User talk:Benjamint444

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[edit] Quality Image Promotion

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[edit] FP nomination: Butterfly vindula arsinoe

Hi Ben, I've just nominated as FPC your amazing picture of Butterfly vindula arsinoe.
Many congratulations for your work, it's really spectacular! --LucaG 17:13, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Image Image:Butterfly vindula arsinoe.jpg, which was nominated by you for Quality Image status, was reviewed and has now been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates‎.

[edit] Thanks, you came first.

I hereby award you this Photographer's Barnstar for your awesome macro photography. --LucaG 20:32, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you Ben for the award you gave me. I was going to give you the Photographer's Barnstar I received from Calibas but I've been led astray by your wonderful butterfly!
But now time has come and following the rule "Do not hesitate: be bold!" I'm proud to give you my award. --LucaG 20:32, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A barnstar

EDIT:funny, I see you just got one recently... oh well, have 2.

I hereby award you this Photographer's Barnstar for your extremely awsome pictures that have been used as my office desktop several times -- Penubag  11:55, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quality Image Promotion

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[edit] Quality Image Promotion

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[edit] Quality Image Promotion

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[edit] FP Promotion

The image has been promoted to Featured picture The image Image:Red-capped plover chick444.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Red-capped plover chick444.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

The image has been promoted to Featured picture The image Image:Butterfly vindula arsinoe.jpg, which was nominated by LucaG at Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Butterfly vindula arsinoe.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

--Simonizer 15:20, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Image Image:Chestnut-breasted Mannikin444.jpg, which was nominated by you for Quality Image status, was reviewed and has now been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates‎.

[edit] FP Promotion

The image has been promoted to Featured picture The image Image:Mt. Feathertop444 edit.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Mt. Feathertop444 edit.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

--Simonizer 15:59, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commons:Meet_our_photographers

I have recognized that you have more then 10 Featured Pictures. So i invite you to leave your profile at Commons:Meet_our_photographers. --Simonizer 10:39, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

I hereby award you this Photographer's Barnstar for having contributed more then 10 featured pictures to wikimedia commons --Simonizer 10:49, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

I dont know either how to add a profile but I have started a request at Commons_talk:Meet_our_photographers#Instruction --Simonizer 09:40, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Dschwen has posted a instruction at Commons_talk:Meet_our_photographers#Instruction --Simonizer 20:57, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

[edit] Quality Image Promotion

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Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Image Image:Apricot whole444.jpg, which was nominated by you for Quality Image status, was reviewed and has now been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates‎.

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[edit] Image:Pair of scrub wrens444.jpg

Hi Ben, I removed the FP and QI tags from this image because there was no links from any QIC or FPC to this image page. I don't know if you put the links in mistake or if the image used to have a different name or something? --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 12:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks, yeah, a mistake, I would have just pasted everything from another image and forgot to remove the tags. Benjamint 05:31, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] POTY Competition

Hi, I'm writing to let you know that an image of yours that become a Commons Featured Picture during 2007 is now part of the 2007 Picture of the Year competition. If you have > 200 edits you are welcome to vote too. Thanks for contributing your valuable work and good luck. Herby ^{talk thyme} 17:09, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ben, the baby birds have made it to the final. Congrats and good luck. Don't forget, you are eligible to vote as well. cheers, pfctdayelise (说什么?) 10:39, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Cape Cove, Oregon.jpg delisting

Thank you for notifying me. I understand.

I am considering a re-stitch with professional techniques, I will perhaps re-apply that image to FP at one point.

Sorry for my late acknowledgment, I have not been around for a while due to personal reasons.

Regards, UED77 05:25, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Quality Image Promotion

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[edit] Saw your pictures

Hi Ben, I just wanted to tell you that all the pictures that you have uploaded are absolutely amazing.I can't believe the amount of detail that you have captured. Thanks, Sugreev

Thanks for that Sugreev

[edit] Image:Masked owl mask4441.jpg on another site

Hi Ben, I stumbled upon your image on another web site. Thought you'd like to take a peek. http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/hooters-calendar-girls-2008/humor-humour Good for a quick laugh :) Best Regards, Darren

Heh, yeah, thanks Darren : )

[edit] Quality Image Promotion

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[edit] FP promotion

The image has been promoted to Featured picture The image Image:Red-necked wallaby442.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Red-necked wallaby442.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

Alvesgaspar 10:02, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Mt. Feathertop

I thought I say some doubling in the grass and trees about 4 inches off the right edge. I just went back and looked at it, and it's entirely possible that I was wrong. 216.183.234.7 13:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Quaternion image

Hello, I just saw your illustration for the quaternion page . The picture is beautiful; however, as it is presented, it is improper for a mathematical page. An explanation of what it is supposed to illustrate about quaternion is required as well as the statement of the basic idea that led to its conception if not the exact algorithm. I must say that you thrill my curiosity with your picture. I hope my comment will help improve Wikipedia. You have made great contributions for animal pictures, and I think you will become an expert for mathematical illustration as well.

