Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

Hi. Do you have more description on Image:Potturinn.jpeg? just don;t knw whatit its. A well? Thanks -- Chris 73 09:50, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I've made you an admin today on Commons. Congratulations ! villy 07:05, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Nine Inch Nails.png

Moved to Image talk:Nine Inch Nails.png --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 17:46, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Flags with borders

I only removed the black border, and added a note to de:Benutzer Diskussion:SKopp -- Chris 73 07:50, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I know, i was addressing SKopp. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 07:51, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

DVD picture

Have you looked at the DVD pictures I've made? Commons:Picture_requests --Wanted 11:04, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

OK there is a new version uploaded, have a look. --Wanted 19:40, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Locomotive

Thank you for the cleanup of locomotive. I was about to add interwiki links and adjust the category, and found you'd already taken care of it. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 17:40, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

your userpage

Hello Ævar, <br style="clear:both;" /> or comparable tags beneath the babel templates on your page should help to prevend from swapping with the gallery when using smaller monitor widths ... and thanx for your support :-) Greetings --:Bdk: 03:43, 10 Dez 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm aware of the overflow problem but perceive it as not being one since the whole thing is just a big post-it for myself rather than some made-to-look-nice gallery;) --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 04:02, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Stock.xchng images

You uploaded some images from http://www.sxc.hu and labeled them as public domain. The SXC license is restrictive and not free. They can only be used if the user has released them under a suitable license (or allowed free use) on their sxc user page. ed g2s

What images specifically? --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 20:41, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

"There are no usage restrictions" is confusing as what it means is, "there are no further usage restrictions". All images are subject to the terms of use: http://www.sxc.hu/info.phtml?f=terms. Unless the photographer specifies otherwise on their user page, the images are not suitable for use on the Commons. ed g2s • talk 02:50, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

What makes you think Image:SMS_message_on_a_Nokia_phone.jpeg is CopyrightedFreeUse? The stock.xchng user page doesn't mention such conditions. ed g2s • talk 11:50, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Image:2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_-_animation.gif

I changed the status of Image:2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_-_animation.gif to unverified. It's not produced by NOAA, but rather by some Japanese researcher (government agency or university department). The English version of his webpage has an e-mail, perhaps you could clarify the copyright status.

The best thing would be if he edited his webpage to put the copyright status (in English) on his website itself. -- Curps

Also, you might want to re-download and re-upload the animated GIF. The version he has on his website now runs quite a bit longer than the version that's on here, better showing the full refraction around the southern tip of India and so forth. If so, an updated version of the small thumbnail version would also be good, if you have the tools to create it. -- Curps

Actually i just re-uploaded the image from image:animation.gif. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 10:33, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image:Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been (DVD, close).jpeg

Hi - please not that reproductive photography and and scans of other peoples artwork consitute a copyright violation. This is especially true for the cover and contents of books, booklets, CDs, DVDs and the like. Thus this image will have to be deleted - i'm going to do that now, sorry. If you are sure that this cover is (already!) under a free license, contact me and i will undelete it.

The other image of the NIN-Album, Image:Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been (DVD).jpeg, is probably ok as it shows the cover at an angle, and only part of it. Please be careful whenever your images show designes and artwork by other people - it's very likely that you violate their rights if you publish reproductions. -- Duesentrieb 17:10, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

PS: After all the nagging: thank you for the extremely beautiful pictures of snow crystalisation! -- Duesentrieb 18:54, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No problem, and I didn't see it as nagging at all;) —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 19:38, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Category:Snow crystallization in Akureyri 2005-02-26

sorry to bug you again, but: the above category stays empty because of a known bug (or so i'm told). JeLuF said: "Categorizations don't work if you add them in the initial upload message. Same for Links etc". You have to "touch" (i.e. minor edit) all of the description pages to make the images show up in the category. I just thought i'd let you know... -- Duesentrieb 19:20, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'm aware of the bug (but thanks), I'll probably add a feature to my upload bot to touch pages after they're uploaded soon. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 19:38, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

cool - can i get the bot? Is it PyBot-based or something else? -- Duesentrieb 23:27, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It's written from scratch in Perl, you can get it here. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 23:50, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Upload tool

