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Iran Air HQ

Thank you so much for getting a photo of the building!

BTW, do you plan to get a photo of the Iran Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) building, also at Mehrabad?

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 21:10, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

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Denniss (talk) 05:32, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Photo request

Hi! The Mahan Air head office is at Mahan Air Tower, Azadegan St., Karaj Highway, Tehran 1481655761- Iran

Would you mind photographing it?

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 15:49, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

answered in wiki fa.Monfie (talk) 10:00, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

creative commons and public domain

monfie, if you don't understand the template, i feel like you didn't understand the difference between public domain and creative commons. They are NOT equivalent. With a creative commons license, i retain my rights on my pictures, whereas with PD i give them away. That means with creative commons license. My pictures are free to use by anyone, even commercially, but I ask to be credited for it. If you have more questions about licensing, don't hesitate to ask... Fabienkhan (talk) 08:11, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Of course it must be credited, but I assume you asked every one to get permission for use. (special use), I don't know what is it because all kind of use, even commercial use, is already permitted with creative commons licence.Monfie (talk) 15:49, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

actually, it's just to say to picture buyers that they can contact me, in any case they would like to pay for the use. There's no special value to this claim ;-) Fabienkhan (talk) 08:19, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

iranian?

are you from iran?--Someone35 (talk) 16:03, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi, yes I am.--Monfie (talk) 16:58, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Isn't the internet disabled there because of your dictator?--Someone35 (talk) 17:05, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

there is a dictatorship but not that much. they only filtered some social networks (such as Facebook) and porn sites, but it is no problem. Almost everybody has VPN account and have totally free access to internet. --Monfie (talk) 05:04, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

So you've never seen how Facebook looks like??? You can use sites like hidemyass.com to enter Facebook if you want--Someone35 (talk) 11:15, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

As I told, most people, including me, have a VPN account and we can easily bypass the governmental filtering.--Monfie (talk) 12:52, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

k lol--Someone35 (talk) 13:19, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

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Hello مانفی !

Can you please provide the deeplinks of the VOA-video of which you took the screenshots? Here you did it correctly. Thanks for your help! Regards, High Contrast (talk) 17:47, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I mentioned their official channel in YouTube. Regards. Monfie (talk) 11:28, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

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178.10.108.95 14:40, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Iranian Tiles.JPG

I've had a go. Not perfect. But a small improvement. And the proportions are more true I think. Colin (talk) 20:39, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

You did it better than me. Thanks.--Monfie (talk) 12:49, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

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Panorama pics

(From my talk -- I'll respond here) Hi, Do you believe is it likely to succeed if I nominate this? What about this one? Any betterment you suggest?

Thanks --Monfie (talk) 08:45, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi,

You’ve picked some impressive subjects and very challenging images. I suspect, however, that they wouldn’t succeed at FP because of technical flaws. Some of these are due to the simplicity of Microsoft ICE in how it stitches, and some of them are problems with the source images.

• The first picture has some stitching errors (where the alignment between frames isn’t perfect). The focus on the back wall is good in one frame but poor in the next. It should also be possible to correct the vertical sloping walls, though this will have consequences for the resolution at the top of the picture and a degree of downsizing may then be appropriate.
• The second picture needs to have the verticals corrected and the horizon levelled. The image has twins: where the same person appears twice.

I’m a relative beginner when it comes to stitching images and there are other folk on Commons who are much better than me. Here’s some advice from what I’ve learned so far:

