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File:Death_Penalty_World_Map.png

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Artem Karimov (talk | edits) 15:18, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

File:Death_Penalty_World_Map.png

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Antemister (talk) 11:39, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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Affected:

File:WBC - Dead Miners 2006.jpg

And also:

Yours sincerely, Kobac (talk) 23:22, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Copyright

Hi, I received your message, and I have to tell you that I am targeting the images you have given her, have no copyright problem, since they have the author, some have their own source, but they definitely do not show any problem --87.8.55.147 17:27, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

That may be so, but the tags need to stay in place until the deletion procedure is closed. The notices don't mean they will be deleted, only that there's an open discussion. It's likely they'll be kept at the end of it. At that point, an admin or other experienced user will properly untag them. Guanaco (talk) 17:28, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Ok i apologized i got panicked, but i would have to tweak the files one by one, i do not feel right to declare copyright infringement to all the files, knowing that some are likely to be correct--87.8.55.147 17:31, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the right, now I just put my idea into the discussion, but I hope that what I say is taken into account and not erased, I say it because here can happen all ahahaha--87.8.55.147 17:43, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

File:Concho Mermaid (116672241).jpg

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Googy1987 (talk) 22:29, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Re

One of the archives of the original file has been deleted, the other files are repeated and unnecessary.1.165.215.225 07:31, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Code issues in User:Guanaco/common.js

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File:Quarry Marks at Aswan (2007).jpg

Could you kindly consider marking this image please? Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 02:25, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

@Leoboudv:

Done Any idea what went wrong? Guanaco (talk) 02:54, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

I had to rotate the original maximum size image before upload but some bots are finicky sometimes. This was a unique image so I thought it was worth it to upload it to show how the Ancient Egyptians physically quarried stone from a quarry to build their obelisks, etc. Best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 02:58, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Comment: I became a trusted user here in 2009 but since I'm just a volunteer, I won't ask to be an Admin since I don't have the time for this task. If you want to, however, and do your job honestly, you can be an Admin. Best of Luck on Commons, --Leoboudv (talk) 03:33, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
I'd like to be an admin at Commons at some point, but for now it's probably too soon. Almost all my edits here are in the last two months, and there are some areas where I don't have much experience. Also I should mention that I was an admin at enwiki and desysopped twice, in 2004 and 2006. It was a lot of pointless, destructive drama, and you could say I'm not the biggest fan of ArbCom as an institution. en:Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Cantus vs. Guanaco and en:Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al if you're curious about the details. I'm not 16 anymore, and I find the Commons community, today, to be a much better fit for me. So if and when someone nominates me, I'd accept.

If you're open to it I'll nominate you right now. You're not what I'd call inactive, and if you average one good admin action a week with no bad ones, that's a gain for the project. I trust you wouldn't abuse the tools. Guanaco (talk) 06:50, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. People have asked me if I wanted to be an Admin but I always declined. I don't have enough time. Admins can lose their tools for lack of activity too. Best, --Leoboudv (talk) 18:12, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

File:Mirrors That Hang On Glass Threads.webm

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Hello, Guanaco. Because this file recently had License Review by Daphne Lantier, I felt it advisable to get more community input at DR, rather than Speedy Delete it.

JGHowes ^talk - 14:01, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

a plead of forgiveness.

I would not plead this to you if I weren't desperate so here it goes, I have been involved in sockpuppeting and created a few of them to insult other users well specifically the first 2 and after that just sockpuppeted for da Lulz which is something I now deeply regret. I have been blocked from editing Wikipedia and I really wish to continue improving it ad build an encyclopedia however my plead for unblocking was rejected because I had first used a sock account as I was unaware if any other account was still able to appeal. Now what I ask of you isn't much all I want is to continue contributing to Wikimedia Commons and if possible have this apology be taken into account of my appeal, I do not wish to have account creation reinstated nor to be autoconfirmed again, all I want is to help continue building an encyclopedia and help build this Wikimedia Commons. I hope that you will see this sincere plead as me begging the community for forgiveness and try to get my talk page access reinstated so I can plead for unblocking once more, please look at en:Yuan dynasty coinage, and en:Qing dynasty coinage to see that my real interest on this project lies in improving these projects for the readers and users, I fully understand that what I did was wrong and if I would be given a second chance the first thing I would do is send out White Doves to the people I had insulted in the hope that they would find it in their hearts to forgive me. Please allow me to have a second chance.

The only real reason I ask this is because in 6 months I could do a lot of editing and improving articles which is something I would rather not miss, and I know that I had abused my privileges but I would not disrupt any project in the future as I am fully aware of the consequences. Please look at my work and help me only get my editing privileges back, nothing more.

Faithfully Donald Trung (Talk 💬) (Socks 🎭) 06:01, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

@Donald Trung: I see that you have an unblock request pending on English Wikipedia, so the best thing to do would be to wait for them to consider that appeal. If you remain blocked, I could consider helping you appeal in six months at en:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard.

In the meantime, there is always work to be done at Commons. Contribute well here (without socking), and you might find that it is taken into consideration at Wikipedia. Guanaco (talk) 07:47, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

This guy has been making quite a mess cross-wiki. Have a look at this... Daphne Lantier 00:44, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Well it was worth a try. It's a shame. If he hadn't been cross-wiki spamming, he might've got somewhere. Guanaco (talk) 21:57, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Hi Guanaco. I just wanted to apologize to you for my bitchiness regarding license reviews. Maybe it's the crappy summer heat... I'm sure you and I can work fine together to keep that backlog low, and maybe even get it to zero. It's been there before, if you can believe it! Take care. Daphne Lantier 00:19, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the beer. I'm glad we can work together on it and get it to zero soon. And even keep it there for the most part. Guanaco (talk) 21:57, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Unless Discasto drops another batch of 2000 files on our heads...

Daphne Lantier 00:06, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Oath tagline blue RGB 170221.svg

It is unclear to me why you re-uploaded File:Oath tagline blue RGB 170221.svg in a larger size than what I had put there just a few days earlier. There is no need for it, as SVG images are available for preview in a range of sizes from 320 pixels to 1280 pixels wide, just by clicking the links next to the image. Moreover, being a logo, despite Wikimedia declaring it "too simple to copyright", in some jurisdictions it use may still be restricted, so posting large copies online could be considered infringement. Finally, there is a purpose to posting logos of companies at 220 pixels wide, regardless of file format: That is the default width displayed in most Infoboxes on Wikipedia, so no resizing is needed. — Quicksilver^@ 15:38, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

I'll re-upload it at 220px. The only reason for my size change was Inkscape which didn't like the small size. Guanaco (talk) 23:00, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

English Wikipedia seems to use 300px. I'll just leave yours as you had it, with the white background and 220px size. I'll upload a 300px transparent one. Guanaco (talk) 23:17, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

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Comments Good quality. PumpkinSky 02:35, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

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License review

Please don't add that template on modified files that links to the original file. -- 1989 19:58, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

This edit could be an error on your part, but why are you tagging files that says own work? -- 1989 20:26, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

@1989: There were about 900 uploads by one user which needed to be flagged for license review. I filtered a lot of the files but there were some false positives. Having looked at the edits you reverted I can filter similar files if I bulk-tag in the future. Guanaco (talk) 21:23, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Rationale

Can you assist. I am trying to understand. Ive been busy with Wikimania so I missed the closure but I am interested in the general point. You said "Here, she allowed Nesta to use photos of her work, but we don't have proof that she agreed to license them under CC BY. If she did, it has serious implications. Under CC BY, another set designer could legally create a knockoff set using your uploaded image as a guide, and she'd only be entitled to attribution. I think serious implications require serious proof, so could you convince her to send a release to OTRS?". Now if that is true and the image is now deleted then we have removed the risk? But surely not. That same designer can go to the video which is still labelled cc by sa and knock off her designs.... Surely the effect of us taking a cc by sa license at face value (if created by substantive organisations) will have no effect on rogue knock offs.

AND... if I do contact Es Devlin and get her permission then what effect does that have? The picture is then labelled as cc-by-sa.... but it cannot be used by third parties according to the argument above.... as they to would have to check for them selves that Es Devlin really meant it when she sent us the OTRS. I fear that we are interpreting the law as a reason to not fulfil our role of creating information that can be shared by anyone. If someone created a knock-off of Es Devlins work and cited our pic as a defense then any reasonable judge would start with NESTA, then, Es Devlin as the source of the permission. But I cannot see this EVER happening.

I'm sure your intentions are to protect us from infringing copyright but I think the interpretation is much too cautious. (I look on-line for cc by sa pictures for us to use, because I don't use OTRS as its too unproductive of my time). This interpretation will reduce my enthusiasm/ productivity. Best regards - Roger Victuallers (talk) 09:44, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

@Victuallers: I think maybe I was overthinking my reasoning with this. I provided an extreme hypothetical, which probably isn't the best explanation here. Generally we consider a photo of a sculpture or similar to be a derivative work, protected by the original copyright of the object (Es Devlin) as well as the photo (apparently Nesta). For permission to be complete, we need it from both. There are exceptions like FOP, but that doesn't appear to apply here. Overall, the ruling policy is COM:PCP: we have significant doubt about Es Devlin having authorized the CC BY license.

