User talk:Jappalang

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Image/soundfile queries

Hi, I'm glad you seem to be in action again, perhaps only momentarily. However, I am currently engaged on a big Gustav Mahler project, and I wonder if you can help me with a couple of image and soundfile problems, bearing in mind how useful your assistance has been in the past, on similar matters:-

• Alma Mahler: Neither of the two Commons files File:Alma 1900.jpg and File:Alma 1909 portrait.jpg have source details, and the licences are plainly nonsense. I am certain that both of these photographs would have been published prior to 1923; do you have any suggestions as to how I can find the details?
• In my search for soundfiles I have been directed to Archive.org, and in particular to this and this and more here. Are these files really PD? And do you know how can ogg soundfiles be created from them?

I realise your time is limited and you may not get to this, but thanks anyway. Best wishes, Brianboulton (talk) 11:18, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Why were the Mortal Kombat Ninjas Pictures deleted?

They didn't seem to do any harm... Sincerely Subzerosmokerain (talk) 03:14, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh, Okay. Thanks. :D Subzerosmokerain (talk) 13:49, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Battle of Dürenstein FAC

Hi, two very experienced editors, Ruhrfisch and JN, have taken a look and given their support (after I addressed some of their comments). I also added a map to make the location problems clearer. Would you check to see if your concerns are addressed and you're comfortable with the article now? Auntieruth55 (talk) 22:23, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

I do not like the way the bibliography and citations now appear. I find this very hard to read and use, and I never do it this way. You've complete changed the citations, including using named refs for none sequential refs. I really am upset about this. Auntieruth55 (talk) 16:40, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Hmm ... if I can help out here, Auntieruth55 has a system whereby she provides full publication details in the first citation of a source, and uses short refs for subsequent occurrences. I don't know many Wikipedians who handle their refs this way, but it's a common system in academic publishing, and perfectly logical once you understand the principle. It's passed muster at FAC in a number of her FAs before. --JN466 19:15, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

	<font=3> Thanks for all your help with the Battle of Dürenstein! Sorry to be such a nuisance about the citations, etc. Your images are terrific! Auntieruth55 (talk) 17:28, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks JN. Jappalang, I do appreciate your help with the article. Your suggestions (except for this one), have been very to the point, and have improved what was, I thought, a very good article, to an even better very good article. I apologize if I sounded testy. I work hard on the citations to make them precise, and to achieve a level of verifiability, and document their reliability. Your contributions to the pictures, to fixing the table, and to making that map look as good as it now does were much needed, and your insistence on another editor with a more powerful prose editing style (such as JN and Ruhrfisch), definitely helped to improve the article. So please bear with me on the citations, and thanks for all your efforts. Auntieruth55 (talk) 15:02, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

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Licensing question - English Wiki vs Commons

I would like to illustrate an article on English Wikipedia with a picture from a book published in France in 1911. The book's French author died in 1945. Because the author died less than 70 years ago I believe that the book is still under copyright in France, and I'm therefore not allowed to upload a scanned image to Commons. But am I allowed to upload the picture to English Wikipedia given that the publication date is before 1923? Aa77zz (talk) 07:56, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Many thanks for your reply. Aa77zz (talk) 08:54, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax

Hi, I have reviewed Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax and placed it on hold for seven days with a few (very minor) concerns. You can see my review here: Talk:Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax/GA1. Canadian Paul 01:18, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Gustav Mahler

If I can catch you during one of your "on" times, would you mind looking at the images in the Mahler article, now at Peer Review? I think they are mainly OK but I'd like to have any potential problems identified. I've not made any progess with the soundfile search, but that can wait for the moment. Thanks, Brianboulton (talk) 18:44, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Update: You gave me your informal view that the 16 Mahler images were all OK and correctly licensed. The article is now at FAC; in view of the shortage of image reviewers now patrolling FAC, if you have a spare moment for Wiki would it be possible to report that information there? I'd be most grateful. Brianboulton (talk) 16:11, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Tourette syndrome

Jappalang, are you able to help with this and this? I don't know what needs to be done next to move it into the "Characteristics" section of the article. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:36, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Second opinion on non-free images in FA review

Hello, 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final is currently under FA review and a concern has been raised that one or both of the non-free images used in the article (File:LHUSOpenCupLogo.png and File:SoundersUSOpenCup.jpg) are in violation of WP:NFCC. The editor who's raised the concerns has not elaborated on them. I've replied to the conerns with my own thinking in the FA review and pinged the editor directly with no replies. User:SandyGeorgia has suggested that your unbiased second opinion would be very helpful. Thank you for your help on this. --SkotyWA^T_C 19:21, 24 April 2010 (UTC)