User talk:John.c.grey

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June 2017

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How to delete outdated logo

Hi I'm digital manager for the Queensland Police Force Media and Public Affairs Group. On Queensland Police Service, I've replaced the old Queensland Police Service logo Badge of the Queensland Police Service.svg with the correct updated logo Queensland Police Service updated logo.png Because people (including police officers and staff) are still picking up and using the old logo (still available via Google), I'd like to have the old logo deleted. Can you please advise on how to do so? Regards

John.c.grey (talk) 01:58, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Old file has been marked for deletion (it's a "fair use" image, so we can't keep it around without it being used). We can't do anything about Google's search results, but they will most likely update eventually. Waggie (talk) 06:39, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Waggie! John.c.grey (talk) 23:16, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Reinstatement of QPS flag

You deleted the QPS flag on Wed 03 Jan 2018. I have reinstated it (but left your other changes). The 'pineapple' (the Maltese cross and crown atop is the badge of the QPS. The 'pineapple' on a flag with horizontal dark blue and light blue panels is the flag of the QPS. It is not obsolete. The pre-1991 swallow-tail flag with the old-style pineapple (and Firmness with courtesy motto) was replaced with the new pineapple and new motto, and later, a regular off-edge.

See also:

• 2015 march (from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-19/pride-festival-parade-brisbane-queensland-police-take-part/6788764)
• QPS pennant, 2014 -- see the bottom of the page

If you are in doubt, please stand outside of Roma Street and observe the flag on one of the left-side poles. Q8682 (talk) 06:16, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

No mate, the flag outside Police HQ has the correct logo on it. The flag on the wiki page has the incorrect logo with the black around the crown. John.c.grey (talk) 22:58, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

So the original discussion was talking 'flag', not 'logo', and we're talking the background to the centre-piece Saint Edwards' crown -- it was not specific (so 'outdated logo' now means 'erroneous flag image'). What action do you want? I can just change the centre background to the same pantone blue (can do it in the next seven days). Else are you getting a new one loaded? On the other hand if you don't want the flag image available at all, then I can remove the reference and will take an actual photograph of the flag and can upload that. Q8682 (talk) 09:52, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

I really don't mind. I was simply asked to remove incorrect iconography from the Wikipedia page, to stop people picking up the wrong images and reusing them. Feel free to change the background if you wish. Thanks. 131.242.134.198 (talk) 23:48, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

New image uploaded. Regards, Q8682 (talk) 06:59, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

That's great, thank you John.c.grey (talk) 01:08, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll.jpg

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John.c.grey (talk) 23:28, 16 July 2019 (UTC) email sent, thanks Dannaa

Orphaned non-free image File:Queensland Police Service updated logo.png

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