User talk:Penyulap

Please do not mention reality, or anything relating to it, on this talkpage,
I reject your reality and replace it with my own !!

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farewell

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I rejoice that so many of us can understand those who we cannot understand. While I always had one foot upon the digital earth, and one foot in the digital heaven, and now I have left to try to prepare the way for those who may follow me there, I hope that we can once again understand what we cannot understand, and if we cannot do it in the place I try to prepare, then I hope we can cross paths again just the same before I lift my other foot from the Real earth beneath us.

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Penyulap ☏

short story

There was a vet, the very best training, the finest surgery, all the latest tools, medicines and equipment.

I went and caught a wild bird, I put it into a box and rushed it to him. I said "this bird is about to die from shock, it is a wild bird and I want you to save it, money is no object, I will pay anything you ask to save it"

I left him a large sum and he took the bird into his clinic. The next day, despite every effort he made to save the bird, it died. I could have asked him why it died, paid for an autopsy, theorised, but it would make no difference.

The bird was dead and I was right.

Critique and invitation to an alternative wiki

http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=30583#p30583 – I've critiqued some of your contributions to Commons. I'm a sysop at Encyclopedia Dramatica. If a satirical image of yours is deleted, you're free to upload it onto ED. Your images are within ED's scope. ED has an article on Jimbo, so you're free to add your images to that article. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 02:39, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Actually, I did some digging, and the "Whambo.jpg" image violates copyrights: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Whambo.jpg&diff=91107061&oldid=91106661. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 03:05, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Well the images I make and upload here are perfectly within scope too, the problem is using images on commons, some people think they are freely licensed, which is almost never the case. Makes no difference to me, I quite like the chance to refresh the image. It's getting like a monthly cartoon strip. Penyulap ☏ 03:22, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Fixed that image, no legal problems with the GOAT in Jimbo's bedroom anymore. Didn't see much critique there, thanks for the invite. Penyulap ☏ 06:43, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Alright. You're welcome. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 12:47, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Hey, I just had time to look over those comments again, and I notice that you (or sorry if it was someone else I can't recall) mention the Whambo image and the associations within the image. The image had to be patched up after the original one was changed. The original one had Jimbo in a mullet haircut, the sort of thing that might have almost passed as fashion when he was a teenager, it had context as far as the T-Shirt was brightly coloured with 'GO-GO WHAMBO' on it, a reference to a band and a song of the era, and the photo of princess Diana / george michael if you squint on the wall, along with the fan club thingy. I thought it quite amusing, and must have hit the spot as I got a barnstar for my efforts.

The image was deleted because of the haircut, it was uploaded by the now adult - then teenage boy who had the haircut back then. He had uploaded the picture of himself onto commons. Someone argued that he didn't have the photographers rights to his school photo, and efforts to contact him failed as he lives on a farm somewhere with his new family in a hippy-happy sort of way, and doesn't seem online nowdays.

I quite like the reasoning for the deletions, personality rights for a haircut and legal implications of having a GOAT in the bedroom... :) seems rather amusing in itself, a tabloid flavour to it. Penyulap ☏ 04:50, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

RE: Hi Michaeldsuarez

I'm pretty much neutral now. I don't see how the image will be useful. As I've said earlier, if you want to preserve the image, you're more than welcome to upload it onto ED. Sorry, but I feel that File:Chinese_large_orbital_station.png is cleaner (transparent / white background, less fancy stuff) and more accurate. Nevertheless, I appreciate the time and effort that you've placed into File:中國空間站二.PNG. I can't draw anything like that. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 12:31, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

fair enough, but the point is that if both images can't be accommodated where more people have expressed a preference for my own, and a single person is removing it, then what is the point of making another, better, image ? It will obviously end up unused as well.

I can now draw space stations down to the last cable, bolt, and antenna. Animate them in video to match the commercial copyright non-free videos of the Chinese program, and it's all going to waste on wiki. The USA has no money or knowhow to have a space station any more, so after the ISS, there is just the Russian and Chinese stations which we can't have photos or videos of on commons. AT ALL. I have doubts that 2 dimensional sketches will impress the readers. I have my own websites, but my desire to write and illustrate spaceflight has been overtaken by my desire to learn programming, just as I have learnt drawing, so I can replace the project as a priority. My writing and drawing spaceflight doesn't beat everyone being able to write and draw without the sociopaths bullying them, the creeps mutilating their work, the interfaces that make it too hard to bother. Better I become at least as fluent in programming as I have become in drawing in the time I've been editing.

中國空間站二 is actually assembled using public domain components, when I saw what the government artist did, I figured I could do it better. The station on the government site has shadows on the solar panels from modules that aren't there. But I've moved far beyond requiring any assistance from other sources to assemble images like that, I can now do a better job single-handed I am pleased to say. Penyulap ☏ 19:35, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

I guess that you're right, but I'm currently banned from enwiki, so I can't voice my opinion there. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 00:05, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Really ? did they give you a reason ? I'd be jealous if they gave you a reason. Penyulap ☏ 00:09, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3AMichaeldsuarez – ArbCom case. I created an ED article on an enwiki user, and they called it harassment. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 14:35, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Wow, impressive, actual discussion and stated reasons. My block which functions as a ban has nothing of the sort. The more you dig, the funnier it gets. Blocked for editing legitimately on commons (uploading poetry), blocked for having a Bot with a bot flag which passed the bot approvals process and is clearly marked as my own bot all over it's pages, and some arb couldn't work out who it belonged to without using the checkuser tool. The bot was already blocked indef, but he writes checkuser block in the log anyway, which is a bit much. He blocked me with talkpage access revoked for making a legitimate complaint against him. Then there was the time I got blocked for inserting a space into an article in order to make a null-edit. Some people don't know what a Null edit is, so figured to block me until they learnt. They still haven't learnt.

Some of the funniest stuff you've ever seen is over there. Some arb said it was ok to revoke everyone else's access to my talkpage to 'disperse the crowds'. Yeah, they really don't like consensus developing against them. Their opinions of the community itself, like calling them 'Kibitzers' is something you'd find good reading.

I think you'll find it enjoyable reading if you like laughs, en.wiki is so sad that it's funny :D Penyulap ☏ 19:44, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

I've sent the new ArbCom a message about your complaint. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 12:35, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

couldn't care less, they're the dictatorship of bullies that used sockfarms in the secret ballot to own, and ruin, the whole project. Find anyone who is happy with their decisions and the resulting decline in the projects health. Penyulap ☏ 21:40, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Alright. I didn't accomplish anything anyway. An Arbitrator told me that they won't reexamine your block unless you contact them yourself. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 13:10, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, but Whambo.gif was deleted before I could view it. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 13:10, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Ah! yes, well, that is the subject of a discussion, Fæ hasn't had much luck at AfD of late, so he's trying his luck at AN instead. Penyulap ☏ 13:23, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

People on Commons consider too many things to be "harassment"; Fæ especially. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 15:45, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Actually, when it comes to copy and pasting, there is some new let's all go to flickr thing. Looks like this when you use uploadwizard

I notice something said on the village pump that indicates only some users might be able to see it. I would have thought that anyone can cut and paste stuff from the web, but apparently maybe it takes some kind of a level of skill to read the license first, lolz, though I think more likely it's some beta test and will stay that way if there is no automatic license check.

Occasionally I look at the news headlines for stuff to draw, but the world is often a bit boring. I saw some story about a satellite colliding with space junk and drew the satellite, it's unusual, kind of like a blob of perspex, or a ball of clear plastic inside another ball of plastic, looks like this. It reflects laser light.

Not much inspiring stuff to draw, what kind of stuff do you want/need that you can think of ? I should re-caption that one that shows the number of new editors on en.wiki, but ah, I just thought there are those graphics with how lame the different arguments are, with each topic and the number of edits on those topics. Do you think there is a graphic like that we can make ? Or how appalling the spending of donations is ? I would figure work like that is the sort of stuff you want, but I don't know what stuff your board likes / uses. Penyulap ☏ 10:30, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

File:Whambo2.jpg

{{File:Whambo2.jpg||}} Fæ (talk) 22:03, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

hey that's a really big template. I should make a mega-version of it sometime. Penyulap ☏ 22:16, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

link to discussion Penyulap ☏ 09:58, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

New Request

Hello, can you help out here when you have the time. Thanks--باسم (talk) 17:41, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

of course, no problem. Penyulap ☏ 23:24, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Can you make a favor.

i'm so sorry but i've uploaded this file http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xdxd.svg i blank the file ,please delete it,thanks in advance--EEIM (talk) 21:10, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

I asked INeverCry and now it's  Done Penyulap ☏ 00:48, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

SVG?

