User talk:Herbert Ortner

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Bobbio bridge.jpg

Superb photograph which not only brings out the peculiar quality of that bridge but shows us what Bobbio is like and its topographical context. Beautiful composition. Exquisite tonal values. Congratulations, and thanks for uploading it! —Ian Spackman 08:26, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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Skulpturen

Bitte verzeih meine Fehleinschätzung zu den Skulpturen. Ich habe ausschließlich von deren Aussehen (hätte mal via Google schauen sollen) auf deren Alter geschlossen und lag da gehörig falsch. Grüße, --Polarlys 22:37, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

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Hi. You say this is own work, but list author as one Noel Walley on en.wp, who apparently doesn't exist. Could you please clarify where the photo is from please? Thanks. Oh, and ditto for Image:Porthmadog6293229.JPG-mattbuck (Talk) 11:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

OK, never mind about the original author, I found that it was just linked wrong, but it would help if you could tell me if they were transwikied or what. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:51, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

NoelWalley just got back to me. Please do not claim others' images as your own. -mattbuck (Talk) 12:56, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

This wasn't my intention indeed. Just a little error with transwiki in my earlier times. I copied the information from en without changing. --Herbert Ortner (talk) 21:29, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

My photos

Hi, thanks for uploading some of my photos - I've applied my own user template to the originals, but kept the edited ones licenced merely under BY-SA-2.0 rather than 2.0 and 3.0.

Amazing, no talk page messages for a whole year... -mattbuck (Talk) 23:06, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Pinzgauer Lokalbahn

Habe die Ehre,

mit Kollegen leite ich eine Homepage ( www.busbahnbilder.de ) Wir fragen an ob sie uns ein paar Bilder der Pinzgauer Lokalbahn zur Übernahme unter ihrem Namen auf unsere Seite genehmigen.

Wir würden uns freuen.

Mit besten Grüßen

andy

Kein Problem, dazu habe ich sie ja hier hochgeladen. -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 14:47, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Taken picutre

Hello. One of the most popular sites in Serbia taked your pic. http://www.b92.net/putovanja/destinacije/evropa.php?nav_category=823?yyyy=2009&mm=03&dd=05&nav_id=348336

Cool! I hope the route to Višegrad will open soon! -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 18:51, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

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Hallo Herbert,
war dir diese lizenzwidrige Nutzung deines Prater-Fotos File talk:Prater vom Riesenrad.jpg bekannt? Von mir nutzen die auch ein Foto lizenzwidrig ohne jeden Bildquellennachweis. Inzwischen habe ich ermittelt, dass sämtliche Bilder in der Spalte "Sehenswürdigkeiten Wien" von Commons stammen und alle lizenzwidrig benutzt werden. --Túrelio (talk) 22:02, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Vor langer Zeit hat mich der Betreiber einer Website angemailt, ob er dieses Bild (und andere) auch unter anderen Bedingungen zeigen dürfte. Ich habe damals mein OK dazu gegeben, daran kann ich mich noch erinnern. Ich habe aber keine Ahnung mehr, ob das diese war, es ist schon eine kleine Ewigkeit her und Mails habe ich dazu heute auch nicht mehr. Was mich betrifft, also im Zweifel für den Angeklagten (auch wenn ich aufgrund der anderen Fälle eigentlich nicht glaube, dass es der gewesen ist). -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 16:07, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Danke für die Rückmeldung. --Túrelio (talk) 21:51, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

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Zillertalbahn

Herbert, auf diesem Bild File:Zillertalbahn VT6 Mayrhofen 2010.jpg würde mich der dritte Wagen im Zug interessieren. Wenn ich das richtig interpretiere, handelt es sich um den ehemaligen B4 35, der zum BD4 umgebaut wurde. Welche Nummer trägt er heute? Auf diesem Foto ist die Nummer leider nicht lesbar. Danke für eine kurze Antwort. Markus -- Gürbetaler (talk) 12:17, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Laut Auskunft meiner gut informierten Quelle bei der Zillertalbahn wurde 2000 der B4 35 zum BD4 41 und 2003 der B4 34 zum BD4 40 umgebaut. -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 17:49, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Vielen Dank!-- Gürbetaler (talk) 22:03, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

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Our non-profit educational resources group would like to use your image of The Odeon (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messene_02.jpg) in one of our publications. Could you confirm that this image is available for use under the GNU Free Documentation/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, and could you indicate how you would like to be credited in the publication? 24.83.213.104 17:54, 20 June 2011 (UTC) Genie MacLeod, The Critical Thinking Consortium

Yes, this is my picture. You may also use it under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license. Just place my name and "Creative Commons CC-BY" to the picture or wherever you usually do this in your publication. -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 19:03, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