• Hugin will do a better job than ICE but there’s a big learning curve to the program and it can be a little buggy. It is free, though and offers a lot of manipulation/adjustment options. Also Smartblend is better than Hugin’s built-in blender but as with most things about Hugin, the documentation is poor and outdated.
• You might be able to remove twins if your images overlap considerably by using masks in Hugin. However, for complex scenes, you need a good image editor. I’ve recently bought Photoshop on an educational licence but even that is expensive and lots to learn. Possibly Elements or Gimp will do. An editor can also help tidy up any slight alignment issues and polish aspects of the picture.
• You can avoid twins somewhat by taking care not to include people twice. Perhaps wait till the person walks out of frame. Or if people are all walking left to right then take your shots right to left.
• Make sure your source images overlap lots. This will not only help alignment but gives you some redundancy so that you can pick people/cars/etc from one image rather than another. This helps fix twins and also people cut off, etc.
• Take more photographs than you think you need. Both surrounding your object and also consider taking two sets. When you adjust for perspective, it alters the shape of the image considerably, so a big margin round the subject helps keep everything in the final crop. If you have a failure and can’t return to the subject to re-take the shot, the spare images may help.
• Set your camera to manual exposure and fire of some test shots to see if the highlights and shadows are within the exposure range. Use the camera histogram. It is important that all the shots are taken with the same exposure – the software can fix this later but best to get it right first.
• Set the lens to manual focus. You don’t want the focus shifting between adjacent shots and auto-focus can produce different results for two consecutive images of the same area.
• Large panoramas can have a challenging range of exposure so shooting in RAW will help give freedom to contain this range. Hugin supports 16-bit workflow.
• Try to rotate the lens round the nodal point to minimize parallax errors. This won’t be an issue for subjects in the distance but matters if some things (e.g. lamp posts) are nearby. The nodal point is roughly in the middle of your lens but varies. If you are rich, you can buy special tripod heads to get perfect results.
• If the picture has a very wide angle of view then a rectilinear projection isn’t possible: curved horizontals are inevitable to some degree. You need to use one of the cylindrical projections instead. Your second photo could look good with a cylindrical projection. If it also has a very high angle of view then those won’t work either and you need another projection such as stereographic, which will have curved verticals and horizontals.

If you want to investigate Hugin and try to improve your pictures, then I'll try to help you with it if I can. I'll watchlist your talk page. Alternatively, I might be able to improve on them, but then we'd need to arrange some way of getting the originals (ideally RAW) to me. You can email me if you like. Colin (talk) 14:24, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

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 Support Good image. Scope well chosen but poorly formatted. I changed. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 08:44, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. MrPanyGoff 19:52, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

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Very good explanations, you made me believe it is the best in scope. But geocoding is a mandatory, except if you can explain why it is not possible.--Jebulon (talk) 16:53, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

•  Comment I don't think geocoding is necessary in this case: painting, not outdoor photo. Yann (talk) 05:43, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

•  DoneAnyway, this painting is kept in Golestan Palace and most likely, it has drown in this palace. So I geocoded it. --Monfie (talk) 08:50, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
  •  Support Thank you Monfie. @ Yann: the fact that it is an "inside painting" is not a valid reason to claim an exception IMO, and a geocode is useful in this case too. I've uploaded some painting photographs made by me, and they are geocoded... Most of the valid exceptions are: protection of private life, security reasons, and studio or home works. --Jebulon (talk) 15:24, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Godot13 (talk) 05:35, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

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 Comment Interestingly, despite the scaffolding. Must be added to the scope, the term exterior.--Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:43, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

•  Done--Monfie (talk) 07:44, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
•  Support Best in scope --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 09:15, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Godot13 (talk) 03:19, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks Monfie (talk) 07:01, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks. Of course I will do according guidelines and what you told.Monfie (talk) 10:03, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

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Picture of the Year 2013 Results Announcement

Picture of the Year 2013 Results

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1. 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
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3. In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.

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You tagged File:Military Parade Marks Iran's National Army Day (8660757384).jpg and others a (c)vio because Mehr News Agency. I noticed (on the English part of the Mehr webiste) that they say (in short) reuse with mentioning Mehr News Ageny. Could you have a look? Thanks a bunch! --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 17:08, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

works are uploadable in commons if they are in under CC or if not they must permitted for share and remix including commercial uses and derivatives. None of these are permitted in according to their website.--Monfie (talk) 17:18, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

I hoped that it would say something like that in Persian language somewhere on the pages. I'll proceed with the deletion, thanks for checking!! --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 18:04, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

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File:Iranian traditional restarrant, Isfahan.jpg

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• Considering copyvio (Flickrwashing) via https://www.flickr.com/photos/neumeyer/8111664962/ (22.10.2012, all rights reserved by "hn" = Heico Neumeyer, see also exif) versus (your source) https://www.flickr.com/photos/62896794@N02/8122808445. Gunnex (talk) 19:04, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

File renaming and more

Hello مانفی, thanks for your contribution regarding to Jean Chardin. Together with that i want to raise two issues:

First, File renaming. According to file renaming policy of Commons file may rename only of one of the reasons mentioned her (1 to 7). Non of the files been meaningless, misleading or with obvious errors. So I think that there was real reason to rename them.

