinion, he agree with you for to merge Plants and Flowers, and, me too, I agree, from a scientific point of view I totaly agree and it will be more logic and relevant. I have 3 questions:
1. Must we ask the opinion of the community to do that?
2. What exactly to do? to take the images from the plant gallery and to put its in the flower gallery?
3. Should we rename the flower gallery into flower and plants or IMO in Flora? -- Christian Ferrer Talk 04:51, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Yes; I saw MPF's comment, and agree with it. As I said earlier, there is no need to repeat everything in two places. So we can move the contents in "Flowers" to "Plants". Then we can redirect "Flowers" to "Plants". Since "Plants" cover everything, there is no need of other names like flower and plants or Flora. Mentioning in FPC talk is nice; but we already pinged most of the people involved in Biology. So I don't think a big issue. Jee 04:09, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Agree; on point 1 above, it might be best to announce what you propose first and wait a few days for anyone to comment, before doing it. Yes to Jee that "Plants" is the best title. - MPF (talk) 08:31, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
  • Hope you are well soon! - MPF (talk) 08:31, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods

Hi Jee, how are you? The last time you had severe headache, I hope you feel better. I've one or two question. I finiched the galleries of Plants, Flowers and Fungi. I did not dare to gather Flowers and Plants, do you think I can? I also started the gallery of Arthropods, is there a reason that the orders are not classified by alphabetical order (Lepidoptera, Odonata....)? -- Christian Ferrer Talk 07:48, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

@Christian Ferrer: I saw your edits as those pages are in my watch list. They are fine to me. I think you can merge Plants and Flowers as both are completed now. You can order them in the alphabetical order too. Thanks; I appreciate your efforts. (My neighbor applied Hibiscus hispidissimus on the big toes of me, which is a natural medicine to cure migraine. Hope it works.) Jee 08:13, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Ok, cool. For me to work theses galleries (and photography in general) is a pleasure. It is a very pleasant way to approach disciplines very different than my job whitch is to carry that like [5] during all the day and all the days. I always wanted to be a scientific and/or to work near the nature but I did not work on the school so.... So after (or before) my day job, it's a real pleasure to spend time with all these beautifull images:). The last time, in my talk page Archaeodontosaurus said that blocking the images to 200px could be a problem for some phones. Me I don't know nothing about phones, but after ro read that, it seems that the resolutions of recent phones are widely superior (here near 1,136×640 pixels), thus I don't think it's an issue.
If those galleries pages are in your watch list, so you must have a lot of notifications, I make one by one images....:)-- Christian Ferrer Talk 08:57, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Yes; I'm notified on your every edit. ;) Glad to see you belong to the working class. Jee 09:05, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello my friends. I welcome to the club of migraine, if continued to work with enthusiasm besides the Christian time, s then it should not take long to join us. For tablets and mobile phones is actually a problem of layout. I pointed out that you do not be surprised if there are returns on this item. I do not always follow these tips layout. In any case this work is very beautiful and it is useful because it gives a positive image of Commons. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 12:47, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks Archaeo, supports and encouragements from mentors like you are always a reward pleasure for us. Jee 12:56, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
  • Ok now Plants and Flowers are now merged. The gallery of flowers is always existing so what so we do with it now?
    But for now me too I have now a little headache and I take my bicycle to go there for to breathe the fresh air and to try to capture my next FP :-) -- Christian Ferrer Talk 15:55, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
  • I set a redirect. Please check. (You've many refreshing places as in Kerala.) Jee 16:29, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Ok for the redirect but what about the FPC boot and the unsorted sections? If someone close a nomination and tag it with "Plant/Flowers", what will be the result? Will the boot place it on the unsorted section of the gallery of Flowers or will it be also redirected? I've no doubt that Kerala have a lot of interesting refreshing places (6x biggest than Hérault) and if the climate seems very different the topography is a bit similar (littoral zone, ponds near the littoral, coastals plains, transition hills between plains ans mountains, and the mountains). -- Christian Ferrer Talk 06:05, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Christian, I think the Bot skips and retry in the next scheduled time. We can fix it (by editing "Plant/Flowers" to "Plants") in between. Jee 07:14, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Yes of course and maybe we should warn people like A.Savin who is often closing FP nominations to now edit "Plant/Flowers" to "Plants".
By looking at this article, I found this image whitch is already a FP but was not on the gallery. I added it to the gallery of course but I hope there is not others lost FP like this one. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 07:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Christian: Hmm; it was manually processed by somebody. Jee 07:35, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Macro

