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Once more blocked, and I've posted a message on AN/I requesting the comment of other admins. Thanks for the info. R adiant _>|< 12:46, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
As promised...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BCE_Place_Galleria_Toronto_Nov_2004.jpg
Hello, Solipsist . Would you like to have a look at the 1945 event on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 9, please ? Thought you might be interested. Cheers. :-) -- PFHLai 05:42, 2005 August 7 (UTC)
Hey, Solipsist, no need to thank me. Fighting vandals is something we all do here in Wikipedia. :-)
Yes, protection sometimes go AWOL. This has happened at least once before, on a Selected Anniversaries template. I have no clue why. :-( -- PFHLai 05:07, 2005 August 8 (UTC)
I think the thread you're missing that connects me to Gabriel is that I read the RFA and RFC queues and then went ahead and did more looking at Gabriel's edits. That's why I welcomed DevilBat - I didn't know about the sock issue at that point, and Gabriel welcomed him with [s instead of {s. -- Hipocrite 19:16, 8 August 2005
I've come across numerous people asking what happened to DYK on the main page talk. Could you perhaps a note in a small font the next time you update it for the weekend, in the trend of "weekdays: facts; weekends: featured images" so people know it's only temporary and stop complaining? - Mgm| (talk) 21:46, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for dropping the note re. Mackerelskybig. I'm glad you like it. Your note prompted me to drop by your userpage, and I took notice of your POV list. I was quite surprised how much alike we are as Wikipedians. Except for my agnosticism versus your atheism, I could drop this unedited on my own page. Good to see another great mind here! Denni ☯ 03:39, 2005 August 9 (UTC)
I prefer the chamomile photo - a lot better colors etc. I like the terragen one as well as it is soemthing different for me, but I think the chamomile is better. Thanks for asking! -- Fir0002 08:59, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
you misunderstnad the point of why i made this acount, if yoiu think its a sock puppet, for example, thjen no, its not, this is my only actiuve account, yes its the same old uiser, but this is an attempt to throw off the old habits and start new, not to avoid antthing, i even told admins, like slimvirgin, that this is what i woulde be doing. if it would be all right, could you remove the allegations that i am trying to avoid something from the RFA page pleae? im in enough crap as it is. Gavin the Chosen 15:54, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Once Hamster Sandwitch brought this zccount to his attention, trying to maintain cover, and thus avoid moe conflict was the only strategem that came to mind. poor choice, as it turns out, but i really got tired of all the conflict. I wuld gladly tell epople who i was, had that been a sure thing for me not having to deal with any more conflict, but that didnt seem possible. Gavin the Chosen 16:26, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
You found me out. Okay, I will start an archive forthwith, I swear. And I'm still trying to get a copy of that cereal book - I think I'm going to give in and buy it second-hand from some Amazon dealer. Mea culpa and much bowing and scraping. -- Mothperson cocoon 17:26, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks very much for the barnstar - I'm flattered and glad you like my very amateur photographic efforts! (Sorry to take so long in replying; I've been out of town.) — Dan | Talk 02:21, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey there, the image of mount Mahameru was shot by a friend of mine. There is not really any other source information to provide than his name, which is Jan-Pieter Nap. Thank you. Solitude\ talk 08:24, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
You didn't tell me you were an architect, too! Bad mentor. -- Mothperson cocoon 23:06, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, just thought I'd let you know that I have put a proposal to have a featured picture on the front page every day on Talk:Main Page I've been informed that your opposed to this idea so I'd be very interested in hearing why you disagree with the idea. Jtkiefer T | @ | C ----- 00:45, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of fixing the link to the community portal on talk:Main Page since you originally linked to WP:CP which is copyright problems and I assumed that you didn't want copyright problems to be a main page for editors even though it probably needs more editors working on copyright problems :). I also posted a reply on the page to your response. Jtkiefer T | @ | C ----- 20:23, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
