GRuban

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George Ruban; also active on my account on English Wikipedia.

We make the desert bloom! (See "Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts, but It’s a Desert for Photos", New York Times article, 2009.)

In 2017, I moved to a company that makes software from one that does Web stuff. At the latter I worked on something that is hopefully used at Wikimedia Commons (by someone else besides me!).

I upload free licensed images from various web sites, some of which hide their licensing information in obscure places, so I started Commons:Where is the license on various sites? (COM:WHERE LICENSE) to help Commons:License review. I also created the {{PD-Gotfryd}} template, which isn't a lot of work itself, but marks over 300 simply beautiful high quality images illustrating nearly as many articles.

Commons Uploads

Those not bolded not taken by me, just found, edited, or both.

Uploaded in 2024

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  Health author Max Lugavere
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  Canadian fashion bloggers Cailli and Sam Beckerman
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  Actor Ben Dreyfuss
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  English disc jockey, activist, model Chelsea Leyland
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  British journalist, model, filmmaker Billie JD Porter
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  English comedian, actress Lolly Adefope
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  Media executive Cesar Conde
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  English actor, television presenter Nick Hancock
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  Journalist, comedienne, radio hostess Faith Salie
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  Comedian Adam Burke
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  Actor, comedian Joel Kim Booster
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  Radio producer Richard Sher
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  Comedian, actor, radio host Tom Papa
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  Comedian, actor Alonzo Bodden
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  British deaf model, dancer, television personality Tasha Ghouri
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  Radio host, podcaster Luke Burbank
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  Radio personality, voice actor Tom Bodett
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  Singer-songwriter Madi Diaz
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  Death notice of Josephine van Gorkum
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  Indian Australian American journalist Deepa Fernandes
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  Journalist Scott Tong
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  Hawaiian dark lava cricket Caconemobius fori
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  Dutch soldier Jacobus Warnerus Constantinus van Gorkum
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  Catholic activist Gloria Purvis
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  British television journalist Charlene White
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  Canadian economist and politician Eric Kierans
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  Canadian journalist, activist, trade unionist Walter-Patrice O'Leary
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  Canadian journalist Tony Burman
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  Canadian journalist Bernard Descôteaux
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  Canadian journalist, author Graham Fraser
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  Canadian press secretary Gratia O'Leary
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  Magic: the Gathering champion Nathan Steuer
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  Magic: the Gathering champion Nathan Steuer
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  French Magic: the Gathering champion Jean-Emmanuel Depraz
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  French Magic: the Gathering champion Jean-Emmanuel Depraz
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  Artist Miranda Meeks
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  Artist Dan Frazier
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  Artist Mark Tedin
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  Rwandan minister Christophe Bazivamo
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  Kenyan civil servant, entrepreneur, activist Anne Shongwe
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  Developmental biologist Kathy Niakan
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  Irish actors Paul Reid, Sarah Greene
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  Irish actress Sarah Greene
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  British television presenter Mwaksy Mudenda
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  Rwandan civil servant and politician Oda Gasinzigwa
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  Filipino-American actress Antoinette Taus
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  Filipino-American singer, actress Maricris Garcia
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  Filipino-American actress Antoinette Taus
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  Filipino-American singer, actress Maricris Garcia
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  Nicaraguan American beauty queen Nastassja Bolívar
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  British rapper and reality contestant Marcel Somerville
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  Australian academic, editor Julianne Schultz
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  Australian writer Melissa Lucashenko
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  Australian writer Ashley Hay
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  Australian writer, tv presenter Holly Ringland
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  English reality contestant Adam Collard
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  English reality contestant Megan Barton-Hanson
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  Miss America Susan Yvonne Perkins
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  Japanese band Ryokuoushoku Shakai
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  Football player Rasheen Ali
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  Spanish activist Concha Liaño
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  Korean writer and translator Anton Hur
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  Poet and translator Jen Hofer
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  Writer and translator Esther Allen
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  Writer, and television producer Tom Fontana
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  Actor, director Tony Goldwyn, writer, producer Tom Fontana, writer, producer Tom Kelly, writer, director Warren Leight, executive Joel Stillerman
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  Wives of world leaders Barbara Bush, Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar, Mila Mulroney
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  First lady of United Nations Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar, second lady of United States Barbara Bush
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  US first lady Nancy Reagan, Italian activist Maria Pia Fanfani
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  First lady of United Nations Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar, of United States Nancy Reagan
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  First lady and president of US Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, of United Nations Javier Perez de Cuellar, Marcela Perez de Cuellar
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  First family of US Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, of United Nations Javier Perez de Cuellar, Marcela Perez de Cuellar
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  Peruvian first lady of the United Nations Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar
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  First lady of United States Nancy Reagan, of United Nations Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar
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  First lady of United Nations Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar, of United States Nancy Reagan
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  First lady of United States Nancy Reagan, of United Nations Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar
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  First lady of United States Nancy Reagan, of United Nations Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar
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  First families of US and UN Marcela Perez de Cuellar, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Javier Perez de Cuellar
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  Zambian United Nations politician Paul Lusaka, Marcela Perez de Cuellar, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Javier Perez de Cuellar,
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  Peruvian first lady of the United Nations Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar, US first lady Nancy Reagan
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  Peruvian first lady of the United Nations Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar
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  German musicologist Thomas Fritzsch
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  British sociologist Michaela Benzeval
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  British surgeon Valerie Lund
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  British pharmacologist Amrita Ahluwalia
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  Economist Karin Kimbrough
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  Australian immunologist Laura Mackay
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  British analyst, policymaker Comfort Ero
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  Indian physicist Urbasi Sinha
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  Deputy Agriculture Secretary Jewel Bronaugh, psychologist, health professor Sara Bleich
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  Psychologist, health professor Sara Bleich
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  Poet Afaa M. Weaver
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  Poet Afaa M. Weaver
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  Anthropologist Amber Wutich
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  Physician. professor Susan J. Baserga
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  British neuroscientist and computational psychiatrist Rosalyn Moran
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  British guitarist Sophie Lloyd
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  German chemist Birgit Esser
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  Canadian physicist Tara Fortier
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  Photographer and dancer Kia LaBeija
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  Nigerian-American multidisciplinary visual artist, activist Adejoke Tugbiyele
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  Artist, writer, educator Marisa Morán Jahn
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  South Sudanese-Australian model Duckie Thot
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  Cuban activist Candelaria Rodríguez
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  (Democratic Federation of Cuban Women) Second Congress
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  Cuban activist Candelaria Rodríguez

Earlier uploads

• User:GRuban/2023: 431 images, including 63 for Jess Wade.
• User:GRuban/2022: 938 images, including 63 for Jess Wade.
• User:GRuban/2021: 933 images, including 59 for Jess Wade.
• User:GRuban/2020: 903 images, including 73 for Jess Wade.
• User:GRuban/2019: 483 images, including 164 for Jess Wade!
• User:GRuban/2018: 273 images
• User:GRuban/2017: 170 images
• User:GRuban/2016: 132 images
• User:GRuban/2015: 116 images
• User:GRuban/2014: 117 images
• User:GRuban/2013: 30 images
• User:GRuban/2010-2012: 55 images
• User:GRuban/2007-2009: 73 images