Pharos

Hey Pharos, I noticed you had some knowledge about certain medals made by H.Ponscarme currently exhibited in the MET. I've recently become the owner of such a medal, the left one on the pictures listed. French Marianne's profile on one side and an anchor crossed by a sword on the other. Silver from what I could read on the side. Would you have any information regarding the date of fabrication, the worth, the number of such medals? If you're able to help me, please email me at swann.hodgkinson@gmail.com

Thank you very much and greetings from France. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 77.136.83.98 (talk) 19:53, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi

You should delete it, it is unpossible to find out the author as it appears to be over 300 years old. - FrancisTyers 16:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Wouldn't that make it PD-old? 68.39.174.238 07:17, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Well it would, if there were any evidence for the age other than "it sure looks old", which there was not in this case.--Pharos 21:39, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

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Template:PD-USNWR

Hi there. I see you created Template:PD-USNWR. Would you be able to advise on creating a similar template to use on the staff photographers of the New York World-Telegram and the Sun, whose photos are in the Library of Congress archives? An example is Image:Martin Luther King Jr NYWTS 4.jpg, which is currently using PD-author. I'd be interested in searching through the LoC archives and finding other ones covered by this. It is only a small amount: "A small portion of the photographs were taken by NYWT&S staff photographers, and are in the public domain per the instrument of gift.", but it could be worthwhile creating a template to cover them all. Carcharoth (Commons) 14:17, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

For example, 41 pics by Walter Albertin. I'm checking to see how many we have already. Carcharoth (Commons) 14:23, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Image:Federico Fellini NYWTS 2.jpg, Image:Federico Fellini NYWTS.jpg, Image:Carlos Montoya NYWTS.jpg. The first three we already have. I also found 53 by Fred Palumbo. Including Image:Robert Frost NYWTS.jpg. It would be nice to have something like the USNWR template to cover all these, and I'd be happy to work my way through these lists and find articles to use them in. Carcharoth (Commons) 14:33, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I did a search for "New York World Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection no known restrictions" and there were 578 hits. Many don't have more than a thumbnail (some don't even have that), and some are, well, just documenting day-to-day life and are not terribly encyclopedic, but some have potential. Forgive me for dumping a load of link here to the staff photographer links I've found so far (from the first few pages of the search), as the original search doesn't seem amenable to saving as a link. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12]. Carcharoth (Commons) 14:56, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Will try and do some more later today or tomorrow. Carcharoth (Commons) 10:36, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

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Image:Black Tom pier.jpg

Hi. The source website for Image:Black Tom pier.jpg seems to be gone now, and your upload lacks any description of what, when where is shown in the image. If you can add any information about what this photograph is of, it would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Infrogmation 18:02, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

FYI

Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard#Group_account. giggy _(:O) 01:27, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

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--Physchim62 17:22, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

User:WTMuploader

Do you mind if I block it until the next WTM? I'm sure someone will feel uncertain otherwise... giggy _(:O) 08:27, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Sure, not a problem. Good luck. Cheers, giggy _(:O) 08:39, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

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Commons:Village pump#Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan and project scope

Hi Pharos, I just noted the uploads by WTMuploader from yesterday. I have some trouble in understanding how the entire volume of this is within the project's scope and would welcome your comments to the discussion which was opened by me at the village pump. Thanks and best wishes, AFBorchert (talk) 07:14, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Spam

The way User:WTMuploader/gallery has been categorised, is pure unadaulterated spam. Although individual images are useful, there is no need to plaster WTM's contribution in every category that these images have been added. (sarcasm begins) Should we all sigh, be grateful and worship WTM for all the wonderful images that WTM has produced? (sarcasm ends). The fact is the vast majority of images in the WTMuploader/gallery have nothing to do with the categories they have benn added to. For example of the what looks like 500 or so image in the gallery only two images are of Franklin Wharton (and those two are near dupes), so thats less than 1/2 of one precent of the images belong tp the Franklin Wharton category, making the user category grossly mis-categorised. From my calculations, this applies to all the categories that this user gallery has been added to. (frustration begins) I would not have written this, if the user gallery had not used templates for categorisation, I was going to re-categorise this gallery for you, but was unable to do so because of the use of templates. Please fix this yourself, the only categories this gallery needs is WTM user pages and user galleries. No other contributer, or group of contributers attempts to demand the level of recognition that WTM seems to desire, how would Commons pages and categories look, if every uploader of original images was to behave as your group has done and was to add every image that they have created, and not just the pertinent ones, into every category that they have contributed to? (frustration ends). My apologies if your intentions were other than I surmised, but thats why I hate categorisation templates so much as they are a bit of a blunt instrument and behave in a way that is not always predicatable and desired. KTo288 (talk) 09:34, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

The intention was not to spam all of these categories at all. The gallery page was automatically generated by Commonist, and yes, it requires cleanup, because the categories are only supposed to go on the individual image pages, not on the gallery itself. I'll have to remove these shortly by adding a new parameter to the template and activating it on the gallery page, as was done with Commons:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan/Gallery from last April. Please bear with me if this takes a little while to get through them all. Thanks.

Fair enough. On a related note is there any reason why Category:Categories improved by Wikipedia Takes Manhattan shouldn't be a hidden category?

Congrats

		Photo Wrangler's Barnstar
		...on what looks like was a very successful Wikis Take Manhattan!--ragesoss (talk) 23:59, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Wiki takes Manhattan project

In contrast what you might be thinking, I sympatize with your project. I encountered however a number of maintenance problems as you can see in here.