I've been thinking more about the previous discussion we had regarding this. As you mentioned, some of the inherent differences between articles and pictures are major culprits. Articles are collaborative efforts; they can be edited by multiple people and can be improved incrementally, whereas it is difficult for pictures to be done so. This of course gives rise to two problems. One, any criticism of the picture falls squarely on the uploader, which makes it much more personal. Two, and this is the more irksome, it is usually not possible to fix the image. If an article needs more references or a section is unclear, it can be rewritten. But if an image is off-center or out of focus, or if the foreground is too cluttered, often nothing can be done. In some cases one could retake the photograph, but the scene may be unmodifiable (e.g., cluttered foreground, construction sign, etc.). Third, it looks like the criteria have changed, which was another big issue I had. FPC was becoming more of an art gallery than illustrations for an encyclopedia: I thought the previous guidelines for being striking or titillating and so on had no place here. I would prefer encyclopedia illustrations to err on the side of being simple and elegant, nicely illustrating the subject matter, rather than striking and titillating. That's not to say that they should be boring either of course. I recall a nomination for toilet paper, I think, that I thought was a simple, elegant picture, but it was easily voted down because it was not striking enough. In my view, similar to featured articles, every picture topic should theoretically be able to achieve featured status; that is, ideally, every article and every picture in Wikipedia would possess featured status. Now no matter what you do, there is no way I can see to make the toilet paper jaw dropping. But it was a beautiful illustration. Fourth, the tone of the reviewers there often struck me as needlessly rude/blunt sometimes; I remember them mocking one poor user's nomination as an "April Fools' joke" (it was nominated around the 1st). Fifth, there seems to be, or at least there was before I became disenchanted with the process, too much emphasis on outside photographs we had located, like the beautiful NASA images, and not enough emphasis/incentive for user-created images. Finally, the whole process just seems unwiki-like: usually a single creator, can't modify the image to meet objections or just to improve it, often derived from an outside source. I realize that many of these are not actionable but rather reflect asymmetries between articles and images. — Knowledge Seeker দ 08:01, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
They seem fine. I tried but couldn't make any edit unless I sign in. I assume non-admins can't do anything besides viewing. Hope this helps.
BTW, how about using Template:C-uploaded ? This way, we don't have to wait for admins at the WCommons to protect images from that end. We can upload and protect images locally in English Wikipedia. -- PFHLai 18:41, 2005 August 13 (UTC)
I think the one you pointed out on the users talk page was very nice. The grey tabby on the wooden fence. Very representitive of a cat on a fence, looking smug and satisfied. Can't ask for more than that. Seemed clear and focused. Just thought I'd pop my two cents in without getting directly involved in a silly argument. :oP See ya! Hamster Sandwich 23:23, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist!
Please vote on my latest indecisions! Hope you like them -- Fir0002 10:22, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist,
I was wondering if you knew why this keeps coming up when I upload a photo? I just press "save file" but it is a bit annoying as I don't know if I'm doing something wrong. It started happening just yesterday.
The other thing I wanted to ask is if I could put something in my copyright notice to say you can't claim you took this photo and that if you are printing commercially you must acknowledge me as the photographer?
Yes it is exciting that I'm able to sell photos now! I took 4 photos of the local area for the hospital (they are opening a new wing and wanted decoration), I shot a series of photos of my Maths Methods teacher's little boy (they were actually quite challenging as it was hard to get him to relax!), I put a framed a3 image in our local art gallery and it was bought for $70 after only two days! I also covered our recent VCE formal as a photographer. So it's great to have a hobby that pays!
I've decided to let the cat photo go - although it is pretty cowardly of DreamGuy to remove my discussion from his talk page without answering any of my questions and putting "a long tirade about why your cat photo ... should be left alone" ontop of his talk page. But anyway as I said that is over. But I'd like to give you this wiki thanks for being so nice and understanding - the conflict with DreamGuy really helped me appreciate that. -- Fir0002 01:11, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
Please join me in celebrating my 1000th edit at Wikipedia, the most important online information resource! Hamster Sandwich 21:46, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist, Thanks for drawing my attention to that! I don't actually use watchlists. What do they do? As you can guess beyond my immediate sphere of uploading photos and finding articles for them I haven't really explored the iintricacies of Wikipedia. -- Fir0002 12:11, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist,
I've heard that there is a chat room for wiki users. How does that work? And btw I trust you enough to give you my email, so if you send an email to registration@coolgoose.com (that's the email I use whenever I have to submit an email to sign up to something) and I'll send you an email back with my real email address.
