User talk:Techman224/Archive 1

Thank you

Thank you for the speedy watching of File:Cowboys Stadium configured for basketball - cropped.jpg. This turned out to be a technical fubar by an upload script, but it's good to know no-license-images are not only tagged and bagged but fixed up very quickly around here. 70.116.131.185 00:46, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

File:Selenicereus grandiflorus.jpg

You have rotated this file, which is incorrect. The position of the original upload was correct. Please undo this. Ulf Eliasson (talk) 12:22, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

hi

Thank you, actually opening a category in commons was a little bit mroe traumathic than I thought, so a couple of mistakes could come eventuallywith it. Thanks :) --Farkasven (talk) 14:20, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Crop

Re [1] I didn't see a template to ask that extraneous elements be cropped so I just used {{Crop}}. Can you crop it so that just the subject and the reporters standing quite near to her are visible? As it stands, she is barely visible when the image is in thumbnail form in the infobox at w:Kreesha Turner. –xeno^talk 16:15, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

That's excellent - thank you. –xeno^talk 22:18, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Flickr reviewing

Hello Techman224, and thank you for your application to be a flickr reviewer. The application has been removed as successful, and you've been added to the list of reviewers. Congratulations! Please see Commons:Flickr images if you haven't done so already, and the backlogs at Category:Flickr images needing human review and Category:Flickr review needed. A helpful script for easy-tagging flickr images is at importScript('User:Patstuart/Flickrreview.js'); (which you can add to your monobook.js), and you can add {{User reviewer}} or {{User trusted}} to your user page if you wish. Thank you for your work on Commons! :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 13:21, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Category:Black Bike Week photos

Hello, Techman224. You have new messages at File talk:Blue VIP Hayabusa at Black Bike Week Festival 2008.jpg#Speedy deletion. You may remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Dbratland (talk) 19:48, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Fixing broken redirects isn't difficult

I've declined two speedy deletion requests.[2][3] In both instances, it was rather easy to find the correct category that the page should redirect to. (there was a third page, "Pedro de Moya", which you tagged for deletion; I only deleted it because of the quotes used in the article name, otherwise I would have just redirected it to Category:Pedro de Moya)

Please keep that in mind the next time you tag a broken redirect for deletion. EVula // talk // ☯ // 23:47, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

File:Taylor Cole.jpg

How I can verify if the image is a copyright violation? Is it just a reasonable suspicion or are there concrete evidence? --Supernino (talk) 21:22, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Ok. (I have not seen Not taken by me). Thank you for explanation. --Supernino (talk) 22:02, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Question regarding copyright viol;ation Flickr-sourced picture Sovereign Harbour

Hi Techman224. When I used the Flickr sourced pucture of Sovereign-Harbor-locks and lifeboat.jpg I tried to look for the original license used but when using my Epiphany webbrowser (Knoppix laptop) I didn't see the copyright info. I'm used to work with a special Flickr-app on my PDA and a special Flickr! Windows application that automatically gives all the required details when downloading a Flickr! picture, but I couldn't find the info via the nromal Flickr! website. Where can I find that these pics weren't free to re-distribute? Some info about what to look for when using the standard Flickr! website would be welcome to prevent me making the same error in the future.Tonkie (talk) 01:52, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

File:Coat_of_arms_of_Antigua_and_Barbuda.png

File:Coat_of_arms_of_Antigua_and_Barbuda.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!

User:Zscout370 ^{(Return fire)} 18:54, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Clouding

The file is pulished on flickr under the Creative Commons license ([4]). It is not marked as NC, ND nor are all rights reserved. So I see no reason for al deletion.--RobertKuhlmann (talk) 11:50, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

File rename

Hello. Would appreciate further help at File talk:LG 시네마 3D TV 새 모델 ‘소녀시대’ 영입.jpg. —Eustress ^talk 15:14, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

File:Fanal et coupole du phare de Pointe-au-Pere.JPG

I've done some import from Filckr before and this one is the first that was not automatically confirmed by FlickrReview. As i intend to import new image from Flickr in the future and i don't want that a person be obligated each time to review the file, did you have a short explanation of what i did wrong this time. Thank in advance. ChristianT (talk) 14:29, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Michael Healy Rae

Hi Techman 224: Many thanks for confirming Michael Healy Rae is properly licensed. Please remove the box in his Wikipedia article when you have time. Kind regardsKemiah (talk) 11:13, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

But!

