User talk:Hesperian

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Thanks for fixing this. Pardon the poor naming, I don't think I was aware it was volume two when I got it. I found volume 1 from the new scan you linked, so I'm uploading that too. cygnis insignis 17:17, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't even notice! I think I'll reupload Volume 2 under a matching name, and delete it under the current name. Better to do it while there are only a dozen or so Page: pages to move. Hesperian 23:56, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Hesperian 00:38, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

bad name, File:Sanityofwilliamb00macduoft.djvu, better name File:The sanity of William Blake.djvu

Discussion regarding the Categories "Fossil xxx" is occurring on Wp:ToL (here). As a member of the project you input is requested in to gain a larger view of the communities opinion on how to handle the points raised. Thanks --Kevmin (talk) 18:26, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Hesperian!

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 14:54, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Image:Newdegate landscape.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Yagan pit.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Alberta magna.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Panulirus cygnus juv 01 gnangarra (cropped).jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Caert van t'Land van Eendracht - detail of Houtman Abrolhos and Turtle Dove.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Eneabba Stone Arrangement - line.jpg was uncategorized on 1 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:08, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely works better on the page. When you say "viewing flipbook" do you mean at the site or a 'flippy'? I couldn't duplicate your method, but I'll persist if clarify where I should be looking. cygnis insignis 04:58, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

1. Go to http://www.archive.org/details/williamblakecrit00swinrich
2. Click on "Read Online"
3. Navigate to required page (probably best to click on single-page view first)
4. If the zoom is not 100%, click the "+" button until it is.
5. Right click on the page (or, alternatively, do whatever it is you Mac-users do to bring up the context menu)
6. Choose "Save image as..."; or "view image" then File|Save.

The image you get from this method is a jpg, which isn't ideal, since the format is lossy, and you don't even have control over the fidelity of the image that they serve you. If you want to be obsessive about image quality, the ideal solution is to click instead on "HTTP", then download jp2.zip file (typically hundreds of Mb), unzip it, identify the required jp2 file, convert it to png, then upload that.

Hesperian 11:23, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I should have tried an alternate browser: my FF was the issue, Safari was fine. Is the file type an issue; should I have converted to png or renamed the file? cygnis insignis 16:13, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Best to convert to PNG, I think. The PNG file will still have JPG artefacts in it, but at least it will be theoretically possible to upload a better version over the top. Hesperian 23:11, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I started to fool around with the decorative elements for a work. Can you the delete the consequences of my woeful ignorance of basic image manipulation, Category:Poetical Sketches (Shepherd reprint) and its contents? cygnis insignis 16:26, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering if you could somehow rollback the uploaded changes I made to File:Triphyophyllum distribution.svg. That'll teach me to play around with something I don't understand. All I wanted to do was remove Guinea from the distribution and crop it a bit more to include just Africa but failed. Much appreciated. --Rkitko (talk) 02:25, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

Thank you for donating images to the Wikimedia Commons. You have uploaded some images in the past with the license {{PD}}. While this was a license acceptable in the early days of Wikimedia, since January 2006, this license has been deprecated and since October 2008 no new uploads with this license was allowed.

The license on older images should be replaced with a better and more specific license/permissions and you can help by checking the images and adding {{PD-self}} if you are the author or one of the other templates that you can see in the template on the image page.

Thank you for your help. If you need help feel free to ask at Commons talk:Licensing or contact User:Zscout370.

The images we would like you to check are:

• File:Robert Edwin Bush (1874).jpg

BotMultichillT 20:37, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Ernie_Dingo.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you! Afrikaans ∙ العربية ∙ беларуская ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ ∙ বাংলা ∙ bosanski ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ Deutsch (Sie-Form) ∙ Zazaki ∙ ދިވެހިބަސް ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ English ∙ Esperanto ∙ español ∙ eesti ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ hrvatski ∙ magyar ∙ հայերեն ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ íslenska ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ 조선말 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Bahasa Melayu ∙ မြန်မာဘာသာ ∙ norsk bokmål ∙ Plattdüütsch ∙ Nederlands ∙ norsk nynorsk ∙ norsk ∙ occitan ∙ polski ∙ پښتو ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ shqip ∙ српски / srpski ∙ svenska ∙ ไทย ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

