User talk:Fir0002
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Fir0002, if you're interested in helping improve our Melbourne-related articles, you might want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne. A few of us have got together to try and standardise and expand things. Ambi 10:31, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Fir!
What sexy photographs you take... Do not pass go, add yourself to m:Press Corps immediately. :-)
I am including one of your photographs (the only one to show up twice, though you'll never find the second appearance) in the current edition of the Wikimedia Quarto (see the Endnotes). How would you like to be credited? Right now you're credited as Fir0002.
Cheers, +sj+ 08:18, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Emperor Gum Moth
Hey there Fir, better late than never I'd say, good work on finding the correct name and title of that moth. Unforunately it is not possible to move image pages, they have to be uploaded again, and all links need to be updated. I have downloaded and uploaded the renamed image, updated the description page as well. The next step was tracking all pages linking to the original image, if you look at the bottom of the original image page, you see the "what links here" section. I have used that as a starting point to update the links, which were all over the place. The only think left for you to do would be updating the entry in the POTD archive, it could use an appropriate text about this moth. Maybe you can even write a stub article on the Emperor Gum Moth? Keep up the great work, -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 11:49, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
Your question
Hey there, when you edit an article, the box below the large editing box can be used to enter a description of your edit. This is useful for people looking through the history of an article, as it makes it easy to see with a glance what has happened to the document over the last 20 edits or so. I don't know of any particular tricks I guess, but there's alot of Wikipedia to explore and to find out, and then there is meta.wikipedia.org as well. You'll find out how it all works in time, just by using stuff and looking things up in the Help. Cheers, [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 10:31, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
Nice pics, but . . .
Can you get some more info for some of them? - I'm thinking particularly of your yellow rose (what cultivar?) and cactus flowers (what species?). With more information, they would be very useful indeed, as are e.g. your boxthorn pics which I have used to start a new article on the genus. Thanks, MPF 11:40, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, you've nice pictures of some gum trees, it would be helpful if you could include some more info such as the location of the pictures (nearest towns, roads, hills etc., area) and type of gum trees. The info would be useful so that articles may be linked. Cheers!
Problem?
Hey there, first of all, you can't really break something by deleting it on Wikipedia, so don't worry. On what page did it go wrong? If you want to try to fix it, press "history" on the top of the page, click on the date of the version of the page you think is correct, then press edit and save. This is called reverting, for a full guide see here: Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version. Good luck, [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 11:09, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC) PS. I'm not ad admin, luckily most editorial functions can be done by anyone, you too!
Insect eggs
Hi Fir,
Knowing that you are handy with the macro shot and seem to be able to find a range of small beasties in Australia, do you think you could find a cluster of insect eggs (under a leaf or wherever) to add to egg (biology) - it would help address the avian bias. -- Solipsist 16:55, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Hi Solipsist, thanks for your comment, but I don't know whether I'll be able to help you out on that one. I know I must be getting a bit of a macro reputation, but truth be told, its mainly luck. I wouldn't be able to gaurentee finding any insect eggs in the next 6 months but on the other hand I might see one be accident and be able to take a photo of it. Most of my macro shots are like that For instance Cricket was taken on my water tank. Just happened to be their one day.
