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The Academy of fine Arts Vienna has a new Corporate Design an therefore a new Logo. I would like you to change that Logo, I cannot upload the Image because there seems to be an error!! Thank you, with kind regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Büro für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit (talk • contribs) 08:06, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

@Büro für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit: Please try uploading the logo directly from Wikimedia Commons: Special:UploadWizard 4nn1l2 (talk) 10:05, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
@Büro für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg logo as a new user. The logo you tried to upload is smaller, and you indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a smaller logo, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including EXIF metadata, but as-is it may be judged too complex to be under TOO in the country of origin, so you may need to post COM:L compliant permission for such works on your official website or social media presence or send permission via VRT. Also, any raster image will look jaggy when scaled up, so you may want to upload an svg version, too. If you can't get a compliant license, the logo may still be uploaded to English or German Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F or de:Wikipedia:Bildrechte#Bilder, deren Urheber nicht bekannt ist because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:35, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
I get the impression that this is a new work, so if it isn't too simple to be copyrighted, we need a licence for uploading it to Commons. On Wikipedia in German, fair use is very restricted, and I don't think it covers this case. Thus, make sure the logo can be licensed under a suitable licence, such as CC-BY-SA 4.0, and send e-mail from an official account of the organisation according to the instructions at Commons:VRT. Add {{Trademark}} to the file description page to remind reusers on the restrictions in the use of the logo. –LPfi (talk) 16:45, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

COM:Deletion requests/File:Christopher Gattelli, 2018.jpg

Hello! The person depicted in the photo that I have uploaded requests its deletion. Please process this DR as soon as possible. Thanks. --INS Pirat (talk) 22:06, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Kept - no valid reason for deletion. Gbawden (talk) 08:25, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Attack image

Would someone please deal with File:Pedophilenik.jpg which was just added to en:Pedophilia (I reverted it there). I'm assuming that an image of an identifiable person with this title is not acceptable. Johnuniq (talk) 10:17, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done deleted as out of scope and personality right violation. --GPSLeo (talk) 10:40, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

DB-G7 request.

Can an admin look at COM:HD#Are video game mobs copyright violation and delete the two files (File:Pillager (minecraft).png and File:Steve.png) the OP uploaded? The OP tried to nominate them for deletion, but didn't do so correctly. Since both files were uploaded earlier today, they probably can be deleted per COM:CSD#G7. Trying to explain that to the OP, though, might just confuse them even more. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:46, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 03:18, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Thank you CptViraj. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:37, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Lithuanian dispute

I sought for a Lithuanian-speaking fellow admin here on Commons but it seems we don't have any. Is there anyone even with a basic knowledge of Lithuanian (and Lithuania, too) have a look at this RfD please? -- Blackcat 18:09, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. I closed the discussion. We have no Lithuanian-speaking administrators and no administrators from Lithuania. Taivo (talk) 10:15, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Benutzerin ist verstorben

Hallo, bitte User talk:Parvati~commonswiki sperren. Benutzerin ist verstorben. Siehe [1]. Eine Benutzerseite User:Parvati~commonswiki gibt es anscheinend nicht. --Rufus46 (talk) 15:38, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked the user indefinitely. Taivo (talk) 10:19, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Unlock request of Ulisesval

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

I open the discussion to reach a consensus, I applied the block two years ago.

Unlock request: User talk:Ulisesval

"Hola, me bloquearon indefinidamente hace 3 años por incumplir las normas en reiteradas ocaciones, subiendo contenido con copyright por ignorancia. Hoy despues de interiorizarme mas en wikipedia en este tiempo, es que reconozco que la sancion dada fue correcta. De lo contrario habria seguido insistiendo en mi error. Presento mis mas sinceras disculpas, reconozco mi mal accionar, y pido por favor si se puede evaluar la posibilidad de desbloquearme. De ser ese el caso prometo ser mucho mas cuidadoso al momento de subir contenido, y riguroso con el copyright. Gracias."

"Hello, I was blocked indefinitely 3 years ago for repeatedly breaking the rules, uploading content with copyright out of ignorance. Today, after learning more about Wikipedia at this time, I recognize that the sanction given was correct. Otherwise, I would have continued insisting on my mistake. I offer my sincere apologies, I recognize my wrongdoing, and please ask if you can evaluate the possibility of unblocking me. If that is the case, I promise to be much more careful when uploading content, and rigorous with copyright . Thank you."

Regards!! Ezarateesteban 11:49, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. I unblocked Ulisesval. Taivo (talk) 10:25, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Problematic photo

Dear admins, I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I can't find a better one, so please move my question to wherever you think it's appropriate.

I have an issue with this photo. Now I know of course that "This photo makes me sick" is not a valid reason for deletion. There are several other considerations however:

  • The description says the photo was taken in Abyssinia in 1936. The licensing tag says the "country of origin" is Italy. Now does Abyssinia being an Italian colony at that time make it "Italy" in a legal sense?
  • What about personality rights? This is a picture of a man exposing a woman to public humiliation. And we are supporting this public humiliation by publishing the photo and keeping it up for all eternity and on a worldwide level.

Thanks for taking a moment to consider this issue. --217.239.4.203 16:49, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

The copyright laws to apply are the ones of the country controlled the region at this time. As this is a historical photo and the people depicted are already dead there is no personality rights problem. We need such photos to illustrate the topic. Title and description are clearly explaining the context. --GPSLeo (talk) 17:06, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Image licence review

Hi, File:Mercedes (4685956572).jpg has sat needing a licence review since May 2021 - The source file has been deleted and no back up archives exist (1 2), So given we don't know what the licence was or even if it was a CC licence in the first place should this file be deleted?,

Unfortunately other than this image and the one above we have no other '00 Sprinters in the same cherry red paint which is a shame but such is life, Only found this file as I often patrol the cats categorising unidentified models, Thanks, Regards, –Davey2010Talk 18:09, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Strange issue in File:Flag of Afghanistan (2013–2021).svg

Could someone explain why the current version has an earlier date (11 Feb 2019) than the previous version (17 Aug 2021)? A bug? --ToughDonk (talk) 07:16, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

@ToughDonk: That appears to be the result of a merge. Pinging @King of Hearts, Yann as Admins who logged activity on that filename.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:32, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Pages created

Please take a look at the pages created by 64.114.239.29 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  on 10 February 2022. Thanks, --SVTCobra 21:48, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

I should say edits. They weren't page creations. --SVTCobra 21:59, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done. Globally locked for 3 months, edits are reverted. Taivo (talk) 10:45, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: . I just noticed that those pages (along with many others) were created by another globally locked account BP001002004008 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) . After doing some sampling, they don't seem to be used anywhere. Do they serve any purpose? Cheers, --SVTCobra 13:15, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

In Commons:Deletion requests/File:Maki Murakami.jpg, 80.11.37.141 has made what appears to be a legal threat:[2]

  • "[...] If no response is received within two weeks, the next step will be taken. (Take legal action)"

Please consider whether any administrative action is needed. Verbcatcher (talk) 07:39, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. Commons does not tolerate legal threats. Taivo (talk) 10:40, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 19:47, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Revdel of file

File:Microsoft Defender Smartscreen.png - Wikimedia Commons

Can the oldest revision of this file be deleted? It contains material that is against Commons copyright policy because it is above the threshold of originality. Aasim (talk) 19:01, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. --Túrelio (talk) 19:07, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Please fix gadget

Can someone deploy this please ? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-Stockphoto.js#fix_offset_on_video_players —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 20:21, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

File:MerkelTS.jpg is a hoax and BLP violation

See here. Doug Weller (talk) 12:31, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Deleted as a copyvio. -- CptViraj (talk) 13:16, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Commons:互助客[栈棧]

Please change the content of pages above to #REDIRECT [[Commons:Village_pump/zh]], thanks. Stang★ 18:13, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

User:Richiex and use of Wikipedia for sexual gratification

Hi, I just would like to bring this to someone's attention as I'm personally not sure as to how to interpret this situation. User:Richiex has uploaded a pretty massive collection of images and videos depicting his penis both within and outside sexual acts, i.e. masturbating. Some of these images (Male urethral opening location.JPG, or A frenulum of human penis.jpg) have some encyclopedic value, however, the vast majority of these images are unused and it seems a great many of them have already been deleted. Despite the obvious COM:PENIS and COM:PORN issues, on the blog linked in his user page, he describes himself as an exhibitionist who uploads videos of himself to achieve sexual gratification:

A big bulge or a boner in the pants in a public place. Innocently one testicle out of the leg of the shorts on the beach. Having a cameltoe or a moose knuckle. Masturbating in the woods with a tiny risk that someone might see it from the distance (this has happened). I readily talk about my sexuality, ejaculations and erections etc. And the biggest thing: uploading pics and vids to the internet.

To what extent is this behavior allowed, even for encyclopedic content?

Not calling for anything to be done -- just wondering if there's any precedence for this.

--Mychemicalromanceisrealemo (talk) 23:18, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Cf. DR/Files uploaded by Richiex. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 06:57, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
(Edit conflict) It is generally allowed to describe oneself one one's user page in a way relevant to one's uploads, and link to one's web pages elsewhere. If one uploads this kind of images, I assume a link to that blog is relevant.
For COM:PENIS etc., the issue is that we don't need another redundant low-quality image. If the image quality is high, I think there is no problem with redundancy, and if it is reasonable, images which are significantly different from those we have should likewise be kept. That they are unused is no problem, only a small percentage of our images are used on Wikimedia projects, and we cannot foresee which images next will be chosen for use somewhere.
It might of course be that their own exhibitionist interest gets them not to think too much about our scope when uploading images. That is a problem, and there might be a need to delete some of his uploads, but the same problem is there with many of our contributors, foremost uploading for their own gain (think VRT images from political actors and businesses). If there are valuable images among his contributions, I think we should give him quite much leeway.
–LPfi (talk) 07:10, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 Not done. No uploads and only 3 edits during last year. No admin action is needed. Taivo (talk) 10:43, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
We should be stricter than that. I deleted the userpage (only links to his blog). Seeing the amount of deleted pictures, and the length of the talk page, we have an issue here. Yann (talk) 12:16, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
They also tried to remove this section as 113.211.187.106.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:08, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

File:International reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.svg

Hi, Reverts are still going on back and forth on this file. I have proposed a compromise and to reach a consensus through an intermediary file (e.g. File:International reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - testing.svg), but it doesn't work. New accounts appear out of nowhere and revert to an older version, so it is not technically an editwar. See the history and the talk page. Any idea what to do now? Should the file be fully protected again upload? Another solution? Thanks, Yann (talk) 12:07, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

@Yann: I suggest filing an RFCU on those new accounts.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:19, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
They also tried to remove this section as 113.211.187.106.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:07, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
Yes, I blocked this IP. Another solution would be to have more than one file here. That transfers the issue on other projects, but that's a solution we often use. Any admin alive? Yann (talk) 11:48, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Request to edit protected page

The following discussion is closed, and will be archived soon.

Hi! There are two requests that need your attention.

  1. File talk:Responding to a Massive Measles Epidemic in DR Congo.webm about adding a template to the page.
  2. And somehow urgent: Template_talk:Motd/2022-05-04_(en).

For the second request, I would mention affected translations where information shows up in the present tense and translators who worked with the them in hope that they could suggest changes to these templates for making it clear that the video depicts the situation that was in 2015.

English version above and Russian version by @Brateevsky, Czech version by @Karelj, German version by @Jed, Erzya version by @Erzianj jurnalist, Ukrainian version by @ValeriySh

— Pacha Tchernof (talk) 13:46, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done partially by myself. Pacha Tchernof (talk) 08:45, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
The above discussion is closed, and will be archived soon.

DR closed by a subsequently globally banned admin

Can some administrators take a look at Commons:Deletion requests/File:ARHQ.jpg and assess whether the file should’ve been deleted? I’m asking about this because the outcome of en:Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2022 May 1#File:Ngo Quang Truong ARHQ.jpg might depend upon whether the Commons file was correctly deleted since the local English Wikipedia file is a crop of the Commons file. — Marchjuly (talk) 01:54, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

INC had thousands of actions across our site, the vast majority of which were legitimate. So I think the ban status is a bit of a red herring.
In this case, the image was uploaded to English Wikipedia with a copyright tag but no source. The uploader removed nsd tags three times without ever providing a source (w:Special:Undelete/File:ARHQ.jpg). It was then transferred to Commons before it was deleted on Commons for missing a source.
I don't see how we can restore this image within current policy Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 02:03, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for checking on this Magog the Ogre. Just for reference, I didn’t mean to imply that the file should be restored just because the closing admin was subsequently banned; so, my apologies to INC and others if that’s how it came across. I only meant that trying to seek clarification from INC was impossible given the ban. If the file can’t really be restored to Commons, then the crop should be deleted as well. — Marchjuly (talk) 02:38, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 Not done. The crop en:File:Ngo Quang Truong ARHQ.jpg is in English Wikipedia, so Commons cannot delete it. Taivo (talk) 12:18, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: Perhaps what I posted was confusing. I wasn't asking that Commons administrator delete the Wikipedia file; I know that can't be done. The file is being discussed on English Wikipedia and I was only stating here as I did there that the cropped file probably shouldn't be kept if the Commons file it comes from can't be restored. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:51, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

User:ToyotaSupra93 block evasion

Sock of User:Yuiyui2001 reuploading the same possibly-entirely-imaginary Philippines police badges as past socks. --Lord Belbury (talk) 20:56, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Blocked by Elcobbola. -- CptViraj (talk) 02:24, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Deletion request of all their uploads filed at Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by ToyotaSupra93. --Lord Belbury (talk) 11:18, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

@Lord Belbury, @CptViraj - Just a quick question guys but they've also moved categories to new names (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20220504185643&target=ToyotaSupra93&namespace=all&tagfilter=&newOnly=1&start=&end=)(see bottom of page) - Should these be reverted given we don't know if these new cat names are imaginary or not?, Cheers, –Davey2010Talk 20:51, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
Most if not all of them only contain the uploader's own images, they just didn't get deleted as empty last time around. --Lord Belbury (talk) 21:20, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

inappropriate username

The account GayNibbaFromOuterSpace (talk · contribs) should be blocked IMO, based on Commons:Username policy, as it's obviously meant as an attack. So far their only upload File:A member of the Kool Kids Klub.webp (deleted as copyvio) carried the description "A member of the gay niggas from the outer space chasing a member of the KKK". Other opinions? --Túrelio (talk) 08:05, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

@Túrelio: Indef.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:21, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Gadget fix for anonymous users

Can someone please execute this edit request, so that anonymous users don't run into partially broken file pages ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:41, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

 Comment It's a shame that Commons doesn't have an IAN. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 14:03, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 11:05, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Category:Media requiring renaming

There are two files in this category that need to be handled by an admin. One of them has been there for over a week now. Thanks in advance to whichever admin handles them. ···日本穣Talk to Nihonjoe 19:17, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Please write their names here. 4nn1l2 (talk) 11:22, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Request for page protection

I'm requesting deletion for the "Cingnian Night Market" category due to it was never really used (empty page). Unexpectedly, someone would create it over and over again. I don't know what is the point of creating a category that is always just a empty page. I can't think of a better way to stop it is created repeatedly, so I want to request an admin to protect it for indefinite after it is deleted.--Kai3952 (talk) 04:28, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. I deleted the category and fully protected it against recreation for 6 months. Taivo (talk) 06:13, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you very much! I can finally sleep well every night for six months in the future.--Kai3952 (talk) 11:03, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

warum wird das Bild gelöscht ?
Berlin.de Das offizielle Hauptstadtportal
https://www.berlin.de/eventlocations/6795322-3756109-alte-muenze.html
Im Impressum steht:
"Koordinierung der Inhalte des Landes Berlin
Die Regierende Bürgermeisterin von Berlin
- Senatskanzlei -
Landesredaktion / Koordinierung
Berlin.de
Jüdenstr. 1
10178 Berlin
Telefon (030) 9026-2435
Telefax (030) 9026-2013
E-Mail: [email protected]"
die Senatskanzlei des Landes Berlin ist eine deutsche Staatlichiche Instution und das Biid ist daher gemeinfrei.
--Wschmock (talk) 15:51, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Es wäre schön, wenn alle Werke von staatlichen Institutionen in Deutschland automatisch gemeinfrei wären. Leider ist das aber nicht der Fall. Details unter Commons:Urheberrechtsregeln nach Gebiet/Deutschland. Letztlich akzeptieren wir nur staatliche Werke nach § 5 Abs. 1 UrhG als gemeinfrei, also Gesetze, Verordnungen, amtliche Erlasse und Bekanntmachungen sowie Entscheidungen und amtlich verfaßte Leitsätze zu Entscheidungen. Gruß --Rosenzweig τ 16:18, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

File:Flag_of_Finland.svg needs correction from sysop (upload=sysop)

The shade of blue in the flag needs to be corrected, see talk page:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Flag_of_Finland.svg#The_blue_shade

Other flags used on the page w:Flag of Finland need the same correction to their respective files.

