User talk:BMacZero/Archive 1

File:Rare-earths.gif (SVG)

If the "derivative work" option doesn't work for you, you might upload your SVG file as "own work". We can fix it later. I will have a look at your file and I will help you. -- Common Good (talk) 20:38, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

File:Rareearth production.svg

Thank you for creating and uploading the SVG version. I just

• added the {{Derived from}} template
• changed the license to {{PD-retouched-user}}
• added some catergories.

Regarding the rendering of the text you might ask for improvement at Commons:Graphics village pump. -- Common Good (talk) 19:08, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, 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!

Affected:

• File:Korean War Memorial Soldier.JPG

Yours sincerely, Stefan4 (talk) 11:05, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Gymnastics icons

Hi there! It seems like we both started working on these at the same time. It's my personal opinion that these files should all be the same size (most of the PNGs are 56x56), just so that they are as clean as possible. Unless you have any objections, I'll edit the ones you've already done at some point in order to reduce the size. If you want to do this yourself, go ahead!

The one file that we now have two of I'll nominate for deletion. Again, if you have an objection, feel free to say, but there's no reason to keep both!

I've also removed all the 1s from your filenames, as this is due to the uploader bug and I assume you intend them to be direct replacements. NikNaks _{talk - gallery - wikipedia} 16:50, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a lotǃ That all sounds fine to me. I am done for now, so you can work on the rest without conflict. I will fix the sizes of the ones I uploaded, though. Would 30x30px be better, since that seems to be the size they're actually used at? BMacZero (talk) 16:56, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Yes, you're right. 30x30 seems like a much better choice. I wonder why they were at such strange sizes before? Anyway, thanks for your understanding! Hopefully we'll have a full set and we can clear them off the most used rasters list.  :) NikNaks _{talk - gallery - wikipedia} 18:16, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

BMacZeroBot and other people's uploads

I've uploaded lots of images that won't matter to this request (they're in Category:Other people's pictures by User:Nyttend, which I intentionally didn't list) that don't have certain dates, simply because the sources don't have certain dates. Of course, tons of other people's uploads don't have certain dates, whether for the same reason or because the uploaders didn't record photo dates. If possible, would we be able to run with EXIF information? And if that's not available for an image, would the bot be able to handle partial dates? I wonder about files like File:332-334 Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton.jpg (year only), File:1938 Lincoln County Courthouse.jpg (year and month), in particular; I know that totally dateless images like File:Beaver Creek Bridge in Wind Cave National Park.jpg can rely on the {{Unknown}} template, and non-number dates can rely on {{Other date}} (I've uploaded some images with nothing but "Fall 1980", and those got the other date template), but outright partial dates I don't know. Nyttend (talk) 13:00, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Thanks for finding those templates. I'm currently set up to use the "Date Time Original" metadata field if there is nothing in "date=" at all - all of your photos have it, but the files you linked don't, and the metadata date they do have seems to be the date they were digitized. I'll work on integrating the Other Date template so we can handle differently-formatted dates, though we will probably still need the category to flag completely non-readable dates. BMacZero (talk) 16:48, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

"Other date" seems to be targeted toward displaying things like ranges, and/or, before/after, rather than less precise dates. I think what we want for cases where we only have month/year or just year is {{Taken in}}. We can use {{other date|?}} for totally missing dates. BMacZero (talk) 20:52, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

User:BMacZeroBot

Congratulations! It has bot status now. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:56, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Great! I will start the run tonight BMacZero (talk) 16:14, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Congrats. For some reason, the edits aren't being flagged as coming from a bot. The account has bot status, so I'm not sure why that's happening. - Eureka Lott 13:40, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

@EurekaLott: Thank you. Looks like I wasn't passing the bot URL parameter to the API correctly. I'll change that. BMacZero (talk) 15:43, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the help! I appreciate that you had the bot look for discrepancies between dates and categories; I never would have caught this obvious date error otherwise. Nyttend (talk) 12:11, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

File:First Day 50 Years of Computer Technology Stamp.jpeg

File:First Day 50 Years of Computer Technology Stamp.jpeg 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!

Maliepa (talk) 00:41, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, 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!

Affected:

• File:1990년대 초기 서울소방 활동 사진스캔0008.jpg

And also:

• File:1990년대 초기 서울소방 활동 사진스캔0038.jpg

Yours sincerely, Stefan4 (talk) 14:12, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

File:Katedra trondheim 1680.jpg

Hi, thanks for the perspective correction of the file. I think its still a bit too expanded, the rose window looks like an oval. Could you please try it again? Kind regards --Sjokolade (talk) 04:45, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

@Sjokolade. Good catch, I figured the window was supposed to be an oval. Fixed the aspect ratio. BMacZero (talk) 05:01, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you --Sjokolade (talk) 08:04, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

User:BMacZeroBot

Congratulations! Task 2 was approved. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:50, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Wrong categories

Please see here. "Moray" is a type of fish, and their category would be "Morays", except that we categorise by binomial classifications, e.g. "Muraenidae X". On the other hand, "Moray" is a council area of Scotland. Can you try to ensure this doesn't happen again? Cheers. Rodhullandemu (talk) 19:48, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

@Rodhullandemu: : I'm sure we'll run into other issues like that, which is the reason I'm adding Template:Check categories to the files. I can fix that specific category's mapping - but I'll have to do it when I get home this evening. Thanks for the report! BMacZero (talk) 20:54, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Heads-up

Hi, as an active colleague on upload projects, I thought I'd drop you a personal heads-up for my request for adminship, today being the last day for views. RFA's tend to only have a small proportion of the community taking part, so it can be difficult to judge if this is representative. --Fæ (talk) 13:20, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Franklin Landers House

The photo of the Franklin Landers home does not show the front of the house. It is just the east side of the house. The front of the house faces south. I know this as I've owned the property for 20+ years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.175.60.40 (talk • contribs)

@166.175.60.40: : Are you talking about this image: File:Franklin_Landers-Black_and_Adams_Farmhouse.jpg? I don't know anything about that image, I only adjusted some formatting on the page at the request of the author. You might want to ask @Nyttend: , who is the original photographer, about it - or, since this is a Wiki, you can simply change the text yourself when you see an error (see Commons:Welcome). I pinged Nyttend for you. BMacZero (talk) 20:22, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Changed; thanks for the note. Nyttend (talk) 00:13, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Category:Language templates with no text displayed

Hi BMacZero. A few dozens of your bot's uploads are in this maintenance category. Could you please fix them? --Leyo 12:56, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, seems like some badly-formatted metadata. Will fix it. BMacZero (talk) 15:36, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks....

