User talk:Aurevilly/Archive-1

Hi. Great images. Could you add a bit more info about the place? Thanks -- Chris 73 11:04, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

(You're extremely fast :) Sure. Maybe you could lemme a couple of minuts to do my stuff before asking :) villy 11:07, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cool. Sorry for being too fast ;-) I also started adding them to Saint-Sauveur-le Vicomte, France -- Chris 73 11:11, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Chris :) villy 11:13, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Boilerplate texts

Hi. I did not quite understand what boilerplate text you want. I have some here. Give me more details what you want to say, and I'll gladly help out. BTW, I am native german, english is a second language for me. Also, with unused images: It seems the new category method in the new version of MediaWiki will automatically include thumbnails, making image pages unnecessary. This is still under discussion on the village pump [1]. -- Chris 73 00:28, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ah, clearer now. Also, the "Villy" got me confused for a moment. As for the text: How about my second boilerplate:

Hi Could you add the umages you uploaded to a page in one of our Categories (see the [[Main Page] for a list of categories). If possible do not add the image to a category directly but insert the image to a subpage in one of the categories. For example, Images of "Roald Amundsen" would go to the page [[Roald Amundsen]], which is categorized in [[:Category:Explorers]]. Thanks -- ~~~~

Chris 73 01:02, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Et alors ?

Où est-ce que t'es quand on a besoin de toi ? Non mais je rêve, tu disparais sans laisser d'adresse, pas bien ça. Bon comment ça marche Commons ? Moi j'y comprends pas grand chose. Y'a des règles de nommage quelque part ? J'te jure, c'est le bazar ! Bisous notafish 14:17, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

J'aimerais bien

Que tu ailles faire un tour sur ma page de Questions à deux francs cinquante et que tu me dises ce que tu penses de mes propositions/interrogations sur l'utilisation des langues. Si tu n'es pas mort, that is. Biz. notafish }<';> 18:33, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ma connexion Free est cours de construction à la maison ... depuis 15 jours. Seul résultat concret : mon ancienne connexion DSL ne fonctionne plus. Donc je n'ai plus rien à la maison. Donc, je suis mort pour l'internet jusqu'à ce que FT me branche sur Free. Je me connecte qq minutes par jour du bureau - quand j'y vais - pour parer au plus urgent. Je jeterai un oeil à ton questionnaire dès que je pourrais le faire de la maison. Ce sevrage forcé est pesant. Pour info à Nicolas, les procurations ont été expédiées à Jimbo quelques jours après les statuts. Je n'ai strictement aucun feedback. Pas très surprenant, mais irritant quand même au vu du travail personnel que j'ai accompli sur ces différents sujets. A bientôt ... j'espère. Bises. villy 10:57, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

A vrai dire, je suis plutôt ma page que la tienne :P. Bref, faut qu'on se grouille, là, parce qu'on commence à trouver des articles comme ça : 唐朝, très joli, mais bonjour l'angoisse. Biz. notafish }<';> 03:05, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC) PS. Mon truc c'est pas un questionnaire, c'est une ébauche de proposition à soumettre à la communauté, sachant que c'est pompé des propositions qui ont déjà été faites sur Commons:Language policy et que j'y ai rajouté des réflexions persos et de vraies questions à poser à tout le monde. Ca va être un chantier d'enfer c't'histoire. :-)

Bon, j'ai "restructuré" et fait des commentaires. Dans le même style, et pompé sur l'idée de soufron, voir Cpyright stuff, un d"but, mais je voudrais que sur Commons les choses soient plus simples qu'ailleurs, question copyright. Biz. notafish }<';> 18:59, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Persian Astrolabe

Short note to let you know I've copied your picture Image:Astrolabe-Persian-18C.jpg in Commons and proposed it as a featured picture. It is extremely beautiful ... villy 16:06, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi Villy, glad you like it - you wouldn't guess it was taken through glass would you? As you probably know, that photo is about a day away from becoming a featured picture on the English Wiki. I have yet to get round to moving my other photos over to the Commons. I think there is a script to help automate it, but I've also yet to decide weather the Commons is friendly enough for licensing via cc-by-sa. -- Solipsist 21:58, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Okay. Eventually I hope you'll come to the conclusion that yes, Commons is friendly enough for any purpose related to your work :) villy 06:58, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Its really a question of the GFDL notice for copyright holders on the upload page, which obstructs cc-by-sa licensing. The same thing applies to the English Wiki upload page, but that upload page has numerous errors and is largely invalid, so it doesn't bother me. (Although I've had editors try and change the license on images without my agreement.) There were predictions that the upload page would improve to allow selecting the copyright-tag during upload for the Commons and/or MediaWiki 1.4, but we've got both of those now and the upload page is still fairly similar. -- Solipsist 08:38, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image:Milice ecole.jpg

