User talk:Adam Cuerden/Archive 2

Hi Adam, I think you're ready for this. Commons:Administrators/Requests and votes/Adam Cuerden. Best wishes, Durova (talk) 22:22, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please enable email, thanks. ++Lar: t/c 12:18, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(refactored from user_talk:Lar per my policy ) It should be working now. Sorry about that. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:24, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be, thanx. Message sent. ++Lar: t/c 16:07, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As you promise on the page, I sent you email for that matter.--Caspian blue 03:18, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Frog Legs Rag 2.ogg is your work? I had no idea. Very nicely done... did you sight read it or program a sequencer to do it or? ++Lar: t/c 19:16, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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-- Cecil (talk) 09:50, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! :) Haukurth (talk) 09:54, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! Cirt (talk) 10:02, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck, Adam. I am glad you responded constructively on my slight concern. -- Slaunger (talk) 11:06, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Beautiful music, thanks. Cirt (talk) 00:57, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help offer, but the problem has been solved. For whatever reason it was an issue of my own internet conection, I solved it simply by uploading from another computer. Belgrano (talk) 18:37, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image Image:Thomas Keene in Othello 1884 Poster.JPG, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Thomas Keene in Othello 1884 Poster.JPG has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

Benh (talk) 23:02, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking the time to think about these. If you could share a few more words (beyond critique of my restoration and about your experience) it would be greatly appreciated. -- carol (talk) 09:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• This scan
• 
  Original
• 
  selective levels adjustment (yours)
• 
  Cleaned, color adjusted (mine)
• 
  Cleaned, color adjusted, cropped (mine)

• Other scans
• 
  Original
• 
  Cleaned, color adjusted
• 
  Cleaned, color adjusted, cropped

This is, to the best of my investigative ability, two different scans each of the same image from two different versions of the same old book. Each book was perhaps stored under different conditions and "aged" or "ripened" differently. I have no way of knowing if the books had the same appearance when they started life, although, it seems safe to assume this.

I am having a hell of a time getting one scan to match the other. I inspired myself with this when I recognized one color source in one image from (believe this or not) my experience with making jelly and what a raised acidity level can do to the color of that juice.

I think that your renovation is a little too dark. I actually successfully maintained a coffee plant from flower through bean within my living environment and the leaves are dark and blueish green but not that dark and not that blue and check out that other scan -- much higher quality but lower resolution. Those colors seem faded, except that they are evenly faded which for me, challenges the idea that they are faded at all.

I realize that you have since this renovation moved along to sound and I also realize that what I have written is more honest than ass-kissing. All that being said, perhaps you could spend some time describing your thoughts and experiences renovating these color images in the case that I might get more clues as to how to make these images here appear more like the original did so many years ago.

Thanks for your time and understanding and if you need some ass kissing, do be up front about that. <pasteable asskissing>Your renovations are superior to mine; how did you accomplish this?</pasteable asskissing> -- carol (talk) 19:47, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just added my renovation to the mix here and in the thumbnail, my renovation (to me) has too much red. -- carol (talk) 20:59, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing out the problem with my image (that little diagram 10); the same problem existed for the diagrams 7 and 3.

I am still curious about your thoughts about the color correction and ways that this might be accomplished more logically and accurately. Working through problems like this which time, antiquated techniques and storage issues has imposed upon images -- competition is a method in which information can be discovered and exchanged, but simple communication of experiences is also a method for this and less murky in situations where the reason for competition is not so logical.

Is there a competition? -- carol (talk) 06:29, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Another question I have is of confidence. I am very much not confident that my color adjustments are either the best that can be obtained now or the best that can be obtained later. A really good example of what I am saying is this: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=35906 This is the reason I always make certain that the original is available here.

