Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Images and Media/Photography

Unbecoming a member
How do I unmake myself a member? I upload a lot of photographs, but now I upload them here, so there is no reason for me to be a member anymore. Should I just removed myself from the list? --The High Fin Sperm Whale (Talk • Contribs) 22:00, 30 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, although I don't do any work with photographs anymore here, I do edit a lot of articles about DSLRs. Do you all want me to stay a member? --The High Fin Sperm Whale (Talk • Contribs) 01:19, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * This project seems to see very little non-article space activity. There is no harm in staying a member, especially if you do edit relevant articles. Camw (talk) 01:25, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * So you are saying I should stay a member? --The High Fin Sperm Whale (Talk • Contribs) 05:08, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * If that is what you want to do then sure. Camw (talk) 05:12, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Newbie questions
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation has some elementary phototechnical questions. Do we have a Wikiguide for newbie photographers, particularly longtime Wikkians only recently rehatched as shutterbugs? Or a forum for such discussions? Jim.henderson (talk) 22:45, 9 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I am surprised to fail to find such a guide for beginners, so I wrote one myself, in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York. Being in the form of answers to particular questions it is I think deep enough for the intended audience but not wide enough, yet perhaps somewhat too long.  Should something of the sort be adapted and adopted into a page of this Project?  Jim.henderson (talk) 16:17, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Help with translation needed!
I`m working with a translation of the swedish article about Karl Lärka. I would be happy if some native englishspeaking checked the article during my work, to see if the english is good enough.

I´m also desperatly looking for a specific term for a sort of old projector. It´s not a Laterna Magica, it´s more modern, but older than the slide projector. Here´s, is skioptikon or sciopticon the term in english too?

Whats the english term for an older form of blender, used in box cameras and consisting of a plate with a small hole? "Holeblender" is the swenglish term, but whats the real one? And whats the term for when a thing (a shutter in this case) is not fixed at the machine but lay aside? Is separate a good term?--Godfellow (talk) 16:39, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Reminder International Photoworkshop Nyköping
Find the details here. --Prolineserver (talk) 23:15, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Photograph your home town
Is there a place on the page where we should link to Photograph your hometown? Jim.henderson (talk) 16:26, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Photo Cleanup Drive 2010 proposal
I've sketched out a proposal for a 2010 Photo Cleanup Drive. Please see User:Twp/Photo Cleanup Drive and comment here.

I plan to push for a concerted effort at cleaning up old photo requests this year. and I have so far been the most active editors on this task, but with some help we could completely clean out Category:Articles which may no longer need images and may be able to make a good dent in.

If there are no significant objections, I will move this page to WikiProject Photography/Photo Cleanup Drive 2010 in the next few weeks, link to it from the top of the main WikiProject page, and start actively recruiting editors.

Thanks all -- Tim Pierce (talk) 16:11, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I have spent some time cleaning up the Photographs requested by subject as list pages requests. But I notice that there is very low traffic on these lists. Should this method of requesting images/photos be phased out entirely, in favor of the reqphoto template-driven method? I think it is confusing to have two different ways of listing requests; the list requests fall through the cracks -- Wormcast (talk) 22:14, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing this out. I agree strongly.  The Requested pictures page and subpages are an inefficient and obscure way to ask for photographs.  I'll add some instructions on my page to that effect, and ask for help cleaning out those lists as well.  Tim Pierce (talk) 22:18, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Having also worked through both methods, I also agree that phasing out the Requested pictures sub-pages in favour of reqphoto would be a good idea. There are some WikiProject specific list though that will need some discussion with others on the best way to address. For example the pages under WikiProject Tree of Life/Articles without images. --Traveler100 (talk) 06:34, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Revival list
Why list? If it's a list of people who will do something, what will they do, and when, and why are they not already doing it? Jim.henderson (talk) 18:38, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Pentax ME
In a janitorial capacity I have found that Pentax ME should probably be a single article composed of the neutral and verifiable bits of Pentax ME Super and Pentax ME F. There's no dispute that the ME was a hugely significant market presence in its day, so it would also be good if we could make the articles read a bit less like the sales blurb. I'd forgotten how good they were, actually, and am tempted to buy one on eBay to teach my lad how to use a chemical camera properly :-) Guy (Help!) 17:11, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Classical camera terms
I'm not part of this project, but I stumbled across Classical camera terms, which seems to have been written in good faith by a new WP editor. I've pointed out the existence of this WikiProject on the article talk page, and thought I should mention it here too so you folks can do the right thing with it. Oh, I stumbled across it from a link at the top of Canon Pellix. -dmmaus (talk) 05:46, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Central African photographers
Hello, I've started articles on three historically important photographers of Central Africa — Joseph Makula, Herzekiah Andrew Shanu and Casimir Zagourski — and think all of them would benefit from the attention of those specializing in work on photography, and perhaps especially from illustration by those familiar with the requirements and regulations of wikipedia images (so far only Zagourski has a picture, and it's not a terribly relevant one). --Andreas Philopater (talk) 09:26, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Rename or merge

