User:Enyavar
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currently also active in de-WP, en-WP, (formerly and in the future maybe, in fr-WP, de-WS)
Deutsch: Moinsen! Schreibt mich gerne auf der de-WP an, wenn ihr was von mir wollt; ich antworte aber auch hier.
English: Hi! Please point out any errors I made, so that I won't repeat them: I'm doing my edits on Commons to the best of my knowledge, which may not include the special interest of yours! It may take me a while to answer, sometimes. :D Thanks.
My special interest is maps and cartography. As such, I do a lot of categorizations to move maps away from Category:Unidentified maps, a category that had nearly 8000 entries at the point when I first came into contact with it. My principle there is to identify a map as closely as possible, and not locate it in just the next best category, like "Maps of Asia" when it is in fact a Map of Provinces of Pakistan, or a Metro map of Hanoi. An exception is a move towards Category:Old maps, which is in fact just a synonym for "Old Unidentified Maps". That means I'm shelving stuff for later, not that it is done categorizing.
Expected FAQ:
My special interest is maps and cartography. As such, I do a lot of categorizations to move maps away from Category:Unidentified maps, a category that had nearly 8000 entries at the point when I first came into contact with it. My principle there is to identify a map as closely as possible, and not locate it in just the next best category, like "Maps of Asia" when it is in fact a Map of Provinces of Pakistan, or a Metro map of Hanoi. An exception is a move towards Category:Old maps, which is in fact just a synonym for "Old Unidentified Maps". That means I'm shelving stuff for later, not that it is done categorizing.
Expected FAQ:
- So, why did I pick dozens of your maps and/or other files of yours and all categorized them in one day, or over the course of a week? (Or worse, deletion-requested all/half/a lot of them!!) Why did I focus on YOUR work? Am I mad and obsessed with you, do you need to be concerned about me stalking you? Answer: No, I just think it is easier that way: I recognized that you uploaded lots of stuff and that it wasn't yet properly categorized. I found out that it's just plain inefficient to just categorize one of your maps, and find another one later and then categorize that one, and then much later find another one or two: Each time, I have to find out what the map was about, where 'your' region is, and what 'your' topic is. (Most people do have topics, believe me). Doing the categorization successively from your entire upload list at once saves a lot of people (or possibly just me) the work to go through all of them later, and I have the context of your other stuff right then and there as guidance. Like, sometimes people upload just a copyvio GoogleMap of their village and three fotos of the same village: After the map gets deleted, nobody can locate the images anymore, and they will never get properly categorized! That is why I go routinely after the upload lists, and that's what these are there for.
- Oh no, I made a deletion request on YOUR map, which YOU created in many hours of WORK with nice lines and your logo on it, by using a screenshot of Google as a backdrop! Yeah, well, sorry, the problem is not your great work, but using Google as your base map: Google owns copyright on their maps, because the company either bought the aerial photographs, or conducted street surveys with their (in?)famous cars. However they got it, they own their map data, and they definitely own their drawing style. Which is why Google Maps are not allowed on Commons. (Period!!) You should have used the free-to-use OpenStreetMap as your basemap, which as CC3 is compatible with the rules on Commons. Or you might have used basemaps that were pre-produced here on Commons for the very purpose of mapping. There are lots of options.
- Oh no, I made a deletion request on YOUR map, which you painstakingly drew of your fantasy world! Please read Commons:Scope first, then let me continue: a bunch of fantasy maps is uploaded every other day on commons, and the creators tag them as "Maps". Category:Maps is moved regularly into the Unidentified maps, and then a few people like me get to decide how your map gets identified. And frankly, I have seen my fair share of fantasy maps, there are many webforums dedicated to the concept, and 95% of the fantasy maps I see here are not really the great works you might find in site like the Cartographers Guild. All maps that are a) not of a well-established fictional world and are b) not aesthetically pleasing to me, get deletion requests instead of the Category:Fantasy maps (which might also need a clean-up, but I'm not feeling especially motivated most of the time). Also, especially established fictional world maps may later be deleted by other people, if they are infringing copyrights of D&D, StarTrek, JRR Tolkien and GRR Martin.
- Oh no, I made a deletion request on YOUR alternate-reality world map AND your fictional flags related to that map! Yeah, at this point I don't really care all that much anymore about fictional flags of micronations and proposed rebel movements. There are fancy flag-designers in Italy or Massachusetts, and "rebel" cartographers sitting in Ottawa or Osaka that outline the border claims of sixteen "indigenous independence movements within China/Pakistan/Congo/Russia" in a row... While the actual indigenous minorities in China/Pakistan/Congo/Russia apparently couldn't care less about a new graphics made in their name, even if they feel opressed or whatever. And don't get me started about the micronation-flags and -currencies that are recognized in one flat in London. That bullsh_ has to be purged from Commons. I approach the tens of thousands of "alternate-reality-Cuban-superpower map" and "inverted-Earth-dinosaur-empire map" and "fictional-duplicate-Sicily-in-the-Black-Sea map" just the same, and I am sorry I didn't do so more radically in the past! Because this stuff is "out of scope" for even most fan-fiction forums, and has nothing to do with possibly educational content.
- I have a particular beef with "historical" maps that are either forgeries, modern territory falsifications or some other kind of irredetentist claim that <YOUR ancient motherland> owned a lot more territories a thousand years ago, than it really did according to historical sources. Like, Go-Joseon ruling over the Amun river basin and stuff. Sadly, a lot of these maps are "In-Use" and thus don't get deleted, and instead increase the level of mis-information of regular WP readers. But whenever I find egregious examples, I either mark them as what they are (inaccurate!) or file deletion requests.