User talk:Siebrand/Archive15

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IMG_9816.JPG

wieso wurde die Seite buildings in aachen gelöscht das Bild gehört unter die kategorie aachen/ buildings/ castles/ gut kalkofen leider schaffe ich es nicht ein Bild in die passende kategorie zu verfarchten

I do not know. I have not edited the image description page... Actually, no one has in a *long* while. Siebrand 07:26, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Deleted image in a wide image template

Hello. Your bot was reacting to a deleted image, trying to remove it from an article, but it left the wide image template. Do you think in the future it could remove the template all together? Thanks, 117Avenue (talk) 02:42, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Not going to be possible if someone doesn't contribute the code... Siebrand 13:35, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Potential bot improvement

Would it be possible that, when moving a category, references to it in the gallery, file and category name space are moved as well ? --Foroa (talk) 14:39, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Probably, but someone would have to contribute that functionality in a patch. Let me know if you'd like to have the source code made available to you - or if you have a toolserver account, it can be made easier. Siebrand 10:39, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Nation-specified train station clock category

I see in my watchlist that your bot changed the category "station clocks" to "Train station clocks." I just thought you might like to know that tonight I've created a new category called "Train station clocks in the United States," in order to narrow it down from those in the USA. Perhaps you can adjust your bot to be a little more nation specific. ----DanTD (talk) 23:38, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

If you have a question about a specific category renaming, please contact the administrator who initiate the renaming. The administrator can be found in the edit history of User:CommonsDelinker/commands, adding the request shortly before the renaming was done. Siebrand 07:24, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Category problems

Your bot recently changed the category (Category:University of Dayton) to (Category:University of Dayton, Ohio). This is a bot mistake and the new category should be deleted and changed back to (Category:University of Dayton) to reflect it's official title and name. I might also add that there is only one University of Dayton in the world. So the state after it is not needed. Please message me once the changes have been made. Thank you. Texas141 (talk) 21:13, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

If you have a question about a specific category renaming, please contact the administrator who initiate the renaming. The administrator can be found in the edit history of User:CommonsDelinker/commands, adding the request shortly before the renaming was done. Siebrand 07:24, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Edit summary SieBot for category moves

Hi Siebrand, SieBot currently doesn't provide (a link to) the requestor's user (talk) page, like CommonsDelinker does. Over time the history of /commads is quite long and it's next to impossible to go and dig through all of it just to find that perhaps the timestamp on the edit of SieBot is several hours after the request was made (sometimes happends) - either way I think the way CommonsDelinker does it's stuff with providing a link to the user is a big step forward in the user experience. Could you build a similar principle in SieBot ? –Krinkle^talk 17:49, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Maybe, but probably not (no time/priority/skills). I can provide you access to the bot so you can made adjustments to it if you are willing to do that. Siebrand 07:22, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker on Wikinews

I followed the 'contact the operator' link from CommonsDelinker's meta page and reached you. So hi :). I'm sure I don't need to recap the problems with the bot on en.wn; bot isn't trusted enough to edit the archive, so requests need made manually. Some unscrupulous individuals simply delete images in use without consultation or giving a fuck. But, it strikes me that it wouldn't be hard to modify the bot to be able to make standardised protected page edit requests automatically. Could you, or whoever would be responsible (I understand a team jointly operates the bot, could be wrong) get in touch with me to discuss what would be required? Preferably by email, since I'll probably forget to keep an eye on your talk page here. Thanks, Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 23:20, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

The code is in the subversion repo for pywikipedia bot. We accept patches. Siebrand 07:21, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Cassiane1.JPG

é imagem autorizada pela família da biografada. Por que foi removida?

Beremiz^Cpa? 14:59, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't read or write your language. Siebrand 17:13, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

• Cassiane1.JPG is an authorized file from Cassiane's family (as expressly reported at its charging on Commons). Why was it removed? Beremiz^Cpa? 17:58, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:Beremiz --InfantGorilla (talk) 20:28, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Multiple square brackets

Bug here: [1]. Infovarius (talk) 21:07, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker

Your bot delete wikicode but add a "newline". See how it operate and how it have to operate. Can you debug it? --Aushulz (talk) 19:26, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

I've had the same exact problem in Wikinews, which leaves double spacing between paragraphs. Please have a look at it :) Best regards. Julián ^(reply) 19:43, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Via rail stations

Hi. Siebot took the Via rail stations from all across Canada, and placed them all in the category pertaining to one province (Category:Via Rail stations in Alberta). Is there an easy way to fix this? Regards, --Skeezix1000 (talk) 02:46, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

It seems to have been done by Foroa [2]. You can ask them to fix it. Clicking revert on all edits might work. --  Docu  at 07:19, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I see what happened - an error with cut and paste. No worries, I can revert them when I have the chance. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 18:16, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

extra wikilinks bij Robot: Moving category

Zie deze wijziging. Het nut om de wikilinks nogmaals toe te voegen in de vorm van [[wikipedia:de:Kategorie:Triumphbogen]] ontgaat mij en ik vind het ook niet mooi staan boven aan de pagina. Is er een speciale reden voor? Groeten, Wouter (talk) 09:18, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker vva (Bug)

The CommonsDelinker removes the file links from templates, but especially the {{Vva}} is senseless without parameter. (s.a.:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Vector version available/error) Can you please fix this? It would be graet if you can remove all errors from you. -- Perhelion (talk) 20:26, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Commons Delinker: Dont replace this file

Please don't do this. It was a wrong name. But now I use the name for a new file. Thanks. Lipedia (talk) 22:46, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

SieBot blocked

SieBot is now blocked for bot malfunctioning. Please see [3] and fix the problem. Thanks. – Kwj2772 (msg) 14:05, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Good catch. No idea where it comes from. Lifting block and investigating after an svn up. Siebrand 20:49, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Fixed now. See referred topic. Siebrand 22:48, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

COM:DL Cat moves blocked for some reason ? --Foroa (talk) 18:38, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Bug

Hi,

Apparently, this replacing command didn’t worked ... (see here for example).

Cdlt, VIGNERON * ^discut. 16:10, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Bot not working

Hi mate. Siebot appears to have stalled (no contribs for approx 48hrs). -mattbuck (Talk) 23:07, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Last contribution was 23:10, 2 January 2011 (UTC).   — Jeff G. ツ 03:54, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

File:Leonidas_Thermopylae.jpg

File:Leonidas_Thermopylae.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:47, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Soledad de Telde

Quisiera saber porque se a borrado las dos fotografias de la Virgen de la Soledad de Telde cuando NO tenían ningun copyright. Muchas gracias.Ubayrbd (discusión)--85.155.243.103 14:55, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

--Tomchen1989 (talk) 04:06, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Bug (SieBot not removing rename template)

Hi. "{{rename|Daveyston, South Australia|spelling error by pevious poster, see google maps between Greenoch and Sheok-log|3=2010-10-11}}" was not removed in this edit.   — Jeff G. ツ 03:26, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Removal seems only to work when template is on/near top of the page. --Foroa (talk) 09:19, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

move cat

Am I right that you have something to do with {{Move cat}} requests at User:CommonsDelinker/commands? Because they've been totally stalled out for several days. - Jmabel ! talk 05:07, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

royal moroccan navy

What happend with the royal moroccan navy photograps ????????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.42.146.23 (talk • contribs)

Have a look at Category:Navy of Morocco  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:39, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for getting to Siebot

It is nice to have it back and operating. Thanks for having it operating, absence really does make the heart go fonder, and it is such a useful bot. :-)  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:36, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Успенская церковь (Ижевск)

for whatever reason have been removed files 22:44, 17 January 2011 - План.JPG and Кладбище_1.JPG? this is entirely my photography. I photographed from the stand. Typically commons: Commons: Derivative works in this case should not apply.please reply personally. translated by google knowledge Babel english 2 46.147.167.6 19:57, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Please refer to an edit. I have no idea what this comment is about. Siebrand 17:36, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands

Why the requests of the User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands are not being met? --HélioVL ^(talk) 13:53, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Looks like it runs again. Siebrand 17:35, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

I don't think so: Last edit 17:01, 29 January 2011 -- 78.55.110.207 07:31, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Looks like the process hung after CD's toolserver user database went into read-only. Restarted the process, and now it's running. Siebrand 07:25, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Again, since 4 1/2 days. Is there any chance to implement a sort of "auto-control", i.e. that the CD realizes when he was inactive since 6 or 12 hours? --Túrelio (talk) 13:19, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker

Hi. There seems to be an issue with CommonsDelinker when the picture description includes a new line. I don't know if you are aware of it or if it's easy to fix but I thought it might be useful to let you know. GL (talk) 09:50, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Siebot needs a {{move cat}} prod

Gday Siebrand. It seems that {{move cat}} is stalled. Any chance of you having a look at giving it a prod? The bot is watching/cleaning Commons:Sandbox so it seems somewhat alert. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 06:05, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Started again. Siebrand 10:26, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

