User talk:Bidgee/Archive12

Help: no-FoP Italy

Hi. When you have a moment, could you do me a favor. I decided to occupy my time to list the no-FoP files in Italy. It has been a long and difficult work that needs to be reviewed by administrators. Please, could you check if everything is correct on User:Raoli/Deletion requests/FoP Italy? Thanks! Raoli ✉ (talk) 23:19, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm currently in the United States, so I'm unable to do any reviewing until I return back to Australia in about two weeks time. Bidgee (talk)

So I've added the whole discussion in the Administrators' noticeboard. Raoli ✉ (talk) 12:05, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Copyright

Hi, I am trying to understand the rules on copyright. For example, I want to upload this file: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikesm/5918216093/

But you have deleted it, even though it has a creative commons share-alike license: to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work to make derivative work

Can you explain why this file in ineligible? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CARX (talk • contribs) 10:11, 2 December 2012‎ (UTC)

Copyright 2

I also want to upload files from here: http://motors.all-free-photos.com/en/main-en.php

These are explicitly stated on the home page as creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5)

Why do these keep getting deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CARX (talk • contribs) 10:16, 2 December 2012‎ (UTC)

Because they are unfree, Anything with NC and/or NC within the CC license can't be uploaded. Please read COM:L. Bidgee (talk) 06:25, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

XJR-15 Front Suspension.jpg

Hi,

you deleted the above file. It is my picture, of my car, taken with my camera. Yes, I also uploaded it to Teamspeed for an article that I wrote there. But I own the copyright to the picture. Please can you un-deleted the file. You have also deleted another file. Please can you un-delete this as well.

Many thanks,

CARX — Preceding unsigned comment added by CARX (talk • contribs) 09:11, 4 December 2012‎ (UTC)

If this is your own photographs, you would have the originals but the same photos from the forum were uploaded. No one knows if they were posted by you on the from and whether it was taken by you, since you have a history of not understanding copyright and there is doubt, they will remain deleted unless you can give the permissions needed via COM:OTRS. Bidgee (talk) 19:17, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank You for the Wikipedia Picture

Hello, My name is Duane Hurst and I recently made a free (non-commercial) English web site to share information with people. I added links to your Wikipedia/Wikimedia freeware picture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_Blundells%27_Cottage.jpg). I also gave credit to you on my web pages for your work. Thank you for sharing with the public. My website is:

http://www.freeenglishsite.com/

I add pictures such as yours to one of the following major sections of my site: 1. World section - contains information and over 10,000 images of every world country and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/index.htm

2. USA section - contains information and images of every USA state and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/usa/index.htm

3. English section - "Mel and Wes" lessons in conversation format. Stories are located in various USA states and world countries such as China, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico and Thailand. Each lesson has many slang terms and idioms, which I link to my Slang Dictionary. This eventually will have over 5,000 terms. Currently, it has about 3,000 slang and idioms. I regularly add new lessons and slang terms. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/lessons/index.htm Slang Dictionary link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/slang/Eslang_a.htm

Prior to retirement, I taught English at several private and public universities in the United States.

Please share this free site with your friends. I hope all will enjoy the pictures and find the English information useful. Sincerely, Duane Hurst in Utah, USA

Email address: duanerhurst@freeenglishsite.com --65.130.202.239 01:24, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Adam Hall

Bidgee, Did you take any pictures of Adam Hall, the New Zealand skier? Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:58, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I'll have to have a look, There is a profile photo uploaded but need to sort out the photographs when the computer has downloaded all the updates and rebooted. Bidgee (talk) 02:21, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

With thanks for your support and the pleasant co-operation in the past year, I wish you all the best in the new year! --Túrelio (talk) 19:58, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

date

Your File:Oura fire viewed from Willans Hill.jpg says date January 7, 2013 - is this the date of the photo, or the date of upload? Thanks. --Gryllida (talk) 22:48, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

It was photographed on January 7, ignore the EXIF data's date as I still have it set to Denver, CO date and time and not Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (AEDT). Bidgee (talk) 03:27, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

EXIF date and time has been fixed, apologies for the confusion. Bidgee (talk) 04:07, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

It's okay, I didn't look into the metadata, was just surprised how timely and handy your images came in (and wanted to make sure there was no misunderstanding and that's not just an upload date). Most appreciate your effort. -Gryllida (talk) 09:43, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

User:Rukshanawahab (again)

The other day, you blocked Sherilynne 15 (talk · contribs) for being a sock of Rukshanawahab.

202.74.222.253 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • abusefilter • tools • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log) is doing some of the same activities. Looks like a duck... –Fredddie™ 20:43, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

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File:Hila Vidor by Avital Palci Peleg.jpg

Thank you. You solved the problem. Hanay (talk) 09:18, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Bus Stop Shelter

Would it be possible for you to tell me the manufacturer of the bus stop shelter that you photographed in Wagga Wagga in 2009? I work for an architecture firm in the United States, and we are currently working on a project for a transit authority that includes bus stop shelters. We like the design of the shelter you pictured.

Thanks! Mandy Hale, Office Manager Riley Architect Services

Responding to Akbeer's Plea about the deletion of his recently uploaded file

In response to your deletion of File:Temple2.JPG, a message has been posted at File talk:Temple2.JPG by the original uploader. DS (talk) 12:43, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I guess you could respond to the user on the page or the uploader's talk page. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 18:37, 6 February 2013 (UTC).

Not to sure why I didn't originally get the notice about having a message on my page, but I apologise for the delay is responding to the message. Bidgee (talk) 01:45, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Scania K480EB 6x2*4 TV5594 in AWC livery

Hi Bidgee,

You have a photo of the above coach - if you scroll down to the bottom of the K480EB section, you'll see 5594 in the livery of it's current operator, Langley's Coaches of Dubbo, NSW....

Joe Huppypuppy1 (talk) 07:44, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Re: Over categorisation and missing permission

Hi Bidgee. First of all there is no missing permission - I've been in contact with an OTRS operator since early January, and I've done exactly what they said me to do. Sorry if I forgot to put the {{OTRS pending}} template from start, to let you administrators know.

Secondly, forgive but it's me who can't see the point of your "over categorisation" argument.

Over-categorization, according to the policy you linked to me, is putting a picture of a banana in Category:Bananas and Category:Fruit at the same time, when Category:Bananas is a subcategory of Category:Fruit. In our case categories Austin Metro, MG Metro, British Leyland Metro mk1 and British Leyland Metro mk2 were exactly at the same level - being them all subcategories of Category:British Leyland Metro. So this just has nothing to do with the definition of "over categorization". I really hope you did this absently as I'm really surprised to notice such a guideline misunderstanding from an administrator.

Moreover, I would have appreciated if you had spoken to me before deleting the new categories and reverting all my edits overnight. It shouldn't be my task to remember that Wikimedia projects are based on consensus, while you did all this overnight.

BTW, this is the reason why I decided to create the two new categories. If you know something about the Austin and MG Metro (and I suppose you should, as I wouldn't make so many edits on a field I don't know well) you will know that there was a make one Metro, produced from October 1980 until late 1984, and a make two, produced from late 1984 until the end of the line in 1990. Sporty models (marketed from Spring 1982 onwards) were branded MG instead of Austin. I simply thought that, inside the general category for the Metro in general, it would be useful to categorize pictures by brand (categories Austin Metro and MG Metro) and by make (British Leyland Metro mk1 for 1980-1984 cars, and British Leyland Metro mk2 for 1984-1990 cars). Is there anything wrong with this? Everyday we categorize the picture of a car both by colour ("Red automobiles") and by building year ("1992 automobiles") even if both are subcategories of Category:Automobiles. Well, it's just the same here: I categorized the picture of a Metro both by brand and by make, even if these are both subcategories of Category:British Leyland Metro. It makes just easier to find what you're looking for, expecially now that more picture on this topic will be uploaded.

I really hope you'll restore the deleted categories and revert your own edits, as I found this really dispespectful of my work and of the time I spent on it. --Una giornata uggiosa '94 · So, what do you want to talk about? 14:35, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Only have a little bit of time but it was over categorisation, ATM we have the MG Metro category in the "British Leyland Metro" category, listing all the photographs in the MG Metro and "British Leyland Metro mk1" (which should be Mk or MK anyway) categories isn't the best when both link to the parent category. I hope you see where I'm coming from. (User:Bidgee, using a public computer) 153.107.97.167 22:10, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

I've done the best I can to split off the MG's and Austins per Mk. Bidgee (talk) 04:50, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

You didn't answer me. Why do you call that "over categorization"? I've already shown that it clearly wasn't over categorization, unless you have a different idea of "over categorization" than that of Wikimedia Commons guidelines.

Moreover, what did you do? Your edits worsened the situation and show really poor understanding of the topic. These are some of the gross errors drawn from your version of the category tree:

• Metros branded as MGs were produced both during Mk1 (before 1984) and during Mk2 (after 1984), while you put Category:MG Metro inside Category:British Leyland Metro Mk1 as if they were produced only in Mk1.

• Metros branded as MGs were available in two models: the MG Metro 1300 (1982-1990) and the MG Metro Turbo (1983-1990). Before your edits there was just the MG Metro category for all Metros branded as MGs. Now you created the subcategory MG Metro Turbo: I don't think we need categories for single models (we'd have to create plenty of categories), but at least you should have created subcategory MG Metro 1300 too. On the contrary, you used category MG Metro for pictures of MG Metro 1300 and category MG Metro Turbo for pictures of MG Metro Turbo. This is wrong because 1) the complete name is "MG Metro 1300" not "MG Metro" 2) the two categories should be at the same level, as these are two indipendent models.

• Your division of pictures is in part wrong. Some pictures of MG Metro Turbos are not in the MG Metro Turbo category and instead are in the upper category, amid pictures of MG Metro 1300s; there's a pair of pictures of make one cars categorized in the Austin Metro Mk2 category; and, at last, the Austin Metro category is filled with pictures that - I suppose - you weren't able to sort between mark one or mark two.

I wouldn't like to sound rude, but why don't you abstain from contributing in fields you don't know well?

At last, there are a few thing I can't understand at all:

• Category Austin Metro is at the same level of the categories British Leyland Metro Mk1 and British Leyland Metro Mk2, while category MG Metro is inexplicably a subcategory of British Leyland Metro Mk1. Why this difference of treatment?

• You created additional categories Austin Metro Mk1 and Austin Metro Mk2. IMHO we didn't need this, but why didn't you create category MG Metro Mk1 and MG Metro Mk2 too? Was that intentional, or simply you didn't care enough to be concerned with these "details"?

I always assume good faith, but I can't do so when I get my edits reverted with no valid explanation and your edits show an obvious ignorance. Please revert immediatly all your edits to the initial situation, which was error-free, or I will be forced to report your behaviour to the Wikimedia Commons community. Sorry. --Una giornata uggiosa '94 · So, what do you want to talk about? 21:44, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Having two categories linking to the same parent category and added in multi-able images is over categorisation. I'm happy to fix the MG, Austin ect to the models they were released in, finding the information needed to create them, in a short amount of time is impossible. Take a look at Category:Holden VE for an example, notice the way each model is categorised? Bidgee (talk) 22:51, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

I'll take a deeper look at it later. I'm currently busy. Bidgee (talk) 23:00, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

More than one account

I have more than one account because I (along with user:J_Bar) was being stalked a while back by User:Adam.J.W.C., who was following me around and undoing my work via the sockpuppet PoorPhotoremovalist, which was eventually blocked after I got Checkuser to investigate. Since then I haven't especially needed the extra accounts, but they're still there. Are you an admin by any chance?

Sardaka (talk) 06:27, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

I always understood it wasn't necessarily a problem to have more than one account provided they are not being abused, as Adam was abusing his. Does "disclose" mean that I have to say I'm Sardaka on the user page of each account? This might defeat the purpose, since the purpose was to shake a stalker off.

Sardaka (talk) 06:33, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm in the process of putting tags on them now. As for ANI, I would have been happy to go to them if I thought I'd get any help out of them. In my early days, I felt I was being stalked by User:TheRingess and went to ANI, but they weren't in the least bit interested. I've found it's very hard to get any action out of them.

Sardaka (talk) 06:39, 28 March 2013 (UTC) I've done Clytemnestra. Sardaka (talk) 07:19, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Marquee (The Star Sydney) grand opening

Hi. I noticed you added all the photos from to Category:Marquee (The Star Sydney) grand opening to Category:March 2012 in Sydney and removed the uncategorized tag. But:

1. Category:Marquee (The Star Sydney) grand opening is already in Category:March 2012 in New South Wales. (I put it there at the time because it wasn't clear to me, being from outside Australia, whether "suburb" meant adjacent to Sydney, or inside the Sydney city limits. It actually to be well inside the city limits.)
2. The uncategorized tags were there because none of those photos have been categorized by person yet. There is no other way to properly add things to Category:Media needing categories, is there?

