User talk:Jjron

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Australian Synchrotron entry

Although most of the changes which you made to the Australian Synchrotron wiki entry were productive (thanks for the photos), it seems that you are a little overconfident with your accelerator physics.

In particular, replacing the synchrotron radiation link with a link to radiation was not particularly useful. The entire purpose of the $200M facility is to produce synchrotron radiation. It is best to maintain a link to the synchrotron radiation wiki-entry. Yes, synchrotron radiation is a form of radiation but the term synchrotron radiation chracterises it more accurately.

Also, the booster is a synchrotron, unlike the storage ring where niether the magnetic field or the electric fields are varied. (Please refer to the article synchrotron which provides an adequate description).

Thanks, --Mjspe1 (talk) 01:15, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Reply here. Only just saw this misplaced comment. --jjron (talk) 08:43, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nectarine Fruit Development

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Nectarine Fruit Development.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! MER-C 07:46, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Delist template

Hey, good job! We can only wait the day when the software allows for the original nom and delist noms to be automatically transcluded! Pstuart84 Talk 18:43, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Help with my FPC Nomination

I noticed you put "NB" and then the credit for the original picture that I cropped. What does "NB" stand for? Elephantissimo (talk) 20:46, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Reply here. --jjron (talk) 14:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:tour

Hmm I could have sworn it was the final stage but looks like you're right. I'll change description. Not sure if it's worth re uploading with the new name, but I might after the nom is closed (one less page to update!) --Fir0002 06:23, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

User:Fir0002

Are you implying that frequency of occurrence makes a practice acceptable? It seems to me that leaving a comment citing the number of edits has a purpose. Why point it out if it's not meant to influence the readers of the debate? Clearly it is an attempt to suggest that the comments of a relatively new user are of less value, while providing no incite into the substance of the comment itself. Wikipedia is not an oligarchy. User:Fir0002 has nominated his own photo and is in this case shows a disregard for the opinions of other editors. Specifically, if you look at the comments he has left, they respond to the oppose !votes, with little substantive address of the reasons why his photos shouldn't be featured. He is neither acting in good faith, nor is he acting in a manner consistent with working towards consensus. He's not "Acknowledging differing principles and a willingness to reach consensus". I find it most unsettling that User:Fir0002 also seems to use wikipedia to promote his services as a photographer and explicitly requests financial support on his userpage. I'm trying to Act in Good Faith, but more and more his contributions seem to be spam. And as much as I can admire his skill and his contributions, he still appears to be a passive-aggressive bully. Anyway, can you really tell me that you think the composition is good in that image? Especially compared to User:Fir0002's other works, this is just okay, and definitely not wikipedia's best.Swimmtastic (talk) 03:29, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Replied here. --jjron (talk) 09:23, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

My Gallery

Hey jjron,

Here's a gallery of my images. Thanks for the help. Muhammad(talk) 17:33, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Replied here. --jjron (talk) 15:32, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for taking time to view the images. A user on commons also said the onion picture was good but slightly out of focus. I will see if I have any better image. Regarding the banana, some user at commons said the flash lighting "flattened the image", and as you say, complained about the background. Is it possible to apply a Gaussian blur in the background? I would appreciate it if you could look at the banana flower image at full size. Thanks for your help, regards Muhammad(talk) 16:31, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking time to do the edits. I prefer edit 2 over the others. I tried performing an edit myself. I guess its edit2 or 3 for me. What do you think? Muhammad(talk) 10:48, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I have nominated edit2 at FPC. Regards, Muhammad(talk) 07:38, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Murray-Darling Basin Pictures.

Mate starting a Facebook group for the Murray-Darling Basin, I saw your shot on here and wondering if there are anymore good pictures of the Murray you would be willing to give to the cause.

