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[edit] Barnstar

Here with, I award you with the Rosetta Barnstar for your excellent work translating my illustrations .LadyofHats 18:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] about your SVG

you know i really like your svg's, but i think you can find very simple ways improving them. a good way to do so, would be by increasing the width of your lines. you can even make diferent widths of lines.I will explain you how to do so ( in theory) even when i dont know how to do it on the program you are using.

you see first you take an image, like your Saghacetus. but instead of drawing the lines you will draw the outline, this one will be the black on your image. and will look something like [this]. apart from this one you will make another contour, this time of the grey (white) area of your image. using this sitems allows you to have an irregular black area arround the object, and it helps giving volume. think of it as two paper of diferent colors that you place one above the other. it is clear that this second set of lines should be "inside" the first, otherwise you will loose the effect of countour. [it looks like this] notice i have leave more space between the lines on the bottom than those on the top. this gives volume. on my program i can change between seeing things as lines or areas. what you just see , looks like [this] with only lines. notice i kind of surrounded the places where you normally would place lines. what mises is the eye, and the little piece of "hand" on the bottom. both are made with the same sistem, the eye is a black area above the grey area above the black one.and the piece of hand is only another area of grey on the black. like [this] you can even add a third layer above the whole thing, to give a new tone. either on the lower half as [shadow], or the top as the [light] or even [both.] always thinking that is like cuting paper and placing it one above the other. something that helps me to do it faster, but i do not know weather is posible to do in your program is to copy my original siluete, paste it above. and then deform it. that is how by example you get so perfect fit on the lower edge of the shadow.. anyway i hope this small tutorial helped you. when you really want to practice doind vector images, you should maybe try with the images on commons that need to be converted to svg. there are many really simple images to practice with. -LadyofHats 03:50, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] snails pictures (2)

Hi Michal ! Have a look on my galery, I just uploaded some pictures of landsnails from Mauritius and Reunion islands. I'm recently registered on Wiki and not really fluent in writing new pages. I didn't find any pages about Erepta, Subulina, Tropidophora or other Plegma... in any Wiki Projects needing illustrations. But please use them as you wish ! JjArgoud (talk) 20:27, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Bonjour Michal !

j'ai vu que tu... Sorry : I've seen that you cropped some of my images to adjust their size to wiki frames, I've lust loaded the open source GIMP to work on my pictures, but I don't succeed in cropping images. Would you happen to know the process ? Have you been on wikipedia in french, portail de La Réunion, faune endémique : all endemic landsnails are listed, some pages writen, a few pictures layed... JjArgoud (talk) 08:52, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello! I found a video tutorial for you: http://www.designyourownweb.com/gimp/move-crop-gimp/move-crop-gimp.html Good luck! --Snek01 (talk) 10:09, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Great, thanks a lot ! Could you give me an advice about my landsnail's contributions on fr:Faune endémique de La Réunion (Wikipedia) ? JjArgoud (talk) 06:54, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

I think, that there should be no alphabetical list. I prefer a list according to group of animals. For example there should be birds in one section, reptiles in another section, gastropods in another section, and so on. --Snek01 (talk) 20:39, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TUSC token 4eadffc816f6b3915f3525fa172304ce

I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!

[edit] Kurosawa screenshots

Nice work with all those Japanese film posters. On the subject of the Kurosawa screenshots you've uploaded, you may want to be aware of this. Apparently, Kurosawa's films will remain under copyright until 2036. Doctor Sunshine (talk) 02:35, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for notifying me about that site. There is also more info at http://akirakurosawa.info/2008/08/01/intellectual-property-high-court-rules-kurosawa-still-under-copyright/ There should be more infomation about it added to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_copyright_law but I am not very familiar with this subject. --Snek01 (talk) 10:50, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

You're right. I'll see what I can do. Doctor Sunshine (talk) 14:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Actually, looks like someone beat me to it. Doctor Sunshine (talk) 14:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Image extraction

Hi, I think I might be able to figure out how to make your proposed system for dealing with the plates. Can you give me one of your gastropod plates with no images extracted and one with images extracted? Thanks! Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 21:52, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Hello, I found only one with extracted: File:Haeckel Prosobranchia.jpg and various unexctracted are in Category:Gastropoda. --Snek01 (talk) 23:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Category speedy deletions

