User talk:Οἶδα

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File:Camille Laurens (2019) - 2.png has been nominated for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Camille Laurens (2019) - 2.png This is a deletion request for the community to discuss whether the nominated page should be kept or deleted. Please voice your opinion in the linked request above. Thank you very much! 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!

Scherzo20 (talk) 23:20, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

File:Camille Laurens (2019).png

File:Camille Laurens (2019).png has been nominated for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Camille Laurens (2019).png This is a deletion request for the community to discuss whether the nominated page should be kept or deleted. Please voice your opinion in the linked request above. Thank you very much! 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!

Scherzo20 (talk) 23:24, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

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Yes, if you actually looked at my ‘absurd' edits, you would have seen that I put the copyright removal tag back, and left a comment agreeing that it should be deleted since it was inadvertently added to commons instead of being contained within Wikipedia. Sorry about that.

@Ck2875: Yes, I "actually" did view your edits, which were completely unnecessary and indeed absurd. You made eight different edits of which I am still uncertain the intention, duplicating different speedy deletion templates and rationales. Just let the file be deleted. Οἶδα (talk) 04:13, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

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File:Claudia Durastanti (2017).png has been nominated for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Claudia Durastanti (2017).png This is a deletion request for the community to discuss whether the nominated page should be kept or deleted. Please voice your opinion in the linked request above. Thank you very much! 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!

109.112.102.36 22:24, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

salut

@Οἶδα L'admin a clarifié la question. Je m'excuse pour le temps perdu, bonne journée--Fresh Blood (talk) 12:06, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

merci. j'apprécie le geste. Οἶδα (talk) 08:03, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

File:Friends are playing video games at home sitting on sofa and having pizza with popcorn. (49613910247).jpg

File:Friends are playing video games at home sitting on sofa and having pizza with popcorn. (49613910247).jpg has been nominated for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Friends are playing video games at home sitti… This is a deletion request for the community to discuss whether the nominated page should be kept or deleted. Please voice your opinion in the linked request above. Thank you very much! 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!

Xocolatl (talk) 19:38, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

categories

Thank you for your valuable contributions. Please add categories when you upload pictures, e.g. where the picture was taken. That makes it easier for other users to find your pictures. Adding categories is actually a step during the upload process. Thank you Elmschrat (talk) 02:57, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

SXSW

Thanks for tagging all the South by Southwest categories for deletion. I'm deleting them, although that will make it easier for people to create them again. We shall see. -- Auntof6 (talk) 23:51, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, Auntof6. That is understandable. I considered the fact that it would make it easier to recreate them, but thought that, after all, this was the misunderstanding of one user with a track record of not understanding English. They constantly exposed their sockpuppetry on Wikipedia because they could not stop themselves from using the phrase "it wasn't until on", which is grammatically incorrect. So, because I haven't seen any evidence of "the South by the Southwest" being commonly used outside of this user, the relative uselessness of these as redirects seemed more important. If this behavior resumes then the user should be handled with directly. They will likely resume through the form of IP socking. Sockpuppets like this always return. And it would likely be with the creation of new categories, not moving these same ones. Otherwise that would be logged-in socking, and would easily warrant a block. Οἶδα (talk) 03:10, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

From Timmy96

User:Οἶδα, are you going to try and ban me again?

I still want to move files of pictures and placed it on South by Southwest categories. Can I have permission to do that?

Timmy96 Timmy96 (talk) 19:36, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

@Timmy96: Stop overcategorizing files and do not move or create category names in violation of basic English grammar. Every festival file does not need to be subcategorized into its own category. Yes, I will report you if you violate Commons standards. You do not stop so I haven't expected you to. It's not only very annoying, it is completely inappropriate. It is systematic abuse. You deliberately avoided scrutiny for years using an army of IP addresses and at least one confirmed sockpuppet, VietnamJ25, with many tens of thousands of overlapping edits between accounts while pretending to only be one person. That was no misunderstanding. I have seen all these edits on you made to Commons and English Wikipedia. I have seen them. Who do you think you are? That is calculated deception. Knock it off. I'm honestly fucking tired of you. You have a long, documented pattern of misusing Commons to serve your own ends. You've flooded Commons with excessive categorization of footballers in photos where the people you're categorizing are little more than indistinct dots on a pitch. This doesn't improve the project but rather actively clutters categories with useless files and makes it harder for readers to find meaningful media. Experienced editors have told you this. You ignored them, renaming and recategorizing tens of thousands of files to suit your rigid vision, and overwhelming Commons with overcategorization that helps no one. You have acknowledged, even openly stated, that your Commons activity is a workaround for your Wikipedia blocks. So forgive me if I lack patience with a flagrant sockpuppet engaging in a one-person campaign to push through their own vision, despite feedback, policies, and blocks.

I implore you start being a responsible editor and a responsible person. It cannot be so hard for you. I understand that things can sometimes be hard to understand and everyone deserves to be given a chance. You are clearly an intelligent person with a spirit, dedication and passion for football and other topics. I would not have even responded to you here if I didn't feel that somewhere down the line you could correct your behavior and direct your passion into a worthwhile and helpful pursuit. But I cannot ignore the deception, and you have been given far more chances than most. If you continue, I will report you again. Οἶδα (talk) 21:18, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

I acknowledge and read your response. Timmy96 (talk) 21:32, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for acknowledging my message. I expect you to respect Commons policies going forward. Any further disruptive or deceptive behavior will be reported without hesitation. Οἶδα (talk) 21:39, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Can I ask you to category the files in the future. For example, Category:The Runaways screening at South by Southwest 2010 This is a mess that I created.

