User talk:Jjron/Archive 7

The Man from Ironbark

Thank you so much for posting a link to that poem; I enjoyed reading it immensely, though in truth, my "flowing beard is all the go" not due to any dangers of shaving, but simply because I enjoy the shadow it casts. Cheers. -- ToE 11:59, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I really like it too. We 'studied' it way back in primary school and I've always enjoyed it; Banjo Paterson has some good work. Cheers, --jjron (talk) 08:48, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261 Report on coordinators' elections Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives Guild Plans for 2012 Requests page report Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012! – Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

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Email

You have email on your wiki account's address. JJ Harrison (talk) 23:50, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Ta. --jjron (talk) 14:49, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Will you take a look...

at the heart diagram nomination? I meant to ask you to do that a few days ago, but I forgot. Since you had some concerns during the original nomination, I'd like to know if they're addressed to your satisfaction. The nomination looks like it will pass regardless, but I'd appreciate it if you could take a quick look. Thanks! Makeemlighter (talk) 01:27, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Personally I can't see that it's much different in terms of the thickness of the ventricle walls, etc, but seems to be well supported. I really don't like the right ventricle looking so much bigger than the left, but looks like that's got the nod. Also left a note on the pending promotion re the left atrium disappearing when you click through the image page. --jjron (talk) 15:31, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

I found the author of the photographic reproduction that you were worried about. cheers --Guerillero | My Talk 01:09, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/St Kilda Town Hall

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:St Kilda Town Hall, jjron, 23.10.2011.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Makeemlighter (talk) 10:59, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. --jjron (talk) 11:49, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Brian Nankervis

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Brian Nankervis 1, 2011, jjron NR.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Makeemlighter (talk) 11:01, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. --jjron (talk) 11:50, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Which vantage point?

Hi! Regarding File:Melbourne General Cemetery, Melbourne, Aust, jjron, 25.01.10.jpg, I really like it and am curious which vantage point was the photo taken from?--Commander Keane (talk) 07:24, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Replied at user's talkpage. --jjron (talk) 11:47, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/USS Arizona after attack on Pearl Harbor

Hello, I'm confused by your votes, if I'm correct here you opposed the edited version and voted to keep the current FP but you also voted to delist here. I've uploaded a new version and tried to fix the problems that you've mentioned, please see how is it, thank you. Thanks.   ■ MMXX  ^talk  01:46, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Replied at user's talkpage. --jjron (talk) 09:26, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

I've replied at my talk page, please also see Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Arizona in New York, thank you.   ■ MMXX  ^talk  01:00, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification

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Cheers, yep, should have specified Swans. Fixed now. --jjron (talk) 13:17, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Brian Nakervis Photo in Wikipedia

Hi Jon, I am promoting a comedy show as Brian is one of the artists I am wondering if I could use this photo of Brian. My email is <removed>. Thanks, Greg D.

Replied via email (and removed email address to reduce chances of email harvesting or spam). --jjron (talk) 09:57, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

FPC Feedback

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Everest from Drukair

Hi, I've uploaded a tilt-corrected version of the nominated image File:Mount Everest as seen from Drukair2.jpg. As you have already voted at the nomination (linked above), could you please give some feedback or show a preference between the original file and the new file? Thanks. Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:55, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Done. FWIW I can't tell much diff between the two tilt corrected edits and can't be bothered analysing them in detail to decide, so whichever is OK with me. --jjron (talk) 05:47, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

"why in the bh was this done as a pano?"

Err... cos everybody has a first time! (I've never nominated anything for FP before, and I wasn't entirely sure what was expected as that juncture.) ;) --Mais oui! (talk) 12:10, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

You coulda changed it when you saw it looked wrong was probably more the point. ;) Actually it was more that I only just changed another one that was incorrectly done as a pano, so I was 'grrr-ing'. :) --jjron (talk) 12:35, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

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And sometimes we just don't bother to check these bleeding obvious links. Just goes to show you can't be too careful. Fixed now. --jjron (talk) 03:39, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Floury Baker cicada concerns

Hi. Since you initially raised the issue with this nomination, will you make a note whether your concerns have been addressed? The nomination looks to be a pass with three users' support contingent on that issue. Thanks. Makeemlighter (talk) 21:57, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

• I'm talking about this nomination, by the way. Makeemlighter (talk) 21:58, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
  • Cheers. Have made a comment at the nom. I wasn't explicitly conditional, but a firm conclusion would be good. This is where we see the difference between Commons and WP. --jjron (talk) 13:23, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March copy edit drive