I believe that your bot

just removed a picture from J. Massey Rhind in wikipedia. Which is probably a good thing. A bunch of images were posted by some galley or something and that was one. Probably not a copyright issue since the work was done c. 1905, but the reason I'm here is that the text of the article mentioned the image, and when the image was gone the text no longer made sense. Does it make sense to mention this to you? PAS I did fix the text and removed the mention of the image. Still . . .... Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 01:23, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Category moves by SieBot - change of old categories into category redirects

Some users who move categories using SieBot either remove old categories which should be kept as category redirect or keep the old categories empty without any redirect and without any note that the content was moved. I think, the SieBot should be improved in order to force its users to choose one of the two possibilities: either remove the old category (if it is confusing or erroneous) or to change the old category into category redirect (if the old category name can be searched or linked from somewhere). Could be the change of old categories into category redirects implemented as a defaultly pertaining step of the automatized moving process? --ŠJů (talk) 04:09, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Agree, but the very large majority of category moves result in a deletion of the original category, so this should be the default (new destination category is always clickable in the deletion summary). --Foroa (talk) 04:20, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

See Commons:Rename a category#Should the old category be deleted?. I agree with that recommendation, though I realize that Foroa (since long ago) contravenes this practice. It is especially unacceptable to remove the old category unless all links from other projects are corrected. To create a category redirect should be the default treatment. Only "If the old category is a simple typo or you are the only person who ever used the category and you are the one fixing it up, it can safely be deleted." Also old categories with confusing or mistaken names should be deleted. That's all. --ŠJů (talk) 18:18, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Wrong category moves

Note this Commons:Hospoda U Commons#SieBot which sais you make a wrong names. e.g. Category:Na příkopě (Prague) (incorrect) from Category:Na Příkopě (Prague) (correct) - decapitalizing later makes in the Czech language great importance and thus "Na příkopě" street doesnt exists at all and thus this category is wrong.

Gampe also notes that you are moving (Praha) > (Prague), while RussBot take it back.--Juan de Vojníkov (talk) 05:23, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Category:Na příkopě (Prague) is correct, "Na příkopě" is the only official form of this proper local name. "Na Příkopě" is an unofficial simplified alternative of orthographic form according to the 1993 orthographic reform and is used in some popular maps but the official (and specialistic) form is uniquely determined and codified and used in official maps and ordinances. All proposed moves were carefully verified in most official and reliable sources.

RussBot worked correctly. A lapse was that SieBot moved the content into the goal category but didn't copy the original category page description to the goal category and kept some of goal categories as category redirects. --ŠJů (talk) 18:31, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Giovanni XIII°

Avete sbagliato a cancellare il ritratto di Papa Giovanni XIII, di uso pubblico in quanto esistente nei mosaici di San Paolo a Roma. Domenico Serlupi

Siebot stalled

FYI, it looks like Siebot isn't moving categories. Thanks. Wknight94 ^talk 18:18, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Looking into it. Siebrand 08:35, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker replacement svg to svg

Hi. I have a problem with CommonsDelinker task to replace some SVG files to another SVG files. For example a I made a task here. File is still used and linked. Problem is common, a I had many situations. Also here. Problem is more often when files has more links. Sometimes CD doesn't start at all. Especially when file is in highly used templates. That I have to do manually. Could help, fix or tell me what's wrong? Thank You. JDavid (talk) 12:25, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Should I make Bug report? JDavid (talk) 16:21, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

GSoC mentorship

Thanks for signing up to be a Google Summer of Code mentor this year! Friday evening 18 March, Google will announce the approved GSoC students, so please keep an eye out for prospective applicants on IRC and in the mailing lists. Thanks! Sumanah (talk) 13:56, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

OK. Siebrand 13:43, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Firefox 4

Hi there. The "Quick adding" link in {{Duplicate}} and such templates does not work on Firefox 4 (which was just released earlier today). Something to do with the Delinker or the templates? Rehman 00:50, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

I do not have the faintest clue, as I have no JavaScript experience. Siebrand 13:43, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

File:Detail from a map of Ortelius - Magellan's ship Victoria.png

I notice you moved File:Detail from a map of Ortelius - Magellan's ship Victoria.png from category Nao_Victoria to Nao_Victoria (ship, 1992). Why 1992? Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 08:42, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Category:Criminals_by_country

Category discussion notification

Category:Criminals_by_country has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

–Krinkle^talk 09:23, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Siebot author attribution

Looking at the edit summary for the creation of Category:Petroglyphs of fish, I was surprised to see that SieBot attributes itself as one of the editors of the other page. Was this intentional or accidental? I just found it rather odd. Nyttend (talk) 18:26, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

That's probably because SieBot also created the category page the current category was copied from. Siebrand 17:31, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden

Thanks a lot for the re-categorization and transferring all the files. Regards. Biswarup Ganguly (talk) 09:18, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome ;). Siebrand 17:32, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Moving Category:Mishnah (audio) to Category:Audio files about the Mishnah

Hi, this move seems mistaken. These files are not lectures about the Mishnah, but rather recordings of the Mishnah by narrators reading the text.

The original title of the category was more appropriate. Dovi (talk) 14:36, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

This question is for the administrator who initiate the renaming (see the warning at the top of the page), in this case - Foroa (see delinker commands). --Kaganer (talk) 15:19, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Deleting images present as image redirect on local projects

Hi Siebrand, I recently created the Commons fair use upload bot, which uploads images deleted on Commons as fair use candidates to local projects on which they are in use.

The problem is this:

1. The bot cannot upload images to En under the same filename as an image that has not yet been deleted on Commons. En restricts this kind of upload to admins only.
2. To work around this, my bot re-uploads the images at a different filename, and creates an image redirect at the original filename.
3. After the image is later deleted from Commons, CommonsDelinker removes uses of the image even though an image redirect exists at that title on the local project, referring to a copy of the image, so there is no reason to remove it. See an example.

I hope you can fix this problem as it will help limit the disruption caused by image deletions at Commons. Thanks a lot! Dcoetzee (talk) 23:28, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

I cannot fix that. Patches for CommonsDelinker are appreciated. The code is in pywikipediabot's svn. Siebrand 14:05, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Commons:Verwijderverzoeken

Commons:Verwijderverzoeken has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this project page, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Fosformedia (talk) 16:20, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker error

CommonsDelinker is not handling the {{Duplicate}} tag properly. See this diff. Can this template be configured correctly with CommonsDelinker? --Sreejith K (talk) 06:09, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

category:Sołdek to category:Sołdek (ship, 1949)

Why? Do exist subjects about the similar name? --Starscream (talk) 14:19, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

SieBot's edits are de facto anonymous

Hallo. Couldn't you think out some proceeding to allow to identify who was proposed moves made by SieBot? There happen massive changes and moves frequently and it is very diffucult to disclose who's action it is and what it is based on. --ŠJů (talk) 20:43, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Editor/Reviewers status

Hello. Mr. Siebrand!

Please would you be willing to add a template Pengguna editor on your personal page with syntax {{Pengguna editor}}. By adding it, your name will be automatically entered in Kategori Pengguna editor.

Thank you for your attention and cooperation, greeting prosperous. Wagino 20100516 (talk) 02:17, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

File:Hollywood-walk-of-fame.jpg

Could you re-upload a higher resolution version of this image? I tried to rotate your posted original for a level appearance, but any editing of it results in undesirable image artifacts, because the image was posted at low resolution, and seems to have been sharpened. --Lexein (talk) 10:31, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Commons Delinker issue

Hi. I see you maintain the Commons Delinker, so thought you'd want to know...

The Commons Delinker failed to accurately delink a deleted picture on en:Heterotrimeric G protein, leaving a link at the top of the article.

It deleted

[[Image:G protein (heterotrimeric).png|thumb|An heterotrimeric G protein. GDP is in purple. Alpha chain in orange.
Beta chain in blue. Gamma chain in green. An important loop for signal transduction is shown in red (PDB code=1gg2)

but failed to delete the next line,

([http://www.pdb.org/pdb/static.do?p=education_discussion/molecule_of_the_month/pdb58_1.html more details...])]]