I have stated using the watchlist and I think I'm going to like it a lot, but I haven't actually got anything in my watchlist yet as I don't have the auto watch this page preference (I have now). Anyway thanks again for drawing my attention to it. -- Fir0002 09:47, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
I've made some small changes to the caption of Image:Daisy1web.jpg, I hope you can agree with them. JoJan 14:48, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist!
That caption is great. And yes that photo was taken at Swifts Creek, although for many people that wouldn't really mean much!
I was wondering if you could help me out with some clarification with my prize in the Wikimania Media Competition. I sent this to sj, but he hasn't really replied. -- Fir0002 02:10, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
Heya,
Just a quick note to remind you of the London Meetup this coming Sunday (the 11th of September) that you signed up for (as 'probable', so hopefully it's just a small push to get you to 'definite' ;-)). It's at the Archery Tavern, just next to Lancaster Gate tube station, from 13:00 (BST) onwards.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Yours,
James F. (talk) 14:06, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm so sorry! I completely forgot you wanted insect eggs. Damn. Sorry!
All the captions are great as usually, my only little query is that maybe on the Emperor Gum Moth caption, "The Emperor Gum Moth does not feed after it emerges from the cocoon, relying solely on the energy they stored as caterpillars." could be changed into "The Emperor Gum Moth does not feed after it emerges from the cocoon, relying solely on the energy it stored as caterpillars." You be the judge as English isn't really my strong point. I just thought to use "it" from the "it emerges". Anyway good job.
PS I got your message, and thanks! -- Fir0002 09:34, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
I am on a mini Wiki-Break — back Monday 19th Sep. -- Solipsist 17:40, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
I have added the assoicated pages to my watchlist, no need to worry. Have a well deserved break. This link is Broken 19:28, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for informing me about the picture which is now promoted ( here). This is my first picture to actually get past this stage so what happens now? Does this mean it will be in a queue for picture of the day? -- Thorpe talk 11:52, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
I don't know how the POTD process works, but... the anon IP who vandalizd today's POTD [5] put the same copyrighted picture in the POTD slot for Sept. 29: [6]. FreplySpang (talk) 14:23, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
On second thought, I deleted the Sept. 29 one myself, since it was going to happen sooner or later. Cheers, FreplySpang (talk) 14:34, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
No I wasn't aware of the discussion, so thanx for pointing it out. -- Fir0002 07:21, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
Hey there again, you mentioned getting pics for an IRA news story a while back. I'm not sure who does the news pics but the decomissioning is supposedly done now - so I guess the story will appear. Here's an image pulled from Commons that might help (?) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Machine_gun_M2_1.jpg. Regards SeanMack 15:38, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist,
I was just wondering if there is an easy way to revert an edit by a user, not just copying the old text into the new version. I'm refering to the edits to
Agricultural machinery by 213.212.224.116. Thanks --
Fir0002 09:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist, I have some photos of paintings and a shot of the pregnant woman. I took at the National Art Gallery while I was on Camp in Canberra, can I upload them or is that a copy vio? -- Fir0002 08:32, 3 October 2005
So several other people thought, and they deleted all of them some time ago. They must have missed St Ives. Adam 00:01, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for removing all those irrelevant "Unreformed House of Commons" footers! Stephen Turner 08:29, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Brookie here - thanks for the Barnstar - isn't it nice when people notice your work (and don't complain)! :) ...en passant! 16:03, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
I left this message on the Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates page where we've been discussing Diagrams/charts as FP's. In repsonse to your comment that those are no longer our standards for judging pictures, why are those criteria listed then on the Wikipedia:Featured pictures right in the first sentence as what a FP is?