Hi. I have no idea what pearl is or how to use it. Couldn´t you just make a little exe that lets me select what I want and then do the rest (a folder with the files e.g.). So I can take a bath while to upload runs. Perhaps with a little txt that contains the picture credits? I would really appreciate such a tool! Thnx. ((o)), Ja, bitte?!? 07:08, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

License info

Hi - four of your images are listed on Commons:Untagged_images#Other because they have no license info. Please add the info or mark them for deletion - thanks! -- Duesentrieb 19:53, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Please add a license to Image:Shadow.png. thank you -- Breezie 16:06, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

EXIF

Hi Avar - i've added a comment to Commons:Village pump#EXIF - i'm also on IRC if you like to chat;) -- Duesentrieb 14:08, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Linuxbeak

Request you look at User:Linuxbeak for possible block. He's been uploading that pic (the guy's face appears to be from Wikipedia) over legitimate photos. Thanks. Jinian 04:37, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

null link

Moved to Talk:Araneae —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 22:16, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Commons:Administrators RFA

Hi Ævar,

Can you take a look at Commons:Administrators. The voting there appears to be almost inactive, and given that the window for nominations is 7 days, it could probably benefit from a little more attention. -- Solipsist 06:36, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Licensing form

Excellent feature! I especially like the hierarchical list view. Very nicely done!--Eloquence 04:43, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Yea, a Big thank you from me too. But I was wandering if it would be possible to include templates with parameters in the dropdown: the currently recommended way to license one's own work is {{self2|GFDL|cc-by-sa-2.5}} - which should be in the dropdown at a prominent location. One solution would be to create a parameter-less template for this... but that's kind of ugly, and also problematic if that template is changed later, for instance to include a new version of the GFDL or CC license. What do you think? -- Duesentrieb^(?!) 10:18, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I've created Template:Self GFDL and cc-by-sa-2.5 for a start, and added it to MediaWiki:Licenses. But I think parameters need some more thought - for instance, I belive that the "self" template should really contain the name of the creator explicitely. -- Duesentrieb^(?!) 10:33, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

This discussion is continued at Commons talk:License selector. ed g2s • talk 11:46, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

I've notcied that the groups are no longer nested, so why not use the <optgroup> tag? They are non-selectable labels, with automatic indentation. Bascially what we're mimicking. Also on en., the GFDL tag comes up as #redirect [[Template:GFDL]], bit of a bug. ed g2s • talk 14:31, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

For your wonderful contributions to MediaWiki, it is my pleasure to award you this barnstar.

Thanks for all the hard work improving MediaWiki! I'm proud to be the first person at the Commons to award you a barnstar.

By the way, are you in a position to help get SVG uploads enabled? Apparently all that's required is for someone with shell access to install sodipodi on the servers. dbenbenn | talk 19:49, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the star, never gotten one of those before;)

Getting SVG to work correctly is kind of hard, we'd have to get a virus scanner running as well as a svg->bitmap rendered (probably inkscape not sodipodi) as well as getting all the configuration right. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 17:19, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

User:Duesentrieb says he solved the security issues, though I don't know the details about that. (See Commons:Village pump archive-14#SVG and vectoriel files.) dbenbenn | talk 17:47, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

As I understand it that relies at least partly on the clamv virus scanner, athough I might be wrong (it did some checking with regexp's without clamv).

I might just be talking out of my ass here;) —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 17:53, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

I had thought the idea was to simply reject any SVG with javascript. That would be nearly as good for the Commons' purposes, very safe, and easier to implement. dbenbenn | talk 21:15, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

The virus scanner integration (which also works with fprot, etc) is an additional feature, independent of javascript and html-detection - it's intended mainly for detecting viruses embedded in bitmaps, office documents and such. Anything containing Javascript is rejected, no matter if virus scanning is enabled or not. Please install an SVG renderer... this is really frustrating :( -- Duesentrieb^(?!) 00:30, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Tectonic plate images in SVG

Please upload SVG images and mark existing PNGs as redundant. --EugeneZelenko 14:27, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Faroestamps

