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Archive 2016

January

File:Do the right thing, ratify the CTBT - Flickr - The Official CTBTO Photostream (3).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.

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106.68.123.120 12:02, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
File:Do the right thing, ratify the CTBT - Flickr - The Official CTBTO Photostream (1).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.

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106.68.123.120 12:02, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
File:Do the right thing, ratify the CTBT - Flickr - The Official CTBTO Photostream.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!

106.68.123.120 12:03, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
File:Do the right thing, ratify the CTBT - Flickr - The Official CTBTO Photostream (4).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.

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106.68.123.120 12:04, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
File:Do the right thing, ratify the CTBT - Flickr - The Official CTBTO Photostream (2).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.

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106.68.123.120 12:06, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
File:Do the right thing, ratify the CTBT - Flickr - The Official CTBTO Photostream (5).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.

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106.68.123.120 12:06, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Cathy Richards (talk) 21:52, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Notification about possible deletion

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Affected:

And also:

Yours sincerely, 209.58.128.135 17:08, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Amazing county - Flickr - Knight Foundation.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.

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Wouter (talk) 16:02, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

February

De-adminship warning

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Dear とある白い猫, 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/Feb-Mar 2016 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.

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Thank you, odder (talk) 22:17, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, it has really been that long? Amazing how time flies. Back to the backlogs :) -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 06:50, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

March

You closed this request and a bunch of other requests as "kept", claiming that the material was created by the United States Government. What is your source for this claim? The pictures are apparently part of a set and all pictures have the same art style, so it would seem a lot more likely that the Memorial Student Center itself created the illustrations and the text instead of asking the government to do this. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:41, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Stefan2: The images look like they were sketches from historic photos (which can arguably be derivative copyright, I get that), to be more specific with an example [1]. So many scattered nominations of historic images is not the correct action IMHO. I will agree that it is preferable to have the proper source citations for these or even better an OTRS ticket to Texas A&M. I do not think handing this issue needs COM:DEL discussion. Do you think you can pursue this OTRS angle for me? If their reply is negative, I can delete the files myself. These are MOH recipients so they must have US Gov variants somewhere if these aren't salvageable... -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 19:58, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

April

File:Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.gif 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.

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.     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 13:37, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File source is not properly indicated: File:General Mustafa Kemal.jpg

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Teemeah (talk) 11:07, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:とある白い猫/Archive/2016/05 User talk:とある白い猫/Archive/2016/06

July

Images deleted across possibly many spaceflight articles

Hey there! Recently there was a deletion request for several mission patches, with the rationale that higher quality images exist.

The issue is that the lower quality patches were deleted from articles with no replacement. I don't know what articles they were removed from, and now that they are deleted I am having problems finding them.

I have no issue with any of this, and am more than happy to fix the articles myself, but I can't find a good way to see which articles had images deleted.

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help and if you need more info. Thanks! Kees08 (talk) 20:34, 1 July 2016 (UTC) User talk:とある白い猫/Archive/2016/08[reply]

September

File:015 15 - Flickr - Knight Foundation.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.

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Ellin Beltz (talk) 01:41, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
File:01sj biennial - Flickr - Knight Foundation.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.

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Ellin Beltz (talk) 01:41, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

October

Pay attention to copyright
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Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:26, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You closed this saying that there was no valid reason for deletion without at all addressing my comment:

"Without a source, we do not know who produced it or who photographed it. You say it is a product of United States Army Institute of Heraldry, but the uploader and the file description do not say that. It is well established that individual representations of blazons have their own copyright, so in order to keep this we need to know who created this particular instance and, if it not the USAIH, a free license. Also, since this is a photograph of a 3D object, we need a free license from the actual photographer unless, again, the image came from the USAIH or another Federal source."

