Heironymous Rowe

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Do let me know if you have any questions or need help with anything! Cheers, -- Editor at Large • talk 04:59, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I noticed in my watchlist that you'd fixed them, you got to them all before I could get back to them. Thanks, lol, was gonna drop you a note at the time to say thanx for catching my fubar, but was already in the process of moving on to something in the real world. Thanks, not sure why I spaced that. Heironymous Rowe (talk) 05:48, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

No worries, we all fubar from time to time ;) I figured you were a somewhat experienced editor since you seemed to find your way around categories easily, but thought I'd drop a note just in case. Thanks for your contribs, the maps look great! -- Editor at Large • talk 17:33, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! They were all originally at the en wiki, but have had several people request that I move them to commons, I finally broke down and setup a commons acct. I've uploaded alot of other images, mostly pics of archaeological subjects, is there any way to do a mass move or is it one at a time as I've been doing? I've prolly got 75 or 100 images that could be moved, would save some time and energy. Thanks, H. Heironymous Rowe (talk) 21:32, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, if they're your own images you can perform a mass upload using tools like Commonist or Commonplace, which take away the hassle of uploading each image individually. There's no mass move tool that I'm aware of to move images from wikipedia to here, but for your own images you don't need to worry about keeping the original upload data and such, so you can perform fresh uploads using a mass upload tool.

Another bothersome task will be tagging the en.wp files to be deleted; however, that can be done with AWB fairly quickly (30 minutes for 100 files?). I think your best bet is to save all the files to your harddrive if they aren't there currently, mass upload them using one of the tools linked above, then use AWB (or ask someone with AWB priviledges, like myself) to tag the wpimages to be deleted.

If you need any help with this just give me a shout, I'd be happy to lend a hand! -- Editor at Large • talk 23:44, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Heironymous Rowe!

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.

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[[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".

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CategorizationBot (talk) 10:41, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

• Image:Southeastern states map HRoe 2010.jpg was uncategorized on 25 January 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:41, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Icon mound platform HRoe.png was uncategorized on 25 January 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:41, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Raptor themed pottery

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File:Unintentional_prescription_drug_deaths-Ohio-2004-2008.jpg

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Please use SVG Thank you for uploading File:Unintentional_prescription_drug_deaths-Ohio-2004-2008.jpg! Did you know that Wikimedia Commons recommends the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format for certain types of images? Scalable Vector Graphics are designed to look appropriate at any scale, and SVG images are easier to modify and translate, helping Wikimedia to distribute knowledge to all of the world. A lot of modern programs support SVG export. If you encountered problems or have questions, don't hesitate to ask me, a member of the Graphic Lab, or the Graphics village pump. However, it will be also an improvement if you can export (save) this image in PNG format without artefacts and upload. Uploading images in SVG format isn't mandatory, but it would help. (To avoid any misunderstandings, please don't just put raster images into an SVG container as embedded raster.) Thanks, and happy editing!

RE rillke questions? 20:45, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Your work

Just came across your image of Beausoleil. Nice! Thanks also for your many maps and illustrations of Mississippian culture. They help bring those powerful centers alive.Parkwells (talk) 12:31, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Hola

Copper repoussé bird effigy, American Natural History Museum

Hey, my brain has been elsewhere recently. Amazing illustrations of the copper plates. I hope you are getting great book illustration and museum display gigs! Anyway here is one more image I have of copper repoussé plates, but unfortuately little to no information because the AMNH is in the Dark Ages. I don't know if it is Mississippian or Hopewellian or other. Keep up all the great work! Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 03:22, 17 May 2012 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Just uploaded a bad photo of a Lick Creek gorget. I changed the categories for Category:Citico, Lick Creek and Saltville style shell gorgets because these have nothing to do with water monsters/ukten/tie snakes/avanyu/etc. (my empirical evidence is that none of them actually have horns). They reference something completely different. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 03:33, 17 May 2012 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Any interest in creating maps in SVG?

I recently noticed this map in an article I was reading, an image you apparently created four years ago. The image made a great addition to that article. As a map creator, I was wondering if you had considered transitioning to SVG as a file format for the maps you create. In addition to Commons:Transition to SVG, articles like Help:SVG and COM:MFC talk about advantages and techniques for working with SVG. Since you;ve been an active contributor for over three years I suspect you are well aware of this, but I thought I'd draw it to your attention anyway. 67.100.127.105 20:24, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Hopewell bird figure

I noticed you referred to this artifact as a pipe. The Walters calls this a (probable) atlatl weight. Did they get it wrong?

