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Close deletion discussion

In September, I was requested to close this (File:A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 15th July 2020.jpg) request as we have another on hold request on enwiki, until the Commons DR is closed we couldn't close that. But I've not got an answer yet, from any of our sysops. I also requested to all sysops to be active also on deletion discussions. We have open deletion discussions since since March 2020. Thanks for your time, hope all sysops will consider some of their wiki time for deletion discussion. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 13:08, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

User Túrelio has deleted multiple map images Uploaded by myself with no discussion. These images were legally used Google Maps images, used under their Fair Use and Attribution policies, and modified with overlayed arrows. I would like these images reinstated and the deleting user censured for not allowing discussion or even investigating whether the images were allowable through copyright. Enderwigginau (talk) 21:53, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Background for the colleague who will deal with it: Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Deletion_of_maps_of_Dieppe_area, User_talk:Túrelio#Map_images_from_Dieppe_Raid_page and Commons:Undeletion_requests/Current_requests#Valid_images_deleted. --Túrelio (talk) 22:04, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
I warned the uploader, and I would like them censured for uploading copyvios, not notifying Túrelio of this discussion, and forum shopping.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:03, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
@Enderwigginau: As Nat said in one of the other posts, Fair use images will be deleted on sight as Commons does not accept Fair Use images. Please take the time to read COM:L for some guidance on what we accept Gbawden (talk) 09:56, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Revision deletion for File:Time series for collapse of Atlantic northwest cod.png

Please delete these version edited by 118.189.32.50 and 129.126.149.149. Reason: Purely disruptive material. Thank you. --SCP-2000 05:58, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Appears to have been done? I have semi protected the file as a precaution Gbawden (talk) 09:58, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done, didn't revdel edits of 118.189.32.50 as not that disruptive. -- CptViraj (talk) 18:07, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

File name-Upload mistake

Hello,

a few minutes ago I wanted to replace "G22 M440i Rear-light.jpg" by the file, what has currently the name "G22 M440i Rear-light.jpg.jpg"; Could you please correct my mistake. The newer pict shall remain with name with one "jpg" in it. Please don't hesitate to ask, if my description shoud not be clear. Thank you very much in advance. KR, --Wikisympathisant (talk) 16:57, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

@Wikisympathisant: Do you want File:G22 M440i Rear-light.jpg to be deleted and File:G22 M440i Rear-light.jpg.jpg be moved there or something else? -- CptViraj (talk) 17:23, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
thank you for your fast response :-) yes File:G22 M440i Rear-light.jpg deleted and File:G22 M440i Rear-light.jpg.jpg moved /named like the then deleted file. Ok? It can't much happen, in worst case I have to do anew crop. KR, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikisympathisant (talk • contribs) 17:49, 28 October 2020‎ (UTC)
✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 17:56, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
... and so fast, thank you very much :-), kr --Wikisympathisant (talk) 18:01, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Deleting needed

All uploads of user:Mehedi_Hassan_Lpn are are taken from internet. Please delete all of his uplaod. Thanks. --আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 19:34, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Nominated a couple, sent a few to speedy. There's one with metadata that I didn't change; not saying it is or it isn't-just I could not be sure. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 21:30, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Backlog

Greetings! The ancient backlist is getting pretty long and there is a ton of low-hanging fruit in Deletion nominations from March, April, May, etc. 2020. See:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests Could everyone grab their mop and bucket please and take away a few OLD deletion nominations? I don't think we're to the point of needing an emergency banner, but we will be soon - as we head into the holiday season - folks home and bored - uploading everything and anything is very soon. Let's get this cleared out before we get another big load! Cheers!! Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:54, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Oh, I was about to post here about this DR that it's open since May, when I saw this topic. I thought it could be a pontual issues, but it seems that it's something much more complex.--SirEdimon Dimmi!!! 20:06, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Problem with my account

I was wondering the right place to make this request. My account is showing up my global account as new at commons, but i have it since 2009 with more than 800 contributions. Could you check what is happening? If is possible, can you change this for me? Thank you. Leonardopgentile (talk) 01:04, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

No idea unfortunately, Weirdly my account shows the same icon even tho I've been on EN for 10 years. –Davey2010Talk 01:40, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
This is a issue affecting everybody. My en.WP account is showing as a new account, but I've been editing there since 2011. So, it obviously some issue affecting all WMF projects.--SirEdimon Dimmi!!! 02:33, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
Isn't that there from the long time? I'm seeing that from the time I created my account. It is just a indicator that your Wikimedia global account was created automatically when you created new account on that site. I'm sorry but admins can't help you with this, If you still think that's wrong then please create a task on the Phabricator. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 04:02, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
The "new account" marker doesn't indicate that the account is new. Rather, it indicates that the CentralAuth user was created because a new account was created at that wiki. It's mostly a marker of where you created your account and that you did so sometime after 2008. Only accounts that existed before then, like Special:CentralAuth/Nick will have different indications because they had to be manually merged. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 04:27, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Mass-message request for WLM-US 2020

Hello! I'm one of the organizers for Wiki Loves Monuments in the US. Could the following message be sent out to all of last year's contributors? This is a recap of last year + a reminder that the 31st is the last day for folks to upload photos for the event.

Thank you! ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 07:00, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

I'll be  Doing… this. -- CptViraj (talk) 07:01, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 07:20, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Image revdel request

Hi, Could an admin revdel the first thumbnail at DSCN6308 - Davey2010 25.jpg please due to privacy concerns, Many thanks, Regards, –Davey2010Talk 11:31, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 11:35, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
Many thanks User:CptViraj appreciate that, Have a nice day, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 11:40, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

File:Stpauli logo.png

Deutsch: Guten Tag, kann bitte jemand den redirect wieder herstellen, als IP bin ich nicht berechtigt? user:DZwarrior1 hat, nachdem sein Verschiebewunsch erfüllt wurde, den redirect entfernt. Die Datei ist hundertfach in Verwendung.

[1] --2003:DE:70F:71B0:DC80:8B4E:3298:E601 01:12, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done, shame on Fridolin freudenfett.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:31, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

linking of files in other wikis aren't displayed in commons completely

Hi, Is there a reason that File:De-versorgungsrechtliche.ogg, File:De-versorgungsrechtlichem.ogg, File:De-versorgungsrechtlichen.ogg, File:De-versorgungsrechtlicher.ogg and File:De-versteigerndes.ogg, File:De-versteigertem.ogg, File:De-versteigertes.ogg do not display in 'File usage' that they are linked in German Wiktionary (and obviously they are linked, see versorgungsrechtliche, versorgungsrechtlichem, versorgungsrechtlichen, versorgungsrechtlicher, versteigerndes, versteigertem, versteigertes)? Maybe there are more files with this problem. It's a bit annoying because I try to link pronunciation examples with http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/unused_files.php, but this very helpful tool can only work correctly, when the links in other wikis are considered. Many thanks --Jeuwre (talk) 10:01, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

I think they aren't displaying in file usage because they aren't directly used but with wikt:de:Template:Audio. -- CptViraj (talk) 10:32, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi CptViraj, hm, I don't get that. The normal template is used in German Wiktionary (as in the other 470.000 usages of pronunciation examples). --Jeuwre (talk) 10:54, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
@Jeuwre: , @CptViraj: kind of bumping into this conversation... taking a look at File:Nl-zzz.ogg, it shows on File usage on other wikis --> zzz, but there, I have a problem with listening to it. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 12:48, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
@Lotje: I'm grateful for this 'bumping' :-). Yes, File:Nl-zzz.ogg and zzz, this shows exactly what I need: you can see in 'File usage on other wikis' the usage in nl.wiktionary.org. But why can't we see that in the examples here on commons I mentioned above. This is (in my opinion), why http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/unused_files.php cannot work as I expect it to do.
I've to admit I've no idea why you can't hear the NL-pronunciation from Marcel. I tried it with Chromium, Firefox and Falkon, everything worked fine. Perhaps your volume control? --Jeuwre (talk) 15:41, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
@Jeuwre: , now I can hear it! MarcoSwart fixed it. , about the 'file usage in other wikis', I do not have a clue, wish I could be of more help (sigh) Lotje (talk) 15:47, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
@Jeuwre: looking into File:De-Versorgungsengpässe.ogg, where the 'file usage in other wikis' is visable, I was thinking, maybe it has something to do with the caps, Versorgunsrechtliche or versorgunsrechtliche. Hard to look into the brains of software I guess Lotje (talk) 16:05, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
@Lotje: , sorry to say, but capital letters are usually no problem in pronunciation examples: Wiktionaries and Commens are working fine with it, never had a problem with it. And here we have no German noun inflection that could lead to confusion. I'm still wondering what has been changed here on commons. Something must because this is the first time I met this subject. In any case, the audio template in German Wiktionary has not been changed as far as I know. --Jeuwre (talk) 16:20, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
Maybe, tomorrow, it will work, automatically, sometimes that happens. Plug and pray I name it. Lotje (talk) 16:23, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
@Lotje: , I'll pray this evening :-). Have a nice one and thank you for your contribution --Jeuwre (talk) 16:34, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
The pleasure is all mine, and yes, we have a lot to pray for at the moment. Just heard that in Germany there is, on top of the COVID-19, now the Afrikanische Schweinepest in 3 Bundesländer. Hopefully this will not be the start of the Plagues of Egypt. What a mess we are all in, what a mess... Lotje (talk) 16:40, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
@Jeuwre: guess, we didn't pray enough , still not showing up the usage here. Correction also, my mistake, it is not the Afrikanische Schweinepest but the Bird flu Lotje (talk) 06:37, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

@CptViraj: Do you know someone, who could be able to solve my problem? Thanks in advance --Jeuwre (talk) 07:27, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done answering your prayers. I queried the db and found in addition to the 7 pages mentioned above
which are fixed now as well. In most cases touching (null-edit) the wikt pages resolves the problem, but one has to find what has to be touched... No hits on nlwiktionary. Best, Achim (talk) 19:08, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi Achim, many thanks for fixing and the hint of null-edit. If I face the problem again I'll try that. Have a nice evening --Jeuwre (talk) 22:18, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

mass deletion

If an admin has a couple spare hours they may want to take a look at the list of pages at User:Δ, Those are all pages without an associated image. Δ 03:33, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

A decent proportion of these are/should be redirects from page moves, and shouldn't be deleted. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 03:48, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
There also seems to be quite a few who is a result of a race condition in the file moving script: Commons:Village_pump/Technical/Archive/2020/06#Bug_in_file_moving_script?. I've reverted a couple of these cases: File:BYD M3 DM 02 Auto China 2014-04-23.jpg and File:BYD Tang 03 Auto China 2014-04-23.jpg. TommyG (talk) 07:55, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Close/relist discussion

In early June 2020, several of my uploads were nominated for deletion. I provided arguments against the alleged copyright violations, and the nominator has not commented since June 8, nearly five months ago. I would appreciate if these discussions could be closed or at least relisted to get more involved, as this nomination has remained open, yet inactive, for a long time. I've linked them below.

Thank you. Gourami Watcher (talk) 07:17, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 09:19, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Category move request

Hi, Could an admin delete Category:Davey2010/Buses and then move Category:Davey2010/Done to Category:Davey2010/Buses please, Many thanks, Kind Regards, –Davey2010Talk 21:13, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

@Davey2010: Why not just move the wikitext of Done to Buses, and have a Done cat to spare?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 22:22, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Fair point Jeff G., I sort of assumed I wouldn't need it but I guess if I ever have a backlog again then this would indeed be useful still, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 22:29, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Protected file edit request

I am the original uploader of File:Jo Jorgensen portrait 1 (crop 1).jpg and I'd like to update the source URL to an archived URL as the image is no longer on the webpage I originally got it from. I'm not allowed to edit the page now because it's in use in a Wikinews article. Please make the edit for me. Here is the archived URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20201005215435/https://jo20.com/press-photos/ ― Tartan357 (Talk) 06:14, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 08:05, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Better handling for a potential few hundred PDF DRs related to automated copyright text scanning

As part of the IA books project, we are experimenting with scanning for potential copyright statements embedded in pdf texts, then flagging these for a targeted human review by putting them in Category:IA books copyright review automatically suggested. As the project now is over 800,000 documents, it may well be that this bot-assisted task could highlight hundreds or thousands of files that were incorrectly classed as public domain by their source archives, or libraries, or by the uploaders at the Internet Archive. Just to underline the principle, the deletion decision is a human case-by-case decision, as the automation cannot accurately assess all the circumstances where statements that appear to be copyright claims exist in a document.

The process being diligently followed by @ShakespeareFan00: has been to raise a deletion request for each file where a credible copyright statement is found. Unless there are procedural issues, or folks think there may be interest in discussing these cases (at the moment there is none, these are pretty "technical" uploads), I suggest we swap to sticking the reviewed files that are deletion candidates in a suitable category, then after at least 7 days, any admin could mass delete the lot without needing a mass DR specifically listing them. As there is a project page that explains this housekeeping task, and there already are over 20 exemplar DRs which create an effective case book, I think that covers the bases in terms of the opportunity for consensus and sufficient breadcrumbs for later volunteers to understand how and why this was necessary.

Opinions and alternatives welcome. --Fæ (talk) 09:43, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. All 'review' means in this case is to either remove the file from the maintenance category, or put the file up for deletion (or add it to a 'delete this' category, if we make one). The fact that Faebot flagged the file, and that a human checked it, will be in the file history, if anyone want to examine it. Faebot also checks the file history to avoid tagging the same file twice. --Fæ (talk) 15:00, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
The file you mention, has been removed to a /reviewed category. Sometimes the review needed is not obvious, such as for the NPS Thesis archive works looking for a specific non-US or Non federal affiliation on the Title/Colophon pages of a work concerned. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:54, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Inaproppiated username

Huevos Ovosanti (Promotional username)

Rodney Araujo (talk) 19:26, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

@Rodney Araujo: I notified the user for you.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:07, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Possible misuse of automatic cross-wiki upload tag?

Last night I informally investigated a case of a file with EXIF issues which was clearly a copyvio. The file was marked as a cross-wiki upload, these are listed under this special page.

On investigation though the file was claimed to have been imported from the English Wikipedia, there was no evidence it had ever existed on the enwiki database and it had apparently has no deletion log there. My previous understanding of cross-wiki transfers is that the original may be retained locally even when copied to Commons, so there needs to be a delete action associated with the transfer which should leave an audit trail; is this wrong?

Secondly, the interwiki transfer had no commented wikitext on the image page explaining the transfer, which for older transfers used to be added, if only to leave some easy record showing how the local page existed, along with local templates that may have no equivalent on Commons, such as fair use templates.

Here's a random example: File:Хгг.jpg:

  1. The uploading account has 3 edits and the file is certainly out of scope
  2. The global record shows the account has never edited another wiki
  3. The upload comment is "Cross-wiki upload from ru.wikipedia.org", however there is no information to back this up, and an attempt to create "Файл:Xrr.jpg" on ru.wp responds to a blacklist error response on the name, so it would be apparently impossible for it to be created there. There is no deletion log or any other type of log history for this file name at ru.wp.

Uploads of this type are coming in from "new" and suspicious looking accounts (i.e. with only 1 to 3 edits globally) at very high rate. The level of rubbish or copyvio uploads is possibly 30% to 50% based on a small sample.

I believe this may be a way of short-circuiting the normal review process. If these presumptions are right, and files are being tagged as cross-wiki upload when they have not actually been first hosted on another project, there is clearly a wheel off. Could an independent pair of eyes examine some cases, including having a closer look at what may be a type of sock farm, and help decide if more needs to be done?

Thanks --Fæ (talk) 12:31, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Cross-wiki upload means the file was uploaded using the Visual Editor, not to be confused with interwiki transfer. This also explains the high amount of unusable content. --Didym (talk) 15:24, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
@Fæ: File:Хгг.jpg made it through Special:AbuseFilter/153 because it exceeded the 50,000 bytes and 2,000,000 pixels limits.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:48, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation. Having never used the VE, had no idea that this was a feature. --Fæ (talk) 21:49, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Wrong filename

vorrei segnalare che File:Lepiota cortinarius J.E. Lange & Josh M.K. (suchen) 274393.jpg è sbagliato e rappresente una Agaricus non Lepiota. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 37.117.191.210 (talk) 15:36, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Non sono d'accordo. --Achim (talk) 16:41, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Content model change

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T267461

Hello! I want to change the content model of Data:ItWikiCon/2020/WebsiteVisitsByDurationAll.tab to Tabular.JsonConfig but I have not enough privileges. (I cannot request a file deletion because when I visit the edit tab it says The content format application/json+pretty is not supported by the content model wikitext.. Also I tried to change the content-model via APIs but I obtain a cantchangecontentmodel with You don't have permission to change the content model of a page. so I'm in your hands). Thank you! --Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 02:08, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

@Valerio Bozzolan: My, that is quite broken. I've tried everything I can short of deleting and recreating the page, so I've opened phab:T267461. I would suggest you copy the data from that page to a new page in the Data namespace. If you need a sandbox in the future, you should create one as a subpage of Data:Sandbox. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 03:48, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
@Valerio Bozzolan: DannyS712 came up with a hack allowing me to change the content model for Data:ItWikiCon/2020/WebsiteVisitsByDurationAll.tab. It should work correctly now. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 18:58, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
I don't think it was a "hack", but I'm happy to have been able to help --DannyS712 (talk) 19:18, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
Ouch. Didn't expected such pain in troubleshooting. Well done guys. --Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 21:15, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Requesting admin close for Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/05/Category:Bunny Bleu etc.

