User talk:Jeff Dahl

Nomes Image Question

hi jeff. I am brendan davis from bedrock games. We are a small role playing game company and we are working on a guide book to Roman Aegyptus. Your Nomes image is wonderful and I was wondering if there is anyway for us to secure permission to use it in our province guide. Bedrockbrendan (talk) 00:00, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

==Ancient Egypt Files==

Jeff,

I am a middle school social studies teacher. I just want to thank you for the wonderful work you've done. You have made my job much easier and dramatically improved what I can present to students. -- comment added by Sedris

Dear Jeff,

Do you have any idea whether the Egyptian Papyrus on medical information are translated and kept somewhere? I am searching for the text on the 'bewitched ear' where most people assume this is the first text on tinnitus (ringing in the ear). I am writing a phd on tinnitus and I'm trancking down all original documents on tinnitus. Hope you can help me. Kind regards. User:Eooms —Preceding undated comment added 10:52, 21 September 2011 (UTC).

Images

Hi Jeff,

I'd like to publish 6 of your pix in a children's educational book - how do you feel about that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Picres (talk • contribs) 08:57, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Sure, you can use the images. Good luck. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 14:11, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Imagemap template

Hi Jeff, sorry for the delay in reply. Thanks for the good view of the imagemap and I note that you have spotted the problem with getting an enlarged picture. Many people still click on the main picture despite the tooltip advice not to. I think many are not aware that there is a button to the right of the caption that allows you to access the full size image. I have modified the template to give more advice and I am thinking of how to make it operate more as people expect without tooltip advice but it is tricky Victuallers (talk) 21:42, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

That's interesting, in all my time on WP I never noticed that little button before. Actually, it makes me wonder why the developers put it in, since it takes up room in every caption but normally it would seem to add no value. Like you say, it needs some thought. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 01:08, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Jeff, Thanks for creating the figure of the gram negative cell wall. I've put it in a lab writeup (duly attributed) for my biochemistry lab students.--Christopher King (talk) 15:45, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Glad to hear it was useful. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 17:56, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

NowCommons: File:Dimethylfuran reaction with singlet oxygen.png

File:Dimethylfuran reaction with singlet oxygen.png is now available on Wikimedia Commons as Commons:File:Dimethylfuran reaction with singlet oxygen.png. This is a repository of free media that can be used on all Wikimedia wikis. The image will be deleted from Wikipedia, but this doesn't mean it can't be used anymore. You can embed an image uploaded to Commons like you would an image uploaded to Wikipedia, in this case: [[File:Dimethylfuran reaction with singlet oxygen.png]]. Note that this is an automated message to inform you about the move. This bot did not copy the image itself. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 05:21, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Your vector graphics.

Hello Mr. Dahl,

I was enjoying seeing your images of Ancient Egyptian dieties...since I am Egyptian myself I was wondering if I could use your images on some projects? Only I don't know how to get the images off the site and know nothing of vector graphics.

Are your images available for general use...I thought they were, butwant to double check with you. And if they are, how do I download your library of Egyptian dieties?

Please get back to me at your earliest convenience.

Kindest Regards, Abdallac (talk) 12:57, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Glad you like the images. They are free to use, just cite the source. To download an image, right click on it and copy the image or save to your computer. There's no way to download the whole collection at once, but they are all listed on my user page. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 02:54, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Egyptian god images

They're very popular. I really like them because it's often very difficult to get a decent photo of the god you want to illustrate. I just noticed, though, that the images of goddesses show them with was-scepters just like the male gods. According to Wilkinson's Complete Gods and Goddesses, most female deities carried staffs shaped like papyrus stalks; he mentions that Hathor "was one of the few goddesses to be depicted carrying the was sceptre" (p. 144). I know nothing about drawing SVGs and don't have time to learn at the moment. If you have the time before I do, could you correct the goddess images (except Hathor's) to show papyrus staffs? You can see examples in this reproduction of a relief of Isis, and these statues of Sekhmet. Thank you. A. Parrot (talk) 22:20, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

• Yeah, you're right. Good eye. Do you have any good color examples from New Kingdom sources? Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 23:18, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

No, unfortunately; I looked through Wilkinson and did a Google search, but didn't find any genuinely Egyptian color images. I just assumed the staff was green, but the Egyptians could color papyrus a lot of different ways, and green was only one of the more common options. Green is the real color of all papyrus plants I've seen in pictures, in the Cyperus papyrus article and elsewhere. One Egyptological book describes the staff as "a young papyrus plant", and the green plants pictured in the article are mostly short (and therefore young). So green is still my best guess.

