User talk:KillerChihuahua

Welcome to the Commons, KillerChihuahua!

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DVD R W 00:34, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, you can thank user:DVD R W for this message, not the bot. And you are allowed to remove it, of course. :P --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 02:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I saw that... it was a little roguish of me to post that on your feedback page, apologies... it is a little large and colorful, though - almost intimidating. I prefer short, friendly welcome messages myself. The large ones make it look like there is a great deal to learn, and indeed there is, but one can easily contribute without knowing 99% of it, and learn as one goes along. One puppy's opinion. KillerChihuahua 11:25, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

I got mine too after I'd been here a while [1] I still click the links on it all the time. I just don't like to see someone who has a talkpage with no talking on it, and didn't know how else to break the ice. See this [2] for the company your in for having recieved one from me :-) DVD R W 16:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

And an observation on the colorfulness of that template, I think the Commons tends to attract the more imagey people, who think more about graphics than text. That is why I think this welcome message has taken off here, I could be wrong though. DVD R W 17:05, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

<3 please protect Patrick Paul Jakubik. I come in peace <3 — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2600:387:0:803:0:0:0:71 (talk) 16:45, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

File tagging File:Pzm_london_lg.jpg

Masur (talk) 01:01, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

• so pls provide the ticket number. Its kind of essential when you stated that you arent an author and a picture was obtained from other source. Masur (talk) 04:39, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm looking for the damn thing. It was formerly not particularly important, especially before OTRS even got started, you know? So not like I made a habit of it. Also trying to recover my email from my dead computer, having no success there either.I have, however, taken the step of re-emailing PZ and asking him to send a new email, this time directly to permissions, so one way or another this should be handled quite soon. I have removed the big loud template from my page; please do not replace it, thanks. I am more than willing to continue this discussion but as it was clear before you placed the template that I was aware of the base situation, templating me seems unnecessary. Since PZ sent me the image for use on Wikipedia himself, there is no question of permission, merely of legal paperwork. Surely a little patience is not too much to ask. KillerChihuahua (talk) 11:04, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

★ Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted ★
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review

Previous reviews

•  Support I believe the issues which led me to an oppose in the previous nomination (primarily insufficient categorization) has been addressed satisfactory. Ideally, the photo could have had a geolocation (Londoners should be able to track down the exact location from the background I guess), but I do not think it is that important as the portrait is largely non-place related. --Slaunger (talk) 19:25, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Eusebius (talk) 09:34, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

File:Barnstar_nature.gif

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--Chrumps (talk) 16:32, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

File:No stop hand.png

File:No stop hand.png 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!

Sreejith K (talk) 06:48, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

OTRS frustration

Hi KillerChihuahua. I am having a problem uploading a photograph in connection with OTRS. I have the email permission from the photographer and have sent it on to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Now I am trying to upload the photo in Commons. I click that it is someone else's work and get hung up in the "Release Rights" step. I don't understand how to input the OTRS information about getting permission already and having a license to enter. The wizard isn't making it clear to me. I re-read the directions under "OTRS" which tell me I am supposed to upload the photo then "tag the file [double-parenthesis]subst: OP[double-parenthesis]" but I don't understand what to tag or how to do this with the wizard. Do you mind explaining this to me? It would help with the massive frustration which has been building for the last hour as I have tried to unsuccessfully to upload the file. I am sure the wizard is great, but in the old days I used to be able to handle this OTRS business with no problem, grumble, grumble. Thank you. Hisland7 5 Aug '12 ####

Sorry, I wasn't online yesterday. Are you still struggling with this, or have you found help elsewhere? KillerChihuahua (talk) 17:01, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

My struggle continues. In fact, I'm stymied. Your interest is very much appreciated. By the way, I thought I used to sign discussion pages with #### for my username and date. It didn't seem to work.

No, it's ~~~~. You were right that it was a symbol repeated four times, but it is a tilde not a hash. Let me take a look at the pages as they are currently, and I will get back to you here shortly. KillerChihuahua (talk) 17:29, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Ok, the parens are actually curly braces {{ and }} and that indicates a template. OP is OTRS pending, which means the permissions has been sent to OTRS and the image is waiting on an OTRS volunteer to verify the permissions. After you select the file to upload, the next screen is release options. Choose the radio button for This file is not my own work. and fill in the source and author name. Below, choose Another reason not mentioned above and type or paste {{subst:oP}}. That should do it. KillerChihuahua (talk) 17:38, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

You are so kind to help me. I followed your instructions. What happened next was a red error prompt telling me the following, "This does not seem to be valid wikitext, or does not contain a license." So then I pasted after {{subst:OP}} the license in the exact wording from the permission template, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0, but I still got the same error prompt. Can you think of what I might be doing wrong? Thank you again for your help.Hisland7 (talk) 18:55, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure; have you considered taking a different tack? Try using the old form rather than the Wizard. It is located at Commons:Upload. KillerChihuahua (talk) 20:21, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

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Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

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Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

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Dear KillerChihuahua,

The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).

• In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
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We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:

1. 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
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