User talk:Basile Morin

Featured pictures by others nominated by me

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/FPCBot (talk) 13:01, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry 2

SPAM message by SquarePortrait / ArionStar's sockpuppet
Hey Basile I'm RealPhotoManiac. SquarePortrait (talk) 04:39, 12 January 2025 (UTC) Oh I'm sorry! I didn't know about the three-nomination limit rule for delist nominations. SquarePortrait (talk) 04:45, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

• New sockpuppet SquarePortrait of indefinitely blocked user ArionStar. -- Basile Morin (talk) 06:19, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

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FP Promotion

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FP Promotion

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Re: Ellen Thesleff

I see a brown fish sketched on the chest but I think it's a pareidolia :-)

No, it's really there! She was really into fish and spent a lot of time fishing at her parents house. I will add it to her bio later. Viriditas (talk) 23:34, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

 Context: Featured picture candidates/File:Omakuva Ellen Thesleff 1894-1895 Ateneum.webp. -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:09, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Ok. Maybe an intuition, maybe just a coincidence. At least, it seems that the sepia ink used in this self-portrait was made from the common cuttlefish. Thanks -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:57, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

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Discussion about A.Savin

Dear Basile, maybe you want to participate in this discussion, especially when you see that it was started by Wilfredor … Best regards, – Aristeas (talk) 11:08, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

I will follow this. Thanks, Aristeas, for the notification. -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:46, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

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Much appreciated

Basile thank you, I appreciate your analysis much. For me is much more important than just statements where someone tells to trust me, the fact that you also agree in contentual matter, especially the Krok6kola case where that was in parts clear vandalism and in all the following discussions virtually no one (!) was interested to hear about the categorization, all discussion was on whether I was too unfriendly or not... But if the Commons community is not interested in own rules on how to build up a well-functioning media repository and not even in applying Common sense, then it's definitely very sick!!

I'm not always agreeing with you and in the past you behaved not always commendable, likewise perhaps me towards you, but I definitely appreciate the recent statement, which must have been not quite easy to write due to many difflinks etc.. That said again thank you and I hope we can talk more constructively in future, Best regards --A.Savin 13:12, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Yes, A.Savin. My opinion is that on the balance, the volume of constructive actions on your part is greater than the annoying deviations. I also have the distinct impression that a resentful user (for the wrong reason) has compiled a bunch of old diffs to build a big angry file, and this approach is from my point of view sterile. Thanks -- Basile Morin (talk) 22:49, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

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--Cart (talk) 22:22, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

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/FPCBot (talk) 20:54, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

You may want to deal with copyright infringement of your images

File:Red weaver ants transporting a dead gecko, in Laos.jpg is published by Kristoffer Abarientos at https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/ants-working-hard-their-life-open-2152065035

Cheers.

JayCubby (talk) 02:36, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi, JayCubby. Thanks for the notification. Do you know how to report it? How to proceed? The website is apparently of no help on this matter of stolen picture(s). Should I ask help at the Village Pump? Best regards -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:49, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

@Basile Morin As an American:

You could file something in court (though you'd be required to register for copyright first), but given you are a Frenchman living in Laos it'd probably be rather complicated.

Globally

A strongly worded email will likely work, you could look into whether a DMCA is still valid internationally.

Here's shutterstock's form: https://support.shutterstock.com/s/dmcacomplaint?language=en_US

https://support.shutterstock.com/s/dmcacomplaint?language=fr JayCubby (talk) 02:58, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

 Done Thank you very much, JayCubby -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:00, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

No worries, I'll be curious to know what comes of it. I'd suggest searching your images in TinEye, which is very good at finding stock websites reusing your images. JayCubby (talk) 03:06, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Yes, JayCubby, indeed. The first image I searched for was found on Adobe Stock. The problem is that chasing these thieves is likely to be as time-consuming as it is depressing... It's still more rewarding to search and find newspapers and websites that respectfully use these images under a free license by citing their authors. -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:14, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

@JayCubby: FYI, it worked. The picture has already been removed from Shutterstock. Thank you very much! -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:05, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

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Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Careening of a pirogue on a sandy beach of a tiny island in the Mekong near Don Det in Laos.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments I guess this was AI-denoised, nothing against that but apparently it didn't work so good around the boat; there are some spots with much more noise than around which is looking strange. Maybe you can fix that manually (by applying a mask with standard denoise to those areas or similar). --Plozessor 04:57, 4 February 2025 (UTC)  Done The resolution is 6,846 × 4,829 pixels and I had to zoom 400% to see what you mean. But yes the image was slightly noisy, perhaps due to the 6 seconds shutter speed associated to a very long focal length (400 mm). My camera is very far from the subject, and the level of darkness is high. Thanks for the review -- --Basile Morin 06:39, 4 February 2025 (UTC)  Support Thx, good now! --Plozessor 14:46, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

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Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Water reflection of trees with pirogue careening and pirogue sailing at golden hour in Si Phan Don Laos.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 04:43, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

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Image

Hello, what do you think about the following image?

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Fedaro/imagenes#/media/Archivo:Gadfly.jpg

fedaro (talk) 07:34, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi, fedaro. Thanks for your message. It looks very good to me. But there's a distracting lone hair at the lower left corner. Best regards -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:04, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

OK thanks fedaro (talk) 18:26, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Regarding a user you warned

Hi, I saw that you warned a user here, and now I've come across other questionable edits by that user which were made after your warning (see here). Are they engaging in the same behavior you've warned them about? Should things be escalated to admin? Nakonana (talk) 12:50, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Well, at least they did fix their edit after I asked about it on their talk page. Still odd contribution history overall so far. Nakonana (talk) 13:04, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, Nakonana, thanks for your notification. Yes, I find these edits suspicious, and recently contacted (in French) an admin, who suggested me to notify the checkusers. The result was "inconclusive" but I'm still very doubtful on the relevance of these contributions. Thanks for the reverts. I would support a report at COM:ANU to avoid further annoyance and /or undetected disruptions. -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:21, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

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