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Oppose Being the only image of a product model is not sufficient for VI. It also has to illustrate the subject well. In this case, where you control the conditions of subject presentation and photograph, the image should be better. The strap (distracting) should have been removed; there should be more space on the right side for balance and the camera, for a full frontal view, should be perpendicular to the camera, rather than tilted. Assuming you still have the TG-6, if you make a better image, I would support it. --GRDN711 (talk) 21:15, 26 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
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JPG and TIF versions of the same files (fairly common for LOC and other older US Gov works) are not generally considered "duplicates" to be deleted; they should be linked to each other as "other version" field. Cheers, -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 18:10, 1 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
Also, note that LOC has been gradually uploading more and higher res versions of old photos to their website. Versions uploaded more than a decade ago were often the highest res publicly available at the time uploaded. If better versions are now available and the old version is in use, overwriting with higher res of same is often a good solution. Cheers, -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 18:16, 1 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
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@JayCubby - According to the Commons description, the photo below of Emmett Till's parents was "named by Time magazine in 2016 as one of the 100 most influential photos of all time." Is it possible and worth you restoring and submitting for FP? (I don't have the tools/skills to restore.) - ERcheck (talk) 05:59, 3 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
I'm not sure what needs to be done. Any corrections/enhancements? I don't know that the quality is sufficient for FP (I'm relatively new to the FP process), but it is truly historical. - ERcheck (talk) 19:43, 3 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
Perhaps you've sometimes wondered why I reject the requests. The images are mostly from a time when there were no better versions of them, like the Gandhi image from just now. Such images shouldn't be deleted on Commons, but rather tagged with "other version." Nevertheless, I think your version is better; I'd be happy to replace it in the different language versions for you. Regards: זיו「Ziv」 • For love letters and other notes17:36, 7 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Ziv: {{universal replace|old image=Nehru gandhi.jpg|new image=Nehru Ghandi AP 18050506381948 (cropped).jpg|reason=Higher resolution version that hasn't been altered.}}. JayCubby (talk) 18:07, 7 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
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@Ziv, good catch, thanks! It appears I got distracted by the regular noise and forgot to check for (meaningful) differences between the images. Re-uploaded. JayCubby (talk) 20:18, 13 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Hi, I gave you the Autopatroller right. I don't think your edits need to be patrolled. Thanks for your contributions, Yann (talk) 16:37, 4 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
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As a word of encouragement, can I just say your photo restorations are really amazing! Thank you for your efforts on these, it’s great work. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 14:22, 26 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
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How do you mean that involved? As said, some of the RfD's were justified, while some others were not. But the fact that you were targeting Andy is obvious, because, otherwise you surely would have nominated images with more care and there were no nonsensical rquests like this one --A.Savin20:56, 27 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
@A.Savin, I would not call that nonsensical. My nominations may not have been perfect in all cases, but that is no reason for a block. If you look in my deletion request history, I have a slightly different view, which I'm working to correct, of what is considered DM. I have never been sanctioned for deletion request that fails, because there is at least valid reasoning behind each one.
By involved,
"I myself am being stalked by 1989 and Christian Ferrer, so I know very well what it is about"
Is the relevant quote. You are actively involved in a dispute which you consider similar, and may not be in a place to assess potentially similar cases.
yes, I was targeting andy. I was doing so in the sense that I was going over his uploads. I was not stalking him, nor was I intending to harass it. JayCubby (talk) 21:07, 27 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
It means then, my "involvement" is limited to the fact that I know how it feels if someone is monitoring your edits in order to do something against you, while most other admins actually don't know what it is (and as a result, we have what we have). So I think with 3 days it's a very mild sanction and I have chosen that deliberately, given the fact that some RfD's are ~in order --A.Savin21:33, 27 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
@A.Savin, your involvement is more than past experience. You have made extensive, and are currently making them, in a thread pertaining to stalking.
considering that a user has already complained about my block, and that there have been substantial complaints about your previous actions, to the point where there's a UCOC case, are all good signs that this block should not have been made at all. JayCubby (talk) 22:58, 27 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Decline reason: "You correctly said: "Making reasonable deletion requests is not a blockable offense". As big part of you DR-s were not reasonable, I consider short block acceptable to avoid disruption. Taivo (talk) 15:32, 28 July 2025 (UTC)"Reply
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Please use another file name, for example "Ford Model T and VW type 11 Luxus, Technisches Museum Wien, Juni 2009 (crop).jpg" with the original file descriptions for you version(s) of the file. Do not overwrite the original! --Tsui (talk) 10:10, 20 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Thanks for uploading a new version of File:Sp_illum_10deg_2025_1080p30.webm. However, by setting the framerate to 30 fps, it no longer progresses at 1 day of simulation per second of animation. Can you please set the framerate to 12 FPS (the resulting video should be around 6m08s) but use the AV1 codec instead of VP9? Thanks, cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ21:09, 5 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Cmglee, Done. The command I used was -i spillum10deg20261080p30.mp4 -c:v libaom-av1 -crf 30 -b:v 0 -cpu-used 4 -filter:v setpts=(30/12)*PTS -c:a copy spillum10deg20261080p30_12fps.webm.
