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Please do not move categories of with legitimate national names to their english language equivalents. In lots of cases that actually causes more confusion than not. Hjart (talk) 15:43, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

That seems to be the common practice both here and on Wikipedia, though, so it's best to be consistent to avoid confusion. FunkMonk (talk) 14:34, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
At least in the nordic countries it's actually common practice to use native names. Look at all our churches (for instance in Category:Churches in Herning Kommune). Using native names makes it so much easier for inexperienced native users to get things right and the Wikis in several neighbouring countries often straight out uses Danish names for Danish places etc. anyway. Hjart (talk) 16:01, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
In this case, they do use the English name in their English online material: FunkMonk (talk) 15:07, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
That's in their English language version. In Commons we prefer using the native name. I'm well aware that in many other countries it's common practice to use some English language version. That's their loss though.
I categorize a lot of newbie uploads and follow quite a few less technical minded contributors, so I think I have a fairly good idea what difficulties they are facing.
I think that to the average contributor categorizing i.e. churches in Poland has got to be hell. Hjart (talk) 19:32, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Deleted portrait of Imam Ali

@FunkMonk Since you contributed to articles related to Shi'ism, you might be familiar with these kinds of portraits. I was curious about your thoughts about my arguments, if you have time. (Recap: My overall claim is that the difference between those conventional Ali portraits are below the threshold of originality, so the claimed "original" is not copyrightable. And we already have a CC license from the painter of the portrait, so that work should stay in Commons.) TheJoyfulTentmaker (talk) 22:39, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

I guess it depends on the status of the other images, and whether they are actually old enough to be PD. What are the other images? FunkMonk (talk) 02:38, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks so much for looking into this, @FunkMonk. Here, I tried to illustrate it with a 4 by 4 image grid. I think it is clearly seen that the deleted image has same degree of similarity to the known public domain image (from the 80s from Iraq) as the claimed-to-be-copyrighted image. TheJoyfulTentmaker (talk) 05:12, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

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I see they pester you, too. Annoying bot that seems worthless. Do you just ignore these notices? I wish the owner would fix it.

Good to see another old-timer who's still active. I see you go for the minimalist approach to a Commons user page ;-)

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Thanks, well, it seems there are certain licences that are not transferred when you upload images from Flickr, so you have to add them manually as I did here, but it looks like something might be done about it: FunkMonk (talk) 01:30, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
And yikes, now you mention it, I see I've been on Commons/Wikipedia half my lifetime haha... FunkMonk (talk) 01:32, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

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Hello, fellow kids, I know of this meme. FunkMonk (talk) 02:49, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

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 You are invited to join the discussion at COM:VPC#Faroe Islands copyright for photos and the URAA. -- Marchjuly (talk) 19:03, 23 January 2026 (UTC) Hi FunkMonk. I got your name from Commons:List of administrators by language. I'm wondering if you might be able to help sort this out. I tried using Google translate for the link provided for Faroese copyright law at COM:Faroe Islands, but the translation is a bit odd is some places. -- Marchjuly (talk) 19:04, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

I'll have a look. I wouldn't say I'm used to technical Faroese phrasing, though! FunkMonk (talk) 18:25, 24 January 2026 (UTC) FunkMonk (talk) 18:25, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
Thank you for taking a look. -- Marchjuly (talk) 20:46, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

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Larger resolution copy of Fritsch's Quagga stereophoto slide

Hi FunkMonk. I have a higher resolution copy of Fritsch's 1864 Quagga stereophoto slide than the one I uploaded to my website (i.e. recentlyextinctspecies dot com). You can contact via the email in the footer of any web page on that site and I will send through the file. I have tried to upload it to Wikimedia Commons myself but I don't know what I'm doing. Surroundx (talk) 10:55, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Ah, thanks, and great find, by the way, just found out about it last week and added the info to the article immediately! I've sent an email. FunkMonk (talk) 11:39, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

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