Archiving all existing threads on this page. Respectfully requesting the patience of fellow editors regarding unresolved existing issues. I tend to be the mouse who bells cats and there was a rather large tiger running around today. This is likely to take up a fair amount of energy for the near future.
In the meantime I will be doing my best to return to the content I was working on as today's events were brewing: a fourteenth century manuscript navigational chart of the Mediterranean Sea. Let's all remember please that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia; urging other editors to direct their energies into useful content. With respect toward all, Durova Charge! 22:54, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova, a while ago I unblocked Bus stop on the understanding that he'd be mentored by you. A cursory review of his contributions revealed no issues, but I wanted to check in with you and make sure he's doing ok.-- Aervanath talks like a mover, but not a shaker 06:00, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
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There is a new guide for professional photographer's to help them when they contribute images to wikipedia. You can check it out here Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography/Guide for Professionals. Since you seem to be an expert in everything (including photography), your input would be greatly appreciated. Remember ( talk) 13:25, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
I have a large bible "The Brown Bible" dated from 1878, each page is a bit bigger than A4 in size. There are many pictures in it, some in quite good condition. Any clues as to how to determine the author(s)? Noodle snacks ( talk) 13:31, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
This has gone awful quiet and so has this — Realist 2 17:27, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks When you reviewed Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, I was essentially the only editor to the article (I still am), and I was also taking a break from Wikipedia. Consequently, no one acted on the simple suggestions that you made for this article to pass a GA review. I have been working on it for the past several hours and will continue for the next day or two. If you want to take a look at it in a couple of days when I'm done, let me know. If not, I will go through the process of submitting it for review again. Please post on my talk if you'd like to respond. Thank you for your time. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 09:50, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
I think your phrase "wondering how I had signed up for the right reasons and joined the wrong war" is very moving. DuncanHill ( talk) 16:08, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
This is low-priority, but it's vexing me: I can't figure out why my photo of John Reed (novelist) isn't showing up in the info-box. Any ideas? --David Shankbone 19:08, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova. Did anything come of Campbell's deletion request? Are you still in discussions with him regarding it? I ask because there's currently
an AfD underway, which I figured was largely irrelevant until we figured out if discussions were still ongoing, which of course could end in you agreeing to delete the page, thus negating the need for an AfD in the first place.
For obvious confidentiality reasons I'm not looking for in-depth information. Really just whether the discussions are still ongoing, or if they are over and nothing came of them. Thanks.
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From today's scout report Pictures of Science: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/?collection=SeeingIsBelieving700&col_id=197
Brought together originally in 1999 for an exhibition held at the New York Public Library's Gottesman Exhibition Hall, this set of intriguing images covers the fields of astronomy, chemistry, geology, medicine, and physics taken from different engravings, lithographs, and manuscript illuminations. The images here range from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and they are culled from works such as the 1798 volume "Elemens de la philosophie de Neuton" and the important 1830 volume "Principles of Geology" written by geologist Sir Charles Lyell. I thought maybe some of this images could be uploaded to wikipedia and fixed up, but I thought you would be a better judge of this. Remember ( talk) 16:04, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Blanchardballoon3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 19, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-01-19. howcheng { chat} 17:19, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Why? isn't Biszilla also Bishonen? GoodDay ( talk) 19:07, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
I think some moderation in your approach to promoting the importance of sensitivity and civility on Wikipedia might be a good thing. Accusations and implications of complicity and association with serious abuse and harassment is a very serious charge. I am redacting my quotation of the specific comment to which I am referring, but it is in this page's edit history. I'm not trying to create more drama or inflame the situation, I just wanted to offer my perspective. Cheers. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 20:47, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hey, Thanks for the info. I had seen the protest picture in the portal but was not quite sure who was in charge. Is the review process similar to that of FPC? -- Muhammad (talk) 07:14, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova. I hope you don't mind me pestering you, but I have a question or two in relation to the Triple Crown awards and was hoping you would be able to provide me with some answers? First off, for one to become eligible for the Wikiproject Australia Triple Crown would one have to just get one each of DYK, GA, and FC on a topic related to Australia? And, if so, would one be eligible for both the Wikiproject Australia Triple Crown and the Standard Triple Crown, or would two different credits of each be required? My main motivation for asking is that I hold a Standard Triple Crown and each of the articles it is for are Australian topics—Australian Victoria Cross recipients to be exact. Also, do each of the DYK, GA and FC need to be different? As in, if an article had been up at DYK and had passed as GA, would it count one for each or just one or the other? Same with GA to FA? Thank you very much for taking your precious time up to read this, and hopefully reply. :) Cheers, Abraham, B.S. ( talk) 11:58, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Check this out. Do you think that Vanity Fair caricature has FP potential, and if so, how challenging a project would it be? I'd be willing to give it a shot.-- ragesoss ( talk) 19:55, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
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This is not a race, Durova. :) -- Samir 07:06, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Agh, you beat me to this one! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 13:51, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova:
I was wondering whether I might ask a favour of you please (in your Commons admin capacity). If you are unable to, I shall entirely understand: I know how thinly you must sometimes find yourself spread :)
We have just overhauled the design of our existing A-Class medal and added three more variants. For information, the new designs are as follows:
File:Mil Hist A-Class Bronze Medal (variant).png File:Mil Hist A-Class Silver Medal.png File:Mil Hist A-Class Gold Medal.png File:Mil Hist A-Class Gold Medal - Gold Oak Leaves.png
The files have already been uploaded to Commons by Noclador but we would like their names changed. I gather that only sysops can move files on the Commons: hence, my bothering you :) The idea is also to overwrite the first existing file with a new image so we don't need to update the awards so far manually. Anyhow, here are the existing names and the preferred file names:
Image:Mil Hist A-Class Bronze Medal (variant).png > Image:WPMH ACR.PNG
Image:Mil Hist A-Class Silver Medal.png > Image:WPMH ACR (Oakleaves).PNG
Image:Mil Hist A-Class Gold Medal.png > Image:WPMH ACR (Swords).PNG
Image:Mil Hist A-Class Gold Medal - Gold Oak Leaves.png > Image:WPMH ACR (Diamonds).PNG
Many thanks in advance for any help you can provide, -- ROGER DAVIES talk 14:41, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:82northe.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 23, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-01-23. howcheng { chat} 17:52, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Durova, it's strange to me that you're suddenly, a week after the fact, officiously posting to me about filing the RFAR. [2] "To Bishonen, it's quite simple"—it sounds like I've been nagging you to explain your request for arbitration ever since! (Whereas I've actually never even mentioned it.) How are you involved? What's your role? How many people are you going to explain it to? [3]
Your notion that retiring the Bishzilla account is a "step forward" (from what?) is meddlesome, and your thanks offend me. Please refactor them. Bishonen | talk 19:39, 20 January 2009 (UTC).
As the only person I can think of with experience in both the technicalities of working with old images, and the use of images between Commons and Wikipedia (I'm sure there are others, but I don't generally have many dealings with the Commons crowd), would you be able to have a look at this image and the storm-in-a-teacup that's ensued regarding its copyright status? A deletion request over on Commons has now spawned a sprawling thread there about its status. (FWIW: my personal opinion is that it's almost certainly a tinted black-and-white photograph and not a painting, given the black-and-white human figures and that trivial elements in the foreground such as gravel and power lines are shown in sharper focus than significant elements such as the station and buildings; that there's no reason to doubt that it dates from 1915 or earlier; that there's no reasonable way to identify the creator, and in any event the copyright would almost certainly have belonged to the publishing firm and not the photographer; and that uploading the back of the image as "proof" of the age is pointless – given that there's no way to demonstrate authenticity of the back, this requires just as much of a leap of AGF as "taking the uploader's word for it" does.) If you have any suggestions in breaking the logjam – even if it's "delete the image" – it would be useful; this relatively minor debate over this image – which isn't essential to either of the articles on which it's used – is potentially going to hold up FAC of one of said two articles, and I'd love to get it resolved sooner rather than later. – iridescent 20:38, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
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The request for arbitration named above has been declined as superseded by motion :
For the Arbitration Committee,
Mailer Diablo 14:44, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
FYI diff, if you might find this useful I'd be glad to help, otherwise the best of luck. Tim Vickers ( talk) 22:04, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Harassment or not? Here.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 02:03, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova, I've commented at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Stuart_Campbell_(journalist)#Stuart_Campbell_.28journalist.29, operating on the assumption that the person who requested deletion of the article is indeed the subject. Should I have been mistaken in that, please let me know on my talk page and I may revise my comment (although based on what the article cites at present, notability seems pretty borderline anyway). Thanks, Jayen 466 13:15, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
I hope you might wish to revisit your comment on the talk page of the Arbitration Enforcement RFC with respect to Tango's desysop. Tango was desysopped because he had made a series of questionable blocks, the last of which was a block which he attached to the 9/11 sanctions. The evidence was that almost every block Tango made on a "named" editor was questionable, with the exception of a 3RR block to a well-known edit warrior. It was his pattern of behaviour that resulted in his desysopping, not one single action. Risker ( talk) 22:56, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova! Just a note to let you know I've sent you an email. Thanks, ~ Eliz 81 (C) 20:01, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Fultondesign7.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 27, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-01-27. howcheng { chat} 17:32, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Currently you have two articles at GAN that you have placed on hold- Defeated Sanity and Solange Knowles- which have been on hold for 43 days. Not sure if you forgot about them or what's going on, just letting you know! -- Pres N 21:52, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Durova, please take a look at this vandalism: [4]. I don't know where to report it.-- Fahrenheit451 ( talk) 04:14, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Well, they look like owls that the "grays" might have. ;) •Jim62sch• dissera! 23:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm up for a different pic, and will co-nominate. Ceran →// forge 00:12, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Boston, 1775bsmall1.png is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 31, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-01-31. howcheng { chat} 06:45, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hello. Just a friendly heads-up that I think you forget to include a caption at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Amsterdam Centraal railway station. Best wishes -- Eustress ( talk) 06:16, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova. Following a successful FPC nomination and my sticking around over there, I've seen a lot of your restoration work recently and have seen in a couple of places that you are willing to "teach"(?) your skill to anyone who is interested. I am interested but have practically no image manipulation software on my computer. I also can't really afford to buy any, meaning OpenSource software is my preferred (read only!) choice. Would this be possible? If so, can we take it in "baby steps"! Regards, Matthewedwards ( talk • contribs • email) 07:58, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Just a quick heads up on those LoC scans.
From what I can tell, the Library has access to two systems, one is Phase One kit and if it's the system I think it is, it's state-of-the art. I can't say which department uses it but suffice to say, it wasn't around when they scanned a lot of the maps and other images in the American Memory collection. They used an old Tangent Artisan 2000 scanner, donated by the manufacturers in the mid-90s, the firmware for which wouldn't have provided any way of correcting white balance on-the-fly, as modern systems do. I used to use something very similar base on the early Leaf platform and it was a wholly manual, post-processing task. The Tangent would have given very high quality, low-contrast result ideal for maps & plans but completely uncorrected as a raw file.