Please stop marking categories for speedy deletion. You opened a COM:CFD - please let that move forward instead of tagging for speedy. Thank you. Wknight94 ^talk 01:21, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Yesterday, I asked Snek01 (and other editors) not to make further edits to the disputed categories while Tiptoety looks into this matter. [1][2] Further edits to these categories are disruptive.[3] Walter Siegmund (talk) 15:50, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. I am glad someone is reading it. I know very well everything about you tried to informed me also. Information tag is useful for attract attention. I am sure it is in fully agreement with Tiptoety's solution (although I can not guarantee this). It is not fragmenting discussion but concentrating discussion to one place (there is a link that you should follow). Everything I did is completely all right. --Snek01 (talk) 16:04, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Several administrators and senior editors are taking an interest in this matter and Tiptoety is actively involved. I'm sure that other things could use your attention while waiting for the result. Do not edit other people's comments.[4] That is a bad thing to do, especially with the misleading edit summary, "cleaned up". You have been warned. I understand you are frustrated, but Commons has policies and guidelines that apply to everyone and our patience is not endless.Walter Siegmund (talk) 16:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your message. I can assure you, that I had a reason for edit your message. I considered and I consider a part of your edit as a menace. I will never accept any menace and I also do not support my messages to you with such things. See also message by Wknight94 above, that recommended adding CFD templates. I will evaluate your rationalisation next time, when there will be. --Snek01 (talk) 21:58, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Wknight94 did not suggest adding CFDs to tens of files, but that is what you did. I think your edits had the appearance of en:WP:POINT, even if they weren't intended that way. I'm sorry if you felt menaced, but I don't think that is a reasonable response to my warning. I hoped that another block would not be necessary and wanted you to know that. However, I feared that you were headed in that direction. Subsequent events indicate that my concerns were well-founded. You continued to edit TOL categories, edit warred, and were blocked. So, I failed as an administrator to persuade you to make the changes needed to prevent that. Perhaps if I'd worded my request differently, it would have been more effective.

In the future, do not edit other people's comments. Request that the author remove or strike portions that you object to, archive them, or delete them in their entirety, replacing them with a note to that effect, if you must, but don't edit them. Please refer to Commons:Talk page guidelines for more information. Thank you, Walter Siegmund (talk) 00:51, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Unidentified species

Please stop redirecting the unidentified species top level trees. An average commons visitor knows hardly about the latin names and rules for plants and species, so it is normal that those top level categories remain in a common language. So, if you want to change it, like with all controversial modificatios, issue a {{Move}} or CFD request. --Foroa (talk) 16:30, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Commons:Categories: Category names should always be in English (except life forms, for which the scientific Latin name should be used). Please also consider, that Wikimedia Commons is an international project. --Snek01 (talk) 17:03, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

category:Unidentified plants with its 144 subcategories is there for a good reason. Don't expect people that hardly know the difference between a tree and a plant to find the scientific name. There are many unidentified categories without a scientific name, such as for trees, birds, dogs, sheep, flowers, shells, ..... In fact, in parallel to the scientific taxonomy, there are several more valid common classifications, such as in Category:Animals by common named groups, category:pets, category:breeds, category:trees, category:birds, category:shells, category:Plant fibers, category:Tropical fruit, and many more, that have no direct one to one mapping mapping to the taxonomy structure: taxonomy is only one of the categorisation methods on commons. Moreover, taxonomy and its Latin names is really a specialist area and I don't suppose that many people are fluent in Latin. Precisely because the less people know about species, the less they will be able to categorise precisely in taxonomy terms. In that situation, unidentified animals, plants, grasses, trees, flowers, beatles, birds, insects, etc is the entry door for a first level categorisation. So taxonomy will need always top level categories and side gates that use more common names to ease access. --Foroa (talk) 19:06, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked

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Foroa (talk) 17:15, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

After this episode, you obviously needed a longer cool down period. As stated, category:Unidentified plants with its 144 subcategories is there for a good reason. Don't expect people that hardly know the difference between a tree and a plant to find the scientific name. There are many unidentified categories without a scientific name, such as for trees, birds, dogs, sheep, flowers, shells, .... Anyway, redirecting (and reverting) such important categories without any sort of consensus is not the way to move forward. --Foroa (talk) 17:25, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

And THIS you are saying after you blocked me? Yes, there is one category Unidentified trees among 134 ones. I ma sorry that I have overlooked this one. According to the Commons:Blocking policy you had to correct their mistakes or seek help. You have no permission to ignore guidelines and if you want any change different from guideline, then you have to ask for a different concensus. --Snek01 (talk) 18:03, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

There was written as reason of block "Repeatedly ignoring other opinions". But this is the User:Foroa who ignored not only other opinion (my opinion) but also opinion of the guideline! --Snek01 (talk) 18:09, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

As you can see here and the message #Unidentified_species on your talk page here above, it is clear that you are steering once again to a conflict, not a consensus, so some time to think on it might help you. --Foroa (talk) 18:15, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

This links you have provided says this: If I was an administrator and you were a common user, then it could happen like this and there could be a message on your talk page:

As you can see here and the message #Unidentified_species on your talk page here above, it is clear that you are steering once again to a conflict, not a consensus, so some time to think on it might help you.

