User talk:Des Callaghan

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Des Callaghan!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 08:15, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

VI nomination

Des Callaghan; I reverted your last edit.[1] Please review the links I cite in my edit summary. If you change the scope once an image has been supported or opposed, the process has to be restarted. The scope is used in the Commons:Valued image candidates/Most valued review and is used as the caption in VI galleries, e.g., Commons:Valued images by topic/Life forms/Plants/Seed plants (Spermatophyta)/Flowering plants (Magnoliophyta). Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 16:30, 12 September 2014 (UTC) Thankyou Walter. I misunderstood the 'habitus' comment. I now understand that it refers to 'general appearance' and wasn't a request to me for habitat information. Best regards, Des

My pleasure. I'm pleased to be able to help. Good luck. --Walter Siegmund (talk) 20:48, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

★ Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted ★
Congratulations! The image you nominated was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
Pogonatum urnigerum (Urn Haircap), habitus.
If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Valued images candidates.

review

 Comment : the vernacular name (in English) is needed in the scope, between brackets, after the binomial name."Habitus" would be useful too imo ; scientits will correct me if I'm wrong. Friendly. --JLPC (talk) 08:27, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 Done Added English name. I could also add habitat information but I don't know where to put this? Des Callaghan

•  Comment You can place "habituts" at the end of the scope. Like this. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:35, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Useful --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:35, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:07, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Diphyscium foliosum.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Diphyscium foliosum.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 05:01, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Your vote on my FPC

Hi Des Callaghan,

A not logged in user voted on an FPC of mine using your user name. If it was you, I ask you to place the vote again, while being logged in, as only votes from logged on users are allowed at FPC. -- Slaunger (talk) 20:36, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Bryum capillare peristome.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Bryum capillare peristome.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 13:01, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Pleurocladula albescens.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Pleurocladula albescens.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 05:01, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Bryum capillare leaf cells.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Bryum capillare leaf cells.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 21:00, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Over-categorization

Saw your question to Jebulon. You are correct that your image will not appear directly in the more general categories, and the reasons is that they are not supposed to, because otherwise these categories will become overpopulated making it almost impossible to find anything.

Still, if you are standing in a higher level category, there is a very good tool FastCCI, which helps traverse the category and sub-categories for FPs, VIs and QIs and present those. You should try it out, it works by category intersection. That said it would still be nice to have better ways in the mediawiki software for presenting images using different kinds of views. For instance, it would be nice if a "flat view" of all images in a category and its subcategories could be made, if you were willing to browse through all there is. There are some technical difficulties though, as categories often contain circular references, which makes traversing the category structure an endless process.

Hope that helps, -- Slaunger (talk) 10:22, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Slaunger Thankyou for the reply, which is very kind. -- Des Callaghan (talk) 06:25, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Sphagnum rubellum pendent branch tip.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Sphagnum rubellum pendent branch tip.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 05:06, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Bryum capillare leaf cells.jpg

Hi, what kind of microscope and/or camera was used to take this excellent shot? I'm interested to invest in something like it. Much appreciated, thank you.. Tjt263 (talk) 05:15, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Requesting use of image - Splachnum_ampullaceum.jpg

Hi,

I'm working on a book about pollination ecology. One of the chapters makes a meaningful diversion to talk about insects carrying splachnum moss spores.

Would it be all right to feature your image in the book?

Thanks very much.

Stephen Humphrey Freelance Science Writer — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.105.102.229 (talk) 01:40, 12 April 2022 (UTC)