This CFD has been open for nearly 6 months and has accrued significant discussion that seems to have a clear consensus. Normally I might close such a discussion but I think it would be a good idea for an administrator to handle this one. The closing admin should probably also close the other discussions with the same rationale, which can be found mostly in Commons:Categories_for_discussion/2020/03 and also Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/04/Category:Jenna Ambien Halvorson. – BMacZero (🗩) 19:03, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

File redirects

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T267225

Can I please have an administrator delete the redirects on my file File:New Zealand road sign W1-1A + W1-1A.svg? I am experiencing a technical error with the file mover tool, which I have reported to Phabricator, and am still attempting to correctly rename this file, but the redirects may be interfering. Fry1989 eh? 18:23, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

@Fry1989: Could you be a bit more specific about what you're trying to move where, and what you need deleted to do so? --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 19:17, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
The file is supposed to be named "New Zealand road sign W1-1A + W1-1.4A" with the final letter capitalised. However the file mover tool either changes the case of letters (as in my first attempt when it moved the file to "New Zealand road sign W1-1A + W1-1.4a"), or deletes characters altogether (when after my second attempt it renamed it to "New Zealand road sign W1-1A + W1-1" deleting ".4A"). It also claims that the desired file name I want is already in use, when in fact it is not, though this may be due to the redirects causing interference. My Phabricator report is here. Fry1989 eh? 19:30, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
However, I just realised it may be better to put the deleting on the redirects on hold temporarily, as it provides a history of evidence for the tech problem with the file mover tool. Fry1989 eh? 19:42, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

When a redirect is applied to a file from pikiwikisrael (more than 50,000) the file is lost for the pikiwiki project. I understand what stands behind ( duplicated files) but please give me a notice so I will make the redirect in my system as well. It is really urgent!! thanks Pikiwiki - Israel free image collection project (talk) 10:24, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

User:Rubsquay

User:Rubsquay has posted this message on my Talk Page as their sole edit on Commons. The username is unfamiliar, and they have no account under that name on English Wikipedia. I don't know what I may have done to provoke their ire. Does anyone here recognise them? because that doesn't look like their first rodeo. Narky Blert (talk) 07:37, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. The vandal is indefinitely blocked. I hided the insulting edit. Taivo (talk) 08:16, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
Thank you! :) Narky Blert (talk) 11:24, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
See also: Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems#Talk_page_protection_against_sustained_homophobic_abuse,_transphobic_abuse_and_personal_attacks. --Túrelio (talk) 11:27, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

How to request a revdel of GPS coordinate details in image metadata

An editor active on en-wiki has uploaded half a dozen images to Commons, but then realised his detailed home GPS coordinates were included in the metadata. He has asked how he can get this information expunged. As it's not appropriate to proved a link to them in a public forum like this, how do I go about getting this revdel-ed? Can I email any active fellow admin here, or is there a specific revdel contact address for such requests? Many thanks, Nick Moyes (talk) 00:11, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

@Nick Moyes: not answering your question (although, not being aware of any specific venue here, I would go the e-mail route myself), but I don’t think EXIF metadata can be selectively deleted. Best for the contributor to upload new versions of the files without the personal info (which would at least prevent it from being displayed right on the file pages for the time being), then have the old versions rev-del’d.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 00:18, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
@Nick Moyes: There is not a specific address. Accidental disclosure of one's home location does fall under COM:OVERSIGHT, so they should be emailed as well. The editor is welcome to email me for help. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 00:30, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
Two ways of going about it. It is possible to remove the GPS (or the whole EXIF, depends on the tool used) but it has to be downloaded from Commons (or use the copy used to upload), removed, saved and reuploaded. Then email COM:OVERSIGHT. Or go to COM:OVERSIGHT as a first step, have it deleted and the photographs that have had the GPS removed reuploaded. Bidgee (talk) 03:53, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
I did so with several of my pictures (File:Riese_und_Müller_New_Charger_S-Pedelec_links.jpg for example) with the help of an admin and another Commonist in this thread. Forme the administrative removal was all right, no oversight needed. Grüße vom Sänger ♫ (talk) 05:20, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, everyone, for your advice. I think I will email COM.OVERSIGHT myself, giving them the details of the other editor's uploads, and a link to their original, rather publicly expressed concerns. That way I don't have to reveal my email address to that other editor when I instruct them what they need to do, and I'm probably more familiar with the overall processes. Much appreciated. Nick Moyes (talk) 14:39, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Deletion Request

Hi, I made a deletion request a while ago at Commons:Deletion_requests/File:השתקפות_באישון_העין.png for an edited image on 26 July 2020. There hasn't been any opposition to this, but the file hasn't been deleted yet. Could someone help with this?

Also, on that page I made two edits accidentally outside login. Could someone remove my IP address from these pages?

Thank you in advance. Ezhao02 (talk) 13:12, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done DR closed Gbawden (talk) 04:57, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

File:Spartacus sheetA.jpg

Could someone please delete the revision from 13:00, 4 November 2020? It is a completely different image and I'm not sure about its copyright status. --Wow (talk) 04:19, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Gbawden (talk) 04:56, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Files by ԶԻՆՈՒԺ MEDIA/Commons:Deletion requests/File:InShot 20201020 202248937.webm

Could any of the admins get involved in this discussion please? A user keeps nominating Armenia-related files from the en:2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war for deletion claiming "YouTube is not a reliable source" for CCA licensed screenshots. The authors of the works are en:Ministry of Defence of Armenia (their official website with the YouTube channel in it) and en:Artsakh Defense Army (official website with YouTube channel in it) who have uploaded their own works into their own YouTube channels under CCA license, but the user simply don't care and continuously opens new deletion requests for the files from the same sources over and over again wasting our time on the same discussion everytime. Eurofan88 (talk) 21:07, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done --Achim (talk) 21:35, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Help!

Hopefully that will get some attention .

Over the past few weeks there have been an increasing number of "infographics" files uploaded by new users. So far they have largely been about tourism, ethic or business. Via another user I realised these are class projects. The copyright status of the graphics within the images is unclear and they are simply using Commons as a webhost. I've taken to deleting them and warning the user. That has been completely ignored so I am now blocked them after a warning when they re-upload (& they all do). Even that has not stopped any of them so I am now placing 2nd blocks for long.

Today I found 4 user pages that were treatises on business/manufacturing. In each case 4 graphics were uploaded and academic type references were included. Again the copyright status of the graphics is unclear and again this seems to be a class project using Commons as a webhost.

Frankly the volume of these is getting silly and is beyond the time I have available to deal with the flow and get anything else done. Any suggestions welcome and any admin/patroller help more than welcome. Cheers --Herby talk thyme 14:55, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

This is what COM:RFCU is for, as we can then find the related accounts, including sleepers, and possibly block ranges (likely to be very effective if this is indeed a class project and thus on a school's range.) From a brief glance at your block log, I've confirmed SachinSajeevkoshy, Jobin kakkaniyil, Sidharth perur, and Luigi Basil. If there are others (these are all just 13 November 2020--I don't see other related from "past few weeks"), please open an RfCU. Эlcobbola talk 15:31, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
Fair enough but I specifically didn't open an RFCU as it is quite likely a class with be using the same/related IP addresses. They are probably not puppet accounts and it is equally possible that there will be legit users on the ranges. In a sense this is not abuse but a lack of understanding that we are not a webhost to me. --Herby talk thyme 15:39, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
That's fine, but if it helps to clarify RFCU's scope: it "is the place to request investigations of abuse of multiple accounts or of other circumstances that require use of checkuser privileges" (emphasis added) and is "done to combat disruption on Commons." Sockpuppetry and meatpuppetry are indeed the most common, but a group of users with the appearance of a shared malapropos objective is indeed one of the "other circumstances" (one could even argue the "class project" is sufficient coordination to characterize the accounts as meatpuppetry.) In any case, multiple accounts uploading OOS content and misusing the site as a webhost is disruptive, even if well-intended and motivated by newness--thus blocks, range blocks, being preventative rather than punitive. Эlcobbola talk 16:01, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Administrative Access

To Whom It May Concern,

I am the Augusta Technical College Director of Community Engagement and Public Affairs. I am requesting to be an administrator on the Augusta Technical College Wikipedia page. The logo is incorrect, as is other information on the page and needs to be updated. Please advise. Thank you.

Kimberly — Preceding unsigned comment added by AugustaTechnicalCollege (talk • contribs) 15:42, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi Kimberly,
as you are refering to Wikipedia, you are at the wrong place here. This is Wikimedia-Commons, the repository for images etc. used on Wikipedias. In addition, "Administrators" on Wikipedia and Commons are sort of sysops. You don't need to be a sysop to upload an image (logo) and put it into an article. If your upload File:Augusta Technical College Mascot - Green.png is the new logo, see en:Augusta Technical College. If something in the article is incorrect, just click on "edit this page" and correct it.--Túrelio (talk) 15:50, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi Kimberly, logos of Augusta Technical College are complex, they surpass threshold of originality. Complex logos can be in Commons only with OTRS-permission. You as college director can send the permission personally. Please open COM:OTRS page and look, what kind of e-mail must be sent into Commons permissions department in permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Taivo (talk) 08:23, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Offensive username

A sockpuppet of a blocked editor (Punjabier) made an account with an abusive username: User talk:Nitinmlk gay gand marwana tampu kuti da bacha. Most part of this username is in transliterated Punjabi language and it literally means "Nitinmlk gay sodomite son of bitch". Can this user talk page be deleted? This vandal/sockpuppet has already been blocked on en-WP & his username/edits have been suppressed there, e.g. see [2].

On a side note, can an admin speedy delete this copyvio? This copyvio pic was uploaded for POV-pushing at en-WP and has already been nominated for deletion in the last month: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Ahir of Gujarat.jpg. There has also been an edit-war going over it at en-WP: see the latest revision history of this article. - NitinMlk (talk) 17:40, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

The account is already globally hidden so I don't think deletion of user talk page is needed, it will create log with this username and then that will have to be revdel'ed/suppressed. I've deleted the file. -- CptViraj (talk) 18:11, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
Thanks! - NitinMlk (talk) 18:13, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Nonsense DR still open five months later

I reported the problems in May: Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive_80#User:Qiushufang's_files_in_DR. All of them are still unresolved. Could sysops please close them and keep the files?--Roy17 (talk) 19:17, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Global ban proposal for Kubura

Hello. This is to notify the community that there is an ongoing global ban proposal for User:Kubura who has been active on this wiki. You are invited to participate at m:Request for comment/Global ban for Kubura. Thank you. Blablubbs (talk) 21:30, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Soprano performance part of opening chorus of BWV 8

Could an admin take a look at the edit history at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Soprano_performance_part_of_opening_chorus_of_BWV_8,_prepared_for_Bach%27s_premi%C3%A8re_of_the_cantata_in_1724.png&action=history ? Tx --Francis Schonken (talk) 09:24, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

There has been a discussion on the image to which User:Francis Schonken has not responded. Similarly Francis Schonken has not responded to a message on his user talk page.
The image concerned manuscripts for Bach's Cantata "Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben? BWV 8" Using the script "dezoomify-rs" with suitable parameters and juggling with networks, I worked out how to upload high resolution images from the Royal Library of Belgium. (In 2016, I previously used the same method for uploading the 16th century Talbot "Presentation Miniatures" in collaboration with User:Johnbod.) Using the script and its modified parameters, I uploaded the high-res images of File:BWV 8 1 traverso.jpeg and File:BWV 8 1 soprano.jpeg.
There are several problems with the current image.
  • It was labelled as having 3 authors, namely J. S. Bach, Daniel Vetter and Caspar Neumann. The manuscript was created in 1724 by J. S. Bach: Neumann died in 1715 and Vetter died in 1721. Nevertheless several times attempts were made to list these two people as authors.
  • Any historical details about the cantata could be included in the relevant section (e.g. the hymn text and music, the first performance took place in the Nikolaikirche, Leipzig). The category for the church, the largest in Leipzig, has been added.
  • The low resolution cropped imaged was of low quality: the higher resolution image was a considerable improvement.
Recently, Francis Schonken has intervened on Commons when I have been uploading images: he has attempted to instruct me on how to change the title of an image when there has been an obvious error. Usually I have made those corrections myself. When I have made obvious typos, there has been a very rapid response from administrators. Mathsci (talk) 10:35, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
User:Francis Schonken edits seem very disruptive. In this image File:BWV 8 1-5 soprano.jpg he has copy-pasted this image File:BWV 8 1 soprano.jpeg. Francis Schonken copied that 3 minutes after my upload. (My file was uploaded yesterday with traverso file.) That kind of appropriating without attribution is Francis Schonken's trademark. The original file was created using the script dezoomify-rs. Verifying that the copy-paste is easy to check. Not only that, the actual image from the Royal Library of Belgium had to be edited. That was done by me using the linux software GIMP. So Francis Schonken has been caught red-handed. Could an administrator please delete the copy-pasted File:BWV 8 1-5 soprano.jpg that Francis Schonken has uploaded? I am not used to seeing these games being played on Commons, particularly when skill with dezoomifying is required. Thanks, Mathsci (talk) 11:43, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
  • Since I've been mentioned, I'd say it probably would have been better to have uploaded the new image as a different file. Then you could argue which was better to use on articles (currently not used anywhere, it seems). Johnbod (talk) 17:42, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
    • User:Johnbod: it's not about "better", it's about "disinformation" — the replacement image doesn't match the file name, nor the image description at File:Soprano performance part of opening chorus of BWV 8, prepared for Bach's première of the cantata in 1724.png. Also File:BWV 8 1 soprano.jpeg currently has the same problem (i.e., what is shown on the image does not match neither the file name, nor the image description). I created File:Soprano performance part of movement 1-5 of BWV 8, prepared for Bach's première of the cantata in 1724.png and File:BWV 8 1-5 soprano.jpg respectively for the images that have been introduced after I created the first image of this set, in both cases with a file name and a description matching the actual image. Can you, or someone else get this sorted? Thanks. And, for clarity, I placed the image I had originally created in English Wikipedia here, but removed it later again, because the image content had become unstable at commons, and, duh, I want to avoid plain disinformation in English Wikipedia. So please get this sorted, so that the commons image can be used again in English Wikipedia. Tx. --Francis Schonken (talk) 05:31, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
      • User:Francis Schonken has made a number of false statements about images. In the case of the image File:BWV 8 1 soprano.jpeg, I uploaded that image using dezoomify-rs and trimmed it using the software GIMP. Francis Schonken has claimed to have uploaded an image directly from kbr.be using the upload wizard. However the image is identical to my image, which is not possible; and several times, Francis Schonken has attempted to copy that image. It is easy to verify that Francis Schonken is making identical copies of my image. For a start, it is impossible to reproduce exactly my choice of trimming. But more significantly, I know no way of using kbr.be directly to download images, as it uses AJAX-zoom technology not compatible with dezoomify. So the claim to have used the upload wizard seems untenable. In fact to download high resolute images from kbr.be, one needs to check networks to identify which plaque jpegs appear (carefully working out from that how kbr.be labels pages) and then issue a script command from the console:
./dezoomify-rs --header "Referer: https://viewerd.kbr.be/" "https://viewerd.kbr.be/display/A/1/5/8/9/6/1/8/zoomtiles/BE-KBR00_A-1589618_0000-00-00_0011/2-{{X}}-{{Y}}.jpg"
That results in the required download, in this case a 'presentation miniature'. There are instructions on the use of scripts on Github.com, but none of these involve an upload wizard as claimed by Francis Schonken. Why try to pass somebody's else's work as yours? If somebody doesn't know how to use dezoomify-rs, what is the point in faking it? Probably it would be a good idea for most of the copy-paste images that Francis Schonken has recently created be deleted. Mathsci (talk) 11:44, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
Here is a further example from the 1724 autograph manuscript of the first page of the oboe d'amore 1 part of Cantata No 1:
./dezoomify-rs --header "Referer: https://viewerd.kbr.be/" "https://viewerd.kbr.be/display/A/1/8/6/1/8/5/0/0000-00-00_00/zoomtiles/BE-KBR00_A-1861850_0000-00-00_0051/2-{{X}}-{{Y}}.jpg"
It is quite tricky to tweak the parameters. This gives File:BWV 8 1 hautbois d'amour 1.jpg after trimming. Mathsci (talk) 11:35, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm not an admin, and this sounds too technical and complicated for me, beyoond what I said above. Johnbod (talk) 13:27, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Spammer

here. --Palosirkka (talk) 13:00, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

@Palosirkka: Their uploads are gone and they have been warned.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:13, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Attack acco

Here --Palosirkka (talk) 13:16, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

@Palosirkka: I tagged the photos & userpage (which are now gone), and warned the user.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:08, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Self rollback request

Due to a misunderstanding of how categorization works here vs. on Wikipedia, I made numerous ill-advised edits yesterday. Would it be possible for an admin to rollback all of my edits from yesterday (18:10, 15 November 2020 - 00:22, 16 November 2020)? Thanks. Trivialist (talk) 00:58, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