I've submitted Image:Milice ecole.jpg for deletion because I think it conflicts with Commons copyright policy to use images that are copyrighted even if enforcement of the copyright seems unlikely or impossible. User:David.Monniaux, who uploaded the image, said you had told him it was acceptable. Maybe you'd like to weigh in on the matter at Commons:Deletion requests#Image:Milice_ecole.jpg? -- Sebastian Koppehel 13:28, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I do think that, considering the circumstances, the copyright of this picture is highly virtual. Yet I gave a positive answer to David on IRC, thinking of an upload on the french Wikipédia; I had not in mind an upload on Commons - where I agree the rules have to be as safe as possible. villy 15:39, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks! By the way, a minor policy question - is it okay/suggested that older versions of an image I made (i.e. it's not like I built off another image and uploaded with the same name) be speedily deleted? Otherwise, they're just filling up space (Minor, but still) and are generally useless. --Golbez 08:21, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Stock.xchng images

I have replied to your comment on Commons:Deletion requests, I only just read it. ed g2s • talk 03:12, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Pas de réponse.

Non. Mais peut-être un début. notafish }<';> 12:07, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

User:Aurevilly/sxc.hu and Category:Stock.xchng photographs

Hi Aurevilly,

I like your analysis at User:Aurevilly/sxc.hu; thanks for writing that. There's only one point I disagree with. At the end, you conclude that Category:Stock.xchng photographs should be deleted.

I'm the one who created that category. The reason I did it was not to keep stock.xchng images from being used. Indeed, I'm the uploader of three of the images in that category. Instead, I simply thought it would be useful to have image source categories. We have topic, type, author, and licence categories; why not source categories too?

Cheers, Dbenbenn 07:48, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

One Question: Did you write the site admins of that page an email, that their disclaimer contains things they can't demand? (of course in a friendly way). I think asking is much more easier than a big voting here on commons. (and I'll ask them if it has not been done yet). Arnomane 23:24, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No I did not. I am mainly interested by elaborating a Commons consistent policy more than, at least for the moment, contributing to external sites better terms of use:) villy 07:00, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Kinsey

There must be a misunderstanding. The work is not copyrighted. You can see from the image it is over one hundred years old, it cannot be copyrighted. You have mistaken the copyright policies regarding "any work or authorship (hereafter the "work") under the control of the Institute or copyrighted by the Institute" which means created by the Institute, things such as it's journals, etc. Apollomelos 13:37, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You may be right. I suggest you make this answer on the Commons:Deletion requests entry in order for everybody to know your position. To be frank, even if I suspect it, I have no exact idea that the picture is over one hundred years old and I don't want the Commons to take any chance about it. Cheers, villy 13:44, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

REPONSE

Yavait des adresses d'images qui n'existe pas qui fesaient une ribambelle qui sortait de la largeur de la page fallait bien faire un peu de menage!

Mais vous avez eté encore plus nettoyeur on dirait

salutations distinguées

--Utilisateur:MG***<@> Accueil Main Page Accueil] 11:08, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Je me cache...

...ici, de peur que notre amie presque commune ne me voit sur ta page de discussion. Fais gaffe, elle est parano, un mot de travers, et ce sont tes jambes qui y passent(en bas de la diff). ;-). Bisous et merci encore pour le dîner, j'ai adoré rencontrer Madame et passer cette soirée avec vous. Bisous. notafish }<';> 01:56, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hey there! Sorry for the delay - I didn't have much time for Wiki. You've been asking for a legal status of the mentioned picture. Well, in fact it was taken from Wikipedia and there was a link from the pic's page to the page on enWiki (due to technical problems with Wiki engine then I did not made the whole description - sorry, my fault. The picture is the sepia version of en Wiki's pic, as written there and it is a PD (it's pretty old so it's highly probable). I change the description there, although thank you for correcting me and for showing templates. I will have to do similar things with other pics. See You! Aegis Maelstrom 10:59, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Licence Art Libre

