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Request for Username Change edit

Request for a global username change from "RyanHodnett" to "Ryan Hodnett" in order to maintain consistency with external sites.

Re:Hypsiboas edit

Hi Ryan, how are you? That's quite a bad mistake, sorry for that. I was sorting through the Anura to Id folder and probably I ticked them without realizing. I can tell you that they are in the Bufonidae family, probably in the Anaxyrus genus, but I am not very familiar with North American anurans. Thanks for realizing and sorry for the inconveniences. --Erfil (talk) 13:03, 3 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Commons Meetup in Montréal in August edit

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I would like to invite you to the Commons Categorizer Meetup 2017 in Montréal in August (the exact date is not fixed yet and will be determined by the Wikimania programme committee). If you want, you can add your name to the list of interested users and propose discussion topics.

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Hi! You labelled this picture as a Bombycidae species, but do you mean it was reared in captivity? (I am asking because I see that the location is Ontario, but there are no wild Bombycidae in North America.) Kind regards --LamBoet (talk) 01:07, 8 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for catching that! This is a shot in the wild. The ID is from iNaturalist, I think the user that left this identification may have meant to identifiy it as Bombycoidea. Feel free to make any corrections. - Ryan Hodnett (talk) 19:29, 12 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
Hi, thank you for your answer! I have done a little research and I think it could be a Saturniidae (which are part of the Bombycoidea superfamily): for example I see that Hyalophora cecropia seems to build that kind of cocoon. I am still not sure, but how about tentatively labelling your pictures as "Unidentified Saturniidae"? --LamBoet (talk) 03:32, 13 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
Hyalophora cecropia is in agreement with iNat's AI thinking it's Hyalophora. I'll change the category and description to "Unidentified Saturniidae" but leave the filenames for now so they don't get changed twice if we decide on a better ID. Thanks for your help =) - Ryan Hodnett (talk) 18:11, 13 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
Sounds good! I added a few categories. I didn't know about this AI, how well does it generally do? --LamBoet (talk) 18:53, 13 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Image corruption detected in File:Sheridan Creek at Rattray Marsh - Mississauga, Ontario 2019-04-22 (02).jpg edit

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Larus delawarensis edit

Hi Ryan - thought I'd mention, the reason I put File:Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) - Killarney, Ontario.jpg into Category:Larus delawarensis (low quality) is not because the pic as a whole is low quality (it isn't, it's very good!), but just because the bird itself is so small in the pic, there's very little detail of it visible. I'd say the pic is more useful for other features in it than for the bird; definitely worth adding to Category:Granite outcrops, for example, and also to whichever subcategory of Category:Geology of Canada is most appropriate. Hope this helps explain my edit! - MPF (talk) 12:15, 26 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

Quality Image Promotion edit

 
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Location? edit

Hi Ryan - do you have exact locations for File:Juniper (Juniperus sp.) - Guelph, Ontario 2020-04-11 (01).jpg, File:Juniper (Juniperus sp.) - Guelph, Ontario 2020-04-11 (02).jpg, and File:Juniper (Juniperus sp.) - Guelph.jpg, please? In particular, whether growing naturally among native vegetation, or in-near cultivated areas where they could have been planted? Thanks! - MPF (talk) 00:40, 5 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Puzzling image edit

Hi Ryan,

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unidentified_-_Oslo,_Norway_2020-08-12_(02).jpg

I was looking at this image trying to identify what I was looking at. I wonder if you would be kind enough to tell me the following. Is this a small pond or a puddle? What is over the surface of the water to cause the flattened bubbles, glass or ice? The water looks very shallow, maybe 1 or 2 centimetres? Do you have any idea what we are looking at, apart from what I have annotated on the image?

Many thanks

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Thanks for your helpful response. Much appreciated. Richard Avery (talk) 15:58, 12 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Can you categorize your images? edit

You've uploaded lovely images, and used only personal categories... Can you add some public categories? --Yuval Y § Chat § 15:56, 26 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Yuval CT: I uploaded the images using Pattypan. I can just copy and paste my personal categories using pattypan, but find it much easier to add public categories after the images have been uploaded using Cat-a-lot. When you sent this message this batch of uploads was only about halfway through uploading so I hadn't had a chance to start adding public categories yet. All the images in this batch now have public categories added to them. -- Ryan Hodnett (talk) 10:45, 27 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Bird call edit

Hi Ryan - File:Bird Call - Oslo, Norway 2021-01-03.mp3 I think is probably an odd call from a Great Tit, but I'm not 100% sure. Can you pin down the location (and habitat) a bit better than you give at its iNat page please? The 600 m uncertainty radius covers a multitude of different habitats. Apart from this one, I've got all your other un-id. bird calls sorted. Thanks! - MPF (talk) 22:11, 30 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

@MPF: Thanks for the IDs! I've narrowed down the radius on the observation a little bit (400m). I made the observation along the path the pin is on. This picture is from the smaller trail just to the east of it. The path the recording was made on runs along the edge of the forest to the left of the image. - Ryan Hodnett (talk) 12:22, 8 October 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! I'll go with Great Tit then. Forest edge is right, and their calls are incredibly variable; Bill Oddie made the now-famous birding quote "A lifetime of birding has taught me, if you hear something and you don't know what it is, it's a Great Tit" - and he's absolutely right :-) MPF (talk) 13:00, 8 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia Sound Logo project edit

