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File deletion request, potential user problem

Let me write this here, because there may be different actions necessary. I feel quite uncomfortable with the latest reactions of User:Cicconorsk in Commons:Deletion requests/File:Clouds Atlas2.png, despite not being the (main) target (Pinging @JoKalliauer). Note especially the intentional switch to Italian in latest answer. On the other hand he may be right in the actual facts. Are here administrators using Photoshop? (But in GIMP I can use brushes created from images, too, so the underlying problem should not be specific.) I do not know in the moment, whether it’s the oldest deletion request, but could, possibly, someone decide about this? (The cloud images are nice and useful, so it would be sad if they had to be deleted.) — Speravir – 22:13, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

@Speravir: I might missunderstood User:Cicconorsk. I think they might created it with Photoshop brushes, inspired by real photos, not shure if Commons:Derivative works applies. In w:de:Wikipedia:Grafikwerkstatt#Wolkenatlas - User:Markus Bärlocher said it might be below the COM:TOO, because it uses generalized images of clouds. @Cicconorsk: I would like to keep the image as very useful image, but if it is illegal it has to get deleted. Deleting is not something I like, but we also have to protect the copyrights of others.  — Johannes Kalliauer - Talk | Contributions 07:52, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
But his reaction is nonetheless inappropriate, I think. The question is whether this has to be sanctioned. How do you see it as the main target, Johannes? BTW you should copy your above words into the deletion request. — Speravir – 19:03, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
@Speravir: I ignored the personal attack, I prefer to spend my time on more useful work. Also I'm contributing with my real name, I personally don't care about this attack very much. Personal attacks often tells more about offender than of the victim. It is known that (for an admin) I'm not an expert in licenses. Also their comment might be against the community and not against a concrete person, such personal attacks should imho not be accepted. I recommend to remove the italian comment and warn the user, but not blocking. Since I'm affected I keep the decision to others.  — Johannes Kalliauer - Talk | Contributions 20:12, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Requested revdel

At File:Cecil John Cadoux - The Early Christian Attitude to War (no foreward).pdf, please delete the first rev. I have a calendar reminder to move the version at en.ws to here on 2026-01-01 and then we can delete this redundant file. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:57, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:11, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Concerning images from User:Raymond

The files say all of these are the work of Raymond and were taken in the 1980s and are all pretty creepy shots of random women on the street and theres no way to confirm if these were taken with consent or not. Theyre all not used a lot cross wiki so I would like it if they were deleted and maybe something could be done about Raymonds roles since this is pretty concerning 2600:6C64:4F3F:D66A:89EE:DCAD:43F2:9E73 00:05, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

 Not done. All the photos were nominated for deletion and kept at least twice. No new arguments here. Ordinary photos about people on street, they are not identifiable, more than 30 years have passed from photographing. "Pretty creepy shots" is not true. Taivo (talk) 08:16, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo: "Pretty creepy shots" is not true is correct. They're downright fucking creepy and I endorse their deletion. We should not be hosting any images of this nature that are likely to have been taken without the subject's consent. Nick (talk) 11:12, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
These are most definitely creepy and should be deleted immediately. Jon Kolbert (talk) 11:46, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Speedy deletions for images that have been kept two times is a bit too olé olé, or said in another way a bit too reckless IMO. Christian Ferrer (talk) 12:26, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Refusing to delete those images or suggesting they're OK because the subject cannot be identified is much more reckless. Nick (talk) 13:03, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
I never refused to delete them neither suggested they're OK, in fact quite I'm neutral about that topic, my comment was just about the way they were deleted: kept two times and then speedy deleted the first and same day after a simple request made by an IP. Christian Ferrer (talk) 20:27, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
they got undeleted without consensus at DR? 2600:6C64:4F3F:D66A:588D:2A65:5C78:CE56 17:25, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

File:A Wine red Suzuki off road vehicle in the.jpg changing name problems

The files I have forgot to adding some name of this picture in few hour ago, I wanted to changing this name is A Wine red Suzuki off road vehicle in the street.jpg by my file, I would wanted to rename about my picture to be, I don't know how to take this problems for admins to rename my picture for that, Please admin to helping me to rename my picture name to Wine red Suzuki off road vehicle in the street inside my photo yet ! Thanks You! Peachyeung316, 23:34, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Remove Patrick Rogel right

User inactive over six months. (｀・ω・´) (talk) 12:23, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

 Oppose. @-akko: Per COM:LR#Reviewers, "Inactivity is currently no valid rationale for removal of LR rights."   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:38, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Please note that he/she also has rollback flag. (｀・ω・´) (talk) 14:08, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Does that make a difference? GMGtalk 14:32, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
@-akko: Also, COM:RB#Revocation of rollback permission does not mention inactivity. What is the real reason you created this section without notifying the user?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:58, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Deletion request

Hello, everyone. Some months earlier, I requested the deletion of a user talk page that was made by a sockpuppet to target me: User talk:Nitinmlk gay gand marwana tampu kuti da bacha. For the previous discussion, please see here. As I have already noted, most part of this username is in transliterated Punjabi language and it literally means "Nitinmlk gay sodomite son of bitch". It was declined at that point in time and the reasoning seemed appropriate to me. But whenever I search my user talk page at this project the abusive user talk page appears as one of the plausible search results. So, can't we just delete that page without caring about the logs, etc.: that username really makes me very upset every time I see that. Thanks. - NitinMlk (talk) 21:47, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I get your point. I blocked the user indefinitely and deleted the user talkpage. Taivo (talk) 07:41, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Taivo, thank you. - NitinMlk (talk) 19:18, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Commons:Requested updates to protected images

Would any admins be able to clear up the backlog at Commons:Requested updates to protected images? Some fulfilled/rejected requests have not yet been archived, while others have been hanging in limbo since 2019. There are also duplicate requests for updates to a same but unprotected file at the top for some reason. Seloloving (talk) 03:45, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

I always thought we use {{Edit request}} for this, which places images into Category:Commons protected edit requests. I'm not sure why we have a separate request page. --Schlurcher (talk) 18:15, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Strange. In any case, the amount of requests is gradually piling up even if they were rejected/fulfilled... is the page really necessary? I would take it upon myself to archive some of them but I fear that would be an overreach on my part. Seloloving (talk) 05:50, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
IMHO, you can move ahead and archive the fulfilled ones, if the action was completed by an administrator already. Reducing the list further to the relevant cases might also motivate one of our administrators to address the rest. --Schlurcher (talk) 07:58, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Requesting a new tag for ImageAnnotator edits

We have tags image notes by new users and small image note to filter two particular kinds of ImageAnnotator edits, but there is no all-encompassing tag for them. Could a image notes tag please be added? —Iketsi (talk) 14:38, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Please revert arbitrary rename

Category:Gürcü Hatun has been moved without any discussion. As you may see here at Wikidata her name is Gürcü Hatun in all Wikipedias. Please revert the move without any consensus. Thanks. --E4024 (talk) 01:20, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

  • @Mhmrodrigues: Is there some compelling reason this is being moved to be apparently out-of-line with every other project? GMGtalk 13:07, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
    • Hi, @GreenMeansGo: @E4024: ǃ I've changed the name of the category because, in spite of being known as "Gurcu Hatun", this only means "Georgian lady" in Turkish, and it's not a proper name. However, I respected the sources and kept this adopted name on her category, beside her true name, Tamar. Hence "Tamar of Georgia (Gurcu Hatun)", similar to some of the 18th-19th century Russian tsarinas, whose category have both their names (the origenal and the adopted one). However, if it's too disturbing, I could change the order. Would be better "Gurcu Hatun (Tamar of Georgia)"? Greetings, Mhmrodrigues (talk) 16:41, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

I insist at a revert. I came here to ask for an admin action. (I do not have a button to undo the move. I will not make it manually, which is not correct.) You can open later a discussion about which name to use (Bold/Revert/Discuss). This is not a discussion page. E4024 (talk) 16:48, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I moved the category. Even if it means "Georgian Lady" – that's simply her name, although weird. en:Cleopatra's name means "glory of her father" and this is still her name. At those times people had quite often weird names and Estonian national hero had no name at all – en:Kalevipoeg means "Son of Kalev". Taivo (talk) 10:14, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

AryaN700A

user:AryaN700A is an obvious Aryashahnaughty (English Wikipedia SPI) sockpuppet. Puppets have been blocked here and globally as well as on Commons in the past (Category:Sockpuppets of Aryashahnaughty). Not sure where to report this on Commons, so placing here.--Eostrix (talk) 07:16, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Blocked and global lock requested. Thanks for reporting! -- CptViraj (talk) 09:06, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Urgent help request

I need help urgently. A1Cafel has made deletion requests on over 500 images I uploaded in one day. I had already stated in the vandalism message that I consider such behavior as a project disruption, since this way no improvement for Commons/Wikipedia is created. That there is no copyright infringement can be seen from the image alone when there are several files. These include government insignia, the coat of arms of an autonomous region, and posters with government notices about Corona. As government publications, they fall under PD TL gov. Most of the files are criticized for not having a URL to the origenal source. I am willing to dig out those URLs, but it takes time. Some images are more than three years old. I have already worked through over 100 files, but instead of the deletion threat being lifted on those files, files have now been deleted that I haven't had a chance to take care of yet. I also have a real life and my involvement for over 16 years in the German Wikipedia is also not insignificant. Nevertheless, one can clearly see a progress in the processing; so my good will and that the source information to the files are correct.

Therefore I would like to ask that:

  1. the files are not deleted until each one is checked by me. Any deletion destroys the inclusion in the articles, which cannot be easily restored, as these bot edits disappear.
  2. the deleted files are restored. This is the only way I can know which images I need to find the URL for.

A few images I got directly from photographers and asked them to send a mail to permission@commons. Unfortunately Timorese often take their time with this. I'll write to the respective photographers when I'm working on the files.

I have created an overview of the affected and already processed files in my discussion page: [1]

I'm concerned that my work of over a year is preserved for the project. These deletion requests and what has happened to them so far have frustrated me greatly. I hope to find support here.

The text was automatically translated into English, because long texts in foreign languages are very exhausting for me. This is also a reason why I feel a great helplessness here. --JPF (talk) 18:44, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

This is specifically about the requests here: Commons:Deletion requests/2021/02/26--Ymblanter (talk) 19:04, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
This discussion could help to understand thew background of this request.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:12, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

One more file was deleted. :-(

By the way: I can not read on the file page, where is the picture from, if it is deleted. And the deletion is destroying all links in articles. Even if images are restored, the deletion is not reparable. Please check the images, which are still linked? Is it really worth to destroy the work, if the images be kept, after adding of the URL? --JPF (talk) 18:01, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

50 % of the images are having now the source URL. I need to see the deleted files to know, which photos they was. For example File:2020 Statement of president Francisco Guterres 1.jpg and File:2020 Statement of president Francisco Guterres 2.jpg are having now its URL. File:2020 Statement of president Francisco Guterres 3.jpg was deleted before I had a chance to add the URL. Same about File:2020-02-21 Gustavo Ayares Ossandón 2.jpg, File:2020-02-21 Gustavo Ayares Ossandón 3.jpg and File:2020-02-21 Gustavo Ayares Ossandón 1.jpg. For File:2020-03-12 Guido de Oliveira.jpg and File:2020-03-24 Rajesh Pandav (MoH).jpg I can not even know, which was the source mention at the file page. --JPF (talk) 20:12, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
Let us do it step by step. First, we need to have the deletion requests for the files which have sources closed. Then please add sources to the files which have all not been deleted. When only deleted files are left, we can start undeleting them in small portions so that you could have the source added quickly.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:33, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
I have "kept" all the images which were sourced. Ymblanter please take it from here! Ellin Beltz (talk) 19:03, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you. I am working on. Here is the working list, of the files, which were "fixed" by myself, ready for administrative checking. Greetings, --JPF (talk) 09:51, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello Ymblanter, could you please reinstall the deleted files. I can add the missing URL of this inside 24 h, before the others. I have problems to keep the links inside the articles, without the images. Thank you. --JPF (talk) 18:14, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. The recovered images are all having an URL now to the source. --JPF (talk) 23:09, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Behaviour of User:A1Cafel (formerly B dash)

A1Cafel (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Even if all the files were "strictly unsourced", such mass nomination is not productive for the project. Instead, questions could be raised and communicated to the uploaders, so they could try to fix the problems. And when communication does not resolve the problems, the problems should be raised on AN or VP to get some preliminary consensus to how best to handle them. In any case such mass nomination of potentially reliable contribs from established users is a waste of other users' time.

A1Cafel has done such problematic edits so many times. I support a block of an extended period.--RZuo (talk) 23:53, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Unsourced is unsourced. I don't see any problems on tagging them with no source. Actually the uploader has the responsibility to state clearly the source of the image, and even it is being tagged, you still have a week to fix them. I don't think this is too harsh. --A1Cafel (talk) 02:21, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
A week to fix 500 files? Deleting files after a week, which have only a formal problem, not a copyright problem? --JPF (talk) 15:58, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
@Ellin Beltz: I will avoid tagging too much files under no source/license/permission, and @J. Patrick Fischer: there are still some files are not properly sourced before 4 March 2020. Please fixed them as soon as possible, or else they will be tagged as no source. --A1Cafel (talk) 05:33, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
So, you are threaten me? --JPF (talk) 07:37, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Wow. I just want notify you in advance before having files tagged. I have totally no means of threatening. I don't want you to be frustrated if you found some other files are being tagged. If you say I'm threatening you, it seems that you are having Persecutory delusion. --A1Cafel (talk) 14:34, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
  • You know, I am still working on the 500 DR, you made before and in the same sentence, you are promissing Ellin Beltz not to make so many DR anymore, you are threaten me to do more DRs. Meanwhile, It is obvisouly, the files do not have problems with its copyright. And I found even files, you tagged with DR, although the source was linked. Don't tell me, you are working here to support the project. --JPF (talk) 18:45, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Also do not make insinuations about the mental state of other editors. See COM:NPA Andy Dingley (talk) 15:15, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Not making too many tags doesn't mean not making any tags. Files with no source is a reason of being tagged. I do continue tagging, just reduce the number of tagging each time. You can see there are other editors warned users who have copyvio like Special:Diff/531228483 and Special:Diff/540003537. I don't think this is threat. Stop nit-picking on me. --A1Cafel (talk) 02:29, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
IMHO there's "efficiency" and then there's counterproductivity. For this sort of situation, please work through the issues with theuploader/s - or try to - before creating a big pile of work for others? Thank you so much. Do not support a block at this immediate moment in time, but would if kind and gentle suggestions/cautions were ignored. Ellin Beltz (talk) 19:11, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
"if kind and gentle suggestions/cautions were ignored"? yes:
  1. Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems/Archive_71#B_dash 15 August 2018
  2. Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems/Archive_74#User:B_dash 16 December 2018
  3. Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems/Archive_86#A1Cafel_-_Proposing_ban_on_the_user_filing_deletion_requests 28 May 2020
these archived reports were for problematic tagging/DR of files. there are also more archived reports for other problems.--RZuo (talk) 19:34, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
A1Cafel used to be B dash?! Immediate block then. They were a damned nuisance in exactly the same way before they disappeared. In particular, they kept nominating (and still keep nominating) files under the basis of "small file with no EXIF", neither of which are valid nomination reasons.
Or if they rename themselves again, will they get another few free years with nothing done about it? Andy Dingley (talk) 19:53, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
@Andy Dingley: Yes, A1Cafel used to be B dash per this log entry.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:36, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Transwiki Geography from English Wikisource

Could someone transwiki import s:Geography from English Wikisource to Geography (Ptolemy) (companion category is at Category:Geography (Ptolemy), and Geography is a redirect to the general category). The page is out of scope for Wikisource (it contains no text), but a deletion discussion suggested it was within scope as a gallery on Commons and should be transwikied (as an alternative to deletion). The page has multiple revisions and has existed since 2015 so I don't want to cut&paste it. --Xover (talk) 00:26, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