Do you edit .svg files? This one has an error that a rep from the company would like fixed. The small dot beside the c in McIlhenny should be under the c like the temp image I uploaded: File:Tobasco Sauce 2013 logo.jpg. They may pay in sauce, lol.--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:25, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, it depends on what kind of sauce, if we were talking ketjap manis in a reasonable quantity or some lovely yakatori, It'd be done already, but I'll look into it, but the Tabasco better be worth it :D Penyulap ☏ 23:40, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

hmph, I've done what I'd consider to be a stopgap solution to the Svg, I've moved the dot and reduced and moved the c, however I noticed that it's fair use and on en.wiki, where they have me blocked, so that prevents me uploading the image there, and as it is fair use then I can't upload it here, so unless you'd like it sent to you via email, which you're welcome to it, I can't see an easy solution. Penyulap ☏ 00:02, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Tabasco Sauce

asking at the gfx lab seems the obvious thing, also, someone can adjust the geometry of the rest of the text to the usual fastidious levels of svg editors. I have at the moment just basic svg skills, which just improved, maybe I should learn more, but I'm determined to learn website programming tools and languages first. Penyulap ☏ 00:06, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

It can probably be uploaded to commons. The article shows the same logo in a 1905 image so it should be PD. If someone slaps a DR on it that may be fun.--Canoe1967 (talk) 00:09, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Ok, here you go, I'll leave the details to you ok ? Penyulap ☏ 00:15, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Ok, thanks again. You should make a 'this user was paid in sauce' template.--Canoe1967 (talk) 00:18, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Oh yeah ? I'll wait and see if I get my sauce first ! Penyulap ☏ 00:21, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Their CEO just passed so it may take a while.--Canoe1967 (talk) 00:55, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

well, I'll just have to add him to the list of "don't hold your breath waiting for a reward from these guys" like barnstars from Jenova20 or John Carter. Unless of course the sauce is waiting in the afterlife, like the clay warriors or Nile riverboats. Hmm, maybe I should ask for more in the afterlife. Hmm, maybe I work on the Genghis Khan images.. Penyulap ☏ 01:19, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

The company rep just thanked us on his en:wp talk page. Crossing fingers for gallon of sauce still. Did you enter the free contest online? I think you can leave a comment. Just say you are the only one that has earned one. http://www.tabasco.com/mcilhenny-company/coupons-promotions/ --Canoe1967 (talk) 19:44, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

The website 404'd with a cute pic of an alligator suggesting it ate the request. Maybe it has something to do with geographic location of the viewer ? Penyulap ☏ 22:50, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Try the link from the main page, daily gallon giveaway.--Canoe1967 (talk) 02:57, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

I think someone disappeared the old file, so we don't know who made it now. Penyulap ☏ 06:31, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Re: Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop#Image:新莽时期疆域图（繁）.png

Reply to:

do you know where there is a map out on the web that shows the information you'd like ? probably best to answer on my talkpage in case i don't check here. Penyulap ☏ 21:30, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

I do not know what information the map shows, which is inherent with the map showing a language I don't know, and me requesting a translation so I would understand it.
I wish I did, then I could just make the map myself without bothering anyone else, but I have absolutely no knowledge of Chinese characters. The map is displayed on w:Xin Dynasty, that's how I came upon it.
Should I rather put it on Commons:Requests for translation? ~ Nelg (talk) 09:49, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes, for sure, my own command of mandarin is rather embarrassing, I don't study enough. Penyulap ☏ 09:56, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Re: my most Recent request

I did what you asked, hope its sufficient. As for the previous blank map (Jerusalem) i have translated it look here. Thank you for everything :)--باسم (talk) 22:19, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome, I hope that I have got it right, my geography knowledge of modern times is good, but for old history it's just ordinary. Basically I don't bother to remember places I wouldn't be likely to travel to in my TARDIS :) So, if there are extra things to do, then just ask 'the green part should be black and can Iran be orange and so forth. I like to learn everything, but I also prioritise what I learn in a way that is different to my friends, different people like to learn different things. Penyulap ☏ 01:13, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

I created a map here. The parts in Circles should be black (ottoman conquests) the rest of Anatolia should be green (like in the 1st map you made). Thank you again--باسم (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

I've added a little more, I should re-do the border lines possibly. Penyulap ☏ 23:54, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

This is it :)--باسم (talk) 16:19, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

cool. Penyulap ☏ 16:26, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Stop uploading useless images

Hello,

Please stop uploading useless images. Thanks, Yann (talk) 10:39, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Strange that you'd ignore the consensus in the deletion discussions and remove the images yourself. I didn't know you ran commons. Penyulap ☏ 11:02, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Which images are you talking about when you say 'useless' ? (you can exclude those which I have asked to be deleted) Penyulap ☏ 14:25, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

File:Restaurante volador, Helsinki, Finlandia, 2012-08-14, DD 03.JPG

Hello Penyulap, thanks a lot for your help with this file!, I don't know how (I have all my files in my watch list) but I didn't notice neither Carschten's notes nor your fix until now. All the best, Poco a poco (talk) 11:40, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

(smile) think of me as a secretive elf who gets the work done while you're asleep. :D

Thank you for the note and you're welcome. Penyulap ☏ 11:48, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Watermark

How are you with ugly watermarks? File:Jo Ann Pflug Angie 1972.jpg I can't find one without on the net but you may wish to try a search as well. Want some of my sauce if we ever get it?--Canoe1967 (talk) 12:43, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

<grin> maybe, if it is just a dozen or so bottles keep it for yourself as it is not much. If they send a truck, or your weight in sauce, ok I'll have some. :D

so that you don't over-indulge which could be unhealthy of course, your gastronomic health is my top priority you see, I don't think of myself at all. Penyulap ☏ 12:48, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your concern. Just the face section should be fine and cropped for her infobox. Upload as a new file in case someone posts the full size without watermark. I may email her and see if she has a copy she wishes to use as well.--Canoe1967 (talk) 12:52, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

There is a LOT of work around the eye, probably hours for the image, it's better to wait and see how the emails go first, and if nothing comes of it, it would be good to get an opinion on the copyright of the image too, because it is quite an investment. The type of watermark makes a big difference it would seem, the last few I did were clean, not fuzzy and they were very definite colours. Still, I look forward to it, as I can think of some extra skills to add to my arsenal as far as adding a negative of another watermarked image to that one as a possible solution, and I don't yet know how to do that the way I would want to. Penyulap ☏ 14:23, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

I sent an email to her agent so no rush at this point. Copyright is public domain the same as many press photos we have on commons. If they show front and back of image without proper notice they are fine here.--Canoe1967 (talk) 15:59, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

File:New old Tibet.png

{{File:New old Tibet.png}} Mono 20:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Watermarks need OTRS

Please see Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Category:Uploads_by_Princess_Mérida_(with_watermarks_needing_attention) PumpkinSky talk 23:30, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

If the OTRS issue can be resolved, I'd really like to use some of the images of people riding sidesaddle if watermarks can be cleaned up... Montanabw (talk) 22:21, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi, sorry about the unexpected absence, I had to goto the hospital (renal problems, but don't worry, not much pain).

Heather has some of the originals, if we can make a wish-list, she may let us know which ones are available for us to request, or even upload them. :) Whatever is left on the wish-list after Heather has had a look-in then I can have a look at. Montanabw, could you help make that list, as you're the horsiest editor that I know Penyulap ☏ 06:59, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Having the time to sort through is the problem! But any/all of the ones of horses in harness and the ones of people riding sidesaddle are easy for anyone to spot and where we over at WikiProject Equine definitely are lacking images! I'll try to peek at others, the ones of the "weird" breeds like the Akhal-Teke or other rare ones (Heather would know which these are) would also be a priority. The big thing is to fix categories so they appear SOMEWHERE in the horse categories (even if people just categorize them as "horses" - many are not - that will at least get them somewhere that we who work in that area will realize they exist! Montanabw (talk) 16:56, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Tabasco Logo

Thank you for repairing the Tabasco diamond logo -- I appreciate it!