It's not even used for comercial things!!! It's just my personification!!! :-(

DennysOMarshall (talk) 23:45, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for renaming the file for me! Much appreciated. --Another Believer (talk) 15:58, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

RfCU

Thank you for your support.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 11:04, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for moving my butterfly files. Maarten Sepp (talk) 00:01, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

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Hi Techman224, congrats on your successful RfA. I have also added the OTRS flag as per the separate request. Cheers, russavia (talk) 20:24, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you Russavia! Techman224^Talk 20:54, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for helping in the admin jungle of backlogs! I have added the welcome template here which has maybe some useful links for you. Aaaand: of course a cake! :-) Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 01:31, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Congrats! --Katarighe (Talk) 15:52, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:Works made by non-artists

I nominated next part of this category - Commons:Deletion_requests/2012/02/26#File:Cidade._Pintura_de_Paulo_Cesar.JPG and below. Maybe it is possible to speedy delete this group of files (or even entire category)? Bulwersator (talk) 10:28, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

If you check this out, most of the time out of scope deletions are sent to Commons:DR, only the very obvious cases can be speedy deleted. Techman224^Talk 18:34, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

OK, thanks for reply Bulwersator (talk) 20:43, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Republican primary map

Looking at Talk:Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012 (Wikipedia) I see no consensus reached for the change that occured with the colors with the color-blind person in question even requesting there be "No Purple or green" With this in mind would you mind reverting until a consensus can be reached?

Looks like he reverted himself. Techman224^Talk 04:25, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Allright then, I dont mind a color change but I saw almost no talk on the matter, there is prob a way for both sides to have an agreement. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 04:27, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Edit to filter 85

Not seen that - many thanks! Would you care to take a look at filter 86 and look at removing it from catching the toolserver ones which are the main false positive on that one. TIA :) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:52, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

 Done :) Techman224^Talk 02:25, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Big thanks - if you are that helpful I may pester you again :) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:48, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Rename

Hello, Please rename this file File:Omkar das manikpuri 20120330 2063259522.jpg to Omkar Das Manikpuri, I mistakenly uploaded it with default full file name. Thanks. Fanofbollywood (talk) 20:48, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

 Done Next time you can just use the {{Rename}} template to request renames, and someone will come by to rename it. Techman224^Talk 03:27, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!Fanofbollywood (talk) 06:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Need help

I recently uploaded an image from [5] the website says the image is in the public domain but under what license? The image I uploaded is here: - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 21:44, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

I think I have provided teh correct license based on the info but I could use an opinion sorry for this im kinda new at uploading images. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 22:22, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

I don't know, there's one site that says it's public domain, but another that says cc-by-sa-3.0. You might get a better response on the Village pump/Copyright. Techman224^Talk 20:19, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Okay I will bring it up there thanks =) - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 16:35, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

If/when you have a minute

Could you take a look at this filter. Having found a few IPs placing spammy links recently I thought it would be good to get an idea about the scale of the problem however currently the filter is firing when an IP puts a cat on a file (I think) which is obviously wrong). Any assistance will be appreciated - TIA --Herby ^{talk thyme} 10:32, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

I've examined the log entries, and for all of them where the category changes the filter doesn't return a match which it should do, for the one by 117.193.118.30 and others where a link is changed or added it returns positive as it should. I don't know what the abuse filter was doing those days, but when manually examining the edits and loading the filter as it is now, it returns false. I would enable it again to see if it gives false positives. I think it's a glitch of some kind. Techman224^Talk 23:42, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

OK - running again and thanks for the help. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:57, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Commons:Bots/Requests/TechBot 2

If you still want to pursue the bot request, there are a couple of questions waiting for you. --99of9 (talk) 01:32, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

