User talk:Jimfbleak

Hi Jim, good to talk with you after all this time. I very rarely stop in here now. What we have here, with the image issue, is a collision between two immovable objects. Jimbo, as he has every right to, is dead-set against any sort of image except GFDL ones. That's a fiat issued from on high and we peons at the coal face can either accept it or leave the project. I think it is was a wrong-headed decision and disagree with it strongly, but I accept that Jimbo has the right to make such decisions, and thus must accept the decision itself.

I, on the other hand, will never agree to licence my images in such a way that all those scumbag Wikipedia knock-offs have open slather on them. In consequence, I haven't uploaded an image here for many months. In fact, I haven't contributed text here for quite a while either, but that is for largely unrelated reasons. (Amongst others I'll mention two: dissatisfaction with the lack of support from other editors when dealing with problem issues and problem users; and sheer lack of time - I'm doing my best to manage a half dozen other projects (you have seen one or two of them) and contribute material to them too, so I'm (as we sometimes say in this part of the world) flat out like a lizard drinking.

Sooner or later (weeks, months, or years), there is bound to be some sort of rationalisation of the current situation. Sadly, I think this will take the form of a mass deletion of all my images. That would be a shame, but what can you do? I don't think Jimbo will change his mind, and I'll certainly not change mine, so I guess it is pretty-much inevitable. But it's at least better than giving them to all those scumbag copycat sites that contribute nothing and only detract from this wonderful project.

On another matter entirely, great news! I just ordered a Canon 20D digital SLR and a couple of lenses. I'll still keep on digiscoping, of course: the Canon is going to fill in the gap between things I can shoot with an ordinary hand-held camera (landscapes, wildflowers, very tame birds that you can practically touch, etc.) and things that I can digiscope (most birds). It's the longest lens that I can reasonably expect to hand hold (i.e., no tripod) and the 20D is pretty fast on the auto-focus and has very little shutter delay, so it should be good for that quite large category of birds that you can get quite close to but which are almost impossible to digiscope because they move around too rapidly: things like pardalotes, scrubwrens, fieldwrens, heathwrens, Mistletoebird, thornbills, many of the honeyeaters, fairy-wrens, and (if I ever get lucky) grasswrens and emu-wrens. Oddly enough, Emus too! Yes, very large birds like Emus and Brolgas and stilts are difficult subjects as you can't get really close to them, and at digiscoping distances you get too much heat-shimmer because they are so darn far away.

So the credit card is about to get the fright of its life, but I am (I hope) about to get a substantial improvement in my ability to get great shots. Wish me luck!

Warm regards,

Tony

Miscellany

Hi

1. Black-whiskered Vireo - no probs; to be honest, I kind of hope that all the species articles on my To Do List get written by other people; there's lots of difficult non-species articles I want to write which are less likely to be written by other people if I don't write them, but the species articles articles provide a too-easy distraction.

2. Northern is an AOU split - I should move that into my "to split" section

3. A Southern Hawker page with a pic is better than one with none, I'd say.

Cheers SP-KP

Thanks for blocking user:212.219.229.3 for keeping vandalising the article on bananas. I think the person might of done more than just that article. There might be some small problems with the article as for me to revert it quickly I had to replace all hyphens and plus signs with nothing

--Adam1213 08:48, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I cant see a rolback button. Maybe you have to be admin to have it or something

New World Vultures

Thanks for clarifications about nomenclature, etc.; wasn't aware of your use of international conventions. --CJ

White Stork

It's OK. Poland has the first largest (40.900 pairs in 1995) world population (168.000 pairs in worldwide counting in 1995). Radomil talk 17:38, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pheasant dispute

Please do not Americanise my spelling, particularly in an article about an Old World topic. jimfbleak 19:13, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Learn to use and do NOT revert my edits when you can't edit properly. This is not an 'Old World' topic.

I have 20,028 edits, you have 3 according to your contributions, so I can see you're the expert on editing! This article was started using British English, and all pheasants are of Old World origin, with one, maybe two, introduced to North America.

I cannot see on what basis you can justify Americanising this article, and I suggest that before you have the arrogance to do so again you learn the conventions about editing Wikipedia. Can you imagine the response I would get if, say, I changed the Gray Catbird article to Grey Catbird (British English) on the basis that it has occurred in the UK? jimfbleak 05:10, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to ask, in view of your persistence in vandalising this article, either that the page is protected or that you are blocked from editing. I won’t take either step myself, since I am involved in this dispute. Incidentally, blanking your talk page doesn’t lose the edits, as you should know, jimfbleak 05:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pied Bushchat

File:PiedbushchatLL.jpg Hi Jim, this is a Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis). So I have removed the image from the article. Shyamal 04:09, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]