User talk:Dbachmann

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Image:Cuchulainn_Stephen_Reid.jpg

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dave pape 15:52, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Tiberkul church.jpg

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well done. This was a perfectly legal self-made image. --Dbachmann (talk) 08:48, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Please link images

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map update: Scythia-Parthia_100_BC.png‎

As a consequence of the archaeological excavations at Arzhan, Republic of Tyva, to which reference is made in the text, the full eastern spread of the Scythians should be included on the map Scythia-Parthia_100_BC.png‎. Ref.: [1]

The size of the kurgans, and quality of the findings now on display in the National Museum in Kyzyl, capital of the Republic of Tyva, surpass contemporary discoveries further west to Ukraine, and thus throw into question the 'origin' of the Scyths.

I have spent several years living in Tyva, teaching at the university - hence my interest.

File:Centum-Satem modern.png

Regarding the centum/satem map, isn't it rather artificial to place Romanian and French on opposite sides of the isogloss? Romanian appears among the satem languages and French among the centum languages. The words for "hundred" in these languages are "sută" and "cent" respectively; both are pronounced with an 's' (i.e. an alveolar fricative). But both derive from Latin centum.

The placement on either side of the line seems like an attempt to enforce some clear east/west split, at the expense of historical fact. --Saforrest (talk) 16:07, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Question

Sorry to bother you again.You think i can upload this? footmen evolution and this Helmets.Its a sketch(es), from here Christopher Webber's page if i get his permission?. Megistias (talk) 23:09, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

no, you probably cannot upload somebody else's artwork just like that. You need to file a verifiable permission via Wikimedia's ticket system. --Dbachmann (talk) 08:18, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Its ok i contacted both the artist and the magazine and i am expecting an answer.Megistias (talk) 08:49, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Gladiatoria 113.jpg

Hi. An image you uploaded a while back has no information about source nor what is shown. Could you please add information? Thanks!

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--Infrogmation (talk) 01:23, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

File:White_people_variety.jpg

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MGA73 (talk) 19:50, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Commons

¿Do you have this picture or other? --Viejo sabio (talk) 10:08, 9 November 2009 (UCT)

Sorry, I don't have that one. --Dbachmann (talk) 14:43, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Ok. Thank you very much for the rest of Bollingen's images. A greeting. --Viejo sabio (talk) 16:09, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Italy 6th c. BC linguistic map

Hi. I find your previous map File:Iron Age Italy.png) much superior to your latest one (File:Iron Age Italy.svg). The former has a colour scheme that shows the linguistic affinities between the languages (and also has relief). So I've reverted to that for my article Scii. Regards EraNavigator (talk) 17:42, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Please help replace this outdated license

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BotMultichillT 20:23, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

File:Chariot spread.png

Hi Dbachmann. A couple of other editors and I are looking to take the Horse article to FA status on the English WP, and we would like to use your image File:Chariot spread.png in the article. However, as an image in an FA article, it needs to include a source for the information you included in the drawing. Would you possibly be able to add this information to the description of the image? Thanks in advance! Dana boomer (talk) 22:46, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Wrong information about Ukraine

Hi Db, your map is not right. Ukraine has only 0,5% of muslim population (or 250,000) and your map (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Islam_in_Europe.png) is showing 5%. Please edit this mistake. Thanks! --93.141.2.49 11:36, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

File:IE1500BP.png

In 1500 B.C., Turkic-speaking peoples were probably mainly in Siberia, and Iranian-speaking peoples (and other Indo-European speakers) probably inhabited a greater area of central Asia (and even Kazakhstan) than what is shown on the map... AnonMoos (talk) 17:24, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Never mind, just figured out that it's "before present, not B.C. However, my remarks partly apply to File:IE3500BP.png... AnonMoos (talk) 17:28, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Bas-relief

[comment made at User talk:Jameslwoodward/Archive3]

"In my opinion, a bas-relief is not a sculpture. A high-relief may arguably be a collection of diminutive sculptures in front of a stone face, but a bas-relief is clearly a 2-dimensional work of art, depicting a scene from only a single angle.

You might as well argue that an oil-painting is a 3-dimensional work of art because the paint layers have thickness.

Photographs of sculptures are legally considered original works, because lighting and choice of angle may be done creatively by the photographer. A bas-relief cannot be reproduced "orignally". This image is merely an unoriginal reproduction of a 2-dimensional ancient work of art and consequently not copyrightable. --Dbachmann (talk) 14:48, 10 March 2011 (UTC)"

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I have reverted your comment made on my Archive. Archives are just that, not active discussions. Comments made on a talk page are very public, while those made on an archive are essentially invisible, except to you and me.

As to your point, perhaps you should have read the discussion while you were at my archive as it clearly addressed the points you made above.

I agree that a bas-relief may not be a sculpture within the usual meaning of the word. It is, however, a 3D work, not 2D. The direction and angle of the lighting can dramatically affect the image.

My view is reinforced by our formal policy on coins, Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag#Photograph_of_an_old_coin_found_on_the_Internet. A coin and a bas-relief such as the one we are discussing have more or less the same relief.

Finally, our position that photographs of 2D works do not have a new copyright is based entirely on Bridgeman v Corel, which dealt only with 2D works. This is not a 2D work, despite your opinion to the contrary.

Feel free to try to change our well established policy on coins and similar works. However, until that policy is changed, works like this will remain unacceptable on Commons.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 16:55, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Since Bridgeman v Corel does not address this case in any way, I fail to see why should be able to cite it in support of your point of view any more than I could cite it in support of mine.

