I am a photographer based in Australia. I have been involved with Wikipedia for ten years and have contributed several hundred high-quality photos. I am one of the most featured photographers on the project and my images have been reproduced in publications around the world.
My images are published on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects under either the GFDL license or are released copyright free. If you want less restrictive terms than the GFDL licensing for reproduction of my images off the Wikimedia projects please contact me for details. As well as the alternative licensing I will often be able to provide images at higher resolution or quality settings if required (especially for the copyright free images), or may have related images that I have not made available to Wikipedia.
You can leave a message on my talk page, but as I am now only occasionally active on Wikipedia you will probably get a quicker and more personal response by sending me an email through this link: Special:EmailUser/Jjron.
10 years on Wikipedia
Celebrating 10 years on Wikipedia, Saturday, 14 May 2016
My first official edit to Wikipedia using this account was made on 14 May 2006, so as of 14 May 2016 I have been active on Wikipedia for 10 years. While I haven't contributed particularly regularly for some years, certainly nowhere near as much as I'd like, I still support the project and make at least occasional edits. At times I get a bit more active, depending on things like finding an article or topic I want to work on, having some images that I particularly want to contribute, or simply finding some time I can spare from 'real life', but realistically my edits per year in the last few years have been more in the order of hundreds rather than thousands.
This editor is a Senior Editor and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star.
Edits on Wikipedia and other projects:
total edits on English Wikipedia: 23,029;
total live edits: 22,809;
unique pages edited: 5,625;
articles created: 34 articles on English Wikipedia (or 71 including redirects);
most active year: 2008 with 4,969 edits;
most active month: May 2011 with 958 edits;
most active edit locations: 9,735 edits or 42.7% in article space, with 8,427 edits or 36.9% on 'Wikipedia', mainly the Reference desks and Featured picture candidates;
average edits per day over the ten years: 6.3;
total edits across all projects: 25,629 across 59 wikis, including 2,404 on Wikimedia Commons, and 43 on Spanish Wikipedia;
note: all totals omit an unrecorded number of 'anonymous' edits, etc.
files uploaded across Wikipedia and Commons: 674 uploads, mainly my own photos;
Featured pictures on English Wikipedia: 33 (with an unknown number across other projects, but it's lots).
jjron's Image Gallery
You can view a gallery of my image contributions in my image Gallery. I have my Gallery divided into a number of subpages which you can access from the Gallery mainpage or from here:
I have had thirty-three of my photos promoted to a Featured Picture on English Wikipedia. I have additionally had many images featured on foreign language Wikipedias and Wikimedia Commons. I have also edited, uploaded, or nominated over thirty other Featured Pictures. My own Featured Pictures are displayed below:
Tulip at Floriade, Canberra
Metung wharf, Metung, Vic
Melbourne city panorama from Docklands, Vic
Japanese Garden panorama, Cowra, NSW
F-111 fuel dump
Camel
Hereford calf
Lilac flower and leaves
Broken Hill and Line of Lode Panorama, Broken Hill, NSW
Eastern bearded dragon
Brolga
Royal spoonbill
Eastern long-neck turtle camouflaged by algae
Nectarine fruit development
Common Grass-blue butterfly
Australian Synchrotron
Arborist felling a eucalyptus tree
Nelligen, NSW across the Clyde River
Mazda6 GG Classic Hatch
Mazda6 GG Classic Hatch
Bathing boxes on Melbourne's Brighton Beach, Vic
Australia's Parliament House in Canberra, ACT
Sand sculpting at the Dinostory Festival in Frankston, Vic
Fishermen jigging off the historic Queenscliff Pier, Queenscliff, Vic
Meat-eater ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus) working cooperatively to devour a cicada
Robbie McEwen riding for Team Katusha, Geelong, Vic
Motorcycle policeman, Geelong, Vic
The Horn panorama, Mt Buffalo National Park, Vic
Brian Nankervis at a live show in Melbourne
St Kilda Town Hall, Vic
Gippsland Water Dragon, Physignathus lesueurii howittii
Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA, CA, USA
Sign painting in LA, CA, USA
Roadkilled deer in South Carolina, USA
Valued Pictures
I additionally had three of my photos promoted in the short-lived Valued Picture project. They are displayed below:
Jeff Hardy
Brown falcon
Red Sand Garden, RBG, Cranbourne
Awards
Congratulations! You have been selected as one of Wikipedia's Masters of Photography for your outstanding contributions to the project. --Fir0002 12:04, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar For all your edits I give you a barnstar. Bewareofdog 18:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
The Photographer's Barnstar For contributing good pictures and helping out kindly to newbies at FPC. Muhammad Mahdi Karim 17:47, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
