IFCAR
Hi,
I am a Newsweek journalist preparing In Photos, Most Popular Cars of the Last 50 Years and looking to use your photo
1983-1985 Ford Escort photographed in USA
If I hve permission, please could you email [email protected] at your earliest posssible convenience.
Best, Tom
Hi!
editOK, didn't occur to me you could make it all capitals, Wiki is case-sensitive, so User:Ifcar is not the same as User:IFCAR (except for the first letter, that gets capitalized by default).
I couldn't resist browsing through the pics you've uploaded - some really good photos here, and I guess quite a few were badly needed!
To see all your pictures, click "gallery" when on your user or talk page. As concerns categorizing, you just need to add [[Category:Sumfink]] to the description - it won't appear in the body, but rather add the description to the light gray box at the bottom of the image page and the image will be added to the category! Browse the categories by using the search box - for example, if the image is of the Kia Sportage, type in "Kia Sportage" - you'll get some Kia Sportage images, click on one of them and you'll see they are categorized as "Kia vehicles". So, add the [[Category:Kia vehicles]] to your image description! (remember about case sensitivity)
As concerns adding images, you can go to WP, register there too and browse articles on the vehicles you made photos of. If you find one doesn't have a picture, has a non-free picture (like manufacturer's photo) or has a bad picture, or that your picture could be a good addition to the article, e.g. presents a different generation/body style/important version of the car, or perhaps the car from a different angle (like rear when there is already front pictured), add the pic! You need to use the following WikiLink:
[[Image:ImageNameFromTheCommons.jpg|250px|thumb|Caption]]
Where:
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- thumb makes the photo displayed in a nice light gray box with the caption beneath - DO NOT use the thumb parameter if you insert an image into an infobox or table
- Caption should be a good description of the photo, like "2002 Chrysler 300M" or "Third-generation Ford Explorer"
Remember to click "Show preview" before you save and make sure everything's OK.
I hope this helps! Do let me know how's it going and whether you need any other hints!
Have fun and thanks for contributing to WP!
Bravada 22:31, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
PS. Please check if there's a more specific category within the category you choose - e.g. instead of "Mercedes-Benz S-Class" it would be more appopriate to directly add the two you just uploaded to "Mercedes-Benz W126".
Categories
editwouldnt you mind looking for the right category in wich your images could go in? by being in a category your images are more probable to be found and used. have a look [here] and you will surely find the right one in each case... thankyou LadyofHats 22:36, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I deleted this image because it was an apparent duplication of Image:Lexus-GX470.jpg. I hope you don't mind! Cary "Bastique" Bass parler voir 23:49, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Right, I re-uploaded to get the descriptive name in there, but don't know how to delete a duplicate. Thanks. IFCAR 23:51, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
A warm thanks from Europe
editHello IFCAR! Thank you so very much for posting all these pictures! I wrote a couple of dozen entrys for the German WP in the last weeks, mainly concerning US cars, and your photographs have been very helpful, indeed, to illustrate them. --- Bought myself a digital camera the other week, but I found that owners and passers-by here get totally nervous and aggressive when you go ahead photographing their car. --- Keep on your good work! Sincerely, Michael
--328cia 00:38, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks again for your kind words. Just returned from an afternoon prowl and got some new pics, including a rare Lancia Kappa Wagon. --- I´ll use a lot more of your pictures once I´ll have completed the respective articles. The pages on US cars on our Wikipedia are mostly in terrible condition or do not exist at all. If you happen to see third-gen Toronados/Eldorados/Rivieras (1979/85), please don´t hesitate to shoot them...Also, some pics of a 2005/2006 Pontiac GTO (with "nostrils") would be fine...And I sincerely wished someone in Australia or New Zealand would shoot all these interesting Commodores and Falcons. They seem to have other priorities in the Outback, however.
A pleasant Sunday to you!
--328cia 16:07, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, I´ve seen the Riviera convertible pics; very nice to have that rare car covered. I will do a German Riv article as soon as the book I´ve ordered (Standard Catalog of American Cars 45-75) will arrive. Very strange, though, that I´ve overlooked the black 05 GTO so far...inexplicably, really, for I´m especially fond of the Monaro/GTO. Getting old that´s called, I think.
Here´s to you!
--328cia 21:37, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
- Hi again,
- thanks for keeping up your good and useful work.
- If there is a need for any particular Euro model to be covered, just let me know.