--Skb8721 (talk) 16:36, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome. Penyulap ☏ 07:00, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Another map

Hey, there was a request on ar wiki i could not replay to, so i moved it here, if u can help when u have the time. Thanks--باسم (talk) 00:01, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

The image source is difficult to understand, as it mixes many kinds of data all in the same black and white colours. Are there extra sources, or can you describe the overall parts of the image, like the dot dash line is a travel path, so I figure we can change the colour of that, yes ? Can you point me to a satellite or colour map of the region so I can get an idea of the landscape ? we can add colours for features like rivers, some of those lines look like either rivers or borders that follow rivers, or are they just roads ? Penyulap ☏ 03:57, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

It has been made on ar. Wiki, and i moved the file here, look the map. sorry for the trouble. Anyway i have added 2 new maps here. The 1st have eluded me for a long time and i couldn't translate it, as for the 2nd i have translated it, but ruined some of it in the process cause i had to paint some layers. can help please--باسم (talk) 17:20, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

boundaries remain, text removed

I've made the blank one, I mention some extra fix that can be done at the FX lab. Penyulap ☏ 04:16, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

what about like this ? it's a bit big at the moment, I have to make smaller versions to fit the article, wikipedias won't create different size versions of images like this, I have to do it myself.

Of course, we have to add all the spots, plus, is it the right direction :D

oh, btw, if you use Internet explorer, it makes all animation like this suck by running them too slow. Microsoft is like that. Use firefox or chrome or something this century. Penyulap ☏ 09:01, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Good work!. The arrow thingy would work well for a canoe map. I still haven't found a decent base map to work with though.--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:08, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

File:Whambo in '84.gif

File:Whambo in '84.gif has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Canoe1967 (talk) 07:49, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

(ROFL!) that makes me laugh ! you're a character I'd be so sad to lose. Penyulap ☏ 07:54, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

History split

See my talk page. This is complete.PumpkinSky talk 14:51, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Fabulous ! brilliant ! outstanding :) thanks ! Penyulap ☏ 15:18, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

File:Temple of Vesta - Hearth 022.jpg

This was a graphics lab request draft and has already been deleted as I requested. Other versions from the FX lab request have kindly be geo-tagged and sourced in the exemplary work of Canoe1967. :) Penyulap ☏ 10:30, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Stuff where MontanaBW needs Penyulap to remove watermarks

I'm making a list of images that I'm using in articles and thus need the watermarks stripped. I'll must keep adding to this as needed. If you want me to bug someone else, just holler. Montanabw (talk) 18:24, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

• File:2009 Worlds championship Horse Show (3878767302).jpg

any more ? I probably am faster than Heather cause she has a life and I have the whole limited mobility thing going on. I don't mind being bugged. Penyulap ☏ 01:08, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Well, you know, all of them! (grin). But seriously, priorities will be either the ones I've already placed into articles on en.wiki, or images where we need more images in wiki. I'd say, prioritize these in the following order:

• File:Big Red on his way to his Fifth Consecutive win in the Roadster To Bike Class at the 2009 Worlds championship Horse Show (3878767170).jpg
• File:Native Arabian Costume Horse (2668748231).jpg removed advertising as well
• File:Native Arabian Costume Horse (2668749063).jpg
• File:Native_Arabian_Costume_Horse_(2669568566).jpg<--this one is a good one but has the diagonal watermark
• File:Half arabian native costume horse (8031632640).jpg (just added this one to an article that is already GA) does this one need repair ? it looks ok
• File:Equitation Class (2797696553).jpg (just added this one to an article)

• Anything with women riding sidesaddle, particularly this one:
  • File:Half Arabian Ladies Western Sidesaddle (2668749735).jpg (just added this one to an article)

• Anything related to rodeo-type events, including these:
  • File:Steer Roping at the Kentucky State fair QUarter Horse show (2751833934).jpg (just added this one to an article)
  • File:2008 Kentucky State Fair Roping Show (2765079725).jpg
  • File:2008 Kentucky State Fair Roping Show (2765926132).jpg (just added this to an article) Heather did this one

• (All the other nice-quality photos of driving horses, full-body side or front shot, in harness with cart all visible, not blurred, would be helpful)

• People at horse shows riding in western saddles, like this one: File:2009 Egyptian Event Held in Lexington, KY at the Ky Horse Park (3594441543).jpg
• All watermarked images in this category: Category:Morgan horse
• The images titled "Nakota horse"
• Any image that includes the words "Akhal Teke" in the title (however spelled or misspelled) and such images need to be put into Category:Akhal-Teke if not already there.
• Ditto any image (head or full body) that has a title that includes "Mustang" "Gypsy horse" or "Icelandic horse" or "Friesian" -- unless they are really crappy shots (ears cut off, legs half-cut off, etc...)
• Any image with titles like: "Dressage" "Driving" "World Equestrian Games," especially all of them together!
• Any of the good images that have the full body of the horse (and rider, if any) shot from the side. Examples: File:American Saddlebred (3007248207).jpg or File:Alborozo 21 (2690565196).jpg

That should keep you busy! LOL! Montanabw (talk) 18:29, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Wow ! you're not kidding, but I am not sure, do you know that Heather has the unwatermarked images, she can upload many of these if the list is posted on her talkpage as well. But I can get to work as well :D Penyulap ☏ 18:34, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

I don't know, but if you want to drop her a line and ask her, that would be great. I'm up to my eyeballs in projects, RL and wiki-related. Montanabw (talk) 19:26, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

same, but I'll ask.. Penyulap ☏ 19:29, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

While you are there, making sure that all images have at least ONE horse-related category (either something obvious from the title, or at least Category:Horses) it would help. Montanabw (talk) 21:19, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

hey, I don't even get that far, I use the upload new version of this file link, I don't edit the pages... I try to spread myself thin to get the most done by doing what other people cannot do and not doing what they can do... generally. Penyulap ☏ 02:39, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Understood. Well, I've tagged above the ones that I've already put into articles, which is probably where the priority needs to be. Anything you can do to help is much appreciated. There must be about 600 images...most poorly categorized or miscategroized. YIKEES! Montanabw (talk) 18:03, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

I think that is two more, also, one doesn't seem to require removal, this one doesn't obscure anything, it's quite discreet and I'd figure it's better in than out, it's more a signature than any kind of protection, what do you think ?

There is a cropped and cloned version of this pic in it's edit history, we can ask for it to be split out, it's easier than removing the watermark and serves the same purpose for that article I think. Penyulap ☏ 13:57, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

See above. Some WP editors are super fussy about watermarks. OTRS notwithstanding, it would derail a GA or FA run. (You know how some editors can get) I think that the Half-Arabian one could just be cropped at the bottom, easier and just as effective. If we could also fix that last costume image (chestnut horse, blue costume) that one is a dandy too. Montanabw (talk) 13:16, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

ok, if some are up for ga or something please bold them for me. Heather has, and is happy to upload originals as well, so that had previously caused (and will occasionally) give me reason to pause for thought. I'll do some more for now, I'll remove it as an incorrect caption because it's not our friend Heather. :) Penyulap ☏ 13:23, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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Need a quick prioritization of File:Equitation Class (2797696553).jpg. Just put it up as a lead article image, but it's in danger due to watermark still being there. Montanabw (talk) 20:38, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Penyulap ☏ 21:04, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Lol

I am still trying to find a good canoe map of Canada for the arrow thingy. Do you have any?--Canoe1967 (talk) 15:31, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Don't start here so much as start by picturing what kind of final artwork you want to end up with, should tell me too, cause I am probably faster than most at searching and finding images, on account of I read and write visually, much to the annoyance of trolls. Penyulap ☏ 15:34, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Too late. I found File:BlankMap-USA-states-Canada-provinces.svg that may work. I may work with rivers added in blue, cropped to just the route, borders left in and the waypoints marked only. I will think on it more though, no rush.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:54, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

It will need to be converted to png or jpg before processing, so don't be worried if you want mountains and so on on it. I was thinking I should learn to map terrain in 3d better. I do have a lovely 'Earth', from out in space, flare from the atmosphere, cloud cover down low, city lights on the darkside, with the water of the sunny side reflecting just right. Those arrows can 'bounce' towards the camera like a skipping stone on water.. but that's probably way too much frills for a article pic I guess... Penyulap ☏ 18:01, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Never too many frills. I think you and I are the only ones that read the article anyway. Getting the rivers and waypoints on the map may be hardest. All the waypoints have geo data, I think. Would that list help?--Canoe1967 (talk) 18:06, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Well if it's just you and me, I know you like all the canoeing stuff, but the image might be the only thing to keep me awake so I better make it a good one don't you think ? Something very gawdy and loud :)

Actually the best thing out would be any kind of marking at all on any kind of map at all, a screenshot or anything that you could make with any program at all. That's the hardest part, adding all the different places from the list onto a map. There is an on-wiki tool that could help, an imagemap editor, I don't recall how to turn it on in preferences I think, or maybe in one of those java page sub user-pages. Penyulap ☏ 18:15, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dapete/ImageMapEdit#English looks like a script you need to add.--Canoe1967 (talk) 18:50, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap More info.--Canoe1967 (talk) 18:58, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

That's the one. I use that for userboxes on en.wiki here, the train I think and a lot of other places. It's not too hard to work out with trial and error, well, not TOO hard. if the image can be marked with that it would do. I can feed back in the data and screenshot that, load it into my software and presto, I can mark the places. Penyulap ☏ 19:07, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Penyulap. You have new messages at Commons:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop#Tibang Muntooa (William Farquhar Collection, 1819–1823).jpg. You may remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Tomascastelazo

Yes, it was a slip. No need for autoconfirmed users not to access such a talk page. Settings have been changed so that only IP addresses are not able to edit the page. Sorry for any inconvenience --Ecemaml ^{talk to me/habla conmigo} 08:26, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

That's ok, thanks for letting me know too, I am glad it was so easy to clear up. Penyulap ☏ 08:29, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Scope?

