User talk:High Contrast/Archive 1

Airshow
Hi there, High Contrast! The tickets are not that expensive (around $14 per person, if you know where to park your car. If you plan on parking on their premises, it is much more expensive, naturally). I will not be going to this show, because it is kinda difficult to attend such public events with a two-year old son :). I'm sure that some of the Russian Wikipedia users will be going to MAKS-2009 and after that will upload some cool pictures to Commons (meanwhile, check out these pictures here ). Happy editing! KNewman (talk) 05:26, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for giving a reply. --High Contrast (talk) 19:03, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That's what i wanted to told you. ^_^. I'm still in search for a good photos of Almaz-Antey technics. - Zac Allan (talk) 09:13, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

MAKS 2009
Sorry, but I'll be working out of the country, in Belarus in mid August. But I think the Flickr creative commons can help you on this:,. FeelSunny (talk) 12:32, 3 August 2009 (UTC)


 * In case you come to Russia on MAKS yourself, feel free to ask any questions about the city, the country etc:)FeelSunny (talk) 12:34, 3 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you for giving a reply. --High Contrast (talk) 19:03, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

MAKS 2009: update
Fortunately, I have now some 1000 rubles ($1 = 34 RUR) to go to MAKS airshow. I'll take my camera there and make some photos. And thanks again for notifying me about MAKS airshow! SkyBonTalk/Contributions 21:44, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That's great! Can you please have a "special attention" on the Almaz-Antey-presence there, please? Should look roughly like this. If you can find a vehicle looking like the one in the background of this image, feel free to photograph it. Thank you! --High Contrast (talk) 12:09, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * OK. I'll see what I can do. SkyBonTalk/Contributions 22:59, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * So... Been to MAKS, made a lot of photos. I'll upload 'em all and then you'll just be able to pick out those needed for you. SkyBonTalk/Contributions 16:32, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Uploaded Almaz-Antey photos. See my Commons log here. Cheers, SkyBonTalk/Contributions 20:58, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I categorized them on Commons. Have you mor MAKS-pics? If yes, feel free to upload them. --High Contrast (talk) 17:16, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh... yep, a lot :). I'm now looking through present aircraft photos at Commons to determine which photos should I upload. SkyBonTalk/Contributions 17:37, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * see also: Some photos from Doomych @MAKS 2009 - Zac Allan (talk) 18:02, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

October 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Berlin Marathon has been reverted, as it appears to introduce incorrect information. Please do not intentionally add incorrect information to articles. All information in this encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable, published source. If you believe the information that you added was correct, please cite the references or sources or before making the changes, discuss them on the article's talk page. Please use the sandbox for testing. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Alan (talk) 18:41, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Airport in China
Hi, you asked on WT:CHINA about an unknown airport in China from a picture you had taken. Is it possible that the airport is in Chongqing? That is on the sign that is half visible through the window.--Danaman5 (talk) 06:54, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello! Thanks for your answer! Chongqing is possible. I do not remember if it was the airport of Chongqing or Xian. I tended to Chongqing but I was not sure. So, I am quite pleased that you could identify "Chongqing" in chinese writing. Thanks for helping! --High Contrast (talk) 19:32, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!
High Contrast - Thank for your participation and support in my RfA.

I can honestly say that your comments and your trust in me are greatly appreciated.

Please let me know if you ever have any suggestions for me as an editor, or comments based on my admin actions.

Thank you! 7 23:31, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. --High Contrast (talk) 16:34, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Volleyball players
I have seen that you edited some volleyball articles. Some players articles, most of them looks outdated. I would like to improve players by country. Could you please choose a country to contribute with? Please take a look on Yekaterina Gamova, Hélia Souza, Serena Ortolani and Kenia Carcaces for a model to follow. Please can you please improve some volleyball players with infobox and some addons? References are very important. Let me know. Oscar987 22:43, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello! I have just added some images to the corresponding articles. I do not have any special knowledge about volleyball, so I assume I would't be a good helper. Nevertheless, I will add photographs. Regards, High Contrast (talk) 22:08, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hello,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Bad Hindelang panorama view from south.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 20, 2010. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2010-06-20.  howcheng  {chat} 21:28, 17 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for notifiying! Greets, High Contrast (talk) 22:09, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

RfA
Thank you very much for your contribution to my Rfa. I have made a comment about it at User talk:JamesBWatson which you are, of course, very welcome to read if you wish to. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:54, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * You are welcome! Regards, High Contrast (talk) 16:48, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

MBT-70 image
It depends on which one. One set were sent to me by a user who took pictures of the US one. He gave us full rights to use it in email. The image of the German one came from a page that no longer exists. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:01, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, the image you once uploaded to en:wiki was transferred to Commons. There, a Commons user asked for the exact source here. Perhaps you can give a short statement there. --High Contrast (talk) 16:16, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Needing Admin help with Commons, and en.wikipedia, de.wikipedia, etc.
Hi, I posted this info to User:JMilburn's talk page, but I just got an answer from him saying that he "has problems with Categorization" on Wikimedia Commons and can not help with this, so I am re-printing my note to him for you. Maybe YOU can help. This is crazy! Here:


