User talk:Staublex

Panoramas
Berg Heil! - just a quick welcome to en-Wikipedia. You and have uploaded some absolutely superb panoramas - some of which brought back a lot of memories of summits climbed in the past - especially Mortaratsch, Mont Blanc and Dufourspitze and the Nadelgrat (a couple of decades back we got trapped in the Marco e Rosa Hut hut by a fierce storm for five days, so frustratingly never actually summitted the  Bernina.) If either of you want to drop by WP:ALPS and join in, please feel free.

Whilst I recognise that articles about alpine mountains on en-wiki are mostly not as good or as complete as their de-, fr- or it-wiki counterparts, I do need to ask you, please, just to be a bit careful how you add panorama shots. On Piz Bernina I noticed that you'd moved images from within the article into a gallery at the bottom of the page, and added a panorama of the Biancograt (presumably you two guys in action?) On en-wiki there is a general dislike of photo galleries in articles, and some editors just delete them as unneeded, per WP:GALLERY, and expect users simply to follow the links to Wikimedia Commons instead. I'm not in that camp, but neither do I want to risk articles having images removed if they're all to be found in galleries. So in your enthusiasm to show off the 360 views, please tread gently with English Wikipedia's layouts, would you?. I guess that not all users are able to download and view very big files, either, so a mix is good.

As an alpinist, I love them all, but they're not necessarily all suited to encylcopaedia articles. That said, I'm going to spend quite some time going through them and reliving a few past routes. (If you ever photograph the Täsch-Dom traverse, do let me know - that, plus the Brenva Spur and Hornli are amongst my most memorable climbs). Perhaps you'd like to drop by the talk page of WP:ALPS and show off a few of your panoramas for folks there to appreciate? Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 00:46, 24 August 2020 (UTC)