User talk:Siebrand/Archive16

Carbide Saws

Hello, My name is Willy Goellner and I’m the inventor of the carbide billet saw and developer of many other carbide saws. I am now semi-retired and get frequent calls from people who want information on carbide saws, which is why I wrote the history in Wikipedia to make it for everyone available. I used the pictures, which are my property, to show the different saws. Is there any reason, why they cannot be published?

Best regards, Willy Goellner

Hi Willy. This is Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia. See Commons:Licensing for possible reasons why a file you uploaded my have been removed. Possible warnings may have been posted on your user talk page. Siebrand 18:07, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Category:Stained glass windows of war memorials in Germany

Die obige und alle entsprechenden cat sind falsch, denn die Fenster befinden sich nicht in war memorials, sondern in Kirchen und werden als de:Kriegsfenster bezeichnet. Der bot produziert sehr viel Mist.--Reinhardhauke (talk) 15:55, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Please read the page header. There is nothing I can personally do for you. Siebrand 18:08, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Commons Delinker error. Unclear where to report this.

File:A naked female in front of clothed males.jpg was deleted per Commons:Deletion requests/File:A naked female in front of clothed males.jpg, but it was not removed from the English Wikipedia article w:Clothed make, naked female [1].

I originally posted this at Commons:Adminstrators' noticeboard#Commons Delinker error, where I was direct by the both's en.wikipedia user page. From there I was directed to it's user page here, from there to its page on Meta and thence to here. Please could you make it clearer where such messages are to go (I apologise if I still haven't found the right location). Thryduulf (talk) 17:39, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

The bot is less than perfect, and the answer to deletions is "just fix it manually". Both bot operators that undertake tasks are no longer actively upgrading their code, so at the moment, that is the best answer. I will look to see if we can capture some of that in the appropriate guidance pages.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:11, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

STOP!

'Demolished' really doesn't have the same meaning as 'destroyed'. Please stop making this change using User:SieBot. Mike Peel (talk) 22:22, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

This reminds me: SieBot is often involved in some of these no-time-for-public-discussion category deletions some active users are fond of, in which they claim a category is "empty and unused" less than an hour after it had large numbers of files in it. The demolished/destroyed thing reminded me of it. I know that one can go search two page histories at once and track it down, but it would be nice if SieBot would put the name of who caused an emptying/deletion/category move in the edit summary, so we know who has forgotten the difference between "No controversial name changes" and "I don't see any complaints on my own talk page when it's harder to find me". --Closeapple (talk) 02:37, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Please read the page header. There is nothing I can personally do for you. Siebrand 18:05, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Siebrand, there is some value in the suggestion that for a category move/rename that the admin who ordered a specific rename is annotated in the edit summary that the bot undertakes. I think that this would keep some of the noisy people knocking on your door about SieBot if there was a wikilink to the admin.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:12, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

I am not capable to make changes to the code to fulfil that feature request. Siebrand 11:06, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm just noting that my bot, which recently started this task, adds the reason parameter to the edit summary.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  01:53, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker suggestion

Hello,
I often clean up after Commons Delinker after it does edits like this one here, which left an empty paragraph in the article that needs to be cleaned up. Would it be possible to add logic where the bot checks if the [[File]] tag is the only text on the line (ignoring whitespace), and if so removes the whole line where the [[File]] tag appears -- plus the preciding empty line (ignoring whitspace) in case the removed line was preceded and followed by an empty line (ignoring whitspace)? Such logic would eliminate the need for cleanup :) --hydrox (talk) 17:46, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

That part of CommonsDelinker is operated by Bryan (talk · contribs), so that suggestion would be better there. Siebrand operates SieBot which is the category mover/relocator.  — billinghurst sDrewth 12:15, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Is CommonsDelinker out of service?

• In pt-wp the last edit was in 2013-5-10. What happened?Jo Lorib (talk) 20:39, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Toolserver is broken. Siebrand 16:47, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Things are working again. Siebrand 10:15, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

File:Antiflame-star.png

hi, sorry but why this image was deleted? File:Antiflame-star.png, this isn't duplicate, this was the original upload :/. The other image (File:Antiflame-barnstar.png ) was uploaded by Magnus's bot from en.wikipedia, but the original file was on commons like wrote in file's description :) --Wim b (talk) 11:12, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Please have a look at the file history. I have nothing to do with this. Siebrand 10:15, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:E.E. Giltner A.M. NSRW1-0009.jpg

This media may be deleted.