Hi, I have a question concerning http://artlibre.org/ . First of all does it qualify as a free license? And secondly does it clearly say in section 2.2 "à titre onéreux" that it is commercial. Greetings --Paddy 21:50, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Maladie

Dites, monsieur le très légal JCC... On a droit à des congés maladie sur le wiki ? Je n'ai pas été très présente dernièrement, nulle part, mais les analyses que j'ai récupérées hier me donnent une excuse béton de chez béton. La maladie du baiser Il paraît que ça s'appelle. Ca fait grimper les leucocytes et ça crève complet. Donc je n'ai pas disparu, mais j'ai des excuses. Je voulais juste te le dire. Et t'embrasser (enfin, pas de trop près). notafish }<';> 08:42, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Je cherche le coupable activement. Activement. Activement. Et je trouve pas :( ... Bon, j'espère que t'es remis aussi, sinon, bonjour l'équipe de bras cassés ! Bisous too. notafish }<';> 09:02, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

ici

Eh oui, je sévis ici aussi, de temps en temps (et exceptionnellement sur en:). Toi tu as l'air d'être partout ! ;-) Jean-no

c'est vrai, Commons est à un clic de fr:... pourtant j'ai toujours l'impression de bouger quand je sors de fr:. Fou, non ? ;-) Jean-no

Logotype / Logographe

Hello villy, are logotype/logographe copyrighted ? could image like Image:Curry Beanz.jpg, Image:Paris Nicolas store dsc00852.jpg (this one is maybe expired as Nicolas exist since around 1825), be hosted on commons ? (I think not, we already deleted some days ago 2 photos showing « Mars bar chocolate » logographe, but I would like to have your precious advice) —FoeNyx 19:26, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Please let me know!!!! AtelierJoly 18:27, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Euro coins

I need an advice about the deletion of copyrighted euro bills et coins pictures released under gfdl on that page —FoeNyx 19:26, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

OK, I've posted a comment on the RfD page. I still support the deletion. villy 20:14, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Armenian coin

Salvete Aurevilly,

Paddy advised me to ask you about the (c)-law about Armenian Dram-coins. I've got a 10 Dram coin in my hand and would like to share it with the Wikipedia - but I don't know about the Armenian laws. As you can see in de:Dram (Währung), the banknotes seem to be "free" - and what about coins? Perhaps you can help me :) --Roger Zenner -!- 02:46, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image:WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising.jpg

Hi villy. I wish you hadn't deleted Image:WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising.jpg prematurely. I was in the process of transferring information to en:Image:WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising.jpg, where the image will be kept. Could you please undelete the image description page (temporarily!)? Alas, it appears from Special:Log/Delete that there were two revisions; but that information is lost now. Anyway, I want to know who originally uploaded the photo, and what their comments were about how they lightened it. Thanks, Dbenbenn 20:34, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hello, I've restored the image description page of Image:WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising.jpg. Please tell me when you're done with the information you needed. Cheers. villy 06:58, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm done with it now. Dbenbenn 18:30, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Okay. Back to the bin then :) villy 18:31, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Tag

Bonjour, il n'y a pas de tag sur Image:Sailing.jpg. —FoeNyx 12:20, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mouarf. C'est fait. Merci FoeNyx ... villy 14:12, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

User:Schaengel89

He gets the English I guess. So do not worry about that. The Article/Category talk is old and I do not want to get into another discussion about that. Personally I prefer articles and putting articles in categories. For one thing to make things like in de:Bílá Hora. Looks a bit stupid if there would be a link on "category:Bílá Hora". Other thing is that pictures in categories may not be sorted by anything (there is only a stupid alphabetical order). I prefer to have pictures in categories instead of having nothing at all but if someone makes a good article it is worth more than the category. This is only my opinion. And I had a talk with Duesentrieb too about this. He does completely not agree on my article Praha and at the same time having a Category Praha. His argument is that it is a lot of work (and some other stuff). Yes it is. So if someone just wants to upload images and put them in categories fine. If someone makes the work and makes a good article better (but please put the article in some category!). I understand Duesentrieb too. We agree though that categories are a mess. I personally totally dislike them because they could be nice but people do not know how to use them properly.