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Myiagra rubecula - Australian National Botanic Gardens.jpg

An image edited by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Myiagra rubecula - Australian National Botanic Gardens edit1.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Makeemlighter (talk) 00:38, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. --jjron (talk) 12:44, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Hemerocallis Lilioasphodelus.jpg

Hi JJ, thank you for warning me. I had not been warned of the discussion. I have little time now, I'll do some more research tomorrow, I just wanted to tell you I'm convinced it is Hemerocallis l., from the research I did about flowers found in Venezuela. I found out H. sp. is commonly exported and breeds throughout the world. My picture shows a cultivated flower of a little town I visited. I found out lilioasphodelus is one of the most common Hemerocallis in Venezuela and did a lot of comparisons among H. flowers. The only one coinciding with my specimen was lilioasphodelus. I can't be sure 100%, but it would be nice if you guys don't delist it already, because most probably it is well identified. I even have Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus at home in my garden, they are pretty common here. I will try to provide proof that it is the correct species tomorrow. Thank you very much for the warning, I appreciate it. Have a good day. Regards, --Paolo Costa 06:14, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graphs Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far. Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Jesse Owens

Hi JJ, I was wondering if you would like to comment at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Jesse Owens1.jpg to clarify if you still intend to use your vote as a full support. With bolded !votes, the count is currently 4.5 S to 0 O Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:42, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Done. Not totally convinced by the quality per my comments there, but it's too late to change my vote, and we've got plenty worse. --jjron (talk) 14:40, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks for weighing in. I agree, there are some featured images which are a bit lacking. Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:33, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gippsland Water Dragon (P. l. howittii)

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Aust Gippsland Water Dragon, Physignathus lesueurii howittii, MRNP, jjron, 13.02.2012.jpg , was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 10:29, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. --jjron (talk) 07:50, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March drive wrap-up

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Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months. Progress report During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators. Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (Talk), Stfg (Talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. EdwardsBot (talk) 22:06, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May copy edit drive

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Use of an image

Hi Jjron - Could I possibly request a hi res image of the picture you took of an Eastern Long Necked Turtle, it's for a youth science/educational magazine called Flipside

File:Eastern Long-neck-Turtle-with-algae,-Vic,-3.1.2008.jpg

Could you advise us on costs and terms

It's quite urgent

Mank thanks

D. Shadrake; dshadrake(at)theiet.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.1.186.251 (talk) 09:18, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi, sorry, I've been travelling and haven't been on Wikipedia in a couple of months. Not sure if this is too late now.

If you are able to log in with a basic account (takes about 30secs to create) you'll be able to get a link to email me if you want, which may be easier. Unfortunately I'm not carrying all my photos with me on the road, but will be back with them by the weekend if that's not too late.

Depending on usage (size of image as it will be used, distribution of publication, etc), if it's for commercial purposes people have paid anything up to $500 for whatever usage you intend (not to purchase the copyright or resale rights though). If you're talking fairly small scale usage it could be considerably less. For non-profit educational or personal use I don't usually charge at all. Perhaps easier to negotiate if you could email me.

Cheers, jjron.

GOCE May mid-drive newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 49 people signed up for this drive so far, 26 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive, largely due to the efforts of Lfstevens and the others on the leaderboard. Thanks to all. We have reduced our target group of articles—January, February, and March 2011—by over half, and it looks like we will achieve that goal. Good progress is being made on the overall backlog as well, with over 500 articles copy-edited during the drive so far. The total backlog currently sits at around 3200 articles. Hall of Fame: GOCE coordinator Diannaa was awarded a spot in the GOCE Hall of Fame this month! She has copy-edited over 1567 articles during these drives, and surpassed the 1,000,000-word mark on May 5. On to the second million! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 14:30, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May drive wrap-up

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Los Angeles

I've seen several FPC noms from you in the Los Angeles area. Are you living here now, or was that just a vacation? If you're in town in ten days' time, I invite you to come to the Los Angeles Wikinic, which I'm organizing. —howcheng {chat} 22:36, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

No, sorry, was only in LA for three days in late March, before moving on to San Fran and then across to the south and the east coast until early May. You'll probably get to see some of those pics too at FPC. ;) I'm sometimes surprised given the population over there, and I must say even the number of people I saw with decent cameras as I travelled, how there can be a lack of good photos of even notable places at times on WP. I'm now back at home (and back at work). Thanks for the offer though. Cheers, --jjron (talk) 08:32, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Re: FPC

You should really just take a deep breath and realize that there aren't people out to get you, just people trying to uphold the rules. You seem to be getting way too upset over this. We didn't make copyright law, we just try to obey it as best we can. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 15:40, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Please revisit the situation and try to actually understand it. As is, based on this sort of nonsense behaviour, I am reconsidering any further contributions of my work to Wikimedia/Wikipedia. --jjron (talk) 14:22, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Walt Disney Concert Hall 2012

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GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive

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Photo usage

Hi, I've been working on a small game built around animal quizzes and I wanted to let you know I've used one of your pictures.

