User talk:JimPercy

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, JimPercy!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, JimPercy!

Tip: Add categories to your files

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.

CategorizationBot (talk) 11:07, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

• Image:BoyandPups.jpg was uncategorized on 4 May 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:07, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Do you have a better version of File:People's Home Journal, 5-1928.jpg?

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Thank you for your submission of File:People's Home Journal, 5-1928.jpg. While all submissions are useful, do you think you might be able to supply a better quality version of the same, or similar, content? In many cases, the largest and highest resolution possible is the most useful version to have available. (MediaWiki has automatic resizing functionality, so there is no need for multiple versions of the same image at different sizes, users can select any size and the software will generate and cache the needed resolution on the fly.)

If you can supply the same exact image as File:People's Home Journal, 5-1928.jpg at a larger resolution (or media at a higher bitrate, etc.), please just upload it over the original, users will get the new higher quality version with no further effort on your part. If on the other hand, the content is only similar, it is best to select a new image name, as there may be uses already where some aspect of the existing media was key to the usage. In the latter case, if you can provide a crosslink reference to the new image in the older one and vice versa, that will be extremely helpful.

Again, thank you very much for your contribution, it is appreciated.

--Saibo (Δ) 00:41, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello. I just put in a request for speedy deletion of File:People's Home Journal, 5-1928.jpg. It's been replaced with File:People's Home Journal, May 1928.jpg. Both pictures are the same image taken from my digital camera. However, the latter one was brightened up a little, so it shows up better. See Wikipedia article: Paul Martin (illustrator). Please feel free to touch it up or whatever, to bring out the colors etc. Thanks for asking. Again, the image you mentioned was requested by myself for speedy deletion, only about fifteen minutes ago, as another has since replaced it (which is in the mentioned article). JimPercy (talk) 02:00, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

More. Yes, I realize that I should had just uploaded a new image over the old. (It was my error in not doing it that way.) It's not the easiest thing to take a picture of this magazine cover, as the size is 10.5 x 14 inches. JimPercy (talk) 02:49, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello Jim! Note that I have added links to the file names in your comment to make them clickable. I had just messaged you because you write on the file page "This is a scaled-down version." If you have a bigger versions, please upload it - we have enough space and that makes details more visible and ensures that the image lost as least quality as possible (e.g. for further touch-ups). Below the file versions there is the link to upload a new version. Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 03:20, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello editor. Here's a reply. Fine on the added links. Now, about my wording "This is a scaled down version...." This is what that's about. I recall a year or so ago when there was difficulty uploading pictures to Wikipedia, due to copyright issues. So, I added that wording about it being a scaled down version and necessary for identification purposes (which is true), only in order to get the picture property tagged and accepted, and not deleted due to copyright issues. Hence, the wording otherwise does not have any meaning. Maybe it should just be deleted, but I don't know. JimPercy (talk) 05:09, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello Jim, thanks for your comment. You are confusing some different aspects here. The need for scaled down versions occurs only at the english Wikipeda if you want to upload "fair use" images. Here at Commons fair use is not allowed anyway. The fair use images for en.Wikipedia need to be uploaded there directly - not here in Commons.

So if the image is public domain (totally free of any copyright) then you also can upload a non-scaled-down version. If the image is not public domain then it needs to be deleted here at Commons but maybe you can re-upload it at Wikipedia directly if it qualifies for fair use there.

I think it is pretty clear that the image is really public domain - see my changes to the file page. On the file page there is, near the bottom, a link "upload a new version" - use it, please! :-) Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 13:36, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Fisk_Tires_Clock.jpg

This media was probably deleted.

A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Fisk_Tires_Clock.jpg, was missing information about where it comes from or who created it, which is needed to verify its copyright status. The file probably has been deleted. If you've got all required information, request undeletion providing this information and the link to the concerned file ([[:File:Fisk_Tires_Clock.jpg]]). If you created the content yourself, enter {{Own}} as the source. If you did not add a licensing template, you must add one. You may use, for example, {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} or {{Cc-zero}} to release certain rights to your work. If someone else created the content, or if it is based on someone else's work, the source should be the address to the web page where you found it, the name and ISBN of the book you scanned it from, or similar. You should also name the author, provide verifiable information to show that the content is in the public domain or has been published under a free license by its author, and add an appropriate template identifying the public domain or licensing status, if you have not already done so. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Please add the required information for this and other files you have uploaded before adding more files. If you need assistance, please ask at the help desk. Thank you!

This file does not contain any permission of the fotographer. -- — Johannes Kalliauer - Talk | Contributions 17:33, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

File:Sanger to H-O.jpg

File:Sanger to H-O.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!

Taivo (talk) 07:22, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Autopatrol given

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. -- ~riley (talk) 05:13, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Please do not edit closed deletions!

