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• Category:Geograph images with bad file names
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Deletion request

Hello!

Don't forget <noinclude></noinclude> when you are nominating pages that often are transcluded, for example templates and deletion requests, for deletion. I fixed Template:Trimming :).Jonteemil (talk) 10:15, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Request for Information about George Cooper

2600:1700:EB50:D820:F4EF:2C31:CBA:B652I wanted to verify that the painting or engraving of George Cooper that you created for wiki is the George Cooper that was the English bare-knuckle boxer of the 19th century that fought Dick Curtis and several other boxers. I suspect this is the case but I wanted to be certain. Unfortunately the image as it now exists contains no description of the identify of the boxer (not your fault).

Thanks

dcw2003

As best I can tell, it is. The image was uploaded with the description "George Cooper (boxer)" back in 2011. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:15, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyvio

Thanks for catching this. A while back, I made the mistake of uploading some pictures of coins I had laying around without fully checking the copyright. Going through Commons:Currency and my uploads, I'm not sure about the status of some of these (e.g. Luxembourg) but I should probably get the Peruvian coins get taken down as well. Forbes72 (talk) 15:56, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

I've nominated the two pictures of Peruvian currency for deletion. Forbes72 (talk) 16:10, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Administrator

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An offering for our new administrator from your comrades...

The Squirrel Conspiracy, congratulations! You now have administrator rights on Commons. Please take a moment to read the Commons:Administrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Commons:Administrators' noticeboard and it's subpages), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other admins, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care. Have a look at the list of Gadgets (on the bottom there are the ones specifically for admins – however, for example the UserMessages are very helpful too).

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EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:23, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Welcome back :) -- CptViraj (📧) 14:36, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Ditto. Welcome back to the club. De728631 (talk) 16:42, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Congrats. Looking forward to working with you. BTW, your babel box should be on your user page AFIK Gbawden (talk) 17:09, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

File:Alla Tarasova 1916.jpg

Care to explain your ruling here? There is no indication of a pre-1946 publication (PD-Russia-1996) or pre-1917 publication (PD-RusEmpire), yet you simply ruled kept with the comment "PD-RusEmpire" despite the lack of evidence of pre-1917 publication. Was this an accident, willfully turning a blind eye, a misunderstanding of creation vs publication date, or something else? I hope you understand why your ruling was wrong and refrain from making such incorrect rulings contrary to copyright law and Wikimedia policy in the future.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 23:37, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

@PlanespotterA320: Yes, it appears I missed that detail. I'll let another admin handle your renomination though.

As for your comment itself, it was needlessly aggressive. You could have said "I disagree with your close. I think you missed that there wasn't a publication date, and the licensed you put in the file requires it." but instead you immediately accused me of willfully breaking policy and/or being incompetent. I strongly suggest that you read COM:TPG, specifically "try to consider the person on the other end of the discussion is a thinking, rational being who is trying to positively contribute to Commons", and that before you communicate with other users, you read over your comment and ask yourself "if someone said this to me, how would I react?". People are not going to want to help you, or communicate with you at all, if you snap at them the first time you speak to them. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 02:02, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

DR

Dear Squirrel.

While closing DR of Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by NoLoveNero I think you missed out deletion of this file. Could you please do the needful. --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 03:50, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

@Tiven2240: Got it. Thanks for pointing it out. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 04:26, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Logo Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen.jpg

Hello The Squirrel Conspiracy,

Could you please make those two logos available to me so that I can upload them to German Wikipedia?

Btw these logos are not very complex, there was no need to delete them. Chaddy (talk) 12:59, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

@Chaddy: Neither the bird nor the arrow on the right hand sides of the images are simple shapes. However, you can appeal at Commons:Undeletion_requests if you'd like.

Images are here: https://imgur.com/a/g4luAQF

File description pages are below:

=={{int:filedesc}}== {{Information |description={{LangSwitch|en=Logo of Mission Winnow - Ducati MotoGP Team.|it=Logo del Mission Winnow - Ducati MotoGP Team.}} |date=2019 |source=Motorsport.com |author=Philip Morris International Management SA / Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. |permission={{PD-textlogo|simple}}{{Trademark}} }}

=={{int:filedesc}}== {{Information |description={{en|1=Formula 1 team Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen Logo}} |date=2020-01-01 |source=https://www.sauber-group.com/motorsport/formula-1/ |author=Sauber |permission= |other versions={{Image extracted|1=PKN Orlen logo.jpg}} }}

Sincerely, The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 18:46, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Chaddy (talk) 18:55, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't see that there was a svg-Version: File:Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen logo 2020.svg. Could you please help me with that file again? Chaddy (talk) 19:21, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Here's the file: https://svgshare.com/i/Lbs.svg

Here's the file description info.

