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Hi User:Cristiano Tomás: I hope this finds you well. I wanted to follow up on your offer to look at updates to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. I placed content regarding the Foundation’s involvement in COVID-19 efforts in my sandbox on September 1 as you suggested. I tagged you there, but perhaps I should have also pinged you separately? I see you are a busy editor and wanted to know if your offer to review still stands. Do you think it would get more attention if I put it on the article’s talkpage? I’m happy to do whatever is best. I look forward to your reply. Best. ChauSVCF ( talk) 21:38, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

@ ChauSVCF: Thank you for the message. To be honest, I did indeed forget about your sandbox, but I'm glad you reminded me. I will go over it and publish the appropriate info on the live article by the end of this weekend. Best, Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 22:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the useful addition! WCCasey ( talk) 23:32, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

@ WCCasey:, thank you for the kind words! I can't say I remember which edits you're referring to, but I appreciate your message. Cheers, Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 22:20, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

@ WCCasey:, I've just seen your page and realize we probably cross each other's paths often in editing on Californian history articles. I appreciate your work and if you ever need a helping hand, there's one here! Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 22:24, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

You and I both seem to be regular watchers of California history-related articles, so I will probably take you up on your offer at some point. BTW - the "useful information" you added to the Monterey Bay article was the list-with-links of communities around the bay. Love those links! WCCasey ( talk) 00:33, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

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Hi User:Cristiano Tomás: I know you are busy, and I’m appreciative of your offer to help with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation updates. I would still welcome your assistance if you find time in your schedule over the next couple of weeks. I’m also going to tag a few more users that seem to have an interest in editing pages about various California topics, and see if they might be willing to review the draft in my sandbox. All my best, ChauSVCF ( talk) 21:42, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Whoa, what's going on with your archive box on the right? Are pages like User talk:Cristiano Tomás/Archive 13/Archives/ 1/Archives/ 1/Archives/ 1/Archives/ 1/Archives/ 1/Archives/ 1/Archives/ 1/Archives/ 1/Archives/ 1/Archives/ 1/Archives/ 1 due to a misconfiguration or ClueBot III going haywire? Minh Nguyễn  ^💬 03:28, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

@ Mxn:, Hey Minh, hope all is well with you. Honestly, I have no idea. A fellow editor who I worked with many years ago set it up for me way back when, but I haven't the darnest idea what's going on or how to fix it (and haven't given it much thought in a while). If you have any advice, I'm all ears! Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 03:57, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Alright, I cleaned up everything I could find and requested speedy deletion of all the extraneous pages ClueBot III created. We'll see if this duct tape holds! Minh Nguyễn  ^💬 04:37, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

@ Mxn: Well it seems you are a problem-solving wizard Minh! Everything looks wonderful and it seems to be functioning great, I can't tell you how grateful I am that you took the time to solve this issue for me, I really appreciate it. Wishing you all the best, Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 17:57, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Celestina007 ( talk) 08:41, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Translations of capitalized Spanish place derived from common words should not be capitalized; e.g. the English translation of the name of the city of Brea is "tar", not "Tar". Keep up the good work! WCCasey ( talk) 15:21, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi @ WCCasey:, good to hear from you! I agree, to be honest I can get into autopilot and can get carried away with capitalizing sometimes. I appreciate the message, I will definitely be more mindful of it. Best regards & cheers Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 17:55, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

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Your edit here introduced a duplicate ref name error. (Search for 'error:' in the versions before and after your edit.) I have since fixed this error. -- Palosirkka ( talk) 06:38, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

@ Palosirkka: Thank you, both for bringing my mistake to my attention and for rectifying it, I appreciate it. All the best, Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 19:49, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

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I have made some significant changes to William Edward Petty Hartnell including a rewrite of the intro which you recently edited. I hope you agree with my edits which are made with the best possible intentions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gwlach ( talk • contribs) 13:09, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

With respect, I posted the above immediately after my first edit and you have not responded - instead you undid my edit! Precisely what you're telling me not to do! Having got that out of the way, lets be positive and work towards a suitable intro for Hartnell that highlights the most important of his many, and often controversial, lives. I will continue on the Hartnell talk page. Gwlach ( talk) 09:24, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Having said I'll continue on the Hartnell talk page, I see that discussion of the subject does not fall within the guidelines. In order to arrive at a suitable intro which highlights why Hartnell was a notable person I feel one has to discuss which aspects of his life in California were most notable. Should that be done here or on his talk page? For instance, your edit mentions his translator role during the interim governments period whereas one could argue that his translation of the first Constitution and the subsequent laws was his most significant achievement. You might say that the Constitution translation fell within the interim governments period but his translation of the laws certainly didn't as he wasn't awarded that contract until April 1851. Gwlach ( talk) 10:13, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Does this look like it would fit in Blossom Valley, San Jose, or otherwise? Dicklyon ( talk) 05:38, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

And are the coordinates in the infobox right? Seems too far west. Dicklyon ( talk) 05:40, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

@ Dicklyon:, Hey Dick, Great to hear from you! Like always, great shot! This is a really interesting perspective you have here. I would say this is a very hazily defined area covered in the image. The brightly lit section in the center of the Capitol corridor is hard to attribute to any neighborhood, being at the edge of several areas. Immediately west of the central lit-up area is the southeastern portion of Willow Glen. To the south and southeast of the central lit-up area is the northwestern corner of Blossom Valley. To the north of the lit-up area is the Canoas neighborhood and in the northeast is Communications Hill. I think the image would be best used on Capitol Expressway, but I can't say I think it would help on any specific neighborhood article or even a regional article like South San Jose or West San Jose as this area is also in a crossroads of those regional definitions too. (On another note, if you're ever able to take a good aerial shot of the DTSJ skyline, at night or day, that's a shot I think Wiki would hugely benefit from having.) Hope all is well! best, Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 08:51, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

