User talk:MasterRus21thCentury

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High image quality version from the Russian Presidential Press and Information Office

First of all, thank you for having found a high quality version of the file File:President Putin laying a wreath at a monument to the liberating Soviet Army in Pyongyang.jpg, this kind of contribution on Commons is quite underestimated and I'd like to thank you for this good modification!

So I'm asking you for something else, could you find high quality for these other similar photos ?

• File:Shoigu at Liberation Monument in Pyongyang (2023).png
• File:Shoigu at Liberation Monument in Pyongyang (2023) 2.png

Thank you very much! — Koreller (talk) 10:03, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Copying a large number of photos of officials, etc

Hi! There is no need to add all the official meeting photos from government websites. Wikipedia is not a file hosting service for officials; a few photos for articles are enough. Photos that are not valuable to the Wikimedia Commons will be deleted. And also for each photo you need to give a description. Rtfroot (talk) 20:50, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

@Rtfroot As for the numbering of photographs, it will be temporary and exists to facilitate uploading photographs (for example, they are listed in the order given on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense). In the future, they will be renamed - this takes less time than uploading photos to Wikimedia Commons. Also in the future there will be uploading of photographs from Sergei Shoigu’s working trips around Russia and abroad - there are 127 of them in the album and they will also temporarily be in order. MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 21:04, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

I have to agree with Rtfroot here. It's really helpful or practical to upload every single image of Sergei Shoigu twiddling his thumbs at a random meeting over the last 10 years or whoever long. And the explanation for why did that makes zero sense. Especially the bit about renaming files files int he future. As if that has anything to do with it. Regardless, next time it would be better you if just picked the best ones out of the set and uploaded them instead of just indiscriminately uploading every image from the Russian Ministry of Defense's website while expecting everyone else to deal with them. And just an FYI, but it looks like the links to the original images on the Russian Ministry of Defense's website don't work because of them blocking IP addresses outside of Russia from accessing it, which really doesn't help. --Adamant1 (talk) 23:47, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

It seems you don't understand what I'm talking about. I'm saying that you are uploading a lot of photos that are of no value to the community and Wikipedia (random official handshakes, etc.), a few photos are enough, but you are downloading all the photos from official sites. Wikipedia is not a file hosting service. There is no need to add all the photos from every trip of government officials. In addition, you poorly format the uploaded photos (incorrect names, incorrect sources, often no description, etc.). By the way, where do you get improved copies of old photographs? This is AI upscaling am I right? Rtfroot (talk) 10:01, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

@Adamant1, @Rtfroot: I understand this very well - I try to upload only the important, and if necessary, only in high resolution (for example, on the Kremlin website there is a section Putin. 20 years at http://20.kremlin.ru, where the best moments of Vladimir’s presidency and premiership are posted Putin from December 31, 1999 to December 2019).

Meanwhile, here the photographs are uploaded in high resolution and I am happy to post them on Wikimedia Commons. In turn, on the main website of the Russian President, photographic materials from 2000-2009 have a resolution of 500x334, which is extremely low quality for large computers. MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 11:15, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Where do you get high resolution photos for old ones? If this is AI upscaling, then this must be explicitly stated. AI upscaling of old photos is not the same as original. Rtfroot (talk) 15:23, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Regarding such requests: an image can be renamed without the redirect only if this image is not used. Sneeuwschaap (talk) 12:49, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

@MasterRus21thCentury: Apparently your still uploading every random image of Sergei Shoigu against our requests and sources to the original files still don't seem to be working. Plus you seem to be redundantly adding Sergei Shoigu to the images along with a "Sergei Shoigu" by year category. When only the by year category is necessary. Can you at least fix the problem with the dead sources and stop adding the pointless parent category to the files if your not going to stop uploading them completely? You still aren't adding descriptions as requested either and a basic level files need both sources and descriptions to be hosted on Commons. Especially sources. It does no good if they are just links to blank archive.org pages though. So please fix it and the overcategorizing. --Adamant1 (talk) 06:53, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@Adamant1 As for archived pages, they are usually removed from the current list, while photographs remain on the servers of the Russian Ministry of Defense website, and the pages themselves are not archived.

Currently, I have completely completed the series of uploads of photographs of Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu and will now be distributing them by year. Either way, this could make excellent material for Wikipedia articles and Wikimedia Commons galleries. MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 06:57, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

No offense, but I don't care about or understand the insider baseball in regards to how your doing this whole thing. But you clearly didn't get the images from the archive.org links since they are blank pages. So just fix the sources so they point to the actual places where the images are being hosted. I don't care if that's archive.org, mil.ru, or somewhere else, but the sources clearly need to be corrected since they don't work as things currently stand. Thanks. --Adamant1 (talk) 07:00, 23 January 2024 (UTC)