User talk:Isewell

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Hello, Isewell, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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P.S.: Please only add externeral links that are directly relevent to the specific topic of the article-- for example don't put a link to a general gallery of various places in a country in an article about a specific city. Also thank you for uploading Image:KsarOuledSultane.jpg; could you please add information on the image page as to the source of the photo (eg, did you take it or someone else) and the copyright status of the image; see Wikipedia:Images and Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for info on taking care of this. Thanks! -- Infrogmation 14:31, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] External links

Sorry if I caused any personal offence by removing those links. I saw that similar ones had already been removed from Maldives, Hurtigruten, etc. (something appears to have happened on Cairo, but I'm not sure what). So I had a look at the Luxor photos (the "complex" version didn't want to work in my browser) and, in with a some nice pics of the ruins, there were a lot of "personal" photos. Considering that mix of photos, and the title you gave to the link, I honestly didn't think it was appropriate, in an "encyclopaedic" sense. The fact the links were added by an anon (not logged-in) account also didn't help first impressions: so many geographical articles are routinely subjected to spamming in their external link sections. There, I've been honest; I don't whether I've succeeded in explaining my reasoning, don't know whether you'll agree with it, but I do hope no personal offence has been taken. (And, yes, your hotel looked like a dump; next time try here.) Why don't you pick out a couple of the really good photos, upload them, and use them to illustrate the article(s)? –Hajor 16:22, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, and the explanation about getting anon'ed. Your suggestion: noted. We don't appear to have firm guidelines about such things, but it's worth a try. This place can be very unequal: you can get stuff past on some pages, some days, and get stonewalled on others at other times. All depends if there's a zealot watching. In any event, Luxor could certainly use some general pics of the city, and probably a paragraph or two about the modern town, if you're in the mood. I also floated a policy question on this at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard, right at the bottom under "travel guide". Please take a look; many minds wiser than two, and all that. Cheers, –Hajor 21:48, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

OK, go for it. I'll certainly be less quick about reverting you. I also read your travelogue -- heh, I stayed at the Cairo Lotus in October; fun place, and very well located. And I also had a lousy cruise experience -- scruffy, no air-conditioning, overpriced; ugh. Cheers, –Hajor 19:53, 13 May 2005 (UTC) Postscript -- are you on Wikitravel? Strikes me that a lot of your stuff would be very à propos for that site.

[edit] Pictures

Hello Ian. You may be interested to add the great pictures of your collection to other Hong Kong-related articles, say, the articles on the harbour, the skyscrapers, the islands and the nature. The main article about Hong Kong is too crowded with pictures already. :-) — Instantnood 20:49, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image

Hi, the very nice Image:KsarOuledSultane.jpg just says "fair use" which is deprecated, and doesn't mention a license. My guess from your other uploads is that you want "cc-by", but you have to add it yourself. Thanks! Stan 02:31, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Luxor Floating Hotels.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Luxor Floating Hotels.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

dbenbenn | talk 00:04, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Also Image:Luxor Market Street.jpg. dbenbenn | talk 00:15, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

Hi,

Sorry I never talked to you, I guess I just forget. Please take the time to read Wikipedia:Spam#External_link_spamming. You're more than welcome to upload the images, but spamming articles is seen as an attempt to promote your website. Regardless of what your intentions are, we want you to upload the images instead of adding external links. Wikipedia is all about content. —Khoikhoi 23:42, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, I don't mind you adding links, but when it gets to be the same website at 10-20 pages, it gets too much. See what I'm saying? Also, the Wikimedia Commons could really use some of your images. If you upload them there then all the Wikipedias could use them, not just the English one. —Khoikhoi 01:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm not going after you, that page has been on my watchilst for a long time. You can re-add the link if you want, however, as stated in {{spam}}, people are encouraged to add content instead of external links. I didn't remove your photo, I removed the link to your website.
Just please promise me that you won't add the link to your website on every page you visit, as it's against policy. I'm sorry to have caused you stress. —Khoikhoi 20:38, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
No problem, you might also try uploading your images to the Wikimedia Commons, as so your images can be used on on other language Wikipedias as well. Cheers. —Khoikhoi 21:19, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fabby pics! For commons, please!

I'm sooooo jealous! I've been coming and going from Africa since I was a kid, and lived in Botswana, and I've only ever seen two leopards and heard one (the last while out on foot). No fair! :-)

But what I actually wanted to say is, could you possibly re-upload your gorgeous pics to Wikipedia Commons? That way, everyone gets to use them, including Wikispecies. Someone has already re-uploaded your Image:Nile.jpg there, but as you can see has had to add a reference back to your en.wiki upload. If you upload your own, life is simpler for other users and you can give a good description of What and Where -- useful in 10 years' time when people are still using your pics!

Uploading to Commons will also solve the probs I see you've had with orphaned pics and worries about spamming. As long as you're uploading good stuff, Commons will welcome it with open arms. It will need categorising so people can find it, but I can help with that (I do a lot of work on commons:category:Okavango Delta, for example). Commons:First steps is very helpful, but if you have any questions I'm happy to help where I can.

And using Commons pics in an article works exactly the same as using English Wikipedia pics: just put [[Image:Nile.jpg|thumb|right|Caption]], and it will be called from Commons.

Please carry on contributing: I feel your pics are a real plus for the Wikimedia projects -- and they mean I can stop uploading my crappy ones of the same subjects! :-) JackyR | Talk 13:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bad name stuff

OK, I take back what I implied about changing bad pic names. It has been borne in upon me, the hard way, that your camera's automatic naming is a really, really bad way to name pics on Commons. Because everyone else's camera uses the same system, and they upload their pic and it overwrites yours. So before it happens to you, copy all the info from your old Commons pic files, re-upload the material into good names and paste in your info. And list the old names as {{badname|''New name of pic''}}. *sigh* Love your latest of the mud buildings, tho. Cheers, JackyR | Talk 20:33, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

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