Many pictures of stamps from the Faroe Islands and maps of those islands taken from http://www.faroestamps.fo have been uploaded with license PD and used in national wikis. An example is Image:Detailed_map_hestur.jpg, where PD is indicated on the map. However, according to the homepage of faroestamps here, use for commercial purposes and mechanical reproduction require prior approval from the Faroese Philatelic Office. Is this consistent with the PD tag, or should another tag be used - or the pictures be deleted altogether? (which I dont hope!). --Sir48 15:08, 21 September 2005 (UTC) After writing this I found: [[1]] where the issue seems to have been solved. Thx. --Sir48 15:40, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Patch

Hi Ævar. Could you please apply the patch at bugzilla:153? It's been sitting there for two weeks, and although the bug is low-severity, it annoys me. (By the way, instead of bothering you to apply the patch, should I have done something else to get it applied?) Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 21:06, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Just comment on the bug. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 22:59, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Portal namespace

Hi Mate,

Could you implement this namespace please? See Commons:Village_pump#Commons_Portals.3F. Dunc|☺ 13:44, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Featured picture nomination

Please could you make your apparent nomination of Template:Featured_pictures_candidates/Image:Beanbags.jpg explicit? Many thanks! LoopZilla 16:32, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Forgot it, thanks for the reminder. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 18:32, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Deleting Commons logo

Can you see this image?

Hello! please return ASAP Image:Commons-logo.png as this is used in many places (et:Template:Commons) and your mentioned Image:Commons-logo.svg is not working in IE! --TarmoK 07:09, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

How are you viewing it in IE? Are you using the rasterizer? Can you see the image on the right? —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 08:03, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

This is one of the strangest deletions ever. First the image is in use on many wikipedia's, and there is no reason to check every day if such an image is going to be deleted. At least you should have informed all the different wikipedia's about the plan. And I mean post a message in the village pump of each wikipedia.

Second, the svg-image does not work in IE: the background is not transaparant, but grey. You can have long discussions about the idea that IE should stick to standards, but the fact is that it doesn't. Over 80% of the internet users are using IE.

Anyway, the thing is solved on the Dutch wikipedia by uploading the old commons-logo locally. Of course if every language is going to do that, then the purpose of commons in lost. Please inform people next time you are planning a thing like this, so we can upload the old image locally beforehand. Taka 11:02, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Stock.xchng images conclusion

Hi Ævar. I understand you deleted the Tirich Mir.jpg from stock.xchng according to this new delete request discussion. I think this conclusion must better emphasise the commons policy expressed in the delete request discussion, otherwise it will be misunderstood again. Thank you, cheers/hilsen Roarjo 09:42, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Deleting png images for svg

Please stop deleting png images, if you have no intention of changing to the svg versions in ALL language editions of Wikipedia! What you're doing right now can be considered vandalism! /Grillo 16:06, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Please restore the old png-flags of argentina, australia, brazil, canada, eu, uk and us asap. The sv wiki are referring to those images a lot. Normally it's enough to add new images --RomanNose 20:56, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Use Check-Usage or use a bot to change all articles where the flag are used. Your current practice can be considered vandalism and makes it harder to convince people to upload photos to WikiCommons. Thuresson 20:58, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

I have reverted some images to the old image versions, it's not very difficult, but it's much extra work that's not neccesary. /Grillo 21:08, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

There's also Image:Denmark flag 300.png - [2]. PeepP 21:10, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

First of all I did not delete them, I uploaded a cross over them which indicates to projects using the image that they should stop using them and use another version (in this case the SVG version), I followed the instructions on how to handle redundant images at Category:Redundant and Template:Redundant to the letter in this matter. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 23:54, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Could you please point me out the place where is written what is considered redundant? so far it seems purely subjective. I've been trying to draw attention to it but seems that the eagernes to delete/over write is bigger than rationality of it --TarmoK 07:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't think there is such a page, however an image that's a smaller version of another image, a version of inferior quality etc. would be considered redundant. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 09:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I guess you would agree that this is very subjective aproach. smaller could be reasoning if the smaller version is made from the bigger version, but many-many cases it isn't so. Inferior quality is same story. So basically you agree that everybody is free to mark images redundant as they wish as long images look somehow similar and user doesn't like one of them. It would be more professional and more increasing respect to commons if first is made clear about the rules under which this so calling "cleaning" is made. ... Not to mention that Category:Redundant doesn't say anything what is considered redundant.

