User talk:Adam Cuerden

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Category:Linlithgow Palace Jousting 10-11 July 2010

Dear Adam, I do not know if it is a good idea to dump the entire contents of your memory card on commons in your own personal categories. Be that as it may, if you do this, can you please refrain from putting these images in other categories? You end up placing snapshots of your cat in Category:Jousting.[1] This sort of thing clutters our categorization system. People looking at Category:Jousting are unlikely to be looking for a picture of your cat, nor even a picture of some staircase or the weather.

Even your comparatively few snapshots of an actual joust horses and riders would not belong in Category:Jousting, but instead in Category:Jousting reenactment. Thank you. --Dbachmann (talk) 13:53, 20 July 2011 (UTC) 

Welcome back

Hello!

Nice to have you back on Commons. The delinquent that attacked you in the past has resigned. This ex-user is rambling around randomly as an IP but this should not be a problem. Greetings, High Contrast (talk) 02:23, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

I have reinstalled your rollbacker and autopatroller rights. Regards, High Contrast (talk) 17:23, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Welcome back

Hey !

Nice to see you're back !

I've never forgotten your previous wonderful contributions to Commons, and some of conversations we had.

Really a good and great new ! Come on !--Jebulon (talk) 13:10, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the music !

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File in OSD

Hi Adam. One of your files, File:Auld Lang Syne.ogg is showing up in Category:Other speedy deletions. I've seen this a few times where some link or redirect causes this. Let me know if you need me to delete something or remove a tag, etc. INeverCry 21:51, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

PD-country

Re your undiscussed "let's redirect PD-country templates to PD-old" spree: I've undone it, because this is an appalling idea. All PD-country templates should be abolished, as should PD-old itself - the more general the template, the more it is misunderstood and abused. Case in point: clearing out the remnants of {{PD}} is hard work, four years after it was deprecated, because it was all too often slapped on without enough info to understand the PD claim, never mind be able to verify it. Rd232 (talk) 01:25, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Never mind, continue discussion at VP. Rd232 (talk) 01:27, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

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•  Comment Please add a link in the scope, preferably to a category or a gallery. Yann (talk) 16:01, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
  • I can't link to a category; as I said, this is poorly illustrated, and we have one image of this, and are unlikely ever to get more, so it lurks in the default Category:Oscar Wilde. Alternatively, it could link to en:The Duchess of Padua, but that uses an alternate state of the image that looks washed out to me (and makes me wonder what I was thinking, since it's apparently also mine). Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:10, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
    • Yes, you can! ;) I did it. Unless there are several works called The Duchess of Padua, it is not necessary to add (play by Oscar Wilde). Personally I like rather when the background is white rather yellow. Yann (talk) 16:22, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
      • It doesn't really resemble the original as much, though. Cool greys are very rarely seen in historical printing. Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:32, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
• See; The Duchess of Padua is a play, not this work. So the correct scope may be The Duchess of Padua, illustration. JKadavoor Jee 05:58, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

I would have thought that all valued image candidate for a play would be an image of some sort, either an illustration or a photo. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:05, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

..of a scene in that play. But it can be scan of the cover page of that book too. JKadavoor Jee 16:20, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

But we don't have the latter. Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:50, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

I can see one here; but I don't know whether it has any relevance here. I think the scope should clearly pointing to the subject. So here it may be The Duchess of Padua, illustration of a scene or something similar. JKadavoor Jee 04:21, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Pretty irrelevant, not free licenced, and would only serve to promote one modern edition over others. I think that unnecessarily over-specialising scope is actually something to be avoided at all costs - it makes our list less helpful, particularly when there's no competing scopes that could be offered: We don't have pictures of book covers. We don't have photos of productions. If we did, then we could talk about dividing up the more general scope productively; as it stands, I think that we shouldn't bother denying a general scope.

Stepping back a moment, is it clear that "(play by Oscar Wilde)" is just meant to clarify what "The Duchess of Padua" is? I was worried that it could be confusing, as, if you don't know it's a play, you might think it's a person, etc. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:39, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

These are good points. No need to have a narrower scope. I don't think there can be a confusion with a person: scope labels for people are worded differently, and in any doubt, one can check in the category. Yann (talk) 09:36, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

 Support Agree. JKadavoor Jee 10:30, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. George Chernilevsky ^talk 06:10, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

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Filemover

Hi Adam. You're obviously an experienced and trusted user, and I've seen numerous rename requests from you. I've added the filemover right to your acct so you can fix typos and other naming issues on you own. INeverCry 23:14, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Copyright pirates