I noticed that for the new version, you have a separate file for naming and categorising, which is already a big step forward. You should keep in mind that on commons, hundreds of images are deleted daily because there is no clear user, description and/or permission field in the image file itself. We move/rename hundreds of categories per week, and I am pretty much sure that in the category names you selected, several are not compliant with commons naming rules, so will need to be moved one day or another. Moreover, we try to educate our uploaders to use a descriptive, meaningfull file name.

So I feel that we better react as to have improvements overtime, as already present in the last batch. --Foroa (talk) 18:04, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Image:WSTM_Mark_Frank_0003.jpg

Why ? I mean, they're going to be deleted anyway, so why spend time and energy in rotating them ? - Erik Baas (talk) 01:20, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Improve WTM

Hi Pharos, dont understand me wrong, i really like the idea of a scavenger hunt to get more images for articles. The only thing i dont like is the current implementation. I understand you have images scattered around and you want them on wiki as fast as possible. This is possible without all to much extra work. In the end we want each image to have to following {{Information}} template

• Description : What did we photograph? We did it for <insert your favorite hunt>
• Source : Own work of team <the team>
• Data : The date of the hunt
• Author : <The team> of <insert your favorite hunt>
• Permission : All the teams in <insert your favorite hunt> agreed to release their images under the <insert licence template>

And besides the information template you need one or more categories.

This can all be accomplished in one template you substitute at upload (or later if you want time to fix things). The way you're doing it now (lot's of templates) break several processes here at Commons (like categorization). I created a test template at User:Multichill/Scavenger hunt. It produces a page with all the information + categories andit can be substituted. It still needs some tuniing, but maybe we can use it to clean up the old scavenger hunts and use it as a basis for future hunts. Categories can be altered at User:Multichill/Scavenger hunt/category and descriptions at User:Multichill/Scavenger hunt/description. Some examples:

• Image:WSTM Three Blind Mice 0170.JPG - {{subst:User:Multichill/Scavenger hunt|Three_Blind_Mice|E1|subst=subst:}}
• Image:WSTM Three Blind Mice 0145.JPG - {{subst:User:Multichill/Scavenger hunt|Three_Blind_Mice|E7|subst=subst:}}
• Image:The Squirrels 0005.jpg - {{subst:User:Multichill/Scavenger hunt|The Squirrels|J6|subst=subst:}}

Multichill (talk) 20:03, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Image:Suncatcher.jpg

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Teofilo (talk) 16:58, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Uploads

Could you please tell the people participating at that project that if they are unable to filter their images for usability and quality that they at least upload images in a proper way, meaning: the images should not need a rotation which obviously now needs to be done by another user. -- Cecil (talk) 00:07, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Image:WSTM Team Dustizeff 0107.jpg

Please havae a look at Commons:Deletion requests/Image:WSTM Team Dustizeff 0107.jpg if you have some free time. May you want to add some detailed or general information.
thanks --D-Kuru (talk) 20:51, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Please link images

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Thank you for providing images to Wikimedia Commons. Please keep in mind that images uploaded to Commons should be useful to all users of Wikimedia projects. This is possible only if the images can be found by other people.

To allow others to find the images you uploaded here, the images should be in some place that can be found by navigating the category structure. This means that you should put the images into appropriate topic pages, categories, optionally galleries, or both of them (see Commons:Categories). To find good categories for your images, the CommonSense tool may help.

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The important point is that the images should be placed in the general structure somewhere. There are a large number of completely unsorted images on Commons right now. If you would like to help to place some of those images where they can be found, please do!

Thank you. BotMultichillT (talk) 17:45, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

• Image:Wikimedia New York City region.PNG is uncategorized since 6 December 2008. BotMultichillT (talk) 17:45, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
• Image:Wikivoices 5Feb2009.ogg is uncategorized since 1 March 2009. BotMultichillT 06:22, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• Image:WMNYC Nov08.ogg is uncategorized since 20 May 2009.
• Image:WTM map.png was uncategorized on 30 August 2009.
• Image:Tip and Ty Blake.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it..JPG was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Alamoanaaerial.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Artrain.jpg was uncategorized on 26 September 2009.
• Image:Wikimedia Local Chapter as Bridge.png was uncategorized on 15 May 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:47, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Media lacking a description

Hi, it's not funny and useful to my opinion if many images (for example File:0108_klzwick_DSCN0798.JPG or File:0118_klzwick_DSCN0808.JPG) of your sportive contest-project spamming the Category:Media_lacking_a_description. Please write the description. --Latzel (talk) 16:26, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

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ALE! ¿…? 09:02, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Latent categorization by template

Please give your attention to Commons:Village pump#Latent categorization by template. You should take part in this discussion. --ŠJů (talk) 09:03, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

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Note about images hosted by the NASA website but made by non-American space agencies

Hi Pharos, I noticed that you added a note on the Template:PD-USGov-NASA stating that "The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.". There is a deletion request which needs more information about that note. Could you give us more informations about it ? Thank you, The RedBurn (talk) 21:09, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Reverted Image:Mars_Hubble.jpg

reverted because the new version is the same image as the old one, but upscaled (it has large pixels) - in both images, the planet itself is approximately 448 pixels wide, but in the new image the pixels are large blocks. Bewareircd (talk) 00:59, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

