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Hello, Hyacinth!
 
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.

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There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. It has been found that you've added in the image's description only a Template that's not a license and although it provides useful information about the image, it's not a valid license. Could you please resolve this problem, adding the license in the image linked above? You can edit the description page and change the text. Uploading a new version of the file does not change the description of the file. This page may give you more hints on which license to choose. Thank you.

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Template:Wikipedia category

 
Template:Wikipedia category 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.

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sarang 사랑 12:11, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


Hi Hyacinth, you recently recreated this template. Commons has since years the potent template {{C}} which does what you need. Its format is {{C|<category name>|<display name>|<language>}}, for a link to a en:WP-category you can use simply {{C|<category name>|3=en}}. As well you may use {{W|Category:<category name>}} or {{W|Category:<category name>|<category name>}}. -- sarang 사랑 15:27, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Template:Wikipedia

 
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Hi Hyacinth, recently you recreated this template. Commons has since years the potent template {{W}} which does what you need. Its format is {{W|<page name>|<display name>|<language>}}, for a link to a en:WP page you can use simply {{W|<page name>}}. -- sarang 사랑 15:27, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

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There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. It has been found that you've added in the image's description only a Template that's not a license and although it provides useful information about the image, it's not a valid license. Could you please resolve this problem, adding the license in the image linked above? You can edit the description page and change the text. Uploading a new version of the file does not change the description of the file. This page may give you more hints on which license to choose. Thank you.

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New standard tuning

Hi Hyacinth!

Thanks for your contributions of illustrations and audio files regarding New standard tuning. You may wish to review some categorical-housekeeping I have done (here) today.

Also, I have made many edits to New Standard Tuning on English Wikipedia: It would be great if you could cast your knowledgeable eyes on the work of this ignoramus.

Cheers,  Kiefer.Wolfowitz  (Discussion) 08:52, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

New improved, New standard tuning

  My chord booklet was recreated with Guitar Pro rather than Gnu Lilypond. Associated .Wav, .png, and .midi (or was it .mid) files have been uploaded.

New Standard Tuning - C major scale harmonized in sevenths and triads, arpeggios WAV
New Standard Tuning - C major scale harmonized in sevenths and triads, arpeggios.midi

Cheers!  Kiefer.Wolfowitz  (Discussion) 13:22, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

"SVG > PDF" template

I removed your .svg template from the pdf file, of which the current (and only expected) version was produced with Guitar Pro 6, which does not export SVG files, alas.
Perhaps the PNG file can be exported to an SVG file by a Wikimedia Commons wizard? If so, then a SVG template on the PNG file would be useful.
The edit summary where I removed the svg template stated that I would move it. However, there did not seem to be an appropriate place to put the svg template to tag only the original file (from GNU Lilypond), and other demands arose on my time....
Cheers,  Kiefer.Wolfowitz  (Discussion) 10:02, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
What file? Hyacinth (talk) 10:35, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
This file.
 Kiefer.Wolfowitz  (Discussion) 14:52, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Updated for exposition and display on Wikipedia

For exposition, an updated version is better for beginners and legible for all. Heaven would bless the helpful soul who links the Wikipedia images with the associated wav file. (The midi files are terrible. There is a delay in the linking of the new wav file; the old version is played.)  Kiefer.Wolfowitz  (Discussion) 10:23, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

File:Diatonic scale on C alto clef.mid

 
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JuTa 16:54, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


File:Diatonic scale on C baritone clef.mid

 
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JuTa 16:57, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


File:Diatonic scale on C mezzo-soprano clef.mid

 
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JuTa 17:03, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


File:Diatonic scale on C tenor clef.mid

 
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File:Diatonic scale on C treble clef.mid

 
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JuTa 17:11, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

a headsup

I noticed your note to User:Fastily concerning his or her deletion of File:Trattado p.5.JPG. I noticed that Fastily used to confusing entry in the deletion log "No license since 18 May 2012", just as they used the similar confusing entry "No license since 10 September 2012" when they deleted File:Al Qaeda scrapbook 2.jpg.

