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Wikidata weekly summary #198

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I have a reply to your message. JC Talk to me My contributions 02:37, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Kansas

Can you please add Kansas to the 2016 Democratic Primary map? Thanks

I'd like to, but Kansas's county results aren't out yet. MB298 (talk) 01:22, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
@220.238.35.142: I just got the results for GOP, but no Dem yet. MB298 (talk) 01:25, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

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I asked you a question. Please respond to it. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 03:37, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

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Taivo (talk) 18:38, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

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EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:42, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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Affected:

And also:

Yours sincerely EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:44, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

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Poké95 03:23, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

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Stefan2 (talk) 13:01, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

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Diannaa (talk) 01:44, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thank you for uploading so many great photographs, maps, and other images to Commons. Much appreciated! Another Believer (talk) 16:55, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. MB298 (talk) 19:04, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
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czar 15:28, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

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czar 15:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Hillary Clinton

Hello. You need to update this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_presidential_campaign,_2016#/media/File:Hillary_Clinton_2016.svg Archwayh (talk) 09:51, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

@Archwayh: I will. MB298 (talk) 01:08, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Never mind, done already by another user. MB298 (talk) 01:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Could have just cropped the original czar 16:50, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Overseas voters

I uploaded a new version of File:Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries_results,_2016.svg, following discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Map_workshop#Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries.2C_2016 . Then I saw your instruction "Please discuss before changing." I apologise, I failed to do that. But I am willing to discuss, and to self-revert. Maproom (talk) 19:21, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

@Maproom: I agree it can be confusing for some. I think there should be some sort of note stating that the world map signifies the Democrats Abroad primary and not the entire world. MB298 (talk) 19:28, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
So what do you think I should do? I am not American, and have little understanding of how primaries work. If you would like me to change the text within the SVG, I can easily do so. And I can make the box bigger, to hold more text. Maproom (talk) 20:46, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

File:US House 2015 with delegates.svg was backwards

File:US House 2015 with delegates.svg had the red/blue backwards, making it look like the Democrats controlled the House. I reverted it to pre-Boehner, since that looks more like reality, until you get around to generating a new SVG. Thanks for uploading! --Closeapple (talk) 17:09, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

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HerrAdams (talk) 12:41, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

General election polling maps

Hi. May I ask you to use a slightly darker shade of blue and red for <5% poll winners? I find them hard to distinguish from the grey. Thanks. Abjiklɐm (tɐlk) 18:14, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

@Abjiklam: I have darkened the colors on both maps. Is it better now? MB298 (talk) 18:30, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
Much better, thanks! Abjiklɐm (tɐlk) 20:02, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Green primary map

Hi MB298. Would you mind if I overwrite your File:Green Party presidential primaries results, 2016.svg? I'd like to suggest a new color scheme for the whole Green primary series. I find the current choice of color unappealing and not very colorblind-friendly so I've chosen more saturated colors. Abjiklɐm (tɐlk) 23:13, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Rose Festival / Parade / Starlight Run

Thanks for taking and uploading so many pictures! -Another Believer (talk) 14:56, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

@Another Believer: No problem, I have even more that I hope to upload soon. MB298 (talk) 23:19, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
👍 Like -Another Believer (talk) 00:18, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
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Wdwd (talk) 21:30, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

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Majora (talk) 03:53, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

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Elisfkc (talk) 21:37, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Copvios

It would seem you have uploaded a lot of images that have eventually been deemed to be copyright violations. It's time to stop uploading ineligible images and do things the right way, don't you think? These copyvios put Wikipedia and and Wikimedia Commons in a recarious position in addition to being a time-sink for other editors. Please be much more careful and policy-aware in the future. If the uploading of copyvios doesn't stop right away, you're risking a block. Capisce? Winkelvi (talk) 21:54, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

@Winkelvi: Completely agreed. I will try to be more aware in the future. MB298 (talk) 21:55, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
You've been here nearly 18 months. Such a thing should already be on your radar considering the number of uploads you've done.. "Try" isn't going to be good enough. Doing it is easy and making it happen is imperative. A newbie can say, "I'll try"; someone with as much time here as you have should be saying, "I will do it", period. Winkelvi (talk) 22:00, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
@Winkelvi: I will be as careful as can possibly be. MB298 (talk) 22:02, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
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NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:58, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Parliament of Jordaɲ

I noticed you produced File:Jordan House of Representatives.svg, if you could kindly update it as elections concluded last week. Thanksǃ --Makeandtoss (talk) 15:18, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

@Makeandtoss: Can you provide me with a link to the results (I've searched and can't find much). Thanks! MB298 (talk) 23:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
130 seats → Independents 100 seats, Islamic Action Front 10 seats, Zamzam 5 seats, National Current 4 seats, Islamic Centrist Party 5 seats, Justice and Reform Party 2 seats, Arab Socialist Ba'ath 1 seat, The Communist Party 1 seat, National Union 1 seat and Al-Awn 1 seat. [1] --Makeandtoss (talk) 09:00, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
It would be better if every party has a separate color, unlike in the previous version, as the partisan makeup is different.. --Makeandtoss (talk) 10:15, 4 October 2016 (UTC)


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What are you doing?

