User talk:Jebulon/Archives/4ème trimestre 2013

Bust QIC

Hi Jebulon, of course you're right. From this low point of view, not all elements can be sharp (that's the reason I named the image "Memorial site of" and not "Bust of" ). Vielleicht wäre es besser gewesen, den Fokus auf die Büste zu legen und ein wenig Unschärfe an der Schrifttafel in Kauf zu nehmen. I'm not sure if I should retouch (manual sharpening) and scale it... Bonne journée ! --kaʁstn Disk/Cat 11:35, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Büste oder Schrifftafel ? Schrifftafel oder Büste ? La vie est un choix, et choisir, c'est renoncer... . Bonne fin de semaine !--Jebulon (talk) 14:17, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Classement des VI de VIP

Bonjour Jebulon,
Pourrais-tu m'aider à faire un peu de rangement dans Commons:Valued images/Recently promoted, afin que les images promues VI apparaissent dans les galeries adéquates d'images VI par sujet ? Parmi toutes ces images en attente, il y a de nombreuses figures historiques, des messieurs-dames du XIXe siècle ou début XXe que tu as proposés en VI. Pourrais-tu indiquer la bonne catégorie people avec l'outil disponible sur la page ? Une fois triées, les images de ces différentes personnalités se retrouveront dans la section idoine de la page Commons:Valued images by topic/People. En te remerciant, --Myrabella (talk) 12:53, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Volontiers, j'ai commencé. Mais je ne peux pas le fiare si tu es sur la même page en même temps: je viens d'en faire une cinquantaine, qui n'ont pas pu être pris en compte (conflit de modif !). Mais oui, bien sûr, je vais t'aider.--Jebulon (talk) 15:29, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Merci ! Merci ! (et désolée pour le travail que tu as dû faire deux fois !) --Myrabella (talk) 22:55, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Archivage

Merci de ton coup de main. Ma page ne s'ouvrai pas très bien. Pour tes photos historiques peut être serait-il plus utile de créer une category:Valued Historial photograph ou quelque chose comme çà...--Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 15:46, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

L'un (les galeries) n'empêche pas l'autre (les catégories) :) Je signale l'existence de Category:Valued images of politicians et plus largement de Category:Valued images of people. --Myrabella (talk) 22:32, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks...

for the (finally successfull) nomination of File:Upper Antelope Canyon Heart Formation 2013.jpg. Sometimes it is difficult to assess the FP capability of own images. Thus if you have some time I would be happy if you take a look on Category:Images of USA by Tuxyso and tell me which of the images there are from your viewpoint FP capable. When my current noms are finshed I can nominate furhter images. --Tuxyso (talk) 07:56, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

My pleasure ! But... Why only "images of USA ?" ;-)--Jebulon (talk) 08:08, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Because these are the most recent photos. You can also take a look on Category:Quality images by Tuxyso but this cat is much larger. --Tuxyso (talk) 09:16, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Renoir

Attention! Ta photo de Renoir fait la Une de Wiki France! Bravo. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:14, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Merci ! Je suis content de l'avoir dénichée, celle-là !--Jebulon (talk) 08:09, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to take part in the categorization of QI

Dear Jebulon! Your images were reviewed and have been promoted to Quality Image status. Congratulations! I invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. All new images with this status automatically placed to the page Commons:Quality_images/Recently_promoted. They have to be manually tagged with relevant categories using the QI categorization tool (see link at the top of the page, the author of this tool is User:Dschwen). Very few users do this job now, so a large number of uncategorizated photos time to time accumulates on this page... --Bff (talk) 08:35, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Que de Papes !

Bonsoir Jebulon. -- Non, pas de problème pour les armoiries de Pie VII... Pour ce qui est de mon commentaire sur la Papamobile de JPII, il contenait, certes, un peu d'humour, mais seulement vis-à-vis des commentaires en général : la photo, après réflexion, m'a paru s'imposer. Habituellement, je ne commente pas, ou très peu : si "une bonne photo vaut mille mots", comme on disait jadis, 1000 mots ne sauraient transformer une mauvaise photo en bonne, ni une bonne en mauvaise. Reste un point à éclaircir : qu'est-ce qu'une bonne photo ? C'est personnel, donc à chacun son "wow" (malgré le côté rudimentaire d'un tel mot et bien que je le déteste dans la vraie vie...) Pour ce qui est de mon culot, j'en aurais vraiment si je créais le MRROTY (accent écossais souhaité), à savoir "Most ridiculous review of the year" : il y a des candidats ! Mais je ne lancerai jamais dans une telle entreprise pour ne point heurter les susceptibilités. Et puis on ne jette pas la première pierre, etc., même si on se sent laïc ! -- Congrats pour tes 2000 QI. C'est bien que tu sois revenu sur la page des nominations. J'imagine que tu ramèneras quelques inédits de Munich : en route vers les 3000 ! -- Je te quitte j'ai de nombreux petits mots à envoyer, notamment à plusieurs autres membres de Commons. Que de retards ! -- Bien amicalement. JLPC (talk) 20:34, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Phare de la citadelle d'Ajaccio : une alternative