There’s no subcategory on Category:Dakota Fanning at the screenings of The Runaways, South by Southwest 2010, Category:Kristen Stewart at the screenings of The Runaways, South by Southwest 2010, Category:Floria Sigismondi at the screenings of The Runaways, South by Southwest 2010 and Category:Cherie Currie at the screenings of The Runaways, South by Southwest 2010. I just want to ask you just in case. Timmy96 (talk) 21:45, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

I am not entirely sure what you are asking for. Do you just want me to add "Category:The Runaways screening at South by Southwest 2010" as the parent to "Category:Dakota Fanning at the screenings of The Runaways, South by Southwest 2010", and so on?

But this is one of the examples of overcategorization I was referring to. Not every event should be divided into categories for every moment of that event. This level of subdivision is excessive and unhelpful. Most images depict the same group of people together at the event, so splitting them into these extremely narrow categories clutters categorization rather than improving it. It makes finding relevant images harder, not easier. Commons categories are designed to help users navigate a collection of media files efficiently without fragmenting the content unnecessarily. Not every event or group of people needs its own sub-subcategory, especially when the visual content overlaps heavily. These overly specific categories are really just serving what has clearly been your personal categorization project here rather than the broader Commons userbase. Wikimedia Commons is not a personal archive. Categories should reflect meaningful groupings. Not any one editor's detailed breakdown of every event moment or participant. They should be kept simple, consistent, and easy to understand. Please reconsider this approach and focus on categories that genuinely help users find images without excessive fragmentation. Because I am honestly having a problem with these categories you created. Look at all of the [People at event] categories you created like Category:People at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. All of the files in the parent Category:2025 Cannes Film Festival are already people at the event. The entire category consists of attendees, which makes this level of categorization useless and then results in this incomplete and even at times circular levels of categorization. When you have countless categories and subcategories for "events", "premiere", "photocall", "press conference", "panel" etc etc etc then other high-level strands like "People at" you then require a level of intersection that just contains all the same files. You are making users click through many layers to find images that are often very similar or even identical in content. This is outrageous and needs to stop. I completely understand the mindset that led you to make these, but it has not helped navigation. For example, I see no reason why a file like Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart 16.jpg needs any more categorization than Category:The Runaways screening at South by Southwest 2010 and Category:Dakota Fanning in 2010 and Category:Kristen Stewart in 2010. And often times, the screenings and other sub-"events" categories you have created contain so few files that there's really no reason to even create them in the first place. Commons is not intended to mirror the structure of a festival schedule, press packet, or red carpet lineup. Overcategorizing by every appearance, panel, or moment at an event turns Commons into an overly literal recreation of event programming rather than an easily navigable collection of media files grouped by the clearest visual attributes and most useful contextual non-visual attributes. These deeply nested categories serve you rather than Commons users, and create a significant maintenance burden for other editors. Cleaning up, merging, or navigating these structures takes time and effort that could be better spent improving actual file data, descriptions, or correcting errors. It would be more effective to limit event-related subcategories to clearly distinct and well-populated groupings, like a major press event or photocall if there are enough files to justify it. At this point, many of these categories probably need to be reviewed, merged, or deleted. If you're serious about improving Commons, then we need to start by going back through these all of these over-nested categories, all of which you deliberately created only through IP hopping sockpuppets, and seeing which ones actually serve a purpose and which can be rolled back. Οἶδα (talk) 22:59, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

I response to your claim after a week of reflection:

"At this point, many of these categories probably need to be reviewed, merged, or deleted. If you're serious about improving Commons, then we need to start by going back through these all of these over-nested categories, all of which you deliberately created only through IP hopping sockpuppets, and seeing which ones actually serve a purpose and which can be rolled back." - I stand by what I did. It sounds like you want me to delete all the categories I created. In my opinion, changing the wording of the categories to make it more easier.

"These deeply nested categories serve you rather than Commons users, and create a significant maintenance burden for other editors." You're right. It actually does serve me. It's not my fault that I have autism. It's not my fault that I have Obsessive–compulsive disorder. I am so fixated that I wanted to make add so many sub-subcategory that it became very routine for me. Can I have permission from you to add sub-subcategory as Timmy96?

Can I have permission from you to create Category:Floria Sigismondi at the screenings of The Runaways, South by Southwest 2010 and Category:Cherie Currie at the screenings of The Runaways, South by Southwest 2010 if you are not going to do it? Please answer simply, so I can understand easily.

~~ Timmy96 (talk) 21:50, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

@Timmy96: No, you need to stop. You haven't learned anything. You say you spent a week of reflection on my response to you then proceed to ask me if you can do precisely what I told you not to do? It is not your fault that you have autism. But it is your fault that you refuse to listen. You are a fucking scourge on this website. It is fucking miraculous that you haven't been banned. Not that it matters though. You would find a way around it. I'm not convinced you haven't done so already. Οἶδα (talk) 06:29, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

I have been spending weeks on uploading pictures about the football matches I attended (in your terminology, it's soccer, considering that you are an American). I can tell you that you looked down on me of the football pictures I uploaded. Every categories I added are on my account from now on. I haven't gone into different places and made edits, based on these IPs that you provided. Have you been monitoring me every day, User:Οἶδα?

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Timmy96 (talk) 08:31, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

@Timmy96: No. Believe it or not, I have not spent my time monitoring you. I did what I could at the time to collect and notify Commons of your trail of dishonesty and deception. But a man must find some peace and purpose in this life. You have already indicated that you have no interest in correcting your past creations. So nothing I say or do will change anything. Heaven knows I am not interested in going back and remedying the thousands of festival/event files and categories you have altered. The number of files in my watchlist is very limited so if we ever cross paths again it will be through that. Οἶδα (talk) 04:21, 19 November 2025 (UTC)