The commons deletion policy very strongly recommends those who place speedy deletion tags leave a headsup on the talk page of the file's uploaders.

What I eventaully found was that some of Fastily's deletion log entries that say "No license since ..." mark files where he or she has both left the speedy tag and performed the deletion. I'd like to check to see whether that is what they did wit this image. Geo Swan (talk) 00:42, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

SVG

Hi Hyacinth!

FYI, I asked (en:WP) user David Eppstein a question about svg files being overly coarsened by the upload wizard.

 Kiefer.Wolfowitz  (Discussion) 10:17, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

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File:Triquetra-heart-knot.svg

It's unicursal, so it can't be a link (the coloring scheme is superficial). AnonMoos (talk) 09:34, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

I really don't know what your problem is with classifying that file -- it's a 10_116 knot with decorative coloration. AnonMoos (talk) 02:41, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Sometimes I have great difficulty figuring out why you do things, but apparently you removed Category:Knots (knot theory) from File:Triquetra-heart-knot.svg because it's in Category:Triquetra which is a subcategory of Category:Trefoil knots which is a subcategory of Category:Knots (knot theory).
Unfortunately, there's a problem in this chain, because not all Triquetras are knots of knot theory. Non-interlaced triquetras are neither knots nor links, interlaced single triquetras are knots, and interlaced double triquetras are links. Therefore Category:Triquetra should not be directly or indirectly under Category:Knots (knot theory): AnonMoos (talk) 00:58, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

You write as if I categorized File:Triquetra-Double.svg in Category:Trefoil knot diagrams with 3-fold rotational symmetry (which was a subcat of Category:Trefoil knots, which was a subcat of Category:Knots (knot theory)). Hyacinth (talk) 16:13, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
I don't blame you for anything that happened before you started editing, and the situation in the Triquetra category was previously somewhat loose and sloppy. However, once you started applying "No Overcatgorization" etc. absolutely rigidly, then your edits to the previously loose and sloppy situation resulted in some inconsistencies. As I said on your Wikipedia talk page, sometimes "overcategorizations" are actually a clue that something is wrong or insufficiently specified in the superordinate categories. Meanwhile, if you tried to abolish "Category:Links (knot theory)" mainly so as to be able to put both single-interlaced triquetras and double-interlaced triquetras into a single category, which could then be a subcategory of "Category:Knots and Links", then unfortunately for you that's a ridiculous overreaction. AnonMoos (talk) 06:33, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Collapsing the knot and link categories had and has nothing to do with triquetras or their category.
Do you think that there where no inconsistencies in the triquetra knot categorizations before I came, and do you think there would be no inconsistencies if the work I did was undone? Hyacinth (talk) 06:36, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Can't blame me for guessing, since you haven't offered any alternative explanation. AnonMoos (talk) 11:01, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Didn't blame you (or mention you: "Collapsing the knot and link categories had and has nothing to do with triquetras or their category."). "Category:Knots and links" would do nothing for triquetras, as some are neither. Hyacinth (talk) 02:35, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Revisions to "Category:Knots in art and decoration"

How can "Decorative knots" be "outside of decorations"?? -- AnonMoos (talk) 09:32, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

How can a door be outside of a frame? How can a shirt be off one's back? Hyacinth (talk) 15:38, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
What is the sound of one hand clapping? Does a dog have the Buddha-nature? How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind. AnonMoos (talk) 01:20, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
You ask as if I created Category:Decorative knots and Category:Knots in art and decoration. Hyacinth (talk) 16:13, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
I created Category:Knots in art and decoration, and you removed Category:Decorative knots from being a sub-category of it, and I don't really see why... AnonMoos (talk) 01:20, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
So what do you think is or should be the difference between Category:Knots in art and decoration and Category:Decorative knots? Hyacinth (talk) 20:55, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Why can't the more specific "Category:Decorative knots" be a subcategory of the more general "Category:Knots in art and decoration", which is in turn a subcategory of the even more general "Interlace in art"? AnonMoos (talk) 13:56, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
The pot calling the kettle unforthcoming. Hyacinth (talk) 21:20, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Why would an undefined category be a sub- or super-category to anything? If the categories shouldn't be as I described on their pages, what should they be/how should they be described? Hyacinth (talk) 01:27, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Don't understand latest maneuver

