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Image cropping[edit]

Hi Alan

Just a comment on the cropping you recently did on a Fonterra image that I took. I have reverted this, because I want this to retain the wider-angle view with thw whole of the street etc... as the default image, not just hidden in the file history. The wider shot is a quite different look than a crop of just the Fonterra facility. If you want to use a closer-up, the appropriate way to do this on Commons would be to re-upload the cropped image with a slightly altered file name and optionally a reference that it is a derivative of the original file (it would not count as a candidate for a "duplicate" tag, as this changes the image's focus and appearance). You can then swap out and use the derivative file for whatever article you preferred the crop on. Many thanks and happy editing. Ingolfson (talk) 20:56, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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File tagging File:Sociable.ogg[edit]

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Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 17:57, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Autopatrol given[edit]

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. INeverCry 22:19, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. Alan Liefting (talk) 22:21, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File source is not properly indicated: File:Fredrik andersson.jpg[edit]

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a headsup[edit]

The deletion policies recommend checking to see if an image is of use, when one is considering nominating it for deletion. Did you consider doing that for File:Hazrat_Ali,_Afghan_politician.jpg?

I suggested that since the image was illustrating the article on Hazrat Ali for over half a decade the image was sufficient usable, after all. Geo Swan (talk) 21:42, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Picture of the Year voting round 1 open[edit]

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File:Abraham ready to sacrifice his son, Isaac (top); Abraham cast into fire by Nimrod (bottom).jpg[edit]

Hi, the above file was renamed at your request. I have suggested that it be reverted to its original name for reasons given at User talk:INeverCry. Paul Barlow (talk) 21:08, 22 January 2013 (UTC)‎[reply]

Yasuni map[edit]

I did the work here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop#Rework_a_location_map Bye,-- Fulvio ³¹⁴ 18:01, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

About File:Crystal (8372123133).jpg[edit]

Hello. You recently reverted a category change of the picture File:Crystal (8372123133).jpg twice. Please stop. This picture is not depicting the island of Zealand in Denmark. If you have any doubts, I can inform you there are no mountains or rocky hills even on Zealand. It is almost as flat as can be. If you follow the coordinate designation of the file, you will see the photograph is in fact taken at Lake Te Anau in New Zealand. The text associated with this picture is untrue and erroneous. I expect you to revert your change and I hope you can change the text as well, while at it? No offence.

RhinoMind (talk) 16:38, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No offence taken of course. I have now correctly categorised it and amended the description based on the camera co-ordinates. I assumed the description was correct and did not follow the camera supplied co-ordinates. When you reverted my edit you should have amended the description.

It is annoying when there is incorrect information supplied by a user. User generated content is so damn flaky. Sigh... Alan Liefting (talk) 04:54, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Countryside and nature[edit]

Hi. this edit makes me wonder if (or why not) countryside is a sub category of nature. The top category Category:Countryside is in Category:Nature is that also wrong then? --MGA73 (talk) 18:07, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Countryside is a mix of both natural (nature) and built ("unnatural") aspects therefore it cannot be a subset of Category:Nature. Category:Geography or Category:Places are better super-catergories for it. Alan Liefting (talk) 22:30, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Australian pearls[edit]

there is no discussion to do. It's empty so I ask for speedy deletion. bye--Pierpao.lo (listening) 22:47, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

deleted--Pierpao.lo (listening) 01:40, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Removing from categories[edit]