While looking for examples, I looked at Wilkinson's entries on the different goddesses. The goddesses that are mentioned or shown carrying was scepters are Hathor, Neith, Satis (Satet), and Serket, and the ones listed or depicted with papyrus staffs are Amaunet, Anukis (Anuket), Isis, Mut, Bastet, Sekhmet, Tefnut, and Weret-Hekau. I think there was some fluidity as to which goddess could be depicted with which staff, because when searching the Internet I found images of Hathor with a papyrus staff, and of Isis and possibly Maat with was scepters. Still, it's best to adhere to the sources as closely as possible. A. Parrot (talk) 20:59, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Next time I go to the library I think I can get a good black-and-white source image. I'm thinking there must be some "rule" as to when a goddess was depicted with one or the other scepter, even if that rule is very obscure or unusual. From what I have seen, the tomb and temple scenes are never random and everything seems to have some purpose. Some of the more scholarly books even explain these subtle details of the scenes, so the information is probably out there somewhere. Once I get the source image from the library, drawing it and updating the images should be an easy fix. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 19:28, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Anaerobic digestion

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. You are being notified as you have made a number of contributions to the article. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Anaerobic digestion/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 06:21, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

"New" Method of transporting Obelisks

Dear Jeff,

I have just edited the Ancient Egyptian Technology article.

The changes reflect my Dad's applications (and patents)of the physics of particulates (the ones you can make a pile out of, not air or water-borne). Your comments/revisions are needed to make this an effective part of the whole article.

To see You Tube videos of these "particular" applications, you can go to my site that sells the school workbook activities teaching these principles (I do not wish to commit a self-interested crime here, but it is more efficient than just putting "spryem" in for a search at You Tube). To get to the site, just plug in "particularconcepts.com" in your search engine (NOT the ".org" site!).

If you do the You Tube "spryem" route, the "Particular" Engine is the most appropriate in regards to my edit, although the "Particular" Turning Tower shows how you get an Obelisk from horizontal on the ramp, to a vertical position (without too much stress on the brittle granite). The "Particular" Wall is the most dramatic, but serves only to explain how you can support a ramp or turning tower with a retaining wall system.

I figure if this article covers kites with pulleys (the latter I am pretty sure the Ancient Egyptians did not have), my addition would be just as welcome? My readily given apologies if I have done anything to offend in either the changes, or in referring to my Dad's new technology, or in mentioning that there is a workbook for sale. If you can modify my changes or information to not offend, I would greatly appreciate it (as well as the court artist now referred to in the article, who I think has gotten a bum rap for a couple thousand years).

Best Regards.

Elsie Spry —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spryem (talk • contribs) 15:13, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Elsi, I'm not Jeff but I'm afraid I've removed your edit. You haven't offended, you are simply one of many new editors who don't quite get how Wikipedia works. Basically we are an encyclopedia based on what reliable and verifiable sources have to say about a subject. We have our own meaning for these terms, so you need to read WP:RS and WP:Verify. We report a wide range of views but they must be 'significant', basically they must be discussed in 'reliable sources'. See WP:NPOV. Until your dad's ideas are discussed, I'm afraid they don't belong here. Jeff may have something to add to this. I'll put a useful menu of links on your talk page. Dougweller (talk) 16:03, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Dougweller, that's a great reply. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 21:34, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Boy Scouts Association of Southern Rhodesia.png

⚠

Thanks for uploading File:Boy Scouts Association of Southern Rhodesia.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

PLEASE NOTE:

• I am a bot, and will therefore will not be able to answer your questions.

• I will remove the request for deletion if the file is used once again.

• If you recieved this notice after the image is deleted, and you want to restore the image, click here to file an un-delete request.

