Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Andre Kritzinger!

Watermarks edit

Please do not upload any more images with a watermark, and do not remove the {Watermark} templates. - Erik Baas (talk) 23:32, 29 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Sorry about the ones I removed - took about three of them before I realised where they came from. I'll do what I can about removing the inscriptions before uploading, but it will not always be possible. Andre Kritzinger (talk) 23:45, 29 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

OK, thank you. - Erik Baas (talk) 00:38, 3 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

SAR category names edit

Hi. In future, if you want a mass-recat done, you might find it easier to either use Catalot (available via the preferences > gadgets menu), or, for simple renaming, ask an admin to task CommonsDelinker to do it - it's a lot easier than manually altering every image yourself. -mattbuck (Talk) 00:10, 3 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

You can also do mass moves by replacing the category page by {{category redirect|category to redirect to}}. This also helps as it any images which do end up in the category will automatically be moved. One final thing, rather than blanking cats, please request they instead be deleted - that way they won't show up on tools like HotCat as a legitimate category. -mattbuck (Talk) 00:11, 3 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. I'm learning.... André Kritzinger (talk) 00:23, 3 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

No problem. Feel free to ask questions on my talk page if you need a hand. -mattbuck (Talk) 01:01, 3 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

File:SAR Class 33-000 33-007.JPG edit

Please do not upload any more images with a watermark. - Erik Baas (talk) 23:49, 30 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

I crop them off or search for the originals wherever I can, but cropping wasn't possible on this one and the original is no longer in my archives. André Kritzinger (talk) 00:03, 1 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
Something like that should be easy enough to paint out. -mattbuck (Talk) 00:11, 1 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I've been amazed at what the photolab folks can do! André Kritzinger (talk) 00:23, 1 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

SA train images for deletion edit

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Electrically-hauled express train in Natal, South Africa (CJ Allen, Steel Highway, 1928).jpg

Thought you might be interested, and might even know something about South African copyright issues. The main issue is really at the category deletion page. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:33, 25 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

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E1600 edit

Hi there, we, myself and three other fellow employees had the task of rewiring and restoring this Locomotive. We are at the final stage of completion and commisioning should start in the next two months..........

That's great news! If you can, please upload some pictures. And please also take a look at the article about the locomotive at South African Class Exp AC - any comments or additional information will be welcome.

André Kritzinger (talk) 12:08, 20 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Autopatrol given edit

 

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. Érico Wouters msg 03:53, 18 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! André Kritzinger (talk) 11:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Sorry edit

Hi André, sorry for removing Category:Wikipedians in South Africa from File:Col AH Kritzinger, 1999.JPG. I thought it was a joke. --Sebastian Wallroth (talk) 08:19, 13 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

No sweat. Thought as much. André Kritzinger (talk) 10:32, 13 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

Cat-a-lot edit

Andre,

I notice you are re-categorizing a lot of images manually. You might find this useful: Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot. It saves a lot of effort and time. --NJR_ZA (talk) 15:56, 15 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, but I prefer the hands-on approach. Some research involved... - André Kritzinger (talk) 17:04, 15 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

SAAF photos edit

Thanks a lot for uploading all those excellent images of SAAF aircraft. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 09:42, 27 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Pleasure. Several need rescanning but I'll get to that... -- André Kritzinger (talk) 12:22, 27 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

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State Library of Victoria edit

Hi Andre. I discovered some great old SA photos online you may be interested in, see some of railroad trains here. I have only uploaded one photo here so far for a new Wikipedia article (File:Cenotaph, Johannesburg.jpg). Do you know anything about the author listed (Linton Brothers)? HelenOnline 12:27, 4 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi Helen. No, never heard of Linton Bros. Could even be from a collection since some look like buider's pictures. Several of the pictures are already on Wikimedia, but these are mostly better resolution so I'll certainly do some harvesting to replace poor pics. All are long out of copyright by now. Thank you for the lead! -- André Kritzinger (talk) 12:59, 4 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Pleasure. I have found Linton Bros. listed c1930 as Photographic Material and Stock Importers at 61 Market Street, Sydney. HelenOnline 13:15, 4 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks again - I've uploaded nine. I'm especially chuffed about the Union Garratt (File:Class U 2-6-2+2-6-2.jpg) that I discovered with a further search. -- André Kritzinger (talk) 19:58, 5 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
I'm glad you found something useful. I will upload some more pictures of streets and buildings tomorrow. HelenOnline 21:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Category:Ruston, Proctor locomotives edit

Hi Andre, you are absolutely correct. My reason for using Ruston Proctor was that I wanted to fit in with the prevailing mood leaving out the comma. it is one less key sroke and otherwise something of "a trap for young players". In the same way I have omitted the "& Co" within Wikimedia. I notice you have omitted & Co in Ruston, Proctor locomotives —and for that matter Limited.

