User talk:Boven

Welcome to the Commons, Boven!

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Order of St John

Hi,

Great Job making those photos of The Duke of Glouster and the Order of St John insignia. I kicked myself a while ago for not taking a photo of a man wearing the insignia and your photos really help the article. I have put the two Order of Saint John photos in a page for Venerable Order of Saint John and put them in Category:British honours system. If you have any more photos from the investure ceremony I would love to see them. Dowew 00:57, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Boven!

Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

CategorizationBot (talk) 10:40, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

• Image:CAP Cadet 11 Mark Feik Achievement.png was uncategorized on 25 April 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:40, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons POTY 2010 ineligibility

Boven, You recently voted in the 2010 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest. It appears that you are ineligible to vote, likely because:

• Your account failed the rules, as it was not registered before 1 January 2011, does not have at least 200 edits on any single Wikimedia project before 1 January 2011, is a duplicate account, or an IP address.
• You voted multiple times in Round 2. You may vote only once in Round 2 (the Final).

Your vote has been struck and will not be counted. If this is in error or if you have any questions, please post a query at our Questions page. Béria Lima ^msg 21:07, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

CAP seal

Hey Boven, I've got bad news. On File:Civil Air Patrol National Vice-Commander's Flag.png and the other flag, you wrote that the seal was created by the Institute of Heraldry, but the seal was actually created in 1977, from what I can tell. I believe TIOH stopped producing material for CAP in the 1950s. If you have information that says otherwise, I really need to know, otherwise those two images will have to be deleted or changed around. I'd appreciate if you could respond as soon as you can, as I've *got* to start removing these images currently credited to CAP. Thanks! — Huntster (t @ c) 06:06, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you on this. I don't check my commons talk page very often. I've found the following link which shows an image from World War II. The CAP emblem is clearly visible on this poster which, if memory serves correctly, was created by the federal government for the Civil Defense program that included the CAP. I'm not a copyright expert, but it seems that something as simple as a ring with words on it would be eligible for copyright protection, even if it was drawn up in the 1970s. I may be wrong, but it looks like this image might be alright after all.--Boven (talk) 18:29, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Boven. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Boven~commonswiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

20:06, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

File:Image-Marcel van Rossum and Themba Mabaso.JPG

File:Image-Marcel van Rossum and Themba Mabaso.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!

Please just clarify that the original author ("Jo"?) did explicitly agree to CC-BY-SA not just "for Wikipedia/for Commons". Thanks. --Nemoschool (talk) 06:39, 25 December 2019 (UTC)