Please drop me a line on here if you are interested in helping out.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.133.84 (talk) 11:04, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I have a few more pics of the Murray, but not that much really. I have a few more at Wentworth (probably of the Darling actually), a few taken at Mildura and Red Cliffs, and a few at Euston from that particular trip. Can't think of much else I currently have of the Murray, I might have some down around Albury, but probably very little. Is there anything in particular you are looking for? --jjron (talk) 08:11, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Image:Brolga-1-Healesville,-Vic,-3.1.2008.jpg

A tag has been placed on Image:Brolga-1-Healesville,-Vic,-3.1.2008.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section I2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image page for a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Sdrtirs (talk) 03:13, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Zizina labradus butterfly

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Zizina labradus-Butterfly-on-Rose SC,-EG-Vic,-23.2.2008.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! pschemp | talk 12:56, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

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POTD

Hi John,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Brolga-1-Healesville,-Vic,-3.1.2008 edit.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 15, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-08-15. howcheng {chat} 23:41, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Cheers, --jjron (talk) 08:24, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Image:20070616 Chris Young visits Wrigley (4)-edit3.jpg

Hey, i saw you added {{NoCommons}} some time ago to the pic page. I'm just curious, why do you want it to still be available here? diego_pmc (talk) 17:47, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Reply here. --jjron (talk) 15:53, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Image you tagged as 'missing' does not seem to be missing

Hi Jjron. This is about Image:German instrument of surrender1a.jpg. I know little about speedy deletion criteria for images, but I looked at this one to see if I could close it. You have tagged it as a {{missing image}}, which I understand means 'corrupt or empty.' Since the image is clearly there, and I can view a resized thumbnail, what do you see as the problem with it? EdJohnston (talk) 15:03, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Reply here. --jjron (talk) 08:06, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed reply. Can a random admin who notices the image with the speedy tag do something useful to fix the situation? EdJohnston (talk) 16:40, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Reply here. --jjron (talk) 09:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Possible sockpuppetry

Hey jjron, could you take a look at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. Most if not all of the supporters seem new to the project. Thanks, Muhammad(talk) 11:43, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Good spotting. Reply here. --jjron (talk) 14:27, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

It's just the usual WikiProject fun, again and again. The image seems to suffer from CA, artifacting and tilt/distortion. By the way:

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		Thanks for cleaning up after LordSunday and helping clear the backlog and preserving my sanity in the process - things that probably wouldn't have been done (properly) for yonks if you didn't. MER-C 13:12, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I thought it sounded like you needed a bit of a break, and were understandably miffed with the mess that had been left.
BTW, you'd be a tough voter if you voted at FPC :-). I'd say it's lens distortion rather than tilt (things in the centre look pretty straight), I was looking in the sky for the artifacting, but it's mainly in the water and is quite significant. I'd also add that the focus is a bit funny - I think it may have been focussed on the buildings at the left, which leaves about half the photo at the right pretty soft and a bit awkward really. --jjron (talk) 14:27, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Goings-on inversion

Just a heads up: I intend to change the order in which new FPs are added to WP:GO to the newest being on top, perhaps this Sunday. It was a lot easier to code. I did my first run with the program on Sunday - there were a few minor issues which I fixed. It's still very sketchy and only I can use it at the moment, but it covers steps 3, 4, 7, 8 (and soon 1, 2, 10 and 11) of the promotion procedure. MER-C 10:41, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Reply here. --jjron (talk) 07:50, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

In order: 1) Nope. 2) Not an issue, right now it takes input of the form nomination page|image promoted|nominator|creator ("" if not Wikipedian)|short caption from a text file. 3) This is irrelevant. MER-C 13:12, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

That's still done manually. MER-C 11:37, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

That's really weird. I can't remember whether I ran the program for that edit or stopped it earlier. This was an automated edit (I'll start tagging them as such once it's ready for public use). I will be testing all of next week. MER-C 11:03, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

phantom-image-ofyours

verygod-excellence —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.2.71.149 (talk) 10:14, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you (I think). --jjron (talk) 11:14, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Australian Synchrotron

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Aust.-Synchrotron-Interior-Panorama,-14.06.2007.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! MER-C 05:12, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Cheers. --jjron (talk) 10:45, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Valuable Images

Hey John, You have been quite quiet for some time; I hope all is well. About the valuable images, are there any further plans to proceed? We are way past the date we ha hoped to launch the project on. Please let me know if you need any help. Regards Muhammad(talk) 16:37, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