Hope that helps. Wyvyrn (talk) 04:01, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Delinker and featured picture

At the English Wikipedia, we are concerned about the Commons Delinker replacing images in the featured pictures pages without community consensus to do so. Would you mind weighing in at en:Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates#FPs being replaced? Thank you. Chick Bowen (talk) 00:35, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

File:Towhidi Tabari 2000.jpg

File:Towhidi Tabari 2000.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

  ■ MMXX  ^talk  21:31, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

File:Life Towhidi Tabari 2003.jpg

File:Life Towhidi Tabari 2003.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

  ■ MMXX  ^talk  21:31, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

SieBot

FYI, it looks like SieBot (talk · contribs) needs a kick. Thanks. Wknight94 ^talk 02:32, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Facchetti

Non capisco perchè ha cancellato la foto del poster di Facchetti visto che l'ho fatta io personalmente ad Appiano Gentile!--Steven Chiefa (talk) 21:41, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

SieBot/category moves

Hoi Siebrand, it looks like Siebot hasn't moved any categories since 2011-05-24. Dunno if it's related, but the command page was in Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls, cf. [4]. Could you restart the bot (or whatever is needed) now? Many thanks --:bdk: 16:11, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

File:Affiche D&D.jpg

File:Affiche D&D.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

←fetchcomms 21:36, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of file Shurkalov.jpg

My dear colleagie, I feel quite frustrated after you did your job. Deleted image of mybeloved father, olympic medalist Yuri Shurkalov. That picture was taken by me, when I was a little boy. Anyhow, I have the rights to place it in the Wiki. But I see, I broke some rule, so you insisted to delete it. PLEASE, help me to restore justige. At least, learn me how to. I'm not a kind of vandal or something. This is my own work. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cubretti (talk • contribs) 09:46, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

This file was not deleted by me, but was deleted on 24 June 2011 by User:Jcb. Please ask him about it. --Siebrand 18:17, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

SieBot broken for nearly a month

Hi, SieBot is now broken for nearly a month. any idea when it will be repaired ? --Foroa (talk) 06:11, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Has been (re)started a few times since. --Siebrand 18:15, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for CommonDelinker

With reference to this. I would suggest that your bot should be intelligent enough to automatically insert the original photo (in addition of deleting the duplicate one). Thanks for doing the good work. --Anshuk (talk) 21:35, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

MediaWiki Extension:Google AdSense 2 (CSS injection)

Hi Siebrand Great extension. Note in your code you are having trouble with the css injection. Found that the if you change

#p-googleadsense .pBody { to 
#p-googleadsense .body { 

it works: Google must have changed it somewhere along the way! (see http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki - I have shifted the box to the left)

#p-googleadsense .body {
   position: relative;
   padding-top: 0px;
   left:-24px;
}

Cheers Michael. — Preceding unsigned comment added by VirtualMV (talk • contribs) 03:08, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Works for me in Vector skin (see translatewiki:). --Siebrand 18:13, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

File:The Pencil Nebula- Remnants of an Exploded Star (NGC 2736).jpg

Hi, it seems like you have deleted this image for being a duplicate. Since it has a better name, would it be possible to undelete the linked image and replace the other one with this? -- とある白い猫 ^ちぃ？ 11:27, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

SieBot's little errors (CommonsDelinker category move function)

Hoi Siebrand, I noted that SieBot made some unwanted edits, or "errors". I've already fixed them manually, so you don't have to care about the affected pages/images. But I thought I let you know, so that you can look into it and can hopefully fix the "problem behind". Here's what I can report:

• The CommonsDelinker command from earlier today was to move 12 related categories with a total of 1417 entries. Basically the task was to move all files from Category:Aerial views of XY to Category:Aerial photographs of XY.
• Several files (approximated: more than 100) are in two or more of these 12 categories, because all the photos show the neighbouring islands of East Frisia. In most cases only one island is pictured and there was only one category to move (without any difficulty for the bot, logically). But sometimes two or more of the islands are pictured, and more than one category has to be changed therefore.
• When the bot stopped working on this task (moving all 12 categories with all entries) there were 16 files left, that were effectively not moved. I waited a while, and also edited the command subpage with a new task (leaving the entries which said "448 entries moved, 6 to go" or so), but the bot ignored these files apparently and didn't touch them again. Finally it started working on another completely unrelated task.
• I then checked these 16 files and found 19 wrong edits (3 files with 2 wrong edits each): [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23].
• The errors made were always the same: The bot changed back an already moved/corrected category on a following edit (changing photographs back to views, while the command was to change from views to photographs).
• I was looking for a specific pattern where/when this occured, but didn't really found one. First I thought that it only happened to files that are in three or four of these categories ("bah, the bot got confused, that was too complicated" *g*). But that's obviously not the case, compare e.g. File:Flug Borkum nach Juist 2010 027.JPG with File:Flug Borkum nach Juist 2010 052.JPG. Both images are in exactly the same categories. In the first case the two relevant categories were changed as expected ([24], [25]). In the second case one category was changed as expected [26], but on the next edit something went wrong. The time span between edits is also not of importance, as far as I can see. Sometimes the edits happened shortly after one another (within seconds), and sometimes there were minutes in between.

Anyway, I hope this helps. Please keep up your great work. SieBot really is a great help here on Commons! --:bdk: 15:01, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Looking for Delinker logs

Hi Siebrand,

I hope you can help me. I was wondering if there is an easy way to check which wikis CommonsDelinker worked on within a certain period. In particular, I'm interested in knowing which pages had these files removed, so that some damage control can be done - many of these images could be replaced, and they were simply removed from articles. I'm willing to go through them one by one, but I need a list... Cheers, Patrícia ^msg 09:44, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Siebrand!

Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

CategorizationBot (talk) 17:35, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

• Image:Alessandro Del Piero.jpg was uncategorized on 22 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 17:35, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Prototype upload wizard vertaling

Siebrand, bij MediaWiki:Mwe-upwiz-more-options zijn de vertalingen in het Duits, Engels, Frans en Nederlands aangepast. Ik zelf heb op 22 september en iemand anders op 23 september gemerkt dat de vertalingen nog niet bij de wizard zelf werken. Heb jij daar een verklaring voor? Groeten, Wouter (talk) 18:45, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

WCI 2011 : Accelerating Wikibooks : Would like to discuss!

Hello!

I will be delivering a Talk at the Wikimedia Conference India 2011 on the topic of "Accelerating Wikibooks".

Over the next few days, I aim to make the proposal more and more wholesome and relevant. I'd like to discuss with you about the proposal and hope you can recommend me a few names on Wikibooks with whom I can discuss this.

I'd be very happy if you could discuss the proposal at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Thewinster/Accelerating_Wikibooks

--Thewinster (discuss • contribs) 08:20, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Summary of the proposal

This is not a summary of the final talk, only a tentative guideline.

• Create Roadmaps for a book
• Define Learning Outcomes
• Annotate and Discuss new content available from around the web.
• Minor tweaks and fixes which concentrate on crowdsourcing.
• Identifying Small Contribution that advance a book and designing good UIs and triggers according to B.J. Fogg's Behavior Change Model, 8 Step Design Process. The paper can be found here at Persuasive Design : Eight Step Process by B. J. Fogg

File:Boris Godunov (Pushkinsky zapovednik).jpg

Hi, I'm not sure where to write bot-requests here in Commons... We had a file named File:Simeon Bekbulatovich.jpg belived to be tsar Simeon. But according to sources really it is tsar Boris. File renamed to File:Boris Godunov (Pushkinsky zapovednik).jpg, but still in use in many wiki as Simeon's portrait. Can bot replace renamed file in articles with true image of Simeon file:Wedding of Simeon Bekbulatovich.jpg? --Shakko (talk) 18:40, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Check this, please

Siebrand, please check if this File:Violin Folclórico.jpg fulfills the Commons licensing policies. Thanks, --Jdvillalobos (talk) 18:17, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Category:Commemorative Mark coins of East Germany

Es wäre schön, wenn DU die Kategorie wieder in "Coins of the German Democratic Republic" änderst! Deine Einordnung ist falsch. Es gibt keine Mark Münzen von Ostdeutschland! Es sind die Münzen der DDR! Zu diesem Zeitpunkt gab es noch kein Ostdeutschland! Die Münzen der BRD werden ja auch nicht Münzen von Westdeutschland bezeichnet! Also BITTE wieder den Ursprungszustand herstellen! Danke!

Please see top of this page. Please keep in mind that understanding of a message by a recipient *decreases* with the number of exclamation marks used... --Siebrand 09:35, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

De Wikisource book

please undo your move with the siebot of De Wikisource book to German Wikisource books (cur | prev) 11:49, 8 October 2011‎ SieBot (talk | contribs)‎ m (1,157 bytes) (Robot: Moved from Category:De Wikisource book. Authors: 84.159.137.21, Robot Monk, Joergens.mi, Rabe Socke, 555, Codeispoetry, Jarekt, Dcljr, Pfctdayelise, Polarlys, ŠJů, Martin H., Jonathan Groß, AndreasPraefcke, 90.229.135.239, 87.176.151.97,...)

There was no agreement of doing so, an the initiator of this b...s.... has done any communication of Jarekt with the community

As you can see here http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:German_Wikisource_books#Proposed_rename_to_.22German_Wikisource_books.22

NeverDoING who startd this renaming, seems to be a man on a mission.

Thanks --Joergens.mi (talk) 12:15, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Please see top of this page. --Siebrand 09:33, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Why ?

