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Use of photos showing trolling motors.

Hi Nick, My name is Doreen. I have a website www.the-boating-store.com. I live in the UK.

Would you give me permission to use your photos showing trolling motors on a page of my site where the subject is trolling motors. I am more than happy to site you as the photographer.

I find the wikicommons legal stuff confusing - so thought I would contact you this way instead.

With thanks

Hi Doreen. Thank you for requesting to use the images rather than just doing so illegally.

On your request, I have release the following image in the public domain.

• File:Minn Kota-Trolling Outboard-001.jpg
• File:Minn Kota-Trolling Outboard-002.jpg

You may now reuse them as you wish without any license requirements.

Minn Kota photos.

Much obliged to you Nick. I have downloaded them and will add them to the site in the next few days. Will add 'photographer NJR ZA wikipedia'. Is that OK?

Doreen

Leopard Vehicle

Hi Nick,

I would like to use your image of the leopard vehicle for a paper I am writing for a medical journal. Would it be possible to get permission to use the image, and if yes, could you tell me how you would like to be accredited?

Kind regards

Arul

St Pauli Girl logo

Paul

Hi I have responded to your call for at Pauli Girl label.

Best Gary

Image use request/African Review

Dear Nick

I edit African Review of Business and Technology. I would like to know if it possible to use the image posted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johhanesburg_Water-Midrand_Tower-002.jpg in association with a forthcoming issue of the mgaazine. Please do let me know if so - and what conditions, if any, would apply.

My e-mail is andrew.croft@alaincharles.com

Regards

Andrew Croft

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Magog the Ogre (talk) 01:33, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

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 Support Single image within scope.--Jetstreamer (talk) 20:48, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. MrPanyGoff 18:04, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

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Dear Nick, My name is Shem Oirere, a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. I was requesting if I could use your photo on solar hot water system taken at the Kouga local municipality (May 1, 2011) to illustrate an article I have on solar energy. I will give credit to you for the photo once permission is granted by you.

Many thanks and hope to hear from you

Permission to use Kouga solar hot water system photos

Dear Nick,

This is Shem Oirere again. I had sent you an earlier request but I am adding this to notify you that my email address is sooirere@yahoo.com in case you may want to let me know of your decision on the request to use the above photos.

Many Regards,

Shem Oirere

La Mort, in Louvre Museum

Dankie vir die soort kommentaar, en vir vertalings in Afrikaans!--Jebulon (talk) 14:35, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

The photo is well worth it. --NJR_ZA (talk) 08:03, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Image is featured on WikiLoves monuments 2012 - South Africa Facebook page!!

Hello Nick . I thought that you would like to know that your beautiful photograph (LLandaff Oratory) is being featured on the Wiki Loves monuments - South Africa facebook page here.

Please take some time and "like" our page. Also we would apreciate if you can share with us the story of how you ended up visiting the oratory.--Thuvack (talk) 19:30, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

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84user (talk) 12:34, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

File:South Africa - Anglo-Boer War Memorial-003.jpg

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84user (talk) 13:00, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

P.S. Parsons

I'm confused by the author listed at File:Dutch_Reformed_Church,_Church_Street,_Hanover,_South_Africa-001.JPG and File:Magistrates_Court,_Church_Street,_Hanover,_South_Africa-001.JPG. Did you take those photos or were they uploaded on behalf of someone else? Platonides (talk) 10:56, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

I uploaded on behalf of someone else with their permission. Author name is listed correctly as P.S. Parsons <pieterparsons@gmail.com> --NJR_ZA (talk) 11:57, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012! Dear NJR ZA, Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2012, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 350,000 pictures of cultural heritage objects from 36 countries around the world, becoming the largest photography competition to have ever taken place. You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help. To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey in your own language, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2012. Kind regards, the Wiki Loves Monuments team

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Malawi?

Hi! I'm curious, what have pictures like this one have to do with Malawi? I don't get it :) Thanks! --Elitre (talk) 11:23, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Sorry about that, busy categorizing a lot of images. Will double check when done and clean up these mistakes. --NJR_ZA (talk) 11:27, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Ok, glad to hear this! --Elitre (talk) 12:48, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

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•  Commentlook at changes in the syntax of scope.

