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[edit]Hello. Help improve for [1]. Thanks you.125.214.49.135 03:57, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
About logo of comintern
[edit]Are you sure abou the Comintern Logo? [i.ytimg.com/vi/jmz8HOBv41Q/hqdefault.jpg I think this logo is more correct.] Source : [2] Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 06:51, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
(on mobile so this wont be well formatted) that seems to be a modified Communist Party of Germany-Marxist Leninist logo/flag, I've found multiple similar logos used to represent the Comintern or a member party https://baetylwellness.com/2018/07/24/the-34th-day-t-plus-two-five-financial-agent-of-the-comintern/ https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/eam/cpa/communistparty.html http://www.emersonkent.com/images/comintern.jpg however, as it seems that there wasn't 1 logo used to use the comintern, we should probably use a generalized comintern logo, id suggest using maybe a globe with meridians, with a hammer and sickle on top? those seem to be the most prevalent symbols Thespoondragon (talk) 07:16, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
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Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 02:33, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for uploading the flag of the Syrian Salvation Government! Question: Would you be able to adjust the stripes so they are of equal height (similar to File:Flag of Syria 2011, observed.svg), while maintaining the 2:3 proportion? I would do it myself if it was a png file, but I don't know how to edit an svg file. Regards, Mikrobølgeovn (talk) 12:49, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'll get that done later today. The source images at the time showed a 4-5-4 stripe proportion, but that seems to have been a mistake and the more recent flags have stripes with equal proportion. Thespoondragon (talk) 13:36, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
- I have finished editing it Mikrobølgeovn, Is there anything else that should be changed? I also made the calligraphy a little thinner to match photos more closely. Thespoondragon (talk) 14:02, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
- Perfect, thank you very much! :) Mikrobølgeovn (talk) 14:04, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
- I have finished editing it Mikrobølgeovn, Is there anything else that should be changed? I also made the calligraphy a little thinner to match photos more closely. Thespoondragon (talk) 14:02, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
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"Second Spanish Republic files"
[edit]Ciao, Thespoondragon
please can you help me to save this svg files:
- File:Flag of the Minister of the Navy Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939).svg
- File:Spanish Republican Navy Naval Aviation fin flash (1931-1936).svg
- File:Flag of the Captain General of the Fleet Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939).svg
>>> In my opinion there are no valid reasons for their deletion.
Thank you, ciao, (FDRMRZUSA, talk) 15:51, 27 November 2019 (UTC+1).
1979 Iran Flag
[edit]Hello I'm just curious to know the origin and original source for this flag as I've never seen it mentioned in western sources before. Thegunkid (talk) 22:47, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
- Hello, I haven't come across many sources in english, but there are multiple photos and documents showing the 1980 emblem and flag. Here are a few that I could find: photo of flag, emblem on a document, emblem on a banknote. The only source I have come upon in english that isn't just the emblem being used is this one. I would recommend getting the help of someone who speaks farsi, so they are able to get some resources in the original language. -Thespoondragon (talk) 04:10, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
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Logo of Deutsche Reichspartei
[edit]Hey, I have vectorized the logo myself. The license of the original logo, if ever existed, is most likely to be expired as there is not a such party for decades. --Comrade-yutyo (talk) 13:19, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
- Copyright is automatic at the creation of a work. The flier that the logo was taken from is from 1957, which makes it still copyrighted in Germany for a couple years, and likely copyrighted in the US for a couple decades. The author organization being defunct doesn't factor much into its copyright status. -Thespoondragon (talk) 18:17, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
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Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 10:12, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the svg
[edit]Thanks for updating File:Sidetalk NYC logo.svg. Do you have any tips/suggestions on how to make better SVGs? I tried using the trace bitmap function on Inkscape, but as you saw, the results weren't that great. Bait30 (talk) pls ping me when you reply 03:16, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Bait30: I manually traced the logo using the pen & shape tools, I only use auto-tracing in specific circumstances like as a starting point for some more complex shapes for instance, and even then I use it rarely. Inkscape has some tutorials on their website you can check out at https://inkscape.org/learn/tutorials/. -Thespoondragon (talk) 19:04, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks so much! Yeah, at first I was unsure of that because I thought to myself "there's no way people actually spend that much time manually tracing." But then I realized that was the only way to make quality SVGs so I started doing that. Bait30 (talk) pls ping me when you reply 15:51, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
User:Communist19171 is edit warring. Leonel Sohns 06:51, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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Thank you for all the amazing flags and logos you have created! מנחם.אל (talk) 14:36, 31 March 2023 (UTC) |
- I saw that you created many logos related to the militant and terrorist organizations (Like the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda). Good for you! It is very much needed in these values. How about making logos of all the provinces of the Islamic State? (Includes: logos of Sinai Province, Khorasan Province, West Africa Province, Caucasus Province, Turkey Province, Central Africa Province, Sahel Province, Somalia Province, Mozambique Province, Yemen Province, Libya Province, Iraq Province, Al-Sham Province, India Province, Pakistan Province, East Asia Province, and also Tunisia branch, Bengal branch, Lebanon branch, Egypt branch)? I can send you Email photos of all the logos that need vector processing Or attach links to pictures here. You basically need two versions for each logo: a version with white letters on a black background, and a version with black letters on a white background. Anyway, thanks for your amazing work! מנחם.אל (talk) 14:43, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
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File:Red script Palestine flag.svg
[edit]Thanks for uploading that. I thought about doing that from time to time, but I would have had to do additional research, and never got around to it... AnonMoos (talk) 00:18, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
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