I think the deleted image might be accepted at English Wikipedia and others under fair use. I'll request temporary undeletion and see about uploading it at enwiki. Guanaco (talk) 21:23, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

English Wikipedia

Copy my photos to Commons (here). --Cyrus noto3at bulaga (talk) 03:49, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Done. Guanaco (talk) 04:44, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

AKS Logo

Hello, Thanks for letting me know. I will look into it. v/r — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dabringer (talk • contribs) 08:43, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Highway Gothic

Please change my uploads to a Public Domain later if I am logged out, right? Every uploading of my files. --Cyrus noto3at bulaga (talk) 10:41, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Please

If you can't speak Catalan or Spanish, don't move images to name that aren't either Spanish or Catalan. Thanks --Discasto _talk 06:46, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Sorry. I know enough (North American) Spanish for file naming, but I have no knowledge of Catalan. I'll leave it alone. Guanaco (talk) 06:54, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Ping

Since 'pings' often don't work inside the templates at QIC, I'm leaving a note here to allert you to this. Just a formality. Cheers, --cart-Talk 08:29, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

@W.carter: Well, that's the opposite of what I wanted. It was sitting there, overwhelmingly opposed, and I had en:WP:SNOW in mind. Kinda felt bad about piling on negative comments. I've struck my oppose, if you'd be willing to close it? Guanaco (talk) 08:45, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

I suspected that this was just a blooper. I was about to go and close it and I sort of groaned when I saw that (according to the rules) the voting period had been extended. SNOW can be used here too if there is something not right with the nomination, such as the pic not being made by a Commons user, but not when judging the quality of the photo however bad it may be. I'll go on and close this now. --cart-Talk 08:59, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

File:C-Lok 2 (original).jpg

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Devanagari

How design Devanagari characters in Highway Gothic? --Cyrus noto3at bulaga (talk) 02:28, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure. I don't know much about fonts and even less about Devanagari. Guanaco (talk) 03:48, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Highway Gothic used to design Devanagari script to be a true Unicode font. It is composed with Unicode version 11.0. --Cyrus noto3at bulaga (talk) 11:43, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

File:Alex Meran 2016 - 2.jpg

Hi, if you review a license at Flickr, please be aware that a statement at Flickr may not always be pleasible. Permission has to come from the photographer, not from the depicted person. In case of the Alex Meran pictures, there is no evidence at all of permission from the photographers and the authorship claims are obviously false. Jcb (talk) 14:36, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Welcome to OTRS

I meant to do some research on you yesterday but it looks like someone else beat me to it.

I was active in permissions years ago but less so recently. I have been very active in info EN which had a multi-month backlog. My intention was to return to permissions after getting that backlog under control. While that backlog is down, it seems stubbornly stuck at a couple hundred tickets and I haven't had the breathing time to return my attention to permissions.

It is great that you are willing to help out with permissions. As a new participant, you'll probably have a lot of energy at the beginning, but be careful not to burn out. One problem I run into in info EN and also ran into him permissions is deciding to take on and clean up a large block of tickets, but finding that in many cases I have to send back request for clarification or more information and finding that I exhausted myself yet I'm getting dozens of responses which I have to handle. In other words, pace yourself.

I put together some case studies you might wish to review: Case studies They happen to be oriented toward info EN, so I just realized you might not be able to actually access the tickets. We probably ought to have a separate set of case studies for permissions. Let me know if this is something you'd be interested in working on. Even if you can access the tickets in the link I provided my general concept was to start with very simple cases and then work up to more complicated cases. I need to get back into permissions anyway, so this might be a good excuse to do so.--Sphilbrick (talk) 14:27, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

One other small piece of advice and apologies if this is obvious. There may be a temptation, when addressing a backlog, to decide to work on the oldest tickets. While that is obviously a good idea, there are two reasons why you might prefer to start with more recent tickets. The first is that the very oldest tickets often are old because they are complicated, and it might be good to get your feet wet on easier tickets first. The second is that in many cases, the relevant file in an older ticket has already been deleted, and if you are not an admin you can't look at it, which you should do. When I was not a Commons admin, I did work on some of those but it required contacting an admin asking them to temporarily restore it waiting for that to happen looking at the image and in some cases realizing that there was a problem and then going through the deletion step again. It was doable but not easy. There may be enough recent tickets to keep you busy for a while, but if you would like to work on some older tickets and we can find a mutually satisfactory time I'd be happy to help you out by restoring them temporarily so the issues can be reviewed. If you are familiar with team speak, that would be a good way to work together. If you are not, I can get you some information on it (essentially an app that allows us to converse by audio and text.)--Sphilbrick (talk) 14:50, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for all the good information. It looks like there's more here for me to learn than I realized, and that's exciting. I was thinking of working on new cases last night, before I actually had access - for an entirely different reason. My own thought was that many casual users may lose interest in their submission after some days or weeks. After some point, we've failed to provide a reasonable level of service and they may not reply.

I'm familiar with TeamSpeak, though I don't currently have it installed. I may need to look into getting a headset for this purpose. Guanaco (talk) 17:23, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Help in review

Hi there, I was wondering if I could get your opinion on a flickr file review. I was looking at File:2017 Total Solar Eclipse (NHQ201708210306).jpg and it's a flickr file needing human review. The Flickr file is released under a non-commercial license, making it incompatible, and the copyright tag states "NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted"". Given these two things, the file should fail the review, correct? Thank you. Jon Kolbert (talk) 04:58, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

@Jon Kolbert: The images seem to have a photo credit listed, such as (NASA/Bill Ingalls). If I Google these, I find that there are photographers with their own photography websites, such as [2]. I'd fail the reviews, because it's likely that they aren't officers or employees of the United States government. Based on the information we have, we can only go by the Flickr license. Guanaco (talk) 05:36, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello again, I've done some more digging and I have found this. I think it's worth adding a note or something to the NASA template or something because it appears this occurs too often. Jon Kolbert (talk) 15:00, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Yes, it's a big mess. There's a thread at COM:UDEL and multiple DRs currently open about these images. {{PD-USGov-NASA}} already has more warnings than any other template I've seen, so I'm not sure people would read yet another. But we should try it anyway. How is this?

NASA has been known to hire independent photographers by contract. Because contractors are not employees or officers of the United States government, some NASA images are not in the public domain. Any statement that reads "Photo Credit: (NASA/Person's name)" must be investigated carefully.

Guanaco (talk) 05:40, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

This fake image pass

This uploader uploaded an image and typed in a fake pass today above. The image should be speedily deleted. But would you be willing to pass these other images here, here, here and here...where he has not typed in a fake pass? I believe in good faith but I don't know if Piaceri really licensed his old images freely. It does look that way though. But this uploader's record is bad.

I will have to sign off as its 1:52 AM in Canada, Best, --Leoboudv (talk) 08:53, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

@Leoboudv: I think this uploader is acting in good faith but is using the wrong templates by mistake. Possibly because of bad instructions and a language barrier. Ruthven, would you mind explaining it to him one more time? Guanaco (talk) 09:21, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

@Leoboudv and Guanaco: Yes, sure. Thanks --Ruthven (msg) 09:25, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Also he did use the bad LR tag on the others, but I used VisualFileChange to quickly clean it up. Guanaco (talk) 09:27, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for your help. --Leoboudv (talk) 18:16, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

tickets

Can you have a look at ticket:2017042810016535 please? It is kind of related to ticket:2017042810016535, but I was to answer that we cannot accept forwarded permissions... as the case smells funny. --Ruthven (msg) 16:47, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

@Ruthven: The tickets you linked are the same - is there a second one I should see? Guanaco (talk) 17:18, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

I found ticket:2017091810011175. Taking a second look. Guanaco (talk) 17:20, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

@Ruthven: He wanted us to accept the forwarded permission, but then they sent a non-forwarded one. I think you can just close it. Guanaco (talk) 17:34, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Yes, the linked ticket is the other, sorry. As he wrote me back, I had some doubts. Closing it, cheers. --Ruthven (msg) 18:05, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

File:JackInTheBoxAntennaTopper.jpg

Hi Guanaco. Would you mind taking a look at File:JackInTheBoxAntennaTopper.jpg? It also seems like it might be a case of COM:TOYS based upon this and this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:56, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Just to update, as you can tell from the red link, the file was deleted so it would appear that this has been resolved unless it's reuploaded. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:40, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Help / Account / Hello Guanaco

I forgot my password for the current account, can I create another to contribute to the Wikimedia Commons? I need a response from you, please help me, I need some suggestion. Account name is this: (Leonardo.G G). --189.115.167.74 20:19, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Multiple accounts are okay if you aren't using them for deceit or abuse. It should be fine for you to make a new one. Guanaco (talk) 20:22, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you :). --189.115.167.74 20:32, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello

Hi, Crutch Cargo here. I just noticed that you restored some files I uploaded a few weeks ago, and wanted to say thanks. I'm also wondering, is it "safe" to upload more free licensed work from Simon Kirby's flickr account? I've been corresponding with him over the past few days, and he said that the OTRS (ticket #2017091110006667) covers everything he's posted on Flickr and his wikia site. Any advice you could give on this matter would be extremely useful. Thanks for your time, CrutchCargo (talk) 03:42, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

@CrutchCargo: When you upload things from his sites (or any external site), tag it with {{LicenseReview}} so we can verify the license is correct in case the source is ever taken down. There shouldn't be any more problems, but I'll watch your talk page for deletion notices. If you need help, ask and I'll do what I can. Guanaco (talk) 03:48, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks very much, dude. : ) CrutchCargo (talk) 04:00, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Guanaco, Thank you for reverting the edits done at my user page. I don't know why INC attacks me, but I will keep a close eye on him.

Thank you again!!! --Talk to Kong of Lasers 23:31, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

@Kong of Lasers: I wouldn't worry too much. He wants to waste our time and get attention, so let's give him as little as possible. Guanaco (talk) 23:35, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	Thank you!!! Talk to Kong of Lasers 23:31, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Hey

Now INC appears to be attacking you too. He even threatened bureaucrats, see [3]. There's no point of reporting him. He'll undo your edits.