Please would you put it back to no comma, otherwise please tell me why you feel it is important to have that comma there.
Regards, Eddaido (talk) 12:32, 17 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

It's in line with the correct title of the main article about the company at Ruston, Proctor and Company. (Two individuals involved named Ruston and Proctor respectively, not one individual named Ruston Proctor.) Some years ago similar corrections were made by someone to insert the comma into Sharp, Stewart and some other loco company categories. And yes, the Co. Ltd. should actually also be included, but in practice that is often left out in text, but never the comma. I'd rather change all the other new categories to include the comma as well. Will do it later tonight when I have a chance, unless you want to fix them yourself. -- André Kritzinger (talk) 15:19, 17 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Andre, please don't do any more. We are going to need help to resolve this. Will be back here. Eddaido (talk) 00:42, 18 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
I see you have been busy. What a pity.
If all those categories are now left as you have made them you have given yourself a big job! Because when an editor looks for Ruston Proctor they will not find it.
Ruston, (comma) does not start until after all the Rustons are finished. See what I mean?
You need to change them back because otherwise new images won't get categorised the way you want them, they probably won't be categorised at all unless You do it! Eddaido (talk) 04:22, 18 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
I do not understand your problem.
* Search for "Ruston Proctor" and search for "Ruston, Proctor", and you get the same results.
* A category redirect template has been added to each and every old incorrect commaless category to direct anyone searching to the new correct ones with commas. They were not nominated for deletion.
So what more do you believe needs to be done?
Or would you also want to remove the commas from Category:Beyer, Peacock and Company locomotives, Category:Black, Hawthorn locomotives, Category:Brown, Boveri & Cie. locomotives, Category:Dick, Kerr locomotives and Category:Fox, Walker locomotives, to name a few? -- André Kritzinger (talk) 12:20, 18 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Good Heavens! I didn't look because I didn't expect a reply! Let me explain, say you wished to categorise this particular page. At the foot, just below here, you will see Categories (+):(+) (or something very like that). If you click on the second + sign and enter Ruston you will at once see the problem.
Yes, I do think you should forget the commas in Beyer Peacock, Black Hawthorn, Brown Boveri, Fox Walker etc etc. They are not spoken and they simply get in the (b****y) way! Anyway I think I can be far more pedantic than you can, you should let me try! Seriously though I do think the commas are a discouragement to photographers anxious to get shot of their obligation to find a category. I went through and categorised a whole lot of Ruston etc images that had not been given any category at all for their manufacturer and I hoped by categorising them in a reasonable straightforward way they'd make examples to follow. I'm really only interested in the businesses of those companies like Brown Boveri etc but you need to be able to let readers get a visual idea of their range of products which can be a good deal broader than railway locomotives - though I'm sure locomotives are a fascinating subject to many people. Best, Eddaido (talk) 04:37, 20 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

So you really believe it's the right thing to do to accept incorrect information to dumb down the system?
There are two possible ways to approach your "problem":

  • One can use one of the old commaless categories to categorise a picture, but I'm pretty sure a bot or a conscientious editor will pick it up in short order and correctly recategorise such a picture pronto. After all, it's hard to overlook the huge {{Category redirect|Ruston, Proctor steam cranes}} template at the top of Category:Ruston Proctor steam cranes.
  • One can nominate all the old commaless categories for deletion like you did with the correct Category:Ruston, Proctor locomotives, after you created the incorrect Category:Ruston Proctor locomotives, then they'll no longer show up in the category selector. However, any Wikipedia article that still has a Commonscat-link to one of the commaless categories will then just produce a "Page does not exist" result instead of a redirect link to the correct category, when that Commonscat-link (which will still show up blue) is used.
    -- André Kritzinger (talk) 14:50, 20 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
As I've already pointed out you are not using the correct legal name of the manufacturer and to be utterly determined to put in a comma, somehow claiming it is the correct thing to do, is just, er, I can't think of a Wikiword to express what I have in mind.
Sure, once you've seen the light you will have a lot of fixing up to do. The big redirect sign on Ruston Proctor locomotives should have been put there by A K but you didn't and someone else put it in for you. Right?
What we, i.e. you and me, have to do is make it as easy as possible for donors to categorise their own stuff and not drop it into a "too hard basket". C'mon, leave out the comma! Best, Eddaido (talk) 11:37, 22 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
So, "...to be utterly determined to put in a comma..." is somehow different from "...to be utterly determined to remove a comma..."?
Over and out, I have better things to do. Go bother an Admin.-- André Kritzinger (talk) 13:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Umm, well, what I want to happen is that you and I agree that it is a mistake to unnecessarily complicate categorising by having a superfluous comma there. If we go to an admin with a united front maybe the confusion can be sorted easily. Yes, I was really annoyed at the way you did what you did without consultation - refer to the first few paragraphs. If you can agree the comma is superfluous in all these cases then I am happy to get to work on the necessary changes. Do we have a deal? Eddaido (talk) 22:46, 22 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Category:Photographs by Bob Adams edit

