User talk:Raymond

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-- Netoholic @ 09:08, 2004 Nov 2 (UTC)

It is against policy to speedy delete Image:Bondage (Hogtie) Model Jassi.jpg while it is still being used in an article, so I have removed the delete tag. Thue | talk 23:23, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Oh, I see. Never mind :). Thue | talk 23:39, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery

You have in the past edited William-Adolphe Bouguereau. A related article, the William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery has been nominated for deletion for violating WP:NOT (AfD here). A proposal to modify WP:NOT is here. Please join either or both conversations and comment as you see fit. Dsmdgold 16:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Swedish coat of arms

Hello. All Swedish provincial coat of arms are on Commons, under the name "Province coat of arms.png", e.g. Image:Gästrikland coat of arms.png. I just haven't tagged them.

The Swedish agency for heraldic has recursively claimed copyrights of them, so they will gradually be replaced by free versions, which will be uploaded ontop of them. (the example above is one of those that have been replaced by self-made ones).

Regards Fred-Chess 01:59, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Images

I spent three hours making those damn Marilyn images. Couldn't you at least have told me about it first? Or bothered to mention it on the talk page? Or something? --Mark J 21:39, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but these maps are a copyright violation because you used maps created by Microsoft Autoroute. On Commons free images (GFDL, CC or PD) are allowed only. --Raymond de 00:00, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moers

I understand that you live in Moers. Could you please take a look at the articles about Moers and Wesel (district) and make any changes that seem appropriate? Thank you. Eastmain 04:50, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thats right. I will have a look on them this evening/tomorrow morning. --Raymond de 05:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

University of Frankfurt

Hi Raymond; kann you upload this picture in english wikipedia. Thanks--81.210.228.148 07:28, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

		The Original Barnstar
		To Raymond, for 'upright' images. Thank you! Susanlesch (talk) 05:13, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Olympus E-20

I noticed that you've taken some photos using Olympus E-20. I just created Olympus E-20 article, and thought you might want to have a look. More importantly, Template:Olympus DSLR cameras doesn't list Olympus E-20 or Olympus E-10, and I'm not sure where to add them (see the note on the talk page). Cheers, huji—TALK 14:33, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note. I think you have got the right answer on the template talk page. Raymond (talk) 17:39, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, Raymond! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 17:49, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Confirming

[1] I did make that edit to your de-wiki talk. Kwsn (Ni!) 17:58, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Raymond (talk) 17:47, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:GElogo.svg

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That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for each article the image is used in.
That every article it is used on is linked to from its description page.

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:RWE logo.jpg)

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de:User:Almabot

Hi Nakor, I have granted botstatus to de:User:Almabot. Success. Raymond (talk) 12:20, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Raymond. Thanks for taking care of this. Nakor (talk) 18:51, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A German bureaucrat

Greetings. I left a message at Brion VIBBER's page, but I see from his page that he may not always be able to give a speedy response, and someone suggested I try another German bureaucrat.

I used to edit as Tempo rubato. Then I asked for a change to the name Rigaudon. After I made the request but before it was dealt with, a vandal registered the name Rigaudon on German Wikipedia and was automatically given the name here as well.[2] It also happened to several other people who requested name changes around the same time, so it was not a coincidence. The thief was blocked and the account was renamed after a slight delay,[3] so I was able to take the name.

However, when I tried to create the account Rigaudon at Wiktionary today, I wasn't able to. I was asked for my global password. I looked at this page on the German Wikipedia, but couldn't understand all the instructions in German and wasn't sure what to do. (There were some instructions in English, but not for complicated requests like mine.) I hope you'll be able to help. I'd like to register Rigaudon at a few other projects, and can only do so if the Rigaudon at German Wikipedia is renamed. I am not in a hurry. Thank you. Rigaudon (talk) 23:07, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. My account here was renamed by the bureaucrat User:Avraham, who said that I would need to contact German Wikipedia and that if they had any questions they could contact him. Thank you. Rigaudon (talk) 23:11, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Account "Rigaudon" renamed to "Zwangsumbenennung795". Raymond (talk) 14:57, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. But strangely, I am still not able to create an account. This gives the English Wikipedia Rigaudon (me) as the only Rigaudon account, now, but says that it's "unattached" - which would suggest that the "main" account still exists? I'm not sure what to do now. But thanks for your help anyway. Rigaudon (talk) 15:11, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:GElogo.svg

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Holländer gehen immer …

:-) elya (talk) 19:56, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion nomination of File:Freya von Moltke.jpg

Raymond, I have obtained an image and license for File:Freya von Moltke 2009.jpg, which I have substituted everywhere that I found File:Freya von Moltke.jpg. You may proceed with the deletion of the latter file. Thanks for calling this matter to my attention. Sincerely, User:HopsonRoad 15:13, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your deletion requests for 4 items by Anthonybard

Hello Raymond.
I've been in touch with Anthonybard because of his relative "newbie" status n the Wiki projects. Outside of Wiki I've been in contact with him for years now, because of our mutual interest in mountaineering history. Where my focus lies on K2, Anthonybard focuses on Mount Everest and in this field of play he has (one of) the most outstanding collections. You can't blame him for being new here - and you being impressed by jewels like these - but we all have to start one day. For the authenticity of these objects I can vouch, but if you'd rather reassure yourself by having a look at some other objects, please visit [himalayana.org] where part of the collection is on display.
Qwrk (talk) 13:56, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For your work reporting VisualEditor bugs - it is most appreciated! :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 18:43, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for reverting my edit. For some reason, my browser was able to parse the page correctly when I saved it, but now I see how badly I broke it when I look at the history. Andrew³²⁷ 13:59, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. It's a system fault: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49577 Raymond (talk) 14:00, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bucket-wheel excavator

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Tantalus (cabinet)

I don't think I got round to thanking you for improving that article, I made the stub a few years ago but kinda never got round to doing more, so it's nice to see it cleaned up.

Incidentally when I created it I didn't know how to categorise it or how to (disambiguate) it. Technically it is a cabinet but that is not the word I think most would use: but couldn't (and can't) think of anything better. It's a bit kinda unclassifiable. If you can think of better, please boldly do! Si Trew (talk) 08:49, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tantalus

Sorry to bother you but I am deliberately not looking at your featured pics; I expect they are fantastic. Thanks for the thanks. I was wondering also if your brilliant pics of the tantaluses (tantali?!) could be a DYK, "Did you know... a tantalus (pictured) is a cabinet containing not enough drink", or something like that? Probably not DYK (that's for new or expanded articles and I don't think this would survive that) but perhaps somehow a featured pic. It is a bloody good pic (or two) and I take my hat off to you for making it. Si Trew (talk) 21:32, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi SimonTrew, thank you for your compliment. As you can see in my contributions, I am not a very active author on the English Wikipedia, just dropping photos into articles from time to time. So am not familiar with the local rules for DYK etc. But whatever you do to promote the article or the photos in the English Wikipedia, I appreciate it :-) Raymond (talk) 11:18, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

One of your photos was selected as Picture of the Day

Hi Raymond,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Garzweiler Tagebau-1230.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 14, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-14. Uncle Alf (talk) 17:19, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Uncle Alf: Thank you very much for the notice. Due to my vacations in the past 2 weeks I have fixed a small error today. And I am very proud that my image will be the POTD on English Wikipedia :-) Raymond (talk) 07:08, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank YOU for shooting and uploading the photo! And thanks for fixing the error. Uncle Alf (talk) 09:22, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you very much :-) Raymond (talk) 18:59, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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