Hi, I noticed you removed the category Austria from several files that depict posters issued in Austria in World War I, File:Zeichnet vierte österreichische Kriegsanleihe LCCN2004666173.jpg for example. Those posters indeed belong to that topic, they only need an appropriate subcategory. Removing them from the topic Austria entirely is the wrong way. --Martin H. (talk) 19:07, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Similarly, you seem to be making massive removals from Category:Work, to the point of simply being destructive of information and of the category. Please stop this. For example, the only interest of File:Seattle street work 02.jpg is that it shows people working on a street in a manner that involved digging a portion of the street open and covering it with metal plates. You have left it so that its only category is Category:Streets in Seattle. There is approximately no chance that anyone looking for an image like this would be looking by location, so a change like this is simply destructive. If a category is insufficiently precise, feel free add (and if necessary make) a more precise subcategory, do not remove the existing category. And if something else was going on here besides the category being insufficiently precise, you've left behind no clue to the reason for the changes you made. Please either revert this set of changes or do the work of diffusing the category to something more useful. - Jmabel ! talk 14:23, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Doing the massed removals is not a decision that I made lightly. After considering the many issues I came to the conclusion that it is of overall advantage to the project. Alan Liefting (talk) 20:21, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Perhaps you should consider not coming to that conclusion unilaterally. I don't think I'm going at all out on a limb to say that removal (as against refinement) of accurate categories is generally not at all supported. Because this removes the information entirely, it makes it almost impossible for someone else to spot these and refine them later, except if they happen to notice (as I did) that you are doing this, and go through your edits systematically to try to restore what you've broken. Thank you for fixing this on the particular photo I pointed out as an example, but I mentioned it to address a more general issue. I believe these edits are counterproductive, which is basically exactly what Martin also said. - Jmabel ! talk 05:22, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Let me explain my rationale for the massed edits (not in any order of importance):
    - Files are added en masse by automated processes to incorrect categories
    - They remain poorly categorised for years on end
    - The problem in present on possibly tens of thousands of files
    - Wikiedit time is precious and needs to be used efficiently (I have spent a huge amount of time on some images which the uploader did not give sufficient information for file renaming and recategorisation).
    - I usually look at a sample of the files in question and it has shown that the amount of possible loss of information is low.
    - If the edits remove the sole category the file is then tagged by a bot for recategorisation.
    - Some editors mistakenly use categories as tags so Commons (as with Wikipedia but to a lesser degree) ends up with large amounts of overcategorisation.
    - "Category clutter" is rife
    - ~~I am a poorly paid volunteer.~~

Does this ally your concerns? Alan Liefting (talk) 06:14, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"ally" => "allay", I presume. No, it does not. The linked examples are edits where you went the wrong way. For example, my concern about Category:Work was not bot-based at all. Similarly, Martin H.'s example is something where the category should either have been left alone or refined. Again, if you want to refine these categories, great, but removing highly relevant categories is distinguishable from vandalism only by the fact that you make good edits elsewhere. And inappropriate removals, unlike inappropriate additions, are hard for anyone to go back and fix, because the only way to find this stuff is to go through the contributions page of the person who did it.- Jmabel ! talk 23:31, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	Well done! Ziegler175 (talk) 05:35, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Alan Liefting (talk) 06:30, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

empty cats[edit]

Hello. I suggest that if you find any empty category not to open a discussion but simply use the {{Emptypage}}. Congratulation for the barnstar. Bye --Pierpao.lo (listening) 08:26, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, Dear Filemover![edit]

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--Steinsplitter (talk) 20:56, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mass uploads to wrong categories[edit]

Hi Alan

I saw your comment Draft pages polluting content categories and added my own comment there. That user, who is supposed to be an admin here, seems to have a habit of this. I spent more than two days trying to begin to sort the mess he made of Category:Kalachakra and some other categories such as Category:Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama in 2014 with a flood of photos by Christopher Michel - by recategorizing and requesting a rename for many of the files and moving many others the sub-category Category:Kalachakra empowerment, Ladakh, 2014 to get hem out of the way. Many of these files have no realistic use for an educational purpose and as well as the categories being wrong the file names and description are meaningless. I guess he just uploads these files by an automated process with no regard for the havoc and unnecessary cleanup work this causes. Given the number of files he seems to upload in this way, I can't see any way it might be possible for him to properly categorize, name, and describe all the files he uploads - which means he is just making a mess for others to clean up. Christopher Fynn (talk)) 11:46, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments. I am getting the impression that mass uploads from Flikr streams should not be automated. Uploads of images from Flickr should be on a case by case basis. Alan Liefting (talk) 22:34, 26 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fijian dancers in Edmonton[edit]

