It turns out Yann and I actually had some interaction with this guy's other sock User:Chriswilkins over an image. Can you take a look at this acct's uploads and tag or delete anything that needs it? I AGF'd on one of the images, but I wasn't aware he was a sock at the time. I didn't see any other socks on the range except the master and the one you just blocked. INeverCry 16:46, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Done I deleted 2 files speedily and nominated something for deletion. Taivo (talk) 18:14, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Sir, The Images on Vappala_Balachandran and Namgyal_Lhamo have been deleted for copyright violation. Might there be any way to get them back? The Images were sourced from http://www.arvindiyer.com and the Home page of the site clearly states the license type (Public Domain). It is likely that the uploader was unaware of license procedures at commons. Kindly help. Much appreciated. Thank You Sir.
Images were sourced from http://www.arvindiyer.com/Images/
No. I asked for someone to delete Template:Portal-headline, which redirected to Template:Headline after a page move, not Template:Headline itself. (Obviously, I should have removed "#REDIRECT" on the page before asking for it to be deleted, but I didn't think someone would accidentally delete the page the redirect pointed to.) Since you followed the redirect and deleted the wrong template first, when you saw the broken redirect Template:Portal-headline you deleted it because it was broken. You should have only deleted Template:Portal-headline and not Template:Headline. Please undelete Template:Headline. - dcljr (talk) 00:48, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
This has been done by another admin. - dcljr (talk) 20:26, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
You said at the VP: "This error happens, if speedy deletion tag is placed after redirect link, not before." That makes a lot of sense. I should have realized… (In the future, I will simply deactivate the redirect by removing the "#". Just to be safe.) - dcljr (talk) 01:32, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Buen día. Iré al grano. Resulta que vi la consulta de borrado de la captura de Telegram y borró el archivo porque no se realizó cambios. ¿No se tenía que retirar las partes con copyright en lugar de borrar del archivo? Si no fuera así, por favor solo restaura File:Telegram Android screenshot (SVG).svg y me encargaré del resto. Disculpa por las molestias. PD: Por favor avísame desde mi cuenta en Wikipedia en español si fuera necesario. Gracias. Disculpa por la redacción en spanish, pero ese incoveniente lo ví recién y es de noche por acá.--Diego Sanguinetti (talk) 04:21, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
I will probably not be wasting my time with the Wikimedia Commons as I am not at all sure why you deleted (censored) my profile page. My profile page contained a 1 paragraph generic statement about myself. You also provided NO EXPLANATION as to why you deleted my profile page.
If this is the terms of using this website I will probably be using Flickr and I will not be donating any money to anything wiki. I notice how you guys are always soliciting for cash. Is there any wonder why people do not donate to this website? Its because of this ridiculous mindless behavior.
Well, I will make sure none of my content reaches your website as I have revoked my copyright to all of my images posted here. I will continue to use Flickr which seems like the best place for posting photos.
I request your supervisor contact me, but wait, you probably have no supervision or anyone responsible for watching over what you do. At least with Flickr and other websites there is a management to complain to.— Preceding unsigned comment added by MichaelVadon (talk • contribs)
This is not "my" site. I do not own anything here. Deletion of your userpage was originally not my decision, but at first idea of User:Motopark, I agreed with that. The message (especially e-mail address) on your userpage was out of project scope. It did not consist of single paragraph, but was 3 paragraphs long. You can complain in COM:AN/U. You can request undeletion your files in undeletion requests. Taivo (talk) 09:44, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
@MichaelVadon: I am sorry that you had a negative experience with Wikipedia and Wikimedia. I hope to limit your disappointment by explaining that the content on any user page cannot be freely chosen. Otherwise, the user page (and thereby the expensive storage and bandwidth that the Wikipedia donations are used for) could be abused f.ex. as an advertising platform, for example for a professional photographer. Also, I would like to point out that once you have licensed your media under the Creative Commons license, it may not be easy to revoke those rights you granted others, see en:Creative Commons license#Applicable works. All the best, Lklundin (talk) 16:39, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
Author requested deletion of page: author's request on creation day[edit]
Please delete my files also, to avoid problems in reallife. Thanks in advance --Pitlane02 🏁talk 10:20, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
Done I really do not believe your words "to avoid problems in reallife". The files did not surpass threshold of originality and there was nothing personal. I'd better not delete them, they were potentially in scope, but ... uploader's request on uploading week. Taivo (talk) 10:30, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
At this point of view you are right, but the reason of the signs are the accidents at the Nürburgring[1], and I'm to deep in this community in reallife. Thanks again and regards --Pitlane02 🏁talk 10:38, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
I see that in addition to having an advanced level of English and Russian, you are also an administrator on the Estonian Wikipedia.