to ease your life, I copy here examples I wrote to Category talk:Redundant: Have a look: Image:Australia flag 300.png vs Image:Flag of Australia.svg (stars are in different positions, as well Union Jack lines don't match, one (or both) is just incorrect) or Image:British virgin islands flag 300.png vs Image:Flag of the British Virgin Islands.svg (different blue and it seems that SVG has incorrect one) --TarmoK 14:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

p.s. Image:Commons-logo.png is still waiting to restoring (and can't see there older version which is "uploaded a cross over")

Why should it be restored? It's a redundant image that should be phased out in accordance with instructions at Category:Redundant and Template:Redundant. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 09:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

seems that you don't read replies even in your own talk page. IE doesn't support SVG transparency. and this commons image is said should be used for replacing has gray background in IE.

I'm quite suprised your (and many other's) approach who pointing to this Category:Redundant page when reasoning deleting, but missing reasoning in first place the redundant marking. If I mark picture to be deleted everybody expects me to explain why, if I mark redundant then it is not needed? ("oh it looked similar" reasoning is enough?) --TarmoK 14:59, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

de:Bild:Wikipedia-trans_135px_ohne_text.png

Hier hast du eine Liste von Artikeln, bei denen das Wikipedia-logo gelöscht wurde. Wenn du das logo gerne gelöscht haben willst, ist es deine Aufgabe, es in den Artikeln zu ersetzen. Wenn du das gemacht hast, kannst du es gerne löschen. Vorher bitte nicht. Viel Spaß bei der Arbeit! --Anathema 18:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Image size limits

You reverted my smaller version of Image:Tectonic plates.png, so the thumbnail in en:Plate tectonics no longer works. Does this mean something about image size behavior is going to change again? (SEWilco 19:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC))

I wasn't aware that it was too big for scaling, since that's the case then we should have Image:Tectonic plates (large).png, better yet, if you can fix Image:Tectonic plates.svg to make the text in it appear we can just use that. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 03:05, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Excellent idea. Read the edit history and a diff. (70.94.229.160 13:38, 27 October 2005 (UTC))

I don't think there's any need for a separate Image:Tectonic plates (large).png. With the current software limitations, such an image couldn't be used in any articles, and the large version is always in the history at Image:Tectonic plates.png. dbenbenn | talk 17:11, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Hungarian wikis

Welcome on hungarian wikis! I saw you've logged in the hungarian projects, and I came here to welcome you (I don't suggest that you'll check regularly your hungarian discussion pages :)). I hope we'll be able to work together, because in hun projects, Wikicommons should be more used. It is a bit new for us , and the administrators now are trying to popularize this project. Good work! If you want to contact me, you can find me on hun wiki or in hun Wikiquotes NCurse 14:24, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Delete this picture please

Hello! Can you delete Image:Penis glans foreskin.jpg Please. /E70 03:39, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

See Image talk:Penis glans foreskin.jpg. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 10:48, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Special characters on the upload page

Ævar, please can you have a look at the discussion at Commons:Village pump#Proposal: Special signs in the upload form regarding copying the field to insert special characters from edit pages to the image upload page. If my supposition is right that a developer needs to add a new mediawiki field, is this something you'd be happy to do in a spare 5 minutes, or would it be more complicated than this and/or require a bugzilla discussion first? If I'm wrong, then please can you explain (simply!) what is needed. Reply to the discussion on the village pump or my talk page, please. Thryduulf 11:40, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Now raised as Bug:4100

Bianca photos

Uh...I agree, they should be deleted since these are too professional to be just handed to us like this. Plus, I think she wants to make money of of these pics. Thank you for raising your suspicion at [3]. Zach ^{(Smack Back)} 10:25, 26 December 2005 (UTC) The second set of bikini photos were taken from [4] (located with the assistance of w:User:Bogdangiusca). Zach ^{(Smack Back)} 10:39, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