- I do have a pretty average shot of ant eggs, but I don't think that's what you're after is it? Also my camera cant take photos of any object smaller than a 5c coin (Australian) very well. But I'll try my best. --Fir0002 01:17, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- No worries - there's no hurry. I don't know much about insect eggs, but I have seen them laid in clusters about the size of a small coin on the underside of leaves (sometimes the leaf is also folded and stuck together to protect the eggs). The ant eggs might be fine. I was really just thinking that example eggs from different animal families should be shown. Come to think of it, you might want to keep an eye out for an ostrich egg too - they are probably more common in Australia than the UK. Nice cricket by the way. :) -- Solipsist 12:24, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Game of Life
Image:Game of life board.jpg, did you take this picture yourself? kudos to you if you did, I only ask because it looks like an official photo one would find on the box. Boffy b 14:28, 2004 Nov 24 (UTC)
Emperor Gum Moth
Hi Fir, thanks for your latest nomination on WP:FPC - nice shot. But I think it would be better if you choose just one picture to nominate. It rather distorts the voting process to nominate multiple pictures, and significantly complicates the final tally. -- Solipsist 08:17, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comments Solipsist. I can see your point of view, its just that in the previous times I have submitted multiple but similar images for featuring, I have found that more often than not, the photo I would have chosen to feature aren't what other people think should be featured. The latest example being the Australian Garden Orb Weaver Spider. I personally would have chosen the first image to feature, but people were in favor of the the third option. If you think it is too much of a problem having multiple images, I'll rectify the problem. --Fir0002 01:54, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Interesting point. I guess the solution would be to set up a temporary gallery on a personal subpage (eg. User:Fir0002/FPCandidates) and ask a couple of trusted colleague to suggest which one should be nominated. -- Solipsist 00:02, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Australian Garden Orb Weaver
.... and by a twist of fate, your FP for Australian Garden Orb Weaver is up tommorrow. You might want to check the associated text at Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/January_12,_2005.... and of course we've also been reusing sunset today. :) -- Solipsist 00:04, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Fire good
Hi Fir,
Just to let you know that your photo of bonfire is up for reuse on 21st Jan. I've reuse the caption from before, but you may want to check the entry at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 21, 2005. -- Solipsist 22:58, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Pic of the day
Hi Fir,
Just to let you know that your Image:Caterpillar feeding3.jpg is up for Pic of the Day on the 29th Jan. As usual, you may want to check the caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/January 29, 2005. -- Solipsist 22:02, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Wakizashi
Hi. I edited the image for Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Edo period Wakizashi.jpg, blurring the background slightly to remove artifacts and sharpening the sword (i.e. the image thereof). Could you have a look to see if this would change your vote? If not, no problem, and happy editing -- Chris 73 Talk 11:51, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
Barnstar
BrokenSegue
Hebe of the Day
Hi Fir,
Just to let you know that your photo Image:Hebe x franciscana.jpg is up for Pic of the Day on te 4th of March. You can check the caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 4, 2005. -- Solipsist 09:20, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I've attempted to sharpen it some. Click on the image history to see the two different versions. It's certainly about as sharp as other featured pictures, such as: Image:Kiritimati-EO.JPG, Image:Lugano prokudin.jpg, or Image:Himalayas.jpg Let me know if anything else should be done. -- BRIAN0918 07:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Image source
Discussion moved to Image talk:Ant cultivating aphids.jpg#Copyright.
Pic of the Day ..... again :)
Hi Fir,
You've another Pic of the Day coming up on the on the 12th March. Its a repeat of an earlier picture and the caption is at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 12, 2005. -- Solipsist 22:02, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
and again... and again..
This time it reusing Image:Hazelnuts.jpg on Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 18, 2005 and Image:Close up yellow rose.jpg on Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 22, 2005.
However, after that I'll be jumping back to the start of the FP list for reuse image. Fortunately it looks like we've got some good new FP candidates coming through. -- Solipsist 08:39, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
and again
Of course, with enough new Featured Pictures we won't have to reuse the old ones. So its handy that you've got Image:Apricots.jpg coming up the day after on the 23rd. I was struggling a little to fill out the caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 23, 2005 (I would have thought there was more to the apricot article), but its not too bad. -- Solipsist 18:45, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
User page links
Hi Fir0002. Please use User:Fir0002 instead of Fir0002 for linking to your user page. It's generally considered a bad idea to have a redirect from "article space" to any other namespace. Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 01:01, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
| 75px|center| | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Aust blue dragonfly02.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~
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File:Flower.jpg listed for discussion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Flower.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the [[Wikipedia:Files for discussion/{{subst:#time:Y F j|-0 days}}#File:Flower.jpg|discussion]] to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you.
about flower:jpg
You may forgot to mention the source of the picture. If the pic was taken by yourself please note it. --Fanghong 01:09, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- You may misunderstand. I know the pic is very nice and with GFDL licence but would you nice enough to tell me where the pic from? you took it youself or from other GUN source? Please add the information on the describe area of the pic.--Fanghong 00:52, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
top posting
notice how my additions to your talk page come at the bottom? :-) +sj +
Brag list?
