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Out of reach

Hello, I will be out of reach for sometime. Don't expect an answer if you post anything here. For any news, see here. Yann (talk) 15:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

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  1. André Larivière - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Here comes your man

You were right. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 14:16, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Russian literature

Thanks for joining the task force! However, your proposal to set up a separate WikiProject seems premature - see my comments in the discussion you have started. GreyHood Talk 15:56, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sanskrit Wikipedia

Please be active at Sanskrit Wikipedia as you are a administrator there. Namastey! Vibhijain 11:59, 24 April 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vibhijain (talk • contribs)

You're invited

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Will be great to see you! :) Nitika.t (talk) 13:19, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:Suisse geographique.jpg listed for deletion

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Join the Community!

Hi Yann,

Belated welcome to WikiProject India. Thanks for joining our WikiProject community! I'm a volunteer for the WikiProject and the first guy to approach if you need help! :)

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WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest

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POTD notification

POTD

Hi Yann,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Women in tribal village, Umaria district, India.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 3, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-05-03. —howcheng {chat} 16:19, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Volunteering on simple

Hi Yann! Just letting you know that I've left you a message on your talk page at simple.wiki about getting started. If you're not likely to check in very often you might want to enable email notifications in your preferences so you can keep up to date if something happens. Thanks, Osiris (talk) 05:38, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations Yann!

Lucky Winner!
You are the lucky winner of the photo of points leader Matt Kenseth's #17 Ford Fusion! This is part of a weekly drawing for a photo of that week's current points leader's car, Jayemd (talk) 07:59, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Patna

Hi Yann,

I noticed you made this page move. However, according to the ASI, the Patna circle is in Uttar Pradesh? Are we talking about different Patna's perhaps? effeietsanders 21:25, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I now also see you created a page with Varanasi in it. It is probably referring to the same circle? While I can imagine you think this is a better name, I was keeping the ASI nomenclature here on purpose. We need to stick here to what the source defined, I am afraid... (at least when it comes to defining the top level, we can cut it up further if necessary for practical reasons) effeietsanders 21:28, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm...
Well, Patna is not even in Uttar Pradesh, but it is the capital of the state of Bihar, so making it subdivision of Uttar Pradesh is very confusing, to say the least. Yann (talk) 06:54, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Yann,
I didn't make up those names myself, these are the names used by the authority :) Would perhaps a clarifying note at the top of the page help?
In any case, if I look at the locations in this circle, most of them are in the very east of Uttar Prasesh, and Patna is probably the biggest metropole in the area - even though it happens to be in Bihar? Please note that the monuments in the city Patna (and hence in Bihar) are actually on the Bihar list. The Bihar list is by the way also called 'Patna circle', so I suspect that for ASI intents and purposes the country used to be divided in these circles rather than states, and this circle happens to cross the state borders. So this naming seems to have grown historically, and is not so much proper. However, I don't see there is much choice but to follow their naming protocols since they are the authoritative source. Adding explanations to it would of course help. effeietsanders 09:36, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I moved this back. Yes, a note is needed. Yann (talk) 10:24, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Hope the added note is what you were looking for and clarifies. effeietsanders 21:19, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi

Image galleries are not meant for Wikipedia. Refer WP:IG.

Well, the guideline says the use of a gallery section may be appropriate in some Wikipedia articles if a collection of images can illustrate aspects of a subject that cannot be easily or adequately described by text or individual images, which fit perfectly with this case. I am open to discussion about how many and which images should be there, etc. Yann (talk) 03:23, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Such gallery can however be created on Commons and it's link can be presented here. I see that something on similar lines is present at Commons:Crafts Museum, New Delhi. That is a good place for such images. But why is at "Common:XYZ" and not simply "XYZ"? Galleries have direct names. eg: commons:Shahrukh Khan. Is this something different from gallery? §§AnimeshKulkarni (talk) 15:10, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It was first indented to inform about the partnership between Wikimedia and the Museum. As there is nothing about this, I moved the page to the main namespace. Another page could be created later about the partnership. Regards, Yann (talk) 03:23, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

POTD scheduling

Hi Yann,

Thanks for scheduling File:Potter at work, Jaura, India.jpg as POTD for September 27, 2012. However, please note that there is a long queue of pictures waiting their turn to appear (the wait time is about 18 months), and this picture just got promoted, so it's far too early for it show up. I make exceptions for anniversaries or other special days, or if this is your very first Featured Picture, but none of those applies, so I'm going to put it back in the queue. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 16:06, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I just choose the next empty slot. I am a bit surprised that slots are not filled up in advance, like it is done on Commons. Yann (talk) 16:11, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Maps of India

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Hi Yann; I'm currently a bit confused... English Wikipedia still says that the Internationale is copyrighted in France until 2017; however, with this edit in 2009 you said "PD in France now, war extensions no longer apply". Can you give some background on this? Would be very welcome... see also commons:Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Template:PD-Internationale. I stumbled upon this because of the expiration of the Colombian copyright term. Gestumblindi (talk) 00:01, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that the Internationale is in the public domain in France. This is a complicated case, as you can see in the discussion. When in doubt, I usually rely on the opinion of Carl Lindberg. Regards, Yann (talk) 08:44, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Requesting undeletion

I had provided proper license as well as permission information for File:Runa Laila.jpg, but still you deleted it? Check this link, the image was taken from the Hindu and they have made it copyright free.--Zayeem (talk) 15:24, 28 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Rosamund Lupton