Great image. You wrote: "The title and subject of The Pirates of Penzance is generally considered to at least be a nod to the issue of pirate productions of their works." Do you have a WP:RS for this? I have not seen one. If not, I would delete this statement, even though I would like it to be true, as I am not sure it is correct. In any case, Merry Christmas! -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:04, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Haha! I found that ref myself, but I'm not satisfied with it - it might just be an assumption on the part of the writer. Someday, I hope to find a better ref for the point. As for your Norwegian, I think he clutters up your otherwise excellent description and makes your point less distinct. Same with Burnand, who I think is only interesting to you and me. All the best! Have a very merry Christmas and a very happy New Year! -- Ssilvers (talk) 08:37, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Removing half-toning

I have been trying to scan some architectural drawings printed in a book I have. I scanned the images at 600 dpi, but the half-toning seems to cause problems on the computer screen at different magnifications. My scanner is a Mustek ScanExpress A3 USB 1200 Pro. The scanner software does not provide a descreen setting. I have been trying to use the Smart blur filter in Photoshop Elements 10 (Mac OS X 10.7.5), but not very successfully. I saw that User:Time3000 seemed to do a much a better job with File:Elaeis guineensis - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-056.jpg using a procedure he refers to as "FFT filtered", but I don't know what this is (other than it stands for Fast Fourier transform), and he is not around these days. Is this special software? Would you have any suggestions? (I suppose I could upload a png of the unfiltered scan and ask someone else to do it, but if its not too complicated, I could try to apply it myself.) Thanks! --Robert.Allen (talk) 06:51, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

This is the first of two files I have been working on today. File:Saint-Sulpice west facade second design 1736 by Servandoni - Kalnein 1995 p112.png --Robert.Allen (talk) 08:06, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Christmas

Thank you very much Adam, have a nice Christmas too.--Jebulon (talk) 11:57, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

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 Support Good choice --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:31, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Yann (talk) 07:43, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

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Thor, der Donnergott

Hallo Adam Cuerden,

I am sorry for the multiple small edits to this file. If you dislike them. A reset is OK with me.

I think the benefit with {{Artwork}} is the artist at top of the description. {{PD-old-auto-1923}} automatically re-calculates the current public-domain year span. {{PD-art|PD-old-auto-1923|deathyear=1921}} would have worked, too. --PigeonIP (talk) 21:26, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

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Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Grande Galerie Louvre by Thomas Allom.jpg

Hi Adam. Following your remark on this FPC that engravings shouldn't be cropped too tight, I uploaded another version with the title and all the markings. I know some users like tight crops because they're easier to use as illustrations on WP, so from now on I'll try and upload two versions of each engraving. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 16:23, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

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•  Support Best in scope. Yann (talk) 17:37, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
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Image too dark. Many informtions are lost. Very easy to fix. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 07:26, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

• There was a colour box with the image, and the darkness appears to be 100% the artistic intent. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:38, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
• New corrected version. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 14:34, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Please don't upload over like that; As I said, there was a colour box, and I'm quite sure it was meant to be very dark due to being backlit by a sunset. Wikipedia shows images against white, which isn't kind to this sort of image; nonetheless, it's almost certainly meant to be this dark. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:22, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
    •  Oppose I understand you want to make the correction yourself is very natural. But if you do not make the picture you show is not satisfactory. Hence the negative vote for the moment.--Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:31, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
      • I'm sorry, but your changes are simply wrong: Those are not natural colours for a lithograph. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:46, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
• I suppose than you mean the scope to be the play/opera. So this should be clearer. I would suggest Don Quichotte (Opera by Jules Massenet). Yann (talk) 16:03, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Well, the category is the category for the opera, but clarified. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:22, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
    •  Support OK now. Yann (talk) 07:51, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
    •  Support For Adam Cuerden's version. cmadler (talk) 16:10, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Result: 2 support, 1 oppose =>
promoted. Yann (talk) 07:11, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

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Rowlandson's VAuxhall

HI Adam I am researching Rowlandson's Vauxhall and have come across your description of the people in the image. Can I please ask what you based your identifications on. Cheers Soosie

As I recall, the Library of Congress was the initial source, but a few experts stepped in to provide additional information, one of whose notes can be found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Thomas_Rowlandson_-_Vaux-Hall_-_Dr._Johnson,_Oliver_Goldsmith,_Mary_Robinson,_et_al.jpg Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:31, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

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HMS Hood (51) - March 17, 1924

Hi Adam,

I think there is no need to delete your images. Just upload over them. Best regards, Yann (talk) 07:19, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

There is need to delete the specific ones tagged: I have already uploaded the good copy under a different filename; The ones I tagged are no good; and it's maybe a 25% chance I can get something suitable to upload over them ever. They should certainly not be used, as the smoke is terribly screwed up on them. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:57, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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Nice restoration

Just wanted to say this is a nice restoration of a really good image. Enjoyed looking at it. File:Thure de Thulstrup - L. Prang and Co. - Battle of Gettysburg - Restoration by Adam Cuerden.jpg Best, MarmadukePercy (talk) 04:45, 23 March 2013 (UTC)