User:Peteforsyth

Pete Forsyth as photographed by Chris Ellis in 2013

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en-N This user has a native understanding of English. fr-1 Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances de base en français.
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I am primarily an English language Wikipedian, but this site is very important to the well-being of Wikipedia, and to many other sites -- not all of them under the Wikimedia umbrella. So I try to pitch in, in the following ways:

• Uploading my own photos and graphics: I don't do as much of this as I'd like, but I'm proud of a few of the things I've created.
• Fine-tuning existing images: I especially like to reduce moire where possible, and move in-image text into descriptions (for instance, using the {{Legend}} template).
• Categorization: I use tools like HotCat, Cat-a-lot, and AWB to try to help organize things better here. I am learning to use tools to increase my efficiency.
• File deletion: I try to participate in review of files for deletion, to help ensure that the files on Commons are in compliance with our licensing standards, and that they are truly useful to the Wikimedia mission.
• Learning about Commons: I am always trying to think about how this site can work better: make better use of volunteers' time, permit new contributors to get involved productively with a minimum of fuss, reduce the number of high-stress debates, etc.

I keep notes (see below) about some of the interesting things I encounter here.

Please see my profile on English Wikipedia for more info!

Copyright note

My parents, Martha and Dick Forsyth, are both deceased, and I have inherited their intellectual property. As of November 2023 I am beginning to upload some of their photographs under a free license. If there is a good way to me to assert this ownership and licensing decision in a template, I'm open to suggestion.

Images I've contributed

Here are just a few of the images I've uploaded here:

• 
  Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham, with the beginnings of the wiki idea
• 
  Caruthers Bridge under construction in Portland, Oregon
• 
  People working on Wikipedia in Oakland, California
• 
  Yaquina Bay Bridge in Oregon
• 
  Concheros dancers in San Francisco
• 
  Myles Standish monument in Duxbury, Massachusetts
• 
  Fly fishing on the South Santiam
• 
  Pete French Round Barn
• 
  Alvord Desert sunset
• 
  Little Blitzen Gorge on Steens Mt.
• 
  Little Blitzen Gorge on Steens Mt.
• 
  The Timbers Army
• 
  Rokia Traoré

• wikipedia:Image:Oregon State Senate Districts.png
• wikipedia:Image:Portland or senate districts.png
• wikipedia:Image:Willamette valley senate districts.png

Pix of me

These are some of my favorites. There are others here.

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  by Lane Hartwell, 2009
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  by Ellis Christopher, 2012
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  On the Elblag-Ostruda canal with Aktron
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  with the Public Policy Initiative team
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  Presenting at the Wikipedia in Higher Education Summit
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Projects

• /On scope and deletion
• /PotD
• Commons:National Archives and Records Administration/Categorize/US National Archives series: Photographic Report of the Committee Investigating Oregon Coastal Areas, compiled 12/1938 - 12/1938
• Category:Monumentos Nacionais in Portugal by name, Category:Pending classification monuments in Portugal by name, and Category:World Heritage Sites by name, Category:Monuments historiques in France by name -- fix templates
• My best portraits

Files needing license review:

• Flickr review
• Picasa review
• Panoramio review
• files from other sources

Interesting stuff

We don't need no civil war, hey, hey hey....

Category:Inside Wikimedia

A tool to check what pages use an image.

• Template:Consent
• model release form, part of User:MalcolmGin/BodyMorphologyProject
• User:Kelly Martin/Photographs of identifiable people User:Raymond/Erotic Template:Personality rights
• user:Toglenn - prof photographer, portraits
• Category:Ingeborg Bernhard, artist has uploaded many pieces, but no English or German bio. Who is she?
• (not safe for work) why?
• professional photographer asserting insane level of copyright: Commons:Deletion requests/File:JuliaSuzuki.jpg
• The challenges of law and common sense. This was a photo of a little girl proudly displaying a snow dinosaur sculpture. While the uploader had some plausible speculation, the lack of definite proof of the artist's intent to use a specific free license resulted in the file's deletion. Commons:Deletion requests/File:Snowdino CP girl jeh.jpg
• Should have been a quick decision. Commons:Deletion requests/File:IPad 2 White Front.jpg
• Challenges of copyright law, photographer's copyright and muralist's, various nations' laws: File:BerlinAquarium (8).jpg
• What to do when a copyright holder mistakenly asserts CC-BY-SA then changes mind when realizing the consequences. Commons:Deletion requests/File:Glamourina1.jpg. See also Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Michael G. Halle and Tonya Harding.jpg.
• Model rights are not considered as part of deletion discussion: (image not safe for work)
• Faithful reproduction of naturally occurring shapes -- where is the copyright line? Commons:Deletion requests/File:Shark Tail shapes.svg
• Deletion requests that receive few votes sometimes just wither away: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Maggie May.jpg‎, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Tammy Dukes.jpg‎, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Basta.jpg
• Tom Frost has authorized User:Cullen328 to apply CC-BY-SA to any of his photos.
• So much discussion, so little reaching out to a responsive photographer: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Atlantic City, aerial view.jpg
• Suitability of photos of graffiti: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Street Art - I Hate You.jpg
• I wonder, are there principles that could turn the many cases like this into a speedy delete process? (Personal photo of unfamous person; little if any useful description or metadata; not used on any WM projects; uploaded many months ago)
• An illustration of the challenges of interlinguistic and highly technical collaboration: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Kit shorts APF 11h.png
• Commons:Deletion requests/File:Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.png
• Some crafty self-promo: Template:Potd/2011-12-20
• A number of individual nominations for deletion should just be a batch: Commons:Deletion requests/File:MATHEUS RAULINO.jpg
• Alan Light has taken many photos over the years and put them on Flickr under CC-BY: [1] Interesting comments on his Flickr profile. This one is on Blair Underwood's WP article
• Photos by Jack Mitchell (similar to above)
• Sometimes discussions get so ugly that it's hard to find a single worthwhile comment: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Voidokilia beach location map.png (though the closure in this instance is very helpful)
• Commons:Deletion requests/File:Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.png
• I think it's not so simple: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Teen boy's Nipple.jpg
• Private individual requests deletion based on personality rights: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Karen Stollznow 2.jpg. See also Commons:Deletion requests/File:Karen Stollznow 1.jpg
• SF mint
• Request from admins for improved search infrastructure
• Deletion nomination issued to make a point, based on Gender Gap list discussion: Commons:Deletion requests/Files of Austin photoguy50
• Canadian gov't photos licensed CC? Look into this. [2]
• Personality rights/people in private places (no nudity): Commons:Deletion requests/File:Sauna (455500368).jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Black and White Striped Bondage.jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Portrait Michael Paraire.tif
• Maps and copyright: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Zenith Plateau Flight 370 Pings 002.png
• {{PD-old-auto-1923}}
• Does Wikimedia get special treatment? Installment #327: Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by GYoung (WMF)
• Batch rename (Debian derivatives): rename -v 's/input/output/' *.png

bash scripts for converting and renaming files

Examples for images from "Northern Seaside Resorts" article

#!/bin/bash
for j in 2 1 0
do
 convert victor1$j.gif v1$j.pbm
done

and

#!/bin/bash
for j in 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
do
 cjb2 -clean v0$j.pbm v0$j.djvu
done


Stretching limits of TOO?

• File:International Society for Music Education (ISME).jpg

Useful stuff to investigate

• Batch deletion tool: Help:VisualFileChange.js