LoC archivists at the time appear to have routinely adjusted the files but only for brightness and contrast, basically due to time constraints resulting from the huge volume of work at hand. It's also much less likely that the workflow in place at this time was calibrated from device to display, although I can only infer this from the colour shift apparent on my (modern, calibrated) monitor. I figured it was worth contacting the library, as you suggested, to confirm that no colour correction, in particular white-balance corrections, were performed, ie that basically "raw" files, with only basic luminance correction, are placed in the public archives. The American Memory team referred me to the Prints and Photographs Division, who replied this morning:
Hello Mick Stephenson
I have consulted with our digital conversion coordinator to make sure that our practice matches what you describe as "raw" scans. He says it does.
For information on our digitization specifications for particular sets of images (which will have varied in resolution standards depending on how recently the scans have been made), check for digitization information accompanying the collection: From our collections listing page < http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html >), select "More information" next to the collection you are interested in. Generally, if we have drafted specific digitization information, it will be called "Digitizing the ...." For example:
- Digitizing the FSA/OWI Color transparencies: < http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/fsacdig.html>
- Digitizing the Civil War negatives: < http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpdig.html>
Best wishes.
Barbara Natanson
Reference Section
Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress
If you check the [ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/pandigit.html Panoramic Maps "Digitizing the..." page, for example, it confirms the use of the Tangent system and lack of white balance correction. Incidentally it's worth noting this doesn't necessarily mean more recent scans are unreliable from a colour fidelity point of view, as the Phase One scans (for example) will almost certainly perform a basic white point selection on the fly. Chances are, these would be very reliable indeed, given modern colour profiling and display calibration.
From our perspective as an encyclopedia, it means we have no reliable white point reference other than the possibility that there remains a small amount of white border from the scanner hood, or white backing paper. Where this is visible, it can be selected with an eye dropper tool in Pshops Levels or Curves dialogs as a start point, and tweaked from there. Where the scans were all made at roughly the same time, we can safely infer a similar white shift for all similar documents. I guess the only real confirmation would be in person, with a trip to the Library to view it first hand, although perhaps that would be a little bit too time consuming ;)
I'm sure you know the procedure I'm referring to well enough as I've noticed some impressive results, presumably using this approach, in the past. I only brought this up as it seemed there may have been an assumption that the archives at LoC are already corrected for colour and hence not corrected. I hope you can see that this in not the case. I also hope you can accept that I'm not interested in scoring points here, nor did I have any intention of upsetting you in bringing the issue up. I'm sorry if it came over that way. I should add that I'm in awe, frankly, of the time you dedicate to the project and the immense value your efforts provide. However is does seem to me that this correction should be a fundamental one in restoring artworks, if only from a historical accuracy point of view; maybe it's an under-addressed issue generally and should be discussed further elsewhere. I'd be interested to participate in that and who knows, maybe even get back into contributing some restoration work again soon. Real life just ain't backing off enough at the moment :/
Good luck with the nominations, anyway. mikaul talk 21:56, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Are you able to improve this shipwreck image from the 70s? It has a texture all the way across it and some white flecks in the sky. - Shiftchange ( talk) 11:43, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
One trouble with the discussion on ANI is there is fear to express one's opinion. I have not researched the user's edits but if I were to come out in favor of unban, I could be indefinitely blocked accused of being a sock defending the master. The safe thing to do is to say nothing or advocate even harsher measures. There should be safeguards against false accusations. Perhaps there could be identity verification. If I am Mary then accused sock must prove he is not Mary, or he could be blocked. The chances that two different people falsely accused of being a sock but sharing the same first name is not that likely. Chergles ( talk) 16:13, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
I invite no action or comment; but I wonder if it might be worthwhile for you to examine what I have posted as a "comment" at User talk:Tznkai#Note on the topic bans (Caspain Blue and Sennen goroshi)? Plausibly useful? -- Tenmei ( talk) 20:08, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Dogcart3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 1, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-01. howcheng { chat} 00:14, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Saw that you removed the source template on Mae West. Your action in doing so has been appreciated by many readers. We'll hope it lasts that way. Two questions for you about that very important article:
It seems that all the extended and extensive work on this particular article should lead to a reasonably complete text one of these years. There are a number of us Wikipedia users who hope that will happen in 2009. 217.209.96.57 ( talk) 18:26, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
I have strong reason to believe that an administrator is a sockpuppet. Factors to expose this person include Wikipedia's distaste of sockpuppets, the feeling that administrators shouldn't be sockpuppets. Factors to not do anything include that innocent people have been blocked indefinitely as sockpuppets (for example, Ryulong's block of me 2 years ago) and that the sockpuppet's edits are reasonable.
If the standard of guilt is "beyond a reasonable doubt" or "clear and convincing evidence", I will not proceed because my level of confidence in the evidence is not that good. I believe the "preponderance of the evidence" does support sockpuppetry. Chergles ( talk) 22:29, 31 January 2009 (UTC) For the record (the second letter of the offending user's name is e)
My RFA passed today at 150/48/6. I wanted to thank you for weighing in, and I wanted to let you know I appreciated all of the comments, advice, criticism, and seriously took it all to heart this past week. I'll do my absolute best to not let any of you down with the incredible trust given me today. rootology ( C)( T) 07:42, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
Cheers and pfft. It's no big deal. Durova Charge! 08:25, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
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I know that you are "backlogged", but would you be able to restore this image? I must confess to I having no knowledge of how or what you do to images to 'restore' them, but I do know that they tend to look rather good when you are done with them. :) Thanks for your time! — Ed 17 (Talk / Contribs) 18:04, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Took three days, but it's done. Best wishes with your FAC drive. :) Durova Charge! 02:27, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
The above-linked Arbitration case has been closed and the final decision published.
PHG's mentorship and sourcing arrangement is both revised and extended; the full list of new conditions are available by clicking this link. Furthermore, the original topic ban on editing articles related to medieval or ancient history has been rescinded. PHG is prohibited from editing articles relating to the Mongol Empire, the Crusades, intersections between Crusader states and the Mongol Empire, and Hellenistic India—all broadly defined. This topic ban will last for a period of one year. He is permitted to make suggestions on talk pages, provided that he interacts with other editors in a civil fashion.
Any particular article may be added or removed from PHG's editing restriction at the discretion of his mentor; publicly logged to prevent confusion of the restriction's coverage. The mentor is encouraged to be responsive to feedback from editors in making and reconsidering such actions. Furthermore, the Committee noted that PHG has complied with the Committee's restrictions over the past ten months, and that PHG is encouraged to continue contributing to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. PHG should be permitted and encouraged by other editors to write well-sourced suggestions on talkpages, to contribute free-content images to Wikimedia Commons, and to build trust with the community.
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Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Dutrieuc.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 5, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-05. howcheng { chat} 00:54, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi there Durova. I located the theater. I've left the details on the FPC page. Best regards. -- Chasingsol (talk) 05:44, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi again. Managed to find location information for this one too. See FPC page. Best regards. -- Chasingsol (talk) 06:09, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
One more for the night! This one was a toughie, primarily because Tel-el-Sheria (various spellings) ceased to exist after the battle. I reviewed and triangulated based upon several different accounts of the battle and several different maps. The location should be accurate to within about a half mile. Best regards. -- Chasingsol (talk) 08:05, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
I think that it is great that you are active on the admin's noticeboard, and you were very thorough with your intervention of the role account. So, here's this:
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Good going! - BlueCaper ( talk) 13:40, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Since you were interested in the tif file of the image.
The copy of the original tif on my harddrive is lost (I deleted some intermediate tif files some days ago cause I needed space..., bad luck, it was in the list.) I suspect the original to be intact at my father place, but I can't access for now, since he lives 350km from me and since he is not so good in computing.
Now I still have the jpeg I shotted this day. I remade the hdr , corrected the perspective in gimp and saved it as a tif file again.
http://dl.free.fr/uPaimQcW8 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esby ( talk • contribs) 21:25, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
About the licence issue, I don't really care, let it be PD-old100, that should be enough. Attribution don't really have a sense, since it's a moral right according to the french law, what ever it is mentionned or not, it is mandatory to at least mention Farsari as the original author.
The tiff file will be available at a dl.Free.fr location. (I'll update it when the upload will be complete). (31 mb size)
The same can be done for any image of the album, if you are interested in another tiff.
esby ( talk) 20:57, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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Just glanced through this to understand what you meant by a request for cleanup. Nice work and kudos. I'm also a photographer (since '71, now on my 7th camera and 5th Nikon), though I do very little professionally.
I just found Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography/Guide for Professionals and added some info to it. One thing that bugs me is the no-derivative works issue. I've uploaded very few images to Wikipedia but I would probably never upload one with people in it for that reason. Any thoughts? RoyLeban ( talk) 07:00, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Actually, one thing I'm hoping to bring to the attention of more professional photographers is the example at right. Jerry Avenaim happens to be a Wikipedia editor and had uploaded a low resolution version of one of his portraits. Someone admired it enough to nominate for featured picture consideration, where it nearly failed on size requirements until I contacted Mr. Avenaim. He was very flattered by the attention (imagine such a successful photographer being flattered :) ) and provided a file that met requirements. Featured picture status qualifies it to run on Wikipedia's main page, where it will receive an average of about 7 million page views as a main page feature and in the neighborhood of 25,000 direct clicks to the hosting page.
Professional photographers may find it advantageous to place a selection of portfolio shots under copyleft in proportions that qualify for featured picture consideration. It helps the encyclopedia gain access to high quality material, and the project is glad to return credit and a link back to the photographer's website from the hosting page. In a competitive field that may be something more photographers should consider seriously. Durova Charge! 21:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
There is a discussion on deleting Deceased Wikipedians. Since you've been involved in the page before, I hope you will consider commenting at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians (2nd nomination). Best,-- SouthernNights ( talk) 02:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Just a note so you don't miss it in the flurry of everyone's posts at WT:MILHIST: I've responded at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#A free-form comment. Maralia ( talk) 22:40, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Have you seen User:Thatcher/Quis custodiet ipsos custodes and its related talk page? If not, please read it. I stand by every word I said. If that means you feel the desire to open a new RfC because of it, that's your decision to make. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 00:38, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Hmm... since doing an image on Wounded Knee was kind of my idea, I don't mean to... oh, nevermind. Sorry to bother. ;)
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This FPC that I just created is causing my trouble. Um, do you think that the current upload has been converted to a drawing format, it doesn't look like a typical photograph. Ceran →// forge 21:35, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I can't review the images now as my final exams start on Monday and will keep me occupied for around 2 weeks. I will check them out then. Regards -- Muhammad (talk) 06:37, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
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Ignore that ;) --
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I'd like to ask you about a Triple Crown for the Baseball WikiProject. I'm sure there are users other than myself that qualify. I would be able to make the crown image myself, but I don't want to step on your toes. Let me know at my talk page if this is something that's feasible/possible/doable. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 21:45, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
That's a really nice map you put on Fort Ticonderoga. I'm not any good at cleaning maps up; if you want to have a go at this map, I at least would appreciate it. (I also have another map-related idea for Arnold Expedition: if you or someone you know would be able to depict the actual geography of the area depicted by a portion of this map, since this one was, to Arnold's detriment, inaccurate.)