Am I missing something? I know enough about VisualFileChange.js that I could probably do a mass change of some kind if need be, like knocking Category:March 2012 in Sydney off things that are already in Category:Marquee (The Star Sydney) grand opening, or maybe even trying to guess a category name from the file name. --Closeapple (talk) 15:54, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Oh man. I just realized that I misspelled "Sydney" in Category:Marquee (The Star Syndey) grand opening! I can change that at the same time as the rest of the stuff so that, maybe, each file only gets one edit. Let me know. --Closeapple (talk) 15:54, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

• Fixed. Bidgee (talk) 23:03, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Tomascastelazo

Hi Bidgee, I've been the whole day off (and I don't I can write sort of statement in some hours). Does it make sense to wait until I can say anything or we'd better to close it down without further drama? Best regards and many thanks into advance --Ecemaml ^{talk to me/habla conmigo} 19:16, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

I thought that it would be best that you knew of the thread on AN/U. Though the ball is still in Tomascastelazo (talk · contribs) court and if he keeps up, he'll be seeing an interaction ban or a block. Bidgee (talk) 23:39, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

On that topic, there is a bit of a study I did of the problem and it seems that there is some merit to Tom's complaints, I put up an analysis there.

What I came here about is that picture, the sourcing is a mess actually, and I see no way to fix it, the image is actually a collage and both image pages don't say as much and the original has a mess on it where sources or derivatives or whatever are supposed to be, so I'd say it's far from done, but I couldn't much care, if everyone else is happy with it then that's good enough. Penyulap ☏ 01:16, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Grendas-modern-bus.png

Hi Bidgee,

I removed the category Category:Buses in Victoria, Australia from Grendas-modern-bus.png because I was going through all bus photos in that category and moving them to better locations (mainly Category:Buses in Geelong‎ or Category:Buses in Melbourne‎) but in the case of Grendas-modern-bus.png it was already in Category:Grenda which is nested in Category:Buses in Melbourne‎ so I simply removed the Category:Buses in Victoria, Australia. I should have stated COM:OVERCAT and my reasoning in the edit summary, sorry. Can we reinstate my edit?

I also have two questions to ask:
1) is Category:Grenda needed? Should we just move the three photos in it to Category:Buses in Melbourne‎?
And 2) I've noticed that you move files from wiki to commons, could you please move the following files for me? [1] [2] [3] [4]

Thank you in advance. Liamdavies (talk) 13:23, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi again, just wondering if you've had a chance to give this some consideration. Liamdavies (talk) 07:19, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

I didn't notice the Grenda but your edit summary wasn't very helpful, I suggest to have a little more informative. Yes, the Grenda category is needed. Bidgee (talk) 09:01, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I know my edit summary was vague to say the least, sorry, people usually don't look over my categorising, and I can get a little complacent. I'm generally better though. If we need Grenda, should we also have categories for 'National Bus', 'Ventura', 'Sita' and 'Smartbus'? There are three or more photos representing all of those companies, what criteria is there for when a category should be established? Sorry for bombarding you with questions, but I've spent most of my time categorising trams, which can be a little easier. Also, would you please be able to move those photos (if not that's ok, I just don't know how, and don't want to mess it up). Regards Liamdavies (talk) 15:41, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi again, again, I'm guessing you're to busy to move those files from wiki to com, do you have an advice regarding categories? Liamdavies (talk) 15:28, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, been very busy with Commons drama and completing my Uni essay. If you ever need a file moved, best tool to use is the "Move-to-commons assistant" or "CommonsHelper 2", though the Toolserver is a bit slow of late. Doesn't matter if there is just one photo, having a category for the bus company helps later when more files are added. Bidgee (talk) 09:48, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Bidgee, I know the essay feeling, I got one in last week and have another handful due by the end of semester. I had a look at the helpers, but one was down, and the other just confusing, so I thought I'd ask someone else rather than cock it up. Regarding the sub cats for buses, I might go through as a procrastination to avoid class work. But I may reshuffle a few cats around, if you have any problems just tell me on my talk and I'll be as helpful as I can. Regards Liamdavies (talk) 12:53, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Canberra Airport terminal (10).jpg

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Danrok (talk) 00:52, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Please ignore the delete, I have fixed the information template so that the source is correctly displayed. I think you may have uploaded a number of photos with a broken template, due to faulty software or similar problem. Danrok (talk) 01:04, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

It was caused by a bot and I've yet to see the error caused by it fixed. Bidgee (talk) 10:25, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Outing

Also it would be wise to advise administrators, that if they don't want their name revealed, they should not rig votations using sockpuppets having their realnames. It's not me who created the sockpuppet and voted twice on a friend adminship candidacy.

At least Ecemaml admitted the sockpuppet was his and therefore that he double voted.

I suggest you to also oversight the image that Ecemaml uploaded on Commons linking the two accounts (the EXIF data shows his real name). That way, no evidence of his dishonesty will be available.

There was a legitimate complaint that an admin had used sockpuppets to vote twice. I posted the information proving the user dishonesty. And I also stated that I had no further intention, nor I asked for a sanction (moreover, I specifically said give Ecemaml the chance to admit his wrongdoings).

Be confident, however, that I won't post it again. Please advise administrators not to rig votes. -- Magister Mathematicae 01:03, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Regardless if he used is real name or not, it doesn't give you the right to post links that contain personal information. Bidgee (talk) 01:08, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Hello Bidgee, I have been following the discussions on user Ecemaml and am not surprised to see that his personal information was revealed by user Magister who has a long track record of revealing private information and of taking advantage of his former check-user privileges (at es.wiki, he still has these privileges in Commons), using this information when it best suits him and to his own benefit. This was one of the reasons why he was subjected to a desysop process at es.wiki where lost by a vote of 50 in favour of keeping his flags to 62 against.

Prior to that, many users from es.wiki expressed their concerns about his habit of revealing private informatiom and of misusing his check-user privileges during the 2012 stewards elections and confirmations. I believe that what Ecemaml did 8 years ago should not be held against him at this stage of the game, but regardless of my opinion, I firmly believe that private info should be treated as such, and user Magister should cease to reveal private info in his own personal vendettas. Sorry for bringing this up here and of having you involved in this nasty episode, but revealing personal info on another user without the user's consent is totally unethical and should be strictly forbidden. Regards, --Maragm (talk) 08:25, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

I slightly edited Magister message above. I don't think it's adequate that as a reply for revealing a real name he posts both in the talk page. I'm unsure about hiding them. 19 revisions would be affected (sorry, was going to do it earlier but forgot). Platonides (talk) 23:58, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Forward

I am just forwarding copies of emails from the rights holders as I type this. Chanel and her photographers fully understand the rights they are releasing but are still learning the hoops of commons. It should be resolved soon with all images in her category correctly lincensed.--Canoe1967 (talk) 04:08, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

No worries

Hey Bidgee, I just wanted to stop by and say no hard feelings about your removal of my comment on that board.

I was just trying to inject some COM:MELLOW into the situation, but really, No worries, either way.

Have a great day!

Cheers,

-- Cirt (talk) 16:13, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Cheers, at least you can see that I'm trying to keep AN/U for what it is designed for but it has now been hi-jacked and has become a joke. I just wished they would use VP and not the AN boards for their "off topic" chat but with the added insults, I would've blocked them if I wasn't involved. Bidgee (talk) 11:11, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

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Concerning the restriction on Penyulap

Hi Bidgee! You asked on COM:AN/U that if I had any better ideas to the current restriction, to put them down and let people debate them. I've posted there the kind of this I would consider as an acceptable alternative and would like your input on the matter. I appreciate you're busy, so if you don't get to it immediately, I'll understand. Thanks :) BarkingFish (talk) 10:12, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

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I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!

Request for protected page edit

Hi, sorry this is a bit last minute, but I was looking for a currently active admin in hopes for getting a protected page changed. I have a picture that's being featured for Picture of the Day tomorrow (April 29th) and was hoping to expand the description before it went live tomorrow. I didn't realize that POTD images locked the day before so I wasn't able to edit it. I have a protected edit request on its talk page HERE. I would be grateful if you could help. Evan-Amos (talk) 11:56, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Disregard this, another admin jumped right on it. Thanks though! -- Evan-Amos (talk) 11:58, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

File:FIFA Logo(2010).svg

Hi, I just reverted this page to its previous version before protecting it, in response to the discussion at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections#File:FIFA Logo(2010).svg. However, I didn't notice that it had already been protected by you. Do you care either way? I would have asked if I noticed the page was already protected, sorry –⁠moogsi (blah) 16:52, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

I've just realized you commented at the thread linked above before you protected the file. I reverted the file to the version you protected. Sorry, I really messed up, here :/ –⁠moogsi (blah) 18:37, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi Bidgee. Could you please reply to my question in that thread? Thank you. --Leyo 20:57, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Yahoo hid the Flickrmail option too

Dear Bidgee,

Just to let you know that Yahoo also hid the flickrmail option I notice as i discussed it here with Delaywaves. This flickr 'redesign' gets worse and worse sadly. Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 03:08, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Aircraft registration categories

Hi there, I thought we really need to include aircraft 's type in the name of the individual aircraft's category so that people could find what they are looking for in a museum's collection. Xyz (aircraft) tells the user nothing. How do we discuss this further ? Regards, Rod. Rcbutcher (talk) 06:41, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Free licenses

At Commons:Deletion requests/File:A commemorative plaque being unveiled at a parade to mark the change of name of the 19th Regiment Royal Artillery.jpg, you're thoroughly wrong about one of the most basic facts you need to know on Commons—in order for something to be freely licensed, it has to be copyright. I don't expect this coming from an admin. —innotata 17:14, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

I suggest you rethink and strike what you just said. I've read the OGL and understand it, but File:A commemorative plaque being unveiled at a parade to mark the change of name of the 19th Regiment Royal Artillery.jpg clearly isn't licensed OGL when you don't have the Ministry of Defence marking it with a green tick on its image repository and you also have "Crown Copyright: This image may be used for current news purposes only. It may not be used, reproduced or transmitted for any other purpose without first obtaining a copyright license available from the MoD, Crown Copyright Unit. ipr-cc@dpa.mod.uk", hardly what I call "free use". Bidgee (talk) 22:26, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

That's a different issue, and I'll address it on the page. Your previous deletion rationale was obviously incorrect, so I stand by what I said. —innotata 01:54, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

If you're going to act with bad faith, consider it the last time I license review your uploads which I had done so in good faith. Bidgee (talk) 02:36, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

What's your issue with my complaint? What I said is that what you wrote was incorrect, and now it seems to me you were just a little unclear. I can't tell what you're referring to as "bad faith": I understand that to mean harmful motives, an intention to hurt the project, or something of that nature. And if that's what I'm doing, why would you act with bad faith in response?

Now, I've pointed out that there is a "broad site notice" on this photograph's source, so can you reply on the DR? —innotata 18:54, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

File:General Sir Peter Wall in No 1 uniform.jpg and File:General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff.jpg

The links you added do not work—because of the design of the Defence Imagery website. I fixed them, to use search results for the image number rather than direct image URLs. Try the links. —innotata 02:07, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Your URLs don't work and place do not modify the URLs added in the license review template, it was the URL I used for the review. Bidgee (talk) 02:38, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

I said, try the links. Yours reliably don't work ("illegal parameters"), the ones I added do reliably—I've tested this (with different images, previously) on multiple devices and browsers, etc. Broken links aren't useful anywhere; you can't even get to the Defence Imagery main page from the links you added. Are you sure you haven't confused them? —innotata 04:08, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Capparis spinosa category

I've listed the category at Commons:Categories for discussion/2013/06/Category:Capparis spinosa in the Ukraine, although this should be rather obvious on the grounds of consistency.