=={{int:filedesc}}== {{Information |description={{en|1=Logo of F1 team Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen}} |date=2020-01-12 |source=https://www.sauber-group.com/motorsport/formula-1/ |author=Alfa Romeo Racing Orlen |permission= |other versions={{Image extracted|1=PKN Orlen logo.jpg}} }}

The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 19:50, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you again. Chaddy (talk) 22:23, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Haywon123

Hi The Squirrel Conspiracy, please review your closure of this DR. Firstly, File:Andrew Andraos Headshot.jpg has no OTRS ticket associated with it (you claim otherwise). Secondly, the picture with an OTRS ticket associated to it, File:Andrew Andraos.jpg, was deleted. This is, however, appropriate as I do not think that the permission is genuine. I've outlined my reasons in a note attached to ticket:2019052310000457. Please keep it deleted. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 05:50, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

I've deleted File:Andrew Andraos Headshot.jpg and undeleted File:Andrew Andraos.jpg. I'm going to bring the latter to the OTRS noticeboard. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 05:59, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Revdel misuse

Hi. However ill-considered and in bad taste Achim55's comment was, please reconsider your revision deletion. By deleting the comment from the history, you are essentially stating that the (non-admin) community is so incapable of handling a slur that it should not even be allowed the possibility of oversight. I don't understand the incremental benefit that you see to deleting the comment (above simply replacing it) that excuses the unilateral removal of community oversight. I do not believe your deletion is in line with COM:DP, please revert. Storkk (talk) 19:28, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Storkk: COM:REVDEL states that one of the appropriate uses of the tool is "Grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive material". I believe that the word Achim55 used meets that standard, and am declining your request. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 19:32, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

If you think I was rude, please have a look at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Women model top.jpg. Feel free cleaning up their ~150 vandalistic nonsense deletion requests (first made by different IPs). --Achim (talk) 19:41, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Great, so the Commons community will now be afforded your beneficent protection whenever someone calls someone else an idiot or a cretin or a fool. Or is there some line between those and "retarded" that affords the community protection from seeing those words and not others? Can you define this line, or you just know it when you see it? Storkk (talk) 19:59, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi

Sorry, I need to ask a favour and as I see you are on-line, took the liberty. Could you kindly import this file (it is an own work) to Commons. I have no idea how this is done. Thank you very much in advance. --E4024 (talk) 03:26, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

E4024 - Done. I use Commons:For the Common Good for moving files over, though there are plenty of other tools. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 17:38, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Handling blocked accounts

It is of concern that "At the time of deletion the uploader was globally locked as an LTA, and I deleted all of their personal photos per COM:SCOPE. Since the global lock was rescinded, I've undeleted the file in question." makes a bad faith presumption for past contributions of a blocked account. Unless the files were part of an obvious disruptive campaign, such as spamming, uploads are of themselves neutral, and all file related policies, such as Scope, apply identically to uploads from currently blocked accounts as they would from any other account. There is a specific danger to the project, as disruptive accounts have uploaded many thousands of reasonable and educational files, then wanted to have them deleted as part of the disruption.

If you disagree, this is a policy matter that can be usefully discussed at COM:AN. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 08:45, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Rename

Could you rename this file? File:FileElizabeth Nance, PhD-1.jpg. I put an extra "file" in the name. Thanks. Seven Pandas (talk) 12:18, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Someone else did it.Seven Pandas (talk) 12:33, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Bergman GFDL version

Hello. Back in April, you created {{George Bergman GFDL-1.2}} and at the same time removed a load of text from the top of Category:Photographs by George Bergman from the Oberwolfach Photo Collection. The text that you removed stated that {{GFDL}} (i.e. GFDL 1.2 or later) applied to Bergman's photos, but your template includes {{GFDL-1.2}} (i.e. GFDL 1.2 only). Was that a deliberate change? This is of some significance because GFDL 1.3 allows for relicensing under CC BY-SA 3.0 in some circumstances whereas GFDL 1.2 does not. --bjh21 (talk) 18:27, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Bjh21: The permission linked to en:Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License, and the conversation took place in April 2008. At that time, the text at that page detailed version 1.2 (that content was subsequently moved to en:Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2). 1.3 wasn't released until later that year. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:39, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. That makes things simple at least. --bjh21 (talk) 11:26, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

File:Brady Skjei with fans in February 2019 (cropped).jpg

File:Brady Skjei with fans in February 2019 (cropped).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 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!

SecretName101 (talk) 02:39, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

More info about the image I've nominated for deletion

Hi! Reaching since I've noticed you've updated the image I've nom for deletion. I've initially tagged this image for deletion because it was straight out of the subject's LinkedIn (just different background). You may refer to this screenshot for details. Please bear with me as I'm still getting the hang of knowing when to tag a page for normal nomination vs. OTRS. So when the uploader ended up sending the OTRS, it's not surprising as the uploader seems to have COI with the subject. Please check this SPI for details. Hope this helps in processing the file. — Infogapp1 (talk) 12:06, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Портрет Байсангура

Здраствуйте , зачем вы удалили портрет " Байсангур Беноевский 1840.jpg ". ? Без каких либо на то оснований? Kavkazaved174017491 (talk) 12:38, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

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File:Martin Vizcarra (Presidential Portrait) (cropped).jpg

Please edit the author of this file to Andres Valle (Government of Peru), in accordance to the metadata. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael ^(marhata) 01:28, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

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File:Shashi Tharoor (cropped).jpg

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Suzanne Plunkett (talk) 12:11, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Please participate in the Universal Code of Conduct consultation on Wikimedia Commons!

Dear The Squirrel Conspiracy

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 The Squirrel Conspiracy,

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)

File:هايدي موسى (cropped).jpg

File:هايدي موسى (cropped).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. The file you added may soon be deleted. If you believe this file is not a copyright violation, you may replace the copyvio tag with a regular deletion request. This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: COM:CSD#F1, Possible copyright violation: No evidence of a free license at the claimed source. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

MiguelAlanCS (talk) 17:31, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Not deleted pictures of Stadtwerke Aschaffenburg

Hi, why yo didn't delted the pictures the vehicles from Stadtwerke Aschaffenburg? I uploaded picture in much better quality and didn't want that the badly quality of the old pictures are anymore here on Wikimedia