It may well be the insignia of the 37th Training Wing, but without knowing who produced this patch and who photographed it, we are potentially infringing on two copyrights. .     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 14:10, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Jameslwoodward: It isn't though. See w:Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.. "A photograph which is no more than a copy of a work of another as exact as science and technology permits lacks originality. That is not to say that such a feat is trivial, simply not original" as quoted in Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag#The U.S. case of Bridgeman v. Corel (1999). You cannot claim copyright just by snapping a photo of a patch. Nor can you claim copyright by simply re-creating or restoring a PD work regardless of the effort it takes. This is different from snapping a photo of a 3D PD work and claiming copyright from it based on lighting etc. -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 10:29, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
+1 -- (talk) 11:38, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Undeleted unsource emblems

Hi, please add a hyperlink to a US federal government site to the source field to show these are genuine USAF works. Jcb (talk) 11:27, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Jcb: Umm no? Hyperlinks are not a requirement for this kind of content. These patches predate the internet. A simple google search depicts multiple examples on multiple sources. -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 11:58, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
If you are just too lazy to execute an appropriate process, please leave it to somebody else to deal with the UDR. Jcb (talk) 12:56, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Jcb, you are just being rude, there's no other way to see your accusation of being lazy. Please back off and concentrate on some different backlog areas. There's plenty to do that would not tempt you into personally insulting other contributors who hold different viewpoints from you. This rudeness drives away volunteers from having positive discussion and eliminates any chance of having a consensus building discussion.
I was contacted on IRC earlier, and may add some sources to the two undeleted files this weekend depending on my real life commitments. I doubt this will satisfy you as there are no "official" USAF military sources, however there is no significant doubt that the patches are in use and representations of them are as validated and used by USAF employees to describe and illustrate their own active units. If you want to keep on deleting these low risk images, then raise a DR, present your case, and the community can discuss it. -- (talk) 13:20, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know what you are making trouble about, Lineagegeek already completed the task for these two files. Jcb (talk) 13:34, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Anyone that disagrees with you seems to be liable to nasty personal allegations of being lazy, forum shopping, disruptive, on and on. You are not rude to volunteers that happen to agree with you at the time. Back off please, or be seen to work constructively with others, including those you have technical disagreements with. This is not me "making trouble", this is me objecting to your deliberately provocative language, which is what we expect of trolls, not administrators. -- (talk) 13:59, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Jcb: I do not follow your logic. Do you have any reason to doubt that these files aren't works of the US federal government? They look like military patches to me, various internet sources collaborates this including images of pilots wearing them.
Honestly I am rather distressed by the conduct of multiple parties in handling of obvious public domain works in this manner. Such scrutiny would better suit other areas where we do have more pressing issues such as obvious copyright violations (screen captures, etc).
@Jcb: How about this? Compile me a list of patches without hyperlinks and I will OTRS verify them with the US Department of Defense.
-- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 14:47, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

@とある白い猫: With regard to your comment in the UNDEL request, the list is the "other files" at User_talk:Ellin Beltz/Archive_5#Deleting emblems of United_States_Air_Force_emblems. These match up with the Flickr album linked there (provided by Ellin). -- (talk) 15:10, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Orphan cats

Could you please help uncategorize all images from the following categories?

-(tJosve05a (c) 20:54, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Josve05a: ✓ Done That was over 100,000 files! :D -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 13:33, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Quite creepy

Hi とある白い猫,

After the discussion was closed, I saw you describing Colins proposal to INC to not work past midnight to avoid misunderstandings and distress as ...Identifying someones sleep cycle is kind of as extreme as you can get, it is quite creepy to be honest... I object to your interpretation of Colins concern as an attempt to identify someones sleep cycle, and that you describe Colins concern as "quite creepy". I think that is a highly unfair, exaggerated and unbalanced accusation as Colin is trying to make a constructive proposal for how INeverCry could avoid some non-optimal decisions or misunderstandings. You have hereby harmed Colins online reputation. If my conduct was described as "quite creepy" in such a situation, I would be very distressed about it.

I have noted that today INC has written I've got to stop staying on Commons for 12+ hours per day as Colin rightly pointed out. It's difficult to discuss things productively when you're tired and short-tempered after a long day of editing. Which is a clear acknowledgement of the observation and proposal Colin is bringing forth has validity.

I hope you will be more mindful when you use such terms to describe other users actions in the future, and I hope you will consider redacting that comment as a courtesy and a sign of good will.

