User talk:Altona

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Tip: Add categories to your files

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BotMultichillT 06:45, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

• Image:24-A-30.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Plaque-141-C-183.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.

Éditeurs de cartes postales

Bonjour Didier,

Ce serait bien d'indiquer dans toute la mesure du possible les éditeurs des cartes que vous scannez, de façon que d'autres puissent les utiliser plus facilement. Voir par exemple cette page du Wikilivre de photographie, sur lequel je passe... pas mal de temps ! b:fr:Photographie/Sociétés et Organisations/Éditeurs spécialisés/Fernand Fleury

Amitiés, Jean-Jacques MILAN (talk) 11:42, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

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KTo288 (talk) 22:50, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Foto InnoTrans14 Emma.jpg

Hallo Altona, bei dem Foto File:InnoTrans14 Emma.jpg hattest du die Kategorie "H.F. Wiebe" hinzugefügt, ohne dass ich einen Bezug dahin entdecken kann. Kannst du bitte einen Text ergänzen, der den Bezug herstellt? -- Gerd Fahrenhorst (talk) 20:54, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for info, I added some comment to the file. - I suggest that you add some babel code to your user page, e.g. {{#babel:fr|en-4|de-2}} so visitors can see which language to use. -- Gerd Fahrenhorst (talk) 07:36, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

File:DO-Zollern-II-IV 8584 1.JPG

Hi Altona, here you categorized Category:Arnold Jung steam locomotives and Category:0-4-0T locomotives. As I have more images of these locomotives I would like to categorize them correctly. I'm only uncertain what is what. Please enlighten me: is the front or the rear one the Arnold Jung steam locomotive? Greetings, Ies (talk) 18:09, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

File:231-E-41-a.jpg

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Revent (talk) 06:15, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Froissy Dompierre Light Railway

I allowed myself to enter some of your photographs of the Froissy Dompierre Light Railway at [1]. Did I get it right? --NearEMPTiness (talk) 17:27, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

An unfree Flickr license was found on File:CH ex-SNCF 241 A 65 Leissigen 15-05-2010.jpg

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Elisfkc (talk) 17:21, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Odd category required

The Marshall loco hauling a load of blackwood

Harlot, a converted Ransomes steam lorry used on and near the Marrawah Tramway

@Altona: I think these two photographs of the en:Marrawah Tramway will make you smile.

Category:Rail_transport_in_Indonesian

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NearEMPTiness (talk) 21:32, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

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Trainpix

Dear Altona: I just noted that there are a lot of un-categorized photographs in the Category:Photographs from trainpix.org due to a recent mass-upload of Trainpix. Maybe, you are interested in categorizing some of them. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 12:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Le Train des Plantations

Thank you very much for your nice photographs of Martinique, which I inserted today into en:Le Train des Plantations. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 12:06, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

1998 scans

I cant locate these slides. It must have been during a trip where i also visited Warercress File:Watercress Line 1998 1.jpg. See also File:United Kingdom rail 1998 1.jpg and File:United Kingdom rail 1998 3.jpg. Smiley.toerist (talk) 11:13, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

question about Category:Store railway wagons

I noticed you recently added an image I uploaded to this category, so I had a look at other images in the category, since the one I uploaded is not a "store" by any of the normally understood definitions I am aware of. It looks to me like it is essentially "repurposed boxcars". Is that about right? Should it maybe be changed to some other title that is more easily understood? Beeblebrox (talk) 17:13, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

All Decauville Works Numbers and Year of Construction

Dear Altona

I am currently collating a list with All Decauville Works Numbers and Year of Construction. Do you know a good list or do you find suitable photos or numbers of Decauville steam locomotives, which are not yet on the list? For instance, do you know the numbers of any of the following locomitives?