File talk:Iraq state emblem CoA 1959-1965 Qassem.svg

Only just now noticed your comments there... AnonMoos (talk) 14:17, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

We need your help at the Wikiproject medicine

Hello, Sorry for spaming your talk page, but this is very important. On the behalf of the Wikiproject medicine at the en.wikipedia, I am inviting you to be a part of the discussion going on the project's talk page about Patient images, The discussion started after I obtained a permission to more than 23000 dermatology related images, and about 1500 radiology images. As some editors of the Wikiproject medicine have some concerns regarding the policy of using patient images on wikipedia, and regarding patient consents. Also they believe that common's policy is not so clear regarding the issue. And since you are the experts please join us at this very important discussion -- MaenK.A._Talk 14:23, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Template:Brooklyn Museum-no known restrictions

Hello,

That template's history tab provides your name as the creator of the template. You might have some answers to the questions I raised at COM:VP#Template:Brooklyn Museum-no known restrictions.

Teofilo (talk) 09:33, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Earth-Touch

Nice :-) Multichill (talk) 20:23, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

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Thank you Huib talk ^{Abigor @ meta} 08:06, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Template:WSTMtag

Could you please see Commons:Village pump#Template:WSTMtag? Any clarification you can give there would be welcome. - Jmabel ! talk 09:14, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

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File:Hippohangingout.ogv

Can we also have the true author? The uploader also claimed authorship on (and attribution for...) the Walter Lewin videos which is corrected already. The Earth-Touch videos have the same problem, of course its not ok to reuse the files for money making as long as "Totallynuts" is attributed. But thats what the file description claims (because the uplaoder said it) and thats probably not ok with the copyright holder. --Martin H. (talk) 01:53, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

WALRUS

Hello. I am willing to participate in WALRUS. I am from Minnesota (but not Minneapolis) and I have participated in each of the Minnesota meetup events. I am planning to attend the Wicnic. Jonathunder (talk) 12:13, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

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WTM context photos

Hi,
In the last days, users have nominated for deletion some of the context photos of Wikis takes Manhattan 2008. I don't know if you still have an opinion about it after three years, like then, but I thought you might want to be notified anyway, in case you wanted to say something, or not. Current deletion requests are listed on the pages for June 30 and July 1st, 2011. -- Asclepias (talk) 23:17, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

wiknic dc 2012 photos

• ; Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 20:47, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

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Creating new copyright code template

Hi Pharos, I tried what you said, and created a new /en copyright code. I based it off of the Brooklyn Museum, and the Flickr ones. At each step along the way, I tried to reproduce what I found in the Flickr one, but I don't think it is working right. Here are the ones I created:

• Template:Getty_Research_Institute-no_known_copyright_restrictions
• Template:Getty_Research_Institute-no_known_copyright_restrictions/doc
• Template:Getty_Research_Institute-no_known_copyright_restrictions/en

This what the code in the /en template looks like, if were displayed properly:

This image was taken from the Getty Research Institute's Open Content Program, which states the following regarding their assessment that no known copyright restrictions exist:

The Getty Research Open content images are digital surrogates of works of art that are in the Getty's collections and in the public domain, for which we hold all rights, or for which we are not aware of any rights restrictions.[13]

Note: While the Getty Research Institute cannot make an absolute statement on copyright status for legal reasons, "Open content images can be used for any purpose without first seeking permission from the Getty."[14]

More information can be found at http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html

The code in the edit tab looks the same in each, as in the Flickr ones, but clearly isn't activated. Something is missing... HALP!--Theredproject (talk) 22:09, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

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Discussion Template:OCHA map

Hello, hereby you are invited to join the discussion on Template talk:OCHA map. --Wickey-nl (talk) 12:19, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Maillol Pierre-Auguste Renoir.jpg

Hi, I've noticed that you have made an input regarding PD-US-no notice. I would be grateful if you could advise on undeletion of the subject file. In my opinion it is fullfiling requirements to be published under the above license. Thank you in advance Vert (talk) 12:43, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

File:Pharos at wikimania 2014 8073742.JPG

hi, here's the photo. SI represent !? Slowking4 ♡ Farmbrough's revenge 16:31, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Gingerbread cookie

Hi, Pharos, since you were the uploader from this, I was wondering why there is not article on Gingerbread cookies. . Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 05:55, 8 June 2015 (UTC)]]

File:Russian Civil War poster.jpg

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Heads-up

Hi, as an active colleague on upload projects, I thought I'd drop you a personal heads-up for my request for adminship, today being the last day for views. RFA's tend to only have a small proportion of the community taking part, so it can be difficult to judge if this is representative. --Fæ (talk) 13:41, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Please fix the image "map_of_america-ribero_(1529).jpeg"

Hi, you uploaded the image "map_of_america-ribero_(1529).jpeg" and it doesn't working now. Probably it was hacked by english hackers because the Islas Malvinas cause. Thank you, bye. Augusto --181.90.170.232 22:45, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

File:The Darlinettes.webm

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czar 23:26, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Views of Manhattan from above

You added this category to the cats "View from High Bridge" and "Views from Fort Tyron Park", however the views from these places can be of multiple locations, not just Manhattan. From the High Bridge one can see both Manhattan and the Bronx, and from Fort Tryon Park, one can see New Jersey, Manhattan and the Bronx. Therefore each image should be labelled appropriately, and not the entire category. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:25, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Photo metadata

