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Files uploaded with no license

File:J. e. Franklin.jpg and File:Shauneille Perry and J E Franklin in 1971.webp were uploaded without copyright licenses back at the beginning of this month. I'm not sure whether the uploader realized this and they don't seem to have been notified of this on their user talk page. My guess is that they probably meant well, but just are not very familiar with how Commons work. What should typically be done in a situation like this? Tag the files with npd? Tag as copyvio? Start a DR? The uploader doesn't seem to be claiming these are their "own work" (which would be a questionable claim in my opinion) and has provided attribution for each file, but I doubt either Brown Univeristy or the NYT have released these under a CC license. I guess {{PD-no notice}} could be possible, but that also seems unlikely. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:37, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Please block 24.241.115.126

24.241.115.126 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  is regularly adding misleading wikidata "depict" to many images. Hjart (talk) 06:29, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

This user has repeatedly uploaded images that are incompatible with Commons, a majority of which are related to the article Malik Shakeel Awan at the English Wikipedia. Sanctions are recommended due to the persistent copyright violations. --Kinu (talk) 09:24, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

I see that Túrelio has deleted some of the uploads, but several others remain, including a few uploaded after this report was filed. --Kinu (talk) 21:14, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
As this was archived without any further action or comment, it seems reasonable to post this again. As an administrator on enwiki, I find this lack of attention to potential copyright issues somewhat frustrating. --Kinu (talk) 06:38, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done I deleted all remaining uploads of this user and gave them a final warning. De728631 (talk) 17:51, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
Much appreciated, and apologies if my previous comment came off as too curt. Kinu (talk) 19:50, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Copy right violation

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

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

[[User:Modern Sciences|MSes]] (talk) 17:40, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

@Modern Sciences: Do you have evidence for your claim like websites where these images appear without any credit to Hasanbardal? Also, you should have notified the user about this dicussion, which I have now done for you. De728631 (talk) 17:54, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Category:Documents of Ternopil City Council

Please restore history of edits this category. Микола Василечко (talk) 14:16, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Ymblanter (talk) 06:56, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

Please revert

I create Category:Bytsyura (surname) for categorization Category:Leonid Bytsyura. User Бучач-Львів remove category to Category:Bytsiura (surname). Bytsiura is not correct family name for Category:Leonid Bytsyura. Category:Bytsiura (surname) is empty, and error for Category:Leonid Bytsyura. Please revert remove category Category:Bytsiura (surname) → Category:Bytsyura (surname) and restore the history of editing. Микола Василечко (talk) 09:12, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Earlier you wanted to delete Category:Bytsyura (surname) while it is not empty. So I reverted you. See also my talk page. Yann (talk) 09:27, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
Now I understand that you want to change the category history, but why is it so important? Yann (talk) 09:52, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done Yann (talk) 19:30, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

False claim of own work

Hi admins, can you please take a look at User:Nemito isaac cossio mancilla uploads? I have a strong suspicion that they are falsely claiming images as own work. For example with the File:Audi TTS quattro.jpg they claim its their own work, however the file belong to User:OSX. If possible, would they be deleted because of copyright issues? --Nim Bhharathhan (talk) 09:45, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done User warned, see Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Nemito isaac cossio mancilla. Yann (talk) 10:22, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

dotaz na soutěžní fotografie

Dobrý den,zaslala jsem fotografie do soutěže chráněné uzemí,ale nevidím je na dané stránce,kde jsou zobrazeny všechny fotografie.Můžete mi poradit?Děkuji Jana koub (talk) 13:59, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

 Not done but copied to Commons:Hospoda U Commons pinging a WMCZ coordinator. --Achim55 (talk) 16:01, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

False claim of own work

Admins, looks like I busted another user. This is User:ViktoriiaLys who has been uploading false infromation about own work. Examples are but not limited to; File:BMW 5 Series F07 GT 2012.jpg which actually belongs to User:Navigator84 as per this and File:2011 Audi A6 3.0 TDI quattro.jpg which actually belongs to User:M 93 as per this. Anyway, can you please delete their uploads as both are definitely copyvios and i dealt with an identical issue earlier--Nim Bhharathhan (talk) 14:46, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef. Quite a duck of Nemito isaac cossio mancilla reported above. All files deleted. Yann (talk) 15:11, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Quack quack lol. Thanks Yann have a good night --Nim Bhharathhan (talk) 15:46, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Requesting updating of three upload-protected flags per talk page discussions

Hi,

I was wondering if someone would be able to update File:Flag of Nauru.svg, File:Flag of Somaliland.svg, and File:Flag of Spain.svg per the discussions made on the talk page. The first and last item have replacement files ready as posted in the discussion, and the flag of Somaliland has alternative code written on the talk page. There have been outstanding protected edit requests on these three for a while (the oldest of which dates from late last year), so I figured I would post here per the blurb on Category:Commons protected edit requests. HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 17:13, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

FlickreviewR 2 is not working

Its last edit was at 21:19, 3 August 2022. Mike Rohsopht (talk) 22:40, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

That was an hour and a half ago, and Category:Flickr review needed‎ is already up to 4888 files.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 22:51, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
Looks like it's working now. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 00:29, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
Resolved --Mike Rohsopht (talk) 02:05, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Mike Rohsopht (talk) 02:05, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Need help filing a request for checkuser.

Hello, I just tried to file a request for checkuser regarding Shah Mohi (talk · contribs), but was blocked by the abuse filter, could someone file it on my behalf? The suspected sock accounts are:

All of which have been uploading photos from Shah Mohi's Flikr account, AndLikeThings. 192.76.8.85 12:36, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome. Please see Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Shah Mohi and m:srg#Global lock for socks of Shah Mohi.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:57, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

DR closure request

Hi, I wouldn't normally ask but could someone close Commons:Deletion requests/File:Connection Bus.jpg as withdrawn please before we get the drive-by "Keep because it's in use" comments, I tend to make more mess than anything when it comes to DR closures so always leave this to someone more competent at this than me, Many thanks, –Davey2010Talk 19:37, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. --Rosenzweig τ 19:43, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
Many thanks @Rosenzweig much appreciated, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 19:48, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Category move request

Hi, Could someone move Category:Mercedes-Benz Sprinter (NCV 3) buses back to Category:Mercedes-Benz Sprinter (2006) buses please?,

@MB-one had originally moved it and the 2014 model all to one cat which is I disagreed with so the 2014 model has stayed as its own category but this "NCV 3" category is just meaningless and doesn't tell anyone what the model year is. Prior to the move it was only 2006 models anyway,

There is going to be other cats that may need updating but without sounding disrespectful MB-one can fix the mess they've made. Many thanks –Davey2010Talk 21:36, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

How about Mercedes-Benz Sprinter buses (2nd generation)‎? MB-one (talk) 06:54, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

::How about Category:Mercedes-Benz Sprinter (2006) buses ?, Sorry but unless I'm missing something I see no reason why 2006 and 2014 models would need to be in one category ? Also please undelete the 2006 category there's a discussion continuing here so deleting things is out of the question especially by you (because you're involved), Many thanks, –Davey2010Talk 10:25, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

@MB-one -Ignore the above reply, I've recreated the 2006 link - 2006 and 2014 have forever been stuck in my head for categorising the images so without sounding like a dick I wasn't prepared to start remembering 2 completely different years for the bus side of it (mainly because I never ever got used to the previous NCV title),
Anyway I'm satisfied so thanks MB-one for tidying things up and for your help, Personally I believe we should get rid of the NCV title altogether but that's another problem for another person - 2006 and 2014 now point to the respective categories so I'm a happy man! :), Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 10:41, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
Resolved

–Davey2010Talk 10:41, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Oscareduardo10122008

Hi, I'd like to understand what happened to User:Oscareduardo10122008, apparently master of many socks. It seems that username was removed. But why does Special:Contributions/Oscareduardo10122008 says “User account "Oscareduardo10122008" is not registered.”? Pinging @Christian Ferrer, Explicit, Fitindia, and Túrelio: as involved admins. Thanks, Yann (talk) 18:51, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

@Yann: This looks like some sort of Oversighter, Steward, or Developer action.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:57, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
I ran into this on the English Wikipedia earlier this year. According to Xaosflux, it's a result of "a combination of blocks, locks, hides, and suppression settings". ✗plicit 00:03, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

New versions not displaying on Wikipedia

New versions of uploads are not displaying on Wikipedia the past couple days. Mount Beulah on Wikipedia for example where original photo appears, but the corrected new version will only appear if clicked on. ̴̴ Ron Clausen (talk) 22:56, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

en:Mount_Beulah shows me the last version. It may be cached by your browser. See Commons:FAQ#PURGE Platonides (talk) 23:35, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Thanks, the "Purge" fixed it. Ron Clausen (talk) 04:02, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Revision deletion request

A vandal on jawp pasted images of people who has disabilities into my talk page.Someone who sees my talk page history may inadvertently open these revisions and be shocked. Please delete from Revision as of 17:06, 8 August 2022 to Revision as of 19:16, 8 August 2022 of that page. 最終編集 (talk) 17:39, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Yann (talk) 18:25, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
This is a really nasty vandalism, and there are more to RevDel. Help needed. Thanks, Yann (talk) 19:07, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done--Ymblanter (talk) 20:58, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Asked to become an admin.

Please, let me be an admin. Message by Cdmxm8807i8x (talk) 03:33, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

@Cdmxm8807i8x: If you are serious, please see COM:A#Apply to become an administrator. However, as you are a user with no uploads, 376 edits (mostly to oos sandboxes), and less than a week's tenure, I would not advise proceeding with it. You have more of a chance of getting one of the rights at COM:RFR.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:02, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Indeffed as NOTHERE/sock. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:16, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
@Pi.1415926535: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:11, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Two files by bad author still pending deletion

Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with insource:94046063, because of User:Ellywa's inaction. RZuo (talk) 14:06, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

@RZuo: No need to accuse anyone. It is indeed not clear these are Flickr washing. Yann (talk) 18:54, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

File upload criteria

First of all, I am not sure that I can question here regarding a common issue that I seen in Commons. See these files.

  • There are over 19400 files so far, and only 1883 (5.02%) of all images are used. Rest of them seems COM:HOST
  • Many of them are duplicates (Eg: 1, 2, 3) and other issues such as poor white balance, poor light, unfocused, etc.

I would like to hear your opinions. ~AntanO4task (talk) 17:43, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

I have not looked at all the files, but I do not think COM:HOST applies, they show clearly some useful objects and can be used educationally. Among my own a dozen of thousands or so uploads I guess also at best 10% are in use on Wikimedia projects, so what? Ymblanter (talk) 18:11, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Not 10% are in use on Wikimedia projects, but 5.02%. What do you say about similar images as I given above as example? It could be educational use, but there are better images already in Commons. Eg: see this, low light, not well presented and better images are already there. I would recommend admin to instruct him to contribute in better ways.--~AntanO4task (talk) 03:38, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
 Not done. Most of the files have educational value. If you find some file with no educational value, please nominate them for regular deletion (preferably one by one) to allow discussion. Taivo (talk) 10:13, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

File:Neyma Portrait copy.jpg

Would an admin mind taking a look at File:Neyma Portrait copy.jpg? It looks like the uploader tried to COM:OVERWRITE the photo with a file of the subject's signature, but then reverted back and reuploaded the signature as a separate file. It's possible the uploader is the subject of the photo, but I think the "own work" claim for both files probably needs VRT verification. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:15, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

All of this persons images are copyrighted violation https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/ShimSuryeon&ilshowall=1 2409:4072:6311:A33B:596C:655:461B:BE70 13:39, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

See Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by ShimSuryeon. Yann (talk) 13:59, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Large number of copyvio uploads

TourismPhilippines is uploading quite a lot of pictures, and many of them have the author/photographer in the name of the image. However, they are uploading them all as if they own the copyright to them. See the comments left over on enwiki about this. ···日本穣 Talk to Nihonjoe 17:22, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

My observation was that there are different photographers in the image caption name (e.g. Francisco Guerrero, Justin Ventura). A brief google search shows that they have been contracted by the Department of Tourism in the Philippines [1] [2]. Spencer (talk) 17:36, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

PORN on your site

File:Debbie Does Dallas.ogv - Wikimedia Commons 142.120.19.103 01:07, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

See COM:CENSOR.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:18, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Category:Delvis Dutton

I think an administrator should take a look at the files in Category:Delvis Dutton. Most of them appear to be uploaded under erroneous claims of "own work" and Georgia doesn't appear to be one of the US states that releases works by state, county and municipal employees under a public domain license. They appear to be mainly screenshots or scans which typically don't generate an "own work" copyright per COM:SCREENSHOT and COM:2D copying; so, it's the copyright of the original work which matters. There might also be other non-copyright related issues (e.g. COM:BLP) as well that might be a problem. For example, File:Delvis Dutton booking report from Bulloch Jail on Dutton website All On Georgia.jpg actually shows two individuals, who apparently are unconnected in anyway other than they photos appeared on the same page of the same website. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:22, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

FPCBot Constantly Reposting

Something appears to have gone wrong with FPCBot; it has posted about the FPC promotion of File:Rosette, Titles of Shah Jahan.jpg seven times in two days on my talk page. I was initially going to post on the operator's talk page, but his banner says that he isn't taking queries about the bot anymore.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 20:07, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

New Upload Tool - Sunflower

Hey folks, I recently created a new upload tool for Commons called Sunflower. If you have a Mac, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could try it out and share your feedback. Thanks! -FASTILY 21:50, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

mass message request - WLE BR 2022

Hi all!

I need to send two massive messages to the past participants of WLE in Brazil all the info is in Commons:Wiki Loves Earth in Brazil/Massmessage. Thank you -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 21:08, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

People, only 5 days before the contest ends, please. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 08:56, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
@Rodrigo.Argenton: Hi, sorry for the delay. Is this still wanted? -- CptViraj (talk) 14:00, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
CptViraj, no.. I don't think that it will be effective. But thank you for the attention.
 Not done -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 06:43, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Requesting tags for applications

as per a similier request on wikidata I hereby request the creation of the following tags:

Tag name Appearance on change lists Full description of meaning
wikidata-for-web Wikidata for Web 🌐 Browser extension that extracts data from websites
wikidata-for-firefox Wikidata for Firefox 🦊 Firefox extension that extracts data from websites

Feel free to change the second and third column. Only the first column must be as stated. – Shisma (talk) 09:52, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 14:23, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
thanks! it works! – Shisma (talk) 16:37, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Adding new description to protected page

Hello! I wanted to update File:Salman Rushdie 2018.jpg (cropped from a picture I uploaded in 2018) to add a more detailed description in both English and French, but the file seems unfortunately protected and I cannot change it. Can someone please copy the new description from the original file onto this one? Thank you --Titlutin (talk) 12:47, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done, please use {{Edit request}} from next time. -- CptViraj (talk) 14:28, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
Thank you CptViraj, I didn't know this template. Regards --Titlutin (talk) 14:30, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

RevDel request

A sockpuppet created File:Mulayam Singh Yadav (28993165375).jpg by cropping the following copyrighted file: https://www.flickr.com/photos/saharaindia/7005660727/. A couple of years later, it was overwritten with another file by a good-faith user. But their edits were reverted, as per COM:OVERWRITE. So we need to RevDel its current as well as the oldest version. Thanks. - NitinMlk (talk) 09:09, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Actually there is no free license for this file. See Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mulayam Singh Yadav (28993165375).jpg. Yann (talk) 19:02, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
Yann, thanks for the RevDel. BTW, I guess I didn't explain my post properly, which in turn led to the DR. - NitinMlk (talk) 14:32, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Admin who reads Spanish needed

I think Commons:Deletion requests/File:Crimeo III.png is ready to be closed; it might be best if someone capable of reading Spanish does so. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:14, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Restored; the need is increasingly pressing Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:50, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done, discussion closed. ✗plicit 12:17, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

File:Herman Braun-Vega Docteur Honoris Causa.jpg

Can a license reviewer please have a look at this file? There is a note on the source page that the content falls under cc-ba-sa-4.0. IMO that is in order. We also got an email at the support per Ticket:2022081810008242 that the license is granted by the source. Thanks, Mussklprozz (talk) 18:51, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

@Mussklprozz: ✓ Reviewed. Please feel free to approve the locked ticket, and apply to be a license reviewer.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 20:18, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Hmm...