I ended up using it at California County Routes in zone G#G21 to illustrate Capitol Expressway Auto Mall, which is not properly part of Capital Expressway. I also rewrote the route description there, which was pretty screwed up. I haven't checked the others. Do you have a map showing Blossom Valley sensibly? If what you're saying is right, Google has it pretty far off. Dicklyon ( talk) 15:32, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

How does this Google Maps outline relate to your conception of what's right for Blossom Valley? The marker in the article is way off from it. Maybe this map is more correct? Still doesn't get the pin in it. Dicklyon ( talk) 22:32, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

The google outline is of a subdivision or tract called "Blossom Valley" (for city statistical purposes); the subdivision highlighted is part of the larger Blossom Valley neighborhood, which also includes all of the area in the Niche link you provided (Blossom Valley is fairly large). Google sadly only has two sources for its neighborhood data in San Jose: subdivisions or tracts AND the city planning areas, neither of which show the actual neighborhoods that San Joseans know or recognize (for the most part). The best map I can offer to show the boundaries of Blossom Valley is File:San Jose, California - Map of City Regions & Districts.jpg (which I created through an amalgamation of literally hundreds of sources, from neighborhood associations to city planning maps and beyond), but it doesn't have overlay of roads or geographic features so it might be a bit difficult to decipher. If you use the Niche map to orient yourself, the triangular area jutting out on the top right is the same as the triangular area jutting out of the right of the Blossom Valley definition in my map. I hope that helps! (also the pin on the Blossom Valley article was WAY off, I dont know how that happened; it was located near the border of Cambrian with Almaden, no where near Blossom Valley, so I remedied that!) Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 01:10, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Ah, yes, I should have noticed that map in the nav template; looks good. Thanks for fixing the pin. See if you agree with my updated description of the image on commons. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:25, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Looks good! Cheers, Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 03:37, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

My latest Santa Clara County photo is rather Meta: File:Facebook building 391, Mountain View, pre-dawn.jpg. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:45, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Four more just now: File:Amtrak train at Guadalupe River, Alviso.jpg, File:Communications Hill San Jose night aerial.jpg, File:Coyote Creek under highway 237.jpg, and File:Guadalupe River strainer at Alviso.jpg, all placed on articles. Let me know if I'm being too spammy. I tweaked a couple of your photos, too. Also, in captions, don't put a final period when it's not a sentence; I tweaked a few of those, too. Dicklyon ( talk) 05:41, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

@ Dicklyon: great job editing that daytime aerial of Com. Hill, it looks incredible! What program did you use to edit it? if you don't mind me asking. Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 03:10, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

If you click "extended details" under Metadata it will show the software and date of editing. Adobe Photoshop in this case (or Photoshop Elements in some other cases, when I'm on my other computer). The "Adjust Levels" command is mostly what's needed. Dicklyon ( talk) 15:42, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Well you've certainly got a knack for editing as much as you do for snapping the shots themselves. Keep up the great work my friend. Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 16:04, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

The "knack" for aerial shots is mostly to sit away from the wing and put the camera right up against the window (after cleaning the window with a lens cloth) (and first class if you can do it is usually best). Sometimes I add a black cloth to reduce reflections of stuff inside, like my hand holding the phone; but usually not. I'm particularly happy with File:Detroit night aerial.jpg and File:North Branch Chicago River.jpg and File:Modesto, Salida, Ripon, Manteca, Stockton, Lodi, Sacramento night aerial.jpg. Of course, I'm also super impressed with what my colleagues have been able to do in terms of camera image quality on Android phones, not to mention what my friends at Apple have also done. Dicklyon ( talk) 01:05, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Also, see the book by this Adobe lady about shooting from the window seat. Awesome work there. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:02, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

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Hello, C.T. I was looking at the painting you uploaded at File:Gabriel Moraga.jpg. The source at the University of Arizona doesn't say this is a portrait of Gabriel Moraga, but "one of the Moragas". How can you tell this is Gabriel Moraga? I cannot find that painting anywhere else on the web. Thanks for any help! — hike395 ( talk) 06:41, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

@ Hike395: Hey there! Sorry for the late response, your message got lost in my notifications. I too saw that the U of Arizona site isn't sure about the image. TBH when I uploaded there was a source I had found with a black and white copy of the image in it, that listed it as Gabriel Moraga. But because the image was poor, I just used U of A as the image source. Totally fine with you removing the image from all the articles as you have so far (as u of A is the only source on the books rn), but when I find the previous (it was a county historical society I believe) we can reinstate the image, with the caveat being on its description that the attribution is disputed (but of course that is a reality for many images used in historical figure articles). I'll reach out when I find it. Best, Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 20:20, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

I've used both TinEye and Google Reverse Image search using a black-and-white version of the image, and I can't find anything other than the source at University of Arizona. Let me know if you find something. — hike395 ( talk) 01:30, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

@ Hike395: It was in a pdf if I remember correctly, so I don't think an image search will do much help (I don't believe any image search delves into content within online PDFs). I'll definitely let you know when I get around to looking for the doc, I'm sure it's still downloaded somewhere on my computer, but probably won't get around to it for a while as I have a few other projects I'm working on right now. Best, Cristiano Tomás ( talk) 01:33, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

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