--Talk to Kong of Lasers 00:03, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

These 3 images

Dear Guanaco,

You had two images I transferred from wikipedia deleted here due to the copyright owner's request that it be "reproduced accurately".

There are these 3 images above with a somewhat nearly similiar provision. (Not distort the meaning of the information) If you think they are OK, please pass them. If not please file a DR. Thank You. --Leoboudv (talk) 08:00, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

@Leoboudv: I've looked into this a bit and found Commons:Deletion requests/Template:Attribution-gencat which applies to the three files. I think for your two uploads, there might be a case to restore them if the "reproduced accurately" reflects moral rights in the uploader's country. Do you recall the uploader's username? Guanaco (talk) 08:21, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

I remember 100% that the uploader's wikipedia username is [4]/Twthmoses or Lasse Jensen (his real name). Lasse Jensen also identified himself as the photographer in the 2 deleted photos. From his wikipedia edits, he is likely from Denmark.
I found another photo that he took which Liftarn transferred to Wikicommons. I hope that the 2 deleted images can be restored for this wikipedia article...because I looked everywhere on flickr but apparently no one visited the particular temple that he visited in Egypt and took any photos of it. It is a ruined site except for one or two Ptolemaic era gates. So the tourists don't visit it much, I guess. Kind Regards from Canada where its 1:43 AM, --Leoboudv (talk) 08:44, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

I hope that the 2 images can be restored based on the uploader's moral rights...and based on this DR but I don't know how 'moral rights' are treated in Denmark. The images are of an Egyptian gateway and a panoramic view of the ruins of a temple. That is all I know. This is the image of the gate by the uploader Twthmoses (Lasse Jensen.) This is the other photo. If they cannot be restored, then just let me know. Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 03:03, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
@Leoboudv: I found this section of Danish law which refers to moral rights: [5]
1. The author of a work shall have the right to be identified by name as the author in accordance with the requirements of proper usage, on copies of the work as well as if the work is made available to the public.
2. The work must not be altered nor made available to the public in a manner or in a context which is prejudicial to the author's literary or artistic reputation or individuality.
It seems unlikely that this has the same meaning and intent. I think the best chance of restoring these images is for us to contact Twthmoses/Lasse Jensen and get permission for a new license. I see though, you already tried asking him at enwiki in 2009, but I'll ask him once more. As infrequently as he edits he may have missed it. Guanaco (talk) 03:39, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

I've posted at en:User talk:Twthmoses. Guanaco (talk) 03:43, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Hopefully he will respond to keep them. Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 04:21, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

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File:PavelPetr.jpg

Is there any permission for this 2 year old image? I don't see anything but I'm not sure. If you think there is no explicit permission, please file a DR. Thank you, --Leoboudv (talk) 00:20, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

I've checked archive.org and found nothing. Tagged no permission. Guanaco (talk) 00:31, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

There are a lot more images in this category, sourced from the same website, that have a similar missing permission problem. @sikander (talk) 04:28, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Comment: Thank You. Some images in that category date to 2008 or are 9 years old. I don't know the solution. I saw this image by Maliepa who should know about image licenses but I could not see any permission statement either.
File:Portrait of Petr Mikulenka Edited as Major General.jpg

Best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 05:21, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

@Siqbal and Leoboudv: For the very old ones (pre-2011) we could propose something like grandfathered old files, but for license review. I'm not sure that's a good idea, though. It's been fundamental that all images have a source, license, and evidence of permission, or verifiable public domain status. I think we should batch-tag them with {{License review}}, then use DR if they don't pass review. Guanaco (talk) 07:07, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Sure, why don't you do that. There is no clear permission so a no permission tag or a formal DR is OK. I can't mark these images. Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 18:16, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Message from ELOJeff10538

Hi, Guanaco. I don't have the original photo due to space constraints, some might think over processed but I wouldn't necesserily agree. Still a nicer and more up to date image I think when all is said and done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ELOJeff10538 (talk • contribs) 08:56 26 sep 2017 (UTC)
The above comment was made at User:Guanaco and has been copied to this page by seb26 (talk) 15:59, 26 September 2017 (UTC).

File:L-159 ALCA Czech Air Force.jpg

This image has clear permission.,,,and it survived a DR on its image talkpage. The permission statement says" Foto v tiskové kvalitě: Fotografie, které přinášíme v této rubrice, jsou v tiskové kvalitě, a jsou určeny k volnému využití s tím, že jako autor snímků bude uvedeno Ministerstvo obrany České republiky"

OR "The photographs we bring in this section are in print quality and are intended for free use with the fact that the author of the photographs will be the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic". (google translate)

But I don't know if this permission applies to pre-2009 images or to only those images on the permission page. Best, --Leoboudv (talk) 00:33, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Administrator

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Congratulations

on the tools. Can I be the first person you give user rights to? Artix Kreiger (talk) 02:29, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Which rights do you need? Guanaco (talk) 02:32, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Maybe autopatrol could be basic. and file mover. I just requested several files to be renamed from useless files. Artix Kreiger (talk) 02:36, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Well, there's a warning on your talk from Magog the Ogre, less than two days ago, about incorrect license tags, so for now it might be better for others to check your work. I'm more on the fence about file mover. If you make a request at Commons:Requests for rights#Filemover and there are no serious objections, I'll approve it. Guanaco (talk) 02:42, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Deletion request

can you delete this, this ? I had uploaded it but I later realize that the source site does not explicitlly say it is public domain. Artix Kreiger (talk) 03:28, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Done. Guanaco (talk) 04:02, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Congratulations!

And jubilations! All the best. --E4024 (talk) 14:07, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Nice that it went so well. Good Work still, Hystrix (talk) 18:04, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the support everyone. I have to say seeing "Guanaco (A)" everywhere is a bit much so I'll be turning that script off. Guanaco (talk) 18:08, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Sorry I missed it. Congratz! You already know it will hurt to be admin, so I spare you the speech!

Welcome! --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 23:33, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Congrats! --jdx ^Re: 05:53, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Welcome! They got you too! --Ruthven (msg) 21:41, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

+1. Wikicology (talk) 21:56, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

This

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_uploaded_by_Kioa_Garc%C3%ACa

Apparently someone named INeverCry had abused the 1st two accounts there. Artix Kreiger (talk) 04:41, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I blocked the third. Guanaco (talk) 04:44, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

special:contributions/A Clowd in Trousers, hmmmm Artix Kreiger (talk) 18:36, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

If I had moved my park photos, I would have been left with a lot of redirects. I appreciate what you did. --Mjrmtg (talk) 10:57, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Confused by DR closure

At Commons:Deletion requests/File:Carvon.png, you said "no image available to supersede it." But at the Category:Carvone I had noted, I see File:(S)-(+)-Carvone Structural Formula V.svg and File:(S)-Carvone.svg, both higher quality images of the same chemical meaning. One is in the same chemical diagram style (explicit CH3 and CH2 groups) and even includes an annotation about the stereochemistry. The other is similarly high quality, and a pure skeletal image. Please let me know how between the two of these, some COM:EDUSE is not covered. For example, it would be trivial to edit out the "(S)" from the first one if you were hoping to see "same style and no further detail included". DMacks (talk) 04:59, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

File:(S)-(+)-Carvone Structural Formula V.svg is close enough, on second thought, so I will go ahead and reverse my close. Guanaco (talk) 05:10, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Done. Guanaco (talk) 05:12, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response! DMacks (talk) 05:42, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

porn pictures

can you please tell me what encyclopedian information these pictures have? Wikipedia is a encyclopedia and not a pornografia Majo statt Senf (talk) 05:25, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

This is Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia. We accept images which are unencyclopedic, but may still have some other educational value. For example, these might be useful in a book about sex. There are varying opinions about what's acceptable, but generally the consensus here is to have at least one file illustrating each documented sexual practice. Guanaco (talk) 05:28, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

User:Sher Aziz

Hi Guanaco, I need help can you unblock this Sher Aziz account i want to upload images on wikipedia119.160.71.205 05:27, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

I will review the block. Give me a few minutes. Guanaco (talk) 05:28, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Ok. 119.160.71.205 05:29, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Nope.

Not done Globally locked; I couldn't unlock the account if I wanted to. You're blocked too, as you have a clear history of posting nonsense. Guanaco (talk) 05:31, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

User:Sher Aziz

See here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sher_Aziz i have requested 3 times in utrs but they are claming you must first unblock in english wikipedia then we will unblock in english wikipedia. I can give you money if you can help me 119.160.66.114 05:35, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Not done I don't take bribes. Blocked again. Guanaco (talk) 05:39, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Range blocks

I've undone your block of 2a02:c7d::/32, as it was causing collateral damage. Going forward, please consult with a CU before blocking a range for more than 24 hours. (Per COM:BLOCK: "Range blocks are especially powerful tools, and discussion of these is particularly encouraged. Range blocks with a duration longer than 24 hours should be discussed with a checkuser to assess the likely impact.") Эlcobbola _talk 01:53, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

@Elcobbola: Could you elaborate on the collateral damage? The block was for anonymous users only, with account creation allowed. My understanding - correct me if I'm wrong - is that this block should not have seriously impacted anyone else. We have few legitimate, anonymous edits from that range. There may be logged-in users from the range, but they wouldn't be affected or even notice the block. I discussed the block on IRC with two other admins who approved of it; I didn't see a need to consult a checkuser because logged-in users aren't affected. Collateral damage is limited to anonymous edits, which we see as well as you. Guanaco (talk) 03:00, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

File:S216 tom carter.jpg

Dear Guanaco,

If you know the OGL 3.0 license for this image, please feel free to type it in and pass this image. Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 06:14, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

The OGL is explicitly compatible under CC BY 4.0, so I went ahead and passed it under that license. I'll look into creating a new license template for OGL. Guanaco (talk) 07:14, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me this. I did not know this. Best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 19:50, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
@Leoboudv: Somehow my search for "Open Government Licence" in the template namespace didn't find it. It's {{OGL3}}. Guanaco (talk) 19:58, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Tahnk You, --Leoboudv (talk) 20:35, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

This edit...