I just saw Image:Crimson sunset02.jpg in Recent Changes. Wow! Then I checked your user namespace for subpages and found User:Fir0002/FPCandidates. WOW! Then I went looking for a brag list, somewhere you might have a list of all the pictures you've uploaded. I couldn't find one. Do you have a brag list or do I have to keep checking FPC and this talk page? :-) SWAdair | Talk 10:44, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Grass pic
Hi Fir - nice pic Image:Canary grass.jpg, I've identified it as Meadow Foxtail Alopecurus pratensis, a European grass naturalised worldwide in meadows. I've moved it to the taxobox position at Poaceae as I think it is good to have a natural species there (it was a field of wheat there before) - MPF 12:29, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Tarantula species
Hi,
You put an image of a "colorful tarantula" on the Tarantula article. Do you happen to know the genus and species? Thanks. P0M 19:45, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Unident pics
Hi Fir - thanks! The fruiting weed is Solanum pseudocapsicum, originally a native of Madeira and listed in my books as 'widely naturalised in subtropical areas'; it is also very commonly sold as an ornamental plant (including here in Britain, where it can be grown outdoors in mild areas but is mainly a house plant).
The flower, sorry, I don't know what it is. - MPF 11:04, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
FPs
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| 75px|center| | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Brachypelma edit.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~
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Pic of the Day
Hi Fir,
Just to let you know that your photo Image:Aust blue dragonfly02.jpg is up for Pic of the day on the 8th April. You can edit the caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 8, 2005. -- Solipsist 11:31, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I just got a high-res version, and the image is public domain. Please support the high-res version. --brian0918™ 17:05, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Semi-FPC
I'd be interested. Do you have a link to it? --brian0918™ 02:28, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Quarto pics
Hi Fir! We're looking for new photos to illustrate the current edition of the Quarto; I'd love for you to partake in our design discussion, and to help choose the images we use for icons and sidebars. See m:WQ/Design or drop me a line... perhaps we can have a chat about it via IM or IRC this weekend. +sj + 22:40, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Please take a look at m:WQ/3 and tell me what you think/suggest changes. You can just go in and start making changes, if you see how it can look better; just bear in mind that each page should be reasonably balanced, and shouldn't look too horribly different from m:WQ/2 et al. But the limitations of HTML layout may guarantee that... +sj + 14:15, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Pic of the day
Hi Fir,
Just to let you know that your photo Image:Plums.jpg is up for Pic of the Day on the 24th April. You can review the caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 24, 2005. You know the drill.... -- Solipsist 19:23, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- and the next Pic of the Day is Huntsman spider on Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 26, 2005. -- Solipsist 14:13, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Flower pictures
I looked at your photo gallery, and I'm really impressed. Glad to have been able to help identify some of your flowers.-gadfium 09:06, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Commons?
I've noticed that you've been uploading pretty much all of your images to Wikipedia, rather than Wikimedia Commons. Please consider uploading them to the latter instead, since that is the method now recommended by Wikipedia, it avoids redundant image copies on different language servers, and provides an appropriate context for a large amount of pictures on the same topic (thus avoiding "additional photos" sections, such as the one in Blackberry). Oh, and great job with all the photos, keep it up! --Aramգուտանգ 12:28, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Is there any particular reason why Wikipedia is recommending uploading to the commons? And how exactly does it provide an appropriate context for a large amount of pictures on the same topic (do you have any examples?).
- Do you think its a bad idea having "additional photos"?
- When you insert an image from the commons to a page in the English Wikipedia, do you still use the "Image:Image.jpg|thumb]]" format?
- The main reason I don't particularly want to change over to the commons is because when you click on an image you only see the image. To see the description you have to rederict to the commons page.
- --Fir0002 23:54, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I guess the main reasons behind uploading images to Commons are so that they can be used in all language Wikipedias without any extra effort, and to provide a repository of images on a certain topic without cluttering the article. "Additional photo" sections can make the article look very cluttered and disrupt the flow or structure of an article. But when you have a link on a page that says "if you want to see a bunch of images on the topic, click here!", which is what the Commons link is intended to mean, it makes the context of the images clear, and also encourages people to add more photos, even if they are not better than the ones already there.
- Inserting an image from Commmons in Wikipedia works in exactly the same way [[Image:blah.jpg|blah]], you don't need to add or worry about anything.