-- Slaunger (talk) 22:05, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Slaunger: You are welcome to object. One does not need to be specific about speed cycles, eating habits or other more personal factors in order to simply say "tired". Such remarks can easily be interpreted in many ways where as tired is tired. Overworked, fatigued, admin burnout are also phrases that can reference to the well known problem. In the case of INeverCry this was blatantly obvious to everyone.
I retain that Colin's approach was unhelpful at best, and more on the creepy side of things. Talk to any individual you are not well acquainted with about your observation of their sleep cycles etc, and the reaction you will receive will most certainly not be positive and perceived as I described. These are basics in civility. One does not need to cite a users comments to convince them of something if one wants to be constructive. All he would need to do is claim INeverCry was tired in a neutral manner. Certainly a phrase such as "Without some change to his editing patterns, I see an inevitable de-admin (whether self-requested or enforced) and the community made it clear the last one was the final" would not be received well by an already tired and overworked admin. So I think Colin has harmed his own online reputation in the discussion concerning INeverCry. If anyone's reputation is harmed by a few noticeboard posts, it was too flimsy to begin with.
We expect a level of temperament when commenting on noticeboard discussions which Colin evidently lacks. Discussions can get heated and last thing we need is people add fuel into the fire. People may make accusations of intimidation, harassment and stalking for example which are known on-wiki problems. I needn't list the users who were blocked for these reasons who were otherwise constructive.
-- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 09:26, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
Since you retain that Colin's approach is "more on the creepy side of things", which is a variant of your original "quite creepy" I am stuck speculating how you reach this conclusion? The best idea I can come up with is that you may have a lack of knowledge of the history before this, which Colin's proposal was an extension of. INC has, on more than one occasion brought their own sleep pattern up and in one recent case from September 2016 given it as a possible root cause for fall-outs in otherwise good judgement. The examples that come to my mind are
Colin brings this past history up, but you just dismiss it. Given this is a self-acknowledged problem stated in public by INC, I do not think it is taboo for another user to bring it up when noticing a correlation between bad decision-making and working late for many consecutive hours. I agree that if there had not been such a prior history it would appear a bit odd, to bring up the topic, but given the history here it is an entirely different matter. Maybe you just did not know the background, and when it was brought to your attention, you did not do your homework of checking out the background.
You argue that Colin has overstepped basic rules of civility. The fact that INC has obviously not perceived Colin's observation as uncivil indicates for me, that your judgement has not been correct in this case. Instead I urge you, again, to consider just how civil it is to describe a users sincere attempt at proposing a solution to a difficult self-acknowledged problem as "quite creepy/more on the creepy side of things".
Remember, there is a person behind a user name, when you sit at a screen and type that a users action is "quite creepy". Take a moment to consider how you would react if your actions were described as "quite creepy". When I am about to write something critical about another user, I also try to think about; would I say this also, if I met the person face-to-face? Did you consider that?
-- Slaunger (talk) 13:42, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Intentions and what is perceived do not always correlate. AGAIN, no one here disputes INeverCry was tired. Merely stating that is more than enough. Specifically trying to prove sleep cycles is not. If you mentioned sleep cycles in a face to face my reply at a minimum would be "that's creepy dude". If you tell this to someone of opposite gender you may earn yourself a slap. People have had restraining orders enforced on them for such "observations" in extreme cases mind you. Point here is sleep cycles and other such very personal issues can very easily be interpreted as creepy.
Noticeboard participation requires a level of temperament Colin evidently lacks. Noticeboard discussions get heated fairly often so people should at all times adjust their language to be absolutely sure they would not be interpreted in different ways. You should never perceive a remark posted there as too personally as harsh and even unreasonable remarks are common. This is particularly and issue if a tired/overworked user is involved whom is more likely misinterpret intentions. We do not want issues to spiral uncontrollably costing us good users. This is something Colin himself eluded towards in a sentence that can be interpreted as a threat.
We should not reward/promote uncivil behavior simply because INeverCry managed to reply in an eventual cordial manner (now and in the past). What if the user was slightly paranoid? Would the same behavior be acceptable? There are so many ways Colin could have destabilized that discussion.
Even before Colin's involvement we already were discussing what to do with the actual issue on IRC. There was some concern if lifting the block would be worse or not, which is understandable. Such considerations are always made when overriding another admins action. The same conclusion would have been reached without his involvement.
-- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 16:13, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
There is a very big difference between beginning to discuss a persons sleep cycle out of the blue, and discuss it when the other person has openly brought it up earlier in public. You are completely dismissing this aspect as if "I did ot hear that". You are now generalizing your slur about Colin with the statement "Noticeboard discussions requires a level of temperament Colin evidently lacks".
In contrast, I find that your allegation towards Colins does nothing to calm down or stabilise the situation, but instead escalate a molehill to a mountain top. Colins headline was "INC overtired again". There are plenty of examples of Colin making constructive suggestions and help resolve issues at the Noticeboards. From the same discussion I referred to above, you have above Nick stating ...Colin's wise words above are similarly appreciated..... Of course there are also examples of unsuccesfull interventions as there are with most, but a generalized statement as this is not fair and unbalanced. Just today Colin received The Teamwork Barnstar because he and Jkadavoor helped resolve a conflict between WPPilot and Ikan Kekek. Colin has initiated and orchestrated the Commons:Photo challenge. Something you cannot do without excellent collaborative skills. Colin can be blunt, especially when the recurrent "let's speak badly about Colin" wave hits the boards, which your contribution here is an excellent example of.
You write "Even before Colin's involvement we already were discussing what to do with the actual issue on IRC." I have a very eerie feeling about these IRC discussions taking place to discuss administrator and user conducts between a subset of users, who are in average hardly representative on the community, as it has a strong bias of very computer-oriented users and the IRC user base probably has an age bias. Who is "We" on IRC. We is certainly not the community. IRC logs must not be logged and are hidden from the public giving it a "closed club" mob-appearance for the outsider. I recall having logged on a few times years back and thinking; I am too old for this communication form. It mostly seemed more like a social chat and it had a closed club mentality. Why not discuss these things in the open? What is there to hide?
--Slaunger (talk) 20:51, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
File:Aaron-presnall - Flickr - Knight Foundation.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.

