User talk:Grendelkhan/Archive7


Book moved to Further reading

Three book reviews are needed for an article about a book. If you are interested and need further help perhaps you might contact wikipedia:Norway. 89.8.24.12 (talk) 14:08, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

I think you may be confused; this was my edit, which doesn't move anything into the "further reading" section. Did you mean to notify someone else? grendel|khan 18:24, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Datei: Andreas Baader

You are the Owner of this picture i Like to have it in the german Wikipedia. Please give it free.--Luckystreik (talk) 12:04, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I only uploaded that image (Andreas_Baader.jpg); I don't own it. You'll have to do some digging and find out who does, if you want it to be freely licensed. (I don't know that the German Wikipedia's fair-use policies are.) grendel|khan 21:06, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

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Please claim your upload(s): File:Espirito Santo Map with Cariacica Municipality Highlighted.png

Hi, This image was seemingly uploaded prior to current image polices, Thank you.

However, as part of ongoing efforts to ensure all media on English Wikipedia is correctly licensed and attributed it would be appreciated if you were able to confirm, that it was your own work, by marking it as {{own}}, amending the {{information}} added by a third party, and by changing the license to an appropriate "self" variant. You can also add |claimed=yes to the {{Media by uploader}} or {{Presumed self}} tag(s) if present to indicate that you've acknowledged the image, and license shown (and updated the {{information}} where appropriate).

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@Sfan00 IMG: Oh, nuts. I just converted an existing BMP to PNG; you can see the deletion request I made here, but the actual deleted file page seems to not exist even in the archives. (It was twelve years ago, after all.) Maybe a dev can help out with that? grendel|khan 21:39, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
You could always ask an admin. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 21:44, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
@Sfan00 IMG: I am an admin; unfortunately, I can't see page history for the deleted filename, which makes me think that there's a problem with it having been deleted so long ago. The image is unused and likely can be easily remade as a vector graphic (using something like R's GIS capabilities, which I'm in the process of learning). grendel|khan 23:51, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
@Sfan00 IMG: Aha! The maps were originally uploaded by User:Kurogawa; see, e.g., File:Map of Espirito Santo with Capital and Neighbour States.PNG. Again, they could probably stand to be remade as prettier vector maps. (No shade on the original uploader; it was twelve years ago and we were told not to upload full-resolution images at the time.) grendel|khan 16:54, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Can you update the {{information}} blocks (or add them) appropriately? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:55, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
@Sfan00 IMG: Done! (Properly, I hope.) grendel|khan 17:03, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

File:Dark knight returns.jpg listed for discussion

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Fixed! grendel|khan 18:56, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

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