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benutzung bild 2.jpg Jindrichuv Hradec

Geerter Herr Herbert, Ich bitte um erlaubnis zum benutzen Bildes Jindřichův Hradec im meinen Blog - http://petrhujer.blogspot.com naturlich werde unter dem bild link zum wikipedia und ihr name als autor. mein Deutsch ist leider nicht 100% 
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Geht in Ordnung! -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 16:01, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

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Hallo Herbert, habe deine Entfernung der Vorlage {{CPPbHC|AT}} bei den 2 Murauer Bildern wieder rückgängig gemacht, die Vorlage dient ja auch dazu, das manchmal schwierig auszumachende Kennzeichen auf dem Bild zu finden (quasi auch als Nachweis des Schutzes nach HC). BTW: wenn du annotationen löschen möchtest, reicht es nicht, den Inhalt auszuräumen, leere Annotationen machen keinen Sinn. Also besser delete statt edit. Aber nicht in diesem konkreten Fall. meint --Herzi Pinki (talk) 19:30, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Alles klar. Meine Intention war, die redundante Kategorie beim Bild selbst loszuwerden, da ich sie bei der übergeordneten Kategorie (sofern vorhanden) für besser aufgehoben halte. Aber wenn der Hinweis per Baustein in die Annotation eingefügt wird, wird auch die Kat. beim Bild automatisch erstellt. Da kann man wohl derzeit nichts machen. -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 19:38, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

die Vorlage stammt von mir und alles ist änderbar. Die Doppelkategorisierung habe ich bisher hingenommen. Da es kein öffentliches Verzeichnis aller Haager Konventionskulturgüter gibt, war meine Intention die Bilder mit Schilder zu sammeln, quasi auch als Nachweis. Man könnte beispielsweise per Zusatzparameter die Auto-Kategorisierung unterdrücken. lg --Herzi Pinki (talk) 23:10, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Sprachvorlage

Hallo, danke, dass du einige der TARS631-Bilder besser kategorisierst und eine bessere Beschreibung hinzufügst! Aber gehört die Sprachvorlage nicht eigentlich als "{{de|Text}}" und nicht als "{{de}} Text" gesetzt? Sonst funktioniert ja die Ausblendung mittels CSS nicht. lg darkweasel94 Diskussion/talk/diskuto 21:07, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Gute Frage, ich habe mich damit eigentlich noch nicht im Detail beschäftigt - auch nicht bei meinen eigenen, weil es dort vom Uploadformular erzeugt wird. Ich kann es natürlich künftig berücksichtigen. Sensationell, was er da alles fotografiert hat. -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 21:14, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Da du offenbar teilweise ziemlich massenhaft umkategorisierst (noch einmal danke für deine viele Mühe!): Kennst du Cat-a-lot? Vielleicht kann das deine Arbeit etwas effizienter machen. darkweasel94 Diskussion/talk/diskuto 11:49, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Sieht interessant aus, werde ich mir genauer ansehen! -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 11:54, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hallo Herbert Ortner, kann das wirklich die Herrengasse in Graz sein? Ich wüßte nicht, wo die so einen Knick macht. Eher die Annenstraße? Gruß --Eweht (talk) 05:53, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Hallo Eweht! Das war, als ich versuchte den Standort zu identifizieren auch mein erster Gedanke. Aber die guten Google-Luftbilder und ein wenig Ortskenntnis führten mich dann doch auf eine andere Spur. Das ist der Blick vom Anfang der Herrengasse in Richtung Hauptplatz. Das rosa Eckhaus mit dem Cafe steht an der Ecke Sporgasse/Sackstraße und ganz im Hintergrund ist das beflaggte Kaufhaus Kastner & Öhler zu erkennen. Das graue Haus hinter der Straßenbahn mit dem Balkon, das ist das Rathaus. -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 20:00, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Ja, tatsächlich! Die Doppelhaltestelle am Hauptplatz ist auch erkennbar. Danke. --Eweht (talk) 16:42, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