I noticed this since I was checking if you'd addressed my concerns above in any way; I'm still waiting for responses. —innotata 16:13, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Nithyanada_Ashrams.jpg

As per this page http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Nithyananda_Ashrams.jpg the file was deleted because of copyright violations. But on the source page http://www.nithyananda.org/photo-gallery/public-images from which this images was got, the owner of the image - Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam (nithyananda.org) - has clearly released these images under an acceptable CC license (see the note on the top of the page before the images begin). Is this not sufficient? Thanks Acnaren (talk) 11:49, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Hazelton and Kendell

As you may have seen I've been uploading a shedload of aviation pics as of late, and I came across 3 photos each from Category:Hazelton Airlines and Category:Kendell Airlines. Can you believe that we have so few photos from each of these airlines? Any ideas on photographers who might freely licence some? russavia (talk) 09:41, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Not really surprised, I know of a large collection but it will never become "freely licensed" before the copyright protection end. I do wish that I had a camera at the time of the Ansett collapse, when most of the SAAB 340s and "regional jets" were stored at Wagga Wagga Airport. Bidgee (talk) 10:54, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I see there are quite a few photos on Flickr, I'll have to see if I can't get some of those relicenced for us here. Say, what do you think of a "Featured Gallery" here on Commons? I've run it by a few different people and they seem to think it could be doable if it was done up correctly. I know it would certainly get into immediate use many aviation photos I've been uploading (or organised to be uploaded) and would make aviation topics here on Commons much more pleasing to the eye. But of course, it could be transferred across to any and all topics. Thoughts? russavia (talk) 02:23, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

If you want some idea of what I mean User:Russavia#Aviation_to-do_list has a list of galleries in progress (with more coming). The A320/Saab 340 ones give some idea. Of course there is more than simply the airlines that operate them, but prototypes, views of specific parts of the aircraft, etc. They are works in progress at the moment. russavia (talk) 03:30, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Road trains

While I can maybe understand your removal of the speedy tags from Category:B-Trains in Australia‎ and Category:B-Trains by country‎, what is puzzling me is why you decided to undo additions like this, and also empty several categories by moving them. While you may never have heard of a term like T2(AS), had you simply asked me what it meant, I would have directed you to the explanations in Category:Road trains by configuration. You've never heard of it, because I made it up, but that doesn't make it wrong. It certainly doesn't justify you getting rid of it for just a few images, meaning that if people want to find a B-Train in Australia, they have to look through a category that mixes up images of doubles, triples, quads etc, and if they want to find a B-Train in another country, well apparently that's not important. I also don't know why you felt the need to misrepresent your actions in the edit summary, for example in that case, you didn't just remove the T2(AS) category, you also removed the Timber road trains category. So, what I'm trying to say is, thank you very much for pissing all over what was a good few hours of work just because you couldn't be bothered to read the new category or ask me about the changes. If you insist on keeping the B-Train by country tree, fine, I can't really see the point if it's not going to be either comprehensive or further sub-divided by number of trailers (there are for example several B-Trains still in Category:Road trains in Australia‎, even after your reverting spree). But I am going to re-add the other trailer type & configuration categories, because they will be useful to other people, even if they aren't to you. If you still object to their existence even in parallel to the 'B-Train' tree you seem to want to keep, please use Cfd to discuss it. Ultra7 (talk) 10:03, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Pursuant to the above, in all your mass moving to remove the config sub-divisions just for B-Trains in Australia, somehow you managed to leave 10 images in both Category:Road trains in Australia‎ and Category:B-Trains in Australia‎, even though one is a sub-category of the other. I've fixed that at least, because that's just bad practice whichever way you look at it. Ultra7 (talk) 10:44, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Fact is, it is up to you to take it to COM:CfD. The terms (configuration) is not used in Australia but only in the United States. Bidgee (talk) 10:51, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

The configuration terminology I've adopted such as T2(AS) etc is not used anywhere. I made it up precisely because different terms are used for the same things in different countries, and this is the only way to universally categorise images of road trains around the world in terms of what vehicle types and number of trailers are used (accepting the flaw that even the term road train is not used in all countries). I won't take it to Cfd, the current config tree is fine for that purpose, and your B-Trains in Australia tree can co-exist next to it if you really want. It's a trivial matter to periodically check whether anybody has put an image in there without realising there are more specific cats in parallel that might also apply. I just think it's very sad that you seem to think that it's not a problem to have a sub-tree which is neither comprehensive (a by country tree with only one country?) or even complete when compared to the rest of the images (the redundancy mentioned above, plus there is still one B-Train in Aus that you hadn't descended, that I will fix now). Whatever you think this approach is, it isn't good categorisation. What is more alarming though, is that you don't even seem to know what a B-Train even is - this and this are definitely not B-Trains, despite you putting them in there, and you can only say this is only one if you know something that is not shown in the image, because the cars are obscuring the part of the image which would show definitively if it's a B-Double or just a double (which is why I categorised it under unknown). Ultra7 (talk) 12:27, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Even more reason why we shouldn't be using it! If we are to use anything, it should be something recognised internationally or in the country origin and not something that some user has created for their own purpose (something that is totally BS [since it doesn't exist in the real World). In regards to the images, some of those I never selected to be moved (ie: it was unintentional). Bidgee (talk) 12:59, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Nonsense. Just because I made it up, doesn't make it "BS". The format is quite easy to follow, and doesn't actually use any definitions not used in the real world. I haven't just made up any names for vehicles, for example, block truck is a real term, A-Trailer is a real term, dog trailer is a real term, etc, etc. As I said, the B-Trains category can remain in parallel if it makes you happy, but don't pretend that just because there isn't a universal real world real name for a tractor coupled to a semi followed by a full drawbar trailer, ie, a 2T(SF) in this system, means that they shouldn't be categorised together on Commons on a global basis. If you know of any internationall recognised terminology that can be used in place of the format based system that I've chosen, then by all means, let me know and I'll rename the categories, but I've yet to see it, which is why I created this system in the first place. I think using this system is better than picking terms that will probably not be universal or even unambigous, but by all means disagree if you have a better alternative (but obviously pretending specific configurations that exist around the world aren't the same just because there's no universal term, is not better, and neither would be lumping them all together in very unspecific categories). Ultra7 (talk) 13:29, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

It is BS. It doesn't exist in the real World, since you created it based on your own opinion that is unsupported. Bidgee (talk) 13:42, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I might have made up the format, but the configurations exist in the real world. I could rename these categories using simple English descriptions, so for example a T2(SF) becomes "Category:Semi-trailer truck towing a semi-trailer and a single full trailer", which is what happens in other branches where common global names don't exist, but I hope you can see how ridiculous that looks, and will only get worse for larger combinations. If you think this is unsupported, what are you proposing as an alternative? Or is a made up but logical naming convention that uses real world terms for the components so abhorrent to you that you'd rather Commons didn't categorise trucks based on their configuration at all? Shall we go back to the situation that existed before, where according to Commons, there is no actual difference between this, this or this, they were all just 'tank trucks' lumped in with simple rigid trucks, even though quite obviously there are very major and obvious differences between them that even a non-expert would spot. Ultra7 (talk) 14:50, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

As I said above the "Tx" (x = 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5) exists in the US, but not outside the US, your codes are BS that doesn't exist. In Australia, the viewer will have no friggen idea what they are looking at. Bidgee (talk) 02:10, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

It would be helpful if you continued the discussion at the category talk page. It would also be helpful if you actually paid attention to what I've been saying, rather than framing your replies to things you've imagined I've said. The codes are made up, I already said that. But when they are translated into plain English, they describe things that a viewer would clearly be able to tell the difference between. I already said that too. And as I've also already said, any Australian viewer who is confused by the plain English explanation of the code system, is still able to trawl through the Road trains in Australia category, where they will get the awesomely educational benefit of having B-Trains separated from the rest, regardless of any other aspect of their configuration. And if that still doesn't aid them in finding what they're looking for, I guess they're just stuffed, as you don't seem the slightest bit interested in offering any actual alternatives that recognises that road trains come in many different configuarations, well beyond a simple binary choice between 'B-Train' and 'not B-Train'. Ultra7 (talk) 10:45, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

I've opened a discussion at Category talk:Road trains Penyulap ☏ 15:55, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Please do not copy my comments from my talk page to another talkpage, you did so without my permission. Bidgee (talk) 02:10, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Actually you did when you clicked save. Scroll to the bottom of your talkpage and you'll read "Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.".

But I'll try to remember just to cater to your needs. Penyulap ☏ 02:32, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

It's more that the history (diffs) of that is discussion is located here and anyone could change the context. It's common courtesy to ask before, regardless of what its licensed as/under. Bidgee (talk) 02:41, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Ahh, now I understand you, I often forget that not everyone is as open and honest as I am. Sorry about that. Penyulap ☏ 02:50, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

You're not open nor honest. Bidgee (talk) 02:53, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Hello again Bidgee, your input is requested at Category talk:Road trains, thank you. Penyulap ☏ 14:10, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

In fact it was done per AusRoads and state/territory classification for road trains in Australia, it was meaningless having different types in the one category (all the images in one [B-Trains in Australia] category, when it was possible to use the real world classification and sub cat them). An if you don't know what the "A" means in the classification, it equals an "A" frame connection. Bidgee (talk) 15:11, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Another roaming one...

Been trying to get a Commons admin all day for this, User:Captchaa needs to be blocked also. See enwiki userpage for details, which are based on CU. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 02:10, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

•  Blocked. Not sure how I missed that obvious sock! Bidgee (talk) 02:37, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

AN/U

Fry1989 ^eh? 03:10, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

re: A

That's okay, I didn't even knew that I was blocked, since I wasn't on wikimedia. As I always say, research to a conclusive point before action.--Earth100 (talk) 13:31, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Discussion regarding File:Denmark road sign A12.1.svg

Commons:Administrators/Requests/Bidgee (de-adminship)

Penyulap ☏ 20:12, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

...

This image was stolen from this page. Please delete. Thanks

•  Done Bidgee (talk) 02:49, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Category:2012 Summernats

Hey mate, do you know who our Aussie car aficionados are? Category:2012 Summernats could do with some categorising under specific car makes/models, so if you know anyone who knows cars who might be able to help with that, it would be great. Cheers, russavia (talk) 05:38, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

I would help out, but I'm currently busy. Maybe ask OSX, they do a fair bit of car work and know a few others who could help. Bidgee (talk) 04:27, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I've dropped them a note. russavia (talk) 05:09, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Can my son use your photo in his school assignment?

Hi,

My son has a school assignment and needs a photo of Swanston St - would he be able to use your Swanston St photo in his assignment?

—Preceding unsigned comment was added by 101.161.24.123 (talk) 11:28, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Have no issues at all with it being used, one of the reasons why I've uploaded my work here is not just that they can be used on other Wikipedia articles but also be used for assignments. Bidgee (talk) 04:29, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you so much for reverting that vandalism on much talk page! You seem to be checking on my talk page often...--219.77.69.231 05:47, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Individual naming of naval ships in Commons

I realise that inclusion of HMS, HMAS etc. prefix is an important British Commonwealth cultural thing. It is unthinkable to refer to British, Australian Canadian etc. warships as anything else but HMS xyz, HMAS xyz etc. I know that. But: It has nothing to do with this international project of Wikimedia Commons. It is not more than normal than that the local Wikipedia's follow their own standard. Use any prefix that is the local standard there. But in Wikimedia Commons much attention is given to the fact that images of ships can be found by users who are not familiar with any cultural habits. If a not naval specialist sees an image somewhere with a pennant number painted on a ship, and starts looking for another image in Commons, he will find it here by pennant number and by name if he found that. And, if you look at the nameplate of a naval ship, you don't find a prefix.

So you are not correct in your conclusion that the prefix is part of the name. Royal naming is just very old fashined and creates a lot of work from time to time. Here in the Dutch Wikipedia we had to rename all contemporane naval ships from "Harer Majesteits" to "Zijner Majesteits" with the new king Willem Alexander and we used the opportunity to skip the prefix and add the year of first commissioning. Look at nl:Zijner Majesteits (scheepsaanduiding) and nl:Categorie:Nederlandse kruiser. Now all Dutch naval ships with a certain name can easily be found, by sequence of yearof first commissioning. That is a very usefull way. Categorising more that 26.000 ships according this naming system makes a consensus in itself. --Stunteltje (talk) 09:59, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

If you want the change so bad, follow COM:CfD. Since all controversial changes need to follow that path. Bidgee (talk) 10:01, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Looked there, discussion was closed. --Stunteltje (talk) 10:35, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Create a new one (ie: Commons:Categories for discussion/2013/08/Category:Ships by name). Bidgee (talk) 10:37, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

 Done See [[5]]

Thanks for moving the categories back to the previous names. Nick-D (talk) 08:57, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Your comments about copyright in the HSR map

Thanks for your comment, Bidgee. Please see my response at http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SCHolar44&diff=next&oldid=72973896.SCHolar44 (talk) 14:12, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Category:National Bus

Hi, yes, Ventura owned National Bus, for a little under half their existence. They no longer do, and I have placed a hatnote in the Ventura category, it is factually incorrect to list National Bus under Ventura, they are no longer operated by Ventura, and even then, operated as a self governing subsidiary, and independently for 11 years previously. Liamdavies (talk) 14:02, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

I reiterate, they were owned, they are no longer, they no longer exist. Time will go on, and peoples knowledge of the complicated ownership nature of Melbourne's bus system will break down. They were a bus operator in Melbourne, they did operate for 20 years, and of those 20 years a little under half was under ownership of Ventura. They operated independently, under their own name, and were not assimilated. The category system I acted leaves National Bus in Buses in Melbourne, while hatnoting Ventura with the fact as a see also. What is your problem with this? Liamdavies (talk) 14:09, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

"National Bus Company" was the independent operation prior to the purchase by Ventura. "self governing subsidiary" irrelevant, ownership was Ventura. Bidgee (talk) 14:11, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Saying National Bus Company was independent, Nation Bus isn't is just playing semantic. National Bus was, but no longer is, a bus operator in Melbourne owned by Ventura. It is simply confusing to keep it added in Ventura when it is no longer an operator, but does contain images of Buses in Melbourne. It's natural location now is Buses in Melbourne, with a hatnote in Ventura. Liamdavies (talk) 14:15, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

How so? It isn't like that National Bus is being used by another company. In fact it seems rather silly to have buses that have the Ventura themed livery with the CDC styled logo to be unconnected to the parent category (regardless of the hat note) making it in fact over categorised. Also only one photo is of a bus that was pre the purchase, the rest are during the Ventura ownership. Also just because it is now defunct doesn't mean it shouldn't be in that category. Bidgee (talk) 14:21, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Pardon, could you please elaborate on that post (I'm having trouble understanding it)? What does CDC have to do with anything? What is overcat? Liamdavies (talk) 14:26, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

CDC = ComfortDelGro Cabcharge, the logo style is the same used on CDC owned Hillsbus and Westbus. If anything, the 1997 photo could be categorised as National Bus Company (as per ownership when it was photographed), categorised as Buses in Melbourne and National Bus remain as is. COM:OVERCAT. Bidgee (talk) 14:35, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

OK, I get what you're saying now, to a Melburnian CDC only operate Westrans/Eastrans, the analogy was a non sequitur to me. I understand OVERCAT, but was wondering what you were referring to that was OVERCAT. Would you be happy if we had a category "National Bus Company" sitting at "Buses in Melbourne" that contained that one image and the cat "National Bus", this would mean that National Bus has a logical progression to Buses in Melbourne, while remaining a child of Ventura. If you agree to that, as an admin can you close the CfD? Liamdavies (talk) 14:50, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay. I think that you could just be bold and do it. Bidgee (talk) 12:47, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Done. Liamdavies (talk) 09:37, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi again, sorry to bug you, but have you had a chance to thing about the above solution to our in-pass? I would rather try to gain consensus rather than get into a move war (sorry 'bout last night). I was also looking through Category:Busabout Wagga Wagga for pictures of each bus route to place in the table at en:Busabout Wagga Wagga, and wondered what your thoughts on a by route cat scheme for Category:Buses in Wagga Wagga would be. I'm suggesting to place six cats in Category:Buses in Wagga Wagga named "Wagga Wagga bus route 96X", thoughts? Liamdavies (talk) 10:34, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Not to sure if it would be a good idea or not. Will need time to look at the photos I've already uploaded and those that have yet to be uploaded, though it could be a few weeks as I've got a rather heavy workload (study) ATM. Bidgee (talk) 12:47, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

I wasn't thinking to fragment the current cat, but create a parallel tree. I might create a list, and await your response. Liamdavies (talk) 09:37, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Category:National_Bus

National Bus has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Liamdavies (talk) 14:29, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

File:Australian 130 speed limit sign.png

File:Australian 130 speed limit sign.png has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Alkari (?), 5 September 2013, 07:01 UTC 07:01, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Austin Metro, Rover 100, and related categories

Hi Bidgee, I've been pretty busy in the last months and I didn't have much time to spend on Wikimedia projects, but now I'd like to complete the reorganization of the Austin Metro, Rover 100, and related Wikimedia Commons categories I tried to perform on February. I just wanted you to know, and I hope you won't object again as you did last time, when every time I asked explanations for your reverts and odd edits, you merely failed to explain your reasons and it was clear you didn't know even vaguely the topic in which you intervened so resolutely. Have a good day, Una giornata uggiosa '94 · So, what do you want to talk about? 15:12, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Is that OK or not? I see you're busy, but almost a month passed and I'd like to have your feedback, to make me sure you won't revert all my edits in a month or two. --Una giornata uggiosa '94 · So, what do you want to talk about? 17:02, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Sorry but I can't agree with it. File:1982-1990 MG Metro 1300 3-door hatchback 01.jpg should remain in Category:MG Metro 1300, even though you feel it should be Category:British Leyland Metro mk1 but the current category is correct. Take for example Category:Holden Rodeo, which was a Isuzu built vehicle (See en:Holden Rodeo). I would recommend getting in contact with the Commons:WikiProject Automobiles members or posting a comment on their project talk page on English Wikipedia. Bidgee (talk) 01:15, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Mistake by Delinker!

Hi Bidgee

The Delinker made two mistakes: First the file File:Middle Coat of Arms of Belgium.svg (This image has been replaced by Blason_Royaume_de_Belgique_(Petites_armes).svg. I think this was suppose to be the other way around.

Secondly the changes made to User:Henk_Bolens should be reverted as the user was merely displaying his own work (File:Nederland wapen 2.svg) on his user page.

Regards! Sodacan (talk) 01:33, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Added request to move back and have undone the user page change. Bidgee (talk) 01:49, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! Sodacan (talk) 01:50, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

File:John Whitton bust at Central Station.jpg

Hi Bidgee, any idea who is the sculptor? Does the location fulfil the FOP-Austr. terms of "situated, otherwise than temporarily, in a public place, or in premises open to the public"? --Túrelio (talk) 13:03, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

It is located on the concourse at the station next to the heritage centre and the Eddy Ave entrance, not to sure who is the creator of it (though the base has "Vesco M.T.Sculptor" but it's in a public space and is permanent. Annotated photograph of the concourse. Bidgee (talk) 07:22, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Well, that looks to fulfil the FOP terms. --Túrelio (talk) 09:31, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

File:Historic Engineering Marker plaque next to the section of the old railway bridge in Wagga Wagga.jpeg

File:Historic Engineering Marker plaque next to the section of the old railway bridge in Wagga Wagga.jpeg 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!

Stefan4 (talk) 20:23, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Category:2013 at Wagga Wagga Airport

Heya, don't know if you noticed but Category:2013 at Wagga Wagga Airport might be useful for you in the future. Categories for other years can be created as needed, and these will likely be done in due course I'd say. Cheers, russavia (talk) 08:36, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Re: Why?

Hi Bidgee. Why? Because it is too narrow. Photos at air shows do not necessarily picture aircraft. Where is the aircraft in File:Finale fireworks display at the 2007 Avalon Airshow, "Friday Night Alight".jpg? IMHO, it also makes the air show category easier to find. All other air shows are are categorised below the place they are held, which seems logical to me. LittleWink (talk) 01:01, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

I disagree, 95% of Category:Australian International Airshow contains photographs of aircraft, making it a better fit for Category:Aircraft at Avalon Airport (which also has Category:Aircraft at airports in Australia). Bidgee (talk) 01:07, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Category:Buildings_destroyed_by_type

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Kaluga.2012 (talk) 21:43, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

WWI editathon

Hey Bidgee. Are you still a possibility for the editathon at SLNSW tomorrow? Would be great to meet you. I've prodded them a few times to make sure we have good lighting somewhere for object photography. --99of9 (talk) 04:03, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Wished I could make it but I'm rostered on at the RWHC tomorrow, wouldn't have had any problems attending if it was on Sunday. Bidgee (talk) 04:08, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Ahh, that's a pity. --99of9 (talk) 04:28, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

File:2OCU 1985.jpg

Hi Bidgee, Why did you flip this image? It's widely used (including in a FA), so this might make a few articles look a bit odd. Was it scanned in incorrectly by the USAF or something? Thanks for uploading those excellent photos of King Airs - I've added one to the No. 38 Sqn RAAF article (replacing my not-good image). Regards, Nick-D (talk) 09:48, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Was trying to workout the serial for the aircraft and worked out the photograph was flipped the wrong way. Feel free to roll it back. Bidgee (talk)

OK. I think that it's better for us to use the correct orientation of the photo rather than to persist with a messed-up scan. Thanks for fixing this. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 10:55, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Duplicate

This is exactly the same image but at a scaled down version so per the duplicate template I fail to see why you need to keep two of the same image. I disagree with your removal. Ww2censor (talk) 00:23, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

If you looked, you'll note that the "scaled down" version was uploaded in 2009, but the other was uploaded in 2012. The 2012 should be deleted and the larger scale image reuploaded over the 2009 upload. Bidgee (talk) 00:36, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

File:RomanandHanEmpiresAD1.png

A I'm not sure what needs to be 'discussed', 'whom' with, or in what 'venue'. There are already are extensive complaints on the actual page (as few people as there are who visit it) and the page you sent me to links to Commons talk:Overwriting existing files, which seems to be about general procedures and not individual files.

B You don't seem to have read any of the page before reverting my images. Even on its own merits, the existing map was grossly wrong, as pointed out by the annotator. My edits had nothing to do with the move request and were corrections to the existing map.

C If you really had a problem with B, you need to recommend the entire map for deletion since the 2010 version was grossly inaccurate on its own terms. It includes some client states as Roman territory but not others; it lacks Roman Britannia; its northern border is completely wrong for both Rome and Han; it includes territories the Han never even claimed, let alone occupied; it gives locations in AD 1 that the Han hadn't held in 80 years; it includes the Tarim basin as Chinese territory, although it was held through clients.LlywelynII (talk) 11:31, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

You'll need to take it to the talk page for the image, since your changes are controversial and past changes by others have been contested. Since this image is in use and has had issues in the past, any sort of changes needs to be discussed or you could upload your version under a new file name and add {{Fact disputed}} to this file. Bidgee (talk) 11:38, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

In what universe is adding Britain to a map of the Roman Empire c. AD 1 controversial?LlywelynII (talk) 11:50, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

I think the past history (uploads and edits) speak for themselves. If you want to have your version so badly, then upload it at File:RomanandHanEmpiresAD117.png, rather than overwriting File:RomanandHanEmpiresAD1.png. Bidgee (talk) 00:25, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Editor @ ar.wiki

Hello. I would like to inform you that I have granted you editor flag at the Arabic Wikipedia, all your edits there will be automatically marked as patrolled. Best regards.--Avocato (talk) 13:53, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Melbourne Evening Herald flag (red).svg

This DR may be of interest to you. Fry1989 ^eh? 19:32, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

	Happy Holidays!
	G'day, just a quick greeting wishing you and your family happy holidays and all the best for 2014. And of course, a big thank you for putting a leg up by doing what you do on Commons, and helping to make it the fantastic project that it is. Greetings from a warm west coast of Aussie. russavia (talk) 01:30, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

New URL for OgreBot's old version filemover

Hello. I've identified you as a user who has previously used OgreBot's old version filemover. Please note the new URL: toollabs:magog/oldver.php. Thanks. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 23:39, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Queensland local government

Hi Bidgee. Absolutely no pressure at all but did we make any progress with the individual LG maps for infoboxes? If not, that's OK - it was a huge job. I haven't been out and about for photos lately - hopefully next month. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 03:51, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Just needing to replace the hard drive (close to failing) on the computer that I use for mapping, hoping to have it running again later in the week. Bidgee (talk) 05:09, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Old socks/RFCU

Hi Bidgee. Through checks and contribs, I've determined that Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Rukshanawahab are early accounts of sockmaster Jermboy27. I've re-tagged the Rukshanawahab socks to demonstrate the connection and avoid any future confusion. If you see further accounts like these with edits on roadsigns, please block them as socks of JB27. Thanks. INeverCry 19:20, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Categories of File:LED traffic light.jpg

Hello,

Category:Traffic lights at green state is a sub-category of Category:Green light. Thus with your revert File:LED traffic light.jpg is categorized two times into Category:Green light (one times directly, one time as part of Category:Traffic lights at green state.Torsch (talk) 14:08, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Road signs copyright and no exemption under FOP

Hi Bidgee,

I have been tooling around some Riverina articles on WP recently and have spruced up a couple of images as I go. I uploaded a new version of File:Entering Old Junee.jpg and in less than 24 hours later it was nommed for deletion as likely having creative rights and having no FOP exemption for 2D artwork. A bit of a surprise but there you go. It might have implications for some images in Australia and articles on WP that use them such as Millwood.

Some thoughts include; are these images worth going into bat for? What would the owners of the rights want? (Presumably the councils involved. They may wish to give permission to use to retain images in the project.) That maybe an OTRS issue.

