User talk:Dennis Bratland

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Dennis Bratland!

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.

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File:Lane Splitting on the Bridge.jpg

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There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. It has been found that you've added in the image's description only a Template that's not a license and although it provides useful information about the image, it's not a valid license. Could you please resolve this problem, adding the license in the image linked above? You can edit the description page and change the text. Uploading a new version of the file does not change the description of the file. This page may give you more hints on which license to choose. Thank you.

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Please,...

...be more careful with your uploads from flickr. Things like that produce pure chaos and work for others. Thanks in advance! --High Contrast (talk) 07:55, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

File:Roman Holiday still. The art of the motorcycle Las Vegas.jpg

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--Leoboudv (talk) 03:06, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

File:Orange Hayabusa logo.jpg

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--Leoboudv (talk) 01:42, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

File:Spiderman_Hayabusa_-_Front.jpg

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–Tryphon^☂ 12:33, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

File:Secret Society Scooter Club jacket.jpg

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--209.133.84.99 20:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Rr10

Hi Dbratland

I saw you deleted the Original 10th Anniversary "Rocker Reunion Pissup" Poster, 1993. I think this is incorrect.

It is our poster. We organised the event. I took the picture. I give permission.

What do I need to say on the form?

Thank you.

I don't have the ability to delete anything. I tagged the file for possible copyright violation, and an administrator decided it should be deleted. It's obvious that it's a picture of a framed poster, possibly taken by a passerby. It looks nothing like an image the owner of the poster's copyright would use. And there is no copyright notice visible on the poster -- common sense would tell you there is probably a © symbol at the bottom.

You need to add proof that you have the rights to this poster to the new version, or it's just going to get deleted again. The fact that you own a copy of a poster does not make you the copyright owner. --Dbratland (talk) 19:07, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

File:Evel_Knievel_and_Harley-Davidson_XR-750_at_Madame_Tussaud's_Las_Vegas.jpg

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Túrelio (talk) 21:09, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

File:Yellow BMW S1000RR on race track.jpg

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Yann (talk) 17:35, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

File:Yellow BMW S 1000 RR on track 2.jpg

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Yann (talk) 18:34, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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Category:The Stranger (newspaper)

You placed several items in Category:The Stranger (newspaper) simply because it was used as a cited source for a statement made in the description. For example, you did this with File:Seattle - Club Z 02.jpg. This is not how we normally use categories on Commons: they should have something to do with either the source or content of the file itself, not citations in the description. Where you have done that on my photos I have reverted you. You may want to look through your edits to see if there are others you should revert. - Jmabel ! talk 04:49, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I felt it was only semi-Stranger related. The Frizzelle article was fairly notable and the main reason for the photos. But I can see the reason for not having them in that category. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:32, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Autopatrol given

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Tagging photos from today's expedition

Good to see you today! In order that we don't upload too many similar images, besides whatever other categories you add, please add Category:Images from Wiki Loves Monuments Seattle expedition 2012-09-15 to your images. I won't be surprised if we have to rework that category, but at least adding it will function as a tag. - Jmabel ! talk 20:57, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Timing belt

Please don't de-categorise these non-camshaft images from Category:Timing belts. To clear up this issue, both here and at en:WP, where belts and camshaft belts had been mixed together the categories, have now been split into Category:Timing belts and Category:Timing belts (camshaft). See en:Timing belt, en:Toothed belt and en:Timing belt (camshaft). Your removal of these cats is inappropriate and unconstructive. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:28, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

What is your basis for calling a drive belt a timing belt? Do you think a bicycle or motorcycle chain drive is a timing chain? Can you explain what the meaning of the word "timing" is in this context, if not Category:Timing belts has a clear definition: "Timing belts are toothed belts used as non-slip belt drives with a positive timing relationship between input and output shafts." Is it because some automotive timing belts have been repurposed in bicycles? Repurpsing it that way changes it from a timing belt to a drive belt.

A new category Category:Timing belts (camshaft) misses the point: whether or not the machine uses a camshaft is not what makes it a timing belt. It is that it maintains a positive or indexing relationship between the input and output shafts, on any kind of machine, not just a car engine.

I notice that you "cite" yourself over on en.wikipedia, in articles you've written. en:Timing belt (camshaft), en:Timing belt and en:Toothed belt are egregiously unsourced, particularly in the long paragraphs without a single footnote where you argue, in violation of WP:NOR, that drive belts are timing belts. Do you have independent sources that treat drive belts as timing belts? If not, these Wikipedia articles are going to need to be renamed and drastically rewritten. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:22, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

The fact that I have several trade catalogues that describe them as "timing belts". It's a common name for them in widespread use. Admittedly one of several (read the WP article). The WP article is at en:toothed belt just to simplify the disambiguation. This category is here at Category:timing belts for historical reasons. If you want to rename it to Category:Toothed belts to align the two, then that would be reasonable.

They're used on bikes (both) because they're a positive drive that requires less belt tension for a given drive torque than belts that work by pure friction. Note that these belts (to be counted as timing belts) are not only toothed belts, they're also toothed pulleys. There are many vee and polygroove belts that are "toothed" too, but they're still just friction belts, the pulleys are plain and their teeth are only there to reduce internal bending friction. The belts illustrated here, also the Harley primary drive if we can find a picture, is a positive drive, thus justifying the term "timing belt", even when this isn't their primary reason.

As for unsourced, then feel free to make a positive contribution that goes forwards, by expanding it. This was written in five minutes flat to clear up the crap previously there that mixeed camshafts into everything, and particularly to start addressing two manufacturer-specific belt articles that were at risk of becoming our only coverage on the toothed belt in general. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:08, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Chains are positive drive too. It misses the point, which is that in a cycle drive, it is of no consequence which position the driven wheel is in relation to the input shaft. There is no timing involved. Just drive. I can see how sometimes a drive belt might be called a "timing belt" due to familiarity with car parts, but it's not the most common terminology, and it's clearly misleading. I'm going to propose moving en:Timing belt (camshaft) to en:Timing belt and generally reconfiguring this set of articles to make the distinction between timing/indexing and positive drive and plain belt drive (smooth belts) more clear.

I don't mean to offend; I know how valuable your Wikipedia contributions are. But I think this one thing needs to be fixed to better conform with sources and common usage. Cheers! --Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:16, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Learning to ride a bike at Sunnysands, Barmouth. 2012 2.jpg

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Ramaksoud2000 (talk) 17:23, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/martyn404/7859884762/ Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:02, 15 May 2013 (UTC)