About {{pd-old}} sorry that must have been a mistake from him (but a minor). I keep watching him. He has already done a big mistake by uploading a nonfree Hitler image and he got 2 emails from 2 German users because we got a very friendly but determinant email from the owners. Friendly greetings and keep up the good work. cu --Paddy 03:18, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Commons count

Hi Villy,

could you tell me who updated the Commons media file count? Did you do it yourself or did a developer do it, and if so, who? I need to know so I can reproduce the methodology. Thanks, --Eloquence 05:21, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image:Roasted coffee beans.jpg

I have no idea what's going on here. I don't remember editing the image description page recently, and I certainly did not intend to blank anything. If you look at its history, you'll notice that the temporal order of edits is messed up: the first edit was on 2005-01-13, the second edit on 2005-02-05, and the third edit again on 2005-01-13 (earlier than the second one!). I suspect that this is a software and/or database glitch. For what it's worth, I am the creator of this image, but I don't consider myself the copyright holder, since I've released it into the public domain. --MarkSweep 22:06, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello. Thank you for infomation and support.Searobin 09:35, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

J'aime bien ici...

...C'est plus calme et moins suivi ;). Bon, juste pour te dire que vu que le grand chef a décidé de se sortir les doigts du ... pour les histoires de Stewards, il serait bon que tu remettes ta "candidature" ici, histoire qu'il t'oublie pas dans sa grande mansuétude. Passque ça m'f'rait chier, moi, qu'il t'oublie. Damned. notafish }<';> 13:51, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

merci nota, c'est fait. Puisque j'y suis, si tu veux jeter un oeil à Limbes (chez georgette), il me faudrait un 'tiot logo. Une 'tite chose pour que je me sente de lancer l'histoire. Si tu n'as pas le temps, pô grave :) villy ♦ ✎ 15:05, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

OK, je m'y mets, ça me donne envie, là. Besoin d'exercer mon temps de cerveau. notafish }<';> 15:28, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

FRANCAIS!

Salut. J'ai effacé la page [[Free Software Foundation]]. A l'avenir, merci d'éviter ce genre de création : Commons n'est pas une encyclopédie en français et il est sans intérêt d'y reproduire les pages de Wikipédia. villy ♦ ✎ 16:50, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Peut-etre mais sa serait bien de faire un lien vers une traduction en français surtout pour les français francophones!

• Wikicommons n'est pas seulement anglophone donc avant tout multilingues par conséquent doit etre accessible a toutes les langues parler ecrites etc INTERNET INTERNATIONAL OBLIGE!

--Utilisateur:MG***<@> Accueil Main Page Accueil] 09:32, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

ENCYCLOPEDIES

• A mon sens Wikipedia Wikicommons et tout les autres WIKI font partie d'un ensemble ENCYCLOPEDIQUE en ligne qui Gagnerais a etre Interconnecter voir a etre fusionné dans le meme ensemble se qui eviterait tout ses articles rouge en impasses

--Utilisateur:MG***<@> Accueil Main Page Accueil] 09:42, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ben écoute, c'est peut-être ton avis -- mais ce n'est pas comme ça que s'est construit le projet. Donc merci de ne pas mettre le bazar:) villy ♦ ✎ 09:43, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the nomination

Hi Villy, thank you for the nomination for my picture, it makes getting up at 5:30 in the morning worthwhile!. -- wombat 23:46, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Neutrality

Neutrality, someone that you helped make admin has changed {{English}} which was the English flag to say (English) on two occassions... one, it's really ugly, two, it doesn't need a template. I suppose it is "neutral" to not have a British flag... because Americans or any other country that speaks English that is not Britain might be offended? I would like to hear your comments because I am at this pointing thinking it is a horrible move to remove the flag system we have been using.... Grenavitar 20:57, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Administrator Policy

At Blankfaze's adminship request you've written "The rules refer to a general agreement. Considering the uncertainty of the community about Blankfaze request (4 pros, 3 cons, 1 neutral) I've decided to give people more time. I'll close the vote on May, 12th and will make Blankfaze an admin in case of a clear 2/3 majority."

I think that this ("clear 2/3 majority") should be made clearer in the actual policy. I would also consider introducing a minimum number of (positive?) votes to prevent people with one positive vote becoming admin. — Richie 12:40, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

I did not intend to make a general rule to settle Blankfaze issue. It's my bureaucrat responsibility to interpret as well as possible the meaning of votes for adminship. In Blankfaze case, I felt it difficult because of the notion of general agreement, which is kind of vague. Now, it could be a good thing to follow the same rule as meta, which states : The request will stay here at least 1 week. Sysophood will be granted by a majority of at least 75%. Plus, maybe a minimum of 4 votes could be imposed, 4 full votes allowing the straight ratio 75 %. In my opinion though, that should be a decision from the community, which means a poll ; we are now too numerous on Commons to impose a general policy without consensus. So maybe we can launch a poll about it. villy ♦ ✎ 09:09, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

PS: meta also impose a requirement of 100 edits to make an admin request. That should be debated too.