AJAX patrol

Hello, I see that you use AjaxPatrolLinks. I have good news for you: AJAX patrolling is now in core! On Wikimedia projects, it should arrive with MediaWiki 1.21wmf5, between 2012-11-26 and 2012-12-5. You should disable this gadget when the new feature change is enabled, because it will become redundant and to avoid double patrolling. Thanks, Nemo 08:03, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Commons,js

Actually, I didn't touch those comas, they weren't there to begin with, and was only working because was the last one on the list. I did however forgot to check that. Thanks for the warning. Béria Lima ^msg 12:56, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

COM:AN

Hi Techman224, as you just reverted Salvio giuliano's request on COM:AN, do you think it's bogus? --Túrelio (talk) 23:39, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

No it's not bogus, it's being handle privately. Techman224^Talk 23:42, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

O.k., I've already deleted one of the images, I leave the other one to you. --Túrelio (talk) 23:43, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Filter merge

Mind telling me why - in practice they "catch" quite different behaviour - cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:40, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

They're both exactly the same, except for the namespace. Merging them together is better because we can manage the links all in one place, instead of copying them to the other filter. It's more efficient and less error-prone. Techman224^Talk 19:17, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

OK - they were different at one stage and the intention was to tweak them. I'll split them again when I get around to reviewing the differences - so few people even look at the log never mind do anything. Don't bother with talkback btw. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:52, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

However - while I've got you :) - it is picking up folk with noticeably more than "user_editcount <= 30" currently?? --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:54, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

I've put all the statements in brackets, and it seems to work. The Abuse Filter can definitely act weird if you don't define your conditions right. Techman224^Talk 20:33, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Wm-license-cc-by-sa-3.0-text/en-gb

Hi - thanks for doing these changes. Could I be a pain and ask you to change "licenced" back to "licensed" in the fourth word of this message. Due to the vagaries of British English spelling, license is correct as a verb, but the noun is "licence". Thanks.  An optimist on the run! 17:23, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

 Done Techman224^Talk 18:36, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Username policy

Too bold, sorry (and bear in mind Commons:Don't be bold). See Commons:Village_pump#Commons_proposed_policies_and_guidelines - feel free to do something to get the proposed policy approved through discussion (eg an COM:RFC, like COM:GOF has going on). Rd232 (talk) 12:13, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

File:Thomasville Municipal Building (North corner).jpg

What did you do with the categories that were on this photo and all of the other information??? --Mjrmtg (talk) 23:56, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

I didn't do anything to the categories. Something went wrong with the moves, it's cutting out information. Looks like the file were moved, and then that redirect got moved to the same name. I can't find the original text. It's not just this file, I'm finding this in a bunch of files. Techman224^Talk 00:02, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

I apologize, but it is my photo and I freely license like all of my other photos. Please do not let it be deleted. Thank you. --Mjrmtg (talk) 00:12, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

I removed the tag on the file so that other people can investigate the problem. I added a message to AN. Techman224^Talk 00:56, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

File:Plan détaillé Fort de Bron.jpg

Hi,

This file was OTRS validated, I don't know what happened. I'm not the author, I uploaded for him with his agreement, and he validated the OTRS ticket (#2012030810012328). JeanBono (talk) 08:49, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

There has been problems with file moves causing the file descriptions to be lost. See the thread above. Techman224^Talk 17:29, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Maps of Kiribati

You were correct to delete maps of Kiribati uploaded late last year with a letter which specified noncommercial use. I have been back to Kiribati now and obtained a new letter using the wording suggested by Wikipedia. I hope this suffices and the maps can now stay. Here's one for you to check File:01 Map of Makin, Kiribati.jpg Many thanks, --Obkiribati1 (talk) 21:35, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

109.92.21.151

I do not have anything to do with the IP address, it is not my sockpuppet. From whatever angle you know that one other user, and I know why it works. --Kolega2357 (talk) 09:46, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Filter 69

This filter makes the assumption that the users in the local permissions group is the only OTRS members. That assumption is plainly wrong. That said it is not uncommon with erroneous clams made by faulty filters. The whole concept of an "abuse filter" used in this kind of context is wrong. There are no abuse when people are handling emails on language specific queues. Actually there are very seldom abuse involved at all in filters set up as "abuse filters". Jeblad (talk) 04:02, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