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  Caltrano
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  Le Pouliguen
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  Vigía Chico–Santa Cruz
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  Vigía Chico–Santa Cruz
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  Ismailia
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  Bengasi
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  Chaco Resistencia

--NearEMPTiness (talk) 12:29, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

My train uploads

Thanks for categorising my railway station photos—I'm currently racing to sort 100,000+ photos on Flickr and upload the 10% or so that are of potential encyclopedic value, and because of the time pressure am just batch uploading with generic categories like "Leeds station" to get them into at least vaguely the right place. — iridescent 18:24, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Do you recognise any of these locomotives?

Dear Altona: I am trying to find the works numbers of these locomotives for de:Decauville#Decauville-Lokomotiven. Are you able to identify some of them?

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  Le Pouliguen
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  Mines de Esch-Alzette
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  Turkestan
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  Weidknecht oder Decauville? Wo?
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  Weidknecht oder Decauville bei Goizueta?
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  Weidknecht oder Decauville bei Goizueta?
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  Weidknecht oder Decauville bei Goizueta?
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  In den Tropen, vermutlich in Marokko
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  In Neukaledonien
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  Schöne Trachten, vielleicht in Neukaledonien
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  Im Balkan
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  Auf einer Baustelle
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  Brückenbaustelle in Dimborko
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  Kreidebeschriftung: 797
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  Ein Fremdfabrikat?
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  Maréchaux
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  Mit Schlauch
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  Vallée de l'Ailette, photographiée en 1922 à Crandelain, mit Schlauch
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  Frisch lackiert
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  Vista Kulle
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  7986 or 7987?
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  Panama
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  Bei Decauville
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  Before despatch
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  Fazzari, Italy
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  Salina di Massua

--NearEMPTiness (talk) 15:40, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Rijksmuseum

Amerikaanse stoomlocomotief, RP-F-2001-7-998-15

A new set of uncategorised photographs of locomotives has been uploaded recently, including some high-resolution scans of a Baldwin catalogue. I hope you will enjoy seeing them. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 20:49, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Losing files

Why are you losing files like you did with 'History of Arica' your supposed to have more than 1 file for a cat. but here you have shells of empty cats holding 1 at the root with 1 image. Shame! Broichmore (talk) 18:44, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

@Broichmore: I know that it is occasionally very frustrating to work on Wikimedia Commons. But this is no reason to use words like "Shame!" without trying to understand, why this categorisation has been done. Please double-check, whether this category contains five subcategories, before making such an unnecessary fuss. I understand that most of these categories are not yet fully utilised, but this will change, as soon as the project progresses. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 19:28, 17 May 2020 (UTC) --NearEMPTiness (talk) 19:28, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Look at History of Arica, in Arica culture there are 16 files in 3 cats, that's bad enough, there's enough justification for 2 cats there but only because of the earthquake. Since when was an earthquake culture? Then there's Arica by century??? 5 cats holding 1 file of a modern lorry that's in service as of 2012. It's not even history yet. I just sweated blood to upload a 152 year old file and, I mean it to be used , and don't want to see it buried away under a pile of useless muck. Unfair to vent on you, I see now, you only created one of these cats. Broichmore (talk) 20:22, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

check categories

Re: File:King Street Coal Works docks, Seattle, circa 1885 (MOHAI 9021).jpg, please don't remove {{Check categories}} when most of the category work remains to be done. It really decreases the chance that someone will get to it. As it happens, I stumbled across this anyway, but I could easily not have. - Jmabel ! talk 20:54, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

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A1Cafel (talk) 06:56, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Photo

Bonjour Altona. Je crois que cette photographie, de votre paternité, a été "volée" ... CFA1877 (talk) 16:32, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Alloa railway

I wondered if you would let me know why you objected to come of teh categories in the image of Alloa viaduct? Afterbrunel (talk) 13:09, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

@Afterbrunel: I removed the categories that were duplicates with those of the Category:Alloa Swing Bridge. Altona (talk) 13:17, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

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Mackensen (talk) 00:13, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

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Mackensen (talk) 00:13, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

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Oaktree b (talk) 18:00, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

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Andy Dingley (talk) 21:25, 18 April 2024 (UTC)