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Esimerkiksi luokka Category:Photographs by Eeva Rista on tarkoitettu kaikille Eeva Ristan ottamille valokuville, ei vain Helsingissä otetuille mustavalkokuville. Tämän vuoksi sitä ei pidä luokitella luokkaan Category:Black and white photographs of Helsinki by photographer, vaikka siellä tällä hetkellä olisikin vain Helsingissä otettuja mustavalkokuvia. Sinne voisi kylläkin luokitella luokan Category:Black and white photographs of Helsinki by Eeva Rista, jos sellainen olisi olemassa. (Sinänsä en ole lainkaan varma, että tuollainen luokka ylipäätään toisi mitään lisäarvoa, mutta silloin luokittelu olisi kuitenkin muodollisesti oikein.)
Kiitos paljon selvennyksestä ja muutenkin perään katsomisesta. Luokittelu on kivaa hommaa ja työtä on paljon, ja välillä tulee vastaan aavistuksen epäselviä tilanteita. Tää aihesääntö selkeyttää kyllä taktiikkaa, tattista siis. Jos tulee jotain muuta raivostuttavaa sotkua tältä suunnalta niin huutele ihmeessä. --Coen (talk) 23:02, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Eipä mitään. Ja ihan selvennykseksi: en erityisesti seuraa sinun tai kenenkään muunkaan yksittäisen käyttäjän muokkauksia. Aika moni Suomeen liittyvä luokka ja tiedosto vain on tarkkailulistallani, niin olen huomannut muutokset sitä kautta. ––Apalsolat • c 23:15, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
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Instead of using 'People wearing boots' please use 'Boots in cosplay' instead. I'vemoved the category onto the Cosplay of Black Widow category insted. --Trade (talk) 20:39, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
Right. Thanks for the heads-up! --Coen (talk) 20:41, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
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I have just come across a few images you have recently uploaded from Flickr. I would appreciate it if in the future, you used the Flickr2Commons tool. This tool allows images to be moved to Commons from Flickr without having to download the images to your own computer. It also brings in the largest resolution of the image, as well making sure to list the correct license and url, making it easy for the automated Flickr Review system. Also, it is fairly easy to categorize images with this tool. To use it, you just need to go to the url and authorize it (where it says "authorise first").--A1Cafel (talk) 14:36, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
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The overwhelming majority of the files you placed in Category:Latex clothing in cosplay actually feature other shiny materials: PVC, spandex etc. (the former clothing is much more expensive than the latter ones, and also really high-maintenance, so it's very rare in real-life cosplay). The distinguishing feature of latex/rubber on photos is that it's not sewn like other materials but glued, and therefore instead of stitches it has characteristic smooth lap seams. It is really easy to notice once you have a little practice. The wrinkles different materials make are also quite distinctive, but that's hard to describe in text.
The question is, I'm planning to remove all the extraneous photos from the category, should I move them somewhere else? Maybe, Category:Cosplay clothing? GlossyMannequin (talk) 10:18, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
Yeah, probably better to just move them to the main category unless someone comes up with something more specific. Thanks for your attention to details, to me they all look pretty much the same, haha. --Coen (talk) 12:40, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
I have just finished cleaning it up. Out of maybe a hundred photos, or even more, only about two dozen were left, and with some efforts I added about a dozen or two. As of this writing we have 42 images and I'm quite confident that every single one is correct. Most of the extraneous files went into the Category:Catsuits in cosplay, but I tried to do my best to enrich the categorization of the files and not just remove the category but replace it with something more suitable. GlossyMannequin (talk) 16:47, 14 September 2022 (UTC) P.S. Some more work, and 62 files now. GlossyMannequin (talk) 20:12, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
There was no such category though. The photo was only categorized with "Chur-Arosa railway". Sorry for not taking a look at the description. Quite often every train model (at least when it comes to Europe) has an individual category, it certainly helps others to browse if the uploader has initially categorized it there. --Coen (talk) 06:19, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
Category:Disused rail tunnels in Germany
Hei, you assigned Category:Disused rail tunnels in Germany to Category:Abandoned places in Germany. Are you sure that a disused tunnel is necessarily an abandoned place? I took pictures of at least two disused rail tunnels that are still in use for pedestrians (Donauwörth, Wasserburg). Or does such usage mean that the tunnels are not really „disused“? In this case I would have to remove them from the „disused“ category. – Renardo la vulpo (talk) 20:20, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