I found your picture here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:07._Camel_Profile,_near_Silverton,_NSW,_07.07.2007.jpg

And I attributed the picture like this: John O'Neill with this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jjron and also added a link to the license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

I hope you're happy with it, please let me know if this is not the case. You can find the game here: http://apps.facebook.com/animalalbum Or through here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AnimalAlbum/156339584490672

Kind regards, Garfunkel Jansen (talk) 21:52, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

P.S. Thanks for taking the picture and making it available.

Looks to be OK. Thanks for the notification. Regards, --jjron (talk) 14:24, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 mid-drive newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 25 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—May, June, and July 2011—by about 40%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 264 articles so far, to around 2500 articles. Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, your best copy-editing work of the month will be eligible for fabulous prizes! See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:39, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July drive wrap-up

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 45 people who signed up this drive, 31 have copy-edited at least one article. Lfstevens continues to carry most of the weight, having edited 360 articles and over a quarter of a million words already. Thanks to all who have participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, will be available early in August here. Progress report: We are once again very close to achieving in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog. Only 35 such articles remain at press time. The total backlog currently sits at under 2400 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We are just two articles away from completing all requests made before July 2012 (both are in progress). Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, you'll be able to submit your best copy-editing work for palaver, praise, and prizes. See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:03, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

GOCE news and September drive invitation

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GOCE September activities

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Photo Usage

Hello Mr. O'Neill,

I am interested in using the image located at http://commons.wikimedia.org wiki/File:10_Cable_Car_on_Hyde_St_with_Alcatraz,_SF,_CA,_jjron_25.03.2012.jpg in a soon-to-be-published non-fiction book set in Francisco. Please inform me of any and all applicable licensing regulations and/or fees associated with this usage and what steps I should take to expedite the process.

Thank you,

Stephen Poole — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrStiv (talk • contribs) 17:56, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi Stephen. Thanks for your request. As shown on the image page my images are licensed under the GFDL licensing. If you want less restrictive licensing we can negotiate terms. These vary depending on your usage (scope, personal/educational/commercial usage, etc). I most likely have this image available at a higher resolution too. If you'd like to email me to discuss this further please use the link on the left of this page, or try this link to the email form Special:EmailUser/Jjron. Regards, --jjron (talk) 14:35, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

GOCE mid-drive newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 19 have copy-edited at least one article, about the same as the last drive. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—August, September, and October 2011—by about 44%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 58 articles so far, to around 2600 articles. The biggest difference between this drive and the previous one is a stronger focus on large articles, so total word counts are still comparable. Don't forget about the Copy Edit of the Month contests! Voting for the August contest has been extended through the end of the month. You don't have to make a submission to vote! August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the discussion and voting stage until midnight September 30 (UTC). September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the submissions stage until midnight September 30 (UTC), when discussion and voting begin. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:04, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Sign painting FPC

Hi John. I see that the image you nominated at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sign painting was kept at the Commons deletion request. Rather than re-open the nomination, I'd prefer to close it and let you re-nominate. That will make the whole process a little neater. Is that okay with you? Cheers, Makeemlighter (talk) 22:48, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Well, I guess someone went ahead and re-opened it. Anyway, I hope all goes well in your life. Best, Makeemlighter (talk) 00:12, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi Makeem. Thanks for the notifications. Meh, I thought I withdrew that nomination when the trouble started. I doubt it has any chance of succeeding now. I have a few other existing images that I might nom at FPC some time if I get around to it, and just leave it at that, I'm not particularly fussed. As you may have noticed I haven't been participating at all around here. I may do a bit more editing at some point, but at this stage I probably won't be contributing any more images to Wikipedia. Cheers, --jjron (talk) 15:45, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sign painting

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Sign Painting, LA, CA, jjron 22.03.2012.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 09:00, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

