User talk:Thorsten Denhard

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Thorsten Denhard!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 18:23, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Photo Challenge Gold

	Photo Challenge Winner
	Congratulations! Your picture Macroglossum stellatarum in flight near lavender.jpg won the 1st place in the Photo Challenge Flowers and insects, in May 2014. You can find the results of the challenge here.

Anser cygnoides

Hi Thorsten - File:Anser cygnoides (Germany,Heidelberg).jpg is not from any location mapped here, so it has to be either captive, or escaped from captivity. It does not belong among the natural wild specimens! - MPF (talk) 20:11, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Alright, if the "captive" category generally also includes individuals (or their descendants!) which "escaped from captivity", then ok. It was my understanding, however, that these would better be classified as "feral" animals. For example, the egyptian goose has its own subcategory for those cases: Category:Alopochen aegyptiaca (feral).

[increased_nitpicking_mode_on]: In other words, the "captive" status of an individual is based purely on its mode of existence at a specific point in time. The individual depicted in the image was, at the time the image was taken, not in a state of captivity. All other reasoning about its heritage, its "natural" habitat, or even its living conditions a week before, is irrelevant for the classification as "captive". There may be other classifications (like "feral", "bastardized", or whatever else the biology-folks can think of :-)), which I personally would not subsume under the "captive" category. [increased_nitpicking_mode_off] However, in spite of this lengthy comment, I'm not overly concerned about how the image is categorized, so we might as well keep it as you proposed :-) --Thorsten Denhard (talk) 11:22, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Yep; I did think about creating a new category for them as feral birds, but the species is not listed as naturalised ("Kategorie C") in Germany in the official German bird list, so is not considered to be fully naturalised there (yet!). If the German bird list is updated in the future to include the species as naturalised, then a category based on this should be created for these photos. Hope this helps! - MPF (talk) 12:50, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for the info and the Artenliste link! --Thorsten Denhard (talk) 15:04, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Use of Hummingbird Hawkmoth Picture

Hi Thorsten, I am a researcher looking for a picture of a hawkmoth, specifically the Hummingbird Hawkmoth, to use in a scientific paper. Your picture of the Hummingbird Hawkmoth by the lavender flowers would be perfect for the paper. Could I use your picture? If so, how would you like to be credited? You can contact me by email as well using the Wikipedia Emailing feature. Thank you very much. -- Ahallo2 (talk) 15:08, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi! Of course you may use it; nice to know it can serve some purpose :-) I'm not a licensing expert, but from my point of view I'd expect an attribution like "Image by Thorsten Denhard, CC-BY-SA-3.0" in the image caption, nothing else.

If you played it strictly by the rules (see e.g. CC Best practices), you'd have to include the full original title of the image as seen in wikimedia, the URL of both the image and the CC-license deed, and the name of the author. But quite frankly, I don't really care about that level of detail -- just do it as it suits you best :-).

General side note: it's my understanding that the inclusion of a CC-BY-SA image does not "infect" your entire paper, so you are still free to license/publish the paper under any terms you like (see e.g. this stackexchange question). --Thorsten Denhard (talk) 17:43, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I really appreciate it! I'll include the attribution just as you wrote. Thanks once again! Ahallo2 (talk) 17:19, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Tolles Foto

Phalacrocorax carbo

ist ein tolles Foto. Bin gerade über deine Vogelfotos aus Heidelberg gestolpert und sehr beeindruckt.

-Stanzilla (talk) 18:34, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Danke! Da ich den Guten im Luisenpark getroffen habe, war er wohl schon an menschliche Gäste gewöhnt :-) Sehe auch grade, der ist ja von 2013 -- wie die Zeit vergeht... --Thorsten Denhard (talk) 20:17, 6 April 2021 (UTC)