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Mike Prince photos from Flickr

Hi Vis - last year you created [Category:Turdus philomelos in India] and added several photos by Mike Prince to it. Unfortunately this is an error - although he is based in India, he travels widely, and these photos were actually taken in England. The photo locations are given in the Flickr tags; it is important to check these individually with Mike Prince's photos. Can you remember if you made any other similar categories that will need checking? Thanks! :-) MPF (talk) 16:28, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for finding out the error. I always tried to be very cautious on categorizations, but overlooked on this one. I will recheck if there were any such occurrences and inform you. Thanks again. —Vis M (talk) 16:47, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
Many thanks! - MPF (talk) 17:40, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!

 
2022 Picture of the Year: Saint John Church of Sohrol in Iran.

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Just thank you

Hi there Vis_M, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for correcting my many mistakes in " Category:Les kolas africains - Heckel 1893 ". Forgot about the need for the 01, 02 etc numbering for proper order (doh); and didn't realise that " -- " had changed to " — " for some (but not all (?)) occurrences while uploading (despite that I did a copy-paste and never retouched that bit afterwards), and that also disturbs the image order. Will try to pay more attention in future. To one of the too often unsung ants that operate in here, many thanks. Pueblo89 (talk) 17:27, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

You are welcome :) You made my day! Thank you —Vis M (talk) 17:31, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

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A1Cafel (talk) 03:30, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Danke,

dass du meinen Schfeibfehler bei der Benennung von Trachys troglodytiformis natur.jpg erledigt hast --Siga (talk) 08:48, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Gern geschehen! Danke. Thank you very much! —Vis M (talk) 11:15, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

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Notification about possible deletion

 
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Yours sincerely, A1Cafel (talk) 04:26, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Quick reminder: Commons Photographers meeting this Saturday

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It's Wiki Loves Monuments time again!

 

Hello Vis M/Archive 2!

We are excited again to let you know that, Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition of the world, will take place for the 14th time this year. And guess what! India is going to participate in the event again this year from September 1 to September 30, 2023. You might remember this competition as you had participated in one of its previous editions. We would be very delighted to see you take part in the competition again, help record and digitally document our monuments for future generations and get a chance to win exciting prizes!!!

You can find more details about the Indian edition of the competition in this event page. See you in action soon!!

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Thanks

Hello Vis M. Thank you for fixing my careless mistakes (Ricinocarpos megalocarpus). Gderrin (talk) 04:00, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

You are welcome. Glad to help. These can happen with anyone anytime :) Vis M (talk) 05:42, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Commons Photographers User Group: Board Elections 2023

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Thanks

Many thanks for handling three file rename requests from me in a single day. Sorry about the extra work. Cheers, Crawdad Blues (talk) 03:32, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words ː) Vis M (talk) 04:50, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Flickypedia soft launch and a huge thank you

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Change word to file names in all the series?

Hi Vis M, many thanks for implementing the change name to File:Bardea Beltza - Irudiak (1).jpg and the following two numbers in the series. The wrong word in the whole series appears in the next files up to the file name ending with 14. Would it be possible to make the same change to these file names without individual request? The word "Erribera" should be replaced with "Bardea". Regards Iñaki LL (talk) 07:02, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Done. Glad that I could help! Regards. Vis M (talk) 07:20, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Renaming a category

Hi

Thank you for renaming those videos.

Please help me with these requests: Category:Melbourne Exhibition Centre and Category:Laura Macfarlane. I requested renaming them without redirects.

Cheers Shkuru Afshar (talk) 08:54, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I have completed the renaming of Category:Laura MacFarlane without leaving a redirect. But for Category:Melbourne Exhibition Centre, I think I should create a redirect because it is a 15 year old category. See Commons:Category renaming. Thanks Vis M (talk) 09:20, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi. What you say is right. Please do that. Thank you :) Shkuru Afshar (talk) 10:05, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
@Shkuru Afshar: Hi, I see that the "Melbourne Exhibition Centre"[1] and "Melbourne Convention Centre"[2] are two distinct entities within the "Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre". So, is it better to have separate categories for each and create a new Category:Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre to act as parent category? What do you think? Regards Vis M (talk) 16:14, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi
Yes. It is a good idea. I agree.
Just to let you know that your reference is just separation of complexes by map. Shkuru Afshar (talk) 20:21, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Okay, done. Vis M (talk) 16:35, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

File:Proposed Route of Dhaka Metro Rail (2011) (bn).svg

Hello! The file had been already renamed before the original requester User:Mehediabedin pointed out it should be “Proposed Routes...”. Can this be fixed? Also File:Proposed Route of Dhaka Metro Rail (2011) (en).svg has the same issue. — Meghmollar2017Talk08:20, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

  Done. Best regards. Vis M (talk) 15:26, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
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