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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Trinity nuclear test, 1945

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Trinity explosion2.jpeg, 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. MER-C 09:31, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers. And well done yourself on finding that bigger version and getting it up there. It did amazingly well. --jjron (talk) 09:09, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Historic images

Thanks for uploading some interesting historic images! If you haven't already, I suggest you check out Wikimedia Commons. For free licensed images (such as old public domain/US government images, etc) you can upload them directly there. Why? They will then be availible not only here on the English language Wikipedia, but also for Wikipedias in other languages, other Wikimedia projects, etc-- and putting them into any article here on the English language Wikipedia is still just as easy; do exactly the same as if it was uploaded here. Commons also has categories and galleries, allowing useful images to be found in multiple ways. Check it out, and let me know if I can be of help. Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 06:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree! It saves a lot of effort having to reload them! Philly jawn (talk) 16:43, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, guys. I'm now uploading all new PD images to Commons -- Pete Tillman (talk) 20:26, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Trinity and Brixner

I just called up his daughter and asked her for information. I did that for about a dozen people so far. Its a lot easier than combing though archives to get a day and place of birth. Once you have the info its easier to confirm with a Google search, no one has refused to talk yet. I can't even get my own family members to cooperate on family history, so its nice when others do it. Have you ever cold called someone? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 17:27, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

TUSC token 64587bbede7c9e72dad9a261e031f445

I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!

Planchas de Plata (etc)

Thanks for your additions to the mining articles. I have never been to Planchas de Plata myself. A friend and I made a half-hearted stab at it years ago, but we could not find our way over the dirt roads from Nogales. It would be fun to see it. Plazak (talk) 21:10, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification

Hi Pete,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Trinity explosion2.jpeg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 26, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-11-26. howcheng {chat} 06:16, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great image uploading

Thanks for putting the new image in George Harrison. I had a look at what else you have done, and see that you have been responsible for tracking down and uploading some fine images. I would second the comment above that many of the images you upload would be useful at Commons, and that it would be helpful to upload new images there, and to seriously consider moving some of your existing 'pedia images over there. Though on Commons the images must be free use - usable by everyone, so more care needs to be exercised on what is allowable. Anyway - keep up the good work!

I've given you a Wiki award which you may display on your user page! SilkTork *^YES! 14:22, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 14:30, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback

Hi, I've given you rollback. Remember only to use it for blatant vandalism, and revert manually when the edit is in good faith. You can test it out here. I also suggest you warn vandals with vandal warning templates. If you have any questions, please ask. Cheers, bibliomaniac 1 5 02:20, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Art images

Wow, kudos to you for all the images added! I confess that I haven't really figured out WikiCommons - it's not as user-friendly as Wikipedia proper. I know low-rez images of art can be used as non-free fair use images, but haven't quite figured out the rules, so I stick to photos I've taken of public art or art in museums that allow photography. Michael Kabotie's passing is just shocking, since he was so active beforehand. Now that I think about it, there's a John Hoover sculpture that I have access too. Have a good evening! -Uyvsdi (talk) 07:31, 18 November 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi[reply]

Regarding the Annie Antone image, as long as the image is low-rez (i.e. no one could replicate her design based on a photograph), I believe it would be regarded as your photograph of a 3-D art form. I'd suggest uploading the file at Wikimedia Commons. The photograph would be "entirely your own work." For permission you could put it into public domain by typing in: "{ { pd-self } }" (without the spaces). For anything before 1923, I enter "{ { pd-old } }" (also without the spaces) for the permission. Hope this helps! The Heard would be a good spot to photo more artists. Cheers, Uyvsdi (talk) 17:32, 18 November 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi[reply]

Thanks for the tips. Too bad I'm such a rotten photographer. Usually, if I don't forget the camera entirely, the batteries have gone dead.

Lo-res, eh? Well, I could use the phone-cam! Too bad I have absolutely no clue as to how to export fotos from the phone....

Hmm. Actually, this computer has a webcam, which actually is (sort of) easy to use. I could try that for in-house art fotos. Hmm² --Pete Tillman (talk) 18:01, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Harrison Begay

Nice job! I encourage you to do more. Still quite a few redlinks on that page. Even initiating a stub is productive. I urge caution in linking to commercial pages explicitly selling items. Amerindianarts (talk) 06:47, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! It's surprising how many first-rate artists don't yet have Wikipages. OTOH, it takes a lot of work to put together a decent one (as I just rediscovered). Good projects for bad-weather days.

I'll only link to commercial galleries when I can't find a decent noncommercial one -- and then only to low-pressure ones. But I take your point. Best, Pete Tillman (talk) 18:43, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Curator Barnstar

		The Curator Barnstar
		Thanks for locating all these historical images and writing fair use rationale for them as well! Uyvsdi (talk) 22:01, 8 February 2010 (UTC)Uyvsdi[reply]

Gadsden hotel

Hi Mr. Tillman, This is Robin Brekhus, The manager of the Gadsden for 22 years and I'm in a social networking class and checked out the Hotel on Wikipedia,(I didn't even know we were on there!), and I can't thank you enough for adding the photos and links to the Gadsden! It is wonderful. Once again, THANKS! If you're ever back in Douglas, stop in and I'll buy you a drink! Robin Brekhus robin@hotelgadsden.com