Hey Pharos, thanks a lot for your work on MET images! I looked at a few of those, and noticed the EXIF metadata about them is missing. Information such as date, time, camera used, etc. Do you know why and if they can be still retrieved? ~★ nmaia ^d 21:14, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Met category

Is there a single category for your new Met uploads? Category:Images from Metropolitan Museum of Art seemed to be the closest and it has 165 items. czar 06:11, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Not sure if this page is watched, so wanted to leave a link that discussion appears to be centralized here: w:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan Museum of Art czar 00:12, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your hard work on this project! As someone who grew up down the street from the Met, watching your stream is like having old friends come to visit. Again, thank you and everyone involved with the effort!! Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:08, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

File:La luna nel pozzo.jpg

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czar 19:34, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Category:Pages using Artwork template with incorrect parameter

Hi Pharos. The vast majority of the files in that maintenance category were uploaded by you. Could you please have a look and fix them? --Leyo 08:32, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

@Leyo: you might have noticed I cleaned up a lot. More to come. Multichill (talk) 12:11, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Oh wait, looks like user:Wieralee moved a bunch of files from Category:Metropolitan Museum of Art by department - Asian Art before I could fix them. I use these incorrectly named categories as the inbox of files to fix. Multichill (talk) 12:16, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I fixed the remaining ones. Pharos, please make sure not to refill that category. --Leyo 21:17, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Mass download stuff from the Met

Is this possible? MechQuester (talk) 17:40, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

@MechQuester: yes, it is. That's what we're doing to upload it to Commons! Plan is to get all the PD/CC0 images from the MET on Commons. Multichill (talk) 12:12, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

MET creators

I made you User:Multichill/MET missing creators. You can also move it somewhere else if you like. Beware of name variants for the same person like Creator:Pavel Svinyin and Creator:Pavel Petrovich Svinyin. Multichill (talk) 12:10, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Bug in toolset or in the human operating said toolset

Hello. The upload you performed earlier had an illegal character in one field.[15] I'm not sure if that is your fault or if it is a tool error, but I thought I would let you know, so you can fix it on your end, or pass the information along to the tool creator. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 03:52, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

un grand merci

pour File:Joseph-Henri Altès (1826–1895) MET DT204709.jpg et File:Mademoiselle Marie Dihau (1843–1935) MET DT267444.jpg ! il ne manque plus pour terminer la série des degas sur les musiciens de fr:L'Orchestre de l'Opéra que le fr:portrait de Désiré Dihau (fine arts museums of san francisco) ! Mandariine (talk) 04:35, 3 April 2017 (UTC) fr:user:mandariine

Reynolds portrait of the Countess of Galloway

Hello! I don't understand this edit. The painting has nothing to do with Paris that I can see.

Also, File:Anne Dashwood (1743–1830), Later Countess of Galloway.jpg appears to be a recently uploaded duplicate. Since you seem to be involved in uploading Met images (thanks for that!), I thought I'd mention it to you. Laura1822 (talk) 21:41, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your response! "Paris project" is misleading, IMO. Also, that particular file was uploaded by someone else, so it probably doesn't belong in the "Paris project." But when you say you are "working to reconcile . . . with older, less centralized uploading efforts," does that mean that you have a plan to fix things like this, or should I correct them ad-hoc as I find them? Should I move the file out of the Paris Project category manually, for example, or mark that duplicate file for speedy deletion? Thank you! Laura1822 (talk) 15:41, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Uploading from MET

Hi Pharos, thanks for uploading a lot of pictures from the MET. Too bad your titles and categories are not very precise...(For example in the islamic art department) --Faqscl (talk) 11:17, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

bad syntax

Pharos, check out this diff {{Creator:Gian Lorenzo Bernini|Pietro Bernini}} is not the correct syntax and places image in Category:Bad use of creator template - option. --Jarekt (talk) 00:50, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art to sort out

Hi Pharos, https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=910837 gives a list of files that are in category:Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or subcategories), but not in Category:Artworks with Wikidata item or Category:Artworks with known accession number. These need to be sorted out by adding either the accession number or the wikidata identifier. While typing this message I realized https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=910848 should probably be sorted out first. These are subcategories of category:Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art that don't have a link to Wikidata. Not all can be connected, but quite a few individual painting categories can. That will probably make a lot of the unconnected works show up at User:Multichill/Same image without Wikidata/Category match. Can you help or maybe put these tasks somewhere so more people can help out? Multichill (talk) 09:00, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Frog Pendant MET DT2593.jpg

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Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:20, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Duplicated images

Hi... I was deleting duplicates and found these:

• File:Curtain MET 210823.jpg
• File:Valance MET 210823.jpg

It seems that the metadata is different but the image is the same. Barcex (talk) 11:40, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

These and these, too.   — Jeff G. ツ 12:51, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

FYI

I uploaded a few photos from the Met. Letting you know. MechQuester (talk) 03:58, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Empty category links

Hi Pharos, could you please evaluate and in future avoid having empty category links in your uploads. I will clean them up soon by just removing them.[16]. Thank you for your cooperation, --Arnd (talk) 06:13, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Large numbers of broken creators / categories on files

Hi. I am seeing larger numbers of files with broken use of creator: ns files where multiple authors have been called in the one implementation through April and May. I am also seeing a somewhat matching (though not verified) broken categories. I am going to stop doing maintenance and may wish to cast your eye down the list at Category:Bad use of creator template - option Thanks. I separately pinged you on a couple of items.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:31, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

