User talk:Jeff G./Archives/2024/February

RfCU

Please do not make inappropriate notations to RfCU cases, or indeed any to closed cases. RfCU is "the place to request investigations of abuse of multiple accounts or of other circumstances that require use of checkuser privileges." It is not the place to document administrative actions. Эlcobbola _talk 14:04, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

@Elcobbola: Sorry, you marked it {{Checkuserblock}}, so that felt appropriate in documenting a checkuser action. FYI, that marking doesn't expand or get linked in the logs, please consider using Template:Checkuserblock instead.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:12, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Per COM:BP regarding CU blocks: "These blocks are marked as a {{Checkuserblock}} in the block summary." (bold added) Because it is an annotation intended for (potential) reviewing admins, that is is not linked to a template is of no relevance or importance (admins know what it means). You may conflate a mere block note (my use) with invocation of a template (not my use). Эlcobbola _talk 14:31, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Source of derivative work is not properly indicated: File:DSC 1882 (5186137702).jpg

This file may be deleted.

A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:DSC 1882 (5186137702).jpg, is a derivative work, containing an "image within an image". Examples of such works would include a photograph of a sculpture, a scan of a magazine cover, or a map that has been altered from the original. In each of these cases, the rights of the creator of the original must be considered, as well as those of the creator of the derivative work. While the description page states who made this derivative work, it currently doesn't specify who created the original work, so the overall copyright status is unclear. If you did not create the original work depicted in this image, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. Please edit the file description and add the missing information, or the file may be deleted. If you created the original content yourself, enter this information as the source. If someone else created the content, the source should be the address to the web page where you found it, the name and ISBN of the book you scanned it from, or similar. You should also name the author, provide verifiable information to show that the content is in the public domain or has been published under a free license by its author, and add an appropriate template identifying the public domain or licensing status, if you have not already done so. Please add the required information for this and other files you have uploaded before adding more files. If you need assistance, please ask at the help desk. Thank you!

 

—Matrix(!) {user - talk? - useless contributions} 10:27, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

@Sadads: In reference to Commons:Deletion requests/File:DSC 1879 (5185532919).jpg, which page from the US Military history website is this a copy of, exactly?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:15, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Template to ask for a user to not upload copyrighted material

Hello, I would like to know if there is a template to be used on the talk page if a user continuously uploads copyrighted material. Could you please help me on the matter? CoffeeEngineer (talk) 18:58, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@CoffeeEngineer: Thanks for writing. I built standardized "proper" warnings into {{Copyvionote}} and {{Speedynote}}. I brought over the polite, kinder, gentler {{Fcs}}, which redirects to {{File copyright status}}, as a standalone first warning to use if the previously listed warnings don't fit and the following warning doesn't apply yet. The last or final warning is {{End of copyvios}}. The last two warnings are available with other warnings and messages in the User Messages gadget in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:03, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: , Thank you for your message. I will keep these links preciously. CoffeeEngineer (talk) 16:56, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@CoffeeEngineer: You're welcome.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:33, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

File:Zero De Conduite AKA Zero for Conduct (1933) (1080p) Jean Vigo.webm

Hi, Thanks, but we already have File:Zéro de conduite (1933) par Jean Vigo.webm, which is of higher resolution. Yann (talk) 12:27, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

@Yann: You're welcome. I tagged it G7.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:41, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Looking for a noticeboard for requesting a photo of a person

Hi Jeff G./Archives/2024/February,

I was looking for a photo of Judge Wikiquote: Arthur Engoron and t appears that commons does not have any. Just wondering if there is a noticeboard on Commons where one could ask for photos of famous people?

BTW I am not a frequent visitor to Commons so every time I come here I have to re-learn things I knew but forgot. I hope you don't mind me asking you personally since you have been helpful to me in the past. I spent a few minutes trying to locate an appropriate notice board by searching the Help center but could not find what I needed.

Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 16:15, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ottawahitech: Please see en:Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial and Commons:File requests. You could also contact him or one of his clerks by searching for the contact information for ARTHUR F. ENGORON here.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:40, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Dear Jeff, I need help

Hello Jeff! I have been active on Wikipedia Commons for several years. My activity mainly revolves around Category:Noble families of Poland and concerns taking care of the aesthetics of this category, appropriately placing files in subcategories, etc. Before I started dealing with this category, many names were written in a random form, so for aesthetic reasons I chose the form "XYZ family" in the category naming (example: Category:Ankwicz family).

After some time, I realized that it was my mistake and I shouldn't have named these categories that way. People notoriously confuse families of noble descent with regular families with the same surname and mix up files related to the different types of families with the same surname.

Since changing these categories manually will take me a lot of time, I am writing here to ask you for help. Do you know how I can change the category name from the form "XYZ family" to the form "House of XYZ" (example: Category:Ankwicz family reduced to Category:House of Ankwicz)?

Category:Noble families of Russia has been using the "House of XYZ" provisions for a long time and in my opinion this is the best possible option to achieve order and aesthetics.

Thank you for understanding and for help! Heroldicas Heroldicas (talk) 18:33, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

@Heroldicas: Hi. You could post that on (empty) Category talk:Noble families of Poland or COM:VP, and if approved, COM:BR.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:31, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much :) Heroldicas (talk) 10:45, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

@Heroldicas: You're welcome.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:25, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm going to be traveling

I'm headed to Barcelona in a few hours, and will be there the next 5 weeks. During that time I'll probably be on here a lot less, and mostly to upload photos. Figured I'd give you a heads-up, because you are on most of the boards I'm on here, and if anyone is looking for me & I'm not around you can explain on my behalf. - Jmabel ! talk 17:58, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Safe travels!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 18:46, 28 February 2024 (UTC)