 * Sorry once again. As you probably know, I upload photos for the musicians' biography articles, but only when I know we have a need for it. I first find the photo(s) that would complement our articles, and I email the photographers to ask permission, and then usually have to respond to them to explain Creative Commons, and which licenses we accept here. It's often long and tedious but I've done it and uploaded about 700 photos mostly manually to Commons. But there is a new complication: I negotiated with a German photographer (Heinrich Klaffs) to upload some photos from his Flickr photostream. He changed the licensing for the entire bulk of them to Commons, (CC-BY-SA) which was nice of him.. perhaps initially a mistake he made, instead of changing the Creative Commons license for the few photos I requested, he may have accidentally changed the license to all his pics. I do know he is enjoying it anyhow. I never upload ALL of someone's photos especially if there's a string of them that are nearly identical (why be greedy?). I normally take my time, and copyedit the articles where they will appear, creating infoboxes, wikification and wording, etc. However, (perhaps because of that Flickr "photo finder bot" intended to help editors find and upload "free" images, there's a problem!


 * PROBLEM. There now appear to be at least two other editors ALSO uploading ALL of his stuff --although I'd been slowly uploading some of the photos. When I first discovered this, I tried to communicate with the first; a German editor who has a user and talk page here on en.Wikipedia, but after writing and beginning the subject, his response was negative. He just said, so?. I had a bad feeling about this, and sure enough, he has created a Category in Commons: Category:Photographs by Heinrich Klaffs Now. if he was merely using the de.Wikipedia to place the photos, it would solve 1/2 of the problem, but still, it creates duplicates in Commons! And, on de.Wikipedia there's apparently been a decision not to add infoboxes there. So I'm finding photos that Freimut Bahlo (talk) just left on the en.Wikipedia pages, (if he got that far). At first, I felt like, "grin and bear it", but now I feel like I'm a janitor having to follow behind him and having to check every single photo of his when I do want to upload a needed photo from that source. I almost feel like he considers this a race of some kind. ??!


 * Now I find yet another editor, doing the same thing, calling it Category:Hamburg in the 1970s!

WHAT TO DO? I'd like to communicate with everybody but am unsure if it's a problem of WP:OWN with someone (me?) but this is insane! BTW- I've now uploaded and placed close to 700 photos so the list required an extra page- you can find a link there from my Userpage. Please, what to do? --Leahtwosaints (talk) 23:23, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The problem now, is that in many cases, there are not only duplicates but even triplicates of the same photo!


 * And now I find yet another, under the Category of "Musicians" in Commons of Ray Charles:  AAAGH!  --Leahtwosaints (talk) 23:50, 6 December 2010 (UTC)


 * CAN YOU HELP? I don't know what to do about this, and if so many people are uploading the same pictures, it could present big problems in Commons. Thanks. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 01:33, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Combat Aircrew 2 (VP-4)
Hi, durch Zufall fand ich die obige Seite. Wenn ich das recht verstehe ist das eine Seite über 10 Leute der Aufklärungsstaffel VP-4 der U.S. Navy. Eigentlich totaler Unsinn. Muss jeder Mist in Wikipedia bleiben? Vielleicht kannst du das ja mal überprüfen. Danke und Grüße Cobatfor (talk) 19:41, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Auf en:wiki ist das so eine Sache: die hiesigen Relevanzkriterien sind wesentlich "lockerer" als auf de:wiki. Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass dieser Artikel hier seine Berechtigung hat. Gruß, High Contrast (talk) 11:53, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Irgendeiner hat's weggeixt... Grüße Cobatfor (talk) 17:41, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Na dann. Offenbar wird sogar auf en:wiki nicht jeder Müll geduldet. --High Contrast (talk) 18:19, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Your request for rollback
Hi High Contrast. After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback: If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Salvio Let's talk about it! 14:15, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
 * Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
 * Rollback should never be used to edit war.
 * If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
 * Use common sense.
 * Thanks for switching free. Regards, High Contrast (talk) 14:26, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Qasr Kharana in Jordan.jpg
Thank you all for supporting this image! --High Contrast (talk) 16:19, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