Bonsoir Jebulon, Cela m'a fait très plaisir que le 7e vote en faveur de mon image Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:Ajaccio_phare_citadelle.jpg soit le tien. Je propose une alternative où le phare est un sujet plus central, même si, personnellement, j'aime mieux montrer la mer Méditerranée, qui me manque. Bien amicalement, --Myrabella (talk) 21:30, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

"Happy Diwali!"

While Diwali is popularly known as the "festival of lights", the most significant spiritual meaning behind it is "the awareness of the inner light". It is the belief that there is something beyond the physical body and mind which is pure, infinite, and eternal, called the Atman. The celebration of Diwali as the "victory of good over evil” refers to the light of higher knowledge dispelling all ignorance, the ignorance that masks one's true nature, not as the body, but as the unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent reality. With this awakening come compassion and the awareness of the oneness of all things (higher knowledge). This brings Satcitananda (joy or peace). Just as we celebrate the birth of our physical being, Diwali is the celebration of this Inner Light. While the story behind Diwali and the manner of celebration varies from region to, the essence is the same – to rejoice in the Inner Light! And this year Diwali and All Souls' Day come together to fully defeat the Evil! "Happy Diwali!" – JKadavoor Jee 06:00, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Happy Diwali

I also wish you a very very happy and prosperous diwali. --Joydeep _Talk 06:24, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

DKW RT 350 S, Bj. 1956 (rechts).JPG

Hallo Jebulon, one of your reasons to decline my DKW RT 350 S, Bj. 1956 (rechts).JPG as a quality image is that “the cropped vehicle behind is disturbing” in your opinion. But how do you see Renault 4CV 2013-07-21 13-51-56.JPG? The car beside of the Renault is also cropped. Further the kind of number plate und the sheet in the wind-shield look not good. May it be that the name of the competitor is more important for a positive vote than the picture? Photos of Mattbuck for example principly are very good independent of their real quality. Kind regards -- Lothar Spurzem (talk) 00:05, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Image du jour sur Wikipedia fr

Une de plus! --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:23, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

No FoP in France

According to our discussion and your vote against my image...

File:Kenzo Building, 3 Place des Victoires, Paris.jpg

Build in 1976. This image shouldn't exist on Commons. You didn't see a problem? Halavar (talk) 00:32, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Built in 1976 ? 3 Place des Victoires ? Hôtel de Soyecourt? Are you kidding ?

Anyway, you may find everywhere in "Commons" plenty of pictures that must be deleted because of violations of "noFoP" here or there. So please, stop this. If you find one of them, don't hesitate to try a deletion request (left part of the "commons" page, just follow the instructions). But please read before what exactly is COM:FOP.

My opinion is that it is difficult to promote a picture showing an object under copyright, or under an unclear status.

And I'm not alone: what do you think about this ?--Jebulon (talk) 09:27, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

A ce sujet (Kenzo place des Victoires), je pense qu'il y a erreur sur cette VI : Commons:Valued image candidates/Kenzo Building, 3 Place des Victoires, Paris.jpg. Je dirais plutôt que c'est l'immeuble du 1, rue du Pont-Neuf, avec le restaurant Kong au sommet. Toute la catégorie pose problème dans ce cas : Category:Kenzo Place des Victoires. Qu'en dis-tu ? --Myrabella (talk) 16:25, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

(in English) On this topic (Kenzo place des Victoires), I think this VI is erroneous: Commons:Valued image candidates/Kenzo Building, 3 Place des Victoires, Paris.jpg. To me, it depicts the building located 1 rue du Pont-Neuf in Paris (here the same building). The whole Category:Kenzo Place des Victoires is problematic then. Kenzo Place des Victoires is that building actually. This building was a former department store,

