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hi sorry I made a mistake there, I was trying to move it out of Category: Africa into Botswana and accidentally deleted the delta cat, I have fixed it now Astrokey44 23:29, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

sure, that sounds right. I changed it Astrokey44 23:46, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

no problem. by the way these are great photos! looks like a beautiful country Astrokey44 02:23, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Animals of...

LOL :) I know how you feel!

Anyway, even if you don't want to help with their project (maybe you already have been without realising), you're more likely to get a good answer from them than the general VP crowd. cheers, pfctdayelise (translate?) 21:53, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Shall do - I'm just getting up the courage to contact them (this is how it starts...). Many thanks again for the link, which looks invaluable. JackyR 01:06, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Twice25 (it.wiki)

Hi!, about Image:Aleksei Tolstoj.jpg it's allright. I uploaded it from de:wiki with the same info. :) --「Twice^28.0 · contributi · talk」 18:44, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

For cooking, oder?

Hallo, sorry, my english is not so good, I write better in german. Im Gesamtansicht Image:Kesselgulasch.jpg ist es ein Kochstelle, ganz hinten hängt ein Kessel auf ein dreibeinigen Eisenständer. Hier drin kann man alle Variationen an Gulasch kochen, darüberhinaus alle sonstige Suppen ebenso. In der Mitte ist auch eine Art Kessel sichtbar, daneben liegt sein Deckel. Hier in diesem Kessel wird Öl heiß gemacht und man backt darin z. B. u. a. den Langosch aus. Auch kann darin alles weitere gebacken werden wie z. B. Schnitzel ... Und ganz vorne in den zwei Töpfen kann man parallel beispielsweise Suppennudel, Nockerln kochen, denn manchmal ist es besser einiges getrennt zuzubereiten. Ich hoffe informativ gewesen zu sein (?), viele Grüße Magellan 18:21, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks and here's a gallery link to see

Thanks for the prompt response. It appears that the best policy is 'do what is most suitable, convenient and better looking for your info. If you can add real value by captions, use galleries. If you expect lots of images by many diverse contributors, category is the way to go.'

Please see my first gallery at :-

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bingham%27s_Fauna_of_British_India_%28Butterflies%29

You seem to be in Africa, how about taking some African butterfly photos especially the common ones?

BTW, Nature Loader is a sock puppet account for loading other people's images into WM Commons. I'm AshLin at WP and WM. In WP I'm part of Indian butterflies wiki-endeavour. See some of our articles at :-

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Butterflies_of_India_%28Papilionidae%29 (under development, many stubs)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_polytes (Common Mormon)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limenitis_procris (Commander)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danaus_chrysippus (Plain Tiger)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talicada_nyseus (Red Pierrot)

Just so you are convinced of our butterfly bonafides :). Please do add the African ones on WM. Thanks once again and happy editing. Regards, Nature Loader 04:00, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:cottages and Category:Huts

I moved this discussion to Commons talk:CommonsProject Architecture if thats OK TomAlt 21:38, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Picture

I love this picture :D Image:Mudbath1.jpg Super! Magellan 21:44, 19 Aug 2006 (UTC)

Danke schön! JackyR 00:56, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

• If you can improve the colors, I would suggest nominating it for a featured picture. Evrik 16:57, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Wow, thanks. I don't have an eye for image work, so couldn't improve it even if I tried (and I do have Seashore), but I'm thrilled you like it! When I was in professional publishing (editor), one of the designers asked for this for her desktop, so obviously you folks can all see something I can't... :-) JackyR 17:42, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

National Maritime Museum images

Most of the National Maritime Museum images are in Public Domain if the author died pre-1936. If the painting comes with an frame, it's copyrighted though. Thanks. Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 01:01, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Teogomez

Thanks for the message. I'll talk to him though it seems he has got problems with images before... Platonides 22:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

.gif Animation

Hallo, I need some of your Safaripictures because I wish to use them for animated Babeltemplate for wikipedia.org. May I? Magellan 09:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

thanks for warning on Turkish Wikipedia =) 88.244.26.75 19:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

not Jacaranda

Hello, Image:Jacaranda flowers, Bulawayo.jpg is Petrea volubilis, an ornamental vine originating from Latin America. --Franz Xaver 20:12, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi! It's not possible to move images, even for admins. The only possibility is to upload the photo a second time with a better name. (If possible, this should be done be the author.) If you have done this, you may place the template {{badname|Image:xxxx.jpg}} into the wrongly named image, indicating the name of the new upload. The old image will be deleted afterwards. Cheers --Franz Xaver 23:08, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh yes, before deleting the old image, it must be replaced at all places where it is used. Try "CheckUsage". --Franz Xaver 23:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Category:California missions

I'm not sure what your intent was, but the missions of California are known as the "California missions." I have made the appropriate changes. In the future, I would suggest starting a discussion before making sauch a fundamental change. Evrik 16:55, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd love to discuss cats, but my experience of starting discussions on Commons is that people just don't check here often enough to get a decent discussion - even if one has slogged through putting messages on the pages of all contributors to all of the involved categories, and sometimes even copied them onto people's WP pages in various language WPs. But now you're here... Actually, I'll put all comments at Category talk:Mission stations, to make it more general. JackyR 19:01, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

• I thought it had been resolved. What was I supposed to weigh in on? Evrik 00:43, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

re: and/or

Not sure - I deleted the cat as it was a duplicate of Category:Hospitals or clinics by country, but I guess you're right when you say it could follow the "and" route either. What you could do is propose a namechange on the existing cat? I have no strong opinions on it at all. -- Deadstar (msg) 09:53, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

File:Girton_2.jpg

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TheGrappler (talk) 01:17, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Gah, sorry, that's a horrible automated template that the "copyvio" button leaves here. Big apologies! I meant entirely that the problem was with the batch upload to enwiki by the original "creator" - nothing to do with you. You just transferred part of the batch over. Is there some way to turn off the stupid talkpage-spamming templates when using the automated deletion process? TheGrappler (talk) 00:39, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Glad I didn't annoy you too much! I'm tempted to do a bit more work at Commons than at WP - this place seems a little less heated and a little more reasonable, in general. Anything you can think of which might need attention? TheGrappler (talk) 15:34, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

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Yours sincerely, Eleassar ^(t/p) 08:55, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Category:Drain_pipes

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vanGore (talk) 18:43, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

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File:Washing Line, Iceland.jpg

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2A01:CB1D:44F:200:24B6:2C36:D690:59EA 07:23, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Category:Beer_brewing

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Henxter (talk) 16:15, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Category:Ant_hills

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Estopedist1 (talk) 20:13, 9 November 2021 (UTC)