Appreciate your thoughts. Bleakcomb (talk) 06:22, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

FOP for 2D, even if it's in the public space, isn't "free". Thankfully Queensland Government has made its road signs free under the CC-BY-SA license. With town signs, I think the only hope is to get OTRS permissions. Bidgee (talk) 13:59, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Re:Flag of the Minister of Defence of Chile.svg

Hello Bidgee: I don't want to start an edit-warring. So that's why I left a message on the Administrator's page. Many times I tried to explain my reasons and sources to Fry1989, but it seems that he prefers the confrontation instead the collaboration. Best regards, --Echando una mano (talk) 02:58, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

You both edit warred before the AN/U topic was created. Collaboration is more then just uploading, it is also discussing when conflicts arise. You will have people who have different view points, this is were a civil discussion becomes helpful to work towards a positive out come (even if it doesn't end in your favour). Bidgee (talk) 03:04, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

I'll try to talk to him about this, but I'm not who have a lot of conflicts with other users. And I am always polite to others. --Echando una mano (talk) 03:17, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Now there is no problem. It's not necessary the dialog with anybody... the file is lock indefinitely. Regards, --Echando una mano (talk) 01:39, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

category on Gymnorhina tibicen

Because it serves no useful purpose, and also acts as a diversion away from useful categorisation (people use junk categories like this as a dumping ground for (± unidentified) birds, where they then get lost, instead of properly using the species category, or category:unidentified birds). I am planning to propose the category for deletion. - MPF (talk) 23:24, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Style and manner

Hi Bidgee, I hope that you're as Fit as a Mallee bull and enjoying your day. The world is such a great place, with exceptional diversity. Yet I often find your style and manner a little less smoother than most. Some editors would, upon seeing a number of images without the appropriate licence, simply drop me a message in private to say Did you know? in lieu of placing a tag against the file. I guess these editors operate within a collaborative environment and I find that they simply give a relative newcomer like me the chance to learn in a friendly manner, with assistance and guidance form an experienced editor. However, we're all different and I take your edits with a good dose of (Epsom) salts. Thanks for letting me know. Enjoy the remainder of your Sunday. Cheers. Rangasyd (talk) 04:00, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

File:NTRoads.png

File:NTRoads.png has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

91.113.127.176 13:56, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Junee

Sorry, I thought it was the Junee in Queensland. Kerry Raymond (talk) 05:40, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

No problem, I've made similar mistakes in the past. We're only human. :) Bidgee (talk) 12:45, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

EurovisionNim

Hello Bidgee,

Many people are deleting pics i post. One person who I am really keen to talk to is OSX who has been regularly deleting my posts that I really want shown. I replied to osx and attempted to delete his post as revenge for wrecking my posts. I cannot believe that a person so heartless delete the posts. I dont regularly delete posts but only if they have no description or not relevant to the wiki page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EurovisionNim (talk • contribs) 04:05, 27 July 2014‎ (UTC)

An editor has the right to remove comments off their talk page (except for block notices while blocked or banned, which must remain until the block/ban has concluded), it is also considered as the message being read. Bidgee (talk) 04:21, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

File:1989 Newcastle earthquake map.png

Hey Bidgee

Nice work on the map here. Did you take a class to learn how to do this or are you in the (earth sciences) field? I think it's the only one of its kind that I've seen. Dawnseeker2000 (talk) 21:55, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

I agree. File:1989 Newcastle earthquake map.png is a good illustration. Walter Siegmund (talk) 15:02, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Actually, I'd stopped by because I wanted to ask about Bidgee's qualifications. Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but if there isn't a background in seismology or geology, I don't think that it should be used in the article. There are supporters of the map that are making their case on the talk page for the earthquake article on the English WP, and I'm formulating a response now. I'm not going to make a huge stink and go back and forth on this over there (although I did remove the file on Monday and met resistance (status quo, he said)) and today I'm just going to post what I think and why. Dawnseeker2000 (talk) 01:38, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

If you commented with a little good faith, I would've answered the question but since you want to act in an aggressive manner, I'm not going to waste any more of my time. Bidgee (talk) 07:13, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems#File:Presidential Standard of the Republic of Korea.svg

Would you consider closing the whole thing down ? LGA _talk^edits 03:10, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Just read the whole thing, closed as no action is required. Bidgee (talk) 07:14, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

adding photos

I am contacting you as I saw your name on the white tailed water rat (Hydromis Chrysogaster) page. I have just join Wiki with the view to adding some good quality photos to some of the articles. I cannot work out how to do so even after reading several help pages. There seems to be a difference between the screen shots in some help pages and what I find in reality in Edit mode. Could you a/ explain to me how to add photos or

               b/ introduce me to an interested party to whom I could email my photos and they could upload them.

I am a serious nature photographer. Peter — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maillolman (talk • contribs) 00:23, 11 August 2014‎ (UTC)

You could use the Upload Wizard (I was hoping to do a video on how to upload on Commons and insert photographs on Wikipedia, but I'm currently busy with uni ATM) or I use the Basic Form, though this is more for uploaders who are use to the old form. Bidgee (talk) 11:30, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

VH-LEF

Fixed and new correct details added. Confusion due to two Bombardier aircraft being registered as VH-LEF at different periods. Ardfern (talk) 12:26, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, 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!

Affected:

• File:Red Bull advertising Mini in Canberra City Centre.jpg

--  Gazebo (talk) 09:34, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

File:Nude woman spreading legs to show shaved vagina and anus.jpg

No source to the so called copyvio was provided, nothing to prove this assertion. Please see Commons:Deletion requests/File:Nude woman spreading legs to show shaved vagina and anus.jpg Commons:Deletion requests/File:Nude woman spreading legs to show shaved vagina and anus.jpg and the rationale to be kept. If the author of this speedy deletion still thinks that this is a copyvio then he should open an DR. Tm (talk) 02:46, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Just saw that after I deleted them. I hold some scepticism that they are the uploader's own work and do wonder why they think these porn images are educational. I've undeleted all of them, though I have doubts about the uploader. Bidgee (talk) 02:58, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks anyway. Sometimes every can make mistakes. About the educational purpose of this images, we should remember that Commons has a scope in pornography be it soft or hard (but where ends the scope is discussible). About if his images are his work or ripped of from unnamed sources, when i see that this user makes new uploads i cross his uploads with the Google Images to see if gives positive to copyright violations but until now it gave all negative or give Commons as the higher resolution (the older ones) or confuse one image with one of the danish model Nina Agdal. Tm (talk) 03:17, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Category:Brachydiplax_denticulata

Brachydiplax denticulata has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Jee 16:18, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Australian F-111s

Hi there, I see you reverted my additions of the Australian air museum categories to the two retired Australian F-111s (Category:A8-134 (aircraft) and Category:A8-272 (aircraft)). Why ? EN Wiki article states they are now at those museums, presumably for preservation. regards, Rod. Rcbutcher (talk) 12:50, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Main reason is that the photographs that are in categories don't have a provence in them to require them to have the museum category and most of the photos are of the F111 in service, individual images should have museum category. I can't give you a more in-depth reply, I'm currently in Bathurst and have a busy work load. Bidgee (talk) 06:12, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

I thought about that... I think the main category should be the aircraft as a whole including its entire life e.g. by serial number, and within that perhaps a sub-category for its residence in a museum... there are many categories such as [[:Category:abc at xyz air museum]]. However, in most cases there are few if any of the machine before it entered the museum, hence a single category suffices. Either way, I feel an aircraft in a museum needs its own category for folks to dump their snaps into. This needs to be sorted out by consensus so folks like me aren't swimming against the tide. Rod. Rcbutcher (talk) 07:37, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

There could be subcategory for the craft at the museum, which would also be a subcategory of the museum as well but there is only 1 image of A8-134 and two of A7-272 at that museum and only a total of 15 images in the museum category. The current solution for these three images of being in both categories is sufficient as neither parent category is overwhelmed with content. Gnangarra 08:12, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

@Gnangarra: unfortunately that is not how thematic categorisation has been developing naturally in the topic of aviation here on Commons. It is up to editors to look at other categories that exist and if in doubt ask COM:AVIATION for advice. Photos of operational aircraft should ideally not be placed in a museum category, but in the registration/serial category. Those particular aircraft in museums should be placed in a category such as mentioned by Rcbutcher (talk · contribs). The reason being, many aircraft make it into museums and the issue I see, and should be very obvious, is that the casual user of Commons will have zero idea what museum that aircraft is in, and it should be also in the museum category itself. If you want to get consensus on this issue, perhaps ask at COM:AVIA and get more input. russavia (talk) 13:25, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

@Russavia: thats what I said the current situation of the one photo being tagged in both the aircrafts category and the museum category is sufficient, if in the future we get more museum photos then create a new category for them as a sub category of the aircraft, at no point did I say put operational photographs in the museums category. Gnangarra 12:40, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	It's been good working with you as a fellow admin. You'll certainly have my support if you want to be an admin again in the future. Good luck with everything you're doing AFK. Take care. INeverCry 20:49, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. :) Bidgee (talk) 01:58, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

MATE!!!!!

Hey Rob,

Thankyou for being a good helpful wikipedian. I am so going to miss you however we should discuss things over my computer. You have done great to service the page whenever I needed help. I am so going to miss you however keep up the good work during your retirement and hopefully see you around.

Well Done buddy

Nim

EurovisionNim 01:36, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Category:Photo credit

Hi, Bidgee, would you kindly be able to alter the comment on the file history of this image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bob_hoskins_filming_ruby_blue.jpg to remove the middle name of the author (myself) please? Many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2A02:C7D:C55F:2B00:959C:BB1B:C884:7384 (talk) 13:04, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Category:2012 Leeton SunRice Festival

Hi, Bidgee, I noticed your edit, though I do not quite understand what you mean when saying " makes it impossible to find". Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 10:05, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Well you'll need to jump though many hoops, by removing the main category (yes, not ideal having it but worse but not having it).

• Category:Leeton, New South Wales

• Category:Leeton, New South Wales by year

• Category:2012 in Leeton, New South Wales

• Category:April 2012 in Leeton, New South Wales

• Category:2012 Leeton SunRice Festival

I hope you get the idea above as to why I state "makes it impossible to find". Bidgee (talk) 02:08, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Category:Buildings in Bathurst

I don't see why I should redirect Building in Bathurst to Building in Bathurst, New South Wales. Building in Bathurst could be at best a disambiguation page, since there are in the world at least three towns named "Bathurst", all of them with their own buildings. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 16:48, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

I don't see the point in keeping the chronology of a category which has no copyright issues involved like in a wikipedia article (which is why we keep chronology), hence I don't even understand why you're still complaining about that. Anyway, since you seem to be passionate about the topic, I saved the category's chronology so I guess we all are satisfied now. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 09:46, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

I didn't mean to be rude, but as we know the main rationale of keeping chronology is for copyright issues, which is not much an issue for categories -- Ok, hereinafter I'll move them. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 12:25, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

McDonalds

Hi there, the actual restaurants of McDonald's are categorised in Category:McDonald's restaurants. This again is categorised under Category:Hamburger restaurants, which is a subcategory of Category:Fast food restaurants. The overall Category:McDonald's on the other hand, also contains museums, office buildings etcetera and it is therefore that I feel that it should not be categorised under Category:Fast food restaurants. - Takeaway (talk) 23:59, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Rodger that, I wasn't too sure why it was removed (I did have an edit summary but seems it didn't show) and have a bit on my mind ATM. Bidgee (talk) 11:56, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

I used HotCat to remove the category, and unfortunately HotCat doesn't give much of an edit summary. Regards, Takeaway (talk) 12:02, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Sydney Japanese International School

Are you interested in photographing the Sydney Japanese International School? It's at 112 Booralie Road, Terrey Hills, NSW 2084 Australia. It's unique among overseas Japanese schools since it actively includes Australian local children as students.