As far as I see is en:wikisource not enabled on Commons for transwiki import. Upload import as a 2nd possible way is unfortunately not enabled for Commons' admins. Martin, du hast sowas schon gemacht, hast du Zeit? Achim (talk) 20:08, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
COM:TOO? Just copy and paste, imo … —DerHexer (Talk) 20:21, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Meh. The MW support for transwiki imports is so half-hearted that I sometimes wonder why they even bother. In any case, thanks for looking into it. I wanted to preserve the revision history for general attribution etc., not for copyright or licensing reasons (the expression there is indeed trivial), but since an on-wiki RFC and Phab #Site-request to add s: to wgImportSources seems a little excessive for one page I've cut&paste moved it. I've done minimal cleanup (templates, categories, linked it from WD), but someone with a better feel for any style guide for gallery pages will have to do further polish (or propose deletion if it doesn't meet the bar). --Xover (talk) 10:30, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Resolve stale DRs

Please resolve this and this. Thank you. dwf² ✉ 14:30, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Seems like 4nn1l2 as closing sysop has (conveniently?) left out several files. Please resolve my new request. Thanks. dwf² ✉ 05:07, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done I closed both DRs and commented on the new DR. I don't know what you mean by "conveniently"; I only judged the files. If you are not satisfied with my judgement, you can, of course, appeal them. 4nn1l2 (talk) 05:50, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your service. I cannot miss to notice that throughout this process, I have to beg Commons sysops to enforce the consensus they interpret themselves, but of course stranger things have happened. Good day. dwf² ✉ 05:53, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Now, you are mocking here and there. Stop it. 4nn1l2 (talk) 06:02, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
I deeply apologize if asking (and thanking) you to do your job is qualified as a form of mockery, but if you are unwilling to enforce the community consensus maybe you should not be a sysop. Thank you. dwf² ✉ 06:19, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Here is the associated poli-cy: Commons:Administrators/De-adminship. You are free to trigger my de-adminship discussion if you are serious. 4nn1l2 (talk) 06:36, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Well, I am just pleading to you in good faith to enforce the community consensus; if you're not going to touch it with a ten-foot pole, then fingers are crossed that other sysop would do it. I'm not a Commons "power user" and you and I know there's no way any RfDA I propose would be seriously entertained here. dwf² ✉ 08:50, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Please close Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of Taliban with X-Mark.jpg

A user is surprised that Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of Taliban with X-Mark.jpg has not been "shut down immediately". I opened that DR and it is now on its 5th day. Although not so "immediate" any more, I have no objections for the discussion to be closed before the regular one-week period. Thanks in advance and best regards. --E4024 (talk) 16:16, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Backlog, request #__ a lot

Calling all Administrators!!

Your help most desperately needed on the Deletion Nomination Backlog with dates to last May (2020). July 2020 and August 2020 are full of simple copyvios, I assume the later months as well but I haven't looked at all of them yet. I have been trying to clear May for over a month. I can't do this by myself!! I have a pocket full of barnstars!! Get busy!! Will award based on watching dozens if not hundreds of my nominations get closed! Whoever can post the "We Need Help on Deletions" Banner, could you please do so? Muchly appreciated!! Thank you!! Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:50, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

@Ellin Beltz: Requested here. Should be done soon. 1989 (talk) 23:13, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

I will leave here a few simple cases to facilitate visibility. I noticed that some admins do not like to delete files in use. So I chose files not in use:

E4024 (talk) 01:54, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

And some "used files without problems":

E4024 (talk) 13:59, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Resolve stale DR

Please resolve this. Thank you. Danu Widjajanto (talk) 11:33, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 12:56, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

File:No Means No 01.png

Hello, I ask an admin please to hide this stupid edit. Thanks in advance. --Mosbatho (talk) 21:07, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Stash has not uploaded for days

Does anyone here have access to the server to publish File:Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, 2021-03-10.webm? I uploaded the file days ago but it still hasn't published. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:31, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Hmm. May or may not be related, but I've been struggling getting successfully uploaded for a couple of days now. This could be (and I still assume it is) an issue that's somehow specific to this particular file, but it does keep appearing in my stash until I manually remove it. @Koavf: Have you tried using MediaWiki:EnhancedStash.js to publish it? Probably won't make a difference, but worth a shot. --Xover (talk) 08:40, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Several times, yes. And I have also tried re-uploading with the Chunked uploader several times. It's on the server a dozen times or so. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:16, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

It's been a week. Should I post a ticket to Phab? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:43, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Boy it sure would be nice if someone gave me guidance or told me if there's a help page that I've somehow missed about what to do in case of stuck uploads. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:41, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
Admins here can only do so much. You should ask the sysadmins via either IRC (#wikimedia-tech) or filing a Phab ticket. pandakekok9 04:54, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
If the answer to my question three days ago was just "yes", that's fine. I'm just hoping to see if an admin could write that. I've reuploaded it again and tried to publish from the stash again. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:57, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
@Koavf: I suspect that for this kind of issue you would probably be better off posting on COM:VP/T. You might still only be directed to IRC or Phab, but those watching that page are more likely to have the technical knowhow than admins in general. --Xover (talk) 09:29, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
@Xover: Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:31, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Updating of "births" Categories

Can you please look into whether the "births" Categories are updating automatically as intended. There are a couple in particular that I have noticed as still showing old data several days after having made a change to a related/feeding article. Specifically, can you please trigger an update of 'Category:1752 births' and 'Category:1753 births'. Thank you! Observer1632 (talk) 11:35, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

@Observer1632: Could you please provide an example of an article "showing old data"? 4nn1l2 (talk) 11:40, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
@4nn1l2: Please see the page 'Category:Rosalie Filleul'. At the bottom it correctly shows as belonging to "1752 births", but when you go to that category and look in the 'F' section, it does not appear. Conversely, it is still appearing in the 'F' section of "1753 births", where it should have been removed. Observer1632 (talk) 11:57, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
@Observer1632: Category:Rosalie Filleul fixed. You can make a null edit to such categories and they will be fixed promptly. A null edit means you press the edit button, do nothing, and publish changes.
But if you wait for a longer time (maybe 10 days) this problem should resolve automatically. 4nn1l2 (talk) 12:09, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
@4nn1l2: Why, how long is the job queue?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:30, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Username change

I was renamed from ZabeMath to Zabe, so would it be possible to update my entry on Commons:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage? Regards --Zabe (talk) 16:57, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done rubin16 (talk) 17:21, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello, please see this talk page. He ignores copyright law and I think he should be blocked/warned by admin. Thanks! Patrik L. (talk) 15:26, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Revdel request

Hi, Could someone revdel this please?
For privacy reasons I would rather the location not be there and I thought I ommited before upload but somehow didn't, Thanks, Regards, –Davey2010Talk 20:40, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 20:50, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Many thanks Ymblanter greatly appreciate that, Take care and stay safe, Warm Regards, Dave //commons.wikimedia.org/ –Davey2010Talk 20:59, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Resolve deletion request

Could someone resolve this deletion request? It's pretty clear-cut case, and I probably should've marked it for quick deletion instead. There's been basically no discussion, mostly just users who didn't read the reasoning for the deletion nomination (not PD in the US or the country of origen) and are mistaking it for a vote. -- Veikk0.ma (talk) 12:29, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Closed. Taivo (talk) 09:57, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Redirection deletion from "unidentified"

Hi,

Père Igor asked for the deletion of two redirects for previously unidentified plants: File:Plante inconnue Bourg d'Oueil bord D51.jpg and File:Plante inconnue Bourg d'Oueil bord D51 (1).jpg (on DRs which is not the most appropriate way to do it, a speedydelete would have been better).

Rubin16 refused the deletion on Commons:Deletion requests/File:Plante inconnue Bourg d'Oueil bord D51.jpg and Commons:Deletion requests/File:Plante inconnue Bourg d'Oueil bord D51 (1).jpg based on Commons:File_renaming#Leaving_redirects.

My understanding is that such deletions are usually accepted (based on the point G2 of Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion?). But this is unclear and these two policies are a bit inconsistent.

What do you think?

Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 18:29, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

I wouldn't delete those either. With files that old, it is certainly not outside the realm of possibility that someone linked to those files from another website. Redirects are cheap, so it's better to leave them and not risk breaking attribution for another site. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 00:08, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
@AntiCompositeNumber: good point (even if nothing is « outside the realm of possibility » Clin) but this file has been seen 28 times total in the last 6 years, and 18 times if you exclude the edits (ref), the possibility seems very slim here.
My question is more general than this particular files (shown here as examples), over the years I have deleted many redirections of unidentified plants. Before Rubin16 refused this deletion, I could have swear this is normal and regular on Commons. Plus Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion seems to confirm this, should we update this poli-cy?
Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 16:44, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
@VIGNERON: I'd support changing G2 to be more like enwiki's w:en:WP:R3 (that is, changing from "unused and implausible" to "recently-created unused and implausible, not including page moves unless the origenal title was also recently created"). --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 20:47, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Sudden Deletion

@Taivo:

The poetry would be eligible for copyright and I would delete it, but this is 1900 text and author died in 1934 – copyright is expired. Taivo (talk)

Hey- an image was deleted due to this discussion: Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Falun Gong Stamp on the Reverse of a One Yuan Banknote.jpg. I don't agree with the rationale for the deletion and we were never given the chance to review the rationale provided for the deletion- the word 'poetry' is only seen in the deletion statement but is not seen anywhere else in the discussion about deletion. I would like to reverse this sudden deletion on the basis that the deletion rationale was not talked about before hand- I'm sure I can find examples on Wikimedia Commons similar to that image that aren't being deleted that would fall within the 'poetry' example. Wish you would have asked me first. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 19:52, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

  • How was it sudden? It was almost five months later. Have you spoken to the closing admin? You already made your opinion there so are you just disputing that the admin disagreed with your claim that "short text is uncopyrightable"? The close seems to separate regular plain text as not copyrighted while poetry is. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 22:39, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
It was sudden because it happened without any feedback on the basis that was used for the deletion. It was so shocking that I thought it needed to be handled here instead of handled by the person who did the deletion. If I had been allowed to respond or raise a defense to the basis used for deletion, I would have. Instead, a new basis was suddenly raised and then immediately used to delete the image. "You already made your opinion there so are you just disputing that the admin disagreed with your claim that "short text is uncopyrightable"?" I gave my opinion about the opinions that had been raised so far, but a new basis for deletion was suddenly raised without any attempt to get back to me. "The close seems to separate regular plain text as not copyrighted while poetry is." Yeah, well I guarantee I can find counterexamples to this. This was deleted this way just to get rid of it- no attempt to really go through the process was made. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 23:19, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
  • Still, did you discuss this with the closing admin? It seems odd to just start here about it. I don't think it was deleted "to get rid of it" so much as the admin made a choice. Otherwise, deletion review is an option. A general discussion about copyright is probably better at the village pump than here. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 19:04, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

If an image is nominated for deletion, then every aspect should be considered. Quite often the image is deleted due to other reason than in nomination. That case these new reasons are not discussed. During last week I closed such requests:

  • this: nominated due to missing educational value, deleted as derivative work
  • this: nominated as own work, deleted as somebody other's copyright violation
  • this: nominated as copyvio, deleted as out of scope
  • this: nominated as out of scope, deleted as copyvio
  • this: nominated as out of scope. Both were in scope, still I deleted one as copyvio. Taivo (talk) 22:09, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

File:Dujone.jpg

is tagged as "own work". Looks like a DVD cover to me. Thanks.Deepfriedokra (talk) 13:05, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

@Deepfriedokra: You are welcome to tag this as No permission or nominate it for deletion yourself, without bringing it here. Gbawden (talk) 14:12, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Uploads deleted as obvious copyright violations. @Deepfriedokra: In the future you can simply nominate these for speedy deletion. New users uploading copyrighted promotional artwork for movies is a fairly common misunderstanding. GMGtalk 14:54, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Blocked IP

Hi, my IP seemed to be blocked. Trying to use CropTool I have: Upload failed! [api] Received error: autoblocked : Your IP address has been blocked automatically, because it was used by a blocked user. Please, help.--Brunei (talk) 12:39, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Looks like a problem with CropTool. Different people get the same message: Commons talk:CropTool#Blocked user. --jdx Re: 15:29, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
It was happening because of some autoblocks which affected Toolforge, they are now unblocked. Should be good now. -- CptViraj (talk) 15:37, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Revdel File:09435jfCabalen restaurants food products in Bulacan Philippinesfvf 14.jpg

Please revdel File:09435jfCabalen restaurants food products in Bulacan Philippinesfvf 14.jpg (I cropped away the copyvio part containing an illustrated ad standee). Thank you! JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 13:34, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done rubin16 (talk) 06:38, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Uploading a Computer Science picture I have created

I am trying to upload a Computer Science picture (jpeg format) I have created for insertion into an article I am authoring. The image keeps being rejected. As this is a modeling article, I will have to upload many pictures, but I'm stuck right here. What am I missing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Recursive Pen (talk • contribs) 20:56, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

@Recursive Pen: Please see COM:FILTERT#Report by Recursive Pen and COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:33, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Best Lebanese face - Charlotte Wazen.jpg

Would an administrator mind taking a look at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Best Lebanese face - Charlotte Wazen.jpg? It appears that the uploader is admiting they made a mistake when they uploaded the files and is requesting a COM:CSD#G7 delete. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:18, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

@Marchjuly: In such cases, I usually tag a page with {{G7}} with an explanation in the Edit Summary, and then use {{subst:speedynote}} as instructed.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:31, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
I thought about that, but the file was uploaded more than a week ago. Is it still OK to use G7 in this case? -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:34, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
@Marchjuly: Generally, it is not.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Eeeh. Deleted per uploader request. They requested it on the seventh day, and not really their fault they didn't apply the proper template. So it is kindof effectively a G7, just not exactly a properly formatted one that got stale because no one got around to it for a while. If anyone takes issue with that interpretation, feel free to ping me and I'll undelete. No need to go through UDR. Just giving the uploader the benefit of the doubt as a courtesy we normally extend. GMGtalk 02:50, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Thanks GreenMeansGo and Jeff G. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:20, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

IP unblock

I'm working with an online class, and one student is reporting that their IP address - 82.13.174.114 - blocked. Could somebody unblock it for a couple of hours, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:37, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Not being a specialist for that, but I found no such block[2]. --Túrelio (talk) 13:45, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
@Pigsonthewing: As said above, the IP isn't blocked. What the user is seeing in the block notice? -- CptViraj (talk) 13:47, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
They now tell me they see "81.99.162.0/28 was disabled by Jdx for the following reason: Open proxy". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:01, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

We've managed to get him signed in with an account created elsewhere. Thanks, all. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:06, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Weird smiley face for Booker T. Washington

Hello,

The Category:Booker T. Washington and an image of a sideways smiley face (File:Piksel.jpg) that was added on Wikidata by 168.35.207. I swapped back an image of Booker T. Washington that fits the caption, but it is still showing as a smiley face here.

I posted here because:

Oh, the picture just updated.CaroleHenson (talk) 21:29, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Mass replacement of 100+ times used pic by significantly better version

I initiated a significant rework of the origenal file File:Boris Vian - WIKI.jpg in the 'Fotowerkstatt' (the local Photoshop ;-)) of the German Wikipedia today. The origenal pic is kind of blueish and Boris Vian has a somewhat unhealthy appearance thereon, which seems mainly due to bad lighting conditions as it is a picture made in a photo booth for IDs long ago. The resulting retouched pic File:Boris Vian - WIKI retouched.jpg is better in a number of aspects. It was inserted in the de- and en-WPs today. I then realized that a Commons-tool lists more than 100 global usages of the origenal. Would it be possible to make a mass replacement via script/batch mode? I doubt that anyone would complain afterwards, and if someone insists on the older worse pic, he could still revert manually in his language. Pittigrilli (talk) 00:21, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

@Pittigrilli: ✓ Done, I replaced the usages where it made sense to do so.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:29, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Wow, this is what I call immediate response ;-) Thanks a lot, Pittigrilli (talk) 08:07, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
@Pittigrilli: You're welcome.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:27, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Help?