.. For participating in the caption challange, Clever thinking! ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 19:36, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Tagging copyvios

Hi, When tagging copyright violations, please inform the uploader. This is best done using the gagdet. See in your preferences. Regards, Yann (talk) 12:54, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Okay, I'll check that out next time. Thanks! BMacZero (talk) 17:52, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

File(s) appeared in Category:Pages using Information template with incorrect parameter

Hello BMacZero, it seems that your latest changes or uploads of the file(s) Royal Air Force Marine Branch broke a template. This assumption has been made because the file(s) appeared in the maintenance Category:Pages using Information template with incorrect parameter. To fix this issue please check this category for further information. If the file(s) is/are not contained in the maintenance category anymore someone else already did the work and you can ignore this message. Thank you for your cooperation. --ArndBot (talk) 16:16, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Commons:Categories for discussion/2013/03/Category:Pflanzen und Tiere

Hi BMacZero. Thank you for closing this request. However, there are two more categories contained in there. --Leyo 10:15, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

@Leyo: Thanks, I moved them. BMacZero (talk) 18:13, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

File:NSRW Nikola Tesla.jpg

File:NSRW Nikola Tesla.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!

Zoupan (talk) 20:05, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Bot seems to have added the wrong century of birth

I noticed a category with a creator born circa 1550 {{other date|ca|1550}}. This bot added Category:15th-century births. It seems to me that it should have added Category:16th-century births, since 1550 is in the 16th century --Robert.Allen (talk) 08:30, 3 February 2016 (UTC).

@Robert.Allen: Thanks for the report! I fixed the bot. BMacZero (talk) 16:34, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Additional bot request

Last year, you helped me with a big bot project, replacing dates with {{Taken on}} in more than thirteen thousand image description pages, as typified here. Could you request permission for a more limited project that doesn't affect my images? Occasionally I'll see the phrase "Taken on [date]" in the date field of description pages: sometimes "Taken on 4 February 2016", sometimes "Taken on February 4, 2016", sometimes even "Taken on 2016-02-04", and in the case of one formerly active photographer, "Taken on 2016-02-04". I was wondering if you could request permission to have your bot replace all of these phrases with {{Taken on}}? I didn't request mass bot-tagging of dates in this section for anyone other than myself, since of course lots of files aren't photographs in the first place and thus shouldn't have this template, but when an uploader is already using the phrase "Taken on [date]", we'll have almost no mistakes, and any exceptions will have already been there before the bot came through. Nyttend (talk) 14:34, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

@Nyttend: I think that's a good idea. I'd be happy to do if needed, but I think there may be other bots already making similar substitutions (like the ones listed at Commons:Template i18n/bot replacements) that would be better suited to add this to what they're already doing. I know that @Schlurcher: has one, but there might be others. Maybe we should raise this at COM:BWR and see if anyone can pick it up easily. BMacZero (talk) 18:15, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Sounds good. I didn't know that there might be any better-suited bots than yours; I'll be happy to leave a note there unless Schlurcher is able/willing to help. Nyttend (talk) 18:18, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Yeah, my bot isn't capable (yet) of translating all the different date formats people use into YYYY-MM-DD - when I did your photos, I made some assumptions, including that they would all be in YYYY-MM-DD format already (if I remember correctly). Probably not too much more work to add that, but there are other bots that already have it. BMacZero (talk) 18:28, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

File:FMIB 34806 Shell of the Eastern Oyster, Ostrea virginiana.jpeg

File:FMIB 34806 Shell of the Eastern Oyster, Ostrea virginiana.jpeg 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!

Kopiersperre (talk) 11:33, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, 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!

PC78 (talk) 07:51, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Text accompanying Frank La Roche images

A large number of photographs by Frank La Roche uploaded 9 June 2016 contain as part of their description, "Steamboat NORTH PACIFIC (left) and unidentified steamboat at the Oregon Improvement Company and Union Pacific dock", which may be an accurate description of some one photo, but is misleading for many others (especially ones that show other boats!). I'm inclined to delete this text, but there may be some documentary purpose (unknown to me) to keep it. I believe you did the upload; do you have some intention here? - Jmabel ! talk 02:07, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

@Jmabel: All the text on those files just comes directly from the source pages at the University of Washington. It looks like it got copied around on their end accidentally when they were copying the "Prospectus of the Lake Union Improvement Company" bit to appropriate files. I'd say it's a mistake and should be removed (except from the image it actually applies to, of course; I think it's this one. Fortunately it only seems to affect about 22 files. BMacZero (talk) 06:06, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. Done. - Jmabel ! talk 15:38, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

A ship ID

I was wondering about your identification of the ship in File:Four-masted bark ITALIA at anchor at dock, Seattle, Washington, ca 1904 (HESTER 18).jpeg. Yes, it is a 4-masted barque called Italia, but the date of the image is described as c. 1904 and the one you linked seems to have been given that name later, in 1911. (Actually, I have serious doubt about the image being Seattle c. 1904, but that's another matter.) Any thoughts would be welcome. - Jmabel ! talk 03:17, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Yes, I would agree that the identification is sketchy. On closer inspection, it doesn't seem to have enough topsails, either. What are your thoughts on the date? BMacZero (talk) 05:04, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