- To avoid the "see the image's description page on Commons" thing, which I find very annoying too, simply copy the text of the Image article on Commons (the one you see if you click "edit this page" on an Image page) to the Wikipedia article on the image (by clicking "edit this page" on the page that tells you to see Commons for the description). The reason behind this, is so that each language Wikipedia can create the image article on its server, with a translated caption/description in their language, without having to copy the actual image to their server. Hope this makes sense. --Aramգուտանգ 00:25, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
==Lens/camera== Copied from Pollinator:User talk Hi Pollinator, I just saw your photo of a wasp stinger close up, and was wondering what lens and what camera you used to take this photo. Thanks, --Fir0002 08:29, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Nikon Coolpix 5000. Pollinator 18:42, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
Tarantula
Hi Fir,
I was trying to set up the POTD for Image:Brachypelma edit.jpg, but it looks like we might have dropped the ball on this one — this pic doesn't seem to be illustrating any articles. Am I missing something - has the picture been removed from an article, or is it another version of the same image that is on an article? -- Solipsist 20:21, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Supply the "universal" repository with your tarantula picture?
Hi,
I would like to use your spider picture (the one you offered on the spider discussion page) on the Chinese language site. To do that easily it would be more convenient for me if you could upload it to the world-wide repositiory (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). I would suggest that instead of giving it the filename Brachypelma edit.jpg you call it Brachypelma_sp.jpg. (Fortunately you did record the genus name correctly, and I can guess at the species name but it really doesn't matter. I would just like to introduce the Chinese readers to an attractive kind of tarantula.)
Thanks. P0M 01:01, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
It looks nice. http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8D%95%E9%B3%A5%E8%9B%9B%E7%A7%91 Thanks. P0M 15:44, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
Further info on eucalyptus pictures
Hi Fir0002, I wonder if you could add more information about the pictures used in the Eucalyptus article: 
Eucalyptus forest and 
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The titles are a bit general so any other information you might have such as where the image was taken and the species of gum in the foreground would be most useful. Regards--AYArktos 23:50, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
- Thank you for responding to my query with information about the pictures. I have updated the captions on the pictures with the extra information you gave me. I think it important for an encyclopaedia to identify to this level of detail. I do plan to review the pictures on the Eucalyptus page and the contribution they make to actually illustrating the article but I will do that through the article's talk page and not unilaterally. Regards--AYArktos 23:41, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
Commons
- In response to User talk:Aramgutang#Commons photos
There doesn't appear to be a way to specify that an image comes from Commons, apparently the software first searches the current namespace, then Commons for the image. However, presumably the images you uploaded on Commons with the same name as on Wikipedia are indended to be a replacement for the Wiki versions, i.e. you want to move the Wiki version to Commons. Moving the images is a separate issue, and creates issues such as concerns over the lost image history. For a discussion of issues related to this, see Wikipedia talk:Moving images to the Commons, which appears to be inconclusive. You may also find the templates Template:NowCommons and Template:Deletebecauseoncommons of interest, although I'm not sure which one is best to use. You can also try asking an admin on Commons about such issues, as they're probably better informed on the status of various policies, discussions and debates. --Aramգուտանգ 18:13, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Anvil
That's funny - just a couple of days ago I was looking for a better image for anvil (given that the current one is rather small and unsourced). Then, as if by magic, a better one appeared spontaneously. -- Solipsist 12:54, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
- Fancy that! I've actually got another one which I haven't uploaded of only the anvil - no blacksmith, do you think it is worth uploading that one? --Fir0002 22:17, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
- I quite like having the blacksmith in the shot. If the other anvil shot has more colour or shows more of the base and fixings it might be good to have it too, but it is fine as it is. -- Solipsist 10:00, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
Strucla
Hey, that's getting interesting! Unfortunately, I don't speak Polish. Do you? Is it possible that "strucla" literally means "braid" in Polish? Hm, probably not. Some more receipes: [1], [2], [3], and finally [4], describing a Czech (!) braided christmas cake that apparently also goes by the name "strucla" in some regions. Maybe "strucla" is just a generic (Polish?) term for a sweet yeast cake, irrespective of whether it is braided or not?
- Of course I'd find the best link just after having saved this message. [5] would confirm my "generic term" theory. A Hefezopf could thus be categorized a a particularly simple subtype of what the Poles call strucla. Lupo 00:44, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
Oh, BTW, a Hefezopf also tapers off on one end. All the best, Lupo 00:41, 13 May 2005 (UTC)