If someone were to take this file and overlay it to one from this cat would it be in scope for Easter?-- Canoe1967 (talk) 22:14, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

There is no link and there is no humour. I'm reminded of toilet humour, it's the most loved substitute for humour for people who have none, if you need to resort to potty words then you weren't funny in the first place. No, there is real humour and good clean fun to be had which offends no-one, it's just that on wiki it is hunted down to the ends of the project and beyond and killed with a zealousy and enthusiasm equal to the pain that levity causes for some people. Have you seen that movie Con Air ?

wow just looked at the article about the service depicted, and they have ten full-sized aircraft like this one. I wonder when it will get like those movies where whole cities are jails and there are drones everywhere ? the US is so alien. Penyulap ☏ 06:51, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Easter is funny, it travels from dancing naked in the forest to church on Sundays to the local candy isle at the supermarket. I think we've been progressing backwards. Penyulap ☏ 09:59, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Correct. I think I was just reading too much toilet humour at http://9gag.com/ . Canoe1967 (talk)

race to the tollgates. :) ...actually I love all of them. I should join that site. :D Penyulap ☏ 15:37, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Question

Hey. Sorry about taking so long with the map but I've been busy lately. Anyway i wanted to ask why the Assessment template in the featured photos on ar. Wiki appears gray while on other Wikis its orange. for example look at: this photo which is featured on ar. Wiki, and this one featured on fa. Wiki. Both are featured on just one wiki, but why does the Persian assessment template appears normal (orange) while the Arabic is gray? can you fix this? or guid me to some one who can? Thanks--باسم (talk) 14:51, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

on further examination, it is working correctly but not clear visually. The two images are featured pics according to two different projects. One is featured here and one is featured on ar.wiki. That gives rise to the different colouring. There might be a slightly different way to layout the template to make it easier to understand that. Maybe the logos of the different projects so the commons one comes up for one and the ar one for the other.

I think the source of the confusion is that the different logos are displayed vertically at the sides rather than horizontally the way people read. Penyulap ☏ 19:31, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

I fixed it! :-) thanks--باسم (talk) 22:30, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

File:Redacted hot air festival.png

{{File:Redacted hot air festival.png||}} Ecemaml ^{talk to me/habla conmigo} 23:06, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

are you having a tit-for-tat with Tomascastelazo by chance ? nominating for deletion things on his userpages ? or did the apparently effective educational content of the picture give you this idea ? Penyulap ☏ 04:55, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

A Common mistake....

Check this out!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tombstone_arizona_graveyard_1.jpg

--Tomascastelazo (talk) 04:36, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

they've come a long way in interpersonal relations since those dark days of manually tying a noose. Now, they have magazines with 24 solutions to 24 different problems at a time, isn't that amazing ? no wonder it's such a utopian dream over there. Penyulap ☏ 04:53, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for letting me know, and thanks for the speedy turnaround. Best regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 10:42, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

you're welcome. Penyulap ☏ 10:44, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Proper?

Hi Penyulap, Do you think this image is appropriate in Commons? #[[2]]. ;) --Tomascastelazo (talk) 22:33, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

well seeing that both Ecemaml and Fæ have both rushed in to help before the hour was even up I guess you're onto a !winner. Penyulap ☏ 06:11, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

That reminds me of this image. There is a full size colour version here. Too bad it would be deleted for copyvio if we uploaded it. I may still have one printed for my wall some day.--Canoe1967 (talk) 13:33, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

I don't find it quite as funny, because it detracts from another artists work I think. I think of the intentions of the original artist, and then I think, why go there, but that's just me. Penyulap ☏ 13:40, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I just uploaded something very strange, I never thought I would make a porno, but meh, there it is. Penyulap ☏ 13:41, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

I think the Disney parody detracts from the Disney artists as well. That is why I may have my own printed and not pay $30usd for their smaller version for sale on the net. I may hang it in a local bar with a price tag on it of $50cdn depending on frame and print costs. Since it is a derivative work was parody then Disney cannot claim copyright. I think it was published pre-78 in the USA without proper notice so it may be in the public domain. Any colorized version can be copyrighted by me because of my 'sweat of the brow' to colorize it from a PD black and white. See: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Henri Moissan isolating fluorine 1886.jpg--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:46, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Just found the copyright notice from 1967, bottom left of http://www.ep.tc/realist/74/03.html .--Canoe1967 (talk) 18:01, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Don't worry so much, and hey ! what do you think of the porno I made ? send me $1 and I'll sell you a HD version of it, and then I can tell people I'm a professional porno maker. :) that's something I certainly have never done yet. Penyulap ☏ 18:07, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

File:Diptera husbandry.gif

{{File:Diptera husbandry.gif||}} 93.132.80.30 13:52, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

that's not funny, it just wastes admin time. (thinking of the good admins who do a lot of this like INeverCry for example) it just clogs up the DR pages. (there was a time I thought people did DR's to thrust my work into the spotlight though, like with the W:Innocent prisoner's dilemma but I'm not so sure that people do it for that reason, if you did, well I'm sorry. Though I still think it's not proper.) Penyulap ☏ 14:20, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Well, I take it back for this case, because it turned out to be a funny discussion and (almost) everyone seemed to enjoy it. Penyulap ☏ 21:04, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Re: Hi Sentausa

Hi fellow Indonesian (or Malay) speaker! Well, actually it was not a request, but a question to the forum. So, should it be asked in the main village pump page or where? Thanks. Sentausa (talk) 16:20, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Tidak apa2. Sudah kembali :) Penyulap ☏ 16:27, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you. See here including final postings. Centpacrr (talk) 17:49, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome, I also asked about it here

The image has been history split so that everyone can be perfectly satisfied with their own version, and editors on each wiki may choose their favourite. This also means that an admin has looked at the reasons why the history split might have been warranted, and decided it was best. That's good, because it makes related admin actions regarding similar cases that pop up in future a little bit easier, so the next time an image needs splitting they already know most of the story. Penyulap ☏ 08:04, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Regalia

Hi Pen, saw you at the debate over "costumes vs clothing." Just a heads up that when it comes to Native Americans, to call their traditional-style clothing a "costume" is really super offensive. Powwow dancers use the term "regalia." "Clothing" could cover the rest. To refine further is problematic, what makes something historic or traditional is probably edit war bait too. Just letting you know. (I'm not Native, but I live in a state with seven Indian reservations, so I have some knowledge of what gets people legitimately upset, anyway). What to do with white people dressing up to be Indians, that's a different problem. ([{Category: Non-native people pretending to dress up like Native people]]?) Smiles and hugs to you! Montanabw (talk) 20:37, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

thanks ! (smiles and hugz)

Yes, well I saw your comment a moment ago, and that confirms what a few people have now, that my initial thoughts that 'costumes' could be derogatory are correct. Though, I guess the idea can be applied to any real people. Penyulap ☏ 20:42, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Yep. I suppose even things like someone dressing up like some other individual (thinking the rubber masks that look like various current or past presidents of the USA for example) carry with them the potential for mockery or satire, whimsy at the very least. Montanabw (talk) 21:24, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