Why that ? --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 15:02, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Please see top of this page. --Siebrand 09:34, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Category:Maps of Łódź

Thank You for moving to proper name. Piastu (talk) 10:30, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

No problem, you're welcome. See the top of this page; I probably had nothing to do with it :). --Siebrand 23:37, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Well, nevertheless - thanks to Siebot :) Piastu (talk) 09:22, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Category:Stefaan Declerck

Hallo Siebrand, Category:Stefaan Declerck heeft de verkeerde naam; het moet zijn Category:Stefaan De Clerck. Kun jij dat aanpassen of mij uitleggen waar ik zo'n 'hernoemingsverzoek' kan indienen? - Robotje (talk) 12:08, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Gebruiker Foroa heeft het probleem intussen opgelost. Bovenstaand verzoek kan dus genegeerd worden. - Robotje (talk) 21:38, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Real Life Barnstar
	WCN 2011 org Vera (talk) 20:53, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

File:Permission_last.fm.png

File:Permission_last.fm.png has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

JuTa 18:56, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Siebot cat renaming

"Please process the old categories after the move, either soft redirect with {{category redirect|new name}}, {{Speedy}} or {{Badname|new name}} them." - couldn't Siebot optionally do this, if {{Move cat}} specified an additional parameter? It might be neater. Rd232 (talk) 18:44, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

COM:CDC

Hello Siebrand. Can you restart SieBot? It seems it's not working :-) Thanks. --Marco Aurelio (disputatio) 21:32, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

SieBot on strike ?

Category moves don't work any more since 16 days. --Foroa (talk) 08:23, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

I contacted Siebrand a few days ago and he has restarted the bot. I think that I saw that you have been in the tidy up phase since that has happened.  — billinghurst sDrewth 14:12, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Delinker works, category moves are stalled again. --Foroa (talk) 18:04, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Same blocking again. Thank you. --Foroa (talk) 07:12, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

And bloced again. --Foroa (talk) 17:24, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

You mean stopped instead of blocked, right? Best send me a mail when SieBot is acting up. I'm not here that much anymore these days... --Siebrand 23:02, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

CommmonsDelinker

Is CommonsDeliker could erase from infoboxes (and other templates) values that matched deleted filename?

Example: [27] in situation like [28] Malarz pl (talk) 12:19, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

If it doesn't already, it cannot. The code is open source and available in pywikipediabot, though. Patches can be submitted. --Siebrand 23:01, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

* Frohe Weihnacht und einen guten Start ins neue Jahr
* Prettige Kerstdagen en een gelukkig nieuw jaar
* Merry Christmas and a happy New Year
from --Neozoon (talk) 23:12, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the present. It's appreciated. The same wishes for you and your loves ones! --Siebrand 23:00, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Gadget: Instant Delete

Hi Siebrand,

The "Very-quick-delete" script was broken for a while but is now fixed and migrated to a gadget. I have removed it from your user script. You can enable "Instant Delete" on Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets. –Krinkle^talk 00:31, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker adapted for TeX?

There's a backlog of around 200 files which ought to be replaced with TeX markup and marked for deletion here. Would CommonsDelinker be up to the task? NikNaks _{talk - gallery - wikipedia} 18:18, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Bonsoir Siebrand

Votre bot a détruit 3 de mes photos. Peut être que mes photos étaient mal catégorisées ? Good evening, Your bot destroyed 3 of my photos. Can be that my photos were badly categorized? Can you help me please ? Thanks Pouvez vous m'aidez s'il vous plait ? merci

• Image:Deuil 001.jpg
• Image:Deuil 003.jpg
• Image:Deuil 005.jpg

--Cordialement féministe ♀ Cordially feminist Geneviève (talk) 22:43, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands

I am not very familiar with the administrative routines here so I might talk in the wrong direction here. The page linked above is getting very full with replace commands given by file movers that are not administrators (like me). Who is moving the requests to the "main" command page so the replacing will be executed? Any admin? Best regards --MagnusA (talk) 08:46, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Any admin can do it. Siebrand is the maker of the bot, the admins feed it the commands. If you think that we admins need a kick then Commons:Administrators' noticeboard is the place.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:13, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for direction. I have put a notice there now. --MagnusA (talk) 13:30, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker and photo caption

Hello Siebrand, I don't see in your archive this point: when CommonsDelinker is deleting a photo link in an infobox, the caption is not removed: [29] or [30]. Is it possible to clean up the caption? I guess it may be difficult because you must know the caption name translation (légende or legende in French). Thanks --Sisyph (talk) 15:17, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

The code for CommonsDelinker is in pywikipediabot. It's not being developed actively at the moment. If you're able to write a patch, we'll review it... --Siebrand 23:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Move cat

Maybe it's no good idea to do thousands of requests at the same time! The line "0 to go" isn't displayed correctly + you lock out other requests (as me with my single request, that isn't done for hours!) a×p_de^Hello! 13:59, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

As you can see from the page history, it's not me that added the requests... Please talk to Foroa... --Siebrand 14:00, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Ah, ok, sorry to harm you. Meanwhile I added an "important note" maybe this helps a bit ... a×p_de^Hello! 14:20, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Another question: Is there are chance to avoid a wrong display in {{Move cat}}? a×p_de^Hello! 15:42, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Not within the limits of MediaWiki as configured within Wikimedia. Higher limits lead to more performance risks. --Siebrand 15:44, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, maybe we can add something to display some warning message instead of "0 moved, 0 to go" when limits of mediawiki are reached? a×p_de^Hello! 15:54, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

It works for the first 50 lines or so, so it's helpful. --Siebrand 15:55, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Category:SVG_flags_ofthe_historic_of_Croatia

Hi! REcently your bot has moved files to a new cat. But in the title of new category is an error. Could you please look atCategory:SVG_flags_ofthe_historic_of_Croatia. Thnx--Ex13 (talk) 18:58, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Commons Delinker

Hi,

what's up with your bot ? In the Esperanto Wikipedia, Commons Delinker actually doing good job. We haven't problem and it remove images for good reason. Thanks for programming Commons Delinker. For answer, talk to me here (for add message, click on Aldoni temon). For a best report, please, call administrators of Esperanto Wikipedia.

Ĉiuĵaŭde (talk) 00:58, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

The Administrator's barnstar

		The Administrator's barnstar
		I hereby award Siebrand this barnstar for high activity as Administrator on Commons in 2011. Very good work! -- George Chernilevsky talk 20:27, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks George. --Siebrand 07:41, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

SecurePoll

Hi Siebrand, there is a discussion at Commons_talk:Picture_of_the_Year/2011#Infrastructure where I wondered if SecurePoll would be an option for Picture of the Year; but I know nothing of how flexible it is or how to set it up. Perhaps you could comment there. Thanks! Rd232 (talk) 02:40, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Cartina da modificare

Ciao, visto che nel modificare le cartine sei esperto, riusciresti gentilmente a modificare questa cartina File:Monza mappa.png (http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monza_mappa.png) allargando lo sfondo con i nuovi comuni di Cornate d'Adda, Busnago, Roncello, Caponago ad est (e magari segnando come nome la città di Cornate d'adda) e Lentate sul Seveso a ovest (segnandola anche come nome)? Per vedere un disegno da prendere spunto guarda qui http://www.tuttitalia.it/variazioni-amministrative/la-provincia-di-monza-e-della-brianza-cresce-di-5-comuni/ Grazie mille come sempre!!! Cmq guardando bene ho notato che lo sfondo ci Lentate sul Seveso c'è già, mancherebbe mettere il nome! X gli altri 4 paesi ad est è da creare e mettere il nome solo a Cornate d'Adda. Grazie. Sono iscritto a wikipedia italiano, nel caso risp li a questo nome grazie. -- Simonemb (msg) 10:46, 17 feb 2012 (CET)

I'm sorry, but can you please write your comment or question in English? I do not understand the above. --Siebrand 16:05, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker and gallery tag

Hi there. Please fix: [31][32] --Z 19:16, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

File:Herbert Marshall McLuhan drawing.jpg

File:Herbert Marshall McLuhan drawing.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Bulwersator (talk) 14:19, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Commons delinker

Hello, in Der Stürmer I had a photo of the front page of one copy of the newspaper. It got deleted from Wikimedia Commons with no warning, and the Commons Delinker deleted it from 13 articles. Now I have restored the image on the English language Wikipedia, and I have reverted the bot changes to the English language article. What I think I can't do is revert the changes on the foreign language Wikipedias, since I don't have accounts there, and don't speak those languages enough to even know what "undo" "save" etc. buttons are. Is there any way for the bot to fix this? It is a bit unfortunate that 13 articles were modified due to one image removal and now there appears to be no way to revert once the image has been restored. Chris Bainbridge (talk) 13:46, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Category to delete

Hi, I've taken a look to the categories about BMW vehicles. I've seen an error: the BMW 6 Series Gran Coupé is in the wrong category (Category:BMW F14), so I've moved all the pictures in the right category (Category: BMW F06). So, the F14 Category is now empty and unuseful. Can you delete it, please? Thanks. --Luc106 (talk) 21:35, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Change of Category Kirchdorf BE into Category:Kirchdorf, Bern