Ton opinion ?

Bonjour,

Ton avis éclairé serait utile sur plusieurs questions à propos du statuts juridiques de documents :

1. timbres français récents. Greudin a mis des scans de timbres dans Commons comme étant dans le domaine public. Ce serait bien si c'était confirmé, mais ce n'est pas ce que m'a dit la responsable du Musée de la Poste que j'ai eu au téléphone.
2. Category:Presidents of France. Photos des Présidents français. Suite à une discussion avec JB Soufron sur IRC, j'ai placé ici une copie des photos officielles des Présidents de la République. Selon lui, ces photos ne sont pas soumises aux droits d'auteur si ce sont des publications officielles de la République française. Voir aussi User talk:Soufron. Yann 14:20, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Vu. Je regarde ça et je te réponds sur cette page. villy ♦ ✎ 09:11, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

interface

Hey! I'm a new administrator. Now I want to change the interface of chinese here, but I cant fand the page in Mesiawiki namespage. you can find this page from the navigation toolbox, in english is "Latest files", and Français: "Nouveaux fichiers", so please help me! Thank you very much!--Vipuser 05:42, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

interface maintance

Hey! Sorry to trouble you again. Could you help me to fix the zh-cn and zh-sg interface on wikimedia commons. the mothod is below:

e.g:

MediaWiki:Sitestatstext/zh --- content
MediaWiki:Sitestatstext/zh-cn --- redirect to /zh 
MediaWiki:Sitestatstext/zh-sg --- redirect to /zh  

you can see the example to fix it, edit the page then you can see the diff, maybe a bot is better to do this :)!

by the way, I can't find where is the massage " Text is available under GNU Free Documentation License. " locate. I want to traslate it to chinese. Thank you! --vipusertalk 10:57, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

help

Hello viily! Since youre a bureaucrat, i suppose you'll known how to help me. I want to redirect sturgeon to Category:Acipenseridae. It doesnt work. What am i doing wrong?? muriel@pt 09:22, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

• Well, that was easy! Merci, muriel@pt 10:28, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Admin

Merci beaucoup pour les droits de l'administration. J'espère que je ne ferai pas trop d'erreurs au début. Mais c'est vraiement bon que je peux ranger mes erreurs moi-même maintentant... --AndreasPraefcke 19:44, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

COM::FPC

Oui ou non? LoopZilla 12:49, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Inactive administrators

Hi villy. According to the criteria at Commons:Administrators#Inactive admins, User:Ilyanep is inactive. A total of 6 edits, all 9 months ago. I think this user should be de-sysoped. Dbenbenn 01:13, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Commons:Administrators#Inactive admins rules about inactivity on Commons for a full year. Regarding User:Ilyanep, last edit is 24 Sep 2004. Let's talk about him on 24 Sep 2005 :) villy ♦ ✎ 08:20, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Actually, it isn't "no edits in the last year". The rule is

1. less than 50 edits in the last year (Ilyanep has only 6 edits total, so only 6 edits between June 11, 2004 and today), and
2. no edits in the last 6 months (Ilyanep hasn't edited for 9 months)

Ilyanep definitely satisfies these criteria, and has since March 24. (No other current admin is "inactive". I checked them all!) dbenbenn | talk 16:49, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi Villy, Thanks a lot for supporting my RfA! Hope to see you around, --Erin (talk) 14:10, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User:MG

Hi, User:MG has asked me why there is a request for deletion of Image:1francosvizzero1983back.jpg. I have explained that the image needs a source + license but he/she does not understand English. Would you be kind enough to explain to the user? Thuresson 26 June 2005 08:36 (UTC)

Delete mistake

I made a mistake when uploading image:VolleyballRotation.png, I tried to revert, once again,... And now there are three or four versions of the same file. It seems that an administrator is needed in order to do some cleanup and delete these "mistakes". The "desired" file is the 2404 bytes one. byj 2 July 2005 10:26 (UTC)

Hmm, the final image is absolutely correct. I was just trying to remove the previous mistakes from the history and remove all copies of the file but the last one. For the image, now everything is OK (but the three copies somewhere of identical files...) Thanks.

byj 2 July 2005 16:49 (UTC)