User talk:Octagon
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Tip: Categorizing images[edit]
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.
Here's how:
1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:
2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.
[[Category:Category name]]
For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:
[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]][[Category:Comets]]
This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".
When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").
Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.BotMultichillT 06:05, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Roberto DiGioia.jpg is uncategorized since 22 March 2009.
- Image:Biboul Darouiche.jpg is uncategorized since 22 March 2009.
- Image:Kristian Schultze.JPG was uncategorized on 28 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 14:41, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Kategorien[edit]
Hallo. Ich habe soeben mehrere von dir angelegte Kategorien gelöscht. Alle waren falsch benannt (Commons ist ein internationales Projekt, hier werden i.a. englische Bezeichnungen und Transkriptionen benutzt), einige gab es schon längst unter richtigem Namen (wie category:Lake Baikal).
Falls du Fragen hast, wie man Bilder richtig kategorisiert, fühle dich frei die direkt mir oder im deutschsprachigen commons:Forum zu stellen. Kleiner Tipp vorab: wenn man sich bzgl. der Kategorisierung unsicher ist, hilft in vielen Fällen ein Abgleich mit fremden Bildern, die jeweils den gleichen Gegenstand darstellen, weiter. Gruß --S[1] 19:05, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
- Vielen Dank für die Info.Gruß --Octagon
Lieber Octragon
Wir würden gerne dieses Bild verwenden. File:2010 FIFA World Cup Fans 2.jpg Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns so schnell es geht unter mrivas@rufenerevents.ch
Herzlichen Dank und Freundliche Grüsse
Miriam Rivas
I think you can manage to minimize the various color balances and expositions of your panorama by using Hugin exposition tool. It won't make your picture FP, but it would be of great benefit to Commons. --S23678 (talk) 06:52, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you for the tip! I'll tryOctagon (talk) 16:14, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
re:2010_FIFA_World_Cup_Fans_2.jpg[edit]
Examination of the above named image has called into question the caption used for it at 2010 FIFA World Cup. In particular, the people seem to be made up for, and posing in, a staged photo, rather than being fans celebrating with any sense of spontaneity, and visual evidence of photoshopping means that it is hard to assume that they were at the claimed location. Your comments would be valuable. Kevin McE (talk) 23:16, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
Problem with omul[edit]
Hi. Your photo is entittled Omul Lake Baikal.jpg but the description of this photo is: Thymallus baikalensis Dybowski, 1874. According to my knowledge the omul is the species of the Coregonus genus, whereas Thymallus is other genus not synomised with Coregonus. So, the omul and Thymallus baikalensis are two different animals. Best wishes --Robert Niedźwiedzki (talk) 10:56, 19 September 2010 (UTC) Hi. Thank you very much for the information!!!Octagon (talk) 09:37, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
photo from Kurt Albert[edit]
Could it be the Photos from Kurt are side-inverted? I think the rock is the "Streitberger Schild" near Steitberg with the Castle Neideck in background. Greetings --Alma (talk) 05:27, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
- Yes it is possible, as the original photos were slides taken on a positive film. I will invert them to the flipside. Thank you for the suggestion.Octagon (talk) 09:01, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Interest in your photo[edit]
I'm impressed with the photo of a weaver bird's nest hanging on a telephone pole which you took. May I have your permission to include it in a children's book?
Regards, Adeline grazioso_7@yahoo.com.sg
looking for approval to use photo[edit]
Dear Sir- I am contacting you in regards to your image on wikipedia. I work for a small private label company that makes coffee mugs. We have a customer that is requesting us to design a mug for Oktoberfest and has requested your image.
Größe der Voransicht: 800 × 325 Pixel Version in höherer Auflösung (3.407 × 1.382 Pixel, Dateigröße: 3,05 MB, MIME-Typ: image/jpeg)
Celebrating 200 years of Oktoberfest at the specially built historical section of the Oktoberfest 2010.
The image will be scanned and then graphically altered to look like a sketch. Can you tell me how I can get permission to use this image for this project?
I look forward to hearing back from you. With thanks Heather hleventini@formationbrandsllc.com
Picture[edit]
I have used one of your picture to illustrate a report about Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
English: Garmisch-Partenkirchen town hall Deutsch: Rathaus Garmisch-Partenkirchen See here: http://www.mehr-demokratie.de/index.php?id=5930
Thank you for publishing with: Creative Commons.
- It's my pleasure. Thank you for informing me. Octagon (talk) 17:32, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Possible to replace picture of me on Wikipedia? ;)[edit]
Hallo Octagon,
Falk Willis hier. ;)
Danke fuer den Upload des Bildes von mir!
Kleine Frage: waere es moeglich, dies durch ein "besseres" zu ersetzen?
Koennte das gerne schicken...
Oder hier ein Link zu ein paar Fotos: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10997640/falk-willis-pictures-temp.zip
Danke im voraus!
Falk Willis
falkwillis at gmail dot com
Permission of use[edit]
Dr Octagon,
I'm picture researcher in the Museum of natural history of Paris, and we're preparing an exhibition in 2014 about nocturnal animals. I was looking for a picture of social weavers, and I've found yours : //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nest_of_the_Sociable_Weaver.jpg
Is it possible to use it for our exhibition ?
Thanks,
Ingrid
My email : verleye at mnhn dot fr
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JuTa 07:39, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
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JuTa 15:20, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
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JuTa 08:10, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
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JuTa 08:10, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
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File:Säuling-timelapse.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project. |
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Request for permission of use[edit]
Hello Octagon,
we are making a non-commercial short film that deals critically with German colonial history. In the film, archive images are briefly inserted at various points. We would like to use the following photo from you:
File:BlackLivesMatterKoenigsplatz1.jpg
Would you kindly give us permission? That would be very much appreciated. We would of course provide it with an appropriate copyright reference and the film will be published under a CC BY-NC-SA licence.
Please write to: stahl-verena@web.de
Thanks a lot, Verena