I don't know Paris as much as you guys, but from what I read and from what I see on the map (OSM and Googlemaps), Myrabella has right. Kenzo Place, 3 des Victoires is that building, and it was build in 1926 and it's a cultural heritage monument in France. There is a store of Kenzo there. But this Commons:Valued image candidates/Kenzo Building, 3 Place des Victoires, Paris.jpg is other building located on 1, rue du Pont Neuf and there are store and also the main headquarters of Kenzo Company. As you can read here http://www.paris-paris-paris.com/paris_landmarks/shops/kenzo "The Pont Neuf flagship store, which shares the same building as the Philippe Starck–designed Kong, is spread over three floors and is a tantalising temple to fashion and beauty." And that building was build in 1976. So we should move images to proper categories. Halavar (talk) 17:18, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Some precisions: Hôtel de Soyecourt date from the end of the 17th century; 1926 is the date when it was inscrit au titre des monuments historiques i.e. considered as architectural heritage. For the "1 rue du Pont-Neuf", the street date from the 19th century (ref.) and the building was certainly not built in 1976 only, but before (maybe rehabilatation works were made then). This building was the store #1 of a fromer department store, La Samaritaine. Here a view circa 1907. It has been renovated, belonging to LVMH group, like Kenzo trade mark. I agree that the images should be recategorized, I will take care tonight or tomorrow.--Myrabella (talk) 18:06, 5 November 2013 (UTC) PS : et pardon à Jebulon de prendre sa page de discussion comme le dernier salon où l'on cause... M.

Thanks for the precise informations Myrabella:) So it looks like, Paris16's image [Commons:Valued image candidates/Kenzo Building, 3 Place des Victoires, Paris.jpg]] shouldn't be now a Valued Image. I think he should change the name of the scope and renominate his image. I don't know how the process of that might looks. He is from France, so maybe you or Jebulon should give him a information. Thanks in advance. Halavar (talk) 18:32, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Paris16 is not parisian nor french. I guess he/she is vietnamese (?). Vous êtes bienvenus sur ma page, évidemment, et toi la première. J'avais bien repéré l'erreur, je voulais voir où ça allait nous mener. C'est bien, le restaurant Kong, ou c'est kong d'aller y dépenser ses sous ? ça a un rapport avec "Burger king" ? bon, je sors... Mais je reviendrai, c'est ma page quand même !--Jebulon (talk) 16:05, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Lenin Mausoleum at night (2007).jpg

Hi Jebulon- I see you have been quite active recently discussing FoP issues... This is my first involvement with attempts to have an image of mine deleted. Do you have any thoughts you would wish to share? Is it fairly standard to have a DR sent to you without any prior discussion? Thanks-Godot13 (talk) 00:30, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Un lustre c'est bien!

Mais un lustre entier avec sa fixation au plafond c'est encore mieux comme sur cette image par exemple, néanmoins c'est un beau lustre et c'est une bonne idée de l'avoir photographié. A bientot -Christian Ferrer (talk) 11:32, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Featured picture

Hello :) about your required: here:

•  Fatto Barrel distorsion corrected --Pava (talk) 15:34, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

"For the record"

I understand why you made such a statement but it is sad that anyone here should feel pressured to have to do so to justify their support/oppose. We are both in the position, I hope, of two reasonable people coming to different conclusions. Which is perfectly normal at FP and it would be boring if we all thought alike. -- Colin (talk) 15:58, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Statue de Lénine en VI

Quel est ton avis sur cette question, toi qui connais les méandres des copyright? Si je clos maintenant elle est promue... --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 16:23, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Photographs by Benh

I uploaded a few pictures of Benh LIEU SONG; hope you like them!

File:Nutella by Benh.jpg (Cool?)

File:Grey Crowned Cranes Amboseli (7234396752).jpg

File:Mais où est Pinocchio (8278585435).jpg (any copyright violations?)

