User talk:Bluerasberry

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Bluerasberry!

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

CategorizationBot (talk) 10:37, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

• Image:Kate Bornstein2010.jpg was uncategorized on 19 December 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:37, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Café Allegro outside.jpg was uncategorized on 13 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:45, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Autopatrol given

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically sighted. This will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to help users watching Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones. Thank you. Trijnstel_talk 17:43, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for recognizing me for this. Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:22, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
2. This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

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Picture of the Year 2013 R2 Announcement

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!

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2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth 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 (2013) 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. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category have continued to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 2 will end on 7 March 2014. Click here to learn more and vote »

Thanks,
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Picture of the Year 2013 Results Announcement

Picture of the Year 2013 Results

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The 2013 Picture of the Year. View all results »

Dear Bluerasberry,

The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).

• In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
• In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)

We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:

1. 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
2. In second place, 155 people voted for an image of "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains) National Park in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
3. In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.

Click here to view the top images »

We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.

Thanks,
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File:Lane Oct 2011.jpg

File:Lane Oct 2011.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

BaseSat (talk) 20:11, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Lane Oct 2011.jpg

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File:Controversial Scott Brown Jim Rubens poster.jpg

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Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:11, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Simpleshow foundation logo.jpg

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Jarekt (talk) 13:34, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

File:Simpleshow foundation logo.jpg

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EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:24, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

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Hello Bluerasberry,

the following content you uploaded is not free and therefore has been or will soon be deleted:

File:Jill Kargman.jpeg

The Wikimedia Commons (this website) only hosts media files which can be used for any purpose, including:

• use in any work, regardless of content
• creation of derivative works
• commercial use
• free distribution

See Commons:Licensing for the copyright policy on Wikimedia Commons, and Commons:Image casebook for some specific examples. Some other Wikimedia projects have different licensing policies. For example, the English Wikipedia allows fair use of sounds and photographs. This is not the case on Wikimedia Commons; "fair use" materials are not acceptable here.

Please make sure that you only upload works you have created yourself, those which are out of copyright, or those for which you have the required permission for the work to be used in all the ways described above. Please note that derivative works of copyrighted material are also considered copyrighted. Again, please read through Commons:Licensing, which is quite crucial to understanding how Wikimedia Commons works. Thanks for your contribution, and please do leave me a message if you have further questions.

Yours sincerely, JuTa 21:19, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Jarekt (talk) 15:10, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Wrong DR?

Hi, you comment at Commons:Deletion requests/Unused license templates was probably meant for Commons:Deletion requests/Files using User:Saffron Blaze/license and similar licenses? --Jarekt (talk) 16:18, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Heads-up

Hi, as an active colleague on upload projects, I thought I'd drop you a personal heads-up for my request for adminship, today being the last day for views. RFA's tend to only have a small proportion of the community taking part, so it can be difficult to judge if this is representative. --Fæ (talk) 13:28, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi

Thank you for commissioning that picture. It is very nice!! :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:30, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

File:Lane Oct 2011.jpg

File:Lane Oct 2011.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

41.102.236.158 21:52, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Consumer Reports images

Commons Featured Pictures has a lot of issues with "Wow factor" - you may want to try en:WP:FPC, since English Wikipedia has a culture of considering value to the encyclopedia - which is very high, at least, if we have articles on the products. Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:28, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Adam Cuerden I will try that next. I was hoping to get Commons review to report back to our photography team here, and to at least have the experience. Someone was kind to already edit the photo I submitted and I want to see how this plays out.

I saw your name at meta:Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars. I would like to talk with you there, if I may. Please say hello if you see me and I will try to find you. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:39, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Certainly! I'll have my laptop, of course, so I should be reachable if you poke me. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:50, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Re:OTRS permission - American Chemical Society

The only issue is that you mentioned, the end of the video and tyhe thread at the Village Pump, the rest is OK and the permission is valid. You could crop the video to remove the very end of it. --Amitie 10g (talk) 18:07, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

File:All India Trinamool Congress logo 2016.jpg

Hi Bluerasberry. COM:VP/C#File:All India Trinamool Congress logo 2016.jpg seems to have been archived without this file's licensing being resolved. Mouryan never responded to either my post or your post, so I'm not sure what's going on. He hasn't edited on Commons since his post at VP, but it look like he has been fairly active on English Wikipedia and Bengali Wikipedia. Any suggestions on what the next step should be? I'm not seeing this as a free license and there are also some other images in All India Trinamool Congress whose licensing seems a bit iffy. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:55, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

@Marchjuly: I tagged the file for deletion. An administrator will review the deletion tag, and I expect they will delete it. @Mouryan: The logo can be restored if you AIT Congress' lawyer or communication officer to make a copyright release. Sorry for the trouble - this is copyrighted art, though, and it belongs to the organization. They decide its license, and Commons cannot keep it without permission.