Bidgee (talk) 11:43, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Sorry for spaming your talk page, but this is very important. On the behalf of the Wikiproject medicine at the en.wikipedia, I am inviting you to be a part of the discussion going on the project's talk page about Patient images, The discussion started after I obtained a permission to more than 23000 dermatology related images, and about 1500 radiology images. As some editors of the Wikiproject medicine have some concerns regarding the policy of using patient images on wikipedia, and regarding patient consents. Also they believe that common's policy is not so clear regarding the issue. And since you are the experts please join us at this very important discussion -- MaenK.A._Talk 14:22, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Hesperian, you might be interested in this discussion: Commons_talk:Administrators/De-adminship#Activity -- A9 (talk) 18:39, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Excuseme. Are you sure that this is an Allophylus edulis [1] ? Because people say that an Allophylus edulis is an argentine plant, with yellow flowers. [2]

--Roberto Fiadone (talk) 03:02, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It appears to be Schefflera actinophylla. Melburnian (talk) 07:22, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would have just gone by the flickr identification. Someone long ago changed the image info to say it is Schefflera elegantissima. It's just the file name that is wrong. Hesperian 07:14, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Would you be willing to do a distribution map for Ambuchanania, a Tasmanian endemic? All the source information you need can be found here. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:20, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

hens teeth have better odds - good to see you round here mate SatuSuro (talk) 00:11, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Heh heh, thanks. Actually I'm here every day at least. I'm just not leaving footprints at the moment. Hesperian 00:38, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ahah - very wise at times - cheers SatuSuro (talk) 00:52, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Hesperian. I am writing to you to inform you that you are in danger of losing your adminship on Commons because of inactivity.

If you want to keep your adminship, you need both to sign at Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section/Aug-Sep 2011 within 30 days of today's date, and also to make at least five further admin actions in the following six months. Anyone who does not do so will automatically lose administrator rights.

You can read the de-admin policy at Commons:Administrators/De-adminship.

Thank you a×p_de^Hello! 16:47, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I made an error with some pages. Please delete

1. File:Illustration (4) at p. 148 in Just So Stories (c1912).png
2. File:Illustration (5) at p. 148 in Just So Stories (c1912).png
3. File:Illustration (6) at p. 148 in Just So Stories (c1912).png
4. File:Illustration (7) at p. 148 in Just So Stories (c1912).png
5. File:Illustration (8) at p. 148 in Just So Stories (c1912).png

and

• File:Illustration (5) at p. 148 in Just So Stories (c1912).png,File:Illustration (9 at p. 152 in Just So Stories (c1912).png, File:Illustration (10) at p. 148 in Just So Stories (c1912).png, File:Illustration (11) at p. 154 in Just So Stories (c1912).png, File:Illustration (12) at p. 148 in Just So Stories (c1912).png, File:Illustration (13) at p. 148 in Just So Stories (c1912).png, File:Illustration (14, 15, 16) at p. 148 in Just So Stories (c1912).png.

I'm pretty sure I fixed it on the other side, but who knows. Cheers, cygnis insignis 23:31, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Exquisite timing as always; thanks. :-) Hesperian 00:10, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yep :) a×p_de^Hello! 15:30, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hesperian! I'm working with User:Jean-Frédéric to link Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) images with their corresponding pages on the BHL website. I think that'd be a great way to build a closer relationship between BHL and the Commons, leading to more and better scientific illustrations for the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects. As somebody who's uploaded a lot of BHL images to the Commons, I'd love your feedback on how we're doing, and your help in making this project awesome. We've started by tagging a handful of images with a first shot at a template page. Let me know what you think! -- cheers, Gaurav (talk) 01:20, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please delete this page. Thanks. User:Orikrin1998/Images --Orikrin1998 (talk) 10:04, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

•  Done Gnangarra 10:11, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Hesperian. I am writing to you to inform you that you are in danger of losing your adminship on Commons because of your inactivity in the past six months.