Collapsing link and knot categories to a single undifferentiated category may or may not be a positive thing on English Wikipedia (I really couldn't say), but it's a definite negative thing here, and furthermore, you've added a lot of stuff to a non-existent category. AnonMoos (talk) 13:54, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps if you want to convince me of something, you should explain, and not just make, assertions. Hyacinth (talk) 21:31, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Dude, what is your problem??? You're the one who is collapsing what has been considered to be a useful distinction since 2007, so it's up to you to offer some kind of explanation for this. I notice that you seem to have endless energy when it comes to constant category churning, but all of a sudden turn languidly lackadaisical when it comes to the simple courtesy of offering some basic explanation for some of your changes which might appear to others to be questionable. AnonMoos (talk) 23:43, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
I would apologize for getting stuff done quickly, since that seems to bother you, but in many instances this is considered a good thing.
Please show me where the existence of separate categories for mathematical knots and links was described as or asserted to be useful.
It would probably be up to me to defend a category I created or support against criticisms, if criticisms existed. "I don't like it" isn't a criticism, its a description of one's feelings. Hyacinth (talk) 00:05, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
First off, you haven't offered any argument for getting rid of the distinction other than that you don't like it. It would be nice if I could be receive some minimal explanation for why I had to spend the last hour and a half cleaning up the mess you left behind with respect to something that no-one ever objected to between 2007 and yesterday (and you haven't been able to provide any type of articulate explanation to support your objection). However, as long as I don't have to repeat the experience, the explanation is desirable but ultimately optional at this point... AnonMoos (talk) 01:11, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Rather than expecting me do to what you want because you demand it, why don't you attempt to persuade me? What, then, could be a problem with "Category:Knots and links"? Hyacinth (talk) 01:18, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Why would collapsing these categories be a bad thing? Hyacinth (talk) 06:24, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Since 1) Knots and links are different things 2) The previous categories had existed without controversy or complaint since November 2007 until yesterday, the shoe is on the other foot. AnonMoos (talk) 07:16, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

STOP VANDALIZING Category:Links (knot theory)!!

As you can see for yourself, this category existed since November 29th, 2007, and nobody had the slightest objection to it until you came along yesterday, and you've refused to offer the slightest reasoned argumentation or meaningful explanation for your aversion to it, which makes your actions little better than vandalism... AnonMoos (talk) 01:52, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Stop shouting. Stop insulting me ("I really don't know what your problem is", "Dude, what is your problem???"). A first revert is not vandalism.
Stop making empty assertions and then blaming me for them.
There are dishes in my sink that have been there a long time, but that doesn't mean they are good. Why haven't you asked User:Darapti why "Category:Links (knot theory) was created? Hyacinth (talk) 02:40, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
User Darapti doesn't seem to be around anymore, but that doesn't make any difference anyway, since I participated in the discussions which led to the creation of that category (and its sister category). As should be extremely obvious (but apparently somehow isn't to you), the burden is really on you to explain why the category distinction between knots and links should be abolished -- a test which so far you've conspicuously failed. AnonMoos (talk) 06:25, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Because of the nature of wikis, instead of insulting people for what you think they don't understand, you are required to explain it.
Where did this discussion/these discussions take place? Hyacinth (talk) 06:29, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
What difference does it make, since the intent of the categories is quite clear? By the way, if my suggestion of "Category:Knot-theoretic knots" and "Category:Knot-theoretic links" had found favor, then I probably would have created the categories under those names, but they were shot down for stylistic reasons, so somebody else in the discussion ended up creating the categories under slightly different names... AnonMoos (talk) 07:39, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for providing me with an example of how to be forthcoming.
The difference these discussions would make is that they may provide me with reasons you have yet to elaborate. Hyacinth (talk) 02:24, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Makework or semi-makework