@Trivialist: This appears to have been ✓ Done.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:22, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done I reverted all changes in Category and File namespaces made during given period. About 4.5-5 thousand edits. --jdx Re: 03:27, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Si Thu Moe Min

I have CU-confirmed the three accounts above on enwiki to be sockpuppets of each other. See w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Si Thu Moe Min. Since all three accounts have edits on the Commons, I thought I'd let you guys know. All the best, Mz7 (talk) 06:51, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked master and all three sockpuppets indefinitely and nominated some of their uploads for deletion. Taivo (talk) 16:20, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Aloyzas sss

Here. --Palosirkka (talk) 10:19, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Please inform the account you are complaining about, and be clear what action you are requesting here. These are uploads, not obvious vandalism.
@Aloyzas sss: if you wish to upload nude shots, they need to be high quality to have a chance of being sufficiently useful and educational. The uploads you have made are not great quality and oddly small in resolution, this is why they are being put up for deletion.
Note, I have been bold and re-titled this thread to be less confrontational.
Thanks --Fæ (talk) 10:35, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
Do we need that many shots of the same penis? There might be an argument for having a few to show variety, but a lot of those are near-identical, and the rest look like nothing. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:36, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. Some of his uploads are nominated for deletion and you are free to nominate more of them for deletion. Most of his uploads have quite bad quality and in my opinion should be deleted. I will warn the user, at moment that's enough. Taivo (talk) 16:08, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Homepage Broken

I think Template:Motd/2020-11-19 is broken. The media is not showing in homepage. Please fix. --Ranjithsiji (talk) 03:58, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

@Ranjithsiji: Hi, and welcome. I'm sorry, but it seems we have "No media of the day today."   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:06, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: OK That is not a problem. But we need to hide this message. Template:Motd/2020-11-19}}&via=WikiCommons&text=Check+out+today%27s+%23MediaOfTheDay+on+Wikimedia+Commons+at&related=WikiCommons,Wikipedia Tweet from the homepage. Otherwise it seems to be broken. There must be some if-else condition on the template code. I think it is bad to have some weird codes on homepage. --Ranjithsiji (talk) 04:12, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
As a temporary solution I turned off "Tweet" link in Template:Main Page Template for cases when MOTD does not exist/has not been chosen: Special:Diff/513434729. Most likely the same applies to the POTD section, but in this case the bug is "invisible" because POTD is almost always chosen. Anyway, it looks like an old bug, although I do not remember I have ever seen it before. Perhaps behaviour of "fullurl" has been recently changed and it fails when incomplete/non-existent parameter is given like in this case? Code review by an experienced MediaWiki guru is needed. --jdx Re: 07:54, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
@Jdx: Thanks for the quick fix. Yes we need a more detailed code review in that template or the part of the module. I hope that a kind of if-else condition solve the problem. According to the twitter link I cannot say anything about that. I will try to look into the problem and try to find some permanent solution. If any MediaWiki guru are available then that will be very helpfull. --Ranjithsiji (talk) 08:17, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Rights

Please could we get some admin attention at Commons:Requests for rights#Filemover? Thanks MSGJ (talk) 16:21, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I approved 3 requests and assigned 5 rights. Taivo (talk) 07:36, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Two questions

Hello everyone, I have two questions. First, How can I add File:Licensing tutorial ckb.jpg to the Upload Wizard Special page? I didn't get anything from translatewiki.net. Second, Can we have own Mediawiki CSS page to our language (ckb) on Wikimedia Commons? Thanks! Aram (talk) 18:37, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Lindsayfoxvape CC claim is more like advertising

Looking at this user's contributions, I am troubled by their customised ownership claim pointing back to their commercial site which is more forming the basis of advertising. '''Creative Commons Attribution — Please credit "Lindsay Fox" and attribute a link to author's website: [https://ecigarettereviewed.com/cannabis/ EcigaretteReviewed.com]'''} If this user is to have their uploads then I would hope that we would have it without the advertising. If it comes only with the advertising then I propose that we reject those uploads, and blacklist the site.

@Herbythyme: who seems to be observing the uploads as well.

 — billinghurst sDrewth 00:02, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Seconded.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:04, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
IMO link to the website in credit line is OK as per section 4c of https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode and we can do nothing about it. On the other hand, this of course looks like a blatant spam, but what is more important, at least the photos which I have seen smell to me like copyvios (stock photos). --jdx Re: 07:31, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
@Jdx: The credit line is ok per CC licenses, but not per our promotional component. We are not here to be abused, and I am looking for a more permanent solution with a community consensus rather than just my sole discrimination.  — billinghurst sDrewth 07:59, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
The fact that these are correctly licensed does not mean that they are not promotional. I was looking at this (and some other similar ones) where the intention of the image is to promote a website. I planned to either DR or nuke these and still feel that is the right course. Foundation projects were not set of for encouraging promotion even if that is the effect. --Herby talk thyme 08:14, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
In the past at least once I blocked an account and nuked its uploads due to advertising of e-cigarettes. Although situation was a bit different because spamlinks were not placed in (a kind of) credit line but in description field – it looked like common SEO. Anyway, IMO you should go ahead and nuke these uploads. I have no doubts that this is spam. --jdx Re: 11:19, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
Thanks Jdx - I will probably attend to it shortly. There are others like it too. Regards --Herby talk thyme 11:44, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done this batch anyway. --Herby talk thyme 12:04, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

DR backlog

Commons:Deletion requests/2020/10/22 has several quite clear cases at the top of the list. I am writing this here so that those admins who normally stay out of these closures -maybe for lack of experience in this area- might look into such simpler cases and maybe they develop a liking to work more in the said area. I will add below if I see other simple cases. --E4024 (talk) 18:25, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done I try do a few DR's from the backlog every day Gbawden (talk) 18:59, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
  • Other than the quite clear cases here (which must be closed by an admin) I see that Commons:Deletion requests/2020/08/30 has a series of DRs to be closed -with to problems- as "keep", all clear cases. If I had not been involved there I could give a hand; I think any experienced user can close that bunch of "keep" discussions. --E4024 (talk) 18:18, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Old DR's needing a decision or closure as stale...

I am asking here, because generally DR's need an admin closer. It would also be appreciated if there was some effort made to not have things sit in limbo for an extended period.

  1. Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bulletin des arrêts du Tribunal de cassation (IA bulletindesarr05hait).pdf This has been running for over 6 months. The license tag on the relevant file was updated some time ago, and the DR should be closed. Related:
  2. Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Paintings by Yan Shui-long - Artist still subject to copyright. ✓ Done Gbawden (talk) 12:32, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
  3. Commons:Deletion requests/File:AerospaceMuseumofCaliforniafrontsign.JPG - COM:FOP ✓ Done Gbawden (talk) 12:32, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
  4. Works not of US Federal GOV seemingly license tagged as such (some might be no-notice though)


  1. License udpated, but DR not closed.-
  2. Others:


It would be nice to have someone finally make a decision on these. This is only the first batch (up to around 17:00 on July 6th) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:54, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Old but simple DR to close

Hi, can you guys delete File:Przemko II of Glogow.jpg already? Discussion stopped in June. It clearly violates copyright. It was proved beyond doubt that it is a modern painting, as the author died in 2009 [3]. The painting is intentionally stylized to resemble old portraits. It was a commission for the local museum, in a series of 24 portraits (it is mentioned in the article I linked). Writing is clearly modern Polish. The autor herself was not famous even in Poland, so there are no English sources. And while you are at it, please delete the rest of the portraits by the same author, uploaded by the same user. I found the list of them here [4], so @Martin H.: may have something to add. Radagast13 (talk) 23:03, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Discussion about the copyright is here: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Conrad I of Glogow.jpg. As I said it is a case of 24 portraits, all of them should share the same fate. Radagast13 (talk) 23:07, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Thumbnails of all the portraits that violate copyright is on the museum webpage: [5]. Radagast13 (talk) 23:11, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Blank map

I made this blank map: File:World map with the Americas on the right.png

A user, wants to delete it, in my opinion unjustifiably. Could someone help me resolve the situation? Thanks a lot.--Maulucioni (talk) 00:47, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

@Maulucioni: I opined at Commons:Deletion requests/File:World map with the Americas on the right.png.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 06:10, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Returning admin

I've been gone a while, and I'd like to start contributing regularly again. Have there been any major policy changes in 2020? Any backlogs I should know about not listed at COM:AB? Guanaco (talk) 05:36, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

@Guanaco: Welcome back! PDM files are accepted now, despite my objections, see COM:PDM. One of the limits at Special:AbuseFilter/153 was lowered from 5,000,000 to 2,000,000 pixels. SignBot is broken, and no one with access to it wants to fix it.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 06:02, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Move category

Plese move Category:Škoda 30 T to Category:Škoda 30T (to preserve the history of the site). All other categories about Škoda trams are without a gap. Thanks, --MIGORMCZ (talk) 14:17, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Someone edited it manually, so the page's history is gone. --MIGORMCZ (talk) 16:19, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done --Achim (talk) 21:30, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

User:Erevys

User:Erevys, a new account, has uploaded clearly copyrighted promotional material and is claiming it as his own work. See File:Re5-gold-edition.jpg. This is actually the box art of the popular video game Resident Evil 5. If there's a better way to report things like this in the future please let me know. Damien Linnane (talk) 00:51, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

@Damien Linnane: Deleted. The best way to report copyright violations is by using the AjaxQuickDelete and Quick Delete gadgets. Enabling those gadgets will give you links in the left tools menu to report blatant copyright violations and request deletion for other reasons. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 04:41, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Spammer

Here. --Palosirkka (talk) 10:41, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done - blocked, deleted uploads. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 11:04, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/10/Category:AYDEED

Hi all. Can one of you please spare a minute to kindly close Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/10/Category:AYDEED? Thanks in advance and sorry for stealing your time. (I was going to do the needed myself but as you will read thereat the idea was not so welcome. Why? Got no idea.) --E4024 (talk) 16:47, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Why is this an emergency? There are open discussions from 2014. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:13, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
It's not about any emergency, Admin, the category is not being discussed; the Cfd was opened for deletion simply because the cat was empty,and now it has a file with OTRS permission and thus no possibility of staying empty again. Therefore the CfD has no reason to exist. I was going to close it (I am sure you already read the talk) but suddenly the person who opened the CfD and had a hurry to get it closed showed an uncomprehensible reaction to the possibility of closure by "me". Now, as you recalled, I myself have CfDs from several years ago, but they are open to discussion, while this one was only about deleting an empty cat which is not empty any more. I mean there is nothing to discuss. Shall I explain anything else? Please note that any user can close the CfDs. Thanks for your interest and take care. E4024 (talk) 21:27, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Delete two files

Hi, can I ask you to handle these two copyvio DRs? I don't want to create a mess by pasting speedy DRs over the existing normal DRs. The files need to be undeleted as indicated. Thanks, --Gnom (talk) 15:53, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done (put into appropriate undelete-cat and deleted). --Túrelio (talk) 16:09, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

File:Escudo del Club Atlético River Plate.svg

Hi, please restore the redirect. The file is in use. User:DZwarrior1 blanked the page after file is moving. Thx --2A01:598:9992:E605:9717:38B5:568F:24BC 06:48, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Is now a redirect page again. Thuresson (talk) 07:03, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Repeated creation of the same previously deleted categories by User:Mtaylor848

This user has created the Category:Grounded aircraft at Leeds Bradford International Airport as well as Category:Parked aircraft at Leeds Bradford International Airport for the 3rd time now. Both had been already deleted by (different) administrators twice, in August 2020 and November 2020.

This person appears to have a seriously deficient knowledge of aviation matters. All 5 aircraft he sorted into his self-invented category "Grounded aircraft at Leeds ..." are not even parked, but moving (taxiing). "Grounded" is something entirely different, see Aircraft grounding, a restriction to prevent malfunctioning aircraft from flying.

His second category "Parked aircraft at Leeds ..." does not exist for any other airport worldwide. It does not make any sense either, since there are "Parked aircraft" at almost every aerodrome in every country.

For these reasons both categories had been deleted twice. However, he somewhat stubbornly insists that the world needs his categories, maybe out of pride in this particular airport. Please delete these completely useless categories and try to convince him/her to refrain from creating them again and again. Thank you very much for your help. --Uli Elch (talk) 11:34, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

I deleted the grounded category as a clear-cut case (the user obviously things that a geounded plane is a plane which has just landed). With parked, it is to me less obvious, since some of the planes seem to be indeed parked.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:32, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Attention needed: MediaWiki_talk:UploadFormLabels/UploadFormTranslations

MediaWiki_talk:UploadFormLabels/UploadFormTranslations, a place for (I believe) localizing the legacy upload form, requires some attention from admins. It seems to me that the page is mostly abandoned while a small number of translations has been left unattended for years while a much larger number of test edits has been accumulated. I don't have any knowledge further than that—I just wanted to attract some attention to the page. (I have to wonder if it might be time to stop accepting translations at least from new users, though.) whym (talk) 08:22, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Polish translation of dates

Czy jest jakaś opcja, żeby poprawić polskie tłumaczenie szablonu dat? Na przykład tutaj: "przed 29 paźdźernikiem 2020". Pomijając już błąd ortograficzny, to po polsku mówi się "przed 29 października", a nie "przed 29 październikiem". Trzeba by to jakoś "przepiąć" tak, żeby w przypadku wskazania daty dzienniej zawsze - niezależnie od przyimka - miesiąc był w dopełniaczu. Ale tylko w przypadku, gdy jest data dzienna, bo jak jest sam miesiąc, to oczywiście w narzędniku: "przed październikiem/listopadem/marcem itd." --Botev (talk) 13:40, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Personal information

✓ Done Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:24, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

French-speaking colleague needed

Yesterday I was notified (see User_talk:Túrelio#Importations_de_copyvio_en_nombre) by User:Ctruongngoc about many copyvio-suspected uploads of Tedrahcir (talk · contribs). While I found a few external hits, the majority of the uploads didn't yield hits, as they were obviously scans from printed photos. However, shortly after my tagging, an IP posted the statement "Je suis le producteur du film "Un homme en fuite" de Simon EDESLTEIN réalisé en 1980. Le droits du film et les affiches m'appartiennent. Bonne soirée. Claude RICHARDET"[6], which suggests that the uploader might be the movie-producer Claude Richardet, who might indeed have the rights for these images and might become a valuable contributor. I would therefore invite a French-speaking colleague to take over this "case". It might be worth the effort. --Túrelio (talk) 22:27, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Mops, Buckets, Backlog!!

Greetings Fellow Administrators: We have an eight month Deletion Nomination Backlog! Please join in zapping this ancient pile into obscurity so we can face a new year of new copyvios without a huge log on our back. Most sincerely appreciated. If someone would like to put up the backlog banner, that would be great!! Thanking you all so much for your help. Ellin Beltz (talk) 06:33, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Reporting new InScaneYT sock

InfiniteWikis (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  This user is a newly created sock of InScaneYT. WD casepage, enwiki casepage Contribs of InfiniteWikis on WD

Normally, I would open a CU request here, but because all other socks are glocked, I figured it's better to write here as this user is the only sock that's been running wild. Thanks in advance, --CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 15:47, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

@CrystallineLeMonde: ✓ Done by @Эlcobbola and reported to M:SRG, Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:35, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Reporting sock of globally locked user Anuragjha17

Theoriser (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  This user is a sockpuppet of globally locked user Anuragjha17 used to evade their global lock. Since all the other socks have been glocked, I figured it's better to write here, since this user hasn't been reported here. Thanks in advance. --CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 08:30, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked and requested global lock. -- CptViraj (talk) 08:35, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Reporting sock of globally locked user Wiki.account.id/WIKICOLEGE

Nurdinjaelani100 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  Since the two other socks are blocked, I figured it's better to write here. This sock appeared on Wikidata, and it's blocked there. See the updated WD casepage --CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 09:28, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

@CrystallineLeMonde: The account isn't locally created, global lock requested. Please don't tag users who haven't abused multiple accounts locally, sockpuppeteers and their socks are blocked only if they have abused multiple accounts locally on Commons. -- CptViraj (talk) 09:37, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Okay.--CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 09:39, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

@CrystallineLeMonde: Also, please consider reporting lock evasion directly to M:SRG yourself.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:40, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

User claims 'own work'

User claims 'own work', while all uploads are stolen from here. --Palosirkka (talk) 11:40, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

@Palosirkka: They are lower quality so I just tagged all of them as duplicates. – BMacZero (🗩) 17:01, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Closing a withdrawn deletion nomination

I was wondering if an admin could please close Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Neurofreak. I have withdrawn the nomination as a big screwup on my part. Thanks. -- Whpq (talk) 18:40, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done DR closed. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 02:18, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Elliot Page - dead-naming in historical images

This is going to be a sensitive and controversion discussion. Some of you may have heard that Elliot Page recently changed their name from Ellen for reasons which can be read on the Wikipedia page.

