User talk:John of Reading

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File:WilhelmScream.ogg

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DS (talk) 14:04, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notes to self: EN help desk archive; Archive.org page for EN re-upload as fair use. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:36, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(Years later) The same recording was uploaded again in 2014 by another user as File:Wilhelm Scream.ogg. In 2016 this was challenged at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Wilhelm Scream.ogg and confirmed as {{PD-ineligible}} -- John of Reading (talk) 21:01, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(More years later) In 2024 the recording appeared on the front page as Media of the day. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:38, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

File:Waheed The Legend.jpg

I have corrected the date of photo shoot. The photo is 50 years old. So I highly appreciate if you remove the speedy deletion tag. Thank you. File Uploader (talk) 18:58, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The tag says "Do not remove this tag until the deletion nomination is closed" - it's not a speedy deletion tag. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:27, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:Hardwick House 2013 10 27 North side plaque.JPG

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Dschwen (talk) 14:23, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why doesn't Commons have {{Db-author}}? -- John of Reading (talk) 14:51, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redlinked image

	Hello, John of Reading. You have new messages at Talk:BSicon/Renaming#Redlinked image. You may remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. asturianu ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ বাংলা ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ Deutsch (Sie-Form) ∙ English ∙ español ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ हिन्दी ∙ hrvatski ∙ magyar ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ ქართული ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Plattdüütsch ∙ Nederlands ∙ português ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ svenska ∙ Tagalog ∙ Türkçe ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

Some baklava for you!

ola como estas Carlos vidigal (talk) 09:52, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help:IPA

I was looking for a user like you! You have recently edited some Help:IPA pages and talks, and given your name IPA should be your thing. I would like to ask your opinion about this: in Spanish and Italian Help:IPA pages, the phoneme [ŋ] (a mere allophone of /n/ before velar consonants /k/ and /g/) has got its own place in the phonemes list; on the contrary, the phoneme [ɱ] (a mere allophone of /n/ before labiodental consonants /f/ and /v/) has been de-listed and substituted by [m] with a note in brackets. What do you honestly think about this? On my opinion this distinguishment is pointless, unjustified and confusing, but I would like to hear an expert's opinion. Let me know, thank you in advance ^_^ -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phetamineam (talk • contribs) 14:33, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Phetamineam: Please see my reply at en:User talk:John of Reading/Archive 24#Help:IPA/Italian -- John of Reading (talk) 15:03, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Herbythyme, please be aware of the long-running sockpuppet case en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Viviocon -- John of Reading (talk) 15:03, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

File:User contributions February 2013.xcf

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2603:9000:7400:35CC:1042:B700:171:E39B 16:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

About Category:Indian Springs Historic District and Category:Marble Springs Historic District.

Hi I'm User:OperationSakura6144. I've moved Category:Indian Springs Historic District to Category:Marble Springs Historic District, but it got me thinking if I did a mistake. Category:Indian Springs Historic District and Category:Marble Springs Historic District seems to be similar and have similar data despite having different names. I also renamed files on Category:Indian Springs Historic Disctict (Category:Indian Springs Historic District with "District" misspelled as "Disctict") to have them aligned with the ones on Category:Marble Springs Historic District. I don't know how this works, but let me know what you think about it. Also, welcome to 2025. I hope you do the best on Commons this year. OperationSakura6144 (talk) 14:05, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@OperationSakura6144: This is much more subtle than I thought - I only looked at the spelling error in the category name! Looking back at the table in en:National Register of Historic Places listings in Jackson County, Mississippi, I can see that there are two separate historic districts: Indian Springs and Marble Springs. So maybe there should be two categories at Commons. However, there's not enough detail on those National Park Service pages for me to work out which buildings lie in each district. Can we get User:Bubba73 to take a look? -- John of Reading (talk) 17:58, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I think User:Bubba73 needs to work on this mess. That user moved Category:Indian Springs Historic District to Category:Marble Springs Historic District, which caused the confusion between those categories. So, the user should sort out the mess. OperationSakura6144 (talk) 02:48, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It has been a while. Are Indian Springs HD and Marble Springs HD the same? Now Indian Springs sends you to Marble Springs, so what do I need to do? Bubba73 (talk) 19:37, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@OperationSakura6144: They are not the same. Over at en:National Register of Historic Places listings in Jackson County, Mississippi, the two districts have separate rows in the table, with different coordinates, and different links into the US Government website. And at row 33 of the table, this image was added by Bubba73 (en:Special:Diff/1142380455) to illustrate the Indian Springs district; and when it was added, the file had "Indian Springs" in its name.

So I think the correct fix for commons is to undo the category merge, and to restore the names of the images that used to be named "Indian Springs" - though with "District" spelled correctly. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:20, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@OperationSakura6144 and Bubba73: My apologies to both of you. I failed to spot that the previous message was from Bubba73 and not from OperationSakura6144.

But I think OperationSakura6144 has sorted it out - there are now two categories, and the four images that were moved into the Marble Springs category have been moved back into the Indian Springs category. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:11, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Bubba73 and John of Reading: Hi, I've sorted out the category mess. I've also distinguished both concerned categories to avoid confusions. I see you are okay with it, but, there's one problem that needs to be resolved. In the "Current listings" list in the English Wikipedia article "National Register of Historic Places listings in Jackson County, Mississippi", the "More images" option in the listing "Indian Springs Historic District" still directs to deleted Category:Indian Springs Historic Disctict. It needs to direct Category:Indian Springs Historic District to reflect current changes. I would like you all to edit the listing to make it happen. ★♚★♛★ 🅾🅿🅴🆁🅰🆃🅸🅾🅽𝒮𝒶𝓀𝓊𝓇𝒶⁶¹⁴⁴ ★♛★♚★ 《♦ talk • ♥ contributions • ♠ global • ♣ rights》 05:19, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@OperationSakura6144:

Done -- John of Reading (talk) 08:19, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for getting it sorted out. I was confused. Bubba73 (talk) 00:49, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]