User talk:MarbleGarden

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 23:38, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the edits!

Hi MarbleGarden - I noticed that (a while ago) you added quite a few categories on files sitting in the Category:Files from Wellcome Images (categorization needed). If you have checked a file and added categories, please feel free to also remove it from the "categorisation needed" category! I am (and have been for a long time) checking the files from the Wellcome collection, and to come across ones with excellent categorisation was great, so thank you :) -- Deadstar (msg) 13:02, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! I just wasn't sure if it required a cursory check from someone with more knowledge/authority before taking that needs-categorization category off. MarbleGarden (talk) 17:38, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

No further checks needed - you're the expert on those particular files! Great work :) -- Deadstar (msg) 13:39, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Queen Vic Royal visit to Dublin

You have added a few pictures that are incorrectly titled to the above category, note the photos that were previously excluded are of towns in England and Wales and not part of the same trip.Financefactz (talk) 10:07, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Ok thank you, can they be retitled so others do not make the same error? MarbleGarden (talk) 23:42, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Category:Built in the Czech Republic in 1862

Thanks for creating the Category:Built in the Czech Republic in 1862, but the Czech Republic was established in 1993. Gampe (talk) 13:22, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

I just copied the existing format. I think this category is based on what entity the structures are in now. There is no category for things built in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. MarbleGarden (talk) 15:40, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

From or In ?

Hi MarbleGarden. Please don't give the category "from" a country to works of art they are "in" a country. We use FROM when the art work was made in a country (e.g. in Italy or France) but now is in another country, or if the artist was of a country (e.g. France or Italy) and his work is now in another country (e.g. UK or USA). I have corrected your categorization about the frescoes of Hans von Marées, a German artist, who worked in Naples where his frescoes are still located in the Aquarium. Please check all the art categories you provided, if "from" is correct or if you need to correct to "in". Thank you very much. Best regards DenghiùComm (talk) 07:16, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

com:Duplicate

Hi. Exact means exact for a speedy deletion. It would be great if you can review the guidance document, and see the part about the DRs where not exact. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 20:40, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Categorizing paintings by country by year

Thanks for doing this work. I noticed that here you categorized Thomson's painting as from Germany, whereas he was Canadian, and the painting is from Canada. I corrected this and created the category for Canada, but you might want to look into your workflow and see whether it was a one-time error or a systemic one. Ymblanter (talk) 08:11, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, it looks like I erroneously put his painting with those by Hans Thoma, so moved a few more over, but it was just in the 1910s landscape paintings category. I tweaked the category you created to make it Canada-specific (replaced countries of Europe with countries of the Americas). Thanks again! MarbleGarden (talk) 13:40, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

No problem, thanks. Ymblanter (talk) 14:52, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Autopatrol given

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. Abzeronow (talk) 17:12, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

A matter of years

Hi. Thanks for your work for more exact categorization of our works here on Commons. But one can go too far. An example is this: File:Andreas Riis Carstensen - Enkekejserinde Dagmars afrejse til Rusland.png. It was registered as an 1890s painting but you moved it to an 1899 painting category. The date given was "circa 1899", which means that we can not be sure that it was made in 1899, although that is very probable. Please do not introduce exact years, when we are not completely sure of them. I have restored the 1890s bit on that one, but you have made other similar moves. One can easily overlook the "circa" part, and I have probably done so myself occasionally, but still, we should strive for accuracy. Cheers Rsteen (talk) 04:17, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Ok, thank you. MarbleGarden (talk) 02:33, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Using Cat-a-lot with templates

Hi, MarbleGarden. I noticed this change you made to Template:States of the United States. It added the category you wanted, but it didn't put it inside the noinclude tags. That made the category appear on every page that uses the template. I have fixed the template, and I hope that the pages that use it will sort themselves out (there are over 170,000 of them).

Using Cat-a-lot with templates can be tricky. If you are moving a template to a different category, it's usually okay because Cat-a-lot just replaces the existing category in the place where it's already coded. (That's assuming that the category is in the template and not in a doc page.) When copying to a category, though, Cat-a-lot just puts the new category at the very end of the template code, so it won't be inside any noinclude tags. It doesn't matter if the template already has any noinclude tags -- Cat-a-lot doesn't know to look for them.

If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask. -- Auntof6 (talk) 10:56, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Oh gosh. I've seen that before on pages being in template categories and corrected it in those templates when I saw it. Now I get how it happens. Thank you! MarbleGarden (talk) 12:34, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome -- it took me a while to figure that out a while back. The only time I think copying would work is if there wasn't any slash-noinclude tag to close the noinclude text. I've seen some templates coded that way, although I personally like to explicitly close the tag. -- Auntof6 (talk) 13:00, 11 March 2024 (UTC)