It may by discussed if it is good to change category names like "Kirchdorf BE" into "Kirchdorf, Bern", the change could be justified although it is not necessary as "Kirchdorf BE" is the official form used in Switzerland (even found at the village entry). But the point is: If you make such a modification you should make shure the the links to commonscat on all projects in all languages is changed also. If not, please almost put a category redirect before killing the old category name.DidiWeidmann (talk) 21:03, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Universally replaced

Please see File talk:Sipuncula.jpg#Universally replaced and respond there, if you wish (you seemed to be involved in some way). - dcljr (talk) 22:23, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Jewellery (or Jewelery)

Hi Siebrand - Please note that in English, unlike French & maybe other languages, "jewellery" only means stuff you carry on your body or clothes for adornment. Large metal plates, chalices, forks etc etc are "metalwork" or "silverware" if silver, and so on. The categories should be "metalwork" for most stuff. Thanks - hope you are well. Johnbod (talk) 16:14, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Commons delinker deleting captions

Beste Siebrand, het valt mij op dat in deze [33] edit de Commons Delinker met de afbeelding meteen de bijschrift uit een boek sloopt. Nu kan ik mij voorstellen dat in veel gevallen een bijschrift zinloos is zonder plaatje, maar in dit geval gaat ook een stuk inhoudelijke tekst verloren. Ik vraag mij toch af of dat wenselijk is. Verder vraag ik mij af of het niet mogelijk is om vanuit Commons direct lokaal een waarschuwing te krijgen dat een afbeelding verwijderd gaat worden. Nu moeten we achteraf op zoek gaan naar een vervangende afbeelding, wat extra lastig is omdat met het verwijderen van de afbeelding ook de categorieinformatie e.d. is verdwenen, terwijl het zoeken in dezelfde categorie wellicht snel tot een goede vervangende afbeelding zou leiden. In de pagina bij de delinker-bot zie ik ook iets staan over de ticker, maar daarvan heb ik op wikibooks nooit iets gemerkt. KKoolstra (talk) 19:46, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Category moves

Hi. Moves of group of categories by User:SieBot have a systemic defect: when some of moved categories is a subcategory of another one, such subcategory remains in the old category and is not moved to the moved category. It is necessary to not move any next category until the previous one is not completely moved. Could you fix the bot in this sense?

The second defect I noticed is that in case that the new category was existing before the moving still (as a category redirect or when the categories are merged), some movers don't check whether the content of the old category page (description and categorization) is copied to the page of the new (goal) category. Could you devise some aid to prevent such cases?

Thank You. --ŠJů (talk) 19:08, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Abuse filter log

Hoi Siebrand. Ik wilde je even wijzen op dit abuse filter log. Wellicht heb je er wat aan? :) Trijnstel_talk 19:05, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker: Wikimania 2013 files

Please restore all instances of File:Wikimania-2013-HK-Bid_banner.png and File:Wikimania-2013-HK-Bid_logo_small.jpg that your bot has efficiently removed following Fastily's mistaken deletion, much thanks! Deryck Chan (talk) 09:13, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi Deryck, please redirect complaints to the deleting admin. Multichill (talk) 21:43, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Commons Delinker is deleting links to existing files on it.wiki

Hello, as per above, Commons Delinker is delinking many files on it.wiki, files that are still existing here on Commons. Examples are File:Lystrosaurus_BW.jpg and File:Pterodaustro_BW.jpg, and many many others. It seems that all these files have been deleted and suddenly restored. I have blocked the bot on it.wiki just for the time to "reset" these authomatic settings related to this issue. Bye. --Roberto Segnali all'Indiano 15:09, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

The same thing with the ru-wiki. [34]. It seems that drawing of extinct animals by Nobu Tamura are problematic. Mithril (talk) 19:33, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Please stop this bot. Many problems in bg-wiki --Termininja (talk) 21:31, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

I wish to report the same problem on en wikipedia, e.g. [35] for File:Ambulocetus_BW.jpg

Same on Arabic Wikipedia, and I am here for the same problem! I was surprised today when I checked my watchlist to find the bot deleting pictures from almost all dinosaurs articles of Arabic Wikipedia. Please look here for further information. Thanks! --Abbad_Dira (talk) 22:27, 16 May 2012 (UTC).

Oh no, the bot is going crazy [36] -- Limulus (talk) 22:29, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

And the bot keeps going until this very moment! :/ --Abbad_Dira (talk) 23:20, 16 May 2012 (UTC).

Please stop the bot NOW before it delete the remaining half of Arabic Wikipedia files!! --Abbad_Dira (talk) 00:57, 17 May 2012 (UTC).

well the bot is NOT crazy, FYI User_talk:Fastily#Dinosaurs --151.75.89.40 07:06, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Just letting you know that I blocked the bot on simple: as per the problems above. Please poke me as soon as the problem is resolved, so I can unblock it asap. Best, -Barras (talk) 11:27, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Unblocked on it.wiki, the issue seems to be solved. --Roberto Segnali all'Indiano 16:49, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Same for simple, was poked via IRC to unblock which I did this afternoon. -Barras (talk) 17:18, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Is there any solution for automatically undo such cases? Unfortunatly it is not the first time it occurs. --V.Riullop (talk) 11:53, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Onderstaande vraag wacht nog op antwoord

Onderstaande vraag is door een bot 'gearchiveerd', maar wacht nog op antwoord.

Commons delinker deleting captions

Beste Siebrand, het valt mij op dat in deze [37] edit de Commons Delinker met de afbeelding meteen de bijschrift uit een boek sloopt. Nu kan ik mij voorstellen dat in veel gevallen een bijschrift zinloos is zonder plaatje, maar in dit geval gaat ook een stuk inhoudelijke tekst verloren. Ik vraag mij toch af of dat wenselijk is. Verder vraag ik mij af of het niet mogelijk is om vanuit Commons direct lokaal een waarschuwing te krijgen dat een afbeelding verwijderd gaat worden. Nu moeten we achteraf op zoek gaan naar een vervangende afbeelding, wat extra lastig is omdat met het verwijderen van de afbeelding ook de categorieinformatie e.d. is verdwenen, terwijl het zoeken in dezelfde categorie wellicht snel tot een goede vervangende afbeelding zou leiden. In de pagina bij de delinker-bot zie ik ook iets staan over de ticker, maar daarvan heb ik op wikibooks nooit iets gemerkt. KKoolstra (talk) 19:46, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

robot abusador

deja de eliminar imagenes que no violan el copyright de nadie, los que toman las imagenes son mis amigos y ellos me autorizan por favor ponerlas en wikipedia, asi que deja de meterte en cosas ajenas. Este mensaje va al que creo este robot.

Ich empfehle COM:Permission zu lesen und die Diskussionsbeiträge mit ~~~~ zu signieren. -- RE rillke questions? 20:05, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Restart Commonsdelinker

Hi, I think delinker's down, there's rather a backlog on the commands page. -mattbuck (Talk) 15:31, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Repair CommonsDelinker

Hi! I write you to advice that CommonsDelinker its working bad because it was eliminating images that aren't corpyrighted! Its working very, VERY bad, please repare it or deshabilitate it, because the 2 images that it delete were whit the licence Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0, it're deleting a lot of things that aren't corpyrighted!

Thanks.

P.D: I'll re-upload the images.

Erne Mogilevich, Erne Tsukune. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.52.210.67 (talk • contribs) 16:40, 29. Mai 2012‎ (UTC)

1. CommonsDelinker does not delete files
2. CommonsDelinker is not delinking files out of the blue, the bot acts when a file is deleted on Commons by a more or less human administrator
3. Please list the files you are talking about at COM:UR, do not reupload, do not cross-post.

-- RE rillke questions? 20:11, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

La Cámpora

Hi. It seems that a bot runned by you recently erased a file that I've created myself. Apparently it was a copyright matter that shouldn't be. The file is La_Cámpora.png. How can we solve this issue? Regards. --Erico Valadares (talk) 15:59, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Very strange redirect-related behavior by CommonsDelinker

Hi. Can you explain this edit? It looks like a serious bug in CommonsDelinker. Related to this thread. --MZMcBride (talk) 08:33, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

File:Halle.jpg

In my opinion does this engraving not show a view of the city Halle (Saale) and the used Category:Historic views of Halle (Saale) has to be removed. --Hallenser143 (talk) 08:02, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker broke this page

Hello,

I noticed the CommonsDelinker bot made this edit to the article en:Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Only the first line of a multiline image syntax was removed. This sounds like a bug in parsing the pages. Thanks. Acdx (talk) 04:05, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

您好~~

您好，请问子辰Antzichen.jpg的图片已经授权你在百科使用，为何还自动删除呢？已经发送授权文件根据格式发送给指定邮箱了。麻烦可以解答一下我的疑问吗？谢谢~

Shengou11 (talk) 02:32, 21 July 2012 (UTC)shengou11

New (and wrong) Category:Transgender Christopher Street Day instead of old (and correcht) Category:Transgenialer CSD

Hi Billinghurst, why did you renamend Category:Transgenialer CSD into Category:Transgender Christopher Street Day ? There is no transgender street day, the alternative to the so-called "commercial street day" is named Transgenialer CSD as can be proven by the websites. Cheers --Sargoth (talk) 05:41, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing :) --Sargoth (talk) 07:20, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker Malfunctioning?