- --328cia 17:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Constructive
editI hope you take this as constructive criticism because that's my intention with bringing it up. I'm very happy that you are enthusiastic about shooting vehicles to be used for free use and the number of images is impressive, but I do deeply wish you emphasized quality over quantity. The poor composure, poor quality, and poor environments you shoot these vehicles in is such an easy thing to overcome if you were to simply put a little effort and time into each shot. Since you obviously have the time to do this kind of shooting, I highly suggest putting in this extra time. It's a very apparent and identifying trait to the random vehicle article throughout Wikipedia with your images and it would just be nice to see some of these articles have half-way decent images. Now whether you think it's a good or bad thing to be identified this much and in this way is your own thing, but considering the time people put in to create the factual content of these articles, they deserve equal time on the images. I think the first thing I would suggest (as if you asked for my opinion in the first place) would be that if it's raining outside or all of the cars are still wet, it might not be the greatest time in the world to start shooting vehicles. Food for thought I guess. RichN (talk) 07:56, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
- After sleeping on my comment and re-reading them a couple days afterward, I need to apologize for my tone. It came off insulting which was exactly what I was trying to avoid and, for that, I'm sorry. The images you shoot are actually perfect catalysts for viewers and editors to attempt to bring their own content to the articles which was something that I didn't think of when I first saw them. I really like that idea and hope that if better content is brought forward, you don't mind having some of the more intermediate quality content replaced. RichN (talk) 23:49, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
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Image:9th-Deville.jpg
editHello IFCAR, I taged Image:9th-Deville.jpg as an exact duplicate of Image:Cadillac-Brougham.jpg for deletion. You wrote Do not use, misnamed image on it, but you would been better, puting Template:Bad name on it. I checked usage and found only usage in http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_DeVille. I deleted it there, as it is not a DeVille. --Adler 71 10:23, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- Hello IFCAR, here two links to help: Commons:Deletion_guidelines Category:Problem_tags --Adler 71 08:49, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
warning
editDeleted contents
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Hello IFCAR,
the following content you uploaded is not free and therefore has been or will soon be deleted:
- Image:Volkswagen-Rabbit-badge.jpg
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- The subject of the photo you've taken is a copyrighted logo Szczepan talk 13:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
This car is actually a '90-'91 LeSabre. Electras had a more-formal roofline, and the rear quarter window was more or less rectangular with a rounded corner on top. That rounded style of grille was unique to the '90-'91 LeSabre and was never used on Electras. I'm not sure what the deal is with renaming images here, so I'll let you take care of it. Thanks. --Sable232 16:37, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
F-Series
editHow come you keep posting F-150s on the F-Series category?!! If you wanna post an F-150, do it on the Ford F-150 category. For an F-250, do it on the F-250 category. For an F-350, do it on the F-350 category. -- Bull-Doser 23:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
This is actually a Cutlass Supreme. I think it's a 1979 model, but I'm not 100% sure. I'll try and find out soon. --Sable232 16:13, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
- Yep. That car is a 1979 Cutlass Supreme. --Sable232 15:24, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Badname
editWhen you use the {{Badname}} template like you did with Image:1999-Nissan-Sentra.jpg, please be sure to put the correctly named image like {badname|Image:correct image name.jpg}. Otherwise we cannot delete it. Thanks. --Digon3 talk 15:57, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry
editI read "All Rights Reserved". It was my mistake. So many people uploads shit here that one can make this stupid error. Barcex 16:41, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Horizon line
editHello IFCAR. While going through your gallery, I was noticing a large number of images you've contributed had very misaligned horizon lines. Examples include the following:
While I can appreciate the number of images you contribute to Commons, I think they could be a whole lot more valuable if they were just composed correctly. An image I really like was a Legacy SpecB (as shown to the right), but it was shot misaligned with the horizon. I took the liberty of uploading an improved image that was straightened, recreated, white balanced, and tonal ranges corrected. Just a little constructive criticism I guess. RichN (talk) 02:21, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
There already was an image with that name, so I reverted your upload. If you want to use another image of that Mitsubishi model, please upload your file with another name. /Ö 15:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
- It looks like the warning message has been moved. It used to be shown when the upload button was clicked. Now I see a warning before the upload button when I have entered a name for the "Destination filename". (I don't know when this change was made.) /Ö 16:02, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Unecessary Categories
editPlease stop this categorization of automobile images. They are already correct categorized and there is no need to put them in their supercategory to. And would you please help me, to undo the edits you did? Thank you --MB-one 21:14, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Useless categories