Cheers! Magic ♪piano 22:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I'll add this to the 'to-do' list. Am doing a few other maps currently, so may stretch this out a little. FPC reviewers tend to prefer variety. Please ping me if this becomes urgent. Best regards, Durova Charge! 04:30, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. I've downloaded Gimp and Skype as you suggested at #Image restoration. I would have got back to you sooner, but Wikipedia pissed me off so I decided to focus my attention on writing an article and steer clear of the politics. So yeah, I have them both (I actually had Gimp already), but I need a microphone for Skype. My name on it is mmm.matthewedwards (as in "mmm chocolate"!). I don't have a phone number for it.
So. What's next? :) Matthewedwards ( talk • contribs • email) 07:38, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
I've requested PR to rephrase a comment of his and I figure it might be worth mentioning to you. Cheers, Jaakobou Chalk Talk 15:59, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Lotos Club3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 10, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-10. howcheng { chat} 04:55, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Due to some unforgivable confusion on my part, the meetup on Saturday the 28th needs to be rescheduled. Please see Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Loves Art/LACMA rules#Rescheduling poll to vote for a day/time that works best for you. Thank you and I apologize for the inconvenience. howcheng { chat} 05:50, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
I do believe that WP:MILHIST now qualifies. Discussion: Wikipedia_talk:MILHIST#Crowning_the_project. - MBK 004 20:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Durova! I'm really glad for your help to the article of Uinyeo. With your help, the article can be more accessible for readers who do not have knowledge of Korean history. I'm gonna expand Gungnyeo and Uinyeo articles because I think you had hard time understanding of those because those are quite short in length. I will be online for now, so please contact me if you think more clarification on terms within the article. Thanks.-- Caspian blue 21:12, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
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See my comment and question FloNight ♥♥♥ 22:42, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, I came across this comment [5] by Privatemusings which I feel highly inappropriate. Not only was it clearly WP:POINTY it also was a clear cut BLP violation as Privatemusings must know well that there is no RS that he is Roy's son so it is not a genuine or valid question. While occuring on a user subpage talk page, so only a minor issue, I feel it is highly inappropriate for anyone who clearly knows it to be false and knows it is a violation of BLP policy. I have already informed Privatemusings of my feelings on this matter but noticed while there he had apparently been banned from editing BLPs by the arbcom and found out when I looked into it you were apparently one of the mentor appointed when the ban was lifted, so I feel your words may carry more weight if you agree with me. Nil Einne ( talk) 10:11, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Well, I still hope things work out for him. But there's been a conduct RFC since the mentorship ended. That narrows down options for continuing solutions, but this diff really doesn't seem serious enough to resolve with any extreme measure. Durova Charge! 19:09, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
You were mentioned and thanked by Greg in his final remark (I just found about it today by accident). Read his post here.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:48, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
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Have you been through the maps collection at the Library of Congress? [6] It's hit or miss what you'll find there, but when they're good they're really good. For example, this map of the water supply for Kobe, Japan [7] which is insanely high resolution. The subject might seem kind of boring until you notice who made it and when. I'm just not sure where to place something like that, but have a look and drop word at my user talk if you find one you can use. Best wishes, Durova Charge! 17:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Just wondered if you could revert the vandalism here? Somebody else of course may do so before you do, but I thought it would do no harm to post this here. Bus stop ( talk) 02:38, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova, how are you m'lady? I would like to enquire if I was eligable for your WikiProject Australia triple crown? The DYK, GA and FC credits are as follows:
Waiting in anticipation of your reply. Thanks/cheers, Abraham, B.S. ( talk) 07:57, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind, but I would also like to nominate the following editors for the same award: ;-)
Cheers, Abraham, B.S. ( talk) 11:06, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
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Think [10] this is worth working on? Spikebrennan ( talk) 16:06, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Attack on Harper's Ferrypass5.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 15, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-15. howcheng { chat} 03:33, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
:O — Ed 17 (Talk / Contribs) 18:23, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
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For your awesome (and disturbing) discovery of human remains which has since caused a part of history as I know it to be written I hereby bestow upon thee the barnstar of awesomeness. Congrats! TomStar81 ( Talk) 05:40, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there Durova. Is there a way to non-destructively add geo-tagging to an existing picture, or to the pictures page? I've geo-located another FPC, but would like to be able to add the information in some way. Is there a standard method for doing so? Thank you in advance for your insight. Best regards. -- Chasingsol (talk) 09:41, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
As I have grown to consider you quite neutral and balanced in several matters, while not taking any sides could you judge my request here [11].
Kind regards, -- Molobo ( talk) 17:09, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Question: Can you make it on Sunday at all? I need to take my daughter to a birthday party on Saturday the 21st, so that's completely out for me. Thanks. howcheng { chat} 19:31, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova, A third moderator is required at WP:IECOLL to begin the solving the Ireland naming problem and I was wonder if you would consider getting involved. Thanks 21:51, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Harriet Tubman late in life3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 18, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-18. howcheng { chat} 01:32, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Just a quick note to say the story about you and the Wounded Knee picture (in the Signpost) was utterly inspiring. You must have found the whole situation very exciting - one of those moments you remember forever. Excellent work Durova, the picture is amazing (I looked at it for ages) and your discovery even more so. Hard work paying off a thousand-fold. sassf ( talk) 19:53, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Media Restoration is our onsite outpost. For practical purposes, though, we do most of our collaboration via Skype. If you aren't familiar with that service already, it offers free text and voice chats and good file transfer capabilities. Email me for my Skype ID; I'll be glad to bring you on board. Best, Durova Charge! 23:37, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
I notice that this category you created is unpopulated (empty). In other words, no Wikipedia pages belong to it. If it remains unpopulated for four days, it may be deleted, without discussion, in accordance with Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#C1. I'm notifying you in case you wish to (re-)populate it by adding [[Category:Songs by Noel Coward]] to articles/categories that belong in it.
I blanked the category page. This will not, in itself, cause the category to be deleted. It serves to document (in the page history) that the category was empty at the time of blanking and also to alert other watchers that the category is in jeopardy. You are welcome to revert the blanking if you wish. However, doing so will not prevent deletion if the category remains empty.
If you created the category in error, or it is no longer needed, you can speed up the deletion process by tagging it with {{ db-author}}.
Best regards, -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 23:02, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed you were the first to oppose the FPC above for "bad artifacting", and many have since agreed with your oppose. As I am no picture expert I did some research (as I did not know what artifacting was). I guess that artifacting refers to having compression artifacts. If this is a result of image compression would I be right to assume I can't be undone from the compressed image. Assuming that is true I guess that the particular image nominated cannot be saved. In that case, I looked and found a 31MB TIFF original here ( direct download). Could this image be used to create an image that wouldn't have artifacting? Rambo's Revenge (talk) 10:07, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there! Root told me to come here when I asked him about FP (I don't recall why I did, but he said that you were the best person to ask). I have some pictures from a one shoot from a while back which might be FP material, but my worry is that I am potentially completely wrong and will make a complete fool of myself if I nom them. Would you be happy to take a quick look over them if I were to link to some, and get some feedback? Thanks. :) — neuro (talk) 17:33, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Based on participants' votes, Wikipedia Loves Art LACMA has been rescheduled to Saturday, February 21, 2009 starting at 1:00 PM. Unfortunately, I have a prior commitment and cannot attend. I will need someone to be coordinator for that day. Let me know if you are willing. Thanks, and have fun! howcheng { chat} 17:49, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
As Jayen466 noted on the page, I am involved (somewhat) in the Prem Rawat controversies. For example, I was a party in the ArbCom case, and commented in the recent enforcement page discussion. I followed Jayen466's pointer to the request for Arbitration, but didn't see any place where it seemed appropriate for me to chime in, since I am not listed as a party. I would like to join in the proceedings and/or feel I have some useful knowledge and experience of that situation to add. How would you recommend that I proceed? Thanks, Msalt ( talk) 18:02, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
I apologize if we are being a bit too persistent about this. - MBK 004 18:19, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
"someone who contributed at least ten line citations to an article" - That sounds rather soft, I've done that to a lot of decayed FAs..... YellowMonkey ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 02:53, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
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I just found this and needed to think of someone to give it to. Then I thought of you and couldn't think of anyone better :P
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Are you read for WLA this Saturday? Here are some last minute preparations you should do before you arrive.
Additionally, we will plan to eat out afterwards at a nearby dining establishment (TBD) -- hope you can join us for that. And finally, I was able to make arrangements for my daughter so I will be able to attend after all. Looking forward to seeing you there! howcheng { chat} 19:23, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I had not heard of Template:Did you know before. Might take me a bit to think of how to submit an article. Thanks for the information! Cheers, - Uyvsdi ( talk) 04:55, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi
Hey Durova. If you have time, do you think you can improve this picture's quality? I'd like it made larger without making it blurry, but I have no idea how to do it. iMatthew // talk // 13:35, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
As many know, during Lent, a sacrifice is often made. I am considering not editing Wikipedia during Lent. I saw an article that some Facebook users are not going to use Facebook during Lent, which prompted me to consider my plan. It's not a boycott. Chergles ( talk) 16:49, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Durova. You commented two this on this nomination. IMO it is not titled. May I please ask you to take another look? Thank you.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 18:14, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Ramallah woman2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 22, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-22. howcheng { chat} 19:19, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much! I'll have a peek. Best, Durova Charge! 19:42, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, MBisanz talk 21:02, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
In Episode 70 of the Wikipedia Weekly, I heard you mention a WikiProject on image restoration. Could you give me a link?
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You're the 23rd result on Google when searching for "image restoration" :) Gary King ( talk) 03:52, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
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I'm recruiting User:Mohammad adil as a general creator of battlemaps for MILHIST. In my opinion he did a great job at Battle of Yarmouk, but he could sure need some help. He'll be back in mid-March doing some maps of the Greco-Persian Wars. Can you review his contributions and give some advice? Thanks Wandalstouring ( talk) 09:43, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
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The discussion concerning the reliability of rehosted content on the Prem Rawat evidence talk page reminded me of some examples from the rickross.com page ( 422 links in article space) which I thought it might be useful to share with you here (just so the info does not get lost if I get run over by a bus tomorrow).