Hi Guanaco, I'm curious about your rationale for marking this file as lacking permissions. It was uploaded by someone with the same username as the performer, and marked as "own work" and released under an appropriate licence. Was there anything in particular that makes you suspect that the uploader is not in fact the same person as the performer? Or is it now common practice to require OTRS confirmation for all "own work" contributions made by new users? The Land (talk) 07:13, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

@The Land: I marked it no permission because there was visible camera shake, so there is a person behind the camera whose permission we need. Guanaco (talk) 07:15, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

About this picture

Hi Guanaco,

This picture File:Cerceris rybyensis killing an halictid bee-20140819-3.jpg can be restored? I don't have it in my computer anymore. Regards. DenesFeri (talk) 05:48, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Can you answer, please? DenesFeri (talk) 07:41, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

@DenesFeri: Hi, sorry, I got distracted by a big mess I made and had to clean up. I've restored and tagged it. Guanaco (talk) 07:46, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! Cheers. DenesFeri (talk) 07:49, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Deleted files uploaded by sock Глинистый сланец

good morning guanaco, I am writing to you because I see that it always deletes every request to restore a single file, so I would like to ask that the erase is not a solution to the problem, it is necessary that at least some requested file be taken into consideration and well-evaluated since Many other files have been mentioned by some other administrators, many files are not licensed, the files of Глинистый сланец are not immense copyviol, and the fact that some of them have been replicated is an example, since you would be willing to singular analysis for each single file. I would like to find a dialogue with you to find a definitive solution to this problem, waiting for your answer :)--79.17.31.222 09:16, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi, my understanding is that you are A3cb1, a long-time blocked user who has uploaded many copyrighted files and evaded the block on many occasions. I would be willing to advocate for your eventual return, but only if you make a show of good faith and respect the block. On English Wikipedia, there is a standard offer: go six months without editing under any name or IP, then the community will give your unblock request serious consideration. Would you be willing to stay away for six months, then talk to us? Guanaco (talk) 09:25, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

are you serious or do you jest? I can not understand if you talk seriously ???--79.17.31.222 09:33, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

I am completely serious. If you follow the rules and stop being a long-term abuser, this can be a very forgiving community. I think you've uploaded a lot of good content, and a lot of bad. One day I hope we can trust you to only upload public domain and freely licensed images, and to categorize correctly. This would be the first step to building that trust. Guanaco (talk) 09:39, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

understand, but would it be possible if I sent you a reset request? it's possible?--79.17.31.222 09:47, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

If you stay away for six months, I'll review your undelete requests. Guanaco (talk) 09:50, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

I hope to succeed, because I see it very very very hard, at least is it possible if some other administrator can see these files without doing anything for 6 months?--79.17.31.222 09:56, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

We have Special:Log/Глинистый сланец which lists the files. I'll take a look at some of them for you. But please no more sockpuppetry. Guanaco (talk) 10:02, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

THANK YOU FOR DEDICATED TIME, give a glance to all the many ehehehehehe, and now that you are administrator do not abuse the power that has been conferred upon you, that here there are false ahahah--79.31.200.158 17:09, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

I've restored File:Abdicazione di Carlo di Borbone.jpg. Guanaco (talk) 01:17, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Items in Category redirects

I am looking at Category:Izmir and there are about 2,000 files there. Should this be used in Commons delinker or someone will? Artix Kreiger (talk) 14:30, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Done I've given the command to CommonsDelinker and also moved the gallery Izmir. Guanaco (talk) 17:20, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

File:John Haggerty2.jpg

Thanks for fixing the file name, as I mentioned on the talk page, when I originally created the file back in 2011 Wikipedia wouldn't let me name it properly, it appeared to be censoring the word "hag". Robman94 (talk) 04:09, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

@Robman94: No problem. I noticed this because someone was trying to create Category:John Haggerty and couldn't because of the title blacklist. Apparently there was a long-term abuser back in 2009 who went by "Hagger". I also changed the blacklist to allow "Haggerty" in the future. Guanaco (talk) 04:12, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

File:Acyrthosiphon pisum 5006053.jpg

I don't know if this image by Raeky needs to be reviewed or not. Goodbye, --Leoboudv (talk) 08:30, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

@Leoboudv: For now I'll revert my un-review - I thought I had reverted all of those. I've noticed there are a lot of images whose licenses have apparently changed since he did his review. So far I haven't found any web archive evidence to contradict him, but I found File:Eurchaferlifecycle.jpg which claims these are public domain files. It seems unlikely. Guanaco (talk) 09:43, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

@Guanaco: : This image File:Clathrus ruber 61317.jpg by Raeky might be important because 1. the source was not deleted and 2. it proves at the source that the license was originally 'cc by sa 3.0' when he uploaded it. Strangely though...there are 2 licenses on this image. All the other 4 linked images in it have the same situation. I passed it and made a note on the image talkpage....but I don't know if the author was licensing the image free only for wikipedia. Very strange. --Leoboudv (talk) 00:16, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

3 posters

Hello Guanaco, I share this account with Mr. Maeder, a 90 years old graphic designer who who wishes to publish his work for posterity on the Commons repository. As Mr. Maeder is not fluent in English nor confortable with the Mediawiki software, I am translating, writing and uploading with him. We have in the past supplied a Wikimedia administrator with Mr Maeder's proof of ID to clear some photographs which he had taken. In the present case, the artwork for the following posters File:Motel, Canadian Poster, 1995.jpg, File:A Silent Love, US Poster, 2004.jpg and File:GO WEAST, Original Montreal run poster, 1996.jpg belong to Mr Maeder who designed them. Please let us know how to procced to revert the current deletions. Celestin1967 (talk) 17:26, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

@Celestin1967: Can you send us an email, following the process at COM:CONSENT? We just need an email from him which reference those files and "any other works by [first name] Maeder, uploaded by Celestin1967", and agrees to license them under a free license, such as the CC BY-SA 4.0. Guanaco (talk) 17:33, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Barnstar of Diligence

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Thank you for not only meticulously working on permissions, a work far too few people have the patience for, but also answering my question comprehensively and in a way that even a newbie could understand, like an empathetic professional technical writer. --SebastianHelm (talk) 18:56, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

License help

Hey thank you so much for the help. I dont know much about that stuff. Thanks a lot. Saadkhan12345 (talk)

@Saadkhan12345: I'm happy to help. If you have questions about any of it, feel free to ask me here at any time or use {{ping|Guanaco}}. Guanaco (talk) 07:23, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

"Section resolved" template in Admin's noticeboard and Help desk

Hello, the template {{Section resolved}} is without effect in Commons:Administrators' noticeboard because the SpBot is not called which would by the way remove the template on archiving. It would be better to use {{Resolved}} or the pair {{Closed}} and {{End closed}}. For Commons:Help desk it is more tricky: Sections with {{Section resolved|…}} are archived after 4 days, but other sections, if they are older than 10 days. So sections older than 6 days are actually archived later, when you add “section resolved”. For me is also important, that they really should be resolved, not that just nobody has answered (there could be a late answer, and this happened). An additional caveat is that the bots need a signature in a certain way with a date stamp. When there is only one question without signature or only with {{Unsigned}} or siblings and this is not answered until now it should not set to resolved, but there should after some time be added {{subst:DNAU}} with a one day delay. — Speravir – 21:36, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

AN board

Aloha! I just went over your head and blocked that vandal @ Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/Vandalism#BartosCSIstvan. You haven't been on for about 30 mins, so I just did it myself. Thought you may have forgotten to take the trash out. Hope you don't mind. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 17:48, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

@Hedwig in Washington: My thought was that the account's a week stale and I just now deleted the image, so they might return to the account to re-upload it. It might be easier to catch and clean up across wikis if they don't use a sock. Not a bad block, though. Guanaco (talk) 18:03, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Hmm, not a bad idea. Feel free to unblock, that seems to be a big problem. Stupid trolls everywhere. Argh.... --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 18:07, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

@Hedwig in Washington: Have you thought about becoming a checkuser? Guanaco (talk) 18:19, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Yes and no, on and off.

I think right now we have all the CUs we need. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 21:53, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Zaven Ghookasian pictures

Hi User Guanaco,

please do not delete pictures they were uplpaded under CC rules from Tasnim Agency (Tasnime Agency have Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)[[User:Modern Sciences|MSes]] (talk) 07:16, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

@Modern Sciences: Which picture are you talking about? Guanaco (talk) 07:36, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

these fours' are from late Mr. Ghookasian have tagged for speedy delete

File:Simitar-syndrome-003.jpg

File:Simitar-syndrome-003.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!