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Du hast recht mit deiner Vermutung, ich möchte nur mehr Fotos in meinem Account haben, die meinen Vorstellungen von Qualität entsprechen. Der Username, den ich will, ist leider schon vergeben. Die paar Bilder könnte ich leicht wieder hochladen, das ist nicht das Problem. Jetzt hoffe ich auf die Globalisierung, Grüße, Manuela (talk) 16:17, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Sry dich nochmals zu belästigen. Ich hatte inzwischen die Idee, die Bilder, die ich nicht mehr auf meinem "öffentlichen" Account haben möchte, auf einen anderen Account hochzuladen oder zu verschieben und diese unter der Lizenz "Public Domain" freizugeben. Wie mache ich das mit möglichst wenig Aufwand? Danke für deine Unterstützung, Grüße, --Manuela (talk) 18:16, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Kein Problem. Mein kann zwar Dateien auf einen neuen Dateinamen verschieben (lassen) aber nicht den Uploadernamen ändern. Ich würde daher zuerst den neuen Account anmelden, dann alles hochladen und dann die Originale mit dem Vermerk Same picture now uploaded under new username (mit Link dorthin) löschen lassen. Vorher aber prüfen, wo welche Bilder verwendet wurden und dort dann die Verlinkung auf die neue Version umschreiben! Anstatt "Public Domain" empfehle ich allerdings CC-0 (Creative Commons Zero). Das ist in der Anwendung das gleiche, aber rechtssicher formuliert, da es im Urheberrecht europäischer Prägung keine "Public Domain" gibt, bzw. eigentlich die Möglichkeit garnicht vorgesehen ist, seine Werke in die Gemeinfreiheit zu entlassen.-- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 08:33, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Danke für deine Unterstützung, dann werde ich das so machen. Mit "Public Domain" meinte ich eh CC-0. --Manuela (talk) 19:37, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

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Wiener Straßenbahn: Streckenkategorien

Hallo! Da du im Bereich der Wiener Straßenbahn mitgearbeitet hast, möchte ich dich einladen, Kommentare zu meinem Vorschlag, die Straßenbahnstrecken (nicht Linien) Wiens zu kategorisieren, abzugeben – etwa ob das so sinnvolle Kategorien sind oder man sie anders aufteilen sollte. Falls dich das nicht interessiert, darfst du diese Nachricht gerne entfernen. darkweasel94 09:43, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Fanny

Hallo Herby, darf ich dir die File:Fanny-Wiener Neustadt 2384.JPG auch gleich anvertrauen :-) - danke im Voraus und schöne Feiertage. lg K@rl (talk) 19:25, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Bitte sehr, habe die anderen auch gleich erledigt! Vielleicht werde ich auch irgendwann eine Kategorie für die Sigl-Lokomotiven anlegen. -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 19:43, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

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Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:21, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

I answer in english: For some odd reson this file was overwritten just the next minute after my first upload. As you can see it was myself who uploaded it in the first place. Must have been some hiccup of flickr2commons since I transfered the whole album from Flickr. Shouldn't it usually refuse to overwrite a file already available on Commons? -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 16:59, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

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Categories in English, articles in native language

Hallo Herbert,

Categories are normally in English but articles can be in native language. Gryffindor (talk) 20:22, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi!

I'm absolutely not convinced! This is not a descriptive category name but an established company name. Just take a look into the upper Category:Defunct rail transport companies of Austria and it's upper category – everything in original language! There's a reason why for example there is a Category:Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est but no "Eastern railway company"‎ and many others. In printed English literature kkStB is the most common term and Imperial Royal State Railways a very rare occurrence there. I hope nobody considers renaming Category:Österreichische Bundesbahnen to something like Austrian federal railways. Was there a renaming discussion beforehand? I strongly recommend to name this category back to the established German name. -- Herby (Vienna) (talk) 15:31, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:JZ class 32 Mallet locomotive in Split ca 1952.jpg

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John Swain

Thanks for identifying the author in those crane engravings. [1] [2]

Can I ask, how did you find the author? It's not a name I recognise and although the cranes have an (incomprehensible) signature, the station drawing doesn't. Is he any connection to Joseph Swain? Andy Dingley (talk) 17:08, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

I found a few drawings I could use for a project of mine on Flickr and checked Category: John Swain here. There were some of his drawings only in the Engineer's category. Signatures are tiny but readable (kind of) and there's a signature SWAIN ENG (probably for Swain engraver) on the track plan. John had a son also named John who ran the business after his death. [3] This article may be a good start for an entry John Swain (engraver): [4] But I can't find a connection with Joseph who had only one son named Joseph too. Herby (Vienna) (talk) 18:26, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for disturb

Perhaps you might be interested in this discussion [5]. Thank you--109.52.98.243 19:54, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Very sorry

I'm sorry to bother again but now he did this [6]--151.19.36.11 21:44, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

I'm sorry too because I don't support canvassing. -- Herbert Ortner (talk) 21:55, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

I just don't have any other way.I won't bother you anymore. Sorry again and thank you. 109.52.72.218 11:54, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

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• File:NÖLB Stammersdorf in Strasshof Aug 1987.jpg ( Nominator : 95.40.224.71 | Reason : Photo taken by Hubert Ortner, who died in 2012 )

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