I don't know what exact situation you're talking about, but everyone in the OTRS group is supposed to have access to the permissions queues, and they should be the ones tagging files with the {{PermissionOTRS}} template. Having others tag it would not be acceptable as they don't have access to tickets. Techman224^Talk 04:08, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

I have access to OTRS and handle the Norwegian queue. Commons permission queue is only one of a looong list of queues. Its a brilliant example of people on Commons failing to realize they are part of a bigger community. But no problem, we (more or less I) can stop handling permissions. Jeblad (talk) 04:15, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

The info and permissions queues are totally different. All permissions should be sent to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Info queues should not be handling permissions. Techman224^Talk 04:42, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Editor @ ar.wiki

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Your protections of Wikipedia logo files

Hi, can you please explain to me your decision to protect those 21 Wikipedia logo files? As you might have noticed, they have already been protected by myself against re-uploads and moves; there's no point in protecting a file description page from editing by all users except administrators — if anyone decides to vandalise a file description page, it will not hurt us more than if they decided to destroy any other page on Commons.

You only barred all users from editing those pages, which means they will have to request edits from admins with {{Editprotected}}, and it just adds up to our backlog. I suggest that you revert your protections to the level I set. Thanks, odder (talk) 08:20, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

They are fully protected either way as I added them to Commons:Auto-protected files/global/logos. I just updated the list, and fully protected them from editing so that it is obvious. A lot of them have a template message on the file page saying that the page is protected, directing them to the talk page. The template doesn't cover cascade protection, that's why I explicitly protected them so it catches it. Techman224^Talk 08:30, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed, and I disagree with that, too. As I said, I think there is no point in protecting the file description pages, because it doesn't protect us from anything, and only bars regular editors from making whatever edits they'd like to make, and forces them to use {{Editprotected}}. This is a very unwiki way of doing things. PS You don't need to alert me about your replies with a template; just use Echo notifications. odder (talk) 08:45, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

ArchiveBot

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Regarding editing File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-or.svg

Hi, There were few alignment problems in the logo which I had corrected and need your help to upload it. Moreover, as English Wikipedia has "The Online Encyclopedia" as its quote, a similar quote is going to be made for Odia as well. The community is discussing about it and might take more time to decide. In the mean time please give me permission to upload the modified file for the current one. Thanks. --Subhashish Panigrahi (talk) 12:16, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

@Psubhashish: : I assume you mean this file. Since this file is defined in InitialiseSettings.php directly, it will immediately change the logo for the site. You have to wait until the community discussion closes until you can upload it at that location. Techman224^Talk 18:17, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying. Will do so. Cheers! --Subhashish Panigrahi (talk) 11:54, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

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File:Reforma b1.jpg

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Gunnex (talk) 23:12, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

AN/U

Why did you reopen Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems#Blackwhiteupl when moving it, I think this was resolved when I warned the user? --Didym (talk) 00:52, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

@Didym: You didn't leave a note on the page so I assumed it was still open. You can close it if it has been resolved. Techman224^Talk 00:57, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Really? --Didym (talk) 01:00, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't see that. I must have pushed edit with the revision before yours and I didn't see it. Techman224^Talk

change my rights

Dear Mr. Tachman, may you explain me why did you change my rights? They were given to me by a person who has the same privileges like you.--مي زيادة (talk) 11:30, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

@مي زيادة: You were given the Confirmed group and the IP block exemption group. Since your account is at least four days old, the confirmed group is redundant because you now have the autoconfirmed group given to you automatically. Both confirmed and autoconfirmed give the same rights. The IP block exemption group is only given if you have a need for it, like being able to edit when there is a hard block on your IP address or to edit through a proxy or tor node for some reason. Since you can edit my talk page, it seems that there is no hard block stopping you from editing. I hope this helps explains things. This has nothing to do with you, it is just standard practise. Let me know if you have anymore questions, and feel free to read the two pages I linked for more information. Techman224^Talk 19:07, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you, odder (talk) 22:27, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