File:Herd of Elephants.jpg (not by me)

File:Bush Elephant Amboseli (7234313436).jpg

File:Elephants fight Amboseli (7234358288) (2).jpg

File:Elephants fight Amboseli (7234363084).jpg JKadavoor Jee 16:59, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Image du jour sur Wikipedia fr

Tu fais la une de Wiki France! --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 08:40, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Congrats - great image!-Godot13 (talk) 08:48, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Thankyou ! Merci !--Jebulon (talk) 21:38, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Aujourd'hui aussi! Je ne savais pas que tu faisais la programmation de l'image du jour, sur Wiki fr : je te félicite de cette promotion. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 07:31, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

C'est bon d'être aimé !--Jebulon (talk) 16:20, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

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Basilica Sancti Petri blue hourl.jpg

Sorry, I couldn't resist to retouch and upload an alternative version:

What do you think ? -- Norbert Nagel (talk) 21:52, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

No need to be sorry, dear Norbert! Your work is fine, and I've tried something like that too. But... My choice is for a darker version. Thanks anyway for interest.--Jebulon (talk) 23:06, 25 November 2013 (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:Pommard2.jpg

Yours sincerely, Eleassar ^(t/p) 23:27, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

File:Pommard2.jpg

File:Pommard2.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!

Eleassar ^(t/p) 11:32, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Please stop this ! This is harassment ! You already have a decision regarding this file ! The case is closed, enough is enough. You have to respect and admit the Admin work.--Jebulon (talk) 17:06, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Livre d'heures d'Anne de Bretagne et plantes

Félicitations pour vos images de Cannabis. J'ai à nouveau fait un essai avec Gallica, mais j'avoue que je n'ai pas le temps de suivre votre procédure, car il me faudrait toutes les images du Livre d'heures d'Anne de Bretagne ! J'hésite aussi sur la norme à suivre pour détourer les images, car chaque page a sa propre mise en page de l'image.

Par exemple, j'ai récemment mis sur WC une quinzaine d'images du Nürnbergische Hesperides. En copiant simplement l'image, on a une résolution acceptable, et il m'a suffit d'une journée pour charger, toiletter et mettre sur WC. Comme je veux le faire pour un très grand nombre d'illustrations de plantes, je privilégie ce qui est le plus rapide...

Une solution provisoire serait de mettre en ligne des images en moyenne résolution, quite à les remplacer ensuite par de meilleures. En tout cas, si vous avez le temps et le courage de mettre d'autres images du Livre d'heures d'Anne de Bretagne, sachez que cela peut intéresser plein d'historiens de la botanique Michel Chauvet (talk) 18:06, 4 December 2013 (UTC).

Pour moi, les illustrations de plantes sont surtout des documents historiques à analyser, et je vise à rassembler des corpus importants. Je cherche donc un compromis entre la qualité des images et le temps à y consacrer. Pour le livre d'heures, je vais donc mettre des images moyenne résolution.

Merci pour le lien sur Gallica. Je stocke ces infos sur ma page Iconographie de Pl@ntUse.

Moi aussi, j'ai besoin de plusieurs vies pour tout faire, mais je n'ai pas encore trouvé avec qui négocier cela. Michel Chauvet (talk) 10:19, 8 December 2013 (UTC).

Maria Sibylla Merian

Je viens de découvrir ces planches magnifiques de Maria Sibylla Merian. Grâce au site Dezoomify, j'ai pu télécharger des images, et là, oh surprise, elles font environ 3500 x 4900 pixels pour un encombrement de 30-36 Mo (en png). A quelle taille me suggérez-vous de les téléverser sur Wikimedia Commons ? Faut-il les réduire ? Michel Chauvet (talk) 20:49, 6 December 2013 (UTC).

Pour être plus précis, est-ce que Wikimedia Commons accepte et souhaite avoir des images de 36 Mo ? Si oui, je les mets ainsi ! Michel Chauvet (talk) 10:21, 8 December 2013 (UTC).

File:Walt Disney Concert Hall 2013.jpg

Zu deinem Kommentar auf QIC (ich hoffe auf Deutsch is OK, es steht ja de-2 im Profil): Ich teile deine Einschätzug nicht. Schaue mal in die Category:Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall: Die Oberfläche der Konzerthalle hat eine stark reflektierende metallische Oberfläche. Sofern du nicht in der Nacht oder bei völligem Gegenlicht, was unschön ist, fotografierst, sind Reflektionen nicht zu vermeiden. Dabei handelt es sich sich aus meiner Sicht keinesfalls um einen Qualitätsmangel, sondern vielmehr unterstreicht dies noch den Charakter des Gebäudes. Auf dieser Aufnahme

kannst du das Problem erkennen. Es ist schlicht unmöglich eine Aufnahme ohne Reflektionen von dem Gebäude zu machen, da die Oberfläche in alle möglichen Richtungen gebogen ist. --Tuxyso (talk) 14:51, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Hallo Tuxyso.

