User talk:Saperaud~enwiki

Welcome!

Hi Saperaud, and a warm welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you have enjoyed editing as much as I did so far and decide to stay. Unfamiliar with the features and workings of Wikipedia? Don't fret! Be Bold! Here's some good links for your reference and that'll get you started in no time!

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- Mailer Diablo 04:55, 15 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Not really unfamilar but nice to see greeting methods in the english Wikipedia. --Saperaud 05:01, 15 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Images of Earth

Why are you emptying Category:Images of Earth? I do not remember it discussed in WP:CFD. (SEWilco 04:26, 4 September 2005 (UTC))[reply]

I try to get an overview what's on commons and what has to be moved there. --Saperaud 04:48, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Why does getting an overview require altering image classifications? Maybe you need a notebook. (SEWilco 05:10, 4 September 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Should the category only contain WP images, or should it contain any images which can be used in WP? (SEWilco 05:10, 4 September 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Answer yourself: what makes sense? Two shemes of image classifcation systems or one central? Image categories in Wikipedias can make sense because they help to show what this specific Wikipedia has more than commons or others. But there's Wikipedia:List of images/Places/Earth too, so we have three shemes. Who reads them? All article links are directed to commons. These categories are an interna of the english Wikipedia (and there are some internas it should really get rid of like Category:NowCommons) and I don't see why there should be any image from commons (see these smart links on top of the category). --Saperaud 05:24, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know. Asked at Wikipedia_talk:List_of_images#Commons_separation. (SEWilco 05:33, 4 September 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Nowcommons

Heya, images that have been moved to commons aren't speedy deletion candidates; Just tag them with {{nowcommons|Image:Filenameoncommons}} and they'll get cleaned up in due course. --fvw * 23:53, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Also, I've detagged Image:Earth-crust-atmosphere-cuta.gif but couldn't tag it as nowcommons as I can't find the image on commons. I assume that was why you wanted it deleted? Either way, just tag it with the appropriate {{db}} or {{nowcommons}}. --fvw * 23:53, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Hmm in other wikipedias they are exactly that: speedy deletion candidates. But ok, I respect that consensus. The images I mark as speedy deletion are a, doubled or b, replaced by better versions. I can't say what's the first one (link?) but the second one is simply wrong, see Image:Earth-crust-cutaway-english.png. --Saperaud 00:37, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Being wrong definitely isn't a CSD, but it's an excellent reason for taking it to WP:IFD. --fvw * 00:45, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

By the way, I might not read replies made only on your talk page; they're easy to miss for people with large watch lists. If you want to be sure someone reads your message either copying it to their talk page, replying only on their talk page, or putting an "I've replied on my talk page" notification on their talk page is a good bet. --fvw * 00:45, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

being wrong and replaced by a better version which is used everywhere. I'm German but that smells like bureaucracy even for my nose. --Saperaud 02:39, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Night sky

I don't know of any others, but I do have a few shots which I'll get around to uploading soon --Fir0002 02:04, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Nobel medal dsc06171.jpg

The licensing conditions are a bit complex because there are two copyright holders:

The work of art that I photographed, that is, the Nobel medal, has a copyrighted design. The artist who etched it died in 1966. We don't have the authorization of the artist for copying his work, but we can deem a photograph of the work to be fair use.
Since I am the photographer, I own the copyright on the photograph by itself, and I grant the use of the photograph under GFDL and CC-BY-SA.

David.Monniaux 06:59, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Commons Images

You want me to upload my images to the Commons? Are you gonna make me? Huh? HUH? Hehe, just kidding. I suppose it is a good idea. From now on I'll use the Commons uploader program to do just that.PiccoloNamek 01:17, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Baj insignia

Image:Baj1.png, Image:Baj2.png, Image:Baj3.png, Image:Baj4.png, Image:Baj5.png, Image:Baj6.png, Image:Baj7.png, Image:Baj8.png, Image:Baj9.png

Could you please give you sources and categorize these images properly? --Saperaud 05:46, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. See: Comparative ranks and insignia of Star Trek --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 18:59, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Halo Effect

The picture was originally taken by User:Haloeffect, and he released it under the GFDL. I noted that in the image's page.PiccoloNamek 07:50, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Request for edit summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you.

As a hint, if you make interwiki links, say to german, you can write "+de interwiki" or simply "+de". Same if you link to commons. Cheers, – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 23:30, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Peacock image

Image:Peacock.detail.arp.750pix.jpg, which you have uploaded, is currently being considered for delisting as a featured picture due to size and depth of fields issues. You may wish comment about the nomination here. Thank you. Michaelas10 (Talk) 11:52, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

St Helens from Monitor Ridge feather Image

Hi, an image you uploaded, Image:St Helens from Monitor Ridge feather.jpg is being considered for delisting as a featured picture due to JPEG artifacts and photomontage problems. If you would like to comment, you can do so here. Thanks, Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 02:43, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:PaintedBunting23.jpg

Hi,
A photo you uploaded is nominated for delisting from Featured Pictures. Perhaps you could take a look at the discussion?
Thanks, Pstuart84 Talk 10:36, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fire ants image

An image you uploaded, Image:Fire_ants02.jpg has been nominated for delisting as a featured picture. Enuja (talk) 06:33, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FP Delist Nom

Hi Saperaud,

An image originally uploaded by you has been nominated for delist at FPC. See Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Bunch of Grapes. Cheers, --jjron (talk) 15:56, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposed

I'm proposing a merger on an article you worked on. Since the shelf clouds and roll clouds are subset of the arcus clouds, they should be integrated into the later article. This would make a more complete article instead of splitting the information among three articles. Anwer in Talk:arcus cloud.

Pierre cb (talk) 04:41, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strelitzia larger.jpg

Hello, an image you uploaded is being considered for delisting from Featured Picture status. You might want to check it out here. Hypershadow647 (talk) 20:38, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FPC denomination

Image:Pollen.arp.750pix.jpg has been listed for FP denomination at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Image:Pollen.arp.750pix.jpg Noodle snacks (talk) 05:17, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File:Arizona cap canal.jpg

Hello. File:Arizona cap canal.jpg, which you uploaded and which became a featured picture in July 2004, is being considered for delisting here. If you would like to participate in the discussion, your thoughts would be welcome. Thank you, –BLACK FALCON ^(TALK) 05:11, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Saperaud. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Saperaud~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

02:35, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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18:32, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:58, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]