If there is a court verdict stating explicitly that bas-reliefs should be considered "3-dimensional works of art" for the purposes of copyright law, I would be interested in seeing it. And after being shown such a verdict I would of course immediately concede that this settles the question. As long as there isn't, this is simply idle speculation.

If there is a precedent that makes your point that "dramatic effects" of lighting on bas-reliefs or coins should be considered an original work worthy of copyright protection, I would be interested in seeing it. As long as there is no such precedent, I see no reason why wikimedia should go beyond actual legal practice in assuming things to be copyrighted. I am sure you can also create a "dramatic" effect by reproducing a photograph using, say, red lighting, or no lighting. But as we both know, such an effect, no matter how dramatic, has no effect on copyright. --Dbachmann (talk) 09:12, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

File:Flag_of_the_Libyan_Jamahiriya_1977.svg

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Fry1989 (talk) 19:14, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

File:Armenian Empire2.png

On 10 March, you tagged File:Armenian Empire2.png for deletion, but it appears that the nomination was not completed. I have re-nominated that file, along with another, at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Armenian Empire2.png. Cheers, Black Falcon (talk) 19:13, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

thank you. --Dbachmann (talk) 10:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

My Behavior

How can you talk about my behavior when you make edits like this in which you replace sourced content with your opinion. When one says things like "fallen out of use completely", "has been used as continental boundary in Late Antiquity", "has been the commonly used continental boundary", one can hardly be trusted on one's words alone. You should know that by now.

You have actually been pushing your opinions blatantly on other pages as well, such as this. Your new description reads "Locator map of Serbia which has been altered to show Armenia instead of Serbia for some reason."??? Is this some kind of mockery? Comments like this have no place in descriptions. So what that another map was used, most of the maps are actually derivative works and this one makes it clear in the description.--ComtesseDeMingrelie (talk) 20:40, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

what are you talking about? This has nothing to do with my opinions, it has everything to do with encyclopedic content discussed at w:continental boundary and elsewhere. Also, you are edit warring against numerous editors, all bona fide map editors. People upload broken and erroneous maps to commons. These should either be corrected or deleted. Sometimes I cannot be bothered to do either, so I leave at least a comment warning people against using it in encyclopedia articles. --Dbachmann (talk) 20:43, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Let me repeat this again: you deleted my sourced info. and replaced it with your opinions. You did the same thing on other maps, like the one I provided above. This little paragraph that you just wrote does not address any of the two instances raised above, and it does not explain why you feel like you have a monopoly in determining which maps are "erroneous" - despite being sourced - and which are not.--ComtesseDeMingrelie (talk) 20:53, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

nonsense. your "sourced info" concerned Herodotus. In a map that has nothing to do with Herodotus. You, madam, are just a troll. --Dbachmann (talk) 06:07, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

I at least had some source, while you had absolutely none. Using words like "standard", "most common", "most standard" requires that you furnish necessary evidence but I have not seen any of that as of now. That is undoubtedly the reason why you limit yourself to one sentence answers here and other pages. Answer my argument on the Europe map page,where are you hiding?--ComtesseDeMingrelie (talk) 06:21, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

wow, I have "no source"? Please come to w:continental boundary and read all about it. It's an encyclopedia article. With references. --Dbachmann (talk) 06:22, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Ukraine maps

Find a job, and do not destroy my work! Your work is vandalism! --SeikoEn (talk) 16:54, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

File:Sumerian_26th_c_Adab.jpg

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Yann (talk) 21:56, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

File:Khashkhamer_seal_moon_worship.jpg

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Prosfilaes (talk) 00:20, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing everything up with the file. I went and put the Swedish into the language template. And I didn't mean to put the old category back in. Sorry about that. Hazmat2 (talk) 21:14, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

File:Kievan_Rus'_historical_map_980_1054.jpg

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Chaosdruid (talk) 11:49, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

File:37r.jpg

please tag images --Nikbot 11:55, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

thank you, dear Nikbot, but I wanted this image deleted. --Dbachmann (talk) 11:56, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

File:Chaldean flag.jpg

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84.61.164.191 15:24, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

File:Kapara relief Gilgamesh winged sun.jpg

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AFBorchert (talk) 09:04, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Autopatrol given

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically sighted. This will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to help users watching Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones. Thank you. Trijnstel_talk 10:25, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Filemover

You now have the filemover right. INeverCry 16:26, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

File:Historical Europe-Asia boundaries 1700 to 1900.png

It appears to me that your revert didn't work. Is it just my cache? Chipmunkdavis (talk) 06:51, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

I think so. The image is ok again for me at this point. Must be your cache. --Dbachmann (talk) 07:51, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

File talk:FirstCrusade.jpg

Great job tracking down the origin of the image.

In light of its actual subject matter, should the file be renamed? — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 15:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

well, there is a much better quality scan at bnf.fr, so I suppose we could just upload that under another filename. I would like to keep the old image around though, as it has really made wikihistory over the past seven years or so. I actually remember the original debate on this image back in 2005. --Dbachmann (talk) 15:34, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

That makes sense. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 15:53, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

File:Wernigeroder Wappenbuch 010.jpg

I'm reasonably certain that it's just the word "Spiritus" written upside-down for some reason... AnonMoos (talk) 09:34, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

you may be right. Interesting, it never occurred to me that "spiritus" upside-down would look like "baruch", but I'll retract my claim. --Dbachmann (talk) 10:04, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

P.S. Looking at the image again, the bottom two "Non Est"s are written mostly upside down, so writing "Spiritus" upside down is consistent with that... AnonMoos (talk) 15:33, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

you are right. I was misled by the "capital S" used for Spiritus. --Dbachmann (talk) 05:51, 15 March 2013 (UTC)