More inclined to believe the date than the location. I've looked at a lot of old photos of Seattle; that doesn't look like Seattle. Of course, it's possible that both the date & location are wrong. Maybe the ship ID is right & if we can trace where Hester worked when we can work it out: a city that looks like that, at a date where this ship would have been the Italia. But for now, I'd be more inclined to remove it from that category and just put a note about the doubts (and a reference to info about that ship; I agree it might be that ship). - Jmabel ! talk 14:58, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

I see I had made a note earlier that it sure looks like the same ship shown at http://www.themodelshipwright.com/high-resolution-ship-plans/sailing-vessels/italian-four-masted-barque-erasmo-erasmus/ (first photo), identified there as Italian ship Erasmo. That was built 1903, which would be congruent with the date given here. However, text on that page suggests that ship was more likely in the Southern Pacific than the Northern. - Jmabel ! talk 23:04, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Those do look pretty similar, but Italia has one yard second from the top instead of two, and more notably the anchor port (?) looks to be a lot closer to the waterline. BMacZero (talk) 16:05, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

For what it's worth, though, my friend Wendi says that according to the Seattle Daily Times a ship called Italia was in Port Townsend, Port Gamble, and Port Blakeley (all on Puget Sound) in August and October of 1904. I just have a feeling the caption & the photo don't correspond. - Jmabel ! talk 23:13, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

I'm back to thinking Seattle after all. The buildings at left in this photo seem to be the same ones at right in File:Union Pacific Dock at the foot of Main St, Seattle, Washington, June 6, 1891 (LAROCHE 179).jpeg, and the latter is definitely what it claims to be. - Jmabel ! talk

File:Cechy konstrukcyjne samolotow.svg

Hi. :) Since you were so nice to make the corrections, I thought I'd ask you about one more thing I missed in this file. Second row, left column, the second word should be: KLASYCZNY. If you have some time to take care of this, it would be great. Thank you in advance. Łukasz Wolf Golowanow (talk) 17:03, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

@Airwolf: Thanks, I fixed it. BMacZero (talk) 21:49, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Łukasz Wolf Golowanow (talk) 22:06, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

"Does the bot know something?"

In File:Timber for the construction of the Mechanics Pavilion at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, Seattle, Washington, ca 1893 (LAROCHE 210).jpeg, where your bot added Category:Road-rail vehicles: is this based on something I'm not seeing, or is the bot just confused? - Jmabel ! talk 00:31, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

@Jmabel: It seems to have come from the tag 'Railroad cars--Washington (State)--Seattle', which got interpreted as Category:Railroad cars which is a redirect to Category:Road-rail vehicles. That is probably not a good redirect. Should it redirect to Category:Rail vehicles instead? BMacZero (talk) 01:05, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

I would think so. - Jmabel ! talk 01:10, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Einladung zur Teilnahme an Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in Deutschland

Hallo BMacZero!

Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du bei Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 teilgenommen hast.

Auch in diesem Jahr beteiligt sich Deutschland wieder am internationalen Fotowettbewerb rund um Bau- und Kulturdenkmale. Bisher wurden bereits mehr als 18.000 Bilder hochgeladen – und wir würden uns sehr über weitere Bilder von Dir freuen. Noch bis zum 30. September 2016 kannst Du Deine Bilder hochladen. Alles Wissenswerte erfährst du auf der Mitmach-Seite.

Außerdem möchten wir Dich einladen, ab 12. September 2016 an der Vorjury teilzunehmen. Diese sichtet und bewertet die hochgeladenen Bilder und ermittelt so gemeinsam mit der Jury, die im Oktober tagt, die Sieger von Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in Deutschland.

Für Rückfragen steht das Organisationsteam gerne auf der Support-Seite oder unter infowikilovesmonuments.de zur Verfügung.

Viel Spaß und Erfolg wünscht im Namen des Organisationsteams
(DCB, 18:46, 8 September 2016 (UTC))

Gothic revival architecture

Followup to your participation at Commons:Categories for discussion/2012/01/Revival architectural styles: I've gradually been moving individual "revival" categories to "Revival", but there are so many of them — over 1,400 in total! I've just now given up on the manual moves and made a massive CommonsDelinker request, and SteinsplitterBot has already begun moving the categories and their contents. At the rate things are going, we may see everything moved before a significant amount of time has passed, but then of course we'll have to start on the Romanesque revival categories. Thanks for your help in the discussion and followup! Nyttend (talk) 14:37, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Great, thanks! I am now set up to do searches and request large batches of these, too - hopefully we can finally burn through them (see my comment on the CfD page).

Clarence William Vernon

I just came across your category for Clarence William Vernon. Can you please provide me with a citation for this? I am unaware of this individual and his relation to Cape Breton. Do you know the circumstances of his work there?Verne Equinox (talk) 02:54, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

@Verne Equinox: The author is just listed as "C. W. Vernon" at the source, and it's possible I mis-identified the person this was supposed to refer to. Maybe it's more likely that is is [Charles William Vernon https://viaf.org/viaf/68820651/#Vernon,_Charles_William], though there's not much information available about him, either. Does that seem more likely to you? If so, I'll fix it up. BMacZero (talk) 04:22, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

@BMacZero: Charles seems to be the correct name. See this bio of him which mentions the book about Cape Breton. Based on this article, I would have to question whether Vernon was also the photographer.Verne Equinox (talk) 03:59, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

@Verne Equinox: That is probably true. I located a PDF of the book, but no illustrators were named that I could see, though some are signed. I've gone ahead and changed the authors of those images to "unknown", and moved all the images from Category:Clarence William Vernon to Category:Cape Breton Canada at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: a Treatise of Natural Resources and Development. BMacZero (talk) 07:36, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I added a few other images from this work some years ago. I'll add them to the new category soon.Verne Equinox (talk) 03:00, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Category:Categories with On Wikidata template that doesn't match Creator wikidata parameter