To start with, you do a lot of renaming of categories (pluralizing etc.), and creating new categories which seem to be quite similar in purpose to existing categories. There can be some slight advantages to this, but the proportion of real meaningful benefit to the total overall number of edits involved is rather low... AnonMoos (talk) 05:53, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Category:12 crossing number knots and links with respect to File:Simple-knotwork-cross-12crossings.svg

By the way, File:Simple-knotwork-cross-12crossings.svg has 12 visible crossings, but one of them is purely ornamental and structurally insignificant (the same as the two ornamental crossings which make the 7_4 knot into the Buddhist Endless Knot with nine visible crossings). In Knot Atlas terms, it has 11 crossings. Not sure what you want to do about such cases. AnonMoos (talk) 07:33, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

I went by the titles. We're on a wiki, feel free to correct. Hyacinth (talk) 02:18, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Not 100% sure what you intended by these categories, which is why I raised the matter here... AnonMoos (talk) 05:53, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
From some views a square looks like a rectangle, but I assume it should still be categorized as a square. Hyacinth (talk) 22:46, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Category:L6a4 links

What is the purpose of that category, when we already have so many Borromean rings categories? AnonMoos (talk) 21:04, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

What is the purpose of asking what the purpose is? If you have a reason why you don't like something you should just tell me you don't like it and why. Hyacinth (talk) 00:02, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Whatever -- sometimes you do something strikingly counterintuitive whose drawbacks seem to strongly outweigh the merits, and when that happens and I question it, it would be greatly more productive if you could be bothered to explain yourself a little (instead of just leaving me guessing, as has happened several times in the past). You could be spared such incidents as taking me to "Administrator noticeboard/User problems" and conspicuously failing to receive any support for your position, if you would just unbend sufficiently to condescend to give some explanation.
In this case, I very obviously "don't like" the category because it's superfluous and redundant to the Borromean rings categories. Can you give me any explanation of any countervailing advantages that would offset this large disadvantage? AnonMoos (talk) 01:46, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Saying things like "Whatever" implies that you are rude or are a twelve year old who just stepped out of a time machine. Or both.
How is "Category:L6a4 links" superfluous and redundant?
Earlier you told me that category names where trivial.
Why are categories and subcategories a reason not to create other categories? Some categories have more than four subcategories.
Is every Borromean ring an L6a4 link? Hyacinth (talk) 02:02, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
If you imagine me pronouncing the word "whatever" with exaggerated intonational rises and falls, then you have a mistaken idea -- imagine it pronounced with a flat monotone intonation of disgruntlement (corresponding to my level of long-term Hyacinth-induced annoyance) instead. And what I said was that I didn't care one way or another about much of your category changes (since many of them tend to be somewhat uncontroversial but inessential) -- but on the other hand, I do care a lot when you merge something that shouldn't be merged (such as "Category:Links") or split something that shouldn't be split (such as "L6a4 links" vs. "Borromean rings"). And yes, all Borromean rings are L6a4 links. (A few people probably think that non-circular L6a4 links shouldn't be called "Borromean rings", but that's not standard terminology, and certainly doesn't apply to knot theory.) So "Category:L6a4 links" and "Category:Borromean rings" shouldn't be created because they're synonyms. That would be like creating both "Category:Aluminum" and "Category:Aluminium"... AnonMoos (talk) 04:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
So I'm supposed to imagine that you saying you rarely give a fuck about what I say or do is a polite, friendly, and interested way of engaging with me. At home my parents and at school my teachers preferred that kind of response: Q: "What do you want for dinner?" A: "Whatever." Q: "What is two plus two?" A: "Whatever."
"I don't see how you could have seriously looked at [[[:File:Five-interlaced-pentagons.svg]], File:Principia Discordia page00043 mandala (Brunnian link).svg, Category:Borromean crosses] for more than a few seconds and really thought," that there where three components. Hyacinth (talk) 05:39, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
That's nice -- you personally don't like me. However such inclinations and preferences are not the issue. The issue is that when you commit actions which others find startling or counterproductive, YOU ALMOST NEVER GIVE ANY MEANINGFUL OR RELEVANT EXPLANATION AS TO WHY YOU DID THOSE THINGS, and this reticence of yours does nothing to help things move forward productively, or to smooth over any little frictions and difficulties which arise. My comments on this user talk page would probably be a third of their actual length or less if you could just explain yourself when appropriate.
And on File:Principia Discordia page00043 mandala (Brunnian link).svg, I initially made the mistake of assuming that there was an overall five-loop Brunnian link instead of five distinct (but entangled) Borromean rings configurations (i.e. three-loop Brunnian links), as I explained on the file talk-page. I did not commit the error which you attribute to me, and I am unaware of any errors which I committed in relation to the Borromean cross or File:Five-interlaced-pentagons.svg... AnonMoos (talk) 09:14, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Either you didn't read my last response or you are hallucinating. While the reply contained the words "I", "don't", and "you", they where not together, and the word "like" is missing. Hyacinth (talk) 21:32, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
If you could be bothered to stir yourself to actually provide a meaningful explanation for some of your more disputable edits (such as what you imagine to be the supposed difference between "Borromean rings" and "L6a4 links"??), everybody all around would be spared much pointless drama. AnonMoos (talk) 02:15, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

