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Tip: Categorizing images

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Mellow

Hi NaBUru38, I saw no valid reason for undoing my last edit by you (here). Please note that Wikimedia Commons is a multilingual and international project. Compromise, reasonableness, and explanation are needed here, so take the time, explain why you did what you did. Thanks. AMERICOPHILE 03:03, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm beautiful from behind

Hello NaBUru38

I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your photos of cars in Uruguay. I also have a request: If you happen to see a Ford Corcel II like the one pictured on the right, WP could use a rear view of one. Thanks again, I am going to try to edit the lighting of some of your shots from Montevideo and see if they can be improved. Cheers, mr.choppers (talk)^-en- 18:03, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

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qqq messages

Hi! It looks like you've mistakenly translated a few of the documentation messages ("qqq") for the Illustrating Wikipedia brochure. Those messages are not intended to be translated; they provide a description of the corresponding English message to make it easier for translators to translate the actual content. Thanks for the Spanish translations you've been doing!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 15:03, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

No problem. It looks like you're doing a great job with the translations.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 15:28, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

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2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.

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Dear NaBUru38,

The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).

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 Done--Carnby (talk) 22:21, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

SCCA car categorizing

Would you please look through the images that I took in Category:2013 SCCA National Championship Runoffs? I don't understand enough to add the cars into the different classes under Category:Classes of sports car racing. I attended the runoffs at Road America from 2009 to 2013 so there's more to check there if you choose to accept my request. I have 18 more to upload to the 2012 category which I hope to work on soon. Thank you! Royalbroil 03:11, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Royal! I've categorized some photos of the 2013 SCCA Runoffs. God luck! --NaBUru38 (talk) 17:11, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! Royalbroil 22:59, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Categoría:Geología de España

Hola NaBUru38, estás categorizando la "Categoría:Geología de España" en "Geografía de España", sin embargo la geología NO es en absoluto una parte de la geografía, son disciplinas completamente distintas. Comparten algún aspecto en lo relativo al relieve, pero poco más, la geología abarca muchísimos aspectos totalmente ajenos a la geografía. La geología, junto a la flora y fauna, forma parte de la naturaleza de un país, pero no existe la categoría "Naturaleza de España". En geografía entran los accidentes geográficos y las divisiones administrativas, no la geología. Un saludo, --PePeEfe (talk) 10:24, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Perdona, sí existía la categoría "Naturaleza de España", pero también estaba bajo la categoría de "Geografía de España". He pasado la geología de España a la naturaleza de España y he he sacado ésta de geografía, pues, evidentemente, la naturaleza no es una parte de la geografía (en todo caso será la geografía física parte de la naturaleza). Un saludo, --PePeEfe (talk) 10:30, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

¡Hola, PePeEfe! Si me pusiera a buscar imágenes del relieve terrestre, sería razonable encontrarlas en la categoría "Naturaleza".

En todo caso, me confunde que haya categorías "Geografía", "Naturaleza" y "Ambiente", me cueesta entender qué fotos van dónde. Saludos, NaBUru38 (talk) 01:01, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Sí es un poco lioso, mucha gente confunde esos conceptos. Lo de ambiente no tengo ni idea qué quiere decir, podría ser más o menos sinónimo de paisaje, que también existe; aquí creo que se mezcla el consevacionismo. Una rama de la geografía, la geografía física, que incluye la geomorfología, se estudia, con diferentes matices, desde ambas disciplinas, geografía y geología, pero es la única zona gris. Otra parte de la geografía, la geografía política, sin embargo, no forma parte en absoluto de la naturaleza o del medio natural, forma parte de las disciplinas sociales o humanidades, por lo que conceptualmente no pueden subordinarse una a otra o sinonimizarse.

En cualquier caso la geografía incluye todas aquellas formas singulares descriptivas del relieve y las que tradicionalmente se han considerado parte de la geografía: mares, ríos, lagos, montes, penínsulas, desiertos, formaciones rocosas, paisajes, cuevas, etc. Mientras que geología incluye todo lo relacionado con origen, composición, y estructuras de las rocas (como litologías y formaciones geológicas, no como formas singulares del relieve), mapas geológicos, fósiles, minerales, estructuras geológicas y tectónica (pliegues, fallas, volcanes, estructuras sedimentarias, etc.), afloramientos, yacimientos, minería, procesos que dan lugar a los relieves, y un largo etc. (Puedes ver por ejemplo una diferencia entre w:es:Formación rocosa y w:es:Formación geológica). La geografía, además, no estudia los procesos geológicos como el metamorfismo o el magmatismo, que se producen en el interior de la tierra debidos a procesos geológicos internos, por lo que las rocas plutónicas y metamórficas, le son ajenas, solo las estudia desde el punto de vista geomorfológico cuando se meteorizan en superficie. Lo mismo con los procesos orogénicos de formación del relieve o cualquier fenómeno de origen interno o histórico (tectónica de placas, plumas del manto, estructura interna de la Tierra, sísmica, diagénesis, paleomagnetismo, extinción de los dinosaurios, etc.).