• To opt out of these bot messages, add {{bots|deny=DASHBot}} to somewhere on your talk page.

Thank you. DASHBot (talk) 02:36, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Image logo Net Neutrality

Hey Jeff. An image you vectorized about 2 years ago is under scrutiny for removal. I don't believe is right for an image that has been on an article for over 2 years to be suddenly removed. (And also given the fact that the editor that removed it has been antagonizing me for a period of time already) Especially when the community has accepted it for this length of time. Please voice your opinion here Thanks. --Camilo Sanchez (talk) 20:37, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, I don't know anything about the net neutrality movement, I just vectorized the logo. The debate seems to be over whether the logo should be in the template. I don't have an opinion on that. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 12:35, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Use of Thoth graphic

Hi Jeff.
I really admire the effort you put into making all of those Egyptian vector graphics, so thanks for your toils. I've remixed a picture of Thoth for use as part of a resource site I'm putting together for some fellow students, and credited you, bottom right. I just thought it would be best to tell you.
I hope you don't think my logo is a butchery of your great work! Thanks,
--SteGriff (talk) 21:11, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Pretty neat Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 21:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Hapy/Sm3 'Union of North and South'

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your drawings. Can you tell me did you have an original for the Hapy/Sm3 - is it the Rameses Luxor temple? Regards. Apepch7 (talk) 17:27, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Good call. It is from the side of the base of one of the big statues out front of the Luxor Temple. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 16:39, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Software

Dear Jeff,

Phenomenal graphics, congratulations! Which software did you use to make them?

-Jane —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.86.46.220 (talk) 15:48, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Glad you like them. They are all done in Inkscape, which is a free vector editing software. It totally revolutionized the way I work with drawings. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 16:24, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Reviewer granted

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 05:42, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

RosettaStoneAsPartOfOriginalStele.jpg

Hello there:

I just wanted to say "thank you" for your efforts in creating the vector images of various gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt. I ended up using several in the reconstruction I put together of the original stele that the Rosetta Stone was originally part of. You can see the image on Wikimedia Commons at: [1] if interested.

I also have a question for you: I used Adobe Illustrator to do the work, and when I tried exporting the image to SVG, I got an error message from WMC saying that the MIME type did not match the file, with the result that it was not uploaded. In the end I exported it as a JPG instead, but would still prefer to upload an exported vector graphic. Any suggestions?

Cheers! Captmondo (talk) 13:32, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Saw that you worked in Inkscape, and tried exporting the image through that instead. I did some additional tweaks and everything looked fine in Inkscape, but the end result uploaded to Wikimedia Commons is less than perfect (see: [2]). Any chance you can lend some help in this area? Captmondo (talk) 16:21, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

OK, I think I see the problem. Nice work by the way, and glad to see my drawings are getting used! It looks like the slashes in the drawing, to indicate lost or defaced text, are entered as text characters. This means that when they are rendered by various browsers or other software programs, the default fonts/sizes may be used instead of the font you have on your computer. This behavior would have the advantage of lower file size and normally might not be a problem, but the disadvantage in your case is that you don't get reproducible output. Converting the text to paths would probably solve this problem but the file may be very big. Let me take a look at a few things. Also, when saving between illustrator and inkscape I have had a few problems like you mention. One thing that helps is to save as plain SVG. Also, cleaning the defs in inkscape may help. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 16:54, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

It looks like the file size should not be a problem if the text is converted to paths, so that would be the way to go. A few other things that could improve the drawing: The wings at the top is a bitmap image with a white rather than transparent background. Since you have illustrator I assume you have photoshop; the white bg is easily removed in photoshop by selecting the white pixels and erasing, leaving the black lines with transparent bg. I originally drew the Egyptian god images in color quite a while ago, when I didn't know as much about vector drawing as I do now, so converting them to line drawings is somewhat problematic. I created the image at right by changing the fill colors to white and black strokes, but that can't be applied to all of the image elements because in some cases it is the strokes which create a fill color. And even then, the image isn't transparent. I would like to have good line drawings with transparent bg but I think I might have to do a lot of tweaking. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 18:22, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips! I am currently busy at the moment defending the Rosetta Stone FA nomination, but when the dust settles I'd like to properly fix the SVG in the way you suggest. Will let you know of any progress I make. Cheers, and thanks again! Captmondo (talk) 01:38, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Any interest in peer reviewing the Rosetta Stone article?