I think someone has it in for me. Drmies (talk) 14:07, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 3 days. Yann (talk) 16:05, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
Locked globally by MarcoAurelio as LTA. --Achim55 (talk) 19:59, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

User:Kari0t

Kari0t (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

I'm not sure if I should have more good faith, but I'm under the impression that the user is uploading non-free to use images and manually overriding the metadata to make it seem as if they took the pictures with their phone. See File:Nasiriyah Stadium under construction.jpg, File:Ammo Baba Stadium.jpg or File:Karbala Stadium.jpg, for example. I find it hard to believe that they managed to take aerial-view photos of stadiums, or that they had access to a completely empty stadium. Also, each image has its own resolution (which are all considerably lower than the standard 4032 x 3024 pixels of the iPhone X). Nehme1499 (talk) 14:58, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

They also already have a history of uploading non-FTU images (see Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Kari0t). Nehme1499 (talk) 15:00, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
File:Karbala Stadium.jpg is identical to this image with the credit line, MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP via Getty Images and File:New Al-Zawraa Stadium.jpg appears to be this photo with the watermark cropped out. Adeletron 3030 (talk) 18:30, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
I deleted these two, and warned this user. Also images such as File:Ibrahim Bayesh.jpg, File:Roderick Miller.jpg and File:Hussein Jabbar.jpg seem to be taken with a telelens, not with a mobile phone, but I can't find the source. Location is never given, other it would be easy to find potential inconsistencies. Yann (talk) 19:35, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
File:Ahmed Albahrani.jpg: Claimed to be taken on 13:20, 7 April 2022, but here is a copy with a watermark dated 6 April 2022, 16:54. Yann (talk) 20:16, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
I found 3 more (including File:Karim Saddam.jpg), which put the whole series into doubt. Therefore Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Kari0t. Yann (talk) 20:48, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
I processed your speedy deletion request for File:Karim Saddam.jpg. As you noted, it is a Getty Images rights-controlled photo (to be exact ID #96810230 by Sabah Arar) and the iPhone EXIF metadata is clearly not correct. I suppose it is possible that there is an innocent explanation for the misleading iPhone metadata (theoretically it could have been an iPhone photo of a Getty photo). I also added a notice about this AN discussion to the uploader's discussion page. —RP88 (talk) 21:18, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Creator templates and parameters

The list of modifier parameters for creator templates includes "follower of", but not "follower". It would be convenient if someone could fix that. Thank you. DS (talk) 14:53, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Delete shock pages imported from ED

Please delete all subpages of User:W8G7B. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 08:34, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

 Not done. I do not consider them shock pages. You can nominate them for regular (not speedy) deletion and let the community decide. Taivo (talk) 14:20, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: Are you referring to /1 or a different page? – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 17:40, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
I am referring especially /1, but /2 as well. Taivo (talk) 17:48, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: Would you allow ED pages to be imported here? (assuming copyright was fine) – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 17:55, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
Actually, what is ED? COM:ED is a red link and ed: is a non-existing language. Taivo (talk) 18:00, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: This. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 18:02, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
I do not know. Maybe. Taivo (talk) 18:12, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
@Antandrus: (or someone else knowledgeable) Is this really allowed? – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 18:30, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
If the images are allowed on Commons, and are correctly licensed and all, I guess the question would be whether or not it violated Commons' policies on use of user space. They strike me as trollish and unlikely to be compliant, but I don't really know. Since the account has been inactive since 2009, I think it's highly unlikely anyone would even see these pages. I'd suggest nominating them for deletion, but really it probably doesn't matter. Antandrus (talk) 21:26, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
The userpage has been here for 13 years so IMHO the need for urgency has well and truly past. (of course there are exceptions which per BEANS I wont mention), Nominate for deletion and move on. –Davey2010Talk 21:45, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Hiding the older versions

Faces and vehicle numbers have been blurred. Please hide older previev versions where you can see the original content. PawełMM (talk) 11:22, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

 Not done. In my opinion this is unnecessary. Please look category:Numbers on vehicles. We generally do not blur vehicle numbers. I have temptation to revert the uploads. Taivo (talk) 14:25, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: This blurring was requested by Miniwark at COM:GL/P#Blur people faces and vehicles numbers, probably for privacy.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:52, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
Privacy of military personnel? That might be relevant for security of an ongoing mission, but twelve years later? What important privacy issues are involved here? –LPfi (talk) 06:52, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
@LPfi: Perhaps something related to GDRP or France's heightened personality rights? @Yann: Do you have any input on this from a French perspective?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:40, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
I would accept this request for a private vehicle, but I don't see the point here, also because the number can be seen on Flickr. The edited versions should be uploaded as separate files. Yann (talk) 17:51, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Batch deletion request

Would an administrator please delete every file listed at Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Leonardodanial? Adeletron 3030 and I have both checked a large number of uploads and they were all copyright violations; we believe that every image he has uploaded was lifted from elsewhere on the Internet. I could place speedy tags on all of them, but that would probably take several hours, and I would rather not spend the time. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 15:59, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Yann (talk) 16:26, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Unclosed deletion request

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Erdal İnönü..png has been unclosed since March. The image is violating copyright. -- Supermæn (talk) 19:44, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. --A.Savin 19:46, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Two files by bad author still pending deletion

Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with insource:94046063, because of User:Ellywa's inaction. RZuo (talk) 14:06, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

@RZuo: No need to accuse anyone. It is indeed not clear these are Flickr washing. Yann (talk) 18:54, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
@Yann: who was accusing who of what?
the files were uploaded by a user who was identified in the bad author list. This means that the Flickr user is known to upload images with possibly problematic license information. The image should be checked carefully because some Flickr users are blacklisted for only a limited portion of their uploads.
Category:Flickr images from bad authors: Admins and reviewers can overrule this and pass the file if a careful check give the admin/reviewer reason to trust that the file is actually free.
did User:Ellywa check the image carefully? was this uploader blacklisted for only a limited portion of their uploads? is the answer yes or no? if yes, what is the reason to believe these two photos are not flickrwashed?
very poor judgement.--RZuo (talk) 07:06, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Overwritten file

Would an admin take a look at File:Михаил Ломтадзе.jpg? It appears to be an overwritten file that may need to be split into three different files? — Marchjuly (talk) 13:31, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

I've made a request for this at COM:HMSR and perhaps it can be resolved there. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:00, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
Just want to update that someone responded to the HMSR request and the file was split. Not sure if anything else needs to be done, except possibly requiring VRT verification of each file's licensing. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:58, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Question

Hi, Apologies this doesn't require admin intervention but I believe admins to be more knowledgeable than me,

Currently at Category:Unidentified ALX400 buses in the United Kingdom we have images of buses - some are the main subject (here and here) and then some aren't (here and here)

Should I remove the ones I believe aren't the main subject ?, Do we keep them all in this category ? or should I start an RFC and let the community decide on what images should and shouldn't be in that category?, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 11:53, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Not an easy question! For somebody searching for images showing specifically this kind of bus in whatever environment, the current "inclusive" use/definition of this category is helpful. However, the current number of images in this cat (149) IMO comes close to the amount making the category less usable for average users. Though, from File:Old Coulsdon, Surrey - Placehouse Lane - geograph.org.uk - 2880197.jpg this cat could surely be removed. --Túrelio (talk) 12:17, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi Túrelio, My thoughts are the exact same as yours re environments, As nobody other than yourself has replied I'll go ahead and remove images where the vehicle is barely seen and will keep the close ups or those that I believe should be in that category, I was hoping for more feedback from others but oh well, Thank you for commenting, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 16:45, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
I've removed files and have renamed some to street names, I've also tried looking at the files as either "they can potentially be used for x,y and z" or "it's the main focal point/subject", I've already nominated cropped images within that category so the number will go down but I'm happy with 73 (previously 149!).
As no one's commented here (excep for Turello) for future cases I will do the exact as I did today with other images/categories, Thanks,
Resolved
–Davey2010Talk 17:22, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

server-glitch hampering deletions, again

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T316188
typical error-message
variant of error-message
another typical error-message

Like a few weeks ago, again the obviously same server-glitch is hampering deletions on Commons since yesterday evening hours until now. When trying to perform a speedy-deletion, either directly or within the duplication-deletion script, for every 2nd or 3rd file the process hangs at the step "delete file" and after a while returns a - mostly reproducible - failure-notice, such as shown on the right. In plain text it says "API request failed (backend-fail-internal): An unknown error occurred in storage backend "local-swift-eqiad". at Thu, 25 Aug 2022 06:55:40 GMT served by mw1428"
If the delete-command is subsequently repeated, in most cases it is then performed at the next (or overnext) try, evidence that it is not related to specific files. However, this server-problem at least doubles the work-load of performing file-deletions. --Túrelio (talk) 07:29, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

I got this too. Yann (talk) 08:20, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
I can't delete File:25mil.jpg and File:Relevante.jpg, 2 obvious copyvios. Yann (talk) 08:53, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
I could delete the 1st one, but when trying to delete the 2nd one, I got the 3rd error-message. --Túrelio (talk) 09:08, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
There are known ongoing server issues, we are investigating at the moment. Updates can be followed at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and phabricator:T316188. Apologies for the ongoing issues, and thanks for reporting. --JCrespo (WMF) (talk) 10:46, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
We believe this to be fixed, as the status page mentions. Feel free to monitor the above mentioned task for the full outage report, which will be published on Wikitech wiki. Apologies for the disturbance caused. --JCrespo (WMF) (talk) 13:04, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
Problem seems indeed to be gone. Thanks, Jaime. --Túrelio (talk) 15:23, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

File:FullMoon2010.jpg

Dear admins,

please consider to semi-protect the file FullMoon2010.jpg. The description page of that photo seems to attract strange and destructive edits recently. I have reverted them, but it could be useful to prohibit anonymous and new users to edit the description page of that file. Thank you very much,

--Aristeas (talk) 08:15, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

For now, IP-protected. --Túrelio (talk) 08:19, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
Wow, that was fast! Thank you very much, Túrelio. --Aristeas (talk) 08:27, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Accounts engaged in suspicious activity

ClearerBOT (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Redactaeur (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
EditinHelper (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
VEcontributor (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
ENCYcontributor (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
JohnGedoe (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
TheContributator (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
MultimediaLoader (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
All accounts were created about the same time. Sometimes edit the same page within minutes, e.g. [3]. In my opinion undoubtfully sock puppets belonging to the same master. 94.42.57.188 02:38, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

EDIT: After this edit it's clear that these are socks of an w:en:WP:LTA/GRP. --94.42.57.188 07:01, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
Can someone take a look at this? Also vandalism (shouting, etc.) via TheContributator (talk · contribs) and others, see above - Richardkiwi (talk) (talk) 09:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done What's the main or oldest account on Commons? Yann (talk) 10:03, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
(Replied in Special:Diff/685110648.) 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 10:11, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Unwelcome changes coming from a continually shifting IP address

An anonymous (IP) editor, who continually shifts IP address, has been making numerous recent edits to my photo pages, mostly related to structured data, e.g. this edit. Most of these I'm fine with, but

  1. I do not like the removal of the author field from {{Information}}
  2. There are times they have changed {{Self}} to something else, which I don't appreciate.
  3. In the {{Self}} template (or other templates they are replacing it with) they have variously either entirely removed "author" or changed from "author=[[User:Jmabel|Joe Mabel]]" to "author={{U|1=Jmabel|2=Joe Mabel}}". I do not like having to rely on the future of a template to make sure my attribution stays correct.
  4. They have changed Source=Photo by [[User:Jmabel|Joe Mabel]] to source={{Self-photographed}}

To be clear: I've had literally thousands of my photos used outside of the WMF world. When they are used, I am concerned to have them attributed accurately. I am deliberate in putting this information into the page three ways, all being clear about the specific attribution I want. I do not want my photos attributed to, say "Wikimedia Commons user Jmabel" (which could easily happen off of source={{Self-photographed}}). I want someone who fails to look closely at the license to see my name as author.

There have been too many variants of this for me to entirely keep up and revert these changes without reverting their otherwise acceptable work. If this were a logged-in user, I would of course engage with them and ask them to stop messing with my attribution. I've had that come up in the past and it has always been sorted out easily. As it is, I have absolutely no idea how best to proceed. - Jmabel ! talk 04:10, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/National animal of Australasia

At this request, I meant to include National flower of Australasia, National bird of Australasia, National tree of Australasia in the debate. The discussion was closed but only National animal of Australasia has been deleted. Am I supposed to start another nomination for them, or is there any specific reason to keep the others ? MathXplore (talk) 05:48, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

@MathXplore: It seems you were not specific enough. Admins like Wdwd and the scripts they use expect pages intended for deletion to be presented in lists with bullets. You may add a new section to the subject page and retransclude it. Please see COM:DP.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:21, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
I retrancluded the debate page on today's log, thank you for the advice. MathXplore (talk) 10:45, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
@MathXplore: You're welcome.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:12, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done. Thanks for hint.--Wdwd (talk) 11:58, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Fake renaming, return of the original name

CLOSED.:

The users were warned to stop trolling and editwaring, and advised to stay away from each others. Nothing more to do here. Yann (talk) 18:14, 27 August 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.