This change is strange. In the RfD, "Free syria flag.png" is nominated. But your CommonsDelinker bot removes "File:Syria-flag 1932-58 1961-63.svg". Would you check your bot script? -- ChongDae (talk) 05:50, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

I came here with the same comment. On nl.wikipedia I already fixed by undoing the changes made by CommonsDelinker. Can you please look into this? Unfortynately I do not have the time to revert this change on all Wiki-projects (-: Best regards, Spraakverwarring (talk) 06:12, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Same goes for Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bandera-de-laredo.jpg. CommonsDelinker is remomving File:Flag of the Republic of the Rio Grande.svg instead of the removed File:Bandera-de-laredo.jpg. Cheers, Spraakverwarring (talk) 10:15, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Ditto, I just had to revert you on the w:Flag of Texas page. Tuckerresearch (talk) 18:14, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Ditto w:Republic of the Rio Grande. Tuckerresearch (talk) 18:22, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

It appears to be deleting files mentioned as duplicates in closed deletion requests, like:

• Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Free_syria_flag.png which mentions File:Syria-flag 1932-58 1961-63.svg
• Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bandera-de-laredo.jpg which mentions File:Flag of the Republic of the Rio Grande.svg.

Looks like a script that needs tweaking. Tuckerresearch (talk) 20:33, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Delinking BSicons

Concerning what’s at User_talk:CommonsDelinker/commands#Warnings about BSicons, calling for 100% manual treatment of their delinks: This should rather be: «Please do add BSicons to this queue (e.g. File:BSicon STR.svg) only after all uses within special templates CommonsDelinker is unable to handle are manually fixed!», as CommonsDelinker is very much able to handle hundreds of regular uses, such as in marking derivatives in Commons file pages, which are really painful to fix manually, on top of those that must be. -- Tuválkin ✉ 20:05, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

I had posted the above at User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands but Jacklee told me to discuss it here. -- Tuválkin ✉ 15:02, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker: protection request

Hi, is it possible that CommonsDelinker doesn't delete a link but sends a message about deleted files at Commons? In b:de:Das Schreiblernbuch there are a lot of links to the same picture. Yesterday the bot changed 12 sites after deleting File:Balut.jpg see the recent changes. On these pages it's often difficult to find the place where the link is removed. I'ld prefer the "red link". Therefore I propose: Protect b:de:Das Schreiblernbuch and all the subpages - these pages only! - not to change by the bot. Instead of changing, send a message to b:de:Talk:Das Schreiblernbuch. It would be useful if the bot could include the list of all related pages. But that's not necessary because this list can be created by prefix search. -- Thank you very much! Juetho (talk) 06:13, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

More incorrect delinkings of reuploaded files

Hi Siebrand, I asked you about this about 6 months ago but haven't yet seen a fix. CommonsDelinker is removing links to files deleted on Commons, even if those files have already been locally reuploaded. See for example [38], where it removed the image "Saina Nehwal.jpg", which had at that time already been re-uploaded at en:File:Saina Nehwal.jpg (actually, due to technical restrictions, it was re-uploaded at en:File:Saina Nehwal - from Commons.jpg and en:File:Saina Nehwal.jpg was converted into a redirect). The file has since been deleted from En, but it definitely existed at the time. Can you please fix CommonsDelinker so that it does not remove links to files that exist on the local wiki, even as a redirect? This would make my bot, User:Commons fair use upload bot, much more useful, and help build positive relationships between Commons and other wikis. Thank you! Dcoetzee (talk) 02:16, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Oops, I just saw your response at User_talk:Siebrand/Archive15#Deleting_images_present_as_image_redirect_on_local_projects. I guess I should make a patch then. Thanks again. Dcoetzee (talk) 09:29, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Nazwa miejscowości

Hej ! Piszę w języku polskim, bo skoro robisz zmiany na tym polu to naucz się czytać. Wszystkie nazwy miejscowości które w rzeczywistości są bez myślnika u ciebie są od dzisiaj z myślnikiem. A wystarczy pojechać do którejś z nich i zobaczyć jak wygląda tablica z nazwą miejscowości. A skoro podjąłeś już taki trud to zmieniaj też commons na wikipedii. Bo od dzisiaj się okazuje że niema spójności jedno z drugim. Pozdrawiam Adam-dalekie-pole (talk) 15:00, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Delinking BSicons

Concerning what’s at User_talk:CommonsDelinker/commands#Warnings about BSicons, calling for 100% manual treatment of their delinks: This should rather be: «Please do add BSicons to this queue (e.g. File:BSicon STR.svg) only after all uses within special templates CommonsDelinker is unable to handle are manually fixed!», as CommonsDelinker is very much able to handle hundreds of regular uses, such as in marking derivatives in Commons file pages, which are really painful to fix manually, on top of those that must be. -- Tuválkin ✉ 20:05, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

I had posted the above at User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands but Jacklee told me to discuss it here. -- Tuválkin ✉ 15:02, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

This was archived before it was replied. Hello! Anyone home? -- Tuválkin ✉ 11:39, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker

Bot delink wrong files. [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] --Altoing (talk) 07:59, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

[44] LoStrangolatore (talk) 11:15, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Warning, explanation

I wonder why CommonsDelinker does not give warnings before deleting files and the explanation is like "Вилучив файл Barbie_Fashion_Model.JPG, оскільки він був вилучений з Wikimedia Commons користувачем Fastily. Причина: Per [[commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Categor...". At the moment you have this half-message one usually doesn't know what image was there as it is already deleted. I don't hope for an answer but at least I hope that deep in your heart you won't be that smug. --93.73.19.163 06:07, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Delinking BSicons

Concerning what’s at User_talk:CommonsDelinker/commands#Warnings about BSicons, calling for 100% manual treatment of their delinks: This should rather be: «Please do add BSicons to this queue (e.g. File:BSicon STR.svg) only after all uses within special templates CommonsDelinker is unable to handle are manually fixed!», as CommonsDelinker is very much able to handle hundreds of regular uses, such as in marking derivatives in Commons file pages, which are really painful to fix manually, on top of those that must be. -- Tuválkin ✉ 20:05, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

I had posted the above at User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands but Jacklee told me to discuss it here. -- Tuválkin ✉ 15:02, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

This was archived before it was replied. Hello! Anyone home? -- Tuválkin ✉ 11:39, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Restoring the above, as it was archived by a bot before Siebrand cared to reply. Since tha matter seems to be irrelevant, I’ll go ahead and change the warning as proposed above. -- Tuválkin ✉ 16:03, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker

These Volacion deleting my pics for copyright, but which were not clearly explain their own work and put the power where you serve, as files (File:GordonMichaelWoolvett.jpg And File:WWE '13.jpg) deserve to be restored and clearly explain where take them out and so far I saw were asking me the answer but explained.

The bot is the bot and ordered to do something by a person. If a file needs to be undeleted, then please put the request to Commons:Undeletion requests where the people can address it.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:34, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Category:Articles with missing files

I am working on the backlog at w:Category:Articles with missing files and it seems an uphill battle. Are you able to get the CommonsDelinker bot to have a look over the contents? Maybe some were missed by the bot? Cheers Alan Liefting (talk) 09:15, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Siebrand looks after SieBot, which is not active for that task at enWP.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:32, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Could you please explain ...

The deletion log shows you deleted Category:Canadian actors, because the contents was {{Category redirect|Actors from Canada}}.

That seems like perfectly reasonable content to me. So, am I missing something?

Thanks Geo Swan (talk) 02:02, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Geo Swan, that deletion was 5+ years ago, do what you think is necessary to the criteria of now.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:28, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Commons:Galleries

Commons:Galleries has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this project page, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Oficialniat (talk) 22:27, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker fail

Hiya-

On en, CommonsDelinker kinda borked this delinking. Specifically, it removed an image and the caption, but it left behind a pair of citations for that caption, and the closing ]]'s from the [[File:... link. Bug? 24.177.122.31 05:20, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Siebrand looks after SieBot, not CommonsDelinker, see Bryan. Note that the bots will never have 100% success rate for the weird ways that we code.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:30, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Missing file

I tried to upload an image and was told that the same one had already been deleted. The deletion log explained: "Siebrand deleted File:George V of the United Kingdom - Punch cartoon - Project Gutenberg eText 16113.png (Dupe of Image:A Good Riddance - George V of the United Kingdom cartoon in Punch, 1917.png)". I cannot find the latter file on Commons, however. Has there really been such an image, and where is it now? Anyway, the image is now in the public domain. --Jonund (talk) 08:57, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

File was deleted and is now at enWP, see Commons:Deletion requests/File:A Good Riddance - George V of the United Kingdom cartoon in Punch, 1917.png and presumably en:File:A Good Riddance - George V of the United Kingdom cartoon in Punch, 1917.png

File

Can you change the file File:Qc-pêche.ogv into File:Qc-pêche.ogg in Wiktionnaire please ? Fête (talk) 11:52, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Been done, though this is not the place for the request. Please see {{rename}}  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:24, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Bad redirect

What happened here? Please add a rule to the bot so he does not change such redirects. --TMg 19:39, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Wrong bot, that would be CommonsDelinker, which is Bryan (talk · contribs), rather than SieBot  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:23, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

If this is true somebody should fix the redirect at User talk:CommonsDelinker. Currently it points here. --TMg 20:00, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker fix

Hi,

could you please fix CommonsDelinker the way that it will remove also all newlines after removed image? In case the article is formatted following way:

[[File:Example.jpg|thumb|Example]]

'''Example''' is lorem ipsum...