GOCE September 2012 drive wrap-up

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 41 people who signed up this drive, 28 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing July, August, September and October 2011 from the backlog. This means that, for the first time since the drives began, the backlog is less than a year. At least 677 tagged articles were copy edited, although 365 new ones were added during the month. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2341 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 54 requests outstanding before September 2012 as well as eight of those made in September. Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the August 2012 competition, and prizes will be issued soon. The September 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The October 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 23:40, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Photo Use

Hello John, I am a freelance photo researcher working on obtaining images for an upcoming Travel and Leisure website slide show. Please note that this project is not educational but commercial. I would like to find out if you would be willing to let us license your image of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in LA, CA. The use would be for a slide show on Travel and Leisure.com's website running from October 19th through December 31. Would you be willing to let us license this image for a fee for this type of commercial use? It won't be used in print only online. The slide show is showing the favorite places to visit in four usa cities. I appreciate your help with my request. I wasn't able to connect with the PR office at the Music Center at the time of my production deadline, so I showed my client your image and it was selected. However, I understand if you don't want it used in this manner, but we can pay a fee and also show your photo credit online below the photo. Best regards, Paula Gillen, Photo Researcher www.gillenedits.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by GillenEdits (talk • contribs) 23:43, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

GOCE fall newsletter

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Fall Events from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events: The October 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best October copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC). Voting is in progress for the September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not. NEW!! In the week from Sunday 21 October to Saturday 27 October, we are holding a Project Blitz, in which we will copy edit articles tagged with {{copyedit}} belonging to selected project(s). For the first blitz, we'll start with WikiProject Olympics and WikiProject Albums and add more Projects to the blitz as we clear them. The blitz works much like our bimonthly drives, but a bit simpler. Everyone is welcome to take part, and barnstars will be awarded. November 2012 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in 2011 and to complete all requests placed before the end of October. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Blitz sign-up <<<         >>> Drive sign-up <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Message delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 19:17, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

POTD notification

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Hi John,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Alice Manfield - Guide Alice, Mt Buffalo, c1900-30, SLV.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 24, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-10-24. —howcheng {chat} 21:32, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. --jjron (talk) 10:14, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Matt Bomer Infobox photo consensus discussion

Hi. Your opinion is requested in this discussion.

If you're in an area that was affected by Hurricane Sandy, and are unable to reply, I hope that you have not suffered too greatly, and my best wishes go out to you. Nightscream (talk) 22:49, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Done. --jjron (talk) 12:23, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

POTD notification

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Hi John,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Victorian Police Motorcycle, Geelong, Aust, jjron, 30.9.2010.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 7, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-11-07. —howcheng {chat} 11:15, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Cheers. --jjron (talk) 13:09, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

POTD notification

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Hi John,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:The Horn Pano, Mt Buffalo Nat Pk, jjron, 1.4.2011.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 12, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-11-12. —howcheng {chat} 07:18, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. --jjron (talk) 12:13, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank You for the Wikipedia Picture

Hello, My name is Duane Hurst and I recently made a free (non-commercial) English web site to share information with people. I added links to your Wikipedia/Wikimedia freeware picture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Everlastings_on_MtHotham_Vic.jpg). I also gave credit to you on my web pages for your work. Thank you for sharing with the public. My website is:

http://www.freeenglishsite.com/

I add pictures such as yours to one of the following major sections of my site: 1. World section - contains information and over 10,000 images of every world country and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/index.htm

2. USA section - contains information and images of every USA state and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/usa/index.htm

3. English section - "Mel and Wes" lessons in conversation format. Stories are located in various USA states and world countries such as China, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico and Thailand. Each lesson has many slang terms and idioms, which I link to my Slang Dictionary. This eventually will have over 5,000 terms. Currently, it has about 3,000 slang and idioms. I regularly add new lessons and slang terms. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/lessons/index.htm Slang Dictionary link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/slang/Eslang_a.htm

Prior to retirement, I taught English at several private and public universities in the United States.

Please share this free site with your friends. I hope all will enjoy the pictures and find the English information useful. Sincerely, Duane Hurst in Utah, USA

Email address: duanerhurst@freeenglishsite.com --65.130.202.239 (talk) 00:57, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the information Duane. Your site sounds interesting, and a real labour of love! Glad you could find a use for my picture. You are welcome to use any other pictures I have contributed too - just be aware many of them carry a GFDL license, which means they are still usable, but their reuse is more restrictive. If you contact me about the usage I will often be willing to provide you with less restrictive terms for no cost for a project such as you describe. Cheers, --jjron (talk) 13:47, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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Yep, done intentionally as that page actually has a definition of millennial as part of its link to millennium. --jjron (talk) 01:48, 1 January 2013 (UTC)