Manuel Y.

[edit] Your image used on WSJ website

FYI, your image has been used on the WSJ website. I don't know if this has been negotiated with you or not, but thought you would like to know. See here: [1] Also, I started a thread here: Image talk:Granny Smith Apples.jpg. Nice photography. Cheers. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 21:52, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] It certainly does..

..sound a bit distorted to me, what you write on COM:QI. Blanket oppose is quite a stretch, given that I outlined my reasons for opposing. QI encourages people to upload in the best possible quality they have, not some size barely large enough to get by with wikilawyering. Why do you downsample that much in any case? --Dschwen (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Macquarie perch444.jpg

Hi Ben, this image is misidentified. See my comments on the image talk page.Nick Thorne (talk) 12:58, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

• Hi, thanks for pointing this out, I will re-upload it with the correct name immediately. Benjamint 12:55, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Link between photographers page

Hello.

I have made a topic called "More good photographers" on my user page. You could create a similar topic on your user page and you could include me in it. --ComputerHotline (talk) 19:19, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Transcluded user templates with embedded license templates

Hi Benjamin,

You transclude user templates with embedded license templates, which is not in compliance with Commons policy. Since you are one of several high quality contributors using this practise, I think it is worthwhile to debate whether it is the policy, which needs changing or whether your template transclusions should be adjusted such that they adhere to the policy. I have therefore prepared a draft User:Slaunger/Sandbox/COM:AN message to be posted on COM:AN to discuss this issue more openly.

Since I am mentioning you explicitly in my draft I think it would be most fair to let you see and review it before I post it and give you a possibility to correct any factual errors. I ask you not to open an actual discussion until I have posted it on COM:AN.

Best wishes, --Slaunger (talk) 13:40, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Benjamin, thanks for your message. I operate SlaungerBot, which is custom made for extracting the license template from transcluded user templates. The reason for the policy is to avoid what you just did mass changing images licensed under GFDL 1.2 or later to GFDL 1.2 only. This is in my opinion a very controversial move. Even if it is allowed, it is very unfortunate that such a restriction of the license for the reuser is not explicitly visible from the history of each file page and that is the reason why license templates should not be embedded in user templates transcluded onto file pages. As you probably know Fir0002 has done the exact same kind of move, which has been highly debated and also spun off into the (IMO generous offer by the Community) to opt out of the license migration. I dislike seeing this practise spread more, so I will bring it up at COM:AN to get a clarification once and for all if such a move is OK. --Slaunger (talk) 19:08, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

On second thought I chose the village pump instead. --Slaunger (talk) 19:57, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

The VP discussion ended in a clear consencus that changing from GFDL to GFDL-1.2 is not acceptable, cf. COM:L - licenses must not be revoked (you are revoking an already released GFDL ver. 1.3 and later versions in your change). I have therefore changed your license template back to GFDL. Note that if you would like to opt-out of the license migration to CC-BY-SA you can do that by specifying migration=opt-out in the template. But you better hurry as the official deadline was August 1, 2009. However, the opt-out window is still open as a courtesy from the Community. My offer to help yuou get your user template in compliance with Commons policy is of course still open. --Slaunger (talk) 19:56, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Fantails

Hi Ben, I have just been editing the wikipedia Grey fantail page, and was wondering whether you had any more good photographs. Specifically one showing the fanned tail better than my one File:Pied_fantail_01.JPG

and one of a nest or chicks that looks more natural than File:Grey fantail444.jpg (perhaps the originals it was composed from). Don't need to be large, well lit and sharp will do. :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 01:34, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

I've gotten dragged into this conversation about fantails. I was wondering if you could help me by telling me where this photo was taken - I am trying to work out which subspecies it is. Cheers. Sabine's Sunbird (talk) 20:30, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Photographers Blackbelt

		THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S BLACKBELT
		I hereby award at you this Photographers Blackbelt for your outstanding and excellent pictures. --ComputerHotline (talk) 18:32, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Please link images

BotMultichillT 08:15, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

• Image:Benjamint444 sidebar 03.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Young red necked wallaby.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Goldfinch nesting444.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Benjamint444 sidebar 04.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:King parrot5.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Apophysis render444.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Image-Benjamint444 sidebar 02.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:European starling nest.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Red necked wallaby2.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Raynoxmacrolens444.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Possum brushtail5.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Screen shot444.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Rose - difinitive.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Benjamint444 sidebar 11.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:White-winged Chough3.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.