You are/were confident that your adjustments are the best or you did not think about it or other? The only claim that I feel I can make and I try to do this before uploading is that my improvements to the original are improvements over what is available now. <-- This is my only confidence upon upload. (Is that a sign of weakness or is there something wrong with this approach?) -- carol (talk) 09:08, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Confidence" is an interesting idea. My confidence was in a dialog, an exchange of experiences and thoughts. I have another question for you now. Who are you talking to? -- carol (talk) 14:53, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have made a new section about some problems with the template, on the talk page. Also, something I didn't mention there. There's a misspelling for Featured sounds:

"This is a featured sound on English Wikipedia and is considered one of the finest soundss."

Also even if it is a featured sound, ennom still only takes in consideration Featured pictures. It should be made to first verify what the value of enwiki is first, and then direct to either Featured picture or Featured sound.

Cheers. diego_pmc (talk) 19:14, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They've been trying to conatct you over on Wikisource? 62.56.99.2 17:08, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Gustave Doré - The Holy Bible - Plate I, The Deluge.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Gustave Doré - The Holy Bible - Plate I, The Deluge.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

--Simonizer (talk) 11:22, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Adam.... Over the holidays I found that a relative has The Divine Comedy (in english???) and El Quijote, illustrated by Doré. Quality is actually pretty good. I am going to try to get those books, starting with El Quijote. Although it is project 234-b/VIII-sdf.3, I hope to get it done!!!! And BTW, I really appreciate your uploads! Regards, --Tomascastelazo (talk) 17:24, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Adam Cuerden!

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

BotMultichillT (talk) 05:35, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Image:Dante's bottom.png is uncategorized since 7 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:35, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Image:Dante top.png is uncategorized since 7 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:35, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Image:Enrico Caruso, Giuseppe de Luca, Giuseppe Verdi, Nè gustare m'è dato un'ora (La forza del destino).ogg is uncategorized since 21 January 2009. BotMultichillT 05:36, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Image:Enrico Caruso, Bessie Abott, Louise Homer, Antonio Scotti, Giuseppe Verdi, Bella figlia dell' amore (Rigoletto) unrestored.ogg is uncategorized since 23 January 2009. BotMultichillT 05:36, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Image:Ryu sho ten text.png is uncategorized since 3 February 2009. BotMultichillT 05:36, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Image:Alyssa Veteto - George Frideric Handel - Bel piacere (Agrippina).ogg is uncategorized since 20 February 2009. BotMultichillT 05:35, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I do believe I finished February. I crossed it out. I hope I didn't make any mistakes. It took me much longer than it should have because I was figuring out the categories. Hopefully I'll be able to help you again tomorrow, and I should be able to do it a little faster. Maybe I can do another month or two. Like we discussed, I think it's best to simply do a month at a time. I'm not sure if I'll be around to chat tomorrow, but leave me a message at my en.wiki talk page if you want me to do more. Regards, Enigmaman (talk) 07:49, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did you manage to finish? Anything I can help with? Enigmaman (talk) 05:11, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Any further updates on POTY 08? Have you spoken with Wuzur recently? Just wanted to let you know that five more images got added to the gallery. They were not categorized properly at the end of last year, so I completely missed them earlier. JalalV (talk) 15:24, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to hear someone is pressing on with this. I was heavily involved in the 2006 competition (along with Alvesgaspar whose idea it was) and to a lesser extent with the 2007. I can't help with programs or coding, but could perhaps do some light manual stuff if you need a bit of help. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:25, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi Adam, thanks for your message and initiative. Let me copy a message I left in Lycaon's talk page this afternoon: I apologize for having abandoned the ship without notice and appreciate that someone took care of it. But I'm quite busy now and didn't want to start something I couldn't finish properly. Agree that this is not the time for implementing thematic prizes, but what about the "Special Prize of the Juri (SPJ)"? We have still time to launch an election (15, 20 members?), so that when the finalist pictures are chosen, the juri will be ready to decide. What do you think, Hans and Adam?. You have my full support and maybe I could help with some (light) work. Last year the event ran smoothly but was long and boring because no feedback was given to voters and authors on the running results. I hope that can be corrected this time by giving access to the results, at least once a day (ideally, the results should be permanentely updated and made public) -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 00:35, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!