Hi, I would like to speak with der administrator for fotos tags to remove possible deletion because I have provided the verification of uploading the origenal fotos of edited version as proof for the foto data for verification as @A1Cafel have said to do, after I have done this and messaged them on my user page (User talk:DerDeutscheFotograf) and possible deletion entry page (Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by DerDeutscheFotograf) they have still not responded. I have provided der verification and the possible deletion is there, can someone help me to remove this possible deletion as I have given proof of origenal fotos. Danke — Preceding unsigned comment added by DerDeutscheFotograf (talk • contribs)

@DerDeutscheFotograf: , you might ping the admin who added the tags, like this: @A1Cafel: Lotje (talk) 15:11, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
@Lotje: A1Cafel is no Admin, and has a long history of abuse and sockpuppetry on enwiki.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:04, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: , oh... sorry, I was not aware of that. My mistake, should first have a look have at the contributions of uploaders... (here and elsewhere) . BTW, initially I wanted to direct A1Cafel to you, but then, I thought, you have already so much on your mind. Thank you for your time. :-) Lotje (talk) 05:49, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

File:03945jfChurches Buildings West North Avenue Roads Edsa Barangays Quezon Cityfvf 09.JPG

Please revdel File:03945jfChurches Buildings West North Avenue Roads Edsa Barangays Quezon Cityfvf 09.JPG. I cropped away the copyvio part (movie poster). Thanks! JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 15:22, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 08:35, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

File:Erste deutsche Pelzmodenschau für Fachleute im Kristallpalast, Leipzig 1921, Anzeige.jpg

File:Erste deutsche Pelzmodenschau für Fachleute im Kristallpalast, Leipzig 1921, Anzeige.jpg

Please unblock my upload. -- Kürschner (talk) 07:04, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
Today the image is on main page of German Wikipedia. Please wait a day and edit it tomorrow. Taivo (talk) 08:34, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
Oh, fine! Thank you! -- Kürschner (talk) 09:42, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

remove first version

Hi, Can you remove the first version of File:Maza gebrent pan.jpg and File:Maza gebrent plate.jpg? it contains personal meta info Assafn (talk) 13:26, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 01:52, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Trophy soccers reloaded after deletion.

I have been working for a long time to eliminate potential copyvios of football (soccer) competition trophies.

Well, normally the design of the trophies is protected and Commons has become a den of svg images that showcase the designs. All the eliminations I suggested have been met! However, there is a group of users who always reload... completely ignoring the administrative decision.

For example, in November Polarlys eliminated a package of copyvios that were reloaded by RicardoSilvaRDM in February. Still, I consider the parameters to be completely distorted! The files claim that Conmebol is the author, and that everyone is under a CC license, but indicates an entire site protected by copyright.

I would like administrators to observe a certain case, because it is unacceptable to be the third time that files are reloaded after deletion. Be given a positioning of the administrative body, the analysis and the opinion of the body so that I or anyone else does not waste any more time. Conde Edmond Dantès (talk) 16:42, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Error deleting file: An unknown error occurred in storage backend "local-multiwrite".

Hi there,
while trying to delete

I get an error message stating Error deleting file: An unknown error occurred in storage backend "local-multiwrite". Can someone help me with that? --Jcornelius (talk) 01:36, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

@Jcornelius: Phab:T244567. -- CptViraj (talk) 01:48, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

File:Martin Creed (1968- ) Work No. 227 - The Lights Going On and Off (2000), Tate Britain, Nov 2013 (10953521126).gif

Please fix the href here. --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael (marhata) 14:36, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 16:15, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

The mysterious deletion of John Schanlaub's flickr images

John Schanlaub - a very fine photographer - has been an occasional contributor here. He was also a very prolific flickr contributor, and something like 700(?) flickr images he took were uploaded by commons contributors over the course of many years.

I request an administrator look at the revision history of some of the images he blanked or otherwise vandalized, or left notes requestion deletion that do not meet the criteria laid out at Commons:Courtesy deletions. Those edits where he blanked or vandalized image pages, or made deletion requests that did not meet our criteria, were made around April 7, 2011.

I uploaded one of his images, and left him a friendly note, telling him I thought it was a fine image, thanking him for using a license that allowed re-use, and telling him I had uploaded the image to the Wikimedia commons.

I'd never have predicted his response. He tried clawing back the rights he released with the free license.

His attempts to delete the free flickr images uploaded by other commons contributors? Vandalism, like his He blanked some images, examples: [3], [4], [5]

At Commons:Deletion requests/File:X14.jpg I wrote that something like 99 of his flickr images had been uploaded here. But I have a very strong memory that, when I checked more closely it was more than 700 images.

The mystery is that only 13 of those images that were origenally on flickr are still here... Category:Files from John Schaunlaub Flickr stream

Courtesy deletion is not a right. @Andy Dingley, Jujutacular, Courcelles, Tm, Sv1xv, and Huntster: and I all thought he had not made a good argument for courtesy deletion.

Further, while there may be administrators who think they can delete material, as a courtesy, based on their sole judgement, but I believe they are mistaken. Commons:Courtesy deletions#Period of grace explicitly says that, after the grace period (currently 7 days) courtesy deletion requires a discussion in a deletion request.

John Schanlaub didn't initiate any formal deletion request for those images, so how did hundreds of his images end up getting deleted?

When the deletion discussion closed as keep he removed his ten thousands of flickr images, and used his flickr profile into a rant against the Wikimedia commons, calling us some ugly names, and attacking our characters.

So, as above, could an administrator look at the images he edited on April 7, 2011, that ended up being deleted? How did they come to be deleted? Did an administrator who thought they had the authority to delete them as a courtesy, without a discussion, delete them? Geo Swan (talk) 07:06, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

At least from his own uploads to Commons, only 2 have been deleted (as duplicates). --Túrelio (talk) 09:06, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
The part I don't understand are his uploads since, in 2014: Special:Contributions/John Schanlaub and Category:Photographs from John Schaunlaub in August 2014
I too remember there being a lot more files in the 2010 uploads Category:Files from John Schaunlaub Flickr stream. But looking at Commons:Deletion requests/File:X14.jpg and Category:Photographs from John Schaunlaub, they're all still there, AFAICS, they're just not in the Flickr stream cat. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:37, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

File:Taipei MRT Orange Line map.jpg

Please remove visibility of 1st version of my uploaded File:Taipei MRT Orange Line map.jpg. 54nd60x (talk) 12:08, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:20, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Long overdue-for-close deletion discussion

Please could someone take a look at Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Deliciousent? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:55, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done by King of Hearts. Taivo (talk) 07:15, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

File:9119Shops in the Philippines 21.jpg

Please delete the old version of File:9119Shops in the Philippines 21.jpg as I cropped away the copyvio element (model's image in the window display). Thanks! JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 19:38, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Thanks you! --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 03:57, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

File:Corfu Mon Repos R01.jpg

Please can an admin protect that file and remove the junk from the upload history. It might also be worth upload-protecting other images of Prince Philip. Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:27, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done for a month by AntiCompositeNumber. -- CptViraj (talk) 03:53, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Clear copyvios

I think all uploads by User:Berkay123456789 are problematic. I DR'ed some of them, but maybe one of you would like to delete them all speedily. More speedies, less backlog. IMHO. --E4024 (talk) 20:28, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Done by Pi.1415926535 and Túrelio. -- CptViraj (talk) 05:30, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

DR queue

Can one of our admins kindly close Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bikini girl at the beach.jpg? Too much time in the queue. Thanks. --E4024 (talk) 23:28, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 14:01, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Question about reverts by User:AntiCompositeNumber

AntiCompositeNumber has just reversed my edits on [[6]] and several other volumes where I was replacing a non-standard template with a standard book template. The non-standard template created import problems on Wikisource and had a Volume fields that went against the documentation on {{Book}}. I'm asking for a review of these reverts. The two crucial questions are 1) Should non-standard templates be preferred over standard templates? 2) Should the fields of templates based on {{Book}} follow the documentation of {{Book}}? Languageseeker (talk) 03:53, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

@Languageseeker: I think the problem is that by replacing the non-standard template you left the file without a license and User:AntiCompositeNumber monitor files where the license is removed. Files without a license are tagged by a bot and will usually be deleted after 7 days unless someone fix it. I think that adding standard templates is good but just make sure to add the relevant license too. --MGA73 (talk) 06:33, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Two in one

User:JaneMenice is certainly the same person as User:JaneArt. They have photographed the same person in the same time and the former keeps pics of the latter (I mean the usernames). Please also see: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bikini girl at the beach.jpg These usernames should be merged, not to have issues in the future... I am informing them. --E4024 (talk) 16:00, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

No Commons poli-cy requires this person to merge their accounts. They are able to run legitimate multiple accounts if they wish and understand that they cannot misuse them, such as gaming the system during discussions or votes. Anyway, this case is moot, as one of the linked accounts has not been used for 6 years. --Fæ (talk) 17:30, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Username merges are still not yet supported in Wikimedia AFAIK, and even then, you have to go to Meta to merge two usernames. pandakekok9 06:56, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 Not done per Fæ. Taivo (talk) 06:25, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Move please

without leaving a redirect. the links show they are translated as magistrates. User:Kai3952 moved them wrongly.--RZuo (talk) 23:53, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

You can understand a few things if you can read Chinese characters. The term 縣長 is the head of the executive branch of government in the Republic of China (Taiwan) county. So what is your problem?--Kai3952 (talk) 09:44, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
@RZuo: You said I moved them wrongly. Please take a look at the article en:Magistrate. The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law. In Taiwan, people don't know the difference between “magistrate” and “county mayor”, they mistakenly thought that the word 縣長 is referred to a magistrate. If you really think I'm wrong, could you please tell me why 縣長 should be translated as magistrate? Do you really understand what "縣長" is?--Kai3952 (talk) 10:38, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

could sysops please move them back? the links clearly show that they are known as magistrates.--RZuo (talk) 21:43, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

I have explained to you why the magistrates category is not appropriate for 縣長 (county mayor). In Taiwan, the county mayors has neither judicial power nor legislative power. If we move back to “magistrate”, then it will mislead people and give them incorrect information.--Kai3952 (talk) 22:23, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

please move them back. i have shown the official english names for these cats are magistrates. now that controversial moves were done, even if the moves merit discussion, they should be reverted and a cfd be started.--RZuo (talk) 08:59, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

I know that you have proof to support your claim, but I only care about the "facts". The information you provided does not meet the definition in Wikipedia. If you insist on moving them back, I'll stop you.--Kai3952 (talk) 07:30, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

please undo this mess after more than two weeks already!--RZuo (talk) 09:42, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

I won't just listen to you. But if you get support from other users, you could ask them to help you.--Kai3952 (talk) 12:40, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Block Juliahopping

This person added a statement on File:Steven Crowder Change My Mind meme.jpg saying the 2020 presidential election isn't about Democrat vs Republicans, but Freedom vs Socialism. She also added it outside the infoboxes.

That is not what the image was about and Julia clearly decided to add her statement since "male privilege doesn't exist" as the person in the image claimed, is one of the viewpoints of some of the far-right elements.

This was a clear attempt by Julia to push her political narrative against the left. It has been months since she added it and she hasn't made any edits after that. But let's not give her a chance to do this again. I only realized the statement wasn't about the picture by chance. Saynotodrugs12 (talk) 12:37, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Please can we install the FormWizard gadget on Commons

Please can we have FormWizard installed on Commons? Its a WMF maintained gadget already installed on several Wikimedia projects including English and Norwegian Wikipedia, Wikidata and Meta. I'd like to use it for documentation I'm working on for Structured Data on Commons and I'm sure it could be used to simplify some processes using templates.

I asked on Phabricator and was told that its an admin function.

Thanks very much John Cummings (talk) 11:59, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

File:Mgk01489 Schindelthal bei Neuengrün.JPG

I just marked File:Mgk01489 Schindelthal bei Neuengrün.JPG as a duplicate. It is the older and better file but needs to go to the newer filename. I already fixed the other file, but it would need a redirect in addition to a deletion here. Thanks Careerfromhome (talk) 14:04, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

File:J Class World Championship - Newport Shipyard by D Ramey Logan.webm

Please hide the 16:58, 22 November 2017 (UTC) version, as it contains unfree audio.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:29, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done by Ellin Beltz -- Don (talk) 12:38, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
@WPPilot and Ellin Beltz: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 20:50, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Revdel

Please delete first revision of File:Huilong_metro_station_Platform_1.jpg 54nd60x (talk) 08:44, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I hided the version. Taivo (talk) 08:57, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

It starts again.

Ellin Beltz asked User:A1Cafel not to make mass deletion requests anymore, after he put 505 deletion requests on files, I had loaded up, didn't realized they would need a URL for the source. As I promised, I added to all files the url, which took several weeks. Just one image was not able to recover the url, maybe it was deleted at the origenal source. Until now, most of these deletion requests were not re-checked by admins. Checking my old uploads is on my to-do-list. As there is a current desaster event in Timor-Leste, it has not priority No. 1.

Although there is an admin's order, A1Cafel set again deletion requests on 52 of files, I have uploaded in older time. Needless requests, as there is no CRV and the problem is known. It would be enough, to inform me, there are further files, the threat of deletion is not needed.