Fridolin freudenfett recently renamed the image File:Ellen Page, 2010 (cropped).jpg to File:Elliot Page, 2010 (cropped).jpg. This seems to be historically correct and I'm wondering if Criterion 3 (obvious error) really qualifies to be used here. The reason I'm simply not asking on the file mover's talk page is that I wish to gain some sort of overarching consensus if these sorts of moves are to be allowed. As a more settled example, we haven't moved images of Caitlyn Jenner, and are still historically dead-naming her on old works where they still went by the former name. --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 23:32, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Hm, thinking about it, it is rather incorrect. Page was known as Ellen Page in 2010, after all. It is just now that a new name was announced -- I don't think we should be overwriting history. Let people use "Elliot Page" for new photos, but old photos, when Page was known by "Ellen" should be kept just like that. But then again, it is my opinion.
Acagastya (talk) 02:17, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
I read the article before the renaming, because the wish seemed rather dubious, but then I decided to rename it. I worked for a long time on a program for medical laboratories. The KBV in Germany has clear guidelines on how to handle name changes (and gender changes): the data is historized so that a change can be traced at any time. Here I plead for leaving the pictures names as they were and for new pictures that were taken after the name change to be given the new name. That means that my renaming should be reversed.
Besides, there was an article about the story in de:Der Spiegel magazine today. Aus Ellen Page wird Elliot Page --Fridolin freudenfett (talk) 12:04, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Elliot Page articles in multiple languages have been discussed in the LGBT+ User Group. The issue for all our projects on deadnaming is how to be respectful of the living person's self identification both in gender and name. Though "facts are facts" is a much repeated argument, there is no harm at all in de-emphasising a deadname and avoiding it whenever reasonable to do so. Wikimedia Commons has no policy in this area, hence I raised this case at Commons:Village pump#Elliot Page, related changes on Commons before making changes.

There's no specific rush to create deadname policies everywhere, but cases like this set useful norms and the principle of respectful treatment for people and minority groups is one that should be a value we want to see demonstrated while at the same time meeting the Commons mission. The continued development of the UCOC may well provide an opportunity in 2021 for this project and hopefully most of the sister projects to build consensus for clear and enforcable policies related to respectful treatment, the handling/presentation of 'defamatory' material and even how we may respond consistently to courtesy deletions. At a minimum we can hope to meet the same minimal ethical values in how we choose to publish media or "frame" media as is required of professional journalists. No doubt how we choose to represent trans, non-binary and genderqueer people like Elliot Page will become part of those improvements. --Fæ (talk) 18:01, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Let's keep in mind that this isn't a case of a little-known transperson. This is someone who was already famous. That is the only reason we have so many images of Elliot Page. This is a case similar to that of Caitlyn Jenner. We have Category:Caitlyn Jenner but we have kept Bruce Jenner is image titles. From Page's announcement onward, we should expect him to be identified as Elliot Page, but existing images should not be renamed. Mo Billings (talk) 22:08, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Ich möchte zu Bedenken geben, dass Elliot Page ein Schauspieler ist, der bislang immer nur Frauenrollen verkörpert hat und deshalb in Wikipedia und auf Commons aufgenommen wurde, weil er dies so erfolgreich tat, dass er "relevant" bzw. "notable" ist. Dabei hat Elliot Page den Bühnennamen Ellen Page verwendet. Seine Fans kannten ihn überhaupt nur unter diesem Namen. Dieser Name wird in den Abspännen seiner Schauspielwerke verwendet. Auch bei vielen anderen Promis wird der Name in WP/Com verwendet unter dem die jeweilige Person Berühmtheit erlangt hat. Nun wird Elliot Page vermutlich den Namen Elliot Page für künftige Arbeiten verwenden und daher sollte dieser Name auch für künftige Fotos verwendet werden. Was ist aber mit alten Bildern? Soll aus "Ellen Page.JpEg" dann "Eliot Page in the role of Ellen Page.JpEg" werden? Die meisten der Bilder von Page wurden aus Flickr importiert und sind cc-by-sa lizensiert. Einige vertreten die Auffassung, dass die Änderung des Dateinamens einer cc-lizensierten Datei einen Lizenzverstoß darstellt. Auch ist es so, dass Bilder von Commons mit InstantCommons (oder auch ohne InstantCommons) auf externen Websites unter ihrem Namen eingebunden werden. Solche Links brechen bei einer Umbennung. Und Page ist berühmt. Viele Websites können hier von einer einzigen Umbenennung betroffen sein. --C.Suthorn (talk) 07:50, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Possible false claim of an image being Nicholas Alahverdian

After nominating this image for deletion, it occurred to me that it might be a good candidate for speedy deletion. The uploader doesn't give a lot of details, it's their only contribution on Commons (or on any WMS wiki), and it looks like the photo was professionally taken, whoever it is in the photo. If one or more admins could look at it, I would be appreciative. Thanks! ···日本穣Talk to Nihonjoe 23:51, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

I am the uploader/user here. I have replied at the Request page with As the photographer working on assignment I took this photo of Nic (the subject) at the statehouse in Providence RI. Nihonjoe gave ten year old photos for proof, and the photo I shot was seven years more recent. I am unsure how to respond other than I know who I photographed in 3/2017 and it was definitely him. The discussion will continue. Norsk81 (talk) 01:45, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
ResolvedNomination withdrawn by OP.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 00:00, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Privacy violation, discrimination (although they reverted it)

✓ Done, Offending edits hidden, IP blocked and file semi-protected, as this wasn't the first vandalism. --Túrelio (talk) 07:40, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion_requests/File:General_Raheel_Sharif.jpg

Can any admin please can you close it as the discussion has come to its final conclusion now.Thanking you in advance.192.142.147.154 18:42, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

 Not done. Let the request be open whole week. Taivo (talk) 21:40, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done Sorry Taivo didn't see this - closed as a speedy keep Gbawden (talk) 09:57, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Known sock and vandal who makes racist and turk-centric edits on WP is doing the same on WC

User E4024 who is a known sock and vandal on WP is now vandalizing photos and re-opening closed deletion discussions here. Here is his WC profile. Another user withdrew a deletion request and according to rules since I am not the nominator and he withdrew the request I closed the discussion. I advised "Deletion requests must not be closed by the nominator that created them unless done before anyone else has contributed to the request." https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests but the user is not complying. Furthermore he is taunting ethnic Armenian material, which he was blocked from commenting on in Wikipedia because of his racist and xenophobic edits. He has also been blocked on WC previously. Norsk81 (talk) 00:07, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Example of sock as a known genocide denier which resulted in being prohibited from editing about Armenians on wikipedia. Norsk81 (talk) 00:11, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
See also Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems/Archive 88#E4024.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:24, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
Targeting Armenians there as well. See his targets: "These are three of the latest: Michael Hadjian July 2019.jpg Hagop Asadourian New Jersey.jpg Der Bartev Ordination.jpg". I request that this user be blocked for racist and turkish supremacist behavior, just as he was blocked on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/E4024/Archive) Norsk81 (talk) 00:31, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
More evidence of users being intimidated here and here across all of the wikiverse. Norsk81 (talk) 00:51, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

All these accusations are vague, some are 5 years old, some are in different projects (English Wikipedia and Wikidata). Please give diffs from Commons (and newer than 5 years). Taivo (talk) 08:23, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:PSL Official Logo.png

Can anyone please remove it as I withdraw with nomination119.160.116.247 14:13, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

No, thanks. Let it run.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:14, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

File:BMW R5-Hommage Concorso 2016-05.jpg

Hello,

I'm not familiar with deletion requests, I asked for this one File:BMW R5-Hommage Concorso 2016-05.jpg, for which a user made a better version. I'm the photographer and I'm surprised, that it isn't deleted until today. Perhaps the request was not the best way. If you agree, that the File:BMW R5-Hommage Concorso 2016-05 mod.jpg is the better pict., please delete the one named in the header. Thank you in advance. Best regards, --Wikisympathisant (talk) 16:52, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

@Wikisympathisant: Sorry, we have an excessive backlog of DRs. I !voted in yours at Commons:Deletion requests/File:BMW R5-Hommage Concorso 2016-05.jpg.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:07, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:PSL Official Logo.png

I will request any admin to  Speedy delete this file as the clear reason is now given in DR.119.160.116.247 09:14, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Missvain (talk) 19:50, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Uploads of media from Costa Rica official websites

Hi, while I think that the coats of arms, flags, portraits and other media from the government offices of Costa Rica are public domain, I'm not really sure about that and I have noticed quite a few uploads that are just copied from those institutions websites. I appreciate the contributions of Leroji (talk · contribs), but I think it is better to delete those uploads and ask for openly licensed equivalents to be sure. How to proceed in this case? Should every upload be flagged for deletion? Thanks. --Roqz (talk) 22:15, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Remove User:Buiquangtu autopatrol flag

Now that he has been promoted to image-reviewer, he no longer needs this permission. Thanks. (｀・ω・´) (talk) 02:47, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 09:17, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

File:川本紗矢.jpg

Precedents establish that when copyright holders release contents under contradictory terms, Commons users should exercise extra caution COM:PCP and not upload such files:

So this file should not be undeleted.--Roy17 (talk) 13:19, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Delete everything using the name Soul-6 TM Prod

I hate person like Ashim55 because he don't let me delete eveything about Soul-6 TM Prod on wikipedia, If everything about this name is not deleted, i will process a complaint to the autority (Police). — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.122.96.26 (talk) 22:40, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Gabriel from Canada. Thank you for your kind words! Your account User:Soul-6 TM Prod is not blocked here but on en:wp. I blocked your account User:Achim55uck, as you used it in bad faith. And it wasn't a good idea bulk adding {{Retired}} to a lot of pages as you did. --Achim (talk) 22:47, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Request for rapid deletion of contributed photographs

Dear Madam / Sir,

I would like to request deletion of the photographs that I have added. I received a notice from a user "Gbawden" who felt the images may need further permissions for their use here. The photographs were taken by myself and from the materials I had read seemed to be covered under "fair use" policy/rule for non-commercial images (self taken images). However, not being very well informed (even remotely) in this area I would prefer to follow the suggestion by user "Gbawden"and remove the images.

I apologize for any problems this may cause and for the time it will take to process this request.

Also, I am unsure how to send user "Gbawden" my thanks for alerting me to this problem. This information was appreciated.


Kindest Regards,

W2317 — Preceding unsigned comment added by W2317 (talk • contribs) 08:52, 7 December 2020‎ (UTC)

Pinging @Gbawden.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:18, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done by Turelio with thanks Gbawden (talk) 09:20, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
I have put reproductions of paintings going into the public domain within the next 20-30 years into the appropriate undelete-cat. --Túrelio (talk) 09:21, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
@Túrelio and Gbawden: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:37, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Backlog

As we approach the new year, I request all administrators to take a look at the elderly (April-October) Deletion Nominations and see if we can clear some of these prior to the New Year? Your help is most gratefully appreciated! Ellin Beltz (talk) 04:31, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

I and others have finished April. I'm working on May now. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:47, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments Sweden mass message please

Hi, I'm looking after the Wiki Loves Monuments contest in Sweden, and would like to send a mass message to this years participants telling them we are about to announce the images moving on to the international finale. The message is available here, and as the livestream with the announcement is Friday I'd love for the message to be sent out via Special:MassMessage as soon as possible. Thanks in advance. /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 10:01, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

 Doing… -- CptViraj (talk) 10:17, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 10:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Huge amounts of thanks CptViraj for a speedy delivery! /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 10:45, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Request for closure of a deletion request

Appreciated administrators' team:

I'd like to see closed this deletion request as soon as possible. It has been running for 6 months.

Thanks in advance, greetings from Colombia and God bless you.

--Babelia (talk) 19:52, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 23:35, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

HEADSUP: special:Contributions/Nickjohn99 creating infographics with seeming advertising purpose

A note that this user has created branded infographics and it seems that they are created solely with the purpose of advertising. The first has an OTRS permission, so I have left it, though converted the url to be non-active link. The others I have speedy deleted as advertising or copyright violations as there is no OTRS. This same user has also been spamming at enWP and other wikis, and warned at enWP about that activity.

It would be great if someone with access to OTRS and OTRSwiki could make some notes of warning within the system to keep eyes peeled for requests for OTRS for the more spammy additions. Thanks  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:14, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

@Nat: Noting my earlier conversation as I was guessing that we would be in this loop.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:11, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
Frankly it is promotional at the end of the day so regardless of OTRS permission it is basically spam. --Herby talk thyme 10:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

User:CommonsDelinker/commands/filemovers

Hello. Could an admin please take a look at that page and transfer those commands to the main User:CommonsDelinker/commands page so they can be processed by the bot? Thanks. —MarcoAurelio 22:12, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, Well-Informed Optimist. —MarcoAurelio 10:44, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Removal of file Ian_Parker.jpg from commons

Hi - the file Ian_Parker.jpg was removed from Wikicommons on 15 Nov 2020. Permission for this photo was secured from the photographer in 2016 and the license was dealt with properly. Why was this deleted all of a sudden and can it be retrieved without going through this again? Thanks Musicmakesmehigh (talk) 19:31, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Is this the file you're referring to: File:Ian parker.jpg? If so it seems to still be there. TommyG (talk) 20:19, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Change User name

Hi sir,

I have just created a user user:Gattard

I have created it my mistake and then I have created a new username user : Georges Attard I have upladed a photograph file: File:S147 SH2-240 GeorgesAttard Apod1012020.jpg under the username of Gattard First I would like you to change the username of Gattard to Georges Attard on my uploaded image and then to delete the user account Gattard

From now, all the upload I will do will be under the user Georges Attard

Thank you very much

Georges Attard

@Georges Attard: Hello, unfortunately it's not possible to change the username on the upload log to your current name due to software limitations. The admins here can't directly edit the database of the wiki, so you will have to stick with changing the author field of the file description, which you already did. I suggest creating the User:Gattard userpage and link it to your current account. pandakekok9 13:18, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Filter 122

The gallery filter for some reason triggered on the Category: namespace, which shouldn't happen. Can some admin fix it so that it never triggers on categories? Thanks, pandakekok9 13:01, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Whoops, scratch that. They forgot to add a space between the colon, that's why the filter thought it was a gallery. It would be better though if this could be corrected somehow by the software, like when you mistyped something and the software displays a "did you mean" box. pandakekok9 13:04, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
@Pandakekok9: No, Sshu94 used the wrong type of colon when trying to create CategoryːSVG Orders, decorations and medals of Azerbaijan, the colon must be a USASCII colon (code 58, see en:Colon (punctuation)) to form Category:SVG Orders, decorations and medals of Azerbaijan. What is "a space between the colon"?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:21, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

I woke up from a nightmare this morning...I was driven away from Wikimedia Commons by Reke

I woke up from a nightmare this morning...I was driven away from Wikimedia Commons by Reke. I'm not sure if it was because of being intimidated by he said. Because he posted a message to my talk page on zh-wiki yesterday in which he mentioned about the way I work on Wikimedia Commons (like the file I submitted for deletion: 1, 2, 3). The problem is that he said on sites other than Wikimedia Commons (PTT, Facebook, etc) that I had Asperger's syndrome. It's not only that! He also spread such rumors on zh-wiki, but I can't think of any way to stop him. 瑞丽江的河水 and Solomon203 have both also said in Chinese the same words and claims that I had Asperger's syndrome (see: 瑞丽江的河水, Solomon203). I had no intention of holding 瑞丽江的河水 and Solomon203 accountable for their actions since I have no evidence to prove that Reke told them.

I am not the person who like to aggress users, but Reke claims that he is a volunteer from Wikimedia Taiwan and his duty is to protect Taiwanese users from my unfriendly attitude. Especially, he stressed that he got "complaints" from many Taiwanese users about my action, so he intervenes in what I do on Wikimedia Commons. Asperger's syndrome and what I do on Wikimedia Commons are two different things. Impatience with the pace at which communication attitude to the user improves is never a good reason to make personal attack, let alone said Asperger's syndrome.

Actually, before I spend the time to report this, I have tried hard to communicate with Reke by his talk page on zh-wiki. I told him many times that asked him to delete what you said on PTT, and if I really do something wrong (like a., b., etc), you should bring up the complaint to COM:HD, or reports to COM:AN/U. But he didn't listen.

a. to edit Category:Wikimedians in Hsinchu.
b. the established practice is to demand OTRS-permission for the photos that sourced from Facebook.

And now, he wants me to do what he says. This is obvious from what he said on my talk page: "的確是想看看能不能讓你理解你不能再這樣處理 commons 的事務", and also "假如你有意願好好理解我的角色，同時真的想來溝通改善你的維護工作執行方式，那麼我會去做善意的回應。". My feelings are telling me that he is threatening me, because what he meant was: "If you didn't follow what I said, then he can't promise to delete messages on PTT, and may even continue to spread rumors." Whether I did it wrong or not, Reke should not force me to face (or say solve) problems in this way and also he never proved that it exists. Unfortunately, all admins has no right to intervene his actions on PTT and Facebook.

In fact, most of the reason is that Taiwanese users are not familiar with our policies, our procedure, and other established practices. However, I am a living person, so I am not perfect and lack certain traits of a good editor. I admit that there are some faults come from my way of working (including what he said my attitude), but it's definitely not Asperger's syndrome. Although I can go to the hospital to find a doctor to prove that I am healthy, no-one will issue a medical certificate for me unless I'm really sick.