Hi Jim: First, please do not edit closed deletions! If you have questions, we have talkpages. To answer what seems to at issue, a photo was uploaded by one name/title, and later it was renamed "(change visibility) 14:23, 28 July 2020 Buidhe File:The Martins' personallized Christmas card of their home in winter snow.jpg to File:Martins'HomeNo2.jpg (Criterion 1 (original uploader’s request) · The file title is WRONG. I uploaded the image today. I thought that title was going into the description line (under Summary) and NOT replacing the file name. The correct file name should be "Martins'HomeNo2." This bogus 11-word one was stuck in there by my mistake. Thanks.)" Next, since it appears to be a copyright violation, no matter what its name is, it was removed. Original template read "(Uploaded a work by |Author={{Creator:Paul Martin (illustrator)}} It's signed and titled in the lower center. from {{PD-art-two|PD-old-auto|PD-US-unpublished|deathyear=1932}} with UploadWizard)" The major problem is there never was a source. You put "|source={{PD-art-two|PD-old-auto|PD-US-unpublished|deathyear=1932}}" in the source field. I am certain you recognize that's not a source. Each image has to have "where did it come from if you didn't create the original," i.e. source. While you see a signature in the middle, I see two names in same typeface. This could be the cover of a magazine or the illustration by someone else without a source that says "this is what the image is." Please see COM:L if you have more questions, but do not change deletion nominations after they are closed. The nomination was open as you say for eleven months, you had plenty of time to fix it while nominated! Usually we try to close in 7 days. If you have issues with the closure, please go to the closing administrator (me) and if that does not work out the way you want, there is COM:UNDEL. I wouldn't mind restoring this image, but it needs an actual source. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 20:45, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Ellin Beltz. Yes, That was my wording in quotes. I uploaded the file with a bogus file name in error (just as stated). It was retitled and corrected at that time (over 11 months ago). But, the problem is that the a few days ago File:Martins'HomeNo.2 was deleted (same image--different file name). I didn't have any warning on that. [Oh, I did that "revert" by mistake, thinking it had something to do with the deletion of File:Martins'HomeNo2.jpg

The copyright tags are seemingly not good enough, since lacking proof it appeared in print. That would be nearly impossible to prove since it could be a totally unique (one of a kind) image. Greeting cards are hard to prove as credits. My purpose in the upload was not even that, but rather to back up that the artist (who worked at home) had a large northern window, which artist like as it emits natural (not reflected) light into the room, as they are painting. The artist Martin, worked for a greeting card company in the 1920s, and there is absolute proof of this in newspaper print, but again, not the actual image [The Daily Argus, Dec. 3, 1921, gravure section --via Fultonhistory.com.] It shows a full page reproduced contract, which is signed by Martin and others. The added name "Lauretta" is his wife's name. It would be no different than any husband or wife signing a greeting card for both of them, even though just one of them signed it. I have the original image on a CD (and no one else has it in any form). It will take me a full day or more to go through the process of restoring and uploading it to Flickr or WayBackMachine, unless the image is put back up at least temporary. JimPercy (talk) 23:35, 13 June 2021 (UTC) PS. I thought I wrote up the "source" in the description box correctly. Please ONLY GO BY my description as stated in File:Martins'HomeNo.2 and not the error filled original, that was mistitled and only only up for a day or so.

Greetings Jim: Where did the image originally come from? I disagree with you on the signature, but if you can answer these questions, we can proceed. We need to determine, did he create the image? What year was the image created? Where did you get the copy that you uploaded? These are all simple things that will help potentially restore the image. Cheers. Ellin Beltz (talk) 00:13, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

I don't agree with what you posted about what I typed in the summary box's source line of File:Martins'HomeNo2.jpg. I think it was as follows: "An original drawing that was preserved by the wife, and passed down the family line. Immediate source: from my own collection." Now, I could be off slightly. I'm going by memory as the file was deleted about ten days ago. I really just wanted it to be brought back up, without going through the trouble involved by what you suggest. Early morning today (on the West Coast on Monday). I spent hours and downloaded a copy of the image to an alternative sight, and then inserted that link into the broken URL at WP. That's due to the unexpected taking down of File:Martins'HomeNo.2, which was on Commons for nearly one year, until its recent deletion. It's not as good as the copy that was at Commons, but is still satisfactory. More. I'm positive that "Lauretta & Paul Martin" was all signed by Paul Martin. He had a distinctive printed signature (upward crossing of T's and circular shaped M). I'm also not sure why you are asking about the date, since that was clearly stated in summary box's date box line. JimPercy (talk) 02:50, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Greetings again, What I quoted you was from the actual upload history of the file. I am glad that now the one you wish back is back that you have included all the information required for uploads. There is really no reason to get upset at the process, it's a process to be sure Commons can actually provide free hosting for your images. One would think in eleven months you could have handled this, because a delete after eleven months of nothing is not "abrupt." Cheers. Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:52, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

I didn't mean to come across as upset. I was just trying to emphasize that I was referring to something else entirely. Yes, I'm grateful that it's back online, and that only the "redirect" was deleted. That was the original intent of mine, back eleven months ago. I made several minor touch ups in the past week, to the file that was brought back up. Hopefully, those adjustments have made it clearer. Thanks to all the editors. JimPercy (talk) 20:50, 22 June 2021 (UTC)