In this Chicago Sun Times article on Scientology, the Rick Ross version misses the words "Criticism fades, but some still see it as a money-making cult" in the headline:
The rest of the article text seems to be accurate and complete, except for the little "Scientology at a glance" info box, which is missing on rickross.com.
Here is an LA New Times article on Wayback, and the same article on rickross.com –
If we compare the two versions, we find that the version on rickross.com contains a number of POV-motivated edits to the text. Some of these are:
(Note that Ross is or was professionally associated with Wellspring, which often took in deprogrammees after deprogramming for further treatment.)
In the case of this AP article, rickross.com has both unmarked deletions and commentary when compared to the text given on cesnur.org, a scholarly site, and various other sites (I was unable to get a Wayback link for this item):
Among the material deleted on rickross.com is the fact that "Scott was abducted by three men, bound, gagged and blindfolded, and held for five days."
Generally, it seems advisable to look for a Wayback version for research (and linking). Jayen 466 02:07, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
That's fine. I just didn't want it to get lost. Good luck. Staib ( talk) 12:01, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
I can't upload from the computer where I'm currently located. The full-size version of [15] is 2025 x 2482 and appears to be pretty free of jpeggery. It is an illustration from a 1911 edition of Treasure Island so it's PD. Spikebrennan ( talk) 20:11, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova, I just sent an email to whatever address is linked to this account. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 02:59, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
- MBK 004 05:13, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I saw your edits on Kobayashi Kiyochika. The image of 百撰百笑 is not bad, but he is notable for his traditional landscape prints with a Western touch. I don't think the current image represents his style. So could you please add [16] or [17] to the article? And the current image seems too big to me. Regards. Oda Mari ( talk) 08:25, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Can you make File:Légionnaire romain Ier siècle av JC.jpg look a bit more professional? Thanks Wandalstouring ( talk) 12:59, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova, I just wanted to stop by and say that I am very impressed with, and intrigued by, the wonderful restoration work you do. I think what you achieve with historic images is of great worth. Oh, and I'm thrilled to see that your boss is a cat—good man woman!
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Here goes. [22] If you'd like assistance, we can go back and forth here. Or else it's much quicker to email me for my Skype ID. Durova Charge! 16:19, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I went over the manuscripts but many are too damaged. The others are like letters and will probably receive much opposition as your nomination of Nixon letters. IMO, the following look like the best. 1 and 2. The others are too small. Sorry for the delay -- Muhammad (talk) 03:48, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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I cropped and rotated this image, but I can't upload .tif to Commons...so the dumb question is, how do you go from .tif to .gif, .jpg or .whatever? — Ed 17 (Talk / Contribs) 18:32, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Ouch. Try GIMP? It's a free download. Or if you aren't that ambitious hop onto Skype and send it to me. Email me for my Skype ID. Durova Charge! 18:43, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the Barnstar for embroidery. I really appreciate your appreciation. - PKM ( talk) 21:41, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, Durova. the Ed17 found some PD photos on the LOC website that would be useful for articles on Wikipedia, but some of them are pretty small. He suggested I contact you (since you "probably know the LOC like the back of [your] hand") to see if there's a way to request larger versions of the images. Thanks for any help you can provide. Regards, Parsecboy ( talk) 13:49, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm not looking for conflict. If you can't accept my views, that is nobody's problem but yours. And it would be good if you could be more serious at discussions in future. Thank you. Papa Lima Whiskey ( talk) 16:41, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
I think this would be a good FPC, but am having difficulty decidingw hat articles to put it in. Any suggestions? Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 18:21, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Apologies. I don't normally check my e-mail unless someone tells me they sent one. :) I have skype downloaded, and GIMP. I may have an issue with Skype, since I use a cell phone to edit, and I won't have a microphone for a few more days. Syn ergy 20:05, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Sure thing. Not sure what your tastes are, but here's an idea for starters: the Gallery of Machines at the Paris Exposition of 1889. [26] Suggest working from either the 26MB version or the uncropped 60MB version. I'm writing a Wikiversity course on restoration, which may give some tips to get started. Feel free to email me for more assistance. Skype and Gchat work well for this. Best, Durova Charge! 02:31, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Are you ready to relist soon? If not, you can simply renominate when ready. Thanks, Spencer T♦ C 22:51, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Ursa Major2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 2, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-03-02. howcheng { chat} 23:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
So be it! Xavexgoem ( talk) 00:23, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Not going to finish this restoration tonight, but thought I'd upload what I have done so I can ask you about the issue this image has.
This image is somewhat awkward, as I have to stitch three scans for it, which don't correspond to the three pieces of paper used to make the poster (Augh!) I've managed to fix most of it, but could use another set of eyes - what am I missing? Is there something I should be doing but haven't yet?
Also, if you want to help out with smoothing out that stupid background, I won't say no. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 08:12, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Gatoclass ( talk) 09:09, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Durova, I'm sorry, but you're simply wrong in this case. I realise that these are new restorationists, but I really don't think they need defended against constructive criticism, particularly where if I didn't speak up about the problem, when it could be easily fixed if pointed out, I would feel I was acting unethically, as it changes the artistic intent slightly.
These long conversations have a tendency to drive voters away, so would you be willing to just throw out our last two comments? We can throw it in one of those {{ hat}}/{{ hab}} boxes if another version is provided. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 21:39, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I saw from the arbitration enforcement page that you were critical of Joachman. Can you please review this? I gave him the name of the checkuser who confirmed it and I told him to contact him. Joachman's behavior is starting to look like as stalking, and personally I fail to see his problem, for an information that everyone involved in AA1-AA2 already knew. Can you read my request and answer if it is indeed legitimate? I've read and reread myself there and I am clueless, the guy even added my name to the checkuser request. His implication has taken disruptive proportions. Damn it, it was simply an insignificant checkuser request. VartanM ( talk) 01:09, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/MZMcBride/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/MZMcBride/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Tiptoety talk 02:26, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Do you know why someone would have added a speedy deletion tag as a corrupt or empty image to this file? It seems good to me. Rlendog ( talk) 04:30, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks. -- KP Botany ( talk) 03:54, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
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I've found another possible source, though it doesn't look entirely reliable. Here's what I've pulled from it:
recently been the subject of experiments at the Ministry of the war by a Roubaisian, M. Desbouvrie with swallows travelers. We asked our correspondent Roubaix us in this regard the statements and documents of interest to our readers. He sent us a photograph of the hirondellier that reproduces our engraving, and the following article which gives curious information on the attempt of Mr. Desbouvrie. What antithesis that title! Swallows of war, and yet it is fair.
This nice bird, which leaves us with melancholy in us leaving each fall, and whose return is greeted with a cry of joy every spring, could become a military messenger.
A Roubaisian Jean Desbouvrie, found the secret of breeding swallows, to tame. They leave their hirondellier, returning just as the pigeons, and live in both winter and summer. There are nearly forty years that Mr. Desbouvrie responsible for developing and tame birds which are known to be resistant to any domestication. From the most tender age, the young Desbouvrie, loved birds and especially birds, taming it to the point that whenever he went out with his father, he was always accompanied by a certain amount of swallows fluttering around him and coming to his call to land on his shoulders or his hands. Since then he has never stopped them.
Hirondellier Mr. Desbouvrie.
According to a photograph
Mr. Samuel Elkan, Roubaix.
The great difficulty to keep birds in the winter was the first food, the Swallow feeding exclusively on insects. Mr. Desbouvrie has a secret he did not reveal to anyone to feed it gathers young swallows in their nests where they have a few feathers. Once high and capable of flying, food change, and then he gives the recipe for people that buy its residents. There are two kinds, one for amateurs, for aviaries or zoos and acclimatization. The others are the swallows travelers. It is the latter that we occupy.
Nothing curious as inside the hirondellier, located on the first floor of the small town that is our burning and is built in the hamlet of Vine, on the edge of the canal linking the Scheldt to Deule, through Roubaix. The window opens onto a balcony corridor communicating with a room converted into a large aviary, where they frolic at ease about Mr. Desbouvrie. They all have a particular name, which is the color of silk thread attached to one of their legs. It takes 15 to 40 days for the dresser, and one, are in three weeks, while others need a few more days.
Mr. Desbouvrie proposed to Ministry of War to experiment with its swallows. On 7 September, on the Esplanade des Invalides, in the presence of several persons, he dropped two, having circled a moment, disappeared towards the north. Dropped 4 to 15 hours, at the Esplanade des Invalides, they were at their hirondellier 5 hours 30 minutes. They therefore had traveled over 150 kilometers in 75 minutes.
Ceran thor 13:21, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the welcome Durova. It was very kind of you to do that. I now have to figure out how to work on wikipedia. I'm sure I'll manage it in time. Thanks again Little Tuck ( talk) 20:10, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
I had a look at Timeline of young people's rights in the United States and there are a number of wonderful (poignant) images there, particularly those young Jewish girls. FP material? If I create an article for newsboy for the image there (and the one in Newsboys Strike of 1899) I'll let you know. Thanks again for all restoration work you do, it's sincerely appreciated! Mostlyharmless ( talk) 01:42, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
I think this needs cleaned. I cannot, however, do it: I have a slight headache, and you pretty much have to remove the pops before removing the noise. Listening to that buzz off and on for the hours it will take will only make it worse. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 02:32, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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This could use an edge sharpening, though I doubt it's particularly featureable. Not unless we cut out all the image elements and pasted them onto some non-posterised paper, while giving it a sharpen good enough to make it look decent. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 12:23, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, realised there were a few more things I could do. It's ready now. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 07:31, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:DuckandC1951.ogg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 6, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-03-06. howcheng { chat} 22:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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Is the release given correct? It isn't an image in the public domain due to copyright expiring. It is a modified version of such an image. (In fact it just occurred to me that we should possibly add for the general PD message a note that the image either has expired copyright or is so old that it was never copyrightable, but that's nitpicking). JoshuaZ ( talk) 00:36, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I should have followed my first instinct and contact you before I made the last post. I'm so glad you've been watching and realized the same thing. I was dreading making up the checkuser or sock case because this is so much all over the place. I'll add what I posted on Mae West and see what else I can find readily. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 01:05, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Ping. - MBK 004 05:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
I've uploaded an Audacity converted file (if you weren't using Audacity, I'd strongly suggest considering it next time). I think I'll also do a slight edit to reduce the remaining buzz. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 19:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey, Durova, could you direct me to the policy regarding translation and copyrighted derivative works? Since I have used many foreign language sources, I think I need to be more familiar with the guideline, but I failed to find it by searching...-- Caspian blue 23:44, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Plagiarism isn't always copyright violation, but can be. The two are separate concepts that often overlap. Durova Charge! 00:01, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
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I can probably do the spots in the John Paul Jones engraving fairly quickly, and you can probably do the Japanese boat faster and better than I could. Would you like to swap? Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 17:34, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
You're ready to be an admin. Anyone watching this page, please agree now. Syn ergy 21:48, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Archiving all existing threads on this page. Respectfully requesting the patience of fellow editors regarding unresolved existing issues. I tend to be the mouse who bells cats and there was a rather large tiger running around today. This is likely to take up a fair amount of energy for the near future.
