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Dear EVula/Archive-2011. I am writing to you to inform you that you are in danger of losing your adminship on Commons because of inactivity.

If you want to keep your adminship, you need both to sign at Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section within 30 days of today's date, and also to make at least five further admin actions in the following six months. Anyone who does not do so will automatically lose administrator rights.

You can read the de-admin policy at Commons:Administrators/De-adminship.

Thank you abf «Cabale!» 15:26, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Bugger, I never got the email about my talk page being modified. Thanks for the heads up. EVula // talk // ☯ // 01:47, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

RussellSquareAerial.jpg

Dear EVula, Concerning your deletion of RussellSquareAerial.jpg, I'd like to ask for your kind help and explain the reason. In uploading the file I followed reasonings like those mentioned in very similar existing images like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Google_Maps_directions.png#file http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LosAngelesGE.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Stables.jpg Probably I misunderstood some technicality which might be corrected before a deletion takes place. Thanks איתן טל -Etan J. Tal (talk) 06:22, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

The only problem with the image was that it's a snapshot of Google Maps, which is not freely-licensed content; the most relevant difference between your image and the three linked to is that those three are on Wikipedia, which does accept non-free content (and is why all three of them have non-free media use rationale templates on them). Commons, however, does not accept non-free content. EVula // talk // ☯ // 07:05, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!איתן טל -Etan J. Tal (talk) 07:12, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

I feel I'm being picked on

Hi,

I'm a non-admin Wikipedia volunteer who has a solid history of uploading pictures, usually without problems. Recently I was in a brouhaha over Paul Revere & Sarah Palin and out of the fallout, user User:CutOffTies became irked with something I did (an unfortunate cartoon -- Revere ringing a bell ala Colbert-style) and what appears to be retaliation, is systematically targeting many of my past pictures on some copyvio technicality that I do not fully understand. People e-mailed me pictures, plus permission to put them in Wikipedia; so I had figured I had been following the rules. I'm wondering: do I need to have the people who (1) took the photo or who were (2) in the photo email the Commons permission that it's okay? Please help me understand what to do. But I still feel like I'm being picked on unfairly by another user; like it's a lot of work to upload pictures, and easy to delete them with a keystroke. I'm a volunteer who has raised serious $$$ for Wikimedia Foundation (a sizeable check from an indie record label to Wikimedia as per the editing for donations project) and it is unlikely that I will keep volunteering if all this work is undone on obscure technicalities.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 02:46, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm probably a horrible person to ask about this; my adminship here is both infrequently used (because of real-world commitments) and, when it is used, pretty much limited to just clearing out backlogs, obvious copyvios, or maintaining cross-project links. I see you've asked several other people, so I wish you luck with your other attempts. Sorry Tom. :\ EVula // talk // ☯ // 02:51, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

A general problem is how to police errant thugs; and it happens; this whole Wikipedia/Wikimedia environment can become quite abrasive, and it is unfortunate, because good people get tired of the mess.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 02:58, 20 June 2011 (UTC)