The Walters also asks for corrections, if you think they have it misdated.

Regardless, a beautiful piece of work. Great minimalist art, really. Best regards, Pete Tillman (talk) 20:02, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Herb: following up on my 2012 query, I notice a dating discrepancy. Walters Museum thinks this bird figure was made between 1500 to 1000 BC, but the Tremper Mounds are thought to date from 100 BC to 500 AD! The older figure seems old to me, but this is outside my area of expertise (SW prehistory, and I claim no great expertise there, either!). Thoughts? TIA & Cheers -- Pete Tillman (talk) 14:33, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

@Tillman: That is weird, those dates are Late Archaic. Even the culture that proceeded the Hopewell in Ohio, the Adena, date to 800 BCE - 1 CE. The dates for when one stops and the other begins is fuzzy as Adena is just kinda early Hopewell, or Hopewell is late more elaborate Adena. But that date seems a little early even for Adena. You could ask them if maybe thay have it wrong, but they may have a reason for that date I'm not aware of.

Personally, I've often wondered if that piece is even from Tremper Mound. If you look at other artwork from Tremper (see here) and other Hopewell pipes in general (like the ones from Mound City in Chilicothe here), stylistically this atlatl weight is the oddball. In fact, to me it has always looked more like a birdstone, which are from the archaic period. My feeling is, if it was found at Tremper, it was a thousand year old heirlooom when it was deposited. Maybe Walters Museum has some clarity on the provenance? Heironymous Rowe (talk) 15:52, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the prompt reply! That's a beauty at the Britannica site, and answers my question about what rock they used. If I get sufficiently energetic, I'll ask the Walters. Perhaps they got some info from the donor? My recollection is that Arte Primitivo gallery in New York, the donor's source, was also the one the Rockefellers used. So, a respectable gallery! I'll copy you if I pursue the matter. Here's what prompted this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050464@N06/50049386416

Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 23:53, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Photo date

Hi. Could you please clarify the date of File:Blue Moon Lost Bayou Ramblers HRoe 2008.jpg? The name and EXIF suggest it is from 2008, while the description states it is from 2011. Thanks for your attention. -- Infrogmation (talk) 06:10, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

The photo was taken in 2008 but uploaded in 2011. Heironymous Rowe (talk) 00:07, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

I fixed the image description accordingly. Thanks for your attention.Infrogmation (talk) 00:52, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

licensing

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	Had a question about licensing for one of your images. Jimbo Cephus (talk) 21:12, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Joseph Broussard

Hi, are you the painter of the meanwhile deleted image File:Joseph Broussard Beausoleil acadian HRoe.jpg.? Or did you take a photograph of the painting somewhere? If you are the painter, you should say so explicitly. TIA --h-stt !? 13:21, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

I am the creator of the image. I painted the original 30" x 40 oil painting. I took the photo of the image. I uploaded the image. I'm not quite sure why the DR is being decided now in favor of deletion, I answered this on the deletion request when it was first made 5 years ago. Heironymous Rowe (talk) 19:44, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

File:Holly Bluff Aerial HRoe 2016.jpg

It seems your upload has gone wrong somehow. Could you re-upload it? --Túrelio (talk) 20:17, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I tried that, but will try it again. Weird. Heironymous Rowe (talk) 20:19, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

It might also be a problem of the Wikimedia server, as they have been slow now and then today. So, you could just wait a couple of hours. --Túrelio (talk) 20:20, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Right on. I just tried again and got the same result. Will try again later. Heironymous Rowe (talk) 20:21, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

I tried reuploading again, same result. So I tried to upload a different file, also same result. Not sure what is going on. When I click on the blank thumbnail image it goes to the uploaded image, which appears fine. So it appears there was a problem generating the thumbnail? Any ideas? Heironymous Rowe (talk) 21:28, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Damn, looks like whatever you did while I was typing the above worked. Wanna try it with File:Winterville Aerial View HRoe 2016.jpg too? Heironymous Rowe (talk) 21:32, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Poverty Point Mounds overview HRoe 2013.jpg

Hi, would you please add the newly discovered small "Mound F", as it is shown at File:Louisiana - Poverty Point - Karte.png. Source: http://www.crt.state.la.us/dataprojects/archaeology/povertypoint/mound-f.html TIA --h-stt !? 12:27, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Your Spiro bird cup

File:Spiro engraved shell HRoe 2005.jpg

I just posted a sharper version at File:Whelk shell cup, Woolaroc museum.jpg, which look like the same cup. Is yours from Woolaroc?