In the meantime I will be doing my best to return to the content I was working on as today's events were brewing: a fourteenth century manuscript navigational chart of the Mediterranean Sea. Let's all remember please that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia; urging other editors to direct their energies into useful content. With respect toward all, Durova Charge! 22:54, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova, a while ago I unblocked Bus stop on the understanding that he'd be mentored by you. A cursory review of his contributions revealed no issues, but I wanted to check in with you and make sure he's doing ok.-- Aervanath talks like a mover, but not a shaker 06:00, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
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There is a new guide for professional photographer's to help them when they contribute images to wikipedia. You can check it out here Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography/Guide for Professionals. Since you seem to be an expert in everything (including photography), your input would be greatly appreciated. Remember ( talk) 13:25, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
I have a large bible "The Brown Bible" dated from 1878, each page is a bit bigger than A4 in size. There are many pictures in it, some in quite good condition. Any clues as to how to determine the author(s)? Noodle snacks ( talk) 13:31, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
This has gone awful quiet and so has this — Realist 2 17:27, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks When you reviewed Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, I was essentially the only editor to the article (I still am), and I was also taking a break from Wikipedia. Consequently, no one acted on the simple suggestions that you made for this article to pass a GA review. I have been working on it for the past several hours and will continue for the next day or two. If you want to take a look at it in a couple of days when I'm done, let me know. If not, I will go through the process of submitting it for review again. Please post on my talk if you'd like to respond. Thank you for your time. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 09:50, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
I think your phrase "wondering how I had signed up for the right reasons and joined the wrong war" is very moving. DuncanHill ( talk) 16:08, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
This is low-priority, but it's vexing me: I can't figure out why my photo of John Reed (novelist) isn't showing up in the info-box. Any ideas? --David Shankbone 19:08, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova. Did anything come of Campbell's deletion request? Are you still in discussions with him regarding it? I ask because there's currently
an AfD underway, which I figured was largely irrelevant until we figured out if discussions were still ongoing, which of course could end in you agreeing to delete the page, thus negating the need for an AfD in the first place.
For obvious confidentiality reasons I'm not looking for in-depth information. Really just whether the discussions are still ongoing, or if they are over and nothing came of them. Thanks.
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From today's scout report Pictures of Science: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/?collection=SeeingIsBelieving700&col_id=197
Brought together originally in 1999 for an exhibition held at the New York Public Library's Gottesman Exhibition Hall, this set of intriguing images covers the fields of astronomy, chemistry, geology, medicine, and physics taken from different engravings, lithographs, and manuscript illuminations. The images here range from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and they are culled from works such as the 1798 volume "Elemens de la philosophie de Neuton" and the important 1830 volume "Principles of Geology" written by geologist Sir Charles Lyell. I thought maybe some of this images could be uploaded to wikipedia and fixed up, but I thought you would be a better judge of this. Remember ( talk) 16:04, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Blanchardballoon3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 19, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-01-19. howcheng { chat} 17:19, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Why? isn't Biszilla also Bishonen? GoodDay ( talk) 19:07, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
I think some moderation in your approach to promoting the importance of sensitivity and civility on Wikipedia might be a good thing. Accusations and implications of complicity and association with serious abuse and harassment is a very serious charge. I am redacting my quotation of the specific comment to which I am referring, but it is in this page's edit history. I'm not trying to create more drama or inflame the situation, I just wanted to offer my perspective. Cheers. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 20:47, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hey, Thanks for the info. I had seen the protest picture in the portal but was not quite sure who was in charge. Is the review process similar to that of FPC? -- Muhammad (talk) 07:14, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova. I hope you don't mind me pestering you, but I have a question or two in relation to the Triple Crown awards and was hoping you would be able to provide me with some answers? First off, for one to become eligible for the Wikiproject Australia Triple Crown would one have to just get one each of DYK, GA, and FC on a topic related to Australia? And, if so, would one be eligible for both the Wikiproject Australia Triple Crown and the Standard Triple Crown, or would two different credits of each be required? My main motivation for asking is that I hold a Standard Triple Crown and each of the articles it is for are Australian topics—Australian Victoria Cross recipients to be exact. Also, do each of the DYK, GA and FC need to be different? As in, if an article had been up at DYK and had passed as GA, would it count one for each or just one or the other? Same with GA to FA? Thank you very much for taking your precious time up to read this, and hopefully reply. :) Cheers, Abraham, B.S. ( talk) 11:58, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Check this out. Do you think that Vanity Fair caricature has FP potential, and if so, how challenging a project would it be? I'd be willing to give it a shot.-- ragesoss ( talk) 19:55, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
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This is not a race, Durova. :) -- Samir 07:06, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Agh, you beat me to this one! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 13:51, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova:
I was wondering whether I might ask a favour of you please (in your Commons admin capacity). If you are unable to, I shall entirely understand: I know how thinly you must sometimes find yourself spread :)
We have just overhauled the design of our existing A-Class medal and added three more variants. For information, the new designs are as follows:
File:Mil Hist A-Class Bronze Medal (variant).png File:Mil Hist A-Class Silver Medal.png File:Mil Hist A-Class Gold Medal.png File:Mil Hist A-Class Gold Medal - Gold Oak Leaves.png
The files have already been uploaded to Commons by Noclador but we would like their names changed. I gather that only sysops can move files on the Commons: hence, my bothering you :) The idea is also to overwrite the first existing file with a new image so we don't need to update the awards so far manually. Anyhow, here are the existing names and the preferred file names:
Image:Mil Hist A-Class Bronze Medal (variant).png > Image:WPMH ACR.PNG
Image:Mil Hist A-Class Silver Medal.png > Image:WPMH ACR (Oakleaves).PNG
Image:Mil Hist A-Class Gold Medal.png > Image:WPMH ACR (Swords).PNG
Image:Mil Hist A-Class Gold Medal - Gold Oak Leaves.png > Image:WPMH ACR (Diamonds).PNG
Many thanks in advance for any help you can provide, -- ROGER DAVIES talk 14:41, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:82northe.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 23, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-01-23. howcheng { chat} 17:52, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Durova, it's strange to me that you're suddenly, a week after the fact, officiously posting to me about filing the RFAR. [2] "To Bishonen, it's quite simple"—it sounds like I've been nagging you to explain your request for arbitration ever since! (Whereas I've actually never even mentioned it.) How are you involved? What's your role? How many people are you going to explain it to? [3]
Your notion that retiring the Bishzilla account is a "step forward" (from what?) is meddlesome, and your thanks offend me. Please refactor them. Bishonen | talk 19:39, 20 January 2009 (UTC).
As the only person I can think of with experience in both the technicalities of working with old images, and the use of images between Commons and Wikipedia (I'm sure there are others, but I don't generally have many dealings with the Commons crowd), would you be able to have a look at this image and the storm-in-a-teacup that's ensued regarding its copyright status? A deletion request over on Commons has now spawned a sprawling thread there about its status. (FWIW: my personal opinion is that it's almost certainly a tinted black-and-white photograph and not a painting, given the black-and-white human figures and that trivial elements in the foreground such as gravel and power lines are shown in sharper focus than significant elements such as the station and buildings; that there's no reason to doubt that it dates from 1915 or earlier; that there's no reasonable way to identify the creator, and in any event the copyright would almost certainly have belonged to the publishing firm and not the photographer; and that uploading the back of the image as "proof" of the age is pointless – given that there's no way to demonstrate authenticity of the back, this requires just as much of a leap of AGF as "taking the uploader's word for it" does.) If you have any suggestions in breaking the logjam – even if it's "delete the image" – it would be useful; this relatively minor debate over this image – which isn't essential to either of the articles on which it's used – is potentially going to hold up FAC of one of said two articles, and I'd love to get it resolved sooner rather than later. – iridescent 20:38, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
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The request for arbitration named above has been declined as superseded by motion :
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FYI diff, if you might find this useful I'd be glad to help, otherwise the best of luck. Tim Vickers ( talk) 22:04, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Harassment or not? Here.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 02:03, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova, I've commented at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Stuart_Campbell_(journalist)#Stuart_Campbell_.28journalist.29, operating on the assumption that the person who requested deletion of the article is indeed the subject. Should I have been mistaken in that, please let me know on my talk page and I may revise my comment (although based on what the article cites at present, notability seems pretty borderline anyway). Thanks, Jayen 466 13:15, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
I hope you might wish to revisit your comment on the talk page of the Arbitration Enforcement RFC with respect to Tango's desysop. Tango was desysopped because he had made a series of questionable blocks, the last of which was a block which he attached to the 9/11 sanctions. The evidence was that almost every block Tango made on a "named" editor was questionable, with the exception of a 3RR block to a well-known edit warrior. It was his pattern of behaviour that resulted in his desysopping, not one single action. Risker ( talk) 22:56, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova! Just a note to let you know I've sent you an email. Thanks, ~ Eliz 81 (C) 20:01, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Fultondesign7.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 27, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-01-27. howcheng { chat} 17:32, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Currently you have two articles at GAN that you have placed on hold- Defeated Sanity and Solange Knowles- which have been on hold for 43 days. Not sure if you forgot about them or what's going on, just letting you know! -- Pres N 21:52, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Durova, please take a look at this vandalism: [4]. I don't know where to report it.-- Fahrenheit451 ( talk) 04:14, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Well, they look like owls that the "grays" might have. ;) •Jim62sch• dissera! 23:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm up for a different pic, and will co-nominate. Ceran →// forge 00:12, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Boston, 1775bsmall1.png is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 31, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-01-31. howcheng { chat} 06:45, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hello. Just a friendly heads-up that I think you forget to include a caption at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Amsterdam Centraal railway station. Best wishes -- Eustress ( talk) 06:16, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova. Following a successful FPC nomination and my sticking around over there, I've seen a lot of your restoration work recently and have seen in a couple of places that you are willing to "teach"(?) your skill to anyone who is interested. I am interested but have practically no image manipulation software on my computer. I also can't really afford to buy any, meaning OpenSource software is my preferred (read only!) choice. Would this be possible? If so, can we take it in "baby steps"! Regards, Matthewedwards ( talk • contribs • email) 07:58, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Just a quick heads up on those LoC scans.
From what I can tell, the Library has access to two systems, one is Phase One kit and if it's the system I think it is, it's state-of-the art. I can't say which department uses it but suffice to say, it wasn't around when they scanned a lot of the maps and other images in the American Memory collection. They used an old Tangent Artisan 2000 scanner, donated by the manufacturers in the mid-90s, the firmware for which wouldn't have provided any way of correcting white balance on-the-fly, as modern systems do. I used to use something very similar base on the early Leaf platform and it was a wholly manual, post-processing task. The Tangent would have given very high quality, low-contrast result ideal for maps & plans but completely uncorrected as a raw file.