 Support Best in scope --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 08:07, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Yann (talk) 16:50, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Beaching

Hi NJR ZA,

Thanks for spotting this usage possibility, and for linking the cats etc. I did not even know that nautical term. It is kind and helpful actions like these I really appreciate about the community. Have a nice evening in South Africa. --Slaunger (talk) 21:13, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

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JuTa 21:28, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

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Shipwreck categories for Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay

Hi NJR ZA, To avoid duplicating the work, I will concentrate on the animal photos and leave the wrecks to you as I am not sure how to create categories for ships for which the date of construction is not known, or which changed name at some stage. Some wreck categories needed are: SS Cape Matapan, MFV Katsu Maru, MFV Aster, Highfields, SS Hypatia, MV Gemsbok, SS Clan Stuart, SS Clan Monroe, SS Umhlali, SS Bia, MV Romelia, MV Antipolis, MV Daeyang Family, SS Oakburn, Bos400, SAS Gelderland, MV Ker Yar Vor, RMS Athens, MV Treasure, MFV Princess Elizabeth, MV Rockeater, SAS Fleur (HMS Barbrake), SAS Bloemfontein. There may be others too which I can't think of offhand. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 06:39, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

OK. It will take a while to do all the ships as I will need to research the date the ship was constructed, but I'll keep working on those till we have them all and where possible also create wikipedia articles for each ship with their history. --NJR_ZA (talk) 07:20, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

OK, Thanks, I will keep a lookout for the new categories. · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 07:51, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

CTA382

You recategorised the vessel, with reason that the indication on the ship has to be used. That reason is correct, but you made the wrong interpretation. Look at the image: the indication on the fishing ship is given at the bow. I admit that also the name is given, unlike most fishing vessels even in the same size. But categorising as you did now, the Category:Fishing vessels by license number does not show the license number any more. This is not correct. I made a mistake in the name, so a solution can be that I {badname} Category:CTA 382 Cap Metaplan (ship, 1925) and ask for Category:CTA 382 Cap Matapan (ship, 1925). And if you insist, categorise that category in Category:Fishing vessels by license number (will be in green) --Stunteltje (talk) 14:29, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

OK, I was not aware of the naming convention on Category:Fishing vessels by license number, was just following the one on Category:Ships. Go ahead and change it, but before you do, please check on the Cap Matapan vs. Cape Matapan as I am sure it should the the latter. --NJR_ZA (talk) 15:28, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

I am getting old, i think. You are right in the name again. So I intent to change to Category:CTA 382 Cape Matapan (ship, 1925) and give {badname} to the other categories. Correct? --Stunteltje (talk) 15:38, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, that will work. --NJR_ZA (talk) 15:42, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

 Done But the name without license redirected. --Stunteltje (talk) 16:28, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Reef categories

Hi NJR ZA, I see you have categorised by reef. Are there any guidelines about where the lines should be drawn between reefs? How do you decide whether to group two sites on a contiguous reef or split them for categorisation? The dive site names are pretty arbitrary and follow usage rather than any rules. Is it the same for reef categories or should they be grouped together following some other logic? Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 13:38, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Peter, there does not seem to be any guidelines at the current time. Category:Reefs is also still very sparely populated. I would suggest we just follow the usage as you have it at the moment per the dive sites just to get the ball rolling. Might also be a good idea to start a discussion in en:WikiProject Scuba diving for additional input. --NJR_ZA (talk) 13:56, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

We may as well go according to the site. It will usually take local knowledge to make a more useful distinction. In some cases I will recommend grouping a few close sites together, but this is usually done already in the site articles. Go ahead and create whatever looks good to you, I will suggest merging if it is ever necessary. · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 16:30, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

It think this will be OK. If anyone later wants to add the larger geologically classified reefs (or however it is done with reefs) we can just make these smaller diving names for the reefs part of those categories. --NJR_ZA (talk) 18:44, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

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