Hello there:

Another user and I have been working extensively on the Rosetta Stone article. It has undergone extensive revisions in the past month and I am looking for potential reviewers who can ensure that it will be able to pass Feature Article review. Since you have been active in the past on articles having to do with Ancient Egypt, I thought I should call on you to give it a once over.

Hope you can help. Cheers! Captmondo (talk) 01:01, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi Jeff, and CaptMondo... I did my first work on Egy. hieroglyphs with the Rosetta Stone, before I moved to the Amarna Letters, (I'm the one who did the Amarna letters cats: authors, cities, and officials categories,...made the Articles, and at the end googled all the photos to add to articles, with an Ext Link to see some of the real deals-(had to identify one on Google-the backside of Hannathon-difficult..the only word I saw on the back side (though in pristine condition)-was Ha na t n-(about half the line of cuneiform characters))).

When I did the Rosetta Stone, I did (2) half-lines for lines 1-14, sychronizing the Hieroglyphs, with the Greek translation(made 28 pages)-(I learned the text corpus stuff from that).... so I got kinda intimate with the details, like the putting of the rebels: "on stakes" (the Wood /stick hieroglyph- Branch (hieroglyph)...(Examine the gold (hieroglyph)-its nice, or the last I did: the Cross-ndj (hieroglyph)) and you know in commons, if you want to be AMAZED, or astounded, check on the replacement for the "incense pot" with the two Photos in commons that show the METEOR (one uses the stair-single (hieroglyph) the other is a stele-(click to the HIGH RES-its amazing the Meteor is at the foot of the Ibis bird, where the incense pot is) of immense import...by a 'chief of the artisans'..)... anyhow, I'll look at the articles latest-(R. Stone), and may also give you both comments... (And I worked on Canopus, Egypt and the Decree of Canopus... (so... I'm....).. I'm trying to say hello to you Jeff.. my buddy at work (about 3 years ago) ...saw the DIVING flag-(on your User Page), when he looked over my shoulders, so I know how talented, and multi-interested you are !...)-(and I hope you've seen List of Egyptian hieroglyphs by common name: M-Z-(or A-L, thanks to using 'our' Spanish cohort's knowledge, applied)... (from HOT desert Arizona-SonoranDesert).. (so both of you fellows, enjoy)..Mmcannis (talk) 17:26, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

are you backish?

You seem back, may I prevail upon you when you have time?--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 08:54, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Not fully back but have a little time to check things out. Did you have a project in mind? I should probably stick to working on purely free images though. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 21:09, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Four, in descending order of importance and doability for you, and we appreciate all you can do!

purely free image

• 
• 
  female start, bad hair

We don't need all the badges and numbers, just the shirt/pants/hat and a female version.

If you have time, we need:

• long and short sleeve variants
• shorts and pants variants
• male and female variants
• beret and campaign hat versions (you can use File:WikiProject Scouting campaign hat.svg you helped create!)

Please leave the uniform parts a neutral white so we can color them as the need calls

Also, please don't give them Polish naming. "File:WikiProject Scouting Girl Guide.svg" and so on is better.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 18:07, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Is there anything special, uniform specific, about how the pants/shirts should look? Otherwise I'll do a similar plain white versions with generic looking long sleeve/pant of these and they can be put together paper-doll style. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 01:15, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Bingo! Nothing specific as they change color patterns, badge patterns and so on by country.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 09:04, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

just because this oldie might pique your interest

• File:Egyptian Boy Scouts Association.png

--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 18:05, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Finity symbol