LoC archivists at the time appear to have routinely adjusted the files but only for brightness and contrast, basically due to time constraints resulting from the huge volume of work at hand. It's also much less likely that the workflow in place at this time was calibrated from device to display, although I can only infer this from the colour shift apparent on my (modern, calibrated) monitor. I figured it was worth contacting the library, as you suggested, to confirm that no colour correction, in particular white-balance corrections, were performed, ie that basically "raw" files, with only basic luminance correction, are placed in the public archives. The American Memory team referred me to the Prints and Photographs Division, who replied this morning:
Hello Mick Stephenson
I have consulted with our digital conversion coordinator to make sure that our practice matches what you describe as "raw" scans. He says it does.
For information on our digitization specifications for particular sets of images (which will have varied in resolution standards depending on how recently the scans have been made), check for digitization information accompanying the collection: From our collections listing page < http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html >), select "More information" next to the collection you are interested in. Generally, if we have drafted specific digitization information, it will be called "Digitizing the ...." For example:
- Digitizing the FSA/OWI Color transparencies: < http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/fsacdig.html>
- Digitizing the Civil War negatives: < http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpdig.html>
Best wishes.
Barbara Natanson
Reference Section
Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress
If you check the [ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/pandigit.html Panoramic Maps "Digitizing the..." page, for example, it confirms the use of the Tangent system and lack of white balance correction. Incidentally it's worth noting this doesn't necessarily mean more recent scans are unreliable from a colour fidelity point of view, as the Phase One scans (for example) will almost certainly perform a basic white point selection on the fly. Chances are, these would be very reliable indeed, given modern colour profiling and display calibration.
From our perspective as an encyclopedia, it means we have no reliable white point reference other than the possibility that there remains a small amount of white border from the scanner hood, or white backing paper. Where this is visible, it can be selected with an eye dropper tool in Pshops Levels or Curves dialogs as a start point, and tweaked from there. Where the scans were all made at roughly the same time, we can safely infer a similar white shift for all similar documents. I guess the only real confirmation would be in person, with a trip to the Library to view it first hand, although perhaps that would be a little bit too time consuming ;)
I'm sure you know the procedure I'm referring to well enough as I've noticed some impressive results, presumably using this approach, in the past. I only brought this up as it seemed there may have been an assumption that the archives at LoC are already corrected for colour and hence not corrected. I hope you can see that this in not the case. I also hope you can accept that I'm not interested in scoring points here, nor did I have any intention of upsetting you in bringing the issue up. I'm sorry if it came over that way. I should add that I'm in awe, frankly, of the time you dedicate to the project and the immense value your efforts provide. However is does seem to me that this correction should be a fundamental one in restoring artworks, if only from a historical accuracy point of view; maybe it's an under-addressed issue generally and should be discussed further elsewhere. I'd be interested to participate in that and who knows, maybe even get back into contributing some restoration work again soon. Real life just ain't backing off enough at the moment :/
Good luck with the nominations, anyway. mikaul talk 21:56, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Are you able to improve this shipwreck image from the 70s? It has a texture all the way across it and some white flecks in the sky. - Shiftchange ( talk) 11:43, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
One trouble with the discussion on ANI is there is fear to express one's opinion. I have not researched the user's edits but if I were to come out in favor of unban, I could be indefinitely blocked accused of being a sock defending the master. The safe thing to do is to say nothing or advocate even harsher measures. There should be safeguards against false accusations. Perhaps there could be identity verification. If I am Mary then accused sock must prove he is not Mary, or he could be blocked. The chances that two different people falsely accused of being a sock but sharing the same first name is not that likely. Chergles ( talk) 16:13, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
I invite no action or comment; but I wonder if it might be worthwhile for you to examine what I have posted as a "comment" at User talk:Tznkai#Note on the topic bans (Caspain Blue and Sennen goroshi)? Plausibly useful? -- Tenmei ( talk) 20:08, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Dogcart3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 1, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-01. howcheng { chat} 00:14, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Saw that you removed the source template on Mae West. Your action in doing so has been appreciated by many readers. We'll hope it lasts that way. Two questions for you about that very important article:
It seems that all the extended and extensive work on this particular article should lead to a reasonably complete text one of these years. There are a number of us Wikipedia users who hope that will happen in 2009. 217.209.96.57 ( talk) 18:26, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
I have strong reason to believe that an administrator is a sockpuppet. Factors to expose this person include Wikipedia's distaste of sockpuppets, the feeling that administrators shouldn't be sockpuppets. Factors to not do anything include that innocent people have been blocked indefinitely as sockpuppets (for example, Ryulong's block of me 2 years ago) and that the sockpuppet's edits are reasonable.
If the standard of guilt is "beyond a reasonable doubt" or "clear and convincing evidence", I will not proceed because my level of confidence in the evidence is not that good. I believe the "preponderance of the evidence" does support sockpuppetry. Chergles ( talk) 22:29, 31 January 2009 (UTC) For the record (the second letter of the offending user's name is e)
My RFA passed today at 150/48/6. I wanted to thank you for weighing in, and I wanted to let you know I appreciated all of the comments, advice, criticism, and seriously took it all to heart this past week. I'll do my absolute best to not let any of you down with the incredible trust given me today. rootology ( C)( T) 07:42, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
Cheers and pfft. It's no big deal. Durova Charge! 08:25, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Your
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I know that you are "backlogged", but would you be able to restore this image? I must confess to I having no knowledge of how or what you do to images to 'restore' them, but I do know that they tend to look rather good when you are done with them. :) Thanks for your time! — Ed 17 (Talk / Contribs) 18:04, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Took three days, but it's done. Best wishes with your FAC drive. :) Durova Charge! 02:27, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
The above-linked Arbitration case has been closed and the final decision published.
PHG's mentorship and sourcing arrangement is both revised and extended; the full list of new conditions are available by clicking this link. Furthermore, the original topic ban on editing articles related to medieval or ancient history has been rescinded. PHG is prohibited from editing articles relating to the Mongol Empire, the Crusades, intersections between Crusader states and the Mongol Empire, and Hellenistic India—all broadly defined. This topic ban will last for a period of one year. He is permitted to make suggestions on talk pages, provided that he interacts with other editors in a civil fashion.
Any particular article may be added or removed from PHG's editing restriction at the discretion of his mentor; publicly logged to prevent confusion of the restriction's coverage. The mentor is encouraged to be responsive to feedback from editors in making and reconsidering such actions. Furthermore, the Committee noted that PHG has complied with the Committee's restrictions over the past ten months, and that PHG is encouraged to continue contributing to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. PHG should be permitted and encouraged by other editors to write well-sourced suggestions on talkpages, to contribute free-content images to Wikimedia Commons, and to build trust with the community.
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Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Dutrieuc.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 5, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-05. howcheng { chat} 00:54, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi there Durova. I located the theater. I've left the details on the FPC page. Best regards. -- Chasingsol (talk) 05:44, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi again. Managed to find location information for this one too. See FPC page. Best regards. -- Chasingsol (talk) 06:09, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
One more for the night! This one was a toughie, primarily because Tel-el-Sheria (various spellings) ceased to exist after the battle. I reviewed and triangulated based upon several different accounts of the battle and several different maps. The location should be accurate to within about a half mile. Best regards. -- Chasingsol (talk) 08:05, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
I think that it is great that you are active on the admin's noticeboard, and you were very thorough with your intervention of the role account. So, here's this:
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Good going! - BlueCaper ( talk) 13:40, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Since you were interested in the tif file of the image.
The copy of the original tif on my harddrive is lost (I deleted some intermediate tif files some days ago cause I needed space..., bad luck, it was in the list.) I suspect the original to be intact at my father place, but I can't access for now, since he lives 350km from me and since he is not so good in computing.
Now I still have the jpeg I shotted this day. I remade the hdr , corrected the perspective in gimp and saved it as a tif file again.
http://dl.free.fr/uPaimQcW8 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esby ( talk • contribs) 21:25, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
About the licence issue, I don't really care, let it be PD-old100, that should be enough. Attribution don't really have a sense, since it's a moral right according to the french law, what ever it is mentionned or not, it is mandatory to at least mention Farsari as the original author.
The tiff file will be available at a dl.Free.fr location. (I'll update it when the upload will be complete). (31 mb size)
The same can be done for any image of the album, if you are interested in another tiff.
esby ( talk) 20:57, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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Just glanced through this to understand what you meant by a request for cleanup. Nice work and kudos. I'm also a photographer (since '71, now on my 7th camera and 5th Nikon), though I do very little professionally.
I just found Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography/Guide for Professionals and added some info to it. One thing that bugs me is the no-derivative works issue. I've uploaded very few images to Wikipedia but I would probably never upload one with people in it for that reason. Any thoughts? RoyLeban ( talk) 07:00, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Actually, one thing I'm hoping to bring to the attention of more professional photographers is the example at right. Jerry Avenaim happens to be a Wikipedia editor and had uploaded a low resolution version of one of his portraits. Someone admired it enough to nominate for featured picture consideration, where it nearly failed on size requirements until I contacted Mr. Avenaim. He was very flattered by the attention (imagine such a successful photographer being flattered :) ) and provided a file that met requirements. Featured picture status qualifies it to run on Wikipedia's main page, where it will receive an average of about 7 million page views as a main page feature and in the neighborhood of 25,000 direct clicks to the hosting page.
Professional photographers may find it advantageous to place a selection of portfolio shots under copyleft in proportions that qualify for featured picture consideration. It helps the encyclopedia gain access to high quality material, and the project is glad to return credit and a link back to the photographer's website from the hosting page. In a competitive field that may be something more photographers should consider seriously. Durova Charge! 21:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
There is a discussion on deleting Deceased Wikipedians. Since you've been involved in the page before, I hope you will consider commenting at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians (2nd nomination). Best,-- SouthernNights ( talk) 02:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Just a note so you don't miss it in the flurry of everyone's posts at WT:MILHIST: I've responded at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#A free-form comment. Maralia ( talk) 22:40, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Have you seen User:Thatcher/Quis custodiet ipsos custodes and its related talk page? If not, please read it. I stand by every word I said. If that means you feel the desire to open a new RfC because of it, that's your decision to make. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 00:38, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Hmm... since doing an image on Wounded Knee was kind of my idea, I don't mean to... oh, nevermind. Sorry to bother. ;)
Ceran
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This FPC that I just created is causing my trouble. Um, do you think that the current upload has been converted to a drawing format, it doesn't look like a typical photograph. Ceran →// forge 21:35, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I can't review the images now as my final exams start on Monday and will keep me occupied for around 2 weeks. I will check them out then. Regards -- Muhammad (talk) 06:37, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
:Could you check
File:Baba stone.jpg out? The original version in the file history is a large res image. Would it be possible to get to FP status? --
Muhammad
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Ignore that ;) --
Muhammad
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I'd like to ask you about a Triple Crown for the Baseball WikiProject. I'm sure there are users other than myself that qualify. I would be able to make the crown image myself, but I don't want to step on your toes. Let me know at my talk page if this is something that's feasible/possible/doable. KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 21:45, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
That's a really nice map you put on Fort Ticonderoga. I'm not any good at cleaning maps up; if you want to have a go at this map, I at least would appreciate it. (I also have another map-related idea for Arnold Expedition: if you or someone you know would be able to depict the actual geography of the area depicted by a portion of this map, since this one was, to Arnold's detriment, inaccurate.)
