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The links were pointing to pages in English language only. Understand that it is best to leave in the first link only, instead of entering it every time. Thank you so much for your help.
Artemisia5!
- Hi Artemisia5!, links to any language Wikipedia should only be made once. I see that you are still new to many things here, so a couple of other advice: When you answer someone's comment, please do so on the same page where the first comment was written. Having a conversation going back and forth between user talk pages is only confusing. You also need to sign every comment or post with the Wiki-signature, or the comment will not be time-stamped. See how you do this by using the four Tildes on this page: Wikipedia:Signatures. You seems to have a lot of knowledge to contribute with and that is good, you only need to learn how to do it in the en-Wikipedia way. --cart-Talk 14:37, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
- Hi W.carter The wiki has too many instructions and guidelines to absorbe at once, even for a HTML fan like me. The talk facility am uncapable to find out how to use. It is not exactly user friendly. Will keep on trying. Signed: Artemisia5!
- Yes Artemisia5!, there is much to learn here and you have made it even more difficult by starting directly with writing articles. It's like running before you can walk. At the top of your talk page I see that you have got an invitation to the Teahouse. I suggest you go to that page for help with how things work here. Perhaps you could get a mentor to guide you. That is how I and many others here, learned. --cart-Talk 15:04, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Peace lily - 1 - cropped.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! Armbrust The Homunculus 21:06, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
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Dear W.carter,
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- Hi (MRaish (WMF), I'll forward this to Commons talk:Featured picture candidates where most major media contributors are active. Good luck with your research! --cart-Talk 17:22, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Hi cart, thank you! Media editors are spread over so many WMF projects and platforms—this is a big help! (MRaish (WMF) (talk) 17:38, 5 March 2021 (UTC))
Ann-Sophie Qvarnström
Hello. You created this article and were happy to see it deleted in 2019 (it was not). Ann-Sophie Qvarnström is the name shown as the author of your current FP, yet you are the copyright holder. Can you explain please? Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:39, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
- Hi Charlesjsharp, happy to, the article was my first newbie mistake here on English Wikipedia and a rather embarrassing one too. Following some uploads on Commons and doing research for the photos I uploaded, I realized I really liked the whole Wiki-thing and I wanted to get more involved. The first thing that came to mind was translating articles from Swedish wiki into English. Unfortunately I didn't quite know how things worked here, so to test my translating skills, I selected the Swedish article I thought would be the only one where it wouldn't matter if I screwed things up: the article about me. (written by someone else.)
- Of course I did just about everything wrong, as most newbies do. However, some kind editors here on en-wiki wanted to help set me right, and after some tantrums (on my part), they did. They explained how things work here. As I learned, I was more or less mortified I had started that article and even tried to delete it. I also wanted to be anonymous, because in those days I still had my shop and I was rather well known in Sweden. Wikipedia was my sanctuary, a place where no one cared who I was and I could potter along with my editing as just one of the guys. I loved that when someone said "Please sign this." they meant that I had forgotten to sign a post and were not asking for my autograph. Things like that. Still, as I made friends here and on Commons, I always told them who I was and about my bumpy first months here.
