User talk:Mbz1

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Сыт я по горло, до подборотка Даже от песен стал уставать, Лечь бы на дно, как подводная лодка, Чтоб не могли запеленговать! Владимир Высоцкий Mbz1 is taking a short break and maybe will be back at Commons, when the hounds stop baying (except they never will, will they?)

“Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”Margaret Mitchell

1. Interesting Image archive
2. Archive 1. July 20 2008 to December 19 2008
3. Archive 2. December 19 2008 to January 11
4. Archive 3. January 2009 - September 2 2009
   
5. Archive 4. Septemer 2009 -
   
6. FP

[edit] Quality Image Promotion

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[edit] FP Nomination

Nomination Notification

G'day! I love File:Crepuscular rays and Dead trees at Mammoth Hot Springs.jpg, that you've uploaded to Commons, so I've nominated it for Featured Picture status. It's nomination is at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Crepuscular rays and Dead trees at Mammoth Hot Springs.jpg. Best of luck! Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 10:48, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Topic Ban user

It seems hopeless. If he is topic banned, he will probably just continue as a sock puppet, or even just ignore the ban and continue as usual. And it is clear that many Commons administrators are so weird they are incapable of seeing anything wrong with the man's editing. Given that, what can anyone do?

One idea that just come to mind, is that perhaps he could be mentored by Durova. Has mentoring been tried? I have a lot of respect for Durova. Malcolm Schosha (talk) 18:50, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

I do not know, but I believe Durova is way too busy to take care of this, and yes, I have a lot of respect for Durova too.--Mbz1 (talk) 19:11, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] File:Clonfert Cathedral Mermaid 2009 09 17.jpg

Mermaid in Clonfert Cathedral

Mermaid at the doorway to Clontuskert Priory

Hi Mila, you asked Is it unusual to see a mermaid carving in a Cathedral, or I am mistaking? Clonfert cathedral is dedicated to St Brendan who is renowned for his legendary journey to The Isle of the Blessed. The carved mermaid can be seen as an allusion to Brendan's voyage. Multiple carvings of mermaids are known in Ireland, typically from the 15th-century when Brendan's voyage became popular. I've just uploaded another example, a weathered relief of a mermaid at the doorway to Clontuskert Priory which is quite close to Clonfert Cathedral. Best wishes, AFBorchert (talk) 09:24, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi Andreas, thank you for explaining the image's origin to me and for the links. I just read St Brendan and did not see any mention of mermaid. Do you know how that particular allusion came about? Maybe there's an interesting story behind it? Are you aware of any other carvings of mermaids in Cathedrals or Priories that are not associated with St Brendan?
BTW I just though that it is the first message you left at my talk page with a reason other than to inform me that you unblocked me :) Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 13:58, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Portal to the sacristy of Kilcooly Abbey with another mermaid (see the note and please pardon that I have no better picture of it)

Hi Mila, the text of the voyage of St Brendan comes in multiple variants, two of them, the Dutch based on two manuscripts from c. 1400 and the German early print from c. 1476 include the encounter of a siren (which in this context is a synonym to a mermaid). Let me cite the German text in its translation by Willem P. Gerritsen and Clara Strijbosch: When all this was over at last, they resumed their journey and once more got into great difficulties, because they saw a beast coming towards them with a human body and face, but from the waist downwards it was fish. It is called a siren, a very lovely creature with a beautiful human shape; it sings so well and its voice is so sweet that whoever hears it cannot resist sleep and does not know what he is doing. When this sea monster approached them, the shipmen fell asleep and let the ship drift: the monks too forgot themselves completely because of its voice and did not know where they were. (See The Voyage of St Brendan, ISBN 0-85989-755-9, p. 141.) According to Colum Hourihane, the mermaid is commonly represented in Romanesque sculpture throughout Europe but they do not appear in Irish art before the 13th century and are comparatively rare after that. Only five such examples are recorded. He writes: The example at Clontuskert Priory must originally have been one of the most detailed; she holds a monstrance or ciborium-shaped mirror. The rayed, star-like surround and flat base to this mirror is unusual and closer in design to a liturgical object that any of the other simple, circular mirrors. In such a prominent position on this doorway it is difficult to gauge what the reaction would have been to a naked female who greeted visitors on each occasion they entered the doorway. The associated emotions and connotations of this motif have been extensively studied and can range from prostitution to sexual lust and evil. [..] Placed at the entrance to either the chancel or the body of the church these symbols must have warned the worshipper of the evils of sin and the need to resist temptation (especially of the flesh) in all its forms. Best wishes, AFBorchert (talk) 00:44, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi Andreas, thank you for answering my questions in such an extend. The story is getting more and more interesting! I also read in few Internet sources that St. Brendan "is said to have converted the mermaids and sea serpents to Christianity". The story you cited reminded me Die Lorelei by Heinrich Heine. Warm regards.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:28, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Quality Image Promotion

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[edit] POTD

Hello, Thanks for your kind words. I am working on Wikisource for now, and I will relocate to India in the next weeks. I hope I will be able to make more pictures there. ;o) Yann (talk) 19:44, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] FP Promotion

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[edit] FP Promotion

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[edit] The helicopter

Lovely. I'll be hapy to promote it, but first there's a small quality issue. There are some flashy spots, three under the aircraft, one to the lower left, and one to the far right. I believe they're light flashes and the picture would be better without them. Wolf (talk) 22:05, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I corrected it, but please do not worry about promotion. That image was taken few years ago, it was bitterly cold, windy, and I had no idea about Commons back then, which means that I could not care less about the quality of the images I was taken. So it's OK, if quality does not allow the image to get promoted. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 23:08, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, please don´t take my oppose personal. I don´t want to be an ass, I just think a FP should boast a certain image quality. I also have plenty of pictures which I consider of higher artistic value than some photos I uploaded to commons, but I know they would be blasted for technical issues if I submitted them for FP. Maybe that´s OK though? For pictures which don´t quite meet the technical requirements, there´s Valued Images Nikopol (talk) 01:26, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

What made you to believe I took your oppose personally? Not at all, please do not worry about that :) I nominated the image not because it has an artistic value, it does not. I nominated the image because it has an educational value, which IMO mitigates some quality problems, but whatever...I should have known better :( One more time, please do not worry, I do not take your oppose personally , and besides I am very sure that by tomorrow I will get few more opposes :) Maybe I'll go ahead and withdraw it all together.--Mbz1 (talk) 01:46, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

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