User talk:Rebel Redcoat~commonswiki

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BotMultichillT 06:12, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Rebel Redcoat~commonswiki!

Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

BotMultichillT 06:12, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

• Image:James, Duke of York.png is uncategorized since 7 May 2009.
• Image:King James II.png is uncategorized since 9 May 2009.
• Image:Low Countries 1700.png was uncategorized on 7 October 2009.
• Image:Claimants to the Spanish thrones 1700.png was uncategorized on 24 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:03, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Battle of Blenheim by Vianen, Jan van.png was uncategorized on 28 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 01:35, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Please do not downsize images

Hi Rebel Redcoat, I appreciate your work enhancing File:John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (2).jpg, but wanted to remind you that Commons wants the highest-possible resolution version of images that can be found. Please do not downsize your images, but upload the original resolution version; if you must upload a reduced-resolution version, please upload it under a different name, and not over the original image. Thank you. Dcoetzee (talk) 00:26, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Colour changes to paintings

I know you mean well, but, quite simply, traditional painting just doesn't use the kind of colours in the versions you're uploading as new ones - there's a tradition in painting of somewhat unsaturated colours. I can see why you're making the choices you are, but the majority of the "fade correction" and "contrast adjustment" make them cease to look like a painting to people familiar with originals, and that's bad. Can you upload your changes under a different file name than the originals for now?

I reverted some - though not all - of the changes to pre-existing files, and tried to note exactly why in the edit summary. Editing historic works is very difficult if you don't know the artist's work - or at least the conventions of that period - well. There's a temptation to up the contrast, for instance, which should almost always be avoided, or kept very slight, or it can make a painting look rather more like a lithograph. Oh, and make sure your monitor is set up correctly: a poorly calibrated monitor results in horrifyingly bad results.

The tradition is generally that paintings should be seen as they are now, not as they might have been when new. This doesn't mean that what's uploaded is always right, mind: In particular, the Yorck Project works can be ridiculously wrong at times, since said project apparently had no quality control. But, since these sorts of edits are a minefield, it's best to keep the original work available, so your work can be easily compared. =)

Also - though you may know this - it's a very bad idea to use autolevels. I mean, by all means look at the autolevels version if you like, but the actual adjustments are best done by hand, since Autolevels is... well, it's really meant for photographs of fairly standard types of things. People, buildings, that sort of thing. It's not set up for historic media.

Anyway, take care! Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:06, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Long Time - need your help

Hi,

it's been a while since we were discussing article content of early odern european military history. Returning here, I am sad to see you have left. I have no idea why. I tried to mail you, but this is quite hard to do without a valid adress ... Anyway I need your help. You made a good map here which I would like to translate and work over. I would like to ask you für the SVG-file, which you might still have on you computer. It would be great, if you could mail me (memnon335bc@freenet.de) even if only to have a little talk about history and frustrating Wikipedia (I also retired for several month ...)

Cheers! --Memnon335bc 22:58, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	Your cartography is simply beautiful and you seem to have uploaded so much around the War of the Spanish Succession. Great work, dude! OwenBlacker | Discussion 22:20, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Rebel Redcoat. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Rebel Redcoat~commonswiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

22:28, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Contact

Hi,

I'd like to exchange with you through eMail. Could you please send me a message at Kronoskaf.com ( www.kronoskaf.com/syw ) (there is a link entitled "Contact Kronoskaf" in the left hand menu).

Thank you for your attention,

--CyberMonk (talk) 14:01, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

05:04, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

File:Newdigate House, Castle Gate, plaque.png

File:Newdigate House, Castle Gate, plaque.png has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

bjh21 (talk) 20:04, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

File:North America 1713.png

File:North America 1713.png has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

ƏXPLICIT 01:29, 9 January 2021 (UTC)