See also Lithuanian pushing by user Pofka. --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 07:39, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

On August 20, I uploaded files from an old Roll of arms Armorial Lyncenich, 1430–1440 – 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06. Many coats of arms are signed in Middle Dutch. I found it possible to keep the original names in the filenames. However, some files have been renamed because "they are Russian propaganda". Please cancel this nonsense and return the original names for the files:

Лобачев Владимир (talk) 16:47, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Above the coat of arms is written "onde von rusen", which is part of the full phrase "[hertoghe von lettouwen] onde von rusen" – Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Ruthenia coat of arms. (Source. #1747 .. onde von rusen) --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 16:55, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
Seems the original requester was mistaken. The name is not an "obvious error" but a name consciously chosen, backed by the description at the source. Even if it were an error (or whatever), the language of the filename should not be changed from that chosen by the uploader. –LPfi (talk) 07:05, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
@LPfi: It is nowhere written that this is a Russian/Rusen coat of arms, so these are purposeful obvious errors made by the uploader. The incomprehensible old text is "onde bon vufon" and large part of the text is missing, thus it is absolutely unclear what this text means. So we simply should use easily understandable title for these files. These obvious errors were rightfully corrected and his attempts to repeatedly mislead other users were rejected as not complying with renaming guidelines (see: 1, 2, 3). This is just a trolling by a Russian user. Simply look at what is happening in Ukraine and what Russia is saying about other countries, nations. Then such trolling will not surprise you. This user also repeatedly mix Lithuania and Ruthenia (Belarus, Ukraine) with Russia (at the time of the creation of this illustration it was called Muscovy). There were Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars for centuries, so how the Coat of arms of Lithuania can be "Russian"? Pure Muscovite trolling. -- Pofka (talk) 20:35, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
Because he want to russify the history of Lithuania and is just trolling. It is simply hilarious that he created two reports to the administrators noticeboard that his bad faith attempts to present the Coat of arms of Lithuania as Russian coat of arms were rejected. The sooner this Russian troll will be blocked, the better. -- Pofka (talk) 20:45, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
  • "Answer my question". No, Guido den Broeder. answer my question: why the original caption from the source book can't be used as a file name? According to what Wikimedia Commons policy? --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 11:02, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
    Are you the same person? Anyways, see below. Guido den Broeder (talk) 13:06, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
    No. I just wanted to show that it's not an interrogation for such inadequate demands. Stay civil if you expect the same attitude. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 15:36, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
    Excuse me? Guido den Broeder (talk) 15:43, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
    The user explained to you that the caption is given from the original source book, but you kept on demanding to "answer the question". Which is a sound example of poor behavior. I believe that it clearly ruins your attempts to pretend being uninvolved. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 15:58, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
    Please refrain from personal attacks. We're done talking here. Guido den Broeder (talk) 16:55, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
  •  Comment by Pofka (initial requester to rename these files) User Лобачев Владимир recently uploaded three images of the Coat of arms of Lithuania and in the files descriptions he described two of them as "Russian coat of arms" (see: 1, 2) and in the third (see: 3) he described it as "Principality of Lithuania and Russia" (use translator for this one). We all know that Russia is a state which counts its history (with such name) only since the second half of the 16th century (see: Tsardom of Russia) and Muscovy (present-day Russia) is not equal and not related to Ruthenia (present-day Belarus and Ukraine). Knowing such topics as the Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars, it is an utter absurd to describe the Coat of arms of Lithuania as "Russian". Continuing his disruption, user Лобачев Владимир removed absolutely valid data that these images depicts the Coat of arms of Lithuania (see: 1, 2, 3, as well as 4, 5, 6), despite the fact that such title is used in the English Wikipedia's article about this symbol. This is a perfect proof what kind of internet troll user Лобачев Владимир really is and that his actions are far, far from the neutral point of view and Commons:Assume good faith. Please block this Russian imperialist-propagandist and stop the disruption he is causing in other countries affairs. Otherwise, this troll will probably soon describe other countries coats of arms as "Russian" as well. This trolling certainly must be stopped.
It is nowhere written rusen/Russian, thus it is not surprising that user Лобачев Владимир's trolling attempts with these files were rejected by the third-party users (renamers). Everyone can easily read that the last word in this text end with letters FON and it is highly doubtful that the first letter is R. The last word looks like vufon and text "onde bon vufon" (incomprehensible old text) certainly has nothing to do with Russia, which was called Muscovy at the time of the creation of this painting (1430s). Nevertheless, it clearly does not bother the uploader since he obviously simply want to troll in order to purposefully cause disruption on a daily basis. The current file names are clear and describes that these are Coats of arms of Lithuania from the Armorial Lyncenich. By the way, there already is a very similar illustration of the CoA of Lithuania uploaded in 2007 with title:
  • Lietuvos herbas Vytis.Lithuanian CoA Vytis of 15th c.jpg
    Lietuvos herbas Vytis.Lithuanian CoA Vytis of 15th c.jpg
Any non-disruptive user certainly would not seek to present the Lithuanian coats of arms as "Russian". -- Pofka (talk) 20:18, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
Did I say that this is the coat of arms of Russia, or did I indicate such a category? Not! Look at the indicated categories and tell me where is the coat of arms of Russia?
Previously, the full name of the state in Western Europe was the "Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Russia". This is probably what the artist wrote. But only the last three words survived. This is clearly stated in the study Armorial Lyncenich. --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 20:42, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
User Лобачев Владимир is simply trolling with Muscovite imperialist propaganda. Ruthenia (Belarus, Ukraine) is not Muscovy (Russia). People from the 1430s would not understand what is Russia as such thing did not exist back then. The state was called Grand Duchy of Lithuania (also see: Britannica article) and this is the Coat of arms of Lithuania. By the way, yes, if you don't remember you wrote that these are "Russian coat of arms" (see: 1, 2, 3). -- Pofka (talk) 20:55, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
Yes, the Dutch author of the 15th century was a Muscovite imperialist, if he wrote so. Let's correct Western European medieval artists. We know better what they drew. --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 21:32, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
During the reign of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania such state or territory as Russia didn't exist. It was a state Muscovy or Muscovite Rus - "The term Muscovy persisted in the West until the beginning of the 18th century and is still used in historical contexts. The term remains current in Arabic as an alternative name for Russia." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Moscow. --- Ke an (talk) 01:57, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Reiterating what I wrote on ANU. Stay away from each others for sometimes. Anyone trolling or editwarring on this subject will get blocked right away. Yann (talk) 12:18, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

In any case, renaming against Commons:File renaming should be reverted. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 12:43, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
The renaming didn't violate Commons:File renaming. However, the image does actually say 'rusen' (they used a long-tail s at the time), so I would suggest including 'Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Ruthenia' in full. To only include 'rusen' and leave out Lithuania is inadequate, and would lead less educated readers to incorrectly believe it's Russian. Guido den Broeder (talk) 13:04, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
No. The renaming violated Commons:File renaming, "As a matter of principle it's best to leave all files with generally valid names at their locations, even if slightly better names may exist" + "Files should NOT be renamed only because the new name looks a bit better" + "Files should NOT be renamed only to translate the filename to another language". --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 13:08, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
Neither applies here, as explained. Guido den Broeder (talk) 15:11, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
The renaming did violated the mentioned policy, because the name was valid (given according to the caption in the source book). And such discussions of slightly better names changing (moreover, with the changing of name language) are out of the project scope. Personally, I'm not against 'Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Ruthenia' of somehow like this in a new name, but I believe that according to renaming policy it is up to the original uploader to decide. And since the uploader can anytime change the name (e.g. for harmonization of the image set uploaded by the user or any other improvement), such name discussions are pointless. --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 15:32, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
Adding Lithuania when it was misleadingly left out is not 'slightly better', it's a significant correction. Guido den Broeder (talk) 15:43, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
The original source book caption is "onde von rusen", which means that there was nothing misleading in the original file name. You attempts to accuse the user are against Commons:Project scope/Neutral point of view: "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". --Kazimier Lachnovič (talk) 16:04, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
I don't see a need to repeat what I already explained. We don't want your propaganda here. Guido den Broeder (talk) 16:55, 27 August 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.

revdel/block

Hi, Could someone block Qve Carajio and revdel their edits if appropriate please, They appear to be the same troll as the entries at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:RP88&action=history, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 14:23, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done by RP88 (thanks RP88), Genuinely don't think I will ever understand people like this, The time and effort spent vandalising the project and screaming at everyone could be much better helping our viewers here. Much live a very sad and lonely life to act in this manner. –Davey2010Talk 15:06, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

Multiple users misunderstanding the meaning of "freedom of Panorama"

I was skimming the pages that link to Template:FoP-Mexico and I found multiple inappropriate uploads by multiple editors. I'm going to guess that someone misunderstood the template and since then, users are copying exactly what they did because they think that that was legally valid. First, they take a free picture with a de-minimis copyrighted picture (for this example I will use File:Movilización por la desaparición y muerte de Debanhi Escobar el 22 de abril de 2022 en Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. 02.jpg, which has a copyrighted picture of a subject but FoP in Mexico allows it upload here). The issues start here; the users then proceed to upload the actual picture that it is depicted (File:Movilización por la desaparición y muerte de Debanhi Escobar el 22 de abril de 2022 en Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. 02 (cropped).jpg) which is not covered by FoP because, pretty much, FoP doesn't revoke the original copyrights. The most absurd case I've found is File:Museo del Estanquillo IMG 2052 (26233517721).jpg which depicts literally nothing, but then the user decided to upload several related files and crops. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of free time anymore so I can't go and check all the 1,600 files, but as far as I remember I checked this template a few years ago and I couldn't see major problems. So this must be a recent issue. One of the users, Loki4050 (talk · contribs), is blocked and tagged as a sockpuppet. I will assume good faith and not say that all these cases were cause by sockpuppets, but the improved files uploaded by Loi should be reverted and revdeleted as copyvios.50 Tbhotch™ 22:58, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Nevermind about the good faith. All the users were blocked as sockpuppets. The uploads were performed by, at least,
If you know the original accounts and the sockpuppets, I would highly revdel everything as copyvio. Tbhotch™ 23:05, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
I cleaned-up a few of them, the files that need revdels end at 22:38, 21 August 2022 Tbhotch™ 00:11, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
It's actually a pretty complicated issue. What you call a misunderstanding is one of several plausible interpretations, based on the principle underlying COM:PD-Art in that different copies of the same work are fungible. (Note that FoP-Mexico does not require the depicted work to be de minimis.) I raised this conundrum at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Club-Tijuana.jpg, but unfortunately there was nobody interested in discussing it. I'm not arguing for or against any of these interpretations in particular, just saying that it is an area that needs more research. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:47, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
On our page on Mexican copyright, there is no hint that you cannot directly photograph the work (without any DM-tricks), "provided that the normal exploitation of the work is not adversely affected". If the work photographed is "normally exploited" by making copies for sale, then our making it available for free probably could affect the sales adversely. The crops linked here are low-quality oddness that don't affect anything (which is understandable if they were uploaded just to cause disruption). I am also very sceptic about bringing a (legal) photograph of something that isn't normally visible from a public place to the public place and photographing it there (such as the photo of Debanhi Escoba). –LPfi (talk) 07:19, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
There are two provisions that have caused a lot of controversy in the past, namely "provided that normal commercialization of the work is not affected" and "without altering the work", but repeated discussions on VPC have confirmed the acceptability of FoP-Mexico despite these conditions while also failing to provide a clear picture of what exactly it means. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:12, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Usually display has to be permanent for FoP to apply, which disallows this kind of trick, i.e. File:Colosiobutton.JPG. Yann (talk) 21:07, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Mexico is notable for not having this requirement of permanency. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:12, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
"Without altering" does not fit well with the freedoms Commons requires. However, we do allow photos of works that may not be altered due to moral rights and we do allow photos that include non-free works, when those are part of the scene. If you take a photo of a non-free painting (permanently in a public place) in a country with moral rights and normal FoP, how do the rights differ from those of one from Mexico? You are probably allowed to make colour corrections etc. in both cases. Do we in fact care about to what extent you are allowed to make derived works? Do we treat moral rights as non-copyright restrictions? Is the Mexican restriction materially different? –LPfi (talk) 07:27, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
I restored the file, and reopened the DR mentioned above: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Club-Tijuana.jpg. We need to be consistent. If other examples shown here are allowed, this one should be too. Yann (talk) 16:14, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
There are several other cases with the same issue, i.e. Commons:Deletion requests/File:Tun Tun en Okey Mr. Pancho (1981) (cropped).jpg. Yann (talk) 17:08, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Urgent request to quickly delete a file

This file File:Sapto Andriyono.jpg right now is being used constantly and repeatedly for defamation in Indonesian Wikipedia. I have put deletion notice three days ago. Thank you. Hysocc (talk) 17:29, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done I closed the deletion request as "delete". De728631 (talk) 17:51, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Need adminitrators' assistance

There is an active file deletion request discussion (requested by me) in Commons:Deletion requests/File:Malay sphere.svg, and seems like Malaysian accounts are gathering themselves up to give their keep vote, meanwhile that's not even part of their "issue". I have no assistance to mediate these issue, it feels like 'me vs. them' all alone, I need neutral resolution for my deletion request and I need someone to understand what my initial good intention is. You might find some harsh word uttered from me in that page, but I hope at least an admin would understand what my concern is. Anyways, thank you in advance for anyone who would like to assist and resolve these issue. My best regards. (Factual Fact Factor (talk) 15:34, 29 August 2022 (UTC))

There is no need for special admin intervention. The DR will be closed after 7 days (or later as there is always a backlog). Yann (talk) 17:12, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Bot editing logged out

FYI, I've temporarily blocked 2A02:8108:323F:C9C8:CD46:7F8A:4636:B153/64 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log), which is making bot edits. I'm pretty sure it's SchlurcherBot (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) accidentally logged out, not anything malicious; hopefully Schlurcher will confirm soon. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:22, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Flickr images by FaceMePLS needing human review (part 2)

See previous notice Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 89#Help with Flickr images needing human review

As per the previous notice I've created a DR at Commons:Deletion requests/Files by FaceMePLS with review issues for images for which it can't be verified that they had a free license by referencing either the Internet Archive or the other photographs by this author that were either published or created on the same date. To make the review process easier for all the images easier I've programmed my bot to create an overview of Flickr images by FaceMePLS needing human review/By date published and Flickr images by FaceMePLS needing human review/By date created. Vera (talk) 12:03, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

@1Veertje: Those are some very nice graphs! Well done. Are you looking for some admin action above and beyond what will (hopefully) be eventually handled by COM:LR? —RP88 (talk) 02:09, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
Would be nice to get some assurance that being able to reference another photo that was published/created on the same date that has a free license is sufficient proof. I know @JopkeB: for one has been hesitant to spend time categorizing this set while that's still up in the air. It would be more efficient if these files could be given general amnesty based on my reputation and if a sufficient slice has been given manual review. Maybe something we could put to a vote? Vera (talk) 08:16, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
The Commons community has considered you both trustworthy and competent to perform license review longer than they have me. When you add {{Flickrreview}} to a file Commons trusts that you are being both honest and diligent about what you observed of the file's license.

As I understand the chronology, on date A you pulled the metadata for a few thousand photos from a Flickr stream, recorded this metadata in a spreadsheet, and confirmed that the license for these photos was a free license. Later on date B the photographer relicensed the photos on Flickr to a non-free license. Subsequently on date C you uploaded these photos that you had previously flickr reviewed on date A using the license and other metadata from your spreadsheet. The FlickreviewR bot put a failed {{FlickrreviewR}} template on these files, since by date C the bot saw the changed license. Fortunately archives have captured the majority of the Flickr pages for these photos from before date B, you've added these archive links to the uploaded files, and so far these archived pages confirm that there wasn't any systemic issue with the flickr license review you performed on date A, as the licenses in the existing archived pages before date B match your spreadsheet.

Do I have all that correct? If so, and if it helps to have someone else say so, then I  Support you replacing the failed/error {{FlickreviewR|...}} bot template on any or all of the files that appear in your documentation for the review on date A with a {{Flickrreview|1Veertje|Y-m-d of date A}} non-bot template. —RP88 (talk) 19:32, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

This is correct. I'll maybe wait a week for someone to object and then change the review status. Vera (talk) 14:25, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Licence review request

Hi, Could someone review and pass File:MERSEYSIDE TRANSPORT TRUST RUNNING DAY AT LIVERPOOL SOUTH PARKWAY LIVERPOOL SEP 2013.jpg please?