That every one in the corporate world is beautiful is an interesting way that they write or show themselves. That not so beautiful people have ideas and accomplishments could actually be a fact <-- this has not been dis-proven effectively to me.

I just say this here and now because of the image of Richard Stallman at English wikipedia should be managed by the machine there more gracefully and I am blocked there.

Please consider causing your machine to be more respectful there and with the person in that image.

Perhaps only beautiful on the outside people are capable of accomplishment. GPL, however, is responsible for showing that beautiful on the inside people can accomplish great things also. That is not just an opinion of mine. -- carol (talk) 23:50, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Adam. I found you arranged POTY2008 Galleries beautifully! Would you please sign in Commons:Picture of the Year/2008/Committee and be a core member, if possible? Maybe POTY couldn't be took place without core member. Sorry for my awkward English. Thank you.--miya (talk) 07:59, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Adam, please read proposal for FPC gudelines in the discussion page #REDIRECT [[1]]. I believe that concensus could and should be built in order to improve quality of the page, project, etc. It is clear that there are disagreements on the personal level for some, but I believe that everybody agrees that there is definitely room for improvement. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 03:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I got to this too late! Thanks for the email, btw. Let me know how it goes. JalalV (talk) 13:26, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 9 (Canto III - Charon).jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 9 (Canto III - Charon).jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Aeronautics2.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Aeronautics2.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Phenakistoscope 3g07690d.gif, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Phenakistoscope 3g07690d.gif has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Queen Wilhelmina2.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Queen Wilhelmina2.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:VanGogh-starry night ballance1.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:VanGogh-starry night ballance1.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

Hi Adam. I got a response from Bryan on my talkpage. He is willing to give admins access to the POTY account already on the stable toolserver, which should make python problems a non-issue. So hopefully it will all be running soon! P.S. It might be good to send him an email? --JalalV (talk) 23:50, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Well, it looks like the metadata (for all 500 pictures!) needs to be hand-collected for the program to work properly. I've asked Bryan about the best format to collect it, as it seems different to the wiki. As I've had a look at some of the pictures (only a dozen or so, until I find out the best format), I've decided to add the 2008 POTY candidate template to each page so it doesn't need to be done later. Then at the end, only the finalist templates will need to be updated. Phew! What do you think about trying to get some people together to do a gallery or two each once we get the format down, speed it up a bit? --JalalV (talk) 04:18, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Just heard from Bryan. He says he'll try and get the problems with the server fixed this weekend. In terms of getting the data, we will need the following info. I recommend an excel file with the following column names, minus the brackets ():

name (filename of picture)

title (short description/caption)

promoted (date in YYYYMMDD format),

potd (YYYYMMDD if applicable),

author1 (include link if possible)

author2 (if applicable)

author3 (if applicable),

license1

license2 (if applicable)

contributor (your name or commons ID)

category (category)

