User talk:Mvuijlst

Image copyright

I'd like to thank you profusely for the detailed source and copyright info on the portrait you uploaded. Please keep up the good work! Best, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 16:25, 2004 Aug 16 (UTC)

Farmer and sons

Fine choice of an image to spend time restoring. Thanks. --KP Botany (talk) 23:25, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. :) -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 23:34, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto the Hines even if I disagreed with how you did it. --KP Botany (talk) 20:55, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Saint Nicholas' Church in Ghent

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Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Sint-Niklaaskerk, Gent2.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. MER-C 08:43, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Farmer and sons in dust storm, Cimarron County

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Re: Glassworks

Done. TomStar81 (Talk) 21:49, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 21:50, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Midnight at the glassworks

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Leaving the opera

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Belgium

Hi Michel, found something beautiful in the Library of Congress today: a fundraising poster for World War I humanitarian relief in Belgium. Seems fitting to offer it to you.[1] Due to quirks in copyright law and site policies it qualifies for local en:wiki upload under the PD-1923 tag, but cannot be uploaded to Commons. Interested? Durova^Charge! 04:47, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ooh nice. I'll have a stab at it, thanks! -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 05:46, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Butt, Baden-Powell, Taft, Bryce2.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 00:23, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 05:49, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		For wonderful work restoring historic images, thank you and by all means continue the good work. I can't wait to see what you do next! Cheers and warmest regards, Durova^Charge! 20:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Frances Densmore recording Mountain Chief2.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 20:04, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wahey! -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 20:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Eclairage.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 22:32, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh great! First scan of my own I ever uploaded to Wikipedia! -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 22:42, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work on the CP Stone photo

File:Charles P. Stone2b.jpg looks great. The handle link to the loc document doesn't work, though. I was curious about the file name change, and especially the new file name at the loc. BusterD (talk) 03:10, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. Link fixed! -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 11:15, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. One more thing, and perhaps it's just me. Would you mind looking at the crop again? I think the background is too tall, especially when the image is deployed in the infobox. Out of curiosity, what made you choose this image to improve? Where did you see it? BusterD (talk) 13:53, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem. Crop adjusted. I was randomly ficking through images at the Library of Congress when this one my eye. I wonder what happened to Hettie -- imagine the stories she could tell! -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 14:03, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's a very compelling image. I took the liberty of updating the French pedia article. BusterD (talk) 15:06, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Republican costume by David

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Image restoration

Hi Michel! I was notified that you might be the person to talk to about high-quality image restoration. I do not want to impose or anything, but if you have time, please take a look at this picture and see if you want to restore it. It would be great to improve the article Jaffa–Jerusalem railway, which I'm slowly working to bring up to GA status, and could fit in other article, such as Jerusalem and Jerusalem Railway Station (which I intend to write in the future). Thanks, Ynhockey ^(Talk) 20:36, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya! I'm on holiday right now in a cottage with just the laptop and (very) rudimentary internet access. But it's the next image on my list, I'll have a crack at it asap! -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 22:30, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There you go: file:Jerusalem Railway Station2.jpg -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 17:02, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the great restoration! Do you this it has a chance as a featured picture? (I don't know that much about the process) --Ynhockey ^(Talk) 18:54, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No thanks. It may have a shot at FP, but I can also imagine comments along the lines of "you can barely see the building itself". Which could then be answered in the vein of "yes, but a railway is more than just the building, this illustrates the rails that came from Belgium and the locomotives that came from X, etc.". I'll have a go, we'll see. :) -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 19:27, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

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Congratulations!

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Charles Pomeroy Stone and Hettie

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cornelius Vanderbilt daguerrotype

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Siegmund Breitbart

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Thomas Edison

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jaffa-Jerusalem railway

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Congratulations, and thanks again! --Ynhockey ^(Talk) 12:46, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problemo! -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 14:13, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Caruso with phonograph

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rockefeller Center, December 1933

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Birth of Venus

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Featured picture promotion

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status

Your image, File:Apollo 11 Launch2.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 03:25, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your edit! Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 03:25, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem! -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 08:27, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May I suggest nominating this at WP:VPC? It's probably a little under the necessary resolution to pass at FPC, but should certainly pass there. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 04:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

NICE interface modification: We need more users!

Hello. I am one of the developers of the NICE tool and the related study's contact person. I hope you have been finding the modification helpful so far. We have been gathering users for a little over a month now, but we haven't gotten as many users as we had hoped. We'd appreciate it if you would share the NICE tool with any editors that might find it useful. --EpochFail ^{(talk|contribs)} 16:41, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Brilliant work

Your photography is like nothing I've ever seen before. Such good poses, and so little editing. Have you considered writing for a photography criticism magazine? You could certainly use that work to land a job critiquing others to help them improve. Really, just beautiful, one-of-it's kind work. It's good to have you here. -->David Shankbone 15:30, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

David, give it a rest. You're taking a comment I made on your weblog on-wiki. This is not done. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 16:25, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Full version of NICE to be released

Thanks for helping me and my colleagues test the NICE interface modification. Depending on when you installed the tool, you were only presented with a specific subset of the features we have developed. We are ready to roll out the full feature set which, we expect, will make the gadget significantly more useful. Before we do that, we'd like you to answer a few questions about your activity in Wikipedia as it relates to undoing other's edits and what you thought of the NICE features you were shown.

