User talk:NativeForeigner

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★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Balaklava sick 2.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Balaklava sick 2.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 08:00, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

TUSC token d7ceadf13055009df7a5563daeae7864

I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!

Thanks for the kind words and your uploads!

Dear NativeForeigner,

Thank you for your kind words pertaining to my creation of the LG Mobile World Cup category, but I believe the real thanks should be to you for the quality photographs you have uploaded. Keep up the good work!

TFCforever (talk) 22:43, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

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/FPCBot (talk) 16:02, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Checklist anonymous edits (COM:CVU)

Hi NativeForeigner,

As a you've probebly noticed, since yesterday the patrolling functinality has been enabled for all edits, no longer just for page creations. This enables us to track, for example, anonymous edits on Commons. I'd like to invite you to check out the Anonymous edits list and maybe patrol part of a day. See also the updated Commons:Patrol.
If you have any questions please leave message on the CVU talkpage, my talkpage or on IRC. --Krinkle^talk 17:19, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Simpson

No worries: It's the sort of mistake that's easy to make if you don't know the artist, and which looks really wrong if you do. The best way to do colour adjustments is to look at the red, green, and blue histograms individually, then set the black and white points for each to some consistent point (preferably the minimum and maximum, but sometimes, if, say, the left side of the blue is clipped, or if the curve tails off, making it hard to identify where the end of it is, you may want to try and find a point you can consistently identify on each that's very near the minimum and/or maximum, and use that instead. Ideally, do a colour adjustment before any cropping, especially before cropping colour boxes. Sure, you might want to correct for paper yellowing or the like after that, but it's better to do that knowingly. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:15, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Flickr-review

Hi NativeForeigner,
this morning you manually Flickr-reviewed File:JonathanGoodwin.png as having CC-BY, after the bot failed to find the correct image size. However, when I checked the same Flickr source[1] a few hours later, I found the image to be licensed CC-BY-ND (no derivative), which is non-compatible with Commons. As this change within less than 2 hours looks a little strange to me, may I ask, are you really sure about your review[2]? --Túrelio (talk) 07:04, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm quite aware that that ilcense is not allowed, and am quite sure I checked. But on the other hand it looks awfully strange,so that was probably a mistake. Quite a first review. Go ahead and decline if you wish, I was looking at cc licenses trying to convince somebody to release 5000 images to pd, and still had that window open. (probably the cause of the problems) NativeForeigner 토론 (talk) 15:02, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Can happen to everybody. --Túrelio (talk) 10:33, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

juanediaz

subi las imagenes y creo que estoy cumpliendo con las reglas no se que esta mal, si no subilas vos u otro porque me toma mucho tiempo y la verdad ya me cansó no son cosas truchas si no informacion que estan en las páginas web y la verdad que estas paginas de wikipedia estan incompletas porque algunas estan bien desarroladas y otras no como es esto... no es una enciclopedia, si no completen la información y ya basta ya ni tengo ganas de aportar mas información porque es al vicio. ju

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Magog the Ogre (talk) 20:48, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Will notify appropriate user. NativeForeigner 토론 (talk) 17:28, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

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Magog the Ogre (talk) 20:50, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Per above NativeForeigner 토론 (talk) 17:28, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

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File:Joplin tornado damage.jpg

Hi. What was your reason for cropping the image? -Mardus (talk) 09:28, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Watermark was distracting, and I couldn't satisfactorily make it disappear. NativeForeigner 토론 (talk) 21:50, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

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