User talk:Sionk

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Category:Llanfihangel-y-pennant

FYI This was confusing, with images ending up in the wrong category, so I've now fully split it into Category:Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Dolbenmaen and Category:Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Abergynolwyn. Cheers. Rodhullandemu (talk) 20:51, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Great! I found several when sorting through Category:Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Abergynolwyn that should have been in Category:Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Dolbenmaen instead. Sionk (talk) 21:21, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Autopatrol given

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St Asaph

Hi Sionk! Thanks for adding the new category and moving files over. I am currently transferring a bunch of files and I don't know how many years of car show mentioned in the bunch. I already have a script standing by to move the files after I am finished and know for sure if there's a 2013, 2014,... car show as well. Anyway, your help is much appreciated! --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 23:09, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

To be honest, I created the Category:St Asaph Car Show then realised there was also a St Asaph Classic Car and Motorcycle Show. I'm not sure whether they are run by the same people, but one appears to take place in the Autumn and the other at Easter. I've only categorised the files of the event(s) at the end of August/early September. IMO it will help greatly to move these dozens of car photos to their own category, so that the actual photos of the city can be easily seen. Sionk (talk) 22:19, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

You are 100% correct. I'll do some research about the names of the shows as soon as I am finished with the rest of my uploads. BTW: It doesn't really matter if there are two a year or not. As long as they don't flood the main category, all is good. Well, kinda good. Long story short: I'll be cleaning that up pretty soon. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 23:05, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Categorising

I don't believe I'm overcategorising. An individual ship can be linked with several countries. For example, a ship may have been built in South Korea (Category:Ships by country of manufacture / Category:Ships built in South Korea), be registered and therefore fly the flag of Panama (Category:Ships by country / Category:Ships of Panama) and then be photographed in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Category:Ships by country of location / Category:Ships in Rotterdam) All of the categories I've just linked have existed for some time; I've recently only been creating some more specific categories focusing on certain types of ship (eg Category:Tankers in France). I don't see that as overcategorisation, given the very large number of ship images now on Commons. However, I acknowledge that some explanation at the top of categories is appropriate, and in the near future, I will add some explanations. Bahnfrend (talk) 04:54, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for restoring my faith in this place, I was just about ready to close it (assuming you'd gone with keep and was rather surprised you didn't) so thanks for that :), –Davey2010^Talk 23:04, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Ward maps

Hi,

Is there any reason you are using JPG for files like File:Electoral wards in Holyhead.jpg? PNG is a much more appropriate format for that sort of content.

In the ideal world SVG would be used, but that requires more complex image editing. That said it should be easy to create ones like File:Isle of Anglesey UK wards - Caergybi locator.png, as its derived from one of my SVG maps.--Nilfanion (talk) 17:46, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Okay, I'll save them as PNG in future. Just a habit of mine to save images as JPG, but I take your point. Sionk (talk) 10:25, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Category:Worm's_Head

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Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:57, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

File:Cardiff Central watertower with Mabinogion mural.jpg

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Category:Bridges_over_the_River_Taff

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Blythwood (talk) 00:43, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Category:Lochs of the Inner Hebrides

You've put this into Category:Lochs of Highland council area. The problem is that some of the Inner Hebrides are in Category:Argyll and Bute. Rodhullandemu (talk) 13:57, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Fair enough. There was quite a bit of overcategorisation of Scottish lochs and I initially thought this was another example of this. Hopefully I've reverted my edits now. Sionk (talk) 22:36, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. Also, Category:Lochs of Scotland by name was intended to be a flat list for those who know the name of a loch but not where it is, so removing items from it rather defeats its purpose. Cheers. Rodhullandemu (talk) 23:29, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Any that have been removed from the parent category are in the sub-categories. Sionk (talk) 23:36, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Paintings by country

Hi Sionk. You have done a couple of edits that make sweeping changes to the way paintings by country are organised. Maybe you are not aware that there are at least three lines of ordering paintings by country, being by country of origin, by country of location and by the depicted country. You seem to assume that this is just about country of location, but the World is not that simple. Please revert your edits. If you do not agree on the way paintings by country is set up, we have forums to discuss that, and your comments there will be welcome. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 13:28, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

I'm unaware of any 'sweeping' changes I've made. If there are any 'by country' categories that aren't 'by county', then they need renaming. People who categorise art aren't mindreaders and need a self-explanatory categorisation tree. To be honest, I was originally looking for a "Paintings by artist by nationality" category and couldn't find one. Sionk (talk) 13:36, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi again. The problem is, that you make paintings by country point to paintings by location. As explained, that is not the only meaning of "by country", it is just the location part, and it shuts out the two other branches. There is already a subcategory called paintings by country of location so your edit just confuses things. If you really want this to be the only branch, the please make a discussion item. And yes, it is sweeping, so please revert it, plus changes to paintings by artist by country and paintings by country by artist. This is a very delicate structure. You may not agree on it, but please do not make this changes to it before it has been discussed. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 14:07, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Well, I'm completely confused now. In my books a country is a location. You're welcome to revert any edits that are wrong, but I suggest it might be helpful if you add an inclusion criteria for the offending categories, so the same confusion doesn't arise in the future. I'll avoid working on the "Paintings" category tree until someone clarifies how it works. Cheers. Sionk (talk) 14:47, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