Hello JayCubby. Of course they do that, but such changes should ideally be made as a new file. This way you're on the safe side, which no one will dispute, and the old version remains available on Commons, even if the file is subsequently replaced in the language versions. Thank you for your efforts. Look at it this way: your "Files uploaded by JayCubby" category would then contain more files. זיו「Ziv」 • For love letters and other notes16:03, 7 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Dear JayCubby, If you take one, please take all. Don't just leave the difficult ones for others. All or nothing. And yeah, thanks for your work. Vysotsky (talk) 22:57, 18 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
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The soldier's cap should tell us more, but I do not know how to interpret it. Looks like a 2 and an 18 or 181.... It may identify a regiment. Glrx (talk) 20:09, 2 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for suggesting this update to our catalog record. I and a few other people took a look and while there is definitely a similarity between the man in our photo and Patrick DeLacey we don't believe they are the same man. The first reason is the man in our photo has a hat with the number 218. A veteran's hat number could correspond with the unit he was in or with the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Post he was a member of after the war. Patrick DeLacey was in the 143rd PA Infantry and the GAR did not have a 218th Post in Pennsylvania.
The man in our photo is not wearing a Medal of Honor, he's wearing the GAR medal, which looked very similar. A photo of both medals side by side can be found at https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/moh-and-gar-medals.jpg. We also think there's enough difference in the faces, especially since some of the photos of DeLacey online appear to have been taken only a few years before ours would have been.
Let us know if you have any other potential identifications. Ideally we would like all of our photos identified, but we don't want to put an incorrect identification on our catalog since our photos are used in many books and web pages.
Thank you for following up on this topic. I'm sorry I misidentified the medal, but I'm also surprised that they look so similar. Glrx (talk) 00:26, 22 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
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File:Ames yearbook58 cropped.jpg - what exactly are you trying to do here? It's your responsibility when you edit an image, especially an image you didn't upload originally, to explain what is going on. Your edit summary was the supremely unhelpful "c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js: fft", and your picture looks identical except it's larger. If you can't be bothered to collaborate, that's fine, but then don't edit other photos. Since you are insisting on this with edit summaryless reverts - what, exactly, did you change here and why do you think your picture is better? Information that could have been in your original upload summary? SnowFire (talk) 07:49, 10 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
On your second edit summary: Huh, my apologies. I did see your revert but the explanation was after the undo text and apparently my eyes treated it as a runon with the automatic text. I do think your first edit summary could have been more descriptive, but the second one was my bad.
That said, I still don't really see an improvement here. To be clear I could see that the image was different, just not meaningfully different or better. I'll leave it be but while I can see some subtle shading differences, it's not clearly "better" to my eyes, and the image size has increased. SnowFire (talk) 08:20, 12 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
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Sorry to ping you twice. In case I can't get the XCF to work (Photoshop is picky and conversion is unreliable), could you export as TIFF or PNG with no contrast adjustments (or better yet, could you export as a PSD)? A file host like https://litterbox.catbox.moe/ works well for large Commons incompatible files. JayCubby (talk) 14:58, 3 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
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Hi, I have looked at your uploads, and I notice that you have uploaded a lot of potential FPs, here and on English WP. Do you want to nominate them, or should I do?
Yann, feel free to nominate any of them! In cases where I restored an image intensively, I have its PSD (though I only recently started using adjustment layers). JayCubby (talk) 18:01, 3 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
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ːMany thanks. That map looks good at first glance, though of course you can't do anything to get to the 'multiple' images. I can see where I've got some coordinates wrong, but for instance for the 4 images in the sea east of Cape Town, I can't identify the images to correct the coordinatesǃ
Charlesjsharp, you can download the CSV here. I will ask someone who does OSM/GeoJSON for a living. I have been relying on AI to format the map stuff appropriately, but have reached the limit of what I know how to do. JayCubby (talk) 13:28, 2 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
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2024 Picture of the Year:Mundari man polishing the horns of one of his Watusi cows using a mixture of cow urine and ash as a ritualistic and protective practice in a temporary cattle camp in Terekeka, South Sudan.
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Hello JayCubby,
I am contacting you directly as you have been very helpful in the past with image fixes. I am looking for advice.
I took a picture in an art museum (iphone) of a painting and a glass vase. Later, I noticed that the vase artist had a wikipedia page with issues. I have rewritten his page and replaced a dark image with two new images, including mine. My image has problems--its not a good composition as I was not focusing on the vase at the time. I have tried cropping it for the rewritten page and I cropped too much.
What is the best way to present this vase? Is it a good idea to remove things in the background? How would you crop it? Does the image need brightening or sharpening?
Below is the original image, my draft with badly cropped image and the original wiki page.