I hope you don't mind that I ask you a question about the Estonian Wikipedia.
On the English Wikipedia I often go to one article and convert a bare reference to use the 'cite web' or 'cite news' template. My rationale is that an article is not stronger than its sources, so this is important. Obviously, the actual link, the displayed title etc. is not changed by such a conversion.
Now, with a few exceptions, one can go to a different language version of the same article, and perform the same conversion. One has to be careful, especially with the dates and trans_title, but the approach generally works well.
In this manner I have modified Wikipedia pages in more than 20 languages, some of which I don't know at all. In this manner I often get a 'Thank you' from an editor from one of these languages, that I at most know just a little bit.
Which is nice.
At one point, I went from the English en:Little green men (2014 Crimean crisis) to the other languages on that topic (excluding the Russian which was locked), but including the Estonian et:Rohelised mehikesed (I am aware that the Estonian title translates to something else than the English, but that is not a concern for my question) and performed the conversion of bare references to use the 'cite news' or 'cite web' templates instead also on the Estonian page.
So if you have the time, I would much appreciate if you could answer this question:
Are the two above reverts of my edits really according to some special policy on the Estonian Wikipedia? (And if not, you are welcome to reinstate the changes I made).
Regardless of the answer to my question, I thank you for supporting Wikipedia. Lklundin (talk) 16:22, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
At first, your sentence "I am aware that the Estonian title translates to something else than the English" is not correct. "Roheline" 'green' + -d 'plural' = "rohelised" 'greens'. "Mees" 'man' + -ke 'little' + -d 'plural' = "mehikesed" 'little men'. But that's not important.
Estonian wiki tries to avoid dates like 2015-04-07, because Estonian reader takes that as 4th of July 2015, which is incorrect. After your edits, there were 5 such dates. This was the main reason of reverts. I am not sure, what you should do, except avoiding such date format in et.wiki in the future. You can write "7. aprill 2015" or at least "7. 4. 2015". Taivo (talk) 09:28, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
User:Lklundin, now I read the mentioned talk page. One user complained, that the template "cite web" must not be used – apparently on the reason mentioned before. The other user said, that he cannot reply to you in your preferred language, because your main language is apparently C (this was not nice by him, I suppose). Taivo (talk) 10:15, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
OK, many thanks for taking the time to look into this and for answering my question. All the best, Lklundin (talk) 10:28, 18 April 2015 (UTC) PS. The date format YYYY-MM-DD is a part of ISO 8601 (for which I see that there is no page in Estonian).
Hi Taivo. Please tell me where I go to get help to sort this out. I need to change the name of that category in the headline to Cadillac 452 because the word series is wrong there and also can lead to confusion. But Commons when I try to create a new category Cadillac 452 insists that I use the old name Cadillac Series 452 even though you have just kindly deleted that category for me! Any suggestions very welcome! Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 10:29, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Pildi lisanud kasutaja soovib seda faili kustutada. Kuna meil on Kakerdaja rabast niigi külluses fotosid, siis võiks vast sellele soovile vastu tulla. Kruusamägi (talk) 11:32, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Not done Pole nõus. Pilti kasutatakse kahes projektis, sellisel juhul ei tulda üleslaadija palvele vastu. Taivo (talk) 14:11, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Enam ei kasutata. Nagu ma ütlesin, siis teisi pilte jagub. Kruusamägi (talk) 22:44, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Ootaks kustutamist. Kruusamägi (talk) 19:11, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Done Mul oli eile õhtul arvutiga mingeid segaseid probleeme. Taivo (talk) 17:47, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Taivo, The author (Ron Baker) is the same as the uploader (Crawlin Kingsnake). Crawlin Kingsnake is my user name on both Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. My real name is Ron Baker. I license to Commons (Share Alike) whenever I upload a photo, or when an author wants to use one of my photos from Flickr on Wikipedia. I don't change the licensing until I am uploading or allowing others to use one of my photos. That is why on my Flickr photos, most have "All Rights Reserved". I maintain that right until I post to Wikimedia Commons, then I change the permission to "Creative Commons - Share Alike".
Hi, thanks for dealing with this request. I'm afraid that you didn't read COM:IDENT, an official guideline, which makes it clear that it "outside of Commons […] is [a] problem of Commons" – in short, photographs of identifiable people just cannot be kept on Commons if local laws don't allow it. Quotes:
The subject's consent is usually needed for publishing a photograph of an identifiable individual taken in a private place, and Commons expects this even if local laws do not require it.