Hadn't been there in many years. They have some great Spiro stuff. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 05:37, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Oh, and please have a look at the Talk page on my image. I'm trying to parse this as a bird image. I get the featheres (sort of), and presume the dots in cicles/diamonds are eyes. Ah, now I see a beak  ;-]

Well, they still look like spiky little SF aliens to me..... --Pete Tillman (talk) 05:47, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

It depicts an avian head. Think the head of a bald eagle, there is a beak, eyes, and the feathers going down the neck. I took the photo at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. I believe the ones at Woolaroc are reproductions and not the real thing. Also, the one you recently added to the Spiro page is a replica too. Heironymous Rowe (talk) 17:39, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Category:Horned serpent and underwater panther representations

Hi there! I'm trying to do some spring cleaning on the legendary creatures and I found this category you created. Are the Horned serpent and the Underwater panther linked in some kind on the native american mythology? Just to know if there is a specific reason to keep this common category for these two together? Thanks. Triton (talk) 12:25, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Image Uses in Smithsonian Folkways Educational Program

Dear Herb Roe,

The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings are currently in the process of developing a new series of curriculum materials (called Smithsonian Folkways Learning Pathways) for educators (mostly music and social studies educators). These unique resources place recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways collection at the center of the learning experience. These will be FREE resources for all educators, everywhere. Each learning pathway is a curated musical journey through a historical, cultural, or musical theme (e.g. Music of the Chicano Movement; Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement; Cajun & Zydeco Music; etc...).

As part of these learning pathways, we are creating interactive student slideshows that will help teachers facilitate learning experiences in any educational environment both in-person or online. We wanted to let you know that we will be using the 'Lakeview Boucherie5 Piggy goes to pieces HRoe 2013,' 'Courir run 2010 05,' and 'Courir de Mardi Gras Alan and Gordon HRoe 2011' images seen on your Wikimedia Commons webpage. We are planning to use the images for our 'Cajun and Zydeco' learning pathway. We know that the images are under the Creative Commons License, and we will make sure to give you the credit for the image.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lakeview_Boucherie5_Piggy_goes_to_pieces_HRoe_2013.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Courir_run_2010_05.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courir_de_Mardi_Gras_Alan_and_Gordon_HRoe_2011.jpg

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind Regards,

Gisele, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings --Giseh (talk) 21:15, 8 July 2021 (UTC)giseh(talk)

Photo date File:Blue Moon Six String Rodeo HRoe 2006.jpg

Hi. Thanks for your contributions! Could you please clarify the date of your photo File:Blue Moon Six String Rodeo HRoe 2006.jpg? The title suggests 2006, while your upload states the date as 2011. Wondering, Cheers, -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 23:34, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for this image!

Cahokia winter solstice sunrise over Fox Mound HRoe 2017sm

Wow. Dramatic reconstruction! Just added to the Cahokia People article. Thanks for contributing this, and all your other cool stuff. Service above & beyond! Cheers -- Pete Tillman (talk) 20:47, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Incidentally, if you haven't seen them: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4240580417

What if the Roman Empire had survived to 1218 AD, and the then-Emperor, hungry for GOLD, sent a Legion to conquer America New Iberia? Things went swimmingly (mostly) until the 33rd Eagle Legion encountered the Cahokia Air Force! Military alt-hist SF/F done right, with the nets up and the homework done. An impressive achievement of fiction and scholarship. Enjoy! If you don't eat this one up, I'll eat my socks! Cheers -- Pete Tillman (talk) 20:47, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

PS: Fox Mound features in the novel, if memory serves. But Monks Mound serves as the launch-pad for the hang-glider Greek-fire bombers that decimate the Legion! He makes this *almost* plausible.... And how could you resist that? -- PT

Notification about possible deletion

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• File:PHS SportComplex Murals HRoe 01.JPG

Yours sincerely, A1Cafel (talk) 03:16, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 has started, Join us!

Hello Heironymous Rowe,

Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team!

Wiki Loves Folklore is an international photography contest hosted on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from around the world, such as folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folktales, folk games, folk religion, mythology, and many more.

The campaign invites participants to document photographs, videos, and audios linked to folk culture and fit within the contest's theme. Through this campaign, you may become a part of a community dedicated to preserving our intangible culture, which has been brought and passed down for thousands of years.

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The dates for the submission in the photography contest on Wikimedia Commons are from 1 February to 31 March 2023. Probably you are wondering how you can take part. It’s simple: grab a camera, record an image, video or audio under the folklore theme and start uploading ! To learn more about the rules, check out our Project page on Wikimedia Common. Here are the exciting prizes which you can win internationally.

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