Are you still using Category:Categories with On Wikidata template that doesn't match Creator wikidata parameter, Category:Categories with On Wikidata that doesn't match Creator wikidata parameter or Category:Creator templates with non-machine-readable birth/death dates? --Jarekt (talk) 19:33, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

@Jarekt: I'm not actively running that bot and don't have any plans to, so I suppose not. BMacZero (talk) 05:23, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks --Jarekt (talk) 12:09, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Your VFC installation method is deprecated

Hello BMacZero, we are aware that using the old installation method of VFC (via common.js, which you are using) may not work reliably anymore and can break other scripts as well. A detailed explanation can be found here. Important: To prevent problems please remove the old VFC installation code from your common.js and instead enable the VFC gadget in your preferences. Thanks! --VFC devs (q) 16:23, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Category:Transport_of_AH-64_Apache_by_Boeing_C-17_Globemaster_III

Transport of AH-64 Apache by Boeing C-17 Globemaster III has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Sanandros (talk) 22:12, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

File:Ashraf2.JPG

File:Ashraf2.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!

Mbazri (talk) 13:05, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Odd photographer credit

File:Plymouth Congregational Church interior, Seattle, February 22 1912 (WARNER 196).jpeg was uploaded with photographer={{Creator:Arthur Churchill Warner}}, but says in the description, "Original photograph by Nowell and Rognon", certainly Frank Nowell and Orville J. Rognon. Not sure what was the basis for the misattribution (which I'll fix), but thought you might want to look into it. - Jmabel ! talk 03:45, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

@Jmabel: The source data lists Warner as the Photographer, and the bot just trusts that data. Hopefully there aren't too many of these; I don't know that I can detect them automatically unless they always say "Original Photograph by X" at the end of the description or something. I know they do name other photographers in that field in at least some cases. Thanks for the catch! BMacZero (talk) 04:16, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I've spotted a few like this, I'll just fix them where I can spot them. - Jmabel ! talk 04:32, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Relatedly, there are about 30 images that list "Warner and Randolph" as the photographer (example). The descriptions say "Stamped on verso: Warner & Randolph". The collection page mentions that S. P. Randolph was Warner's business partner, so I imagine the "Photographer" line should still just credit Warner. Does that sound correct to you? It could also be referring to Warner's wife, but given that it's "stamped" it sounds more like a business thing to me. BMacZero (talk) 05:04, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

I don't know Warner & Randolph, so no real opinion. Frank H. Nowell, on the other hand, was kind of a big deal; I'm surprised en-wiki doesn't have an article on him. He was (among other things) the official photographer of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. - Jmabel ! talk 05:12, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

File:Crowd assembled in Occidental Square in front the Occidental Hotel for memorial service for President James A Garfield, Seattle (CURTIS 283).jpeg

File:Crowd assembled in Occidental Square in front the Occidental Hotel for memorial service for President James A Garfield, Seattle (CURTIS 283).jpeg 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!

Jmabel ! talk 19:50, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Changing "depicted place" on material from a GLAM

Are you sure https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey,_Arnold_Moses,_Photographer_May_12,_1936,_VIEW_FROM_THE_PARK._-_Block_Houses_(Nos._1_and_2),_Central_(110th_Street)_and_Morningside_Parks_(123rd_HABS_NY,31-NEYO,33-4.tif&diff=321419550&oldid=278667421 is desirable? Usually, on material from GLAMs, we try to leave their descriptions, etc., intact. - Jmabel ! talk 01:51, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

@Jmabel: - The reason I made the change was that the original page was registering New York; New York County; New York and Category:New York; New York County; New York as redlinks on Special:WantedPages; and of course, it wasn't automatically linking to en:New York City. I can definitely understand wanting to make sure none of the imported information is lost, but when we can make improvements to the pages without losing any information it seems like we should do that - this is a wiki, after all. I didn't know anything about any standard practices for these kinds of images. BMacZero (talk) 06:21, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

I certainly see your point. Perhaps we should take this to a broader forum? It seems we have two valid principles in contradiction, and I honestly don't know how they are best resolved. - Jmabel ! talk 15:43, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Sure. I started a COM:VP thread. BMacZero (talk) 16:48, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Perfect. I'll have a look next time I look in there. - Jmabel ! talk 23:26, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Asahel Curtis photos from University of Washington Library

Not that you could have been expected to have known or to have done anything about it, but those Asahel Curtis photos you uploaded from University of Washington Library were very incompetently curated by someone at the library. Some dates clearly off by years (I can tell from what buildings exist, or the state of a regrade of land), locations off by miles (e.g. a picture of the construction of the Montlake Cut misidentified as being the construction of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks), confusion of the two different Rainier breweries, not to mention things like using the original, briefly-used name of a still-extant early 20th-century building and not mentioning a different name that has now been used for over a century, etc. Worst supposedly professional curation of a set of photos I've ever seen. I've been sending the library a correction or addition on roughly one out of five of these, and even that's been with restraint on my part. - Jmabel ! talk 01:07, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

@Jmabel: That's a shame. At least you can help fix that. I stopped adding to-check categories to the images since I didn't think they were useful; I could go back through and add a check category to the ones you haven't edited yet if that would help. BMacZero (talk) 17:11, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Probably would. I've just been going through Category:Seattle rather than the to-check category, but it's an unusually slow slog because the error rate is so high. I can't really trust anything there, so I'm probably only getting through 5 to 20 a day. I'm really lucky that ex-Wikimedians Benjamin Lukoff and Rob Ketcherside (both of whom left to write books on Seattle history, and Rob went on to serve several years on the city landmarks commission) have been willing to "play backup" and confirm when I'm at all in doubt. Rob even further researched a few of these where he wasn't sure either. - Jmabel ! talk 19:16, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Category:Images from the Asahel Curtis Photo Company Photographs Collection to check is being populated with all photos from that collection that you haven't edited yet. BMacZero (talk) 03:47, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! - Jmabel ! talk 03:51, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Broken link