The degree to which a subject is identifiable varies. An image that includes a clear view of the face is highly identifiable.
If the original or similar images are already present on the Internet (either on Commons or elsewhere) then attempts at anonymising the subject are ultimately futile. Content-based image retrieval engines such as TinEye or Google Images can identify a subject that has been anonymised.
This should leave no doubt that the images should be deleted, regardless of the opinion of an unpatrolled user with a liking for overly long comments. FDMS 4 22:53, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Abd said very well in discussion: "Policies exist for a purpose; when the purpose is gone, the policy is meaningless." You quote three parts of policy. Part 2 does not apply for children's photos multiple years after photographing. The photo has been in Commons for many years and the subject is not identifiable any more. In addition, no proof is given, that the photo is made in private place. So part 1 can also be unapplicable, but this is not important any more. I am convinced, that I closed the request correctly, according to existing policies. Taivo (talk) 14:24, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello Taivo,
File:SFX (2).jpg and File:Honda PC50 001 (2).jpg, which I recently nominated for deletion. You declined the request and stated first upload better version and then nominate for deletion. Both images have already had better versions uploaded at file:SFX 3.jpg and file:Honda PC50 002 (2).jpg respectively. Not sure if this covers the situation, but wondered if you could either delete or advise what I should do next (if anything). Thanks. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 12:11, 7 May 2015 (UTC) PS. apologies...don't know how to link to the files without filling up your talk page with the images.Eagleash (talk) 12:11, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Comment I deleted file in first pair, but not in second, because proposed alternative is worse (smaller and helmet is partly cropped out). Taivo (talk) 13:03, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. From my point of view the second file in the second pair (the more cropped image) is better as the intention was to use it as an infobox image on en.Wiki (as it has been) and the first one was A) too distant and B) background distractions (in this case the helmet) should generally be avoided. However, if you think the file should be retained anyway, then that's fine by me. Thanks for help. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 14:24, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Please read the entire article for this school which has been closed since 1977. You will then see that the "crest" for this school has been in the public domain use since 1892 and, even more important, this crest can be clearly seen used within another image in this same article on the cover of this school's annual ("The Palmetto") of 1923. I have placed a very lengthly post on the page used to defend this image from deletion - because it has become a common thread for editors to make a technical deletion recommendation without providing me any assistance in providing the proper description whenever there is an image I didn't create but there are no other known/living creator that even had a copyright to begin, even decades ago or prior to 1923 (and this is an image within the U.S.). Thanks. SandHills (talk) 17:40, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
@User:SandHills, I read your long comment and closed my deletion request as kept. I fixed license of this file and of file:Calisle Palmetto.jpg, too. Your problem is, that you license not-own work as own. I looked through all your deleted files, restored file:1923 Palmetto.jpg and fixed its license.
Now I have questions for three your uploads. In school crest you claimed, that the author is Robert Humphreys. Who is he? Is he en:Dean of Killaloe and Clonfert 1886–1917? For file:CMSfounders.jpg: the leftmost photo is in public domain, but who is photographer of others? When the photos are made and when published? For file:Catalog for CMS.jpg: Does the catalog have copyright notice? Taivo (talk) 18:55, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
27 квітня Ви написали на моїй сторінці обговорення користувача про допущені мною порушення щодо завантаження файлів. При цьому файли, які завантажені з порушенням, не зазначені. Якби Ви вказали, про які саме файли йде мова, я би їх переробив --Usik64 (talk) 07:06, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
Hola, soy un usuario del Wikiproyecto de Guatemala, y observé que esta imagen está candidata a eliminación, esta imagen está publicada el 15 de marzo de 1951 en Guatemala, el día de posesión de este ilustre guatemalteco. ¿Qué tiene de mal, porque esta imagen fue utilizada por la obra "La Calle donde tu vives", pero también fue puesta por los Caballeros Cadetes de Guatemala, grupos de Facebook y el Gobierno de Guatemala?, díganme que se necesita y yo lo arreglo, no hay necesidad de eliminar la imagen del ex-presidente Árbenz. --GarcíaJ1945 (talk) 00:41, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Taivo, qué licencia entonces se puede utilizar en estos casos?.