Hey Jeff, Would it be possible to make an svg from the spiral at Horus' hat (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horus_standing.svg ) The image would be used as the main "finity symbol", ie the antagonist of the "infinity symbol (lemniscate)", already made and available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity Thanks in advance, KVDP —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.182.227.62 (talk) 07:30, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Template:AncientEgyptBannerTest listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:AncientEgyptBannerTest. Since you had some involvement with the Template:AncientEgyptBannerTest redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Kumioko (talk) 02:20, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Egyptology/Picture Archive listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Egyptology/Picture Archive. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Egyptology/Picture Archive redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Mhiji 13:05, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Egyptology/Picture Archive listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Egyptology/Picture Archive. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Egyptology/Picture Archive redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Mhiji 13:20, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Ancient Egyptian Vector Art

Hi Mr Dahl,

Firstly I would like to thank you for your wonderfully detailed Ancient Egyptian images, they are a joy to view.

Secondly I would like to use your images for my personal non-profit website as well as on printed t-shirts etc. The tshirts etc are not for my profit but include a $2.00 donation to the Sunshine Charity in Luxor (for disadvantaged luxor children).

I can provide you with further proof and details of my intentions should you wish it.

Once again thanks for your images, they really are great and i've learned so much in the course of reading wikipedia.

Yozz3r Yozz3r (talk) 14:59, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Ancient Egyptian Vector Art

Sorry posted twice.

I understand you are busy, but I would be grateful for a reply as I am nearly ready to go live. This request is genuine and I will provide necessary proof if your require.

Regards and keep up the good work :)

Y. Yozz3r (talk) 15:01, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Request for the vector images of Egyptian Gods

Hi Jeff, I was very glad to find your vector images here online. I´m searching for a complete family tree of the heliopolitanean Cosmogony and I found all of the the 9 needed gods apart from Tefnut, Geb, and Nut. You never drawed them? Or I just didn´t find them? Whould be greatissimo the have all the nine of them in one stile. Thanks a lot for an answer! Greetings from Germany! Dermias —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.79.67.235 (talk) 11:16, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed Image Deletion

A deletion discussion has just been created at Category talk:Unclassified Chemical Structures, which may involve one or more orphaned chemical structures, that has you user name in the upload history. Please feel free to add your comments.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:56, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

All files in category Unclassified Chemical Structures listed for deletion

One or more of the files that you uploaded or altered has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it/them not being deleted. Thank you.

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of MGA73 (talk) at 18:01, 28 November 2011 (UTC).

Carotene structure

Hi Jeff,

I believe you are the author of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carotenoid_synthetic_pathway.svg . The structue of beta-carotene (at the very bottom) has incorrect connectivity (the ring on the right is connected at the wrong carbon) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.236.142 (talk) 08:29, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Permissions

May I use your pictures of the Egyptian Deities for a personal project of mine (in no way will it be published)?--Necrㅎ Шea mo 04:20, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi Jeff,

First of all, let me clarify that I just created this account on Wikipedia for the sole purpose of contacting u and no more. So please forgive if I trespassed any of the guidelines or rules of talking here.

I am a neuroscience PhD student. I am of Egyptian origin. I find the history associated with ancient Egyptians to be quite fascinating.

I first read about the Edwin Smith papyrus in Wikipedia and wanted to show the original Hieratic text of the two words "brain" and "pain" in some of my seminars and documents.

Unfortunately, I can not find any free online images of the papyrus plates containing these two words, that are of high enough resolution. Unfortunately, the only good quality photo of any plate of the papyrus is urs and it does not contain my words of interest.

I am not sure how u obtained ur image. But I was wondering if it is possible for u to obtain two more similarly (or higher) resolution images of two other plates, and what would that take?

As I mentioned above, am no expert, but am sure adding few more plates to that Wikipedia article about the Edwin Smith papyrus would also increase its value.