There should be another category for Former rail tunnels in Germany (as there is for French tunnels for example), as they differ from Disused tunnels. Disused tunnels have no use at all (they're often shut with bricks or gates) but Former tunnels do; they even have a subcategory Rail trail tunnels that are basically tunnels turned into well maintained bikeways. The same difference goes for Former rail bridges and Disused rail bridges. --Coen (talk) 20:30, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
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Conas atá tu? Regarding Special:Diff/766869248, are you sure Cork is in the United Kingdom? Go raibh maith agat! - DeirgeDel tac 20:57, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, Coen. I noticed this edit where you added Category:Button-down shirts to the file. The shirt shown in the image has buttons, but it is not a button-down shirt. A button-down shirt is a shirt where the points of the collar are secured with buttons, as in this image. I'm changing the ones I see, but please be aware of this when you are categorizing shirts. Thanks! -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:43, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
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I tagged your files as duplicate by mistake. I reverted my mistakes. I see your are tagging correctly. I'm Sorry about that. Thank you, -- Ooligan (talk) 23:17, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
@Coen, I found three more duplicates of your uploads and tagged them correctly. -- Ooligan (talk) 23:41, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
I think you'd categorize them as both dress shirts and short sleeve shirts. I don't see a category for the combination of those two, but I suppose it wouldn't be a problem to make one if you want. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:38, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
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Vuonna 2022 lisäsit luokat "Topless men in Finland" ja "Nudity in Finland" tiedostoon File:Bodypainted Finnish couple.jpg. Mielestäni nämä luokat ovat vähän väärin tälle kuvalle. Kuvassa olevat mallit ovat suomalaisia, mutta eivät Suomessa. Kuva on otettu Itävallassa. JIP (talk) 18:24, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, Coen. Thank you for creating meta categories. You might not have known, but template {{MetaCat}} requires at least one parameter to indicate the sort criterion for the meta category. As an example of what I mean, look at the change I made to Category:Clothing of Finland by decade. Please remember to include the parameter when you create a meta category. Thanks, and feel free to ask any questions you have about this. -- Auntof6 (talk) 12:51, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
Gotcha, thank you! Coen (talk) 12:52, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
Good insights! I'm going on a holiday for ~10 days so it'll take some time until I can get on my laptop and properly look into it again. If you only have the time, be free to develop the categories further; your suggestions seem pretty sharp! Coen (talk) 18:32, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
OK, I'll just do this myself, given that you don't object. - Jmabel! talk 02:29, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
Done. I think I kept it a little simpler than my suggestion above: kept "type" for physical characteristics, used "function" (because it is usd on analagous Category:Bridges) for type of vehicle carried. - Jmabel! talk 02:52, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
Attire vs. clothing
Hello, Coen. I saw that you created the category Category:Politicians by attire. I recently noticed that we had some categories that said "by attire" and some that said "by clothing," so I standardized them to use "by clothing". I renamed this category to "by clothing". Any future categories should use that verbiage. Thanks! -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:09, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
Thank you!:) Coen (talk) 11:56, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
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Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia. Attribution: Giles Laurent / CC-BY-SA 4.0
Third place: A gigantic jet photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers. Attribution: public domain
You can view the full results and see where all your favorite images placed here: Full 2025 Results
I also want to highlight what an incredible turnout we had. In the second round, we saw a massive jump in both the number of users voting and the total votes cast. We had exactly 13,979 votes cast by 3,509 users! To put that in perspective, last year we had 7,403 votes from 2,837 users. It is amazing to see that level of growth and community engagement.
Thank you to everyone who voted, helped organize, and generally made the contest such a huge success this year!