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: merge to WikiProject Images and Media. I have tagged it to be merged. Fences &amp;  Windows  15:37, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Photography → WikiProject Photographs — or WikiProject Photos. This project is badly, badly misnamed, and as a result, a large number of articles are wrongly talk-page-tagged as being within the scope of this project because they are about photographers or photography. This project's scope is only the use of photographs on Wikipedia; it is a child project of WikiProject Graphics, and should be named accordingly (Graphics, Photo[graph]s, not Graphic Arts and Photography). The current name suggests it is an article genre project about photography and photographers, but this is not the case; it is entirely an internal maintenance project. After this project is renamed, WP:WikiProject History of photography should be renamed to WikiProject Photography, since it is actually the WikiProject about photography (but it's current name is also misleading, suggesting that it is only about historical topics, excluding those of current interest/activity, which in actuality it does not). No Requested Move has been filed at that page yet, since the target to which it would move is presently occupied by this page. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:37, 21 June 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅. Possibly "WikiProject Images". Tim Pierce (talk) 19:22, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that would overlap the parent WP:WikiProject Graphics too much; this one was specifically about photographic resources. I'm beginning to think it should just be a task force/work group instead of a project. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 20:24, 21 June 2010 (UTC)


 * As a project page WikiProject Photography is not very active and I would say has been replaced by WikiProject Images and Media. Tend to agree with the proposal, but wondering if renaming another project to the same name as this one may also cause confusion.--Traveler100 (talk) 20:02, 21 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Re-proposal: Merge to WP:WikiProject Images and Media. Its project tag will also need merging and a AWB job to actually change references to it, since the Template:WikiProject Photography pagename may be needed for the other project.  That said, I don't have a hugely strong opinion on the History of Photography project other than it obviously needs a more general name, as it is not limited to photographic historical topics, and is in fact the general, topical photography article project. That said, I lean toward thinking that any confusion would be short-lived; WP-namespace pagenames have been "usurped" plenty of times before without undue fuss, and "WikiProject Photography" is the most logical name for that project. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 20:24, 21 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Agree, I honestly would never have joined this project originally if it was labeled correctly, but am willing to stay and help fix the issue. - IanCheesman (talk) 22:23, 21 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment the requested name is still confusing, since it is about photographs on wikipedia, not photographs, like the famous faerie photographs from 1920's England. 76.66.195.196 (talk) 04:43, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, merge. Yes, the anonymous comment suggests a reason why the present WikiProject should merge rather than be renamed.  As for the history WikiProject, that's another question to be decided after this one.  Jim.henderson (talk) 21:59, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

So I have made the first move of merging this project. Still needs some tidying work. So please all assist. --Traveler100 (talk) 19:03, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

WP Images and Media in the Signpost
Since this project is being merged into WikiProject Images and Media, any active members of WikiProject Photography are welcome to participate in the following Signpost interview:

WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Images and Media for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Also, if you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 20:27, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Scope of this project
Folks, are articles about photography related subjects such as cameras, photographers, photographic techniques within the scope of this Project? I see some such articles (Canon T90 for example) tagged with the Project template, while others (Canon A-1 for example) are not. Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 16:19, 22 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Good question; I wish I'd seen it much earlier. I infer from the project page that the answer is no, but the template implies that it's yes. Please see this discussion. -- Hoary (talk) 10:10, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Equivalent word for illegible with respect to images
Please see Reference desk/Language (permanent link here, section 7.8). —Wavelength (talk) 23:25, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Photography articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Photograph article tagged for WP:NOTHOWTO
The Photograph article contains detailed instructions for preserving photos, which reads like an instruction manual, violating WP:NOTHOWTO. I've tagged it for cleanup. I'm not a member of this Wikiproject - just mentioning it to spur someone to action. :-) -dmmaus (talk) 23:04, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

the template for this Project
Please see this comment/suggestion of mine, and comment there. Thank you. -- Hoary (talk) 10:15, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

There seem to be
A lot of categories and articles that have never been tagged with the project template on the talk page for this project... SatuSuro 12:39, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Photography is a technical subject ...
Photographic image formation is inherently and fundamentally an application of chemistry. I confess to being a chemist, so am slightly biased in favor of my subject. But it does seem pretty strange that the chemical aspects are not even shown, much less highlighted. But maybe I am missing something, so I welcome guidance on articles within this project on the chemistry of, for example, color photography. --Smokefoot (talk) 18:15, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Me, I was never trained as a chemist and only know digital photography, but yes it's odd that for example Photochemistry doesn't mention this once highly important application. Do you wish to be guided to other possibly relevant articles, or in what other matter do you seek guidance?  Jim.henderson (talk) 13:03, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Looking for template: Photo offers
Hi, is there a template which could be used by photographs for photo offers? Thanks in advance. -- Rillke (talk) 12:35, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

New tool for the mapping of missing pictures
Please take a look at meta:Grants:IEG/Wiki needs pictures. We welcome all feedbacks. Thanks.--Alexmar983 (talk) 00:24, 25 September 2015 (UTC)