I'm not trying to start a problem, I just truely believe a seperate index of charts would do them better justice. Right now we're comparing them to some very good examples of photographs and drawings and to say the charts/diagrams are even in the same league as these other images doesn't make sense to me. There is some other support for this, as evident by other comments in the discussion. Some people don't like any change at all, but in this case, I think it would be more fair for some of our charts/diagrams as some of them are very good.-- ScottyBoy900Q ∞ 20:32, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
Did I miss something? - A Man In Black ( conspire | past ops) 03:45, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi I was just going through WP:CP#September_29 and I noticed that Jeremy Bentham has been listed as a copyvio of the biography at the UCL site http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/info/jb.htm . It looks like the text was added by User talk:Susurrus in April 2003 who I've asked to email them for permission, if there isn't any obviously it will need to be redrafted. I've also informed User_talk:Zanimum and User_talk:Stochata who seem interested in the article. Cheers Arniep 00:37, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Solipsist. Thank you for letting me know, and for originally nominating my picture. It's very rewarding to see a picture I took being designated as picture of the day. It makes me quite happy, actually. Thanks a lot -- AngelRiesgo 09:39, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
I've just been howling about Im-Bru. omg. Lesson learned. Staying away = major ignorance. But it's fluorescent, damn it. Why is it that 99% of the English-speaking world cannot spell that word? Never mind. I'm still howling about Im-Bru. your person servant, Mothperson cocoon 17:38, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I've noticed some of the external links I've added have been removed as "spam links." Actually, the site I'm linking to provides extensive photos of the Mojave. It's a good site and the effort of nearly 10 years work. -- User:66.146.62.23 23:38, 24 October 2005
Sounds very reasonable. Thank you for taking the time to explain.
Thanks for your kind comment on my aerial view of the Crescent, much appreciated. I took it from a hot air balloon, about 5 seconds after take-off from Royal Victoria Park, on the northern edge of Bath. My wife and I had been attempting to do a balloon ride for 3 years, with a balloon company called Go-Ballooning but 12 times the weather was off-limits when the booked day arrived. At last, on a dull September evening we made it with attempt 13! We flew for 1 hour and landed with one hell of a bump 15 miles away at Grittleton, the other side of the M4. In the basket there were 16 of us plus the pilot, I don't think baskets come any bigger than that! The only problem was that I didn't have a hat and the heat from the burners is astonishing so a hat is essential. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone 13:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist,
Sorry for being tardy to reply to your other message, but I'm pretty busy ATM. The bit on the straight dope "The real challenge with bees wasn't figuring out the aerodynamics but the mechanics: specifically, how bees can move their wings so fast--roughly 200 beats per second, which is 10 or 20 times the firing rate of the nervous system. The trick apparently is that the bee's wing muscles (thorax muscles, actually) don't expand and contract so much as vibrate, like a rubber band. A nerve impulse comes along and twangs the muscle, much as you might pluck a guitar string, and it vibrates the wing up and down a few times until the next impulse comes along" is pretty interesting and it might be worth incorporating into the description.
Anyway, thanks for all your work --
Fir0002 09:04, 30 October 2005 (UTC) PS, have you heard any more to do with the Wikimania comp?
Hi, Solipsist, I notice that you're doing the Picture of the Day, so I'll direct this here.
From Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day:
Well, they are exhaustive listing and sometimes nothing is written, like for Aruba. Granted, Armenia and Andorra are counter-example.
Still, I think this is a good link, especially as it is very dense. On the other hand, I agree external links are not that great, but I can"t afford the luxury of entering all the data in Wikipedia.
Maybe a template with this kind of generic link (all rulers, all regions, all naming, all whatever) could be a good idea, don't know.