--Ryebreadforscale (talk) 12:21, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done for the mentioned file. For other files, you should list them somewhere explicitly. 4nn1l2 (talk) 11:21, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
Here is another file that needs the same correction for the blue colour (I dont have write privileges for it):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Finland_(state).svg
--Ryebreadforscale (talk) 18:37, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done I changed that file too. De728631 (talk) 21:19, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

User contributions for 구순돌

Can an admin take a look at Special:Contributions/구순돌? Most of them appear to be copyvios and many are cross-Wiki uploads of non-free files found on English Wikipedia. Perhaps someone who can speak Korean might be able to explain to this user why their uploads are problematic. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:37, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

저작권 위반으로 파일들을 올리지 않았으며, 투팍 사커에 대한 사진에만 해당되는 부분입니다. 이 점 참고하셨으면 좋겠고, 저는 위키백과의 영어 문서를 번역해 한국어로 옮기는 일을 주로 하고 있습니다.
앞으로 파일을 올릴 때 조심하도록 하겠습니다. 투팍 사커에 대한 원문이 한국어로 번역 될 때 사진이 업로드되지 않아 똑같은 파일명으로 재업로드하는데 실수와 오해가 있었습니다. 구순돌 (talk) 06:53, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
저는 한국에서 활동하는 일러스트레이터 및 작가이며, 부차적으로 위키백과에 참여하고 있습니다. 제가 만든 그림 파일의 저작권은 저에게 있으며, 삭제하지 말아주셨으면 합니다. 구순돌 (talk) 06:58, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
do not delete my own artworks please. I am illustrator, wikipedia editor on South Korea. I made my own artworks and upload some of them on wikimedia commons. There was a misunderstanding in the process of translating Tupac Sharker's original English document into Korean Wikipedia. 구순돌 (talk) 07:10, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
This has been taken care of by Taivo; so, this discussion can probably be closed. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:02, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

User:KostyaWikiCreates & User:KostyaWikiBoy2005

Two accounts overlapping in uploading out of scope personal files today, both obvious block evasion by KostyaMasterpiece (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) . KostyaWikimaster (talk · contribs) was also doing the same back in February. --Lord Belbury (talk) 12:02, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Blocked by Herbythyme. -- CptViraj (talk) 03:02, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done. I tagged them and created sockpuppet category. Taivo (talk) 07:44, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Revision deletion request

I'm not sure if this is the right noticeboard but could someone delete the revision where the number plate is shown. I updated an image but I forgot to blank the number plate again. --Vauxford (talk) 23:09, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 02:59, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Translation of the preload tweet from the Main page in Russian

Hello, I’m addressing to the Russian-speaking administrators. On the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons in Russian UI some changes were implemented recently. The buttons «Твит» below POTD and MOTD was renamed to «Твитнуть» making it as a somehow call-to-action. But the texts with the links to POTD/MOTD that are being preloaded in Twitter are still in English. I suggested some translations on this talk page and bring it here for a broad discussion. Would you mind to vote for one of the suggested variants or make your own here for us to reach an agreement on the final translation to put into the code?

CC/Mentions of Russian-speaking Administrators to get some attention to the topic: @A.Savin, @Ahonc, @Butko, @EugeneZelenko, @George Chernilevsky, @Materialscientist, @Maxim, @Putnik, @Rubin16, @Well-Informed Optimist, @Ymblanter, @Андрей Романенко

Wishing all the best, Pacha Tchernof (talk) 17:58, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Strange overlapping/sock behaviour

Three users above have all been uploading images in the same style today with most of the filenames being something like "Rose 58.jpg". Some of the images are direct duplicates of each other's photos, with slightly different names. Some of them are different photos of the same object, with the same timestamp watermark taken seconds apart (File:Rangoli 6.jpg and File:Kolam in grains 2.jpg). And more seriously, some of them are obvious copyvios which are being reuploaded by a different account after the first copy is deleted: File:Squirrel 12.jpg was uploaded by Ahamed Kafir M, deleted, and then reuploaded by Geology HK.

A talk page request at User_talk:Geology_HK#Strange_uploads asking what they were doing got no response, but this looks like mildly unhelpful sockpuppetry. --Lord Belbury (talk) 17:40, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Sounds more like some sort of training event to me. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:44, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
That would make sense. --Lord Belbury (talk) 17:02, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

File:Khargaone.jpg

I'm not entirely sure what the editor who uploaded it, is saying at en:Talk:2022 Khargone violence when they say "The image has been taken from an evidence video. Which was shot by civilians as evidence during the incident and circulated on the internet. Hence, there is no chance of any copyright issue. The authenticity of the image can be verified from the incident videos which are available on the internet. REDISCOVERBHARAT (talk) 1:21 pm, Today (UTC 1)" But if they are saying they got it from the Internet, it should be deleted. Doug Weller (talk) 15:00, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

It's a screenshot of an at least 10 April 2022 video ([3][4]), and not even the uploader's own (e.g., here 12 April 2022; here 13 April 2022; etc.) File:Khargaone.jpg was uploaded 11 May 2022, so screenshot of non-free content (F3)/netcopyvio(F1). Эlcobbola talk 15:14, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

droit image

coucou, il me semble qu'il manque d'un ticket orts sur cette image. --Chatsam (talk) 20:05, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

File:Liane Foly (c) Pingouin.png
picture right
hello, it seems to me that an orts ticket is missing on this image.
translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:18, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
@Chatsam: Merci pour le rapport. Le fichier a été supprimé par Gbawden. Veuillez utiliser liens internes comme File:Liane Foly (c) Pingouin.png et le nouveau nom VRT ici pour éviter toute interruption.
Thank you for the report. The file was deleted by Gbawden. Please use internal links like File:Liane Foly (c) Pingouin.png and new name VRT here to avoid disruption.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:18, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello. I'm uploading Artworks and pictures that I took. I keep getting reports about copyright infringement even though I don't post it maliciously and honestly mark the source.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 구순돌 (talk • contribs) 08:29, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

@구순돌: You are uploading images from sites like https://comic.naver.com/bestChallenge/list?titleId=726786 - which clearly says (C) Naver Webtoon - please stop! Gbawden (talk) 08:54, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
@Gbawden: I just uploaded it after getting permission from the writer. Don't get me wrong. 👻Grrr👻👻Grrr👻☮ 10:35, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
@구순돌: Where may we see that permission?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:13, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
I asked writer from instagram. 👻Grrr👻👻Grrr👻☮ 11:24, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
The agreement you have with the writer is between the two of you; it doesn't extend to others. For example, if you ask the writer something like "Can I upload your work to use on my website?" and they say "Yes", then they are just giving you permission to use the work on your website. They aren't giving you permission to use the work on any other websites, and they aren't giving anyone else permission to use the work on their websites. What you will need to do is get the writer to give their COM:CONSENT to basically allow anyone anywhere in the world to download the writer's work and reuse it at any time in pretty much any way they like. It's not sufficient for Commons purposes for the writer to give their consent to only you; they need to also be willing to give the same consent to everyone else. If the writer is willing to do this, then great. Just ask them to email their consent to Wikimedia VRT as explained here for verification purposes. Another option would be for the writer to post the content in question on one of their official websites and clearly state that they're giving their consent. Without any way of verifying the writer's consent, it's going to be hard for Commons to keep the content per COM:PCP. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:15, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

upload history needing correction for 8 files

See: User_talk:MHM55#UploadWizard_ETH-Bibliothek

On 23.6.2020 at 22:23, the source, author, license and history information was falsely copied into 8 files (from a previous upload done on the same day: File:ETH-BIB-Genf-Kursaal-Inlandflüge-MH01-004591.jpg).

Source, author, license are now corrected.

The commentary associated to the first upload in the history of those 8 files reads now: 

Uploaded a work by Extracted – {{Creator:Walter Mittelholzer}} from Extracted – E-Pics Bildarchiv online http://doi.org/10.3932/ethz-a-000296482{{Template:ETH-Bibliothek}} with UploadWizard

This information is wrong and should be removed. Can you do this?

The origin of the problem is not the "UploadWizard_ETH-Bibliothek" as suggested, but the permanence of some information copied from an upload to other uploads made later the same day.

--MHM (talk) 10:36, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Restore two files that were deleted without discussion and without apparent reason

Hello, the Egyptian governmental "Channel One", is a channel that meets the requirements of fame and good reputation worldwide. It has published a video clip on its official YouTube channel here, and it is responsible for the content published on its channel, and other user claims that "Channel One" does not own the content published on its channel. How could he know is that the "Channel One" does not own what it published on its own channel, despite not indicating that the images in the video are from external sources "Channel One" have the right to use them without indicating the owner of their publishing rights. Why did the owner of the content in the video - if any - not report the copyrights via YouTube?

The license in the file File:Shireen Abu Aqleh.png is correct according to the applicable rules and policies for uploading files on Commons. Please restore the image that was deleted without warning or discussion or explaining the reason for the deletion!!

The same is true for the File:Funeral of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh.png, extracted from the same video from the Egyptian Channel One. File:Shireen Abu Aqleh.png 'File:Funeral of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh.png --Masry1973 | مصري1973 (talk) 18:04, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

I've moved the following message from ANU. Thanks –Davey2010Talk 18:41, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi Masry1973. Many YouTube channels of media organizations do generate 100% original content and release such content under a "free" license that Commons accepts. Sometimes, though, such channels do included elements (e.g. copyrighted content) created by others as part of their reports. The reports are derivative works in that they themsleves are eligible for their own separate copyright protection as a whole, but that the footage or photos used in the report still retain their individual copyrights separate from the final work. There could be lots of reasons why a third-party copyright holder might not report the media organization using their work to YouTube. First, they might've given the media organization permission to use their work in its report. The media organization could also be using the content under a claim of en:fair use or en:fair dealing. Of course, it's also possible that the third-party copyright holder has no idea the media organization is using their content. Any agreement that might exist between the media organization and the third-party copyright holder is between those two parties and doesn't extend to Commons or anyone else. The CC license the media organization releases it original YouTube content under is for the content as a whole. As soon as you start extracting and uploading parts of that content, you're no longer dealing with the copyright status of the video as a whole but rather the copyright status of the individual element you've uploaded. If that element isn't 100% original content generated by the media organization, then I don't believe the copyright status of the video as a whole is as relevant as the copyright status of the individual element. Since Commons doesn't accept fair use content of any type, it needs to be as clear as possible about the COM:CONSENT of the copyright holder of the individual element in question per COM:PCP. So, if you extracted an element created by a third-party being used in media organizations report and tried to upload that to Commons, it might be seen as something not being allowed without the consent of the person who took the photo even if it was being used in a report that as a whole is licensed OK for Commons. I'm not a Commons administrator and this is just my non-expert guess as to why File:Funeral of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh.png might've have been deleted. The administrator who actually deleted file is علاء. Perhaps by asking them about this, they will be better able to clarify why the file was deleted. If they don't respond, then you could try further discussing this at COM:DRV and see if others also think the file should be restored. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:05, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
Hello and thanks Marchjuly for ping. I'm surprised that above user sent on my talk page and he didn't even wait for my response. I deleted 3 files uploaded by him:
Last thing, (2) (3) files from the same program that shown on the Egyptian Channel One, and if you see another videos for this program, you can found that uses many of the images circulating on the Internet, and it is not a requirement that they own the rights to publish them. I also confirm what Marchjuly explained and clarified about, especially that: I don't believe the copyright status of the video as a whole is as relevant as the copyright status of the individual element --Alaa :)..! 21:38, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
Ummm, I noticed now that he didn't mentioned File:Shireen AbuAqla 2.png on his complain above! So, why you uploaded this image and you know that "CC license not mentioned on the source"? --Alaa :)..! 21:46, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

File:Flag of the Mayan People.svg

I don't know if anything can be done about this, but I can't find any reliable sources for it. Doug Weller (talk) 16:14, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

@Doug Weller You can use Template:Factual accuracy to express your concerns in the file page. Then, if the issue is more serious, you can open a DR. Ruthven (msg) 15:10, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
@Ruthven the uploader agrees to its deletion as he has no sources wither. See File talk:Flag of the Mayan People.svg. Doug Weller (talk) 11:22, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
@Doug Weller The file is in use in several projetcs, thus a deletion deserves a wider discussion. The uploader can open the DR himself, or you can just do it. Ruthven (msg) 12:58, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

replace text for Nicole Sharp

The "Replace Text" feature appears to be disabled on Wikimedia Commons for non-admins. Can someone please replace every instance of 

|author=NicoleSharp

with 

|author=[[user:Nicole Sharp|Nicole Sharp]]

on Wikimedia Commons? Nicole Sharp (talk) 13:52, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Nicole Sharp If all relevant files are in a Category (such as Category:Photos by Nicole Sharp), you should be able to do that yourself relatively easily with VisualFileChange. El Grafo (talk) 14:05, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Currently there are 984 files with that specific phrase. I'm  doing this with JWB. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 14:08, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
I replaced on 863 pages, the rest seems to have been done by Nicole herself. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 14:30, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Oops. I didn't realize that the string "|author=NicoleSharp" also occurs inside the "FlickreviewR" template but without the newline as it does inside the "Information" template. Somehow though VisualFileChange was smart enough to ignore the instances inside the "FlickreviewR" template and seems to only have replaced the instances terminating in a newline. Nicole Sharp (talk) 16:02, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
— Never mind. It looks like some of the missing edits were due to files missing from the category. VisualFileChange did replace both instances on each page, but that does not affect the "FlickreviewR" template, so it's all good. Nicole Sharp (talk) 17:04, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Wow, thank you!!! I spent all afternoon yesterday painstakingly adding categories one by one to the hundreds of files uploaded by @Ser Amantio di Nicolao: . I had to find the files in Ser Amantio di Nicolao's upload history, then right-click each file, open it in a new browser tab, select edit, copy and paste the category wikitext, save the edit, close the browser tab, and then open the next file in a new browser tab. That might only take a few seconds per file, but it is exhaustingly repetitive and ends up being hours of work for many hundreds of images. I was just able to do in a few minutes using VisualFileChange what would have taken another several hours to accomplish by manually editing each file one by one. Nicole Sharp (talk) 15:25, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

I think VisualFileChange might be the solution I need to getting the categories and attribution corrected, but there is still the separate issue that the wikipages on Commons are missing the original file names. I don't think there is any automated tool for MediaWiki that can extract the original file name from Flickr if it was removed when imported to Commons. This is a serious problem because if an image is deleted and re-uploaded on Flickr, or if I change image hosting from Flickr Pro (paid hosting) back to Piwigo (free hosting), there is no way to find the original image based on the incomplete attribution provided on Wikimedia Commons. For example if someone wanted to request the lossless RAW/CR2/TIF/PNG version of a lossy JPG image. Most astrophotography (such as for an eclipse or transit) is done by interval photography, meaning that there are a large number of images that are visually similar and difficult to identify individually without knowing the specific file name (for a Canon camera, you need to know both the album name and the image number to find a specific image, since the image numbers cycle for every 10,000 photos). Other than the one image on English Wikipedia for the Lunar eclipse, none of these images are embedded in any other Wikimedia projects, so I still think the best option is to delete all of the images in the category "photos by Nicole Sharp" and then re-upload them using the file names of either "AlbumName - OriginalFileName" or "OriginalFileName (FlickrID)". Alternatively, someone might be able to write a script that can read the Flickr image title from the Flickr URL, and then paste it into the image description on Wikimedia Commons. The files don't actually have to be renamed — they just need the original file name and Flickr album name somewhere in the description so that the original file can be found again if the source URL becomes invalid. I do not have the ability to either mass-delete or mass-upload images, so both of these tasks will need to be done by an admin. I have already requested this several times with no results though so not sure if anyone on Commons is willing to delete and then re-upload, or give me the privileges needed to complete the task myself. Nicole Sharp (talk) 15:25, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

VisualFileChange is pretty buggy though. I tried adding images three times to the attribution category but still had to go through manually and add the ones that VisualFileChange missed. Nicole Sharp (talk) 17:01, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Nicole Sharp: You can request for a flag that allows mass-uploading (image reviewer, patroller or autopatrolled) at COM:RFR. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 17:39, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Please undelete

