User talk:Dave.Dunford

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Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:41, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Commons cat work

If you use that kind of thing my preferences -> gadgets -> HotCat is very useful indeed. Thanks for the work - cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:55, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

The Swale ->River Swale

Dave, you have helpfully tried to sort out the classification of The Swale, Kent. But I believe you should revert it as there is no River Swale, in Kent. Referring to w:The Swale you will see that:

The name The Swale refers to the strip of sea separating North Kent from the Isle of Sheppey.

Over to You. ClemRutter (talk) 16:20, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

You're right - I hadn't appreciated that The Swale wasn't a river. Will change category name. Should it still be a subcat of Category:Rivers of Kent even though it isn't strictly a river? Dave.Dunford (talk) 14:40, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

The subcategory question- I haven't a clue! So I vote for the status quo. We include the Thames- which is marginal- it is tidal till the barrier so technically may be sea/ so we could include The Swale. If The Swale doesn't go there- where do we hook it? 8600 years ago it was a River. It had the same status as the Wantsum Channel. Speed 1610 shows the Medway joining the West Swale and the West Swale joining the Thames. Let sleeping dogs etc. ClemRutter (talk) 22:38, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Category:Rivers of Devon

You have created several new sub-categories, one for each river, most of which contain only one or two images. While I appreciate the hard work, I am not sure it is useful. With such a sparse category, isn't it easier to see a gallery of all rivers in Devon with the exception of the River Dart? I thought we were only supposed to create sub-cats for overpopulated categories. --InfantGorilla (talk) 14:09, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Hiya - I created these categories mainly to deal with the overpopulation of Category:Rivers of England, rather than of the separate Rivers of <county> categories. Creating categories for all the represented rivers of England seemed the most logical way of doing it, so that Category:Rivers of England could contain a sensible list of all rivers (rather than a mixture of links to categories for some rivers and then a load of files showing various random rivers around the country). At the same time I created Category:Rivers of England by county and reorganised all the Rivers of <county> categories in the same way. I'm fairly new here (though not to Wikipedia) so apologies if this isn't as sensible as I thought. Dave.Dunford (talk) 14:34, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Support your approach totally. Three years down the line and these categories will be overflowing. Users that want a image of the River Torridge will search for the category- not trawl through a page of disjointed images. ClemRutter (talk) 22:43, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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BotMultichillT 05:47, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

• Image:A6 Chapel-en-le-Frith.JPG is uncategorized since 5 February 2009. BotMultichillT 05:47, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
• Image:153711 bd531be6-by-Dave-Dunford.jpg is uncategorized since 5 February 2009. BotMultichillT 05:47, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
• Image:Courts.svg was uncategorized on 12 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:20, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Harridge Pike From Hollingworthhall Moor.jpg was uncategorized on 23 October 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:13, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
• Image:WoodheadDerbyshire.jpg was uncategorized on 7 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:54, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

File:Sett Valley Trail.svg

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There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. It has been found that you've added in the image's description only a Template that's not a license and although it provides useful information about the image, it's not a valid license. Could you please resolve this problem, adding the license in the image linked above? You can edit the description page and change the text. Uploading a new version of the file does not change the description of the file. This page may give you more hints on which license to choose. Thank you.

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Fixed. Dave.Dunford (talk) 10:53, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

File:Hixet Wood, Charlbury.jpg

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There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. It has been found that you've added in the image's description only a Template that's not a license and although it provides useful information about the image, it's not a valid license. Could you please resolve this problem, adding the license in the image linked above? You can edit the description page and change the text. Uploading a new version of the file does not change the description of the file. This page may give you more hints on which license to choose. Thank you.

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Fixed. Dave.Dunford (talk) 17:59, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

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Category:Turkey_Brook

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Rodhullandemu (talk) 22:24, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Category:Rowarth,_Derbyshire

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S a g a C i t y (talk) 10:53, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

File:StCuthbertsWaySign.JPG

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-mattbuck (Talk) 20:45, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Category:River_Wye_(Wales)

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Andy Dingley (talk) 22:56, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you!

		The Category Barnstar
		For adding sort keys to the categories I created for the Grade II* churches in Derbyshire! Thanks for cleaning up my mess, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:05, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

File:56 Hillside Road, Overton.JPG

Hi Dave, are you familiar with the Valued Images process? It recognises the most useful picture within a particular scope (the full criteria can be found here). I was wondering if you would consider nominating your picture linked in the heading? It's the best picture Commons has of that house; when there's only one picture it's not as straightforward as rubber stamping it, as the picture must also "illustrate its subject well". I reckon your picture is good enough and useful enough to make it through the process if you're interested. Nev1 (talk) 18:01, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

I took a punt on the image and it was promoted. If you have more pictures like that, why not consider nominating them as Valued Images. Nev1 (talk) 10:36, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

★ An image you created has been reviewed and promoted ★
Congratulations! The image you created was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
56 Hillside Road, Overton west view.