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Re:

hi, guanaco, i'm writing to ask you if you have time to see these files for some recovery, these files will regulate PD:

(Redacted)

many of these files have the name of the artist and others do not, but they are completely in line with the correctness of copyright expired--95.248.92.182 11:43, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

We are NOT taking any requests from a long time abuser like you. Why do you think all your accounts and IPs are blocked on sight everywhere? We don't need you and we don't want you here. Find another playground, visit a doctor. Whatever --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 04:49, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

My uploaded photos

I hardly understand why photos of Sejm Marshals why deleted but ok. Accusation about polish MPs is ridiculous due to fact that their term ended in 1991, 3 years before mentioned law was adopted not to mention document which photo was made by myself Aight 2009 (talk) 11:46, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

I've replied at Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Aight 2009. Guanaco (talk) 01:20, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Regarding OTRS

Hello. I want to know that, whether the OTRS E-mail for [6] is received or not. The copyright holder mailed me that he had sent OTRS e-mail. Can you please check it ?. Thank you. Gazal world (talk) 19:52, 17 October 2017 (UTC) Gazal world (talk) 19:52, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

@Gazal world: We received the permission about 30 days ago, but there's a backlog of about 55 days. I've tagged the images to note the status. Guanaco (talk) 01:15, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I just asked you, because I was afraid that the Images may be deleted without OTRS E-mail.Gazal world (talk) 06:37, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

File:Caroline Rosales.tif

Hi Guanaco, you've asked me to contact you regarding the permission of File:Caroline Rosales.tif. The CC permission was sent to permission-de@wikimedia.org on September 27, 2017. If you need anything else, please let me know what, where and how. Thanks for your help, Benjamin.

@Andshesmiled: I've requested that Romy Maxime send us a confirmation email directly, to verify that she agreed to the terms. Unfortunately we've had some false "forwarded" emails in the past. Guanaco (talk) 18:05, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

@Guanaco: Thanks. In the meantime, the photographer e-mailed the permission again from her own account. Best. User:Andshesmiled 20:13, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

@Andshesmiled: I approved the permission the other day, as shown on the file description page. Everything's set. Guanaco (talk) 21:20, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Filip Berardi

Hi. Is this an RBI or DENY type of situation? If not, why no warning or short block? — Jeff G. ツ 21:41, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: They replaced the page with a large block of text in Swedish. Nothing abusive from what I could determine with Google Translate, just likely copied and pasted, and completely irrelevant to Commons. It seemed odd and random enough that I assumed they did it by accident and didn't know how to revert. Guanaco (talk) 22:19, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

clarification

Dear Guanaco hope this finds you well here i clarify the status about photos with copy rights. all photos i uploaded didn't violence any copyrights. all of them were logos and i present the reference from the owner. still didn't understand where is the problem ?? the logo was for alghad tv channel the link is http://www.alghad.tv/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/logohd.png the page i added the logo for it https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%AF thanks in advance for your help in clarification this issue !! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ramy ALmelegy (talk • contribs) 15:21, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

@Ramy Almelegy: We need evidence of permission to use the logo under a free license. If the website says it it under a free licnese, please provide the URL where it says that. Otherwise, we need the owner of the logo to send an email to our permissions team. Once the email has been processed, the image can be undeleted. Guanaco (talk) 21:38, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

question

Hello, I have a question. If a picture says that the author has released it to the public domain, does this mean it can be uploaded to Wikipedia Commons? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NeoMeesje (talk • contribs) 10:23, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

@NeoMeesje: Generally yes. When you upload a file like that, add {{Licensereview}} so that we can double-check. Guanaco (talk) 10:26, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Revdel

Hi, in line with the aim of transparency mentioned at COM:REVDEL, could you email me a sample of the rev-deleted material you hid this morning? My presumption is that whatever might have been alleged was in a pattern of general disruptive allegations, rather than including any personal information. I'm asking as over the last couple of weeks I have seen a significant hike in the use of revision deletion by sysops, yet no apparent increase in oversight actions. Without seeing examples, I can reach no conclusion, however it is possible that some hidden material over the last couple of weeks may have been more simply reverted and kept the use of this tool to being used as sparingly as possible, without risk to any individual.

I have no intention of asking for any sysop action you have taken to be reverted. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 08:22, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

@Fæ: The recent revdels have generally been cases where the sockpuppet categorizes someone as a pedophile, sexual abuser, or similar. Until it was added to the abuse filter, he was regularly adding administrators, patrollers, etc, en masse to Category:Child sexual abuse offenders, using Cat-a-lot and similar tools.

I see potential for the categories to be taken out of context by a new user who doesn't know the situation, or by future trolls. I think we can discuss the behavior openly with no need for oversight, but revdel is important to avoid something being misconstrued. Guanaco (talk) 08:39, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I was familiar with the offenders category being mass added. In general, I do not see the need for revdel, as the reality is that once the vandalism is reverted it is highly unlikely that anyone will ever discover it and be foolish enough to re-quote it out of context. The community should also be cautious to avoid overreaction, and there is plenty of history of past vandalism being encouraged by resulting in lots of actions such as revdels and oversight due being perceived by the vandal as the disruptive outcome they want as it is more expensive in volunteer time than simpler mass reverting. To an extent, when we see nasty vandalism, keeping it visible in the history is handy for later discussion, so long as there is nothing "personal" about it.

Anyway, we'll wait and see if the current trend continues, and perhaps review and analyse a bit more what is most appropriate against policy in that case. I may have to be a bit quicker in capturing examples though.

--Fæ (talk) 08:52, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

You'll have to be very quick, because with the revdel script it takes almost no time at all. If you're curious about something in particular, send me an email. Guanaco (talk) 09:01, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Just a question

Hi. Just a curiosity: The serial INC/Daphne proxy users that we used to see everyday in DRs, have they disappeared? I'm asking you because you blocked several of them. --E4024 (talk) 11:59, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

They moved on to more destructive forms of editing. I usually see a couple related vandal accounts per day. Guanaco (talk) 12:50, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Then let's hope that one day we will not wake up to see that the main page has disappeared... :) --E4024 (talk) 13:19, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

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This focus group is new and experimental, and I welcome your tips and thoughts on how we can organize this in the most convenient and productive way. For now, I have posted a few separate topics on the focus group's talk page. Please add your questions there too! If we all add that page to our watchlist, that's probably a good way to stay up to date with current discussions. Steinsplitter has also initiated a brand new IRC channel specifically for Structured Commons: wikimedia-commons-sd ^(webchat) which we invite you to join. Please let me know if you have other ideas on how to work together.

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Lucky you

Since you were so helpful at AN the other day, here's another one for you if you want to look into it and see what needs done. GMG ^talk 18:22, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Uploads DR'd, user warned. I'll block if he dumps another batch. Guanaco (talk) 19:31, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Deleting without reasons

Why do you keep undermining people's efforts: first the Next Japanese general election and now the Yukdio Endano portrait? How was the next election article the same with the 2017 election and how is the portrait not the same as the other portraits? --Lmmnhn (talk) 07:45, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

@Lmmnhn: The next election article appeared to be the same as the 2017 one, but I may have been mistaken. I did not delete that - I only tagged it, and if I made a mistake I can't check the text and undo it. en:User:Writ Keeper could maybe help, or you can try en:WP:REFUND.

As for the image: we simply need clarification: did you create File:Yukio Edano 201210 (2).jpg yourself, by modifying File:Yukio Edano 201210.jpg? Guanaco (talk) 07:50, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Possible sock

Is this who I think it is? Sro23 (talk) 21:51, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

@Sro23: I can't say with any certainty. You could ask for checkuser here or at enwiki. Guanaco (talk) 22:03, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Re

I see, but I take a look at the Flickr website, it listed that it is under "All-rights reserved" license, could you explain? --B dash (talk) 08:44, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Checked all. --B dash (talk) 08:57, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

My image is not in violation.

Hello, I noticed that you gave the deathblow to my image while it is not even in violation. Did you even read the exchange between me and Pinkbeast? I have discussed with the photographer of the image personally and he says its not an issue. Aviartm (talk) 23:57, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

@Aviartm: Unfortunately, we cannot simply take your word for it. We can only undelete the image if the photographer sends an adequate statement to our permissions team, by email. Guanaco (talk) 00:10, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Ok. I will do that. What is the email? I will send the team the exact email that he sent me. I am not lying about this. Thank you! Aviartm (talk) 13:25, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

@Aviartm: permissions-commons

wikimedia.org. Guanaco (talk) 19:34, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

@Guanaco Thank you! Aviartm (talk) 22:25, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Please do not delete!

--Turkmenhazara (talk) 11:10, 30 October 2017 (UTC) I will not edit in commons

@Turkmenhazara: If an image is "all rights reserved" on Flickr and you place a false license review, I'll delete the image every time. I don't want you to stop editing Commons, but stick to uploading free images and don't misuse license review. Flickr has a lot of good, free images. We can accept Attribution, Attribution-ShareAlike, and Public Domain only. See here. Guanaco (talk) 19:40, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

User:Guanaco I will upload https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ It is valid as you said --Turkmenhazara2 (talk) 14:23, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Highway Gothic

Hi, Guanaco, can Highway Gothic publish the Tai Le and Lisu characters that I've designed in www.glyphrstudio.com. I have the messages of User:Mahir256. --Cyrus noto3at bulaga (talk) 03:03, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean. Can you explain? If it would help to write in Tagalog, do that. Guanaco (talk) 14:48, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

These files I have uploaded are licensed

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abdul_Khaliq.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flight_Lieutenant_Samad_Ali_Changezi_Shaheed_(1965).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghulam_Mohammad_Ghobar.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Turkmenhazara2 (talk • contribs) 15:01, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

These files should still be deleted. ex:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pashtun.jpg--Turkmenhazara2 (talk) 15:56, 31 October 2017 (UTC) but my files have been deleted although my most of files are valid.--Turkmenhazara2 (talk) 15:57, 31 October 2017 (UTC) ex https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pashtun.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Turkmenhazara2 (talk • contribs) 15:59, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

You said those three images are in the public domain. It is your job to show why that is so, because it isn't obvious to me. Also, why are you editing under a new account? Did you lose your password? Guanaco (talk) 16:10, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

User:Guanaco Thank you I do not use the previous account. This file is similar to my files but it has not been deleted.--Turkmenhazara2 (talk) 16:29, 31 October 2017 (UTC) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Habibullah_Kalakani_of_Afghanistan.jpg

File:Deberah Bringelson.jpg

I apologize. I do not mean to upload pictures that violate your guidelines. I am misunderstanding something. I do not want my account blocked. Will you please give me advice?