It was Darkone who saw that they might be copyvios, I was just retracting my comments on them and reverting the uploader's blanking of Darkone's comments. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 12:53, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:New York Intrepid 501576 fh000009.jpg

I removed the pixellization, after contacting the person who said she has no objections. David.Monniaux 22:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Iceland knowledge needed: Víti

Hi Ævar, could you please be so kind to have a look at my talk page and comment on the issue about Víti? Many thanks, Andreas Tille 19:47, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

If you want me to comment on what it is I have no idea, I've never been there. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 01:47, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

:) Well I have heard from friends in Iceland that I was on more interesting places than they ever were. Andreas Tille 09:58, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

local missing image text

Hello Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, I'm wondering if I can add my language into like this page Image:Us_flag_large.png. Thank you. --Manop 22:28, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Image:Us flag 300.png and Image:Uk flag 300.png

Hello, Ævar Arnfjörð! I'd like to know who was the wyse guy that removed Image:Us flag 300.png and Image:Uk flag 300.png from Commons? It's still used in some wikipedias, you know. If I click "What links here" on the image description page, I don't see any discussion about changing those flags. Also, I would expect to see some comments in edits like this. --romanm (talk) 02:41, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I guess you already know that I was the one that removed replaced them so what is your question exactly? —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 14:48, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

The question, of course, was a rhetorical one. I strongly disagree with politics of making more work to other people on several wikipedias by deleting of so-called "redundant" images without checking and changing the usages on all wikis that use them. --romanm (talk) 22:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Nothing was deleted, I overwrote them with a cross indicating that all uses of them should be replaced according to instructions, there was a discussion about this some time ago.

I on the other hand strongly disagree with making completely unwarranted tounge-in-cheek wise-guy comments towards people who are volunteering their time to carry out maintenance tasks on the wiki in good faith according to instructions on how to do so. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 02:43, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Bureaucrat on test

Hi Ævar. Could you make me a sysop on test? I want to test a change to MediaWiki:Welcomecreation, and I'd rather not create test user accounts here. Thanks! User:dbenbenn 17:52, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Commons-l subscription

Hello Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason,

as per Commons talk:Administrators, I am asking all admins to subscribe to commons-l, a mailing list for Wikimedia Commons policy and project discussion. Since many admins are only on Commons infrequently, this is a good way to alert people about important happenings. The mailing list is nominally multilingual, but predominantly English.

If you are already subscribed to commons-l, I apologize for bothering you, and you are free to ignore this message. If you don't want to use your regular e-mail account, feel free to leave me a message, and I can send you a GMail invite. Traffic on the mailing list is relatively low, and we do not expect admins to read all messages to the list, but it would be nice if you could check on it at least every few weeks. Thanks for your time,--Eloquence 22:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been (DVD).jpeg

I have listed this image on Commons:Deletion requests as it is a derivative work of something that is copyrighted. Kotepho 19:42, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Scottish royal coat of arms.png

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Scottish royal coat of arms.png. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag, then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{Cc-by-sa-2.5}} to release it under the Creative Commons or {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find all your uploads using the Gallery tool. Thank you. Valentinian ^(talk) 22:43, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Bot

Hallo
There is a template for bots for using it in the babelbox. you only need to add

{{babel-1|bot}}

to the userpage of your bot. With greetings. Augiasstallputzer 13:55, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Admin news

Hello,

If you consent for statistics to be published about your actions as an administrator, please sign here: Commons:Administrator permission for statistics. (I expect that most people will not have a problem with it unless you are especially concerned with privacy.)