In respons to deletion of Tunnel Dam.jpg, Britannia Mine sealed entrance.jpg and Mark at Britannia Creek.jpg[edit]
In response to Deleted, if OTRS-permission arrives, then the file is restored. Taivo (talk) 17:56, 18 May 2015 (UTC) for files Tunnel Dam.jpg, Britannia Mine sealed entrance.jpg and Mark at Britannia Creek.jpg, I have sent an email using the OTRS format suggested in your deletion file. I have copied the two copyright holders and listed their images by ownership, attached the iamges for reference and copied them on the email sent to wikipedia. Please let me know if there are any additional steps needed. One suggestion I have for individuals who request deletion, is to provide instructions for proving permission. I did not find out about the OTRS email and email address until Taivo suggested. Original complaint contained no information on how to make correction--Evolve Multimedia (talk) 22:00, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, I am not member of OTRS group and I cannot see OTRS-permissions. Generally, yes, I can restore files, but here an OTRS group member with right to restore files is needed. I repost the message into undeletion requests. Taivo (talk) 22:10, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Dear Taivo. Your name has been mentioned at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard. Please let me know if you are available for a crat candidature. Thank you. --Krd 07:28, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
I read carefully Commons:Bureaucrats and decided, that this is not a big deal. If the community thinks, that I am worth it, then I am available. Taivo (talk) 09:43, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Commisserations, but I present you with a gold star for your candidature. Please keep up your hard work; it is much appreciated. Maybe try again in a little while. Green Giant (talk) 19:15, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Sorry mate, next time more support! In the meantime, you still have this: --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 04:46, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello Taivo,
I have submitted a new image and this time I used the OTRS form that I failed to use on the first submission of the three images for Britannia Creek. I copied the owner and the subject of the image on the permission request and I submit the file, an image of Mark Angelo at the first World Rivers Day event in Burnaby BC, with their permission and at Mark's request as he wishes to use the image on the World Rivers Day site. I also applied the same copyright that you applied for the other three images. However, before the permission was reviewed, the image was deleted due to a copyright violation accusation. I have responded on my page and on the page of the user who made the entry and accusation but I am not sure what the proper process is here or what I am missing when I upload images. I have gone through the upload wizard and help documentation but it is still unclear. Can you direct me to the correct page so that I can deal with the issue for this image and accusation and ensure I do this correctly in future.
File:Mark Angelo at World Rivers Day event.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation.
Thank you for any help or guidance you can offer. --Evolve Multimedia (talk) 16:04, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
I cannot give any other advice than copyright holder of files must send OTRS-permission to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Copyright holder is usually the photographer, not person depicted on photo. If you are not copyright holder of the files and the copyright holder does not want to send that permission, then there is nothing you can do, those photos are not suitable for Commons. If you do not know, who is copyright holder – sorry, those pictures cannot be accepted.
I understand Taivo. This process is the same one I used for the other three submitted here. The copyright holder is Danny Catt, the photographer, who was included in the email OTRS permission email sent to permissions-common@wikimedia.org. I have included him in the emails and spoken to him, which of course you have no record of but I am happy to provide what is needed. What is different about this request versus the last one for images used in the Britannia creek page. Same form and same process was used. Thank you for any and all help you can offer. The ticket number for permission request is 015052210020499. --Evolve Multimedia (talk) 00:20, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Deletion of File talk:Wikipedia Editing for Curators.pdf[edit]
Hi there, hoping you can help! I was looking to delete the file "File:Wikipedia Editing for Curators.pdf" itself, rather than the Discussion page, could you advise? Many thanks. Lirazelf (talk) 08:49, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Yes, the picture comes from Italy. Babbo Natale is 9 cm high and is located on my bookshelf. More than a toy I would call him (it?) a Bibelot. I wouldn't mind so much if his charming picture is deleted. Good evening, --F Ceragioli (talk) 19:24, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Dampremy - monument aux morts 1914-1918 - avril 2015 - 2.jpg[edit]
Où avez-vous lu dans la description que ce monument date d'après 1945 ? Ma photo fut prise en 2015, mais le monument fut construit quelque années après le fin de la guerre 1914-1918.
I can read english, i can't write il good. You also, learn !
--H2O(talk) 20:39, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I saw you've deleted the files listed below. I wanted to thank you to have deleted them so fats, but also to said you you'd make an error while deleting the complete file. The deletion request was ony about the original version of the file (around 1600*800 px) and not about the second version (1024*600 px approximately). Could you please restore the second version of these files? Thank you in advance. Good day. --Lev. Anthony (talk) 14:25, 14 June 2015 (UTC) P.S.: This is the list of photos
The file has been restored because there is a valid looking OTRS-ticket so I believe she can be unblocked, correct? Natuur12 (talk) 19:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Done I unblocked him and apologized on his talk page. Taivo (talk) 07:55, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Taivo. I'm curious why you thought didn't meet the threshold of originality. Also, you may have missed the note I put on Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of Rochester, New York.svg pointing out that the file should be transferred to en:wikipedia before deletion? Powers (talk) 14:37, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
The file does not consist of only simple geometrical figures, like straight lines, rings and ellipses. For example, I cannot redraw the logo. Actually I take myself as standard: if I am able to reproduce the logo, then it is simple, if not, then not.
