User talk:Pumbaa80
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Commons logo
Hi Pumbaa, and welcome to the Commons. Just wanted to say, great work on Image:Commons-logo.svg! If you're able, it would be nice to have an SVG replacement for Image:Commons-logo-en.png. User:dbenbenn 08:03, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- Done: Image:Commons-logo-en.svg. But the auto-converted PNG versions are erroneous :( Oh, and thanks for the warm welcome! -- Pumbaa80 02:19, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
- I replaced the embedded font, which is not supported by the Wikimedia converter, by paths. It now displays correctly. --Pumbaa80 13:43, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Indian flag
Hi! WRT your recent changes to the Flag of India, I would like to point out a big inaccuracy. The charkha (wheel) at the centre is 75% the width of the white bar. Please would you correct it? (See w:Flag of India for details.) Regards, Nichalp 06:38, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- Right. There seems to be a striking difference between the Indian flag law and the practically used flags, since the latter ones show chakra wheels at significantly larger diameters than 75% of the white stripe (up to 98%). I read it on [1] and in the German wikipedia article. Anyway, this might be a canard. I'm not an Indian ;-) --Pumbaa 05:24, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
- I'm temporarily reverted your version as it incorrectly reflects on two featured articles: w:India and w:Flag of India. Feel free to upload the corrected version over it. Regards, Nichalp 07:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, I should have asked before uploading. Let's continue this talk on Image_talk:Flag_of_India.svg --Pumbaa 05:24, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Wire colors
Nice job on the SVG wires in Category:Color code. I've replaced the PNG versions with your new SVG versions on the English Wikipedia. Just wanted to point out that writing "See en:Image:25 pair color code chart.png for details." in the descriptions is a little silly. That page will probably be deleted eventually, and then all the links will be dead. If you have the energy, it would make sense to put any relevant details here on the Commons. (Though honestly I don't see anything at the EN page that would need to be kept.) Cheers, User:dbenbenn 19:44, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
- You're right. I thought it might be fair to give credit for the original work. But I guess the remark Please don't delete this description page. on en:Image:25 pair color code chart.png is noneffective after all. So I'll edit the descriptions once I get around to doing it :-) --Pumbaa 20:00, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
- Done. 14:24, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
:BTW: Have you noticed the bugs? I left a message at the village pump. Very strange... --Pumbaa 20:00, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
US Flags
I don't know what the correct tag is. It's not pd-old. The images are in the public domain because they are flags. But I got flack about that on the en wikipedia, which has deprecated the pd-flag tag. I put pd-self on them because I created them myself.
The images which were already in the commons were wrong. I'm uploading versions with correct colors and layout. If someone wants to spend hours recreating them accurately in a text editor, they are welcome to. Otherwise, the incorrect versions should be removed in favor of more accurate versions. 30 extra kilobytes never hurt anyone. Likewise, rounding numbers to 7 significant digits is not such a big problem. :). --Jacobolus 02:29, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not sure about the correct licence tag, but I'm sure that your flags' layout can't possibly be correct, since you've used approximated coordinates. For example, the stripes have different sizes, and the stars are not really exact stars. --Pumbaa 02:36, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- well, the existing versions colors can't possibly be right, because they differ from the standard Pantone color swatches. If the stripes have different sizes by .0000001, does it really matter? --Jacobolus 02:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- It could. When you scale down the flag to very small sizes, the resulting effects might be strange. --Pumbaa 02:55, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- well, the existing versions colors can't possibly be right, because they differ from the standard Pantone color swatches. If the stripes have different sizes by .0000001, does it really matter? --Jacobolus 02:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, my bad (at least for Image:Flag of the United States.svg), I just looked at the source files, and it looks like the colors are identical. I think my eyes must have been deceiving me, because I was sure I saw a difference when I looked at the flags side by side. I've reverted to the old version --Jacobolus 07:24, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- To