You just reverted a substantial portion of my contributions to Commons without any discussion. As Winklevi pointed out above, you should know better. Disruptive and uncivil conduct is not tolerated on Wikipedia, Commons, or the other Wikimedia Foundation projects. --Coolcaesar (talk) 23:51, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

@Coolcaesar: I reverted them because you were overwriting the files with completely different files, see COM:OVERWRITE. Please upload those files separately instead of overwriting them. MB298 (talk) 23:53, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
So just because Winklevi reminds you to comply with Commons policy, you suddenly decided to go around strictly enforcing it against other editors without any warning or discussion? Do you even realize how vindictive that is? --Coolcaesar (talk) 00:04, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
@Coolcaesar: @Magog the Ogre: Magog, I'm pinging you because I noticed on File:Interstate5incentralvalley.jpg, which was originally taken in 2004 and Coolcaesar updated the file to a more recent, 2016 picture (you reverted it). Coolcaesar, since often this indicates a pattern, I looked through your contributions and found that many of your uploads included overwrites of perfectly good (a few years old, but still perfectly good) files. I was not even thinking of the Winkelvi message above when this occurred, given the fact that the message was left over a month ago. Hope this explains a bit more. MB298 (talk) 00:08, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
also, Winkelvi warned me to stop it with copyvios. Since then, I have been extremely cautious when transferring images from Flickr. Nowhere did Winkelvi state anything about any other type of Commons policy. MB298 (talk) 00:23, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
From my own point of view, MB298 haven't engaged in any disruptive nor uncivil conduct here. Coolcaesar, MB298 is right in reverting your overwrites. If you haven't read yet the guideline, see COM:OVERWRITE. What you should have done is to upload the new versions as new files instead of using ad hominem. And I can't see any connection of the copyvio warning of Winkelvi to this discussion. In fact, MB298's uploading of copyvios last month was a mistake and they became careful in uploading Flickr images (they are also a license reviewer here). Coolcaesar, consider this as a warning. Thanks, Poké95 00:42, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Once we allow the angry mastadons to cool down, I think we can point out that Coolcaesar was in fact making a mistake and it is common practice to revert this type of error. We all made mistakes when we started, so I'm sure it wasn't intentional and he will know in the future. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 03:43, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the fault for this train wreck lies with the Commons community, which developed that poorly-thought-out guideline without bothering with the basic courtesy of notifying the Wikipedia community on the village pump(s), the Signpost, etc. It must have occurred relatively recently, since I have been editing Wikipedia since 2005. As a result, we are talking about 20 to 25 photos that would have to be uploaded again. Because I don't have much time to edit Wikipedia at the moment, and I have higher Wikipedia editing priorities (e.g., the University of California article), it is going to take over two years to spend over 50 hours tracing my own edits, recovering the original descriptions, uploading the new versions through Commons' incredibly bad user interface (Commons should have stuck with the perfectly good basic MediaWiki interface) and updating the relevant English Wikipedia articles to point to the new filenames.
It is precisely is because of disastrous developments like this that Wikipedia's editor population has been stagnating, because editors have better things to do than upload files they already uploaded. The Wikimedia Foundation really needs to develop a universal notification mechanism across all projects of information which is of importance to all projects. It makes zero sense to have a guideline allowing for the preservation of poor-quality photographs when higher-quality photographs are available, and which forces editors on all Wikipedia projects to manually scour the other Wikipedia projects and Commons on a regular basis for such updated higher-quality photographs (when they could be easily propagated to all projects through a Commons overwrite). For example, I strongly doubt that any Wikipedia editor actually intends to discuss the evolution of the Alameda Avenue gates of the Walt Disney Studios in any body of any article (the only logical reason for which one would need to transclude the old and new photographs into Wikipedia for side-by-side comparison). --Coolcaesar (talk) 05:41, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Another point: I finally found the time to upload a few of the photos you reverted without warning, and as I anticipated, it is turning into a time-consuming mess. Which means it's going to take a while to fix because I don't have the time to track down the correct descriptions for and re-upload all 20 photos at once and fix all the relevant English Wikipedia articles. (I actually treat photography as a serious hobby, which means I take over 20,000 photographs per year.)
For one thing, if you're going to countermand my overwrites, the least you could have done (as a matter of common decency and courtesy) is rollback the photograph descriptions as well to the previous versions, so they're consistent. I also note for the record that you never bothered to apologize. At least I have the courtesy to do so. Always. --Coolcaesar (talk) 05:56, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