Alguna foto o subcategoría podrá, por tanto, estar en ambas categorías. Los volcanes, por ejemplo, se han estudiado, como forma del relieve por la geografía, pero el vulcanismo, como tal, lo estudia la geología. Por ejemplo, en las tipologías de volcanes influye la composición de los magmas, más viscosos o fluidos según el contenido en gases, sílice, minerales máficos, etc., que no estudia la geografía, pero la geología sí estudia, además de las causas, modos, o el vulcanismo del pasado remoto, que no tiene porqué dejar formas especiales en el relieve (una formación volcánica interestratificada en una secuencia sedimentaria se escapa completamente a la geografía, pero sigue siendo evidencia de un volcán, aunque sea del pasado).

Algo que confunde mucho son los Atlas geográficos, que suelen empezar hablando del medio físico, desde el origen del universo, la formación del sistema solar, la Tierra, la geología, e, introduciendo cada capítulo geográfico, de la etnografía, demografía y economía de cada región, pareciendo, por tanto, que todos estos aspectos forman parte de la geografía, cuando realmente son tomados prestados de las disciplinas que los estudian.

Perdona la extensión, y quizá mi falta de claridad o precisión en las explicaciones, pero son aspectos que la mayor parte de la gente confunde. Espero haberte aclarado algo. Cualquier precisión o ampliación que necesites me lo dices. Un saludo, --PePeEfe (talk) 07:13, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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Mercosur

Hello. Sorry, I thought that it was a racing series and these was just one of the races. I will revert it right now. regards.--Montesita (talk) 22:33, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

CfD: College athletics programs

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File:2024 Uruguayan internal election - Gabriel Gurméndez banners.jpg has been nominated for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:2024 Uruguayan internal election - Gabriel Gu… This is a deletion request for the community to discuss whether the nominated page should be kept or deleted. Please voice your opinion in the linked request above. Thank you very much! If you created this file, 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. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

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This image must NOT have any censor

This image https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fiat_Punto,_BYD_F0_and_Chevrolet_Celta_in_Montevideo_in_2024.jpg was taken in a public space so the censor of the license plates is NOT needed 2806:101E:A:4D7E:429:106D:9A6E:59D5 15:04, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I always remove license plates per en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles/Conventions... where that policy was removed by OSX in May 2014. I don't recall having ever seen that change, or a vote to remove that, so I continued doing it all these years. NaBUru38 (talk) 17:51, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2024 voting is open!

2023 Picture of the Year: Incense plays an important role in Vietnamese life. It is considered as a sacred bridge to connect the visible life of human beings and the world of heaven, earth, and gods. Photo taken in Quang Phu Cau village, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam. In this picture, incense sticks are being set out to dry, after being dipped in the incense solution.

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Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

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Recent changes

Hi NaBUru38. I kindly ask you to please consider reverting the recent category changes that replaced “Consumption of alcohol by country” with “Alcoholic beverages by country.” These are not the same concepts: consumption refers to the patterns and statistics of alcohol use in different countries, while alcoholic drinks refers to types of beverages produced or available in those countries. Even if one could argue that the distinction might be debatable, such a large-scale change should not be made unilaterally and without prior discussion with the community. Mass alterations of this kind need to be preceded by dialogue and consensus-building, especially when they affect a whole category system. Would you please revert the changes so that a proper discussion can take place first? Thank you for your understanding. Regards, Sturm (talk) 23:01, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello User:Sturm, how are you doing?

I felt that those pages were overcategorized. Also I planned to add pages about non-drinking alcohol, such as ethanol fuel. For that I had started adding pages at Category:Bioenergy in Brazil. So I got bold and started doing the changes.

Let me re-create the "Consumption of alcohol" categories with a new format, and see if you like it. Later! -- NaBUru38 (talk) 23:18, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

This is not a matter of whether I like it or not — you may even be right. I only ask that you please take care not to make large-scale edits in these “grey areas” without prior discussion. Even when changes may seem reasonable, mass edits should follow community dialogue first. Thank you, and good contributions! Sturm (talk) 23:25, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

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You are receiving this message because we noticed that you previously voted in the Picture of the Year contest. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2024) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

In this second and final round, you may vote for a maximum of three images. The image with the most votes will become the Picture of the Year 2024.

Round 2 will end at 11 October 2025, 23:59:59 UTC.

Click here to vote now! If you have already voted for Round 2, please ignore this message.

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee