Commons' oddest photos

The Joy · Unread post by **The Joy** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:23 pm

enwikibadscience wrote:
TungstenCarbide wrote:Category:Star_Wars_license_plates
Someone kill me.

Shall we die-in tonight?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Die-ins

enwikibadscience · Unread post by **enwikibadscience** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:24 pm

The Joy wrote:
enwikibadscience wrote:
TungstenCarbide wrote:Category:Star_Wars_license_plates
Someone kill me.
Shall we die-in tonight?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Die-ins

Might be a little pricey for me, the jewelry on the orange one, the Starbucks water bottle holder on the other.

Last time I went on a protest march, admittedly in yuppie-hipster Santa Cruz, California, I was way under dressed and lacking in the necessary bejeweled qualities and quantities.

Hex · Unread post by **Hex** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:08 pm

TIME OUT.

People's boring self-photos are not what I started this thread for, much less using them as an excuse to get jabs in at their subject.

Mod note 13 July 2015: boring self-photos whisked away. -- Hex

enwikibadscience · Unread post by **enwikibadscience** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:33 pm

Hex wrote:TIME OUT.

People's boring self-photos are not what I started this thread for, much less using them as an excuse to get jabs in at their subject.

Well, I guess there are probably a lot of boring selfies on commons. I am a little surprised at how much junk there is on commons. If you search any current events category, you can't actually find the useful information because of the junk.

However, I'l grant you that is probably not odd, just typical of the mentality there.

Tippi Hadron · Unread post by **Tippi Hadron** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:04 pm

Hex wrote:TIME OUT.

People's boring self-photos are not what I started this thread for, much less using them as an excuse to get jabs in at their subject.

Well boo hoo. You really are something of a saint, in light of how Mattie No Mates jerked you around when he tried to have your WP profile pic deleted in a fit of vindictiveness.

But I'll play along, given that you're generally a cool customer. So, for the moment, let's not focus on our boy Matt's obvious conflict of interest regarding his many London Underground edits and his puerile sense of humour when describing his job on twitter but enjoy a lovely and educational picture from a WP article he has an interest in instead:

And another one:

There. That better? ;)

enwikibadscience · Unread post by **enwikibadscience** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:43 pm

Tippi Hadron wrote:
Hex wrote:TIME OUT.

People's boring self-photos are not what I started this thread for, much less using them as an excuse to get jabs in at their subject.
Well boo hoo. You really are something of a saint, in light of how Mattie No Mates jerked you around when he tried to have your WP profile pic deleted in a fit of vindictiveness.

But I'll play along, given that you're generally a cool customer. So, for the moment, let's not focus on our boy Matt's obvious conflict of interest regarding his many London Underground edits and his puerile sense of humour when describing his job on twitter but enjoy a lovely and educational picture from a WP article he has an interest in instead:

And another one:

There. That better?

Brilliant combo of the selfie and the weird. I am always impressed when someone goes the extra mile to satisfy everyone.

Now, get me out of here.

TungstenCarbide · Unread post by **TungstenCarbide** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:48 pm

Hex wrote:TIME OUT.

People's boring self-photos are not what I started this thread for, much less using them as an excuse to get jabs in at their subject.

ftfy

Tippi Hadron · Unread post by **Tippi Hadron** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:57 pm

"I feel so extraordinary
Something's got a hold on me..."

Unread post by **tarantino** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:18 am

Yali woman breastfeeding her pig.

EricBarbour · Unread post by **EricBarbour** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:45 am

Tippi Hadron wrote:So, for the moment, let's not focus on our boy Matt's obvious conflict of interest regarding his many London Underground edits and his puerile sense of humour when describing his job on twitter

Hmm, good point.

Because nobody mentioned furries yet......

Plenty more in Category:Fursuits. Have a sweet day.

enwikibadscience · Unread post by **enwikibadscience** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:18 am

tarantino wrote:Yali woman breastfeeding her pig.

No.

enwikibadscience · Unread post by **enwikibadscience** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:18 am

EricBarbour wrote:
Tippi Hadron wrote:So, for the moment, let's not focus on our boy Matt's obvious conflict of interest regarding his many London Underground edits and his puerile sense of humour when describing his job on twitter
Hmm, good point.

Because nobody mentioned furries yet......

Plenty more in Category:Fursuits. Have a sweet day.

No.

mac · Unread post by **mac** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:06 am

Tippi Hadron wrote:<clip>

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The user inserted this image into the article on paraphilic infantilism (T-H-L) (link), where it remains today. Always improving!

enwikibadscience · Unread post by **enwikibadscience** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:20 am

mac wrote:
Tippi Hadron wrote:<clip>

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The user inserted this image into the article on paraphilic infantilism (T-H-L) (link), where it remains today. Always improving!

Indeed. And I had though it had something to do with bowel cancer.

piku · Unread post by **piku** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:48 am

Odd massive uploaders
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spec ... s/Russavia
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spec ... es/Fastily

Poetlister · Unread post by **Poetlister** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:15 pm

piku wrote:Odd massive uploaders
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spec ... s/Russavia
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spec ... es/Fastily

I think we all know about Russavia and Fastily.

mac · Unread post by **mac** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 5:14 am

To be fair, it is from 1995: link

EricBarbour · Unread post by **EricBarbour** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 9:32 am

mac wrote:
To be fair, it is from 1995:

Nice to see that Wikipedia's role as the replacement for Geocities and Tripod is still obtaining, eh?

Hex · Unread post by **Hex** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:04 am

Hah, that was uploaded by the same person (Corwin(T-C-F-L)) who took Commons File:Paul and Linda McCartney.jpg:

Which is described as:

I took this Picture of Paul & Linda McCartney at the 1973 Academy Awards (which were presented April 2, 1974 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles) when Paul was nominated for "Live & Let Die." Paul & Linda walked up to the podium and Army Archerd started asking him questions on live TV. Paul then turned his head and stared directly at me, totally ignoring the interviewer, and giving me an eerie feeling - was he actually looking at me? I pulled the viewfinder of the camera away from my eye, I had no more film, having just taken this last frame of Paul & Linda, but he continued his penetrating stare. I was getting nervous, here was my idol, staring at me! Army valiantly kept asking questions of Paul, who continued his unblinking stare, keeping perfectly silent. Finally Linda would answer the question. This went on for five or six questions. Finally, Army dejectedly said "Well, thanks Paul" to which Paul suddenly turned to Army shaking his hand saying "Thank You, Army, great questions, you're the best, always love talking to you." Then he and Linda walked over near me and deliberatly turned their backs to me just as they got close, sidestepping in front of me. I guess Paul was feeling playful and decided to give a young man a thrill, it worked!

Duke Olav III · Unread post by **Duke Olav III** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:43 pm

Category:Sinister houses: link

Houses which look haunted but aren't actually reported as such.

Edit: Fumbling around with links

TungstenCarbide · Unread post by **TungstenCarbide** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:50 pm

Duke Olav III wrote:Category:Sinister houses (T-H-L)

Houses which look haunted but aren't actually reported as such.

heh, a subcategory of gloominess.

Stierlitz · Unread post by **Stierlitz** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:02 am

Duke Olav III wrote:Category:Sinister houses: link

Houses which look haunted but aren't actually reported as such.
Edit: Fumbling around with links

Notice they tried to make some of them spookier by shooting them in monochrome (gasp!) and in the dark (shock! horror!).

Give me a moonless night and no lights and I could make Disneyland look like the abandoned fairground in Carnival of Souls.

Hex · Unread post by **Hex** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 11:49 am

I feel like I should have noted at the start that all the photographs in this thread are licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0... oh well. I'm also going to start crediting their uploaders.

Commons File:Wikibuck Hat.JPG, by Chase me ladies, I'm the cavalry(T-C-F-L).

Is this the kind of thing that I have to look forward to seeing at Wikimania?

Ming · Unread post by **Ming** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:05 pm

Hex wrote:Hah, that was uploaded by the same person (Corwin(T-C-F-L)) who took Commons File:Paul and Linda McCartney.jpg:

Hey, this is important documentation of the Mullet (haircut) (T-H-L).