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Query

Not that I'm particularly fussed about my 'user rights' here, but could you please explain why you revoked rights conferred here - with a succinct rationale supplied for the provision of these rights - by sysop Sealle? You, on the other hand, have revoked these rights without so much as a courtesy summary. Thank you, in advance, for your response. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 05:16, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

@Iryna Harpy: Hi there. I removed the confirmed user group since you have been autoconfirmed. The confirmed group is used by users to get around the four day period before users get autoconfirmed. It is assigned directly by administrators, while autoconfirmed rights are automatically given after 4 days. It contains the same rights as the autoconfirmed group. Once you became autoconfirmed, the confirmed group became reductant, so I removed it (It's standard to remove the confirmed group from users to keep the user list from getting too crowded.) It didn't remove any rights from you regardless since the autoconfirmed group has identical rights. See Commons:Autoconfirmed users for details. Techman224^Talk 05:34, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Cheers for the explanation. In essence, there is no difference between the 'rights' conferred on me (as a 'trusted, experienced user') than on en.wikipedia where I don't even remember having ever used them as I 'revert' or 'restore' previous stable versions based on policy and guidelines. I've never been quite certain as to the usefulness of these functions outside of some form of bragging rights I don't care about. Ultimately, there's no difference between following protocols or abusing 'autoconfirmed' rights whether you've asked for them or not. Good practice and bad practice speak for themselves. Got it! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 05:46, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you--B dash (talk) 08:05, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you. – Kwj2772 (talk) 18:23, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

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You can read the de-admin policy at Commons:Administrators/De-adminship. 4nn1l2 (talk) 03:07, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you for your hard work to create the sum of all knowledge that is freely sharable to every single human being across the world. As our diverse community grows, we need a guideline that will help all of our work collectively and constructively where everyone feels safe, welcomed, and part of a team. That is why the Wikimedia movement is working on establishing a global guideline called the Universal Code of Conduct, often referred to as UCoC.

After the months-long policy consultation, we have prepared a policy (available in many languages) that has been ratified by the Board of Trustees. We’re currently in the second phase of the process. During this round of consultation, we want to discuss the implementation of this policy. As a member of the functionary team of Wikimedia Commons, your opinion on enforcement is of great value. We want to hear from you on how this policy can be enforced on the Wikimedia Commons community and what might be needed to do so. There are a few enforcement questions so you can easily outline your answers based on them. Please do not hesitate to bring any more questions/challenges you think are not yet discussed.

The discussion is taking place on Commons:Universal Code of Conduct consultation. You can also share your thoughts by replying to this message (Please ping me so I get notified), posting your message on my talk page. I am aware that some thoughts cannot be expressed publicly, so you can always share your opinion by emailing me as well.

As a valued member of the Commons community, please share your thoughts, ideas, and experiences that relate to UCoC. Let us know what needs to be improved so we can build a more friendly and cooperative space to increase editor engagement and retention of new users.

Wikimedia projects are governed by you. So, it is you who needs to step up to ensure a safe, comfortable, and pleasant working environment.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you! Wikitanvir (WMF) (talk) 10:18, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Please take a short survey regarding UCoC

Hello Techman224,

I would like to inform you that we now have a survey in place to take part in the UCoC consultation. It is not a long one and should take less than 10 minutes to complete. You can take the survey even if you have already participated in the on-wiki consultation. It has a different set of questions and allows you to participate anonymously and privately.

As a member of the Commons functionaries, your opinion is especially essential. Please click here to participate in the survey.

You are still welcome to participate in the on-wiki discussions. If you prefer you can have your say by sending me an email. You can also drop me an email if you want to have a one-to-one chat.

Thank you for your participation! Wikitanvir (WMF) 13:54, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

De-adminship warning

Dear Techman224. I am writing to inform you that you are in danger of losing your adminship on Commons because of inactivity.

If you want to keep your adminship, you need both to sign at Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section within 30 days of today's date, and also to make at least five further admin actions in the following six months. Anyone who does not do so will automatically lose administrator rights.

You can read the de-admin policy at Commons:Administrators/De-adminship.

Thank you -- CptViraj (talk) 08:01, 13 February 2021 (UTC)