Chuck Entz

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Picture of the Year 2013 R2 Announcement

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!

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2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2013) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category have continued to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 2 will end on 7 March 2014. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2013/Introduction/en Click here to learn more and vote »]

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

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Picture of the Year 2013 Results Announcement

Picture of the Year 2013 Results

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The 2013 Picture of the Year. View all results »

Dear Chuck Entz,

The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).

• In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
• In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)

We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:

1. 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
2. In second place, 155 people voted for an image of "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains) National Park in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
3. In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.

Click here to view the top images »

We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.

Thanks,
the Picture of the Year committee

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Deletion request

Hello. I requested the deletion of File:En-us-troll.ogg again. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 05:35, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2015 is open!

You are receiving this message because you voted in R1 of the 2015 Picture of the Year contest.

Dear Chuck Entz,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2015 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the tenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2015) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. In Round 1, there were 1322 candidate images. There are 56 finalists in Round 2, comprised of the top 30 overall as well as the top #1 and #2 from each sub-category. In the final round, you may vote for just one or maximal three image to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 2 will end on 28 May 2016, 23:59:59 UTC.

Click here to vote »

Thanks,
-- Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee 09:43, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Clarification needed

Hello,

Sorry if I'm pestering you at all, but I want to know-- how exactly does not reverting anyone's edits (that aren't vandalism or disruptive) give them an incentive to make more of them (as you told me on Wiktionary)??

Because on Commons, I usually don't edit the same file/category twice unless I'm using Cat-a-lot, or I've found a more specific category/template, or I realize I forgot to add a category the last time I visited that page.

And before you get too worried, I am not asking you to overturn any blocks. I'm just curious as to whether/why you think a reversion would not backfire in this sort of case, given these reversions I undid (yeah, I'm kinda sorry about those, OK?). See, up until yesterday, I would bookmark the page in need of edits, wait for a "evasion opportunity" and edit them, and THEN I'd delete the bookmark. I would ask you about this sort of thing on Wiktionary if I weren't blocked there, sorry for any inconvenience. :)

And by the way, what kinds of edits (mine or otherwise) constitute "clueless edits" to you, other than edits which are clearly disruptive?
Because here on Commons, I tend to make a few edits to the same file using HotCat, not just Cat-a-lot. There are several reasons, but I can think of 3 right now:

1) I often don't know the proper name of a few things in the image itself (such as "railings" as opposed to "banisters"),
2) Up until April 2022, I didn't know about Template:G (see Revision #648422705), and
3) I might need to look at the Flickr or Library of Congress page that a file came from, to find out the location depicted in a photo.

I don't know how, or even whether, all that stuff factors into your understanding of my "clueless edits" and/or my "poor judgment", because it seems to me more like someone editing a page or file one step at a time, and learning as they go along. But please do let me know, because then I may well finally get a clue (as I eventually did about those bad Chinese entries). Thanks a trillion!

Best of kindest regards, Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 22:57, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Oh, and just to satisfy my curiosity, why can't I talk my way out of a block? I tried asking you (or someone, maybe not you) on Wiktionary once (through a sock account) and that question never got answered, even though I promised I wouldn't create any more socks if I did receive an answer. What gives???
(In case you were wondering, I made those socks by registering them at other WMF wikis such as English Wikisource and French Wikipedia, then logging into WT through Tor Browser. That's why I suggested that global IP-range "account-creation-disabling without blocking anonymous edits" thingy. Are those possible at all??) Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 20:28, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

And no, I am not trying to overturn any blocks right now. Just asking why blocked users can't talk their way out of a block. Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 20:30, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Oh, and one other thing―yeah, I'm kinda sorry about evading my block using this IP range. Although, I am very glad that you did not revert my edits this time. What prompted you to not revert those?
Also, I have to tell you―I'm only evading my block because that is the only way I can edit Wiktionary at all right now. Think like what I wrote to Svartava about "how Hollywood is encouraging online piracy" (the title of a 2012 article). So maybe, instead of continuing to fight me, you could work with me? Just an idea. Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 20:25, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Just letting you know, I'm still wondering why (and in which cases―for instance, compulsive editing?) talking my way out of a block (no matter the wiki) would be equivalent to showing the same "poor judgment that got [me] blocked in the first place". I'm not gonna hold it against you, but I find it rather odd that you haven't taken it upon yourself to, uh, "destupify" me. Cheerio! Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 22:07, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

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