Thanks

RaReHaMa (talk) 15:04, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

thanksgiving

your vector images are very nice. thank you. --78.173.235.37 (talk) 22:47, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank You for the Wikipedia Pictures

Hello, My name is Duane Hurst and I recently made a free (non-commercial) English web site to share information with people. I added links to your Wikipedia/Wikimedia freeware pictures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Third_Intermediate_Period_map.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt_NK_edit.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isis.svg and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Standing_Osiris_edit1.svg). I also gave credit to you on my web pages for your work. Thank you for sharing with the public. My website is:

http://www.freeenglishsite.com/

I add pictures such as yours to one of the following major sections of my site: 1. World section - contains information and over 10,000 images of every world country and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/index.htm

2. USA section - contains information and images of every USA state and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/usa/index.htm

3. English section - "Mel and Wes" lessons in conversation format. Stories are located in various USA states and world countries such as China, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico and Thailand. Each lesson has many slang terms and idioms, which I link to my Slang Dictionary. This eventually will have over 5,000 terms. Currently, it has about 3,000 slang and idioms. I regularly add new lessons and slang terms. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/lessons/index.htm Slang Dictionary link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/slang/Eslang_a.htm

Prior to retirement, I taught English at several private and public universities in the United States.

Please share this free site with your friends. I hope all will enjoy the pictures and find the English information useful. Sincerely,  Duane Hurst in Utah, USA

Email address: duanerhurst@freeenglishsite.com --75.162.209.2 (talk) 02:40, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Rapunzel-Disney.jpg)

Thanks for uploading File:Rapunzel-Disney.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Hazard-Bot (talk) 04:01, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Yemen Scouts and Guides Association 1990.png)

Thanks for uploading File:Yemen Scouts and Guides Association 1990.png. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Hazard-Bot (talk) 04:01, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Graphic Designer's Barnstar

Hello Jeff My name is Enrique Keykens and I'm a member of Wildfire Games, a group of volunteers developing 0 A.D. 0 A.D. is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. It's a historically-based war/economy game, similar to Age of Empires. The code and data is available under the GPL license, and the art, sound and documentation is released under CC-BY-SA 3.0. We would like to use some of your Ancient deities graphics in our coming new civilization Ptolemies. The licenses are compatible, but I would like to ask for your permission anyway and let you know our purposes. So, we would like to ask for your permission to use some of your graphics in textures in 0 A.D. and release them under CC-BY-SA 3.0 with our game. You'll be properly attributed in the game license document. Please let me know if this is okay with you. Sorry if this isn't the best way to contact you but I'm new to wikimedia commons site. Thanks, Enrique Exmanko (talk) 11:27, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library now offering accounts from Cochrane Collaboration (sign up!)

Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization consisting of over 28,000 volunteers in more than 100 countries. The collaboration was formed to organize medical scholarship in a systematic way in the interests of evidence-based research: the group conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.

Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to 100 medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account. Thank you Cochrane!

If you are stil active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)

Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 19:57, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Girl Guides Association of the United Arab Emirates.png

⚠

Thanks for uploading File:Girl Guides Association of the United Arab Emirates.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 21:35, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Using your diffraction image in a short educational documentary

Hey Jeff, I'd like to use your x-ray diffraction image in a short film being made primarily for classroom use. The client is unfamiliar with Creative Commons licenses and would like some greater assurance that you're OK with this use. I can provide more details about the film if you'd like. many thanks Robwhittlesey (talk) 19:07, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Jeff,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Jet engine.svg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 11, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-08-11. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:44, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

The Million Award

	The Million Award
	For your quality improvement work helping to bring Ancient Egypt to WP:FA, I hereby award you The Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! — Cirt (talk) 23:23, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Wrong structure

Your picture is not correct: one ester group is not linked correctly to the backbone structure (a -ch2- group is missing). Please check it and correct it Snipre (talk) 08:21, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Requesting permission to use your Egypt map for book by Homa Jahansouzi-Danesh

PLEASE BE SO KIND AND SEND ME PERMISSION QUICKLY: MY BOOK IS GOING INTO PUBLICATION SOON!

Dear Sir, I would like to have permission to use your photo of Egypt map https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Ancient_Egypt_map-en.svg

in my humorous new book on architecture and city planning, titled "Hillary can bellydance too: a quest to save piazzas". Please be so kind and send permission directly to mbookwalter@services.lulu.com (ID no. 702288)and cc to me at hillarydanesh@yahoo.de

Sincerely,

Homa Jahansouzi-Danesh (Hillary)

Title: Hillary Can Bellydance Too: A Quest to Save Piazzas Publisher: Lulu.com Publication date: August 28, 2015 Format: Paperback and the print run is based on demand The territory: Architecture and City Planning, Humor — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hillarydanesh (talk • contribs) 13:43, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank's for the genie

The Egyptian genie of the underworld Qed-Her makes the minus signs disappear in this derivation of Bell's theorem by telling local observers about the plans of the desert island scientists.