As the responsible admins seem to be unable to. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 14:55, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. --Achim55 (talk) 16:58, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

speedy DEL of categories

Please remove these (typo / redundant):

Thanks, --Mateus2019 (talk) 01:13, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done - FitIndia Talk ✉ 06:40, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

License review help needed

Can someone check the license of this image that originated from Instagram? Thanks. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 06:47, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Unable to edit RfD page from February

Hi,

I'd like to edit my previous RfD from February by the edit button on the top of the page, but Commons does not let me switch to edit mode. Also manually changing the URL to edit mode does not work. The page does simply not reload. The RfD is also not visible on Commons:Deletion requests/2022/02 and visible part of the page is quite short, which makes me wonder if this is just me or maybe something happened, like an unclosed tag in one of the other deletion requests included in the page? Ciell (talk) 12:31, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

@Ciell: Our monthly DR backlogs are normally too long to be displayed correctly. I have no probblem in editing the page, and have also fixed one missing-end-tag and one misnested-tags. Please try again and let me know if you still can't edit. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 13:44, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Thanks @NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh. I can reply through reply-tool, but when trying to edit the page, the page still does not open in source code. Ciell (talk) 14:26, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
@Ciell: Can you see the [ edit ] links? If yes, try placing this line to your common.js:
  • mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:BrandonXLF/QuickEdit.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
You will then see [ quick edit ] links which allow you to edit pages in-place. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 14:42, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Yes, I can see edit links and I can edit other DR pages. Ciell (talk) 14:48, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
The script fixes it for now though, thanks! Ciell (talk) 14:51, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

File:Flag of Ukraine.svg

Someone made a disruptive edit before the file was auto-protected. It tells me I can't, so please revert.--TFerenczy (talk) 14:39, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Ymblanter (talk) 14:53, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Typo fix in File:Wikiversity-logo-beta-v2.svg

Please change the file link in "other_versions" section to [[:File:Wikiversity-logo-beta.png]], it was a typo. Thanks! Stang★ 20:50, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Next time, make an edit request using {{Edit request}}, please. 4nn1l2 (talk) 21:48, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

GRP

Please help GRP is trying to take over Wikicommons and Wikiquote. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 05:57, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Could you provide a bit more explanation and links? --GPSLeo (talk) 06:29, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
[5] Ilovemydoodle (talk) 07:21, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
I think this is already ✓ Done --GPSLeo (talk) 07:44, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

WLE SE 2022 mass message

I'm looking after the Wiki Loves Earth contest in Sweden, and would like to send a mass message to previous entrants encouraging them to enter again. I've followed the recommendations here and here, and have updated Commons:Wiki Loves Earth in Sweden/Mass message with the necessary information. Could an admin please send the message for me via Special:MassMessage? Thanks in advance! /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 12:35, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 13:40, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Thanks @4nn1l2! /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 09:25, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Rollback

Can I have rollback rights? – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 07:22, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

 Not done. Rights are requested in Commons:Requests for rights. But I suggest you not to do that, because you have less than 50 edits and you are not yet an established user. Taivo (talk) 07:33, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
Check my Wikiquote edits (the only reason I’m here is because of GRP’s interwiki stalking). – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 08:11, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Short caption abuse filter

The edits marked by the short caption abuse filter are mostly bad and become reverted in approximately 80-90% of checked cases. As of this I would suggest to enable a warning on this abuse filter. The message could be MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-short-caption. Are there any objections? --GPSLeo (talk) 13:30, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

@GPSLeo: Filter looks good, but the warning probably needs some changes. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 14:40, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
@GPSLeo and NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh: It should definitely use "quite" instead of "quit" twice.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:49, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
...and a link to Abuse filter/Error reporting is also needed. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 14:50, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Does this very small filter needs a link to the reporting page? It is just a warning if the short caption is fine they can just safe the edit. --GPSLeo (talk) 15:06, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
As a courtesy, yes. More false positive reports mean that admins can further enhance the filters. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 16:18, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
I did some changes at the message and added the message to the filter. I will monitor if this lowers the number of bad captions added. --GPSLeo (talk) 09:08, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth 2022 in Spain. Request for MassMessage

Hi! I have a quick request from the Spanish Wiki Loves Earth contest organizers. We'd like to send an invitation to participate in the contest to those who participated in previous-year editions. Here's text of the message, and here's the list of receivers. Thanks! --Iryna Yehiazarova (WMUA) 15:40, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 03:54, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
Hooray. Many thanks! IrynaYehiazarova (WMUA) (talk) 14:43, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Account deletion

Can I please have my account deleted and my edits reattributed. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 03:47, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

@Ilovemydoodle: Please visit m:RTV#How to request a vanishing and read carefully.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:42, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Loophole: Blocked users able to upload files through FileImporter

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T308820

Thanks to Smooth O for reporting this at VP/T: There's a blocked user uploading files to commons by uploading to another project first and then using FileImporter to import them here. I don't think that should be allowed or even possible. Bug report has been filed, but I'm not sure how to proceed from here. El Grafo (talk) 08:44, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

@El Grafo: The files are imported to Commons by a different user. I don't think this is a bug. -- CptViraj (talk) 09:06, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
@Edgar Allan Poe: Please be more careful.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:13, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
@CptViraj Yes, of course, that explains it! That raises a few questions, though:
  • Do we accept material from blocked users if it is being imported by a trusted user?
  • If yes: Should there be a warning along the lines of "caution, you're importing something uploaded by a user that's blocked on Commons"?
  • If no: do we need technical measures to prevent that from happening again?
I'll adjust the bug report accordingly ... El Grafo (talk) 09:29, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
@El Grafo: Evidently, we do accept it. Such a warning would be helpful. A proposal at COM:VPP would be needed to prevent accepting it, and I'm not sure we have the technical means to implement such a proposal.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:35, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
I don't think we need to reject these kinds of imports. Let's see if we can get that warning message. Maybe we should also consider having a bot collect them in some kind of "to check" maintenance category? El Grafo (talk) 10:03, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Hellou. I am an administrator on the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia project and we have a policy to not host PD images on the project. Now, I did not know that Vrtleska25 had been blocked on Commons, which is why I uploaded several of his photographs I deemed appropriate. These files meet Commons' standards, as far as I know, and they shouldn't be problematic per se. Now, if it is an issue that they are Vrtleska's photos, then, well, I shall stop uploading them if it is an issue, but since the images truly are both useful and in accordance with Commons' terms, I don't see why they should not be uploaded here. Just tell me what you decide so I know what to do in the future. Thank you -- Edgar Allan Poe (talk) 12:38, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
The user is blocked because too many unfree files were uploaded. I do not think it is a problem that the files are moved to Commons if local admins check the files before they are moved.
Actually I think we have unblocked users that have uploaded more copyvios that this user so if user asked for an unblock that might happen if you ask me. --MGA73 (talk) 19:53, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Can we join multiple deletion requests into one?

An IP user, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/220.246.171.244 made something like 50 separate deletion requests for images from OneNews Malaysia, a Malaysian television station, on the grounds that its YouTube channel has been blocked. They're all in Commons:Deletion requests/2022/05/23. I think they're wrong, as described in Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Fikry_Ibrahim_for_"Go_Eat".jpg, but in any case, is there a way we can group all these deletion requests into one, so we can discuss them all together? --GRuban (talk) 13:14, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

@GRuban: Yes, but not very easily. A subpage could be created with the discussion and transcluded to all of them, or they could be closed as kept in favor of a mass DR.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:36, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
I guess I'll drop a note on as many as I have the energy to, and hope the closing admin won't miss the others. --GRuban (talk) 15:02, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
@GRuban: Don't cry, I present to you Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Files from OneNews YouTube channel. It was a lot more work than it should have been.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 19:33, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
Bless you and your family unto the fourth generation!--GRuban (talk) 00:36, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

DR about Sten Kaalø

Hi! Perhaps someone could have a look at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Sten Kaalø.jpg? --MGA73 (talk) 15:55, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Deleted. Yann (talk) 18:43, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

TimedText:Anthem of the Soviet Union (rare instrumental version).ogg.en.srt

Hi, please delete this TimedText as there is no corresponding video. Thanks in advance. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 21:44, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done MorganKevinJ(talk) 01:05, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Unusual file license situation, uploaded by an editor with a COI issue

On 19 May, English Wikipedia User:Clafuria uploaded four files for use on an English Wikipedia article, Pennsylvania Western University (The files: File:PennWest Lockup California FINAL SM.svg, File:PennWest Lockup Clarion FINAL SM.svg, File:PennWest Lockup Edinboro FINAL SM.svg, File:PennWest Lockup Global Online FINAL SM.svg). I received a file deletion notice on 22 May, as these files were used to replace three files I uploaded under a fair use of a copyrighted logo. When I looked at the files that were uploaded, I noticed all four were uploaded under 'Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International' with the source being "Own work". I was familiar with the university, and knew the logos were in fact the work of the university, so I left a message on their talk page on the English Wikipedia, on 22 May, directly challenging the license choice and claim of own work.

On May 23, User:Clafuria responded with the following:

Hello Navigators! I work at PennWest University in the marketing department, and I sat down with the designer of the logos and uploaded them together. Please let me know how you'd like me to verify this. Only the marketing staff has access to the SM logos. Clafuria (talk) 12:00, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
— User:Clafuria

That's a fairly obvious conflict of interest, and they made no mention of the affiliation until that point. I responded on 24 May, by informing them of Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy, and then left links to both the main article on it and the 'plain and simple' guide. I then pointed out the license choice seemed ill-advised from their standpoint, for an organizations logos, breaking down what CC BY SA 4.0 license allows people to do, linking to the Creative Commons page on that license and also Commons:Licensing, as an effort to make sure they understood what that license does.

As of today, May 26, I haven't heard anything and there's been no further edits of any kind by the account, per the User contributions list. I'm looking for some advice as to how the handle the situation.

Normally I'd propose deletion over an incorrect license, but I think they're telling the truth about being with PennWest University marketing. Vector forms of that logo aren't floating around, as that branding isn't scheduled to start use for another month and a half. I only had the logos I uploaded due to a right to know request I'd filed a few months earlier, and mine didn't have the Service Mark attached as they were from a presentation to select their new logo. Additionally the only real non-logo edit they did really reads like something a marketing person would write. If staff of the university upload their logo, I don't view it as our job to decide they used the wrong license for their materials. I've pointed out that it seems like a odd choice and they've made no efforts to change it, contact me or anyone else for further information or request the files be deleted. (I brought this to the Commons, as the files were uploaded/moved to here, so it seemed more in the Commons wheelhouse. I can take the COI issue with the English Wikipedia, though I suspect it may be moot.)--The Navigators (talk) 02:02, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

We just need a verification of the licenses to COM:VRT and everything is fine. We do not have a policy to disclose paid contributions (see COM:PAID). --GPSLeo (talk) 06:49, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
Well, today I learned that's a policy here... Thanks for the correction on that. I'll try reaching out again with that information. Naturally, we're going into a long weekend, and the earliest I'll get time to make a new message will be after business hours.--The Navigators (talk) 07:08, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
@The Navigators and GPSLeo: I left them this stern warning on enwiki.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:46, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
What do you all need from me? The Navigators? I am not finding any policy or directive of what I need to do. Those logos are our official marketing branded SM files. I don't know what other info you're seeking. Clafuria (talk) 13:28, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
You have to go through the procedure described at COM:VRT. There is also a generator for the e-mail text. Commons:Wikimedia VRT release generator --GPSLeo (talk) 14:13, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Help requested with URAA nominations

Dear collegues, as an admin I am working on old deletion requests. I think it is a good thing to remove copyright violations from Commons and I want to protect authors as well as reusers. However, as an art lover I am in personal trouble with some URAA requests. For instance, a painting which is in PD in the whole of Europe, must apparently be deleted due to the URAA restoration. This has been discussed many times, and I do not want to discuss the principles again. I need help however with such deletion requests, currently with File:1937 Leblan Landschaft anagoria.JPG. The rather unknown painter died in 1940. Which admin is willing to help and close these DR's on an incidental basis? Thanks, Ellywa (talk) 09:42, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

@Ellywa: URAA should not be the only reason to delete.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:52, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi Jeff G., thanks, has that been written somewhere in the guidelines on Commons? Ellywa (talk) 09:55, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
With the help of Google and some browsing I found this statement of the WMF: So WMF does not see a reason to delete content simply because of general concern about the URAA. Assuming this has not been revoked, I can use that argument to keep such images. source. Is this a correct way to move on, or do you think there are other guidelines? Ellywa (talk) 10:06, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
@Ellywa: Our current guidance at COM:URAA states "A mere allegation that the URAA applies to a file cannot be the sole reason for deletion. If the end result of copyright evaluation is that there is significant doubt about the freedom of a file under U.S. or local law, the file must be deleted in line with the precautionary principle." Yann kept at Commons:Deletion requests/File:1937 Leblan Landschaft anagoria.JPG, I was going to  Weak delete per pcp.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:36, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: . Thanks for your help and link. I think I will act as Yann in future situations such as this one. I think that is in line with the intention of the legal dept. Ellywa (talk) 15:50, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
How? I get the exact opposite result from this statement. Copyright law matters and giving it up to keep stuff is not our policy. Asking for evidence that something is in the public domain in the US as a minimum requirement is precautionary. Hekerui (talk) 19:59, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
Basically, you will find contradictory information. While the WMF seems not happy about the URAA still protecting works in the US that are free in their country of origin and most other states, they apparently feel (understandably) that they have to comply with US law, so you'll find only carefully worded statements from them. They'll leave the actual decisions whether to delete or not to the Commons community however and will only step in and delete something themselves by an Office Action if forced to do so by an official legal request. That brings us to the Commons community, where many admins, especially those from Europe, don't want to delete European works that are free in Europe but still protected in the US. Which lead to the statement that URAA should not be the sole reason for deletion, while our official guidelines state that files must comply with US law. That's the status quo, and apparently (almost) nobody is interested in changing it (let sleeping dogs lie and so on), which I found out a couple of years ago when I tried to resolve the situation. --Rosenzweig τ 16:09, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
@Rosenzweig: A similar situation exists with illegal graffiti. Officially, per COM:PCP, non-free graffiti is not allowed without permission of the artist. Yet in practice, if we look at DR results, non-free graffiti is allowed; in fact there is even a template {{Non-free graffiti}} to tag such images. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 08:24, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
That's a problem and not following policy. Inaction or not. Hekerui (talk) 19:59, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
Exactly, it's a violation of policy. I have not read an argument by Yann who closed that discussion explaining how to bridge that gap. So we're left with confusion which leads to copyright abuse. This is PD in the US? Hekerui (talk) 19:59, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
  • This is at the admin's whim. So they can then hold it over an uploader in the future, "Stop disagreeing with me, or else I'll go through all of your uploads (clearly UK PD book scans) and then delete them, just because I can." Andy Dingley (talk) 16:22, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
@Andy Dingley: Perhaps you are referring to something from the past, I certainly will not act like that. English language books will be especially difficult to assess, because perhaps available/published in US. And thank you @Rosenzweig: it certainly is contradictory and legalists cannot avoid this if a ruling appears difficult to understand such as this case. URAA feels very strange. I can buy very cheap books from painters from my country like Piet Mondriaan and the lesser known Leo Gestel (born in the town where I happen to live), because the copyright is expired. It would feel strange to delete these images from Commons. No heirs - all far above 70 years of age by now - would ever think of getting more money from royalties. They have had enough imho. And I do not think a procedure in the USA will yield anything. Ellywa (talk) 17:15, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
No heirs would ever think of getting more money from royalties? There are several examples of suits about European works in the US; for example, the Arthur Conan Doyle estate in Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate or their suit against Netflix were after all of ACD's works were PD in the UK. Likewise, the Anne Frank estate sent Wikimedia a URAA notice when the work left copyright in Europe and the Dutch Wikisource started to transcribe it. I'm quite sure that whoever owns the Orwell estate would sue over 1984 in a heartbeat. I'm not so sure that Piet Mondriaan wouldn't sue us, but Leo Gestel probably wouldn't. Then again, I'm pretty sure I could upload photos of local murals painted in the 90s by an artist who died in 2000, and WMF wouldn't hear a word from the artist's estate. "Won't sue us" has never been a winning argument at Wikimedia.
I understand; many of the works that make up the shared Anglo-American culture are limited not because they are illegal for me or the WMF to use, but because they're copyrighted in Europe. The early works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and A. A. Milne are passing into the public domain in the US but may not be uploaded to Commons.--Prosfilaes (talk) 02:12, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 Comment Not only works from Europe, but basically anywhere else. The countries were the law is the most permissive are the most affected. It was also pointed out in some DR that in the case of URAA, the procedure is reversed: we assume that URAA doesn't apply unless proved otherwise. Yann (talk) 08:29, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
Explain that again, what do you mean? The process in these cases of permissive laws is unequal and a recipe for copyright violation. Which exists on a large scale concerning the US. Hekerui (talk) 19:59, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Deletion request