File:Bolcom Mills offices, lumber and shingle mills, 1540 NW 46th St, Ballard district, Seattle (CURTIS 1738).jpeg: Source link is broken. Also, it refers to being part of a panorama with something else, but I can't find the other photo. - Jmabel ! talk 04:13, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

• I think the thing about a panorama is just wrong. The panorama appears to be File:Bolcom Mills, Ballard district, Seattle (CURTIS 1740).jpeg and File:Bolcom Mills, Ballard district, Seattle (CURTIS 1739).jpeg, which I've already stitched at File:Asahel Curtis panorama of Bolcom Mills, Ballard district, Seattle (1910).jpeg. - Jmabel ! talk 04:18, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

@Jmabel: The Accession Number and Source links on that file work okay for me here. I think you're right about the panorama, it doesn't look like it matches up with any of the other Bolcom Mills images. BMacZero (talk) 17:02, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Working for me now, too, must have been a problem on the UW site. Still, what do you think we should do about the pano thing? - Jmabel ! talk 23:13, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

@Jmabel: The description (even the identifying numbers in it) is identical to the one for File:Bolcom Mills, Ballard district, Seattle (CURTIS 1740).jpeg, which clearly is a panorama, so I think the description for that file got inadvertently copied or reused for this one. Therefore the description on File:Bolcom Mills offices, lumber and shingle mills, 1540 NW 46th St, Ballard district, Seattle (CURTIS 1738).jpeg is probably just entirely wrong. BMacZero (talk) 04:47, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I've emailed them to let them know. This keeps being the highest ratio of problems I've ever had in a set like this from a GLAM. I've stopped even informing them of mere obvious typos, because I'm still sending multiple emails per day with corrections. - Jmabel ! talk 16:45, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Attributions to Frank Nowell

On images like File:Architectural rendering of the Arctic Brotherhood Building, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1908 (AYP 286).jpeg, why do we have {{Frank H. Nowell}}? Nowell was a photographer (the official photographer of the A-Y-P Exposition) and certainly did not do these architectural drawings. - Jmabel ! talk 05:00, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Again, all this data just comes straight from what the University of Washington says, and they identify Nowell as the author of that image. I guess I'll have to run back over these again and mark the ones that look like photographs of artwork for a manual author check. Hopefully I can do that tonight. BMacZero (talk) 19:05, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Forgot to ping. BMacZero (talk) 19:57, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

OK. I guess there's nothing to do easily about importing some bad data like that. Pain in the butt, though. - Jmabel ! talk 00:25, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

I hope you'll appreciate...

... these. - Jmabel ! talk 23:23, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Wow! Those are very cool. You inspired me to dig out Photoshop and see if I could make a seamless version. I might do more as I have time. Hopefully these can find homes in some articles. BMacZero (talk) 21:01, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Permission question

When I do something like this, what should I do with the permission field? Curtis's death date is not relevant. - Jmabel ! talk 19:26, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

@Jmabel: The license should be changed to whatever license applies to the corrected information. So if we knew the new, real photographer's death date, we could change the deathyear to that. I don't think we know Boyd or Braas's death dates, nor do we know which one took the photo, so I think {{PD-1923}} is the best we can do in that case. BMacZero (talk) 06:39, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable. - Jmabel ! talk 07:34, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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• File:ADO Logo.svg

Yours sincerely, Willy1018(talk) 21:37, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

File:Reich 1997 Městská krajina 3.jpg

Please do not cut off the author's work! If you need a cropped version of this image, create a derived file. Thank you for understanding.--Gampe (talk) 14:05, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

@Gampe: COM:CROP permits overwriting for minor crops such as removing borders (Commons:Media for cleanup #Unnecessary borders), but I'll leave this image alone for you. I added {{Border is intentional}} so it doesn't happen again. BMacZero (talk) 16:09, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

@BMacZero: Thanks for your information, I didn't know about this template.--Gampe (talk) 17:28, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/wastate/id/2530

Would there be any reason not to import https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/wastate/id/2530? Assuming it's OK, can you have your bot import it cleanly, as you have for others on that site? - Jmabel ! talk 05:12, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: That seems fine. I uploaded it to File:SS NORTH PACIFIC next to dock, near Port Townsend, ca 1898-1899 ( 2530).jpeg, though note that I requested a rename to File:SS NORTH PACIFIC next to dock, near Port Townsend, ca 1898-1899 (WASTATE 2530).jpeg due to a small uploading snafu. I'll run through the rest of that collection when I can, too. BMacZero (talk) 00:21, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! - Jmabel ! talk 00:57, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

The file was renamed to File:SS NORTH PACIFIC next to dock, near Port Townsend, ca 1898-1899 (WASTATE 2530).jpg. BMacZero (talk) 19:08, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

I don't thing "jpg" vs. "jpeg" is a big deal, but for what it's worth I just clicked to go ahead on the template that you added, didn't pick a name myself. - Jmabel ! talk 20:58, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

And I see you wrote "jpeg" in the template. No idea what changed that, but it wasn't anything I did deliberately. - Jmabel ! talk 20:59, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Oh, I didn't realize you were the one who moved it, I just wanted to make sure you knew it had been moved. The extension doesn't matter to me; must be something in the software that wants to prefer .jpg. BMacZero (talk) 22:46, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: As a quick FYI, I've started uploading the public domain media from the rest of that collection to Category:Images from the Washington State Localities Photographs Collection. BMacZero (talk) 06:18, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks; I'm still way backlogged, though. - Jmabel ! talk 16:14, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Bot misclassifications

It put the following in Category:Auburn, New York even though they're clearly in Washington State:

• File:Schoolteacher Mrs Pauley and her pupils outside of the one room school at Stuck, Washington, ca 1885 (WASTATE 439).jpeg
• File:School in Slaughter, Washington, ca 1888 (WASTATE 844).jpeg
• File:RC Portway general store, Slaughter, Washington, 1886 (WASTATE 358).jpeg

-- DanielPenfield (talk) 13:26, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