• 1)-Ja, kein Problem mit Deutsch, ich verstehe gut was du schreibsts,...even if I prefer to use english when speaking or writing (Ich verstehe, aber ich bin nie sicher mit dem deutsche(n?)(s?) Grammatik...)
• 2)-I was sure that I should got a message from you after my comment...
• 3)-I understand your arguments, but anyway, I find this special reflection disturbing (more than on the other example you show)...
• 4)-Wie sagt Pilatus in (Joh.-Seb. Bachs)Johannes-Passion: "was ich geschrieben habe, das habe ich geschrieben...". So, let other decide, I think it could be interesting. Of course, there is nothing personal here, and I would'nt feel angry if this picture is promoted at the end of the process! Good luck!--Jebulon (talk) 16:33, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Everything is fine, my comment was not meant personally. Some reviews on QI are imho too technical and do not carefully consider the circumstances of the photo. In the case of the Concert Hall: it is a difference if you have a dull surface which is overexposed or if you have a massively reflecting metallic surface like the one here. If you take e.g. File:Burg-Vondern-Haupthaus-2013.jpg: is it no QI because of the reflections on the window which are surely technically overexposed?
"I was sure that I should got a message from you after my comment" - I hope you did do feel tackled by me - that was not my intention. --Tuxyso (talk) 16:43, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Not at all ! Just because you are... Tuxyso ! --Jebulon (talk) 17:50, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Une de Wikipedia France!

Ton casque à la une. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:48, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Merci de l'info !--Jebulon (talk) 12:25, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

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File:Trinité Grandes Heures Anne de Bretagne.jpg

Hi Jeb, which version you prefer? Our policy says don't overwrite accessed pictures, but I have no problem if you happy with that crop. Otherwise report it to a friendly admin or COM:AN. :) Jee 12:02, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you Jee. Frankly, I don't care, both are possible. But in general, I prefer when pictures have some space in order to breathe enough... Therefore, tight crops are not very good I think. Thanks again anyway (nice image, isn't it ?) --Jebulon (talk) 13:02, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes; very nice. Jee 03:12, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Excessive featureless black background serves absolutely no useful or valid purpose when displaying this image on Wikipedia articles

It may possibly lend a brooding "arty" mood or atmosphere in some contexts, but when displaying the image resized to a thumbnail on an article, all it does is create an indeterminate thick black-smudged frame which calls unnecessary attention to itself (thereby distracting from the surrounded artwork), while causing the display of the actual relevant artwork to be smaller, and its details harder to make out, than it needs to be. I'm by no means an enthusiast for tight cropping, or eliminating the last possible border or frame pixels from an image, and what I uploaded was a very reasonable cropping, with more than 50 pixels of black still remaining everywhere at the image's edges. I know nothing and care nothing about bureaucratic image barnstar policies, but what I do know very well is that general Wikimedia policies (which cannot be overridden by image barnstar bureaucratic bylaws) specifically foresee and allow for this type of cropping (see the crop of File:Miyasaka Hakuryu II - Tigress with Two Cubs - Walters 71909.jpg which is specifically endorsed at COM:OVERWRITE). If I were to upload as a separate file under a new name, then I would remove your version from all articles (since the excessive black background is not useful for display of thumbnails on Wikipedia articles), and then we would edit-war there, so obviously that's not the answer. If you have a fetish about being the last uploader of record on barnstarred images, then you should revert to the suitably cropped version of the image (this would be by far the best solution).

P.S. A JPEG compression "quality" setting of 100 (used in this image) serves little useful purpose -- once the "quality" setting goes beyond about 95, then the filesize greatly increases, with no real corresponding meaningful improvement in actual image quality. Some people think a JPEG quality setting of 100 makes the image more lossless, but that's not really the case. AnonMoos (talk) 15:28, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

AnonMoos, it seems the problem is you din't try to to discuss with the Original Author first. If you can convince him, I think he himself can make an upload a new version. It is a restoration, and he has the original with him. Further, every projects has their own policies, and EN WIKI never allow to over-right their featured pictures. So be calm, and discuss with him. My revert was just procedural as I can't promote a version that the community didn't approved. Jee 16:02, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

It seems to be difficult to discuss with the "original author", as Jean Bourdichon died circa 1521...--Jebulon (talk) 17:26, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

2014 !