I uploaded a file I thought had no audio on it but I was wrong. It was reuploaded but need to delete the original copy to remove the original with the copyrighted music. File:Searls_Station_rail_cars_filled_with_Basalt_by_D_Ramey_Logan.webm --Don (talk) 16:31, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done MorganKevinJ(talk) 00:23, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you Don (talk) 05:25, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Debjyoti Gorai

Hi, Can someone take appropriate action regarding this user, especially about this. See also ANU. Thanks, Yann (talk) 09:33, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

The personal attack is certainly inappropriate, thankyou for reacting calmly. But I think the user has improved, they interacted constructively with me at ANU and they haven't uploaded any more copyvios since then. I had cautioned them about their inappropriate comments and had informed them about COM:CIVIL. So IMHO no action is required right now, after all blocks are preventative not punitive. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 11:58, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
Well, the user is rather frank about his agenda, see en:User:Debjyoti Gorai: Proud nationalist and follower of Dharma. Reject foreigners who dictate on India the land of the ancient. Revolution to throw them out.[6] His recent actions ([7],[8],[9]) seem to be evidence that his "playground" includes Commons. --Túrelio (talk) 13:03, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
I thought we were rather frank about how we dealt with playground bullies.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:22, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
Looks like bully has a different meaning for you. What you did is putting one person's point of view on a another person and automatically assuming the other person as wrong. It's not about copyright policy. 'Proud nationalist and follower of Dharma. Reject foreigners who dictate on India the land of the ancient. Revolution to throw them out.' <- this line is a small example. Debjyoti Gorai (talk) 15:02, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
U fell into my trap 'Proud nationalist and follower of Dharma. Reject foreigners who dictate on India the land of the ancient. Revolution to throw them out.' It was done to trigger the response from you people. I knew what kind of response it could trigger so was not surprised. It was just added few days back. It's surprising to know that people working as Wikipedia editors knows more than a person working with publish govt materials daily. @CptViraj you haven't replied to my previous messages and you need to learn more. What to expect when foreigners "Moderate" pages of Indian pages. I have already seen how Wikipedia content deteriorated. Britannica pages be very short, very less content but at least they follows the neutral point of view. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger was right. Debjyoti Gorai (talk) 14:37, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
U say I use commons as one of my playgrounds but didn't you did the same with me? Is it neutral point of view? Because I tracked you over multiple pages and over years and it seems that you apply your own point of view on others isn't that so? @Túrelio yu are not new and I have seen multiple complaints against you for applying your own point of view on others. I think it's useless to argue with people like you. But atleast you are not like TrangaBellam. Debjyoti Gorai (talk) 14:57, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
If possible talk to me privately. I will give you links to thousands of images which were uploaded the same way as I did. They are still there for years and still hasn't been removed. I see you are highly dillusioned and I hope at least that you start looking at every images/logos/charts on Indian Wikipedia pages from today and apply general sense about the copyright policy that the other people applied to my images. U wouldn't have reported me nor u would have deleted my images if these people haven't done such thing. I know about copyright policy more than these people because I work daily with these things. Debjyoti Gorai (talk) 14:49, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done. Debjyoti Gorai was blocked for 2 weeks and I declined unblock request. Copyvios are mostly deleted. Taivo (talk) 18:44, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Lossy compression reversion

Hi. Phreneticc has been reducing the file size of various images by reducing their quality. I already asked them to stop a few minutes ago. Now I wonder whether it's necessary to revert all of those overwrites. And if so, maybe you admins have a tool that is more convenient than reverting manually? Thank you! TilmannR (talk) 16:51, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Notice given. Glrx (talk) 18:39, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
@TilmannR: If it helps, I refer to COM:HR frequently, but it's not a guideline yet (perhaps it should be?).   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:44, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
@Phreneticc and TilmannR:
Phreneticc (talk · contribs) is continuing the campaign. I see no merit in these edits because they are making changes without correcting or improving the image. See COM:OVERWRITE. The SVG edits are removing spaces and metadata. The Help:SVG guidelines discourage edits without a visual change ("If a file renders correctly it is generally undesired to reupload it without visible changes."). I do not know what the JPEG edits are doing. Image loss? Does EXIF survive? The user should stop "reducing the weight" of files. A mass revert seems appropriate. Glrx (talk) 17:08, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
  • Why are they doing this? By storing a second copy, we are doubling the space the image takes up. Are they hoping by reducing the size, they load faster? --RAN (talk) 04:58, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Non-free logos

Hello, this user uploaded several logos of major organisations claiming them as "own work" (highly unlikely). Please delete. Thanks, --GrandEscogriffe (talk) 14:27, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. I warned the user and delete most of his/her uploads speedily as copyvios or unused copies. Taivo (talk) 09:35, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Categoria:Freelancers

Toda la gente en Category:Freelancers son para ir a Category:Personal files for speedy deletion. Yo me cansé de abrir discusiones de borrado. Por qué no los borran todos en vez de acosar a IPs? — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 191.126.15.105 (talk) 01:22, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Category:Freelancers
All the people in Category:Freelancers are to go to Category:Personal files for speedy deletion. I'm tired of opening deletion discussions. Why don't they delete them all instead of harassing IPs?
translator: Google Translate via   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:30, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
Hola y bienvenido. Abrí Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Freelancers para ti. Veas también al COM:SIGN/es.
Hi, and welcome. I opened Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Freelancers for you. See also COM:SIGN.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:30, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Captchas during deletion process

Hello admins, I have a question about the captchas I encounter when starting a deletion process for a file, as I did this morning. The nomination apparently has to be published in four different places, so I get four captchas I have to enter correctly. I have no problem with that, but what I do find a bit strange is that the tone of these captchas gets more aggressive each time, basically telling me "Will you now PLEASE enter the correct captcha this time? Or cut it out!", obviously implying that I am vandalizing in some way.

As long as it's only that, I can laugh at it, but this may have caused some additional issues on the German Wikipedia for me. For those of you who read German, you can read the discussion here. Apparently there is some sort of "limiter" that believes I have made 8 edits within one minute or 15 wrong captcha entries within one minute. I have no idea how I would even go about making that many edits in one minute. And I have certainly never made more than a maximum of ONE wrong captcha entry.

My assumption is that something is wrong with the settings of this limiter. Anyone have an idea what might be going on? Thanks, --91.34.47.35 11:22, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Move

Please move Category:China (region) to Category:China. Another user's haphazard moves resulted in the loss of page history. I will clean up after moving. Also, we dont need a page at Category:China (region), so please move without redirect or delete it. Thx. Roy17 (talk) 10:28, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 06:58, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
It's still not moved? The long page history is still at Category:China (region)? Roy17 (talk) 08:09, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
I understood the problem. I moved the category. Taivo (talk) 08:43, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Gani Gashi once again

A gallery Gani Gashi has been recreated. That's no problem, but: I know that someone will use the flyflap again saying "LTA" and m:SRG and so on. The problem is: Gani Gashi is (not only in my opinion) indeed a notable painter who has pages on sq:wp (since 2019), pl:wp (both of which should be extended) and also on wikidata. Unfortunately there have been created that many accounts during the past years for to load up images, that it of course fits 'abusing multiple accounts'. How can we bring that to a reasonable end? --Achim55 (talk) 20:42, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

@Achim55: Could the community authorize CUs to camp on it?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:41, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
@Achim55: Now Gani Gashi (piktor)Gani Gashi (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  is uploading images of the paintings without permission after warning.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:49, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Forgot account password

Forgot the password for this account. Couldn't attach an email. Are there any solutions? --PBKIHX (talk) 13:05, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

@PBKIHX: You can try filing a task on Phabricator. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 17:10, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Daily maintenance categories creation

Looks like bot which creates daily maintenance categories is not working. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:34, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Delay on deleting images

I have been notified that the images I have uploaded to commons are not able to be used currently. I am contacting the author about using the images but I believe they will be alright with the current usage of the images. I was wondering if you could give me a week before you delete the images so I can sort the issue out with the author? The author seems alright with the public using the images and I don't think they would mind if Wikimedia keeps the images on the site until the issue is resolved. Thanks!

Example of one of the images. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Pasquotank_County.jpg DiscoA340 (talk) 02:20, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

I forgot to add the site's terms of use to the last message. DiscoA340 (talk) 02:29, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
I don't think you understand how copyright works. "I don't think they would mind" is not a carte blanche to uploading their work before getting permission. We have processes, namely VRT, that the author would have to contact. If and when the images are deleted, they can be undeleted IFF the author releases them. –Fredddie™ 02:46, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Categorization of Puerto Rico

Hello, User:The Eloquent Peasant, User:Mercy11 and I have been discussing whether categories for Puerto Rico should go under "...of/in the United States" or "...by Country." First, my apologies if this is not the correct place to put this question. Because it is a territory and not a state, one argument is that it is not really in the US and should go under the country cats. The other argument, however, is that being a territory is sufficiently a part of a country and that the US categories are more accurate. As one of many examples, please see the Category:Mayors of Puerto Rico page. Any input is appreciated. AnandaBliss (talk) 02:24, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

@AnandaBliss: I agree with the second argument, but for categorization purposes could we insert a "US territories" set of cats and put each territory set under it? There are many territories in the US that are not yet states because they have not yet qualified, but they are still in the US, and their residents are still forced to pay US income taxes, but benefit from US laws, defenses, and infrastructure. Part of qualification is political due to the US bipartisan political system, such that additions must be balanced between the parties so as not to upset the balances of power in the US House of Congress and the US Senate (combined as the US Congress; roughly equivalent to houses of commons and houses of lords in other countries' parliamentary systems). That effectively means that there are no additions of single states in the foreseeable future.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:44, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
While PR is an insular area of the U.S. it is not in the U.S.
As of this moment, I believe this one is example that is correct. "Category:Mountains_by_dependent_territory showing Categories ( ): Landforms of Puerto Rico (−) (±) (↓) (↑)Mountains of the Caribbean (−) (±) (↓) (↑)Mountains of North America by dependent territory (−) (±) (↓) (↑)Mountains by dependent territory (−) (±) (↓) (↑)Mountains by country (−) (±) (↓) (↑)( )" --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 15:09, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
It's not mutually exclusive: PR can show up as an insular area / territory (not state) of the U.S. AND also under the Mountains by country. AnandaBliss does not want PR to ever show up as a country in Commons, claiming it causes massive confusion. That is the issue. The definition of country. P.R. is not a sovereign state but it is a country. It is not a state. There are lots of ways to show it correctly however, listed after Pennsylvania in the P section of United States is not correct and is how AnandaBliss has gone and done it with reverting how the categories were set up. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 15:40, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
It's not a state, but for our purposes it's closer to being a state than a country. We can easily and correctly interpret our container categories to include "states and territories of the USA" (look at Category:Mayors of Washington, D.C.), but we can't do that by claiming them to be countries. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:53, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
@Andy Dingley: PR = state - everyone agrees that is not factual. PR = country, some people disagree. I think we can all agree that PR fits in cat = "states and territories of the USA" however, there are a lot of P.R. cats and they've all been done in a variety of ways. We'd have to look at each. It is a big project. When the category says "in the US" I disagree because it isn't. It's also not a part of the US, it belongs to the US (a colony).--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 17:42, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
It's not a colony; the people of Puerto Rico are US citizens.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:39, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
The categories we are speaking of are geographic categories. The categories we are discussing are about Puerto Rico the place not Puerto Rican people. Guam, American Samoa are also not in the US. They are insular areas and should not be listed as U.S. states. It's the same with P.R. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 13:22, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
@Andy Dingley: For example this cat  Category:Urban squares in the United States - would it be possible to change that to "Urban squares of states and territories of the USA"? Then it would be correct. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 17:52, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
  • You could easily do that, but it would garner a different meaning. The first would be primarily interpreted geographically (i.e. the continental US), the second is obviously more political and so the territories would be included. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:56, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
Easily? IMHO: I just want to clarify that I don't think any of this is done "easily". Were it easy, it would have already been done. DC and the 50 states are in the U.S. while PR, the US Virgin Islands, Samoa, Mariana Islands etc. are not. They are Insular Areas of the U.S. / territories of the U.S. - not "in" the U.S. and most of the categories says "blah blah blah blah in the U.S." --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 19:28, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
P.R. is in the Caribbean. I agree that this can be discussed elsewhere, since we all want to place PR, Guam, US Virgin Islands and all the territories in the correct geographic subcategories, without politicizing the issue. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 13:22, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
This is on the wrong board. The correct venue is the [[COM:VP|Village Pump]. Thanks, Yann (talk) 17:45, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

@AnandaBliss: I think inserting a "US territories" set of categories like @Jeff G.: said is the most precise. (I understand if in cats we don't want to say PR is a country. I get it. I get that in Commons "country" means "sovereign state", which PR is not.) Still, we have to look at each category individually, because they've all been set up in different ways. (Also, if I may predict the future. It will never become a state, as Jeff G. said. Congress just doesn't have the stomach for that.) --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 21:36, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Very important point I want to make is re: our understanding of "country" on Commons. Someone mentioned that for the purposes of Wiki Commons, "country" means sovereign state (i.e. US) but that is not so. If we look at this category (category:Reefs by country) and many other categories: we can see that American Samoa (which is a US Territory) and Taiwan are listed under countries. So country in Commons does not necesarily mean Sovereign State, and this is why I and others have added P.R. as a country. Same type of situation. See Category:Reefs_by_country . I listed the categories that we should look at on my talk page and look forward to working through this with AnandaBliss and others. Country and US Territory are not mutually exclusive - like American Samoa, PR is a subcat (subset) of both things. Good day! --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 15:15, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

title changes

I request the change of title of the following images due to an error in their titles in Spanish:

I request it here since it is not possible in the usual way due to the total protection of these images. Chico512 (talk) 18:45, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

I understand, that p is missing from both filenames. But maybe also change hyphen: not 1979-1989, but 1979–1989? Taivo (talk) 07:04, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done But it is not a good idea to use – instead of - in filenames. Yann (talk) 08:42, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Modification of Template:PD-VenezuelaGov

Hello, I want to talk to you about the modification of the template Template:PD-VenezuelaGov that mentions the public domain license for Venezuela.

Recently in 2012, the government decreed a law that releases to the public domain all the graphic material that is made by any of the government institutions.

The law in question is the Ley Orgánica del Trabajo, los Trabajadores y las Trabajadoras (Labor Law in English), decreed in May 7, 2012. In which article no. 325 decrees (in Spanish):

La producción intelectual generada bajo relación de trabajo en el sector público, o financiada a través de fondos públicos que origine derechos de propiedad intelectual, se considerará del dominio público, manteniéndose los derechos al reconocimiento público del autor o autora.

Translated into English would be:

The intellectual production generated under an employment relationship in the public sector, or financed through public funds that originates intellectual property rights, will be considered to be in the public domain, maintaining the rights to public recognition of the author.