Hi Jee if you like macro photography, you should maybe like these images and others in this file list

-- Christian Ferrer Talk 05:00, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Christian. Great collection; I like the way s/he uses various focal lengths suitable for the subjects. Jee 05:20, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Yes indeed interesting, :( the last night my camera is fallen, the lens is broken and I my camera is also broken. At night I did not see that one foot of my tripod was not correctly opened...The good news is that I will certainly have a new camera soon :)
Christian: It is a sad news. Wish you get a D810 soon. Jee 05:50, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
It is the camera of which I indeed think...Today I have a day off and I think that I am going to go to Montpellier to find what I am looking for. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 06:00, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
  • It seems that a choice of small DoF in macro can make very nice and intersting results:
Yes; if the "subject" is a specific body part only, for example, the "head profile" as here. :) Such works are much appreciated in Flickr. They are OK in COM:FPs too. But Wikipedia editors not much encourage or use them. Another possibility is works like File:Caliphrodae head.jpg and File:Calliphora vomitoria Portrait.jpg. But they are focus staked; and very challenging! Jee 08:38, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
An issue of Wikipedia is IMO that the images are too much small, this is why a Wikipedia editor will prefer a cropped part of one of these images for to illustrate an article whitch is talking about the head of these insects but it would be really a pity to crop these images whitch at a reasonable size can correctly illustrate the articles. In a general way I find that the layout on Wikipedia is not bad however not enough worked and the connection with Wikimedia is also not enough developed, but this thing is a good beginnig. I also think that the Wikimedia projects (Quality, Valued and Featured images) are not enough highlighted in Wikipedia articles, we should know by reading the articles and looking at the miniatures if the images used in this artiches have been rewarded on Wikimedia (colored border, seal...).
The two images you shows are indeed not only the finest but more the finest of the finest. :) -- Christian Ferrer Talk 11:36, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods

Hi Jee, I think that it can be possible and useful to create subpages for the orders whitch contains more than 50 images (Hymenoptera : 54 images), (Diptera : 76 images), (Lepidoptera : 221 images), (Odonata : 73 images) because when I will finish this gallery it will be very very big and long and thus a bit disturbing and visually blocked!!.
Of course the current alphabetical divisions will not disappear. For exemple :

Extended content

Order : Diptera

See also: Category:Diptera.

See the special gallery for Diptera

-- Christian Ferrer Talk 08:09, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

@Christian Ferrer: Interesting. But I think it will be wise to discuss at COM:FPC first as it seems a big change/development. Jee 05:57, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

File:Common Lime Butterfly Papilio demoleus UP by Kadavoor.jpg

Oups, one of your images was not in the FP gallery; the mistake is now corrected :)
The gadget to find the promoted images (QI, VI, FP) in the categories is a good thing...
-- Christian Ferrer Talk 19:12, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Happy Onam!

"When Maveli ruled the land, All the people were equal. And people were joyful and merry; They were all free from harm. There was neither anxiety nor sickness, Deaths of children were unheard of, There were no lies, There was neither theft nor deceit, And no one was false in speech either. Measures and weights were right; No one cheated or wronged his neighbor. When Maveli ruled the land, All the people formed one casteless races."