Reply to David Latapie 19:15, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Thats fine. Originally, I had selected November 11 because it is Veterans Day in the United States, not because of anything related to Pennsylvania. I'm glad to here that you will keep the original text. Thanks for the heads up. TomStar81 23:10, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the link, in fact I'm interested with all kinds of picture to illustrate the french photography wikibook. w:fr:Utilisateur:Jean-Jacques MILAN
You were at lewes on Saturday were you? Or did someone else take the picture? Jooler 23:53, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
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Once more blocked, and I've posted a message on AN/I requesting the comment of other admins. Thanks for the info. R adiant _>|< 12:46, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
As promised...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BCE_Place_Galleria_Toronto_Nov_2004.jpg
Hello, Solipsist . Would you like to have a look at the 1945 event on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 9, please ? Thought you might be interested. Cheers. :-) -- PFHLai 05:42, 2005 August 7 (UTC)
Hey, Solipsist, no need to thank me. Fighting vandals is something we all do here in Wikipedia. :-)
Yes, protection sometimes go AWOL. This has happened at least once before, on a Selected Anniversaries template. I have no clue why. :-( -- PFHLai 05:07, 2005 August 8 (UTC)
I think the thread you're missing that connects me to Gabriel is that I read the RFA and RFC queues and then went ahead and did more looking at Gabriel's edits. That's why I welcomed DevilBat - I didn't know about the sock issue at that point, and Gabriel welcomed him with [s instead of {s. -- Hipocrite 19:16, 8 August 2005
I've come across numerous people asking what happened to DYK on the main page talk. Could you perhaps a note in a small font the next time you update it for the weekend, in the trend of "weekdays: facts; weekends: featured images" so people know it's only temporary and stop complaining? - Mgm| (talk) 21:46, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for dropping the note re. Mackerelskybig. I'm glad you like it. Your note prompted me to drop by your userpage, and I took notice of your POV list. I was quite surprised how much alike we are as Wikipedians. Except for my agnosticism versus your atheism, I could drop this unedited on my own page. Good to see another great mind here! Denni ☯ 03:39, 2005 August 9 (UTC)
I prefer the chamomile photo - a lot better colors etc. I like the terragen one as well as it is soemthing different for me, but I think the chamomile is better. Thanks for asking! -- Fir0002 08:59, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
you misunderstnad the point of why i made this acount, if yoiu think its a sock puppet, for example, thjen no, its not, this is my only actiuve account, yes its the same old uiser, but this is an attempt to throw off the old habits and start new, not to avoid antthing, i even told admins, like slimvirgin, that this is what i woulde be doing. if it would be all right, could you remove the allegations that i am trying to avoid something from the RFA page pleae? im in enough crap as it is. Gavin the Chosen 15:54, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Once Hamster Sandwitch brought this zccount to his attention, trying to maintain cover, and thus avoid moe conflict was the only strategem that came to mind. poor choice, as it turns out, but i really got tired of all the conflict. I wuld gladly tell epople who i was, had that been a sure thing for me not having to deal with any more conflict, but that didnt seem possible. Gavin the Chosen 16:26, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
You found me out. Okay, I will start an archive forthwith, I swear. And I'm still trying to get a copy of that cereal book - I think I'm going to give in and buy it second-hand from some Amazon dealer. Mea culpa and much bowing and scraping. -- Mothperson cocoon 17:26, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks very much for the barnstar - I'm flattered and glad you like my very amateur photographic efforts! (Sorry to take so long in replying; I've been out of town.) — Dan | Talk 02:21, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey there, the image of mount Mahameru was shot by a friend of mine. There is not really any other source information to provide than his name, which is Jan-Pieter Nap. Thank you. Solitude\ talk 08:24, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
You didn't tell me you were an architect, too! Bad mentor. -- Mothperson cocoon 23:06, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, just thought I'd let you know that I have put a proposal to have a featured picture on the front page every day on Talk:Main Page I've been informed that your opposed to this idea so I'd be very interested in hearing why you disagree with the idea. Jtkiefer T | @ | C ----- 00:45, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of fixing the link to the community portal on talk:Main Page since you originally linked to WP:CP which is copyright problems and I assumed that you didn't want copyright problems to be a main page for editors even though it probably needs more editors working on copyright problems :). I also posted a reply on the page to your response. Jtkiefer T | @ | C ----- 20:23, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