Can be modify this template to add this law? — Wguayana (talk) 18:14, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

User:Pilkati046 sock

Sock of long-term self-promoter Alisabriofficiel (talk · contribs), currently trying to take over entries about people called Sabri Pilkati and Ali Sabri on Wikipedia and Wikidata, to be about himself instead. Was uploading the same photos under SabriP01 (talk · contribs) this morning. --Lord Belbury (talk) 18:03, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. I tagged master and 3 sockpuppets, blocked 2 of them indefinitely and created a sockpuppet category. Taivo (talk) 10:57, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Fixing licensing errors during deletion debate

  • At Commons:Deletion requests/File:Historical people of Gelon.jpg I changed the license to the appropriate license for the country of origin for the image, my edit was reversed with the comment: "If you think a license is incorrect, you can discuss it at the DR but don't change licenses in the middle of a DR. That is deceptive and manipulative for the DR discussion!" I believe we should be correcting deficiencies as quickly as possible. What is our exact rule, can we make corrections to defective licensing information during the deletion debate? Waiting for the deletion debate to end can take up to a year, and I doubt anyone would even remember a year later to check back at a discussion to then make changes, and under the old license it would be deleted. So, who is correct? This is the deletion queue from January of this year. I noted the correct licensing information in the debate, so nothing "deceptive and manipulative" occurring. --RAN (talk) 20:07, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
  • This is ridiculous, so I've reverted P199's reversion.
Although it has to be noted that you (you personally) are simply persona non grata across WM, and you can once again expect to be blocked / banned / boiled in oil simply for having the temerity to question this. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:26, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
Oh, and "Previous DR closed wrong." is one of the worst synonyms for COM:IDONTLIKEIT and carries no more weight than that. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:28, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
Unsurprisingly, P199 continues to edit-war over this and has restored the "2022" date, even though admitting that this "is clearly wrong". We should not have people trying to railroad a DR by pushing what they know are clearly wrong descriptions, just to force deletion. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:43, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
  • Part of the problem is that when you scan or even crop an original photo, you create a derivative copy, Commons ask for the date and the name of the creator. New uploaders choose info on the new derivative copy by default, instead of information on the original image. We need a better form that incudes both sets of info. --RAN (talk) 05:37, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
  • Ignoring the drama that is created by such antics, I do not see what is gained by changing the license on the page while a deletion discussion is ongoing. The administrator is likely to read the discussion and not do a separate history search on the page to see that you've changed the page to your preference. I'm certain a follow-up complaint that the page was deleted even though you changed the page will result in more annoyance at your antics than anything productive. If you do change the page, then remark on that in the discussion and I would suggest pinging the people who discussed it before. However, I see nothing that was gained by changing it in this particular circumstance since no one on the page was made aware of the changes and the same issue was being discussed at the page. Either, it is something that is important and new so everyone who is discussing it needs to be know about it and should re-evaluate their opinion or it is something minor that should have no effect on the discussion. I think the page should stay roughly static while discussion is ongoing or else no one will know what version of the page is being discussed. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:54, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Problem with mass DR

I'm wondering if someone can help me figure out what's going on at File:Lambton Kent District School Board.gif. I'm trying to start about a DR about this file and File:Lambton Kent District School Board Logo.gif at Commons:Deletion requests/Lambton Kent District School Board logos, but for some reason the DR notifications on the files' pages were not formatting properly. I actually ended up making a redundant DR for one of the files at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Lambton Kent District School Board Logo.gif. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:35, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Fixed. Yann (talk) 08:46, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
Thank you Yann -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:26, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth photo contest in Turkey: Request for MassMessage

Hey! I have a request from the Turkish Wiki Loves Earth organizing team. We'd like to send an invitation to take part in the contest to the previous-years' participants who haven't taken part in this one. Here's text of the message, and here's the list of receivers. With thanks! --IrynaYehiazarova(WMUA) 17:47, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

anyone? please IrynaYehiazarova (WMUA) (talk) 13:35, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

License Review Needed

Hi, please help me review the license of File:The geologic map of the Moon at 1-2.5M scale.png and File:1-250万月球全月地质图.jpg. I'm going to add a new nomination in featured pictures.

The CC BY 4.0 information is in the upper left corner of https://sadr-en.nssdc.ac.cn/detail?dataSetId=972277454573928448&dataSetType=personal.

You may find the site of the paper during the view: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2095927322002316. "© 2022 Science China Press. Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science China Press. All rights reserved." is the copyright of the website instead of the picture.

Thanks! MChinaGA (talk) 11:44, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

@MChinaGA: I reviewed the English map. For the Chinese map, do you have a direct source for that version, or did you make the translation yourself? -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:38, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Um don't have it I asked the officials they said it's also cc by 4.0 but not published in the web MChinaGA (talk) 00:56, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
Got it in it's social media MChinaGA (talk) 00:57, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Modification of Template:Not-PD-US-URAA to reflect common practice

In line with a recent discussion I want to improve clarity for admins and uploaders by modifying Template:Not-PD-US-URAA remove the first four sentences of the second section (referencing non-acceptance, non-upload, ongoing review, and deletion of material under copyright in the US) and remove the second section of its template documentation. This was last discussed on Template talk:Not-PD-US-URAA in 2017 but based on the elapsed time and the recent discussion it's time to act.

It would be consistent to modify Commons:URAA-restored copyrights to remove mention of the precautionary principle because it is not our common practice.

Putting this here and not Commons:Village pump/Copyright because the template is widely used and I would like some feedback in case other changes to the template should be performed which I missed, thanks. Hekerui (talk) 21:04, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

 Support If no objections, then tomorrow I'll delete the 4 sentences. Taivo (talk) 11:14, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
OK, but we need a mention saying that the proof is reversed for such files. A simple suspicion of URAA violation is not sufficient. Yann (talk) 08:50, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
What does that mean? Give an example or propose a statement. Hekerui (talk) 10:43, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
Usually, the uploader has to give convincing evidence that a file is under a free license or is in the public domain. For files potentially affected by URAA, the person requesting deletion has to give this evidence. Yann (talk) 11:23, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
No proof of any kind for PD? No. Hekerui (talk) 13:58, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
I deleted the sentences from languages using Latin or Slavic script. I do not understand other scripts. Taivo (talk) 08:27, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

User:Ymblanter's photo

Hi, dear admins! User_talk:Ymblanter#File:Selamsiz_house.jpg I request evaluation about the discussion which placed in Ymblanter's talk page. Best,--Kadı Message 21:16, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Indeed, I tried to explain the policy to the user but they do not want to hear it. May be the filemover right, which they have for a month and have already abused, must be revoked. Ymblanter (talk) 21:20, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
This is from you: "And, by the way, if I had to upload it now, I would give it a different name, but since there are external links to this file, which die when the file is renamed, I am not really willing to rename it." Your reason is so subjective because you are refraining from renaming by the reason of your personal blog, this is inappropriate. Kadı Message 21:26, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Again: It is up to me which name I choose. If I would upload it right now, the file name would start with Istanbul. I switched to this standard a couple of years ago because I find it more convenient. As soon as the name make sense and is not misleading, not offensive etc, it will be what I want, not what you want. Ymblanter (talk) 21:34, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
@Ymblanter, Current name is meaningless. Also, please calm down as expected from administrators. If I am explaining my ideas properly, I have the right to expect the same attitude from you. Kadı Message 21:39, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
It is not meaningless, which I have already explained to you. It depicts a house on a certain street. I am not sure why it is so difficult to understand. Ymblanter (talk) 21:42, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
The house is a historical place in İstanbul, I am from İstanbul and I know the house and its name. Its name is not Selamsiz house, this is the problem. Güllü Köşk or Güllü Kiosk, Selamsız is appropriate. Kadı Message 21:46, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
We started the whole ramp with me trying to explain to you that the name of the file is not necessarily the same (in fact, almost never the same) as the official name of the object it depicts. You apparently have difficulties understanding the concept. Sorry, I can not help. Ymblanter (talk) 21:49, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
That's why requesting another evaluation is significant. If you can not help, another person maybe could help. There is a Turkish idiom "Akıl akıldan üstündür." very suitable for this incident. Have a good day, @Ymblanter. Kadı Message 21:54, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
  • I endorse the rename by Kadı. Selamsiz is wrong, Selamsız is correct, so the file should be renamed per criterion no. 3. While moving it, it's logical to give it a more specific name (criterion no. 2) i.e., the name of the house itself, not the name of the street neighborhood. Please note that i and ı are two different letters in Turkish, and vowel harmony dictates ı here. 4nn1l2 (talk) 23:56, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
  • While I agree with what 4nn1l2 has stated above, we do also owe the uploader courtesy as well. Bidgee (talk) 00:23, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
    Thanks, @4nn1l2. Could you move the file? Also, I am not happy with the statement provided by Ymblanter above: "Indeed, I tried to explain the policy to the user but they do not want to hear it. May be the filemover right, which they have for a month and have already abused, must be revoked." Regards. Kadı Message 00:31, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
    Kadı, best not to be asking anyone to move the file. In someways the uploader must be taken into account and you have clearly ignored them and I can understand why they are annoyed with you. While you might not like what statement Ymblanter made, there is nothing wrong with what they had said and it doesn't violate any Commons policies. Bidgee (talk) 02:59, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
    @Bidgee, Did you read my explanations? Kadı Message 07:42, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
    Kadı, rica ederim. There seems to be a disagreement and moving the file single-handedly would be considered controversial at this stage. I'm not happy with the current situation, but let's just divert our time and attention to something more useful. It's just a filename. 4nn1l2 (talk) 16:53, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
  • I disagree with a forced rename against the uploader's wishes. I do not consider failure to use non-ASCII characters as an "obvious error" that requires correction; "Selamsiz" is an acceptable English spelling of the name to make it easier to type and use (which is an advantage in filenames). And while it could definitely be more descriptive, I don't think it is egregious enough to fall under criterion 2. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:00, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
    @King of Hearts, there is not a place called Selamsiz house. Its name is Güllü Köşk. Wikimedia project's primary purpose is to give right information to the readers. Ymblanter also accepts that, but he is refraining from renaming because of his personal blog. In addition, his sentences contains a serious accusation and violates policies. Kadı Message 07:41, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
    I think I can't explain the incident well, please close the discussion so that no one wastes time. Best wishes from Istanbul. Kadı Message 07:45, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
  • I support renaming the photo for the following reasons:
    1. Selamsiz is the name of a region, not the building.
    2. Why do we choose inaccurate information while there is a exact information? "Selamsız house" looks like a name of the building. It is not even a house, it is kosk.
    3. If the building had no name, we could say "A house in Selamsiz". But it has name.
    4. Does owning the image allow owner's to put a misleading title?
    5. For a building whose real name is known in New York, would you say "New York house" or write its real name? Karakalem (talk) 15:22, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
    Selamsiz is not a region, it is a street. The guideline clearly says the criterion applies if "the only piece of meaningful information is a broad location, such as a city, province, or country." This, it would apply for New York and does not apply for Selamsiz. Ymblanter (talk) 15:39, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
    Selamsız is not a street. It is a neighborhood https://foursquare.com/v/selamsız/4c46888b1262ef3b4dd1c841 or Quarter (urban subdivision) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_(urban_subdivision). So Selamsız is a region consisting of a combination of streets. Karakalem (talk) 15:53, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
    OSM shows a street, but my argument would also hold for a neighborhood. Ymblanter (talk) 16:09, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
  • I fully agree with King of Hearts. IMHO the current filename is OK enough. Strakhov (talk) 15:29, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
  • Thank you for uploading the photo to Commons Ymblanter. I wonder why this renaming or current status is so important for you? Yes, your argument is correct and does not violate the policies, but the other party's argument is also valid. The most important criterion to be put forward at this stage is, with which naming Wikipedia projects will be more beneficial? Additionally, what renaming can a user easily find this house on Commons? I will also express my own personal opinion according to feedbacks. Maurice Flesier (talk) 20:23, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
    I just follow the same guideline: "In general, Commons aims to provide stable filenames as there might be external file clients and file moving involves significant human and computing resources". I have seen my photos used on external resources (and not just in my blog, though I am probably the most frequent user of my own photos), I do not have a list of external usage but my photos are used in Britannica, USA Today, and the Forbes, for example. And I know that often moving a photo leads to these external sites (obviously, not those I mentioned, but lower tiers) being damaged.This is why I only move my photos when it is absolutely necessary, fully aligned with the guideline. Concerning the easiness of the search, this what we have Structured Commons (and, to a lesser extent, the categories) for. All files I have ever uploaded here have appropriate categories, and all in the last couple of years have appropriate Wikidata tags. Ymblanter (talk) 20:50, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
  • Maybe we need to discuss the file renaming policy in general. I think that file renaming should be avoided as much as possible and should only be done for clearly misleading names, direct after the upload or on the uploaders request. --GPSLeo (talk) 07:37, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
    Should we allow the outside usage of the links pressure us to not change names? Anyone who wants to use the image can upload to own system then attribute/mention to owner of the work. Karakalem (talk) 10:59, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Help with Flickr images needing human review

Right now we have over 7,000 Flickr images needing human review, which is quite a backlog. Only administrators and license reviews can approve images, so any help would be appreciated. Over 5,000 of these are from the the FaceMePLS Flickr account, uploaded by User:1VeertjeBot. These images are currently under All Rights Reserved, but claim to previously be under cc-by-2.0, with archived links provided to prove it. I have submitted a bot request to go through these, but any help overall would be appreciated. --Elisfkc (talk) 17:16, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

I already wrote that I think it is not correct to link the Flickr page with the non free license because that is not the source for the CC-BY license photo. The source for the these photos with a CC-BY license is the archive only. Keeping the link if the license changes after the upload to Commons is fine, but if the file is uploaded after the license changed it is not. --GPSLeo (talk) 18:09, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
Petscan Link for viewing just the images that aren't from FaceMePLS. Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 18:50, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
GPSLeo is wrong about uploading images after a license is changed being an issue. A CreativeCommons license is perpetual. This is very explicitly stated in the license agreement. That the Flickr interface allows the user to change the license does not make it less valid. I've amended the file description with links to Archive.org pages from before this year to make it easier to verify that they indeed had CC-BY licenses. Unfortunately only 3/4 of these files were archived before the license change. I'm 100% sure they had this because I downloaded the metadata to these files all the way back in 2015. At the time I didn't have the technical skills to complete the process of downloading, uploading and adding metadata. This is an account that I've been following for about a decade now, always transferring appropriate images whenever there were new uploads. That's how there already were ~3700 uploads from this account. Vera (talk) 19:59, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
Would you allow me to put my own stamp of approval on these files? It's not ideal but I hope that the circumstantial evidence of me being right about these files license history is sufficient? Vera (talk) 16:48, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
Not sure about putting your own approval on them, but the 1/4 that you don't have an archive link of definitely need to be deleted, since there is no proof of the license. Elisfkc (talk) 17:18, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
There's a lot of circumstantial evidence. For one: I've been a reliable contributor to Wikimedia Commons for many many years now, so I think I deserve some credit for that. I can also point to examples like File:'Birgittinessen klooster' Maasstraat Weert (7053214401).jpg and File:'Birgittinessen klooster' Maasstraat Weert (7053214205).jpg where only one has an archive link, but since they're the same subject and upload date there really shouldn't be even a shadow of doubt that what I say is true: that all the files in this set have a CC-BY license. Vera (talk) 21:18, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
Were there any (similar) non-free images by that account on that date? If there were, it is just about trusting your word (which I do, but others may not). If there were none (or: no archived pages contain such images), I think that should be evidence enough to back your claim. –LPfi (talk) 13:03, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
I'm AFK for the next two weeks. I've still got all the files in a spreadsheet so it wouldn't be a problem to determine which files don't have and an archive link AND don't have another photo taken on the same date that does. I think that will be very few since he typically uploaded batches of images. Vera (talk) 18:25, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Modification of Template:PD-VenezuelaGov

Hi, I want to talk to you about the modification of the template Template:PD-VenezuelaGov that mentions the public domain license for Venezuela.

Recently in 2012, the government decreed a law that releases to the public domain all the graphic material that is made by any of the government institutions.

The law in question is the Ley Orgánica del Trabajo, los Trabajadores y las Trabajadoras (Labor Law in English), decreed in May 7, 2012. In which article no. 325 decrees (in Spanish):

La producción intelectual generada bajo relación de trabajo en el sector público, o financiada a través de fondos públicos que origine derechos de propiedad intelectual, se considerará del dominio público, manteniéndose los derechos al reconocimiento público del autor o autora.

Translated into English would be:

The intellectual production generated under an employment relationship in the public sector, or financed through public funds that originates intellectual property rights, will be considered to be in the public domain, maintaining the rights to public recognition of the author.

Can be modify this template to add this law? -- Wguayana (talk) 14:33, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

ResolvedThis issue seems to be fixed. Yann (talk) 12:07, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Wrong image used in company's wikipedia page: Bajaj Consumer Care

The first image: Bajaj Corp (Green logo) is of our old company. Our company name has been legally changed and hence the old logo on wikipedia page is creating a lot of issues for us. This is our website: https://www.bajajconsumercare.com/ You can check the present and legally registered logo.