The Photographer's Barnstar Thank you for ALL your help with the edits and advice that helped me get my first featured picture.Thanks a TON Muhammad Mahdi Karim 17:08, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
The Photographer's Barnstar Once I saw your Triple H image I just had to give you this. Keep up the Great work. -- LAX 22:17, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar I'm giving you this Barnstar, Jiron, for your kindness and understanding. The best wishes for 2008. Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence Awarded to Jjron for ferreting out a pernicious sockpuppet. Matt Deres (talk) 23:44, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Thanks a lot for your help with my picture nomination and in general! Elephantissimo (talk) 22:16, 27 March 2008
The Working Man's Barnstar Thanks for cleaning up after LordSunday and helping clear the backlog and preserving my sanity in the process - things that probably wouldn't have been done (properly) for yonks if you didn't. MER-C 13:12, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
The Helping Hand Barnstar For encouragement of new featured pictures contributors at Wikipedia:Picture peer review, myself included once upon a time. Noodle snacks (talk) 13:06, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar For keeping Picture Peer Review under control and not allowing it to overflow (indeed a laborious and repetitive task), I award you the Working Man's Barnstar. ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 16:41, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Thanks for your various little bits of help in working on this Ty Cobb FPC! Staxringoldtalkcontribs 14:33, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Good Humor Hello, and take this barnstar that I hereby give to you in recognition for your good humour. ☩Damërung☩. -- 05:00, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Good Humor For the best support vote I've ever seen, I award you this barnstar. Makeemlighter (talk) 16:39, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to Jjron for copy editing articles totalling over 20,000 words in the January GOCE Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Diannaa(Talk) 17:47, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
The Australian Barnstar of National Merit For your hard work cleaning and fixing up the Black Saturday bushfires article. It is something that has been long over due! this WikiAward was given to Jjron by Bidgee (talk) on 06:48, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
The Cleanup Barnstar For copy editing 23 articles with a total of 14,230 words (including rollover) during the Guild of Copy Editors' March 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thanks for all your contributions! SMasters (talk) 05:12, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Leaderboard Award—Article Count—3rd Place This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to jjron for copy editing a total of 62 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors'May 2011 backlog elimination drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions. – Chaosdruid (talk) 13:09, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Leaderboard Award—Word Count—4th Place This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to jjron for copy editing a total of 86,334 words during the Guild of Copy Editors'May 2011 backlog elimination drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions. – Chaosdruid (talk) 13:09, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Leaderboard Award—5K Articles—2nd Place This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to jjron for copy editing a total of 11 articles of 5,000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors'May 2011 backlog elimination drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions. – Chaosdruid (talk) 13:09, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia This Barnstar is awarded to jjron for copy edits totalling over 80,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE May copy edit drive.
Thank you for your hard work! Chaosdruid (talk) 13:09, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
The Modest Barnstar For your collaboration on this Featured Picture (Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever), which is the lead image in this week's edition of The Signpost. Pinetalk 09:59, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
The Modest Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to Jjron for copy editing articles totalling over 4000 words during the GOCE September copy edit drive. Thank you for participating! Dianna (talk) 04:51, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar Congrats Jjron For Being A Wonderful User ill Give You A Barnstar! SANTABABES (talk) 07:45, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Jjron has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, so I've officially declared today as Jjron's Day! For being a great person and awesome Wikipedian, enjoy being the star of the day, Jjron!
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