MuzikMachine

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Copyright status: File:Alberta Highway 8 (1960s).svg

Copyright status: File:Alberta Highway 8 (1960s).svg

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Yours sincerely, JuTa 11:25, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Image without license

File:Alberta Highway 3.svg

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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.

This message was added automatically by MifterBot ^{(Talk • Contribs • Owner)}, if you need some help about it please read the text above again and follow the links in it, if you still need help ask at the → Commons:Help desk in any language you like to use. --MifterBot ^{(Talk • Contribs • Owner)} 06:37, 17 December 2018 (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.

This message was added automatically by MifterBot ^{(Talk • Contribs • Owner)}, if you need some help about it please read the text above again and follow the links in it, if you still need help ask at the → Commons:Help desk in any language you like to use. --MifterBot ^{(Talk • Contribs • Owner)} 06:38, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

CTrain icons

Hi MuzikMachine, I looked at the linked official map of Calgary Transit and it looks like the line colors are off. Would you mind updating them? I will start using them in wikipedia. Thank you for uploading them in the first place. Cheers! --Truflip99 (talk) 18:01, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Categories

Thank you for your helpful categories at Revision of 681525850. Just one category is mysterious. I asked Google Maps for the address of the rest area. The answer is the rest area is belonging to Field. So the category Category:Transport in Field, British Columbia should be correct. --XRay 💬 05:50, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

I've just seen, Yoho National Park is belonging to Field too. So Field, British Columbia should be added as category at Yoho National Park - not my photograph. --XRay 💬 06:08, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi XRay, I know that area quite well. While Google might attribute the address as Field because it's the nearest populated area, it's definitely not located in Field (my guess is that officially the sign does not have an address). For rural areas, Google Maps is not always accurate when providing addresses - I once had to request a change for a park located in Medicine Hat where Google said it was in a town over 50 km away. Field is a hamlet so there's no local government, the area would be administered by Parks Canada which is why I initially changed it to Yoho National Park. I then changed it to Kicking Horse Pass as that's where the Trans-Canada Highway crosses the Alberta-BC border and a more accurate location. Category:Kicking Horse Pass is also a subcategory of Category:Yoho National Park, Category:British Columbia Highway 1, and Category:Alberta Highway 1 in Banff National Park which might resolve some of the BC/Alberta jurisdictional changes :) MuzikMachine (talk) 06:08, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanations. Knowledge of people knowing the area are often much better than Google Maps. For our short stop at the rest area there was no other possibility than checking with Google Maps or OpenStreetmap. I'll do not change the filename of my photograph, but I'll add some information to the description. --XRay 💬 06:16, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Fair enough. It's possible that Google is using a course-scale file for the BC-Alberta border so it might be in Alberta. Regardless, it was a good photo and hopefully you had a good trip through the Canadian Rocky Mountains! MuzikMachine (talk) 06:33, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

No Non-diffusing subcategories

Hi MuzikMachine. Thanks for all your work on categorizing images. I know it is a huge ongoing task. So thanks again. But unlike WP, here at Commons we don't have non-diffusing subcategories, i.e. all images and subcategories only go in the lowest level category. So no need to combine all images and subcategories in a higher level category as you did for Communities of Nova Scotia. Regards, --P 1 9 9  ✉ 18:07, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

@P199: Sounds good, thanks for the heads up. Cheers! --MuzikMachine (talk) 06:44, 1 December 2022 (UTC)