Hello, Alan Liefting! Just a note that I have restored the categories Culture of Edmonton and Neighbourhoods of Edmonton to the photos of Fijian dancers on Alberta Avenue, because I believe they are as relevant to this area as to the subjects’ former homeland. But I’m open to discussion if you think they’re inappropriate.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 22:16, 26 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They are difficult ones to categorise. Firstly, I am unsure if it is on an Alberta Ave in Fiji or in Edmonton. One of the descriptions suggests Fiji but a good assumption would be that they are in Edmonton. I guess Culture of Edmonton is sort of appropriate even though it is an image of Fijian culture. I don't agree with having them in Neighbourhoods of Edmonton at all since it is not directly related to that category. The images may well be in a neighbourhood of Edmonton but that is not the main subject of the image. Regards. Alan Liefting (talk) 22:32, 26 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AFAICT the images are from a street festival that was part of an (ongoing) neighbourhood revitalization project, featuring performances by ethnic music & dance groups based in the community. (The set includes a couple of shots of belly-dancers as well.) The files in Neighbourhoods of Edmonton will eventually be diffused into specific subcategories, by district or community.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 05:43, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why?[edit]

Hello Alan, why did you removed this cat? --Jean11 (talk) 19:50, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Category:2008, along with all of the other year categories, is high up on the category hierarchy and so it should contain very few if any files. The files it should contain would be of global interest and specific to 2008. I was considering placing the file in Category:2008 in Germany but that is still not quite the right place for it. Finally, if the tree is erected every year and does not look any different year by year it should not have a year specific category. Cheers. Alan Liefting (talk) 04:21, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wellcome Images barnstar[edit]

		Wellcome Images volunteer barnstar
		Thank you for helping to categorise the Wellcome Image library uploads. You are in our project hall of fame for your work! --Fæ (talk) 13:30, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your question[edit]

I don't see that you ever responded to my answer to your question now archived at User talk:Ww2censor/Archive2#Stamps. Did you want to expand on your thoughts or take your suggestion any further? Thanks Ww2censor (talk) 10:21, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am just busy enough without getting involved in yet another task. I would suggest setting up a WikiProject Philately (instead of WikiProject Stamps) to coordinate all of the non-content postage stamp related info. Alan Liefting (talk) 18:36, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Me too but as I replied, WikiProject Philately already exists (in 4 languages) and it encompasses all aspects of philately, postal services and stamps and I am already a member. I just wondered what you actually had in mind. You can see the current situation at en:User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Philately. I really don't know what you mean by the non-content postage stamp related info. Ww2censor (talk) 20:45, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that WikiProjects are underutilised on Commons. They are easy to set up. I can do it if you want. See Commons:WikiProjects for some info. Commons:WikiProject Philately and Category:WikiProject Philately would be good page names.

Non-content pages are the stuff that Commons viewers don't want to see, e.g. maintenance pages, template pages, user pages etc. Alan Liefting (talk) 05:34, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll have a look but I'm not sure if there are others willing to cooperate and it is certainly too much work for just one person. Ww2censor (talk) 10:53, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Removing from Category:Israel[edit]

Hello Alan Liefting,

Thanks for you help in categories files related to Israel but you must to understand that removing the category when it is the only category in the file is not helpful. The files remaining without any category at all and nobody can find them and use then. I will move back the category to the files. When there are files in this category it usually means that they are for classify to other related categories. Thanks again for your help in tht issue. -- Geagea (talk) 03:37, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, {{Categorise}} is required even when done, unlike {{Catdiffuse}}, for some hint that the category SHOULD NOT contain media. Sooner or later new halfway identified files will arrive.
Neither {{CatCat}} nor {{MetaCat}} are suited for categories containing galleries. Maybe create a better tag for cases like Israel. Generally "move from unidentified halfway to correct" (where experts can handle the rest, e.g. "plant") is better than bouncing it back to unidentified/uncategorized—unless even that was wrong (alleged "plant" is no plant at all.) –Be..anyone (talk) 07:53, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

COM:AN/U[edit]

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Loch Tay pic deletion request[edit]

Thanks for your message on the pic showing the Old Jetty at Lawers. Unless I'm losing my wits, I recall requested a speedy deletion of it after spotting the typo in the title, and uploaded the image anew. Since hearing from you, I've been to several different pages wondering how to deal with it, and to discover where best to leave this message so that it comes to your attention. The image should indeed be deleted. Kim Traynor (talk) 10:31, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take another look at the case. I had the impression that it just needed the typo in the title fixed up. Alan Liefting (talk) 21:16, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Kim Traynor: you had asked for a rename which I carried out. Are you saying that you have uploaded another file that is the same? If so then one or the other could be deleted. Alan Liefting (talk) 21:20, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Undid an edit to File:MoveDropdown, Gadget-RenameLink - 2012-03-13, en.png[edit]