Any way we can split the categories? I am happy to start with the bottom two (birds & other animals). Also, it would be good to put the 2008 POTY candidate template on each picture as well. --JalalV (talk) 00:19, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't entirely sure why you removed the section in Commons:Licensing#Netherlands, so after finding some stuff on the web which seems to support it, I restored the section (it is also embodied in the {{PD-NL-Gov}} tag, so if it is wrong there are further implications). However if I'm missing something, please mention it at Commons talk:Licensing#Netherlands article 15b... thanks ;-) Carl Lindberg (talk) 15:20, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 65 (Canto XXXI - The Titans).jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 65 (Canto XXXI - The Titans).jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Ogata Gekko - Ryu sho ten.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Look OK -Dmottl 10:11, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]  Support Very nice image, eight hours well spent. :) The image has historical value and is of print quality resolution. Thank you for this picture, I like it very much. --Siipikarja 22:55, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adam, Thanks for all the work you've put into POTY. I'm up for monitoring some of the pages. Is it just a case of watching a proportion of the pages and checking that voters have enough edits, or is there more to be done? Cheers, Pruneau^talk 09:18, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adam, Judging by the number of people who have replied to the request for help, would it make sense for me to follow about 4 categories? I can probably do more if necessary - I checked a couple today and it didn't take that much time. Pruneau^talk 21:08, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thats great. Does that mean that this still needs to be done? Also, let me know if you need help with anything! Pbroks13 (talk) 18:54, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Let me know what kind of help you need and I will see if I can help. --Captain-tucker (talk) 03:00, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, got it there. Twin.priyanka (talk) 10:38, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What do you think about using this in order to easily check user voting eligibility? I think we could get it set up by finals, if not sooner. This way, we can see if they have 400+ edits on other projects besides just Wiki Commons. Pbroks13 (talk) 06:40, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Gavin Hamilton - Coriolanus Act V, Scene III.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Gavin Hamilton - Coriolanus Act V, Scene III.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

Best regards.--Mywood (talk) 10:15, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Ogata Gekko - Ryu sho ten.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Ogata Gekko - Ryu sho ten.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

Best regards.--Mywood (talk) 10:59, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I removed that image from picture of the year. The image wasn't approved as futered image. I didn't delete to voting page. Best regards, Abigor talk 16:30, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

please checkl: [[2]]. Not promoted. Abigor talk 16:44, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

me shames I could find something from 2008 but it is solved now, sorry for the inconvenience. Abigor talk 16:57, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, seeing your professment of expertise with engravings, I am wondering if you could help me with this piece. It comes from the Ann Ronan Picture Library and is listed as c. 1880 but of an unknown authorship. There is a signature ("WP") at the bottom left, but I have no idea who that can be (after much searching through Google).

I view knowledge of the author as the easier way to mark this engraving as in the public domain. However, knowledge of its first publishing would also be good. Can you advise me on this? If not, is there a particular book (directory) of engravers I can consult? I apologise in advance if this is not in your field of expertise. Jappalang (talk) 07:52, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problems, thank you for taking a look. Jappalang (talk) 21:55, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

>>Hi! I hate to be a pain, but I don't suppose you'd be willing to release this at a very high resolution? German engravings have been rather underrepresented on featured pictures, and with a higher-res scan, all your engravings could easily pass, I think.<<

Hi Adam, no pain! However I honestly can't be bothered to re-upload all the prints I have already uploaded to Commons. But if you want any in higher resolution I will willingly send you them by email. If you want, contact me at my email link on my en.wiki user page: w:user:Nick Michael. --Nick Michael

I've been thinking about this, and I dont' think I really said enough at the time.

I'm really sorry that your FP was missed out at first, and glad we could fix it before the competition started. I'm not sure how it got left out, but please believe me that it was almost certainly accidental: We had to sort 500 featured pictures into categories, and then there was a period where we were refining the groups by moving things around between them. What probably happened was that it was being moved from one to the other, and the removal from the one went through, but an unnoticed edit conflict or loss of concentration meant that it wasn't properly put into the new category.

Again, sorry, and good luck in the competition itself! Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:59, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is absolutely no problem. I understand how big is the work to organize the contest. Thanks for all the time you spent on it. Sémhur (talk) 12:42, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, tonight there were problems with the APIs that I couldn't prevent. Now I'm going to add a feature to avoid mistakes like this in future. Sorry again! And thanks for having told me the problem. --Filnik^{\b[Rr]ock\b!?} 13:24, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In the style of Commons:Meet our illustrators: let's start a page. Durova (talk) 16:44, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i am really sorry to inform you that since january i am in mexico and i will not come back until end of march so i am completly unable to edit or mane any new image in this time. it is really disapointing that i could not see your mesage until now, and as soon as i come back i will contact you to see if there is still something i can do to help you --LadyofHats (talk) 17:15, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Early flight 02562u.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Early flight 02562u.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

