User talk:Grandiose

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RE: File:Livonia_in_1534_(Engilsh).PNG

I think that there should be no problem with this pictures' licence. As for the factual source, I mostly used a historical map from Leonid Arbusow's "Grundriss der Geschichte Liv-, Est- und Kurlands", which different editions are from years 1892-1918. However, in the article Livonian War, I can see some factual mistakes derived from books written by historians who probably don't know the actual course of events in Livonia, as they have not read the primary sources. So, I think that those mistakes should be corrected, before one can elect this article as "featured". Athanasius Soter (talk) 10:37, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Re: File:Map of Poland and Lithuania after the Union of Lublin (1569).svg

Typo: Warsaw, not Waraw. Add Lviv. See also File:Irp1569.jpg. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 20:54, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Re: File:Guerra Civil Española.svg

Hello Grandiose. I don't know what the problem is with that file, I was hoping that in a couple of days the problem would go away, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Do you think you could try to upload the latest version? Maybe it'll work then. If not, I will revert to the previous version. Thanks, tyk (talk) 09:48, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for trying. tyk (talk) 18:38, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

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File:F-22 Raptor edit1.jpg (answer)

I am not the author of this photo, sorry I do not understand your point (my English is bad). --Luc Viatour (talk) 19:29, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

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Re: Manuel Azaña

Hi Grandiose. I scanned this portrait from a book a few years ago. This is the reason of the license for the image. Thanks, Alonso de Mendoza (talk) 10:17, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Map of the Battle of the Somme, 1916.svg

Hi, Grandiose, nice illustration - I very much appreciate that kind of work - Just today I came across Aisne_Front_1917.jpg - Just terrible those kinds of pictures! I'm inclined to contribute some SVGs myself some day, just haven't bothered to learn about that whole "Commons" business yet...
Anyway, you might want to correct that Courcelette is spelled with only one l, that according to Openstreetmap it's Foucaucourt, and not Foucoucourt, and maybe you'd like to write Rosières with an accent grave and Péronne with an accent aigu. --BjKa (talk) 08:42, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Fixed it

Grandiose's SVG, edited by BjKa.

Spellings corrected, as commented above. Also: Héburterne -> Hébuterne. Also: Box around "RESERVE" widened. --BjKa using Notepad.

Please integrate it as an update to your file as you see fit. I have no idea how that whole picture management business works. I'm glad I made it as far as this. --BjKa (talk) 11:44, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Alright then, I'll be back when I've learned the bueraucracy, and undone the gordian knot at Péronne... --BjKa (talk) 11:38, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Maps

Hey, I just discovered your work on battle maps. Very elegant, simple, clean. Thanks you for these charming maps ! Yug (talk) 14:29, 24 October 2018 (UTC)