@MauraWen, the common issue with museum photos is glare, which wasn't an issue here. It would be simple to remove the background (one of the things AI is very good at!) and replace with something more neutral. Archaeodontosaurus does many of those photos and can probably do better than me. JayCubby (talk) 19:27, 30 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for inviting me to your discussion. AI is a great help with this type of image, but working piece by piece is rather time-consuming. The latest version you made is very acceptable. The only criticism is that you cut off the top of the vase: absolute respect for the artwork!
We also need to get used to abandoning our "old" cameras for our smartphones. I've been trying for a while now; it's not easy, because it's all in how you hold the smartphone. Whatever we do or say, photography is a wonderful world. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:25, 1 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Archaeodontosaurus and JayCubby: Thanks for responding! I realized after I cropped the image that I cropped too much. That image is up for speedy deletion and I created a new cropped image for the wikipage with the top of the vase. I’ve given up on cameras myself. As a very amateur photographer, I find that my iPhone usually takes better photos than my $500 camera. MauraWen (talk) 22:47, 12 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
@JayCubby, Not a problem. I have been on vacation, so I have not been checking my user page. That image looks great! Are you planning to add the image to Wikicommons? Or should I?
You have been very helpful with several of the old photographs I’ve used in articles, and I was wondering whether you enjoy working on historical photographs in general.
If so, I have a photograph of a photograph taken around 1915 at Robert Frost’s house in Franconia, New Hampshire. I’m trying to determine whether a wall surface visible in the image is wallpaper, stenciling, or something else, and I was hoping there might be additional detail that could be brought out through digital restoration or analysis. MauraWen (talk) 23:29, 21 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
@JayCubby I replaced the existing Marioni vase with your improved image. It looks great! Here are three images, two are from different framed photos at the Frost Place in Franconia, but they are the same image.
I was visiting the Robert Frost Place, his family home from 1915 to 1920 in Franconia, New Hampshire a few days ago. I was chatting with the director and she was talking about the interior photos. She said she would love to find out the name/company of the wallpaper in the background. I think she would probably put up a reproduction of the wallpaper in the historic home. This is not for a Wiki page, but I told her I was interested in researching the wall treatment for her. ChatGPT said this is probably Arts and Crafts wallpaper or stencilling. It could even be hand stencilling, but I think its a treatment or paper. I cannot see the wall texture or pattern very clearly. Any assistance you could give, I would appreciate it.MauraWen (talk) 01:01, 22 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
@MauraWen, I would suggest looking into wallpaper books of the era (1910s Art Nouveau)
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Sorry to be a nag on this, but - you said you fixed the Hollywood image. Did you forget to upload the new version? DS (talk) 14:53, 1 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
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Hi everyone,
Wikimedia Commons is pleased to finally announce the winners of this year's Picture of the Year 2025 contest! We had some truly incredible finalists to choose from, but the community has spoken.
Here are your top three winning images:
First place: The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023, leaving widespread destruction in the Rimal area. Attribution: WAFA (Q2915969) / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia. Attribution: Giles Laurent / CC-BY-SA 4.0
Third place: A gigantic jet photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers. Attribution: public domain
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Thank you to everyone who voted, helped organize, and generally made the contest such a huge success this year!
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Could you please move that discussion away from the village pump and start a proposal at Commons:Village pump/Proposals instead?
I sort of intended for my thread to be focused on the gadget Bawolff said he would make and i feel discussing Special:MediaSearch there risks derailing the discussion Trade (talk) 02:50, 12 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
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hello there !
This is some answer elements about how I work in restoration of old pictures.
First, I don’t use AI softwares only, and I use various softwares.
I chose mainly very damaged images, like very old daguerreotypes (by Mathew Brady or others), because it is more interesting for me.
I work a long time with GIMP, playing with curves and levels, in order to reveal hidden details of the picture (mainly the faces), wich I magnify at 400% or more.
I clean (by cloning out with the cloning tools) some scratches, tears, dust, spots etc…. After that I chose or QWEN or FLOW (which gives better results IMO, but has some strange limitations : sometimes it blocks arguing « personality rights » for pictures of persons dead since 150 years !). Qwen is often stupid, and gives idiot results.
Everything is in the prompts you write. you can find some on the Net, but I prefer write by myself, mixing my own will and Internet suggestions, it gives better results. but you have to be very meticulous in your order : if you forget something, the AI will play alone and give funny results. This is difficult for me as I am not an english native speaker (as you can read here !), and AI softwares prefer english for answering prompts. I change details of my prompts for each image, it depends of the quality of the original.
The mantra is Check, check, and check again !
After that, I often go back to « manual » work, again with GIMP, until I feel happy.
These processes are completely new for me, I am just a beginner, I hope I will improve the quality. Restoring pictures is really satisfying, because I pay tribute both to old photographers, and to forgoten but often very interesting persons I bring back to life (say).
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better for you! JayCubby (talk) 02:43, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
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. DragonflySixtyseven, that is exactly what I did. Fixed now. JayCubby (talk) 15:11, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
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