- Anyway, these days I'm retired. I don't have my shop anymore and I'm not in the spotlight any longer, so anonymity is not that big an issue these days. When the pandemic hit us all and I realized I was in a risk group, I figured it might be a good idea to put my affairs in order in case I got covid and wouldn't make it. It also gave me something to do while isolated at home. Giving up my anonymity has also given me more space to contribute to the Wiki-project. I can donate old photos attributed to me in my real name, and also do illustrations if I feel like it. That's why my photos are now signed with my own name, like most photographers do, you included. --cart-Talk 22:28, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
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- Hi Gerda Arendt, not at all sure I deserve such praise, but thank you, it's very kind of you. :-) All the best, cart-Talk 20:57, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
- Being supportive can't be praised enough! Look around on my talk, - nice to meet you, happened on ITN. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:02, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
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- Hi! Yes, un-elected monarchs were heads of state. But the article (and most of hubbub about this) is about an elected head of state, and as you can see in my following edit [2] I clarified that so there would be less confusion. cart-Talk 20:54, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, in 2011 I changed the picture at the top of the article moonlight to a painting, and left a reason on the talk page. The next time I looked, somebody had changed it to a long exposure photo, without entering into discussion. More recently it has been replaced by your photo, which better illustrates how moonlight looks, as you say. But this is only because the photo is darker! Here it is with the exposure turned up in GIMP. I am of the opinion that the result looks just like daylight, and just like a long exposure photo taken in moonlight, and cameras just can't reproduce how moonlight looks to humans because they don't have rod cells like human eyes do, which are used in low light, as I said on the talk page. Rod cells are most sensitive to 500nm light, which is to say cyan, and there is a simulation at Purkinje effect. Will you comment? Your photo is highly praised, Swedish boat clubs are very nice, but I think it is a bad illustration of moonlight, and so are all photos unless possibly filtered to simulate how moonlight looks (which I could do to this photo if you think that's a good idea). Card Zero (talk) 18:51, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Card Zero, I think it's up to the users who are involved with writing the article about moonlight if they want to keep my photo or not. I offered it after it was promoted to Featured Picture. I kept the light in the photo as close how I perceived the light that night. The moonlight was very strong and with no artificial lights in the area, it is pure moonlight and not mixed light. The surrounding water helped reflecting the light and make it stronger. We don't have that many high quality photos of scenes taken by pure moonlight, and I think mine has been kept because of that. I don't have any fancy camera equipment, perhaps you could ask one of the technically more advanced photographers on Commons for a more scientifically correct photo. If you want a less colorful photo, there is one of my shadow from the same night, File:Moonlight shadow.jpg. It is designated a Quality Image. I'm happy to provide photos, but it's up to the editors of the article if they want to keep them or not. All the best, cart-Talk 20:23, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- I want to keep it, I think it's nice, but I think I'm going to edit it to simulate the Purkinje effect (which can only be simulated, not photographed). So, I don't know, prepare yourself for that! You did make it public domain, after all (good for you). I'm seeking out somebody who might be interested in the technical aspects so I get a bit of oversight on my edits. (Or advice not to bother, I don't know.) Card Zero (talk) 22:27, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Do what you like Card Zero, hope you will be happy with the result. Just please follow the way we put info on photos on Commons, even for PD photos, like I fixed the info on your first alteration. It is always good manners to add the where/why/who-stuff correctly. Be well! cart-Talk 23:09, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Oh OK sure. I like making graphics and I'd use Commons more, except I hate uploading images because there are so many fields to consider, I'm usually guessing about the meaning of at least one of them and somebody usually has to fix my mess afterward. So, thanks for showing me another bit of the right way to do things. Card Zero (talk) 23:20, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Do what you like Card Zero, hope you will be happy with the result. Just please follow the way we put info on photos on Commons, even for PD photos, like I fixed the info on your first alteration. It is always good manners to add the where/why/who-stuff correctly. Be well! cart-Talk 23:09, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- I want to keep it, I think it's nice, but I think I'm going to edit it to simulate the Purkinje effect (which can only be simulated, not photographed). So, I don't know, prepare yourself for that! You did make it public domain, after all (good for you). I'm seeking out somebody who might be interested in the technical aspects so I get a bit of oversight on my edits. (Or advice not to bother, I don't know.) Card Zero (talk) 22:27, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
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The lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) is one of the largest known species of jellyfish, with a range confined to the cold, boreal waters of the Arctic, northern Atlantic, and northern Pacific Oceans. These photographs depict a lion's mane jellyfish in Gullmarn, a fjord on the western coast of Sweden, with its bell alternately expanded (top) and contracted (bottom). The specimen was likely a juvenile, with a bell 10 to 12 centimetres (3.9 to 4.7 in) in diameter and tentacles 60 to 80 centimetres (24 to 31 in) in length. The largest recorded individual of the species had a bell approximately 210 centimetres (7 ft) wide and tentacles around 36.6 metres (120 ft) long. Photograph credit: W.carter
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Chorda filum, commonly known as dead man's rope and sea lace, among other names, is a species of brown algae in the genus Chorda. It is widespread in the temperate waters of the northern hemisphere, along the coasts of the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It typically has long, unbranched and hollow rope-like brown fronds about 5 millimetres (0.20 in) in diameter which can reach to lengths of 8 metres (26 ft). The holdfast is disc-shaped and it is found in sheltered marine and bodies of water at depths of 5 metres (16 ft). This photograph depicts long strands of C. filum on an underwater slope in Gullmarn, a fjord in Sweden. Photograph credit: W. Carter
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Happy holidays!