I know Reke never said that he want to me to leave Wikimedia Commons, however, he said here: "任何因為在維基的溝通過程中感到不舒服的用戶，都是協會要處理的目標，因為我們得儘量留住用戶" What he meant is that if he wants to make users willing to stay, he must try to communicate from those who make them uncomfortable. I feel not fair about his way because not everything is my fault. I did not vandalism, nor make personal attack, nor did I stalk or harass anyone. For example, I submited deletion request for this photo per COM:FOP Taiwan, but Reke come to my talk page and accused my action is "毀人心血". Because he told me that 智慧財產權月刊 is clearly written that! I saw many people have done this before and nothing happened. Although I know that I didn’t abuse deletion request nor did I vandalism photo, I helped him (I initiated the discussion at COM:HD to resolve the issue with COM:FOP Taiwan). So, I can't see where I am doing wrong.

Honestly, I'm really tired. I can't take it anymore! I have emailed Wikimedia Foundation three times no one responds to me until today still no response. No matter how I explain to Reke, he'll never listen. I believe that his personal attack is not only a violation of the Wikipedia rules but also a violation of article 309 of the Taiwanese criminal law. He must to delete the messages that were clearly personal attacks, and he must promise me that he won't make the same mistake again. I don’t want to leave Wikimedia Commons, and I don’t want to sue him. In this case, I need someone to help us in dispute meet each other halfway. Everything is negotiable. Whether I changed myself according to Reke's standards that is another thing. However, I think that his personal attack is easier to solve than he mentioned about my problems with working way and attitude. No matter what he says, if he wants me to believe that he is not threatening me, I think it's best to delete what he said on PTT first. The reason is that he is threatening me in this way and it does not help the current situation, but only deepens my misunderstanding of him.

I hurt my hands and feet, so I type much too slowly. I have never left my computer the computer from this morning. It's finally done!--Kai3952 (talk) 13:00, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

I felt I was being pressured by him (Reke) with his constant comments about me. I want to ask everyone here: Am I a good editor?--Kai3952 (talk) 13:05, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
@Reke: may wish to respond, preferably with a commitment to leave you alone from here on.
Kai3952, interacting with Reke causes you distress, and you are not required to interact in any environment you feel is hostile, regardless of whether Reke agrees with you about your contributions.
The threads already existing are sufficient to explain the circumstances. I suggest you completely avoid Reke. If you find they are hounding you here or anywhere else, then privately log each time it happens. The benefit of you not interacting with Reke from this point on, is that if you want to ask for a future interaction ban on a Wikimedia project, it will be easy to demonstrate that it is not a dispute where you have responsibility, but a timeline with one person trying to get a reaction.
Meanwhile, put your health first, it may be better to take a break and focus on other things for a few weeks.
Thanks --Fæ (talk) 16:59, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
@Fæ: ,talk to him is very tiring, I don't want to do this either. However, he wants to delete the photos uploaded in the event that the WMTW cooperated with the Taiwan government. As I am the organizer of the event, it is impossible not to respond. Do you have some good idea to help me leave these trouble?--Reke (talk) 08:28, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Except this time, the conflicts between him and other Taiwanese wikimedians are not as he said all because we do not understand the rules. Because of the language gap, it is difficult for me to list all the past events in English. But those community contributors were really irritated by him, and they call the Chapter for help. If someone can assist with the translation, I can provide the past disputes (from non-kai perspectives) to the commons community in Chinese. Maybe through your explanation, he will be more willing to understand.--Reke (talk) 08:41, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
The problem is, I can't avoid him, because I can't control his free will nor predict what actions he will take. He discussed "戶外藝術品著作權" on my talk page that is the best proof. I'm here for nearly 4 years, but I have never seen anyone like Reke. I tell you what is the difference between me and him.
Me Reke

1. What I care about is how our work makes Wikimedia Commons better.
2. My work has been primarily devoted to organize all files related to Taiwan and in a better way to collect them so that users can easily find them where they typically expect them.
3. I have a few unfriendly interactions with Taiwanese users, but mostly I just feels that I did nothing wrong for what I do on Wikimedia Commons.
4. I never attacked anyone personally.
5. I don't bother him unless there is a problem with his file.
6. I submited deletion request for this photo per COM:FOP Taiwan.
7. I spend a lot of time communicating with him. All I see is his personal opinion. If I really do something wrong, he should bring up the complaint to COM:HD, or reports to COM:AN/U. No matter how I explain to him, he'll never listen.
8. I am contributing to Wikimedia Commons, so I can do it for Wikimedia Commons in terms of ability.

1. What he cares about is how to keep Taiwanese users.
2. He claims that he is a volunteer from Wikimedia Taiwan and his duty is to protect Taiwanese users from my unfriendly attitude.
3. He said he must force me to understand his starting point correctly in this way, and then changing my behaviour to avoid repeating those same mistakes over and over.
4. He never admitted that he attacked me personally and was unwilling to delete rumors.
5. He got complaints from many Taiwanese users about my action, so he intervenes in what I do on Wikimedia Commons.
6. When I submitted deletion request for this photo, he is pissed me off for following the rule COM:FOP Taiwan (violated en:WP:5P5).
7. He feels I am the person who's difficult to communicate with, so he thinks my problem is to live in my own world and ignore the complaint from Taiwanese user.
8. He asked me to reflect and think carefully about why many Taiwanese users complain about it.

Reke is his private account, and not an employee account on Wikimedia Foundation. When he represents Wikimedia Taiwan, his identity will confuse Taiwanese users. Especially, when he spread rumors and threatens, it makes me believe that he does not represent Wikimedia Taiwan. Whether he is a volunteer of Wikimedia Taiwan, he has said something that has caused me harm. I feel a lot of pressure, it seems to be forcing me to leave Wikimedia Commons.--Kai3952 (talk) 01:19, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, it is very unlikely that you will benefit from litigating a case. You have marshaled your thoughts, but for action on Commons there must be specific evidence on Commons. Activities elsewhere are only going to take a complaint on a tangent and sink a Commons complaint that nobody will read properly. If there is off-wiki harassment, then that's something to not discuss on-wiki at all, but if the harassment appears obsessive, extreme or disturbing, it's perfectly correct to raise it, or log it, privately with WMF T&S or to discuss with global stewards. For the moment, there's nothing you have indicated that would result in action.
As for Commons content, let it stand or fall by community consensus. Trust the process and policies, you do not have to engage with those discussions, and you are probably personally better off not watching them.
You need to disengage, take a break from it, focus on other things. If you now never respond to Reke, future problems will be a pattern where there is no background of a two-party dispute, only Reke's actions and comments on-wiki for others to judge. The ball will then be in Reke's court. --Fæ (talk) 11:11, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Delete previous picture version please

I just uploaded a censored version of File:2020aug-derecho-damage-Dunning-Chicago-IL.jpg which gently pixelates and blurs the subject license plate as that could be a privacy concern. If an admin would hide or delete the previous version so we don't still have the uncensored copy public, that would be appreciated. Gwenhope (talk) 01:13, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. --Túrelio (talk) 08:58, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

File:BStMI-Gebäude.JPG

please Restore File:BStMI-Gebäude.JPG. It was a fully and valid licensed picture with a good resolution taken by Mattes (my former account). Greetz --Mateus2019 (talk) 09:23, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. In my opinion the file was incorrectly deleted. Taivo (talk) 10:14, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Request for closure: Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/10/Category:Ships by name (flat list)

Could an uninvolved admin please have a look at this DR? It has been stale for 1.5 years now. De728631 (talk) 22:16, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

  • With the best will in the world, we are all volunteers here, and even if you paid me, it would take me a month to even understand whether a consensus exists, and what it is. Perhaps we need admins with analytical skills and too much time on their hands. Even when I was an admin that wouldn't have been me me. Far too busy, but I don't mind if someone steps up to the plate. Volunteers? Bueller? Bueller? Rodhullandemu (talk) 22:54, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
Every time I volunteer, I get shot down. :(   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:00, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
I know the feeling. You and I both do a great deal of useful work here. I will support your next RfA, wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, there are people who bear unreasonable grudges for some irrational and unsupportable reasons. In my own case, the en:WP Arbitration Committe preferred false evidence over their own policies on reliable sources, which just makes them look like fools in my book, but you fortunately don't have that baggage. Best wishes, Jeff. Rodhullandemu (talk) 23:44, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
@Rodhullandemu: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:04, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
  • It's a complicated answer, but the question is simple enough.
"Ships" doesn't work as a category, particularly not how Commons has it at present. There are vessels (things that float) and some of those are ships. But there are many sub-types of ship (and problematically in the past, Commons has insisted that some are ships when RS externally insists that they aren't). But every little rusty scow has a proud skipper, and they do like to give them names. Our readers also like to search by these names. So how do we present these as a single list, so that the names are searchable? Right across the depth of the categories.
There are two ways to do this (and Wikidata will tell us we're doing it wrong too). Petscan or some SPARQL will search the tree, into its depth, and that's probably the best long-term way to do it. However the short-term, pure-Commons way to do it is to create a category as "flat list". This works and it's easily accessible to our users. Also it harms nothing. We have the effort to set up this category (once) and populate it by traversing the tree, then it's easy. So there are good reasons to do it, nothing much against it. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:56, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
Well, Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/10/Category:Ships by name (flat list) has gained some traction again, albeit not with the main topic but with a "side-show" of related categories. So, as to the flat list: Thanks for your comment, Andy Dingley. Actually this category was set up at the time when the CfD was started, so it is already populated with some 63k items as of today. De728631 (talk) 13:39, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
This category needs to be changed back to an unhidden one, of Ships by name, and this made up term of flat list dropped. This change was made against consensus, by an individual that needs to be censured for it, and who blatantly and arrogantly ignored all pleas against his actions. This subject, has been debated several times through the years, in way or another, and consensus has always been to keep Ships by name as it was.
Why must this continue, in the face of opposition, by the very people who contribute to and work in this area by someone who doesn't.
@Rodhullandemu: This was all too clear, even, in the last conversation mentioned here. A five minute read will confirm it. Broichmore--20:20, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
    • No thanks. Thanks for your good wishes but It's clear you don't understand the topic nor the issue.
Consensus has been blatantly and persistently ignored.
The point is it was right before Themightyquill's unwanted changes , there is no reason for fresh consensus now. Consensus was previously ignored, that's the main point of this discussion. The consensus is that these changes need to be reversed.
Themightyquill without consensus and inappropriately, despite informed objection from experts in the field moved Category:Ships by name to a new name Category:Ships by name (flat list).
He also at the same time, without consensus and inappropriately, made it into a hidden category.
Main categories (such as this one) should not have long names or be hidden, and there was no need for lengthening the name.
Here without consensus, he lost the argument.
He also lost the argument here. He also ignored the consensus for no change from previous discussions in the archives.
This invented, term (flat list) has been foisted onto the project in other places. The term flat list unknown in the English speaking world should never have been employed. The category only needed to have a banner on it saying that is was for categories only, and not for loose files.
This category is critical as an organiser for the ship’s project, arguably it's most important, after Watercraft and Ships. In theory every ship’s name category should be in it. Sadly not the case as many are hidden in a host of subcategories. This category is a reference point for the project.
Another place where he lost the argument
Others think the same way too. See:
Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2009/04#Category:Steamships_by_name
and more contrary opinions here.
sample opinion
It's also self evident that a poorly designed category, or one in the wrong place will create an excessive amount of admin just to keep it up to date, and so it has proven to be the case.
This new unseen category is useless, casual users continue to add ship cats to Ships by name on an ongoing basis. It has become a sink hole of effort, and has to be regularly decanted by Themightyquill, and or others, since he got bored with it.
He lengthened the category name with a spurious claim that it’s OK; because improved internet speeds and baud rates made no difference. In his part of the world maybe.
My warnings (and those of others) were wilfully and bloodymindedly ignored by him, so it has been left for two years to prove the points explained laboriously to him, which, now proven, should be made right.
I respectfully ask the project to revert the contents of Ships by name (flat list) to Ships by name.
To begin with, here on ships, he ignored a previous discussion where the notion on hiding the category was voted down beforehand.
[Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/08/Category:Ships by name this discussion]
In August 2018 in answer to a discussion theMigthyquill proposes Ships by name (flat list) and Huntster and Rmhermen disagree it being unnecessary. Quill disagrees as he knows better than anyone else., a trend which continues ad nauseum, no matter how many increasing others disagree with him. A Late comment by Rmhermen illustrates his folly and sums up the situation, he says: I fail to see how this was a consensus to do anything to the category and I also fail to see why adding the secret code (flat list) improves the system at all. And how is this new category helpful if it is hidden by default?
The discussion moves to here, Themightyquill immediately concedes that he has no consensus, 3 against 1. However he persists. What follows from October 2018 is a long interchange. The whole idea of a "Ships by name (flat list)" is consistently opposed throughout the entire discussion till it ends in May 2019. Themightyquill at one point half way down loses the plot and defaults to a liking for flat list (response number 13). He’s losing his argument, but doesn’t want to revert his edits. The conversation carries on and just get more bizarre, as Themightyquill twists and turn on the issue all the while ignoring objections by many, and consistently ignoring the consensus so obviously against his views on the matter.
The opposition by the end of the conversation in March 2019 is deafening.
Still the Themightyquill is not for turning. Objections resurface in May of 2019, and rather tellingly Gatoclass says But I can't see why we need a category called "ships by name" and a category called "ships by name (flat list), I don't even know what a flat list is or how it is supposed to differ from the "ships by name" category, and when I look at either of these categories they look the same.
However Themightyquill ends off in a way that Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton would understand, a complete denial of what’s been said, only his reality should prevail. Objections to his action is 4 against the move and only 1 for it (himself).
Following illustration of growth make it clear that consensus does not exist for meddling with Ships by name
10,000 ships cats by August 2011
Now 20,000 ships 29 August 2012
It was growing by approx. 10,000 a year
Commonly resorts to hyperbole or sophism (see any of the links the here for examples), or threats: see here
Here the conversation took a bitter turn from late September 2018.
See At one point Stunteltje says: You have to do a lot of maintenance on your renamed category!!!! Many users still use Category:Ships by name. Renaming was not a wise idea, as could be expected. Themightyquill at that point (as usual) pointedly twists the facts or (as usual) does no research and claims only one person is populating the category; when that is untrue. A purposeful way of misleading and mis-directing the attention of a complainant.
See here: where Stuntelje tells him he's going against the wishes of the community he dismisses him out of hand and arrogantly slaps him down. Thanks for the notification. I stand by my actions. Well his actions are patently wrong.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Here he is chastised for for mis-using administrative tools. His response a flat Thanks for letting me know. I stand by my decision. In other words I’ll do what I want when I want. An example of his all to common monumental arrogance and inflated self-worth.
Here for example looking for fundamental and major changes to a major cat.
His name is coupled with disruptive behaviour. He has abused the system, ignored policy and consensus, and mis-used tools. Anyone who can be so indifferent to the community or this lacking in ambivalence should not be an administrator. What he needs to do is resign or be stripped of his admin tools and privileges.
Moreover he does, all this, on the sly, without advertising changes that affect the entire community on the village pump. Here for example looking for fundamental and major changes to a major cat. His talk pages are littered with, uncalled for, opiniated interventions from a base of little or no understanding. -- Broichmore (talk) 18:23, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Ownership behavior, attacking other users - this is not particularly helpful, and will only end in tears. Guido den Broeder (talk) 23:03, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
The fact remains Themightyquill made unwanted changes, against consensus. I have given the main link for it. He totally ignored consensus. These changes need to be reversed.
He conceded here, that he had no consensus, 3 against 1.#
He refused to revert it here.
It's in the code of conduct to respect others by not ignoring consensus. He used his position to ram this unwanted, and inappropriate change through. -- Broichmore (talk) 16:32, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Removal of File:Saratoga County Infirmary.jpg

Hi. The author of this photo gave permission for its use, as can be seen on the page I got it from. ME: "Red, I'd like permission to use this photo to illustrate the Wikipedia article "Saratoga County Homestead" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga_County_Homestead). If you don't want to upload it yourself I'd be happy to." HIM: "Peter Yes please upload....thanks" Peter Flass (talk) 20:04, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

@Peter Flass: Where is the agreement to a free license per COM:L? Please have him send permission via OTRS.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:31, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Opinion on files with meaningless names and lack anysort of Information

What should we do with images with meaningless name, lacking Description, Caption & Geo-location. For ex: while surfing through images from WLM 2016 India unreviewed, I found an image 17-06-27 Day 7-109. It lacks description, Caption and even geo-location, but the image got some quality content tho. When I went through the user contribution, the author seems to be inactive for couple of years. Whats the best we can do for these kind of images? --iMahesh (talk) 05:35, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

This should've been posted in the village pump, since this doesn't seem to be something that needs admin intervention. For the image you linked, I suggest contacting the author using their email address or Instagram that is posted on their userpage. They may be inactive on Wikimedia, but they might still answer off-wiki. If that doesn't work, try asking on Hindi Wikipedia or WikiProject India. pandakekok9 07:27, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, will try that. If that didn't work shall post on Village pump as suggested.--iMahesh (talk) 07:30, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Lua modules

Module:Redirect is used 450000+ (!!) times, while Module:No ping is used 50000+ (!) times. I think a TE or full protect is in order here, especially for the redirect module which is currently not protected at all. Thanks, pandakekok9 12:35, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I semi-protected it indefinitely. Taivo (talk) 07:50, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Problem with today's media of the day (non-free content?)