Please help. SubhashreeJ (talk) 16:30, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Looks like you realised ten minutes later that the new logo had been on Commons since 2019 and that you could edit the Wikipedia article yourself, so nothing to reply to here. --Lord Belbury (talk) 17:52, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Over 1 week of the tag of "no permission"

Hi I just want to report that the files File:Anji Salvacion.jpg and File:Angie Kristine Allen Salvacion Gorbulev.jpg has been tagged as "no permission" since June 5, 2022 and a week later no admins has act on it. Kindly please act on this 2 files. SeanJ 2007 (talk) 02:18, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 10:13, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

User:Mar26Mon14

Please block User:Mar26Mon14. He uploads files that are not copyright free. He does not respond to repeated notices on his User talk. Thank you Gampe (talk) 16:11, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Final warning issued. Any further copyvios will lead to a block. De728631 (talk) 21:16, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Merging two categories

Hi

How can I merge Category:Jawad (given name) with Category:Javad (given name)?

Cheers Shkuru Afshar (talk) 21:50, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. Here is no history to merge, so I simply deleted the empty category. Taivo (talk) 12:41, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
A redirect might be useful here, to avoid recreating a duplicate category. Yann (talk) 11:19, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thank you. For the future I want to what should I do? Is there any gadget in settings that I should activate or I should mkae a request for merging? Shkuru Afshar (talk) 21:03, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
I do not know such gadget, but I have not searched for it either. Usually I merge the categories by hand and you can do it as well, without request. Bytheway, in my opinion Javad and Jawad are different names, so the redirect would be misleading. Taivo (talk) 08:34, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: So, I can merge categories first and then nominate one of them for deletion. Writing of Javad a Jawad is the same in Persian and Arabic (جواد). But it is different in spelling in Persian and Arabic. That is the reason writing them is different in English. Shkuru Afshar (talk) 22:01, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
Now I understand, that Javad and Jawad is the same name. Yes, you can marge categories yourself and then nominate the empty one for deletion. Taivo (talk) 09:15, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

WhatsApp images

Hi, We have a bot tagging images from WhatsApp. However it seems no further check is being done, although a large number of these are probably not OK: either copyright violations or out of scope, or both. There are thousands of images waiting for review. See also the archives of that page. What do we do? Yann (talk) 21:36, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

How do we know they are WhatsApp images? For example here I do not see anything. It is either own work as the uploader claims or copyvio if the search gives results, but I do not see why it is related to WhatsApp. Ymblanter (talk) 21:39, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Because the file name is WAxxxx. At least we should have a filter preventing these uploads. Yann (talk) 21:47, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Oh, I see. Yes, I think the filter is a good idea. Ymblanter (talk) 21:50, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Should we create a DR for all of them? Other ideas? Yann (talk) 22:07, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
Just to clarify. The intent of the bot task was to flag files that have lost EXIF data as they were processed through WhatsApp at some point. I've made WhatsApp more for tracking, so it's technically not a clean-up page. Ultimately, a lot of files in there would qualify for DR's so I can see why it's perceived as such. BTW, seeing this I've corrected the date issue. There should be date subsections soon again. --Schlurcher (talk) 15:38, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Mass rename

I mistakenly uploaded a set of photos under a mistaken name. Files from File:Entrà Gusmans MMXXII - 32.jpg to File:Entrà Gusmans MMXXII - 111.jpg should be renamed to Entrà Cides MMXXII - XX, where XX is a number starting in 01.--TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 14:04, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Basically, it is needed to rename the whole category to fit its name.--TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 18:11, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 Doing… Commons:Bots/Requests/4nn1l2bot 4nn1l2 (talk) 22:11, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
@4nn1l2: Is a bot really needed? IIRC we already have User:Legoktm/massrename.js and en:WP:JWB. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 12:47, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
Running a pywikibot script is not a big deal. It's actually easier for me.
Furthermore, I vaguely remember having some problems with User:Legoktm/massrename.js, but it was like 5 years ago. Maybe it's okay now. 4nn1l2 (talk) 17:03, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Sorry @4nn1l2: @4nn1l2: New rename requested. All files in Category:Entrà Bequeteros 2022 to be renamed to Entrà Miqueros MMXXII - XX, where XX is a number starting in 01.--TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 20:27, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Mass moving files to a POV title

"War of Independence"?

Some months ago, hundreds of files from Israeli archives were uploaded under the title of "War of Independence". This is a title which is not accepted on any wiki, where it is called the wikidata:Category:1948 Arab–Israeli War.

It is also a title extremely offensive to the 3/4 million Palestinian refugees from the war, and their descendants. The Palestinians usually call this war "Nakba", (=catastrophe).

I have changed the file-names from "War of Independence" to "1948 Arab–Israeli War".

Now another editor is changing it back. Comments? Huldra (talk) 21:34, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

@Huldra: Which criterion from COM:FR are you and they using, and why? Please invite them to this discussion.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:42, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
User:Jeff G. I invited them here.
Pr COM:FR 5: In this case there actually is a 100% NPOV name for an extremly contentious subject, and that name is the "1948 Arab–Israeli War". Huldra (talk) 22:00, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
What about the old maxim "Victors get to write history"?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 22:06, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
Well, I don't agree that "Might Is Right", I prefer the en:Golden Rule 😇 Huldra (talk) 22:11, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
I'd say the Golden Rule includes not annoying people by mass renaming their files.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:17, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
I think Huldra should have the "Filemover" right removed, since files moved by the contributor only have "NPOV" as the reason, which isn't supported by COM:FR, infact one could argue is again FR#1. Bidgee (talk) 03:25, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
I have been seeing a quite few more renames([10][11], [12],[13],[14],[15],[16],[17],[18],[19],[20],[21] ... ect) done that are not supported by COM:FRC. Bidgee (talk) 04:02, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
@Bidgee: I agree with you on such removal.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:42, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
COM:FR 5 doesn't remotely cover this. It says "gratuitous vulgarity, personal attacks/harassment, blatant advertising, and cases where revision deletion would be authorized." It does not include moving files to new names because the namer used a standard name that wasn't the preferred or neutral standard.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:13, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

The picture above is of the Palestinian prisoners, in "holding bins", pictured at Ramle in July-48, just before their expulsion. I would presume that Israeli "war of indepence" (as it is presently called) would be extremely insulting to the people pictured, and their descendants. On the other hand; the term "1948 Israeli-Arab war" is a 100% NPOV term for a very contentious subject. Huldra (talk) 23:53, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

As i said in User_talk:Huldra#Moves_outside_of_any_rules there is no reason to move thousands of filenames to a suposed NPOV when the mover has a clear pro-palestinian POV (and that was, is and will fine in any other contest) under the disguise of a NPOV justification for every move, when his reasons are simply for a specific POV.
Also, when some says that "Israel’s War of Independence" = "Palestinian Nakbah", but says that he will not move the filenames with "Nakbah", when under his own criteria the term Nakbah is a specific POV, we can see that there are to weights.
The categories in this contencious questions should be, in my opinion, as must conciliatory and objective as possible, but nothing in Commons:Project scope/Neutral point of view justifies moving thousands of filenames under this wrong NPOV tag. Tm (talk) 00:12, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
There is also the fact that most of the involved Arab countries continue to this day to not acknowledge Israel's right to exist, thus for them the war is not yet over, so ending at 1948 is a misnomer.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:28, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
True, but still the only issue here is the year of this war and if we follow the guidelines then i agree with Huldra's move, the related article on the Hebrew wikipedia is very much biased so we follow the one on the English wikipedia cause anyone that has been on these wiki for a while knows that regional language wikis have their own biases and as such because we have a valid article on this on the English Wikipedia and the images here in commons are also in that very same category, i don't see the issue except for maybe ending each Image with the given filename number which i believe Huldar did before Tm reverted him .. We categorise images on commons in relations to the event its related to and the event was the 1948 war, every other language wiki has categorised it as such as well bar the hebrew wiki who chose to not even link their related article on this to the relevant wikidata on this, so if there is a bias here, its not from the page moves made by Huldar... Stemoc 03:44, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
If anyone wants NPOV to be a reason for moving, they need to start a proposal to adjust or create a new aim/view/reason within the COM:FNC and COM:PS, at the moment no such rule/guideline exists. Bidgee (talk) 03:30, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
Wars screw people who aren't on the winning side, and wars of independence are no different. I'll see your 3/4 million and raise you the 3-7 million Native Americans the American War of Independence doomed to genocide. That doesn't stop it from being a war of independence.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:40, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
  • Strong support I'm normally against bulk renaming files from archives, because preserving the names is more valuable than most renames. But "War of Independence" is such a hugely partisan name that it really shouldn't be used here. Nor is it: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8142807 (Hebrew WP being an unsurprising outlier)
Some of Jeff's comments here, and their implications, are disgusting. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:45, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
Comment; TM says on my talk-page that "Of course you will not move Category:2014 Nakba Day, Ramallah to Category:2014 Israeli-Arab war day, Ramallah or any file with Nakba in its filename, albeit what you said that "Israel’s War of Independence" = "Palestinian Nakbah"." This clearly shows the fact is that you are the one that is POV pushing. link (my bolding)
Category:2014 Nakba Day, Ramallah is a (sub)subcat of Category:Nakba Day. Nakba Day is 15 May every year, a day officially commemorated since the 1990s. (see en:Nakba Day, or any of the ~ 20 different wiki-articles about it: wikidata:Q263078). It would be totally absurd to move Category:2014 Nakba Day, Ramallah to Category:2014 Israeli-Arab war day, Ramallah! (Seriously, what 2014 Israeli-Arab war??)
AFAIK, 100% of the files with the name "Nakba" in the file-name on commons refer to en:Nakba Day.
IMHO: there are two POV names for the 1948 war: "Israel’s War of Independence" and "Palestinian Nakbah". Both are equally partisan. There is one 100% neutral name, and that is "1948 Israeli-Arab war". (if you disagree with anything in that last sentence; please tell why.)
I have moved articles from a highly partisan name to a neutral name. (If there had been any files from the 1948 war with "Nakba" in the title, I would have been fine with moving them to "1948 Israeli-Arab war", too.).
Why does editors insist on a name which is extremely hurtful, insulting and humiliating to millions of people? When there is a 100 % neutral alternative? I simply don't understand. Huldra (talk) 21:15, 14 June 2022 (UTC) (PS: I am female, please use she/her when referring to me)
It is a controversial subject, so any move is controversial and cannot be done without going to COM:CFD for categories and COM:VP/P for the files. Using your filemover right on the basis of NPOV isn’t supported by COM:FRC. Bidgee (talk) 22:47, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
I agree that it is a controversial subject, but I disagree that this isn't covered by COM:FRC. COM:FRC p. 5 "...To change a filename that would be a violation of Commons’ policies and guidelines if it appeared elsewhere on the project as text.." And COM:NPOV says "and in any event neither filenames nor text may be phrased in such a way as to constitute vandalism, attack or deliberate provocation."
Using "Israel’s War of Independence" is a clear and deliberate provocation against the 3/4 million Palestinians who were expelled/had to flee in -48, and to all their descendants.
I agree with COM:NPOV that "it may not always be possible for file names [..] to be "neutral" However, neutrality of description should be aimed at wherever possible. And in this case it is actually possible: we can use the neutral "1948 Israeli-Arab war". (If you don't think that is neutral, then please tell me why), Huldra (talk) 23:16, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
So the name that people widely use for something, that is factually correct, is deliberate provocation? Then why isn't Nakba Day deliberate provocation? Same thing, they're both names that some people use.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:40, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
I don’t agree with the “War of Independence” as well but there is nothing in COM:FRC that states it must be a NPOV name, in fact COM:NPOV states “ Commons is not Wikipedia, and files uploaded here do not necessarily need to comply with the Neutral point of view and No original research requirements imposed by many of the Wikipedia sites.“ Bidgee (talk) 23:41, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
Quite. But the policy also says However, neutrality of description should be aimed at wherever possible. The Israel-Palestine issue is one of the most controversial areas on the whole of wiki (at least on en.wp). Isn't it therefor imperative that we should strive for neutrality? And not use deliberately provocative title-names?
(As for Nakba Day, that is mirrored by, say, all the monuments in Israel for "War of Independence", (say Category:Monument to the fallen in the War of Independence (Kiryat Tivon), or Category:Memorial to the defenders of Jerusalen in the War of Independence, or Category:War of Independence memorial in Safed, or Category:War of Independence Memorial in Ramat Gan); I am not suggesting we change those, either, Huldra (talk) 00:05, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
You say that the term of "war of independence" is "insulting and humiliating to millions of people", but the same could be said that your attempts to supress this term are a insult to millions of Israelis (jews, christian arabs, muslim arabs, israeli druzes and other israeli with other religions, etc) and more millions of jews in the intery world.
The term is so offensive that Encyclopedia Britannica uses this term and nakba, a book published by the Oxford University Press, uses this term next to nakba, an article "Israel/Palestine (1948-present)" in the University of Central Kansas uses this term, Rosen Publishing "an American publisher for educational books for readers from ages pre-Kindergarten through grade 12" [https://www.rosenpublishing.com/product/israels-war-independence published the book "War and Conflict in the Middle East - Israel's War of Independence", Indiana University Press published the book "Israeli Community Action - Living through the War of Independence", Liverpool Scholarship Online published the book "Hadassah: American Women Zionists and the Rebirth of Israel" that has an chapter called "Hadassah in the War of Independence, 1947–1949".
So the term is a wide use in several reputable and educational sources. Tm (talk) 12:15, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
So what? I can easily find equally many (or more) reputable and educational sources which refer to the 1948 war as "Nakba". Both "Nakba" and "War of Independence" are equally partisan, IMO.
And Encyclopedia Britannica uses the term "War of Independence" together with "Nakba"; if we accept "War of Independence" for the -48 war, then we must also accept the term "Nakba" for the same war.
Some things there are no neutral names for (like "Nakba Day" or a "Monument for the fallen in the War of Independence"). But for the war itself, we do have a neutral term, IMO.
COM:NPOV tells us that we should not use a name as a "deliberate provocation", and Israels "War of Independence" is a deliberate provocation of millions of Palestinians.
So my question is; is the term "1948 Israeli-Arab war" insulting or humiliating to anyone? Or a "deliberate provocation" of anyone? I would argue no. If you disagree, then please tell me why, Huldra (talk) 21:02, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
What's highly offensive it that a sole user is aspiring to tell Israelis what to name their files. We call this war the War of Independence. That is a fact, and it is only natural that we be allowed to name our files accordingly. Nakba is a highly unpopular term in Israel, yet it would be ludicrous were someone to come here and start policing the use of that word. There are many thing offensive to many people in this world. That does not give us the right to act as thought police. Honestly, this is Orwellian. Poliocretes (talk) 18:31, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
And you need to understand that "Nakba" is as acceptable for Palestinians/Arabs as "war of independence" is for Israelis (that is, for those Israelis who are not Palestinian/Arab). And to name the picture at the start of this section as "War of Independence" is an outragious insult to the people depicted.
COM:NPOV says that filenames cannot be "attack or deliberate provocation". The Israeli "war of independence" is exactly that. I am suggesting a compromise, namely using the neutral "1948 Arab-Israeli war". Huldra (talk) 23:46, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Category:Cloud Gate (subject to deletion)

This renaming of this category is a strange way to get files deleted. Please rename the category back to its old name. NNW 17:16, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

 Oppose per Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Cloud Gate.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:34, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
That's no reason to give a category a stupid name, especially with Category:Cloud Gate (kept)‎ as a subcat. Delete the files, that's it, but Cloud Gate is not a subject to deletion, it's a work of art of which Commons cannot store files like Category:Paint Torch (Claes Oldenburg) or a building like Category:Espaces d'Abraxas or … NNW 20:04, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
 Support I note that the edit summary when the category was moved included "Feel free to revert if you think this change is undesirable". Furthermore, a number of files in Category:Cloud Gate (subject to deletion) do not meet that criterion. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:09, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
 Support This is the wrong way to do it. Yann (talk) 21:12, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello,

I am messaging you because a contest for a sound logo for Wikimedia is being developed and your opinion as a Wikimedia Commons admin is appreciated. My team would like to know if it is possible for the top finalist sound logos in the contest to have attribution temporarily hidden from public view until all the votes are final? The idea is to let the public judge the sound logo contestants based on the merit of the logo, not the person or people who made it. Again, any feedback is appreciated.