After so many issues raised without any reaction from the user i would vote for escalating this. For me it is a no go when somebody does mass uploads or edits and is not willing to cooperate. --Arnd (talk) 11:14, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Oh, I hadn't looked above. Pharos has a good reputation through the wikis, so I will give benefit of doubt to Pharos about why no reaction; though would hope that they would be able to talk approach people to look to resolve this issue soon. We definitely need both a fix and a reassurance that the code issue is resolved.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:30, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

I don't know how busy my friend is today, but expect to meet him at en:Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC this evening and mention this matter. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:46, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Please have a look at Category:Pages using Artwork template with incorrect parameter. The error is a superfluous pipe sign | within the content of the title paramter (between 卣 and Wine in the example):

| title = 西周 青銅提梁卣|Wine Vessel (You)

Please clean this up (should be possible by bot or AutoWikiBrowser, I think) --Anvilaquarius (talk) 17:25, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing these mistakes out, I have been responding and adjusting along the way, though not always on this talkpage. Some of the imperfections unfortunately come from the limitations of the Commons:GLAMwiki Toolset, and can only be fixed after upload. I've been working with User:Multichill, who has a bot that follows up on the uploads and does clean-up, and we can tinker with this process to take the new concerns into account.--Pharos (talk) 03:06, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

I was out hacking in Vienna so I haven't run the clean up bot for a while. Fired up the clean up bot! Multichill (talk) 10:41, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Multichill, could you please again fire up the bot for cleaning up Pharos' files in category:Pages_using_Artwork_template_with_incorrect_parameter. Thanks, --Arnd (talk) 18:00, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Arnd I'm a very lazy bot operator, I scheduled it to run several times a day some time ago :-) Multichill (talk) 19:09, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

File:Seal MET br.823.jpg

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Mabalu (talk) 11:06, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Absolutely no judgement on you at all - I know this was clearly human error, and the Met's own mistake in linking it to that record, and given the massive volume of uploads, a perfectly natural oversight. Just amazing that out of tens of thousands, just one problematic file slipped through. Mabalu (talk) 11:09, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Fragment MET LC-N1658-back.jpg

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Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 01:43, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Met Photos

Is there a way to mass download photos from the MET? or maybe check if the photos are already uploaded to commons?

or maybe an easy to transfer? MechQuester (talk) 20:55, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Terracotta lekanis (dish) MET DP114253.jpg

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Also:

• File:Terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl) MET 13495.jpg

Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 01:37, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

File:Ass (Esel) MET DP825339.jpg

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Gestumblindi (talk) 20:45, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

"Chinese languages"

Dear Pharos,

please make sure, that you don't put any files (like this) into Category:Chinese languages.

Thanks a lot.--Transifex (talk) 10:08, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

@Pharos: Stop uploading and CLEAN THIS UP: Category:Chinese languages (cleanup needed).--Transifex (talk) 09:41, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

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This applies to:

• File:Design for a Tomb, Rothgeisser in Nuremberg (Elevation and Ground Plan) MET DP819626.jpg
• File:Tile MET sf29-113-1s1.jpg
• File:Little Devil's Bridge over the Russ, above Altdorft, Switzerland (Liber Studiorum, part IV, plate 19) MET DP821386.jpg
• File:Mummy bandage inscribed with a wedjat eye MET 25.3.186 EGDP021680.jpg
• File:Flying Putti, Surrounding Archangel Raphael MET DP803067.jpg
• File:Double Column MET 16 32 5b cdi s4.jpg
• File:Sarcophagus with a Greek Physician MET 145288.jpg
• File:Textile sample MET DP10795.jpg
• File:Bowl MET sf40-170-161a.jpg
• File:Cup MET DP238934.jpg

Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 03:31, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Trumpeter on horseback facing right, a group of horsemen in the background, from 'Various cavalry exercises' (Diverses exercices de cavalerie) MET DP833140.jpg

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This applies to:

• File:Trumpeter on horseback facing right, a group of horsemen in the background, from 'Various cavalry exercises' (Diverses exercices de cavalerie) MET DP833140.jpg
• File:Sir Raveneau de Lussan, Bargaining with the Captain, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes MET DP835045.jpg
• File:Coptic Liturgical Codex MET DP100664.jpg

Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 04:17, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

File:Struggle MET 2008 666 3 Demachy Struggle WhiteShoulder 8x scale caption.jpg

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Photo-Secession (talk) 16:14, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Black square

Hello Pharos,

something went wrong with this foto File:Gold_phiale_(libation_bowl)_MET_DP118068.jpg. It just shows a black square.