Hi Andre, after my request Bob Adams has relicenced his photos on Flickr to CC-BY-SA and I have uploaded the bulk of them to Commons. I see there is a heap of photos relating to SA rail, and was hoping you might be interested/able to help to categorise them. Any assistance appreciated. Cheers, russavia (talk) 17:21, 26 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Wow, I never knew Bob had so many pictures available! I'll help with the SAAF aircraft and locomotives, but that will have to be in-between a project that's not quite done yet. -- André Kritzinger (talk) 19:34, 26 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hi Russavia, I've done a few and realised PDQ that, with 17 pages of 200 pictures each to scroll through repeatedly, we need a system to separate the categorised pictures from the undone. So I created a subcategory named "Category:Photographs by Bob Adams - Categorised" with which to replace the "Category:Photographs by Bob Adams" on those pictures that's been done and dusted. -- André Kritzinger (talk) 01:58, 27 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
It may be even better to place the done ones in subcats for aircraft, locomotives, cars, etc., rather than to just end up having dumped the whole kaboodle into just another massive and unmanageable subcategory. But not now, it's 04:00 here. -- André Kritzinger (talk) 02:08, 27 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hi Andre, sorry I thought I replied already but I must have forgotten to hit save. Thanks for your help with this so far, it's most appreciated. Just one thing, I have two categories on these images: Category:Files uploaded by Russavia and Category:Files uploaded by Russavia (aviation)...could you please leave both of these categories intact on the images. Also, do you know of any other Saffa photographers I could approach to ask them to relicence? Cheers, russavia (talk) 07:17, 1 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
OK, will do. I've also come across pictures by P. Dubois that you've marked as Category:Files uploaded by Russavia (delete) and assumed that it was about permission issues. On those by Dubois that I've encountered that's not so marked, I've change the Category:Files uploaded by Russavia (aviation) to Category:Files uploaded by Russavia (delete) as well. Should I continue doing that? (This is a mammoth load of aircraft pictures! And some are quite a challenge!) -- André Kritzinger (talk) 11:16, 1 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
With the Dubois photos, yes that's good work there. I simply put them into that category and then bulk delete every week. Saves wasting time at DR etc and editors are kinda used to that category of mine now. Cheers mate, russavia (talk) 14:59, 1 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

@Russavia - Two-odd years ago you asked "Also, do you know of any other Saffa photographers I could approach to ask them to relicence?" Here's one, not a Saffa but with some magnificent SA locomotive shots.
If you can convince this guy to upload to Wikimedia... man-o-man! I'll even do all the categorising free, gratis and for nothing!!
Link 1, Link 2, Link 3 and Link 4 - André Kritzinger (talk) 15:55, 11 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Oryx is not a Puma edit

Hi Andre,

I noticed you recently removed an edit to Category: Oryx (SAAF) which added the category "Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma". While I agree that the Oryx is not a Puma and the two represent entirely separate aircraft, it is a commonly accepted practice on Commons to link projects of related development to a parent category. The Oryx was inspired by the Puma and may be considered a further development of that same basic airframe. It falls under the same class as the Romanian IAR 330, which you'll note is seconded to the Puma category.

Thanks, --Katangais (talk) 04:07, 6 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

That kind of link should be covered in the relevant Wkipedia articles, not by making one aircraft type's picture category a subcategory of another type's picture category. The mother category in this case is Category:Aircraft of the South African Air Force and that should be link enogh. -- André Kritzinger (talk) 12:53, 6 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hello edit

Hello, my name is {{u|Josve05a and I do not believe we have spoken before.

