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Madelgarius (talk) 10:37, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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SOE image[edit]

Please stop adding your self-published image Special operations executive.png or similar images to the info. box in the article Special Operations Executive. SOE never had any capbadge, colours, tartan or armbadge, so no image would be appropriate for this article. (If you have a reliable cite that the organisation had some recognised badge, produce it. Otherwise, this is fantasy art, and remains out.) HLGallon (talk) 00:51, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Armée secrète[edit]

Salut!
Serait-il possible d'ajouter un éccusson pour l'article Armée secrète (Belgium) comme ceux que tu as déjà trouvé pour des autres groupes belges? Beau travail!
Bien à toi,--Brigade Piron (talk) 14:50, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merci beaucoup! Je cherche encore pour un éccusson pour Mouvement national royaliste, Witte Brigade et Partisans Armés ;) ---Brigade Piron (talk) 23:29, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bon effort! C'est très utile. Pourrais-tu faire un pour OMBR et Légion Belge? Merci! --Brigade Piron (talk) 22:21, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Salut Madelgarius. Tellement beau travail! Je suis en train d’améliorer les articles au sujet de nos résistants pendant la DGM et puis, tous les articles au sein de la Belgique entre 1940-5. Je ne suppose pas que tu peux ajouter des images des journaux clandestines belges aussi ;) ? Il y a une image superbe pour La Voix des Belges mais j’en cherche encore pour Faux Soir et puis Het Vrije Woord. Amicalement, ---Brigade Piron (talk) 16:06, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merci! --Brigade Piron (talk) 19:51, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tu peux trouver une image pour Kempische Legioen, Service D ou Milices Patriotiques? Merci! ---Brigade Piron (talk) 22:36, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Super! Merci. --Brigade Piron (talk) 17:27, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Salut! Serait-il possible de revenir à la première version du fichier pour Armée secrète (Belgium). Sans le bouclier, on aurait pu l’utilise pour Brigade Piron aussi… --Brigade Piron (talk) 12:38, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

February 2013[edit]

Please do not add or change content, as you did to Special Operations Executive, without verifying it by citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 22:29, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just had a look at the messages you left at User_talk:HLGallon#SOE, and Wikipedia really needs a better source if it's going to claim that this image was SOE's official emblem. The sources you provide - a merchandise key-ring/paperweight/fridge-magnet set, a WWII reenactment society patch and a Year 6 student's essay - do not meet reliable source standards, and make it look like this was maybe something invented after the event by reenactment societies who wanted something for the SOE guys to wear. Are there any better sources out there? --McGeddon (talk) 22:38, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Armée Belge de 1940[edit]

Salut Madelgarius!
Tu pourrais m'aider? Je cherche une photo de quelques soldats belges en luttant pendant la campagne de 1940. Maintenant, il n’y a que des photos allemands des belges en train de capituler. Si tu peux trouver un exemple, ça sera super ! Bien à toi , ---Brigade Piron (talk) 17:43, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Please don't just revert a non-vandalism edit with absolutely no explanation. I removed your entry because it was a duplicate. The page already lists Joan Pujol Garcia (he is the 6th bullet point under People). Artichoker^[talk] 00:17, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mary Lindell[edit]

Hi Madelgarius, after repeated vandalism of Mary Lindell I asked for help. Could you please look at the remarks at my talk page? Kattiel (talk) 19:57, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bonjour, merci d'avoir corrigé "Smallchief" en réinsérant le commentaire qu'il avait retiré, en mentionnant la source "Lady mensonges" de Marie Laure le Foulon. --Patrick Guerisse (talk) 12:07, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

de rien, cela faisait quatre ans qu'il n'y avait plus eu de tentative en ce sens...

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Regarding Talk:Titan submersible implosion[edit]

Hey, Madelgarius. I just wanted to give an explanation for why I reverted your edit here. I believe you might have meant to post this elsewhere as you appeared to have used a template for a user's talk page on an article's talk page. If I am wrong, then I apologize for the trouble in advance and feel free to revert. --Super Goku V (talk) 03:23, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

AI upscaled photos[edit]

Please don't add AI upscaled versions of historical photos to articles, as you did at Nellie Spindler, per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Images#Editing_images. The original photograph is more useful. Belbury (talk) 12:31, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Belbury, it seems you've come to a rather hasty conclusion, hasn't it? The former colorized image was a perfect example of what not to do. You cancel my contribution (a few hours' work) and note that I'm the uploader of the original original photograph that wasn't uploaded by the author of the colorization massacre (own work, he said). Then, you pick my upload of the original And you come and lecture me... Is initiating a discussion within your grasp? --Madelgarius (talk) 12:55, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I initially misread your edit as replacing a black and white photo with a colorised one, having seen that your Commons upload linked to the original. I immediately corrected my talk page message above when I realised you were actually replacing a bad colorisation job with a good one.

But Wikipedia shouldn't be using user-colorised photos or AI-upscaled ones, under the MOS. The Nellie Spindler article should only be using the historical File:Nellie Spindler (1891-1917) (original).jpg image. Thank you for uploading that one to Commons. Belbury (talk) 14:18, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I've taken part in quite a few discussions on Commons (on village pump/bistrot in both French and English) and on fr:WP on these issues. You should stop talking about upscaling, today's AIs are capable of much more (for better or worse). Here, I'm in charge (I'm a real human being) and this colorized version corresponds in every way to what I promote, with others, on wikipedia in French: illustration processing. best regards, --Madelgarius (talk) 14:52, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I expect different projects vary in their attitudes - at the time of writing (and only since relatively recently) the English Wikipedia manual of style takes the stance that Original historical images should always be used in place of AI upscaled versions. If an AI-upscaled image is used in an article, this fact should be noted in its caption. AI enhancement of images is very impressive, but as a viewer one cannot always know what additional details the AI has speculatively introduced.

The colorisation question is separate from that. If you're regarded here as enough of an expert to meet the colorized by their creator, an expert, or a reliable source requirement of the MOS for colorisation, that's fair enough. Belbury (talk) 15:03, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On fr:WP, I've created an "artificial intelligence processing" template that automatically links the image to its original ("see original") and places the page in question in a maintenance category "page featuring an image modified by an AI". Recent example: Edith Cavell. This involves far more precautions than are the wild uploads of photographs processed by people who have no regard for verifiability, measure and discernment. Best regards, --Madelgarius (talk) 15:50, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting idea, I don't know whether the same approach would fly at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Images. There wasn't much very discussion of the current guidline for the use of AI upscaled images, although the responses it did get were quite strongly against the use of AI.

Where are we on the colorisation issue for Nellie Spindler? Is the English Wikipedia project on record as regarding as you as a colorisation expert for the purposes of Images that were colorized by their creator, an expert, or a reliable source may sometimes be acceptable? Belbury (talk) 14:29, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I don't know if I'm an expert, I've been doing it for over twenty years. Many of my colorizations have been reproduced, including for book covers, and not always with due credit. I do extensive research before colorizing an image. Here are a few examples:

Migrant mother
Gustav Klimt
Abraham Lincoln
Nellie Bly whose photography on WD (and therefore on fr: and en:WP) has been distorted for years

--Madelgarius (talk) 14:40, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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