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Thank you. 85.182.126.61 12:18, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey!
editNice contributions to the Devon category - thanks & regards --Herby talk thyme 15:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
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Additions to Category:Kennet and Avon canal
editHi, I see you are adding images like Wire Bridge and Lock, Kennet and Avon Canal - geograph.org.uk - 406494.jpg to Category:Kennet and Avon canal. In many cases the existing Category:Wire Lock is already a child of Category:Canal Locks on the Kennet and Avon canal which is then a child of Category:Kennet and Avon canal. Did you intend the image to be in both the child and parent / parent category? Scillystuff (talk) 15:31, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the response, I didn't want to start undoing part of your work and cause an argument if you were intentionally adding them to the K&A parent. The deluge of Geograph images has swamped the existing category system and it's going to take a while to sort it out. There are 10,000 alone from Dr Neil Clifton. Scillystuff (talk) 16:28, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
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Tyntesfield
editHi Rod. Some superb pictures, especially the one of the staircase. I trust you did not ask them. When I did I was told they had a "strict policy" of allowing pictures only for private use. Else one had to request from their authorised picture library. I don't suppose they ever actually take any legal action, although they also told me they were involved in a "long running dispute" with Wikipedia. But, in my opinion, they are very useful additions to that article. Maybe I should upload mine. Yours, jealously, Martinevans123 (talk) 22:16, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
WLM organization in the UK
editThanks for indicating your interest in this. I'd like to get some proper teams in place now, so we can decide who will be doing what, and I wonder if you could go to Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom/People and move your signature to the correct heading? Many thanks, --MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:57, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013! Please help with this survey.Dear Rodw, Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 365,000 pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 50 countries around the world, becoming the largest photography competition to have ever taken place. You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help. To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey in your own language, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. Kind regards, |
Thank you for taking part in the Wiki Loves Monuments participants' survey!Dear Rodw, Thank you for taking part in the Wiki Loves Monuments participants' survey. Your answers will help us improve the organization of future photo contests! In case you haven't filled in the questionnaire yet, you can still do so during the next 7 days. And by the way: the winning pictures of this year's international contest have been announced. Enjoy! Kind regards, |
Bovington
editDear Rodw, thanks for your photos from the tank museum, hope you had a nice time there. I've put a few in as a gallery in the next monthly GLAM report. Could I tempt you to add a little to that section, even just a quote from yourself re the day and the remaining opportunity there. Thanks Jonathan Cardy (WMUK) (talk) 16:03, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
editThe Original Barnstar | |
Thanks for all your help tagging maps in the Mechanical Curator collection - after ten days, we've now done half the books and found 10,600 images! Andrew Gray (talk) 01:02, 11 November 2014 (UTC) |
Valued images
editHi Rodw, have you been through the Valued Image process before? It's one of Commons' way of recognising good photos. The [[criteria are straightforward, images have to be:
- Is the most valuable illustration of its kind on Wikimedia Commons
- Is nominated as being the most valuable within a suitably generic scope
- Must illustrate its subject well
- Is fully described on the image page
- Is geocoded, when relevant
- Is well categorized at an appropriate level
I reckon some of your photos probably match those criteria. I was browsing some of the WLm photos andtwo that popped out are File:Bell Hotel EH 1201210.jpg and File:Abbey Mill EH 1201285 from north 2.jpg (the latter might need adjusting slightly to make the vertical lines vertical, if that makes sense). Nev1 (talk) 15:43, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
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File tagging File:Ralph Allens Town House.jpg
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—LX (talk, contribs) 19:10, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
I am unsure how to proceed on this one. The image was taken by my father in law, Neil Wishart, who gave me verbal permission to upload the file (in fact he took it at my request). He has since died and can not give any sort of permission.Rodw (talk) 20:11, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
- Hi! I'm sorry to hear about your father in law's passing. While the quoted statement on the page isn't quite as detailed as our standard release template, it does explicitly mention the public domain (and I believe the copyright should actually be {{PD-author}} rather than {{Copyrighted free use}} based on that), so if you have the original e-mail, forwarding it to [email protected] should suffice. Thanks, —LX (talk, contribs) 21:53, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
- It was verbal rather than anything in an email.Rodw (talk) 06:54, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
- On the file description page, you claimed it was an e-mail: "copy of email below". —LX (talk, contribs) 15:57, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
- Oh right I see now & had forgotten - the entire email was "Hi Rod I have tried to upload the photo to wikipedia without success so please accept the renamed photo attached as your own and for Public Domain NEIL <neilwishart at supanet.com>" what do you want me to do with it?Rodw (talk) 16:55, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
- If you still have that e-mail, please forward it to [email protected]. —LX (talk, contribs) 21:57, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
- I have changed computers several times since 2009 and there is no way I would still have that email. I suspect you had better just delete the image.Rodw (talk) 08:22, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
- If you still have that e-mail, please forward it to [email protected]. —LX (talk, contribs) 21:57, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
- Oh right I see now & had forgotten - the entire email was "Hi Rod I have tried to upload the photo to wikipedia without success so please accept the renamed photo attached as your own and for Public Domain NEIL <neilwishart at supanet.com>" what do you want me to do with it?Rodw (talk) 16:55, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
- On the file description page, you claimed it was an e-mail: "copy of email below". —LX (talk, contribs) 15:57, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
- It was verbal rather than anything in an email.Rodw (talk) 06:54, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2019!
editHi
Thank you so much for contributing to the UK section of this year's Wiki Loves Monuments contest, which finished yesterday. We really do appreciate the time and effort you've put in to record the UK's built cultural heritage for future generations.
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Once again, many thanks for your help! MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:58, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019! Please help with this survey.
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Dear Rodw,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.
You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help.
To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2019.
Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team 12:09, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Invitation to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 Participant Survey (Reminder)
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Dear Rodw,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.
You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help.
To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2019.
Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team 03:20, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2020! Please help with this survey
editDear Rodw,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2020, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again for a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 200K pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 50 countries around the world.
You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey.
Please fill in this short survey and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2020.
Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team, 08:21, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2022! Please help with this survey
editDear Rodw,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2022, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again for a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 150K pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 35 countries around the world.
You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey.
Please fill in this short survey and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2022.
Kind regards, Wiki Loves Monuments team, 09:39, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Bridge numbers
editThanks for your photos of canal bridges. I'm wondering if you've got out of sync though as the numbers on the bridge plates don't match the numbers on the records. Secretlondon (talk) 14:28, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
- That is quite possible as I take a load & then upload when I get a Wi-Fi connection again. Please could you change them for me, or I can look at them again when I get home to a decent internet connection. Rodw (talk) 15:54, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Date of Shoe Museum photo
editFile:Shoe Museum.JPG is dated as 2008-07, but the EXIF data is 18:06 6 ago 2004 and it was uploaded in July 2009. Do you remember when the picture was actually taken? Error (talk) 14:02, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- I think this is confusion between US and UK date formats. I believe it was taken on the 6th of August 2004 (while my wife and kidfs were shopping in the nearby Clarks Village). I don't understand where 2008-07 is coming from.Rodw (talk) 14:06, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2024!
editHi there, Sara from Wikimedia UK here, just wanted to say a huge thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments in England this year! It's so lovely to see so many great images coming through, and improving the coverage of England's listed buildings & scheduled monuments. Thanks so much! Sara Thomas (WMUK) (talk) 10:33, 16 September 2024 (UTC)