A cropped bus in the above image (File:1986 Dodge D56 Alexander AM "MerseyMini".jpg) was uploaded here from Flickr under a CC licence (and was passed by reviewing admin) however the Commons uploader didn't upload the full uncropped image, I've asked at Copyright and was basically told Yes the full image can be uploaded however sadly at some point the Flickr licence was changed to "All rights reserved" but the image when uploaded here would've been under a CC licence,

So I was wondering if this could be reviewed and passed as when the cropped image was uploaded here it was obviously under a CC licence, I hope this makes sense, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 12:09, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

@Davey2010: ✓ Done.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:25, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
@Jeff G.you sir are amazing thank you so much, I thought it had to be re-reviewed if that makes sense, I genuinely had no idea you could do it like that :), Anyway thanks again Jeff greatly appreciate your help mate, Take care, –Davey2010Talk 12:33, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
@Davey2010: You're welcome. To be clear, only License Reviewers and Admins may do that.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:49, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
@Jeff G. Ah okay sorry I had no idea you were a LR otherwise I would've asked you instead :), Oh well thanks for your help anyway, Take care, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 13:18, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
@Davey2010: You're welcome. Have you considered using the MarkAdmins gadget?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:29, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
Hey @Jeff G., Just installed that and I hope it was okay but I've also nicked the MA coding from your Commons.JS page too (with credit to you there of course :)), Thanks again, –Davey2010Talk 14:00, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Questionable images

I'm hoping one of you can have a look at the images uploaded by User:Sniperstorm2. I just blocked them on en-wiki for disruptive editing, and I really doubt these photos were made by some amateur or hobbyist. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 01:03, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

@Drmies: I found one copyvio and warned the user.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:26, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Image

Hi, Just wanted to ask should I have cropped this image or was it fine as was ?, Nothing wrong with it per se but sort of felt with the child being in it the it would make the file more unusable ?, Obviously if anyone disagrees I'll self rv, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 14:46, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

@Davey2010: I would have cropped more from the right side for balance.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:56, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
Hey @Jeff G., Ah okay, I was trying to keep much background as I could in case it had some relevance but I do agree it does look horrid as is, I would've photoshopped the boy out had the car not been there, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 16:06, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
On the other hand: the boy is obviously interacting with the passing bus. So, IMO both versions may have own value. --Túrelio (talk) 16:02, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
  • Thanks for your comments Jeff and Túrelio - As Túrelio generally believes the image is fine and as no one other admins have commented I'm assuming the image as was (or as is now) is okay so I've reverted back to the full image, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 22:11, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
    Davey2010, if you're wanting to focus on the bus for whatever reason (perhaps to illustrate it specifically) why not more tightly crop the bus to a new filename? Like Túrelio said, both versions have potential value. (sorry, I know marked as closed, but thought I'd toss this in.) — Huntster (t @ c) 22:54, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
    Christ almighty. Words, very bad words, Words that will get me blocked for a few days. Cropped. –Davey2010Talk 23:11, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
Resolved

Mass image renaming needed?

There are a few hundred images named something like "Today's Mass Extinction and Holocene-Anthropocene Thermal Maximum are being caused by the Super Rich (48658697083).jpg", or even worse, "Today's Mass Extinction and Holocene-Anthropocene are being caused by the Super Rich who are killing Net Neutrality on June 11, 2018 (42668146512).jpg". And these are pictures of - wait, don't look, please guess - demonstrators? Political activists? Climate charts? No. They are pictures of butterflies. Really. They're beautiful pictures of butterflies, so I don't want to just delete them all, but they have nothing to do with the title, which is gibberish, and worse, politically adjacent gibberish. Anyone willing or able to do some mass renaming? --GRuban (talk) 16:26, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Hmm, apart from your question, when I clicked on source and author (Flickr-account) of the first in the list, File:Today's Mass Extinction and Holocene-Anthropocene Thermal Maximum are being caused by the Super Rich (47145658751).jpg, I got a 404 for both. How reliable are these uploads at all? --Túrelio (talk) 16:33, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
The EXIF for most of the uploads is consistently Canon EOS 7D Mark II, except a few from 2016 which are Canon EOS 60D; the former seems like a reasonable upgrade from the latter. So I have no reason to doubt that the Flickr uploader is the photographer, and COM:PDM is also fine. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:58, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Fl.schmitt

Hello, can someone remove Autopatrol rights from @Fl.schmitt as they're promoted to Commons:License review see here. C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 04:56, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Done. Kind regards, — Tulsi 24x7 05:07, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Love Radio logo.webp

I just want to reach out Commons:Deletion requests/File:Love Radio logo.webp, its still open for discussion since April 5, 2022 and I voted to delete it. But no administrator has closed the discussions since the nomination opened, can someone take an action on this? SeanJ 2007 (talk) 13:52, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

User:Pedrorexspeculanary

It appears that Pedrorexspeculanary (talk · contribs) is uploading deleted images previously uploaded by Zerohead127 (talk · contribs) and/or Muzzonakhaled (talk · contribs), see e.g. [4] and [5]. Many of them are also duplicates. –JustAnotherArchivist (talk) 18:33, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked as well as Zerohead127. All files deleted. Yann (talk) 19:02, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
There is a technical glitch again. See Commons:Deletion requests/File:The Thililua.jpg. Yann (talk) 19:32, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Socks

Niknish7579 (talk · contribs) and Niknish28675 (talk · contribs) are clearly same accounts and user uploads copyvios and out of scope COM:ADVERT, COM:HOST and COM:NOTSOCIAL images. Admins could delete those images and give a warning. AntanO 10:24, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Sock blocked, main account warned and files deleted. See also Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Niknish28675. Yann (talk) 11:46, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

MAROUF NABIL - spam user page

Hello, MAROUF NABIL (talk · contribs) have been spamming fr:wiki on its user page and now he's doing the same here. I think his user page should be blanked and his picture deleted from commons. Durifon (talk) 11:08, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done User warned, user page and most files deleted. See also Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by MAROUF NABIL. Yann (talk) 11:38, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Sockpuppets to block

Sockpuppets of User:Music Hubs, User:Triasemmy6,472,301, etc. Horcrux (talk) 11:44, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 11:53, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

User:HACLA Media Relations

HACLA Media Relations (talk · contribs) appears to be representing en:Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles and doesn't appear to have any verification per COM:UPOLICY. --William Graham (talk) 19:47, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello. We are official employees of HACLA. My email address, for verification, is courtney.gladney@ hacla.org (I am the Media & Marketing Specialist). If there is something else we need to do to be verified, please advise. Thank you. (NOTE: We updated our Logo about a year ago and needed that to be updated on our Wiki page. Thanks) HACLA Media Relations (talk) 22:24, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
@HACLA Media Relations: Please send permission for File:HACLA Logo.jpg via VRT.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:36, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

WLM SE 2022 mass message

I'm looking after the Wiki Loves Monuments 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 Monuments 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) 08:59, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Ping on this one. Any problems that I should address or any other reason for it not being sent out? Thanks again in advance. /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 13:54, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done --Ezarateesteban 13:04, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks @Ezarate. Can you update the message to not include the Target part. /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 13:21, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the update @Ezarate with sending the message again. Is it possible to remove the old headlines, message and list of targets in a smooth way? Should I ask at Commons:Bots/Work requests or some other page? /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 07:12, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
I saw the problem being, thanks to all. Apologize the inconveniences Ezarateesteban 11:27, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
Thank you @Ата for getting everything sorted with the mass messages! /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 11:58, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done the clean-up. — Ата (talk) 14:30, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
Huge amounts of thanks @Ата! /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 14:33, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

File:Sd.Kfz 234-2 front-diagonal view.jpg

This copyright ownership both the UK (after Brexit) and the EU has been disputed as for precautionary principle, for example, this image of Ninette de Valois due to lacks of licensing for its home country. 2001:4451:8216:1700:45F8:54F6:3310:D404 00:50, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

What a nonsense, image is of a captured vehicle made by government officials and not artwork so not comparable. Why forum shopping to get this deleted? --Denniss (talk) 04:32, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
 Not done. Nothing to do here. Regular deletion process is going. Taivo (talk) 08:43, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Image

Hi, So I nominated File:Bus in Petersfield.jpeg for deletion however it was closed as keep as "no valid reason for deletion, Could someone explain to me what use an icon image of an unidentified bus is to anyone ?, What purpose would this image have to anyone ?, Thanks. –Davey2010Talk 21:54, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

The description identifies the bus, so it's not unidentified. Your argument would be stronger if you linked to higher quality images of the same bus.--BevinKacon (talk) 22:09, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
Fair enough, Thank you for taking the time to respond, Have a great da, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 22:38, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Please remove rights from User:Kolega2357

Globally banned per discussion on meta. Thanks! AlPaD (talk) 08:52, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

The user has been removing this section and vandalizing as 212.200.181.85 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) , and has been abusing talk page access.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:17, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
Removed TPA, deleted the page you created as IPs don't stick and tagging one as a suspected sock isn't useful in the long run. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 11:19, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
@Minorax: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:34, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done --Minorax«¦talk¦» 11:18, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

File:The Superfight - Rocky Marciano vs Muhammad Ali Ticket.jpg

Please revert changes and semi-protect it – it is a target of GRP socks. The previous protection has expired and the LTA is back. --94.42.45.231 13:57, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Semi-protected for another year. De728631 (talk) 14:18, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Category:Sweatshirts in Australia, Category:Sweatshirts in China‎, Category:Sweatshirts in Japan‎, Category:Sweatshirts in the United States‎

Apparently some undisclosed admin blacklisted each of these categories at some undisclosed time in the past, as I see the message "You do not have permission to create this page, for the following reason: The page title or edit you have tried to create cannot be created or edited by you at this time. It matches an entry on the local or global blacklists, used to prevent vandalism." when trying to create them. Someone has created Category:Hoodies by country and thus we now need a Category:Sweatshirts by country. Please de-list from whatever blacklist. -- DanielPenfield (talk) 01:18, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

I created all these categories. Also I complained in village pump technical department. Taivo (talk) 07:58, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Acroterion changed my block settings from Wikipedia to 2023, still need to get unblocked.

In February 2022, Acroterion blocked me from Wikipedia for six months, thus there were one-hundred eighty one days until my block was set to expire. But no, he waited until the very end of my block to change my block settings of the same day of next year (2023), which was very cruel and despicable of him to do, even by Wikipedia and his standards as well, thus meaning I have to wait even longer. How awfully and badly similar it is to these things (https://terribletvshows.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3AMarioBobFan, https://terribletvshows.miraheze.org/wiki/Appetite_for_Destruction_(The_Loud_House), https://theloudhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Throwing_Pains, https://theloudhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Lalo_Land, https://spongebob.fandom.com/f/u/49644503, https://awfulmovies.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3AMarioBobFan, and https://crappygames.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3AMarioBobFan). I have had enough, so I have decided to post it here as a result. It does also not help by the fact that me evading my block was unintentional and don't have any plans to evade my block there in the slightest and it was a unintentional mistake to do, plus I wasn't even gonna use my other IP address to evade my block, thus it was a very cruel and despicable thing of you to do, even by you and Wikipedia standards, and plus I can't wait for a whole year, especially since that is way far too long for a block, and I am going to get very impatient over waiting, thus this is why you need to unblock me early. Also, Acroterion could have simply blocked my MarioBobFan account there since that's what Mario Jc has done on the Super Mario Wiki rarely, alongside the fact that I had plans to create a Wikipedia account since I was a toddler. I also may get very inpaintient over me getting unblocked early and I have almost reached my breaking point, and have been starting to get mad at Acroterion for blocking me. Pinging @Acroterion 107.146.244.150 01:46, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Pinging @Acroterion for opinion.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:08, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
They're indeed blocked on enwiki by me for exactly this sort of conduct, for a long time. They have a history of going around to other projects and posting demands to be unblocked on enwiki, because they "need" to be unblocked, and they can't wait any longer. This has been going on for a couple of years with escalating block terms. For some reason they think it's a good idea. We're probably into global block territory. Acroterion (talk) 02:18, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

I am done asking to get unblocked on the other wikis. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 107.146.244.150 (talk) 02:21, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

And here?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:29, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
The IP is blocked on enwiki into 2023 for block evasion via IP, with talkpage access revoked. On Commons their block expired last month. Their account was indeffed long ago on enwiki, but not here. Acroterion (talk) 02:32, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. 6 months block for the IP (second block) for bringing problems from other projects into Commons (first block was for the same). IP claims, that (s)he has useful edits in en.wiki – maybe, but no useful edits have come from him/her in Commons, so we (that means Commons) will lose nothing. The IP should request unblock in en.wiki, if (s)he wants to be unblocked there. Taivo (talk) 07:42, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Copyvios by Sankaryadhav29

Sankaryadhav29 (talk · contribs) uploads are copyvios and it can delete as the new files are uploaded from the deleted images. Also, admin intervention is needed for warn the user for not listening. AntanO 06:23, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. One week block. I will delete some copyvios. Taivo (talk) 07:24, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

There is a problem with the account.

Periodically I encounter the fact that my account (User:Котельников) becomes inactive, information about the participant disappears on the page. Котельников (talk) 07:10, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

When you log in, then you can tick the check box "Remember my password for 180 days". That means: everyone is logged out twice every year, so that (s)he will not forget password. There's nothing to do about it. Taivo (talk) 07:35, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

File:West Bengal Assembly 2022 v2.svg

Hi, File:West Bengal Assembly 2022 v2.svg used on bnwiki. On bnwiki, we use Bengali numeral, so i added Bengali number to this file using svgtranslate tool. But User:VNC200 keeps reverting my upload. I asked the user on File talk:West Bengal Assembly 2022 v2.svg, and on User_talk:VNC200#? but the user never replied and keeps doing it. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 01:00, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

@আফতাবুজ্জামান: Please follow COM:OVERWRITE.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:11, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
@আফতাবুজ্জামান and VNC200:
I wish VN200 explained the reason for the revert and/or engaged in discussion. The "it has been updated" comment is too cryptic for me to understand. The flip side is a slow revert/edit war is not productive.
Using SVG Translate on a file is not always the right thing to do. It may make further graphic editing of the file difficult. For the Bengali Assembly image, I do not see that as a problem because the file will probably not change.
However, SVG Translate can create confusing behaviors, and VN200 may be a victim of that behavior. When you added the translation for bn, the SVG file then had the bn language and the "default" language. We know the default language is English, but browsers do not know that. Say a user configured her browser to prefer en but display bn if that is not available. If she opens the SVG file, she will see bn rather than en! Her browsers believes bn is a better choice than the default.
If that is VN200's objection, it can be easily fixed. Use SVG Translate to translate the default language to English (which is just a copy). Then the file will have have en, bn, and the default language.
However, uploading under a new file name is always an option.
Glrx (talk) 00:17, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. This section can be mark as resolved. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 19:06, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Very suspicious deletion request

I received a notice of a deletion request for one the files I uploaded in 2019, saying the file was unused and "out of project scope". I had a look and thought it strange that I would've uploaded this file without using it, and went to the relevant Wikidata item (Derby (Q78596356)) to correct the situation.

I then checked the item's edit history and found that the file had been removed from the item by @Nanahuatl, the creator of the deletion request, a minute before he created the request (removed 23:57, deletion req created 23:58).

I'm not sure if this is against any Commons or Wikidata rules, but this behavior definitely seems malicious to me. The user also opened a bunch of other deletion requests with similar rationales the same day, so it seems possible that the user has pulled the same trick with other files as well. I didn't see any other instances of similar behavior via global contribs, but he could've used an IP instead, and I don't know to check the previous usage of a file across projects.