See Wikiversity:Bell's theorem (still under construction)--Guy vandegrift (talk) 01:00, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Persian Kings

Hi Jeff Dahl, im quite a fan of your vector images of Egyptian deities but I was wondering if you could make a vector image of a Persian king from the Achaemenid-era. Here is the link: http://www.iranicaonline.org/uploads/files/Clothing/v5f7a014_f4_300.jpg and the colours are here: https://persianthings.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/audience-scene.jpg

-thanks

History of Persia (talk) 22:20, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:08, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Notice of disputed non-free files

Hello, one (or more) of the images you uploaded that fell into the {{Non-free Scout logo nocontent}} category have been re-tagged with {{Di-fails NFCC}}. This means that the image may be deleted unless rationale for its inclusion on Wikipedia can be provided. This change was made due to a deletion discussion for the first template. If you have any questions, please reply here (ping me with {{u|Primefac}}) or on my talk page. You can see all of the files at Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 21 January 2016. Thank you for your time. Primefac (talk) 03:38, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Awesome Ancient Egyptian Vector Images

I just wanted to let you know as a huge self-taught fan of Ancient Egyptian history, your vector images of various gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt are amazing. I am hoping as time permits in your busy schedule, you will be able to create one for all of the gods and goddesses listed on the [of Egyptian deities] page. When reading about the ones without an image, I try to do a Google search but rarely have luck, especially with the more obscure ones. Your images really help bring them to life. Thanks again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by LLGJ30 (talk • contribs) 04:22, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Contests

User:Dr. Blofeld has created Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. As someone who has previously expressed interest in African topics, would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:27, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Image Permission

Hello Jeff,

I am currently working on an inquiry-based science educational unit about space systems. Upon completion, the unit will be sold. I was hoping that you would grant me permission to use some of your vector art of ancient Egyptian deities, particularly those dealing with the Sun and Moon. If you would like to know the exact images I would like to use, let me know.

If granted permission, this image would be used in a reading about astronomy in Africa, both historically and modern day. The image would be placed directly in a reading located in the Student Guide for students to observe and discuss. This image would need to be available for teachers and students to use both in print and digitally.

If you would like to discuss this over email, please let me know.

Thank you so much for your time!

Best Regards,

Heidi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heidi.CBSC (talk • contribs) 13:33, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Image:Ancient Egypt map-hiero.svg

Should #19 in the box on the right be "North" not "Nord"? 67.245.215.201 (talk) 17:06, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail

Hello, Jeff Dahl. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.Yunshui ^雲_水 14:55, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Amazing Egyptian Images

Hi Jeff,

I apologise for bothering you as I can imagine you are busy, but I just wanted to say a great big THANK you for all of your Ancient Egypt photographs as well as the vectors of the Egyptian Gods. Under the CC license they're listed under, I will be using a lot of your works for an Egyptology for-profit course I am working on for Udemy. My formal educational background is in Archaeology and Egyptology and it is very difficult to find such beautiful images to use, especially with a CC license. If you have any issues with me using your images for my course, then please let me know. Azukiel (talk) 08:25, 6 April 2019 (UTC) Azukiel (Steph)

Class assignment

Class assignment

Hi Jeff! I noticed you took pictures for shaft and chamber tombs wiki account. I have been looking to add photos for Western Mexico tombs and Central American Tombs on the shaft and chamber tomb account page. I was wondering where you found that photo and if you had any more for the topics i am looking for. This is for a class project. Thank you for your time! BBriody589 (talk) 04:18, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Need Permission To Use

I really think your Egyptian Images are done so well and I would like to use them in a music book I am working on publishing. Unfortunately, the company is requesting that I get written permission from you in order to use these images. I know what the creative commons license states, but I still have to have your permission. Will you please send me an email granting that permission. Thanking you in advance.Klibra3 (talk) 14:47, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Request Permission to use your Egyptian Deities Drawings in a deck of Playing Cards

