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Carl Locher

Would you do me the honour of explaining the schemed plan that lies behind the filing of this painter Category:Carl Locher? Broichmore (talk) 08:58, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Yes of course, Broichmore, but please, let us go easy on the sarcasm.

First, you need to know the background. In 2016, I started to organize some of the categories concerning Category:Marine paintings. They may still look a mess, but trust me, it was worse then. It was obvious that a lot of users were in the dark about the different kinds of marine paintings - or they simply did not care. So I wrote a small guideline, found at Category talk:Marine art. It also forms the basis of the scheme for Carl Locher.

And yes, Carl Locher is one of my "pet" Danish painters. There is a small group who find and upload works by Danish artists and we try to adhere to some sort of standard for organizing the artists and their artworks. In the category:Carl Locher you would put photos of him, or a photo of his tombstone or documents related to him and portraits of him - but these can also be in a category of their own, as here. If the artist has less than five uploaded paintings, they would also go here, otherwise you make the category "paintings by xxx".

Commons has 11 genres for paintings and marine paintings is one of those. So you make "marine paintings by xxx" and put them there. As mentioned in the guideline, marine paintings can be further subdivided - and they should. If there is a number of paintings showing just waves and no ships, you make "seascapes by xxx", if there are paintings of specific ships, you make "paintings of ships by xxx", and if there are paintings of naval battles you make "paintings of naval battles by xxx".

So why the "oil" part? Well there has been a lot of painters who made cheap ships portraits with pen and watercolour, and the "oil" bit was introduced to seperate the oil paintings from those. It is not used throughout the whole range of marine painters and I am not fanatical about it, but some users take great care to identify oil paintings, so there it is.

You write a lot about "diffusion". If the category system was one-dimensional with only one hierachy, I could understand you for not wanting endless levels with few items. But the Commons category system is multi-dimensional. You never know where the user starts looking, and a lot of categories/entry points is a good thing. It you are looking for "marine paintings", why should you have to know who Carl Locher is? In the present system, you do not have to know, but you will find him anyway.

So, there it is - your comments are welcome. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 12:17, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. You just now moved File:Carl Locher - Den danske øvelseseskadre 1890.png containing identifiable ships from paintings of ships to oil paintings of ships. Why? Because its in oil.

About 10 minutes before that there were a total 9 oil pictures of ships; 5 were in 'paintings of ships' (4 identifiable and 1 not identified); and 4 were in 'oil paintings of ships' (3 identified, and 1 unidentifiable).

Again all these pictures are in oil.

Regards Broichmore (talk) 13:01, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your observations, Broichmore. Yes there is still some work to do, and hopefully there will be time for it soon. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 03:37, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Jens Thielsen Locher

What about Category:Jens Thielsen Locher which has at least 70% of it's content put there by me, previously lost in the ether. Jens Thielsen Locher contains zero quantity images, empty, except for 1 cat, Paintings by Jens Thielsen Locher. That cat, in turn, has again zero images except for yet another 1 cat which is Category:Paintings of ships by Jens Thielsen Locher containing 14 files. Why three cats nested in such a way and only one having any content? As far as I know that does not follow policy or even any guidelines of any description. First two cats empty. Three clicks before content.

There's no need for this kind of complexity, it's as far from KISS as you can get. You yourself have said (about making cats) in the past the point is that you only create them if there is enough relevant material for them.

Take a look here: a file that wouldn’t even be on the project without me, now marked' revision 391379430 by Broichmore (talk) - autopatrol revoked - patrolled for policy violations).' I'm asking you, what policy violations? Broichmore (talk) 00:10, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Broichmore. The category structure of Jens Thielsen Locher mimics that of his son, albeit on a smaller scale. The reasons are the same: The category system on Commons is multi-dimensional. Yes, when you reach him via his name, there are two empty categories. If you reached him via "Paintings from Denmark by artist", there would be only one empty, and if you reached him via "Paintings of ships by artist" there would be no empty categories. You may disagree with this sort of category structure, and as said before, you are free to discuss it in the right forums. But you are not free to change/delete it without discussion - and that is the policy violation you ask about.

Your work finding good illustrations "in the ether" is very much appreciated. But - like the rest of us - you need to come to terms with the fact that you are part of a collaborative effort which has its own rules. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 05:46, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

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--Killarnee (T•R•P) 21:06, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

 Done --Rsteen (talk) 04:18, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

changed the sortorder for the Danish artist Peder Mønsted

Many programs will not recognize ø , or will alphabetize it after Z.Wmpearl (talk) 21:18, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Great uploads

Thank you and keep up the good work! :) --Palosirkka (talk) 06:54, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Palosirkka. Can see you are doing a lot of work yourself. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 11:17, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

License question

Hi, I have uploaded this and a few more images from Statens Museum for Kunst which have been released under a "CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)" license. Now they have been tagged by a but and I see that it doesn't show as a valid license tag on the page. Wpuld you be able to tell me if the license is valid and if so what I should write to make it show properly?Ramblersen2 (talk) 09:28, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Ramblersen2. Just use the template {{CC0}}, and delete the bot warning. See example in the Just Mathias Thiele file. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 09:46, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