False Deletion of an Image

Hello, you deleted a file I added (Frankie Boyle.png) saying the content was uploaded without the appropriate license. This content is clearly licensed CC BY 2.0 and this was given as a valid license option when I uploaded the file to the Wiki Commons. Can you explain why you still deleted it? It seems like you didn't even bother to check. The previous complaint about the image was retracted and rightly so. --Melonbob (talk) 04:25, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

@Melonbob: The image was under a valid license, however under Commons' minimal use policy you can show the full image, but can't use the copyrighted TV screen to display the subject of the photo. You could easily re-upload it showing the actual image of Boyle instead of the TV capture. MB298 (talk) 04:26, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Hmm okay, I can understand that. I didn't think it would be an issue in this particular case but I can see how a crop like that could be abused to slip by unlicensed material. --Melonbob (talk) 04:45, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hey, if you do not object I want to speedy delete this template since {{USPresidentialTransition|source=greatagain}} fulfills the same purpose better. -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 21:04, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

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To be cropped

Please crop this file. --Mhhossein talk 13:37, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Please save cropped versions to new file names

Hi MB298, thank you for your contributions and uploads! Please see the guideline Commons:Overwriting existing files for how to handle cropping: generally all major crops need to be saved to new files. The way you cropped for example File:Melania Knauss-Trump.jpg, File:Governor William L. Waller, Jan. 18, 1972 to Jan. 20, 1976 (14123297574).jpg and File:Governor Paul B. Johnson, Jr., Jan. 21, 1964 to Jan. 16, 1968 (13936346138).jpg results in a big loss of original information. Please also help cleaning this up. Thank you. --SI 15:25, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Rewrite is needed

Hey, please follow the comments here. --Mhhossein talk 05:33, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

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You might like this. -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 12:11, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Archived

See old discussions at User talk:MB298/Archive 1. MB298 (talk) 00:37, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

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Please be more careful when conducting Flickr license reviews. The title, the description on Flickr and the metadata all clearly identified this as a non-free photo from Getty Images rather than the Flickr user's work. LX (talk, contribs) 16:38, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Please, you haven't to add OTRS permission templates yourself. You can ask any agent for this. --sasha (krassotkin) 08:16, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

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Flickr Review Template

Out of curiosity, why are you removing the Flickr review template from the pictures you just uploaded from Flickr? Elisfkc (talk) 03:22, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

The images are licensed under CC-BY-2.0 but are published by the National Guard, which, as a branch of the U.S. Military, publishes images in the public domain. If reviewed by Flickr bot, the review would fail. MB298 (talk) 03:23, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Actually they won't. It will end up like File:USS Bataan conducts a replenishment-at-sea with USNS Joshua Humphreys. (31555457243).jpg. Elisfkc (talk) 03:25, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. MB298 (talk) 03:25, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Email

Someone from the Indiana AG office contacted me about wanting to upload a photo and give permission to OTRS, (didn't mention OTRS but that is probably what will be required) but I am not very familiar with the workings of it. I thought you might know more about it than I, so if you do just go to my user page and send an email to my email listed there, and I will forward that person to you if you would be willing to help. Gage (talk) 15:57, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Gage: If you go to Commons:OTRS, that should give you a good guide on how to deal with OTRS. If you still don't understand, let me know and I can try to help if MB298 cannot. Elisfkc (talk) 16:20, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
@Gage: My apologies, but I'm not very experienced with the workings of OTRS. As said by Elisfkc, I would definitely visit COM:OTRS and perhaps the OTRS Noticeboard would help. Good luck! MB298 (talk) 00:15, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
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You uploaded the photo as File:Resist sign, Thursday evening rally against Trump's "Muslim Ban" policies sponsored by Freedom Muslim American Women's Policy (32172279050).jpg, showing a protester holding the poster covering Trump's eyes with the "Resist" banner. Even when the photo is free to use, the poster might not be because two-dimensional artworks are subject to copyright. Do you know the artist of the poster? --George Ho (talk) 04:46, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

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Hello. Like I explain here, that is not Supreme Soviet. And what is the source for the number of communists and nonpartisans? --Antenor81 (talk) 07:53, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