No problem. It can be confusing, just see the discussion Category_talk:Paintings_by_country. Please bear in mind that a country can be both a location ("in"), a homeland ("from") and a place to depict ("of"). These are the lines of categorization the community have chosen, and the discussion gives a short explanation. Your edits will be reverted. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 15:53, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Three edits have been reverted. I do not know what you mean by an "inclusion criteria". The structure has been explained - somebody else could probably do it better - but there it is in the discussion. Cheers --Rsteen (talk) 16:13, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Inclusion criteria = an explanation of what is (and isn't) included in the category. Sionk (talk) 19:02, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Wicipics Project

Hello! Thanks for all you contributions to the Wicipics project. The campaign to collect images for our new archive has now ended (although you are welcome to keep contributing) and we are putting together data for the images, which will appear on the Peoples Collection Wales website, and eventually, on the National Library of Wales website. I'm asking participants if they would like attribution on these sites with their real name or their Wiki user name? If you would like your real name to appear please email at jje(at)llgc.org.uk as soon as possible. Your real name will not be shared on Wikimedia Projects. Diolch! Jason.nlw (talk) 14:19, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Category:St Asaph by year

I put Category:Flintshire by year in Category:St Asaph by year because according to en:St Asaph it is in the historic Flintshire boundaries which are different then the current Flintshire/Denbighshire boundaries. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:58, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

There's no category for the historic Flintshire. Category:Flintshire refers to the modern county. And there are only two years in Category:St Asaph by year anyway, neither of which are prior to the modern Denbighshire/Flintshire boundaries. Sionk (talk) 00:08, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Check the Category:St Asaph - it's not in any Flintshire categories and neither should it be. Sionk (talk) 00:14, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

The description of the Flintshire category is that it refers to both. Category:Flintshire by century and the prior history area is categorized according to its historic area. St Asaph isn't in Flintshire because there is just a single year being created. Looking at File:Bridge over the Clwyd near St. Asaph.jpeg, it sort of belongs in 1859 in St Asaph which should be a subcategory of 1859 in Flintshire (it's not technically in St Asaph so maybe just the Flintshire category). Do you think Flintshire and Flintshire (historic) should be split to avoid confusion? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 22:02, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

I'd have nothing against the idea of creating Category:Flintshire (historic) (and Category:Denbighshire (historic), for that matter), considering counties like these retained identical names though noticeably different boundaries. After all, we've got well-used categories for the other historic counties - the earlier Category:Welshpool by year categories that I recently created were placed in the Montgomeryshire category tree, for example. For pre-1974 things, I would think the historic counties would be better places to categorise them. Sionk (talk) 22:26, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure it is necessary. You can see the three separate templates used at Category:Newport, Wales by year is used at Category:1966 in Newport, Wales (Monmouthshire), Category:1981 in Newport, Wales (Gwent) and Category:2009 in Newport, Wales (as a principal area). It was bloody complicated to set up lol. Still, it is accurate which is the important part. Looking over things, we have Anglesey, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire and Radnorshire which are both historic counties and principal areas. Anglesey is the same so there is no need to split it but the other six would follow your scheme. If so, I'll start a CFD on those categories to get greater input. Powys is the other oddity as it was both a preserved county and a principal area which is largely the same with some very minor boundary changes. Seems silly to waste time on separating it but either way, what do you think? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:40, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Not sure what you're getting at here. Newport has always been Newport, albeit sometimes a town, county borough, city or unitary authority. Though I'll admit I'm removed several "Monmouthshire" categories off Newport images in the past.

Generally things are categoried by their current location, especially modern images/items. St Asaph is in Denbighshire and it would be confusing to suggest it is still in Flintshire. Though on the other hand an old photo or print of St Asaph could be fairly categorised as Flintshire (historic). I don't know the area well enough to have an interest in spending time creating/populating new categories, but if you raise a CFD I'm sure I'll have an opinion, haha. Sionk (talk) 11:20, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Vale of Glam

Hi, thanks so much for making File:Vale of Glamorgan Council 2022 Election results map.png. I think you have the Peterston ward coloured blue where it should be grey for independent (as per en:2022 Vale of Glamorgan Council election#Peterston-Super-Ely (1 seat)). It's the same candidate as 2017 but he changed affiliation from Conservative to independent. Thanks, GreyGreenWhy (talk) 13:52, 9 May 2022 (UTC).

Well spotted, thanks. I was so busy changing the P-suer-Ely ward boundary I forgot to change the colour :) Sionk (talk) 21:25, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Category:Market_places

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JopkeB (talk) 06:35, 18 May 2023 (UTC)