FV4401 Contentious
Thanks for finding that masthead image. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:52, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Greetings, High Contrast (talk) 21:56, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Comment
Template:Comment has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 09:34, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Flowerhorn
Hi there, High Contrast. I noticed that you nominated the page Flowerhorn for speedy deletion, because of the rather... interesting... article that was created there. However, originally the page redirected to the article Flowerhorn cichlid, so in cases like this there's no need for deletion - you can simply restore the redirect. (I've done this for you.) Also, note that as... interesting... as the page was, it didn't qualify for speedy deletion under criterion G1, as it was possible to understand what it meant. The speedy deletion criteria are strictly defined, and must be adhered to very closely. Have a look at the essay Why I Hate Speedy Deleters for more info, and let me know if you have any questions. Best regards — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 13:33, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I did not see that this site was originally used as a redirect. You should keep in mind that it was not my purpose to delete redirects. But the fact the you tried to insult me by advising me to read this article shows effectfully that you did not study sufficiently what was the problem with this "intermediate article". --High Contrast (talk) 15:27, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi again. Sorry if you thought the link I posted was insulting - I did not intend to insult you at all. And when I said that the article was "interesting", I was referring to the fact that it was really bad. (That was the old British understatement at work there; sorry if it confused you.) As I'm sure you would agree, the article was either the product of someone who has no idea what kind of thing should go in Wikipedia, or of someone intentionally putting content in Wikipedia that they knew didn't come up to our standards. If it had been a new article and not previously a redirect, it would have been eligible for speedy deletion under criterion G3, in my opinion. Because it was originally a redirect, though, Twinkle warned the wrong user, and the real author got away without any warnings. And if the page had been deleted, then Flowerhorn cichlid would have lost a useful redirect. It's always a good idea to check the page history for this kind of thing. That, and more good advice, is contained in the essay I linked to above - I really do recommend reading it. Alternatively, feel free to ask me any questions you might have about speedy deletion - I'll be happy to help. — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 23:03, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

File:New airport in China.jpg
Hi I saw your message a long time ago in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject China/Transportation in China task force about identifying the airport in this picture. Well, I am definitely sure this is Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport. On the billboard advertisement in the bottom left of the picture, I can make out the two chinese characters "Chongqing," and after using Google to find images of the airport's control tower, they are identical.  Heights (Want to talk?) 17:12, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Heights! Thanks for helping to identify this image. I have added all relevant information to the file page on Commons. Best regards, High Contrast (talk) 17:17, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

IH Scout
I disagree with your opinion in this case, but have no interest in engaging in futile swapping back and forth. Here's what I think: while your photo may have more pixels, Southafrica2010's photo shows more clearly what the car looks like. Aside from the harsh late-afternoon lighting, the stripe and the fender extensions bother me about the München one. Also, the background is superior with no other cars to distract. Anyhow, neither is perfect (Hr. Buetikofer's car having that bullbar on it), and since I am sure there is a better photo of a Scout II out there waiting to be taken I won't worry too much about it.  Mr.choppers &#124;  ✎  17:06, 2 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello! My edit was not intended to be offensive. Regards, High Contrast (talk) 16:26, 10 February 2013 (UTC)


 * I know, I wasn't offended in the least since I am aware that you are a good editor and photographer. Just stating my reasons why I thought the Swiss photo better.  Mr.choppers &#124;   ✎  17:36, 10 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, I just followed the "rule" to use the image of best quality - as such I did this replacement. Nevertheless, If you think the Swiss Scout image is of a better encyclopedic value then just undo my edit - you are definately more experienced with automobile topics on Wiki(m)pedia. Regars, High Contrast (talk) 21:39, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi High Contrast,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Qasr Kharana in Jordan.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 10, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-03-10. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:03, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Crisco! Thank you for notifying me. Best reagards, High Contrast (talk) 18:07, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Munich offices
Thank you very much! These photos do the job well :) WhisperToMe (talk) 21:34, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you! --High Contrast (talk) 21:39, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Cigarette smuggling
Thanks for the promotion. Did not know that this was running - a nice surprise. --High Contrast (talk) 14:46, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Cap San Diego
Hi, are you sure, you want to replace a Featured Picture just for having a "newer" one?? Cheers --P e z i (talk) 20:33, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * It is very obvious that you have already created precedents. Nevertheless, this image shows only insufficiently the ship itself. Major parts of this vessel are hidden or covered by objects. The "newer image" by me introduces are full-scale complete view of the whole vessel. --High Contrast (talk) 20:30, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The featured picture shows the vessel in it's surrounding. In the background the "Michel", one of the most famous churches of Hamburg is visible and gives in that way a link to the place where it's moored.
 * We can play this game ad infinitum :-) Anyway, if you replace the image again, I will not revert. Cheers --P e z i (talk) 22:13, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
 * This is not a game or a simple sanbox playings. The argument by me cannot be washed out by you: I am saying an article about this ship has a basic need for an image which documentates this vessel completely. The Landungsbrücken-image can be used in the article of the Port of Hamburg in order to show the whole scenery. Anyway, curiously that you bring in the mighty Michel-tower which is well covered behind the ship's mast. And no, I will revert nothing as you did previously. --High Contrast (talk) 17:32, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * First of all I apologize if the term "game" was offending you; this was not intended.
 * To the facts: You replaced the image and you didn't even replace the caption, so there was a picture from 2014 with a caption telling "2011". I just put back the right picture to the existing caption.
 * And IMO the newer picture also shows only a part of this nice vessel. The complete stern for example, is covered.
 * As it seems, that one single picture is not able to give an impression of the whole ship, what would you think to put in a gallery similar to the one in the german article? Cheers --P e z i (talk) 21:12, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi HC,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Cigarette smuggling with a book.JPG is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 1, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-03-01. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:08, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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