File:8crossings-two-trefoils.svg

Why did you add this to Category:Composite knots when the description page specifically says that it's NOT composite, and it's used on Wikipedia article "List of prime knots"? AnonMoos (talk) 13:42, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

File:10crossings-two-triquetras-joined.svg

Same with "File:10crossings-two-triquetras-joined.svg", but even more so, since it's not even a pseudo-composite knot, but actually a phoney pseudo-composite knot. I don't see how you could have seriously looked at that image for more than a few seconds and really thought it was composite... AnonMoos (talk) 13:46, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

...if only it was really really easy for you to change it back. Hyacinth (talk) 00:01, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
If you exercised greater care in some of your categorizations, then the likelihood that other people would have to come along and clean up after you would be less... AnonMoos (talk) 01:48, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Good job correctly categorizing those images as Category:Prime knots. If you'd exercised greater care in your categorization of them I wouldn't have had to come along and clean up after you.
Not only are mistakes allowed on wikis, even if I'd only made 200 edits, two errors would make a success rate of 99%. Hyacinth (talk) 05:43, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Whatever -- just because you created "Category:Prime knots" three weeks ago (something which I would consider rather "inessential"), that doesn't require me to move all my relevant images into it. I'm not failing in any obligations or committing any "mistake" by not rushing to reclassify all the knot images I've uploaded over the last 6-7 years. I helped you with filling the crossing-number categories, and added the two triangular configurations of three 4-crossing knots into "Category:Composite knots", but would have seen no particular reason to do the same with "Category:Prime knots", even if I had known about its existence (which I didn't until after this conversation started).
In any case, almost anyone can make a mistake now and then, but in several of your reclassifications into "Composite knots" (for more than two images, by the way) you ignored red flags or warning signs, such as an explicit statement on the image page that "This knot is prime, not composite", or the file being in use on "en:List of prime knots", while 10crossings-two-triquetras-joined.svg is really not prima facie credible as a composite knot if you had bothered to look at it and consider it for more than about three seconds. Therefore your edits in this matter would appear to display a more than ordinary degree of carelessness... AnonMoos (talk) 08:59, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

The latest category reshufflings

I'm having difficulty keeping track of them all, but I hope that it will turn out that you haven't removed all indication of whether it's a knot or a link from any individual file... AnonMoos (talk) 06:58, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

More indication of what is depicted in an image is needed than a category, such as in a file description. If subcategories are determined to be necessary and a file lacked a file description, the file's previous categories would be present in the file history. Hyacinth (talk) 18:48, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

File:6Loops-Brunnian-link.svg

I really don't know whether this would turn out to be alternating or non-alternating when cast into minimal form, but for comparison, File:3Loops-Borromean-link.svg has a visually-similar non-alternating appearance with 8-crossings, but of course is alternating when in minimal form with 6 crossings... For that matter, L10a140 is alternating in minimal form with 10 crossings, but non-alternating in appearance in "Marilyn's Cross" form with 12. AnonMoos (talk) 11:43, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