Also, please be aware that we now have a Commons:Administrators' noticeboard. Please put it on your watchlist, if you haven't already!

cheers, pfctdayelise (translate?) 05:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC) P.S.: Pardon if this is a repeat (bot debugging...)

image source

Image:Cafewall.png is missing image source. You are the uploader. --80.63.213.182 22:20, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Translation help

Hey Ævar, might I ask you to take a look at Commons:WikiMiniAtlas/Translations, I need some help with the translation for a new upcoming Commons-Extension and icelandic is still missing. Thanks! --Dschwen 23:04, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:Eben Moglen.jpeg

Image deletion warning

Image:Eben Moglen.jpeg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this image, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. If the file is up for deletion because it has been superseded by a superior derivative of your work, consider the notion that although the file may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new file. In all cases, please do not take the deletion request personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

--rtc 05:44, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Maps

Hey Ævar, I was wondering how you went about creating some of the maps that you've uploaded. Specificially the one that is on the NATO article. I've got a need to create some similar maps and any assistance you could offer would be appreciated.--Merlin0085 14:29, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Columbia_Supercomputer_Top_View.jpeg

Image deletion warning

Image:Columbia_Supercomputer_Top_View.jpeg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this image, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. If the file is up for deletion because it has been superseded by a superior derivative of your work, consider the notion that although the file may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new file. In all cases, please do not take the deletion request personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Iamunknown 22:42, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Ævar, this deletion request also applies to Image:Columbia Supercomputer Aisle View.jpeg, Image:Columbia Supercomputer Processors.jpeg, Image:Columbia Supercomputer Manufacturing.jpeg, Image:Columbia Supercomputer Installation.jpeg and Template:Columbia Supercompter images --22:50, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:永.jpeg

Image deletion warning

Image:永.jpeg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this image, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. If the file is up for deletion because it has been superseded by a superior derivative of your work, consider the notion that although the file may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new file. In all cases, please do not take the deletion request personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

(fixed request) --Deadstar 09:48, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

• Was Image:永.jpeg a test and would it be o.k. if it was deleted? --Digon3 ^talk 12:43, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Ég er með lélegt notendanafn

Hæ. Eysteinn hér af is:W. Ég hef allstaðar náð að hafa notendanafnið mitt Steinninn, en hér var það upptekið svo ég bætti einu „inn“ við. Ég athugaði notandann sem er með þetta og hann hefur ekki gert neitt. Ábyggilega ég sem bjó það til og gleymdi lykilorðinu. Ert þú með réttindi hér til að eyða honum og breyta mínu notandanafni? Það væri alveg æðislegt ef þú kynnir að redda því fyrir lítinn peyja eins og mig. --Steinninninn 15:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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Greetings from South Carolina ETV and Knowitall.org at Knowitall.org! I am a Curriculum Coordinator for Knowitall.org, currently developing and correlating content for RiverVenture.org. I was wondering if you would you be willing to contribute the use of your pictures like "Cumulus_butts_in_fair_weather" to the RiverVenture Web site (http://www.riverventure.org/). The picture would be used in a new, upcoming module that will focus on the geology of the coldwater, mountain stream ecosystem of Carrick Creek at Table Rock, South Carolina, so we are searching for pictures like this one to help illustrate the water cycle. Knowitall.org is ETV's portal to FREE, Web-based multimedia featuring a collection of interactive sites for K-12 teachers, parents, and students. You'll find animated games and simulations, virtual tours, research resources, close-up investigations of the environment and much more! There are many South Carolina-related resources here, too. It is a valuable educational tool that can enhance learning by allowing children to interact with quality, standards-based information and content. We would happily give you credit for use of your photo(s). Please just send me an e-mail reply as to whether you are willing to share and on what terms and conditions.

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I replied to this by sending an e-mail to Samantha. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (talk) 08:17, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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Translation

Hi, could you spare a moment to properly translate Template:Potd/2005-03-02 (is) to Icelandic? Regards, Thuresson (talk) 20:51, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

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Re:Wrong permissions on files authored by me

So sense the author agree to put it in public domain, I will fix it.-Mys 721tx (talk) 23:15, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (talk) 10:30, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

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I E-Mailed this person and explained tho concept of public domain licensed work. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (talk) 12:34, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

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Your updated image of the Westland Whirlwind

Hi Aevar, I'm /u/PM_ME_BIRDS_OF_PREY on Reddit. Thanks for updating the image on here, just in case anyone questions it I'm happy for you to have done this, although I would rather have heard from you about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SomeRandomUserGuy (talk • contribs) 14:44, 19 April 2018 (UTC) SomeRandomUserGuy (talk) 14:45, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

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