A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:E.E. Giltner A.M. NSRW1-0009.jpg, is missing information about where it comes from or who created it, which is needed to verify its copyright status. Please edit the file description and add the missing information, or the file may be deleted. If you created the content yourself, enter {{Own}} as the source. If you did not add a licensing template, you must add one. You may use, for example, {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} or {{Cc-zero}} to release certain rights to your work. If someone else created the content, or if it is based on someone else's work, 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. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. 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!

Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 00:46, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Feel free to remove, but it's nonsense. The source is mentioned, you just appear to have been trigger happy. Siebrand 10:14, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

No, not trigger happy at all. If I was, I would have nuked without saying a word, wouldn't I? The source is so big that I just missed it. Sorry my bad --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 20:48, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Conflicting messages

I don't know if you consider it relevant to you or have an opinion on this, but letting you know that translate extension and image annotator gadget have conflicting messages. 88.196.241.249 08:01, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Template:Stop

Hi, Siebrand. Could you change CommonsDelinker of the template to {{{1|{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}}? I want to have my bot use it too. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:20, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Never mind, made a user template. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:37, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker bot problem with newlines

Been noticing a problem the bot has with newline inside an image bracket. Examples are [2], [3] and [4]. The bot left all the material after the newline behind. Bgwhite (talk) 22:07, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

It is still happening. Bgwhite (talk) 07:49, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Please provide patches on pywikibot. Thanks. Siebrand 16:29, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker should restore previous images when applicable

This suggestion is a follow up to the discussion at Commons talk:Deletion policy#Undoing changes made by uploaders of deleted images

Recently, User:Bava Alcide57 uploaded File:Metz infobox collage.jpg, which was later found to be a breach of French non-FoP copyright law and was therefore removed per Commons:Deletion requests/Files of Bava Alcide57. However, in the meantime, the uploader has forced his image into infoboxes on some 10+ Wikipedias (e.g. cs:Mety), which, consequently, all lost any previous infobox imagery alltogether after CommonsDelinker had removed the new image. Many of the affecte projects are smaller Wikipedias, where nobody would care any soon about restoring the original image in place. Fixing the result of such a delinked cross-wiki spam has taken me a good hour of work.

It would be very helpful, if CommonsDelinker could look at the article's last edit diff (such as [5]) to check whether that is the one that has introduced the name of the image being-removed, and if so, take note of the name of the picture that was in that place before. Before using that name, the bot could verify whether that name really points to a valid image, so as to prevent mistaking some article text for an image. This could effectively help the bot to fix the cross-wiki spam in contrast to what it does now (merely removing the reference to the removed image, but leaving the article without any image, although possibly with a caption that still refers to the original image...). Marek BLAHUŠ (talk) 14:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Very helpful, indeed. Can you please implement it? Thanks! --Siebrand 05:57, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

superieure abeeldingen.

Hallo Siebrand, ik richt me even tot jou omdat ik met enkele vragen zit waar je misschien een antwoord op kan geven als één van de personen die kennelijk toegang heeft tot CommonsDelinker. Naar aanleiding van onder andere . deze wijziging. Ik ben wat aan het nalopen geweest om uit te vinden dat bijvoorbeeld op Commons (anoniem onder IP) licenties verwijderd van gewraakte afbeeldingen, zodat bots ze vervolgens markeren als afbeelding zonder correcte licentie, waarbij het gebeurd dat moderators die niet goed opletten inderdaad de afbeelding verwijderen. (Zeker als de gebruiker niet meer actief is en de melding op de OP niet leest) In enkele gevallen werd trouwens zelfs genomineerd zonder een melding op de OP van betrokkene. Als dat niet lukt, proberen ze het nog via reguliere weg. Als ze de gewraakte afbeelding niet kunnen laten verwijderen (merkte ik eerder) gaan ze met categorien lopen te klooien, hetzij (heel kinderachtig) een streepje weghalen zodat de gewraakte afbeelding helemaal onderaan de categorie lijst komt te staan, of op een andere pagina (als er veel van zijn) belanden, maar ook via GlobalReplace een afbeelding "superseded" verklaren, en laten daarna een bot de gewraakte afbeelding met hun eigen creatie vervangen. Waardoor zelfs in mijn persoonlijke galerie een wapen van Sodacan in een lijstje stond tussen de voorbeelden van mijn eigen werk! Er werd in dit geval o.a. het rijkswapen van Nederland via GlobalReplace vervangen door een foutieve versie een versie die ik had upgeload welke een EXACTE reproductie is van het rijkswapen (zoals die in elk Nederlands gemeentehuis hangt) waarvan vast staat dat er geen copyright meer op zit werd binnen één dag SUPERSEDED bestempeld.