File:Principia Discordia page00043 mandala (Brunnian link).svg

This contains five overlapping three-link Borromean rings configurations, but does not contain an overall five-link Brunnian configuration (sorry for misleading filename). See the talk page of that image. AnonMoos (talk) 11:52, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Category:L6a4 links

We already went all through this a year ago. If "Category:Borromean rings" is not understood as referring only to literal rings (which it isn't), then "Category:L6a4 links" serves no useful purpose... AnonMoos (talk) 01:47, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

File:Principia Discordia page00043 mandala (Brunnian link).svg is a five component link with many crossings, not a L6a4 link with three components and six crossings. Hyacinth (talk) 08:24, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
It contains five L6a4 subconfigurations. In other words, there are five different ways in which you can remove two of the loops, and the other three loops will be in an L6a4 link. File:Three-Solomons-knot-triangle.svg and File:Solomons-knot-quadruple.svg are not actual L4a1 links either, but they're still classified under Category:Solomon's knot for exactly the same cause.
The reasonable solution to the problem would be to create Category:Multiple Borromean rings configurations or similar, into which File:Principia Discordia page00043 mandala (Brunnian link).svg could be classified, along with the "Borromean cross" and "Borromean chainmail" type images -- because creating "Category:L6a4 links" is unfortunately a stupid solution in the context of the category structure which already exists... AnonMoos (talk) 02:21, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Category:Hopf links

I'm afraid to ask why, since it seems likely that I won't receive a meaningful explanation in response, but adding this to Category:Borromean rings would seem to be obviously not a good move.... AnonMoos (talk) 05:04, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

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Help needed

Hi Hyacinth! I need some help with your duplicate tags. Seems to me you mixed a few filenames up. Could you please have a look and let me know? Here's the list:

Thank you for your help!   --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 04:21, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

What seems mixed up? 36*2 = 72. 1/36 = 2/72 = 0.0278. Hyacinth (talk) 06:45, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Seems mixed up because I have no clue what you are doing. Seems like others didn't want to touch the duplicate request either.  
To clarify that for people like me, File:2 steps in 72-et on C.mid = File:1 step in 36-et on C.mid? Same for the other ones? --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 00:03, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
If you have 2 fourths, how many halves do you have? Hyacinth (talk) 22:42, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Hyacinth, if you have time, I would be glad if you could give your honest opinion. The question is not really urgent but I'd like better know whether to roll-back my edits (as if Commons has no recommendation, it is not worth spending more time in fixing bugs in Module:TemplateBox), which I would like to do better sooner than later. Best -- Rillke(q?) 18:55, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, but I've never heard of JSON or most of the things under discussion. Hyacinth (talk) 23:27, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
But you authored templates, correct? Were you aware of {{TemplateBox}}? Did you ever use it for documenting your templates? (Asking for research purposes only.) Thanks in advance. -- Rillke(q?) 06:10, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
I think I've been quite involved with templates, relatively. However, I usually copy and paste when I make templates: I think of a template that is needed and find a similar existing template to base the new one on. Thus I may have used TemplateBox but would not remember it.
I'm looking at TemplateBox now. Hyacinth (talk) 22:20, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

images

Hi. Thx for many great images. Can you add info about software/method you have used ? If possible source code. See commons Category:Images including source code in their description. Regards. --Adam majewski (talk) 16:40, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

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subtraction visual

Hi! Could you please look at the graphic you made for subtraction. I find it extremely confusing. The labels for the colored lines seem to be contradictory and there are no values on the X axis. I have looked at it repeatedly and still find it confusing and not the least helpful. Sorry. Kdammers (talk) 08:41, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

You must mean File:Subtraction chart.png. See the file description. Hyacinth (talk) 12:08, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
I may be able to add values to the X axis. Have you taken a look at the other charts? Addition, multiplication? Hyacinth (talk) 10:03, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
Do you mean File:Subtraction chart.svg? Hyacinth (talk) 10:16, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