Benh (talk) 21:30, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"My kingdom for two sisters!" <-- wrong play, and I only recently learned that this mangled quote is from the most quotable of all Bill. That being said, had I had different parents or even figured out a way to maintain access to my two stepsisters or had made more lasting friendships with the women I actually thought I was making this type of lasting friendship with, I would certainly encourage them to log in and exchange a vote for your image for a dramatic pre-death "Out Damn Spot" soliloquy from what is at least to me the most obvious and dramatic of 'pedia characters available.

Alas, there is just me. The Macbeth I saw in Stratford, Ontario at Festival was almost as good as the high school performance of it I saw in 1999 in very humble Michigan.

I guess I can count myself among the lucky in that I had a teacher who really loved Bills plays and was able to communicate this love to (at the very least) me. My attempt to get a self-proclaimed and intellectually pampered genius to hear the beauty of the words and understand the reliability of this timeless dramatic structure that really works in a pleasing way was futile.

I looked quickly at this image and I think that in restoring it, you did not spend much time "out damn spot"ing. Oh, and I have no idea if this applies here, but feel free to use this if necessary if the dramatic ending I am asking for is to be forth coming -- I learned that there was a rumor running about the usual Shakespearean performers that the role of Lady MacBeth could not possibly be played by a woman....

Please note, I was never anxious to be known as a good politicer. That being said, do you think that the 'pedia A-List could provide an out damn spot pre-death soliloquy in exchange for my support?

My minds-eye might offend other users. Sorry for that. -- carol (talk) 02:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Schedule the soliloquy for 15 March (just to touch as many tragedies as possible...)? -- carol (talk) 02:24, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Missed the boat" or "Jumped the shark"? It is too bad when those who sacrifice others to fill their need for drama are not willing to become a sacrifice themselves for the same need that others might have.

I am sorry for and disappointed in the weakness of the characters with the nomination habit. -- carol (talk) 10:30, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Basically the Vector-images.com image has been deleted so this one has to go as well since it's a derivative of that one./Lokal_Profil 16:53, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if you had anything to do with the nomination of that image of Richard Stallman disappearing at English wikipedia -- it is here I made the request though so it is here that I will leave the thank you.

I have made fun of Richard Stallman and I intend to make fun of Richard Stallman again some day. I use the software that his license gave birth to and I have been an advocate this same software. GFDL seems to have been inspired by that license which was supposed to be for software and allowing people who purchased computers to use them. If one day, Richard Stallman ever wants to make fun of me, that will be a good day to me.

When you get some experience with the software, I can perhaps show you when and where it is fitting to make fun of that license author and would be glad for the opportunity. In the meanwhile, feel free to nominate images of the Adobe CEO or Bill Gates or whoever authored the licenses that you bought. I will not question, get in the way of nor defend them. -- carol (talk) 23:13, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Georges Bizet - Rosabel Morrison - Carmen poster.png, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Georges Bizet - Rosabel Morrison - Carmen poster.png has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

--Tony Wills (talk) 10:55, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't you have a higher res version? 92.4 MB is kinda on the small side. ;) (that's huge!) Rocket000(talk) 02:51, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Adam - I am currently studying Joyce's Ulysses with a professor in St. Louis, MO. I am a musician and my professor and I are hoping to put on a concert of music Joyce alludes to in the novel. Among the many references is the song "Jewel of Asia" from James Philip's "The Geisha". I read on another page that you have the vocal score to this work? I'm wondering if you wouldn't mind scanning "Jewel of Asia" and sending me the file? I would greatly appreciate it. My email address is goatfed@gmail.com

Thank you!