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Hi Magog the Ogre. There was a large number of files with links to Category:Films starring Giancarlo Esposito and they linked on to the general "Artists from Denmark" category. Is it possible to remove that single category? Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 04:02, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

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Hi Magog the Ogre. Same problem as yesterday. How do I remove Category:Films starring Giancarlo Esposito from the search? Cheers ----Rsteen (talk) 04:07, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

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Ang maleri af Rud Jacobsen

Jeg ved ikke, om dette er det rette sted, er ikke så vant til wiki. Jeg uploadede i går et maeri, der har været i min families eje i næsten 100 år. Jeg har fotos fra mine forældres hjem, langt langt tilbage i tiden, til 1950'erne og 60'erne, hvor dette maleri hænger på væggen i mine forældres dagligstue.

Jeg har bestemt ikke haft den ringeste intension om at krænke nogens rettighed, har slet ikke tænkt tanken, med et så gammelt maleri, må jeg indrømme.

Hvis det er et problem, skal det selvfølgelig væk. Jeg har ingen som helst personlig interesse, men faldt blot over dette wiki link ti Rud Jacobsen, og tænkte at jeg ville gøre det bedre, ved at uploade dette familiemaleri, som min mormor i sin tid gav til mine forældre da de var purunge.

Har jeg gjort noget forkert, skal jeg stærkt beklage det, det har aldrig været min hensigt.

Med venlig hilsen

Søren H. Nicolaisen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Søren H. Nicolaisen (talk • contribs) 13:33, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Hej Søren. (User:Søren H. Nicolaisen). Det er helt i orden. Reglerne kan være indviklede. Det er et fint foto, men vi må vente til 2026 med at vise det på Commons. Det kan være lidt ærgeligt, når man har en god gengivelse af en kunstners værker, men vi er nødt til at følge reglerne, ellers kan fondet, der driver Wikipedia og Commons m.v. blive udsat for ubehagelige retssager. Venlig hilsen Ebbe --Rsteen (talk) 16:09, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Ok. Tak for svaret Ebbe Søren H. Nicolaisen (talk) 16:29, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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Comment: This is what happens when you have a slow(ish) internet connection. During the upload, the process will be terminated and you will be informed (erroneously) that the servers are under maintenance etc. They are not - you were just timed out. In some cases, the image made it to the Wikimedia servers (it pops up in your "Uploads"), but the artwork or information template is not there. You then have to use the "create" option to get the image properly registered. This involves uploading a dummy image to avoid being told that you are uloading a duplicate of an existing image (!). During that process, a warning such as the one above may arrive. The bot is doing good work - there are many inexperienced users - but in this case it just adds to the irritation of having to work with a slow(ish) internet connection in (otherwise beautiful) rural Italy - hence this comment. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 05:57, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

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 Done There was a Public Domain entry for this painting at Wikidata. But apparently that is not picked up by Commons. --Rsteen (talk) 17:48, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	Thanks for uploading Jørgen Roed - Siddende neapolitansk dreng - 1838.png that was selected as Picture of the month on the Neapolitan Wikisource. --Ruthven (msg) 20:16, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Ciao Ruthven. Grazie per le informazioni e il barnstar. Bello sapere che il dipinto è apprezzato. Saluti --Rsteen (talk) 01:51, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

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Hi Magog the Ogre. It seems that every picture that could possibly be connected to Category:Honorary doctors of the University of Athens ended up here. And that was a lot. The link resulted from the University being connected to the Danish architect Christian Hansen. Now I have modified the structure, so only the University main building is connected to Hansen - which makes more sense to me. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 06:01, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

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Hi Choliamb. Thanks for this message. Just took a look at the new version and must admit it is actually sharper, so let us keep it by all means. The book scans at archive.org differ wildly in quality and it is always a good idea to search for a better scan, for instance at hathitrust.org. By the way, good job getting hold of the original book. Cheers Rsteen (talk) 14:45, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

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Categories - we need to work closer together on this

Hi Ebbe,

I think we need to work closer on categories.

I must admit that I don't have the expertise needed to meet your wishes regarding categorisation of images from Statens Museum for Kunst.

Firstly I agree that we should try to aim high here!

There are several problems.

First of all that I've identified 127 unique categories in their database. This is something that you clearly find to be too much, for instance that you consider woodcut prints and woodcut to be the same, ie. woodcut, this has resulted in you having to fix that manually, and we clearly want to avoid that, it's a waste of time.

What I have in mind is that I start with object types that I assume are well defined, my assumption is that that would be paintings.

All in all this an exercise in mapping between SMKs object types (127) and the ones you want (maybe 20-30), this should be quite simple, but I can't do it alone.

I've also created a template along the lines of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, it is here.

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Looking forward to working closely with you on this, you can send my mail on kim.bach@gmail.com or wikimail, I'm quite open about my contact information :-) da:User:Kim_Bach Kim Bach (talk) 10:08, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

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Some stroopwafels for you!