I just wanted to inform you of a project I am currently running; commonstrains on twitter.

On there I'll be posting random photographs of railway related photographs uploaded here on Commons under a free license. I would love to hear from you in ev. working with it together if you want.

I wish you a great weekend and happy editing! Josve05a (talk) 19:04, 14 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi Josve05a, sorry, I don't do Twitter and don't intend to. Besides, I'm seriously overdue for a Wikibreak and next year some travelling is on the cards, so once I'm done with my present project I plan to be less active here. (Ja, right. Famous last words...) -- André Kritzinger (talk) 21:47, 18 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

File:JCD lint.jpg and others edit

Hi, You need to replace the files before asking for deletion using User:CommonsDelinker/commands‎. Regards, Yann (talk) 11:52, 23 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

I know. They are all replaced in all applicable articles before I nominate them for deletion. Seems that some of them still show up as "in use" due to their appearance in templates, though, mainly sub-pages that has to do with Template:Medal Display/ZAR, even though they had been replaced there. -- André Kritzinger (talk) 12:26, 23 January 2015 (UTC)Reply
I have reverted the deletion requests on the files that still show up as in use. The rest are good to go. -- André Kritzinger (talk) 15:24, 23 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

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SAR Class 5E edit

Hello Andre

I hope you can read this. I am in the process of putting together a book to illustrate the variety and worldwide influence of England's Vulcan Foundry. I believe they built a batch of the Class 5E electric locomotives for SAR. I have really been struggling to find a decent photo of one of these to include in the book, and wondered if you could help, please? My email address is colinalexander4@yahoo.co.uk — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.120.234.154 (talk) 19:38, 06 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hi Colin, yes Vulcan built some of the SAR's Series 1 Class 5Es and all the Series 2 and 3, as well as four steam loco classes, of which one was for the CSAR and never received a SAR classification. Take a look at Category:Vulcan Foundry locomotives where you'll find links to the CSAR Rack 4-6-4RT and all the SAR locomotives. Near the bottom of each loco article, follow the "Wikimedia Commons" link to all available pictures of each loco. Good luck with the book. André Kritzinger (talk) 22:20, 6 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

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File:AAR Type F coupler d.jpg edit

Dear Colonel,

is this used for rotary dumped coal cars?--Naschpaul (talk) 10:38, 27 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Yes, and for manganese and iron ore wagons. André Kritzinger (talk) 11:09, 27 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Categories for containers edit

Hello Andre, you removed the container category at File:Hapag-Lloyd containers in Rotterdam 1226.jpg and added Rotterdam, but that photo shows many containers and nearly nothing from Rotterdam, so I do not understand your intention? Similar at this file. There is also a category Ports and harbours in Rotterdam. -- Gerd Fahrenhorst (talk) 18:29, 28 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi Gerd, I'm trying to create some sort of more sensible order with the container pictures, with the focus on individual containers as far as possible with the type code as sortkey and with stacks of multiple containers rather categorised by location, port, terminal, etc. To be honest, I didn't quite know how to handle these two files and was planning to revisit them. Please feel free to revert the edit in the meantime. Better suggestions welcome too, of course! - André Kritzinger (talk) 18:39, 28 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
I think that Category:Hapag-Lloyd shipping containers should not be limited to single-container pictures. -- Gerd Fahrenhorst (talk) 18:57, 28 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
True, since there's no fixed rules. It's just me, I suppose, with pictures of large container groups or stacks with multiple container lines visible. Anyhow, I found Category:Container terminals in Rotterdam for them meanwhile. As I said earlier, feel free to try another category or to revert my edits. - André Kritzinger (talk) 19:20, 28 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

This is a small episode related to containers edit

Hello. I am a Japanese passer. I looked at your wonderful railway photos and photos of containers. For reference, there is a special category that took a picture of [container dedicated to railway], which is handled by a railway company specialized in railway cargoes only in Japan. Please see if you can.

Commons site · Category → → [Category: Containers of JR Freight]


Although it is also [Japanese], there are pages about containers, so please refer if you like. ※ Although it is a strange page full of lots of images ...

Wikia Pedian site · Worldwide container → → [Category:コンテナ]

· Container specialized in Japan → → [Category:日本のコンテナ輸送]


※ Since I can not understand English at all, I used [Google translation]. Please forgive rude expressions and funny expressions.

goodbye.--58.98.249.247 12:28, 21 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, 58.98.249.247, I'll take a look. -- André Kritzinger (talk) 10:11, 22 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

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