I don't have the time, energy, or tools to investigate if there's more to this than just this one instance, so I'm bringing this to admin attention. -- Veikk0.ma (talk) 04:37, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

@Veikk0.ma: , I was trying to organize Category:Logos of companies of Turkey and naturally, nominating logos of non-notable companies for deletion. You can see some of them in here, and User:George Chernilevsky can give further information I suppose (the admin that closes those discussions and delete most of the files). And for the Wikidata, we can't just create any brand or company item, can we?
Nanahuatl (talk) 05:37, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
 Not done. We do not discuss here Wikidata policies. Let them do, what they want. But Commons policy COM:INUSE says: if the file is used in any Wikimedia projects, then it is in Commons project scope. Removing the file from use and nominating it for deletion, because it is unused, is gaming a system. It is bad and discouraged. Nanahuatl, consider this a warning. Regular deletion request lasts a week and if after that the Wikidata item exists and the file is still used, then the deletion request will be closed as kept. Further discussion should be in the DR Commons:Deletion requests/File:Derby (Azmüsebat) logo transparent.png, not here. Taivo (talk) 06:53, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

A.Savin

Misuse of the rollback tool [6]. Reverted constructive edit adding named-after category according to RS. Александр Мотин (talk) 06:28, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

 Not done. Look what you did here. You are lucky, if you escape block. Taivo (talk) 07:11, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: What did I do there? Please explain. Why adding named-after category is vandalism? --Александр Мотин (talk) 12:25, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
@Александр Мотин, Once you're reverted you then need to start a discussion with that user and come to an agreement. If you're not able to come to an agreement then there are various channels available that may help. Please don't revert or add the category back otherwise you could end up blocked for edit warring. –Davey2010Talk 12:52, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

File:Warfhuizen Wehe Den Hoorn 1.jpg, File:WRfhuizen Wehe Den Hoorn 1.jpg and similar with other numbers

These are description pages without pictures. (I found them in Category:Groningen.) What happened? Telford (talk) 10:10, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

@Telford: These file description pages were created by JakobHosp with Commons Uploader for Mobile. There are some 44 file description pages in Category:Images uploaded by Commons Uploader for Mobile that have "File missing". Pinging @UnderwhelmingToaster as creator of that category. Only 7 of those file description pages are in Category:Groningen.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:48, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done? I deleted 28 files without image uploaded. In the future, please nominate them for speedy deletion using {{speedydelete|reason for speedy deletion}}. Taivo (talk) 14:11, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks, but did you see the 18 file description pages on what was formerly page 2?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:42, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
I deleted those as well. Taivo (talk) 16:56, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks again!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:11, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Template:Provinces of Argentina

Hello. Please help with unreasonable User:Frodar. He keeps reverting the editions to make this template work properly. He thinks category names of provinces of Argentina in commons are wrong and doesn't allow the names used on the template to match the exisiting names of the categories on the basis that everything is wrong except his particular view of how the provinces should be called. I have provided links on his talk page to show it is not only in commons. The same names are used in wikipedia in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Italian and yet thinks everything has to be changed except the template. He is making the template unsable, as it directs to redirect pages instead of the actual categories. Thank you in advance, tyk (talk) 19:00, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I made the invitation to tyk to bring his case to a third party to resolve our dispute, meanwhile I told him the template must be reverted to the version before the controversial changes, as usual. All our discussion is in my talk page, where I posted my reasons of disputing his editions. So calling me unreasonable not only is rude, is also wrong. I have my reasons, he has his reasons. If somebody can move our discussion to a place where the community can participate to resolve it (if this place is not appropriate), it would be great. —Frodar (talk) 19:17, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
The crux of the matter is that, as things are at the moment, the template does not work properly. As I have said to you, if you want to change the names of the categories go ahead, but in the meantime we need the template to work. It is unreasonable to make the template unsable just because you don't agree with the existing names. tyk (talk) 19:23, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
If the template does not work properly is not my fault, in fact you did the edits of the categories to match your version of the template. As I see it, I'm keeping the template as it was, already designed to work when eventually all the categories match the template. Plus, it had been a long time the categories not "working", i.e. the template not encompassing all the existing categories. So I think there is no rush. —Frodar (talk) 20:01, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Categories about Argentinian provinces predate a navigational template linking categories of provinces of Argentina (this is not a What was the first; the egg or the chicken situation: categories are first). If someone doesn't agree with those categories been called that way, they should open a "Categories for discussion" (CFD) process and reach consensus to change their names. Meanwhile, IMHO it's pretty obvious this template should work with the current categories. Disrupting their functioning in order to make a point is not useful. Strakhov (talk) 20:21, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Another opinion, please? The user tyk is in a hurry to close the discussion and has reverted to his edition after considering that 2 (if we align Strakhov's opinion with his) vs 1 is enough. —Frodar (talk) 23:41, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
  • You two both need to learn how to explain with an example what the hell you are doing. It is so vague from this discussion it is impossible to tell. For example, I see from this revision that Frodar would remove "Chubut Province" so that only "Chubut" works. We have Category:2010 in Chubut Province which is part of Category:Chubut Province by year and Category:Chubut redirects to Category:Chubut Province so I suggest we follow what the categories are currently which I guess is Tyk's version. Frodar, what use is a template that doesn't even link to the main category pages? The underlying templates using this template don't work. You aren't going to force the category changes by screwing with the template so suggest the category moves first if you want them changed and let's have a usable template for what the categories are now. I question the category names but in the alternative to you two fighting, we can also have the temple use either option if that makes an ounce of sense. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:40, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, Ricky. I did try to make the template use either option in this edit, but somehow it didn't work and I wasn't able to sort the problem. Anyway there were very few subcategories name without "Province" and they have subsequently been changed to match the main category of each of them, so there is no need any longer for the template to work with either option. tyk (talk) 05:22, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

I see that I'm being pointed out like the one who is "screwing" or "disrupting" the template. That is completely wrong, my intention was to protect the version that I considered perfectly designed to work, before the recent changes to the template and before the massive changes to acommodate the categories to the tyk's template version. I've said it before, I have the intention to make the template work correctly too. Regarding the example by Ricky81682, just want to point out I first edited the template on 22 May 2020 and that was the version I was trying to keep functioning with the revision that has the "Chubut" name in the cited revision. Category:2010 in Chubut Province and Category:Chubut Province by year were created by tyk days ago.
The option of working with the two ways is good, but it is true is a bit pointless after the massive edits made by tyk. If the option of working with the two ways of calling the provinces is not considered, I also offer to help to move all the categories of the provinces to the current version of the template (let's call it the "Chubut" version, opposing the "Chubut Province" version), because of the massive edits it may demand. —Frodar (talk) 00:28, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
No Frodar, I only changed a small number of SUBcategories and always to match the name of the main categories, which have been like that for years.
And this is not the only time you have been reverting edits to the template by other users who tried to make it work, as we can tell by the edit history of the template.
On 8 November 2021 you reverted the same edits by user EconAmbiente who tried to repair the template.
On 19 November 2021 you reverted the same edits by user Fadesga who also tried to make the template work.
On 6 March 2022 you again reverted the same edits by user ElGuruCesar.
On 14 March 2022 you reverted again the edits of user Fadesga who tried to repair it a second time.
Finally on 7, 9 and 12 September you reverted my edits despite me speaking to you on your talk page and explaining to you that the template as you want it doesn't work.
In summary, 4 different users within a period of 14 months have tried to repair the template given that your version doesn't work and you keep reverting everyone. Doesn't it make you think that perhaps you are wrong? You have been told that if you disagree with the existing names of the main categories you should look for the necessary consensus and change them. But you have done nothing in 14 months but reverting other users, making the template not fit for its navigation porpuse, thus disrupting the work of other users.
It's time you stop this. tyk (talk) 06:49, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
The changes to the subcategories involves hundreds of files, I see it because I have many of that files on my watchlist.
Maybe you and the other users didn't look with detail that the template could work as it was.
Yes, the main categories have been like that for years. Precisely since 2014, when a user blocked long ago, apparently in an unconsulted way changed the names of the main categories of the provinces, doing of the simple names a desambiguation category. And the template as was created in 2017 shows that the user that created it used unique names for many unique entities as Catamarca, Chubut, Formosa, Jujuy, La Pampa. —Frodar (talk) 18:13, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
@Frodar The fact that the template has been broken since 2017 is not a reason to keep it up. Category:2007 in Santa Fe Province does not display Category:2007 in Chubut Province. Period. The template is not doing its function and half doing its function because someone half did it 5 years ago is not a reason to keep the template useless. If you want to change the categories, change them but fighting to keep the temple not working is not helping. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:18, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
I reverted it to the one that makes Category:2007 in Chubut Province. Now which files are broken and why are files using a template for provinces anyways? Ricky81682 (talk) 04:21, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
There are no broken files. I was talking about the changes of the names of the categories which the files are in, like these [7] [8] [9], that tyk did to match his version of the template. —Frodar (talk) 07:11, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
@Frodar How does the template change the existing categories? Again, if your problem is the categories, suggest the categories for renaming. The template reflects the categories as they exist. I also don't understand why province matters so much if there isn't a separate city one but the template is not the priority. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:38, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Block request

Hi, Could someone indef Aaujifrash who's a sock of Premanidhi premanidhi please? - The Aau account was created today before Preman was 1 week blocked. I would be happy to email the dealing admin as to why these 2 are the same person but per WP:BEANS I'd rather not say publicly, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 15:56, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. No need to e-mail, I understand it myself. Taivo (talk) 16:59, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
Great minds think alike! :), Many thanks Taivo for your help greatly appreciated, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 17:17, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
For the record: Oldest account seems to be locked User:PremanidhiMajhi. --Achim55 (talk) 17:17, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Virus Scan on Upload

It is documented somewhere that uploads to Commons get virus scanned? There is a VRT ticket asking about it and I can only find indirect references to uploads being scanned. Captain-tucker (talk) 13:06, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Some security scanning is done, but why does the user want to or need to know? If you were a bank president, would you explain the details of your security systems to a customer who just walked in the front door? Glrx (talk) 15:27, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
The person is just asking if we scan for virus and malware when uploading and do we take precautions to ensure files are safe for people to download. No specific reason given. Captain-tucker (talk) 15:35, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

File:Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper_-_Charles_Clyde_Ebbets.jpg

File:Lunch atop a Skyscraper - Charles Clyde Ebbets.jpg I would like to crop a part of this "protected" photo. I noticed that another photo has been cropped from this file. Do I need permission from an Administrator or will the protection be removed sometime in the future? Thanks, -- Ooligan (talk) 16:00, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

The image is "Today's featured picture" on the English Wikipedia. This means, the protection should automatically be removed tomorrow. De728631 (talk) 16:27, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for the prompt response and information @De728631 Ooligan (talk) 16:47, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
@Ooligan: You could also use Template:CSS image crop today.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:31, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
@Jeff G. I will wait, but thank you for this alternative. Can you briefly explain the pro/ cons of using this template instead of the CropTool? -- Ooligan (talk) 16:58, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
@Ooligan: Pros: no upload needed; usable on protected images; no generational loss. Cons: no image upload credit; no tweaking other than cropping allowed; tough to get the numbers right without previewing.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:16, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
@Jeff G. The details are very helpful. Thank you for your responses. -- Ooligan (talk) 19:16, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
@Ooligan: You're welcome.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 19:28, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Category:Mega Victoria (ship, 1988)

Category:Amorella (ship, 1988) was moved to Category:Mega Victoria (ship, 1988) contrary to our practise regarding categories by ship name (see User talk:AleWi#Categories of ships by name). Could somebody please revert the move. I'll create the new Category:Mega Victoria (ship, 1988) if I am notified when the move has been done (and I'll try to sort out what files to have in which category, if that hasn't been done). According to en:MS Amorella, the ship was sold in August 2022. I don't know when she was (or is to be) renamed. –LPfi (talk) 08:48, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. LPfi, I didn't move back all of the files, please check. --Achim55 (talk) 16:30, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Thank you. I moved the rest of the files (none of them was new) and changed the category redirect into a proper category, empty for the time being (she is on her way to a Mediterranean yard before taken into use by the new owners), and tried to do related changes to the Wikidata entry. –LPfi (talk) 04:42, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Copyvios by Tkbgandhi

Tkbgandhi (talk · contribs) again uploaded already deleted files. User tricky uploaded files in Flickr under "Public domain" license and use in Commons. Also see Commons:Deletion requests/File:RVenkitaraman Letter.png and it seems that the originality is questionable as well as ownership too. Admin intervention is needed. AntanO 13:08, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

 Not done. It seems, that most of the re-uploads are really in public domain due to age, but now they are correctly licensed. I do not want to intervene. One file is nominated for regular deletion, outcome is not obvious. Taivo (talk) 14:48, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Please hide edit from history on Help desk

Please hide this edit from history (sensitive personal informations). Polda18 (discussion • contributions) 07:02, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Maybe also edits directly concurent after that which still contain the sensitive informations should be hidden. A quick heads up, just in case. Polda18 (discussion • contributions) 07:07, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done. Thank you for complaint! I hided 11 revisions. Taivo (talk) 14:40, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

about LTA sock userpage which contains impersonation to me; User:郊外生活のサブ垢

I would like to solve the problem at User:郊外生活のサブ垢. This account has been blocked and locked due to LTA sock, however, the content of this userpage contains impersonation to me. The first sentence and the second paragraph both are written in Japanese can be thought to impersonation. In addition, the latter part of this page has been copied and pasted from w:ja:User:郊外生活; my userpage on jawiki. So I tried to remove these content and replaced to {{Indefblockeduser}} because this user account has blocked, but I couldn't do that due to abusefilter, so I ask for sysop or other users who has enough rights to deal this issue. I have some proposal and I appreciate if either proposal is accepted:

  1. delete this userpage as vandalism or other adequate reason.
  2. replace the content of the username into {{Indefblockeduser}}, {{Sockpuppet}} or other adequate templates.
  3. add a template that shows this account is impersonation.

Thank you for your consideration. --郊外生活Kogaiseikatsu (talk,contribs) 12:46, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. I deleted the userpage and recreated it as sockpuppet page. Taivo (talk) 14:53, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Jjjameson333

The account Jjjameson333 was one of my socks. Please request it locked globally. Also request the sock I am using (Aaron should call his own plays) be locked globally as well. Regards! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aaron should call his own plays (talk • contribs) 03:13, 23 September 2022 (UTC) (UTC)

✓ Done. Already globally blocked. Taivo (talk) 08:32, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

I made a typo, now I can't fix it anymore

Hi there. I made a typo when creating this category title[10], it should be "Library" instead of "Libary". I tried to salvage it myself, however for some reason I can't adjust it. Could someone please adjust the typo and move the files to the correctly spelled title? Thank you in advance, - LouisAragon (talk) 18:35, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 19:15, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Sock puppet of Cheng123xx

@NgaiHing1612 is a sock puppet of @Cheng123xx, please block @NgaiHing1612 , thank you Hmtvie (talk) 12:34, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

@Hmtvie: See also m:srg#Global lock for Cheng123xx.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:34, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
@Jeff G. add whole location in Ngai Hing Mansion Pak Po Street, files uploaded by the sock puppets of @Cheng123xx or @AXXXXK all are locate there, and they mostly use “Ngai Hing” as their new account
https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=%E8%97%9D%E8%88%88%E5%A4%A7%E5%BB%88&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=zh-hant-hk&client=safari Sorcerex (talk) 06:17, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
@Jeff G. True location from safari
https://www.hkaddresses.com/index.php/大廈/detail/15875 Sorcerex (talk) 06:20, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

One more, @ 白布街藝興大廈某個住戶. — 202.75.83.59 (talk)

I think 202.75.83.59 and 202.75.86.158, who like Hmtvie seem to be trying to get every photo of Hong Kong deleted and demanding "speedy deletion" on the basis of relative unsharpness, the fact that the subject is a hotel, or that the photo is supposedly taken from a forbidden location and using templates like "vote speedy" that show a great deal of familiarity with the site while often "forgetting" to sign their edits, must also be sockpuppets wasting everyone's time with abusive deletion requests. I hope some of you can monitor Com:Deletion requests for ridiculous threads about photos of Hong Kong. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:12, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
@Ikan Kekek Block all IP located in Ngai Hing Mansion, because they all upload the photos there
https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=%E8%97%9D%E8%88%88%E5%A4%A7%E5%BB%88&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=zh-hant-hk&client=safari Sorcerex (talk) 05:50, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
@Ikan Kekek Add whole location of Ngai Hing Mansion in m:srg#Global lock for Cheng123xx Sorcerex (talk) 05:51, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for linking the thread. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:42, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
@Ikan Kekek, I reported him to Tulsi, you can help me to report him, thanks!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tulsi#Request_for_Global_Lock_for_Cheng123xx Sorcerex (talk) 06:55, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
The location from Safari
https://www.hkaddresses.com/index.php/%E5%A4%A7%E5%BB%88/detail/15875 Sorcerex (talk) 06:58, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

 Info: I blocked 202.75.64.0/18 for 1 week per req @ ANV. --Achim55 (talk) 08:12, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

@Achim55 Thank you, how about add whole location of Ngai Hing Mansion in m:srg#Global lock for Cheng123xx, because you say that cannot block location in Wikipedia Sorcerex (talk) 03:04, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

we need help here.