The subject of this article is a public figure. I thought that the rules regarding public figures were not as stringent as for others.

I have asked the subject of this article to give me some pictures to use. She has provided the pictures. She owns them. Is there a way that I can get them approved?

Again, I do not want my account blocked. But, I'm not sure what to do.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by RenOrb (talk • contribs)

@RenOrb: For a case like this, we'll need a statement by email from the copyright holder (typically the photographer). This can be sent to permissions-commons

wikimedia.org. For fastest results, you should point them to the template at COM:CONSENT, so there isn't any confusion about what we need. Once we've received and processed their statement, we will undelete the image and tag it. Guanaco (talk) 22:51, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Re:

hi to Mr. guanaco, I write to you to tell you that recently I was unable to withstand from making a request for restoration, (since I personaly think that waiting for 6 months is just too absurd), the fact is that the issues of the following files are still unchanged, and my only thought and waiting for a chance to fall into oblivion, "in order to feel calm I would like to ask if she could see me a tiny list of these files to be repaired to keep me calm and inactive for the next six months of personal autoblock, I would just ask you to restore this small list of files that I show

you can continue to finish the 'list? please? :) --82.50.38.248 20:56, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

File:Ponnambalam (actor).jpg

This file is licensed in Flickr but I do not know why it is wrong. --Turkmenhazara2 (talk) 23:04, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

I'm wrong now, delete it Forgive me --Turkmenhazara2 (talk) 23:29, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Already done. Guanaco (talk) 23:35, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi Guanaco, I've hidden the edit-summary of your edit on Atamari's talkpage as it still showed the infringing username of the vandal, whose edit you had reverted. BTW, you might ask our oversighters (or the WMF) to remove or at least hide the username of the vandal-account. --Túrelio (talk) 10:03, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that one. The accounts are already globally locked/hidden. Guanaco (talk) 13:52, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Violaciones de los derechos de autor

Hola, siento mucho haber molestado con las subidas de fotos. Desconocía la política de derechos de autor. Algunas de las imágenes subidas son del año 2102, tomadas de páginas web sin saber si podía o no tomarlas para wikipedia. Otras en cambio como: File:Bus CD Izarra.jpg y File:Entrada Merkatondoa.jpg son tomadas por mí con mi propia cámara. A partir de ahora solo subiré fotos realizadas por mí mismo. Aunque no tengo claro si puedo tomar fotos de algunas páginas libres como por ejemplo la del club u otras. Mis disculpas. Gracias y saludos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zarapuz (talk • contribs) 09:03, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Muchas gracias. Guanaco (talk) 12:40, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Over-sensitive?

Hello, Guanaco! Just saw your post at AN about an edit filter, where you mention what are apparently two different attributes while calling both of them “sensitivity“. Should one of those be “selectivity“, perhaps?—Odysseus1479 (talk) 06:29, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I fixed it. Guanaco (talk) 06:30, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

I would like to help

I do not want this to be misinterpreted as Canvassing, but I would like you to review my qualifications to have the Rollback and Patroller tools. In the interest of full disclosure, three days ago I formally applied at COM:RFR. I have had no objections in that time to my application nor would I imagine there would be one. As I have continued to mark out of scope images for deletion and I feel I could do more by being a Patroller as well. My lack of the Rollback tool is more of a personal inconvenience when reverting all consecutive edits made by (usually IP) vandals on pages/files without having to undo them all one at a time. I believe I understand the tools well and would like to be an active participant in COM:CVU. I hope you will review my contributions and assess if I can be trusted with the tools. Respectfully -- Sixflashphoto (talk) 16:39, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Done. Guanaco (talk) 01:44, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

File:Raj B Shetty.jpg

This photo is my own creation and I am the copyright holder of this image. Kindly advise on the OTRS of this image.

Wikieditorksd (talk) 17:26, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

@Wikieditorksd: The OTRS ticket is awaiting a response from you. Guanaco (talk) 13:16, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Re

Thanks for reminder. I will be more careful when uploading images from VOA. --B dash (talk) 07:49, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Why did you delete this photo?

Dear! Wikipedia is not just for you Wikipedia is free for all people I will upload this photo again Because there is no problem File:Hussain Ali Yousafi.jpg --JanbazkhBasir (talk) 12:47, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Dear!

But you should not block me

This is my right to edit --JanbazkhBasir (talk) 12:50, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

@JanbazkhBasir: I deleted it because it came from this Flickr account which appears to be license laundering. It seems highly unlikely that the images are public domain or CC-BY as stated on the Flickr account. If you disagree, you can use COM:UDEL to request undeletion. If you don't want to be blocked, don't re-upload the image. Guanaco (talk) 12:52, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

I upload photos

Own work --JanbazkhBasir (talk) 13:07, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

If this is the case, please upload the original uncropped photo. Guanaco (talk) 13:15, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Why removed again?

File:Hussain Ali Yousafi.jpg --JanbazkhBasir (talk) 14:10, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

@JanbazkhBasir: It's against policy to re-upload a deleted image as you did. You need to discuss it at COM:UDEL. If other users agree with you, it will be undeleted. If not, we'll keep deleting it every time, and you may be blocked for re-uploading deleted copyright violations. Guanaco (talk) 14:18, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

If you block me, it does not matter to me But I see that this site is like personal sites

There are so many photos of this site that you should delete

But you do not delete them--JanbazkhBasir (talk) 14:33, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

@JanbazkhBasir: I delete many files. If you see others that should be deleted, you can help with the "Nominiate for deletion" tool. I don't want to block you. It would be better if you can show us you took the photo yourself. One way would be to upload the original, uncropped photo from your camera.

If you didn't take the photo, just say so and we can move on. Guanaco (talk) 14:53, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Please do not get angry

This is a very fanatical policy, the new users lose their motivation for editing. and the new Users are trying to make more accounts with different names. And uploading and editing is a kind of trick for them. or for me.

--JanbazkhBasir (talk) 16:57, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

@JanbazkhBasir: Our copyright policy may seem fanatical, but it it is the fundamental purpose of Wikimedia Commons. All our images should be free to use by anyone. Many people do try to evade this rule, thinking they are doing good. They are not. Each copyright violation hurts our site's credibility. For this reason, I'm not angry; I'm sad.Guanaco (talk) 22:23, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

I upload a picture. Before you decide to delete it. see the sources and the Permission.

--JanbazkhBasir (talk) 22:51, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

@JanbazkhBasir: This looks like a good upload. Thank you. I've improved it a little with a larger version. Guanaco (talk) 23:40, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Guanaco Thanks a lot

--JanbazkhBasir (talk) 23:44, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Highway Gothic (2)

I am designing Highway Gothic font into a Unicode font for using other sides. Highway Gothic has 2500 characters on December. I am designing at www.glyphrstudio.com. --Cyrus noto3at bulaga (talk) 01:04, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Reset User Lûgnûg

Hello User talk: Guanaco, I write to ask you if by chance you could propose to other administrators that you could unzip the user User: Lûgnûg, which after the blocking of users at 06:30 on 28 June 2017, the user did not attempt to minimize the escape from their rules and break the block imposed by the administrator User: Krd; so I kindly ask you to be able to discuss this with the high spheres about restoring the files and the users in question, which I can assure have nothing to do with the well-known vandal a1cb3. who has been involved in a misunderstanding that has led to a major mistake in eliminating them of historical and artistic files of great interest to other users. have a good day — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 95.244.103.165 (talk) 13:50, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

I think there is CheckUser evidence as well as behavioral evidence connecting the users. Lûgnûg/a1cb3/a3cb1/etc should take my advice and stay away for at least six months, then request an unblock. The problem is not vandalism, but many copyright violations and sockpuppets. Guanaco (talk) 13:55, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

however, you should take the opportunity to give it a second chance if you can, restoring at least files that do not infringe copyrights, which I think are not all that way --95.244.103.165 14:06, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

It would be better if we made a joint effort at this, once you've respected your block and asked to come back. Guanaco (talk) 14:21, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

answer

however, after answering me, I understand that the proposal of unlocking the user even if taken into consideration would be very difficult to submit to the other Directors; so at least I wonder if it was possible to restore or reload all the user-locked files --87.14.89.27 16:26, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Other administrators have can be forgiving as well, but you need to demonstrate a willingness to reform. Part of this is accepting the consequences of your actions. This means staying away for a while. Guanaco (talk) 23:08, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Rejina (Reji) Thomas permission

Dear User talk: Guanaco, I have emailed the Media Permission for File:RejinaThomas CarverMuseum 26OCT2017.jpg. Let me know if it arrives and is sufficient. Mbcoats (talk) 18:52, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

@Mbcoats:

Done. Everything looks good. Guanaco (talk) 19:14, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Logo Files

Hi Guanaco

Thank you very much for your assistance, I really appreciate it.

Firstly, I would like to change the filenames for some of the images uploaded. I made a mistake when uploading some of the files and some of the filenames indicate the wrong year. Specifically, LJ_Hooker_Logo_1937.png ‎------ the year 1937 is wrong and should be 1959 so perhaps the filename should be changed to 1959 logo LJ Hooker; LJ_Hooker_Logo_1948.png -------‎the year 1948 is wrong and should be 1953 so perhaps the filename should be changed to 1953 logo LJ Hooker; LJ_Hooker_Logo_1953.png -------the year 1953 is wrong and should be 1948 so perhaps the filename should be changed to 1948 logo LJ Hooker; LJ_Hooker_Logo_1959.png -------the year 1959 is wrong and should be 1937 so perhaps the filename should be changed to 1937 logo LJ Hooker.