If you are interested in other ideas please let me know and I'll give you some others. Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 16:40, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Not sure when I'll be in Sydney next, quite busy with university and my other volunteering roles, which includes travelling to Melbourne and Nowra. Sorry. Bidgee (talk) 07:34, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Ah, ok. I do have photo requests in Melbourne too if you're interested WhisperToMe (talk) 08:58, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Toyota Corona

Any reason for reversion of my edits to restore two Toyota Corona images back to factory specification? I note that you did not leave an explanation for your reversion which is odd considering the time I spent making the edits. OSX II (talk) 01:02, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

I suggest you read COM:OVERWRITE. Bidgee (talk) 03:16, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

File:Apis mellifera feeding on nectar from a Corymbia ficifolia flower.jpg

If you look in Category:Corymbia ficifolia you see it is a Myrtales flower. --Kersti (talk) 06:20, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

No need to be flipping rude about it, sheesh. To be honest, you need to brush up the use of the rollback tool or have it removed.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm done with this project. I'm not going to be contributing any further content. Bidgee (talk) 01:54, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Category:Supreme_Court_of_New_South_Wales

Supreme Court of New South Wales has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

121.216.26.52 06:59, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

File:Wolf spider and egg sack.jpg

Why did you revert the changes on this file? This is by no means a wolf spiders. These carry their cocoons at their spinnerets, not under the prosoma, and their eye field is completely different. --Mhohner (talk) 11:33, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Food for thought

Wouldn't it be better to have

• Regional Express aircraft on final approach at Sydney Airport

or

• Regional Express Saab 340 aircraft on final approach at Sydney Airport [option 1, if disam is required]

or

• Regional Express aircraft on final approach at Sydney Airport (Saab 340) [option 2, if disam is required]

Rather then;

• Aircraft on final approach at Sydney Airport
• Saab 340 at Sydney Airport
• Saab 340 on final approach
• Regional Express aircraft at Sydney Airport

Just a thought... Bidgee (talk) 12:56, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

I see final approach, landing etc as an attribute of the aircraft model, not the airline. I.e. the destinations etc are an attribute of the airline, but flying characteristics are an attribute of the airplane type. An airplane type XYZ lands the same way for any airline. I think categories like Saab 340 landing at Sydney Airport would be over-categorization. I am available to discus this ! Rcbutcher (talk) 13:09, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

File:TempfileAusAthlete.jpg

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P 1 9 9  ✉ 16:32, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Category:Scania K94UB

An explanation would not fit on one line, so I do it here. First of all I understand that we don't fully agree on what is best practice, based on earlier encounters. As you may have noticed, about one month ago I changed so that Category:Scania K-series and similar N and F are exclusively related to the current range (post 4-series). Despite my effort, I could not find one single use of the term "K-series" or similar by Scania officially prior to its introduction with the current range in 2005. (It may however have been used by some local distributor in some country prior to that, but local variants should not be considered at that level anyway.) Then it would be both historically and technically incorrect to use the current marketing name on the older ones, so I instead introduced the Category:Scania K chassis which even includes similar chassis before they were given the letter K at the introduction of the 2-series. (BR85, BR115 and BR145 in "0-series" and BR86 and BR116 in "1-series", but only one of these have been created yet due to lack of content.) Those updates were in line with my updates to the Scania article on English Wikipedia and the timelines that can be found at the bottom of the page there. However I was not sure what to do with K UB, K EB, N UB, etc., as they kind of fit both in the current range and to some extent in the 4-series. I have only found one source using N UB, K EB, etc. explicitly about the 4-series, which can be found here: Scania data sheets (choose Chassis range). Back then I didn't decide about it, but last week I decided that it would be best not to mix models from the 4-series and the current range within those cagetories. I am truly not sure what would be the best solution for this, but if the answer is that K UB should contain both 4-series and K-series models, my edits of last week should be reverted on the other models of the 4-series too. Bergenga (talk) 15:59, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

John Robertson

See John Robertson. Apart that there's several people named John Robertson, at least two of whom are politicians who come from New South Wales, the disambiguation was inconsistent. Usually the disambiguation is by occupation and, whereas two or more persons share the same occupation, by year of birth. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 15:28, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Lake george nsw.jpg

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Ellin Beltz (talk) 22:42, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Image reversion

I do not comprehend your comments at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MotorolaStarTAC.jpg ... I removed the ridiculous background cleanly and lightened the image, helping people to see the subject. Why do you feel you have the right to claim this was done badly and to destroy this work without so much as leaving a comment? Pratyeka (talk) 01:49, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

I gave you constructive and valid criticism, that is your problem if you don't want to take that on board. Bidgee (talk) 08:51, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Category:Commons._YouTube

Commons. YouTube has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Riley Huntley (talk) 17:03, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Rio Olympics 2016

Hello, Bidgee!
I wanted to know if you are planning to do photo-journalism for Rio Olympics at en.wn? Laura Hale told me to ask you if you wanted some support there. Let us know about it.
acagastya  📷 16:11, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Category:VH-ZXB (Boeing 767-300ER)

Note your reversion of my edit. My edit was done as previous information was objected to by planespotters.net as being taken direct from their website without permission. They object to this throughout Wikimedia and many similar revisions will have to be made elsewhere as a result - hence my cutting down of the info to essentials. It would be good if you could revert to my edit and avoid conflict with planespotters.net which is a most useful info source. Ardfern (talk) 12:43, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

I take it as insult that "previous information was objected to by planespotters.net as being taken direct from their website without permission", when in fact I had sourced it from the FAA (along with FA and FR24) and the fact no one asked me(thought I had added it [as I have with others]) regardless PlaneSpotters.net do not own the information when it is already freely available on the FAA, therefore I will not revert it. Next time, don't use the "m" that isn't a minor edit and without an edit summary. Bidgee (talk) 12:50, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Help regarding FOP

Hello, Bidgee. I was thinking of Freedom of Panorama in India. I had a doubt. Since India has the right of FoP, is it okay for someone to charge money for taking photos of monuments like Taj Mahal? Is it okay for zoo owners to charge money for taking photos of animals? And is a person supposed to delete photos of a restricted area (some old monument) if the in-charge asks you provided you have taken the photos. Can you please clear my doubt?
acagastya  📷 06:23, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

File:CSIRO Cloud Seeding from Wagga Airport 1958 01.jpg

File:CSIRO Cloud Seeding from Wagga Airport 1958 01.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!

174.26.245.162 10:27, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

VH-JSO category

there is 1 citationJet and 1 TBM, the category can't be both. [6] --Marc Lacoste (talk) 09:29, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes I'm well aware of that but it isn't an issue. I will be separating them when I have my Mac working smoothly but removing those categories was the wrong thing to do. Bidgee (talk) 09:34, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

what to do then? if you're searching for TBM pics and you get a CJ or viceversa it's an issue --Marc Lacoste (talk)

It will be split, similar to Category:VH-ZXF (aircraft) has been done. Bidgee (talk) 09:48, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Logical, what is the good way to do that if I find similar situations? --Marc Lacoste (talk)

I've noticed some people have put some registrations that have the aircraft type in brackets as its own main category (eg. Category:N582C (Socata TBM 700), rather than creating a main category (eg. Category:VH-JSO (aircraft); which is the cat system I'm using) which has sister categories (means the Aircraft registered in and Aircraft by registration becoming full of of same rego). Hope I haven't confused you. Bidgee (talk) 13:17, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

er, I'm not sure indeed ;/ --Marc Lacoste (talk) 14:55, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Randwick barracks

Was interested in your shot of the former Randwick barracks. Where are they located?

Sardaka (talk) 07:44, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

considering s--- on en

It is always nice to see a helping hand on commons - thanks JarrahTree (talk) 12:27, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

No problem. With en, I just sigh and move on, there is no point in wasting energy and time if others aren't willing to step up. Bidgee (talk) 23:55, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Special:Diff/237974357

Hello, you might want to see en:User:MusikAnimal/confirmationRollback, which display a confirmation popup for every rollback attempt. I also accidentally click the rollback link too, and thanks to that script, I could prevent myself from accidentally rollbacking an innocent edit. Thanks, ★ Poké⁹⁵ 07:54, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

My error in a Baron file

I should have removed the "Category:Beechcraft aircraft" (= over-cat) iso "... at Avalon". Finger trouble - my mistake - sorry! --Uli Elch (talk) 12:19, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

International

Hi Bidgee. I thought to settle the question of the name of the trucks before moving on to the various sub-categories.

Don't you think it better to settle a principle? I mean like following / not-following a recognised naming system for the categorisation? If Australia wants to be different there is some justification because I think they later built purely Australian trucks but I must admit that is only my impression and it may not be what actually happened. I think Navistar / IHC also have or had an operation in Brazil which I suppose should be handled the same way as Australia. You won't know this so I'll explain that my particular interest in images of old things (in this case old trucks) arises from the habit of most editors to be concerned only for things in Their recent past - quite recent for a 20 year-old, less so for someone in their forties. There is also a tendency for contributors to dodge categorisation, I think often because they don't know how to handle it. Have a look at this pair of images which I managed to spring out of a collector yesterday morning. She was only prepared to categorise them as trucks and also part of her collection. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 23:28, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

I am not an expert on Wikipedia, therefore thank you for your tips

Structured Commons newsletter, October 25, 2017

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Rama published an article about Structured Commons in Arbido, a Swiss online magazine for archivists, librarians and documentalists: original in French, illustrated and the article translated in English.
• We now have a dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat

Things to do / input and feedback requests

• Join the community focus group!
• Translation. Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
• The documentation and info pages about Structured Data on Commons have received a thorough update, in order to get them ready for all the upcoming work. Obsolete pages were archived. There are undoubtedly still a lot of omissions and bits that are unclear. You can help by editing boldly, and by leaving feedback and tips on the talk pages.
• We have started to list tools, gadgets and bots that might be affected by Structured Commons in order to prepare for a smooth transition to the new situation. You can help by adding alerts about/to specific tools and developers on the dedicated tools page. You can also create Phabricator tasks to help keep track of this. Volunteers and developers interested in helping out with this process are extremely welcome - please sign up!
• Help write the next Structured Commons newsletter.

Presentations / Press / Events

Audience at Structured Commons design discussion, Wikimania 2017

• Structured Data on Commons was presented at Wikimania 2017 in Montréal for a packed room. First design sketches for search functionality were discussed during a breakout session. Read the Etherpad reports of the presentation and the breakout session.
• Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, answered questions on Quora. One of her answers, mentioning Structured Data on Commons, was republished on Huffington Post.
• Sandra Fauconnier, Amanda Bittaker and Ramsey Isler from the Structured Commons team will be at WikidataCon. Sandra presents Structured Commons there (with a focus on fruitful collaboration between the Wikidata and Commons communities). If you attend the conference, don't hesitate to say hi and have a chat with us! (phabricator task T176858)

Team updates

The Structured Commons team at Wikimania 2017

Two new people have been hired for the Structured Data on Commons team. We are now complete! :-)

• Ramsey Isler is the new Product Manager of the Multimedia team.
• Pamela Drouin was hired as User Interface Designer. She works at the Multimedia team as well, and her work will focus on the Structured Commons project.

Partners and allies

• We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!

Research

Design research is ongoing.

• Jonathan Morgan and Niharika Ved have held interviews with various GLAM staff about their batch upload workflows and will finish and report on these in this quarter. (phabricator task T159495)
• At this moment, there is also an online survey for GLAM staff, Wikimedians in Residence, and GLAM volunteers who upload media collections to Wikimedia Commons. The results will be used to understand how we can improve this experience. (phabricator task T175188)
• Upcoming: interviews with Wikimedia volunteers who curate media on Commons (including tool developers), talking about activities and workflows. (phabricator task T175185)

Development

In Autumn 2017, the Structured Commons development team works on the following major tasks (see also the quarterly goals for the team):

• Getting Multi-Content Revisions sufficiently ready, so that the Multimedia and Search Platform teams can start using it to test and prototype things.
• Determine metrics and metrics baseline for Commons (phabricator task T174519).
• The multimedia team at WMF is gaining expertise in Wikibase, and unblocking further development for Structured Commons, by completing the MediaInfo extension for Wikibase.

Stay up to date!

• Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
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• Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! It takes place on Tuesday 21 November, 18.00 UTC.

Warmly, your community liaison, SandraF (WMF) (talk)

Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 14:26, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

File:F111C horizontal stabiliser on display at The Rock on the Avenue of Honour.jpg

Hi, Were there any indications of which aircraft this F-111C part had been removed from? It might be useful in the en:List of General Dynamics F-111 aircraft operated by the Royal Australian Air Force article. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 06:57, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Couldn't find anything that would give any clue as to what airframe it would've been on. Maybe something on the underside but was time limited :(. Bidgee (talk) 07:13, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

OK, no worries. I'd guess it's one of the aircraft listed as having their "Fin and rudder preserved at RAAF Base Amberley" in the article - given the number of aircraft with this status, it seems logical this was some kind of interim arrangement. Nick-D (talk) 10:00, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Structured Commons newsletter, December 13, 2017

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• There was a IRC Office Hour about Structured Commons on November 21. You can read the log here.
• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat

Things to do / input and feedback requests

A multi-licensed image on Wikimedia Commons, with a custom {{EthnologyItemMHNT}} Information template. Do you also know media files on Commons that will be interesting or challenging to model with structured data? Add them to the Interesting Commons files page.

• NEW: Participate in a survey that helps us prioritize which tools are important for the Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey runs until December 22. Here's some background.
• NEW: Help the team decide on better names for 'captions' and 'descriptions'. You can provide input until January 3, 2018.
• NEW: Help collect interesting Commons files, to prepare for the data modelling challenges ahead! Continuous input is welcome.
• Join the community focus group!
• Do you want to translate messages and information about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.