--Friedel Völker (talk) 05:51, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Category:Department_of_Drawings_and_Prints,_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art

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Oursana (talk) 18:10, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Met categories

Your Met photo uploads are including categories that are redirects, such as Category:Metropolitan Museum of Art by department - Islamic Art, which is a redirect to Category:Department of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- and many, many others. Some of these categories contain over 10,000 files. "Drawings and prints" contains almost 40,000! RussBot will move these files to the correct categories, but it is limited to 200 files per category per day, to prevent overloading it. At that rate, emptying out the incorrect Drawings and prints category will take around nine months. You might want to look into other ways of fixing this. --R'n'B (talk) 17:21, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:MET 14 40 203 F sf temp.jpg

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Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 03:00, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyright of a Met exhibition

Hey there,

So I was at the Met this weekend and took a bunch of pictures of the Comme des Garcons exhibition. Since you've been dealing quite a bit with issues of museums and copyright, I wonder if you know what the copyright rules would be for such pictures. I know that clothing is not itself copyrightable, but I don't know about the styling of the clothes, the forms they're on, the e.g. hair styles on the forms, the arrangement of the clothes into sets, etc. As an example, I'm talking about images like this one (which from the LA Times, i.e. not actually one I would be uploading). Thoughts? — Rhododendrites ^talk |  00:51, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Commons Conference project

Hello Pharos,

I'm writing you as one of the most active Commons users right now. Since a while now, the idea of a dedicated Commons conference has been floating around, but since the last Wikimania concrete steps have been taken to actually make it happen next year. If you're interested in participation or maybe willing to help organize the first ever Commons Conference, I invite you to check out the project page and leave your comments; or just show your support for the idea, by signing up.

Cheers,

--MB-one (talk) 19:21, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Standard dates

Hi Pharos, is it possible to use the standard date format for your uploads so that i do not need to clean up them like here. Thank you for your cooperation, --Arnd (talk) 11:50, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

File:Scenes from the Lives of Jacob and Joseph- Jacob and Laban part ways MET 29310.jpg

Hi. This file has 7 duplicates. Perhaps your GWToolset malfunctioned?   — Jeff G. ツ 02:55, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Also, File:Annexation of Tuscany to the French Empire, 1808 MET 30729.jpg has 6.   — Jeff G. ツ 02:58, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

File:The Four Vases MET DP830232.jpg

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Finoskov (talk) 12:54, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Category:Images_from_Wikis_Take_Manhattan_by_Naked_Pictures_of_Bea_Arthur

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Anvilaquarius (talk) 12:44, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

File:Plan of the Socialist Offensive MET DP275720.jpg

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Дима Г (talk) 09:05, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

File:Samuel Cutts MET ap1979.196.1.jpg

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Sanandros (talk) 21:20, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

user of {{Creator}}

Hi. I was doing some tidy up at Category:Bad use of creator template - option and see that for File:-Group of 12 Stereograph Views of Celebrities, Including Popes and Presidents- MET DP75443.jpg that your assignation was outside of the scope of the template. I am not certain what you are trying to attempt with the added parameters, so I am wondering whether you could please review what you were desiring to do. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 03:30, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Oh, I see that you have a fair range of the images where you have plugged in multiple parameters, eg. File:-Album page with ten photographs of La Comtesse mounted recto and verso- MET DP235114.jpg. If these are multiple creators, then I can manually run through the list with AWB and convert the use of the template with parameters to be multiple instances of the template with single parameters. Let me know if you need assistance resolving these, don't want to dive in where the is uncertainty about what is trying to be portrayed.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:17, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Yes, these are generally meant to be multiple creators, and are drawn from the Met database. Some instances might be incorrect in our definition of what a 'creator' is, but most will be good, and converting them in this way should be a real benefit. Any thoughts, @Multichill: ?--Pharos (talk) 20:07, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Please go ahead with AWB edits, and thank you for the contribution to this effort with the museum. Some of the values may be a company rather than an individual artist, but i trust you to use your best judgement.--Pharos (talk) 20:46, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: I suppose for non-individual artists there will just be an empty template, and we can remove most of them later. (There will also be missing creator templates for many individual artists too, and we can help create those.)--Pharos (talk) 17:15, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. It is a lower level task in the panopoly of maintenance, though I have progressed through numbers, and skipped those that were complex or unclear. Some I just tidied, put some page inclusion links, and left the names nude. Now I know and if when it is returned to then it can be addressed. I retroactively noticed that the use of the semi-colon for name dividers, and if we face such an import in the future, it would be useful to have your bot check for their presence, or flag as an indicator of multiple creators.  — billinghurst sDrewth 21:52, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

groupings

Hello, I was wondering if there's a way to group collections of files together in these mass uploads (see File:MET 1989 363 1 c03.jpg). Including the more-descriptive information would be nice too (see [17]). Thanks. --Cold Season (talk) 01:16, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

@Cold Season: Yes, in most cases the title has been automatically extracted from the metadata, but sometimes in cases where an artwork has multiple titles this has failed. We're also looking into having multiple views of the same artwork (when there are at least 3 or 4), have a an artwork-specific category generated by bot.--Pharos (talk) 18:27, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

File:Portrait of Jean de la Fontaine MET DP828945.jpg

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88.180.14.226 14:28, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

File:Sir Charles Price (1748–1818) MET DP-13721-036.jpg

Hi, Pharos, is this a portrait of Sir Charles Price, 1st Baronet? Though date of birth on that would be 1747, I am pretty sure this is the guy :) Wince you were the uploader you might be able to confirm. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 14:03, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

File:Boats at Cape May MET 227527.jpg

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Jarekt (talk) 02:17, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Expiry of GWToolset user group memberships

There is a proposal on the Bureaucrat's noticeboard to automatically expire GWT memberships after one year unless the user requests an extension. Please add your views and suggestions to the discussion. The reasonably informal process for getting access to GWT access will remain as is.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Revi. 15:42, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

[[18]]

Hi, Completely wrong data for the 4 images of this object. Johnbod (talk) 22:21, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

MET instrument photos

Hi!