Reason: You added the template in code tags which caused the template to be expand which is certainly undesired as image note and does not really fit into the sentence. -- Rillke^(q?) 22:26, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

warning[edit]

Next time you will mass remove the category of Israel from files you will be blocked. If you will continue to disturb me with the issue of the category of Israel. Enough is enough, you have enough explanations which you can learn from them the correct way. You already blocked before for edit warring so please pay attention not to do so again. -- Geagea (talk) 19:38, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I will reply to this unjustified warning and threat at Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems#User:Geagea. Alan Liefting (talk) 05:55, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AN/U[edit]

I reported you in AN/U Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems#User:Alan Liefting. -- Geagea (talk) 08:55, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was expecting something like this. You really don't like editors moving files out of Category:Israel do you. Anyway, I have to go to bed. Got work tomorrow. Alan Liefting (talk) 09:26, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, your recent assumption might be off track. This year 162 of Geagea's file uploads have been deleted (not counting images in open DRs), and during their total history, 1,066 have been deleted while 36,576 images are 'live' on Commons. A deletion count requires some context as there may be many reasons why a batch upload might later need to have a large proportion deleted (such as near duplicates being discovered). It is likely that a "deleted edits" count for an admin includes files/pages that they marked for speedy deletion etc. but are not their own uploads.

In terms of best practice for what counts as a large dump of files in a category, note this part of Commons:Guide_to_batch_uploading#Categories — "if a large number of files - say over 20, but sometimes fewer - are going to be added to a category, it is often best to either spread them among subcategories, or create a new sub-category for them."

Best of luck, frankly I am finding it impossible to discuss this problematic behaviour without others claiming that saying anything against an administrator is bad faith. --Fæ (talk) 11:14, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Google Glass jpg[edit]

Hi Alan, I am the author of the Google glasses jpg. not sure why you think it should be deleted. It is my original cartoon, and it should be labeled Google Glass, not Google Glasses. Otherwise I do not understand your objection, I am an infrequent poster to Wiki Commons and enjoy allowing others to use my artwork and photos, with permission, even though I find the posting protocols to be difficult.. yrs mamyjomarash — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.0.107.137 (talk • contribs)

The image does not appear to fall withing the scope of files hosted on Wikimedia Commons specifically due to:

"Artwork created by the uploader without obvious educational use."

Regards. Alan Liefting (talk) 04:55, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Category:20th_century_gallery_pages_by_year[edit]

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Your deletion rationale makes absolutely no sense. Alan Liefting (talk) 04:50, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Decategorisation[edit]

Are you sure it's fine to remove the only explicit category of a file? [1] --Federico Leva (BEIC) (talk) 15:36, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Of course it is not "fine", on the other hand it was not ideal but it was ok. Alan Liefting (talk) 19:30, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your disruptive DRs and your treating to other users are not helpful[edit]

Alan Liefting, as an experienced Commons user, you should know the Commons policies. But your behaviour in the last time says otherwise.

You was already blocked (unreasonably, I guess), but you, instead of stay COM:MELLOW, you still doing disruptive editions, including DRs of files clearly inside the COM:TOO, and treating discourteously to other users (including Administrators). Please stop your problematic behaviour in Commons, or I'll repory you to the COM:AN (that will be the thrid report in this year) to request a block for a reasonable ammount of time. --Amitie 10g (talk) 04:58, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Replies:

Yes, I do consider my block to be unreasonable.
I don't consider that my DRs are disruptive. The deletion to keep ratio is high.
I did not realise that I was being discourteous to other editors. Abrupt maybe, but not discourteous.
The previous two reports to COM:AN were from an admin trying to maintain a position that was out of step with the rest of the community and my editing was shown to be reasonable.

Please don't make threats about taking me to COM:AN. I don't think that is how wiki-ettiquite works. Regards. Alan Liefting (talk) 05:11, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I am not fully conversant with Commons policies but one tries to get oneself familiar with them. Alan Liefting (talk) 07:47, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Why a user registered in Commons more than 6 years ago and with more than 50.000 edits is still unfamiliar with the Commons (and other WMF projects) policies? Not a few users think your editions are not helpful (including administrators) and in some of cases disruptive, and even worse, vandalical.