Thank you,

VGrigas (WMF) (talk) 17:54, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Rv Special:Diff/664727330/664729001

Can an admin please undo this move? Thanks in advance. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 04:22, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Problem admin breaking template, and abusing admin tools again

I have for a long time been editing sorting out London based categories and have found "Template:London subdivisions categories" very useful for this task. Until today, now it has been altered so that now in most cases it no longer works. By Blackcat an admin with past form of Abusing admin tools, rude and uncouth editing, bad faith actions and edit Waring. He occasionally has edited London Categories with a bizarre war against the word Stadium with his behavior descending to edit wars and Admin tool abuse, but has little interest in the subject of London. His edits have not only broke the navigational template but are also unwelcome to the major user of it. I reverted his edit to the previous one that worked. Since then he has protected the template claiming it is to "prevent vandalism" this is clearly a lie as I only edited the template once and fixing it is not vandalism. This is another occasion of this user abusing his admin tools if he disagrees with me he should discuss not strong arm his agenda. Something else this admin has a history of doing. In his edit summery he ties to justify his actions as "Widely used template", I am by far the major user of this template and by far the major user of the category London and it's subcats, the template has been wrecked by someone with little to no previous interest in London. There was nothing wrong with the Template and no need for any modifications. Now it fails to work. Please can anyone looking into this treat this issue fairly and look into repairing the template Oxyman (talk) 21:09, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

I reposted this in the "user problems" section, where I meant to post it in the first place Oxyman (talk) 21:18, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
  • Template:London subdivisions categories for reference. @Blackcat: it does seem a little odd to protect and then 'fix' the template to some version. Was it a reversion? I don't have any further opinion other than to say "repair template" or "fix template" for large changes is not helpful edit summaries. No talk page discussion or an example of what you two are doing isn't helping. Can either one point to a page broken by the template and/or why not create a second template for whatever the issue is? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:00, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
@Ricky81682: first of all, that template shouldn't be into the said categories. It is meant for the categories named after the boroughs of London. That a part, to answer to your question, no, it was not a reversion. The template is widely used and I protected it. It has been uniformed to the navigation templates used for the same categories (see for example template:Counties of England.) Unfortunately the old code didn't fit because it's not able to manage the cases in which there is a suffix (not something of BOROUGH but also something of BOROUGH by SOMETHING. Oxyman haa a long story of abusing the tool of A/U unfortunately, one year ago he even opened a discussion for a legitimate edit that I never reverted . If he had asked for explanations I would have given them. If the problem is the protection we can discuss, but editing a wrong template into its correct form is not a matter of problem administrator. -- Blackcat 23:09, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
The template was added to the Fire stations one in November 2013 so I don't see how you can decide that it shouldn't have been there when it's been there for over eight years in the first place. It seems like you have decided that you own this template and you want it structured how you want and just removing it after destroying it seems pretty childish to me. I don't care about Oxyman's antics so much as the amount of work you are creating for others. What is wrong with creating another template? If you want to own the main template, fine, but then create a new template for the pages that have used this template for years and do that, not destroy it, put it where you want and then remove it so someone else will now have to waste time and energy following you around to see where you've removed this template from? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:16, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
Removing a template with the edit summary 'fix' is not actually productive here. If you want the template deleted, then argue for its deletion. If you think it doesn't belong, go ahead but given the number of years people didn't object to it, it was helpful to more people than to you. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:19, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
Actually, @Ricky81682: , I am just fixing its parametres, as you can see by my cronology. It's Oxyman that is probably too impatient, but when I change a template I take also the responsibility of fixing the consequence. As for the question of the template, it simply must not be there. What has to do a template: "boroughs of london" in a category "Snow in London?". It's a navigational template through the items of a same class. It's the reason itself of a template. If was put there by mistake? Shall we keep the mistake? -- Blackcat 23:24, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
A talk page comment on the template would have solved a lot of this. Not protecting it with your new format would have also helped not stir up drama. No one can read your mind and know whether or not you were going to fix this, especially when you choose to use cryptic edit summaries like "fix" to lock the template, edit the template and I don't know which are ones that are actual fixes by removing it in your mind rather than trying to guess if your plan was just to remove it everywhere. I agree that it's probably not appropriate at the Snow one in retrospect but I have no idea what your plan is here. If you think it's not necessary there, use a different edit summary so people know what you are doing. "Not needed template" is not that hard to type out. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:31, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
@Ricky81682: let me fix the thing this way:
#I'm going to revert the current template to the last version of Oxyman
#I'm going to transfer its current code to template:Boroughs of London
#I'm going to replace with the former the occurrences of the latter I have modified with the standard parametres
#for the next we'll see whether i can ask for a bot to replace the old template in order to uniform its code and functions to the existent ones. -- Blackcat 23:34, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
@Blackcat: Last comment on this matter but you were aware that Template:London subdivisions existed and did exact what your new version does right now, correct? The difference is I didn't go around changing templates unilaterally. I suggest you consider whether all this is actually accomplishing anything at all. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:36, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
@Ricky81682: I'm learning now it exists. I expected it to be called "boroughs of London". Maybe we should trade more information both way to avoid these things. Part is my fault but I just couldn't know that a template existed with that nanme-- Blackcat 23:39, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
@Ricky81682: done. -- Blackcat 00:46, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
I don't know, I cannot know what the problem admin's intentions are from here forward. If the situation as it is now is left as it is then fine. Current uses of the template should be left as they are, there should be no bizzare war against the template or uses of the template. Blackcat should now go and put his attentions somewhere else. You tell me is that his intentions? Oxyman (talk) 14:42, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

User page that was created as vandalism, and not deleted for years

User:Betty Logan — This user page has been nothing but vandalism (check the page history), and it's weird to me that none of the vandals got blocked. There have been no edits on this page from the user herself, and apparently not even a statement that these edits were endorsed. I tried to speedy this user page, but it appears that I as a long-time contributor can't edit the user page, but somehow random first-timer vandals could...I mean wow. PseudoSkull (talk) 01:55, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

revision deletion

Hi, how do I request deletion of a previous version of a description of a wikimedia commons file please? Thanks in advance. Kroshkaro (talk) 18:31, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

You can request this exactly here. However, don't forget to provide a serious reason. --Túrelio (talk) 18:51, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Request for deleted content

The following files have been deleted due to file corruption.

Can any admin kindly put file description of them in User:維基小霸王/sandbox2 so that I can see if uncorrupted files can be obtained from source?

維基小霸王 (talk) 05:20, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

@Túrelio: Thanks for copying the first 5 pages.--維基小霸王 (talk) 03:56, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 23:01, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
@4nn1l2: Thank you!--維基小霸王 (talk) 10:30, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Block of Amin hannibal (2)

I am following up on my initial request addressed by De728631 since Amin hannibal has made new copyrighted uploads despite a final copyvio warning has been issued by Jeff G.. Moumou82 (talk) 08:46, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Do Wikipedia users get notices about warnings at Commons? All the user's contributions are cross-wiki uploads (from en-wp, although all their edit summaries seem to be in Arabic). –LPfi (talk) 09:08, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
Blocked for 3 days. As part of the unified login process, users do get notices across Wikimedia whenever their user talk page gets edited at another project like Commons vs. Wikipedia or Wikidata. De728631 (talk) 10:16, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
@De728631 and LPfi: They will get those notices unless they uncheck checkboxes "Edit to my user talk page" here in the "Notify me about these events" section of Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo or uncheck checkbox "Show notifications from other wikis" in the "Cross-wiki notifications" section of that page on each wiki they usually visit. Those checkboxes appear to default to checked, but mw:Extension:Echo does not mention such.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:09, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Steward action

I've deleted an image while T&S/Legal reviews the circumstances. Posting here for visibility and transparency of Steward emergency action taken. Operator873 (talk) 21:06, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Page blanking

My new account name is Breastone. I want User:Gale Peterson to be blanked instead of a redirect, but I got a warning about me blanking it. 19:28, 24 June 2022 Breastone (talk)

✓ Done Yann (talk) 19:40, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
I'm sorry if my message wasn't clear! I want the user page for my old account User:Gale Peterson blanked. Breastone (talk) 20:02, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
✓ Blanked NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 23:14, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Dispute regarding file: Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg

  • There is a user named "Aziz bm" that is reverting 1 of 2 versions of the current Saudi Arabian flag. The version I am referring to [1] is seen in all governmental settings and used in public and daily life in Saudi Arabia. The main point I am trying to convey is that the user is creating a duplicate file by changing the version of the 1st version of the flag, which is not acceptable. I do not want to continue this edit war with this individual with the fear that nothing constructive will occur, so I came here to report this problem.
  • Both versions have a minor text difference.
  • Vexilla Mundi's flag construction sheet is used to show the Saudi Arabian flag, and it uses the version I am arguing for.
  • A user by the name of "Zyido" perfectly describes this issue in a discussion area on File talk:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg named "Correct Version of the Flag", and he recommended making, "both flags to appear on the Wikipedia page as alternatives/variants in some way once we decide which one is the "main" one.", which I totally agree with.

Revdel request

Various libelous edits on this page. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 11:44, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

✓ Deleted the revision. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat [ contribs | talk ] 11:49, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
@Tulsi Bhagat: Could also block the IP as an open proxy/VPN, 99% sure. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 11:52, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
IP is ceased and that edit was made on 16 March 2022, so I think blocking is not worth it. — Tulsi Bhagat [ contribs | talk ] 06:57, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Uploading a new version to get around a svg bug

Hi all, the File:Flag of Arkansas.svg is not rendering correctly due to phab:T276684. I raised the issue at en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Flag of Arkansas.svg rendering inappropriately, and User:Anomie has fixed the issue and uploaded a working replacement svg at testwiki:File:Flag of Arkansas fixed.svg. I request an administrator to upload that file in place of current File:Flag of Arkansas.svg to fix the rendering issues on hundreds of pages using that image. Anomie couldn't upload it as uploading is restricted only to admins on that file. Thanks! —‍CX Zoom (A/अ/অ) (let's talk|contribs) 20:38, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. I lowered protection level against upload to semi-protection. Please upload new versions. Taivo (talk) 08:07, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
Thank you! Another user appears to have uploaded a new version soon after removal of protection, so that now the image is fixed and free from bug. Thanks again! —‍CX Zoom (A/अ/অ) (let's talk|contribs) 10:27, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Updating Flag of Spain.svg and Flag of Nauru.svg with new versions

Requesting an admin to upload new version(s) of the above-named file(s) per the protected edit requests made on the talk page, using Bandera de España.svg and Flag of Nauru official colors.svg for the new versions, respectively. These flags and several others have had outstanding edit requests for a while now, so I figured I would try and ask here. Many thanks. HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 17:54, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

delete Category page

Please, could you delete a category page created by mistake ? : category:Leaves illustration Stefdn (talk) 12:22, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

@Stefdn: Hi, and welcome. I used {{G7}} there for you.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:38, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
Français : Merci (o:
Stefdn (talk) 16:55, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Review uploads

Please review to badly images then delete images. D2W59E (talk) 05:18, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

The images are ineligible for speedy deletion. However, they can be nominated for regular deletion and subsequent discussion will last at least a week. Taivo (talk) 08:24, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

delete Category page or other options

Hello, my name is Nikki Jean, I'm a songwriter. This page Category:Nikki Jean contains two pictures of someone who is not me. These pictures have been misattributed to the page representing my career since January (I believe) I've contacted the wikipedia VRT to verify my identification. I am the rights holder of the picture being used on the page now. Can this page be deleted, or there be some clarification that this person is a different Nikki Jean, or can the person who posted these images be prevented from misattributing pictures to me again? Thank you for your help. NikkiJean92 (talk) 20:05, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

@NikkiJean92: Would you please look through d:Q7035239 and help us figure out which details apply to you and which don't?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:14, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi Jeff and thank you. I've looked through all identifiers and statements on the page you referenced. They all apply to me. I'm happy to verify my identity in any way thats necessary. The erroneous photo attributed to me may be a different person requiring their own page. Thank you for your help. NikkiJean92 (talk) 00:10, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
@NikkiJean92: You're welcome. @DemonDays64 and Bull-Doser: Please put your uploads of photos of that other person elsewhere.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:02, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I'm the IP user from Wikipedia who pointed Ms. Jean at the problematic category page here.
This strange situation piqued my interest so I did some digging; those two photos were both independently taken by separate uploaders from the same flckr album "Nikki Jean At Chocolate Bar", and probably depict some other person (perhaps a friend of the photographer) who was also there. Honest mistake, but since they do not in fact depict Nikki Jean, they are likely to be out of scope and should probably be considered for deletion? Not completely sure about the policies here. I should also mention that one of them is still being incorrectly used on Spanish, Korean and Romanian Wikipedias.
@NikkiJean92 can you take a look at the album I linked and confirm if that's you performing on the keyboard in the later photos? If so, then those can actually be uploaded here and used on Wikipedia, because the photographer has released them under a permissive license. —2406:3003:2077:1E60:C998:20C6:8CCF:5730 16:29, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Yes! That is me in the later photos playing the keyboard. Thank you for looking into this! I've been doing my best to navigate the landscape and appreciate all of your help! NikkiJean92 (talk) 17:08, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Request for nia template (for writing Summary/description of the images)

Would you please create the template for Nias language (template:nia)? Today I tried to write the summary/description of this picture (Naghsh-e_rostam,_Irán,_2016-09-24,_DD_12.jpg) and I got error of missing template:Nia

Note: In the Captions section Nias language is offered in the dropdown menu, but not in the Summary.

Sorry if this is not the place for this request. I tried to search the help page and couldn't find the appropriate request page. Slaia (talk) 08:20, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Nonsense edits

Edit request

Please recategorize these two protected files from Category:Bongbong Marcos to:

✓ Done, please use talkpages from next time. -- CptViraj (talk) 04:58, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Adding a Flickr account to the blacklist

Hi, is it possible to add the Flickr account 16133272@N00 to the black list. There's currently four DRs for files that come from this account: Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Luis Scola, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Atone Movie Still 5 (12058602695).jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Britanny Kelly LPGA Futures Tour (6889832409).jpg and Commons:Deletion requests/File:PaulGeorge.jpg. Copyrights from at least two different sources were found in the Exif of the pictures. QTHCCAN (talk) 17:53, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

File:Lotos flower symbol.svg

Would someone mind taking a look at the recent changes made to File:Lotos flower symbol.svg? Perhaps the changes needed to be made, but the file now has no copyright license which means it might end up being flagged for speedy deletion per COM:CSD#F5. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:08, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Removal of link.

Hi,
Someone please remove the link from file:OberonColumbus5.png to OberonColumbus4.png. OberonColumbus4.png is used in a wikibook. I'll create OberonColumbus5.pn] soon and need that name independent of OberonColumbus4.png. Both images will be in Category:Oberon (operating system). Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (talk) 00:40, 3 July 2022 (UTC):

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 06:03, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

User:UnholyAzzhole

Acceptable user name? 191.126.139.84 00:08, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked the user indefinitely and nominated his last remaining upload for deletion as out of scope. Taivo (talk) 05:39, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

uploading files by fake licenses even by getting waring and two times blocking (one week and one month)

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

even by getting warning, two times blocking (one week and one month), still uploading files under fake licenses:

[[User:Modern Sciences|MSes]] (talk) 01:53, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

@Modern Sciences: Please use internal links.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:09, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done. One year block (third block). Taivo (talk) 06:45, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Edit request

Can someone please change the colour of the flag of the United Nations?