[[Category:Example]]

then it currently deletes just the first line and leaves the next empty line which causes empty <p> at the beginning thus the text of article starting lower, or if image is in the middle of article, a big space between paragraphs due to additional empty <p> between them like:

'''Example''' is lorem ipsum...

[[Category:Example]]

Thanks.

— Danny B. 18:18, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

I don't have the time or knowledge to do this. Patches are welcome in pywikipediabot's Subversion repo, where the code has resided for the past years. --Siebrand 11:39, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

jesper kyd picture

i have found some people upload jesper kyd with permit license in http://www.jesperkyd.com

you should upload with yourself to prevent your robot to delete again

--แฟนท่าเรือ : เกรียนที่หน้าตาไม่ดีแห่งไร้สาระนุกรม : พูดคุยกับควายตัวนี้ได้ที่นี่ 13:52, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

User:Wikimedia Commons Welcome malfunction

Places a non-existant {{Modèle:Bienvenue|realName=|name=Jsappe}} on user talk pages it assumes to be french. See User talk:Jsappe for an example. --Denniss (talk) 11:12, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Please report in bugzilla:. Interesting issue. Siebrand 13:42, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Remove category completely

How do you instruct CommonsDelinker to remove a category entirely from all pages it is currently on? -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:55, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Why would you delete and image that was uploaded by its photographer?

Why? - And not even notify them about it? Also, you have a response on my talk page to your deletion of more images. Status (talk) 02:26, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Odd bot edit on Meta

Hi Siebrand, could you take a look at this bot edit:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimania_2011/Bids/Haifa&curid=251082&diff=4554697&oldid=3699878

It looks to me like all it did was add unnecessary underscore characters; I can't see what it was trying to do. Not a big deal, but I was curious, and thought it might be useful information for you. -Pete F (talk) 17:32, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Doesn't hurt, either. There was some reason to find and edit the file, so don't worry about it, I guess. Siebrand 21:17, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker don't replace Files after moving

Hello Siebrand can you fix this [45]? --Knochen (talk) 05:48, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

No, I can't. Patches are welcome, though! Siebrand 21:17, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

At least you got an answer. You can feel happy. BTW since the support for CommonsDelinker was getting somehow worser, files are now replaced by the file movers themself if this is automatically possible. This will of course add more patrolling work to the local wikis; but this something Krinkle asked for. Whether one or 29 as threshold, does this really matter?

BTW, there is jira:COMMONSDELINKER-21, but we even don't know whether it is still used and whether it will be removed after the lights for toolserver are switched off.

Finally a big thank you to the operators of CommonsDelinker, a piece of software that shouldn't be a bot due to its importance and of course because it is simply required when you deal with files in MediaWiki. -- Rillke^(q?) 19:15, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

With the instability of CommonsDelinker increasing, I expect more and more disturbances in the workings of CD and CDH. Bryan is almost completely out of the picture. Neither I nor Multichill still have a lot of time to look after CD[H], other than updating pywikipediabot code and kicking a process now and then. Because this bot runs on literally all open Wikimedia wikis, we are only open to accepting maintainers that we know. If you know anyone who would want to continue development of CD[H], please let us know. We're not getting our hopes up, because as said, in the past 4 years or so, we haven't gotten any patches for CommonsDelinker. Cheers! Siebrand 14:40, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. This does not sound good but is not very surprising as long as you have to spend a lot of time for it and do not get it paid.

BTW, according to the delinker log, it stopped again at 2012-11-30 22:17:00 with a "Key error" whatever this is or why ever it did not find NS in the log events list. Unfortunately I know almost nothing about python. -- Rillke^(q?) 12:20, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

It's usually crap people insert on the commands page. Siebrand 16:12, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

In this case that's not true. Someone broke pywikipediabot. The recategorisation script that SieBot run can also no longer start. Major failure without a way out at the moment. Siebrand 16:22, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

It looks like the toolserver scheduler has issues now. :( Siebrand 08:42, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Could this “!” be the cause? --Leyo 14:45, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Name change

Concerning User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands. We discussed this a couple times at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems. Would it be possible to change the name of that page to something like User:CommonsDelinker/command requests. That way there would be a talk page at User talk:CommonsDelinker/command requests.. A talk page is a lot better than edit summaries alone for problematic entries and their removal. --Timeshifter (talk) 00:15, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Every page has a talk page. I don't see what changing the name after 4 years will help. Siebrand 08:42, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

There have been several discussions at COM:AN about the problem. The lack of a talk page for User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands means that stuff gets added and removed from it, and the only communication between the parties is via edit summaries. The edit summaries are oftentimes short, cryptic, incomprehensible, or non-existent. This is causing bad feelings, edit wars, and blocks. Is there a problem with changing the name of the page? That is easy to do. Maybe there is another problem with transclusions and so on? --Timeshifter (talk) 22:09, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Carcass1989.jpg

File:Carcass1989.jpg was speedied by Polarlys as having no source. I have removed that template because both the source and author were provided when your bot moved the file. You may want to clean up your bots talk page. – Allen4names (IPv6 contributions) 18:41, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Stained glass windows categories...

Dear mr. Siebrand, If someone asks you a question and you think he or she did so on the wrong place, you may of course move the question to the "correct" place. But it would be polite if you place a note at the original (wrong) place to tell the original asker where you moved the question to! Below I am repeating my question. If you still feel you should move it to elsewhere, then please be so polite as to tell where you moved it to. HHahn (talk) 10:50, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Original question:
I can agree with your recent moving "Category:Stained glass windows of xxx" to "Category:Stained glass windows of xxx". (I noticed this for xxx = "Tetragrammaton".) After all, there are may categories "Staines glass windows", and it is always better to have a distinguishing part at the beginning of the title. This holds for both images and categories. I agree that "Tetragrammaton on stained glass windows" sounds less well grammatically than "The Tetragrammaton on stained glass windows", but here we are talking about titles of images and/or categories. Within running text, the definite article

However, the most non-distinguishing part is the definite article "the" at the biginning. I would prefer to drop that in all category and image names! If someone enters "The so-and-so" into the search window, a list of possible matches is shown, but there are far too many titles starting with "The..." to show them all. As a consequence, titles beginning with a very common but hardly significant word like an article will be much more difficult to find than those without an article!

So, just for "findability", it seems better to avoid all initial "The", "A" and "An"!

I do not have a bot myself. So may I suggest that you do this? Thanks very much in advance! HHahn (talk) 13:19, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

I have been executing the requests from another user. Please insert corrective moves on COM:DL, I'll execute them in the coming days. --Foroa (talk) 10:57, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

A delinker talk page would solve a lot of problems

Siebrand. Human nature being what it is, people are going to go to the first place they see to ask questions and get answers. That is why some people end up here.

I see this note at the top of this talk page: "If you have a question about a specific category renaming, please contact the administrator who initiate the renaming. The administrator can be found in the edit history of User:CommonsDelinker/commands, adding the request shortly before the renaming was done."

That is unrealistic in many cases. Many people aren't that adept at navigating edit histories. Some people don't even know for sure what an edit history is.

But everybody understands what a talk page is. And a delinker talk page serves another purpose too. People learn from other people's mistakes.

People keep making plaintive pleas on Foroa's talk page about category name changes breaking interwiki category links on their various Wikipedias. Sometimes they get pointed to User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands. But that page is a wall of intimidating instructions. Especially for non-native English speakers.

People, myself included, have lots of questions about how to use it. A talk page is where I would start.

See also this discussion on Foroa's talk page. --Timeshifter (talk) 17:00, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

If you are overwhelmed, would not a separate talk page lessen the load on you, and allow others to help out? I had to remove most stuff from my Wikipedia and Commons watchlists so that I can focus on what interests me.

I gather that some kind of changes are occurring with hardware and people dealing with this kind of stuff. Could someone direct me where to go to learn more? A talk page would help with people like me seeking this kind of info. Anyone watching the page could help.