Presentations / Press / Events

Presentation about Structured Commons and Wikidata, at WikimediaCon in Berlin.

• Sandra presented the plans for Structured Commons during WikidataCon in Berlin, on October 29. The presentation focused on collaboration between the Wikidata and Commons communities. You can see the full video here.

Partners and allies

• We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!

Research

• Research findings from interviews and surveys of GLAM project participants are being published to the research page. Check back over the next few weeks as additional details (notes, quotes, charts, blog posts, and slide decks) will be added to or linked from that page.

Development

• The Structured Commons team has written and submitted a report about the first nine months of work on the project to its funders, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The 53-page report, published on November 1, is available on Wikimedia Commons.
• The team has started working on designs for changes to the upload wizard (T182019).
• We started preliminary work to prototype changes for file info pages.
• Work on the MediaInfo extension is ongoing (T176012).
• The team is continuing its work on baseline metrics on Commons, in order to be able to measure the effectiveness of structured data on Commons. (T174519)
• Upcoming: in the first half of 2018, the first prototypes and design sketches for file pages, the UploadWizard, and for search will be published for discussion and feedback!

Stay up to date!

• Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
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• Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! It takes place on Tuesday, February 13, 18.00 UTC in wikimedia-office ^webchat.

Warmly, your community liaison, SandraF (WMF) (talk)

Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 16:32, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, 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!

Affected:

• File:Sculpture by the Sea 01.JPG

And also:

• File:Sculpture by the Sea 02.JPG
• File:Sculpture by the Sea 03.JPG
• File:Sculpture by the Sea 04.JPG
• File:Sculpture by the Sea 06.JPG
• File:Sculpture by the Sea 07.jpg
• File:Sculpture by the Sea 08.JPG
• File:Sculpture by the Sea 09.JPG

Yours sincerely, .     Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 10:19, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Cessna aircraft at Wagga Wagga Airport

Hi Bidgee Your reversion of my edits re Category:Cessna aircraft at Wagga Wagga Airport and related Cessna 182 files leaves Wagga Wagga Airport out of step with other airports. The purpose is to ensure that the Private and executive aircraft category for Wagga Wagga Airport does become too crowded with individual files. This is the norm everywhere else. So please revert. Ardfern (talk) 14:35, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Putting unrelated aircraft (training, freight or other non-private/executive uses, which could be aircraft hire to skydiving) is incorrect categorisation. Two wrongs don't make it right (stating it is the norm elsewhere), so I will not revert myself. Bidgee (talk) 15:04, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Cessna 172S

Please note that for every other aircraft (see Airbus A320 etc etc) variants (eg Cessna 172S) of the main aircraft (Cessna 172) are not listed in a by registration cat. Only the main aircraft is in a by registration cat. Revert please as the Cessna 172S by registration cat is not required. Ardfern (talk) 21:37, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

So? Just because there isn't a category for the Airbus variants doesn't mean there shouldn't be. Using the "Bad Name" speedy delete was poor form from you, since it wasn't a bad name. No I will not be reverting. Bidgee (talk) 21:39, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Brilliant, just you keep on with your own little site completely out of step with the rest of aviation on Wikimedia. If you don't accept any of the norms or common practices fire away.Ardfern (talk) 21:47, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Sorry but YOU don't own nor run Commons. Should we have hundreds or even thousands variants in a single category? I'm not saying every single variant should have one but at least say A320-200 (aka A322). Bidgee (talk) 21:50, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

You are so right I don't own or run Commons (and of course neither do you), but I do have very large and long term experience of working on aircraft categorisation and try to ensure that the standards and norms and common practices that have developed are maintained and developed. The objective is consistency so that researchers etc can easily find and view aircraft files. What you have done with Cessna 172S is completely inconsistent with the rest of Commons and even the rest of Cessna 172 variants (whether you think it is right or wrong). Your reversions have also now ensured that one cannot see a full list of Cessna 172 registrations in one place. With regard to Airbus A320 you can see a full list of all Airbus A320s by registration in one place. You can also see a full list of each variant (eg Airbus A320-232) just not with a by registration file name. This is simply what I wanted to do with the Cessna 172S ie the files all appear in the cat Cessna 172S and the aircraft also appear in the Cessna 172 by registration cat ie consistency. Ardfern (talk) 22:08, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Never said I did, I'm using commonsense and you're using your ego (by saying "but I do have very large and long term experience of working on aircraft categorisation and try to ensure that the standards and norms and common practices that have developed are maintained and developed"). So you want over-categorisation by having Cessna 172S and Cessna 172 by registration? With the latter being littered with hundreds of different variants? I've not had anyone else say to me that want what you want. I'll be happy if you opened up a discussion to other aviation contributors so that they can add in there thoughts on how categorisation should be (rather than just from our own prospective, because clearly we both have differing views). Bidgee (talk) 22:18, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Commonsense v ego, you are a laugh. Happy to have discussion opened. Go for it Ardfern (talk) 22:34, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Commas

I used brackets, not comma because that's what the WP article is even though I think that commas are correct, w:WP:COMMADIS would suggest that commas are correct. Oddly settlements in Australia are often disambiguated even when not necessary. Thanks for fixing it anyway. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:29, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

File:Fortitude Valley Police Station (1996).jpg

File:Fortitude Valley Police Station (1996).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!

  — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 02:31, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Spring 2018

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
• Several Commons community members are working on ways to integrate Wikidata in Wikimedia Commons. While this is not full-fledged structured data yet, this work helps to prepare for future conversion of data, and helps to understand how Wikidata and Commons can work better together.
  • Thanks to Jarekt and other contributors, some Commons templates can now be filled via Wikidata: {{Creator}} (Phabricator) and {{Institution}} (Phabricator). Work is ongoing on the {{Artwork}} template (Phabricator).
  • Thanks to Mike Peel and others, Wikidata-powered infoboxes can now be added to Commons categories, with the template {{Wikidata Infobox}}. (Example)
  • Multichill is working on an experimental workflow to upload images to Commons via Wikidata (and using metadata from Wikidata). See a part of it here.

Things to do / input and feedback requests

• Join the community focus group!
• Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
• Contribute to the next newsletter.

Discussions held

• Conversation about licensing and copyright modeling.
• High-level discussion on ontology for Commons.
• Review first designs for multilingual captions.
• IRC office hour, 13 February

Events

• Wikimedia Conference, Berlin, 20-22 April (+ Learning Days 18-19 April): several sessions and workshops around Structured Commons
• EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, 15-16 May: several presentations + a full workshop day on Monday 14 May about Wikidata and Structured Commons
• Wikimedia Hackathon, Barcelona, 18-20 May: Structured Commons as a focus area.

Partners and allies

• We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!

Research

• The research about GLAM contributions to Wikimedia Commons is concluded. A blog post on the Wikimedia blog provides a summary, and you can read the full results on meta.wikimedia.org.

Development

• Prototypes will be available for Multilingual Captions soon.

Stay up to date!

• Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
• Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.
• Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! The date for next quarter will be announced soon.

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 19:48, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata infoboxes

Dear Bidgee, Could you please add Family names in Wikidata before creating Wikidata infoboxes in Commons? And please do not remove Defaultsort in Commons unless a Family name is added in the Wikidata item. Otherwise sorting becomes a mess, see this category. Vysotsky (talk) 20:06, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

File:ACT in Australia map.png

hi, why File:Australia location map.svg is not the same map?
i think its excaltly the same map - please tell me why? thx
--Mrmw (talk) 04:54, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

File:ACT in Australia map.png highlights the ACT in Australia, while File:Australia location map.svg does not. Bidgee (talk) 02:09, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Categories_for_discussion/2018/05/Category:D_Ramey_Logan

Still sits open if you care to comment there as well. --Don (talk) 03:14, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Summer 2018

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
• Since our last newsletter, the Structured Data team has moved into designing and building prototypes for various features. The use of multilingual captions in the UploadWizard and on the file page has been researched, designed, discussed, and built out for use. Behind the scenes, back-end work on search is taking place and designs are being drawn up for the front-end. There will soon be specifications published for the use of the first Wikidata property on Commons, "Depicts," and a prototype is to be released to go along with that.

Things to do / input and feedback requests

• A workshop on what Wikidata properties Commons will need. This workshop will be open for the entire month of July 2018 at minimum.

• Join the community focus group!
• Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
• Contribute to the next newsletter.

Discussions held

• In late February there was a discussion around how Commons generally sees data being modeled.

• The first discussion on copyright and licensing with Commons was held in March. This was a "high level" discussion, there will be a consultation later this summer about the deeper mapping of copyright and licensing in a structured way.
• In April there was an exercise for GLAM partners in metadata and ontology mapping.
• A discussion about the design for Multilingual Captions on the file page took place in May. You can still review the designs and leave feedback.
• There was an IRC office hour in June to discuss progress so far and future plans.

Wikimania 2018

• Three sessions about Structured Commons are officially scheduled for Wikimania 2018 - Cape Town, South Africa - July 2018.
  • Wikimedia Commons and GLAM needs around the world (Friday 20 July, 10:30 local time)
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and knowledge equity (Friday 20 July, 14:00 local time)
  • Design challenge workshop: How can multilingual structured metadata bring knowledge equity to Commons? (Friday 20 July, 14:30 local time)
• Structured Data on Commons is also a focus area during the Wikimania 2018 Hackathon. We will, among other things, do 'live' modelling of Wikidata properties for Commons - an offline spin-off of the community consultation taking place on wiki.

Partners and allies

• We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!
• Structured Data on Commons was presented to GLAM audiences during EuropeanaTech 2018 in Rotterdam (15 May 2018) and at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Forum in Berlin (4 June 2018).

Research

Two research projects about Wikimedia Commons are currently ongoing, or in the process of being finished:

1. Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
2. Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.

Development

• Prototypes will be available for Depicts soon.

Stay up to date!

• Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
• Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.
• Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! The date for next quarter will be announced soon.

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 21:07, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data Newsletter - Research link fix

Greetings,

The newsletter omitted two interwiki prefixes, breaking the links on non-meta wikis as you might see above. Here are the correct links:

1. m:Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
2. m:Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.

My apologies, I hope you find the corrected links helpful.

- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:21, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Sorting categories

Hi Bidgee, In the past you created hundreds of categories for Australian politicians. Thank you for that. However, sorting within that categories proved a bit of a problem because "defaultsort" was lacking. I restored dozens, but I would appreciate some help. Could you either help to add "defaultsort" in the commons categories, or add Family names in the corresponding Wikidata items? For a start, this might be a category with names to be improved: Members of the Australian House of Representatives (and there are several others). Assistance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Vysotsky (talk) 20:56, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Bidgee, many thanks for the input just now. This person is putting my head astray and doing wholesale deletion of 'by airline' categories. If you get a chance you might want to have a look at discussions at Category:Beechcraft aircraft by operator and Category:Aircraft of Lufthansa, to other operator before my head explodes. Ardfern (talk) 01:57, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

thanks for

rephrasing the ceaegoires for consistency - I was trying to get more location based and more specific as i find the generic large clumps of crap from over 8 years rather messy... JarrahTree (talk) 06:18, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

No problem. I went a step further to break it up by state/territory, since there have been events done outside the capitals. Also trying to follow some of the categorisation that is used on Commons. Bidgee (talk) 06:46, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

please feel to correct me if you see any errors - some uploaders dont have a clue either... - also I think there is a whole heapof mispelt categories as well in there - the general stuff below in the general moshpit of :-

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Australia I think should be more date/location specific

Beware the classic Wikimeda - :0 JarrahTree (talk) 06:55, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Noticed that, dunno how I missed it! Bidgee (talk) 07:02, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

gng has done it on some of the perth 2016 stuff as well i think. if i read the history right. JarrahTree (talk) 07:06, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert

Thanks for reverting my accidental rollback of Auntof6's edit. My apologies to Auntof6 as well. I am not sure how the rollback happened. —RP88 (talk) 09:57, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Tom Arthur

This.is.not.English.Wikipedia. Hope it's clear. Here nationality is not a criterium for disambiguation. Thanks for keeping it in count. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 22:04, 20 nOctober 2018 (UTC)

Pretty poor of you miss using your tools to prove a point, in fact pathetic. Show me we’re the (politician born xxxx) is used? As I’ve only see (Australian politician) used on Commons. Bidgee (talk) 01:13, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Fall 2018 edition

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Multilingual Captions, the first feature release for Structured Data, is coming in January of 2019
  • Be on the lookout for the beta testing announcement
  • Help using captions has been set up, if you'd like to go ahead and see the workflow
• Two IRC office hours were held since the last newsletter
  • Log for 4 October
  • Log for 1 November
• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat

Things to do / input and feedback requests

Current:

• Help determine and propose properties on Wikidata for Commons
• Review designs for structured licensing and copyright
• Join the community focus group!