I used to know Ernie Philip well. He may be still alive and I could phone him or his family for input. He was the best for many years.--Canoe1967 (talk) 04:06, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Well, consensus about "costume" seems to be to define a costume as something you wear when you are pretending to be something other than what you are. Thus, native clothing is NOT a "costume" because it is an expression of who that person actually IS. Canada and the USA have some different terminology. And calling someone you know is OR anyway. Also, one person from one cultural tradition may have different views than do other people in other traditions. (In other words, some people may have thrown up their hands on the "Indian costume" question or just don't care). However, if you want sources and evidence, I shall refer you to these few examples from multiple geographic areas (there are zillions more if you google): [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], some people consider wearing Native "costumes" to be as racist as white people wearing blackface, and examples, and even the Mardi Gras guys who dress like Indians (some of whom are, actually) don't like the term "costume". Montanabw (talk) 16:30, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

We need to move this conversation to the logical place to find it which will be the talkpage of Category:Costumes I would think. I've altered that page a little, a few extra alternative categories should be linked to at the top, to make it easy to find the most popular alternatives. Penyulap ☏ 16:49, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

I think the discussion is actually happening at the Village Pump; maybe your suggestion should be placed there. Maybe all that's needed is just some explanatory text on the category page. Montanabw (talk) 16:56, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

I was thinking to leave both, and we can copy the most pertinent parts, like those examples you link to, onto the category talkpage. When the discussion at the VP is finished, we should add links to it onto the talkpage. It is important that everyone who has said something can be have their comments found easily in the future. Penyulap ☏ 17:02, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

I've copied this conversation there, and we can add links or even copy from the vp, so later instead of trying to find it in the VP archives, people can just think category:costumes and get links and read everything there. Penyulap ☏ 17:30, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Well, it's still OR (smile) Bless him, but Ernie's web site sounds like he's a bit of a legend in his own mind (though probably a nice guy and all) and his supposed "Blackfeet name" and "Sioux name" sound a bit bogus to me, particularly as he is from British Columbia and claims Salish ancestry, so why does he need names from other tribes?! (LOL!) Practices in "other" countries are irrelevant here, as it's the Native People of the US and possibly Canada (maybe also Latin America, but there's a language issue and different cultures, so not going to go there) who are the ones who object to the word "costume". As far as the other issues, like WWE and such, I have no position. I do know that we can't violate the copyright law of various nations, which is a concern (and I think US law on FOP is dumb, but oh well), so I'll just duck that issue entirely! Montanabw (talk) 18:08, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

I mentioned Ernie at the Canada project on en:wp. I may create a stub on him and see if it survives AfD there.--Canoe1967 (talk) 18:20, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Ping me on en wiki when you do; I'd say if you can find enough third party reliable sources beyond his own web site, and stay within the guidelines of WP:BLP (quick summary: source everything) I'd support you if there is a deletion spat. I mean, they keep stubs on guys who played cricket for one season in the 1980s for a team in Sri Lanka, for chrissake, so the notability standard is not that high! (That said, if you are not a male sports figure, preferably white, there seems to be a higher standard than for a male sports figure, however obscure. Go figure). Montanabw (talk) 18:48, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer. I may sneak it in on April Fool's when editors are keeping up with vandals. Here is my mention of it. If you really want to have fun on April 1, then goto the w:Got Milk? article and add a line: On April 3, 2012, this article was vanadalized with a picture of George Burns with the caption "Got cigars?" I may change the caption this year to "Got a life?" It lasted 3 days last year before reversion.--Canoe1967 (talk) 21:39, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Reply et al

I only mentioned calling Ernie Philip because he is well known as an international native figure and can probably find opinions from many countries. The links above should suffice though. I had an idea last night after the massive deletion reviews for WWE trophy belts. I am not a wrestling fan but many are upset at en:wp because they will lose many good images for their articles. Commons:Deletion requests/File:Real WWE United States Championship.jpg I was thinking of a few options: We could create an image to place in the main infobox of articles for organiztions that refuse to respond to email on these images as a protest similar to the SOPA one. A big black square with a 'The subject of this article is being selfish and ignorant' type message in it. We could also create categories for sculptors that have provided permission for images of their works and those that have not. There was one DR that this actually happened with: Commons:Deletion requests/File:NewarkJustice1.jpg Sculptors may start jumping on the bandwagon to email OTRS with permissions. We could create a licence template for their categories like: Category:Anja Christine Roß with a statement that images of all their statues are allowed on commons if the OTRS licence states that. I have no problem with my statue images from Canada but the USA and other countries do not have FOP for 3D works. Thoughts? --Canoe1967 (talk) 17:42, 29 March 2013

well for the 'selfish and ignorant' thing you could use existing images, like but how can you do it without violating NPA? and then there is the moral question, that some people may not want their works sold by the WMF to potentially pay for lawyers to defend staff responsible for causing suicides, if that ever happens.

Those deletion discussions all seem proper to my eyes, I would do just what you've done there. Penyulap ☏ 17:57, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

I think most of the people in the wrestling project are upset at this. If they seek project consensus to protest with their articles and then take that to the village pump for approval then it may succeed. Each article may need a 'sticky note' at the top of talk pages to explain and provide input for the idea. If they included protest images in infoboxes like Hulk Hogan and others then the wrestlers them selves may notice and pick a side on the issue. If a wrestler sends an email to OTRS that he does want to have a protest image then that should override consensus to remove it. Any ideas on what the protest images should be if we do get consensus to move forward? I feel they should be harsh and effective but at the same time tasteful and acceptable to increase chances of getting consensus.--Canoe1967 (talk) 18:20, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

I don't believe you can do that in articles, but anything goes over there now-days. I would figure the most obvious thing to do is what you do with any image in this situation, which is blank or blur the design in question. Just pop a few images into the FX lab and I can give you examples. I've done some similar things. Penyulap ☏ 18:33, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

I just made a quick sample for one of your skills to have a quick laugh at: File:Protest info image draft.png. I mentioned it at the wrestling project here: project talk page]. They are wondering if it can fly.--Canoe1967 (talk) 21:58, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

File:Posters covering a building near Lynchburg to advertise a Downie Bros. circus.jpg

{{File:Posters covering a building near Lynchburg to advertise a Downie Bros. circus.jpg||}} Vera (talk) 12:44, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

(a crop request at the FX lab). Penyulap ☏ 12:48, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Historical Media Barnstar
		Thank you so much for your hard work on File:Sailors of Minas Geraes 2.jpg. It's much appreciated! Ed [talk] [en:majestic titan] 00:23, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Wow, thank you so much ! I love getting Barnstars :D Penyulap ☏ 00:27, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

File:New English Wikipedia editors, 2001 to September 2012 with text overlay.png

{{File:New English Wikipedia editors, 2001 to September 2012 with text overlay.png||}} Fæ (talk) 10:34, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Self-requested block

You mentioned a self-requested block at AN/U; I don't know if there's any particular "line" on this on Commons (I can't find anything written), but I'm OK with the principle. You could post a request at COM:AN and see how that goes. Rd232 (talk) 19:37, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Well on en.wiki an admin called Bishonen does them and has a sub-page with her guidelines for them, it's of course important that the summary is correct, not saying something stupid, and that the duration is something I can't take back. They are a good idea I must say.

Though right now I don't feel any stress at all, I feel everyone is happy with me or concerned that I'm ok, that's the feeling that I get generally. I would have to make sure that I've tidied up any discussions that I have started off before taking a break, and need to check for artwork that needs uploading (I don't think there is any at the moment).

I should try to hunt down that subpage of Bish's for you. I think it is important that we have some admins consider the idea and provide it to the community because it would really help people who get too stressed. That is something we really do need, things that make it a safe working environment for all of us. Penyulap ☏ 19:48, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

"that he closed it for personal reasons"

No, I didn't do it for personal reasons. The sentence you quote without context simply means that I don't want to waste my time in discussing an issue I'm not interested in (unless you, who is really interested in it). My point is simply that the decision was clearly explained and that, as you haven't come to my discussion page for any explanation, you're not interested in getting any further explanation, but to escalate the issue. Therefore, I'll leave my fellow admins to make any decision on the undeletion of the picture. And BTW, my mention to the way you spend your time here is nothing but a rough analysis of this. You seem to prefer a constant discussion on almost anything. I don't (and I've been quite busy trying to sort out the mess that our friends of the WMF has created). And BTW, I didn't notice that the image belonged to a "barnstar", but if including an out of scope picture in a barnstar is a way to circumvent our policies on scope, it seems to me a clear case of en:WP:POINT. And that's all. Best regards --Ecemaml ^{talk to me/habla conmigo} 22:03, 5 April 2013 (UTC) PS: I'd suggest you to create a barnstar using this file. A text such as (sorry by my English) "I'm a volunteer. They aren't" would be nice.