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Fractal "Order" numbering

I don't know what the official numbering rule is, but the counting in File:Pentagonal-fractal-example.svg‎ seems to be inconsistent with that in File:Box fractal.svg -- i.e. if the simple solid pentagon is stage "1" in File:Pentagonal-fractal-example.svg‎, then why isn't the simple solid square stage "1" in File:Box fractal.svg? AnonMoos (talk) 02:12, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

It would be nice if you could have the courtesy to reply, but as an interim measure, I'm reverting your edit on File:Pentagonal-fractal-example.svg‎, since the "order" counting there appears to be inconsistent with the counting on most other files... AnonMoos (talk) 11:49, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Are you trying to be obnoxious and annoying, or do you find that you have an effortless natural talent for it? AnonMoos (talk) 17:03, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

You maybe mixed up two interval examples?

Hi Hyacinth,
As I saw, you made the MIDI examples for a lot of intervals, thanks a lot for your work. I heard the list of superparticular intervals in the English Wikipedia and it seemed to me that these both are probably mixed up:

I cannot prove it, because I have no tools at hand, but when I compare (by ear) the intervals with their outer neighbours in the table,

25:24  just chromatic semitone
28:27  septimal third-tone
49:48  septimal diesis
50:49  Septimal sixth-tone

it seems obvious to me...
Thanks so much for having a look on it. --Uncopy (talk) 12:29, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. Should be corrected now. Hyacinth (talk) 16:58, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, great! :-) --Uncopy (talk) 18:09, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Cuisenaire rod images

Hi Hyacinth, just a note to say what a great idea I thought it was to make all those Cuisenaire rod images illustrating different kinds of numbers, and to use them on the relevant pages. They do the job really well! --Annielogue (talk) 14:54, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I never took Montessori, but I first started using the rods on Wikipedia as an attempt to visualize musical intervals (such as File:Octaves versus fifths Cuisenaire rods Pythagorean.png). Hyacinth (talk) 11:54, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Ah, the Pythagorean comma. Not everyone gets their own punctuation. Interesting. And then you got carried away and did all that other maths! (I don't think Cuissenaire are at all particularly Montessori. They have their own set of materials. --Annielogue (talk) 17:35, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, I like the visualization you did with abundant numbers a lot. May I propose the usage of vector graphics? I created a suggestion with Inkscapce (see thumbnail). I'm very new to editing Wikipedia articles and I'm not sure how the common workflow for replacing *.png images to *.svg is. Would be nice to hear your opinion here. --Markus z (talk) 12:52, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
 

Vector images

I noticed you have created a lot of diagrams/plots/charts for different articles. However, you are using bitmap image formats like PNG. It is better to use a vector image format like SVG. Can I recommend the program GeoGebra? It is a geometry tool, but can also be used to create mathematical plots using parametric or implicit formulas. It is a pretty good program. Thanks! SharkD  Talk  05:42, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Category:Musical scales by number of pitches

Hello, Hyacinth. I noticed that you recently added subcategories to this metacategory. I removed some of them, but I wanted to run what I did by you. I removed the ones for chords, because chords are not scales (as far as I understand).

Another issue is that there were more than one item for a given number. For example, there was both Category:Pentatonic musical scales and Category:Pentachords, which both refer to the number five. In a metacategory that is "by number of pitches", there should be only one subcategory for each number. If you think the categories for chords should be in the category, then it would need new subcategories for each number. For example, a subcategory named "Musical scales with five pitches" would contain all entries for things with five pitches.