The survey will ask for your Wikipedia username, but you can participate anonymously if you choose. To do so, send me an email with an address I can respond to and I will have the survey software respond with an anonymous token for you to continue. --EpochFail ^{(talk|contribs)} 16:57, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification

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NowCommons: File:Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen.jpg

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Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Mvuijlst! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 387 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

Walter Hus - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
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File:Christy Mathewson2.jpg

Have you considered nominating this image for FP status? It's a really great picture and restoration job! Staxringold _talk^contribs 01:47, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It was nominated a while back but got one oppose and so did not get featured. Ah well. :) -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 12:08, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification

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POTD notification

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POTD notification

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Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Abuse_of_Page_Protection_tools

I have spelled out what happened. Shoemaker's Holiday ^talk 20:53, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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POTD notification

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POTD notification

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POTD notification

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Review of closure process 2

Because you've contributed to FPC either recently or in the past, I'm letting you know about the above poll on the basis of which we may develop proposals to change our procedures and criteria. Regards, Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 01:28, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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POTD notification

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POTD notification

POTD

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Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/delist/File:La_nascita_di_Venere_(Botticelli).jpg

This seems to have a couple issues, most notably no longer appearing in the article on the subject. I think it's a good idea to discuss it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:46, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Butt, Baden-Powell, Taft, Bryce2.jpg

Hi Michel, just to let you know that an image you restored is currently being considered for delisting, see here. Maedin\^talk 21:29, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Christy Mathewson 2

Just to let you know I have renominated this picture. J Milburn (talk) 11:54, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Christy Mathewson 2

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status

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POTD notification

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Fair use rationale for File:Genbox family history.png

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Orphaned non-free image File:I Love Katamari.png

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File:Captured English gun.png listed for deletion

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There are three versions of that image: a low resolution courtesy copy, a high resolution (lossy) jpg copy, and this file, which is the original high resolution (lossless) version. MediaWiki apparently can't create thumbnaild for png files as big as this, and that's the only reason this image is orphaned. But hey, I'm not stopping anyone. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 14:08, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Cleanup

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An AFD you participated in has been started again

I'm contacting everyone that participated in the last one, which ended earlier this month, to inform them of the new one. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aziz Shavershian (2nd nomination) Dream Focus 13:48, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that Wikipedia does have a policy that says that people notable for only one event are not notable forever.—Ryulong (竜龙) 20:12, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We'll just have to agree to disagree. I think my WP:NTEMP beats your WP:1E. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 21:00, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

More specifically, I think Wikipedia should do its best to keep the kind of content in that WP:1E tries to keep away. Wikipedia could really shine if it covered all sorts of ephemera, stuff no-one would remember if it weren't for Wikipedia. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 21:03, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

NTEMP states

While notability itself is not temporary, from time to time re-assessment of the evidence of notability or suitability of existing articles may be requested by any user via a deletion discussion, or new evidence may arise for articles previously deemed unsuitable. Thus, articles may be proposed for deletion or recreated months or even years after being earlier considered.
In particular, if reliable sources cover the person only in the context of a single event, and if that person otherwise remains, or is likely to remain, a low-profile individual, we should generally avoid having a biographical article on that individual.

This seems to be a valid definition of what I am currently doing in regards to Shavershian. And your current beliefs are not held by the majority of the project. On this website, we have had to make WP:1E and WP:BLP1E to prevent articles on people who briefly appear in the media, but then fade away into obscurity. If no one is going to remember it unless we retain information on it, then it perhaps it never really made any actual impact on society or history such that we should cover it.—Ryulong (竜龙) 21:18, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I hear what you're saying, and there was no real need to copy-paste WP:NTEMP here. I still think the article should be kept (WP:1E doesn't apply here anyway), and furthermore even if it did, I think WP:1E itself should be removed. Last time I checked, I was entitled to my own opinion. I don't really understand why you're getting into this discussion. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 21:34, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

House spider picture

Discussing your picture at http://spinnen-forum.de/smf/index.php?topic=12297.0 we found out that your picture

doesn't show a Tegenaria but a male Amaurobius similis (please see there). So we moved it to the correct name. Kind regards --Buachamer (talk) 05:21, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :) -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 22:10, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification

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Since you deprodded it

FYI: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jos Clijsters . --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 21:54, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Midnight Sun (graphic novel)

The article Midnight Sun (graphic novel) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails the GNG and WP:BOOK; reviews are almost exclusively from bloggers and public posts. No substantive improvement in over a year, tagged as an orphan for months. ZERO G-News hits.

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I edited the article using the old editor, i.e. using "edit source" and not "edit". The new editor may break tables. Possibly. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 14:02, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's what I realized.. :( I'll reverted it and edit it using the 'edit source' link. Thank you very much! Zalunardo8 (talk) 14:06, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just did just that. :) -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 14:07, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Greetings Mvuijlst. You stated that there are numerous articles that verify WP:NM for Walter Hus. Please add a few of them to the article—for verification. Regards Tapered (talk) 04:10, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done. - Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 07:45, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree. Please see AfD. Tapered (talk) 03:56, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

For the record: you "disagree" mainly because you had no idea what the sources were (please see AfD). - Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 16:47, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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