And nomatter how it ends here you are always very welcome at COM:VI, which has increasing activity. We have now passed 200 VIs. And I think it is proving its value right now with the recent scholar image by Muhammad, which is not doing so well at WP:FPC. -- Slaunger (talk) 21:37, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Reply to Muhammad here. Re Slaunger, yeah I have a look at Commons VI every now and then. It seems to be chugging along nicely and attracting a fair bit of traffic. Well done! Must say that is part of the reason I've put my 'pedia VP proposal on ice. --jjron (talk) 08:19, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, thank you John! If I should be a little self-critical though of commons:COM:VI we certainly could use more diversity in the kinds of nominations and also among the reviewers, where less than a handfull are regulars. I hope this will improve over time. I am of course still hoping that more enc-valuable-aware veterans from en and other Wikimedia projects will begin to join more regularly, as I sometimes feel we could have a better feeling for which image works best in the context of an online article. -- Slaunger (talk) 09:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

That was one criticism that had struck me too - that there seemed to only a small set of reviewers, thus potentially decreasing diversity of opinions. I have considered the project, but really don't have the time to spend on it (another reason I went a bit off the idea of VP here). Still, as you said it should continue to grow over time. --jjron (talk) 13:37, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Australian Synchrotron

G'day,

I was just curious as to how you got inside the synchrotron building in order to photograph it? Was it something like the telescope I photographed the other day (turn up and ask the person in charge to take a photograph)?

Noodle snacks (talk) 08:57, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm a Physics teacher and they introduced a new elective unit at Yr12 a few years back based on the forthcoming Synchrotron. I chose to teach it and they offered PD sessions on the Synchrotron unit, including a tour of the facilities. When I went last year it was still a couple of months before the official opening, but for the most part it was set to go. I didn't think they'd let you take photos in there, but I asked the director of the place and he was happy enough for me to do so. Unfortunately I only had my old A95 rather than the DSLR, and no tripod, etc, and had to stick with the tour group so couldn't spend much time waiting for optimal times or composition, thus explaining why the photos weren't super hi-res. They occasionally run public tours or open days at the facility too (I think there's one in the next month or so), but whether or not they let you take photos then, who knows. And even if they did, I suspect they'd be restricting access and hustling the tour groups along even more when it was potentially big groups of just the general public. There didn't seem to much like what I had from anywhere else in the world though, the nearest was some relatively low res shots of a facility in France, which were apparently publicly released official photos. --jjron (talk) 13:28, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Jon,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Eastern Long-neck-Turtle-with-algae,-Vic,-3.1.2008.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 16, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-10-16. howcheng {chat} 23:19, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, looks good. --jjron (talk) 12:36, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Re:FP

Hey John, thanks for the compliments. It is indeed spooky, I hadn't noticed it yet... so I should expect my 3rd FP by 15 October 2009. I have nominated 2 images for review at PPR. Could you please have a look? Regards Muhammad(talk) 12:28, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

I want to purchase a macro lens and was hoping for some guidance from you. Apart from being good in macro, can it be used to take good pictures of landscape and portraits? Muhammad(talk) 12:06, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Dliff already answered my question regarding the lens. Muhammad(talk) 15:38, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Currently I own only two lenses, the 17-55mm kit lens and Sigma's 70-300mm telephoto lens which is not very good. The main reason I started photography was because I wanted to explore the micro world. The extension tubes and tele-convertors setup seems complicated, so I think I will go for the dedicated macro lens. About the lighting, there are so many different shoes flashes available at different prices. What makes the ideal flash? Muhammad(talk) 15:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Arborist felling eucalyptus

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Arborists-3,-Kallista,-VIC,-09.07.2008.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! MER-C 06:53, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. --jjron (talk) 07:32, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Valued Picture proposal