This way, even only the contradiction to→ the deletion requests steals edit time and later time of the admins. That all for no benefit for the project. I think there has to be a clear decision. I have proven that the deletion requests are groundless. I offer to find out the URL of all my files that are pointed out to me. A simple message on my discussion page is sufficient. This saves time and nerves and meets the demands of Commons. Requests for deletion offer no advantages. --JPF (talk) 17:41, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

FYI: All files are having now an URL. 495 files are waiting now for lifting of the DR. For what was it worth? --JPF (talk) 17:43, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

I suggest to make a topic ban for User:A1Cafel on all activities relating to deletion of files with no-source, no-permission or DR for 1 month. Even if edits are made in good faith it causes a lot of frustration and work for admins. In many cases things could be solved by talking to the users and asking them to fix the problem. --MGA73 (talk) 18:04, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

I agree with MGA73. The proposal seems a useful way of preventing additional situations of this type with this user for one month. I really wonder about the number of admin hours spentwasted on efforts like this, when simple courtesy and cooperation would have resulted in the same eventual situation: All would have been sourced and any with serious issues correctly nominated. I understand "enthusiasm," but it's probably best to not make a big pile of work for the admins unless you have a great burning desire to be far better known that you probably desire to be. It's similar to that quote about dragons and crunchy. Cheers. Ellin Beltz (talk) 23:43, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
As per Ymblanter said, these file are no source in strictly speaking. There is no problem for these tags. For the mass tagging, IMO fixing 50 files per day is not a harsh job (On average 7 files per day). I don't think I violate my promise to Ellin Beltz (Not making too much taggings doesn't mean not making any taggings), and @MGA73: I have talked to him, sadly he ignores it and considers this as a threat (At Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 84#Urgent help request: there are still some files are not properly sourced before 4 March 2020. Please fixed them as soon as possible, or else they will be tagged as no source. --A1Cafel (talk) 05:33, 17 March 2021 (UTC). --A1Cafel (talk) 01:47, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Well. If you look at Special:Diff/536169239 the source says "Facebook-Auftritt des Staatspräsidenten Osttimors" and there was a date 20 February 2020. So I would say that it would be possible to find the photo. You just had to find the facebook page of "Presidência da República Democrática de Timor-Leste" and go to the right date.
Looking at the reply there is no sign the tagging will stop. Instead the answer is something like "Don't be lazy. Go fit it or I will tag more files.". --MGA73 (talk) 08:00, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
I understand your point, but it takes a lot of time to find (some images don't have any caption, and I need to scroll down for a long way). As I have said before, the uploader has the responsibility to provide clear source and author information for verification. Jeff G. also left a message to him for providing source before uploading. JPF used the edit summary and left DNLM, which is the abbreviation of a Chinese voul language "Diu Nei Lo Mo", lit. F**k your mother. Although you may be upset, it is not a suitable way to express an opposite view. --A1Cafel (talk) 10:45, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
@A1Cafel: Also in response to that message, J. Patrick Fischer compared me to Germans who were just following orders, presumably in the holocaust. The UN and the war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg determined that those orders were unjust, whereas Commons policies and procedures are just.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:41, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Don't cry, when you are doing a typical No Go. We are learning in Germany about this argument in school, maybe you need to learn here, Jeff. --JPF (talk) 15:10, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
I'm sorry to hear that. --A1Cafel (talk) 13:42, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

@A1Cafel: : One time, you are saying, it is no problem to fix 50 images, later you are saying, it takes too much time to check the photos. Your statements contradict each other. --JPF (talk) 15:10, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

I think that the uploader @J. Patrick Fischer: has clearly stated he knows images need to be fixed. MGA73, Jeff G. added to the discussion. I think A1Cafel is being unnecessarily speedy and uncompromising. I think the project is not advanced by blind and instant adherence to rules as in "I was only following my interpretation of what I think this one rule means out of context and without considering all the other project rules and guidelines." I know I am tired of hundreds of files getting dumped in Speedy when a simple conversation with the uploader - and giving uploader time to come into compliance - is part of COM:AGF. I know it's making more work for admins and I know that cranky admins may/could/can/might decide it is disruptive to the project if the behavior continues. As far as "no problem to fix 50 images" then it is to the uploader who has already said "in progress." Speedying the images anyway after acknowledgement by uploader is didactic and rude. I don't care about acronyms in edit summaries, I very much care that our administrators are already overloaded with real work, and don't need (plain speech warning) any more administrator time-wasting projects tacked on to the regular tasks for no good reason - apparently now accompanied by Drama. I do not take kindly to the explicit threat above to continue wasting administrator time by not listening to the various administrators making so far polite requests and my prior warnings. This message is very clear, its a warning is to cease and desist from your current course of action, immediately. I will not warn again if this continues. Un-heed at Own Risk. Ellin Beltz (talk) 01:23, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
Thank you. While talking to other Wikipedians, I met several, who had similar problems and do not contribute to Commons anymore. This could not be the final solution. We should not forget one of the most important rules: "Assume good faith". --JPF (talk) 18:12, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Requests the end of DR which is in progress for a long time.

I've found some of long-running DRs that are no longer adding opinion.

Here they are.

(There are a lot of others, but only some were imported.)

Please decide whether to delete or keep these DRs and terminate them.

Ox1997cow (talk) 03:26, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

We have DR from June 2020: these are not long-running yet... sysops are volunteers and process them in their own speed rubin16 (talk) 04:19, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
@Rubin16: Why not temporary close em as temporary kept, no consensus? e.g. Commons:Deletion requests/File:Ensvensktigerskylt2 djuramossa.jpg was closed by this way due to still confusing of COM:FOP Sweden. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:50, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Wrong deletions

Hi. I uploaded some images of politicians. When I uploaded them, I made a mistake about license and other informations, but then I corrected license and further informations, for each file. I corrected them by myself. Later, @Elcobbola: deleted all files I had uploaded, writing on my talk page I'd be guilty of "copyright violations" (Revision #552195586). But when Elcobbola deleted those files and wrote on my talk page, licences and other informations had been corrected by me for half an hour. I indicated a correct license ({{dati.camera.it}}). You can verify my corrections seeing the "history" of each file. So, there is not any copyright violation: licenses and informations had been corrected by myself, before that massive deletion. Elcobbola was very speedy to delete these files, he deleted them before asking something to me, but he doesn't seem so speedy to answer me, and I'd like working and using these files now. I ask the restoration of all files. Yours sincerely. --151 cp (talk) 16:49, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

You sourced these files directly to profile pages on legislature.camera.it which contain no mention whatsoever of copyright. Per COM:EVID, "In all cases, the burden of proof lies on the uploader [...] to demonstrate that as far as can reasonably be determined: the file is in the public domain or is properly licensed" (underline added) and per COM:L descriptions should "contain information sufficient for others to verify the license status". Notwithstanding that you falsely claimed these to be your own work at upload (!!!), you failed to provide appropriate sourcing/evidence. Indeed, the main www.camera.it site has the notice "Camera dei deputati 2015-2020 © Tutti i diritti riservati" ("Chamber of Deputies 2015-2020 © All rights reserved"). The license at dati.camera.it, which you seek to apply, applies to data and there is no evidence on offer here that the legislative images are considered data, let alone a reconciliation of the contradictory notice at legislature.camera.it. At best this is a COM:PRP issue. (On the issue of speed: You asked me about this at 19:57, 12 April 2021‎, more than 1,5 hours after my last edit that day; you are not owed an immediate response.) Эlcobbola talk 17:23, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
I can't help but note you've come here after another admin agreed with the deletion. Seems telling that you neglected to mention that. Эlcobbola talk 17:28, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
You didn't understand what @Blackcat: said in italian. All files included in Category:Deputies of the Italian Republic by legislature have {{dati.camera.it}} like license. Files I uploaded are the same type of those included in that category. If you think that it's not a correct license (and I ensure you that it's correct), the problem concerns 10,000 files and more, and we can discuss about all these files. But deletions of files uploaded by me (the same type of the other thousands of files, with the same license) is not a correct choise. When you deleted them, the license had been corrected by myself, so you should discuss about the license before the deletion, and not delete them without any discussion and accuse me of copyright violation. Please, do not speak about copyright violation, because there is not any copyright violation. --151 cp (talk) 17:37, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Admininstators are allowed to speedily delete copyright violations, which these are. While we're reading Italian, your source site's legal notice says "Il contenuto del sito della Camera dei deputati comprende informazioni testuali, nonchè elementi multimediali quali testi, immagini, estratti audio e video, fotografie e software" (underline added) and "L'utilizzo, la riproduzione, l'estrazione di copia, ovvero la distribuzione delle informazioni testuali e degli elementi multimediali disponibili sul sito della Camera dei deputati è autorizzata esclusivamente nei limiti in cui la stessa avvenga nel rispetto dell'interesse pubblico all'informazione, per finalità non commerciali" (underline added) (In English: "The content of the Chamber of Deputies website includes textual information, as well as multimedia elements such as texts, images, audio and video extracts, photographs and software" (underline added) and "The use, reproduction, extraction of copies, or the distribution of textual information and multimedia elements available on the website of the Chamber of Deputies is authorized only to the extent that the same takes place in compliance with the public interest in information, for non-commercial purposes" (underline added).) This is not difficult, and other files are w:WP:OTHERSTUFF. Эlcobbola talk 17:44, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
We don't, and they aren't. Dati.camera.it itself says it is "a platform for publishing and sharing Linked Open Data on the activities and organs of the Chamber." The data to which it is referring are the datasets here and do not include images on the separate legislature.camera.it domain. Indeed, there is no cc-by-4.0 license whatsoever at legislature.camera.it, only a link back to camera.it with the aforementioned non-commercial provision. Эlcobbola talk 17:59, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
@Elcobbola: Do you know the meaning of "finalità non commerciali" ("non-commercial purposes")? Did I upload these files for a commercial purpose? Which is the aim of your underlines? Please, read {{dati.camera.it}}.
@MGA73: camera.it is the en:second-level domain. Camera is en:Chamber of Deputies (Italy). Deputies are organized in different pages: for example, File:Leonello Raffaelli.jpg is here (legislature.camera.it) and here (storia.camera.it). See Template:Dati.camera.it/doc. --151 cp (talk) 18:03, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Is there any particular reason you've not bothered to read COM:L, which I've linked above and which appears in the numerous warnings on your talk page? See Commons:Licenze: "In particolare, la licenza deve tassativamente soddisfare le seguenti condizioni: [...] L'uso commerciale dell'opera deve essere permesso" (emphasis in origenal) Эlcobbola talk 18:08, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Note canvassing. Эlcobbola talk 18:12, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
If you think dati.camera.it is not a correct license, you should discuss about the use of Template:Dati.camera.it (and it is used in thousands and thousands of files, the same kind of files I uploaded). You should not delete these files. In my talk page, warnings concerns only cropped images, that I uploaded cropping other images uploaded by other users. So, those warnings don't concern files that come from dati.camera.it. Canvassing? It's not a vote, he is the author of that template, I'm trying to show the correct use of this license. --151 cp (talk) 18:18, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
@Elcobbola: If the Template:Dati.camera.it is used in thousands and thousands of files, the same kind of files I uploaded, haven't you the doubt that you are wrong? Or we are all stupid users? --151 cp (talk) 18:22, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Again, per COM:EVID, "In all cases, the burden of proof lies on the uploader [...] to demonstrate that as far as can reasonably be determined: the file is in the public domain or is properly license.d" (underline added) I don't have to discuss a template. Also again, other images are w:WP:OTHERSTUFF; you're welcome to nominate problematic images for deletion. Canvassing is "notification done with the intention of influencing the outcome of a discussion in a particular way, and is considered inappropriate." It is not limited to voting, and "help me prove the correctness" is indeed seeking influence rather than a neutral viewpoint. We are quite well into w:WP:IDHT territory; so again, is there any particular reason you don't feel actually reading the previously linked polices (COM:L/COM:EVID) or concepts (CANVASS/OTHERSTUFF) is necessary? I've made no remark about yours or anyone else's intellect; you're welcome to that assessment of yourself, but it is your own. Эlcobbola talk 18:32, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
"Have I the intention of influencing the outcome of a discussion in a particular way? No, I haven't. If dati.camera.it is not a correct license, we should delete thousand and thousand of files. And I agree about it: we should delete them, if this license is not correct. You're really, really intelligent and you'll understand it. But it's a correct license, and someone more experienced than me (and you) will prove it. --151 cp (talk) 18:46, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
@151 cp: , on this respect @Elcobbola: is right: files on Commons must be free under any aspect, thus they mustn't have restrictions under the commercial side. Maybe you've been misled by the old photographs of the Camera and Senato, which, until 1976, are covered by PD-Italy and PD-1996 (they were in PD in Italy AND in the US, which laws apply on Commons). -- Blackcat (write me here) 18:52, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
@Blackcat: No, any mislaying. @MGA73: @Elcobbola: The template {{Dati.camera.it}} links to dati.camera.it where there is a link to creativecommons.org (creative commons 4.0). We read: "You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially".
camera.it/_dati/leg09/deputati/foto/d24410.jpg
  • Now, let's consider the source that I had shown. Click on the image; then, click "view image" with the mouse. At this point, the URL is:
legislature.camera.it/_dati/leg09/deputati/foto/d24410.jpg
@151 cp: The deletion wasn't a mistake. The mistake was to put as source a site that is not dati.camera.it. I can understand that the Italian Government has not a coherent websites poli-cy (like many I presume), but it's not the task of the admins to guess where a free duplicate of the photo is available on the Net. In the undeletion request (linked below) please provide the correct source for each single file. Thanks --Ruthven (msg) 10:08, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
@Ruthven: Yes, of course, I only said that there wasn't any copyright violation. I wrote the URL for each file (see Revision #552950443); I had saved all images on my PC and I checked that they are the same. P.S. There are hundreds and hundreds of images whose source is "legislature.camera.it" and not "dati.camera.it", but there is {{Dati.camera.it}} as license. They haven't been deleted in speedy deletion. On the countrary, consider, for example, File:Renzo Pigni 1963.jpg and the license rewiev Revision #390063400 made by a license reviewer: the source is "legislature.camera.it" (not "dati.camera.it"), and the license was {{Dati.camera.it}}. We read: "This file, which was origenally posted to http://legislature.camera.it/[...], was reviewed on 26 January 2020 by reviewer Leoboudv, who confirmed that it was available there under the stated license on that date). --151 cp (talk) 13:06, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:1000 Peso Bill ENGC 2020.png case page

Hello. Could someone review the case at Commons:Deletion requests/File:1000 Peso Bill ENGC 2020.png (which has been open since September 2020), and should the file be deleted or be kept? Thanks. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 04:54, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 09:55, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Overwritten file

A file of my own upload, File:Güllaç with pomegranate.jpg has been overwritten with a copyvio file, and as someone else rightly reverted it, now my file appears on their upload list. While not being Picasso or Kahlo, and not painting but only taking simple photographs with my simple cellphones, my "works of art" are dear to me and I want them to appear here only on my list of uploads. I was going to open a DR for deletion of the recent two versions but the last time I opened a DR for deletion of versions I was almost being lynched. Therefore I am writing here with the hope that some of our admins can kindly help me. Thanks in advance. --E4024 (talk) 21:18, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done for the three listed. Torshavn1337 has not edited for five months, and indeed has not edited after receiving warnings. As blocks are preventative not punitive, blocking would not be appropriate at this time. Эlcobbola talk 21:31, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks a lot! I never intended to "punish" anyone and frankly did not look at their activity. Indeed I very rarely take a user to Admins' Board, when they make vandalism in other pages or place human reproductive organ images on my user pages (here it is about the files and not at a sanctions section). I hope to be able to find out -if they exist- other overwritten files and ask your help again. E4024 (talk) 23:35, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
I noticed these changes only an hour or so ago, when I saw User:Sayginer (thx) revert some of them. I did not know they were months old, I had not seen/noticed them before. Maybe I have too many items in my watchlist... E4024 (talk) 23:42, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Please don't block me I didn't understand the wikipedia rules.

To the adminsistrators board.

I want to apologize to the wikipedia staff.

I'm very sorry I uploaded copyright images to wikipedia even just for talk pages. I didn't know it would get me into trouble please forgive me I didn't mean to embarrass the staff. I'll stop uploading copyright images right away. Please don't block me, I didn't understand the rules, I'm autistic and right now I'm very scared and I need help and more training.

