User talk:Pigsonthewing

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Commons Photographers: Our next meeting (05/2026)

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

I hope you’re well and enjoy your time as a photographer on Wikimedia Commons. In my role of the new chair of the user group, I have a couple of updates to share with you.

After the election, the new board met for the first time on March 21 and immediately got to work. We elected the organization’s officers and decided to move from quarterly to monthly board meetings. We believe meeting more frequently will create more opportunities to serve our members effectively and help move the group forward.

We also successfully applied for a pre-conference at the upcoming Wikimania in Paris (July 21–25). If you’re planning to attend the conference, please consider joining us on July 21th for a day full of conversations about photography and Commons. Please sign up here if you’re interested.

And finally, it’s my pleasure to invite you to our first online meeting, which will take place on May 31. Our member Wojciech, an experienced concert photographer, will give a talk on photographing orchestras during live performances. I’m especially excited that we’ll have the opportunity to meet online again and am very much looking forward to this event.

Please feel free to sign up for our first meeting in 2026 on this page: Online Meeting on May 31st.

In the meanwhile, I hope you're well and have a great time taking photos!

All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 14:09, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Invitation to the Wikimedia Commons Pre-Conference at the Wikimania 2026

Hello Pigsonthewing,

I want to invite you to participate at our Wikimedia Commons Pre-Conference at the Wikimania in Paris on July 21. If you want to join the pre-conference, please sign up on this page until July 7. Participation at the pre-conference is also possible without a ticket for the Wikimania. If you sign up before the deadline on July 7, you will get free access to the pre-conference day. Unfortunately, online participation will not be possible.

If you have something you want to present or you want to talk about at the pre-conference, please add it here, also until July 7.

There is also a service announcement for all photographers coming to Paris: Unfortunately, France has no freedom of panorama at all. Therefore, Commons does not accept photos of modern buildings, public art or light installations at night. Read more about the problem here.

Besides the invitation to our pre-conference, there is another announcement: We updated the membership list of the Commons Photographers User Group. The membership list is much smaller now and based on a template. This allows us to easily create message lists and statistics. Please have a look at your entry in the list and update it if needed.

Happy photographing! GPSLeo (talk) --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:10, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

File:The Uglies (2680505025).jpg

File:The Uglies (2680505025).jpg has been nominated for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:The Uglies (2680505025).jpg This is a deletion request for the community to discuss whether the nominated page should be kept or deleted. Please voice your opinion in the linked request above. Thank you very much! If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

A1Cafel (talk) 02:34, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

Some picture in River Thames in London

You need to read the category's guidance at River Thames in London. It has been by multiple volunteers sub-categorised and has a strict rule that any of the hundreds of buildings by the Thames do not go into the category, but sub-category of Buildings on the South Bank of the River Thames/North Bank. Or specific one under that, which exists for the image you have dumped as the only image, in River Thames in London. Dumping in the Thames is not tolerated, I hope you appreciate why there is strict subcategorisation, it really is making sections of the Thames themselves navigable, bridges, and buildings, fairly independently and mirrors other taxonomies (wikimedia cateogories, where partial/obliquely relevant (minority elements) are kept as sub-categorised as possible. It took me a while to learn this too.Adam37 (talk) 09:49, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

"Strict rule"? "Dumping"? You "need" to moderate your tone.

My picture is not a picture of one of the "buildings by the Thames", but is a picture of a building by the Thames and of the River Thames. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:49, 1 August 2026 (UTC)