@DanielPenfield: Thanks, I'll correct the mapping for that city. BMacZero (talk) 15:04, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

"Slaughter" is the old name of Auburn, Washington. - Jmabel ! talk 16:22, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Wrong "Indian"

File:Angeline, daughter of Chief Seattle, probably Seattle, Washington, ca 1890 (BOYD+BRAAS 38).jpg ended up in Category:Women of India presumably because the bot drew a wrong conclusion from "Indian". Bet that's not the only one. - Jmabel ! talk 23:47, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Thanks; I corrected that mapping. I'll look through the mappings and see if I can track down any similar cases. This might be slightly complicated by the fact that I did a non-UWash upload recently that had lots of pictures of India in it :D. BMacZero (talk) 02:31, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

NPGallery

Hey BMacZero, just wondering if you've made any headway on Commons:Batch uploading/NPGallery. Looks like you might have your hands full with Commons:Batch uploading/University of Washington Digital Collections, so no rush. Cheers, --Animalparty (talk) 22:25, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

@Animalparty: Thanks for the reminder! I did start looking at it and writing some code a few months ago. It's a bit tricky to collect all of the metadata because there isn't an API or an easy, ordered URL format, so I have to write some new code to do that. I actually had a chance to work on that just now, so now I have the bot combing the site and gathering up all the image IDs. That should be done tomorrow if it doesn't go wrong.

I'm also still not too sure about how to automatically verify the public domain status of media. I posted a comment just now on the Batch Uploading page about it. BMacZero (talk) 04:31, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Odd bot edit

I'm guessing that you know what's going on here, but I don't. I see you rolled back some similar edits. Is this just an error, or should it be left in place? (There were a few more like this in my watchlist.) - Jmabel ! talk 20:51, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: That's an error that can be undone. I added some code handle cases where identical duplicates exist at the UWash site (e.g. this correct edit), but in this case it goofed up because I had added some stuff to those files manually. I added a check so it won't happen any more. BMacZero (talk) 00:29, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! - Jmabel ! talk 00:31, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

File tagging File:Northern view of 2nd Ave from Washington St, Seattle, Washington, April 11, 1930 (LEE 273).jpg

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Krd 14:28, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

{{PD-US-not-renewed}} might apply, but I'm not sure how you go about proving that. Added to Category:Undelete in 2025 Category:Undelete in 2026 just in case. @Jmabel: @Krd: . BMacZero (talk) 14:42, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Arbutus

Any idea why your bot put a bunch of files like File:Fisher Flouring Mills Co, Seattle, Washington, ca 1911 (INDOCC 322).jpg in Category:Arbutus? I don't see any connection either in the photos or in the descriptions. - Jmabel ! talk 03:46, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Definitely a mistake; it looks like this collection adds some extra line returns in the middle of its tags that made the bot interpret them incorrectly. I'll fix that bug and strip the categories where this happened. Thanks for your help! BMacZero (talk) 16:05, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Browsing a few of those, I saw File:Advertising photo for Fisher's Blend Flour, Seattle, 1915 (CURTIS 128).jpeg, which piqued my curiosity. I scanned a 1928 ad for Fisher's Blend that appears to be a caricature of Colman saying "Blend's Mah Friend". Hopefully, one of these days I'll have the time to upload all that stuff.RadioKAOS (talk) 02:33, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Adding files to wrong category

Hello, I have seen "Category:Log‎; 23:40 ‎BMacZeroBot overleg bijdragen‎ File:Packard logging trucks, Washington, 1920 (INDOCC 243).jpg added to category". The Category:Log is a disambiguation category and should not contain images. Could you please change your bot so that it does not do this anymore? Regards. Wouter (talk) 06:57, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I removed that category mapping. Thanks for the help! BMacZero (talk) 14:32, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Pace of Seattle-related uploads

I feel like I'm drinking from a firehose! - Jmabel ! talk 23:58, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Haha. Yeah, I noticed that I had missed about half of the Peiser uploads when I did that collection a while back, so I pointed the bot back over there. How do you track them?

You are awesome, by the way. BMacZero (talk) 01:15, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks.

I try to track anything that goes in Category:Seattle or Category:Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, because that pretty much guarantees that they are undercategorized. Traditionally, I move well beyond those to other Pacific Northwest categories, but for about 7-8 months you've been dumping enough into just those to keep me more than busy. (Not that this is all I do on Commons, but it's one of the things I've taken on.) I think you've uploaded somewhere between 2000 & 3000 to these categories, and (except for recent uploads) I've long since gotten the low-hanging fruit, so most of the remaining older ones require some research.

In the process of this, I've been able to point http://pcad.lib.washington.edu at images of about 10 buildings for which they previously had none, and I've given several hundred corrections to the UW Libraries, though I've noticed that, while they've expressed thanks a few times and made some of these changes, they've ignored about half of my corrections; I've ended up with an awful lot of descriptions that say things that begin "Despite the University of Washington Libraries reference to …" etc. - Jmabel ! talk 02:04, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Thought you might appreciate...

... what I've done with File:1st Ave looking north from Cherry St, Seattle, ca 1906 (WARNER 640).jpeg. - Jmabel ! talk 23:22, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: The density of information in that picture is awesome! – BMacZero (🗩) 23:14, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Isn't it, though? And there aren't a ton of photos of those buildings on the west side of First between Cherry and Columbia, so this is great to have. - 03:00, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

& since you've been following this work, check out the history of the one I've retitled as File:Seattle City Light Yesler Substation, 7th Ave and Yesler Way, Seattle, 1919 (CURTIS 493).jpg. About the only things the UW librarian got right are that the building was somewhere on Yesler Way & had something to do with electricity. - Jmabel ! talk 06:10, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

User:BMacZeroBot

Congratulations! Task 6 was approved. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:56, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

File:Winterfest in Denali (d09c5a23-b358-4e1f-80fe-2bf12d2dc29d).jpg

File:Winterfest in Denali (d09c5a23-b358-4e1f-80fe-2bf12d2dc29d).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!

Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:47, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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Yours sincerely, – BMacZero (🗩) 22:22, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

File:Mono Lake (e87bda66f3b947a99db8da3086442e5a).jpg

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ProfessorX (talk) 09:32, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

File:A group enjoying lunch. (a4b2a2a95f4547cf9d2a5e1d2f311df2).tif

Hi. Obviously this file is wrong named. Regards. --Ganímedes (talk) 13:58, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

SVG version

Would you be able to make an SVG version of this map please? [1]. Thanks. Floathreenn (talk) 01:06, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

@Floathreen: Sure, easy enough: File:December 1901 Darwiish territory.svg – BMacZero (🗩) 05:14, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. Btw, the previous map had some mistakes. I corrected them on this PNG [2]. I suggest deleting the old ".gif" file, and updating the new SVG as well. Thanks. Floathreenn (talk) 14:55, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

File:Mono Lake (af5fa23a515e41c3bb7aeb0d4e94cea7).jpg

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ProfessorX (talk) 18:18, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Bot edits

Hi, something went wrong with your bot, see here. I fixed a dozen. Jcb (talk) 18:22, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

@Jcb: Ack, good catch. Bug fixed, and I'll make sure they're all fixed. – BMacZero (🗩) 05:34, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Image I could really use

https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/seattle/id/4422

I know you have things set up to scrape that site, and the picture is old enough to certainly be public domain. Could you grab it for me? Need it for en:List of structures on Elliott_Bay#Broad Street to Magnolia. Looks like the resolution of the full-res version is not bad. - Jmabel ! talk 00:29, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Sure: File:Businesses on waterfront including Union Oil Company of California and Pacific Mildcure Company, ca 1917-ca 1920 (SEATTLE 4422).jpg. Let me know if you need any other particular images from there now; I'll do that whole collection at some point soon (maybe to your chagrin). – BMacZero (🗩) 05:46, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks so much! - Jmabel ! talk 16:06, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Question: their site let you zoom a bit further than this. Is it letting you go past 1-1, or is the underlying image actually higher-resolution? - Jmabel ! talk 16:12, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: The UWash site does appear to let you go past 1-1 (you can see that the "Property of Special Collections" label gets fuzzy). The bot asks for the image at 100% zoom. – BMacZero (🗩) 16:23, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Mislabeled photo

Hi BMacZero, A portrait you uploaded in the John Barrymore content section is erroneously labeled to his 1927 film "Beloved Rogue". The photo is from his sister, Ethel Barrymore's film, "Our Mrs. McChesney" 1918. It's Lucille Lee Stewart, Wilfred Lytell and Ethel Barrymore in the photo.

Our Mrs. McChesney

Koplimek (talk) 21:26, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

@Koplimek: Thanks for the info! Please feel free to change the information and request a rename. I uploaded these images from a University of Washington database, so I don't know that much about the subject matter myself. If you like, you can also contact the university and tell them that their data for this image is wrong - Jmabel has mentioned that they are responsive to corrections. – BMacZero (🗩) 04:22, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

(their email is photos@uw.edu). – BMacZero (🗩) 04:24, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

"Responsive" as in it might take them months, but they usually do eventually make the correction. - Jmabel ! talk 04:28, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

I actually wrote the Univ/Washington(Sayre Collection) years ago on the labeling of this photo and yes they changed/corrected it. But they did an upgrade of the website, the version we have now, and for some reason the information or caption was back to the Beloved Rogue info.

Thanks! Koplimek (talk) 20:49, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Category:Photographs taken on 1033-05-01

File:Neil Moore and Man (72c4300a-a87c-43a6-a7dd-f713db890e0a).tif doesn't seem like it was taken in 1033. Everything from Category:May 1033 seems off just a bit. =-) Ricky81682 (talk) 05:03, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

@Ricky81682: Hah! I'll assume that was supposed to be 1933 and fix it up. Thanks. – BMacZero (🗩) 05:08, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Sleuthing

Check File:Chauncey Wright's Cafe, ca 1913 (SEATTLE 47).jpg for some nice sleuthing, if I say so myself. - Jmabel ! talk 20:38, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Wow, that is a nice find. You can just barely see the signs in the Occidental image. It's cool that we have those two different perspectives for the same place. Almost like Street View from the early 20th century. – BMacZero (🗩) 05:55, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

It is really great that you are finding enough images that for some parts of the city it is turning into that. I would never have found this if I weren't looking for what we had on Chauncey Wright. - Jmabel ! talk 04:12, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

And this: File:Houses and former First Presbyterian Church, 3rd Ave. and Madison St. (built in 1877), ca 1901-1903 (SEATTLE 3935).jpg. They had this identified as the totally wrong church. I haven't been counting, but I believe I've had nearly 300 corrections for the UW Libraries over the course of doing this. And they do seem to be (eventually) getting the corrections onto their site. - Jmabel ! talk 21:54, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

File:Martin Van Buren Stacy residence at 3rd Ave and Marion St, probably between 1890 and 1899 (SEATTLE 430).jpg

File:Martin Van Buren Stacy residence at 3rd Ave and Marion St, probably between 1890 and 1899 (SEATTLE 430).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!

Jmabel ! talk 23:02, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Mass categorization

Please stop your bot to do mass categorization. Categories as Category:Snow and Category:Clouds are mother categories that much be as clean as possible, pictures redirected toward the proper sub-categories. Furthermore, there too many categories in the upload your bot is doing, please minimize the number of categories. Finally, give photos meaningful names because names like File:Snow (2cd19a44c67e4998a35b639c824db663).JPG are not helpful.

Pierre cb (talk) 02:42, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

@Pierre cb: The bot uses very broad categories only when it can't automatically determine more specific ones. Unfortunately, I'm not Google, so I can't automatically sort images into more the most specific subcategories if my source data doesn't have that information. Sending the images to the broad categories is the best I can do - I have to rely on editors (including myself and, I see, yourself) using COM:Cat-a-lot to diffuse the images into more specific categories, which is fortunately relatively easy.