I've been thinking more about the previous discussion we had regarding this. As you mentioned, some of the inherent differences between articles and pictures are major culprits. Articles are collaborative efforts; they can be edited by multiple people and can be improved incrementally, whereas it is difficult for pictures to be done so. This of course gives rise to two problems. One, any criticism of the picture falls squarely on the uploader, which makes it much more personal. Two, and this is the more irksome, it is usually not possible to fix the image. If an article needs more references or a section is unclear, it can be rewritten. But if an image is off-center or out of focus, or if the foreground is too cluttered, often nothing can be done. In some cases one could retake the photograph, but the scene may be unmodifiable (e.g., cluttered foreground, construction sign, etc.). Third, it looks like the criteria have changed, which was another big issue I had. FPC was becoming more of an art gallery than illustrations for an encyclopedia: I thought the previous guidelines for being striking or titillating and so on had no place here. I would prefer encyclopedia illustrations to err on the side of being simple and elegant, nicely illustrating the subject matter, rather than striking and titillating. That's not to say that they should be boring either of course. I recall a nomination for toilet paper, I think, that I thought was a simple, elegant picture, but it was easily voted down because it was not striking enough. In my view, similar to featured articles, every picture topic should theoretically be able to achieve featured status; that is, ideally, every article and every picture in Wikipedia would possess featured status. Now no matter what you do, there is no way I can see to make the toilet paper jaw dropping. But it was a beautiful illustration. Fourth, the tone of the reviewers there often struck me as needlessly rude/blunt sometimes; I remember them mocking one poor user's nomination as an "April Fools' joke" (it was nominated around the 1st). Fifth, there seems to be, or at least there was before I became disenchanted with the process, too much emphasis on outside photographs we had located, like the beautiful NASA images, and not enough emphasis/incentive for user-created images. Finally, the whole process just seems unwiki-like: usually a single creator, can't modify the image to meet objections or just to improve it, often derived from an outside source. I realize that many of these are not actionable but rather reflect asymmetries between articles and images. — Knowledge Seeker দ 08:01, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
They seem fine. I tried but couldn't make any edit unless I sign in. I assume non-admins can't do anything besides viewing. Hope this helps.
BTW, how about using Template:C-uploaded ? This way, we don't have to wait for admins at the WCommons to protect images from that end. We can upload and protect images locally in English Wikipedia. -- PFHLai 18:41, 2005 August 13 (UTC)
I think the one you pointed out on the users talk page was very nice. The grey tabby on the wooden fence. Very representitive of a cat on a fence, looking smug and satisfied. Can't ask for more than that. Seemed clear and focused. Just thought I'd pop my two cents in without getting directly involved in a silly argument. :oP See ya! Hamster Sandwich 23:23, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist!
Please vote on my latest indecisions! Hope you like them -- Fir0002 10:22, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist,
I was wondering if you knew why this keeps coming up when I upload a photo? I just press "save file" but it is a bit annoying as I don't know if I'm doing something wrong. It started happening just yesterday.
The other thing I wanted to ask is if I could put something in my copyright notice to say you can't claim you took this photo and that if you are printing commercially you must acknowledge me as the photographer?
Yes it is exciting that I'm able to sell photos now! I took 4 photos of the local area for the hospital (they are opening a new wing and wanted decoration), I shot a series of photos of my Maths Methods teacher's little boy (they were actually quite challenging as it was hard to get him to relax!), I put a framed a3 image in our local art gallery and it was bought for $70 after only two days! I also covered our recent VCE formal as a photographer. So it's great to have a hobby that pays!
I've decided to let the cat photo go - although it is pretty cowardly of DreamGuy to remove my discussion from his talk page without answering any of my questions and putting "a long tirade about why your cat photo ... should be left alone" ontop of his talk page. But anyway as I said that is over. But I'd like to give you this wiki thanks for being so nice and understanding - the conflict with DreamGuy really helped me appreciate that. -- Fir0002 01:11, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
Please join me in celebrating my 1000th edit at Wikipedia, the most important online information resource! Hamster Sandwich 21:46, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist, Thanks for drawing my attention to that! I don't actually use watchlists. What do they do? As you can guess beyond my immediate sphere of uploading photos and finding articles for them I haven't really explored the iintricacies of Wikipedia. -- Fir0002 12:11, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist,
I've heard that there is a chat room for wiki users. How does that work? And btw I trust you enough to give you my email, so if you send an email to registration@coolgoose.com (that's the email I use whenever I have to submit an email to sign up to something) and I'll send you an email back with my real email address.
