User talk:Dogfennydd

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 19:23, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Churchyards/Graveyards in Wales

Do all churchyards in Wales have graves? It's certainly not the case in Liverpool. Rodhullandemu (talk) 19:32, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Most Welsh “churchyard in <county>” categories are already subcategories of “cemetery in <county>”, and I was standardizing. I grant that there will be some urban and modern churches without graves surrounding them, but in Wales these would be a minority; in those cases I don’t expect the grounds to be of photographic interest and any photos can easily be categorized with the church. Dogfennydd (talk) 19:45, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Category names should be in English

Thank you for your work on categorisation. You may not be aware of the policy that Commons category names should normally be in English, see Commons:Categories#Category names. The categories you created Category:Englynion beddargraff and Category:Cerddi beddargraff appear to be in Welsh. Google Translate gives Cerddi beddargraff as "Grave poems", which matches my very rudimentary knowledge of Welsh. 'Englynion' is acceptable because this is the English name of the verse form (see w:en:Englyn).

I suggest that the names should be Category:Welsh-language poetry on gravestones and Category:Englynion on gravestones. If you are content with these or something similar then please rename the categories (see Commons:Rename a category, probably use the More→Move link at the top of the category page).

If you are unhappy with this we should start discussions on the category talk pages.

Diolch, Verbcatcher (talk) 21:36, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks:  Done Dogfennydd (talk) 21:42, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for fixing this! I admit completely it was my fault. British history is a weak point for me! Is there another William Sandy category out there? --Engineerchange (talk) 00:57, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Don’t think so; it would only be useful if there were other pictures related to him. That image is now added to his Wikidata profile as an image of his grave, so there should be some link from the photo to the real person through that. Dogfennydd (talk) 10:58, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Duplicate

Hi, the scans may be different but they come from the same negative just in a lower quality (there's no doubt about it). I can't understand why someone would need a lower quality scan as it's always possible to reduce the size and the weight of a picture if needed. It is not because the capacity of Commons seems unlimited that we should store unnecessary pictures (that is exactly the purpose of the duplicate template). --Birdie (talk) 14:38, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

@Birdie: As I understand it, these images come from a series of photographs in the archive of the National Library of Wales (NLW), which were systematically uploaded in bulk. As such, there are archival reasons for keeping separate images (not to mention the fact that each of the photographs is linked to its own Wikidata item about that photograph). Perhaps @Jason.nlw can give a better explanation than me (as the original uploader and NLW Wikimedian). (Note: this is in relation to File:Tredegarville Church (4785885).jpg, File:Tredegarville Church, Cardiff (4641252).jpg, File:Tredegarville Baptist Church (4641269).jpg.) Dogfennydd (talk) 15:52, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

File:W.T. Pike Contemporary Biographies London (illustrations) (99a).jpg

You have added a {{Location possible}} template to the above file. However there is no way that we can find a geolocation for a building which was demolished long ago, and we don't know where it was. I can supply a random geolocation for some point along the road if you like, but that would be misleading for a researcher who needed to know exactly where the building was. Storye book (talk) 14:22, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

@Storye book: Thanks for the message, and sorry for not realizing that you’d already removed the template once before. In this case I don’t think the building has been demolished: this building appears pretty much identical to the one in the photo, and was a HSBC till 2015/16. Not sure where 25 Denmark Terrace is; in this old OS map King St was still called The Green and reached down to where the bank would be built. There are rows of unnamed houses here and I suspect these are what was referred to by “Denmark Terrace”. I’ll add the geolocation to that place: hope that’s OK. Dogfennydd (talk) 16:48, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I have re-categorised it to 1 Regina Road, Southall. If you would like to add a geolocation which fits that address, you are welcome. Thanks for the link - really helpful. Storye book (talk) 17:23, 28 July 2023 (UTC)