For file names, I am limited by the quality of the descriptions and titles in the source I'm uploading from - the vast majority of them, fortunately, are fine. However, I'll see about adding a check to use the description instead of the title for the filename if the title is exceptionally short.

Thanks for the feedback and your work sorting the images. – BMacZero (🗩) 05:15, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Also, the categories are derived mostly from the 'Keywords' listed after the Description. I can block or fix particular mappings if they are truly unhelpful (such as 'paradise' to Category:Paradise), I just need specific reports. – BMacZero (🗩) 05:19, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

OK. Last comment: many of the pictures you import are almost identical (all those on Mount Rainier for instance). I do not understand the use of these mass uploads as they are not in use in Wikipedia and likely never will be. When I upload an image, it is because I need it for an article. Pierre cb (talk) 12:31, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

@Pierre cb: Less than 10% of images on Commons are used in Wikipedia (nor are they likely to be). That is by no means the only purpose of Commons. Consider, for example, Places of worship in Seattle. Most of these places or worship will never have articles; many have multiple uploaded images. Those images are of no small potential value to an historian of Seattle, especially when they reflect how something used to look (which all images will, eventually). - Jmabel ! talk 15:03, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, 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!

Affected:

• File:Korean War Memorial (2d6247c5-7bf3-4385-abbd-33372ff880b1).jpg

And also:

• File:Korean War Memorial (32d594ee-104a-48a3-a8b9-15c1aeb2d747).jpg
• File:Korean War Memorial at National Mall & Memorial Parks (220e6c44-628f-49bb-894b-824ab5ab6fdf).jpg
• File:Korean War Memorial at National Mall & Memorial Parks (5beb3fa4-c235-4eff-8365-f1353f0c4345).jpg
• File:Korean War Veterans Memorial (0ba13990-6cd6-4ad4-9d56-1ec97c80eefd).jpg
• File:Korean War Veterans Memorial (0c32b9ab-7f7b-4d32-b5ae-ee8a507e9c95).jpg
• File:Korean War Veterans Memorial (18b1b9ef-12b9-49b0-b342-4f4a3bf526f3).jpg
• File:Korean War Veterans Memorial (3bb56a09-eb21-4bdd-a271-72c214d9ebc5).jpg
• File:Korean War Veterans Memorial (4c87bbe3-a6e7-4692-97f6-8710d7a1be28).jpg
• File:Korean War Veterans Memorial (4fa95c4e-e1fe-4be9-8c3b-3ec0c440b09f).jpg
• File:Korean War Veterans Memorial (5710c321-8246-4f6e-bfb2-31b00e2079be).jpg
• File:Korean War Veterans Memorial (d6964401-1cfe-4cd3-95de-e35e5d5388f9).jpg

Yours sincerely, – BMacZero (🗩) 16:16, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

File:4th Ave regrade, 1906 (SEATTLE 1499).jpg

File:4th Ave regrade, 1906 (SEATTLE 1499).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!

Jmabel ! talk 22:09, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Over uploading

This is getting ridiculous!

Your bot keep uploading a humongous number of often repeated photos from Mount Rainer National Park and Washington, D.C. National Monuments in winter. They are crowding the snow and clouds categories uselessly. These are mother categories that must stay empty. You are giving me an inordinate amount of work to transfer them to the sub-categories Category:Snow in Washington (state), Category:Clouds in Washington (state) and Category:Snow in Washington, D.C..Please change the destination of your bot toward these categories!

This mass mindless uploading is totally out of control.

Pierre cb (talk) 23:45, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

@Pierre cb: COM:SCOPE isn't specific about what quantity of images on a topic is appropriate, only stating that "files of poor or mediocre quality may or may not be realistically useful". I believe the vast majority of these files are in scope, considering that they are (in general) high quality, and sometimes depict things that are less common than just "snow in Washington", such as plowing and maintenance. Though there may be some files that are not valuable, I cannot teach a bot to recognize that concept, so I just have to consider how valuable the overall collection is and rely on my own manual work and that of other volunteers to clean up anything that is truly useless.

I might be able to write some logic to automatically utilize e.g. Category:Snow in LOCATION when that category exists instead of directly placing files into e.g. Category:Snow. Would that satisfy you? – BMacZero (🗩) 15:49, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Also, concerning your post on Commons:Bistro, I will absolutely stop the bot and respond to reasonable complaints about the bot's behavior, but I am not always at my computer to do so. You unfortunately just happened to catch me on a day that I did not make it back to my computer. I should almost always be able to respond around 15:00 server time. – BMacZero (🗩) 15:57, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

I don't understand what you mean by Category:Snow in LOCATION, send your photos to the appropriate sub-category of location as Category:Clouds in Washington (state) as I suggested. As for other more specialized sub category as Category:Snow removal in Mount Rainier National Park this need a one by one photo manipulation, don't you think you are giving me or other editor a major burden? Pierre cb (talk) 16:43, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Yes, that's what I meant by Category:Snow in LOCATION. I'm always trying to improve my automatic categorization, but unfortunately it's just impossible for a bot to do it as well as a person. Bot uploads do create a lot of work for human editors because of that. That's commonly accepted, as far as I know. For example, Jmabel does a ton of great work categorizing and editing the Seattle photographs I've uploaded. I help categorize images myself whenever I have the time. – BMacZero (🗩) 15:49, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

The other approach that some bot operators take is to add no content categories to their uploads whatsoever. I think that creates even more work for human editors. Instead of using Cat-A-Lot to diffuse images from broad categories, you have to go to each image individually and add all the categories from scratch. – BMacZero (🗩) 15:49, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

@Pierre cb: I've resumed uploading, now into location-specific categories (when possible). – BMacZero (🗩) 05:37, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. Pierre cb (talk) 14:10, 20 September 2019 (UTC)