Cheers! Magic ♪piano 22:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I'll add this to the 'to-do' list. Am doing a few other maps currently, so may stretch this out a little. FPC reviewers tend to prefer variety. Please ping me if this becomes urgent. Best regards, Durova Charge! 04:30, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. I've downloaded Gimp and Skype as you suggested at #Image restoration. I would have got back to you sooner, but Wikipedia pissed me off so I decided to focus my attention on writing an article and steer clear of the politics. So yeah, I have them both (I actually had Gimp already), but I need a microphone for Skype. My name on it is mmm.matthewedwards (as in "mmm chocolate"!). I don't have a phone number for it.
So. What's next? :) Matthewedwards ( talk • contribs • email) 07:38, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
I've requested PR to rephrase a comment of his and I figure it might be worth mentioning to you. Cheers, Jaakobou Chalk Talk 15:59, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
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I don't understand how d. sanctions lead to cabal creation... Could you elaborate on this there? Then I would likely endorse :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:29, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Lotos Club3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 10, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-10. howcheng { chat} 04:55, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Due to some unforgivable confusion on my part, the meetup on Saturday the 28th needs to be rescheduled. Please see Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Loves Art/LACMA rules#Rescheduling poll to vote for a day/time that works best for you. Thank you and I apologize for the inconvenience. howcheng { chat} 05:50, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
I do believe that WP:MILHIST now qualifies. Discussion: Wikipedia_talk:MILHIST#Crowning_the_project. - MBK 004 20:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Durova! I'm really glad for your help to the article of Uinyeo. With your help, the article can be more accessible for readers who do not have knowledge of Korean history. I'm gonna expand Gungnyeo and Uinyeo articles because I think you had hard time understanding of those because those are quite short in length. I will be online for now, so please contact me if you think more clarification on terms within the article. Thanks.-- Caspian blue 21:12, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
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See my comment and question FloNight ♥♥♥ 22:42, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, I came across this comment [5] by Privatemusings which I feel highly inappropriate. Not only was it clearly WP:POINTY it also was a clear cut BLP violation as Privatemusings must know well that there is no RS that he is Roy's son so it is not a genuine or valid question. While occuring on a user subpage talk page, so only a minor issue, I feel it is highly inappropriate for anyone who clearly knows it to be false and knows it is a violation of BLP policy. I have already informed Privatemusings of my feelings on this matter but noticed while there he had apparently been banned from editing BLPs by the arbcom and found out when I looked into it you were apparently one of the mentor appointed when the ban was lifted, so I feel your words may carry more weight if you agree with me. Nil Einne ( talk) 10:11, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Well, I still hope things work out for him. But there's been a conduct RFC since the mentorship ended. That narrows down options for continuing solutions, but this diff really doesn't seem serious enough to resolve with any extreme measure. Durova Charge! 19:09, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
You were mentioned and thanked by Greg in his final remark (I just found about it today by accident). Read his post here.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:48, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
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Have you been through the maps collection at the Library of Congress? [6] It's hit or miss what you'll find there, but when they're good they're really good. For example, this map of the water supply for Kobe, Japan [7] which is insanely high resolution. The subject might seem kind of boring until you notice who made it and when. I'm just not sure where to place something like that, but have a look and drop word at my user talk if you find one you can use. Best wishes, Durova Charge! 17:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Just wondered if you could revert the vandalism here? Somebody else of course may do so before you do, but I thought it would do no harm to post this here. Bus stop ( talk) 02:38, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova, how are you m'lady? I would like to enquire if I was eligable for your WikiProject Australia triple crown? The DYK, GA and FC credits are as follows:
Waiting in anticipation of your reply. Thanks/cheers, Abraham, B.S. ( talk) 07:57, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind, but I would also like to nominate the following editors for the same award: ;-)
Cheers, Abraham, B.S. ( talk) 11:06, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
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Think [10] this is worth working on? Spikebrennan ( talk) 16:06, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Attack on Harper's Ferrypass5.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 15, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-15. howcheng { chat} 03:33, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
:O — Ed 17 (Talk / Contribs) 18:23, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
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For your awesome (and disturbing) discovery of human remains which has since caused a part of history as I know it to be written I hereby bestow upon thee the barnstar of awesomeness. Congrats! TomStar81 ( Talk) 05:40, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there Durova. Is there a way to non-destructively add geo-tagging to an existing picture, or to the pictures page? I've geo-located another FPC, but would like to be able to add the information in some way. Is there a standard method for doing so? Thank you in advance for your insight. Best regards. -- Chasingsol (talk) 09:41, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
As I have grown to consider you quite neutral and balanced in several matters, while not taking any sides could you judge my request here [11].
Kind regards, -- Molobo ( talk) 17:09, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Question: Can you make it on Sunday at all? I need to take my daughter to a birthday party on Saturday the 21st, so that's completely out for me. Thanks. howcheng { chat} 19:31, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova, A third moderator is required at WP:IECOLL to begin the solving the Ireland naming problem and I was wonder if you would consider getting involved. Thanks 21:51, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Harriet Tubman late in life3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 18, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-18. howcheng { chat} 01:32, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Just a quick note to say the story about you and the Wounded Knee picture (in the Signpost) was utterly inspiring. You must have found the whole situation very exciting - one of those moments you remember forever. Excellent work Durova, the picture is amazing (I looked at it for ages) and your discovery even more so. Hard work paying off a thousand-fold. sassf ( talk) 19:53, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Media Restoration is our onsite outpost. For practical purposes, though, we do most of our collaboration via Skype. If you aren't familiar with that service already, it offers free text and voice chats and good file transfer capabilities. Email me for my Skype ID; I'll be glad to bring you on board. Best, Durova Charge! 23:37, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
I notice that this category you created is unpopulated (empty). In other words, no Wikipedia pages belong to it. If it remains unpopulated for four days, it may be deleted, without discussion, in accordance with Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#C1. I'm notifying you in case you wish to (re-)populate it by adding [[Category:Songs by Noel Coward]] to articles/categories that belong in it.
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Hi, I noticed you were the first to oppose the FPC above for "bad artifacting", and many have since agreed with your oppose. As I am no picture expert I did some research (as I did not know what artifacting was). I guess that artifacting refers to having compression artifacts. If this is a result of image compression would I be right to assume I can't be undone from the compressed image. Assuming that is true I guess that the particular image nominated cannot be saved. In that case, I looked and found a 31MB TIFF original here ( direct download). Could this image be used to create an image that wouldn't have artifacting? Rambo's Revenge (talk) 10:07, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there! Root told me to come here when I asked him about FP (I don't recall why I did, but he said that you were the best person to ask). I have some pictures from a one shoot from a while back which might be FP material, but my worry is that I am potentially completely wrong and will make a complete fool of myself if I nom them. Would you be happy to take a quick look over them if I were to link to some, and get some feedback? Thanks. :) — neuro (talk) 17:33, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Based on participants' votes, Wikipedia Loves Art LACMA has been rescheduled to Saturday, February 21, 2009 starting at 1:00 PM. Unfortunately, I have a prior commitment and cannot attend. I will need someone to be coordinator for that day. Let me know if you are willing. Thanks, and have fun! howcheng { chat} 17:49, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
As Jayen466 noted on the page, I am involved (somewhat) in the Prem Rawat controversies. For example, I was a party in the ArbCom case, and commented in the recent enforcement page discussion. I followed Jayen466's pointer to the request for Arbitration, but didn't see any place where it seemed appropriate for me to chime in, since I am not listed as a party. I would like to join in the proceedings and/or feel I have some useful knowledge and experience of that situation to add. How would you recommend that I proceed? Thanks, Msalt ( talk) 18:02, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
I apologize if we are being a bit too persistent about this. - MBK 004 18:19, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
"someone who contributed at least ten line citations to an article" - That sounds rather soft, I've done that to a lot of decayed FAs..... YellowMonkey ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 02:53, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
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I just found this and needed to think of someone to give it to. Then I thought of you and couldn't think of anyone better :P
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Are you read for WLA this Saturday? Here are some last minute preparations you should do before you arrive.
Additionally, we will plan to eat out afterwards at a nearby dining establishment (TBD) -- hope you can join us for that. And finally, I was able to make arrangements for my daughter so I will be able to attend after all. Looking forward to seeing you there! howcheng { chat} 19:23, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I had not heard of Template:Did you know before. Might take me a bit to think of how to submit an article. Thanks for the information! Cheers, - Uyvsdi ( talk) 04:55, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi
Hey Durova. If you have time, do you think you can improve this picture's quality? I'd like it made larger without making it blurry, but I have no idea how to do it. iMatthew // talk // 13:35, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
As many know, during Lent, a sacrifice is often made. I am considering not editing Wikipedia during Lent. I saw an article that some Facebook users are not going to use Facebook during Lent, which prompted me to consider my plan. It's not a boycott. Chergles ( talk) 16:49, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Durova. You commented two this on this nomination. IMO it is not titled. May I please ask you to take another look? Thank you.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 18:14, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Ramallah woman2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 22, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-22. howcheng { chat} 19:19, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much! I'll have a peek. Best, Durova Charge! 19:42, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
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In Episode 70 of the Wikipedia Weekly, I heard you mention a WikiProject on image restoration. Could you give me a link?
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You're the 23rd result on Google when searching for "image restoration" :) Gary King ( talk) 03:52, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Durova
I'm recruiting User:Mohammad adil as a general creator of battlemaps for MILHIST. In my opinion he did a great job at Battle of Yarmouk, but he could sure need some help. He'll be back in mid-March doing some maps of the Greco-Persian Wars. Can you review his contributions and give some advice? Thanks Wandalstouring ( talk) 09:43, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:St Alexander's Church2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 24, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-02-24. howcheng { chat} 17:24, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
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The discussion concerning the reliability of rehosted content on the Prem Rawat evidence talk page reminded me of some examples from the rickross.com page ( 422 links in article space) which I thought it might be useful to share with you here (just so the info does not get lost if I get run over by a bus tomorrow).