Wish you all a wonderful Onam! (Will be away for a week) Jee 11:46, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi

Why did you delete my picture? At least, you need to show your respect by alerting me know. OK? Thank you. Alphama (talk) 12:18, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

I am new and don't know. Alphama (talk) 12:42, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
OK; let me know whenever you need further help. Jee 12:43, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Preferred FP gallery

Hi Jee, I think the idea is good, I took a look but for exactly what you want I think a script is needeed. And for my big despair, it is out of my skills. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 12:39, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Christian Ferrer: Mine too. But hopefully somebody who know the coding will do it. :) Jee 12:49, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

ISS-20 Thunderstorms on the Brazilian Horizon

Hi Jee

In the page: Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/Log/August_2014 apparently occurred an exchange between:

  • Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:ISS-20 Thunderstorms on the Brazilian Horizon.jpg (2014)
  • Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Thunderstorms on the Brazilian Horizon.jpg (2010)

I do not know who to tell, how was your featured picture promotion, I decided to warn you. I hope I'm correct in warn you.

Lauro Sirgadocontribs 15:34, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

  • @Lauro Sirgado: I didn't get what you mean by "apparently occurred an exchange between". The picture was first nominated in 2010 but failed; but featured in August 2014. Anything wrong in it? Jee 15:43, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
  • The page: Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/Log/August_2014, displays the result of 2010. -- Lauro Sirgadocontribs 15:50, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Away

Will be away for a week. Jee 03:11, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Have fun. Saffron Blaze (talk) 03:46, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Google Art Project

prejudice to Mr. Jkadavoor I am writing to ask you if you probrebbe check this file Comons, I wish this was more graphically minded and good views Ritratto di Ferdinando Cavriani --82.50.39.69 19:02, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

File:Machimus rusticus, Sète 02.jpg

Hi Jee, I need your expert advices for this photo. The wings are overexposed so do you think this image is a QI? I prefer to ask you before to try to nominate it because somes images are sometimes too easily promoted in the QIC page. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 07:53, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

  • @Christian Ferrer: Overexposed wings and underexposed/unsharp eye (probably due to the back lit) are not so good. I prefer a tight crop for such a small subject. BTW, congrats for new 810! Jee 08:24, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Here s/he is cleaning his eyes. A good documentation of the behavior; but can't expect a sharp shot while the subject is restless. :)
I checked our Robber fly gallery and surprised to see only 3 FPs so far. There are a few older FPs in EN; but they are of very low resolutions. I like Richard's photo; but that is also not today's standard. My FPs are taken with a Panasonic FZ28 at 81mm + Raynox DCR250 closeup glass. So the quality of details also below our standard. So what I can talk about is composition and angle of view; an area where I am a bit confident. Here the subject is on a branch; so is easier to align the camera/lens perfectly with the subject. But I was as close as 3-4 inches and robber flies are not so friendly. Here and hear the subjects where on ground level; so I was laying on the ground. The background in your work seems very busy; need more patience to catch them in a more pleasing spot. Try hard; and I'm sure you will achieve it! Jee 02:57, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
  • My question was more to know if there could be QI, not FP of course. And I'm not sure to understand correctly your answer about that. But thank you very much for your analysis and your approach; ) -- Christian Ferrer Talk / Images 05:07, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
  • I'm not in QIC for a long time; so can't comment on it. :) Jee 05:25, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Goiaba vermelha.jpg

You closed that, but if you took 2 sec, you will realize that some volunteers created a another version 5 days before you close that, and we just needed one more vote... Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton (talk) 02:35, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, we need to confirm manually, cause the bot do not take in account changes in the image, this the why we need a human reading what's going on to confirm. Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton (talk) 03:03, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
But we can't give allowance for the 9 day rule. More over FPC expects stable nominations. You can try QIC first for minor corrections. If you think my closing should be reverted, please ask at FPC talk. But I don't think the decision will change. Jee 03:08, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Dude, this already is a QI image, no opposed votes, and six votes...
Just think about it, I already give up to do great things here...
Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton (talk) 12:32, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Oops; but I can't do anything, I afraid. Just pinging A.Savin for opinion. Jee 14:05, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Rodrigo, I really don't know any betterb than Jee. My 2 cents: it is of course annoying if an FPC fails so barely, but sometimes it happens, and there is always a possibility to renominate. --A.Savin 14:43, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks much

Thank you for your close at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Annoying User, Good Content.JPG.

