User talk:Based5290

Carrying the flame (Thank you for your contributions!)

	Big K
	Yes, WE are Charlie Kirk in the big 1 AK ❤‍🩹✌ Darer101 (talk) 21:57, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

I think charlie kirk is haunting me though this image anyways thanks Based5290 :3 (talk) 08:27, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

		The Original Barnstar
		Every DYK nominator worries when they see their article hits the main page that suddenly there will be a bunch of edits for it in their watchlist. So imagine my delight to see those edits were your wonderful, public domain images! Thank you for your excellent contributions to Sachio Ashida. I hope this barnstar will serve as a small token of my appreciation. Best, ThaesOfereode (talk) 10:45, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

a barnstar for you!

I give this to you as well. Kinda based… (chuckles) -Alexa

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Are you trying to break the world record for barnstars? You're on your way. Just saw you uploaded a new version of St Paul's Survives back in April after it has been repeatedly deleted by others. You're a star! Viriditas (talk) 00:50, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Do you take requests?

This is in regards to File:Holland House library after an air raid.jpg There are super HQ versions floating around here and there, but they require extraction/editing to upload to commons. I believe I saw one on Getty Images and another on Internet Archive that were amazing. I would have to find you the specific image, but I thought I would run it past you. The current version on Commons is terrible. Viriditas (talk) 00:57, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Could you possibly dig up links to those high quality versions? I'm having trouble digging up a version which both captures the lighting better and has a similar resolution to the one at Commons. Based5290 :3 (talk) 23:49, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

There's a copy here, but it would be difficult to reconstruct. I forgot to mention that this is a set, as there are many different images from the Holland House library shoot, with the men posing all the same. I will keep looking. Viriditas (talk) 00:17, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

FYI, examples of different images from the Getty set: Viriditas (talk) 00:24, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

I have uploaded the photo from the book here. I did try stitching the Getty Images version in to fill the gap, but image editing doesn't seem to be my strong suit. As far as I know, there is no way to get unwatermarked versions of Getty images without just hoping someone else has paid Getty and used them on their website. The best you can do usually is getting the high res, watermarked version, then cover up the watermark with the thumbnail, unwatermarked version, sorta like here (I have tried some of those AI watermark removers, but they don't seem to work very well on Getty watermarks). Based5290 :3 (talk) 21:53, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Have you figured out yet how many there are in that series? I have seen at least three so far, but I think there are more. Viriditas (talk) 22:06, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Your AI slop bores me

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Yearbook magic

Hello Based5290, hope you are doing well! A few months ago you worked your magic on the image at Esther Swirk Brown. I followed your advice about classmates.com, but it appears they have a paywall now. Do you know of any alternatives. (For Draft:Troim Katz Handler (surname variously Katz, Blacher, Katz-Blacher, Handler, or all of the above) who graduated from Memoir Junior High School in 1942 and Passaic High School in 1945). I also have a 20-year span that she sometimes attended either NYU, Hofstra, or Columbia. Ancestry might have something, but is also paywalled. Any tips? 1brianm7 (talk) 10:24, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

Don't you love sites charging for access to public domain material that they previously offered for free?

For yearbooks at the college and university level, the college/university may occasionally just have the yearbooks digitized and available online (either on their website or in the Internet Archive or in Hathitrust), but that doesn't seem to be case here :(. I believe you should have access to Ancestry through the Wikipedia Library (apparently there are some service issues but it's working fine on my end). You can also apply for free access to https://E-Yearbook.com through the Wikipedia Library, but I don't think they have yearbooks covering the years when Handler attended Passaic. Maybe in this case, though, the stars seem perfectly aligned to make sure there aren't any accessible free photos of her and you just have to throw in the towel and use a fair use photo. Sorry for not being much help. Based5290 :3 (talk) 22:15, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

Very nice that Ancestry's on TWL, I didn't know that. I've also applied to E-Yearbook, which has partial coverage that theoretically might include her. Here's hoping. Its really incredible my luck, six different schools all not having digitized yearbooks. Thanks for trying! Maybe I'll try my luck at WP:RX to see if anybody has classmates. 1brianm7 (talk) 00:54, 23 August 2026 (UTC)

DYK for Walter Preston Battle

On 23 August 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Walter Preston Battle, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the same doctor performed the autopsies of Martin Luther King Jr. and the judge who sentenced his assassin? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Walter Preston Battle. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (Walter Preston Battle), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

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File:Rufus Rockwell Wilson.jpg

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