I have stated using the watchlist and I think I'm going to like it a lot, but I haven't actually got anything in my watchlist yet as I don't have the auto watch this page preference (I have now). Anyway thanks again for drawing my attention to it. -- Fir0002 09:47, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
I've made some small changes to the caption of Image:Daisy1web.jpg, I hope you can agree with them. JoJan 14:48, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist!
That caption is great. And yes that photo was taken at Swifts Creek, although for many people that wouldn't really mean much!
I was wondering if you could help me out with some clarification with my prize in the Wikimania Media Competition. I sent this to sj, but he hasn't really replied. -- Fir0002 02:10, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
Heya,
Just a quick note to remind you of the London Meetup this coming Sunday (the 11th of September) that you signed up for (as 'probable', so hopefully it's just a small push to get you to 'definite' ;-)). It's at the Archery Tavern, just next to Lancaster Gate tube station, from 13:00 (BST) onwards.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Yours,
James F. (talk) 14:06, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm so sorry! I completely forgot you wanted insect eggs. Damn. Sorry!
All the captions are great as usually, my only little query is that maybe on the Emperor Gum Moth caption, "The Emperor Gum Moth does not feed after it emerges from the cocoon, relying solely on the energy they stored as caterpillars." could be changed into "The Emperor Gum Moth does not feed after it emerges from the cocoon, relying solely on the energy it stored as caterpillars." You be the judge as English isn't really my strong point. I just thought to use "it" from the "it emerges". Anyway good job.
PS I got your message, and thanks! -- Fir0002 09:34, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
I am on a mini Wiki-Break — back Monday 19th Sep. -- Solipsist 17:40, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
I have added the assoicated pages to my watchlist, no need to worry. Have a well deserved break. This link is Broken 19:28, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for informing me about the picture which is now promoted ( here). This is my first picture to actually get past this stage so what happens now? Does this mean it will be in a queue for picture of the day? -- Thorpe talk 11:52, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
I don't know how the POTD process works, but... the anon IP who vandalizd today's POTD [5] put the same copyrighted picture in the POTD slot for Sept. 29: [6]. FreplySpang (talk) 14:23, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
On second thought, I deleted the Sept. 29 one myself, since it was going to happen sooner or later. Cheers, FreplySpang (talk) 14:34, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
No I wasn't aware of the discussion, so thanx for pointing it out. -- Fir0002 07:21, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
Hey there again, you mentioned getting pics for an IRA news story a while back. I'm not sure who does the news pics but the decomissioning is supposedly done now - so I guess the story will appear. Here's an image pulled from Commons that might help (?) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Machine_gun_M2_1.jpg. Regards SeanMack 15:38, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist,
I was just wondering if there is an easy way to revert an edit by a user, not just copying the old text into the new version. I'm refering to the edits to
Agricultural machinery by 213.212.224.116. Thanks --
Fir0002 09:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist, I have some photos of paintings and a shot of the pregnant woman. I took at the National Art Gallery while I was on Camp in Canberra, can I upload them or is that a copy vio? -- Fir0002 08:32, 3 October 2005
So several other people thought, and they deleted all of them some time ago. They must have missed St Ives. Adam 00:01, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for removing all those irrelevant "Unreformed House of Commons" footers! Stephen Turner 08:29, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Brookie here - thanks for the Barnstar - isn't it nice when people notice your work (and don't complain)! :) ...en passant! 16:03, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
I left this message on the Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates page where we've been discussing Diagrams/charts as FP's. In repsonse to your comment that those are no longer our standards for judging pictures, why are those criteria listed then on the Wikipedia:Featured pictures right in the first sentence as what a FP is?