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I'd appreciate it if you didn't crop a photo to the non-focal point, AKA where the photo is not in focus as it was meant to be focused on another subject in the photo, as you did with this photo File:Virginia Thomas CPAC 2017.jpg. I'm not sure if you did that to others, but please refrain from doing it again in the future, and would hope you would agree to speedy delete that photo. Also, if you could allow me a grace period to upload my own crops of my photos, I'd appreciate that as well. As of now, I feel I have to race as fast as possible to get the photos over to Wikipedia before someone else does it. Gage (talk) 12:54, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

@Gage: I've tagged it for speedy deletion. That is the only one of yours I recall cropping from an out-of-focus image. I have, however, uploaded several crops from CPAC 2017 but will refrain from doing so until you get around to it. MB298 (talk) 00:17, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
I've largely been able to accomplish uploading of crops. If there's anything else you think would be useful to crop, go for it. Gage (talk) 05:15, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
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Yann (talk) 15:35, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

File:Luther Strange official portrait.jpg source

MB298, what's your opinion on the source for File:Luther Strange official portrait.jpg? Personally, I'm tempted to nominate it because the website can say they received it from his office, but how do we really know that? Even if they did receive it from his office, the senate website would at least have the picture updated and/or we would be able to find somewhere else (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, another news story). Thoughts? Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 01:59, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Well, never mind... They are using that picture here. Maybe we should update the source to a more reliable one? Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 02:02, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
@Corkythehornetfan: I'd go for it. A simple Google image search turns up no results except for Wikipedia and the article. EXIF gives no author (it usually credits "U.S. Senate Photographic Studio" or something similar, generally including the author); and the camera model (Canon EOS-1D X Mark II) is different from the one used for other recent Senate photos (using a Nikon camera). That being said, Congress isn't very good about updating the members' websites (especially regarding official photos). It may be a Senate photo, but we can't know for sure until it shows up on a congressional website, if it does it can be easily reuploaded. MB298 (talk) 02:15, 30 March 2017 (UTC) well, that was a waste of an explanation– yeah, I'd just update the source. MB298 (talk) 02:15, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the help. Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 07:46, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

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Can you update File:Female governors.svg to reflect Iowa having a female governor (Kim Reynolds) now? 107.145.77.108 22:03, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

List of international presidential trips made by Donald Trump

Can you edit the map on the List of international presidential trips made by Donald Trump page to include his two trips to Italy as well as individual trips to Israel, Belgium, the West Bank, and Vatican City? Thanks! Count Awesome (talk) 19:23, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

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Paris protest category move

Hi - I'd intended Category:Paris Agreement withdrawal protest‎ to be for any images related to protests of the Paris Agreement withdrawal, not just for the DC protest. (There were protests in NYC and elsewhere as well.) I should have made the category title plural to make that clear. The images in there now were originally just put into Category:Protests against Donald Trump, so I created a more suitable sub-category. Funcrunch (talk) 13:27, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Template:Ping I'll create a new category to encompass all the protests while leaving the specific one for the DC protest. MB298 (talk) 20:18, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

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Can you now actualize the File.

Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia should be now coloured in orange.--92.76.107.126 13:43, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Template:Done. MB298 ([[User talk:MB298#top|int:Talkpagelinktext]]) 18:31, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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Oregon images

Wow! Looks like you had a great road trip this month. I hope you don't mind me organizing your photographs by creating subcategories at Category:July 2017 in Oregon. By the way, I'm often down to help with Oregon projects here. I created this space for any other editors interested in collaborating now and then: Commons:WikiProject Oregon. Thanks for sharing your images to Commons! -Another Believer ([[User talk:Another Believer|int:Talkpagelinktext]]) 02:43, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Template:Ping No problem, and thanks for helping to organize the categories –– I noticed the category was getting fairly large. MB298 ([[User talk:MB298#top|int:Talkpagelinktext]]) 05:02, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Need help with updating Governors map.

Jim Justice just became a Republican. LiberatorLX ([[User talk:LiberatorLX|int:Talkpagelinktext]]) 20:45, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Greg Gianforte and Karen Handel Portrait Requests

I noticed that you uploaded a picture of Nevada Congresswoman Jacky Rosen from Find Your Representative page on the House website. Do you think you could duplicate what you did for two other members of the House of Representatives: Greg Gianforte of Montana and Karen Handel of Georgia. I have used your method and have their images from the Find Your Representative page. Do you think you could upload the images? This is for Gianforte's page: https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep?ZIP=59715 This is for Handel's page: https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep?ZIP=30022 Thank you very much for your contributions! Count Awesome ([[User talk:Count Awesome|int:Talkpagelinktext]]) 04:35, 12 August 2017 (UTC)