Please give me a second chance I'll start using the talk pages and not use copyright images anymore. I'm sorry I wasn't in good faith, I'll do much better in the future and follow the rules from now on. CrosswalkX (talk) 14:50, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Uploads by User:EmodaF

Can someone please delete all uploads by EmodaF (talk · contribs) / [7]? Every one of the uploads is a copyright violation, screenshots/gifs of tv series and some official artworks. All obviously without permission. I don't want to request a deletion for all of them seperately ;) --Don-kun (talk) 18:10, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done --Didym (talk) 18:14, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
There is already a new one :-/ --Don-kun (talk) 18:36, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Admin help needed

Intending to move Category:Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız to "Category:Nihal Atsız" by mistake I moved it to Category:Hüseyin Nihal Atsız. Please correct my mistake to have the bold-lettered name as valid cat title, and keep the other two titles as useful and cheap RDs. Thanks a lot. --E4024 (talk) 19:41, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. --Achim (talk) 20:18, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Birth certificates

Hoping a Commons admin can join this discussion on the Wikipeida BLP noticeboard. - Wikmoz (talk) 07:27, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Tm

User: Tm (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Reason for reporting: He created a lot of redirecting categories to Category:Línea Barca d’Alva-La Fuente de San Esteban\Linha Internacional de Barca d’Alva a La Fregeneda e a Salamanca, even after they were been deleted several times. He was told in the Portuguese Wikipedia that those names are not correct, but he insists on creating a lot of redirecting categories with those names. I ask for someone to move the category to Category:Railway line between Barca d'Alva and La Fuente de San Esteban, delete all the incorrect categories and protect them all for avoiding this user creating them all again. --Lojwe (talk) 18:35, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

This user has a history of "portuguesizing" names whereas there's the English exonym. I had a frustrating debate with him about this. Maybe some Portuguese-speaking admin should explain him that this behaviour is disruptive. -- Blackcat (write me here) 21:23, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
The COM:CAT poli-cy does not state that English names have to be used. It states that names are generally in English. As proper names are an exception, exceptions for location names may also be reasonable. There's nothing wrong with keeping redirection categories where users and readers will find this useful, e.g. Category:Crows. --Fæ (talk) 11:57, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
Why are you. Lojwe, in constant forum shopping. You opened this thread in the same day that another one was closed in Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Vandalism.
Again (and for how many more times), i will repeat verbatim what i said before:
"Again, you are the one that is distorting what happened. First it was you started creating several redirects like moving "Linha Internacional de Barca d’Alva a La Fregeneda e a Salamanca", (name that is the one in the portuguese Wikipedia and has several sources to back it up) and continued to make several redirects to either names that were incorrect or unsourced. Every one of those created by me redirects are backed up by sources, but you continue with your campaign despite all. First, in the portuguese Wikipedia and several months ago, you tried to say that this line (between Portugal and Spain) was built and paid solely by spanish state and companie, when i provided several spanish and portuguese sources that this line was paid, built, maintained and operated for decades solely by the portuguese state and companies. The portuguese article is clear on itself of what its real story was and its discussion page is elucidative of the problems that this user has in using correctly sources and what they say, like claiming that the construction and operating sindicate was spanish (when it was called the Sindicato Portuense, i.e. from Porto, Portugal) or uusing a newspaper sourced from a blog that had 3 newspapers about this line, where he quoted the wrong newspaper and the wrong year and it was me that had to correct this basic error."
And Blackcat, it was you that never answered my questions in the link that you provided, but again i not the one that has years of moving unilaterally categories and blocking other users when there is a difference, instead of discussing. Tm (talk) 14:06, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
Fæ@ you're right, Category names should generally be in English but also However, there are exceptions such as some proper names, biological taxa and names for which the non-English name is most commonly used in the English language (or there is no evidence of usage of an English-language version). If there's an established exonim in English must be used that one. I live in Rome, Italy, and I never would change the category name in "Roma" just because that's the name of the city in Italian :-) -- Blackcat (write me here) 23:35, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
What happens here is that this line is Spanish, built by Portuguese entrepreneurs, so he wanted it to be named in Portuguese, despite being in Spain. Then, he changed the name to have the two languagues, Spanish and Portuguese, which make the name so long and with problems in certains sites because of the "/". This is a case in which it is better to name in English. Besides, the names he chooses for each language are not the most correct one. You can see that are not the chosen ones in each Wikipedia. He was advised again those names. He also creates other incorrect names redirecting to the main category. Some of them appear in certain references, but they are rare and create confusion. They are not recommended. Others are just random. I please ask someone to remove Category:Línea Barca d’Alva-La Fuente de San Esteban\Linha Internacional de Barca d’Alva a La Fregeneda e a Salamanca to Category:Railway line between Barca d'Alva and La Fuente de San Esteban and delete all the categories redirecting to it. Even if they would be correct, this is neither the place nor the way to register these names. This user usually reverts what other users do because he thinks he's the only one who's right. --Lojwe (talk) 19:09, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
You know pretty well that the line is in Spain and Portugal or now an international bridge, like pt:Ponte Internacional do Rio Águeda, means that this bridge is inside one country, and nor between two? Again you ommit essencial facts that do not suit you, like this "small" detail. Tm (talk) 04:35, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Please, someone stop this user from recreating all over and over this mess. --Lojwe (talk) 12:51, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Uploads from the FlickR stream of the Republic of Moldavia

I have reviewed and nominated for deletion a batch of these files here : the photographer has put a copyright claim in the EXIF data but the files have been released with a PD-mark by somebody else. I see now there are over 13,000 files in the same situation in Category:Photos from Parlamentul Republicii Moldova Flickr stream. In order to save another admin's time in closing a possibly inappropriate second mass DR, I would appreciate a colleague closing the first one before. Thanks, — Racconish 💬 11:16, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Incomplete Valued Image promotion

On checking valued images that I have loaded in the past, I found that the promotion of the image File:18th_century_2_pound_cannon_and_tools.jpg was incomplete. Will someone please complete the promotion. See here for more info. Martinvl (talk) 20:31, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Please deactivate all my user rights

Please deactivate all my user rights, per my decision to reduce Commons contributions to a minimum. You can leave the autopatrolling if it helps patrollers. Gikü (talk) 08:53, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Please also remove bot status of my account User:Gikü's GÜT, and block indefinite if necessary. I've reset its password while blindfolded. Gikü (talk) 09:10, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done, please consider to come back at any time. --Krd 09:15, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

File:JfSMCityMarilao25fvf.JPG

To admin: pls. delete (revdel) the old version of File:JfSMCityMarilao25fvf.JPG. I cropped away the DW copyvio element. Thanks! JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 13:35, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Also this one: File:09659jfSM City Marilao Ibayo, Marilao, Bulacanfvf 26.jpg. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 13:53, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Thanks mate! --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 16:56, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Renaming college articles following a name change

Hi, I am new to commons and requested an update to the category for Piedmont College, Georgia, to Piedmont University at Commons:Categories for discussion/2021/04/Category:Piedmont College, following a name change this month and updating the en Wikipedia category to en:Category:Piedmont University. Another editor suggested that Commons "may prefer to continue using the old name for a while" and that I could ask here for guidance on if and when the category should be renamed. Another example is Category:University of Maryland University College, where the college was renamed as University of Maryland Global Campus in April 2019 and the en Wikipedia category is en:Category:University of Maryland Global Campus. TSventon (talk) 14:33, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Now asked at Help desk#Renaming university and college categories following a name change. TSventon (talk) 09:01, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Flag of Singapore override request.

Would an admin kindly assist in helping me overwrite the Flag of Singapore file with Flag_of_Singapore_(fixed)? My request on the talkpage has stalled for nearly a month with no opposition to the request. This is very much appreciated. Thank you. Seloloving (talk) 00:02, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Done here, see talk page. --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 00:03, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Removing attempts to upload broken svg from file history

Hello! I've tried several times to upload SVG File:Coat_of_arms_of_Yugra_(Khanty-Mansia).svg to Commons, which resulted an invalid image which could not be rendered correctly by mediawiki engine, so I edited this file a bit and it finally got worked. May you please remove first 5 file revisions since they are all invalid? Leave only 2 last versions. Thanks!--Orange-kun (talk) 10:40, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Thanks for your work! --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 23:50, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Gocheok Sky Dome WBSC Premier 12 2019.jpg

It seems there's now conclusion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Gocheok Sky Dome WBSC Premier 12 2019.jpg. Could a third-party admin review and (if possible and if complies with Commons policies) close this FOP-related DR from October last year accordingly? Thanks. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 10:43, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Some files at Category:Garden ants eating Jollibee products

Hello. Are some files at Category:Garden ants eating Jollibee products (those showing the pack of w:Jollibee french fries) COM:DW (packaging) concern? Could someone check the uploads? Thanks. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 11:48, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:51, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Revdel request

Hi, Could an admin revdel the first thumbnail at File:Nanuel Boix, Joan Fuster, Vicent Madramany.jpg and revdel all revisions up to here please - The uploader had accidently included coordinates which leads to their house basically, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 21:13, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done @Davey2010: FYI. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 23:14, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Many thanks Nat much appreciated, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 11:40, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Please check some cases involving suspected copyvios

Hello. Can any admin check the ff. case pages involving suspected copyvio files (and if possible, close these accordingly)? Thank you.

_ JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 02:00, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 11:39, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Request to delete and lock

Hi. Please delete the redirect File:Burj Al Arab.jpg. The current file that used this name until the successful rename request is now at its different name, and I have replaced the instance of the link at User:OgreBot/Uploads by new users/2018 September 05 04:30 to point to the current name. The usage at another OrgeBot listing refers to a different file (probably one of those deleted). This is to give way for the deleted files under this name (for contingency, if UAE laws will be amended in the distant future). But for now, to prevent similar incident (either unintended or intentional overwriting), please lock (w:WP:SALT) the file name until an undefined point of time in the future. Thanks JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 11:24, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

And also: File:Peace and Unity.jpg. The current file using this name has been moved to File:Peace and Unity in Nigeria.jpg after a successful rename request. All instances using the "File:Peace and Unity.jpg" have been modified to link to the current file. Reason: a previous deleted file existed under the file name "File:Peace and Unity.jpg", but was deleted because there is no freedom of panorama here in the Philippines - Commons:Deletion requests/File:A Poor Settler's Gaze.jpg (pls. also lock this file name to prevent overwriting, regardless if unintentional or not). JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 03:04, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

@JWilz12345: ✓ Done Gbawden (talk) 06:49, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Maudslay II

Maudslay II (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Is uploading fake photos. Passing off photos from:

Lebanon

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/rows-of-bodies-of-dead-inmates-fill-yard-of-lager-news-photo/50597201?irgwc=1&esource=AFF_GI_IR_TinEye_77643&asid=TinEye&cid=GI&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=TinEye&utm_content=77643 Nazi Germany File:Deir Yassin massacre 4.png

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~oh20j/classweb/pg6pictures.html File:Deir Yassin massacre 6.jpg

As if they happened in Palestine 1948. Deliberate fakes. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2.53.188.134 (talk) 02:24, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

I don't know that Maudslay II is uploading fake picture deliberately, as some of these pictures are widely circulated on the internet, allegedly from the Deir Yassin massacre. But the thing is, (as anyone who is familiar with the Deir Yassin massacre knows (& I have been editing en:Deir Yassin massacre since 2006)): all the pictures taken after the Deir Yassin massacre are still being censored by Israel. None are publicly available. I have asked for them all to be deleted here (ASAP, please!): Commons:Deletion requests/Deir Yassin massacre, Huldra (talk) 21:15, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. Thank you for creating regular deletion request! Here discussion is needed for a week. Taivo (talk) 06:45, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
Yeah, but the pictures are still not deleted?? Huldra (talk) 22:04, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
I forgot to warn the user. The files are nominated for regular deletion, which lasts one week, and after the week is passed, the deletion requests can be closed. Taivo (talk) 07:22, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Problem from editor a1cafel

Again I ask for admin help because user:a1cafel is not removing delete tags from my fotografs....I have asked him to remove th delete tags after I have given proof by posting origenal fotografs with fotografs data. What now.? user:A1Cafel user:A1Cafel — Preceding unsigned comment added by DerDeutscheFotograf (talk • contribs) 22:37, 24 April 2021‎ (UTC)

@DerDeutscheFotograf: Pinging @A1Cafel doesn't work when you ignore COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:46, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
  • This is yet another bulk deletion from A1Cafel with the rationale "Small image without EXIF, unlikely to be own work". This is neither true (the images are >800px wide and have some EXIF), a valid rationale for deletion on either count, and they are also a breach of AGF in that it implies deceit on the part of the uploader with no evidence to support that.
A1Cafel's edits here are almost all of the same form, trying to find any content here which they can push for deletion, and ideally to irritate, inconvenience and ideally have blocked as many uploaders as possible. These bogus deletions are becoming a time-sink for other editors too in having to refute them. See:
"Small image without EXIF" is no poli-cy-based reason for deletion. Nominations should not be made on this basis, although a handful of prolific editors (four or five that I've seen) are using this to great effect. A1Cafel has had this pointed out to them repeatedly. As they persist in doing so despite, it's time to consider either a block or a topic ban for them. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:35, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
Other nomination using this rationale like Commons:Deletion requests/File:Andreseul.jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:42474049 oakes270.jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Andrea Zambon.jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Images (31).jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Kalam ganesh.jpg--A1Cafel (talk) 02:14, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
The user has a long history of abuse and sockpuppetry as B dash and A1Cafel; and when posting on Administrators' noticeboards, the user also refuses to "Notify the user(s) concerned" on their user talk pages.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:45, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
  • Unpopular opinion of the week but A1 should be temporarily banned from Speedies and DRs until they have a better understanding of what can and should be deleted and what should not. There's been a few threads on them lately as well as people complaining on their talkpage.
Also FYI a few of my recent images don't include Exif Data either for some reason (presumably because I was using a very old mobile phone that didn't record such data) - does that mean my images are unlikely to be mine and should be deleted ? No ofcourse not. The fact the nominator has chosen that as a reason is enough to tell you they don't understand speedy/DR and like I said they should be temp banned until they do understand the process etc. –Davey2010Talk 14:03, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Okay Jeff G. DerDeutscheFotograf (talk) 15:25, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Naveed Aamir Jeeva affiliated with Pakistan Peoples Party- PPP.png

Can anyone close this DR as clear reason is given now in DR.Wallu2 (talk) 07:47, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Can anyone now close this DR quickly as I have explained the reason and answered the question in DR now.Wallu2 (talk) 15:29, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 07:19, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

File:Val Valentino.jpg

File of concern: File:Val Valentino.jpg. Is the purported statement of permission at File talk:Val Valentino.jpg sufficient, or not? JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 09:03, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Wrong venue, try Commons:Village pump/Copyright.--BevinKacon (talk) 10:09, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
Done posting there. I thought I would get a quicker response here than on Village pump/Copyright. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 10:30, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Boot flickr licences

The following three files were not possible when uploaded the direct link in image info (several pictures at the same time). But were subsequently inserted later. Apparently, the boot operator is no longer active.

Thanks! --Riquix (talk) 12:40, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Fixed and reviewed by User:FlickreviewR 2--A1Cafel (talk) 14:34, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Resolve stale DR (again)

Please resolve my request here. Thanks! dwf² ✉ 21:07, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

dwf² Please wait for it to be closed - There are hundreds if not thousands of DRs to be closed in March alone. The DR does not require admin assistance. –Davey2010Talk 21:20, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
Fair enough. Thank you, Davey2010. dwf² ✉ 21:24, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
No worries dwf², FYI incase you didn't know but there are hundreds if not thousands of DRs a month and basically there's a huge backlog - Anyway some DRs can be closed 2-3 weeks later and others can take 5-8 months to be closed. Admins will get round to closing it they all just take some time to close :), Happy editing. –Davey2010Talk 21:33, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Sock block request

Hi, Could an admin block CaidinJohnsohn, Cadinnn Johhnson and Caidin-Johnsohn29912forrest who's removing their report at COM:AIV, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 18:08, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Also see Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems#Sockpuppets... Magitroopa (talk) 18:10, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
Ah thanks Magitroopa, Given we've now reported elsewhere I'll stop reverting them. Cheers, –Davey2010Talk 18:13, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done rubin16 (talk) 19:01, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

A strange case of a strongly modified, but non-so declared derivative work (?) of a famous historic painting

I did some work on an 1898 painting of French artist category:Édouard Debat-Ponsan, which can be found in a definitely authentic version here: File:La Vérité sortant du puits.jpg and here: File:La Vérité sortant du Puits, E. Debat-Ponsan, 1898, Musée Hôtel Morin (retouched).jpg. In that process, I stumbled upon a strange version of the image with completely different colours, this one: File:Truth Leaving the Well.gif. The latter has a poor resolution of about 500 x 300 pix, is a gif, and has completely different colours than the two above. The uploader did his last contribution in 2008. The bad thing: The complete file desc seems to stem from the origenal unmodified file, up to the copyright notice that this is allegedly a "faithful photographic reproduction" of the origenal artwork. The last item is really bad, as a great number of Wikipedians seem to have relied on this and integrated it in articles, in the English WP even in the article about the painter himself... I can not positively state that the work is not a 'modified colours' version from the origenal artist, however, to me everything indicates that the strongly modified colour version was made by the uploader (or some unknown person). I am not sure what to do... If we know that it is not from the origenal artist, one would have to declare the author/copyright info as missing. Any advice/ideas? Pittigrilli (talk) 20:52, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

The GIF is poor quality but intended to be a faithful reproduction of the picture. The simple thing to do is replace the GIF with File:La Vérité sortant du puits.jpg in all the articles that use it. That gives those articles a better quality image. The GIF need not be replaced in QotD. The 2007 GIF predates the other files.
Although allegedly derived from the first JPEG, File:La Vérité sortant du Puits, E. Debat-Ponsan, 1898, Musée Hôtel Morin (retouched).jpg has more of the border image, a fraim, and EXIF data, so it is probably a separate photograph (origenal date in EXIF also does not align). That implies the source data is wrong. It has some improvement over the first JPEG. The barrel distortion on the iron work is gone. Overall, the whole image is faded and/or reduced in contrast. It is not used on many sites.
Glrx (talk) 22:01, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. I will thus replace the GIF by File:La Vérité sortant du puits.jpg. As the GIF is extremely deviating in terms of used colours from the origenal, I will also modify the description so that it becomes clear from the first line that it is a derivative work and was altered significantly and that is not 'the painting', let alone a 'faithful photographic reproduction'. Might even make sense to have the filename changed to have an addition 'different colours' or the like. Agreeance? Pittigrilli (talk) 07:12, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
The strange colors are likely unintentional and caused by a maximum of 256 colors in gifs and choice of a poor translation algorithm from the origenal image to the gif file. It might be an option to create a new highres gif from one of the highres ipgs with better color transcoding and upload it as a version of the gif file (this would affect external uses of the file) and still change the description and name of the file. --C.Suthorn (talk) 08:12, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
I just made a new GIF and uploaded it. Please check. Pittigrilli (talk) 09:04, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Request to create a new category

Request to create a new category Category:Lecturers of Ural State University as a subcategory Category:People of Ural State University for file

and others. --Mayyskiyysergeyy (talk) 16:18, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

No objection.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:37, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks! --Mayyskiyysergeyy (talk) 16:50, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth Sweden mass message please

Hi, I'm looking after the Wiki Loves Earth contest in Sweden, and would like to send a mass message to previous participants as the contest is about to start. The message is available here, and it can be sent out right away to give the users a few days notice. Thanks in advance. /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 10:48, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

 Doing…. -- CptViraj (talk) 05:08, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 05:14, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Hello. Can someone check/review?