Ik vind het allemaal erg zorgwekkend. Onder andere dat individuen die klaarblijkelijk liever hun eigen (foute) werk in de schijnwerpers zien staan, dan andermans correcte werk, zonder enige vorm van overleg in staat blijken dat met behulp van Bots uit te voeren. Concreet samengevat begrijp ik niet waarom er geen overleg plaats vind in deze. Als het een vlekkerig .GIF bestandje betreft die vervangen wordt door een kraakheldere .SVG zie ik er de logica nog van in. Als na OVERLEG bepaald werd dat de ene versie 3 fouten heeft, de andere versie 1 fout, dat daarom de andere versie via GlobalReplace voorrang krijgt, zie ik ook logica. De afbeelding Royal Coat of Arms of the Netherlands.svg werd intussen al van correcte mantelkleur voorzien, maar bezit nog steeds klauwen die op het schild liggen, een heraldische fout. Klauwen mogen geen wapen bedekken, niet zoals in deze afbeelding in elk geval. Daarnaast zijn de blokjes op het schild verhoudingsgewijs te groot. Intussen worden deze afbeeldingen middels CommonsDelinker wel vervangen, zelfs als deze verwerkt waren in persoonlijke lijsten, of als toelichting bij een zelf gemaakte en upgeloade foto waar vele uren werk in zitten. Maar kennelijk gaat het om smaak, daarover kan dus getwist worden. Juist die "twist" schijnt te ontbreken. Intussen als ik wat dieper in de materie duik zie ik steeds dezelfde namen opduiken waaruit ik een conclusie trek dat een klein groepje behoorlijk fanatiek is om "concurrentie" uit te schakelen. Moet ik dan maar (net als andere die hun vrije tijd staken in het tekenen voor Wikipedia) "gewoon" stoppen met tekenen?

Er zijn mensen op Commons die kennelijk zelf niet de moeite nemen een afbeelding zelf te tekenen, maar allerlei "bruikbare" onderdelen van anderen uit de originele svg's te halen en daarmee een "nieuw" wapen samenstellen. Het gaat er kennelijk niet om of zo'n afbeelding ook aan heraldische regels voldoet, zolang het er maar "gelikt" uitziet in hun ogen. Als het daar maar bij bleef. Men heeft kennelijk de behoefte om "hun" creaties ook nog eens wereldwijd op Wikpedia te zien, waarbij het er kennelijk niet toe doet of daar een noodzaak voor bestaat. Er zijn tienduizenden slechte .gif afbeeldingen voorzien van verzoeken of iemand daar een .svg versie van wil maken, die genegeerd worden, bestaande svg's genieten de voorkeur, liefst svg's van rijkswapens, provinciewapens, want dorpswapen worden volledig ongemoeid gelaten, kennelijk een kwestie van prestige? Het lijkt wel egotripperij! De "belangrijke wapens" moeten kennelijk aan de persoonlijke smaak "verbeterd" worden, maar er wordt niet op heraldische regels gelet, gezien de vele fouten die er in te vinden zijn, heb ik het nog even niet over mijn persoonlijke smaak (ik vind dat een leeuw voor een Nederlands wapen er uit moet zien als een Nederlandse leeuw, niet als een Spaanse of Franse leeuw qua tekenstijl) want volgens de regels van de heraldiek doet dat er niet toe. In de meeste gevallen load ik een tekening op, met de gedachte: "Ik zie wel of daar ergens een behoefte aan is". Geen gebruik van het bestand, geen probleem, zeker als een andere afbeelding duidelijk beter is. Met de mogelijkheid van het plaatsen van commonscat op pagina's kunnen geïntresseerden altijd meer afbeeldingen bekijken. Met betrekking tot de wapenafbeeldingen, ja, ook ik maak fouten, dat doet iedereen. Daar bestaan overlegpagina's voor. De een wijst de ander op de fout, met die feedback kan je dan verbeteringen doorvoeren, Wikipedia kan zo mooi zijn. Ik ging er vanuit dat mensen die afbeeldingen nodig hebben voor een artikel de categorie napluizen en iets naar wens selecteren. Dat bepaalde afbeeldingen gebruikt "moeten" worden is nieuw voor me. Als er bijvoorbeeld vijf afbeeldingen bestaan van het wapen van Amsterdam en daarna via overleg bepaald werd dat er eentje voorkeur heeft ten opzichte van de andere vier, op basis van beoordeling naar heraldische regels, of andere zinvolle normen, lijkt me wel ok...! Nu is het kennelijk zo dat één of meerdere individuen op basis van smaak (?) die beslissing maakt voor de hele wereld. Daarvoor zijn deze bots (global replace) toch niet bedoeld? Pronken met andermans veren noem ik dat. Hun "pronkstukken" moeten en zullen overal de boventoon hebben. Ik vind het weinig zinvol om nieuw werk te produceren als dat werk zo eenvoudig geboycot kan worden door enkelingen.

