User talk:W.carter

Gray Jay again

Little Gray Jay says “Thank you” :–)

Dear Cart,

thank you again for your thoughts and hints about the Gray Jay image by Serena-Wilderness! I tried to improve the image, but your careful additional editing has given it the final touch.

I am sorry that I did not appreciate your very instructive input in the appropriate way. I wanted to reconstruct your editing with my own version of the image in order to understand fully what you have done, but never found the time. Sorry for this ungrateful behavious. Today I came again about that file. I have uploaded your version right over my one because in every respect it is an important improvement. I hope the hints in the {{Retouched}} template are sufficient and appropriate – just improve them if you want, please.

I really like that this photo now has – besides the photographer – two authors of the derivative version: IMHO this nicely symbolizes the cooperative approach we should strive for on Commons. Thank you again and all the best, Roman / – Aristeas (talk) 07:43, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

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Figurines gallery links

Thank you very much, Cart, for fixing the gallery links for the two new Calavera nominations! While we are at this topic, shouldn’t we also move this Calavera FP and these Porcelain figurines from the “Objects#Ceramics” gallery to the “Figurines and statuettes” section? Best, – Aristeas (talk) 09:14, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Aristeas, sounds fine to me. Always tweaks and sorting to be done. :-) --Cart (talk) 09:19, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

 Done Thank you! – Aristeas (talk) 10:30, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations to POTY place 31!

#31 in 2023: Sideview of contracted bluefire jellyfish in Brofjorden at Sandvik 2

Dear Cart, congratulations to place 31 in the POTY 2023 results! Indeed #31 is a great result when we consider that your photo has outdone more than 1000 other excellent photos. All the best, Roman / – Aristeas (talk) 17:04, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Aristeas! The little critter did well. :-) I'll go down to the fjord and tell its relatives that the little jelly is now famous. --Cart (talk) 17:09, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Convey my greetings when you do that - congratulation, this is a wonderful success for such a jellyfish! Kritzolina (talk) 20:24, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Dobbe gallery link question

Dear Cart, this nomination uses the gallery link Commons:Featured pictures/Objects#Other objects in landscapes. But in this case I think the object, namely the dobbe (pond), is an integral part of the landscape, so IMHO the gallery link should be just Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural#Netherlands. What do you think? Thank you, – Aristeas (talk) 10:41, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Aristeas, I think you are right, although I thought that the 'object' was the fence. Otherwise my own photo is in the wrong gallery. :-) --Cart (talk) 11:06, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, Cart, I have changed the gallery link. Yes, just as Eine Schwalbe macht noch keinen Frühling (German proverb), a bird or even many birds do not turn a landscape into Object[s] in landscapes ;–). Best, – Aristeas (talk) 11:18, 19 November 2024 (UTC)