Since the last newsletter:

• Review a prototype for searching structured Commons (October 2018)
• "Good coverage" for depicts tagging (Sept. 2018)
• Review and discuss mockups for displaying the new metadata section of the file page (18 September - 9 October 2018)
• Depicts statements draft requirements (14 August - 31 August 2018)
• Identify Wikidata properties that Commons will need (26 June - 14 August 2018)

Presentations / Press / Events

• Presentation by Keegan on the first features to be released for Structured Data, presented at Wikiconference North America, Columbus, Ohio, October 2018.
• Sandra presented a project update at the GLAM-Wiki conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 2018, as part of an update and panel discussion.
• Structured Data on Commons was the subject of a keynote presentation by Sandra (see slides) at the Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council conference in Tallinn, Estonia, November 2018.

Partners and allies

• The info portal on Structured Commons now includes a section on GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
• We are currently planning the first GLAM pilot projects that will use structured data on Wikimedia Commons. One project has already started: the Swedish Heritage Board researches and develops a prototype tool to provide improved metadata (translations, data additions...) from Wikimedia Commons back to the source institution. Read the project brief.
• The documentation for batch uploads of files to Wikimedia Commons will be improved in 2019, as part of preparing for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. To prepare, the GLAM team at the Wikimedia Foundation wants to understand better which types of documentation you already use, and how you like to learn new GLAM-Wiki skills and knowledge. Fill in a short survey to provide input!

Stay up to date!

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• Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 17:58, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Photo Permission

Hi Bidgee,

I'm having trouble finding your email to ask for photo permissions. My partner and I are creating a game and would like to use one of the photos you uploaded to wikipedia. It's current license is sharealike and as our game will be commercial we cannot fit it under the sharealike category. The photo is located at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:360_degree_panorama_from_Wetlands_Walk_at_Fivebough_Wetlands.jpg If you could contact me on robertsilberbauer@hotmail.com that'd be great.

Thanks, Rob — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2406:5A00:E002:400:7C61:9FFF:91EB:3900 (talk) 07:56, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Clover Moore category

Apologies for adding Default sort; not even sure if it is used in Commons. I just found it odd that she appeared under C for Clover, while everyone else was C for their surnames. Oronsay (talk) 02:25, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Captions in January

The previous message from today says captions will be released in November in the text. January is the correct month. My apologies for the potential confusion. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)

My apologies if this is a duplicate message for you, it is being sent to multiple lists which you may be signed up for.

Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...

Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:

1. Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons.
2. Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
3. Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have anything you'd like to say prior to release.

Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a link to join, are on Meta.

Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the IRC office hour on Thursday. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank You

I just wanted to say thanks for intervening with Modanung's edit warring, I really appreciate it. Rune370 (talk) 23:40, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, 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!

Affected:

• File:Illegal graffiti on a wall in Wagga Wagga.jpg

Yours sincerely, Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 20:48, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Category:Wikimeda_Australia_events_in_Adelaide

Category:Wikimeda_Australia_events_in_Adelaide has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion 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. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Scott (talk) 03:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

map of China 1912～1949

The original version was wrong. Taiwan was ceded to the territory of Japan before the Sino-Japanese War. China recognized it. File:1912 China map from National Geographic.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by A ba gazc (talk • contribs) 23:00, 30 May 2019‎ (UTC)

Please see this comment I left. Bidgee (talk) 23:04, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Wind farm photo

Hi Bidgee. File:Crookwell wind farm from the air.jpg has had the caption changed on en:Crookwell Wind Farm to say that it is actually en:Cullerin Range Wind Farm. I am not familiar with either location, but looking at Google Maps, I am inclined to guess that the changed caption is correct, and the photo is misnamed. Here is Cullerin Range website.[7] The photo appears to match the northern end of it (switch to satellite view and zoom in). Are you able to confirm or adjust the title. caption and use of the photo? Thanks. --Scott (talk) 01:30, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

File:Locator map of the ROC Taiwan.svg

@A ba gazc, Bidgee, and Kanguole: Hello. I would like to suggest that the revert ([8]) back to the 2010 version of the File:Locator map of the ROC Taiwan.svg diminished the accuracy and usefulness of the map to Wikipedia readers. In my view, the open circles are better than the red dots, and furthermore, the township of Wuqiu is omitted from the 2010 version, which it really shouldn't be. Let me know what you're thinking. Thanks for your time. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 08:48, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi Bidgee, was this intended as a revert of A ba gazc's replacement of the map, but you didn't notice that he/she had already reverted? Otherwise it seems unjustified. The tweaks I made to the map did not change what it depicted, but made it clearer. Kanguole (talk) 11:34, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Because of the ongoing overwrites and reverts, the file had to be protected and I restored it back to the very first upload. There could be a discussion on the talk page of the file in question but it would be unlikely that it will be unprotected, instead you will likely to told to upload as a new file (under a new title, that could be similar to the one that you're wanting to "replace"). I cannot unprotect the file as I'm not a Admin (Sysop), you may request at COM:AN/P but again I think you will find the same issue I raised that it will unlikely be unprotected. Bidgee (talk) 13:06, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Are we talking about the same file? (File:Locator map of the ROC Taiwan.svg) This was overwritten with a completely different version by A ba gazc, reverted by A ba gazc and reverted again by you, and doesn't seem to have ever been protected. Kanguole (talk) 16:20, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space

There are two separate blog entries for Structured Data on Commons posted to Wikimedia Space that are of interest:

• Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister, discusses some ways that editors can work with structured data. Topics include tools that have been written or modified for structured data, in addition to future plans for tools and querying services.
• Structured Data on Commons - A Blog Series, written by me, is a five-part posting that covers the basics of the software and features that were built to make structured data happen. The series is meant to be friendly to those who may have some knowledge of Commons, but may not know much about the structured data project.

I hope these are informative and useful, comments and questions are welcome. All the blogs offer a comment feature, and you can log in with your Wikimedia account using oAuth. I look forward to seeing some posts over there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:33, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Important message for file movers

A community discussion has been closed where the consensus was to grant all file movers the suppressredirect user right. This will allow file movers to not leave behind a redirect when moving files and instead automatically have the original file name deleted. Policy never requires you to suppress the redirect, suppression of redirects is entirely optional.

Possible acceptable uses of this ability:

• To move recently uploaded files with an obvious error in the file name where that error would not be a reasonable redirect. For example: moving "Sheep in a tree.jpg" to "Squirrel in a tree.jpg" when the image does in fact depict a squirrel.
• To perform file name swaps.
• When the original file name contains vandalism. (File renaming criterion #5)

Please note, this ability should be used only in certain circumstances and only if you are absolutely sure that it is not going to break the display of the file on any project. Redirects should never be suppressed if the file is in use on any project. When in doubt, leave a redirect. If you forget to suppress the redirect in case of file name vandalism or you are not fully certain if the original file name is actually vandalism, leave a redirect and tag the redirect for speedy deletion per G2.

The malicious or reckless breaking of file links via the suppressredirect user right is considered an abuse of the file mover right and is grounds for immediate revocation of that right. This message serves as both a notice that you have this right and as an official warning. Questions regarding this right should be directed to administrators. --Majora (talk) 21:35, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Lockheed C-130 Hercules at Wagga Wagga Airport

Many apologies. I've been using the wrong process in all the cat changes I have made to Lockheed C-130 Hercules across a range of air forces, and most recently with the Transall C-160. Will get it right now. Thanks for the heads up Ardfern (talk) 04:36, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

No problem, though it is now possible to suppress the redirect (by unticking "Leave a redirect behind"). Did a test with one category by moving the one you created and suppress the redirect, then moved the other category. Bidgee (talk) 00:41, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019! Please help with this survey.

 

Wiki Loves Monuments logo

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Dear Bidgee,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.

You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help.

To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2019.

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COM:AN/U

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Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems#User:Bidgee. cats.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Túrelio (talk • contribs) 11:01, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. Must have missed it as I cannot see it, will look at the archive to see what it was about later. Only got back from a deployment. Bidgee (talk) 11:38, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 Participant Survey (Reminder)

 

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Dear Bidgee,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.

You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help.

To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2019.

Kind regards,
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File:Coulson Aviation (N130CG) Lockheed EC-130Q Hercules at Albury Airport.jpg

Hi Bidgee, this image of yours has recently found a lot of re-uses in newspapers, many with credit; see image talkpage. Incidently I found this. Please check for yourself, whether that's by you or a case of copyfraud. --Túrelio (talk) 11:17, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Photo of Lockheed EC-130Q Hercules N134CG

I did some researches to see what did you complaint for? You told me you did not post anywhere else but actually, you posted it in this link https://aviation-safety.net/photo/10498/Lockheed-EC-130Q-Hercules-N134CG on 09 December 2019. Yep, then a lot of sources reused your picture and claimed it belong to them. In this case, let say that admin is lazy or he made a mistake. Let try to search [9] and may be he saw a lot of versions spreading on the Internet. He made a conclusion that your picture (painful as an original author) is copyright violation. If I were him, I would do the same thing. In this case, calm down, discuss and explain to him instead of making a mess, edit wars, 3RR,... I recommend you should upload your picture in Commons at first before somewhere else. PS: from a ESEAP fellow!  A l p h a m a  ^Talk 11:13, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

I only ever uploaded the photograph to Commons (was uploaded after [13 December 2019] my first deployment in Nowra, since I had no way of editing and uploading it), I never uploaded it to aviation-safety.net and it would have been added on/or after 23 January 2020 (day of the crash) but they have used the EXIF date for the photo and failed to attribute back to the original location (on Commons).

After the season, the losses (Bomber/Tank 134) and the issues here, I'm disappointed, upset and honestly burnt out. The bad block (which is yet to be acknowledged by Sealle and noted as such in the block log) has killed any enthusiasm I had for Commons and the final straw that has lead to my retirement. While the bad block log remains, I will not be returning. Bidgee (talk) 12:14, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Just to jump in, any reviewing admin should have checked Bidgee's previous contributions when assessing whether deletion was appropriate. These clearly demonstrate that one of his areas of focus is photographing aircraft at Australian airports and that he was at the location where this photo was taken (with several other photos from there having been uploaded). The style of this photo is also entirely consistent with his standard approach to photographing aircraft. A little bit more digging would have confirmed that Bidgee is a highly trusted contributor, having received grants to support his excellent photography work. Nick-D (talk) 23:29, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Games Workshop template

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Category:Warhammer_40,000

Could you please create a copyright template that informs people looking at images that Games Workshop does not consider photographs of its models to be an infringement of their intellectual property? It would help prevent future confusions like the one above. Please refer to the discussion below:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Warhammer_AoS_Lind.jpg

I contacted Games Workshop's legal department and their lawyer told me this explicitly.Kurzon (talk) 14:51, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

File:Looking up East St, Narrandera.jpg

File:Looking up East St, Narrandera.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!

Richardkiwi (talk) (talk) 12:57, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

File:World War II Memorial at Memorial Gardens in Narrandera.jpg

File:World War II Memorial at Memorial Gardens in Narrandera.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!

Richardkiwi (talk) (talk) 13:04, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

disruptive attack

Kaya Bidgee I have removed the mass nomination harassment attack on your uploads, there are two nominations that were coverted afd that I had commented AFD before realising the extent of the attack. Gnangarra 14:23, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Please remove the defamatory comment! We are working for our clients in removing content that they own the rights to, this user has stolen the images from our clients. We demand they be removed or a DMCA will be issued and possibly further action to ensure the rights of our clients are protected. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2001:8004:2721:10BC:9D3A:3005:6DA6:5AF1 (talk) 17:03, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

File:Reverse vending machine for the NSW Container Deposit Scheme at the Kooringal Mall 2.jpg

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File:Sophie Devine after the Sydney Thunder vs Adelaide Strikers WBBL game at Robertson Oval.jpg

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File:Rachel Priest after the Sydney Thunder vs Adelaide Strikers WBBL game at Robertson Oval.jpg

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File:City of Wagga Wagga - 240L FOGO, 240L Recycling and 140L general waste bins.jpg

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File:Abandoned farm house in Hillgrove 01.jpg

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File:Vanellus miles standing in Microcystis aeruginosa outbreak on the southwest side of Lake Albert.jpg

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File:Deputy Prime Minister and Member for Riverina, The Honorable Michael McCormack speech at the 2018 Reserve Forces Day commemorative service.jpg

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File:City of Wagga Wagga - 240L FOGO, 240L Recycling and 140L general waste bins.jpg

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AussieLegend (✉) 17:39, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

• This waas a challenge to the speedy deletion request before I realised what is going on with the IP that is attacking you. I've voted keep at the discussion. --AussieLegend (✉) 17:58, 17 May 2020 (UTC)