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Ellin Beltz (talk) 07:13, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

November

File:Amy Webb - Flickr - Knight Foundation.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.

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Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:34, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:34, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:35, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:35, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
File:Icon-innovativetools - Flickr - Knight Foundation.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.

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Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:36, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:36, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:36, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:36, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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173.76.107.16 16:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Commons Lisans Yardımı

Merhaba, şurada ve şurada İngilizce bilmememden kaynaklı bir lisans problemi yaşadım. Fotoğrafları çeken benim ancak bunu burada belirtirken bir sıkıntı yaşadım ve engel yedim. şimdilik google translate sayesinde "Hedwig in Washington" ile görüştüm ve engelim kalktı. Silinen bu görsellerin gerekli düzenlemesi için bana yardımcı olabilir misin? --Pragdon (talk) 17:41, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Pragdon: Metadatada telif notu gözüküyor. Sanırım problem burada. -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 00:43, 9 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@とある白い猫: Hepsi kendi çektiğim fotoğraflardı. İngilizcem yeterli olmadığı için de yapmam gereken lisanslamayı yapamadım (doğru yapamadım). Bu sebeple de haklı olarak silindi :/ --Pragdon (talk) 01:58, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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MCMLXXXIX 20:39, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

December

Please explain

Hiya: On Commons:Deletion_requests/Files uploaded by Jonas1639 this close, would you please explain how OTRS is going to fix a series of Newspaper articles? New York Times and others are not possible to cover by COM:OTRS. Thank you for your reply. Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:19, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ellin Beltz: I am communicating with the individual through OTRS. Agitating them would not be helpful. I agree that news paper clippings are problematic and I will process them in a day or two. A COM:DEL isn't needed for the obvious problems, and others will be OTRS marked. Would this be satisfactory? -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 19:37, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
If the end result is the copyvios removed, that's fine, I just don't think that anyone other than the user themself is agitating themself; plenty of other people have had copyvios removed without the special snowflake treatment and survived to be productive members of the Commons community, so I was curious why obvious copyvios were "kept" at all and/or how you planned to save them via OTRS. Ellin Beltz (talk) 05:51, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Ellin Beltz: Indeed. I admit it is strange for me as well as OTRS does not have editorial control after all. Rest assured that I have no intention of keeping copyright violations here. I can simply speedy delete those. They are so obvious a COM:DEL would be a waste of time. -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 12:06, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Actually in this type of case a COM:DEL is not a waste of time because if the uploader reuploads the same image with same name it will click right over to "this was deleted before" with all the links. So for someone with a series of mixed old images claimed as own work and copyright violations also claimed as own work it is beneficial at the Deletion Nomination to include all, so that the entire range of the uploads can be seen together. You know of course that we do not mention "OTHERSTUFF" whether it exists or not, so if Other Files were deleted by speedy, they can't be mentioned in the DN, thereby losing the context. Sometimes it's all about helping out the deleting admin and leaving a nice plump "paper trail" of shiny electrons. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:31, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Ellin Beltz: However, if the user understands his or her mistake and contributes productively without causing issues adding to our archives we can avoid all the problems. What you are describing suits COM:AN/U more than COM:DEL. Do you want me to handle this issue or not? I can restore the COM:DEL and disengage with the user if you wish. I am trying to win a new user rather than just close a COM:DEL case here. -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 18:09, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