Much appreciated,

-- Cirt (talk) 19:36, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls

Hi Jee have you an idea of what is this categoty on some of my files like File:Euchorthippus chopardi, Sète 03.jpg or File:Morning grooming of a Machimus rusticus 02.jpg? -- Christian Ferrer Talk / Images 19:36, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

  • It seems a maintenance category; hope Multichill can answer to you. Jee 02:15, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the shoutout on that DN. Much appreciated. Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:26, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Black and White

Hi Jee, is there in the FP galleries a section for the black and white images? if not I think it can be good to create a new gallery for that. Of course to leave its in the current galleries (peoples, natures, histrorical...) but a new entry where theses images would be gathered can be a good idea. I don't want to do it right now, I already have a work to be finished at first, but I think it's not a bad idea. When I shall have end to relook the FP galleries, I will also ask to the communauty for to create new sub-galleries (Artiodactyla, Passeriformes...) like the last time I did. But this time I prefear to wait to have finished for to be sure to ask for everything at one time. -- Christian Ferrer Talk / Images 18:36, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

  • Black & White is a good theme; but most "historical" are b & w too. So I afraid how we can split these topics. Jee 02:17, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
"Modern Black and White photography" :) -- Christian Ferrer Talk / Images 05:53, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

New multilingual tag for other licensing options that you may be interested in

I know it has been a while since you gave me some really useful advice on licensing, but I've now created a new multilingual tag, {{Other available license options}}, based off your wording that I've since implemented in my custom license. I don't know if you'd have any interest in using it on your custom license, but I thought that you'd at least like to know. Thanks again for the help you gave me back in July, and take care! Michael Barera (talk) 20:05, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Away

Will be away for a week. Jee 03:36, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

File:Calliphora vicina, u, Face, DC 2014-04-24 -17.46.02 ZS PMax - USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory.jpg

Hi Jee, how are you? do you think the title of this file is correct and acceptable? -- Christian Ferrer Talk / Im. / Fav. 18:29, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Saints

Hi, I'll change french articles soon (from "blessed" to "saint") ! (already done for the man)--Jebulon (talk) 16:51, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

  • Thanks Jeb; he is the founder of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, the fathers who serve around the world. I hope you can find them in Paris too. :) Jee 17:01, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

OTRS invitation

The OTRS system is looking for trusted volunteers to help. I would like to invite you to look over what OTRS involves and consider seeking approval at the volunteering page. Thank you. --Steinsplitter (talk) 15:45, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Thanks Steinsplitter for the invite. Will consider and make a decision, next week. Jee 15:50, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
hm? :) --Steinsplitter (talk) 10:28, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
@Steinsplitter: m:OTRS/Volunteering#Jkadavoor :) Jee 11:09, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

File:Nutella by Benh.jpg

Away...

...for a few days. Jee 06:30, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

nice

Your last imports are very nice! :) -- ChristianFerrer 18:15, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

  • Thanks. I found some "beautiful things" near my wife's home. :) Jee 01:59, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

link?