As POTY Round 1 voting checking is progressing, we found that sometime eligiblity is unsure and in some catagories even one vote is important. Please visit Commons:Picture of the Year/2008/Voting/Voting register and help us to decide in not-sure section. --Jklamo (talk) 21:17, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Pbroks13 (talk) 20:01, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just to let you know that I replied to your query on the Categories for discussion page. Also to confirm that I truly have no objection if you feel it should be changed... - Mu (talk) 14:03, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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--Karel (talk) 20:45, 1 April 2009 (UTC) .[reply]

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--Karel (talk) 09:38, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Adam. As to POTY, while most of the necessary checking is done, I found a problem: Commons:Picture of the Year/2008/Galleries/Plants and Fungi is "Total: 40 (4 awards in this class)", but both of the 4th and the 5th have 81 votes. See Commons talk:Picture of the Year/2008/Voting#Plants and fungi. I can't fix Result page for Plants and Fungi. what shoul we do? To give 5 award in total to Plants and Fungi? Help us, please. Thanks in advance.--miya (talk) 18:50, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thank you for your reply in my talk page.

Now I think most preparation for Round 2 is done. Will you check them and tell us what to do (if anything left)? And please make a decision when to start. Thanks in advance.--miya (talk) 07:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Adam, unfortunately, I don't have anything more detailed of the whole thing. It's so long that a better view of the whole thing would require either a much higher resolution camera or creation of a composite panorama. If I get a decent tripod any time soon, I'll give the latter a try.--ragesoss (talk) 14:14, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote a proposal for equalizing the different picture formats on FPC Please have a look. Best regards --Richard Bartz (talk) 20:36, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adam! I aoplogise if I made a mistake closing this nomination, but I was sure the guide said to not count the nominator as support? The "general rules" section of the featured picture policy says, "Nominations do not count as votes. Support must be explicitly stated." Have I misinterpreted this? Please let me know, thanks! Maedin\^talk 14:50, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the response. You're right, I don't think it's very clear! Especially as the "support" template is already part of the nomination process. Anyway, thanks again. I went back through the other ones I had closed and corrected the counts. Maedin\^talk 07:02, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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--Karel (talk) 20:34, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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--Karel (talk) 20:52, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(Or homepage?) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ -- carol (talk) 14:27, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Adam, I find it hard to understand why you deleted 113 audio files only an hour after the deletion request was filed. What was the hurry in deleting someone's effort? The uploader had not even been properly notified by the nominator. And this when it is quite possible that the recordings of en:Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad are in the public domain. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 16:03, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't you work on older files here first? --Obayd (talk) 18:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Regardless of the link, I find your action rushed. --Obayd (talk) 18:50, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I should have joined the discussion. But no worries, the undeleton discussion should clarify things. --Obayd (talk) 21:52, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Btw, I only uploaded these 114 files a couple of days after File:001 abdulbaset fatiha.ogg. So I assumed everything would be OK. --Obayd (talk) 22:02, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is one very uncommunicative administrator. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 13:02, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As this one is your nomination, and as you specialise in these historic engravings, I am wondering if you can help me! I simply can't decide between placing it in the historic section or the static non-photographic section. I've noticed engravings in both places. Any preference? Do you know which is more appropriate? Thanks! Maedin\^talk 18:25, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Maedin\^talk 19:23, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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★ Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted ★
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•  Support Scope ok according to the guidelines, only picture we have, and it is reasonably illustrative of the subject. Categorization needed to be looked at, though. --Eusebius (talk) 07:51, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Eusebius (talk) 16:43, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adam. After more than a week the proposal gained superior consensus and is accepted. Can you change the template now ? The size for landscape/pano is x220px, portrait 220px. bg --Richard Bartz (talk)

This has got to be setting some kind of file size record! Over 99 megabytes. You're insane. But it`s my kind of insanity :-} Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 11:34, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Adam
Many thanks for the image from the Princess, which now appears at the beginning of a parody of a song from that opera (or rather Princess Ida) here:
The Stripper, after Gilbert and Sullivan
Hope you enjoy it - it's silly fun really...
Kind regards
David
Dwsolo (talk) 17:05, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adam - I wanted to ask your advice about a scanning question. I'm already scanning at 600 dpi and doing the crop/rotate and applying a non-linear filter prior to upload. What I wonder is, does it make sense to also scan and upload the archival copy of images at 48 bit color? This seems like it could be helpful if levels need to be adjusted later, but I'm not sure if the book itself is printed at high enough quality for that to matter. Dcoetzee (talk) 06:27, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It usually can't hurt to provide extra things, in case they turn out to be necessary later. I'd do it: At the very worst, all that's lost is some time spent uploading and a miniscule fraction of the Wikimedia foundation's massive diskspace. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:50, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I did some thinking about this - I'm now producing 48-bit 600 dpi raw TIFF scans with no postprocessing by the scanning software for archiving. However, these files are pretty big (130MB for a full page photo, and this is not a large book). I think there's a 100 MB limit on uploads. Encoding as PNG is useless because half-toning defeats PNG compression. What should I do? Dcoetzee (talk) 12:42, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. I presume you've tried PNGs, and they didn't shrink under 100 megs?

If so: these aren't coloured engravings, right? If so, the best choice is probably to reduce to 24-bit colour, which should be ample data. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:10, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They don't, because they're 600 dpi and the resolution is fine enough that the half-toning renders the PNG compression ineffective. I can cut it down to 24-bit if I have to, but I'm hesitant to do so since the raw scan doesn't even use the full value range. Also, is my assumption correct that it's better for color management to save a raw scan and attach the scanner's ICC profile than to convert to sRGB? Thanks again. :-) Dcoetzee (talk) 14:29, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can I see the images in question? It may make it easier to help. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:42, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. I have uploaded to my webserver a 103 MB 600 dpi 48-bit color raw scan converted to PNG and assigned the scanner's ICC color profile (warning, save and open if you want to see the colors correctly). This is the same source used for File:Elizabeth I in coronation robes.png. The processed file is much smaller because it's 24-bit color and because the blur introduced to mitigate half-toning also improved compression. Although in this book full page images come quite close to 100MB, in my larger books they will be bigger. Dcoetzee (talk) 15:27, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I did some more thinking about this and I think probably the best thing to do is downscale the raw scans to say 300 dpi. These images are probably printed at 300 dpi in the first place, so it's kind of silly to go above that. I don't think there's any processing I can do at 600 dpi that I can't do at 300 dpi anyway. Dcoetzee (talk) 00:43, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Adam, Thank you very much for nominating my image on English Wikipedia. I uploaded two more images of Cappadocia File:Göreme Valley in Cappadocia.jpg and File:House in Cappadocia 22.jpg. Cappadocia is sure a very interesting place. Best wishes. --Mbz1 (talk) 03:13, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I hate to be a pain, but does the French version say the première date is 5 Décembre 1885? The première was actually on November 30th, but engravings take a while to make, so Victorian newspapers were generally about a week behind the events they cover. The Englih version could probably stand to be a little clearer.

Yes, it did say so. I will modify both versions to make them more accurate. Thank you very much for your input, it will always be welcome. --Berru (talk) 18:50, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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This user has claimed 'own work' in other instances. I'm not completely familiar with processes regarding this. For example, the coats of arms are of a professional standard, but no source is given, which is somewhat strange. Could you possibly look into this please? I tell you because you were responsible for deleting another picture related to the same article and with a similar 'own work' claim. Thanks Jarry1250 (talk) 15:49, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note here, since I suspect you check this talk page more often, that I've renamed Adam Cuerden 2 to Adam Cuerden on the English Wikipedia. Cheers, bibliomaniac15 18:36, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Please find answer at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Qqtacpn

Thanks! (Qqtacpn (talk) 23:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC))[reply]