I believe there is a problem with today's media of the day as the video contains non-free music (e.g. a cover version of The Police's Every Breath You Take around minute 25-27). Is it even allowed to be uploaded to Commons? Sentausa (talk) 13:32, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Pinging ComputerHotline, the uploader of the said video. pandakekok9 14:06, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Clean up

Can one of you kindly revdel this please? Thanks. --E4024 (talk) 17:13, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 17:19, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Review and delete images from recently blocked sockpuppet

Goahvya was CU blocked on the English wikipedia [7] as a sock of Jagdeep singh bittu. A global lock has been requested, but they've uploaded a fair number of images which based on their track record are all copyright violations. I think I've found one upload from them that wasn't. Would an admin mind reviewing and deleting them? Thanks! Ravensfire (talk) 21:33, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I deleted all his uploads as copyvios and reverted his other edits. Taivo (talk) 08:51, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

This twitter thread popped up today; it's highlighting an edit made to File:Running Man Kyle Cassidy.jpg to add a false claim of authorship, followed by sending an email to a reuser to demand credit (edit: this blog post goes into more detail)

The editor adding these claims is Suzane.Rob2020 (talk · contribs) who has added similar claims to about twenty items, though most have now been removed. Searching for some of the photographer names added also brings up Vega.layla (talk · contribs), Davischai37 (talk · contribs), Harrisabby (talk · contribs), LucasBailey (talk · contribs), and no doubt there are others. Flagging it up as this probably needs admin intervention and it may be worth using checkuser to look for other accounts. Andrew Gray (talk) 16:40, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

It looks like Caleb.Coates (talk · contribs) was also doing this as far back as October (example, and was blocked for running multiple accounts in November. Peterhailey (talk · contribs) made two similar edits in September. So this may have been going on for a while. Andrew Gray (talk) 16:47, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
And digging even further back, Eula.toney (talk · contribs) was blocked for these edits (and again abusing multiple accounts) in August - Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Virginia.deamedia. Interesting that some of these were repeated edits to the same item; this one has had three different rounds of edits attributing it to two different people. Andrew Gray (talk) 16:50, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
Looks like this is a long-standing pattern of abuse. As there is a US company apparently involved in this, maybe WMF legal should also get involved and send some letters... The Land (talk) 16:54, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
It seems to be a really weird SEO scam, judging by the blogpost. Baffling. So much effort for such trivial payoff? One more account doing it - Isabelle Draper (talk · contribs). Andrew Gray (talk) 16:57, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
(Also mentioned here The Land (talk) 16:51, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
See also COM:ANV#"A. Sturdivant" is back.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:33, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Reporting new El Menor Mc socks

El Menor Mc (Polímata) (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

BritoOmar (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

These two users are new socks of the blocked user El Menor Mc, and they've been seen at Wikidata. See the Interaction Timeline for the already blocked Elmenormcrd / El Menor Mc and BritoOmar, and the Editor Interaction Analyser for the second one. --CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 12:10, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked some socks indefinitely and also I made you autopatroller. Thank you for your work! Taivo (talk) 08:58, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Spammer

Here Special:Contributions/Vividloom. --Palosirkka (talk) 13:58, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks & ✓ Done --Herby talk thyme 14:08, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Block YiFeiBot

Please stop User:YiFeiBot until it's owner responds (--> User talk:Zhuyifei1999#Maybe wrong maintenance category). The bot is adding a maintainance category to thousands of files without (obvious) reason. --2A02:810D:6C0:2FB0:E0C5:10DE:592:EE44 20:11, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done that looks broken so I pressed the big red button. Multichill (talk) 20:18, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
And unblocked again. Job should be disabled now. I'll have a better look later on, see User talk:Zhuyifei1999#Maybe wrong maintenance category. Multichill (talk) 19:29, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Category:Nausheen Sardar Ali (sic)

Should be moved to Category:Nausheen Ali Sardar per WP article. Please. --E4024 (talk) 02:18, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 08:58, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

This has reached nearly 500 items and needs some closures/deletions. I appreciate there is a shortage of admins but... ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:32, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Some users would tend to abuse file renaming

I recently noticed that some users would tend to abuse file renaming. I know they don't have the right to rename, but those files that do not need to be renamed are still renamed. I doubt that those with the file mover right have the ability whether to judge the rename request. The reason is that all the files I see have the same problem: Users strive to eliminate files that are not named after dates and then the names of all the files are named after the date. However they are very smart, because they always find reason that seem reasonable such like "File:EASY SHOP on Zhongshan Road in Hualien City.jpg" rename to "File:EASY SHOP Hualien Zhongshan Store 20080709.jpg". This kind of problem happens very frequently with the rename request. I don't know what happened to those with the file mover right. I think the files I uploaded, which do not need to be renamed into date (File:XXX.jpg → File:XXX 20201212.jpg), because all photos uploaded from flickr are named by the content shown in the photo. I still have many files with the same problem such like "File:CPCCT Guanyuan Station 20140831.jpg" and "File:Asia Plaza Building and Shin Kong Life Tower top 20180419.jpg", but I don't know how to restore the original filename and don’t know how to prevent users from abusing file renaming.--Kai3952 (talk) 15:01, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

@Kai3952: Solomon203 requested renaming of File:EASY SHOP on Zhongshan Road in Hualien City.jpg to File:EASY SHOP Hualien Zhongshan Store 20080709.jpg and then Richardkiwi renamed it with date and reversed himself. 118.167.34.135 requested renaming of File:Gas station at Guanyuan.jpg to File:CPCCT Guanyuan Station 20140831.jpg and then Afifa Afrin renamed it. 1.164.195.95 requested renaming of File:Shinkong Life Tower looking up.jpg to File:Asia Plaza Building and Shin Kong Life Tower top 20180419.jpg and then Rachmat04 renamed it. None of these renames were simple appending of a date.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:30, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
None of them necessary either IMO, on the face of it; that kind of tinkering belongs in the description, metadata & categories. Dates aside, the first is mostly a rearrangement, while the second and third seem just fine without the additional details. I’d have declined all of them myself, without a strong case for disambiguation among other images of the named subject (which I don’t see being made anywhere). Criterion 2 doesn’t mean “the name could be more descriptive of the content”, but rather “the name says nothing of use about the content”.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 20:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
I have to agree with Kai3952 and Odysseus1479 here. A lot of the files being renamed seems to be fairly unnecessary. Sure, the new suggested names may be more specific but the original names chosen by the original uploader are often far from "meaningless or ambiguous name" as COM:FR #2 specifies. If it's not the original uploader requesting a rename, I think that file movers should be much stricter with the reasoning for moving files than what is actually practiced. TommyG (talk) 20:21, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
Dear everyone. I have restore the image in question to its original name by uploader a little time ago; hope it is accepted as my apology for being reckless in renaming. From now, I'll learn to stick more carefully on the renaming guidelines. Thank you. Kind regards, ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 05:03, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
@Jeff G. and Odysseus1479: Not only these, there are many other files of such problem like: File:50-Lan shop on Yongkang Street in Taipei.jpg (File:50-Lan Yongkang Store 20100214.jpg), File:Memorial stele of Chiang Wei-shui 20141130.jpg, etc. Do you need me to explain for each renamed file separately why do I think it does not need renaming?--Kai3952 (talk) 16:34, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

LOGO policies not followed well

I would like to bring to attention of admins LOGO policies not followed well... needles to say this is super annoying. My 2 frustrating case studies with Logos being deleted out of Copyright paranoia:

  1. small and local NGO that uses historic coat of arms (not something anyone could copyright) has been deleted: LOGOTIP Udruga Kačić.jpg
  2. small local informal group (can not copyright) uses generic typeface (can not be copyrighted) also got deleted: GradOdrasta logo.jpg

Person who did this likely did not understand English or the issues of copyright and logos :-( Zblace (talk) 09:17, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Courtesy links: File:LOGOTIP Udruga Kačić.jpg and File:GradOdrasta logo.jpg, deleted by EugeneZelenko and Túrelio.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:59, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
Thank you! Zblace (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
@Zblace: Per ...   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:18, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
Hey Jeff G. I am answering with cascading inline replies Zblace (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
...COM:EVID, you could have chosen compliant license templates, yet you chose not to.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:18, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I could not too as I am not familiar which license to apply to logos that can not be copyrighted...so it was not a choice. Zblace (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
@Zblace: The minute you registered your account here, 17:23, 17 March 2016 (UTC), we (in the form of community-approved bot Wikimedia Commons Welcome) sent you a welcome message that advised you (among other things) of our licensing policy, help desk, and village pump. Our licensing policy states specifically in part "the following information must be given on the description page, regardless if the license requires it or not:" followed by "The License that applies to the material. This must be done using a copyright tag." All emphasis and links above are in the original. To date, you have yet to post to either our help desk or our village pump asking for help in complying before uploading. You should have done that as soon as you got tired of waiting on IRC. More later.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:40, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
... COM:D, you could have chosen to contact the deleting Admins via ping or by writing on their user talk pages, yet you chose not to.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:18, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I do not know how Admin attention spans, but I assumed (wrongly) that Admins will take a look at the potential reply before deleting. Zblace (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
@Zblace: Well, you know what happens when you assume.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:35, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
... Per instruction on your user talk page, you could have chosen to appeal the deletions at COM:UDR, yet you chose not to.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:18, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I thought that answering with good arguments on the talk page was sufficient. Zblace (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
@Zblace: The file's talk page, possibly. Your user talk page, never. No Admin here has the time necessary to patrol every user talk page they have ever posted on.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:35, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
talk to me OK, but considering that would it not be more logical setup that either all replies automatically ping the account of the person to whose question this reply goes and/or file talk page is the only place where discussion on the file happens (and all involved get automatic pings from there)...Now file is questioned on one place and defendant on other, while held on third place - sorry for saying but this is very counter intuitive and maybe fits some logic of admin work organizing but not something that new users can easily adopt. Zblace (talk) 05:45, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
@Zblace: Which part of "If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion" did you not understand? Also, you didn't ping me.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 06:14, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Can you please mellow down yourself? Nitpicking will not help you.
No Admin here has the time necessary to patrol every user talk page they have ever posted on.

Citation needed. If they can watch every deleted file's talk page, then they should have no problem watching every uploader whose file was deleted. Special:Watchlist can easily handle that. If necessary, they can use CSS to filter out deleted files from their watchlist view.

@Zblace: all replies automatically ping the account of the person to whose question this reply goes As much as I'd like this to be possible, this is not yet coded into the software. I'm gonna look at Phabricator if there's any request about this. So for now, you will have to ping other users by linking their userpage as a workaround. You can see the source code of this discussion for examples. You can also ping other users by linking their userpage on your edit summary too. pandakekok9 06:32, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

... Instead, you chose to come straight here, report the deletions, and insult the deleting Admins.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:18, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I already asked for help also on chat with no replies. I did not know if those accounts are Admins or not - I was upset that I answered both issues and both were ignored with files deleted. Zblace (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
@Zblace: Only Admins (and Stewards and Developers in extraordinary circumstances) are allowed to delete files here.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:35, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
... I don't approve of any of those choices.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:18, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
That is understandable. You should also consider what information was available to me and in which way.
Zblace (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
@Zblace: I have considered it.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:35, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
The general problem with logos is that whether they are o.k. or not, is also dependant from the threshold of originality, which determines copyrightability and varies from country to country.
The specific problem with File:GradOdrasta logo.jpg was a formal one; it simply had no license-template at all, in addition to the sourcing to Facebook, which is a generic trigger for deletion. I've no problem to undelete this file, if Zblace adds a license-template. --Túrelio (talk) 11:23, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
For that I was aware of and this is what I also stated for #2 logo...
2 letters in non-original font does not sound possible... Zblace (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
@Zblace , I've restored the second logo ASAP. Please add an appropriate license-template. Also, please check with the issuing organization whether they have trademarked the logo. If yes, then add {{Trademark}} . --Túrelio (talk) 12:52, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
Túrelio - what to choose when they did not and can not register it as trademark? They are informal initiative. Zblace (talk) 13:31, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
Notices about trademarks are helpful for reusers, but have no real impact on which files Commons hosts. If you are unsure, or think it was never legally registered, don't apply it. --Fæ (talk) 14:06, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I will inform the group and if they do go that way - they can do it themselves. Zblace (talk) 16:31, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
@Zblace: What is "the group"?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:20, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
The informal group that uses this logo. Zblace (talk) 05:45, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Assuming File:LOGOTIP Udruga Kačić.jpg is this one, that seems to be below TOO of the United States. But I'm not sure about Croatia, because there's no mention of TOO on its CRT. pandakekok9 13:15, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I do not know but will ask around. Zblace (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I added the appropriate public domain tag to File:GradOdrasta logo.jpg (seriously, that could've easily been resolved by adding the tag instead of deleting it...). I advise Zblace to use the logo on any Wikimedia wiki whenever possible, because there's the possibility it will get nominated for deletion again if it's left unused. pandakekok9 14:10, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
OK. That is useful advice. I will do so. For me use of both files within Wikidata entries of both organizations felt like it was sufficient for now. I am building a category for it and soon a page on Wikispore for civil society. Thank you! -- Zblace (talk) 16:28, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

IPBE for User:23胡彬

See [8]. (｀・ω・´) (talk) 09:39, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

@-akko: Please display your actual username in your signature to effectively enable pinging and mentioning.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:21, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
In fact, I think this is allowed. "The signature must unambiguously identify the author of a comment and must link to the user page" pointed out that as long as the commenter is clearly identified and there is a link to the user page. zhwiki (w:zh:SIGN), which has a similar policy to commons, also has many signatures like mine, see [9] , You can even see user who use music scores as signatures. So I thought it should be allowed. (｀・ω・´) (talk) 12:12, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
I normally tolerate nitpicking about signatures, since they are usually included in an on-topic reply anyway. But this one, which doesn't contribute anything to the topic at all, should be brought up instead in the user's talk page. Also, I question the rationale that is "effectively enable pinging and mentioning". You will always see the username when you edit the source code no matter how they pipe the user link (well except when they pretend to be another user, which is of course not allowed). So despite their sig, it's not that hard to ping -akko. pandakekok9 12:29, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 Not done as the user has been granted GIPBE, if your IP is locally blocked too and you're not able to edit Commons, then please request again. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 05:28, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Backlog!!

Merry Solstice, everyone! Please take a minute or 20 and work through the backlog at Deletion Nominations where there is stuff from shortly after summer Solstice awaiting attention! Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 00:56, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

  • I wrote before and repeat: There are a couple of dozens of "keep" DRs at August 30 by a colleague who, after several years decided to withdraw their pics. Of course that is impossible. I replied on all those DRs, therefore cannot close them. Any experienced user can close these simple, clear "keep" cases, we should not wait everything from the admins who are quite busy... Thanks. (Note: There was a colleague who used to close many keep DRs, s/he became an admin and now we do not see him or her doing any contribution to DR clean up. :) --E4024 (talk) 01:01, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Could someone please take a look at the contribution history of User:Wubbzyfanlover1? I believe they're adding the wrong copyright tags to their uploaded works. For example, File:Kitty Is Not a Cat.png is a logo for an Australian children's television show. It's a rather simple logo, so idk if it's considered "simple design". But even if it is, I don't think it meets COM:TOO Australia. And also, I'm pretty sure that in any case, this user can't claim copyright on it. Bait30 (talk) pls ping me when you reply 02:55, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

I nominated all of their files for deletion now, except File:Woezel & Pip Logo.png, which I corrected the copyright status, source, and author instead. pandakekok9 03:35, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Internet Archive document bulletinofnatura621vol6

@Fæ: as involved uploader.

The work concerned and derived images in the relevant category, are "copvio", and should ideally be speedy deleted, (It's only at DR because there is no uncontroversial batch process for speedy deletion currently.)

If an administrator or custodian here can speedy the file in the relevant DR, along with other similar group 'copvio' DR's recently filed, it would much appreciated. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:32, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Much appreciated if there was also a process or script developed (for admins/custodians) so that other 'copyvio' volumes (AND the images derived from them) like this can be found, removed and prevented from being re-uploaded based on the IA identifiers concerned. This particular group isn't an isolate example, and as identification is at present being done at the moment by manual review (largely by a few very dedicated users), I cannot be sure that the process is identifying all affected media.

Given the small but growing number of these "copyvio" volumes the IA books harmonization project is finding, I would if it was another uploader have already suggested starting a CCI. However, the uploader (copied in on this discussion) is a highly respected long term contributor and technical expert, and starting a CCI on such a user that has clearly been in acting in good faith, would be highly inappropriate, especially as in a number of instances the problem is to do with incomplete metadata from the archive or source site used, and outside of thier control.

So the direct Administrative action needed :

  1. Speedy deletion of the media already identified as potential copyvio, (such as obvious cases in Category:IA mirror related deletion requests)

Moving forward, longer term actions that are needed are :

  1. A discussion about how to undertake a larger investigation of other relevant Flikr Commons images (And batches thereof), without any prejudice to the uploader(s) concerned, who have acted with more than good faith throughout.
  2. How to implement a 'protection' mechanism, based on IA identifers or related, to prevent accidental re-upload of 'copyvio' volumes or images from them, that have been identified as such.