Hello, about copyright of my upload, we need help, please someone with experience with copyright help us. Roxjor (talk) 19:25, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

hello again,
the newyork times in this link wrote : "A picture of Mahsa Amini provided to Iran Wire by her family. The authorities have said she died of heart failure; her family say she had been in good health." the original source of image is iranwire.com and mahsa amini family provided those pictures to that news agency, then all news agencies (bbc, cnn, fox, guardian, dailymail and ...) used that images. is this enough or i not? if not what should i do? i emailed iranwier.com and wait for their reply. Roxjor (talk) 23:35, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
Please do not crosspost on different pages. Currently no admin assistance is required. Ellywa (talk) 00:10, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
oh sorry, on village pump an admin worte :"However, to judge whether or not a permission by the original photographer is required needs an evaluation by users experienced with artworks (I am not)." i just asked here to find an admin with more experience help me on copyright. if you say there's no admin assistance required, ok. i'm sorry for this topic. Roxjor (talk) 00:17, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
The deletion nomination discussion is the correct place to take up these concerns. Admins participate there. - Jmabel ! talk 01:17, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 Not done. Nothing to do here. Let's continue in the deletion request. Taivo (talk) 07:31, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Overwritten file

Would an admin mind taking a look at File:Somaliland Armed Forces Emblem.svg? It appears to have been overwritten multiple times, but it's not clear whether there's any benefit to splitting the file into multiple versions of the emblem. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:26, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

I agree these versions are highly different, which is not in accordance with Commons:Overwriting existing files. Did you ask the uploader about their rationale? If necessary you can ask for splitting the versions on Commons:History merging and splitting/Requests. Ellywa (talk) 07:47, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi all--an en-wiki user flagged another user there, saying there were concerns about them adding copyrighted content on Commons. I'm no expert, but the complaint seems to have merit, and I'm hoping one of you will have the time to look at the contributions of User:ThethPunjabi. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 21:16, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

  • Many uploaded files of the user seem like old paintings, but at least the following ones are blatant copyvio:

- NitinMlk (talk) 21:22, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

I support the concerns raised above. I think some of this is a misunderstanding by ThethPunjabi on what "own work" means and how copyright works. Being the uploader of the image doesn't give them the valid ability to assign a license, especially when they don't know the actual author and date of the original (File:Various Punjabi Folk Instruments.jpg). All Most of these images should be deleted, some as pretty obvious copyright violations with the rest as precautionary as there isn't enough information to support the license claims made. Some are probably valid for fair-use on EN, but I would recommend the uploader start a discussion at w:Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions and ask. Ravensfire (talk) 16:52, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
There are some listed above that could be valid.
Note - the "Painting of Jats from the Punjab Plains.jpg" I mentioned is NOT in the list of files NitinMlk posted. My error by implying it was in the list. Ravensfire (talk) 15:43, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 Comment I deleted the copyright violations, and fixed the weird licensing. Yann (talk) 19:38, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
Yann, thank you. Drmies (talk) 00:55, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

File:Flag of Serbia (1882–1918).svg

Please protect it against reuploading. There is permanent upload warring – Matabr060 and their obvious socks try to force their version. --94.42.39.94 22:19, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done for 3 months. See m:The Wrong Version if you don't agree and load up your version using a different file name. --Achim55 (talk) 09:21, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
@Achim55: Thanks. Although please look also at File:Royal Coat of arms of Serbia (1882–1918).svg - exactly the same situation. --94.42.61.208 23:58, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done for 3 months as well. --Achim55 (talk) 08:13, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Socks uploading the same out-of-scope file

Multiple users, likely socks, have been uploading the same out-of-scope file to File:Ayush Srivastava.jpg (deletion log).

The most recent one is TheAyushSriOfficial (talk · contributions · Statistics), and I found three other accounts that have already been warned about it:

Requesting a block as they should've gotten the message by now. Yeeno (talk) 05:11, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Accounts indeffed, file salted. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:08, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done. I created category:Sockpuppets of Theayushsrivastava0. Taivo (talk) 10:00, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Category:Peacock princess

There are a lot of irrelevant contents in this category, and they are all added by the same vandal's sockpuppets. Thyj (talk) 08:16, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

@Thyj: Can you be more specific please? Thanks, Yann (talk) 20:26, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
According to the Wikipedia article, "Peacock Princess" should be a legend of the Dai people. But this category has a lot of irrelevant or less relevant categories and files. Thyj (talk) 02:26, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
I see two subcategories. Why are the files irrelevant? Guido den Broeder (talk) 19:00, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
Because they were added by vandal. Thyj (talk) 07:42, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
That's not a very helpful answer. But according to en:Hagoromo (play), Category:Hagoromo (play) should probably be a subcategory of Category:Swan Maidens instead? El Grafo (talk) 10:31, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

delete photos

hey frd, plese delete these photos with reason poor quality.

 Not done: I blocked 202.75.64.0/18 for 2 weeks (2nd block). --Achim55 (talk) 08:17, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Category move request

Hi, Could someone move Category:Photos (persons) back to Category:Kinolibre vol. 100 please? Some troll has moved it, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 20:27, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Ymblanter (talk) 21:16, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
Brilliant many thanks Ymblanter, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 21:23, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Application of FoP in Mexico

Hi, Following previous discussion, we need to be consistent about deleting (or not) concerned files. List of files and DRs below, and also Category:Mexican FOP cases. Yann (talk) 17:54, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Uploading a new large resolution version of a photograph because a small thumbnail can be seen on a FoP accepted image is quite stretching the law, but where do we draw the line? Some cases are obviously not OK. Others are not so obvious. Yann (talk) 18:21, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

The first version of File:José José, c. 1980.jpg is exactly the same situation as File:Movilización por la desaparición y muerte de Debanhi Escobar el 22 de abril de 2022 en Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. 02 (cropped).jpg‎. Crop of a poster taken during a march. Yann (talk) 18:55, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
See also all images uploaded by Special:Contributions/Casanova50. Yann (talk) 10:02, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

تم حذف مقالي دون سبب

تم حذف مقالي دون اي سبب مع العلم اني استوفيت كامل شروط المقال وذكر المصادر https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A6%D8%A9 Dulama ali (talk) 21:16, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Here is Wikimedia Commons (ar:ويكيميديا كومنز), the repository of files (images). You should ask your question at the admins' board of the Arabic Wikipedia (ar:ويكيبيديا:إخطار الإداريين). 4nn1l2 (talk) 18:25, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Links on the upload page Commons:Upload are broken, may be problem with fullurl

This just came up on the help desk. Sorry about the cross-post, but I figured it was more likely that someone here would have a clue. Links on the upload page Commons:Upload are currently broken. At first I thought it was a templating issue, but now I think it's something in the "magic words" and I have only a tangential understanding of that. In an effort not to overly split the discussion, probably better followed up on Help desk, someone can mark this "resolved" here once it is no longer an active issue. - Jmabel ! talk 04:09, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Jmabel ! talk 15:17, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Please undelete

JuTa (talk · contribs) haven’t done any new edits since 2022-05-10 06:31:43. Can another admin please step in and undelete the following categories?

All these were previously deleted by JuTa, arguebly within policy, but they are not empty anymore. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 18:20, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. --Túrelio (talk) 18:37, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you! -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 22:53, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 22:53, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

More

There’s more, though:

-- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 23:32, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done by Strakhov. Taivo (talk) 11:37, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Request for closure at Commons:License review/Requests#Red-tailed hawk

Hello! I'm writing to request uninvolved closure of my request for license reviewer rights. The thread has been open for about a week-and-a-half and has recently been restored to the page after undergoing auto-archival.

Thank you! — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 01:54, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. This was not an easy decision, that's why it was opened so long time, but I decided to grant you the right. Taivo (talk) 12:07, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

cat deletion request

Hi, Could someone delete Category:East Lancs Myllenium on DAF SB220 buses in the United Kingdom as I made a typo, Eveything's been moved to correct name, Many thanks, –Davey2010Talk 13:03, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Done. Kind regards, — Tulsi 24x7 13:12, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
(Edit conflict) Already done by Tulsi. @Davey2010: in the future, you can use {{SD|C1}}, {{SD|G1}}, or {{SD|G7}} in cases like this. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 13:13, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
Many thanks @Tulsi much appreciated,
@Mdaniels5757, I can remember EN CSDs like the back of my hand .... But Commons? Not so much, So I tend to either use {{Speedy}} or ask here, Anyway thanks for those I'll try to remember them for future cases, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 14:24, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

File:বায়তুল মুকাররম.jpg

A new user uploader 2 image in one file. Can any admin split it with history? Name the second file as File:বায়তুল মুকাররম (২).jpg. Thank you. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 16:49, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

@আফতাবুজ্জামান: What you're describing is called COM:OVERWRITE and in this case it shouldn't have been done. You can request a split if you want at COM:SPLIT instead of posting here on this noticeboard for future reference. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:42, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Unlicensed image: File:José Luis Roberto.jpg

File:José Luis Roberto.jpg: Image that is not "own work", but copied from https://www.elplural.com/politica/policia-condecora-jose-luis-roberto-lider-partido-ultraderecha-espana-2000_298901102 --PedroAcero76 (talk) 22:40, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi PedroAcero76. I'm not a Commons administrator, but went ahead and tagged the file with Template:Copyvio since I agree with your assessment that it's highly unlikely the COM:Own work of the uploader. You can do the same as well if you notice any other files which you think are clearly questionable per COM:NETCOPYVIO. You can also use Template:No permission since for cases where you think the uploader could be the copyright holder but aren't as sure. The was the only file the uploader uploaded so most likely they just mistakenly thought it would be OK to do so since the photo made "feely" available somewhere online. If, however, you notice the same uploader re-uploading this file or similar files with questionable licensing or questionable claims of "own work", you may want to seek adminstrator assistance again. It's OK to make a mistake like this once or maybe even twice, but repeating the same mistake over and over again isn't good for anyone and an administrator might need to get involved at that point. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:17, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

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

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/KIIING_H

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

Example

[11]

[12]

[[User:Modern Sciences|MSes]] (talk) 17:33, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

All uploads copyvio-tagged. --Túrelio (talk) 08:21, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

2000 unblock requests

We have now 2000 reviewed unblock requests. I thank everyone, who has worked in unblock requests, and I mention, that 4 difficult cases are waiting. Taivo (talk) 15:43, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Please delete old versions of image file

Please delete old outdated versions (but Not the most recent "current" version) of the image file at → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Science&Religion-DrDennisBogdan-20221001.jpg - Thanks - and - Stay Safe and Healthy ǃǃ - Drbogdan (talk) 15:52, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 15:58, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Portrait of President Richard Nixon, 1969.webp

Would an admin please take a look at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Portrait of President Richard Nixon, 1969.webp. The uploader started a DR, but this probably could be taken care of per COM:CSD#G7 instead. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:15, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

When a normal deletion request gets started, we'll just do that. No need to rush it. Multichill (talk) 21:52, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Confusing General and Subcategories

There is a general category named Category:Film directors from Iran and it has two subcategories Category:Male film directors from Iran and Category:Female film directors from Iran. I don't know should I transfers photo categories from "Category:Film directors from Iran" to male and female sub categories or vice versa?

More confusing point is that en:Category:Iranian film directors in English Wikipedia doesn't have male and female subcategories. Shkuru Afshar (talk) 08:01, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

I think the latter is no problem.
For the former, the category descriptions should tell whether all directors should be kept in the main category or everybody moved to the subcategories.
The problem with keeping everybody in the main category is that it is not obvious when some of the directors haven't been added to the relevant gender subcategory, and people searching by gender will think we don't have any media about them.
The problem with moving everybody (except the non-binary?) away is that people searching for media without caring about gender will mostly look in the bigger subcategory, which will effectively hide away the women (I suppose that's the smaller one).
Thus, making the subcats creates a problem whichever we choose, and both problems if the intension isn't documented. Anybody creating per gender categories should thus create or apply a solution, preferably an already existing general one. I haven't heard about any in common use.
–LPfi (talk) 16:15, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Move bot needed

Hi, when I uploaded a series of files yesterday evening, a failure with the filenames happened. Correcting the misspelled names of 38 files by filemove is not anymore possible by me without the generation of unuseful redirects. Can it be done by a bot? Otherwise I would leave the wrong names, it is disturbing but does not cause further problems.

My errror occurred with the files in the Category:Himmelsleiter (Heidelberg) where the file names are "Hedeilberg" instead of Heidelberg. -- sarang♥사랑 10:24, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

No problem, ✓ Done. --Achim55 (talk) 19:19, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Faqja kryesore

Please move @ back to Faqja kryesore (together with its talk page). Due to the series of vandal renames and the double redirect fix caused by them, I’m unable to do it. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:34, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

P.S. You may want to give the page full rename protection (but keep the semiprotection for editing); I can’t imagine having to rename it in the near future, and if I’m wrong, it’s still possible to put {{Editprotected}} on the talk page. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:37, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done by Minorax. --Achim55 (talk) 19:25, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Massive edits

User:Smasongarrison has launched a massive editing campaign (sometimes at about 10 edits per minute).

The edits include optimizing SVG files. Optimizing SVG just to optimize the file goes against the guidelines at Help:SVG guidelines.

The SVG edits remove metadata containing license information. That may violates the CC license.

The SVG edits have changed the appearance of SVG files such as File:Ambox metro icon.svg. The color of the area below the front of the train changed (since reverted).

Glrx (talk) 02:41, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Another damaged file is File:BSicon hKRZWa red.svg. Smasongarrison is probably setting the optimizer to compress SVG arc flags, and that tickles a bug with WMF's SVG rasterizer. Glrx (talk) 02:54, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
File:Seal of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.svg now displays nothing. Glrx (talk) 03:01, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi there, so I'm not sure that this merits an AN notice. I'm not launching a massive campaign. I've been doing this kind of thing sporadically.
I wasn't aware that reducing file sizes was against the SVG guidelines. My apologies if that's the case. Smasongarrison (talk) 03:30, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Anyway... I'm going back through my edits to see if there are any other errors I accidentally added. Smasongarrison (talk) 03:46, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Anyway -- I've dug through the help files. And a would just love an outside perspective on how to interpret Help pages. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:SVG_guidelines#Relation_to_Help:SVG
I've read through them now and I think I have a better handle on your perspective. However, my interpretation of them is that they're guidelines, not firm policies that need to be enforced with Administrators. Honestly, I think that bringing this to the notice board wasn't needed, as I'd have been happy to have just been made aware of the guidelines and let this remain a talk page conversation. Smasongarrison (talk) 00:07, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

User talk:WPPilot

What's the best way to try and deal something like this and this? This user is quite frusrtrated over some problems related to a file they've uploaded and most likely has decided to leave Commons as a result. However, expecting all further communication related to Commons be made via email seems like an inappropriate thing to do since user talk pages are intended to be the place for such things. This user has upload lots of their photos to Commons and it's not totally out the realm of possiblity that someone might want to discuss one of them sometime down the road. The most obvious place to do so would be on the user's user talk page and not via email. Is it better to simply ignore something like this and let them be? Is it better to let them know about COM:TPG#User talk pages and maybe even COM:EMAILUSER? -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:56, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

They are no longer active, so such discussions will have to take place without them. Guido den Broeder (talk) 15:35, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
I've replaced the email with Special:EmailUser/WPPilot and have reverted their recent edits - All communication should be on-wiki and obviously if editors choose to use Special:EmailUser then that's up to them but forcing people to off-wiki email you is a massive no in my books. –Davey2010Talk 17:08, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
They've reverted the edit you made and also posted this so perhaps the best thing to do is to leave them be. They can't stop others from posting on their user talk page, but they can keep blanking their user talk page if they want. Each time the do remove something though, it will be seen as evidence that they "read" whatever was posted and understood it. If their uploads have problems and they're properly notified on their user talk page, then they won't be able to claim they weren't because they weren't emailed. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:36, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
I noticed User talk:Davey2010#E mail so apparently things are being or have been sorted out. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:42, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Admin needed for rename requests

These rename requests require an admin to complete:

Thanks in advance! ···日本穣 Talk to Nihonjoe 19:07, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Ymblanter (talk) 19:25, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

This map is so wrong

This file: small have two New Zealand and it already exist in nearly 6 years, please check and fix it! Many thanks, ThiênĐế98 (talk) 07:02, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done.= Don (talk) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Final_SSC_Map.jpg -- 08:21, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

File:Final SSC Map.jpg

You fixed the double New Zealands but you left in the double Tasmania and double King Island between the two Tasmanias. Could you do a second fix? 2602:304:B296:D5A0:5B1:DA9A:1D57:E39E 02:58, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done:Sure happy to help, does this work now. Don (talk) 03:33, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
@WPPilot I noticed that Stewart Island is still largely off-place. By any chance, could you fix this as well? SHB2000 (talk) 05:38, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
This really is not a good map, but I did the adjustment in relation to my aviation NAV charts.--Don (talk) 09:17, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

revdel and block request

Hi, Could someone revdel [13] (up to here and block WPPilot for OUTING, They've been here long enough to know such actions are NOT okay, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 20:51, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

  • ✓ Done - Logs won't show who revdelled it so many thanks to whomever actioned the revdel, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 23:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
    • @Davey2010: For future reference, it's probably better to revert the problem edit and then request assistance via email as explained at COM:OVERSIGHT. There are only few oversighters for Commons so you might have to find the one was last active and just send them an email. There's a difference between "supression" and "revdeletion" (see en:WP:OS#Nomenclature for more on that) which might be the reason why it's not visible in the logs. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:12, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
      Hey @Marchjuly, Thank you for your helpful/informative reply I had completely forgot about suppression, completely forgot about it entirely. So that would explain why it was all hidden, just never entered my mind re suppression,
      Okie dokie I'll email in future, Thanks again for your informative reply greatly appreciate it, Take care, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 13:47, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
      @Davey2010 Just to add to @Marchjuly's advice: In an emergency don't waste time figuring out which Oversighter was last active or where to post your request. Just use oversight-commons@lists.wikimedia.org (right at the top of COM:OS). El Grafo (talk) 12:10, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Interface admins: Please, add rule to Common.css

Could one of the interface admins, please, add the style rule found in phab:T320459#8310207 (or Special:PermaLink/695963144#Did the Special:Search display change and break?), which changes the display of thumbnails more or less back to old style, into MediaWiki:Common.css? Or do you think it's necessary asking for this change in Commons:Village pump/Proposals?— Speravir – 21:54, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done [14], thanks everyone! El Grafo (talk) 11:44, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you, Raymond, though I feel kind of ignored here. Is there a special place for interface admins I may have missed? — Speravir – 21:17, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
@Speravir It was not my intention to ignore you but I was not aware of this section. I have seen the edit request on https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk:Common.css&oldid=696309937#Unbreak_thumbnails_at_Special:Search only and did the requested edit. Raymond 07:30, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
My question was actually not directed especially to you, but generally to all interface admins. — Speravir – 22:17, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

"Contact an administrator"

Hello My son-in-law who is an actor asked me to upload a photo of him to complete his wiki page . https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Deniard I followed the whole process and I receive a refusal message: "Contact an administrator" But no link allowing me to do it... I don't know what the problem is blocking this update or how to solve it! Thanks for your help AqueWiki (talk) 12:49, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

@AqueWiki: 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 photo as a new user. The following applies to each photo. You indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a smaller jpg photo, it's a copyright violation taken from the web. Please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including any metadata, but if you were not the original photographer, that person may need to license it on their official website or social media or send permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the photo may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F or French Wikipedia in compliance with fr:WP:EDP because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to that filter.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:55, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
OK, I understand. Thank you for the explanations. This "rule" is extremely restrictive: how to upload a portrait photo of a character (just his face) if you have a photo of his whole body! it's impossible ! In the same way, absolutely all the photos I send on the internet (website, email, attachments) using Photoshop are resaved at 72 dpi with the "for the web" option so they are much optimized and lighter but of course all metadata are removed. Thank you again. Dominique AqueWiki (talk) 11:54, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
We no not want to have photos "downsized for the web" the downsizing for thumbnails is done on server side. We want the original file to keep opportunities for changes or printing or what every could be needed in the future. --GPSLeo (talk) 12:53, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
@AqueWiki: To be clear, Wikimedia Commons does not want images 'resaved at 72 dpi with the "for the web" option so they are much optimized and lighter but of course all metadata are removed', please see COM:HR. Also, I have seen many photos here with Photoshop in their metadata, so removal of that is not required, either.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:35, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Block request

Hi, Could someone block Aash Gates for promotional/disruptive editing and possiblly delete their userpage?, Their userpage is a CV and despite warning them and even fixing it for them[15] they've continued reverting and reinstating the full CV content, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 18:31, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Actioned by Túrelio (many thanks Túrelio). –Davey2010Talk 19:12, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
You are welcome. I hope he's gone after his userpage on :en and meta have also been deleted. --Túrelio (talk) 20:55, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:N72EX by Don Ramey Logan.jpg

Would an admin mind taking a look at Commons:Deletion requests/File:N72EX by Don Ramey Logan.jpg? The uploader who nominated their own photo for deletion has decided to withdraw their request. -- Marchjuly (talk) 09:45, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 17:28, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Sunflowers vandalized?

An IP was able to modify the description of Van Gogh's sunflowers, but I cannot revoke it because the file is protected? Something looks wrong here. Eusebius (talk) 06:42, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done The page is protected because it is on hewiki front page. I removed the spam. --GPSLeo (talk) 18:07, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
Ah, then I guess it got protected between the IP's edit and my attempt. Thanks. Eusebius (talk) 20:30, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Mass-category deletio request

Hi, Could someone delete all subcats at Category:Stagecoach buses by fleet number and Category:Stagecoach buses by fleet number itself if possible ?,
If this isn't possible or involves more work than I'll individually tag them, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 17:59, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Yann (talk) 19:28, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
@Yann you are absolutely amazing thank you so much, I greatly appreciate you doing this, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 23:24, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Original Revision Deletion Request

Hi; I was correcting and removing private data on my photos and was wondering if you could remove the previous/original revisions of the photos as listed below. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Front_view_of_Canon_EOS_Rebel_T7_or_2000D.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Left_side_view_of_Canon_EOS_Rebel_T7_or_2000D_Body.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Right_side_view_of_Canon_EOS_Rebel_T7_or_2000D.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Back_of_Canon_EOS_Rebel_T7_or_2000D_Body.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Top_view_of_Canon_EOS_Rebel_T7_or_2000D_Body.jpg I would appreciate if the previous/original revisions are removed, as I would like to keep my private data safe. Thank you; Grey Greyfiveys (talk) 20:10, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Yann (talk) 20:20, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

File:POL Dobrzany COA 1.svg

An admin needs to rename this one: File:POL Dobrzany COA 1.svg. Thanks in advance! ···日本穣 Talk to Nihonjoe 20:41, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Revision deletion for File:Great_Cantonia_Flag.svg

Please delete file revisions, which were uploaded in 18 May 2022, 25 July 2022 and 19 October 2022. These files revisions are same as File:Kapok flag.svg that was deleted because of missing permission. Thanks. SCP-2000 03:37, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 07:19, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Typo on figure

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Other_versions/Permaculture_Zones In the figure Zone 3: "Occasionaly" should be "Occasionally" -- there is an "L" missing 152.1.76.186 15:55, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

 Info It’s actually File:Permaculture Zones.svg. Nothing specifically for admins. — Speravir – 02:16, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
Now at Commons:Graphic_Lab/Illustration_workshop#Typo_in_File:Permaculture_Zones.svg. El Grafo (talk) 11:55, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done in graphic labs. --痛 (talk) 16:40, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

File:Почтовая марка СССР. 1964. Первый в мире полёт советских космонавтов на трехместном корабле Восход. Б. Егоров. Номер в каталоге ЦФА 3112.jpg

Hello! This is the result of an incorrectly renamed file. The file was not renamed to the requested name. The file was renamed to the name that was invented when renaming. I ask you to rename the file to the name I suggested. Thanks. --Matsievsky (talk) 18:03, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

@Matsievsky: We don't switch languages for file names. See COM:FRNOT. If you want to propose it be renamed into something else in Russian, please go ahead. The current file name is accurate, for its content. ···日本穣 Talk to Nihonjoe 20:38, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
That's not true. See COM:FRNOT: "Files should NOT be renamed ONLY to translate the filename to another language and/or because the filename is not correctly capitalized." I renamed the file for two OTHER reasons. --Matsievsky (talk) 22:50, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
You know, Matsievsky, being rude to someone is not a great way to get them to do what you want. Looking back at the request, you used 2 and 4: the previous name wasn't a "meaningless or ambiguous name", so that was completely irrelevant and shouldn't have been used. I have renamed it to what you requested. Perhaps next time you can use only relevant criteria when requesting such renames, as well as learn to be more polite to your fellow volunteers. ···日本穣 Talk to Nihonjoe 16:35, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Something to hide in File:Deep Forest.png

Version of 1. june 2010 was too close to original; it was hidden from svg-version history, maybe also here. --RicHard-59 (talk) 13:10, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. As the file was unused, I deleted it entirely and redirected it. Taivo (talk) 07:36, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

File:Laura Messing Portrait.jpg

The uploader of file:Laura Messing Portrait.jpg is trying to request its deletion. It looks like the wrong tag was applied. See this talk page message from enwiki. "The image was incorrectly included and I have requested to be deleted in the wikicommons page following the guidelines and protocols enunciated." -- Whpq (talk) 15:37, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. I agree: this was incorrectly formulated deletion request. I deleted the file as uploader's request on uploading day. Taivo (talk) 13:36, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

File:Nur Muhammad Taraki.png

I'm not sure about the provenance of File:Nur Muhammad Taraki.png? A different version of the photo was originally uploaded, but that looks like a slightly different photo. The updated version can be seen here and its description seems to indicate that the photo is from 1979; so, the years match up, but it doesn't seem to be the same photo as this. If the licensing of each version is OK for Commons, perhaps then the file should be treated as an COM:OVERWRITE and split into two separate files. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:27, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Pinging @Turkmenistan as uploader.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:41, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Crosswiki uploads from French Wikipedia

Elifallen has uploaded a number of team logos from French Wikipedia like File:FC Annecy 2022 Logo.svg, File:Racing Besançon.svg, File:AS Monaco FC Logo 2021.svg, etc. under "CC-by--sa-4.0" licenses, but it's not clear whether these are OK for Commons. The French Wikipedia local files all appear to be released under a "registered trademark subject to trademark law" license (I used Google translate for the files' pages), but it's not clear whether that's equivalent to the license used for Commons. The French Wikipedia licenses also state "In the United States of America, use of this image is permitted within the framework of fair use trademark law." which is another Google translation and might mean "fair use copyright law". If that's the case then it would seem that Commons can't keep any of these per COM:FAIR. Quite a number of files were uploaded and they all seem to be licensed the same way. Some of them might possibly be PD, but COM:TOO France seems to suggest that the TOO in France can be quite low (at least in comparison to the TOO of the US); so, {{PD-logo}} might not be an option for some of the files. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:11, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

 Comment I deleted 2 of them which are complex logos, and obviously not OK without permission from the copyright holder. Others may be PD-textlogo. Yann (talk) 15:09, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Request for mass message sending

Hello, can someone please send the message at Commons:Czech Wiki Photo/MassMessage/2022? Thanks! For the record, Richard is a part of WMCZ staff, and asked me to relay the request to Commons admins on his behalf. -- janbery (talk) 18:24, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

 Doing… Kind regards, — Tulsi 24x7 05:37, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
✓ Sent, @Janbery: Please note 4 out of 160 users are not notified because the user account doesn't exist. Kind regards, — Tulsi 24x7 05:51, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Vandal

Special:Contributions/157.51.58.142 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:29, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ blocked. --Túrelio (talk) 11:59, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Block to protect the account

This is my old account, which was blocked from editing on viwiki. But unfortunately, it logged into this project. KhanhCN Defender1st Minh (talk) 14:41, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Administrators @Taivo: , @Yann: ,... KhanhCN Defender1st Minh (talk) 14:41, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done: Blocked indef as compromised account. --Achim55 (talk) 16:10, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Photographs of plaques

Could someone more knowledgeable about copyright law than I have a look through Special:ListFiles/Image-Improver_Bonn - specifically the photographs of plaques, which I worry may be copyrighted? Also see the discussion at d:Wikidata:Property proposal/information sign. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:57, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Provided the photographer stood on public ground, these are covered by Germany's freedom-of-panorama exception. --Túrelio (talk) 19:33, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Filename removed

I think the very title is already a violation--certainly of en-wiki's BLP, for instance. Drmies (talk) 00:59, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

@Drmies: The file name is almost certainly a problem per COM:BLP and COM:FNC#5, but there's also the problem with this being a user-created collage in which three different photos with unclear copyright status are being used. The file has already been deleted, but if you notice it being re-uploaded, then you might just want to contact Taivo the deleting admin or another Commons admin directly. It might also be a good idea to contact COM:OVERSIGHT too to get the name removed the name from any Commons pages. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:09, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
You are quick, I just deleted all uploads of the user as different kind of copyvios and you have already commented. I agree, the filename itself is violation and not allowable. Taivo (talk) 08:15, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
I requested oversighting the filename. Taivo (talk) 08:26, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Vandal?

Special:Contributions/Cartoonbo - new account, adding random entities and captions to articles, like "Moses" to the picture of a palace. -- Jakubhal 04:44, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. I warned the user. Thanks for reverting the edits! Taivo (talk) 08:26, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

DR action request

Hi, Could someone delete both logos at Commons:Deletion requests/File:CBBC (2022).svg and Commons:Deletion requests/File:CBeebies.png please?, I would never ever normally ask however one logo page has repeatedly been blanked and one logo DR has been blanked so to save time being further wasted on these sad idiots I was hoping things could be brought forward, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 22:39, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Could someone also block Michele555999219 for disruptive editing/trolling please, Thanks,
–Davey2010Talk 22:50, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
I closed one of the DR-s. Michele is globally locked. Taivo (talk) 08:13, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
Many thanks for your help Taivo greatly appreciated, Thanks –Davey2010Talk 13:57, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Wrong state used in photo

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julius_Horton_residence,_Georgetown,_ca_1898_(MOHAI_2999).jpg

It should be WA no ca. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Youshouldknowthis&that (talk • contribs)

Convenience link: File:Julius Horton residence, Georgetown, ca 1898 (MOHAI 2999).jpg
I don't see anything wrong with the categories on the photo (which I reviewed in March, adding one more in June). And there is no mention of California anywhere on the file page.
I don't see anything here that even imaginably calls for an action by an admin. What exactly do you want done? - Jmabel ! talk 04:25, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Edit request

Hello! I left an edit request at File talk:Coat of arms of Brazil.svg protected page, regarding a possible update of the Coat of Arms to the new official model (uploaded at File:Brasão da República Federativa do Brasil.png). I would be very grateful if an admin could take a look at it when available. Thanks! Hookko27 (talk) 16:48, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Update request

Mobileye is no longer part of Intel and has therefore updated its logo. The file File:Mobileye.svg is protected from edition by non-admins, the new logo is at this url. Thanks. RaphaelQS (talk) 17:04, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

The old logo can stay so that it can still be used. If there is a new logo, you can upload it to a new location and give it a descriptive name. --William Graham (talk) 20:24, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

File:William Lloyd Driver 1923-24 UC Davis Head Football Coach 1925-27 FAR WESTERN CONFERENCE.png

Can one of you have a look at this and other files contributed by User:GO AGGIES AGGIE PRIDE? I don't know if this might pass because of its age, but there's more recent photos, and I just don't know what "El Rodeo" means. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 02:16, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. The files are tagged as no source, which is totally correct. However, half of the photos are created and probably published more than 95 years ago and free from copyright. After one week the files are deleted, if they still have no proper source. Taivo (talk) 08:16, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Some issues about user:RespectCE

Hello sysops. After several attempts to communicate with them on user talk pages have failed, I am requesting a sysop to intervene in this matter.