Thank you ! Flibust1er (talk) 22:10, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you Flibust1er. So kind of you. Is there any special occasion? Cheers Rsteen (talk) 03:33, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

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Help with a Budtz Møller title

Hello, Ebbe Hove -- I plan to upload a photo of an untitled 1905 oil painting by Carl Budtz Møller, and I would be most grateful if you could suggest a title (in Danish), perhaps a brief, descriptive one suitable for the Wikimedia category "Paintings by Carl Budtz Møller" that you created. The painting depicts a kneeling male nude in a studio or at least indoors, seen from behind. Can you please make a suggestion? --Jdsteakley (talk) 01:26, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello Jdsteakley. Budtz Møller mainly painted landscapes and genre works, so there is no shortage of titles for your upload. "A kneeling male model" would be Knælende mandlig model and a man seen from behind would be Rygvendt mandlig model. And thank you for participating in this wonderful project. Cheers Rsteen (talk) 06:50, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your speedy reply! --Jdsteakley (talk) 21:48, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Marine painting cat

Hi, when I created the Template:Marinepaintingcat, I added a provision that if Category: [year] painting by genre" exists, it will sort there. If not, it will sort into Category: [year] paintings. Can I ask why you took that out?

Right now, there are many "[year] marine paintings" categories that are entirely disconnected from the "[year] paintings" parent categories, because neither "[year] paintings by genre" and "[year] paintings by subject" exist for that year. Are you planning to create those categories for all the years? It seems like a cumbersome manual task just to make all these intermediate categories for each year, unless you know of a faster way to create and populate them. Perhaps I have been doing it the hard way unnecessarily. Many thanks. MarbleGarden (talk) 21:16, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi MarbleGarden. Thank you for participating in the categorization process. It is because of users like you that Commons is not just a vast collection of random files, but a usable repository for knowledge, along with Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia branches. Yes, I changed your edit. The rationale is that I do not find conditional statements - of the kind you inserted - very useful in this context. It would be better to have a fixed structure across the different subjects, hopefully aided by templates that solidify this structure. I would rather see red links to year and decade categories than have an uneven and unpredictable structure. The red links may be fixed along the way. If you do not agree in the edit, you can start a formal discussion on the template discussion page, but at least now you know the reason for the edit. Cheers Rsteen (talk) 03:38, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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Hi Prosfilaes. The Paul Fischer with the creator template is a German photographer, not known for paintings and drawings. The Gustav middle name for the painter was not widely used, and is really only used on Commons to distinguish him from the German. I therefore see no reason to change all these painting and drawing subcategories. Cheers Rsteen (talk) 03:37, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

How to ask for speedy-delete of an empty category

When you want to ask for speedy-delete of an empty category, best practice is to mark it with {{SD|C2}} if it would be OK to re-create it in the future, given that appropriate content becomes available or {{SD|C1}} if it is an inappropriate category name that should not be reused. In particular, this is better practice than just blanking the category page, as you did at Category:Graphics by Carl Locher in the Statens Museum for Kunst. ("C1" and "C2" come from Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion). Jmabel ! talk 15:08, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, this is helpful advice. Rsteen (talk) 02:25, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

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Statens Museum for Kunst

Jeg savner et stærkt et sted at finde overblik over Statens Museum for Kunst og dets samlinger mm på Commons. Jeg har i diverse andre sammenhænge lavet gallerier med det formål at få bedre overblik over diverse emner, såsom Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Vejen Kunstmuseum, Løgumkloster, Kastellet, Kongens Nytorv og Børsen. Er det noget jeg kan inspirere dig til? Hjart (talk) 09:17, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Hej Hjart. Det er et godt initiativ at få et bedre galleri. Ved bare ikke om jeg er den rigtige til det. Mit kendskab til samlingerne er stort set begrænset til den danske malerisamling. Resten er mere eller mindre sporadisk.

Ved et gennemsyn at siderne med kategorier fra SMK må man sige, at det p.t. ser noget uorganiseret ud. Vi har kunnet glæde os over en massiv tilgang af gengivelser af værker fra SMK på Commons, men bagsiden er altså, er der er dannet kategorier til højre og venstre - selvfølgelig alt sammen i den bedste mening. Tror at min indsats i første omgang vil begrænse sig til at hjælpe med til at strømlinje strukturen for kategorierne under SMK. Venlig hilsen Rsteen (talk) 10:33, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Paintings in Statens Museum for Kunst

Thanks for your note in the edit summary when you reverted my change to Category:Paintings by Carl Bloch in Statens Museum for Kunst. I was trying to take care of the many duplicate categories in the parent category.

Can you point me to where the decision was made not to use the word "the"? Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 06:11, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi Auntof6. Well, discussions take place in the strangest places. In this case it was done here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ham_II#"in_the_Statens_Museum_for_Kunst" I can see that we both followed along first on the "the" path, but then the man from the Museum changed his mind, and "the" was dropped. A lot of double categories have to be redirected after that ... Cheers Rsteen (talk) 06:29, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

OK, got it. It's like saying 'Rio Grande River." I'll continue working on this as I have time, but using the categories without "the". -- Auntof6 (talk) 06:52, 5 December 2024 (UTC)