If you want to keep your adminship, you need both to sign at the current inactivity run page within 30 days of today's date, and also to make at least five further admin actions in the following six months. Anyone who does not do so will automatically lose administrator rights.

You can read the de-admin policy at Commons:Administrators/De-adminship.

Thank you, OdderBot (talk) 11:05, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just as well I didnt try a meetup this month crap has been hasppening (nothing more boring than satusuro complainin g about life) - looks like aughust is an annual event for you :) - here anyways. must have a meetup sometime when things settle down... SatuSuro (talk) 00:44, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why was my picture deleted? I provided all the correct copyright information. What's wrong with it? Mouseinphilly (talk) 12:38, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know. Hesperian 00:34, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Hesperian,

I had asked for the deletion of File:Narcissus cyclaminus.jpg (misspelled name), which was an exact duplicate of File:Narcissus cyclamineus.jpg (correctly spelled name). I do not understand what happened... There is currently no more file at all. Please reset File:Narcissus cyclamineus.jpg.

Best regards, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 07:28, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the file you wanted deleted, only to discover that the undeleted one was a redirect to the deleted one. I tried to sort that out but must have messed something up. I think it is fixed now? Hesperian 02:43, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Hesperian, it is now fixed. I apologise for the temporary inconvenience. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 08:48, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Kvdr56 (talk) 11:29, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• This frivolous nomination has been closed, image meets all Commons Policies, nominator has been advise that if they dispute the identification then they should discuss rather than request an image that meets all of Commons Policies be deleted. Gnangarra 13:20, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Hesperian,

This image has no more use and the kingfisher airline has ceased all of its operation. Hence request you to delete this screen shot. Thanks

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trz-lhr.jpg#file

A few months ago, a user uploaded hundreds of poorly categorized files of Boston (which I have been cleaning up), and paid so little attention that they uploaded some of the files two or even three times. Another user performed minor crops to straighten images, remove frames, and remove small watermarks. These crops were well done; they are logical and make the images usable for article use. Any information lost is well preserved in the image history. Hence, I have been nominating the duplicate files for deletion; even if they are not now pixel-for-pixel identical, to make them useful would result in cropping them exactly as the originals have been cropped, thus creating an exact duplicate.

A few weeks ago, you declined deletion of File:Milk Station, Washington Street tunnel looking south (14226879530) (2).jpg, which I had nominated as a duplicate, under the grounds that it was not an exact duplicate. The original file, File:Milk Station, Washington Street tunnel looking south (14226879530).jpg, had previously received the crop. Based on the rationale I've outlined above, would you be willing to reconsider deletion? There are several dozen of these duplicates which serve no useful purpose whatsoever. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:56, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Pi.1415926535, nice to meet you.

I can certainly imagine some purposes for which we might wish we had retained the original. I could not imagine the City of Boston Archives themselves cropping the physical original!

My understanding of deletion is that the community decides, the administrators merely enact. By rights every single proposed deletion should be debated by the community. But that is insane, it would waste the community's time. Instead the community has defined some narrow areas where administrators may delete files on sight. But in any doubtful circumstance, we should still go back to the community to check what it wants. Therefore I think the proper thing to do is to discuss the file at Commons:Deletion requests. Sorry, I don't mean to waste your time, but I really think we do not know for sure what the community's opinion on this would be.

Hesperian 02:20, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have been, for lack of a better word, enjoying some of your 2010 uploads and I have a few questions.

First and most important, did you use upload software which is not the usual wiki-gui based upload methods? If so, could you share it?

Second, I was looking at a djvu file you uploaded and there was a complaint about it being based on jp2 and therefore useless for w source. I just made a djvu file which I am remaking because I used "eng" for the ocr language setting and it is clearly latin. That file used pbm and ppm files and I started to wonder if this file might also be useless for wiki-source.

More compliments about your 2010 uploads, it is really wonderful to find perfectly good pngs amongst the flickr/jpeg litter here. Thank you so much! -- RaboKarbakian (talk) 16:50, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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JuTa 16:11, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 15:39, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

I'm writing you as one of the most active Commons users right now. Since a while now, the idea of a dedicated Commons conference has been floating around. But since the last Wikimania concrete steps have been taken to actually make it happen next year. If you're interested in participation or maybe willing to help organize the first ever Commons Conference, I invite you to check out the project page and leave your comments; or just show your support for the idea, by signing up.

Cheers,

--Touzrimounir (talk) 22:17, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed a fabulous image at Kino, exactly what I needed to illustrate the flow. I went to thank Gn., but see it is one of yours, another talent I want to see more of. Kudos, — cygnis insignis 07:07, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thanks! Hesperian 23:53, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I heard Robt Powell give a talk on Yate when he was recently in the country, I'll pass on a couple of things that were discussed. He demonstrated the virtues of black and white photography in showing trees and landscape, bringing attention to form and away from any noise that colour produces. One grand old specimen was at the edge of a canola field, the field of flowers was included in his image because he was taught to not tilt the camera (which distorts the subject). The original image was garish blobs of blue, green and yellow, but once converted to B&W it showed the Yate's graceful and mallee-like form. His stuff is online if you want some inspiration. Regards, cygnis insignis 00:52, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I see you are a Commons admin and I am wandering if you can help me or at least point me in the right direction. I am mostly involved with English WP so don't know my way around Commons too well other than to upload images. It turns out that I just uploaded 2 files (File:Periódico El Eco del Comercio (Ponce, Puerto Rico - 5 de Julio de 1852) (DP29).jpg and File:Periódico El Ponceño (Ponce, Puerto Rico - 25 de Marzo de 1854) (DP30).jpg) and overlooked removing my personal information from the files before the upload, thus disclosing my real name in the files' metadata. Of course the reason I use "Mercy11" is because I want to keep my real name confidential, which my desire to contribute those 2 files has now put in jeopardy. Can you delete those two files so that my PII isn't public? I can then re-upload them again without that PII information included. I prefer to keep this matter confidential and so don't want to post in a public forum for all admins to see. Much thanks in advance, Mercy11 (talk) 01:11, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hesperian. Please disregard the request above. I realized too late you had signed off, so (given the urgency) I requested the assistance of another admin. Have a great day! Mercy11 (talk) 02:07, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I am confused by your description of John Horgan at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Horgan&oldid=1567887 All the images linked there seem to relate to w:en:John Horgan (Australian politician), but I see no evidence that he was ever a surveyor, and his birth and death dates are different. I see no evidence that any John Horgan was ever a Surveyor General of Western Australia. I realize this was back in 2006, but do you have any idea where you were getting your information from? Daask (talk) 16:44, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It seems really ignorant now, on my part. I was doing what the faebot was doing with the Flickr images when I should have looked to see what the TOLTroll was doing with the books.

Live and learn....--RaboKarbakian (talk) 18:05, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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18:11, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Regarding the deletion of File:Cueva de Salamanca 02 (cropped).JPG, please note [3] :-) --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 15:54, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I am messaging you because a contest for a sound logo for Wikimedia is being developed and your opinion as a Wikimedia Commons admin is appreciated. My team would like to know if it is possible for the top finalist sound logos in the contest to have attribution temporarily hidden from public view until all the votes are final? The idea is to let the public judge the sound logo contestants based on the merit of the logo, not the person or people who made it. Again, any feedback is appreciated.

Thank you,

VGrigas (WMF) (talk) 17:47, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Túrelio (talk) 21:09, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Hesperian (highly infrequent contributor here), was hoping to ask you a couple of questions about that scan of a portion of Labillardière's manuscript you contributed back in 2010 (here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Derivation_of_Adenanthos.png), may I? Progosk (talk) 21:59, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Progosk. Yes of course. Hesperian 00:30, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Do you, by any chance, know of (or have access to) any other handwritten holotype notes of Labillardière's, with similar musings about his derivations? Progosk (talk) 18:38, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No. Not unless there are further such images in Nelson's PhD thesis, a copy of which I may or may not have and be able to find. Hesperian 00:42, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

OK - thanks for getting back, in any case. Progosk (talk) 11:15, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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