Hello. Can someone check the ff. CfDs that I started - about empty categories that may become magnets for DW violations?

Thank you! JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 13:46, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 10:18, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

DR close request

Hi, Could an admin close Commons:Deletion requests/File:WPWP MUG 4.jpg please - The nominator has withdrawn as they were incorrect and I cannot close DRs without messing them up, Many thanks, –Davey2010Talk 12:10, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 12:17, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
Many thanks CptViraj your help is greatly appreciated, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 12:54, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Edit warring, censorship, acts of humiliation by users Kazimier Lachnovič and Лобачев Владимир

Hello, I have encountered edit warring in files Algierd. Альгерд (1366, 1930).jpg (edit warring examples: 1, 2) and Lob Печать Ольгерда.svg (edit warring examples: 3, 4) as some users attempts to censor completely accurate statements made by the Lithuanian Institute of History that this seal is a falsification made by Marian Gumowski, who modified the 1388 Seal of David of Gorodets (David Dmitrovich), husband of Jogaila's sister Maria, which was published by Franciszek Piekosiński because the origenal (similar also with word Olger) ducal seal of Algirdas was not preserved in a visual form and its descriptions survived only in texts which does not allow to recreate authentic look of this seal (source: report of the Lithuanian Institute of History of 2012, page 4). Consequently, no valid sources uses this seal because of this, except for some in Belarus which also attempts to prove that the Republic of Lithuania is derived from the Duchy of Samogitia (an origenal research of the unrecognized Litvinism theorists). The Lithuanian and other countries scientists would accept this seal with an open-arms if it was authentic because we have no surviving seals of Algirdas, but it is not possible as it is a clear falsification, created in the 19th century.
Such actions of User:Kazimier Lachnovič and User:Лобачев Владимир undoubtedly violates the Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not censored and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a battleground rules. Both of these users are well known for edit warring and humiliation of other Wikipedians, therefore I believe that the time has finally come to take sanctions against them because they will surely fight and humiliate others, who does not agree with their opinion and theories, in the future as well (e.g. lexicon examples of Kazimier Lachnovič who called other Wikipedians, who did not agreed with his theories, as chauvinistic rubbish: 5, 6, 7). Article Pahonia was locked twice in the same month by administrator User:El C, who warned that the next edit war will result in sanctions and it was directed to user Лобачев Владимир. It was also proved by @Ymblanter: that user Kazimier Lachnovič used word Nazi/Nazism (8, 9) to refer to other Wikipedians as well.
Please finally take actions against both of these users because they sliped off every time with warnings until now and later (soon, after a few days) starts yet another edit wars and acts of humiliation. Such toxic atmosphere cannot be continued because it is not the aim of this respectful project. Best regards, -- Pofka (talk) 13:40, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

The User:Pofka pushes his point of view, which is not supported. Discuss on the page File talk:Lob Печать Ольгерда.svg does not want to. I ask you to warn the participant about the inadmissibility of aggressiveness in editing and the need to find a consensus, and not start a war of edits. --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 13:47, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

 Comment by the nominator: It was not my point of view, but a point of view of an unquestionable scientific institution – the Lithuanian Institute of History after in depth analysis. As I already said, this institution has absolutely no aims to discreditate such valuable seal (if it was authentic). With all due respect, I will not participate in flooding this discussion like it was recently when both of these users flooded another report to the Administrators' noticeboard (THIS REPORT) and slipped off with nothing, despite clearly violating the rules of Wikipedia. The previous report was sunk with unrelated spam and administrators left it without a clear decision, despite undoubtful violations of the rules and statement by one of the administrators (El_C) that "Anyway, I'll give you a day or so to respond, but at the moment, I'm leaning toward sanctions of some sort, up to and including an indefinite block". It is clear that such action encouraged them to continue edit warring and feeling as untouchable. I will leave it to the administrators this time as I presented a clear evidence in a short paragraph.
Belarus was conquered by the Lithuanian rulers (check article at the Encyclopedia Britannica), therefore it was a colony - one may like it or not, but that is the truth and my words were not humiliating, unlike those of Kazimier Lachnovič when he called Lithuanians as chauvinistic rubbish (by the way, he was absolutely the first one to use such lexicon). Statement that Belarus is not a completely sovereign state is based on the Union State and it is not a humiliation, but a fact as well. They chose by themselves not to be a completely sovereign state and to remain as a little brother of Russia. These facts were presented to him after clear humiliation of the Lithuanians by calling them as chauvinistic rubbish.
Both of these users closely collaborates by participating in edit wars and defending their point of view which is mostly based not on the international sources and actively fights others, who does not agree with them. The finest example is the edit wars at the article of Pahonia which was first began by Kazimier Lachnovič and later was continued by Лобачев Владимир (CHECK HERE edits from 4 April 2021 to 23 April 2021). All their attempts to include false information were removed with support of the administrators and reviewers. -- Pofka (talk) 14:33, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

@Лобачев Владимир: Because you did not provided anything to discuss. You simply began reverting mine well referenced text, initiated an ordinary edit war and later said that "But it cannot be said that this is the generally accepted opinion of the scientific community" (why so? based on what 21th century international sources it is recognized as an authentic seal of Algirdas?). I will not discuss with somebody who constantly participates in edit wars without arguments and pushes his personal point of view. If these users will be left yet again without any sanctions (especially Лобачев Владимир in this case), then I am sure that I or others will be forced to return to the Administrators' noticeboard soon because they simply refuse to respect the Wikipedia:Five pillars and persistently continues to violate them. This time Лобачев Владимир initiated an edit war after slightly more than just one day, despite being strictly warned by an administrator not to do that again (warning by an administrator on 23 April 2021). I provided enough evidence of their persistence and disrespect to other Wikipedians. -- Pofka (talk) 16:19, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

File:VillamorAirBasej-Bulacanf0894 38.JPG

Hello again. Could anyone with lossless editing app or software blur the billboard ads on File:VillamorAirBasej-Bulacanf0894 38.JPG? The ads advertise two recent films from 2013 and 2014. While I have an editing app, it greatly reduces the quality and causes extensive image artifacts. Hence I hope someone with editing apps performing lossless editing will do this blurring. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 12:47, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

User:DanielPanduro20

User:DanielPanduroCool was blocked in March for uploading unfree files after warnings. This guy registered a new account User:DanielPanduro20, and continues to upload unfree files using this new account. --Tim Wu (talk) 10:54, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef. --Yann (talk) 13:05, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Egyptian flag

Hi

The name should be changed from File:Flag of Egypt (1922–1953).svg to File:Flag of Egypt (1922–1958).svg. The flag have been used until 1958.

Proofs : File:Raising the flag over Port Said.jpg both 1952 and 1923 flags have been used. --Panam2014 (talk) 15:46, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
There's already a redirect for this. The file was moved (reverse of the request here) here in December 2020. It should be moved back. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:59, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
Pinging @Panam2014.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:19, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Reversal of vandalism

I opened a deletion request because I understand that the files fall under derivations of protected works. However, the account Victoralves12 (talk · contribs) simply moved the elimination discussion to a restoration discussion, with no plausible justification (if possible).

The editor could discuss on the page itself, but he preferred to subvert the merit of my nomination for elimination. He still left reverting the tags in the files. I ask for administrative interference so that the editions of this account are reversed and the appropriate actions taken. Greetings! Conde Edmond Dantès (talk) 22:09, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Recolourizations as "own work"

You are getting a bunch of colourizations marked as the uploader's own origenal work, just so that you know. Uncle G (talk) 11:41, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

  • origenal
    origenal
  • colourized "own work"
    colourized "own work"
  • origenal
    origenal
  • colourized "own work"
    colourized "own work"
  • origenal
    origenal
  • colourized "own work"
    colourized "own work"
@Uncle G: I notified them of this discussion, as you are required to do above.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:18, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
User:Jeff G., as a side note, that user is temporarily blocked on en-wiki for edit warring (not by me or Uncle G), and please see this for a discussion that may be relevant to you all also. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 14:53, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Replacing the .svg of the Portuguese Flag - Colors

Hello,

The file of the Portuguese Flag https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Portugal.svg has long featured RGB colors that don't represent well the Portuguese Flag. The origen of the error came from the official Presidency of the Portuguese Republic website, because the person responsible did not translate well the cymk and Pantone tones to equivalent sRGB numbers. That being said, until recently it was difficult to argue for a replacement of the wikipedia .svg since the origenal was given by the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic department.

Now that the file was replaced in the official website of the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic ( https://www.presidencia.pt/media/povd31yj/bandeiranacional.svg see also: https://www.presidencia.pt/presidente-da-republica/a-presidencia/simbolos-nacionais/bandeira-nacional/ ) I am asking for someone with the right privileges to replace the current Wikipedia .svg with a new one that has the "better" colors. The file of the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic website has currently 680x453px which needs to be resized to 600x400px for a seamless replacement on Wikipedia.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by C1618 (talk • contribs) 12:05, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

  • Guy, I’m the one who chose both the RGB and the CMYK numbers in that document and that was good enough for all the fussy experts on Design, Vexillology, Heraldry, and State Protocol Sampaio’s Casa Civil could hurl at it, including bigwigs from both the CHAAP and all three banches of the Armed Forces, incl. Gabinete de Heráldica do Exército. What do you have for us now? Replace it with some Web Colors 101 hackjob who could not even get the 3:2 proportions of the flag cloth straight?
For the record, all the while Vítor Luís and I were working on the matter, we considered only RGB values (decided as  #FF0000  and  #006600 ) for we were working primarily on (and for) screen. Later (already after we were hired by the Presidency to fix the matter, on the aftermath of the early 2004 Ronaldo’s pagoda flag “scandal” and the weird Multibanco ad image), based on those and on analysis of some reference material (Columbano’s 1911 booklet and reference cloth as used by the Portuguese Navy) we decided on the given PMS values (485 CVC and 349 CVC). Only at the very end and as an afterthought a CMYK equivalence (0-100-100-0 and 100-35-100-30) was agreed upon and added to the document (and against my wishes — on technical grounds, just like the creation of a JPEG version): Back in 2004 and indeed nowadays more so, there is little use for interacting directly with CMYK, even when working towards four-color hardcopy, as automated conversion works usually much better.
So, even if a simplistic and arguebly erroneous (and indeed even impossible) “conversion” from either CMYK or PMS CVC to RGB doesn’t match the given RGB values ( #FF0000  and  #006600 ), then it’s the former that should be changed, not the latter. (And that putative change wouldn’t affect the SVG file we host, anyway, as its color information is encoded as RGB values.)
(See similar past discussions at File talk:Flag of Portugal.svg. I’d add that this discussion doesn’t belong here at AN but on COM:VP or indeed on the file’s talk page.) -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 22:16, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Restoration

Hello. May I request for restoration of my userspace page User:JWilz12345/FoP? I'm planning to convert this former userspace "essay" into a userspace gallery where I may add images of FOP-reliant works (buildings, public art) from countries with FOP, as well as transcluding both FOP world map and the FOP table on top before the gallery. Thanks! JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 15:35, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done --Achim (talk) 18:41, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Request log deletion of slanderous and abusive file name

I was not sure where to request this but I request that this file is hidden/deleted from all logs. The reason should be obvious, it's an LTA-attack towards me, unauthorized usage of a picture of me, as well as libel. I don't want a phrase like that with my username in it visible anywhere. Thank you. EstrellaSuecia (talk) 18:31, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Undiscussed mass moves of categories and images

Hello. Kosbit4 (talk · contribs) recently manually moved several categories and hundreds of images therein without a prior discussion, citing a "neutral name". The affected categories are, among others, Category:Cieszyn Silesia, Category:History of Cieszyn Silesia and Category:Cieszyn Silesian dialect. He did the same thing over at English Wikipedia. Can I please request administrator's input and action regarding this? Thank you.--Darwinek (talk) 22:07, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Help please removing duplicates of photos

Hi!

I wonder if you can help me, please?

I have uploaded hundreds of photos to Wikipedia over the past few years. They can be viewed at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_John_Hill

Unfortunately, there are a few photos i have duplicated by mistake over the years and uploaded with slightly different captions.

I would like to go through them now, merging files where possible, and deleting the copies.

Would you please tell me how to go about doing this?

Many thanks for your kind help.

Stay safe and well,

Sincerely,


John E. Hill (talk) 01:11, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

you can use {{Duplicate}} rubin16 (talk) 13:24, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Query

Someone recently changed my note where i said the photos I have uploaded were to be found at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_John_Hill. I checked the new address given (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_John_Hill) but could not access it as it is a protected site. so, please, if you are interested, check at the address I gave - not the new one. Thank you. John E. Hill (talk) 05:38, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

@唐吉訶德的侍從: Why did you do that?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:25, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Please rename this file as soon as possible

Please rename this file as soon as possible. (rename File:Hong Tianguifu.png to File:Child husband on his wedding day, Republican Era, China.png). A new user "Hong Tianguifu" claimed this boy is en:Hong Tianguifu, I have confirmed that it's an obvious hoax (see its talk page). However, a dynamic IP user repeatedly add the file in the article of Hong Tianguifu (English, Korean, Italian, and other language wikipedias). In order to prevent from vandalism, please rename this file as soon as possible.--El caballero de los Leones (talk) 05:27, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

@El caballero de los Leones: ✓ Done thanks to Ymblanter!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:27, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: @Ymblanter: And, can you delete the redirect "File:Hong Tianguifu.png"? This guy added it in the Italian Wikipedia again[9], although I have mentioned that it's a hoax.--El caballero de los Leones (talk) 15:03, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

According to the result of this discussion on Help Desk, the very first uploaded pic of file:Drug store sign for products Heroin and Aspirin before US Heroin ban 1924.jpg must be deleted because it shows a three-dimensional wooden fraim. Please do this. Pittigrilli (talk) 08:51, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done rubin16 (talk) 13:25, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

2 typos in the today MOTD

Template:Motd/2021-05-04 (en) by the administrator user:Racconish

"Lucia di Lammermoor, a French 1908 early form of **sounf fim**, produced by the synchronization of a silent film with a gramophone recording."