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Wikilivres down

See here In the future, if there are technical issues with that site, whom should I contact and how? Does posting here or to User talk:Eclecticology get the job done? E-mail? Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:59, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Koavf: If the site is down, I can't do much. Eclecticology is in charge now. It was a temporary issue, the site is back. Regards, Yann (talk) 05:55, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

sa.wikipedia.org problem

@Yann: Hi ! I want to share some problems with you, because you are connected with sa.wikipedia.org. Our admin is neglecting us. Admin is not involving us in policy making process and when we are propose some requests, then also he don't even reply us. I and many other users of sa.wikipedia.org are felt helpless against our Admin. Please guide us in this problem. if you will not take it seriously, then in future it may be a big problem of sa.wikipedia.org. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NehalDaveND (talk • contribs)

@NehalDaveND: Thanks for your message. I resigned from my admin rights on the Sanskrit Wikipedia. I can't be everywhere. Regards, Yann (talk) 06:46, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@NehalDaveND: However I am still active on the Sanskrit Wikisource, and I need help here: s:sa:पुटम्:Chézy - Théorie du sloka ou mètre héroïque sanskrit.djvu/२६. Thanks in advance, Yann (talk) 12:54, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Odette Dulac wrong picture

Hello Yann,

I'm a contributor in French's Wikipedia, Odette Dulac's biographer and her descendent . I wanted to inform you that the photo that you put on the Odette Dulac's English page, represent in fact Jeanne Dulac (a homonym and also French artist). I thus took the initiative to remove that picture and to put back the good one both in the French and English version. I chose the caricature of Capello, because it symbolic of the period of the Belle Époque in Paris. On the other hand Odette Dulac explains in her memoirs how the caricature was made (according to a photo of Reutlinger, made during a session, the photo of which more low in the page made). You can make a visit on the site of the French national library (bnf.fr) and you will see other Odette Dulac's photos by Reutlinger. I would also like to translate my page in French into English because the English page contains errors and it is extremely simplified. Not being bilingual, could help me to advise in the writing in the Shakespeare's style? Thank a lot, Domlat — Preceding undated comment added 12:28, 3 September 2014 (UTC) ~~Domlat~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Domlat (talk • contribs) 12:22, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Domlat: Bonjour,
C'est un peu bizarre, parce que vous n'avez pas laissé de commentaires sur la raison pour laquelle vous aviez enlevé la photo de l'article. Aussi la source sur Flickr dit que c'est Odette Dulac. Vous devriez leur écrire. Et vous pouvez me laisser des messages en français. ;oD Cordialement, Yann (talk) 06:00, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some photos that might need emailed permission

Hi, the following images appear in the slideshow starting here. The comments on the pages suggest that the photos were published around about the same time as they were uploaded to Commons by Pranav21391:

At the news website, they are all attributed to "AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool". There are other photos in the slideshow that are attributed to other photographers and which have not been uploaded by Pranav21391. I've no idea if that user might be Maqbool, nor am I 100% sure how agency copyright works.

Photos uploaded shortly before this set contained EXIF data, eg: File:ISWK-Oman.jpg, but were taken several years before uploading. They are not great quality, which would be surprising for a professional photographer. As would the absence of EXIF data for the set listed above. Photos uploaded subsequent to the set all come from Flickr.

Any idea of the best way to deal with this? Do they need email verification? Are they automatically unacceptable because of the AP tag? Are they obviously copyvios? Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 17:56, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ARgh! I thought I was on Commons. I'll copy this over there. - Sitush (talk) 17:58, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You deserve a barnstar!

The India Star
Yann, this one is for your FP on the Taj Mahal. AshLin (talk) 14:05, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wonder

Yann, could you look into this matter, please? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Eugene_a#Source, I have a certain feeling that that painting is still not the one used. But it does matter, it is about the source of the painting. Hafspajen (talk) 15:34, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]


Problem?

It seems that the site doesn't work anymore: http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/ There is a notice: wikilivres.ca Domain Name Service (DNS) has been suspended... from the domain because of overdue payment. Interesting, is it forever?... Dmitrismirnov (talk) 17:35, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Dmitrismirnov: Hopefully not. I am writing to Ray, to ask what's happening. Regards, Yann (talk) 18:25, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Dmitrismirnov: I got an answer from Ray, who said that it should be fixed soon... Yann (talk) 09:16, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It is a good news. Thanks!!! Dmitrismirnov (talk) 16:42, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Lucia!

Happy Saint Lucia's day!

"Good Morning" Yann:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia!
13 December is the day when WE, THE Swedes perplex the rest of the world by showing up way too early in the morning dressed in white tunics, candles in their hair, singing and bringing saffron buns and breakfast in bed to nice people. Hope you have a bright day! Hafspajen (talk) 10:09, 13 December 2014 (UTC) [reply]

Best wishes for a happy holiday season

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Hi Yann- I don't believe these images belong in the gallery for the counterfeit article. It is my understanding that counterfeiting requires that the fake object be a direct copy/forgery of an existing real piece of currency. Neither of these images in any way resembles real US currency, making these more like fantasy notes (and seemingly part of some greater conspiracy theory).--Godot13 (talk) 22:24, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Files

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_uploaded_by_Giubbotto_non_ortodosso <--- is not true — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giubbotto non ortodosso (talk • contribs) 19:24, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Giubbotto non ortodosso: Hi,
If you have objections, you can ask for undeletion on c:COM:UDR. Regards, Yann (talk) 08:41, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish Civil War, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Isthisuseful (talk) 22:19, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Doris Day infobox photo

Please note my comment on the talk page. Thanks.--Arxiloxos (talk) 18:35, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help

Hello! Yann Please can you provide me the IPA pronunciation of the name Surbhi Jyoti. Regards Rishika.dhanawade (talk) 18:20, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It seems somebody else did it. ;o) Yann (talk) 08:37, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]