Vriendelijke groeten, --Henk Boelens (talk) 07:11, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker

Hi! It would be very nice, especially for pages that are not followed by many editors, to have file links replaced by a comment (like "<!-- File:... has been deleted on Commons -->", possibly internationalisable by sub-page) instead of being simply removed. — François [Discussion] 08:28, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi François. Thanks for the suggestion. Please read the following post: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2013-November/006969.html. Cheers! Siebrand 19:12, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

File:Red Wings retired Banners.jpg

• File:Red Wings retired Banners.jpg

Hi, I see you edited File:Red Wings retired Banners.jpg at one time.

Can you help with the page so it doesn't have those ugly red "Notes" at top and bottom and instead has proper licensing?

Thank you,

-- Cirt (talk) 02:06, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

放S

你因住嚟啊，同埋D4德佬搞搞震。

Can you please use English, German, French or Dutch? I don't understand what I think is Chinese. Siebrand 09:24, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Martina Filjak

Dear Siebrand,
I really don't understand why did you delete all three photos of Martina Filjak from Wikimedia Commons, which I uploaded with the adequate permission that was emailed to the Wikimedia Commons by the author? Whose permission do you need for these photos? Could you, please, explain this to me... Best regards, --Maestro Ivanković (talk) 13:33, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Can you please mention a specific file name? I don't think I've removed any uploads recently... Siebrand 09:26, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Pull requests for the WikipediaMobile GitHub repository

Hi! Looking through the commit history for the wikimedia/WikipediaMobile repository, I noticed that you seemed to be very active recently. Therefore, I would like to request that you review some of the pull requests that are currently active for that repository. Thanks! APerson (talk) 01:17, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Hey. I'm only involved in the localisation part. I'll see if I can find someone for you. Siebrand 20:54, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! APerson (talk) 00:59, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Editor @ ar.wiki

Hello. I would like to inform you that I have granted you editor flag at the Arabic Wikipedia, all your edits there will be automatically marked as patrolled. Best regards.--Avocato (talk) 14:05, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Siebrand 09:23, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Pictures

Hello. Sorry for not speaking Dutch. Would you have other pictures of the ships used on the Delta Plan ? I would like to write articles about them. Thank you. --Io Herodotus (talk) 09:57, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

No, I don't. Siebrand 09:28, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Replace, don't just delink

Hello, Siebrand. It would be much more helpful if, instead of simply delinking images, your CommonsDelinker bot added a warning template to the affected pages so that human editors could replace the deleted image. In many cases, the deleted image could be replaced with a similar one on Commons... if only human editors were made aware.Leptictidium (talk) 10:59, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

History has proven that TODO lists are often not being taken care of. Siebrand 09:28, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker

Hi I saw that your bot CommonsDelinker cancels links of deleted file in Commons. If it's feasible can it cancel (in addition) the parameter "|Didascałia =" (the caption) when works in templates on vec.Wikipedia? Thanks. --Tn4196 (debates) 11:23, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

The CommonsDelinker code is in the pywikibot code repository. Please provide a patch, and we'll review it. Please get involved in CommonsDelinker beyond making feature requests. See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2013-November/006969.html for details. Siebrand 09:30, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but I haven't understood where to write this patch to the programmers. In bot's discussion page? --Tn4196 (debates) 19:50, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

	Happy Holidays!
	G'day, just a quick greeting wishing you and your family happy holidays and all the best for 2014. And of course, a big thank you for putting a leg up by doing what you do on Commons, and helping to make it the fantastic project that it is. Greetings from a warm west coast of Aussie. russavia (talk) 01:51, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Same to you :). Siebrand 06:55, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker is slow on en.wikipedia