Poetlister · Unread post by **Poetlister** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:57 pm

Hex wrote:Is this the kind of thing that I have to look forward to seeing at Wikimania?

In my experience, you'd be lucky to see anything that good.

thekohser · Unread post by **thekohser** » Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:11 pm

"Hello, my name is Syed Muzammiluddin, in the Christ University. As you can see, I have many references, tools, and technologies at my disposal here, at the Help desk. May I help today Wikipedia for you?"

mac · Unread post by **mac** » Sat May 10, 2014 4:59 am

I found it amusing that the man reading the spoken word version of soggy biscuit (T-H-L) can't keep from laughing (twice) while reading it: Commons File:Soggy Biscuit.ogg

Kelly Martin · Unread post by **Kelly Martin** » Sat May 10, 2014 2:39 pm

mac wrote:I found it amusing that the man reading the spoken word version of soggy biscuit (T-H-L) can't keep from laughing (twice) while reading it: Commons File:Soggy Biscuit.ogg

I find it vaguely disturbing that there's a spoken word version of that article....

Hex · Unread post by **Hex** » Sat May 10, 2014 3:38 pm

mac wrote:I found it amusing that the man reading the spoken word version of soggy biscuit (T-H-L) can't keep from laughing (twice) while reading it: Commons File:Soggy Biscuit.ogg

Great find. That same user (read, sockpuppet account), Falconilla Red Foreman (T-C-L), also uploaded File:Dirty Sanchez (sexual act).ogg (T-H-L), with a similarly amused-sounding woman doing a reading.

Accent: Sexy British

Peryglus · Unread post by **Peryglus** » Sun May 11, 2014 9:00 pm

Commons File:A wikimedian editing in the forest (1683).jpg, by Kychot(T-C-F-L). (Whole shoot)

I get the feeling this is what many wikipedians look like while editing, but maybe without the forest background. Note bottles.

EricBarbour · Unread post by **EricBarbour** » Mon May 12, 2014 1:26 am

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... Boe%29.jpg
No explanation for the wreckage. You have to dig around to learn it was from an earthquake.

Another thing: punch the "Random" button a hundred times. The vast majority of these images are not used in any Wikipedia or other "official" WMF project content. Some of them are linked by the creators on their userpages or elsewhere. People continue to use Commons as a Flickr.

Ming · Unread post by **Ming** » Mon May 12, 2014 1:49 am

Hex wrote:Hah, that was uploaded by the same person (Corwin(T-C-F-L)) who took Commons File:Paul and Linda McCartney.jpg:

Hey, this is important documentation of the Mullet (haircut) (T-H-L).

EricBarbour · Unread post by **EricBarbour** » Mon May 12, 2014 2:30 am

Look at this.

In 2001, specially commissioned scans of the bridge confirmed the existence within the fabric of the large central pier of a horse and cart, which had fallen into the cavity of the pier during construction. Until this time, it had not been certain at which bridge this accident had occurred.

There is no article on Wikipedia about this viaduct. The incident is mentioned in Glenfinnan Viaduct (T-H-L), where it didn't actually happen.

Someone care to figure out why? I give up.

neved · Unread post by **neved** » Mon May 12, 2014 3:36 am

about to become a featured picture

Unread post by **Zoloft** » Mon May 12, 2014 3:46 am

EricBarbour wrote:Look at this.
In 2001, specially commissioned scans of the bridge confirmed the existence within the fabric of the large central pier of a horse and cart, which had fallen into the cavity of the pier during construction. Until this time, it had not been certain at which bridge this accident had occurred.
There is no article on Wikipedia about this viaduct. The incident is mentioned in Glenfinnan Viaduct (T-H-L), where it didn't actually happen.

Someone care to figure out why? I give up.

Link to more info: link where oddly enough there are two slightly differing accounts on the same page.

The salient paragrpah:

In 2000, Professor Paxton and Radar World, commissioned by Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, developed an innovative radar imaging technique which penetrated the 9 ft thick walls of this pier into its infilled cavity and identified the vertically positioned remains of a McAlpine horse and cart (behind the white spot in the view) which had accidentally fallen into the cavity a century earlier.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.