I was going to upload the main image on https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/502058 manually, but then I realized there seems to be a project to automatically upload these, so it might be better for a bot to do it in the right way :) I asked on IRC and was told to ask you about what that right way is and whether I can just directly request the bot to add the image. So, asking!

Thanks, --Reosarevok (talk) 09:00, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

File:Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo MET SF Collignon.jpg

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Achim (talk) 12:50, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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Yours sincerely, Majora (talk) 14:56, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Need your presence at Featured video candidates

		We request the honor of your presence at Featured video candidates
		Dear Pharos, Featured video candidates needs your help and you can participate by reviewing or nominating your videos for the FV tag. You can start reviewing/nominating videos now. Welcome! -- Eatcha (Talk-Page ) 20:56, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

File:Madame Gaye MET EP524.jpg

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Yann (talk) 14:38, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

File:Madonna and Child MET BramantinoIRR.jpg

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Yann (talk) 14:56, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

File:Salvator Mundi MET GermanCat23 IRRnocap.jpg

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Yann (talk) 14:58, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

File:Shepherds Dreaming of the Flight into Egypt MET 23002.jpg

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Szczebrzeszynski (talk) 20:06, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

File:Reichsparteitag der Arbeit MET DP112753.jpg

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--Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 23:56, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman ("Starting for the Hunt") MET DP146442.jpg, that you uploaded is now assessed as one of the finest pictures on Wikimedia Commons, the nomination is available at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman ("Starting for the Hunt") MET DP146442.jpg. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate, please do so at this nomination page.

/FSCBot (talk) 05:13, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

File:MET CP10.jpg

Hi, you added the "Yunlin" category to File:MET CP10.jpg, but I've redirected this category to Category:Yunlin County. If you want to use the name "Yunlin", then I recommend that you create another category for artist(e.g. Category:Yunlin (artist)). The problem is that the artist is called "Ni Zan", why you add "Category:Yunlin" to File:MET CP10.jpg?--Kai3952 (talk) 12:21, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

I have wait for a long time but don't see your message, so I decided to remove the "Yunlin" category. See: special:diff/371863664.--Kai3952 (talk) 14:39, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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Yours sincerely, Patrick Rogel (talk) 21:58, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

File:Reichsparteitag der Arbeit MET DP112754.jpg

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Patrick Rogel (talk) 22:33, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Unidentified location photos from Category:Images from Wikis Take Manhattan by Zefferus

Hello, User:Akinom recently placed the following Category:Images from Wikis Take Manhattan by Zefferus photos into Category:New York City:

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You appear in the first two of them—it's been 11 years, but do you recognize where they were taken? Based on the photos appearing immediately before these, they appear to be somewhere in the neighborhood of Jefferson Market Garden. Thanks for your help. -- DanielPenfield (talk) 00:51, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2019

Hello Pharos, hope you are well. Pinging you to add me in the montage campaign for Wiki Loves Pride 2019. We need to complete the jury work for the campaign. May I make a request here? Thank you! Wikilover90 (talk) 13:11, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Important message for file movers

A community discussion has been closed where the consensus was to grant all file movers the suppressredirect user right. This will allow file movers to not leave behind a redirect when moving files and instead automatically have the original file name deleted. Policy never requires you to suppress the redirect, suppression of redirects is entirely optional.

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Notification about possible deletion

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• File:Kokoschka Rehearsing MET DP876210.jpg

Yours sincerely, Patrick Rogel (talk) 16:08, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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Affected:

• File:-Peacock- MET DP170759.jpg

And also:

• File:-Peacock- MET DP170760.jpg
• File:-Still Life of Flowers in a Stein- MET DP170766.jpg
• File:-Still Life of Flowers in a Stein- MET DP170769.jpg
• File:-Still Life of Flowers in a Stein- MET DP170770.jpg
• File:-Tulips- MET DP170761.jpg
• File:-Tulips- MET DP170764.jpg
• File:-Tulips- MET DP170765.jpg

Yours sincerely, Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 17:38, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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Yours sincerely, — Racconish ^💬 15:24, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

File:「富嶽三十六景 神奈川沖浪裏」-Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) MET DP141042.jpg

File:「富嶽三十六景 神奈川沖浪裏」-Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) MET DP141042.jpg 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. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

2001:4BB8:258:1DC6:E905:C9F:4AA7:4AE 19:36, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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Affected:

• File:Reclining Nude MET DT3142.jpg

And also:

• File:Reclining Nude MET sf-rlc-1975-1-214.jpeg
• File:Lilacs and Peonies MET 67187112.jpg

Yours sincerely, Patrick Rogel (talk) 11:02, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Mbabel logos

Hi, Pharos, I was cleaning my files and noticed I never uploaded the Mbabel logos that we discussed. Well, two months later, but they are finally here:

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Good contributions, Ederporto (talk) 22:33, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

File:Allegory of Music MET 50.189 profile.jpg

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Kaldari (talk) 16:14, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

File:Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing -6.webm

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Eatcha (talk) 12:30, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

File:Portrait of P. Tournemine MET DP876392.jpg

Hello, Pharos, wonder if this is Pierre Tournemine. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 16:15, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

File:Maria Luisa of Parma (1751–1819), Later Queen of Spain MET DP120724.jpg

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StellarHalo (talk) 12:02, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Category:Department_of_European_Sculpture_and_Decorative_Arts,_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art

Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

2601:703:0:38F0:DD22:C625:8166:987E 04:10, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

File:Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859) MET 53.61.4 profile.jpg

File:Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859) MET 53.61.4 profile.jpg 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. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Sammyday (talk) 15:03, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

File:The Public Viewing David’s "Coronation" at the Louvre MET 2012.156 profile.jpg

File:The Public Viewing David’s "Coronation" at the Louvre MET 2012.156 profile.jpg 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. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Sammyday (talk) 07:49, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride photo winner

whole reward I give for foundation wikimedia.org, br Silar 16:07, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

File:Maria Luisa of Parma (1751–1819), Later Queen of Spain MET DP120724.jpg

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StellarHalo (talk) 04:40, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

File:Bust of a man MET DP224278.jpg

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2A01:CB00:A05:D100:D040:D551:798C:579F 21:43, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

GWToolset usage

Hello, from Reedy's helpful queries at phabricator:T270911#6726817 it appears you are the only large user of GWToolset in the last couple of years who hasn't (explicitly) switched to something else. It would be useful to hear from you. Do you need help switching to some other upload method? Nemo 23:57, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! "Calabash" bottle MET DP704310.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. -- Ikan Kekek 10:21, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

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Wiki Loves Earth 2021 in the Caribbean

Hi Pharos, I noticed you created the landing page Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2021 in the Caribbean and you added this area to the list of countries. Therefore I assume you are the organiser. However, the landing page is still not ready. Can you please make sure it is ready before the contest starts?

If you have the landing page ready, I also would like to know in which countries/areas/territories/islands you would like to have the banner enabled. This because the Caribbean is as area not a strictly defined where its borders are. Please ping me when you are ready! Greetings - Romaine (talk) 00:15, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

File:Prayer in the Mosque MET DT1971.jpg

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StellarHalo (talk) 08:35, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

FP Promotion

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OpenRefine starts SDC development! 💎

Hello Pharos! I hope all is well! I'm approaching you because you have been a heavy user of the GLAMWiki Toolset. As you may be aware, OpenRefine has started development of features for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. Would you like to be informed about ongoing work? You can sign up here to receive occasional updates on a Wikimedia talk page of your choice. Also, feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions! SFauconnier (talk) 13:57, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedia Sound Logo project

Wikimedia Sound Logo project
The Wikimedia Sound Logo project Hello, the Wikimedia sound logo project is in an early development phase -- this stage is for asking all kinds of questions, developing and fielding ideas, finding themes and shaping the direction of the project. Here is a link to the meta page for the project: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo Your input is welcome. Thank you.

VGrigas (WMF) (talk) 18:14, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

File:MET DP153162.jpg

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Arjunaraoc (talk) 04:09, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

File:Cruelty in Perfection (The Four Stages of Cruelty) MET DP835448.jpg

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Jonund (talk) 10:09, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

File:CattelanLOVE.jpg

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File:Seal MET br.823.jpg

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Mabalu (talk) 09:15, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

File:Crouching Woman with Crab MET sf 1984.433.35.jpg

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TemboUngwe (talk) 17:46, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Category:Paul Robert

Hello Pharos

In the category of Paul Robert (1851–1923) I see 4 pictures

• Snuffbox MET 144654.jpg Date 1762–63
• Snuffbox MET 39684.jpg Date 1758–59
• Snuffbox MET LC-17 190 1198-001.jpg Date 1758–59
• Snuffbox MET LC-17 190 1198-002.jpg Date 1758–59

My question: If I'm not totally wrong, the 4 snuffboxes have been created / produced ~ 100 years before the birth of Paul Robert, right?

cheeeers, h. AnBuKu (talk) 17:44, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

The Seine- Morning

Hi,

I've boldly overwritten File:The Seine- Morning MET 2114.jpg with a much better version, from the same source URL. Do you care if we "loose" the original version? How would you suggest modifying the description? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:11, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

FP Promotion

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File:Houqua MET DP276519.jpg

File:Houqua MET DP276519.jpg has been marked for speedy deletion. (Reason: f7) Why not upload a picture of a plant, animal, or anything else which fits into our scope. You can contribute any media type you want, including but not limited to images, videos, music, and 3D models. Start uploading now! If you don't have anything to upload at the moment, why not take a look at our best images or best videos, sounds and 3D models. If you have any doubts/questions don't hesitate to visit our help desk.

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Military bicorne MET 49.224.8 CP2.jpg

Hello I just wanted to confirm with you that the Bicorne image is free to use, being in the public domain, as I would like to use it in another context. Thanks Antiquariaa (talk) 11:22, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!

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Category:Wikipedia_edibles

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File:The 42nd Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh Castle MET DP140514.jpg

Hello Pharos, since you were the uploader, I was wondering if this image should be added to the Category:Gordon Highlanders. Thank you so much for your time. Lotje (talk) 15:50, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

There are others also. Thnks. Lotje (talk) 15:52, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Looks like this photogrpahs is somehow linked to them. Lotje (talk) 16:08, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

File:Scene from Literature (from McGuire Scapbook) MET 65075.jpg

Hello Pharos, since you were the uploader, I was wondering if that is a typo and it should read scrapbook. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 15:18, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

File:絵本末摘花-Picture Book- Flowers Yet to be Picked, Vol. 1 MET JIB99 004.jpg

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File:Closed Burgonet MET 29.152.2 003may2015.jpg

Template:Idw/layout Uyghiu (talk) 15:00, 21 January 2024 (UTC)