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Hugin jargon edit

hi! i see that you're a hugin user. do you know what Category:Hugin AFrame 360 Degree Panorama is about? what does AFrame mean? thx! RZuo (talk) 08:17, 23 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

@RZuo: Hi! I hadn't heard of it before, but it looks like AFrame is a web framework that can use hugin photos as input (https://aframe.io/) and the images in that category were used in a Wikiversity resource utilizing it. Ryan Hodnett (talk) 13:20, 3 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

iNat page with misidentification edit

Hi Ryan - knowing you're on iNat, could you add a Forster's Tern id to this 'Gull-billed Tern' observation please? I found it while looking for Gull-billed Tern photos to add to Commons' meagre collection. Thanks! - MPF (talk) 10:07, 12 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

@MPF:   Done Ryan Hodnett (talk) 18:06, 12 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Super, thanks! - MPF (talk) 20:25, 12 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Locations edit

Hi Ryan - I've added a few identifications and name corrections* to your recent Norway uploads; with these, I've also added their locations from the iNaturalist pages as well. But for the rest, I've not had the time to add the locations for all of them - the locations are just as important and useful here at Commons, as they are at iNaturalist. Could you add them for the rest of your photos, please? They take the format {{Location|62.559505|6.124108}} (where 62.559505 is degrees N, and 6.124108 is degrees E). Thanks! - MPF (talk) 21:16, 15 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

  • Regrettably, iNaturalist get a lot of English plant names wrong. It is always worth checking against BSBI for the correct name; enter the scientific name in the search box and it will give you the English name as well. Thanks! - MPF (talk) 21:16, 15 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
@MPF: Hi, thanks for the identifications! I agree that the locations are important but I don't have the time to be manually adding them to all of my uploads. For photos also on iNat it appears RudolphousBot is adding the location to the file page. Checking some of my most recent uploads that are also on iNat they all seem to have locations added by RudolphousBot. For photos not on iNat I do include the coordinates in the Exif, making them available to other bots.
Even if there is a "correct name" for a species I think it's valuable to have diversity among common names at the file level in order to increase discoverability. Common names vary by region and you've often changed names that I was more familiar with. I'd prefer it if you wouldn't change the file names of my uploads just to change them to a different common name. Though feel free to correct any styling (punctuation, capitalization, etc.) and if you're adding an identification use whatever common name you like. Thanks! - Ryan Hodnett (talk) 19:12, 24 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! It's a bit of a deeper problem than you perhaps realise; on this side of the Atlantic there's a very different attitude to vernacular names to what's found in North America, with each country or language group in Europe having its own set of official standard vernacular names, with one name per species per language, managed by a national or regional authority. Thus for English names of Europe's native flora, the naming authority is BSBI (Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland). When US naming authorities like USDA or ITIS, or US-based organisations like iNaturalist, change the English names of our native plants for us, it comes across very badly: it feels like they are telling us that, because we are not American, we are some sort of ignorant irrelevance, not competent or intelligent enough to be allowed to name our own native plants, but must submit instead to their 'higher' authority. It comes over particularly badly when their changes are manifestly wrong, such as calling a Rowan Sorbus an Ash Fraxinus, or offensive, like the derogatory demonym they attach to Broom Cytisus scoparius. Hope this helps clarify a bit! Another option if you want to, is to use the Norwegian names, that I'd be very happy with; I'm guessing from your frequent trips to Norway, you have connections there? - MPF (talk) 00:43, 27 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
@MPF: Sorry for the late reply. The files I uploaded since your last message I had already made the spreadsheet for, but for new uploads and name changes I can change how I name them. I don't have the time to manually check every name, but I can change the "Common Name Lexicons" on my iNaturalist account to U.K. English and the main language for the location of the observation (Though U.K. English still sounds a bit like the U.K. just telling Europeans what to name things instead of the U.S.). FYI the default common names on iNaturalist are based on "user language/locale preference" (mine being set to English/Ontario, Canada) not on iNaturalist being a U.S.-based organization. - Ryan Hodnett (talk) 20:39, 14 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
Many thanks! Yes, I'm aware of the potential for it being seen as "UK just telling Europeans what to name things instead of the U.S.", which is why I suggested Norwegian names; there is however the point that the English of UK & Ireland (well, Ireland at least still anyway!) does have legal force within the EU/Schengen area as one of the official EU languages. Of the iNat names, there is a default that non-subscribers see, that underlies the user preferences; it's what you'd see if you logged out. - MPF (talk) 12:53, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
 
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Switched images edit

Hi Ryan - was just looking through your latest uploads, and (while failing to identify it, unfortunately!) noticed a couple of files with switched names and source links: File:Green Buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus) - Longboat Key, Florida 2023-01-24.jpg and File:Plant - Longboat Key, Florida 2023-01-24 (01).jpg have each others' inaturalist link numbers and filenames. I guess you'll want to switch them round somehow! - MPF (talk) 00:41, 19 March 2024 (UTC)Reply