User talk:Hanskerensky

photo attribution bug

Hi Hans,

Noticing this edit of yours…

At one time, I was also adding the ending "on Flickr" to photo credits, because many Flickr users have such cryptic screen names. Unfortunately it creates a problem: if an image-by category already exists for the photographer, the name must always be entered consistently (same punctuation, capitalization, etc.) in the "image_by= " field, or the page won't be indexed in the correct category.

Thanks, --Vox 15:48, 5 May 2011 (PDT)

Photo pool membership

Hi Hans,

I noticed you have made a few edits (like this one) removing the "in/pool-camerapedia" suffix from the URL of Creative Commons photos (ones not in the CW pool).

Because of the quirks of how Flickr operates, it is actually helpful to keep some pool membership suffix on the URL—even if CP is the only choice. In a couple of circumstances, the Flickr page where the photo appears can become inaccessible: Non-pro accounts with >200 subsequent photos; or when the photographer changes a photo to Private. But! In both cases, if a photo was added to a Flickr pool, its page remains accessible to all members of that Flickr group. This is useful to Camera-wiki.org editors, because sometimes there will be descriptions or comments about a photo with information a page editor needs. It also lets us leave comments below the photo, to make another appeal that they add it to the CW pool.

If a photographer has ignored our request to add a creative commons photo to the CW pool, I will check which other pools the photo is in. Sometimes I've changed the pool membership to other photo-gear groups: The largest are #1, #2, and #3. It serves the same purpose but without a Camerapedia reference. --Vox 07:34, 14 November 2011 (PST)

Argh! Hans, I apologize for belaboring the point above—I didn't click through to see that Arty Smokes had actually removed his photos from the CP pool! Feel free to delete this whole comment. --Vox 08:09, 14 November 2011 (PST)

Hi Ross, Normally i allways leave the CP in place with these problem photos because it's easier to trace (search on a page). As you allready observed with these non-commercial photos the author was invited twice to contribute to our pool and not in CP anymore. A fact is that i could have changed cp to cw but then the flaw of not being in our pool is hidden at first sight. The idea of using another pools name as you suggested is of course also a sound one !

Yes, Arty Smokes has not been consistent: He actually has moved many photos to the CW pool (you can see all wiki photos here) but others are still left in the CP pool, and others still not in any pool at all... but you are absolutely proper in removing the CP pool membership from URLs if you discover he withdrew that photo. --Vox 11:25, 14 November 2011 (PST)