clarify further, the stars in the versions which were there may be exactly perfect, but if they are in the wrong places, for instance in Image:US 30 Star Flag.svg, does that matter? --Jacobolus 02:41, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- Also, I don't have much more time to spend on this in the near future, but if someone wants to tag all the old images as duplicates, update pages where they occur to the correct versions, and delete the inaccurate images, that would be great. My main concern was the US Flag page, which I made png versions of these flags for a year ago. They were recently replaced with the wrong svg versions, so I wanted to put correct svg versions back up. :) --Jacobolus 02:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- Please note that I didn't intend to talk down your work. I just wanted to help make improvements. :-) You're welcome to change an existing image, but in that case you should not upload two versions of the very same image. If you feel that an image is not correct, just overwrite it. That saves the trouble of deleting and updating. --Pumbaa 02:55, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, that maybe makes sense. There were 3-4 different conventions before, and I wanted to standardize on something clean and simple, so that I could just copy and paste the name, changing the number, from one to the next. And I'm really not trying to be an attention-hogging jerk or anything. I think making clean, editable versions is definitely the way to go. So I hope I haven't come off as dismissive at all. --Jacobolus 03:00, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Pumbaa. Speaking of flags, here's a new challenge for you if you like: can you make an exact version of Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg? User:dbenbenn 18:14, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- Absolutely! I just need the dimensions... Google gave me [2], but I don't know if that's correct. --Pumbaa 21:20, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- I think it is. Done. --Pumbaa 21:54, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- Yep, those dimensions are right. Great! User:dbenbenn 22:55, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Bot
Hallo
There is a template for bots for using it in the babelbox. you only need to add
{{babel-1|bot}}
to the userpage of your bot. With greetings. Augiasstallputzer 13:54, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot. Done. :-) --Pumbaa 11:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, and thank your for sharing your files with Commons. There seems to be a problem regarding the description and or licensing of this particular file. Could you please resolve these problems, which are described on the page linked in above? Thank you. --Orgullomoore 18:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
- oops. Corrected --Pumbaa 13:13, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
POTY 2006 competition
The arrangements for the Commons Picture of the Year 2006 competition are almost complete, and voting will take place between 1st and 28th Feb. All the featured pictures promoted last year are automatically nominated. As the creator of one or more images nominated for the election we invite you to participate in the event. Alvesgaspar 23:22, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Bild aus der englischen Wikipedia in die Commons laden.
Hallo.
Kannst du das Bild en:Image:Joseph_priestly_statue.JPG auf die Commons hochladen? Ich möchte es in einem Artikel in der deutschen Wikipedia verwenden. Ich mach das irgendwie zu selten und eh da was schiefgeht...
Vielen Dank--Lambdacore 18:00, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
- Erledigt. So schwer ist das übrigens nicht. Die Beschreibung kann man automatisch hier generieren lassen: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/commonshelper.php?interface=de . Dann einfach per copy&paste bei Special:Upload einfügen. Einen schönen Tag noch :-) --Pumbaa 10:11, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
| Image deletion warning | Image:Bundesliga-Logo 3D.svg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this image, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. If the file is up for deletion because it has been superseded by a superior derivative of your work, consider the notion that although the file may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new file. |
--D-Kuru 00:28, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Bot request
Please, give a look at Commons:Village_pump#FIDES_License_Template --Jollyroger 09:05, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
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Jackaranga 14:42, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Special:emailuser
Hi,
I've found that the links you provided to contact you on Commons:Service de téléchargement de fichiers do not work anymore (Special:emailuser/Pumbaa80 appears to be disabled). Please could you fix this either by removing yourself from this page or by enabling back emails or by specifying your current email address on this page?