Secondly, do you think the more the appropriate tag for the files should be “Non-free logo” accompanied by an appropriate use rationale? And how do I go about contributing to the fair use discussion about the files. Thanks in anticipation. Regards --PinkAechFas (talk) 05:32, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

I've asked the admins over at English Wikipedia for permission to move files. Tomorrow, I think I can get everything set up. Guanaco (talk) 08:30, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Guanaco Thanks for response. Just to let you know I did try to have the files renamed (and I received a message which I responded to from AlvaroMolina). Terrific though and thanks very much. Regards --PinkAechFas (talk) 08:38, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Done Everything's in place. Guanaco (talk) 09:25, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Guanaco Thanks very much, that's terrific. Regards--PinkAechFas (talk) 20:32, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Regarding File:Ayaz ismail tujhko sochoon.jpg

Since I was the creator of the flickr file added,I have emailed at permissions-commons-at-wikimedia.org, following the guidelines at COM:CONSENT. Kindly review the work and let me know if anything more i required from my side for the approval of the file. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monishae (talk • contribs) 23:45, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

@Monishae: I'm afraid we can't accept your permission, and I must warn you that you've committed a serious violation of policy. I've blocked several editors indefinitely for such things. On File talk:Ayaz ismail tujhko sochoon.jpg, you said this:

The image in context was taken from a drop box file. Hence I believe it shouldn't have copyright issues.Please let mw know why the file has been deleted. The image is available on all of the person's social media pages and available on google. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monishae (talk • contribs) 00:05, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Then you uploaded it to a Flickr account, in your name, claiming a CC BY-SA license, but you have no legal right to do this, because you didn't take the picture. This is called license laundering or Flickrwashing, and it's unacceptable. Your email is also very bad, because it contains false statements. We can only accept such things from the actual copyright holder. Guanaco (talk) 03:59, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Pencilll

Hi, Guanaco. I just passed by to say a word about some DR. You know the IP that complains all the time about their "pencil" being exposed in Commons. You closed the last DRs as keep because 5 years have passed, the file is used and "no-one will recognize the pencil". You're right on all fronts. But trying to make empathy with this person, allow me to say the following: The person may have seen the file five years after its upload. Maybe they have no interest in Commons, maybe the doctor mentioned him, who knows? The file is used, but we do have a rich collection (I have heard from a friend :-) of these things. Therefore it should not take more than a minute to change the file with another from the album. (I will not, myself; firstly I don't edit any WPs at present, and if I did, I would not go to the area of pens and pencils. :) Third point: It is logical that nobody would recognize a pencil among many, but the owner of the item does! This "is" an issue for them. If I had a picture of my quill or inkwell in Commons (or anywhere else) and especially "against my will" I would be very upset. I would not think like "who will understand that it is my stationery?" Therefore this guy is uneasy and will continue with his DRs. I believe we would not lose anything by giving in to their demand. But of course you are the admin and I'm a simple contributor. Just wanted to share my thoughts with you. All the best. --E4024 (talk) 08:52, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

@E4024: Can you link the file and a suitable replacement, as similar as possible? Guanaco (talk) 08:57, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, really, I don't see myself comparing pencils: "This is more crooked", "that one could be a bit longer" etc. I'm sure if you want to help the person you will also know whom to ask for help. Look for the users who always vote "keep" on these issues... Many thanks for the positive attitude and cheers. --E4024 (talk) 09:00, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Done. Guanaco (talk) 09:24, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

As admins, I don't think we should accede to third-party requests to remove images on courtesy grounds in the face of a string of previous DRs that have decided otherwise. That's what OTRS is for, surely. Sure, the image is now unused, but that's not the only issue. Do we really believe all that editors, particularly multiple IPs, tell us? I think not, hence the need for OTRS. Rodhullandemu (talk) 11:50, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

@Rodhullandemu: Generally I agree, but my thoughts here are that such penis pics are a dime a dozen, and the person probably was telling the truth. It would be strange (though not unheard of) behavior for a vandal. I'll undelete it if you want. Guanaco (talk) 11:55, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Both dear admins, I forgot to ask: Why does this gentleman only insist on one pencil? Or does he do it for other pens also? I just happened to see this case. Therefore I believe the thingy belongs to him. My 2 cents... --E4024 (talk) 12:01, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Guanaco, please follow the correct process and reopen the DR if you believe that past DR closures missed something. It is not normal to see out of process deletions for files which have repeatedly been kept in past DRs. The rationale "This picture is mine and this doctor upload it without my knowledge" is not realistically possible without a medical practitioner breaking the law. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 12:06, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

I've undeleted it by your request. E4024, I'll leave it to you to file a DR if you want. Guanaco (talk) 12:08, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Filter 183

Thanks for fixing the filter! Learning curve.... Anyway, I hope this will fix some problems with that guy. How on earth did you end up with your username? The only Llama with his own keyboard. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 21:04, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Well I've had the name for some 13 years now. In short, the guanaco is a magnificent creature, wild and free. Peaceful in nature, but not at all afraid to spit in your face if needed. Guanaco (talk) 03:55, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

True that. Would love to seem them in their natural habitat. One day, and I'll stop at the Atacama on the way. For sure. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 21:57, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

File:Glorious Day for a Spacewalk.jpg duplicate

Discussion moved to Commons:Deletion requests/File:Space Sunrice.jpg. Guanaco (talk) 05:34, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Question about deleting selfies

Hello,

When i see selfies of users on Wikipedia Commons, should I nominate them for deletion?

Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 22:48, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

@NeoMeesje: If the person also contributes educational images, and there aren't a lot of selfies, I'd leave them alone or categorize as User page images. If it's a selfie-only account with one or two images I might add Category:Unused personal files. Bigger personal photo albums or images used for out of scope autobiographies I'll send to DR. I'll spend more effort deleting an image if there are copyright concerns, such as personal photos of a user where the photographer is clearly a third party. In other cases, I'll try to find proper categories for the image if it's copyright-safe, of good quality and has some educational value in illustrating people of various nationalities and cultures. However in many cases, we don't have enough context for these pictures to be useful. Guanaco (talk) 00:37, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Deletion

Hello,

I was wondering if you could please list me all the criteria a file has to meet to be nominated for deletion. Thanks in advance.

Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 09:39, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

@NeoMeesje: Usually files are deleted for any of these reasons:

There's reason to doubt it's in the public domain or freely licensed. This can get very complicated, and there are issues like freedom of panorama to consider, and different rules in dozens of countries.
It has no foreseeable educational use and isn't being used on Wikimedia projects.
The picture is of an identifiable person, and publishing the image violates their privacy. Most photos taken in a public place or with consent are fine.

Any one of these reasons is enough to nominate something. There are sometimes other reasons, but these are the main ones. Guanaco (talk) 09:53, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

@NeoMeesje: I see you've uploaded a lot of photos which were speedily deleted. This is happening because they're from an external source and you didn't specify a license. Krdbot finds these and tags them to be deleted. Many of them should have had {{PD-author}}. Also, please add {{Licensereview}} to the licensing section when uploading from external sites. This tells our license reviewers and admins to double-check the license and mark it reviewed, protecting the image in case the source site goes down or changes its license. Guanaco (talk) 10:03, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

@Guanaco: Thank you for replying so soon. I will try to help Commons by nominating pages for deletion and i will also add {{Licensereview}} to my photos. Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 10:27, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

UPE tidy up

Hi again. The files below were all uploaded by usernames matching subjects and all placed in articles by this user:

Even if they are the article subjects then they are obviously not their own work.

I saw the AN thread's been archived, but realised that I should have linked to the coi filter on en.wiki as that has syntax in it that I presume would be useful to catch these here. I probably need to email you it too though... Smartse (talk) 21:06, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll take a look at this in a bit and see about implementing the filter. Guanaco (talk) 23:09, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

The filter wouldn't catch any of these, so we'd need a bot to do substring-to-substring matching. Guanaco (talk) 18:30, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Damn well thanks for looking. Smartse (talk) 22:58, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

I wasn't very thorough with this as these are all more added to articles written by the same user and matching the pattern:

And File:Oliver_Isaacs_and_Julius_Dein.jpg has been reuploaded with a dubious PD claim. The release is on the live site, but wasn't there a month ago so it's likely they've added this in response to the earlier deletion. Smartse (talk) 11:11, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

These uploads are both linked to en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/MassiveYR using the same flickr account to flickrwash. Smartse (talk) 21:14, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

@Smartse: Done Everything here I've either deleted or tagged for deletion. Guanaco (talk) 07:52, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

From user page

I didn't know that uploading a new version would replace the old image, and I uploaded the same image with Russian translation for use on the Russian wiki, but I screwed it up. Now I know that I need to upload it as a new image altogether and not update the old one. I'd aprecciate it if you reverted the newest edit to the one you did, when you fixed the image from being cropped, and if you told me how to "resize page to selection so the whole image will display" so I don't have to bother people like you again. I'm sorry, I'm a new to this, and wikipedia is kinda confusing to me. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Control_status_of_the_West_Bank_as_per_the_Oslo_Accords.svg) Thank you in advance.— Preceding unsigned comment added by SoWhAt249 (talk • contribs)

@SoWhAt249: In Inkscape, the option is "resize page to selection" under Edit, or Shift-Ctrl-R. It's probably very similar in most other image editing tools. To revert an image, scroll down to the "File history" section of the file page, then click "revert" near the version you want to restore. If you need help, feel free to ask me. It's no bother. Guanaco (talk) 15:42, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

@Guanaco: I did what you said, and uploaded the translated .svg and everything seems to be in order. I hope that I won't need you help in the future, but if I do, at least I know who's going to help. Thank you, again. SoWhAt249 (User talk:SoWhAt249)

File:Naturism in Europe.jpg

File:Naturism in Europe.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!

