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Featured Picture candidate - Elisabethkirche Schneeberg.jpg

Dear colleague,

Thank you very much for your constructive comment related to my picture Elisabethkirche Schneeberg.jpg. I have re-worked the file in order to reduce the noise. I would greatly appreciate if you could give your advice if you see the necessity for further improvements. In case the new version is now in accordance with your criteria for a Featured Image, I would be glad if you could revise your vote accordingly. Many thanks and kind regards, Hendric Stattmann (talk) 09:21, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! The Eagle's Nest.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. --Raghith 05:03, 26 May 2011 (UTC)  Comment Wonderful composition and informative but this needs levels adjustment to lighten and whiten the Bald Eagle's head and tail. Saffron Blaze 08:13, 26 May 2011 (UTC)  Comment Puting my words into action: a quick redo: File:The Eagle's Nest v2.0.jpg --Saffron Blaze 19:25, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

File:Sarychev Peak.jpg: License disputed

Hi The High Fin Sperm Whale,

User Avenue added a {{Disputed}} tag. I believe the reason he gave is quite correct, since you uploaded the image with File:Sarychev Peak Volcano erupts on Matua Island.jpg as it's source, which is {{Cc-by-sa-2.0}} licensed. The original for that was in the public domain, which means, among other things, that everybody is free to modify or re-license it (as the Flickr user did).

Please license your work (File:Sarychev Peak.jpg) under the {{Cc-by-sa-2.0}} license. Be sure to keep atleast the prevous attributions in tact and adding your own as disired. You may do so by replacing the {{PD-NASA}} tag.

The original attribution was "John". Something like the the following would be valid example:

=={{int:license-header}}==
{{cc-by-sa-2.0|attribution=
[[User:The High Fin Sperm Whale|The High Fin Sperm Whale]], [http://flickr.com/photos/97838323@N00 John]
}}

If you do not wish to license your image under the Creative Commons license, then this work is likely a copyright violation (which you probably didn't intend it to be ;-) ) and would have to be removed from Commons. Sorry if this all sounds complicated, licenses can be a plain sometimes.

Feel free to ask me or the Copyright questions page if you need anything.

Thanks, –Krinkle^talk 22:09, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks, it looks good now. –Krinkle^talk 23:17, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Reflection of tree.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. Serene. --Saffron Blaze 01:12, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

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Harrison Lake.
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review

 Best in Scope, good work -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 09:59, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. George Chernilevsky ^talk 06:16, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

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Ambystoma gracile (Northwestern Salamander).
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review

 Best in Scope -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 06:14, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. George Chernilevsky ^talk 06:30, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Elisabethkirche Schneeberg

Dear colleague,

I would give you an update about my photo of the Elisabethkirche on the Schneeberg in Lower Austria. In the meantime, Amada44 has significantly improved the photo, so I would kindly invite you to give a hopefully favourable opinion on the FP candidature of this new version.

Many thanks and kind regards,

Hendric Stattmann (talk) 20:45, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

The lion of Egyptian revolution (Qasr al-Nil Bridge).jpg

Now that the results are confirmed (8 support, 6 oppose, 1 neutral), What happens next? The image is still not featured even tho it has more support than oppose. Could be kind enough to explain seeing how this is the picture I nominated to be a featured picture. Thanks -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 01:21, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Sikorsky CH-124.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 photo -- George Chernilevsky 18:50, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

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review

 Support Best in category. (I would like to see it cropped some more though) --Jovian Eye _storm 11:46, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. George Chernilevsky ^talk 08:05, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Bald-faced hornet (Dolichovespula maculata) nest.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. --Raghith 07:13, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Shaggy inkcaps (Coprinus comatus).JPG, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Shaggy inkcaps (Coprinus comatus).JPG has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 22:03, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

* * * Happy New 2012 Year! * * *

-- George Chernilevsky ^talk 17:29, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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Valued Image Promotion

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review

 Support All criteria met. This image is, at least IQ. More can be...--Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 17:51, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. MrPanyGoff 19:30, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Valued Image Set Promotion

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Pseudacris regilla (Pacific tree frog).
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FP Promotion

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/FPCBot (talk) 13:01, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

File:Ring-billed Gull.jpg

File:Ring-billed Gull.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!

Yikrazuul (talk) 18:18, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus).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  Support Good quality for me. Suggest to present them all as a VI set. --Jkadavoor 06:08, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus) -3.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  Support Good quality for me. --Jkadavoor 06:08, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

photo credit

Hi there,

I'd like to give you credit for photo of a Northwestern Salamander that you took. We're using the photo in a free brochure about Yukon Amphibians. Though Northwestern Salamander are not found in Yukon, it's one to watch for as many animals move north.

Send your name to carrie.mcclelland@gov.yk.ca and I'd be happy to give credit.

Cheers Carrie

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

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Valued Image Promotion

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review

 Support : best in scope. --JLPC (talk) 09:08, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Godot13 (talk) 08:57, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

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review

 Support : best in scope. --JLPC (talk) 09:09, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Godot13 (talk) 08:57, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:FE-310.jpg

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Image use on Wikify.ru

Hallo The High Fin Sperm Whale, your nice image File:Clearfin lionfish (Pterois radiata).JPG is used on the website wikify.ru in a currently license-violating manner (no author credit, no mentioning of the license). Regrettably, this website seems to belong a user (even admin) on :ru and Commons. If you like, you may comment here or here. This would be especially relevant in case you have granted to User:Gruznov special conditions for use of your image, which differ from the CC license, as then this use may not constitute a license-violation. --Túrelio (talk) 08:18, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

2014 !

	* * * 2014! * * *
	Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Happy holidays! -- George Chernilevsky talk 21:09, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

I'm a little late but thank you! I hope you had good holidays as well. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 00:23, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Happy holidays! 2015!

		* * * Happy Holidays 2015 ! * * *
		* Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! * Joyeux Noël ! Bonne année! * Frohes Weihnachten! Frohes Neues Jahr! * Счастливого Рождества! С Новым годом! -- George Chernilevsky talk 20:26, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

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Affected:

• File:Circinus X-1.jpg

And also:

• File:Crescent Nebula from Chandra.jpg
• File:Jupiter Aurora.jpg
• File:Messier 16 Chandra.jpg
• File:NGC 281 from Chandra.jpg

Yours sincerely, Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 03:46, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

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Identification of photo File:Hypholoma fasciculare 4 edit1.jpg

Hello. This photo does not look like Hypholoma fasciculare, instead it shows some species of Pholiota. Please see the file talk page. I would like to change the category to "Unidentified Pholiota". Is that OK? Strobilomyces (talk) 19:38, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Good eye! Yes, upon review it does look a lot like a Pholiota, and since I don't trust my identification skills (especially from 10 years ago) I don't mind at all. Thanks for letting me know! --The High Fin Sperm Whale 20:41, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

OK, fine. I changed it (not the file name) but some of the language descriptions need attention, I can't work in all those languages. Strobilomyces (talk) 17:22, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Sounds good. I'll do what I can but I definitely don't speak most of the languages either. I'll edit the French and Japanese descriptions if that helps. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 20:02, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

OK, that just leaves Korean, Macedonian and Ukranian. Strobilomyces (talk) 16:52, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Category:Campsites_in_Canada

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