I'm not trying to start a problem, I just truely believe a seperate index of charts would do them better justice. Right now we're comparing them to some very good examples of photographs and drawings and to say the charts/diagrams are even in the same league as these other images doesn't make sense to me. There is some other support for this, as evident by other comments in the discussion. Some people don't like any change at all, but in this case, I think it would be more fair for some of our charts/diagrams as some of them are very good.-- ScottyBoy900Q ∞ 20:32, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
Did I miss something? - A Man In Black ( conspire | past ops) 03:45, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi I was just going through WP:CP#September_29 and I noticed that Jeremy Bentham has been listed as a copyvio of the biography at the UCL site http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/info/jb.htm . It looks like the text was added by User talk:Susurrus in April 2003 who I've asked to email them for permission, if there isn't any obviously it will need to be redrafted. I've also informed User_talk:Zanimum and User_talk:Stochata who seem interested in the article. Cheers Arniep 00:37, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Solipsist. Thank you for letting me know, and for originally nominating my picture. It's very rewarding to see a picture I took being designated as picture of the day. It makes me quite happy, actually. Thanks a lot -- AngelRiesgo 09:39, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
I've just been howling about Im-Bru. omg. Lesson learned. Staying away = major ignorance. But it's fluorescent, damn it. Why is it that 99% of the English-speaking world cannot spell that word? Never mind. I'm still howling about Im-Bru. your person servant, Mothperson cocoon 17:38, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I've noticed some of the external links I've added have been removed as "spam links." Actually, the site I'm linking to provides extensive photos of the Mojave. It's a good site and the effort of nearly 10 years work. -- User:66.146.62.23 23:38, 24 October 2005
Sounds very reasonable. Thank you for taking the time to explain.
Thanks for your kind comment on my aerial view of the Crescent, much appreciated. I took it from a hot air balloon, about 5 seconds after take-off from Royal Victoria Park, on the northern edge of Bath. My wife and I had been attempting to do a balloon ride for 3 years, with a balloon company called Go-Ballooning but 12 times the weather was off-limits when the booked day arrived. At last, on a dull September evening we made it with attempt 13! We flew for 1 hour and landed with one hell of a bump 15 miles away at Grittleton, the other side of the M4. In the basket there were 16 of us plus the pilot, I don't think baskets come any bigger than that! The only problem was that I didn't have a hat and the heat from the burners is astonishing so a hat is essential. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone 13:27, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist,
Sorry for being tardy to reply to your other message, but I'm pretty busy ATM. The bit on the straight dope "The real challenge with bees wasn't figuring out the aerodynamics but the mechanics: specifically, how bees can move their wings so fast--roughly 200 beats per second, which is 10 or 20 times the firing rate of the nervous system. The trick apparently is that the bee's wing muscles (thorax muscles, actually) don't expand and contract so much as vibrate, like a rubber band. A nerve impulse comes along and twangs the muscle, much as you might pluck a guitar string, and it vibrates the wing up and down a few times until the next impulse comes along" is pretty interesting and it might be worth incorporating into the description.
Anyway, thanks for all your work --
Fir0002 09:04, 30 October 2005 (UTC) PS, have you heard any more to do with the Wikimania comp?
Hi, Solipsist, I notice that you're doing the Picture of the Day, so I'll direct this here.
From Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day:
Well, they are exhaustive listing and sometimes nothing is written, like for Aruba. Granted, Armenia and Andorra are counter-example.
Still, I think this is a good link, especially as it is very dense. On the other hand, I agree external links are not that great, but I can"t afford the luxury of entering all the data in Wikipedia.
Maybe a template with this kind of generic link (all rulers, all regions, all naming, all whatever) could be a good idea, don't know.
Reply to David Latapie 19:15, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Thats fine. Originally, I had selected November 11 because it is Veterans Day in the United States, not because of anything related to Pennsylvania. I'm glad to here that you will keep the original text. Thanks for the heads up. TomStar81 23:10, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the link, in fact I'm interested with all kinds of picture to illustrate the french photography wikibook. w:fr:Utilisateur:Jean-Jacques MILAN
You were at lewes on Saturday were you? Or did someone else take the picture? Jooler 23:53, 6 November 2005 (UTC)