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:32, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Ref User_talk:Fæ/IA books#harmonization.
For context, the original files were uploaded from Flickr in 2015, and were there on a free license. With the housekeeping project to work out the original PDFs these images are from, a subset of the 2015 upload can be identified as copyvios, others have copyright problems after a more complex assessment of death dates of authors of the original document. It appears that the majority are correctly public domain, and in some cases the PDF might be challenged while the extracted illustrations or photographs within the PDF may actually be out of copyright.
So, it's complicated, but an unplanned benefit of this housekeeping is actually being able to find and analyse these previously unknown issues several years after upload. My recommendation would be to avoid the DR process and instead put those now assessed as (non-controversial) copyright failures in a backlog category instead. In this way we can save volunteer time by only discussing uncertain or controversial cases, like nonobvious cases with pre-1899 non-US publications.
BTW a comparison DR is Commons:Deletion requests/West-Riding Consolidated Naturalists' Society, as there are many examples of Journal runs where the IA metadata only shows the earliest year, and the journal series continues into a copyright-enforcable period. Any set like this is non-controversial based on precedent, more could be added to the 'casebook' DR list at COM:IA books#Exemplar deletion requests. --Fæ (talk) 13:43, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

@Fæ: I am also noting - Commons:Questionable Flickr images, As you say a good majority of the images are in fact " free from restrictions", I didn't feel it appropriate to list IA's Flikr stream there. However, I would strongly recommend an appropriate GLAM contact, has a lengthy conversation with IA about the issues uncovered, because given IA's existing legal troubles, I am convinced they don't want additional ones from journal publishers. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:49, 21 December 2020 (UTC)


Following on from the above comments : Category:Internet Archive (potential copyvio) was created, periodic review of it's contents by admins would be greatly appreciated.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:47, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

The images uploaded Taiwanese users that involves 2D art work may cause new problem on the FOP-Taiwan policy

I have discussed this with Clindberg before coming here. Mostly of Taiwanese users has such problem with images that involves 2D art work. They don't understand what FOP is and they might never even heard about it. If all images of 2D art work should be deleted per the policy on FOP, it would be a widespread disaster to all of Taiwanese users. Because there may be some serious issues with "Not OK for 2D art works on FOP" that are causing Taiwanese users feel complaining about our reason for deletion is unreasonable, even hostile to us. For example, Reke come to my talk page and denounce me as "毀人心血 (which it mean my actions are destroying that Taiwanese users' hard-won photos photographed by themselves)". The weird thing is that I saw many people have done this before and nothing happened. Now I have stopped to submit the photo in order to avoid continuing conflict with Reke. In fact, I realized this problem last year and discussed with Wcam, but he never respond. I must clarify that I did not vandalism anything, nor made any destructive edits. I submitted the photo to COM:DR per the FOP-Taiwan policy. If my actions are as Reke said, it is that I evading the responsibility. Otherwise, I suggest discussing how to modify the policy so that we can effectively prevent others from making the same mistakes as me. The problem is now that Article 58 of the Taiwanese Copyright Act is not clear enough:

  1. Outdoor painting like outdoor wall, temple door, entrance sign, Paifang (one type of Chinese gate), etc, are all public spaces possible?
  2. Indoor painting like temple ceiling, temple indoor wall, MRT station indoor wall, floor of the railway station hall, etc, are all public spaces possible?
  3. Are there other situations that need further discussion such as vehicles, museums, offices (including government agency), advertising, etc?

Besides that, I don't see an any clear answer from previous discussions. I have put all the questions I thinking the above. Can someone help me to modify the FOP-Taiwan policy so that we can keep photos for more people?--Kai3952 (talk) 12:55, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

If this problem is solved then my previous question will be solved as well. Not only that, I can start new work: Create new category and organize existing media such as "Category:Temple doors in Taiwan" and "Category:Temple paintings in Taiwan". Because "Men Shen" is one of the most common deities in Taiwan and is often shown in paintings on the temple door. On the contrary, if the problem is not resolved or no-one discusses it, then it implies that all of images that involves 2D art works should be delete.--Kai3952 (talk) 17:31, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Android 1123581321 block evasion

Android 1410203556. Please block ASAP. HurricaneTracker495 (talk) 15:43, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Nvm, user was glocked.--HurricaneTracker495 (talk) 21:29, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Possible copyvio

Hello. There are some contributions I believe to be mostly copyvio: Special:Contributions/Gewgwegweggre. Could anybody check it? Thanks in advance.--Brunei (talk) 16:43, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

I've deleted a few, and nominated the rest for deletion. Didn't block as the user hasn't been active on any wikis since May. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 03:14, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Girls wearing socks.

Could somebody take a look at File:A girl wearing socks; September 2014 (06).jpg, which aside from being soft-core porn is also link-spam (see the "Image title" field of the Matadata). There's a whole bunch of files with similar names that have similar link spam. RoySmith (talk) 23:24, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Blatant advertising and fails COM:PACKAGING. Nominated for deletion. Should be {{Copyvio}} but I'm tired. Rodhullandemu (talk) 23:34, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Nuked em all. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 02:55, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Peru

I posted a petition about undeletion of File:Carlos Garcia y Garcia.jpg, and @Nat: answered in opposition, the argument was:

I read it and I noticed that works of the government is based on Law 13714 from 1961 which was repealed by Legislative Decree No. 822 in 1996. The current text (Legislative Decree No. 822 ) doesn't say anything about what is written in works of the government.

I posted that explanation in the project page discussion COM:Peru and undeletion of File:Carlos Garcia y Garcia.jpg, then I made corrections on COM:Peru pointing that Law 13714 was repealed and deleted the text which was based on it because it is not currently valid.

However, @Nat: reverted my changes without typing anything in the proper discussion page of COM:Peru. @Nat: wrote in undeletion of File:Carlos Garcia y Garcia.jpg, "that there is no confusion", but @Nat: didn't write any argument. @Nat: just accused me that my changes "suits my needs".

So, I declined my request undeletion so that I am not misunderstood. But, firmly persisted to validate my changes on COM:Peru. However, @Thuresson: protected COM:Peru, I guess that @Nat: ask to do it.

My request undeletion of File:Carlos Garcia y Garcia.jpg was closed (Not done) by @Nat: . Additionally, @Nat: wrote that COM:Peru should not be altered unless there is a change in legislation or a clear and explicit legal opinion by Peru's Copyright Office (INDECOPI) on copyright status of government works.

However, as I stated in the discussion page of COM:Peru, the government webpage of INDECOPI lists the laws that are in force, among them the Law 13714 is not found, with this it is clear that INDECOPI has ruled that it does not recognize its validity.

There is a problem because I pointed out my position about the errors in COM:Peru and correct it, but @Nat: revert it without any argument, abusing his/her position. I ask here if there is any punishment for it.

I consider that is not convenient that foreigners make inferences and conclusions about Peruvian laws, thus generating confusion. If something about Peruvian law needs to be discussed, it would be advisable to be done among the Peruvians.
Jjrt (talk) 05:35, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

The page Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Peru has been protected from editing for 24 hours. I see no no reason to remove this now. Peruvian citizens as well as anybody else can discuss future edits at the talk page. Thuresson (talk) 09:18, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Report block evasion of Payalsingh1 / Khojinindia (2)

Navneetsinghc (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

User is a sock of Payalsingh1. See CA--CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 15:24, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked by Elcobbola and globally locked by Tks4Fish. -- CptViraj (talk) 18:42, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js behaves weirdly

After changing existing category (or adding sorting key to it, to be more precise), gadget displays additional buttons (highlighted): Category (++) (++): Russian pronunciation (−) (±) (↓) (↑) (−) (±) (↓) (↑)(+)(+). --EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:02, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Ancient Greek Main Page

Hello! I created the main page for the ancient greek language at Κυρία Δέλτος. Could you please add Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνική) to the Template:Lang-mp after galego and before ગુજરાતી? PastelKos (talk) 16:43, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

 Support, with COM:FILTERT#Report by PastelKos as background.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:56, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done, please use {{Edit request}} from next time. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 18:32, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Name of Ancient Greek

Hello! I am really sorry for bothering you again. I don't know where to post this so excuse me if this is not the appropriate place, but why is Ancient Greek rendered as "Ἀρχαία Ἑλληνική"; Ἀρχαία means ancient and it doesn't make sence for the Ancient Greeks to call their language ancient. It would be like if Old English was rendered as Eald Ænglisc instead of Ænglisc. It should be changed just to Ἑλληνική. The rough breathing diacritic and the different suffix is enough to distinguish it from Ελληνικά. Again, sorry if this isn't the appropriate space to post this complain. PastelKos (talk) 20:08, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

rev del request

Edit summary. sensitive infoDeepfriedokra (talk) 04:20, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

@Deepfriedokra: ✓ Done, also hid the logs. -- CptViraj (talk) 07:12, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Persistent border changing (edit warring), even after source provided

Hi, I'd like to report that User:M.Bitton is constantly reverting an edit for this file, (map regarding CIA flights), even after I provided a reliable source from the CIA itself. Please let him know that his reverts are destructive and that Commons and other Wiki pages are about facts/neutral positions, not baseless POV's. Thanks - EdDakhla (talk)

 Not done I see only two reverts, one of which was after you posted here. Please attempt to resolve disputes on talk pages before you ask for administrator intervention. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:06, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

As you can see, he was the one actually threatening admin intervention (in one of the revert descriptions), unwilling to resolve this thru a talk page but rather get an admin he frequently relies on (Christian Ferrer I believe) to defile maps of Morocco/Western Sahara and potentially get me blocked. I have a sourced change with a reliable source, there's no reason for him to go and revert it just because his POV didn't like it. He will go to his favorite admin Christian Ferrer, who's views regarding this dispute are parallel to his, to antagonize me like I'm the one who's being disruptive and started an edit war. I know he will accuse me for editing based on my "baseless POV" but the fact is if I wanted to, then I would have just changed the many maps of Morocco that cut Western Sahara to include it, but I will not do that because that would be a violation of Common's terms and guidelines. So the change I made to the file regarding the CIA has nothing to do with my POV but the CIA itself. I respectfully ask again, please do something about this editor's disruptive reverting and additionally review his contributions to get an idea of exactly what I am talking about. Thanks - EdDakhla (talk)

1. You are supposed to notify the concerned editors, especially when casting aspersions on them. I will do that for you and ping Christian Ferrer.
2. I have a very good reason reason for reverting your upload, which is explained in details in COM:OVERWRITE. The image in question, which has been stable for the past 4 years, is about an event that took place years ago and is based on a 2008 source, therefore, there is no valid reason for you to change it, let alone engage in an upload war.
3. You claim not to have changed the many maps of Morocco, yet, that's exactly what you did to the Morocco Commons article. You replaced the following three images [10][11][12] with the new ones that you uploaded [13][14][15]. This undiscussed and unwarranted change should be reverted.
4. Since we're here, I will take this opportunity to ping koavf and Jeff G. since both editors have been dealing with you on a related issue. Maybe you can explain to them why you removed the deletion tag. M.Bitton (talk) 14:45, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
  • @EdDakhla: M.Bitton is right, COM:OVERWRITE prevent you to change the meaning of an old and used map. There is room for different point of views and we accept the Moroccan maps with and without the Western Sahara included. Do stop reinstalling your version on File:CIA illegal flights.svg, note that I placed this map on my watchlist, and also you must not do the potentially the same thing on other Morrocan maps. If you persist despite every one say you not to do it, then you may be blocked. Note that as this kind of issue with Morrocan maps is not the first time, I made a request to Check Users. Christian Ferrer (talk) 16:36, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Christian Ferrer, apologies for the potentially disruptive edits that I may have made, as I now understand that as full time Wiki and Commons contributors, you're simply just doing your job. I've only recently got into making contributions on Wikipedia and Commons, as I saw it as doing something constructive in my spare time, I'm still a little new to this. Clearly I need to familiarize myself a little more with the rules and guidelines of Commons before making another contribution again. As for this article that M.Bitton previously brought up, I've removed the biased maps/projection I previously uploaded and replaced them with reliable (neutral), non-POV maps by verified editors. Thanks - EdDakhla (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 21:56, 27 December 2020‎ (UTC)

EdDakhla

Started the above section and removed a deletion tag without notification or sufficient basis.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:09, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

He has also explicitly stated that he will not follow consensus (i.e. if a file is deleted, he will just reupload it anyway). This merits a stern talking to at least. (Thanks, User:M.Bitton.) —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:55, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
It might also be a good idea to review the files uploaded by EdDakhla. F.ex one of the files mentioned by M.Bitton, File:Morocco Topography.svg is clearly not own work and is presumably derivative work of File:Morocco Topography.png? Same goes for f.ex File:Morocco Satellite View.png which is unnlikely to be "own work". I haven't done any further review than a quick cursory glance through his uploads, so there may be more. TommyG (talk) 16:52, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Now these allegations are getting out of control (I was right in predicting I would be antagonized) but not potentially ganged up by a group of other editors/admins. As for File:Morocco Topography.svg, you are correct it is a derived file, but File:Morocco Satellite View.png is 100% my own work. I used to snipping tool to screenshot a view from Google Earth, then added country border and removed background using Paint3D application on Windows. I will also include that alleging me to be another editor (Taha Khattabi who was blocked for disruptive reverting) counts as personal attacks, as I see that editor was also using inappropriate language on Christian Ferrer’s talk page to attack M.Bitton. Per Common’s guidelines, I will refrain from reverting the CIA flight map file, as requested, for the time being. As for the files I have uploaded, please try not to do any biased destructive actions and for (the derived files), fix whatever needs to be fixed like citing them correctly, rather than having to delete my work, as I am still new to this. EdDakhla —Preceding undated comment was added at 17:26, 27 December 2020‎ EdDakhla (UTC)

@EdDakhla: I tagged File:Morocco Satellite View.png as a copyvio because it was "Taken from Google Earth". Please read COM:DW and COM:L.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 22:14, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
I have reviewed File:Morocco Topography.svg. It's just a bitmap copy of File:Morocco Topography.png that has been dumped into the SVG frame, so not a true vector image. De728631 (talk) 22:54, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

History split

Please can someone split the history of File:Heritage Engine at Valsad.jpg in order to rescue the over-written image? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:22, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:18, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism in file currently used on en-wiki main page

Hi, if any Commons admins are around, please could you remove the line of vandalism from File:Louie-Nunn.jpg, which was inserted here? The image is currently used on the en-wiki main page and is therefore protected on Commons, so I can't fix this myself. Amakuru (talk) 16:44, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

@Amakuru: ✓ Done, Thanks for reporting. -- CptViraj (talk) 17:03, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry, abusively using multiple accounts

Othayoth shankaran and Kalangot are the same person abusively using multiple accounts. Othayoth has been repeatedly uploading copyright violated images [16], including a $65,000 priced painting as his own work in public domain. English Wikipedia has already identified sockpuppetry, both these accounts belongs to Adhithya Kiran Chekavar (see Kalangot), Othayoth shankaran was indeffed for WP:NOTHERE and behavioral issue, he is also a sock of Adhithya Kiran Chekavar, evidences can be seen at the SPI and the CU result is "likely". I got additional evidence on my own investigation, see this edit, if you open that reference it's a self-published manual written by "Adhithya Kiran", who is User:Adhithya Kiran Chekavar. At commons, both have uploaded image and title with same content Othayoth, Kalangot.

Additionally, Vvian980 is also the same user. Both Vvian980 and Othayoth uploaded the same [17],[18] on the same date (6 October 2020) and both uploaded the same $65,000 priced painting of Unniyarcha with the same deceptive rationale - [19],[20] (there was also a sock Unniyarcha in En.Wikipedia). 157.44.211.16 07:29, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Ssmdoc and non-free image publication

Ssmdoc has been publishing a glut of non-free images the user claims are their own work when that is clearly not the case. The first type of images are logos and symbols the user claims represent official organizations and colleges. These images include:

Secondly, the user has uploaded images (such as File:Red Building SSMC.jpg) scraped from a Facebook page and edited to remove the overlay text, as my enhancement can show.

Thirdly, the user I believe to be a sock (see en-wiki SPI case) of an account banned for posting uncited, purely promotional content on related facebook pages, such as . Given these factors, I believe the user should be indefinitely banned and all uploads deleted for copyright violations. Gwennie-nyan (talk) 01:08, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Inter-wiki Update User and related socks have been blocked and tagged as such on en-wiki by the admins there, see aforelinked SPI. Gwennie-nyan (talk) 10:53, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Question about protection

Hi, I would need a little light. Sorry for my potential incompetence but I don't understand one thing, I semi-protected some files to prevent such kind of endless reversion war when made by unconfirmed users, but it is a fact that the protection did not prevent the edition. Why? Christian Ferrer (talk) 19:33, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

C'est parce que tu as semi-protégé, c'est-à-dire une protection qui empêche seulement les modifications par les utilisateurs non enregistrés et les nouveaux comptes enregistrés depuis moins de quatre jours. Les autres utilisateurs peuvent modifier. -- Asclepias (talk) 19:53, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
Yes thanks you it seems that I confused autopatrol and autoconfirmed, the semi protection don't work against the users that don't have autopatrol right but are autoconfirmed, thing that is automatic quite quickly. A pity, IMO the possibility of a protection against users without rights should exist. But well ok. Thanks you. Christian Ferrer (talk) 20:10, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Revision delete File:Shanghai highway network.svg

May an admin please assist (or provide guidance on what to do) to delete a specific revision of this file? I uploaded a revision of the svg file that accidentally contained a hidden layer which has a copyrighted image. My guess is this revision should probably be removed (even though no hint of it is shown because it is not a visible layer). The revision date/time is 19:51, 29 December 2020 and the file dimensions is 963 × 1,163 (1.58 MB).