Well as someone who has received one Barnstar in seven years, I don't think your going about getting another one the right way, people often go unnoticed for a long time, like Look2See1. Being friendly as well as competent is the key.

• You're having an ongoing dispute with Tomas, whose Barnstar you deleted. example, and yet continuing to use the tools in an INVOLVED situation example.

• Deleting things from his talkpage example needs to stop when you get to the awards.

• If you have a problem because the WMF is rolling in cash, smiling for the cameras, drinking champagne, on $4,000 a week salaries and free concert and jet-plane tickets to everywhere, grants like tens of thousands of dollars to 'study editing', then I don't see how deleting people's Barnstars is going to effect anything. Penyulap ☏ 22:32, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Batmobile

Thanks! Kaldari (talk) 22:02, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

No problem my friend, and I'll keep your true identity secret :) Penyulap ☏ 22:06, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

File:I reject your reality and replace it with my own !!.jpg

{{File:I reject your reality and replace it with my own !!.jpg||}} McZusatz (talk) 19:06, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

..I'll still go on in myth-busters fashion rejecting your reality and replacing it with my own :D Penyulap ☏ 19:11, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Can you help a total dweeb - me?

Penyulap, I don't appear to have the toys to make an .svg file save off of a .doc file without the damn border. SeeFile:Hennecke_chart_fat.svg, I uploaded a .jpg as a hack for now, File:Hennecke fat deposits.jpg, and maybe the .jpg is all that's needed. Anyway, any chance you could either get rid of the white border of the .svg or else give me the nod that the .jpg is good enough, even though it's a .jpg and the gods of charts swear we are only to do these in .svg?? Many thanks, whatever the result. Montanabw (talk) 22:47, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

don't use svg at all for that picture, it is unsuitable and makes the file way larger. Use Jpg or PNG. If you wanted to have the circles over the top done in svg, then you'd use an overlay, however there is no reason at all in this case because the image is only useful in a non-thumb format. There is no need for improved readability at a tiny thumb size. Just stay in Jpg for sure. Penyulap ☏ 22:53, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Groovy and good advice, thanks. Montanabw (talk) 23:07, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

You're most welcome and thanks for asking lil olde me ;) Penyulap ☏ 23:11, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Heads up

The WWE project may pop over for a favour: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Professional_wrestling#Every_title_is_up_for_deletion_at_Commons..._and_nobody_cares I probably should have asked before I dropped your name, sorry.--Canoe1967 (talk) 00:57, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

hmm, well I guess the top of my page might have given that impression eh ? It looks like something that would qualify as under embargo :(

That's a shame, especially with the mention of a saucy reward :D Penyulap ☏ 01:02, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

It is part of my push to get more images under a free licence as well as change the FOP laws in the USA. I just tried to remove the 'skip to bottom template' at the top of this page but broke something and reverted it. Feel free to remove it so others can read your message.--Canoe1967 (talk) 01:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

It's ok, message and skip to bottom both look good in my browser. I can't recall where my mobileviewing tool is, but don't worry bout it. Is good. Penyulap ☏ 01:34, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

I put the skip template up there a while ago. I thought you noticed then. It may take a while but I think eventually the USA will allow FOP. The more images we delete from the projects, the more readers will wonder why. "But the Batmobile was here last week Ma! Honest! Why is it gone now Ma! This is 'Merica and the Batmobile is 'Merican, why did WMF delete it! WMF is 'Merican! Tell Daddy to vote against the WMF!!! Are you allowed to vote too, Ma?"--Canoe1967 (talk) 01:45, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

I saw it, I don't mind it at all. Well maybe a template can explain to them why and that there is hope for the future and give them the home and mobile phone numbers of the appropriate congressmen as well. Penyulap ☏ 03:11, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

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w:David Ferriero really likes us. He has at least one faction on commons. Should we contact them for thoughts about FOP changes in the US? They probably have many statue images they would like to upload. We may get a political 'feeling' about whether this is a big or un-heard of issue in the Excited States.--Canoe1967 (talk) 03:29, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Robt Ptak photo

hi I;m trying to add a photo to wiki enty Robt Ptak. Robt Ptak himself has give me permission to upload a photo how do I get this photo onto the Wiki entry? I'm very new to wiki but I keep having the photo deleted which is frustrating! :D

Thankyou Chris

8 April 02:35 . . (+281)‎ . . ‎Subtitlemeplease (talk | contribs)‎

Hi Chris, I've asked about it at Commons:Help desk#Robt Ptak photo because I'm a bit busy at the moment, there are a lot of helpful people there who will walk you through it. Is this Ok ? Penyulap ☏ 03:03, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

TL;DR

Something about Ecemaml and me being devils on Earth. Please note I am no longer an admin nor participate in any Wikimedia project (in fact, I saw your message just because I forgot to delete that RSS from my GReader/feedly; fixed!). If you need any specific thing from me please tell me, but I don't enjoy catfighting anymore. Regards. --Dodo (talk) 05:13, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

I understand that completely. The Dramaz are too much for me, and I'm a dramaqueen! (sigh) thank you for dropping me a note. Penyulap ☏ 05:20, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Mickey mouseless balloon festival.jpg

Hi Penyulap, I don't want to engage in any further conflict, but I'd like to ask you to upload your version of the picture under other name. Although your upload breaches COM:OVERWRITE, my concern isn't said policy but the fact that Tomás' picture is perfectly usable and yours isn't (my opinion, of course) and there's no reason for not having both if you wish. Best regards --Ecemaml ^{talk to me/habla conmigo} 06:57, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

please feel free to just revert it or history split it as it pleases you, it doesn't worry me in the least. Penyulap ☏ 07:01, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

File:ENOUSEND SCHOOL CHILD WITH BURN HER TEXT BOOK BACK TO THE HOME DURING VOILENCE OF POLLING DAY BEFORE ONE DAY AT GORAIMARI VILLAGE IN GOALAPARA,ASSAM,INDIA..jpg

Hello. In connection with your concern for the above file and the uploads by User:Vismaphotos, I left a message on the talk page of an Assamese user. Hope this works out favourably. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 14:12, 11 April 2013 (UTC).

Thank you, I hope it works. Penyulap ☏ 15:07, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

opinion

I Would like to here your opinion here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Levant_Map.png

and

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:IspifoneyFlag.jpg

‎GhiathArodaki‎ (talk) 20:20, 11 April 2013

Gallery tool

Hallo Penyulap - did you look for this Gallery? A hotlink is at the User:Penyulap uploads. Doesn't this fulfil your wishes regarding the user page guideline? --maxxl2 - talk 11:26, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

that won't change the numbers, it's not a suitable substitute. Penyulap ☏ 11:35, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

The Empire Barnstar you send me

Hi Penyulap!

Very funny barnstar, thank you so much !

May Farce be with you !--Jebulon (talk) 12:01, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

LOL!!! may the farce be with me, it's worth it just to see another editor with a great sense of humour. I enjoyed making the barnstar page a lot, but it's even better to know it's gone to a great home. You're most welcome commander Jebulon ;) Penyulap ☏ 12:05, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Do you really think that you are alone to be a little nut and crazy here on "Commons" ? .--Jebulon (talk) 20:34, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

A little ? a Little ? :) I'm not sure it's a little ! :D Penyulap ☏ 21:20, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Start trolling

the project needs your help to find more porcupine pornography Canoe. Don't let us down.!