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Cart!
The other day, I was having a conversation with someone about holiday cards and social media. It occurred to me that, in the years since I left Facebook, the site I use most to communicate with people I like isn't actually a social media site at all. If you're receiving this, it's pretty likely I've talked with you more recently than I have my distant relatives and college friends on FB, at very least, and we may have even collaborated on something useful. So here's a holiday "card", Wikipedia friend. :) Hope the next couple weeks bring some fun and/or rest. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 18:33, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks Rhod! Right back at ya! I can only nod and go same, same, spot on to your greeting. :-) (What's "Facebook"????) We will most likely cross edits over the next year too. Love the racoons, made my day. Best, --cart-Talk 18:40, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
- Just dropping by and thought I would wish you a Happy New Year! Ceannlann gorm (talk) 23:54, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
- That's kind of you, a Happy New Year to you too! cart-Talk 10:27, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
- Just dropping by and thought I would wish you a Happy New Year! Ceannlann gorm (talk) 23:54, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
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Götheborg (ship)
Hello! I came across the interesting voice of ship Götheborg (ship), and would like to write it on the Italian Wikipedia too. I found you are one of the main contributors to the page, and wanted to ask if you could help me understand the flag issue.
In the entry it is written that while at sea the Götheborg is considered a passenger ship, and therefore flies the normal Swedish flag. While in port it is permitted to use the historic swallow-tailed flag of the Swedish East India Company.
But the photo in this article, which talks about when the Götheborg rescued a boat in distress, wasn't it taken at sea by the rescued boat, and therefore during navigation? What you see, however, looks like the swallowtail flag, and not the normal rectangular Swedish one.
Or in this photo, which again seems to have been taken at sea, the flag looks like the swallowtail one with the SOIC logo on it.
Thank you! Postcrosser (talk) 22:48, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Postcrosser, glad you liked the article! Actually, I can't recall ever seeing it using a regular Swedish flag. It's always the forked flag. When I photographed it sailing into Visby, photo, the forked flag was already in place. And in this photo, it's out in the Stockholm archipelago with the forked flag. It's either that flag or no flag, example.
- Yes, it's against the law, but that law isn't very well enforced, so I think they do a bit as they please. Just like their predecessor, the Swedish East India Company, the company owning and running the ship is a bit of a maverick operation. But this is not something we can write in articles, only facts as found in reliable sources and not my own thoughts. ;-)
- Hope this helps you a bit. Just ask if you have any further questions about the ship or things related to it. Best, --cart-Talk 09:06, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for your answer! That explains all the photos I saw with the wrong flag. I think I'll write something like they *should* use the normal flag instead of the forked one, citing the source. And if they don't, who are we to complain?
- All the best! --Postcrosser (talk) 22:53, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for your answer! That explains all the photos I saw with the wrong flag. I think I'll write something like they *should* use the normal flag instead of the forked one, citing the source. And if they don't, who are we to complain?
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