The user RespectCE (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  uploaded some files and their sources were discord. Since I could not verify that these discord-sourced files were copyrighted or not, I tagged these files and asked the user to send the relevant licenses to VRT, but the user refused, repeatedly reverted my tagging, and strongly asked me on their talk page to take them to the admin noticeboard.

Here are the files with suspicious sources, they are

Even though the situation is bad enough, I would still like to communicate with the user through a sysop or another user to resolve the issue accordingly. I tried to leave this alone, but the user just got blocked for disturbing a meta-wiki discussion, and that worries me. Lemonaka (talk) 22:10, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

You could have easily viewed the license release statements via the urls. You can create an account on discord for free if you can't see them without an account, or you could have asked or another user to verify it for you by placing a tag requesting license REVIEW. Instead, you tagged the files with a tag that would result in automatic deletion in seven days - and the problem is, if the files are deleted, nobody can easily view the links to verify the license release statements in the first place. This user has also been makeing personal attacks on me and making absurd accusations of trolling and personal attacks to me on meta simply for bringing up the fact that Ukrainian wikipedia has a Nazi problem (as evidenced by examples of usernames containing nazi slogans and pro-nazi userboxes).

Anyway, I request that this user (Lemon) cease their attacks on me and find a better way of trying to verify the licenses (re: just view the actual links with statements) instead of tag-bombing in an unproductive way. You know that the copyright holders I have attributed have released these photos (if they didn't I wouldn't have provided links to release statements), you are just tag-bombing to punish me for brining up ukwiki on meta.--RespectCE (talk) 00:03, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

I have replied to you that the links cannot be checked. It's a private or personal channel, how could I check it? By the way, if I attack you on meta, why you are the one blocked instead of me? Here's common, solve common's problem here, instead of talking about meta. Lemonaka (talk) 00:31, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
Just apply to view it! It's not that hard! I'm blocked because of a mistake I made in the past, not these photos!!!--RespectCE (talk) 17:55, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
@RespectCE: A private Discord server is not a valid source. Please have these posted to a publicly accessible website where the license declarations are clear, or have the authors go through VRT to release them. Thank you. —howcheng {chat} 22:18, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
I asked them to go through VRT, but they just reverted my edits. Thanks for your judgement. Considering RespectCE indeffed by sockpuppetry, now over Lemonaka (talk) 06:04, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

RCU

I believe a RCU should done about Mohammedarrhioui and Hafsaelfakir for legit sockpuppet abuse suspicion. See the only edition of the latter here. Global contributions of both accounts ([[16]], [17]) are entirely dedicated to the crosswiki promotion of a non notable artist named "Mohammed arrhioui".

d:User:Mohammedarrhioui was blocked indefinitely on 6 March 2021 for "Vandalism-only account".

es:User:Hafsaelfakir created the article on eswiki a few days ago (now deleted).

fr:User:Hafsaelfakir and fr:User:Mohammedarrhioui both have been blocked indefinitely for repetitive creation and copyvio of an article on the same topic under different titles, the article is now creation protected (see fr:Mohammed_arrhioui and fr:Mohammed_Arrhioui (artiste)).

It is probable the second account has been created initially to bypass Wikidata's block. CaféBuzz (talk) 13:47, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

thank you for your interest, everything you just said is incorrect dear sir, someone translated an article on my pc with his account t it's giving me trouble for all my activity from my IP address. it has nothing to do with this image, thank you very much for your passage and I am sorry for the errors And I did not violate the policy
the opinion of the administrators
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Mohammed_Arrhioui.jpg 196.127.84.180 14:41, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
thank you for your interest, everything you just said is incorrect dear sir, someone translated an article on my pc with his account t it's giving me trouble for all my activity from my IP address. it has nothing to do with this image, thank you very much for your passage and I am sorry for the errors And I did not violate the policy
the opinion of the administrators
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Mohammed_Arrhioui.jpg Mohammedarrhioui (talk) 14:42, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Everything I say is accurate and easily verifiable by just following the links I have provided.
It's likely nobody noticed the collusion of these two accounts, but it looks obvious when one has a careful look at both's contributions. Modifying the deletion requests page with two sockpuppets (and with the first removing the arguments in favor to the deletion) is obviously a policy violation. CaféBuzz (talk) 15:15, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Note: something is happening with User:Hafsaelfakir, [18]. It seems we are facing a desperate manoeuvre to run away. CaféBuzz (talk) 15:19, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
This is Confirmed. Please use COM:RFCU going forward. Эlcobbola talk 15:22, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Moving two files

Need admin help for this one:

  1. File:POL Frombork COA.svg needs to be moved to File:POL Frombork COA old.svg first without replacing all usage (I can't uncheck that box when moving it).
  2. Then File:POL Frombork COA 1.svg needs to be moved to File:POL Frombork COA.svg.

Thanks in advance! ···日本穣 Talk to Nihonjoe 17:30, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

JWilz12345

May I ask your kindness for a review of the matter which I just receive and herein quote "FYI, see User talk:Elcobbola#Beeveevee, for your seemingly "duckish" behavior, a form of sockpuppetry. Continued using Commons as a mere cloud storage is unacceptable, please read and comprehend fully COM:SPAM. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 18:40, 2 November 2022 (UTC)"
My Contributions upon a careful perusal thereof are all encyclopedic and not a single photo has been uploaded by me as SPAM or Webhosting;
Upon careful review of the history of JWilz12345 and its contributions and fact check, there has been a very long edit war, anger and clear enmity between this user and User:Judgefloro who was blocked a sockpuppet after having long posted template of Wikibreak due to COVID illness and personal reasons;
I work as an Official of the Philippine Government, and the last thing that I will do is to use Commons as SPAM and Webhosting; I was invited herein via email by some learned editors and even 2 adminstrators that they need photos of Philippines to fill in Wikipedia articles;
IN THE LIGHT OF THE FOREGOING, I certify and state that I am not a DUCK or SOCK of any and all those mentioned by JWilz12345 (from Pulilan, Bulacan barangays) and I will faithfully and legitimately follow all Commons rules with advise of some editors and 2 administrators, HOPING for you kind action on the matter, and very sincerely yours Beeveevee (talk) 01:58, 3 November 2022 (UTC).
Beeveevee has been blocked indefinitely as a sock of Judgefloro.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 03:47, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
  • @Beeveevee: my reply to you, how can you prove you are not a sockpuppet when I can notice the similarity of the nature of your uploads? Repetitive, blog-type, redundant, and webhosting? The following cases serve as my proofs and observations on the similarities between your uploads and RamaGaspar's uploads.
Case 1 – two different under-construction railway stations, but in terms of redundancy very identical or similar

Samples of your uploads at Category:Construction of San Fernando station (Sindalan-Calulut-Malpitic section)

Samples of RamaGaspar's uploads at Category:Construction of Malolos station in 2022

Case 2

Splitting of a category into subcategories even if unnecessary, unless you have treated Commons as a cloud storage of your near-identical and redundant photos, instead of carefully choosing which one should be uploaded and which one should not be.

Your way of uploading very redundant images of the same subject category instead of three–five each subject category demonstrates the high probability of the similarity on the nature of your uploads with those of RamaGaspar et. al.. I do not question the value of your photos themselves, but I take an exception to your way of flooding near-identical and redundant photos instead of carefully choosing which photos are to be uploaded and which are not.

And by the way, I discovered your uploads at Category:Images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 in the Philippines, in which your two near-identical photos (File:Lawton Avenue Global City Viaduct 37.jpg and File:Lawton Avenue Global City Viaduct 45.jpg) are tagged. It is too odd to consider an ordinary road as a heritage monument, but that is out of topic here. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 03:20, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Please limit editing of “File:Bruce McCandless II during EVA in 1984.jpg”

It’s about this famous photo

Dear admins, in 2022 the description page of the famous photo Bruce McCandless II during EVA in 1984.jpg has been damaged by several destructive IP edits. In February, a IP has removed most of the translated captions; in September, a IP has added nonsens captions and deleted the Featured Picture information and other assessments from the description page. I have reverted these destructive edits manually. But please consider protecting the description page of this photo from IP edits. Thank you very much! --Aristeas (talk) 09:42, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done Let us know if this not sufficient Gbawden (talk) 11:02, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
Gbawden (talk) 11:02, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
Thank you very much, Gbawden! --Aristeas (talk) 16:12, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Multiple copyrighted images uploaded by Het666

I recently nominated three images uploaded by the user as copyvios (1, 2 and 3) but looking at the contribution history it is clear that several others, possibly all, of their uploads have the same problem. On the plus side, the user usually specifies where they have copied the image from so the violation is pretty obvious. See also this message by the user, admitting the violation and asking for help in deleting the images. Can some admin please take a look? Abecedare (talk) 17:19, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Hey Administrator i m accepting my mistake and assuring that this will never happen again
I thought image were free and my earlier uploaded image also published without such notices
,By Het666
Nominated two more in which the uaer had falsely claimed stills from a video uploaded by India's Prime Minister's Office as own work (similar images were published widely by the media labeit with proper credit, eg). Abecedare (talk) 17:35, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
I kept those and updated the tag, the video is CC-BY. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:37, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for handling the copyvios and for spotting that the video had an acceptable license, which I had missed. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 19:57, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Admin needed for renaming

File:POL gmina Bielice COA alt.svg needs to be renamed over a redirect, as do File:POL gmina Bielice flag alt.svg, File:POL Gorlice COA 1.svg, and File:POL gmina Szczecinek COA 1.svg. Thanks in advance! ···日本穣 Talk to Nihonjoe 17:48, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

File:The Rings of Power.png

Hi, Could someone close this undeletion request please, i.e. COM:UDR#File:The Rings of Power.png? It was opened on 12 October 2022, and I think all arguments for and against have been given, so we don't need to wait any longer. Thanks, Yann (talk) 21:14, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

block request

Hi, Could someone block 213.107.86.251 who keeps trolling on my talkpage, I believe they're Michele555999219 whom has been globally locked for harassment and vandalism, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 23:51, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:24, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
Many thanks MDaniels much appreciated, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 01:36, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Cat undeletion request

Closing to avoid more pot-stirring comments from the peanut gallery. I struck the attack and sincerely apologised to the user here and on their talkpage, My behaviour here left a lot to be desired I'm fully aware of that but drama-mongering achieves nothing. If you have a problem with myself then take it to COM:ANUP, –Davey2010Talk 14:29, 5 November 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.

Hi,Could someone undelete Category:Alexander Dennis Enviro400 on Dennis Trident 2 buses in the United Kingdom please <personal attack removed>, Thanks. –Davey2010Talk 23:54, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

(Just for context the cat was deleted on the basis that Category:Alexander Dennis Enviro400 (integral) buses in the United Kingdom exists however that is utterly stupid logic as the integral cat makes no mention of the Trident nor is the Trident cats added to that cat - The integral category exists because that model isn't mounted on to anything - I expect this makes no sense to anyone who doesn't understand the world of buses :), Thanks, ), –Davey2010Talk 23:58, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
✓ Done. I restored the category, which at moment has 173 files. Big number of files clearly shows, that separate category is needed. But, Davey, I warn you: you were not enough polite. That's why you are not an administrator and cannot restore the category yourself: lack of politeness. Taivo (talk) 09:18, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Turns out I'm the incompetent one! - For anyone that cares the model was labeled under a different name for a short time (something I never knew until today), I again sincerely and unreservedly apologise to MB-one for MY unintentionally incompetency yesterday and today.
Taivo, your comment is completely false and irrelevant for 2 reasons, 1) I was politer than normal (see Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems/Archive_100#Random_vulgarity_and_personal_attacks_by_user_Davey2010). 2) I don't want to be admin and I never once said I wanted to be one so your comment is completely irrelevant - This also may surprise you but I've had plenty of adminship offers on EN all of which I've declined .... because I have no desire to be one. –Davey2010Talk 12:39, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
@Davey2010 Perhaps your behaviour was better than usual, but another way of saying that is that your behaviour is less bad than usual. Whatever the case, I’m sure that the phrase incompetant … who has absolutely no idea what the absolute hell they are doing is never acceptable here.
(As you surely know, if an admin is truly incompetent, then there is a process to remove their admin powers.) Brianjd (talk) 14:15, 5 November 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.

Page protection proposal

I have started a proposal on protecting a lot of files, as the problem only a affects the small amount of users patrolling and removing vandalism there are no comments yet. Commons:Village pump/Proposals#Protect all nudity and sexuality related files from IP edits. --GPSLeo (talk) 08:27, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

I wanted to talk to Yann but I could not because his talk page is semi-protected

I am new to Commons and I want to talk to Yann but I cannot because his talk page is semi-protected. Hurricane BP Member (talk) 14:00, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

@Yann: . --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:57, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
@Hurricane BP Member, Whilst talkpages should always remain open to everyone (inc IPs) sadly they get abused all to often by trolls or harassers and chances are if Yann removes the protection it'll be vandalised again anyway. You could always ping him here and talk to him here?, Just a suggestion. –Davey2010Talk 15:14, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
@Hurricane BP Member: What do you want to know? Regards, Yann (talk) 16:01, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
I did not advertise on Commons. Did you look carefully at Proof album cover? It is trapezoids forming a word. Hurricane BP Member (talk) 16:07, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
@Hurricane BP Member: This image, available here, is way above any threshold of originality. There is a volume effect, which is not simple geometric shape. Yann (talk) 16:12, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
Merci pour votre information, Yann. Hurricane BP Member (talk) 16:16, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Revision Deletion Request on file.

Hi, there is a revision on my file File:Front view of Canon EOS Rebel T7 or 2000D.jpg from 20:00 on October 18, 2022 that I would like to be removed due to personal information being attached to the file. Thank you! greyfiveys (talk) 14:17, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done [19]. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 15:19, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Template:Die Schokiberg Chronik

Would an administrator mind taking a look at Template:Die Schokiberg Chronik? I think it's somehow related to COM:HD#Robert Elwes Author and the creator is mistaking Commons for English Wikipedia. Technically, the "template" isn't really a template at all and I think it was just created by mistake. -- Marchjuly (talk) 14:22, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

✓ Deleted. Taivo (talk) 08:27, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Please protect {{Railtransportmonth-country}}

Please protect {{Railtransportmonth-country}}. A while ago a user made a meaningless edit, resulting in disorder of categories using this template. --トトト (talk) 08:01, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

✓ Done. --Túrelio (talk) 08:30, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
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