I mean fishing for 60 year old images. This one may need the best resolution we can find when it is confirmed PD. Now you have me doing porn!--Canoe1967 (talk) 03:29, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

I'm not into people-porn, it's one of those cosmic God-laughs-at-you things. My culture is like, 'porn ? forget it'. So naturally I have the Graphics abilities to undress anyone I want in the twinkling of an eye, and don't care to. ;) Don't'cha just hate that ? Penyulap ☏ 03:37, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

I was just kidding. We have a fair use image in her en:wp article and it is being brought into question. I starting investigating and discovered that it is probably PD. We should know in the next few days hopefully. Once Playboy gets word they will probably lawyer up, contact OTRS for takedown, and whine to Mr. Wales etc. They may get egg on face when we do find a no-notice version though.--Canoe1967 (talk) 04:02, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

I'm thinking that if the picture is out of a magazine and you opened the magazine to the first page or two, you'd find the copyright notice, so I can't see your stunt has a bright future. Stick to animal porn ! go find some bovine bondage or spanky snakes or ogling owls and so on, the project needs Your help. Penyulap ☏ 04:11, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

That copyright ruling seems weird to many. If any version was published without proper copyright markings then all versions of the same 2D image are public domain and can never be copyrighted again. I just need to find an 'any'. Link to law.--Canoe1967 (talk) 04:30, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

The son of the photographer showed up at the DR and confirmed that all official versions had proper copyright marks. They have won in court a few times on the same issue. Most of the pirate/bootleg ones didn't have proper notice.--Canoe1967 (talk) 12:36, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Mickey_mouseless_balloon_festival.jpg missing sourcing information

Please update File:Mickey_mouseless_balloon_festival.jpg to include the the source of the photograph you are editing. Thanks, Sven Manguard Wha? 06:15, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

how about now ? does that look right ? Penyulap ☏ 06:27, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Newspape and glasses small.jpg

{{File:Newspape and glasses small.jpg||}} McZusatz (talk) 11:12, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

fixed, this is better, at least they are from long ago. That's where they need checking the most. Nowdays, it's like, so seldom. Penyulap ☏ 11:32, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Peskimo recharge.gif {{File:Peskimo recharge.gif||}} McZusatz (talk) 11:27, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

File:ASIMO 4.28.11.jpg fixed I think, needs checking though. Penyulap ☏ 11:39, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Nurse Nogood.jpg Template:Txl McZusatz (talk) 11:47, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

fixed. (I used the cat link to find the source) Penyulap ☏ 11:55, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Imposing a gag order

Hello, mattbuck asked for someone to crosspost this from COM:AN/U#Penyulap because he can't view userpages –⁠moogsi (blah) 00:27, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

I think this has run long enough now. After roughly 6 days, the vote count is 19 support, 14 oppose, of which 6 votes were by IPs, all on the oppose side, and one further oppose was Penyulap. I think this shows favour towards the proposal, albeit not overwhelming. I further note that while I do not out of hand discount IP edits, not one of the IPs which opposed the proposal had ever edited Commons before, and frankly if they're not Commons users I don't see their opinions as being especially relevant. As has been noted, Commons is a collaborative project, and for collaboration we need to be able to work together. Penyulap seems to have a problem with this, and while I enjoy jokes and humour as much as the next person, we must not let it get in the way of the reason we are here.

The sanction as voted on was for Penyulap to be allowed a total of two responses to a thread (defined as a top-level section), of not more than 100 words. Due to the suggestions that this is too restricting I am willing to moderate it to two responses plus one for each 2nd level (===) heading, with no word limit.

The sanction will last for one month (until 22nd May 2013), at which point we will discuss whether it is still necessary. -mattbuck (Talk) 00:11, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

(copying my response there)

Matt, who told me If you don't like Commons, please kindly fuck off and quit whining about it. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:07, 8 March 2013 (UTC) Hmm.. interesting alternative to improving commons.

So here is my one and only question, when counting 'votes', do people who have serious grudges which have been proven with diffs, count at all ? I don't think so.

Using votes of people who have grudges to bear to invent absurd new rules that target specific individuals rather than everyone voting on rules that apply to everyone makes a mockery of process and destroys any semblance of civil order. Penyulap ☏ 00:28, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

I'll add that it is clear your eager to close early to head off the more level-headed sysops. Penyulap ☏ 00:32, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Is that directed at me? :) –⁠moogsi (blah) 00:49, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

do you think it is :) Penyulap ☏ 00:53, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

well I thought I'd ask, because I like to think of myself as level-headed, but maybe I've done something that makes you think I'm not –⁠moogsi (blah) 01:10, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Well I was the only one who opposed your adminship after all, considering just how far your wide knowledge of every commons system and enculturation has come, I thought it was a little suspicious.

After all does everyone demonstrate as much experience with the system at 5 months ? Just look how far you've come since that first edit 5 months ago, to helping close discussion filled with socking allegations and full of diff'ed grudges. Penyulap ☏ 01:21, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Please read above: because he can't view userpages, I am not "helping" to do anything, he would have posted the same thing here himself if he could. If you're looking for evidence of a vendetta against you, you won't find any cos I don't have one. If you're trying to start one now, I'm not interested. Flattered, but not interested –⁠moogsi (blah) 01:31, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Oh, and I'm not a part of this conversation, you see these words ? nothing, nothing to do with this conversation at all, I'm just not here, not typing, I'm off doing some shopping, really I am, and just like you I'm not posting comments at the ANU thread either, no, I'm not even online right now.

I tell you one thing, there are some people who, if they wanted to not draw attention to their wrongdoings, if they didn't want to draw attention to themselves, if they didn't want a light shined upon their misdeeds, then they are going about it with one God-damn outrageously monumentally flawed and choke-on-what-your-chewing startlingly surprising and original strategy.

I can't believe just how many morons think that the best way to hide their misdeeds on commons is to insert themselves in front of me, in whatever it is that I am doing, whatever little conversation in some corner of the project I am working on, rather than the gazillion talkpages and gazillion users they could be talking with.

Then they figure, here is a fucking genius idea, if I don't want Penyulap turning their attention to my misdeeds, then the most ingenious idea that my dinosaur bwain can come up with, second only to the epiphany of genius idea that was inserting myself in Penyulaps way in the first place, is TO ASK PENY about my misdeeds. I'm a fucking genius, I'll stop whatever Peny is doing, and then bring up the topic, that's a sure-fire method to silence Peny if ever there was one. Fucking genius I am, Hoo-Yeah !!!

Never the thought shall occur to these people that there are millions, probably literally, of users out there that I have no opinion on and never will, I have no idea what they are doing and cannot in a billion years bring myself to care about it either. I couldn't care less. Now, would you like to keep on talking and being a part of this conversation, or are we done here ? Penyulap ☏ 01:53, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Just to be clear, there is no word limit. -mattbuck (Talk) 12:09, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Is there any limit on how many times I can tell you to fuck off and quit whining matt ? Just to be clear, if I cared to. Penyulap ☏ 04:15, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Nothing stops you from posting on places such as Village Pump but please cease your ranting on COM:AN/U. I suggest that you also stop making uncivil comments. Bidgee (talk) 07:57, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

For those interested, Bidgee is doing his best (and is it giving you a headache?) to control his emotions, poorly, as the very emotional revision history of AN/U demonstrates

The Village Pump you say, oh, and here were a few doubters thinking that it wasn't a gag from speaking out against injustice. The Village Pump, some nice catting, upload a file or two, maybe the help desk, but not where YOUR dirty little secrets come back to kick you in the ass. Penyulap ☏ 08:08, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Lingot d'or

Hi,

only for information : in french, it is "le" lingot d'or, not "la" lingot d'or.--Jebulon (talk) 11:26, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

memorising about 2,000 Chinese characters is a far above French gender on my language studies program. I'm not into French that much, sure it's 'useful', but I find other languages more pressing. Penyulap ☏ 11:32, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

I hope that you're feeling well

I'm sorry that they restricted your ability to comment in discussions. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 13:16, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Hehe, I'm sorry if I laugh first off when I see this, because the thing is, I don't really care as much as other people surely do. I've seen this stuff before. When someone hasn't any idea what commons is about, and judges absurd new ideas like 'from now on Michaeldsuarez must change his handle to Shirley' and count supports/opposes, seriously, how can you not find it hilarious. But first and foremost, thank you for your concern, that means a great deal to me. As to the stupidity, I think a few people voted some governments laws to be invalid, I'll find that for you in a tic. Some people have no clue what adminship is about, it's like some swimsuit competition or popularity contest. They let anyone become an admin nowdays if you go over the RfA's it's hilarious. The current ones especially are funny, go have a look at the contribs. So it's like the united states of Utopia, they go on and on and on about all these wars they fought to get 'freedoms', and they've been giving away without a thought every last one of those rights since 2000. They bring the same cluelessness to the project with the same results, except this is the Internet. The project will be replaced, nothing is copyright about it, it's simply an epic fail, what else could have possibly been expected. I did some bot study yesterday, though today I've been chatting to some people and shopping online.

But hey tell me, if it is really bad that site of yours, how there are just people whinging about this one, wouldn't that just drive you crazy though ? You can tell me. I won't tell.