In this Chicago Sun Times article on Scientology, the Rick Ross version misses the words "Criticism fades, but some still see it as a money-making cult" in the headline:
The rest of the article text seems to be accurate and complete, except for the little "Scientology at a glance" info box, which is missing on rickross.com.
Here is an LA New Times article on Wayback, and the same article on rickross.com –
If we compare the two versions, we find that the version on rickross.com contains a number of POV-motivated edits to the text. Some of these are:
(Note that Ross is or was professionally associated with Wellspring, which often took in deprogrammees after deprogramming for further treatment.)
In the case of this AP article, rickross.com has both unmarked deletions and commentary when compared to the text given on cesnur.org, a scholarly site, and various other sites (I was unable to get a Wayback link for this item):
Among the material deleted on rickross.com is the fact that "Scott was abducted by three men, bound, gagged and blindfolded, and held for five days."
Generally, it seems advisable to look for a Wayback version for research (and linking). Jayen 466 02:07, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
That's fine. I just didn't want it to get lost. Good luck. Staib ( talk) 12:01, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
I can't upload from the computer where I'm currently located. The full-size version of [15] is 2025 x 2482 and appears to be pretty free of jpeggery. It is an illustration from a 1911 edition of Treasure Island so it's PD. Spikebrennan ( talk) 20:11, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova, I just sent an email to whatever address is linked to this account. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 02:59, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
- MBK 004 05:13, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I saw your edits on Kobayashi Kiyochika. The image of 百撰百笑 is not bad, but he is notable for his traditional landscape prints with a Western touch. I don't think the current image represents his style. So could you please add [16] or [17] to the article? And the current image seems too big to me. Regards. Oda Mari ( talk) 08:25, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Can you make File:Légionnaire romain Ier siècle av JC.jpg look a bit more professional? Thanks Wandalstouring ( talk) 12:59, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova, I just wanted to stop by and say that I am very impressed with, and intrigued by, the wonderful restoration work you do. I think what you achieve with historic images is of great worth. Oh, and I'm thrilled to see that your boss is a cat—good man woman!
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Here goes. [22] If you'd like assistance, we can go back and forth here. Or else it's much quicker to email me for my Skype ID. Durova Charge! 16:19, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I went over the manuscripts but many are too damaged. The others are like letters and will probably receive much opposition as your nomination of Nixon letters. IMO, the following look like the best. 1 and 2. The others are too small. Sorry for the delay -- Muhammad (talk) 03:48, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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I cropped and rotated this image, but I can't upload .tif to Commons...so the dumb question is, how do you go from .tif to .gif, .jpg or .whatever? — Ed 17 (Talk / Contribs) 18:32, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Ouch. Try GIMP? It's a free download. Or if you aren't that ambitious hop onto Skype and send it to me. Email me for my Skype ID. Durova Charge! 18:43, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the Barnstar for embroidery. I really appreciate your appreciation. - PKM ( talk) 21:41, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, Durova. the Ed17 found some PD photos on the LOC website that would be useful for articles on Wikipedia, but some of them are pretty small. He suggested I contact you (since you "probably know the LOC like the back of [your] hand") to see if there's a way to request larger versions of the images. Thanks for any help you can provide. Regards, Parsecboy ( talk) 13:49, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm not looking for conflict. If you can't accept my views, that is nobody's problem but yours. And it would be good if you could be more serious at discussions in future. Thank you. Papa Lima Whiskey ( talk) 16:41, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
I think this would be a good FPC, but am having difficulty decidingw hat articles to put it in. Any suggestions? Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 18:21, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Apologies. I don't normally check my e-mail unless someone tells me they sent one. :) I have skype downloaded, and GIMP. I may have an issue with Skype, since I use a cell phone to edit, and I won't have a microphone for a few more days. Syn ergy 20:05, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Sure thing. Not sure what your tastes are, but here's an idea for starters: the Gallery of Machines at the Paris Exposition of 1889. [26] Suggest working from either the 26MB version or the uncropped 60MB version. I'm writing a Wikiversity course on restoration, which may give some tips to get started. Feel free to email me for more assistance. Skype and Gchat work well for this. Best, Durova Charge! 02:31, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Are you ready to relist soon? If not, you can simply renominate when ready. Thanks, Spencer T♦ C 22:51, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Ursa Major2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 2, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-03-02. howcheng { chat} 23:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
So be it! Xavexgoem ( talk) 00:23, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Not going to finish this restoration tonight, but thought I'd upload what I have done so I can ask you about the issue this image has.
This image is somewhat awkward, as I have to stitch three scans for it, which don't correspond to the three pieces of paper used to make the poster (Augh!) I've managed to fix most of it, but could use another set of eyes - what am I missing? Is there something I should be doing but haven't yet?
Also, if you want to help out with smoothing out that stupid background, I won't say no. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 08:12, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Gatoclass ( talk) 09:09, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Durova, I'm sorry, but you're simply wrong in this case. I realise that these are new restorationists, but I really don't think they need defended against constructive criticism, particularly where if I didn't speak up about the problem, when it could be easily fixed if pointed out, I would feel I was acting unethically, as it changes the artistic intent slightly.
These long conversations have a tendency to drive voters away, so would you be willing to just throw out our last two comments? We can throw it in one of those {{ hat}}/{{ hab}} boxes if another version is provided. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 21:39, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I saw from the arbitration enforcement page that you were critical of Joachman. Can you please review this? I gave him the name of the checkuser who confirmed it and I told him to contact him. Joachman's behavior is starting to look like as stalking, and personally I fail to see his problem, for an information that everyone involved in AA1-AA2 already knew. Can you read my request and answer if it is indeed legitimate? I've read and reread myself there and I am clueless, the guy even added my name to the checkuser request. His implication has taken disruptive proportions. Damn it, it was simply an insignificant checkuser request. VartanM ( talk) 01:09, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Tiptoety talk 02:26, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Do you know why someone would have added a speedy deletion tag as a corrupt or empty image to this file? It seems good to me. Rlendog ( talk) 04:30, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria/Workshop.
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I've found another possible source, though it doesn't look entirely reliable. Here's what I've pulled from it:
recently been the subject of experiments at the Ministry of the war by a Roubaisian, M. Desbouvrie with swallows travelers. We asked our correspondent Roubaix us in this regard the statements and documents of interest to our readers. He sent us a photograph of the hirondellier that reproduces our engraving, and the following article which gives curious information on the attempt of Mr. Desbouvrie. What antithesis that title! Swallows of war, and yet it is fair.
This nice bird, which leaves us with melancholy in us leaving each fall, and whose return is greeted with a cry of joy every spring, could become a military messenger.
A Roubaisian Jean Desbouvrie, found the secret of breeding swallows, to tame. They leave their hirondellier, returning just as the pigeons, and live in both winter and summer. There are nearly forty years that Mr. Desbouvrie responsible for developing and tame birds which are known to be resistant to any domestication. From the most tender age, the young Desbouvrie, loved birds and especially birds, taming it to the point that whenever he went out with his father, he was always accompanied by a certain amount of swallows fluttering around him and coming to his call to land on his shoulders or his hands. Since then he has never stopped them.
Hirondellier Mr. Desbouvrie.
According to a photograph
Mr. Samuel Elkan, Roubaix.
The great difficulty to keep birds in the winter was the first food, the Swallow feeding exclusively on insects. Mr. Desbouvrie has a secret he did not reveal to anyone to feed it gathers young swallows in their nests where they have a few feathers. Once high and capable of flying, food change, and then he gives the recipe for people that buy its residents. There are two kinds, one for amateurs, for aviaries or zoos and acclimatization. The others are the swallows travelers. It is the latter that we occupy.
Nothing curious as inside the hirondellier, located on the first floor of the small town that is our burning and is built in the hamlet of Vine, on the edge of the canal linking the Scheldt to Deule, through Roubaix. The window opens onto a balcony corridor communicating with a room converted into a large aviary, where they frolic at ease about Mr. Desbouvrie. They all have a particular name, which is the color of silk thread attached to one of their legs. It takes 15 to 40 days for the dresser, and one, are in three weeks, while others need a few more days.
Mr. Desbouvrie proposed to Ministry of War to experiment with its swallows. On 7 September, on the Esplanade des Invalides, in the presence of several persons, he dropped two, having circled a moment, disappeared towards the north. Dropped 4 to 15 hours, at the Esplanade des Invalides, they were at their hirondellier 5 hours 30 minutes. They therefore had traveled over 150 kilometers in 75 minutes.
Ceran thor 13:21, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the welcome Durova. It was very kind of you to do that. I now have to figure out how to work on wikipedia. I'm sure I'll manage it in time. Thanks again Little Tuck ( talk) 20:10, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
I had a look at Timeline of young people's rights in the United States and there are a number of wonderful (poignant) images there, particularly those young Jewish girls. FP material? If I create an article for newsboy for the image there (and the one in Newsboys Strike of 1899) I'll let you know. Thanks again for all restoration work you do, it's sincerely appreciated! Mostlyharmless ( talk) 01:42, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
I think this needs cleaned. I cannot, however, do it: I have a slight headache, and you pretty much have to remove the pops before removing the noise. Listening to that buzz off and on for the hours it will take will only make it worse. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 02:32, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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This could use an edge sharpening, though I doubt it's particularly featureable. Not unless we cut out all the image elements and pasted them onto some non-posterised paper, while giving it a sharpen good enough to make it look decent. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 12:23, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, realised there were a few more things I could do. It's ready now. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 07:31, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Durova,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:DuckandC1951.ogg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 6, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-03-06. howcheng { chat} 22:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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Is the release given correct? It isn't an image in the public domain due to copyright expiring. It is a modified version of such an image. (In fact it just occurred to me that we should possibly add for the general PD message a note that the image either has expired copyright or is so old that it was never copyrightable, but that's nitpicking). JoshuaZ ( talk) 00:36, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I should have followed my first instinct and contact you before I made the last post. I'm so glad you've been watching and realized the same thing. I was dreading making up the checkuser or sock case because this is so much all over the place. I'll add what I posted on Mae West and see what else I can find readily. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 01:05, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Ping. - MBK 004 05:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
I've uploaded an Audacity converted file (if you weren't using Audacity, I'd strongly suggest considering it next time). I think I'll also do a slight edit to reduce the remaining buzz. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 19:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey, Durova, could you direct me to the policy regarding translation and copyrighted derivative works? Since I have used many foreign language sources, I think I need to be more familiar with the guideline, but I failed to find it by searching...-- Caspian blue 23:44, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Plagiarism isn't always copyright violation, but can be. The two are separate concepts that often overlap. Durova Charge! 00:01, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
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I can probably do the spots in the John Paul Jones engraving fairly quickly, and you can probably do the Japanese boat faster and better than I could. Would you like to swap? Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 17:34, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
You're ready to be an admin. Anyone watching this page, please agree now. Syn ergy 21:48, 5 March 2009 (UTC)