User talk:NJR ZA/Archives/January 2013

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Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

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Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

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Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee


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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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/FPCBot (talk) 14:01, 30 January 2013 (UTC)