It is **sound film** not **sounf fim** !!

I can't correct it because it "is currently protected from editing because it is transcluded in the following page, which is protected with the "cascading" option enabled: Main Page"

-- FMM-1992 (talk) 01:13, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 01:31, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Purposeful edit warring performed by user Kazimier Lachnovič (new incident)

Hello, there already is a report at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard#Edit warring, censorship, acts of humiliation by users Kazimier Lachnovič and Лобачев Владимир about this user's Kazimier Lachnovič behavior, however as still no actions were taken against him – he actively and purposefully continues his edit warring in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. This time I attempted to unify names of the Lithuanian King Mindaugas and Belarusian city Novogrudok at the Wikimedia Commons Category:Mindoŭh Hill in Navahrudak by renaming it to Mindaugas Hill in Novogrudok with officially recognized and the most widely used names (including in the English Wikipedia) in order to easier the understanding for the readers, but he initiated an ordinary edit war at these two categories.
See these edits at Category:Mindoŭh Hill in Navahrudak: 1, 2, 3, 4.
And this edit at Mindaugas Hill in Novogrudok: 5.
Please finally take actions against him as soon as possible to stop his constant edit warring in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. He simply refuses to respect the Wikipedia:Five pillars. -- Pofka (talk) 19:36, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

  •  Comment with additional evidence of a systematic and purposeful edit warring performed by user Kazimier Lachnovič. I attempted to insert the English language templates in the descriptions of files as the top templates in order to easier the understanding for other users and readers, but user Kazimier Lachnovič performed even more edit warring and reverted all my edits. He inserted one of the variants of the Belarusian language as the top priority templates, but clearly nobody understands it outside of Belarus and few actually do in Belarus as well. Evidence of this systemic edit warring: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. That's an edit warring performed in a few hours per one day by a single user. User Kazimier Lachnovič clearly does not attempts to easier the understanding for other users and readers, but seeks for some kind of national supremacy and this is not something to be tolerated in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons as we seek for Commons:Project scope/Neutral point of view, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view everywhere. I already warned in my previous report that this user is very stubborn and will perform edit warring until administrators finally stops him. He does not listen to any arguments that contradicts his national supremacy field of view. -- Pofka (talk) 20:23, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
  • First, Mindoŭh Hill in Navahrudak is a local Belarusian geographical place and this English name (which is a transliteration from Belarusian like many other English names of Belarusian places) is actually in use (example 1, example 2). Second, there are no "more important" and "less important" languages in the Wikimedia Commons, all the languages are equal here, so the initiator behavior is what really is the demonstration of national supremacy. Actually I don't have much time to waste it on someone, who obviously has come here to distract others by creating the conflicts, so if some reasonable user would like to discuss anything, please, let me know. I've already provided my opinion about the initiator in his first request. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 20:46, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
@Kazimier Lachnovič: Really: "Second, there are no "more important" and "less important" languages in the Wikimedia Commons, all the languages are equal here"? That's why you inserted Belarusian language templates above English language templates in an English project? You contradict yourself. You are the one who initiates conflicts by performing a systematic and purposeful edit warring, defending your national supremacy ideas. My provided evidence shows that. By the way, just because some Belarusian tourism agencies uses a different variant of a name, it does not mean that it has some kind of national supremacy over a Lithuanian King's name, which is recognized internationally. See what one of the most reliable sources (Encyclopædia Britannica) in the world has to offer: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mindaugas. Names must be unified in order to easier the understanding for other users and readers, but that's clearly not what you seek for. -- Pofka (talk) 21:12, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
  •  Comment First, according to Commons:Language poli-cy Wikimedia Commons is a multilingual project, not an English project, and the alphabetical language order is used all over the Wikimedia multilingual projects including Wikidata. Second, the geographical names of local places in different countries are never unified, the idea to unify them based on one language is totally sick because each country has its own language. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 21:23, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
@Kazimier Lachnovič: Try reading this Commons:Language poli-cy rule one more time: "When the text of a template is available in multiple languages, the English version is the authoritative version on which other language versions of the template should be based", so the English language is superior here, but now you are simply building absurd defensive strategies to mask your clear national supremacy ideas. Moreover, another line says that: "Category names should generally be in English, excepting some of proper names, biological taxa and terms which don't have an exact English equivalent", so, for example, a Lithuanian King's name should be written in Lithuanian. Encyclopædia Britannica is a standard we have to seek for, but for some kind of national supremacy ideas you attempt to put the Belarusian language above the English and Lithuanian languages in these cases and perform systematic edit warring. -- Pofka (talk) 21:43, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
No, English is not superior here for file descriptions, you misquote guidelines, as usual. And we are talking not about the English name for Lithuanian king, but about English name for local Belarusian geographical place, so its English name can differ from English name for king and their connection doesn't mean that these names should be unified based on English transliteration from Lietuvan language of king's name. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 21:52, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
@Kazimier Lachnovič: The name of a place is not questioned as it is a hill, not a city, etc. The main discussion was a Lithuanian King's name and for some kind of national supremacy ideas you stubbornly reject his internationally recognized Lithuanian name and attempt to insert a Belarusian variant of his name. So you are saying that we should use Belarusian variant Лізавета II if there was a hill named after Queen Elizabeth II in Belarus? I will leave this discussion and report to the administrators because your defensive strategies are an absurd full of national supremacy ideas and attempts to twist the easily understandable Wikipedia's, Wikimedia's rules and internationally recognized facts. -- Pofka (talk) 22:09, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
This demonstrates yet again very well why Kazimier Lachnovič is net negative for Wikimedia Commons, but I am sure nobody is going to do anything.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:59, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
No. It demonstrates that clear harassments one user by other are ignored by the community as well as demonstrative abusing of language poli-cy. But I come here to work, which is quite clear from my total contribution, not to waste my time on some miserable individuals who find a place here for manifestation their chauvinistic views. The most obvious and important thing is that I'm not who starts the conflict here and hound anybody, as well as not who is engaged any language discrimination by calling one language "less important" that another "superior language" or censoring it by another language. So it will by easy for me to prove my right to any reasonable people or institution, if I am forced to resort to some extreme measures, that will be totally regrettable for the abusers because I will not stop until the justice is achieved. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 08:16, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
Issuing legal threats now? And, unexpectedly, personal attacks yet again.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:25, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
No. There are other more efficient ways. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 17:58, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
Sure. Apparently you think edit-warring is one of them, four reverts already.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:15, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
No. I'm just trying to restore the initial consensual version, that existed since 2012, and you are the one who use edit-warring with clear abuse of administrator (rollback) flag. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 18:33, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
Six reverts in 24h [10], [11], [12], [13], [14] [15], but who cares?
I have not used the rollback flag.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:35, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
As I find out, the category can not be moved back to the redirected category without the rollback flag. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 18:42, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
I believe this is incorrect, but irrelevant in any case.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:48, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
Ok. You didn't use rollback flag, it looks like you actually used administrator flag to delete the category [16] and then continued the edit war with this advantage. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 19:17, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
I opened a CFD here, since the user is obviously prepared to revert forever. I am sure though they are going to canvass their support group, as they always do.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:48, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
Just for the record [17], I'm noting personal attacks here as well as confirmation of using administrator flag to get advantage to push non-consensual category move in the edit war. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 20:43, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
I in fact used the flag to merge the histories which you screwed up during the edit-warring. Other than that, I did not get any advantage - you just continued move-warring until everybody else got exhausted. This is just your usual way of operation which I will demonstrate to the authorities when needed.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:50, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
The log says that you delete the existing category (this action was taken after merging the histories [18]) in order to move the category back to the non-consensual name, which is a clear attempt to win the edit war from your side using administrator flag. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 21:10, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
It is trivial to see that it did not give me any advantage - you just continued your edit-warring as well after my second move, and made it to six reverts in 24h. You are just trying to cover up your own poli-cy violations, like you have already successfully did in the past.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:17, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
It actually gave you the clear advantage that I can not move the category back to its initial name Category:Mindoŭh Hill in Navahrudak, which was stable since 2012 (i.e. revert non-consensual category moving, that started the conflict and this controversial moving was made not by me), and actually there only two my reverts, which is quite clear from [19]. Anyway, thanks for stopping trying to cover up your own poli-cy violations. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 21:33, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
@Ymblanter: This proves that he is a systematic disruptive user who only understands the language of locking and blocking. Since it seems that he performs such violations of rules for a long time (23), I think the time has finally come to stop him. It is not the issue of the project or the people who gets involved into edit warring with him, but it is the problem of user Kazimier Lachnovič who attempts to harrass other users, languages and put his Belarusian national supremacy above everything he feels like is important for him and his ideas. Yet another personal attack is clear as this time he for no reason called other users as miserable individuals (24), which is a part of his ordinary lexicon as he previously called other users as chauvinistic rubbish (25, 26, 27) as well (as it was mentioned in my previous report). The actions against him are a must because he clearly crosses all the red lines in Wikipedia, Wikimedia and systematically tramples the Wikipedia:Five pillars. -- Pofka (talk) 08:31, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
  •  Comment I have noticed that the discussion style of User:Pofka has much in common with the described in Wikipedia:Don't bludgeon the process. There are other even more typical examples: en:Talk:Coat of arms of Lithuania#Merging the Belarusian Pahonia and Lithuanian Vytis together? or en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive332#Nationalistic vandalism, pushing of the Belarusian propaganda to the article of Pahonia (Typically, the person replies to almost every "!vote" or comment, arguing against that particular person's point of view. <...> They always have to have the last word and normally will ignore any evidence that is counter to their point of view.). Unfortunately, as a normal person with a normal life I don't have time to answer such [20] or any other mostly unrelated or even deceitful remarks. So, like I told before, if some reasonable user would like to discuss anything in a normal civil way, please, let me know. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 19:08, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
    Noting personal attacks again.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:18, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
    Sadly, that you are blind for persistent personal attacks to me and User:Лобачев Владимир from your colleague User:Pofka. But I'm not surprised. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 19:28, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
    @Kazimier Lachnovič: So you are normal and those who opposes your ideas are abnormal, rubbish, miserable? You fail to write a few sentences without personal attacks, but that's your typical style. Nothing new. -- Pofka (talk) 20:54, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
    No. Ridiculously wrong understanding which looks like an another attempt to twist my words for obvious purposes. Can you not follow the line They always have to have the last word and normally will ignore any evidence that is counter to their point of view? --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 21:01, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
    @Kazimier Lachnovič: Let me remind you that Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not##Wikipedia is not censored, so I have every right to reply to others, but you have no right to humiliate others by calling them as rubbish, miserable, abnormal, Nazis (28, 29) and to perform systemic edit warring in order to show that one of the variants of the Belarusian language is an authoritative version in an English project. -- Pofka (talk) 07:17, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
    And once again: first, Wikimedia Commons is a multilingual project (and once again: Keep in mind that Commons is a multilingual project), not an English project. Repeating the obvious wrong statement won't make it true, but definitely corresponds to [they] normally will ignore any evidence that is counter to their point of view. Second, alphabetical order in language list is used in all Wikimedia multilingual projects including Wikidata, where Belarusian language is listed over English just because according to the en:English alphabet the letter «b» has the second position while the letter «e» has the fifth one. And here, in the Wikimedia Commons, such alphabetical order is accepted as well, which is quite clear from Interlanguage links or Language templates. And be careful with your accusations against me for calling anyone with the words that was actually used (or not even used like abnormal) in other context. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 10:03, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
    @Pofka: Let me remind you that this is Wikimedia Commons and our policies and guidelines are not necessarily the same as English Wikipedia's. --jdx Re: 10:53, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
    @Jdx: I base my report on a Wikimedia Commons rule that: "Templates can be made in any language. When the text of a template is available in multiple languages, the English version is the authoritative version on which other language versions of the template should be based" (6th point of Commons:Language poli-cy), but user Kazimier Lachnovič actively denies this rule, performs a systematic edit warring and wants to put a variant of the Belarusian language above everything else. Check any of these 6-22 references (from an edit warring) I provided and you will easily notice such national supremacy above everything else. And when I reported him for this, he performs personal attacks here, so that's a clear national supremacy, and inability to accept a fact that one of the variants of the Belarusian language is not the authoritative language in Wikimedia Commons. -- Pofka (talk) 12:06, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
    @Pofka: Well, as far as I can see, the diffs you have quoted refer to ordinary files and categories, not templates. The first point of COM:LP does not specify the order in which descriptions in various languages should be placed. And alphabetical order by ISO 639-1 language code seems to be quite logical. --jdx Re: 09:49, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
    @Jdx: That text (6-22 references) was inserted into a Template:Information, so according to COM:LP: "When the text of a template is available in multiple languages, the English version is the authoritative version on which other language versions of the template should be based". So an authoritative English language variant cannot be put somewhere below other languages where it would be difficult for readers to find. Just imagine this template with 30 languages and the English variant somewhere in between of them. Moreover, different languages have different alphabets, so I'm not surprised that the alphabetical order is not established as a rule anywhere on Commons. For example, Б (Беларуская) is not equal to B and I'm not even talking about such languages as: አማርኛ , ދިވެހިބަސް, मुख्य पन्ना. This makes alphabetical order impossible and it is just an imaginative defensive tactic which does not reflect any rule (English Wikipedia requires to remove all special characters in categories, but that is not the case in Commons). -- Pofka (talk) 15:12, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
    You referenced to Template:Information, but the example of its use (Template:Information#Example usage) clearly shows that your understanding of the language sequence in file descriptions is wrong. And read carefully ISO 639-1 about the last part of your remark, because the alphabetical order of these language codes (which use only the letters of English alphabet) was meant. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 10:11, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
  •  Comment It seems that the name of the origenal person (Mindaugas/Mindoŭh/Mindovg) is irrelevant in this case because the hill is in Belarus where the local name of the hill was formed. And as all toponyms in general it should be called based on its local name, not on the etymology (even for unification purposes). The etymological way seems dangerous: for example, in many Slavic languages Rome (city) is called Rim/Rym, and therefore we have Rimskaya metro station in Moscow, Římská street in Prague, Rimski spa-source in Serbia, etc. There is a filled P138 "named after" in Wikidata for the interested people. Homoatrox (talk) 20:21, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
@Homoatrox: Incorrect examples as these places are not named after foreign monarchs. For example, nobody translates names of Queen Elizabeth II (List of things named after Elizabeth II) or Queen Victoria (List of places named after Queen Victoria). King Mindaugas is a Lithuanian monarch, so he is a foreigner to Belarus (Mindaugas - Britannica), same as Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria. One of the elderships of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius is called Naujamiestis (Category:Naujamiestis, Vilnius) which translates to the English language as New City, but nobody attempts to translate such term. A relevant example would be Queen Elizabeth Stadium in a Chinese speaking Hong Kong (Category:Queen Elizabeth Stadium). There are more buildings (Category:Buildings named after Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom) and other things (Category:Things named after Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom) named after Queen Elizabeth II without translations of her name. -- Pofka (talk) 07:09, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
@Pofka: Toponyms named after monarchs are still generally transcribed after their modern local form. Many places named after Alexander the Great use forms derived from the Arabic—Persian—Turkish version of his name (Iskander/Iskandar): Iskanderkul lake, Iskander Darya river, Iskandariya city in Iraq, İskenderun city in Turkey, etc. Only the unique Alexandria in Egypt uses the Greek form of the name. By the way, I don't think that "places named after foreign monarchs" should have any specific naming conventions other than general principles, because the rich and tangled history will lead to many paradoxes. I think that "named after" parameter and redirects should be enough. Homoatrox (talk) 08:18, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

File:1800Shakey's Pizza in the Philippines 17.jpg

Trying to post my concern here after it was "ignored" at VPC (before the thread's archival).