Jeff, I consider your SVG drawings of the Egyptian Deities as the "gold standard" because you have done them so well. I would like to use them in a deck of playing cardsn that I wish to publish. I want to make certain that I provide the proper credit for your work. Should I add an extra card that lists you as the artist for the images? Would you accept a credit on the tuckbox: on the bottom flap, or the side of the tuckbox, or on the inside of the top flap? Those places on the tuckbox work best in terms of design and printing because people expect to see text in those places on themed playing cards. I hope you find my use of your images agreeable, and you will grant me permission to use them. If you do agree to let me use the images, will you tell me which of the ways I listed above is your preferred way to present the attribution required? Inaiyo (talk) 20:11, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Boy Scouts Association of Southern Rhodesia.png

Thank you for uploading File:Boy Scouts Association of Southern Rhodesia.png. However, there is a concern that the rationale provided for using this file on Wikipedia may not meet the criteria required by Wikipedia:Non-free content. This can be corrected by going to the file description page and adding or clarifying the reason why the file qualifies under this policy. Adding and completing one of the templates available from Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your file is in compliance with Wikipedia policy. Please be aware that a non-free use rationale is not the same as an image copyright tag; descriptions for files used under the non-free content policy require both a copyright tag and a non-free use rationale.

If it is determined that the file does not qualify under the non-free content policy, it might be deleted by an administrator seven days after the file was tagged in accordance with section F7 of the criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions, please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.

Also:

• File:Boy Scouts Association of Zimbabwe 1981-2008.png

This bot DID NOT nominate any file(s) for deletion; please refer to the page history of each individual file for details. Thanks, FastilyBot (talk) 01:00, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Ancient Egypt dynasties sidebar (small)

Template:Ancient Egypt dynasties sidebar (small) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. – BrandonXLF (talk) 03:49, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	I don't know how this works but thank you so much for all the pictures you put for the egyptian gods you literally saved me i now can understand better the description also i draw and need clear images to see all the caracteristics of the gods and your pictures really helped me thank you so so much Sarrattbb (talk) 15:42, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Permission to use File:Ancient Egypt map-en.svg

Hi Jeff,

I am writing from a production company in London. We would like to request permission to use your File:Ancient Egypt map-en.svg in our history documentary.

If you could please confirm if the image is public domain / if we have permission to use this for our programme, that would be hugely appreciated.

Please get in touch via maria.mcmenemy@blinkfilmsuk.com to discuss further.

Kind regards,

Maria Mcmenemy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mariamcmenemyblinkfilms (talk • contribs) 10:50, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	I've just found your vector map of egyptian place names and nomes and I find it awesome. Thank you for the good work. May I suggest the inclusion of iTi Tawy although it is not yet exactly located same as Punt? ⲟⲩϫⲁⲓ Engranaje (talk) 23:56, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Pharaoh infobox screenshot.JPG

The file File:Pharaoh infobox screenshot.JPG has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unused wikipedia screenshot. Out of scope.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated files}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the file's talk page.

Please consider addressing the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated files}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and files for discussion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 09:42, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Permission to include Ra illustration in a book about our Solar Future

Hi Jeff!

I'm working with solar designer Marjan van Aubel (https://marjanvanaubel.com/), who is currently writing a book about our solar powered future. Within it, she would love to include your illustration of Ra the Sun God. Can we please have your permission to do so? We will of course credit you as the creator.

Thank you! Ellen ellen@marjanvanaubel.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Solar ellen (talk • contribs) 20:42, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Please contact me at brianjmcveigh@gmail.com

Hello, Jeff, could you please contact me at brianjmcveigh@gmail.com. I have a question about your work. Thanks, Brian72.224.40.106 (talk) 16:19, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

errr

can you do personal use please? your ancient egypt vectors are intricate and really interesting, can you do that please? Feilynn (talk) 18:02, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Muslim Scout Association of Lebanon.png

⚠

Thanks for uploading File:Muslim Scout Association of Lebanon.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 02:21, 20 April 2024 (UTC)