By the way I tagged it with Template:Overwritten revdel but not sure if that's supposed to be used for my case. It also looks like there's quite a few images with this tag in the commons category (Category:Overwritten files requiring revision deletion) that haven't been cleaned up for several months, so I don't know if anyone regularly checks it. Thanks. Heights (talk) 20:21, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done That version has been revdel'ed. By the way, Template:Overwritten revdel is for revisions that are totally unrelated to the previous content, i.e. "true" overwriting. De728631 (talk) 21:15, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
Thank you! Heights (talk) 21:18, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Please help with moving Category:Berivan Arın

The category name is clearly wrong based on Google search results. The most known name for this person is Berîvan Arîn or Berivan Arin both of which are perfectly fine for me but the original creator of the category, @E4024, with whom I tried to communicate with on the talk page insists that her name in her national ID is Berivan Arın while providing no sources for that. Can an admin move the Category to either Category:Berîvan Arîn or Category:Berivan Arin, if I do this I know he will try to revert my edits while calling me Kurdish SPA [21] (I haven't even figured out what that means, yet). Thank you. BTW He has reported my edit on Wikidata where I provided valid citations for her last name--Balyozxane (talk) 22:58, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Please notify the user on their talk page next time, per the top of the AN page “Notify the user(s) concerned. {{subst:Discussion-notice|noticeboard=COM:AN|thread=|reason=}} is available for this.” Bidgee (talk) 23:32, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
@Bidgee: I wasn't sure how to use the template. Now I have. Thank you--Balyozxane (talk) 23:39, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
Ping: @E4024. I even think that what he writes can cause his blockage. Knowing that he is less watched here, he continues what he did on wikipedia here. Always blaming others for what he does himself, I once pointed out to him that he should focus on the subject and not on users but he continues... A little reminder: cross-wiki on Kurdish and Armenian Genocide articles: [22] (es), [23] (en), [24] (fr) and on ca.wikipedia ([25] and [26]).--Ghybu (talk) 23:40, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
I never respond to complaints about myself, but as you come here with a list prepared from several years back... You deserve an answer. As you said "focus on the subject and not on users". If it will make you happy to see me out of Commons then it is easier to call in other users who may have same concerns with you people (as regards contributions of both) and get me blocked. Sorry, what was the issue? Moving a cat? Just like the two from Catalan WP that you refer to above, from three years behind? People who know me better already know/imagine I am right on not letting the said user make arbitrary changes. That is the important thing for me. (The trust of people who look into the work and not the worker.) As for the case that is supposed to be discussed here (not me I guess), look into "reliable sources" and do what they say. This is my point on this discussion. Sorry, it is year-end. Peace time. Please do not ping me again. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. E4024 (talk) 00:24, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Stop playing the victim, your behavior betrays you. Unfortunately I think you are trying to make yourself indispensable by the number of contributions and take the opportunity to place your Turkish POV. Administrators or users who see this pretend not to see so as not to lose a big contributor: so don't be afraid, nothing will happen to you :) Unfortunately this is a problem that concerns all wikis...--Ghybu (talk) 00:58, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Yeah, thank you for your time. I've found out her real name is Berivan Utkun, she uses Berîvan Arîn as her alias and I'll create a simple rename discussion. The said user will be fine with this I think.--Balyozxane (talk) 01:34, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
It is impossible to have a year end in peace! Now you are telling us you made all the fuss without making a search beforehand... Please use your time also on the Turkish Civil Law, about how and when women of Turkey take and leave surnames. It will help you in your next crusade. E4024 (talk) 01:42, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
OMG The nerve on this guy! What about you? We were only supposed to change a single letter but noooo you gotta have your own way citing a single newspaper while refusing all the other valid newspapers both Turkish, Kurdish, EU Funded and whatever just because of your nationalistic sentiments. Why didn't you make a search before opposing to the most well-known use of her name? She never uses her real name except for her candidacy as a politican. Do you know how much I had to dig through to find these information? I still support her alias as the main name since we use aliases for everyone when the alias is better known than the formal name. I'm doing this just to appease you--Balyozxane (talk) 01:55, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Also the implication that you're saying she is/was married that's why her name is changed is unsourced. You can't find any information about her last name anywhere except for those I've found about. If you do, please show me I'll never ever oppose anything you write or say. --Balyozxane (talk) 02:02, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
  • Just to be perfectly clear. I found her video clip [27] which says her name is Berivan Arîn so I will make the request for change to Berivan Arîn.--Balyozxane (talk) 02:53, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
    • Mynet video? How funny! Hoh hoh ho... :) Let alone not using your above "Berivan Arîn" (but "berivan arin") only a bit downwards it says "berivan arın". You will either learn what "reliable sources" means or will have problems here and in WPs. You and your friend hurried a lot to make POV changes. This is not finished. E4024 (talk) 03:23, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
What? You didn't even watched the video? Seriously? Go to 0:13 to see her name. --Balyozxane (talk) 03:30, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Your sad or funny experience here shows you are good at finding reliable sources. Next time use your own blog as a source. Hoh hoh hooo... :) E4024 (talk) 03:33, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
This is just personal attack at this point and I will let other people decide. I'm done with this (non)discussion --Balyozxane (talk) 03:37, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Lesson of the day: Next time do not bring to such a board a regular discussion, or at least stop and go away when an experienced user like Ricky81682 tells you to. Now making the victim (I remember these words...) and claiming personal attack etc are in vain. It is Christmas time and I hear hoh hoh ho everywhere... BTW I remember telling you something about civilized discussions, when I first saw you in Commons. Make it a New Year's wish. I will always be around for civilized discussions. Again Happy New Year to all. E4024 (talk) 03:50, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

User:Bossanoven and Category:People excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church

This is ... weird. 10 days ago User:Bossanoven added Category:People excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church to Category:Tina Fey.[28] Tina Fey is an American actress, and her EN Wikipedia article doesn't say anything about her being excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church, it doesn't even say that she is Catholic. So I decided I would ask Bossanoven about this on their talk page: User_talk:Bossanoven#Tina_Fey_excommunicated?. After not getting any response for 24 hours, I reverted. Today, still without any response on their talk page, Bossanoven again added that category to Tina Fey. In addition, they added this category to Category:Barry Bonds, an American baseball player whose EN article again doesn't mention this, and isn't even clear that he is Catholic (though at least it says he got his marriage annulled by the church, so he may be), and to Category:Steven Spielberg; from his article, American film director Steven Spielberg is almost certainly not Catholic, having been brought up Jewish before becoming less religious. I said as much on Bossanoven's talk page, reverted all three. Bossanoven again didn't say anything, but again added all three. (Then there is that Bossanoven added Category:Jewish people to a picture of Juanita Spinelli, whose article again doesn't say she was Jewish, that may or may not be related.[29]) Time for an admin to come in and settle the matter. Help! --GRuban (talk) 02:45, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Between this bizarre edit warring and the continual uploading of copyvios, I'm inclined to block if they don't agree to stop. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 03:16, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, don't quite understand - should I revert all those edits yet again, and you will do something if they revert again? Back on EN Wikipedia, administrators would try to avoid that kind of edit war. Or are you going to do something right now? --GRuban (talk)
@GRuban: I reverted them for you and warned the user.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:20, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
@Bossanoven: Exactly whom at the Catholic Church should we contact to verify these excommunications, and how may we reach them? Where are they documented? How did you find out about them?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:13, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
@Pi.1415926535: They continue edit warring, and doubled down with a personal attack in this edit.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:18, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
I have blocked them for one month based on that absolutely unacceptable comment. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:00, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
I just want to point out that the user is blocked indef. on enwp as a suspected LTA sock. Something to keep an eye on perhaps @Jeff G. and Pi.1415926535: . --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 23:28, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
@Josve05a and Pi.1415926535: See also m:srg#Global lock for Bossanoven, now locked.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:55, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Wow, that certainly escalated. Thank you administrators! --GRuban (talk) 19:41, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Thank you all!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:33, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Any Kurdish WP admins around?

I was working on Yeşim Salkım and noticed she has 2 (two) articles on Kurdish Wikipedia, one with her real, normal name, and the other with her name manipulated for some reason. In Azeri and Arabic WPs they also change some Turkish names like Mehmet to Memmed or Ahmet to Ahmed but in the end they only write one article per person and they do the same for all people irrespective of country. For example in Az:WP James is "Ceyms" and Jamie is "Ceymi", just as they are pronounced. Whatever, if there is somebody here with some buttons in that WP, please merge the two, hopefully as "Yeşim Salkım". Thanks. --E4024 (talk) 02:10, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Per Commons:List of administrators by language, we don't have any native Kurdish admins. Also Kurdish Wikipedia (kuwiki) has only 2 admins, so maybe contact one of then on their TP or post a request on their AN. -- CptViraj (talk) 05:45, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, Cappy. One of our colleagues here took the initiative immediately but did not deign to answer. I thank them. I hope we may have a better 2021. Happy New Year. E4024 (talk) 10:52, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
I hope the same. Happy New Year :) -- CptViraj (talk) 10:58, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

A clearer disallow message for abuse filter 153

What I've noticed in Commons talk:Abuse filter is that those who report from filter 153 always report almost with the same rationale for why their file is okay to upload here. That they took the photo, or they couldn't understand why it's unconstructive. It seems clear that they are totally ignoring and don't bother to read the first warning they received from the filter and just report after they get the disallow message. This confuses them, because the disallow message wasn't designed for uploads. If I were a newbie with a small attention span, I'd be confused why this site is considering my upload unconstructive. So I propose changing the disallow message used by the cross-wiki filter to the one I made. The new message repeats the message from the first warning, except that now it is in a red background, which will most likely make users pay attention to the message carefully. It also makes clear that copyright violations are not allowed, and gives tips on how to circumvent the filter. I'd like to hear what you guys think before it gets moved to the MediaWiki namespace. Thanks, pandakekok9 08:02, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

 Support, MediaWiki:Abusefilter-disallowed is too generic for Special:AbuseFilter/153.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:35, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Resign everything

Could you please change Special:UserRights/Roy17 to only autopatrolled with immediate effect? Thanks!--Roy17 (talk) 08:16, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 08:19, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
@Roy17: Thank you for your service.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:35, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
@Roy17: Sorry to see you go. Hope you come back in the future Gbawden (talk) 16:35, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
@Roy17: Oh! sorry to see you're leaving. Hope to see you back soon. In the meantime, enjoy the start of 2021! Lotje (talk) 16:42, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Edit restriction

As mentioned by GreenMeansGo on Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems/Archive 88#Editing restriction review, the edit restriction ban has been expired since 00:00 UTC 1 January 2021. After that, no formal restriction is in effect. I need to report the issue here to see if someone wish to review my nomination. Also pinging @King of Hearts: as the banning admin. --A1Cafel (talk) 02:28, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Some Backlogs

Hi, the subcats of

waiting to get processed since weeks. In the past I processed them once a week. But currently I have other priorities. Help by other admin(s) would be nice. Thx. --JuTa 09:27, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:AB and KK at Refugee premiere.jpeg

Can anyone close this DR? I think there is already a clear consensus to promote deletion. -akko (talk) 00:07, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 17:35, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Belated DR

Dear Admins, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Fancy sandals.png is open since four months. The uploader/nominator seems to be tired of waiting and opening the DR "again", while it is not yet closed. If deletion of this file is so passionately wanted by the user, you can disregard my keep vote expressed months ago. Please have a look at this DR; it should not be a complicated case. Thx. --E4024 (talk) 00:54, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done by pandakekok9 Gbawden (talk) 07:29, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

DR close request

Can an admin take a look at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bella Myat Thiri Lwin.jpg and close it one way or the other? It has been open since May 2020 and is unlikely going to receive any additional !votes or comments. — Marchjuly (talk) 08:57, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Gbawden (talk) 07:30, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
Thank you Gbawden. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:17, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

File:Тихомир Станић.jpeg

Version of File:Тихомир Станић.jpeg uploaded on 3 January 2021, should be deleted as copyvio. I don't see other way to nominate this for deletion. --Smooth O (talk) 16:56, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 17:09, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Template:Selfie

Can someone please evaluate the technical and procedural aspects of Template:Selfie? I come across it in a file page, where it transcluded the usual two buttons for replacement with a DR or outright dismissal, which I used to find that nothing happened (and my carefully worded rationale lost in the digital æther). Maybe Template:SD should not be transcluded like this? -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 17:11, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

File:Tuğba Şenoğlu 17 Vakıfbank SK TWVL 20180426 (2).jpg

I deleted this file to split the version history, and now I am unable to restore the file. The previous upload of the file was moved to File:Tuğba Şenoğlu 17 Vakıfbank SK TWVL 20180426 (3).jpg, but I would like to have the current version restored. I am getting the error Error undeleting file: The file "mwstore://local-multiwrite/local-public/8/8a/Tuğba_Şenoğlu_17_Vakıfbank_SK_TWVL_20180426_(2).jpg" is in an inconsistent state within the internal storage backends. Can someone help? --Sreejith K (talk) 21:38, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

@Sreejithk2000: See phab:T244567. --Minoraxtalk 22:56, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Thank you. Somehow, restoring the file worked today, so others, please ignore. --Sreejith K (talk) 04:21, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
She is alright but look at the hands of Simge Şebnem Aköz and Ezgi Dilik: what happened to them? --E4024 (talk) 01:37, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Normal? --E4024 (talk) 01:39, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Can you refresh your cache and check again? --Sreejith K (talk) 15:44, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Spambot

Special:Contributions/Technicalenginee. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:13, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him/her indefinitely. Taivo (talk) 13:43, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

File:Strikes at the Louvre Pyramid 1.jpg

Please hide the two older versions as showing too much of the still-copyrighted Louvre Pyramid per Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Louvre Pyramid#Files in Category:Louvre Pyramid 17.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:02, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 05:23, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
@Nat: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:30, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

IP vandal 197.253.203.22

Special:Contributions/197.253.203.22 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:36, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Warned. -- CptViraj (talk) 10:29, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

delete version of image

The version from 13:58, 4. Jan. 2021 of File:Maria Doyle Kennedy 2014 crop.jpg should be deleted, as there is no permission for that picture given. Also this is a different picture and shouldn't be added as new version to begin with.--CennoxX (talk) 14:17, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Already done by Turelio--Ymblanter (talk) 20:33, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Seeking to avoid deletion by overwriting

Special:Contributions/Die Schreiber - seeks to avoid deletion by uploading different image and copying summary from another file for the second time. -- MaxxL - talk 15:44, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Rights

Please could we get some admin attention at Commons:Requests for rights#AutoWikiBrowser access? --ZabeMath (talk) 22:29, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 22:52, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Category:Illogical information in Arabic Wikipedia

Hello, I want to ask about:

As all files on those Categories are screenshots from Arabic Wikipedia pages, and created/uploaded by same user (User:ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2). Of course, like any content on Wikipedia, it has changed over the years, and many of the screenshots above have changed, and there is no explanation on what grounds this information was considered illogical. I have not dealt with these files directly to avoid any potential conflict, as Arabic Wikipedia is my homewiki. Thanks on advance --Alaa :)..! 11:00, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done All nominated for deletion Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Illogical information in Arabic Wikipedia. The first two category should be deleted when emptied, but the last one can remain if filled with valid content. 4nn1l2 (talk) 13:19, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
I was just going to mention that. We must have "things" in Category:Criticism of Wikipedia; if we are really objective and politically correct, I would even not mind "otherwise problematic" files like screenshots or newspaper clippings to be placed there. If there is nothing in there people will think we protect the place because it is part of the community. In any WP, including Turkish, English, Catalan, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese etc that I have contributed now and then, and continue to contribute in some there are things to criticise. We must find a way to show that "visually". I will give examples: For instance, DE:WP is trying to invent a kind of "nationality" over Alevite people (from my country, Turkey). They make their articles -in general- only referring to the person in question as "Alavite" and in cases adding only the cat "Turks"; will ordinary readers notice cats or think Alevites are a "separate people"? Shall they notice that the said WP -IMHO of course- is making some sort of "social engineering"? In case people help me to find out how we can "illustrate" such acts of WPs in Commons I will give other examples. Let me go to find one from EN:WP that I had mentioned in Commons. Be back in a minute. --E4024 (talk) 13:36, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Here:Bedros Kapamajian. To see the "grave problem" in the article please read carefully Commons:Deletion requests/File:Canadian Armenians protesting in front of the Peace Tower of the Canadian Parliament.jpg. If you spend some time around that WP article you will see how and "why" it was tried to be deleted (OK let me be clear: to hide historical facts). For some reason no-one added the "assassination" fact there until now, although I attracted attention to this back in September. Nobody that reads me also edits in EN:WP or we are not interested with "Armenian people assassinated by other Armenian people"? probably some of us (I mean in EN:WP, where I was thrown out from :) are only interested in "Armenian people assassinated by x, y or z-nationality people". I am interested in anybody and everybody assassinated by anybody. All those people merit respect to their memories. best regards to "anybody" who may have read my words. --E4024 (talk) 13:49, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
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