At this point, I am only mentioning concepts for the future. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:50, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Ellin Beltz: Certainly! I would be more than happy to comply with a procedure which serves the interests of commons, much better than my faulty ad-hoc. The issue I have is that some OTRS requests are less than patient. They are willing to comply but they don't understand why we request information. On top of the case where the user was concerned over deletions (I had to merge seven tickets). Some of my responses this week included the following:
  • "No you do not own the copyright of the photograph of yourself, the photographer does"
  • "We are not sure you own the copyright of this work, please send from an official email associated with the website the files are from".
  • "Wikipedia only is not enough, you need a free license"
  • "We do not have editorial control over the content. While I can remove the image for you, anyone can restore it."
In all cases users offer better files than what we have. Some are less patient with the process as they want the "bad version" gone as soon as possible while they sort and secure the copyright issues. We can always revert to the worse version, it is not like there is an emergency.
I am more than open in how to deal with such issues as I genuinely want to streamline the process. There are more than 600 tickets on commons queue alone with new ones coming. Dealing with them is non-trivial as I have to verify many things, sometimes going into a small detective work to make sure that gmail or outlook email isn't some random guy pretending to be the copyright holder.
Add to that the ticket I have with 40 files associated with it. I was hoping to bulk tag all 40 with a bot but I cannot because OTRS tags can only be posted by OTRS members of which my bot is not one. I requested this permission but it was declined.
-- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 19:05, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
@Ellin Beltz: Just and FYI, I processed most of the users uploads. Deleted most for copyright issues and renamed the remaining so that filenames are human readable. One file still has an issue I am discussing with the user. I am uncertain if this file was taken by someone working for the organisation. It is in the realm of possibility but I am not so sure since it can just as easily be from a newspaper. -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 03:18, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

By closing this early, I think you are denying us the (however unlikely) best possibility of an explanation from a reasonably established user. Storkk (talk) 11:11, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is an interesting case, a DR was probably the wrong procedure. Can I have a copy of the original file please? I may find time to examine it next week. @Revent: -- (talk) 11:32, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@: I can get you this file... What procedure would you have used instead of a DR? I was really hoping (though not holding my breath) for an explanation since we have started seeing a flood of appended archives, and this was uploaded much earlier than this new flood and by an otherwise apparently good user. The data on the end of this file is appended just like the others, but appears to be much more structured binary data. I haven't had time to look in more detail. If you have the time and inclination, I am also looking at weirdness in the noise of files like File:Granada_2015_10_22_2401_(25772524240).jpg (and many photos by the same Flickr user). Or a file like File:Sedimentary_Rock_Formations_-_Zion_National_Park,_Utah,_USA.jpg, which has appended data that starts with ASCII "RQNX-CLOTHO:256:" before the binary starts, which I think is too coincidental not to be meaningful. Perhaps this should be continued on my talk page, though... Storkk (talk)
I'm traveling so have no firm view. We may be able to pull a report, or this might be better as a phabricator based investigation. The truth could range from user error up to a security problem, and DRs do not help the analysis needed. -- (talk) 11:58, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Let me know. I'm willing to send you any file that I haven't already discovered an actual archive of copyrighted material in (most of those are banal and appear to be either hollywood or burmese movies or android APKs or microsoft ISOs). I will need a way to get you the files privately. Storkk (talk) 12:08, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Storkk: I am well aware of the ramifications. I haven't closed that discussion randomly. I just do not see a deletion discussion helping the issue in any shape or form. The bigger issue is if what you claim is true or not. I am going to propose amending the speedy deletion policy later today in dealing with such content. I do not want to accuse people of wrong doing without evidence. Issue could simply be some faulty software adding garbage to a file. It could also be much more nefarious that what you are suggesting. -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 16:18, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
@Storkk: Commons talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#F9_criteria_update. -- とある白い猫 ちぃ? 18:40, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments and your willingness to assist with mentoring the user. Warm regards. Wikicology (talk) 21:50, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]