What is the difference? You exploited your privilegues. Unblock me, please. I have already promised to avoid problems. --Snek01 (talk) 18:26, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Unblock request declined

This blocked user asked to be unblocked, but one or more administrators has reviewed and declined this request. Other administrators can also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason.

Request reason: "reason for request"

Decline reason: "Your comments below are combative and against the spirit of COM:MELLOW. Your responses also suggest there will be further issues if you are unblocked, because you don't seem to understand why you were blocked, nor do you seem willing to accept the block was fair ("Both were preventive and not eqitable blocks"). As such, I'm declining your unblock, allowing it to last the full three days. PeterSymonds (talk) 10:10, 16 October 2009 (UTC)"

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I have received your mail. I think the issue here is more around behavioral patterns than anything else. "Following policy" is not sufficient to avoid blocking, you need to edit collegially as well. That includes not edit warring. Please review COM:MELLOW. I'm inclined not to unblock at first blush but I will leave it to other admins to evaluate rather than decline outright. Please leave this note here for them to review, thanks. ++Lar: t/c 19:26, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you Lar. I would like to say, that I considered and I consider Foroa to be the well known informed user about categories. That is why I provided very few explanations about my edits. I am sorry I was too hot headed and I wish if my edits were considered as reasonable. I believe in fruitful cooperation with Foroa because I have also few other tips on categorizing CommonsRoot. (I will test it on my own wiki first.) Thank you. --Snek01 (talk) 21:08, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Snek01, are you willing to refrain from further edit warring in general? This is now the second topic you have edit warred over, so I can understand where this block came from. That said, if you agree to behave in a more appropriate way that is both open to others thoughts and opinions as stops edit warring I see no need for this block. Tiptoety ^talk 22:48, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes. --Snek01 (talk) 07:57, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

You understand, where this block came from, but you have not expressed yourself. I do not want to be unblocked only for reason that I said "yes". I did not made mistakes worse than any other participants. I want to be unblocked to I could continue believe in eqitable decisions by administrators, that I wish to became in the future. --Snek01 (talk) 08:30, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

I do not want to became unblocked until there will be written in my block log "Both were preventive and not eqitable blocks". You KNOW that it is the truth. --Snek01 (talk) 08:35, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

I had come here to grant an unblock, based on your "yes" of 07:57. But I cannot see the correctness in your request to have something written in your block log. The blocks WERE preventative, they were intended to stop disruption. But "not equitable" ?? Not sure what you're trying to accomplish with this request. What we need from you is a committment not to do the things that were disrupting the project. As T says you need to "agree to behave in a more appropriate way that is both open to others thoughts and opinions" and "stop edit warring ". ++Lar: t/c 12:41, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Like Lar, I was ready to unblock you Snek01. But after I saw your most recent comments it is obvious you have not learned anything from all of this and are still ignorant to your wrongs. Because of this, I am unwilling to unblock your account. Tiptoety ^talk 16:15, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Unblock request granted

This blocked user asked to be unblocked, and one or more administrators has reviewed and granted this request.

Request reason: "I wish to be unblocked. I already promised to be good, but I can promise it once more. I will not edit war and I will edit in the most diplomatic way. Thank you. --Snek01 (talk) 17:21, 16 October 2009 (UTC)"

Unblock reason: "Per your commitment to do your best not to edit war and to edit collegially. Please don't make me regret this later. If you need help or advice please ask. Good luck and best wishes. ++Lar: t/c 17:52, 16 October 2009 (UTC)"

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Thank you. --Snek01 (talk) 17:55, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Fasciolaria tulipa

Thank you for Fasciolaria tulipa, I understand! --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:50, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your great photo. --Snek01 (talk) 09:27, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Fossil something

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User talk:Snek01

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[edit] Barnstar

[edit] about your SVG

[edit] snails pictures (2)

[edit] TUSC token 4eadffc816f6b3915f3525fa172304ce

[edit] Kurosawa screenshots

[edit] Image extraction

[edit] Category speedy deletions

[edit] Unidentified species

[edit] Blocked

[edit] Fasciolaria tulipa

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