Here is some discussion that might be of interest:

Commons:Administrators' noticeboard#Why aren't we using simple category redirects? #REDIRECT --Timeshifter (talk) 04:02, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Arabic Wikipedia

Hello. Preferred Mark your bot and deletes non-existent links to images in the Commons sub-pages for the classification: pages contain links corrupted files in the Arabic Wikipedia

Welcome. Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia does not need to your bot — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.130.205.248 (talk • contribs) 12:30, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Here is the English Google translation of the page linked above. --Timeshifter (talk) 16:57, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Welcome. Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia does not need to your bot --41.130.205.248 19:44, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Hello. Who are you? Please log in. --Timeshifter (talk) 16:37, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Belated welcome from your robot?

Thank you for your belated welcome, via Siebot, but I've been contributing to Wikimedia Commons for over five years. Perhaps you could restrict its welcome messages to those who are in fact new users. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 07:07, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

As you can see the welcome dates back to 2007, exactly when you registered. Siebrand 15:13, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Request for opinion regarding category moves

Hi,

I would appreciate your thoughts on Commons:Village_pump#Making_it_easier_to_request_uncontroversial_category_moves if you have time. Thank you // moogsi^(blah) 12:48, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Backlog at User_talk:CommonsDelinker/commands

In reference to User talk:Category-bot#Backlog at User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands from November. There is now a backlog dating back to... November :( // moogsi^(blah) 10:50, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, there is no backlog. Siebrand 08:26, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

It seems Foroa has been kind enough to get rid of it in the last few hours // moogsi^(blah) 09:43, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Still, it surely never was a backlog that went back to 2012-11. Siebrand 20:40, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

You are quite right.. I misread the page because it's so crowded. Sorry for the hassle --moogsi·(blah) 22:47, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Category: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Montmajour

Bonjour, en tant qu'arlésien, je peux vous affirmer que jamais l'abbaye ne s'est appelée Notre-Dame, elle s'est appelée, il y a très longtemps, abbaye Saint-Pierre, mais cela n'est plus utilisé aujourd'hui. Il faut donc revenir au nom initial: Abbaye de Montmajour. Il s'agit d'une confusion avec le nom de l'église abbatiale qui est effectivement Notre-Dame, mais elle n'est qu'un élément de cet ensemble comme la chapelle Sainte-Croix (et non de Sainte-Croix), le monastère Saint-Maur (partie XVIII e siècle), l'ermitage Saint-Pierre ou la tour Pons de l'Orme ou tour de l'abbé. J'espère que vous voudrez bien modifier le nom de cette catégorie afin que tout soit bien clair. Bonne année. Finoskov (talk) 19:04, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

possible issue with Commons Delinker

Delinker log shows repeating warning messages: "WARNING: Configuration variable 'CommonsDelinker' is defined but unknown. Misspelled?" and "NOTE: You have new messages on commons:commons". These warning messages started some weeks ago, you may want to look at it. --Denniss (talk) 10:02, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

IIRC these have been displayed for years already and don't indicate something's really wrong. Siebrand 09:37, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

But it is stuck anyway. --Foroa (talk) 10:19, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Gan Wikipedia's logo

Hello, Siebrand ! some users recently reported after me that someone has changed the logo of Gan Wikipedia without any consent of the community, making the characters of the logo much lighter, smaller, and distorted. I think it is a serious violation of wiki rules, please help us to change the old logo back or maybe you could tell me where I can turn for help. Thank you.--Symane (talk) 13:51, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Looking for international bot operators to chat with

Hello Siebrand. I hope this finds you well. You were nice enough to Skype with me early last year for my dissertation project on Wikipedia bots and bot operators. I am now looking for bot community members from non-en.wikipedia versions and WM projects to chat with. I'm wondering if you'd be willing to pass along my request (posted here) to any bot operators you think might be interested and willing to share their time and expertise. I'm specifically investigating how bot policies differ between projects, and how projects decide/don't decide to adopt the Meta Bot Policy and recognize the global bot flag. I am bound by my English-only language skills though, so I'm looking for people who can chat in English through whatever media/method they prefer.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide, and let me know if you have any questions. UOJComm (talk) 19:51, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

SieBot not working since 31 January 2013

Hello Siebrand. I wanted to request some category renames but I see that your bot SieBot (talk · contribs) does not edit since 31 January 2013. Is that a temporary issue with the bot or you've stopped the service with it? Best regards. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 23:16, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Aragon coat of arms change

Hello, are you the operator of CommonsDelinker bot? Could you explain what is the reason for the massive change of File:Escudo_d'Aragón.svg with File:Official_Coat_of_Arms_of_Aragon.svg? The first one is the official representation of the coat of arms and the second is another unofficial heraldic representation. The problem is that the change has been applied massively even in my personal page in Commons (while i'm the author of the first image, but not the second). Who has take the decision to make this change?? Best regards --Willtron (talk) 10:43, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Could you please explain...

I noticed these two edits [46] [47] -- both of which changed Category:Citadelle de Québec to Category:Citadelle of Quebec.

Shouldn't the edit summary a bot leaves say why the edit was made, and offer a pointer to the discussion where it was agreed the bot should make the change?

If I had participated in that discussion I would have asked why the change was necessary.

Assuming a policy or discussion backed up changing the name of the category from French to English -- shouldn`t it have gone all the way? Citadel is the English spelling, the bot got that wrong.

A year or so ago I categorized some German boat lifts, which were subsequently recategorized into categories in German. I initiated a discussion over this recategorization, the conclusion of which was that if boat lifts had a specific name, in German speaking regions, the subcategories for those boat lifts in those regions should be named in German.

It seems to me that the conclusion of that discussion and your bots renaming are not in synch. I can abide with either convention, I just think it should be followed everywhere.

Thanks Geo Swan (talk) 19:17, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Namespace restrictions

Hi would it be possible that you disable CommonsDelinker only on Wikipedia: namespace on sl.wikipedia.org? Sometimes broken links are needed for reference in various votings archives. Best regards, --Miha (talk) 14:05, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

STOP removing file-links

Your bot has to stop removing file-links from de.wikibooks. It is fine if the bot changes the file name after it has been renamed. But simply removing the file link equals vandalism. I hope we can find some kind of solution, otherwise I'll propos a ban for your bot. Best regards, --NeuerNutzer2009 (talk) 14:21, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

You mean removing links to deleted files? --Leyo 16:39, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Majas_Composition.jpg

Hi, I saw your bot removed this file Majas_Composition.jpg. I thought it was correctly moved from Italian wikipedia where it is called Majas.jpg to commons. If it wasn't done properly, could you move it? I am afraid I don't know how to do it. Thank you in advance Tremendo (talk) 11:02, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Metro Toledo.jpg

Hi, I saw that the bot you manage (Commons Delinker) just canceled from Commons this file, and consequently it disappeared from the pages it was in. Could you please explain me the reason why it was canceled? --Ferdinando Scala (talk) 15:03, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

As far as I can see, there has never been a file like File:Metro Toledo.jpg. --Foroa (talk) 15:37, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Metrotoledo.jpg, deleted as derivative work as Italy doesn't have FoP. --Denniss (talk) 16:22, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Зариф Башири

Верните изображение Зариф_Башири_портрет_для_книги_выполнен_внуком_Энрике_Башири_..jpg. Ваш робот удалил этот файл механически, поскольку требуемая лицензия была добавлена, в этом нетрудно убедиться. - Derslek (talk) 03:58, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Delinker Bot

Hi, all the files originally deleted according to Commons:Deletion requests/KDOT Maps got restored now that the alleged copyright owner confirmed their PD status to OTRS. Can you trigger the bot to revert all the edits, where it removed those files from the various Wikipedias? TIA --h-stt !? 14:34, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism

It appears this bot has been used by JuTa as an act of vandalism

http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Basic_Physics_of_Digital_Radiography/The_Image_Receptor&curid=247127&diff=2514008&oldid=2514007

What can I do to rectify this mis-application?

Kieran — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.118.91 (talk • contribs) -=-

What you write is nonsense. Have been notified on User talk:Kieranmaher, but you failed to react. --Leyo 08:30, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Removing images with a bot account is a problem

Hi Siebrand,

The actions of your User:CommonsDelinker bot do not appear in Special:RecentChanges page, and this is a problem when it remove images without any image to replace it as some wiki templates and pages may be broken: users are not informed about image deletion, so they cannot search for (or import) a replacement picture.

I propose that you use another account (CommonsRemover for example) to remove image from pages (keeping CommonsDelinker for all other actions). This account would not have the bot flag in order to see image deletion in the Special:RecentChanges page by default without having to click on "show bots".

-- ◄ David L • discuter ► 17:39, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Bilder von Mona Barthel

Hallo Siebrand! Der Bot hat das neue Bild von Mona Barthel gelöscht, da keine Licenz vorliegFilet. Ebenfalls besteht der Verdacht, dass die Bilder:

File:Mona Barthel 01.jpg

und

ebenfalls nicht genehmigt sind. Das Bild File:Mona Barthel 03.jpg wurde von Mona Barthels Mutter aufgenommen und ist ok!! VG----Martin ^{der Ältere!} 11:12, 24 April 2013 (UTC).