More than that, part of the rename were mistakes. For example File:03 Chardin Tiflis 1671 second version.jpg. The name it the is Teflis and not Tiflis as you wrote (see her bigger). The file published in 1723 (see the source). that is truth that it based on former publication but this particular file published in 1723. So the year correction was wrong. So please rename back to the original name or/and let's discuss in the files talk page. I don't mind if you add the Persian or Arabic name near Teflis, but basically the original names should be restored. Next time I think it be good idea to use:

{{rename|newname.ext|rationale number|reason=optional text reason}} .

second, re-upload files like you made her is un correct. It better to upload them in a different file name. You can see examples her.

hopefully my criticism will accept with understanding. Geagea (talk) 00:57, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi Geagea. Thanks for comments. I changed names of some of Jean Chardin's images because they were a bit messy and confusing. Multiple uploads with different and very long names. BTW, you are right and some of them was not correct to do. About especial image that you mention, Teflis, I just wanted to unify name of different imaged and chose, not made, one name for all. Actually if I wanted to made, the name must be Tbilisi (modern and local name of the city) but date of drawing the original work is 1671 and then it published in different dates. And about second, you are 100% right. Overriding that image, that I did one year ago, was a mistake.Monfie (talk) 17:43, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks and sorry for bothering. -- Geagea (talk) 10:25, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

New level {{User PH-4}}

Hi ; new level 4 for you ?--Medium⁶₉ ^{You wanted talk to me?} 00:30, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

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This user is able to take professional quality photographs.

I changed it. Thanks for reminding. Monfie (talk) 18:28, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

modification

Hello. I guess something is wrong with the description section of this photo (File:Isfahan_historical_area_map,_1940_vs_2010.jpg (See: اصفهان#تاریخچه). As I double checked on google map, I think the location of "Si-o-Seh Pol" should be replace with "Pol-e Khaju" on the and description section of this figure and vice-versa. FaraM 10:15, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

You are right. Thanks so much for informing.--Monfie (talk) 12:38, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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Hello! One suggestion: you could nominate only the painting. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 21:58, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi. Yes I will.--Monfie (talk) 08:02, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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Photo requests in Tehran

Do you still do photo requests in Tehran? WhisperToMe (talk) 23:31, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Actually I am away now, but time to time I go there. If you need some photos, write them. I will take them if I go to location.--Monfie (talk) 11:24, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Ok! I'll post a list:

Aviation-related:

• Mehrabad Airport
  • Iran Civil Aviation Organization HQ
  • Iran Airports Holding Company HQ - By Terminal 2 - آدرس:تهران - فرودگاه مهرآباد -جنب ترمينال 2 - ساختمان مركزي شركت فرودگاه‌هاي كشور
• Taban Air headquarters - NO. 10, Fiat Alley, Ekbatan Main Boulevard, 1st Phase, Ekbatan Complex, Tehran/تهران _ شهرک اکباتان – فاز1 _ بلوار اصلی _ کوچه فیات _ پلاک 10

International schools: - Keep mind mind that some of these schools may be at diplomatic facilities so you may have to ask permission to photograph them and/or ask them to provide a photograph:

• Tehran International School
  • Girls' school: 36 Farahzādi Blvd, (the junction of Pūnak-e Bākhtarī and Farahzādī Blvd,) Shahrak-e Qods/Gharb Tehran, Iran -- or Dadman St., Shahid Farahzadi Bld., Shahrak-e Ghods, Tehran, Iran
  • Boys' secondary school: No.1 , Farhang Sq., Sadat Abad, Tehran, Iran
  • Boys' primary school: No.60, East Sarv St., Kaj Sq., Saadat Abad, Tehran, Iran
• Tehran Japanese School: NO.１８ GHOBADIAN-WEST ST.AFRICHA AV.TEHRAN, IRAN
  • Former school: No.117 Naft 12th St, Zafar Ave, Tehran, Iran
• German Embassy School Tehran: Shariati, under the Sadr Bridge Shahid Keshani St. (Mahale Darbdowom) Tehran/Iran
  • International section (former British School of Tehran): Shahid Keshani Street, Dr. Shari'ati Street, Tehran 19396. Islamic Republic of Iran.
• NOTE: The École Française de Téhéran at No 1553, Shariati Ave, Téhéran, IRAN is on the property of the British embassy residential compound. It may be possible to photograph the entrance of the British compound if that is allowed/you get permission. I do not believe you will be able to photograph the school itself...