Commons does not check for trademark, so sometimes people make fan art that gives the same idea without being a copyright violation. I notice that someone has made their own flower and flag art that seems to not be official or from the party. Right now that unofficial image is being used on Wikipedia. Sometimes this is what happens - when the official organization will not share, fans make their own unofficial art. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:13, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Sorry for responding so late. Basically I am all set to hold a Wikipedia Meetup in the city of Kolkata on the 11th of this month on account of which I'd been quite busy in real life. As you are insisting that the file uploaded by me is at the wrong place(Wikimedia Commons) and that technically it shouldn't be here, I will try and get the permission that you're referring to from a party personnel through this Meetup. Kindly elaborate on exactly what kind of permission is needed. I will try my best to take steps accordingly and proceed in that direction. Thank You -- Mouryan (talk) 19:05, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

@Mouryan: Ah, you are organizing a Kolkata meetup! That is great! I miss going to the India Coffee House there.

Here are the steps for the upload:

1. Contact a lawyer who works for the All India Trinamool Congress
2. Have that person go to the release form
3. They should fill it out with their name. When asked for a file, they should enter "File:All India Trinamool Congress logo 2016.jpg"
4. At the end of the form, they need to mail in text from an email that is from the All India Trinamool Congress. Maybe it would be "legal@aitcofficial.org", or some such thing. If they cannot do that, then it would be useful if they uploaded an image of some identification which proves that they can make legal decisions for the AIT Congress.

Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:16, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Heheh! Indian Coffee sure is classic. I'd like to thank you for your detailed response. Will revert back to you as soon as possible in this regard. -- Mouryan (talk) 19:45, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

• File:Ad for Substitute for Smoking (FDA 141) (8210853849).jpg

And also:

• File:Booklet on Curable Diseases (FDA 152) (8224237241).jpg
• File:Dr. LeGear's Poultry Prescription (082) (7395941560).jpg
• File:Improperly Discarded ‘Sharps’ Can Be Dangerous (6322401410).jpg
• File:New Sunscreen Labeling (5829848553).jpg
• File:New Sunscreen Labeling (5830397070).jpg

Yours sincerely, Jasonanaggie (talk) 18:14, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

• File:Seized Dietary Supplements (FDA 088) (8264231749).jpg

And also:

• File:Warning Poster about Seafood (FDA 116) (8206607838).jpg

Yours sincerely, Jasonanaggie (talk) 18:27, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Lapita image.png, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Lapita image.png has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 05:01, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Generosity Crowdfunding Campaign for User:The Photographer

Please excuse me spamming you. As a regular on Feature Picture Candidatess you will recognise User:The Photographer, who has 86 Featured Pictures. His contributions cover the architecture and culture of Brazil and Venezuela. He has basic photographic equipment: an old D300 camera and 35mm lens, and lives in a poor country where photographic equipment is expensive. The Photographer has recently taken several images using the technique where multiple frames are stitched together to create a high-resolution panorama. However, many times frustrated with the stitching errors that result from trying to take such photos without a proper panoramic head for his tripod. This special equipment permits the camera to be rotated around the entrance pupil of the lens, and eliminates such errors. Having a panoramic head would greatly increase the potential for The Photographer to create sharp high-resolution images for Commons. In addition, the purchase of a fisheye lens would enable 180 × 360° panoramas to be taken, which are a great way to explore a scene as though one is really there.

Please see the discussion about the Crowd-funding campaign on User talk:The Photographer#Generosity Crowdfunding Campaign and visit the Generosity Crowd-funding Campaign page to consider donating. Even a modest donation will make a difference if many people contribute. Thanks. -- Colin (talk) 13:38, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Revert

Apologies, didn't know I reverted, it wasn't intentional. Using a smartphone to access Commons ATM. Thanks for reverting it. Bidgee (talk) 10:25, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

No problem, thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:01, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

File:The Golden Hamster Manual.djvu

File:The Golden Hamster Manual.djvu has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 00:32, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Help with uploads by blocked user

Hello again. I'm in need of help.

This user was blocked in 2015 for obvious disruption. Recently, they tried socking and this led to me to their old uploads which have been here for a long time. Prior to it, they were quite free to add grossly POV content, making articles in their walled garden. Knowing this editor, I can't possibly imagine that these images are "own work" or they even understand basic copyright.

See Special:ListFiles/Mifciw. Particularly, the ones about the protests. Besides having POV-captions, titles which doesn't actually violate Commons policy to my knowledge, there's virtually no information regarding the image and they're low quality--all redflags.. No exif, in fact one has metadata File:Shia_Mourner_being_assaulted_by_Omar_Abdullah_Regime_on_the_eve_of_Ashura.jpg which lists someone else as the author to an older date as well. Now what I usually do is use the search engine, which usually shows news sites using it before it was uploaded but in this case, this is fairly non-notable, only instances of youtube and blogs. What is to be done? Ugog Nizdast (talk) 03:20, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Ugog Nizdast Hopefully you enjoy whatever choice you make. Treatment in Commons is consistent in the sense that we have rules about only accepting content with clear copyright. When there is a case like this, the person who chooses to address it has their own personality come into play.