The request had been open for whole month and it was time to close it. I did not transfer the logo into local wikis, because I was not sure, which projects allow fair use and which don't. Until recently, I even had no account in en.wiki. Sorry. Taivo (talk) 15:12, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi !
You are right, the swiss painter Charles Humbert died in 1958 but the Bibliothèque de la Ville de La Chaux-de-Fonds purchased the archives and the (copy)right for all is work, like photographies, drawings, illustrate books and so on a few years after his death.
We wanted to illustrate his work with this few pictures. If the Wikipedian community wish, we can pass an OTRS Ticket to submit the pictures.
Yes! This would be very good! Please send OTRS-permission, and the files will be kept. Please show the filenames in permission. Taivo (talk) 11:34, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Taivo, I suppose you were responding to a request filed somewhere when you deleted a few categories I created as empty. However, there were at least three files present (1, 2, 3) until deleted by 94.3.63.224. I don't know who this is, but they have a huge recent history and have needlessly removed a number of categories. Could you please restore them and help keep an eye on this sort of thing in the future? Thanks, mr.choppers (talk)-en- 03:34, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Yes, I was responding to IP's request. Empty categories are eligible for speedy deletion. Often a category is re-created under new name, old contents are removed into new category and old category is nominated for speedy deletion. Apparently this is one of such cases. You say, that emptying of old category was wrong. Maybe. You restored the category and reverted some IP's edits, that's OK. Usually such recategorising is useful and the IP nominated a lot of empty categories for deletion, even his/her work was mostly useful. You wrote on his/her talk page about that, this was good. If something such happens again, please tell me, we'll found a solution. Taivo (talk) 15:26, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
No no, he just emptied the categories and then asked to have it deleted - he is not responding, he is simply vandalising. YouYann just now deleted the categories for Category:1969 Mercedes-Benz vehicles, nominated by the same character (ip hopping). This undoes a large amount of work. Again: The categories are only empty because the ip just emptied them - without reason. Check out their history. He is currently trying to depopulate the entire category 1978 automobiles, but he is not communicating. Please help. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 01:41, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
I'll write about that in administrator's noticeboard. Taivo (talk) 07:47, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Insect_legs.svg - book in Russian Бей-Биенко Г.Я. Общая энтомология. Учебник для университетов и сельхозвузов. 3-е изд., доп. Москва: Высшая школа, 1980. 416 с
four maps War 1812 1? War 1812 2, Cuban Revolution map, Petrograd 1917 - Source maps Советская военная энциклопедия / под ред. Н. В. Огаркова. — М.: Воениздат, 1978. — Т. 6. — 678 с. — (в 8-ми томах) We use non-free clipart, copied designs and colors and intellectual property.
Почему удалили фотографию, которую я сделал лично? Rusliner (talk) 23:55, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Это было кадр из видео. Я подозревал, что этот файл нарушает авторские права автора видео. Вам было неделя, чтобы ответить, кто автор видео и разрешает ли он публиковать эту фотографию под свободной лицензии. Вы не делали это и файл удалили.
Вы загрузили файл снова и уточнили, что вы автор видео. Теперь у меня нет возражении. Taivo (talk) 10:57, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Уважаемый товарищ
Нельзя ли мне бессрочную блокировку получить?
За оскорбления и неуважение к проекту и к ряду участников. тут, тут. Или посоветуйте кого бы тут можно послать на хуй и назвать копирастом-дрочером? --Vladlen666 (talk) 02:51, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
Done I deleted 2 files speedily and nominated something for deletion. Taivo (talk) 18:14, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Comment These were not the only places, where you can find the photos. File:Namgyal Lhamo Performance.jpg is here with unfree license "© 2004–2015 Lobsang Wangyal Productions" and file:Vappala Balachandran.jpg is here with license "Copyright © 2015 Indus Source. All Rights Reserved.". On such circumstances copyright holders Indus Source and Lobsang Wangyal Productions must send OTRS-permission. Taivo (talk) 10:12, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Not done Pole nõus. Pilti kasutatakse kahes projektis, sellisel juhul ei tulda üleslaadija palvele vastu. Taivo (talk) 14:11, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
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didn't meet the threshold of originality. Also, you may have missed the note I put on Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flag of Rochester, New York.svg pointing out that the file should be transferred to en:wikipedia before deletion? Powers (talk) 14:37, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