editHello, why did you add the Category:BMW 3-Series to very much images of cars of the BMW 3 series? They are already categorized to subcategories. This category is useless and it is a duplicate of Category:BMW 3 Series! So I want you to remove them. I have already removed the useless categories of all the images of the Audi 100 because they are sorted in subcategories. If you want to see how much time I lost because of undoing the useless categories, please see my user contributions. Would you help me with removing these categories? --217.224.121.190 20:25, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
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Mr.Z-man 02:55, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Image Tagging Image:"Mural_Bridge".jpg
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Derivative work, copyright belongs to Ford Motor Company --Angela2109 14:18, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am Ms Angela Powers, I work for Ford Motor Company . It appears you have several hundred images of Ford Brand vehicles listed with you as the copyright holder, and were also relesed into the Public Domain. Ford vehicles in images, as the focus of the image, ar NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN, Please change licence listing. Also, Ford Motor Company offers proffesional grade images of all our post 1988 vehicle line ups, royality-free for use in articles and other publication. --Angela2109 14:32, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
- LOL, fail. The image has been kept. Keep photographing, IFCAR! :D Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 15:43, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, goodness, sorry about the "kid" thing. I probably had you confused with some other photograph-every-car-on-the-planet type from WikiProject Automobiles. Sorry sorry sorry!!! :( Lewis Collard! (hai thar, wut u doin) 22:00, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Would like to aquire some of your photos
editDear IFCAR,
Zurock is currently looking for images of vehicles, mostly from 1989 thru 1997, but we are also interested in more recent and older models for our uDrive application on Facebook.
I have been scouring the wikipedia commons to obtain images one at a time, but it is a tedious and time-consuming project. I realized it would be far more efficient to contact you directly to see whether you might be willing to send us your collection directly.
Do you have a list of the images you have available? How is it organized? Would you be willing to work with us on making sure the right image is associated with the right vehicle?
Please let me know if you'd be interested in helping us make your images more visible and usefull to more people.
With warm regards, uDrive Chauffeur
Cutlass Salon
editIFCAR,
I found this image of yours. It's actually an '86 Cutlass Salon (you can tell by the black trim instead of chrome on the front, plus the emblem on the C-pillar looks to say Salon on it. '85s had an eggcrate grille.) Even though it's the same basic car as a Supreme, maybe the image should be renamed so it's more accurate? Not a big deal, just a little detail. Olds 403 (talk) 21:08, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Tip: Categorizing images
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Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.
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add category
editHi Mr. do you know what model of bmw & audi are in this picture? If you know, please add correct categories. thanx.Gire 3pich2005 (talk) 23:31, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
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I had a concern with File:2011 Buick Regal 2.jpg -- a quick search turned up a higher-resolution version ( http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/2011-Buick-Regal-main.jpg ) than the one available on the linked Flickr source page, suggesting the Flickr uploader might not actually have permission to use it.
Do you have a way of confirming the image's legality for use at Wikimedia, or should it be nominated for deletion?
Thanks! IFCAR (talk) 01:05, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
The flickr uploader is the the company Buick itself and these photos are provided to the press for use and uploaded to flickr by the company. Hopefully this is sufficient evidence of the uploader. If it helps here is the link to the users photostream on flickr [1] and here is the link to the photo [2]
Hope this helps aaaaplay (talk) 05:42, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
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quel est le numéro de couleur blanche utilisé ici sur la voiture
Congraturation! A barnstar is you!
editThe Photographer's Barnstar | ||
Thanks for the countless priceless photographs you have uploaded of automobiles. Cheers! Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 01:48, 11 September 2013 (UTC) |
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File:Land Rover Series III.jpg
editHello!
The title and description you gave to this Land Rover picture say it's a Series III model. But when you look carefully, you can see it has a Series I/II/IIA metal grille and Series II/IIA door hinges. And headlights in the wings, usually assimilated with Series III models, were in fact factory standard from February 1969 onward, to comply with Australian, American and Dutch lighting regulations : so I think this Land Rover is more likely a 1969-1971 Series IIA model.
Do you agree with that? If so, do you mind if I ask for renaming the file? Or do you prefer do it yourself?
Regards,
BarnCas (talk) 01:28, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
I Like Your Pics!
editThanks for upload your pics man! (: --GeorgeMiquilena2014 (talk) 02:21, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
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Global account
editHi IFCAR! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:12, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
ras. car
editoval Nisce 2A00:23C5:848E:6101:288D:B4EC:7D91:F1D 11:02, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
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