User talk:Ikiwaner

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Ferdinand Stadler s church
About your request on Stadler's church, this book has a reference to a Protestant church that sits in the center of the Latin Quarter of Nazareth dated to 1871. I will try to hunt it down there and get a picture for you.  T i a m u t  23:03, 7 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Tiamut. This is absolutely excellent! I'm looking forward so much. I never dared to believe that it's still there. Sincerly yours --Ikiwaner 07:22, 8 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Ikiwaner. I believe this is the church you are looking for . Now named Christ Church, it was originally named the "Church of the Redeemer". I asked a friend about it and fortuitously she had a copy of Emmett's book (the one in the link above). She left me a note today saying that according to Emmett, Prince Edward visited Nazareth in 1862 and donated 10 pounds towards the construction of the church. In 1866, the land was purchased, west of the Latin church. In 1868, Ottoman approval was granted from the Sultan and construction began in 1869. The church was dedicated with Kin Edward present in 1871. As you can see from the link provided, it still stands, though it is missing a part of its steeple. I will try to get a photo for you soon (for your own private use since the one in the link is probably copyrighted).  T i a m a t  16:11, 13 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Tiamut. Thanks a lot for your explanations. It's nice to see the church still standing too. I just have seen the biblewalks site and I asked the author for permission for these images. Unfortunately we have a Cc-by-3.0 license now which is considered unfree although Jimbo and others think it's free. If you can get an additional image with a CC-by-2.5 license it's even better. It's interesting that the steeple is missing. Time to update Stadlers article now! --Ikiwaner 20:09, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Ikiwaner,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Rhonegletscher.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 4, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-03-04.  howcheng  {chat} 23:20, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Featured picture promotion
Very nice, Ikiwaner. I nominated this at the Spanish Wikipedia,.  Mae din \talk 19:03, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Review of closure process 2
Because you've contributed to FPC either recently or in the past, I'm letting you know about the above poll on the basis of which we may develop proposals to change our procedures and criteria. Regards, Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 00:03, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

My revert in African Bush Elephant
Hi Ikiwaner. I didn't want to offend you, but the image you removed is a very powerful image of an elephant looking, it seems, directly at the camera and seeming to consider what it will do. The body posture is unstable. It is a very dynamic picture. You didn't even move it elsewhere, you simply over-wrote it. I feel that is a significant loss.

When you say "Better is the enemy of good" you seem to want to make value judgements between your own and other people's contributions. I disagree with the judgement. Your picture is certainly technically better, but, if you will forgive me, it could be a statue of an elephant. The one I restored says much more to me about elephants.

The you referred me to is about a picture of a front view and I see no criticism of that in the discussion. Nor is "isometric perspective" mentioned there at all.

Perhaps my comment about "sweeping away" was a bit fierce, and I apologise for that. What I had already noticed was that the three main pictures in African elephant, other than the historically valuable men-with-tusks picture, are now all by you. Two of them are from the Serengeti and could almost be on the same patch of grass. The third is from elsewhere, but has a similar style and is also in savanna habitat. I agreed with your reasons for replacing the older images there (one badly blurred, two in captivity). But why does an encylopedia need multiple elephant pictures if they are all showing us pretty much the same thing? The picture I restored is good, and I feared that it's removal there meant we were heading towards a similar uniformity in African Bush Elephant.

Please don't be offended. My comments here are about what is needed for well rounded articles, not a criticism of your pictures, which I admire very much. --Stfg (talk) 09:38, 8 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks you for your detailed explanation. I was not offended just a bit irritated by the implicit statement made in your edit comment. --Ikiwaner (talk) 17:05, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Elephant
I have one more question regarding that image:. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 13:45, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Ikiwaner,

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Municipalities of the district of Aarberg
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