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)
Tip: Categorizing images
Hello, BMacZero!
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"). Pro-tip: The CommonSense tool can help you find the best category for your image.
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) 10:36, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Rareearth production.svg was uncategorized on 29 April 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:36, 30 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
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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)
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)
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- 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)
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- @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)
- @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)
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File:First Day 50 Years of Computer Technology Stamp.jpeg
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Maliepa (talk) 00:41, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Notification about possible deletion
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And also:
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)
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)
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)
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)
File:NSRW Nikola Tesla.jpg
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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)
- 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)
File:FMIB 34806 Shell of the Eastern Oyster, Ostrea virginiana.jpeg
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Kopiersperre (talk) 11:33, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
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