Hi Jee, I have a question about the links that lead from wikimedia to other sites. To be precise I want to know if I have the right to put on the description of a few of my files a link for a page that help me for to identify the species level, for exemple on this description of this file, I want to write this plant have been identified with the help of [6]. Have I the right to do a thing like that? It would be just for to return elevator to people I do not know who gave of their time to help me. -- ChristianFerrer 23:40, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

  • @Christian Ferrer: It is not only allowed but preferred too because other experts can refer it in case of doubts. I remember Shyamal asked me about the identification of this robber-fly and then suggested to add that identifying link in description. Sometimes I use a ref link as here. If there are so many links you can use {{Reflist}} too. Jee 02:19, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, then I'll do it. I'm glad you like the result of my edition on your file. See you soon. :) -- ChristianFerrer 09:01, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Congratulations for amazing photos of butterflies. Zcebeci (talk) 17:26, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Thanks, Zcebeci; I admire your works! Jee 02:29, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

File:Lasiommata megera, Sète 03.jpg

Hi Jee, I uploaded the downsampling version just to check if what I said is true for the downsampling, always convinced? -- ChristianFerrer 05:46, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

  • Yes; I noticed as it is in my watch list. The difficulty with full frame in macro is the shallow DOF compared to APC-C cameras (as Mile commented at here). For a flat view (side view or dorsal view), it is not trial. The other possibility is to increase the subject distance. Jee 05:56, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Ok, should I revert on the big size? I chose f10 for to try to have a good sharpness, but I will try f16 the next time, as soon as the weather will be favorable, thanks. -- ChristianFerrer 06:13, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Both sizes are OK for me. It's up to your choice of preference. :) (I understand the difficulty to use smaller aperture in bad weather. The climate here (in India) is very different. We're struggling to avoid harsh lights.) Jee 06:22, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

File:Argiope pulchella around Nayikayam Thattu.jpg you wrote my name in the nomination then it is me who received the notification. -- ChristianFerrer 05:41, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

It is a pleasure, really :) -- ChristianFerrer 05:49, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Underworld

The Great Goddess Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon

Hey, are you here in the "underworld"? --Hafspajen 03:09, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

@Hafspajen: Ha ha; many files (I closed in fpc) are in my watch list, as they are more prone to vandalism. Clin Jee 03:14, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Hm, never realized that vandalism is an issue here. I just dive to fish after pics, but nothing much. Where is the [[]] button? --Hafspajen 04:13, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
@Hafspajen: I didn't get what you meant by [[]]? Jee 05:50, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
BTW Commons:Freedom_of_panorama#Nepal. :( Jee 05:59, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Where is by bracket button? I have B, I, the sign your posts pen, something that looks like a chain, and picture insert. That's all on commons. On Owerwiki you have all kinds of Wiki Markups... --Hafspajen 06:18, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
@Hafspajen: Are you talking about your sign? You need to tick "Treat signature as wikitext (without an automatic link)" at Special:Preferences. Jee 06:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Ugh, no FOP (: --Hafspajen 06:20, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Ah-Edittools - Wikimarkup. --Hafspajen 07:06, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
How annoying - it disapeared again. --Hafspajen 07:07, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
I can see Edittools at top of my "edit source" screen? Jee 07:10, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
So, there you are again, Jee. I am probably in a real bad mood. Was working now four days to get my computer and all things on it in shape, everything was erased. It was apparently hacked Has to restart everything - and in the while doing this Sca goes on doing his four time revert with no discussion on me. He is breaking the three revert rule big time, reverted me 4 times in 24 hours. And nobody is interested to let him know that either, at least. Oh, my. Was talking to a programer, my computer has been tampered with, on line. --Hafspajen 02:38, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
@Hafspajen: Hmm; I can only try to share your feelings. Take time, stay away from the wiki world for a while, enjoy Christmas and New Year. Then come back with a fresh mind. Have a nice time. Jee 02:45, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
You and your Indian yoga. Hate when people stay calm while I am angry... OK that was a joke. Jee, if you go back and remove that Retired thing once more, I promise won't put it back. But don't put any edit notice that I said so. I didn't. I just said - if you do that again. And no per my common talk either. I don't want them here. --Hafspajen 02:50, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Sorry

Hi Jkadavoor, sorry this was a "small" mistake on my smartphone :-( Best regards, --Alchemist-hp (talk) 09:04, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy Christmas!

Wish you all a very joyful Christmas ahead! (Will be away for a week.) Jee 15:23, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

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