The official UN blue is #009edb. Thanks. M.Bitton (talk) 00:53, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done @M.Bitton, Kwamikagami, and Glrx: already discussed at File_talk:Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg#Wrong_shade_of_blue  — Johannes Kalliauer - Talk | Contributions 14:10, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment.  — Johannes Kalliauer - Talk | Contributions 14:10, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Sockpuppet of user:ינון סויסה

user:אלכס מילר זור987 (talk) 07:37, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Deleting history of a Nissan

The owner of this Nissan asked me to change the number plate in the image. Is it possible, to remove the old image from the history? Kind regards.--Alexander-93 (talk) 20:23, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

@Alexander-93: Upload a blurred version over this one, and then ask for the old version to be hidden. Thanks, Yann (talk) 09:46, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

File:4726- 008 -® A Bofill (25464967025).jpg

User:Corachow, who does impressive work on ballet articles on the EN wikipedia, asked me about the Flickr images https://www.flickr.com/photos/premsaliceu/25464967025/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/premsaliceu/25438811316/. They're professional quality photographs of ballet dancers, but posted from the Flickr account for Premsa Liceu, which is the press office of the Liceu, a Barcelona opera house, 170 years old, and in every way a respectable organization, which I was willing to believe would own the rights to these photos. However she points out that at least this first one was probably (I can't see it, I'm not an admin, just a Commons:License reviewer, but from the file name it seems very likely to have been this first one) deleted by Commons admin User:Jcb with the comment Missing license as of 5 November 2016. They are licensed Public Domain Mark now. Were they not licensed that way in 2016, or are there some other issues that we aren't seeing? Are they all right for upload now? I asked Jcb a few days ago, but he hasn't answered, and since he's only edited twice in 2022, and only 10 times in the 2 years before that, it's likely he won't answer, so we're asking the Commons admin body at large. Thank you! --GRuban (talk) 21:55, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Ok, that was probably too complicated. Let's make it simpler. Does anyone know any reasons why https://www.flickr.com/photos/premsaliceu/25464967025/ would not be suitable for Commons? --GRuban (talk) 20:46, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
Anyone? Bueller? --GRuban (talk) 13:58, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
@GRuban: It's Bueller's day off and all the Admins are busy, so I'll answer. We did not accept PDM in any form until this edit 09:26, 23 March 2020‎ (UTC). Currently, we need a good reason for each file to be PD. The lack of any free or PD license on this page does not give me any confidence that the Liceu intended to make its photos PD. However, should you wish to pursue this matter nonetheless, please post to COM:UDR.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:17, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Copy right violation and fake license

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

90 % of uploads of the user Bestbiowriter is copy right violation and fake license and files taken from google image

also unfortunately this user also clearing tags from those files like [22] [23] [24] and so ... and start editing war by cleaning tags

[[User:Modern Sciences|MSes]] (talk) 19:37, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

@Modern Sciences: Hello. No, I don't intend to have an editorial war. I was shocked and wanted to follow the instructions.
I have obtained permission from the owner of the works I published. Bestbiowriter (talk) 19:41, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
@Modern Sciences I'm not doing any more editing, just if you can guide me, my friend took some of the pictures, how can I give you the license? Bestbiowriter (talk) 19:43, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

90 % of uploads of the user Bestbiowriter is copy right violation and fake license and files taken from google image / I gave warning to This user even by warning continue its wrong acts / this user must be banned from uploading images and editing in commons [[User:Modern Sciences|MSes]] (talk) 19:51, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

@Bestbiowriter: if the copyright holder releases them under a free license, they must send notice for each to the VRT. If they only release them for use on Wikipedia sites, they are not permitted on Commons (as it is not a fully free license) and must be uploaded locally on each wiki the image(s) will be used on. HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 20:00, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
@HapHaxion: Now I realized! Thank you very much for your reply. Bestbiowriter (talk) 20:19, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
@Modern Sciences: I'm using a different language on Wikipedia and didn't notice the warning. As i said, I do not do any other editing and I do not intend to cause any disturbance. Bestbiowriter (talk) 20:21, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
@Bestbiowriter: The warninng (template:copyvionote) is multilingual and contains text in Farsi, Arabian and Hebrew. C.Suthorn (talk) 09:35, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Updating Flag of Spain.svg, Flag of Nauru.svg, Flag of Somaliland.svg with new versions

Requesting an admin to upload new version(s) of the above-named file(s) per the protected edit requests made on the talk page, using Bandera de España.svg and Flag of Nauru official colors.svg, and the code on File talk:Flag of Somaliland.svg for the new versions, respectively. The current flags for the first two have slight color differences from those officially designated, and the third has a low-quality shahada that needs revectorization. The protected edit requests on those pages were made a while ago and went unanswered, so per the category page (and the suggestion of an enwiki admin on the talk page of the first file), I figured I would try a request here. Thanks! HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 19:16, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Oh, and some prior discussion(s) can be found on the talk pages as well. HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 18:55, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Steward action

I took emergency action in deleting two files while the Foundation reviews the circumstances. Operator873 (talk) 08:24, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

@Operator873: Context? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:29, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Child pornography. Kind regards, — Tulsi 24x7 15:49, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:A Cambrian edrioasteroid from Pennsylvania.jpg

Could an admin take a look at this DR? The nominator and the uploader are the same person and don't think they were aware of COM:CSD#G7 when they started the DR. See User talk:Fossiladder13#Copyright status: File:A Cambrian edrioasteroid from Pennsylvania.jpg for more details. -- 08:28, 10 July 2022 (UTC) Marchjuly (talk) 08:28, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Deleted. Kind regards, — Tulsi24x7 09:41, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Thank you Tulsi. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:17, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Rosetta NAVCAM duplicates

Hi, I noticed the import of a large quantity of ROSETTA NAVCAM images (example: File:Comet 67P on 20 October (A) - NAVCAM (15615428085).jpg. These images have been imported, categorized and reused on Commons for a long time (for the given example, File:Comet 67P on 20 October 2014 NavCam A.jpg has been imported in 2014). I tagged a dozen of them as duplicates, but there are too many of them to flag them individually, it would take me several days. Ping @Astromessier. Can the admins do something about this? vip (talk) 16:10, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

I merged the Rosetta-related files directly identified as duplicates by the software; though the non-Rosetta uploads likely need investigation too. Note that the files imported, categorized and reused on Commons for a long time were the older ones, to which the (unused) duplicates were redirected. I'm now trying to go through the remaining Rosetta files by searching for other files described as taken on the same date and categorised into the respective category (some appear to be non-dupes), while also adding the relevant by-date sortkey to the upload, which I realised I should have done while applying the cat. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 17:02, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Thank you! The problem is larger than Rosetta, I found many other ESA pictures already imported by User:Fæ or User:OptimusPrimeBot in the past years. vip (talk) 17:43, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Indeed, and there are also a lot more images of 67P which I overlooked due to the different naming. I merged a few more, but this seems really tedious. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 18:01, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Yes, it requires a lot of work to review all files. @Huntster @BugWarp maybe you would like to help? ;) vip (talk) 20:14, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Don-vip, yeah, I just independently noticed the problem when I saw that 1234 had merged one into a file I watchlisted. There's the additional problem that, because they come from Flickr, the attributions and licenses are all kinds of messed up and need some tidying, and they weren't categorized. Mass Flickr imports tend to be awful. I'll start working through the contribs as well, maybe starting at the bottom of the Rosetta pile. — Huntster (t @ c) 20:19, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Huntster thank you! I'm reviewing all files imported starting from June 1st 03:52 (I'm at 04:18 right now). Not a lot of duplicates right now so I tagged few ones I found individually, but it's a lot of work to categorize everything. I found two new interesting subjects: Crew Access Arm and Electrodynamic Dust Shield :) vip (talk) 20:40, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the ping, I'm very very busy right now but I'll try to find some time for this.--BugWarp (talk) 21:34, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
I spent all day on this, and just managed to review/categorize pictures imported on June 1st. Now I'm really dealing with duplicates with pictures imported starting from June 2nd. I think it should be User:FlickreviewR 2's job to detect duplicate files and reject the review, I submitted the idea to User talk:Zhuyifei1999 talk page. vip (talk) 02:02, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Maybe this one should be fixed in https://flickr2commons.toolforge.org/ directly, if @Magnus Manske could fix this. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 02:04, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
I have reviewed all pictures uploaded between June 5th and June 18th, so I catched up with Huntster's work. vip (talk) 15:01, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
Don-vip, nice! I'm just moving through the remainder as time allows, cleaning as I go. Thanks for bringing this up. — Huntster (t @ c) 15:06, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Indefinitely blocked IPs

Perhaps admins should look at Commons:Database reports/Indefinitely blocked IPs. Most of these blocks look like misclicks to me. --178.32.148.251 06:03, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

 Not done. But I do not think so. Taivo (talk) 10:44, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Hindi Naugeet

how do i include this section of Hindi poetry into Wikipedia , all written by Dr. Anil Kumar Singhdeo, of Rourkela, Odisha , India Csbhargava (talk) 17:39, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

@Csbhargava: Hi, and welcome. That would be OOS here, unless Wikisource wants it.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:40, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

copy right violation and fake license

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

all of uploads of user:Khosravioriginal is under fake license and none of them are its own work


just File:Hadi Khosravi.jpg is own work

[[User:Modern Sciences|MSes]] (talk) 06:15, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Remove the revision of the wrong file of the video by accident

File(s) affected:

I just lost my mind when I messed up my revision by uploading the wrong file for the video last night, which contains a 2011 short film Seedling. Can anyone please help me to get rid of the previous one?

The Harvett Vault (user; talk) 23:43, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Deleted from file history. Kind regards, — Tulsi 24x7 06:42, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. Now I can do better.
The Harvett Vault (user; talk) 07:02, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
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Please change categories

... for: File:Monkeypox July 8 US.png

Please add:

  • Maps about the 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States (correct category)

Please remove all other:

  • Unidentified maps (is identified via the addition)
  • Africa (different continent, has nothing to do here)
  • Monkeypox, Viruses, 2022 monkeypox outbreak, United States, States, 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States (all supercats of the added category)

Thanks. --Enyavar (talk) 11:28, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Added here because it is cascade protected per Commons:Auto-protected files/wikinews/en.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:39, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done Gbawden (talk) 12:47, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks,
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Set filter #105 to the File: namesace only

Unregistered users are also mean to create useful galleries and shortcuts to project pages, so set the abuse filter #105 to the File: namesapce only. 105.106.72.151 12:26, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Did some updates to Commons:Upload tools/wgCopyUploadsDomains

Hi all! I have taken the freedom to do some updates (for clarity) to Commons:Upload tools/wgCopyUploadsDomains. We will be enabling upload from URL from OpenRefine, and I will point to this page from OpenRefine's documentation. I've inserted a new link that will create a preloaded section with a request template on the talk page, but I may have done that a bit awkwardly - I'm not super fluent in working with templates. If you have suggestions for improvements, I will be happy to apply those; and of course feel free to update the pages yourself. Thanks! Spinster (talk) 12:56, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Adding 16133272@N00 to the Flickr black list

Hi, we found out this Flickr account is behind some Flickrwashing and dicussed it in some DR: Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Luis Scola, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Atone Movie Still 5 (12058602695).jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Britanny Kelly LPGA Futures Tour (6889832409).jpg and Commons:Deletion requests/File:PaulGeorge.jpg. Copyrights from at least two different sources were found in the Exif of the pictures. QTHCCAN (talk) 03:44, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

File:Ahn Bo-hyeon.jpg Question

When this image was uploaded on June 16, 2019, it matched the copyright source video. After being overwritten by picture that do not match the copyrighted video on July 23, 2020, it has been continuously modified and used by different users. Please help restore the photo uploaded for the first time. Tychou12 (talk) 15:43, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

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Is there any way to prevent these images from being added to Wikipedia projects by IP user?

Some IP (I assume they are the same person and just change his IP) from Malaysia keep adding some photos of Singaporean actors/actress to random Wikipedia articles, not only at Chinese Wikipedia but also some small Wikipedia projects with few active users. I have tried requesting for protect the certain articles and block the IP but some weeks later he uses another IP and vandalizes another pages and other wikis. This lasts for a very long time. Now the only way for me to stop this is to check the "File usage on other wikis" section on the image info page from time to time.

Some vandal examples:

Images in this issue:

So can you add a abuse filter or something to stop these images from being added to any Wikimedia project by these Malaysian IP user? --dqwyy (talk) 05:26, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

@Dqwyy: Not here, but you could ask for global blocks at m:srg.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 20:02, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestion but maybe global block doesn't work because he keeps changing his IP address, some are from Johor, some are from KL, some are from other cities in Malaysia. He doesn't do any other vandalism except adding these photos, that's why I want to do something to these photos. As I said before, I have already tried to block the IP and protect the pages but he use another IP and then vandal another random pages. If there is a global abuse filter to stop IP from adding these photos to articles, that will work. I can't even list all the IP here because there are so many, I already forgot some of them. --dqwyy (talk) 07:45, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
@Dqwyy: Sorry, we have no way I know of to prevent misuse of our images; preventing misuse is the purview of local Admins and Stewards.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:21, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Not able to upload

I'm not able to upload new files, and only receives this cryptic message: [f6c38862-788c-43b4-a4eb-5a2bf899c4e7] 2022-07-20 19:12:19: Uhåndterlig unntak av typen «Error» tB (talk) 19:17, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

@Tbjornstad: Please see COM:VP#ERROR IN UPLOAD WIZARD.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 20:00, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks! Was able to upload just after my message here. tB (talk) 17:07, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

"City of" in UK

At User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands/Category moves, a bunch of category move requests from User:Schlosser67 have been languishing for weeks. I don't know whether these are well-advised or not, and would as that some admin who has a clue would please take this on. A typical example is

Rename Category:Bus stations in Bradford to Category:Bus stations in the City of Bradford (7 entries moved, 0 to go) (Requested by Schlosser67) Covers the wider metropolitan borough, not just Bradford alone

. - Jmabel ! talk 21:05, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Hindi Poetry

A section of Hindi Poetry is called "Naugeet". There is no section of that in Wikipedia and I would like to add to the repository. Please inform me on how I can do that Csbhargava (talk) 06:54, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello. This board is for issues at Wikimedia Commons that need administrative action. General questions like yours should go to the Commons:Help desk or Commons:Village pump. Anyhow, you may either want to edit the English Wikipedia article en:Hindi literature, or you can upload scans of original writings here, if the poems are out of copyright both in India and the United States. For recent poetry, we need evidence that the original author released their work under a free licence. De728631 (talk) 13:11, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

File:Хачкары Агарцина.jpg and File:Хачкары Агарцина, осень 2016г..jpg request

Dear friends, hello. I want to ask you to please delete the images I uploaded and made earlier.--Well-read MountainMan (talk) 14:15, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

 Oppose These were uploaded years ago and you granted an irrevocable licence for each of the two pictures. Unless there are obvious copyright issues or other legal troubles, we usually only grant such requests within one week of uploading a file. De728631 (talk) 15:42, 24 July 2022 (UTC)


Copy right violation

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

all of uploads of user:Mhdanehkar is under fake license and none of them are its own work

[[User:Modern Sciences|MSes]] (talk) 19:25, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Almost all files deleted, last warning sent. Yann (talk) 19:30, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Copy right violation

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

all of uploads of user:Tabsmt is under fake license and none of them are its own work

[[User:Modern Sciences|MSes]] (talk) 20:01, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done All files deleted, last warning sent. Yann (talk) 20:09, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Block request

Please block 錢總重安 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) ,cross-wiki abuse and LTA,thanks!--MCC214#ex umbra in solem 08:56, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

@MCC214: I notified them for you, as required above.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:55, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

I think there is a copyright infringement this image.--Well-read MountainMan (talk) 10:46, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

@Well-read MountainMan: I reviewed the license and tagged it.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:38, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Duplicates

Hi, I've identified a lot of exact duplicates in Category:Duplicate (currently 9134). It's only a small fraction of all duplicates on Commons but large enough to see the distribution of duplicates per user who uploaded more than 50 of them, if it can help to address this recurring problem: 

  1361 Curlyrnd
  1322 Tm
   810 Victorgrigas
   625 Ser Amantio di Nicolao
   607 Matlin
   479 A1Cafel
   352 Mindmatrix
   323 SecretName101
   231 Donald Trung
   217 Siloepic
   173 Geo Swan
   168 TaurusEmerald
   149 Netha Hussain
   129 NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh
   106 Ham II
   101 Kaiketsu
    96 KMBDENNISTRIDENT
    74 Roland45
    82 Trade
    68 Maltaper
    58 Poudou99
    58 Mliu92
    57 Sturm
    51 Aldermanseven
    50 Catfisheye

Cheers, vip (talk) 11:49, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

@Don-vip: Did you exclude duplicates of blank pages?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:53, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Yes I excluded these cases:
- files with " - DLPA - " in their names
- files of 1x1 pixel
- files with sha1 2a1k43x3t0g6uj4x5h9276m58uoh7ry
- File:Test.pdf vip (talk) 17:23, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
There are a lot of duplicates from Flickr, so relevant tools must be improved to check for duplicates before uploading file. Smae should be true for import from other sources. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:31, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

User:Yuanchi1 Account Questions

This account claims to be an administrator and reviews the pictures he uploaded himself, but I can't find the cc authorization uploading in the source youtube link of these pictures, please confirm this user.

File:2021 GLOBAL AUDITION - TXT (투모로우바이투게더).png
File:TXT(투모로우바이투게더) GLOBAL OFFICIAL FANCLUB MOA MEMBERSHIP.png
File:TXT BEOMGYU X ‘EUPHORIA.’ Photo Shooting Sketch.png

thank you. Tychou12 (talk) 03:14, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

@Tychou12: I removed those claims in this edit and notified the user of this section per the above.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:36, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
@Jeff G. Next, regarding the user's review of his own uploaded files, what should be done with those files? I think these three files have concerns of Copyright violation. Tychou12 (talk) 07:13, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
@Tychou12 I tagged all three as copyvios and started Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Yuanchi1. Given that they were uploaded after this read final warning, I recommend blocking.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 07:59, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
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