review

 Support Useful --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:23, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:03, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Category:K6 phone box, Hadlow Road station

I know my eyesight's not so good these days, but what colour is this phone box? Rodhullandemu (talk) 20:37, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

@Rodhullandemu: It's red. But Category:Red telephone boxes is a supercategory of Category:K6 telephone kiosks, to which this category also belongs, so I removed the higher category per the instructions at COM:OVERCAT. Sorry, should perhaps have explained in an edit summary (but HotCat, the category tool I use, doesn't give you the chance). Dave.Dunford (talk) 21:08, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Hmm. Not all K6's are red- there's at black one at St Paul's Cathedral, for example. Rodhullandemu (talk) 21:14, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes, that occurred to me. But Category:K6 phone box, Hadlow Road station struck me as anomalous at Category:Red telephone boxes, which otherwise contains only files and high-level subcats and no other direct subcats referring to specific kiosks. None of the other categories for individual boxes in Category:K6 telephone kiosks is also in Category:Red telephone boxes. Perhaps one for discussion at one or other of the category talk pages, but I think my reasoning is sound. Dave.Dunford (talk) 21:24, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Reverted File:Chorlton Hall, Chorlton - geograph.org.uk - 1244389.jpg

I reverted the above file to the version from Geograph because your higher-resolution version was a much tighter crop. Commons:Overwriting files only allows overwriting to make minor improvements, and I think that crop is a major change. If you want to use the picture on Wikipedia, you can upload it under a new filename so that both files are available on Commons. --bjh21 (talk) 19:26, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Pub cats

Hi Dave - thanks for your work on pub categories today (some examples are coming through on my watchlist). Just to let you know, I'm getting ready to upload a large batch of Hampshire pubs today, so I'll try to get all the categorisation right, but you might want to keep an eye on my Uploads screen and make any necessary tweaks. Cheers, Hassocks5489 (talk) 14:59, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Dave, regarding pub categories, I'm questioning if Category:Pubs in Southsea is really necessary as I find it makes it harder to actually find the pub I want. Southsea doesn't need it's own full hierarchy of categories outside of the Portsmouth hierarchy IMHO. I find the boundary of Southsea is also ambiguous towards Fratton, Milton, Eastney and Craneswater.--TimSC (talk) 16:57, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

@TimSC: No real opinion on this either way (I don't know the area well and I didn't create the category, I just moved the pubs that had "Southsea" in their category names out of the Portsmouth category and into it, as that seemed the logical thing to do). I'd have no problem if the categories were merged. Dave.Dunford (talk) 10:00, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. I started getting the category removed but I didn't finish the job. I'll try to get it done this time!--TimSC (talk) 20:01, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Black and white photograph categories

I am worried that you have categorised around 17 of my photos of Chesterfield Parish Church as black and white photographs. None of the uploaded photographs taken by me are actually black and white. I tint them all - some very slightly sepia, some so sepia that they are definitely brown, not black and white. I accept that colour-blind people may not be able to see that (my son is colour-blind and would not see that slight colouration), but just because some people cannot see it, I don't believe that we should pretend that the tinting is not there. In the case of my photographs, that tinting is part of the artwork, complete black and white colouring being too hard an effect. My main concern is that because the pictures are now categorised as black and white, future editors may come along and "correct" my work, taking the colour out of my pictures, in the belief that the tinting is some kind of error, or fault of reproduction. I am happy for my pictures to be called sepia, but I object to the black and white category. I shall revert your changes, but I should be happy for you to re-categorise them as sepia. Storye book (talk) 10:20, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

By all means take them out of the categories and recategorise if you wish. I took "black and white" to mean broadly "monochrome" (or "not colour"). There aren't categories for "Tinted photos of Derbyshire" or whatever. Dave.Dunford (talk) 18:11, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

Bec House, Monxton

Thanks again for uploading. Your pictures made in possible for me to create a decent The Murder at the Vicarage (1986 film). Judithcomm (talk) 14:28, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Amazing work

Incredible efforts to depopulate Oxford and Bath, so satisfying when it's done so well! No Swan So Fine (talk) 13:31, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

@No Swan So Fine Thanks so much - that's very kind of you and nice to know I'm not working in a vacuum. I know Oxford pretty well (as an ex-resident) and I'm now in "monitoring mode" but Bath is an ongoing project. The Geograph Bot import has its weaknesses. Dave.Dunford (talk) 16:54, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

I’ve been attacking City of Westminster and London, was impossible before I discovered ‘incategory:’ searches. Once you take out pubs and churches though, creating individual street cats is so satisfying. Ben Brooksbank had quite the life! No Swan So Fine (talk) 17:32, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for taking part in Wiki Loves Monuments

Thank you for submitting great photos to the Wiki Loves Monuments competition! Your images will help us document our monuments and history.

I hope you’re enjoying the competition and thank you for your contributions! Gemma Coleman (WMUK) (talk) 10:24, 1 October 2025 (UTC)