Many thanks in advance,
Best regards from France,
-- AlNo (discuter/talk/hablar/falar) 14:48, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Image:Olympic rings.svg
Hallo Pumbaa80. I've used the Image:Olympic rings.svg, created by you, to create two other images, Image:Olympic torch current event.svg and Image:Olympics current event.svg. If there are any problems, with license or whatever, please contact me at my swedish page (I'm not checking this project often enough). Thank you. Grüße // Mankash (talk) 22:45, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey, Pumbaa80! I have a tiny, tiny request for help. I'm looking to create a simple SVG image, but i'm terrible at making them. After not really getting any help by leaving messages to users on Wikipedia, i thought i should look at some of the great SVG images already in use on the website, and obviously i ended up on the above image. First of all, well done for making an image so widely used :)
So the image i'm looking for is very simple. I'm looking to get a red flag, with a white star in the middle of it. It doesn't really get any more than that - the image is shown in the top of this image, as well as this image. I understand its hard to see but if you could help me even the tiniest bit that would be amazing :D
I figured it should be around the scale of normal flags, i think its 4.5:3? that may not be true. The image is to be used on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:TUGS as well as a userbox along the same lines as that, which i've not yet made.
Again, if you could help me, that would be amazing. If you manage to sort anything, give me a reply at my Wikipedia talk, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:SteelersFan_UK06 :) --SteelersFan UK06 (talk) 22:59, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
- Pumbaa, your image could not have been more perfect. Thank you so VERY much. --90.213.6.46 23:17, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Another Request
Hi Pumbaa! Thanks again for the image you made me. I come again with another request.
I'm now looking for an image that looks very similar to the one you made already. This time, I'd be looking for a black flag, same res as the last one, with a white circle in the middle. Do you think this would be possible? I promise that after this, I won't bother you again!
Give me a message on Wikipedia again if you get anything sorted. Thanks again for your help. --SteelersFan UK06 (talk) 01:17, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Cross necktie knot
You posted a picture of this knot, would it be possible for you to send me information on how to tie it? Thanks in advance!--Legaleagle143 (talk) 02:26, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
- This is where I found it: Cross knot. Important: Final turn goes through both passes to achieve the “x” form -- Pumbaa80 08:11, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
A Big Favor
Hi! I noticed that in the past you had made a flag for Honduras. But now someone has changed it and I was wondering if you could somehow change it back to its original form. It is now a sky blue but used to be that darker blue. If I could do it myself I would but I have no idea how! Im asking a huge favor of you bud, so could you please consider helping us out! Thanks so much man!
- Hi Oak27, you can simply restore the old version by saving it to your disk and re-uploading it via the upload form, as Flag of Honduras.svg. I won't do it myself since I don't want to be involved in any edit wars. Please bear with me --Pumbaa80
Sorry, but No...
I understand you, but no, The Honduran law says it should be this way. If you want to get convinced, I can show you the reañ Honduras Law. Greetings. --Ricardo P. (talk) 03:45, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Tip: Categorizing images
Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.
Here's how:
1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:
2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.
[[Category:Category name]]
For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:
[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]][[Category:Comets]]
This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".
When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").
Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.BotMultichillT 23:34, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Oxidising.svg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
- Image:Highly flammable.svg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
- Image:Eishockey Saisonverlauf Nati A 2005-06.svg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
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Amada44 talk to me 11:36, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Could you, please, create a flag without arms? We need it as a Kenyan Air force fin flash. Many thanks! --Kwasura (talk) 12:50, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
You made a factual error in one of your images.
Hello,
This vector image that you made (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_shell_093_Neptunium.svg) states that the electron configuration of neptunium is [2,8,18,32,22,8,2], this information is false, as it's real configuration is [2,8,18,32,23,8,2] a simple proof if you are skeptical, add up the electrons in the first configuration, you get 92, which implies that Z=92, which is a uranium atom, which is not the case; add up the second configuration you get 93, which implies that Z=93 which is the real deal, neptunium atom.
Please sir, I urge you, as author of the image, and to be kind enough to fix the issue. Thank you for your time.
Thank you in advance. Anonymous.