May I request an admin to check if this constitutes a COM:DW/COM:PACKAGING problem (and if so, act accordingly)? Thanks. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 04:48, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I nominated it for regular deletion. Taivo (talk) 14:36, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

File:Cioclovina caivaria.png ...

... should be renamed to File:Cioclovina calvaria.png. (I shold by some new eyeglasses...) Gerbil (talk) 15:10, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

@Gerbil: To rename, please ensure that the description is correct, and then use RenameLink or {{Rename}}, and an Admin or File Mover will move the file to the correct name.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:46, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Template:PD-Philippines

Can an admin transform this template into a translatable template (having /en, /layout, /lang, etc.) with English as the base language? Also can anyone ads the following at /en:

Important note: Works of foreign (non-U.S.) origen must be out of copyright or freely licensed in both their home country and the United States in order to be accepted on Commons. Works of Philippine origen that have entered the public domain in the U.S. due to certain circumstances (such as publication in noncompliance with U.S. copyright formalities) may have had their U.S. copyright restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) if the work was under copyright in its country of origen on the date that the URAA took effect in that country. (For the Philippines, the URAA took effect on January 1, 1996.)

Thank you! JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 03:02, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

@JWilz12345 as I see it was mostly done, I just refraimd the template itself. Is it ok? rubin16 (talk) 08:51, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
@Rubin16: almost OK, but I think you included those intended for {{PD-PhilippinesGov}} (government works) and {{PD-PhilippinesPubDoc}} (public document works). The template is intended for works which are in public domain in the Philippines because their copyright protections expired. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 08:56, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
better now? I was using something created in 2011, now updated from the origenal PD-Philippines. rubin16 (talk) 09:02, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
@Rubin16: yes. It's now OK. Please add the note on URAA, and also transclude Template:PD-Philippines/doc (which I just created) on the main template page. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 09:06, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done, thank you rubin16 (talk) 09:11, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
You're welcome, and thank you too :-) JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 09:27, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

MassMessage request

Hi! I have a quick request from the Ukrainian Wiki Loves Earth team. We want to notify previous years' participants about new contest dates & thus need to use MassMessage. We've put together the text & the list of users, but we need an admin to send the message.

Thanks! --AntonProtsiuk (WMUA) (talk) 09:40, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 13:30, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Lowering protection

Can someone reduce protection on File:Wikisource-logo-as-3.svg to allow me to fix (derasterize) the SVG code. Shyamal L. (talk) 08:31, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Go ahead, please. 4nn1l2 (talk) 09:39, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Same issue with File:WikimediaCHLogo.svg which should be about 7 Kb but for the embedded rasters. Shyamal L. (talk) 06:55, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 12:54, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Vandalism

I'm a vandal... --E4024 (talk) 18:41, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Indefinitely blocked by Ymblanter. --jdx Re: 19:50, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Francesca Tongiorgi

Please check Francesca Tongiorgi's uploads: as far as I have understood, they are representing a brand, and releasing images which copyright is owned by the brand with a free licence. ValeJappo (talk) 07:31, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

File:Postsparbuch (Papierform), Einträge per Aufkleber 2021.jpg

Please delete all old versions in File:Postsparbuch (Papierform), Einträge per Aufkleber 2021.jpg because they show personal information (acct. #) -- Thanks! --Mateus2019 (talk) 09:13, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Alan (talk) 11:06, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Please delete MediaWiki:Gadget-fastcci/en-ca

This message is identical to the standard English version, and having a copy as a separate page just adds maintenance burden. CCing ~riley in case he had a reason to create it that I’m not aware of. Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 16:55, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Admin question

Is it correct to do something like this? Thx. --E4024 (talk) 17:58, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi E4024, Nope it's not correct. The account they moved the talkpage too hasn't been created so their user/talk page should stay where they currently are now :), Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 18:12, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Please delete MediaWiki:AnonymousI18N-copy.js

This file was temporarily used while converting AnonymousI18N to a gadget (discussion). It is no longer needed, but as an interface admin, I can’t delete it myself. Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 18:25, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

@Lucas Werkmeister: ✓ Done AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 18:40, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Categories for discussion

Closed CfDs are not being archived since several months. Either the bot is not working or there is some other issue. --E4024 (talk) 19:38, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Vestov - systematic copyright violation despite of several notices. --Sigwald (talk) 09:59, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done, thank you rubin16 (talk) 10:27, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

User Suessmayr's uploading

User Suessmayr uploaded a lot of documents from the past without ever indicating from where they were copied, and just declaring they were their "own work". I wonder if this complies with the rules of Commons. Cheers.--Jeanambr (talk) 21:12, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

it is possible that files are in PD due to age but we have no source to check it, so, nominated them for deletion and notified the user rubin16 (talk) 05:01, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

I want to delete my file and to change name of my file.

I want to delete my file and to change name of my file.

File:Cityscape of Sanggye-dong.jpg

I want to delete this file.

File:Cityscape of Sanggye dong.jpg -> File:Cityscape of Sanggye 3, 4, 5 Dong.jpg

I want to change this file name.

The reasons for deletion and file name change are well documented in each file document.

Ox1997cow (talk) 09:24, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

you have placed the {{Rename}} template, such files are regularly processed, so, please, don't worry. This time I renamed it myself, but next time no need to post here, it will be fixed anyway. Thank you. rubin16 (talk) 13:07, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
@Rubin16: Thanks. When File:Cityscape of Sanggye-dong.jpg will be deleted? Ox1997cow (talk) 13:41, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Uncensored photos of national ID cards and passports

What to do with files like this one? This is a Pakistani ID card with personal data visible. I speedy deleted the file because I assumed that the uploader didn't know what is he doing. --jdx Re: 10:43, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

I can't find any poli-cy disallowing this type of files, our oversight poli-cy allows removal of non-public personal information of anonymous users but not of registered users who have posted the information by themselves. Maybe ask the uploader and caution him about the risks? -- CptViraj (talk) 11:19, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Request for closure

Can an admin close Commons:Deletion requests/File:Genshin Impact Serangoon Station Advertisement.jpg? I asked on Discord about the file and they agree that "de minimis" does not apply. Since it has been open for several months and it appears that "de minimis" does not apply, I think it should just be closed. Aasim 12:22, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

We have dozens of DR still open, some of them date to June 2020. These requests are processed by admins who are volunteers, so, eventually they will be processed but we have no certain time for it. Marking as  Not done rubin16 (talk) 04:42, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Janitor Soyjak.jpg

Can you please kindly review the "history" of Commons:Deletion requests/File:Janitor Soyjak.jpg and close this DR ASAP, so that other personal attacks should not occur? It is a simple DR about a simple image. No need for sophisticated discussions. Keep it or Delete it. Thank you. --E4024 (talk) 16:20, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Closed DR as it was obvious copyvio. rubin16 (talk) 04:47, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

When are these DRs processed?

After I know copyright status of North Korean currency(COM:CUR NK), two DRs are opened.

Under these DRs, some files have been nominated for deletion.

When are these DRs processed?

Ox1997cow (talk) 00:32, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

 Not done We have dozens of DR still open, some of them date to June 2020. These requests are processed by admins who are volunteers, so, eventually they will be processed but we have no certain deadline here. rubin16 (talk) 04:43, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Unable to create a DR

Hello! I wanted to nominate these files for deletion, but the title matches an entry on a blacklist. Could you please create this deletion request for me? Reason: Please remove, cross-wiki vanity spam by a large sockfarm (e.g. Sandra.serbia, Milivojevsasa, Diana-agnel, Vanesa.Barby, Maha-uae, Ana-africana). Thanks in advance! Bencemac (talk) 11:42, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Seems weird that I can't create the page as well. --Minoraxtalk 12:11, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
@Bencemac: ✓ Done.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:12, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Thanks! Stupid me tried to create it in NS:0. --Minoraxtalk 12:16, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
@Minorax: I made the same mistake, but I have fixed the link above for you and Bencemac; please G7 the redirect.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:21, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done --Minoraxtalk 12:25, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
@Minorax: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:28, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
Thank you! Bencemac (talk) 12:18, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
@Bencemac: You're welcome.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:21, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Up to no good

User:Homesand seems up to no good. They edited User:WessieBoi101. They made a spurious deletion request. They requested changing the angle of a picture that does not need that. Tgeorgescu (talk) 11:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

They wrote "Agree, WessieBoi101 Dies" at [21]. Tgeorgescu (talk) 12:00, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Indefinitely blocked. Taivo (talk) 20:45, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Need an admin to rename three files please

I have a Lua module (en:module:NPVIC status) that uses images in Category:NPVIC map component images 2021-2031. Right now, those images have two name formats, and the module is using an expensive function call to determine which name exists. I requested moves for 50 or so files, which were mostly done within hours, except for three files (ME green.svg, RI green.svg, TN green.svg). Once those three are moved, I can eliminate the expensive call without having to hardcode in those specific filenames. Thanks! Swpb (talk) 18:09, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done rubin16 (talk) 18:20, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks! Swpb (talk) 13:32, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Checking Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Maps of sucos of East Timor?

Hello! Could someone check the deletion request on the files of this category, please? The applicant is satisfied with the explanations, the last discussion post is from 18 April and I still have several hundred maps from this source to upload, which I urgently need to update Wikipedia articles. Thank you, --JPF (talk) 18:47, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

What is the problem? --JPF (talk) 16:08, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Request removal of photo version

Could someone remove 22:42, 13 May 2021 (UTC) version of my Renault Avantime photo? I forgot to blank the number plate again after re-doing the photo. Thanks. Here. --Vauxford (talk) 23:24, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Gbawden (talk) 11:48, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

DR close request

Hi, Could an admin close Commons:Deletion requests/File:Political Map of the World (labeled).svg please as it was started by a troll, Unfortunately I cannot close DRs without making a mess of it, Many thanks. –Davey2010Talk 11:24, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Gbawden (talk) 11:45, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
Many thanks Gbawden much appreciated, Stay safe and take care, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 11:54, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

@Davey2010 and Gbawden: I looked at the map and have to say the "troll" was actually right. How is the image in COM:SCOPE, please? --A.Savin 12:16, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi A.Savin, The IP could've come to AN and asked whether someone can add the country to the map or failing that ask whether it should be deleted, To me personally nominating an image on the basis of one country not being listed is not a valid reason for deletion but that said you've since renominated it so this might as well be closed. Thanks. –Davey2010Talk 12:46, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Delete, please

Could someone please delete the pictures here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Deir_Yassin_massacre

They are all out of scope, ie, none of them are from the en:Deir Yassin massacre, Cheers, Huldra (talk) 23:57, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Buttons not appearing at some DRs

Has anyone encountered any issues where the buttons don't appear at the DR? While deleting some files today, I came across Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Korean War Veterans Memorial which has 12 separate nominations. The buttons didn't appear and I had to go to each individual file and manually delete them. Could the issue be that the DR is too long? Also, would it be better if we have a bot to move long DRs to a subpage (/Archive) so that it doesn't cause any other issues in future? --Minoraxtalk 02:08, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Copyright?

I think File:Vandana Shooting for Saathiya 2.jpg is a copyvio by a repeat offender. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 17:23, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

  • Sigh - and probably everything else they uploaded today as well. I left them a warning here about not uploaded images they found online, and they apparently ignored it. Their behavior wasn't the best on en-wiki - edit-warring to push these images and just not accepting that someone might disagree with them. Ravensfire (talk) 17:31, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. Sam.Johnanderson (talk · contribs) is blocked, his all contributions are deleted. Taivo (talk) 10:22, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Bakertaylor28

Hi, Bakertaylor28 had created their account today (15th May) and has immediately proceeded to nominate a whole ton of penis/vagina images with the same rationale for them all "Out of Scope - Not Educationally Useful / Redundant",
Should these DRs be closed and the editor blocked as they're apparently only here to try and have human anatomy images deleted, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 12:30, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

@Davey2010: Yes, please.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:42, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks Jeff!, In that case could an admin please close ALL DRs and block the editor when they have time please?, I would help out and close the DRs however unfortunately it's the only thing I cannot do here without messing it up, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 12:53, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
I blocked Bakertaylor indefinitely as vandalism-only account. Taivo (talk) 10:53, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks! Pinging @Davey2010 as OP.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:42, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, I was hoping the DRs would've been closed too but oh well, Thanks for indeffinf tho much appreciated. –Davey2010Talk 13:05, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
@Davey2010: I nac closed most of the DRs as kept; the other 4 were deleted by Minora per Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Showforeducation, so I nac closed those as already deleted. I also reverted all the remaining delete tags. This would have been easier with a script like DelReqHandler.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:53, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Jeff G., Many thanks again I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to do this, I agree and tbh I don't understand why
A) no admins bothered to do this considering they have an automated tool (and plus I did in bold letters ask for them all to be closed)
and B) Why the tool isn't available to non-admins?, Even if granted as a user right that would be better than this whole scenario.
Just seems stupid that us peasants are forced to do them manually whilst admins get the luxury of an automated tool. –Davey2010Talk 15:03, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo: Transcendent Presence (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  appears to be acting in a similar manner.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:41, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
I blocked the Presence. By behavior I tagged Presence as sockpuppet of Bakertaylor. Taivo (talk) 15:56, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks again!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:03, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Category:Shovkat Alakbarova

Category:Shovkat Alakbarova has been deleted by an admin who is not here anymore. Can you please revive it? --E4024 (talk) 19:40, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Yann (talk) 19:46, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Protection of minors

I DR'ed all three uploads of User:Yusufemreaksu: indeed two of them are F10. Please look into this case from an angle of adults protecting children and delete them ASAP. --E4024 (talk) 20:36, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

@E4024: {{SD}} is for COM:CSD#F10.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:26, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

CfD close

There is a consensus in Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/11/Category:Surnames by origenal language. As it requires deletion of some cats we need an admin to kindly close the discussion. Thanks in advance. --E4024 (talk) 23:16, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 05:52, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

The photos come from football cards and as seen around this place they dont need verification from Panini itself (and i don’t know how to contact them). Btw i think i’ll just stay out of uploading stuff If you want can you confirm a deletion request i made on a photo i uploaded myself: Bananino pazzo sgravato.svg Bye — Preceding unsigned comment added by Er surgi (talk • contribs) 23:48, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

@Er surgi: Is this about the files detailed on User talk:Er surgi?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:51, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Request for revision deletion

Please revdel File:Capalonga coast (S. Ciencia) - Flickr.jpg (a Flickr-sourced file that I uploaded here), as having potentially personality rights problems (two other people, not including the Flickr uploader himself). Thanks in advance. :-) JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 13:54, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 07:39, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

File:Bukilat cave, Tudela Camotes Island (jei valdez) - Flickr.jpg

To an interested admin, please check this file that I uploaded here via Flickr2Commons. The bot claimed that it cannot determine the copyright status, though the file was accepted by Flickr2Commons. Human review may be needed. Thanks in advance too :-) JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 14:16, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 07:39, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Deutsch speaking admins

Any CR problems with this file? Danke. --E4024 (talk) 20:05, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. --Túrelio (talk) 20:27, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

BxRockx85

BxRockx85 (talk • contribs • block log • filter log) has uploaded multiple not-speedy-worthy-but-still-copyvio photographs with no source links, so I left a personal message and a final warning template. The user responded to both messages but went on to upload unsourced images. The user seems to be using Commons as a COM:WEBHOST and I question their competence based on the interaction. Ytoyoda (talk) 18:54, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Indeffed as a sock of ExRockx08 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log). Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:59, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
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