I recently proposed thet Wikipedia adopt its own Valued image department. Images with Valued status on Wikipedia would be highly encyclopedic images that succesfuly illustrated a point. I proposed the idea at the village Pump, only to find that you had already not only done so yourself, but had drawn up a rough draft for the project. I also see that, after the success of Valued Images on Commons, the project has fallen to the wayside. I believe that your idea gas great potential, but that it needs a kick start to get it going.
I think its time to be bold. I would be more than willing to help get the project off the ground. What do you think? Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} Ici pour humor 08:27, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Reply here. --jjron (talk) 13:13, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

I've already seen both of those pages, and done an in-depth viewing of them. See here and here. I have also looked at the other records. I really like the idea of initiating this here on Wikipedia, but I doubt that the time is quite right. In time, I believe that a Valued Image department would benefit Wikipedia, but not today. When the time is right, I will be more than willing to initiate this project.And to answer your question, I am not an 'old-timer' from Commons. I created both my Commons and Wikipedia account just two weeks ago. However, I've been around. I'm pretty familiar with policy and the way things work. I think my next goal will be to get the Dog article to GA status: that could prove fun. Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} Ici pour humor 18:02, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

I've started. I have requested the creation of a Valued image seal, which I hope will be designed by the Commons illustrator LadyofHats. I have created the Valued image main page. While the Valued image and Picture Peer Review departments will be interlinked, I am creating a seperate page for VI. I will post the links to the relevant pages on your talk page as soon as everything is ready. Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} Ici pour humor 12:33, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

All done. It's still a bit rough, but once I've got a seal designed and fixed the last few things, it'll be up and running. See Wikipedia:Valued pictures. Thanks for your help with the basic design and for starting the idea up. So, I'll see you around at the nominations page then? Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} Ici pour humor 14:37, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Your comment

Re: One of the risks of putting things up at FPC is that people may oppose them. Opposes that make sense are often very useful; re-editing or withdrawing a nom., etc. is something I've done plenty of times. This particular discussion is odd for several reasons. One of the ones I hesitate to post is that a discussion rarely reaches this length without a single comment on the content. Do you think everyone who's posted spent 32 minutes watching the documentary? ^Charge! 09:21, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Reply here. --jjron (talk) 14:03, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia announces launch of new Valued pictures project

The project goes live for nominations on 10 November, 2008 at 0:00 UTC

This Wikipedia Valued pictures project sets out to identify and encourage users' efforts in providing valuable images of high encyclopedic value, and to build up a resource for editors from other Wikimedia projects seeking such educational images for use online. The project also provides recognition to contributors who have made an effort to contribute enyclopedic images of difficult subjects which are very hard or nigh on impossible to obtain. The project will run alongside the existing Wikipedia Featured pictures and Picture peer review projects.

Please visit Valued picture candidates to nominate an image, or to help review the nominations. Anyone with an account on Wikipedia is welcome to nominate images, and also to take part in the open review process.

Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} Ici pour humor 17:00, 1 November 2008 (UTC) Thanks for everything. Lets hope this works out ;)

Thanks for fixing Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Closing procedure. That error had slipped my notice. What do you think of the setup? Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} Ici pour humor 15:44, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Reply here. --jjron (talk) 12:53, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

The VP seal is no longer in use. I have requested a new design. It was used in the old version of the page I subst'd onto your page and a number of other user talk pages. It is no longer used on any of the VP pages. I think I might extend the time period for the project, though. The tenth of November is rather soon, and I'm not sure we will have got enough input from other users. I think I'll move the opening date to the first of December. I'm also really busy at the moment, so it might be best if the project start-up were postponed. Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} Ici pour humor 17:42, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

OK then. The postponement is probably not a bad idea. --jjron (talk) 06:41, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

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No worries, though I really don't feel I can add much to this since I had so little to do with it :-). --jjron (talk) 06:38, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

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Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Trumpetcallsa.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 11, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-11-11. I know this is not your nomination, but I recall that you had expressed interest in the scheduling of this image. howcheng {chat} 07:43, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Cheers. Good choice. --jjron (talk) 13:19, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Clyde River at Nelligen, NSW

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Nelligen, NSW Early Morning Mist, Panorama, 25.9.2008.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! MER-C 07:49, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. --jjron (talk) 13:15, 14 November 2008 (UTC)