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Home Lander (talk) 04:28, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Re:

by the way, I saw her change, I would then submit to you the following request, if I can ?? for restoring File ??--95.248.92.128 21:34, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Vandal, vandal at the wall. When will you understand it all? You are not wanted here, comprendere? --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 23:31, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Sorry me

Moved to User talk:Cock Sparrow. Guanaco (talk) 17:27, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

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File:Revox_Tape_Recorder_(video).webm

Did you just delete it without checking if the copyvio by @1Veertje: is valid? If you would have read the flickr page "The music audio was added to add interest. It's not coming from the Revox. It's by Matt Berry and can be found on the BBC comedy series, Snuff box." and checked the video you would have noticed, that I uploaded it without audio. Can you undelete it? Thanxs! Amada44 ^{talk to me} 09:12, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Done. I assumed that it had the BBC audio, because the description on Commons was all about the audio. Of course that was just copied verbatim from Flickr. Guanaco (talk) 09:18, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

thank you. I should have edited the description. cheers, Amada44 ^{talk to me} 09:35, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Deleted revisions about/ to me

I got notifications that 67.7.190.103 and Agnostic girl mentioned me on various Administrator noticeboards and left a message on my talk page respectively but when I went to check they were gone. Any chance I could find out what they were, especially the talk page message? I mean, I understand that they were probably vandalism, but I don't get that much so am curious. If you don't want to restore the revision maybe you could mail me? Thanks --GRuban (talk) 15:49, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Email sent. Guanaco (talk) 18:04, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Question

Hello,

I was wondering what 'Commons file movers' are. Thanks in advance.

Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 19:26, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

They're users with the ability to rename files. Admins can also do this. We have a guideline page explaining the process in more detail: Commons:File renaming. Guanaco (talk) 21:09, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Wow, you reverted a LOT of those messages, didn't you? Thank you! That (s)he called me a pedophile and child pornography collector, that was to be expected; but a Texas Republican? That was out of bounds! GRuban (talk) 01:59, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

File:Referral letter 1.png

@Guanaco: Transfer process complete! Thank you! --Marshallsumter (talk) 02:28, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Batch uploading

Hello 👋🏻 Guanaco,

I saw here that you were interested in doing batch uploads a while ago, are you still interested in it? There seems to be a huge backlog that dates back over a decade and other than Fæ there don't seem to be many active scripters. Just curious to see if you're still interested, you can also check Category:Commons backlog if you're ever bored. --Donald Trung (Talk 💬) ("The Chinese Coin Troll" 👿) (Articles 📚) 14:07, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Unjustified copyright accusations

Today I have uploaded a few files and yet you decide to add a copyright banner. I have not infringed today. And some of my last files that were deleted still said "Some rights reserved" and yet they were deleted anyways. Like my file "Shayne Topp.jpg"; it was nominated despite the page saying "Some rights reserved". Not only that but a lot of photos I uploaded were obtained via my acquaintance's social media pages. I had their permission but they were still nominated as copyright infringements because I suppose my acquainted have obtained them from their university sites. I've never made any destructive, offensive, or blatantly awry edits. If you look at my talk page/discussions, you'll see that the warnings I receive are becoming less and less frequent. I think it's a bit unjustified for you to want my account removed, and it's quite a shame. -- AlexanderHovanec (talk) 01:35, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

The files which said "some rights reserved" were under non-commercial, no-derivative licenses. As explained on your talk page and at Commons:Licensing, all files must allow derivative works (modifications) and commercial use.
If you upload an image with permission from the creator, you cannot claim "own work". You also must provide evidence of permission. This can be done with a link to the source site, which gives clear permission, or your acquaintance can email our permissions team.
If I wanted to block your account, I would have done so instead of placing the "end of copyvios" banner. I understand you're still learning and aren't trying to be destructive. But here at Wikimedia Commons copyright violations are a huge problem, and we have to spend thousands of hours investigating and deleting them. Please, please, please read Commons:Licensing carefully if you have not yet. Guanaco (talk) 03:27, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

User: Sweetcorn

It is shameful for me having to share these images with few hundreds of other unknown people a year now that I am forced to do that. Now that I have decided not to share them on Wikipedia anymore can you please delete them? Certainly not having these pictures on Wikipedia would help stop getting further undue attention and "special care" from them as I would be less traceable and would help them mind their own business a bit more. The funny thing is I ask for one thing and I get the exact opposite.--Sweetcorn (talk) 09:08, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Unjustified copyright accusations

and just being not a nice person...this wikipedia thing...

have a nice day

david adam kess — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twelvethousanduploads (talk • contribs) 16:05, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

@Twelvethousanduploads: I'm going to have to block this new account as a sockpuppet. We can talk about your block, but you need to log in to the David Adam Kess account and use {{Unblock}} on your user talk page. Guanaco (talk) 16:08, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Font designer

I am also a font designer aside from a Wikipedist, I am designing Highway Gothic to a Unicode Typeface, I have talked Mahir256 about it, and I can publish for ₱10 (20 ¢) only. --Cyrus noto3at bulaga (talk) 01:23, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Potential ban

Hi. How do you feel about this? — Jeff G. ツ 22:53, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

His troublemaking seems rather mild compared to previous community global bans. Looks like simple harassment/vandalism/sock behavior to me, and we can just block him. Guanaco (talk) 03:08, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi

Admin, I tried to make a Category:Files uploaded by Fae needing categories. I hope it is not a problem to do this. As you may have noticed, I'm trying to categorize images in part of my voluntary worktime here. There are many files that could enter this cat. Of course instead of adding the "real" cat, adding this one is a loss of time. I'm sure there is a "practical" / "automatic" way of doing this. If that is realized, User:Fae may have an eye on those files and spare some time to categorize them. (I will continue to give a helping hand.) I'm not writing to them directly because for some reason I feel s/he doesn't like me. I don't care because we are all colleagues here who work voluntarily and I will help anybody that needs it. Anyhow, I made this thing following the example of Category:Files uploaded by The Photographer needing categories, but I have no idea about "scripts". Help me! :) --E4024 (talk) 08:34, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

If we users are not allowed to make this kind of cats for other users' files, something I don't know, please simply delete the cat I just created. --E4024 (talk) 08:44, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

You'll want to use the regex string in VisualFileChange. Use "Advanced Select Files" with that string, then "append text" with [[Category:Files uploaded by Fae needing categories]] to add it. Then after you or someone's sorted through some of the files, you use the other regex string to identify categorized images. From these, you remove the category. Sounds a little complicated, but it's a fairly simple task. I can run it for you if you'd like. Guanaco (talk) 03:07, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Please do not do this, it is a redundant task as it duplicates processes that are in place, such as use of chc, and maintenance categories that already exist which you appear to either not understand or have not tried to investigate. If there is a problem on past batch upload projects, you are free to raise it with me. If categories like this are created without my involvement, in this case by discussing my account without a courtesy ping (User:Fae is not me), this will appear deliberately non-collegiate.

@E4024: , there have been disruptive problems with your past actions, which gives me good cause to remain concerned. Please focus on other things rather than me. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 05:40, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

- "there have been disruptive problems with your past actions"?! You mean people who insulted me? Or others who opened deletion sprees of my files because I touched one of theirs? Look, I'm not focused on "anybody" here; I'm trying -among other useful things- to categorize images which people upload and then forget for months, even years. If they categorize their own uploads I have no reason to even see those files. Guanaco, thanks for the information. Those things you write are -regrettably- Chinese to me. (I don't know a letter of that language, only wrongly-pronounced Chinese dish names. :) More thanks for "I can run it for you if you'd like." Please if you wish to run anything do it for Commons; I already repented offering my help. Rpt (wireless operators use this formula :) - "If they categorize their own uploads I have no reason to even see those files." Have a good day, both of you. --E4024 (talk) 07:42, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

I'll not be running it as Fæ doesn't want it. I don't know what the past disruption is and frankly I don't want to look into it. Let's move on to something else; if you need an unrelated batch task I can do it. Guanaco (talk) 08:23, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

File:Prefeito Clenilton em (Brasília).jpg

Dear Guanaco,

Does this image seem to be the flickr account owner's own work? It appears that the flickr account may have several flickrwashes--and very few images--and I just tagged the uploader for uploading one image from this same account when it alraedy appeared here in October 2016. (its the third image) But I don't know if the uploader has any connection with this flickr account. I am signing out for the night soon. Best, --Leoboudv (talk) 10:06, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I've deleted everything I could find from that flickr account. Guanaco (talk) 11:34, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank You. Best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 19:16, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

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File:Kurram.jpg

Dear Guanaco,

If this image is free, is the license cc by sa 4.0 as the disclaimer says? Its a Government of Pakistan image so they should own the copyright. If you agree, feel free to change the license and mark the image. If it wasn't for the disclaimer, all I would see is "Copyrights 2017. ISPR. All Rights Reserved." Best, --Leoboudv (talk) 06:36, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

@Leoboudv: It seems to be that this falls under the terms of the first section. The by-sa images are only the ones listed at that page; the others fall under this line: "You can copy the content from Inter Services Public Relations Directorate (Pakistan) Web site and use it any where until you give credit to the source or provide a back link to the copied data." The word "until" would be problematic, but in the context it's clearly a mistranslation. Guanaco (talk) 09:26, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your insight here. Some copyright issues can be a bit hard to understand and have to be read very carefully. Cheers, --Leoboudv (talk) 09:42, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

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