Thanks for the star

And all the great contributions I see you have made. :) Unomi (talk) 05:56, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hockey Stick

Glad to see an experienced editor take a look at this article. Good luck! David.Kane (talk) 18:11, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'm going to try to do this without stirring up the controversy that usually goes with editing climate-change articles. I hope... --Pete Tillman (talk) 18:22, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

		The Thank You Barnstar
		Thanks for being the first person to award The Geology Barnstar. It's the first barnstar I've made, and I was nervous about it. Gyrobo (talk) 01:25, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 20:29, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notable artistsIf you ever feel brave, try tackling List of Native American artists. I tried to get people from the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America to look at it, but no one would. It's a complete mess! Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 23:07, 15 June 2010 (UTC)Uyvsdi[reply]Heh. I'm mostly doing mineral photos lately -- see these for some teasers. Great stuff. Who needs artists? Best, Pete Tillman (talk) 23:26, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]=Category:Shinkolobwe MineThank you very much for these nice photographs of uranium minerals. Appreciated, :-), Cheers, Shinkolobwe (talk) 19:34, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]Tillmann's itAs u r the only one of the Wikiprojekt Geology with a mineral name (Tillmannsite (Ag₃Hg)(V,As)O₄), I thought u might want to create the article :D cheers --Chris.urs-o (talk) 04:10, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]Thanks! New one to me... Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 15:28, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]Plato vs. WomenI've just reviewed the discussion about ejecting Jo Clayton's musings. Whilst not assigned the weight of Hegel and so forth, nonetheless her remarks or something similar would have some merit. This article is lacking in tart responses from women impatient with male blathering. To take a New Zealand comparison, a famous book was Barry Crump's A Good Keen Man, which became a bloke's icon: later there appeared Jean Watson's Stand in the Rain, which contained aspects of her marriage with Mr. Crump and a rather different image of Crumpy resulted... Certainly NZ sheilas chortle about it - there appears to be a women's network sharing their amusement at the pretensions of the blokes, but only occasionaly do they let slip their cover. Offhand though, I don't know of any woman's remarks on Plato being assigned high status. So we're stuck with philosophers muttering through their beards. NickyMcLean (talk) 21:52, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]Thanks for the note. Nit: Jo Walton. Best, Pete Tillman (talk) 15:31, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject ArizonaIt was recently suggested that WikiProject Arizona, to which you are a member, may be inactive or semiactive and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there haven't been much active discussion on the talk page in some time and the only content updates appear to be simple maintenance so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. I have begun a discussion on the projects talk page to see how the members of the project feel about this suggestion. Another user has added the project to the WPUS template and I added it to the list of supported projects in the WPUS main project page but before I take any further action I wanted to contact each of the active members for their input. --Kumioko (talk) 22:54, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]HelloFile:SycCanAz.jpgHello, if I understand correctly, you uploaded this picture (at right) of Sycamore Canyon, Az. I was just wondering, is this photo of the Sycamore canyon in Santa Cruz County or the other one? I am creating an article now about a historical event which occurred in the canyon and I would like to use this picture, but only if it is the right Sycamore Canyon. Thanks.--$1LENCE D00600D (talk) 10:27, 21 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]Thanks anyway--$1LENCE D00600D (talk) 21:15, 21 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]"Proposal 2"Perhaps it would best if you clarified which proposal you referred to in "I don't think Proposal 2 is a good idea." Mine or the one of User:NewsAndEventsGuy? Because I never proposed to remove people like Dyson, only to add some brief description of what happened after the skeptic made his views public. In Dyson's case there's a hint of that in his biography here: "Dyson is well-aware that his "heresy" on global warming has been strongly criticized. In reply, he notes that "[m]y objections to the global warming propaganda are not so much over the technical facts, about which I do not know much, but it’s rather against the way those people behave and the kind of intolerance to criticism that a lot of them have."" This is why I put the heading "stricter proposal" on top of NewsAndEventsGuy's text. [Feel free to copy this message to the talk page there, if you think it's more appropriate.] Have mörser, will travel (talk) 00:29, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]Thanks for the note. I was opposing the "Stricter proposal", and will clarify there. This is a rather confusing RfC! Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 03:34, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]UHIThis [1] surprises me. Since you've read it, can you say what source he gives for this claim? William M. Connolley (talk) 17:17, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]Hi, WMC. Surprised me a bit, too. It's not cited in the text --not much is, which is a bit frustrating. I just checked the publisher's companion website, assuming I'd find endnotes there, but no joy. Perhaps I'll drop him a line -- I picked up his textbook after greatly enjoying his Plows, Plagues and Petroleum. Best, Pete Tillman (talk) 21:00, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]And see KDP's note at [2], which seems to settle the matter. --Pete Tillman (talk) 21:50, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]Yes. I was going to remove the claim, as just implausible - I can't think of anything he could have cited to justify such a claim. But R is more of a palaeo / GHG person, not an instrumental T record person; so his opinion shouldn't be given much if any weight William M. Connolley (talk) 10:17, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]MoncktonHey pete how goes it? I just removed a load of OR from Moncktons article, and the same with Joanne Nova. Can you keep an eye on them please? I will get reverted as scibaby obviously lmao. 188.227.160.244 (talk) 20:02, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]