	* * * 2014! * * *
	Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Happy holidays! -- George Chernilevsky talk 20:55, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and Happy New year

I wish you and your family a very happy Christmas and a wonderful new year. --Joydeep _Talk 11:05, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Holiday wishes

	Happy Holidays! Vera (talk) 13:54, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Joyeux Noël

--Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 17:34, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Dear Jebulon, I wish and you and your family a Merry Christmas and lots of health and, of course, nice pictures for the coming year! Your Poco² 14:10, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Feliz navidad retrasada

Feliz Navidad

Joyeux Noël frère. J'espère que cette fois vous pouvez l'utiliser comme je l'ai effectivement fait récemment (à venir rendre visite à ma grand-mère), avec la famille et les amis. C'est un moment idéal pour partager et faire un peu de charité pour le prochain. Laissant de côté les différences que nous avons parfois à ces gens que nous aimons. De même, je vous souhaite une bonne fin d'année partie. Un câlinWilfredo R. Rodríguez H. (talk) 00:26, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Why...

... are you reacting such upset in the case I am critizing your photos? Or how can "Amen" be understood? The problem with the cloud is an obvious issue and I do not understand what is your problem with my assessment. I always weighing up positive and negative aspects and come to a final vote which was opposing in the case here. I guess every landscape shot had been directly denied on FPC in the case of such a cloud - I don't know why no one has seen it up to now. E.g. for this shot I have waited nearly an hour to get the perfect light. The problem on that day was that most of the time clouds were in front of the sun and kills the mood of the photo thus I had to wait and wait and wait. --Tuxyso (talk) 18:02, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Oh my God ! "Why are you reacting such upset in the case" I just answer your questions ? I have no problem at all with any of your assessments. You don't have to justify yourself. I did not nominate myself this picture as FP candidate. No reason for any drama. You involve yourself too much, and maybe you speak too much too. "I accept your judgment", translated in "amen" (meaning "that's true" in ancient hebrew). And I recently experienced a very good and fine weather in Germany.--Jebulon (talk) 20:21, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Just for closing this discussion in the old year: We have again a problem of language here. If someone says "Amen" at the end of a discussion in German it is usually meant as "I don't care anymore of your opinion" or "I igore your opinion" or "it makes no sense to discuss with you". I assumed that connotation of your words. In future I should better assume WP:AGF --Tuxyso (talk) 09:00, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia in the European Parliament

Since 2009 Wikipedians are visiting German and Austrian State Parliaments to take pictures of their members. They have been made available under a free license on Wikimedia Commons. They can be used in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects but also outside of Wikipedia - in compliance with the license conditions - for example by the Members of Parliament themselves. Besides the creation of free pictures of politicians, the project offers the deputies the opportunity to ask questions about Wikipedia and to discuss „their“ Wikipedia article (eg. to indicate possible problems with personal rights). For Wikipedians this offers the chance to explain their idea of „Free Knowledge“ and the work of the Wikimedia projects. In addition these contacts give Wikipedia photographers access to places that are not accessible to the public in order to produce free images. We now have the opportunity to visit the European Parliament in Strasbourg in February and perform a photography and editing project for the 764 MEPs there. In particular as the next elections for the European Parliament are upcoming in May, these new articles and photos are under a strong focus of the public. Volunteers should sign up on our Google form - note the section on the Commons project page about selection. I would be happy to have a supporting voice from you for the Grant request on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/Olaf_Kosinsky/Wikipedians_in_European_Parliament --Olaf Kosinsky (talk) 19:52, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Joyeux Noël et bonnes fêtes de fin d'année

Gracias.

Galego: Feliz nadal e boas festas de aninovo

--Miguel Bugallo (Lmbuga) 11:13, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Help...

I wondering if you could support my sumission to FP: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:Entry-Miami.jpg I didn't ask for your help early, because I was waiting the comments of any person who could see the photo... But, nobody comes to said anything. --Araujojoan96 (talk) 16:26, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

please be careful...

... when entering new candidates on QI, you skipped my last entry away. Anyway, I wish you all the best for 2014! Take care, --Sputniktilt (talk) 16:01, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

this is how to proceed :-) --Sputniktilt (talk) 16:02, 30 December 2013 (UTC)