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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2009

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Assyrian Christian Stele (2nd nomination)

It has been proposed that Nestorian Stele be renamed and moved to Memorial of the Propagation in China of the Luminous Religion from Daqin. Please give your views on the talk page for this article. Aymatth2 (talk) 03:34, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

re sp.

I love you, Euchi! Amandajm (talk) 06:07, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Pic of Brackley

Your pic of Brackley appears to be being used without credit:

http://www.itv-f1.com/Feature.aspx?Type=Gravel_Trap&id=45175

Geni 13:14, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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newbie vandal cleanup

Hello Euchiasmus, I visited a page you did some work on - it's called Ultimate football. It had recent vandalism, and history showed a series of them dating back to January. I would appreciate your comments on how I handled the vandals. Basically I just used Twinkle on the last IP vandal, applied a warning, then did the Revert to your OK looking version. With such a revert I suppose I could visit each of the vandals in turn and warn them all. (I might proceed with that now). Walkingstick3 (talk) 05:29, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

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Christ Church, Chester

Thanks for adding the image to this article. It was one I was missing and must have overlooked it on Geograph; it's saved me a special trip to Chester! Cheers. Peter I. Vardy (talk) 16:37, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks - your message makes a nice start to my day! It was actually FIST (Free Image Search Tool) that found the image for me. Have you tried it? It's at http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php and I find it very good. (You have to tick the "geograph" box by hand, as it defaults to being unselected). Cheers -- Euchiasmus (talk) 05:29, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

No, I didn't know about the FIST program - thanks for the tip. I've also added the Christ Church photo to List of works of John Douglas (new churches). Peter I. Vardy (talk) 07:59, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Moving Geograph images to Commons

Hi. I noticed that you are moving images from Geograph to Commons like I am. I also see that you are using custom wording on the uploads. Please don't. Geograph makes it VERY easy to use their preferred wording and it gets all the data in the right place.

Here is a recent example:

The Kinloch castle on Geograph (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4266) has a link under the photo that says, "Find out how to reuse this image"; click it.
On that page you will find a link to download the full-resolution image (Commons always wants the highest possible resolution image if it is available).
Under that link is a link to "Jump snippits for: Wikipedia". Click that (or just scroll farther down the page).
Click in the box of text for Wikipedia (it should say Commons, because that's actually Commons' code), and copy it.
If you have a modern web browser that supports tabs, open Commons in another tab (or another Window if you don't have tabs).
Go to the upload page on Commons. Scroll down past all the options to the "Use the basic upload form" link, and click it.
Paste over the default summary information with the stuff you copied from Geograph.
Use the "Choose file" button to locate the file you saved in step 2.
I prefer to rename the file to something more meaningful, usually the title of the image ("Kinloch Castle.jpg"). Don't forget to include the ".jpg" at the end of the name.
In the "Description=" line, you need to do a little tweaking.
1. The default description from Geograph will read: |Description=Kinloch Castle
2. You need to wrap the description inside of the {{en}} template (indicating an English description) like this: |Description={{en|Kinloch Castle}}
3. Then (and this is optional, but really nice if you have time), I like to go back to Geograph in the other tabe and grab the full description from the main image page and copy it.
4. Back in the Commons tab, I bold the description, add a period, and then paste the full description I copied. The final result would look like this: |Description={{en|'''Kinloch Castle'''. The castle was built in 1897-1901 by Sir George Bullough, a textile tycoon from Lancashire whose father had bought the Isle of Rum as his summer residence. It was he who added the 'h' in the name of the island, and it is said either that this was because his wife disapproved of alcoholic spirits, or that it was added in order to make the name of the island look more 'authentic', though if the latter is correct, he was misguided; older sources do not include the 'h', and there are no non-anglicised Gaelic words or place names beginning with 'rh'.}}
Remember to add at least one relevant category to the image, too.
Preview the description to be sure everything looks right.
Upload the file and verify everything again.
Go to the Wikipedia version of the file and tag it with {{ncd}}.
1. Add {{subst:ncd}} if you did not rename the file.
2. Add {{subst:ncd|File:New name on Commons.jpg}} if you named the file a different name.
Go to each page that links to the image and update the old image link to the new file link at Commons.
Take a drink of your favorite beverage, and start on the next one.

Step 16 is optional, of course. :-) It's a lot of steps, but it's actually pretty quick, because Geograph does most of the heavy lifting for you (like figuring out the decimal geolocation info, etc.). If you don't care about being more descriptive, you can leave out the full description (but they are so much nicer with, and easier to find when searching).

Please let me know if you have any other tips or tricks that you have to make the process easier. Cheers! —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 13:09, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to go through this very clear explanation. Sorry I've taken so long to reply. Your steps make the process a lot easier.

I've recently been using FIST (Free Image Search Tool) which searches Commons, Flickr, Geograph, etc for free images for individual articles or articles within a category. I find it excellent. What's more, it includes a one-click "upload to commons" that completely automates the process. For example, the Geograph upload uses the tool Geograph.org2Commons at http://toolserver.org/~magnus/geograph_org2commons.php which extracts and formats all the necessary data from the geograph page. The only thing it doesn't always do particularly well is adding Commons categories to the uploaded image. So I've taken to using CommonSense at http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CommonSense.php which cleverly suggests appropriate Commons categories for an image. These tools authors are geniuses!

Hope that may be of some interest and help. Thanks again. Euchiasmus (talk) 09:46, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

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