Creative Commons licensed photo, too!

Poetlister · Unread post by **Poetlister** » Mon May 12, 2014 7:08 pm

neved wrote:about to become a featured picture

Perilously close to child porn, I suggest. The artfully placed dog tail hides the "rude bits".

thekohser · Unread post by **thekohser** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 6:30 pm

This photo crop of me isn't narrow enough. Could someone crop another derivative, so that you can just see my lips, left nostril, and left eyebrow? M'kay, thanks.

Unread post by **Zoloft** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:59 pm

They weren't cropping you, they were cropping MyWikiBiz.
Amateurs.

Kohs_with_MyWikiBiz_screen.png

Vigilant · Unread post by **Vigilant** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:00 pm

They really fucked up that picture. I can't even see your horns.

Poetlister · Unread post by **Poetlister** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:41 pm

There was actually an edit war over the cropping between Nemo Bis and our own Michael Suarez, not to mention a deletion request on the grounds that it is out of scope and that it is a copyvio: "Even if we assumed he had the right to use the logo for his own company, there is no information about him having the right to relicense/sublicense it." I think this is worth a page in the book.

What nobody queried in the deletion discussion, actually, is whether the photographer transferred the copyright to Greg.

thekohser · Unread post by **thekohser** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:26 am

Poetlister wrote:What nobody queried in the deletion discussion, actually, is whether the photographer transferred the copyright to Greg.

Who do you imagine was the photographer?

Poetlister · Unread post by **Poetlister** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:41 am

thekohser wrote:
Poetlister wrote:What nobody queried in the deletion discussion, actually, is whether the photographer transferred the copyright to Greg.
Who do you imagine was the photographer?

It's not a question of what I imagine. It would never occur to me to imagine that it was a copyvio because of the MyWikiBiz logo, but some people managed to think so, or say they did.

mac · Unread post by **mac** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 8:36 pm

There's a lot of weird stuff in Category:Wikipedia files of no use beyond Wikipedia (T-H-L). I like this file, File:Profile pic of my chosing.jpg (T-H-L), which helpfully releases the Wikipedia logo to the public domain. Thanks Norum (T-C-L)!

Peryglus · Unread post by **Peryglus** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 9:57 pm

mac wrote:There's a lot of weird stuff in Category:Wikipedia files of no use beyond Wikipedia (T-H-L).

Is there a Commons equivalent of this category?

EricBarbour · Unread post by **EricBarbour** » Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:51 pm

Peryglus wrote:
mac wrote:There's a lot of weird stuff in Category:Wikipedia files of no use beyond Wikipedia (T-H-L).
Is there a Commons equivalent of this category?

There are too many possibilities to list here.

Thanks for pointing that category out as it's a perfect example of people using Wikipedia as a personal Flickr. Many of the photos are of very minor WP editors, who (sometimes) use the pics on their userpages. Resource mismanagement at its purest!

Hex · Unread post by **Hex** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 8:54 am

EricBarbour wrote:
Peryglus wrote:
mac wrote:There's a lot of weird stuff in Category:Wikipedia files of no use beyond Wikipedia (T-H-L).
Is there a Commons equivalent of this category?
There are too many possibilities to list here.

Thanks for pointing that category out as it's a perfect example of people using Wikipedia as a personal Flickr. Many of the photos are of very minor WP editors, who (sometimes) use the pics on their userpages. Resource mismanagement at its purest!

As I see it, that's largely a side effect of MediaWiki not providing a user profile system, and implying that users have free rein to create whatever kind of page about themselves that they want. Another classic example of how the developers of the core application have failed over the course of many years to understand how non-technical users operate.

dadod · Unread post by **dadod** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:14 pm

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimbo.jpg

Unread post by **tarantino** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 4:57 pm

Tippi Hadron · Unread post by **Tippi Hadron** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:05 am

Tippi Hadron · Unread post by **Tippi Hadron** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:15 am

That guy seems to have an odd fascination with dead animals:

Then again, he gets it right sometimes. :)