User talk:Bjh21

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beautyvash

Hi,

 I've tagged the page you edited for deletion.  This is a fairly obvious case of non-notability.  

Regards, Lotsofissues 08:05, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Template:delete

Thanks for the catch - I had been going through all of the csd's - some of which appeared to include various Template:Delete related notices. -SV|t 17:26, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Bere Alston railway station

Thanks for the photo -- and the correction to my 'senior moment' re Calstock/Callington! -- Picapica 21:40, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Falmouth Docks railway station

Thanks for the tips. I have now loaded the next batch (working eastwards from Bodmin Parkway railway station to St Germans but skipping Liskeard for now).

Geof Sheppard 13:45, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for editing my pages, regards AshLin 18:35, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Whoops, sorry!

I was actually going to put it back. Its not the station that is in the Hertfordshire boundary but Ashwell village itself. This was a bit of a mix up. Simply south 19:11, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Alabama Public Radio and user namespace

I see you deleted the link to a user namespace in Alabama Public Radio. I haven't seen this before. Is there a Wikipedia policy against linking to user namespaces? What might be the rationale behind that? Thanks any further clarification. --Jeremy Butler 15:38, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't know of a settled policy in this area, but WP:SELF covers very similar ground: article pages shouldn't contain links that are specific to the fact that the article is part of Wikipedia. That you are a Wikipedia user may be significant while that article is in Wikipedia, but is irrelevant if the article is copied to another site, printed out, or what-have-you. Of course, if you're sufficiently notable, there should be a page at Jeremy Butler about you. --bjh21 16:42, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. That makes sense. Hadn't see the WP:SELF policy before. (And, no, I don't reckon I'm sufficiently notable!) --Jeremy Butler 18:15, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Rude forcing

Re your comment at Hinckley railway station (edit history): "Forcing thumbnail sizes is generally rude". I had no idea! Background to this notion? And what are the permissible exceptions to this generalization? Most thumbnails in Wp appear to me to be posted with an indicated size – whether "forced" or not I cannot tell. Or have I just led a particularly sheltered life? -- Picapica 23:38, 16 May 2006 (UTC) (doubtless often, but seldom knowingly, rude)

Small request

I have just created an article on Welwyn Viaduct. ?You seem to add railway photos so could you add one of Welwyn Viaduct please. Sorry to bother you. Simply south 16:05, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Simply south 19:02, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

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County Durham

Perhaps of interest to you: Talk:County Durham/Archive 1#Durham v County Durham. Argovian (talk) 00:52, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

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File names

I've been unhappy with the changes you have been making to image names, as your changes appear to remove the explicit credit to Geograph or wherever the image was uploaded from. I am therefore very pleased to see that you've started editing filenames to the style "Description-description-description (Geograph 1234567)" which achieves the best of both worlds. Thank you. Dave DavidAHull (talk) 22:51, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

@DavidAHull: That was part of why I changed my practice, though the main reason was simply that if I always include the Geograph image ID then I don't have to think about whether it might be necessary for disambiguation. That gives me more brain to spare for making sure the rest of the name is sensible. --bjh21 (talk) 23:12, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

@Bjh21: Taking that a step further, you could simply add something meaningful to the naming convention Geograph ask us to use, which would be easier for you and courteous to them, eg "Geograph-1234567 by Fred Bloggs" becomes "Geograph-1234567 by Fred Bloggs. Southerly view from Waterloo Platform 7". I might even start doing so myself! All the best, Dave DavidAHull (talk) 20:04, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

@DavidAHull: Can you point me to the request from Geograph regarding filenames on Commons? I haven't seen it. I'd prefer not to have a name that begins with the default filename because that creates more noise when searching for files with the default name. --bjh21 (talk) 20:13, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

@Bjh21: Basically, it is implicit, as that's what it defaults to, also if you start the download process it asks if you will please use the routine which stamps the image with copyright info. Wikipedia rejects this. I see what you mean about noise at the beginning of filenames, so it would be equally easy to reverse it, so "Geograph-1234567 by Fred Bloggs" becomes "Southerly view from Waterloo Platform 7, source Geograph-1234567 by Fred Bloggs." Dave DavidAHull (talk) 03:33, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

@DavidAHull: I think you're reading an awful lot into a Content-Disposition header. I see the default filename as a way to ensure that the (licence-required) attribution stays attached to the file, in the same way that the stamping process embeds it in the image data. Neither of these is necessary on Commons because Commons file description pages hold the same information. This is borne out by the fact that in the Wikipedia section of Geograph's reuse.php, the only image link is to the full-res unstamped version, and there's a suggestion to use geograph2commons whose file-naming convention I've adopted.

Anyway, I've run out of files to rename now, so this is a bit academic. I do have a couple of bot ideas that might care about naming of files from Geograph: I'll let you know if/when they come up for approval. --bjh21 (talk) 10:38, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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Picture renaming

Sorry, noted for future uploads. Mark83 (talk) 17:39, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

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