That account has an associated email address, and if they are making sock accounts, maybe those accounts have email addresses. If for some reason you care enough about Kasmiri politics, you might write the person and ask to talk by email or phone with them. Sometimes that gets a more human response than trying to communicate on wiki.

It often happens that people with a relationship to a troubled place like Kashmir have limited Internet access. It can happen that even good photographers shrink their pictures to small sizes before uploading them, just because of bandwidth issues. I wish we had a service in wiki where anyone could mail a jump drive to an address and get images uploaded, because if someone does the work of taking a photograph then they deserve the support of having the highest quality photos uploaded when that is a problem for them. If the pictures were all small, then I would not worry, but I see in this user's uploads, they have some that are taken with a good camera, some from a phone, and some with stripped data. It is really unusual for anyone to use so many devices to take so many pictures of varying quality. Because of that, if they do not respond to a request for an explanation, and because some of the copyright tagging seems out of order, then I would nominate the files for deletion.

At the same time the person seems to have a long term interest in playing by Wikipedia's rules. They have broken a lot of them in odd ways, and seem politically motivated, but lots of new users do this for years and this person does seem like they care to try. If you think it is worth the effort then try to collaborate. In Wikipedia there are many ways to do lots of good things quickly with no effort, so if you think the effort is not worth it, or the person is withholding information about not having the copyright, then delete and move on. Good luck. Thanks for sharing. It is an interesting situation - we do not have enough Kashmiri Wikipedians and I think this person might be one. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:24, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

So what do you suggest I do in terms of cleaning up? I'm concerned about those protests photographs mainly, since we actually do need them and I'm really uncomfortable using a photograph and taking the indeffly blocked editor's word for it's accuracy regarding place, subject information and time etc. Can they be XfDed for lacking information solely, the evidence policy here seems to support that? and that one mentioned above with contradicting metadata CSDed? Then there's those images of people who I'll probably only have to cleanup in EnWP (I'm waiting for the SPI to finish so that I can do it in peace). The only problem there is File:Arshid_Sauleh.jpg and File:Painting_of_Arshid_Sauleh.jpg: aren't photographs of non-free works, copyvios? can I CSD them as well? Ugog Nizdast (talk) 06:02, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

PS: I unsure about emailing a blocked editor. Apart from still being disruptive, I don't think he'll respond kindly...especially to me. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 06:20, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

@Ugog Nizdast: The two images of art need free copyright licenses specifically for the art, which they do not currently have. The usual practice would be to CSD them.

We do not have any system in place for addressing hoaxes. If someone uploads photos which are supposed to be of an event, but actually they are of something else, then that matter would have to be resolved with some discussion. Commons is much better at checking copyright than information quality.

If you like, I can send the person an email and ask them where they go the pictures. It is a direct question and does not need to be a long conversation. There is good reason to ask - the pictures seem to be from different sources which is unusual. I do not mind writing and asking, and in the best case, maybe the person would share original high resolution images and more clear copyright license.

If you do not think that a conversation with the editor would be useful, then yes, as you say - XfD'ing them would be a fair path forward considering that they uploads were done in a way that suggests they were taken from another source, and since the uploader has a history of other disruption. Those are not clear reasons to delete the images which is why XfD and additional opinions are useful, but I think that is enough of a case to justify raising the matter in XfD. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:04, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

I've CSDed the art images. I think I'll give this email thing a shot, do try to contact him if, as you said, it's minimal and won't take anymore of your time. I'll then give this a few weeks before attempting xfds. Good call on that possible bandwidth issue which you said at start though, an indeed very possible scenario which I didn't consider.

There is one more thing...I've had this question which I finally posted as the help desk here: Commons:Help_desk/Archive/2016/12#Attracting professional photographers. I want to know how to encourage such people in future. If you don't have any knowledge/experience on this, do you know of any others whom I can contact to answer this? Ugog Nizdast (talk) 01:49, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Ugog Nizdast I sent an email asking who took the pictures and how they were collected. Let's see if the user will participate in a conversation. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:12, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Ugog Nizdast FYI - no reply by email yet. Just assume no reply from here on until and unless I tell you otherwise. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:45, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

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Okay. Don't want to bother you further, just pointing you to my above Help desk query in case you didn't see it. Thanks a lot for your help and advice. Have a nice day, Ugog Nizdast (talk) 06:23, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	I love the video and thank you for getting it up online!! You are true Blue!! :-) SheridanFord (talk) 20:20, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

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