WhisperToMe (talk) 03:37, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

OK. at least some of them are very likely to be photographed by me. but I inform you that street view of international schools are not so interesting (because they are usually located in a garden) and they don't let me to enter and take photo from beulings from inside school.Monfie (talk) 11:23, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Ok. When I get photos it's usually of the exterior with the sign visible (for example File:JapaneseSchoolKLMalaysia.jpg in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). I'm most interested in the Japanese schools.

Thank you!

WhisperToMe (talk) 23:37, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Tehran International School by sure has no sign. others I'm not sure. I will check. Monfie (talk) 17:46, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Ok. In case all three TIS campuses (boys primary, boys secondary, girls) have no signs, what I like to do is take a photo showing distinct architecture so people in Tehran will be able to recognize the building. If/when there are signs it's best to photograph the signs in Persian and the ones in Latin script or other languages. WhisperToMe (talk) 04:14, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

If it's ok, I found one more: A Korean school: Korean Embassy School No.21, 4th street Bucharest Ave., Tehran, Iran WhisperToMe (talk) 02:58, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe: here you are. File:Italian International school in Tehran.jpg --Monfie (talk) 10:03, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Oh my gosh! Thank you so much for posting that! I had no idea there was an Italian school in Tehran! WhisperToMe (talk) 14:12, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Found its official website http://www.scuolaitalianatehran.com/ WhisperToMe (talk) 14:15, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

It covers senior high school, making it eligible for an ENwiki article. It is now live! WhisperToMe (talk) 14:36, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

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Commons:Photo challenge/2015 - September-October - 100 years later

I'm afraid I have to remove the following entry from the photo challenge, as it was uploaded before September 2015. -- Colin (talk) 15:17, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

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Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2015 is open!

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Dear مانفی,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2015 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the tenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2015) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. In Round 1, there were 1322 candidate images. There are 56 finalists in Round 2, comprised of the top 30 overall as well as the top #1 and #2 from each sub-category. In the final round, you may vote for just one or maximal three image to become the Picture of the Year.

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Question

Can you please tell me where did you find this file: 57 Chardin Si-o-se Pol.jpg? I mean precise book, volume, page and plate number? Do you have web-link? --Orijentolog (talk) 11:50, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

I find it in the mentioned book which is freely available in google books. I dont know page number but it can be easily found.Monfie (talk) 12:22, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

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Notification about possible deletion

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Affected:

• File:Fahmideh tomb.jpg

And also:

• File:Mantis memorial.jpg
• File:Nejatolahi tomb.jpg
• File:Shohada tomb1.jpg
• File:Shohada tomb2.jpg

Yours sincerely, Storkk (talk) 10:55, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

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Copyright and use of images

Hi مانفی,

I'm contacting you about the use of your images in my website (www.dixon.es).

I've got to admit that the different copyright and licensing agreements under which fotos are made available via Wikicommons seem a bit of a labyrinth to me, hence my contacting you directly.

If you have a look at the website you'll see that I've added a copy of your image "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=428179272 to a slider on the home page.

I'm not a programmer, and fighting with websites is a real trial for me. However, I've got this far, and I'd like to know how you'd like me to proceed with a credit (assuming that you're ok about my using the foto in the first place, of course).

I did initially add credits to the fotos themselves, but they looked really poor in the standard slider that I've used, so I removed them and added a "Credits" link on the main menu, with intention of listing all the fotos that I've used along with the corresponding credit and link.

So, before I go ahead, I'd like to have your feedback about the idea, and of course about the use of your foto.

Look forward to hearing from you

--Sattamassagassa (talk) 17:09, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

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Featured video UserBox

Hi, مانفی ,

If you wish you can use the new userbox for FV which shows

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. -- Eatcha (talk) 09:02, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

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Imamzadeh Taher

Please do not do this things, there's a difference between an imamzadeh (building) and a cemetery (burial area). --Orijentolog (talk) 13:19, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

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And also:

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Yours sincerely, VLu (talk) 10:55, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

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