Also, you have already been blocked in the en:Wikipedia several times by the same (disruptive editions). Ignoring the Commons (and other WMF projects) policies (strange, coming from an experienced user) does not eximes to comply them. --Amitie 10g (talk) 16:51, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is only recently that I began doing more that just uploads to Commons. Obviously, just doing uploads requires less knowledge of policy that doing a wider range of edits. While the range of guideline on Commons is far less than Wikipedia I am not going to say that I am completely familiar with them.

And yes, I have been blocked on Wikipedia a number of times. Interestingly it was mostly by one admin. That smacks of a vendetta to me

Now this may sound arrogant but rather than being disruptive I like to think that I am trying to make improvements to Commons (as I tried to do on Wikipedia) but the community is not interested. Many other editors tried to do what I am persevering with but they have given up in frustration and have left the project for good. Alan Liefting (talk) 17:02, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The big problem here is the lack of auto-critical, thinking you're assumming good faith and the others are assuming bad faith (alleging vendetta from some admins). You violated several Commons and Wipipedia policies, that is unquestionable.

Finally, you can question the quality of files, but not its scope. If several users disagrees your reasoning for your editions and DRs, is because we have more experience and know the Commons policies better than you. If you disagree the Commons policies, please discuss them in the Village Pump instead of questioning the Commons Policies in your DRs. --Amitie 10g (talk) 17:19, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Geagea[edit]

Hi, Please do not create such a large DR again. It is not useful. It is much too broad and each case has to be evaluated independently. Thanks, Yann (talk) 15:43, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Yann that this DR was not OK. Just curious: "I am in the process of collecting data to write an article about it. Stay tuned..." Can you elaborate a bit? --Steinsplitter (talk) 19:08, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I had discovered the Geagea was uploading all sorts of stuff in his/her mass uploads so I decided to go though them resulting in the DR in question. I obviously have a different opinion on what should be kept and what should be deleted. There is what I call the "Culture of Keep" here on Commons. It is really easy to get all sorts of digital detritus onto Commons and it is really hard to get rid of it. Given that some files were deleted in the DR in question it did achieve a measure of success.

The article that I mention on my user page as moved off my to-do list at present. When I started editing Commons in earnest I posted that note because I was so incredible disgusted with the state of Commons with respect to Wikipedia (although Wikipedia has its share of faults as well) that I thought I should research the "State of Commons" and bang on about it wildly by publishing an article in the appropriate forums.

Commons is not going to go anywhere if we don't fix the many problems that exist here. Alan Liefting (talk) 19:37, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It worked for Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Lamor100. Alan Liefting (talk) 01:35, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And at Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Tmclaren. Alan Liefting (talk) 04:51, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Deletions (User:Pikiwikisrael)[edit]

I know very well the COM:VFC and I usually use them. The individual DRs opened by me belongs to files tagged for Speedy by User:Pikiwikisrael, where them does meet the Criteria for Speedy deletions. The COM:VFC also allows to remove Speedy tags and convert them to DRs (that I done). Doing a mass DR does not work, because don't remove the Speedy tag, unless I have specialited tools to do that.

Thanks anyway for your message. --Amitie 10g (talk) 03:14, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Categorization you may enjoy[edit]

Hi, I don't know if you are playing with VFC or AWB yet, but my recent Miami U. uploads included many (probably a few hundred) artworks that were allocated to "YYYY photographs" categories rather than "YYYY drawings". This search shows over 400, but I'm not sure if that is all of them. I fixed this problem part way through the upload, but unfortunately it's the sort of thing that was easy to miss on setting it up. Just highlighting as I can see you helping with some of the categorization at the moment. --Fæ (talk) 17:25, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I zapped you a msg to u at the same time! I should have breakfast and go to work! Will have a look at that stuff later. Alan Liefting (talk) 17:29, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to busy volunteers, I see the total needing work is already being chipped away at.

--Fæ (talk) 19:04, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I think I have explained myself suffiecently over there. Alan Liefting (talk) 09:43, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Jahaanaa (talk) 12:39, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Rātana Church[edit]

Hi Alan! I am in love with your photo of the church in Rātana. I have done some significant research and uncovered interesting stories about the church and the region. I would love to share your work - with full credit - in a book I am trying to publish. I would love to know if this is something you would be open to allowing me to do. Please do let me know! I am happy to answer any questions you might have. Hope to hear back soon! Wk196847 (talk) 17:28, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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