Oh, looking at that thing I was going to point to, I may as well put it in email, so if you want to write to me, I'll post the links, it's well, more of the same stuff really, someone didn't like being wrong and was going off like a chicken when someone pulls a feather from it's tail. Penyulap ☏ 13:43, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

I don't mind people laughing at me. I'm an entertainer and a buffoon. Whinging doesn't bother me. People whinge all the time on the Internet, and I'm not seeking to change the Internet. Sorry, but I don't wish to speak about others in private. Thank you for the message that you left me. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 23:36, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

I understand, no problem. I don't mind people laughing at me either, or insults, just so long as they are funny :) You're welcome. Penyulap ☏ 23:44, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

User:Шуйская

I understand your change of the user page of User:Шуйская, but those things should not be on the user page. If you want to really help that user, when you reinstate references to categories, you might as well correct them and provide the link to the related Category:Michael Shuisky (vocalist). --Foroa (talk) 09:18, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

I agree that it should be in an article somewhere rather than a userpage, but she is gaining confidence and experience I figure, I've never bothered to work out which sandboxes get swept clean and which don't.

I don't know enough about the categories or the singer to correct them, I figure that both you and she would know more about that than I would. I will hand on your advice about Category:Michael Shuisky (vocalist). Thank you so much for your help. Penyulap ☏ 09:25, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

The Map

Hello, i couldn't translate this map to arabic easily. Could you please do it, or provide a blank version and i'll do the rest. Thank you--باسم (talk) 16:18, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi ! I have been rather upset at the deterioration of commons, as outlined at the top of my talkpage, and so have Embargoed some work. All is not lost however, I've made a request here at the FX lab, and being svg, there are plenty of editors able to do it. If there is something they can't easily do, or something impossible, or something for human rights or a matter of morality let me know. I'll keep an eye on the request to see that it is done fast enough for you. Penyulap ☏ 16:32, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Discussion on Editor-requested self-blocks

Hi Penyulap. I greatly appreciate your language and articulation.

If you check Rd232's talk page, you'll find ample stuff - logical, wikipediacal, etc on the subject.

He has greensignalled any discussion on the subject.

Further, on this website link, I asked a Q: "Question: what will be the policy with regard to self-blocked admins? Should they hold sysopship?" and I got the reply: "This is a decision of each community, they appoint and remove your advanced rights holders. Personal opinion is an admin has self-blocked and it is for an extended period, then that community should review that circumstance. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:36, 24 April 2013 (UTC)".

Commons policy for deadminship is here.

If, after going through all the above, you do decide to initiate a discussion somewhere, please leave a link on my talk page. Regards and best wishes, Hindustanilanguage (talk) 06:35, 30 April 2013 (UTC).

Thank you Hindustanilanguage, I'll give this some thought. Penyulap ☏ 08:46, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

File:The Greeting At The Port 1.jpg

What a great image! --MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:08, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

 :)

The picture was Dr Blofeld's idea, and I composed the captioning of the sign. Penyulap ☏ 02:46, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

banu Qasi

Hi Penyulap! I ask a friend to help me to make a map, but he apologized and recommend to contact you about this issue. My dear, I'm working on an article about en:banu qasi, if you don't mind, could you help me to make a map for their maximum expansion, which included the area from Borja to Logroño, including Tudela, en:Tarazona, en:Arnedo, en:Calahorra, en:Zaragoza, en:Najera, en:Viguera, en:Calatayud, en:Huesca and Toledo. If you have not the time to do, kindly, tell me how to do it. Please, if intend to replay, you can use this link. Thanks. أبو حمزة (talk) 16:05, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

there is a great deal to include, there are no easy ideas to follow on the internet that I can find, is this map or this one reasonably accurate ? The articles you link to, when I compile the maps, it is quite messy, many places won't match up or did not exist back then, if you can point me to your best map source on the internet that would help too. Penyulap ☏ 17:02, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

This one look great. Many thanks. Could you help by submitting it in commons?. أبو حمزة (talk) 17:53, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Banu Qasi

Something along these lines ? Penyulap ☏ 18:29, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. أبو حمزة (talk) 18:39, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome, let me know if you need more help with it, like making it bigger(!) or change colour, or something. The new map looks good even though it is smallish.It is cool to see how simple and minimal the work needs to be, to be enough to be useful. I know a lot of people who are into hi res and svg and so on, but forget the simple objective which is to describe. Penyulap ☏ 18:43, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Arab World maps with Southern Sudan

Hello :-) the last request was solved and i uploaded the Arabic version of the Greek-Persian world. I have placed a new request here, can you please crop southern Sudan from these 2 maps and upload the new versions over the old ones? Southern Sudan has been independent for nearly 2 years now. Thanks--باسم (talk) 11:18, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Because I'm embargoing the project for the reasons at the top of the page, and it's not humanitarian/humorous, I'll give it a week or so at the FX lab and then do it as a request for a friend, if it hasn't been taken already. Penyulap ☏ 17:54, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Ok, thanks :-)--باسم (talk) 12:24, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Well, 5 days no takers so far, is the shadow ok on this version, too dark/light, too big/small ? Penyulap ☏ 18:46, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

I expect there may well be enough people who don't like me standing up for what is right, and my attempts to keep some semblance of sanity on commons, to support my proposal to block me. So the second half of your request may not be possible to do, but the FX lab is the place to ask. Penyulap ☏ 10:50, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Inevercry.png

Autotranslate|1=File:Inevercry.png|2=|3=|base=Idw Andre Engels (talk) 09:40, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

File:INeverCry cropped.png Autotranslate|1=File:INeverCry cropped.png|2=|3=|base=Idw Andre Engels (talk) 09:40, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Old postcard

I remember seeing a postcard from the 70s and finally found a version on the net. This is low resolution but would it be hard to make up high resolution ones? The caption was 'Getting bombed in Vancouver, wish you were here.' They should work for other cities as well.--Canoe1967 (talk) 22:03, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

I guess you could pick out both some skylines of the cities you want, and match them to an old video of the nuclear tests, if the match is good enough I could look at making some wonky wikilove from it by combining them... I can trun anything to b & w in a second, what you're looking for is a perspective match. Penyulap ☏ 04:31, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

I was thinking of stills and not video. I collected a few at User:Canoe1967/Transit page. I will look for skylines next. We have video in many of the cats those came from.--Canoe1967 (talk) 05:59, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Stay on target.gif

File:Stay on target.gif has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

— Huntster (t @ c) 22:32, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

BC sign

w:Spuzzum, British Columbia used to have one sign that said "You are now leaving Spuzzum" on both sides. Another editor on en:wp is going to email them to see if there are still pictures of it kicking around. We may ask them if they want to make a new sign to replace it. Would you like to make a few humourous mock-ups that they may decide to use? CC-by would get your name in Spuzzum and as the famous song says: "If you haven't been to Spuzzum, you ain't been anywhere." You may one of the immmortal few that get their name stamped on something there.--Canoe1967 (talk) 12:32, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Sure!!!! just as soon as I think of some reason why this is funny. Penyulap ☏ 12:36, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

still thinking,.... nothing yet.... Penyulap ☏ 12:36, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

come back tomorrow, I'm sure I'll have something by then... ;) Penyulap ☏ 12:36, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

I think it must work better with the jingle I haven't heard. Probably a really good music video or something.. Penyulap ☏ 12:38, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

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No problem. I have two brothers that can make signs and they may know best what is involved with painting it etc. w:Fred Curatolo lives near me and does signs as well as cartoons. He knows the story and may come up with a humourous one.--Canoe1967 (talk) 14:00, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Don't give up

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems&diff=96580330&oldid=96580090

Don't give up. There are still things that you can do and say, and participating on Commons would be a less enjoyable experience without you. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 14:54, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you Michael. Penyulap ☏ 20:16, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome. I hope that you've lost interest in having your account be blocked. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 23:24, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

No I haven't 'given up' trying to get 'my account blocked', I'm still trying. Penyulap ☏ 08:08, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Woah, wait a minute !!! something is wrong with that sentence, and as soon as I figure out what it is, I'll be all over it, you know, if I'm not already blocked. In the meantime I'm sure no-one will misquote me. Penyulap ☏ 08:08, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Ah, now it occurs to me as I recall we're talking self-requested blocks, no, I'm not after one right this moment, I'm, cool, and I wouldn't want to lose touch with all my friends, and I still love drawing silly things :D I think we all get a bit discouraged at times with the police state sort of sillyness, so many people really do believe they are masters of the universe on thrones made of solid neobyndium from galiphrea. I'm not against that per-sae, I just think we can be respectful omnipresent masters of our own galactic empires and recognise that other people have their own galactic empires in their minds too, and that shouldn't get in the way of the occasional bit of work that goes on either. Penyulap ☏ 08:14, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

FX request

 Done, Thanks a lot :-)--باسم (talk) 19:15, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome. Penyulap ☏ 20:16, 21 May 2013 (UTC)