Let me know if I haven't explained this well enough. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:54, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Both Category:Pentatonic musical scales and Category:Pentachords previously where categorized in Category:Musical scales. Hyacinth (talk) 06:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Well, that doesn't make sense to me, but I'm not an expert. If you think they should be together, just make the intermediate category as I mentioned. Thanks. :) --Auntof6 (talk) 07:45, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

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Template "{{PD-knot}})" sounds like an interesting idea, but some of the wording is not too clear, and it's probably a bad idea to apply it to File:Penrose square Solomon's knot.png, since this does not contain a standard typical knot depiction. AnonMoos (talk) 12:00, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

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Clarinetguy097 (talk) 06:02, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello Hyacinth, is this music by Johann Gottfried Walther or by Johann Sebastian Bach? The description says BWV 748 which is a composition of Bach varying the same hymn. But your file seems to be taken from a work by Walther. Greetings, --Rabanus Flavus (talk) 17:27, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

See: en:BWV. Hyacinth (talk) 03:33, 16 February 2018 (UTC) and http://imslp.org/wiki/Gott_der_Vater_wohn_uns_bei_(Walther%2C_Johann_Gottfried). Hyacinth (talk) 04:02, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Forte (1979) quotes the passage on p.122 as ex.133, but he only names the work and discusses diatonic function of the chords, he doesn't mention the author, and he lists it without composer in his Index of Musical Examples, p.556. Hyacinth (talk) 04:12, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
So, to cut it short, it is by Walther and not by Bach and BWV has nothing to do with it. Thanks. --Rabanus Flavus (talk) 09:58, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Sorry, I see that BWV 748 was formerly attributed to Bach and now is presumed to be by Walther. Nevertheless, the passage you quote is a homophonic four-part setting and does not occur in BWV 748 (see score). --Rabanus Flavus (talk) 10:09, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
In fact, the passage is from BWV 317, with deletion of some transition notes. --Rabanus Flavus (talk) 10:17, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
By the way, how is it that you identified a piece from less than two altered measures? Hyacinth (talk) 21:49, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
I was looking for Bach compositions referencing the hymn "Gott der Vater..." There are but two, one of them originating from Walther, as I now know :) Then I looked at BWV 317 and so, simply by chance, found the provenience of your example. --Rabanus Flavus (talk) 22:12, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Nice job. Hyacinth (talk) 22:25, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

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Joaopaulo1511 (talk) 04:53, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

IPA vowels

Hello, I noticed you added some individual images of IPA vowel symbols to vowel subcats. I’m sorry I’m undoing this as I classify them into their letter categories. However this kind of categorization is best done for the whole letter cats. For example: instead of categorizing a few random images of, say, an "ø" as Category:Close-mid vowels and Category:Front vowels and Category:Rounded vowels, better put those three cats in Category:Ø instead. Care to work on that direction? -- Tuválkin 22:40, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Files may be put in multiple categories, and putting a a file in one category does not mean that it may not be in another category. For instance, an orange circle might be in "Category:Orange" and "Category:Circles" (unless there is "Category:Orange circles"). There is no use saying that an orange circle isn't orange because it's a circle and that it's not a circle because its color is orange. Hyacinth (talk) 07:36, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
  • Well, good to see you know categorization basics — as I supposed you do. Care to work on categorizing letter subcats under phonetics subcats, then? I hope so, as it is more useful and not any more difficult for you than tagging random, scattered images of those same letters. If you wont, no big deal, someone else will — likely me. Meanwhile, it might become necessary/possible to create subcats about Letter "x" as an IPA symbol, at least for “normal” letters with wider usage in regular orthographies. Those would include images showing specific IPA usage and could be categorized as lower case, as phonetic symbols for this or that sound, etc. -- Tuválkin 08:02, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
If you're populating categories I created then you are not undoing my work, you're furthering or improving upon it so there is no need to apologize. Hyacinth (talk) 02:00, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
One issue you might consider is that if "ø" has multiple uses then Category:Ø might be removed from phonetics categories (for example, one could argue that the symbol pronounced "null" is not a single phoneme). Hyacinth (talk) 02:18, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
You don't seem to understand the use of ":" and "*" in talk pages. If I didn't understand your point try to explain it instead of making baseless accusations of ignorance. Hyacinth (talk) 20:39, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

What do you want me to do? Hyacinth (talk) 03:26, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

See: Commons:Talk page guidelines#Layout. Hyacinth (talk) 03:09, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

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