Hello, It seems that CommonsDelinker is running slow on en.wikipedia. Can you help fix this?
Here's an example: File:Chew Hoong Ling 2013-12-24 19-34.jpeg was deleted at 23:10, 25 December 2013 by User:Jcb but the image remained on en:Chew Hoong Ling until I deleted it with this diff at 16:12, 26 December 2013. I can provide other examples if necessary. Thanks! Tucoxn (talk) 16:18, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed that you've been away but I thought I'd leave another example: File:Roop Durgapal gpa 2013.jpg was deleted at 23:56, 30 December 2013 by User:Jcb but the image remained on en: Roop Durgapal until I deleted it with this diff at 17:33, 1 January 2014. Thanks for your help! Tucoxn (talk) 17:37, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

There is little to no development capacity for CommonsDelinker. Unfortunately what you currently get, is all that is available. Siebrand 06:54, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Delinking of immage massimo-giordano-001.jpg

Good day, I saw that image Massimo-giordano-001.jpg was "delinked" for copiright infrangment, from what I understand. I'm the web developer for the owner of the immage and I have the legal right (that the owner of the immage gave it to me) to use it. How can I put the immage back online and don't get deleted again?

TIA Mitja Jankovic

Please talk to the deleting administrator. Thanks. Siebrand 06:54, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

It there any "undo" option?

Can the "delinking" be undone somehow? I mean, if a file was undeleted, is it possible to restore all the removed links in a more or less automatic manner? For example, File:Jacobstaff.JPG apparently was not deleted (or was undeleted quickly?), but references to it in various wikis were lost (the talk page has a list of them resurrected from Google cache)... — Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 01:15, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker's edit summary

It could be more easily and centrally translated with the apposite extension, using User:CommonsDelinker/summary-I18n or m:User:CommonsDelinker/summary-I18n instead of hundreds of scattered subpages. My bot is already using a fully internationalized summary (documentation). --Ricordisamoa 01:07, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

I can help you if needed ;-) --Ricordisamoa 14:13, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Commons Delinker for Russian Wikivoyage

Hello! We would like to have Delinker running on Russian Wikivoyage. Could you please do that? Thank you in advance! --Alexander (обсуждение) 14:38, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

YGM

Hello, Siebrand. Check your email—you've got mail! You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{YGM}} template.

—레비Revi 08:14, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Reunión de miembros de WMCR

¡Hola, Siebrand!

Para poder iniciar el proceso de formación de Wikimedia Costa Rica (WMCR) estamos organizando una reunión con quienes hayan firmado la lista de miembros. El fin será discutir los procedimientos que debemos realizar a partir de ahora para que WMCR sea aprobado por la Fundación Wikimedia. Se realizarán tres sesiones en la Biblioteca Nacional del 1 al 3 de marzo de 2014.

Esperamos la confirmación de asistencia para organizar las sesiones. ¡Buen día! --Allan Aguilar·/t/ 00:35, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

De-adminship warning

Dear Siebrand/Archive16, I am writing to inform you that you are in danger of losing your adminship on Commons because of inactivity.

If you want to keep your adminship, you need both to sign at Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section/Feb-Mar 2014 within 30 days of today's date, and also to make at least five further admin actions in the following six months. Anyone who does not do so will automatically lose administrator rights.

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

Thank you, odder (talk) 20:37, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Should be all good now. I took care of a few speedy deletion candidates. Cheers! Siebrand 21:08, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Could you also take care of the questions on your talk page? :–) — Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 01:55, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Ongewenste bijdragen?

Hoi Siebrand,

Zou je even willen nakijken of ik juist heb gehandeld bij de acties van gebruiker Hamburg3000, of dat er nog meer moet gebeuren. Ik weet hier niet zo goed de weg, maar vond wel dit. Mvgr, Aiko (talk) 12:53, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker's edit summary

It could be more easily and centrally translated with the apposite extension, using User:CommonsDelinker/summary-I18n or m:User:CommonsDelinker/summary-I18n instead of hundreds of scattered subpages. My bot is already using a fully internationalized summary (documentation). I can help you if needed ;-) --Ricordisamoa 00:25, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Ping. --Ricordisamoa 16:14, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

About　KenTobioka.jpg

Dear Siebrand, KenTobioka.jpg is certainly not "Copyright violation" as this is created entirely myself and there are free licenses. I wrote to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org for the acceptance of free licenses relating to the KenTobioka.jpg.--Ragtimema (talk) 04:27, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Your bot's admin status (Siebot)

Hello. I'm a steward. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc.) was adopted by community consensus recently. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on wikis with no inactivity policy.

You meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for 2 years) on yiwiktionary, where you are an administrator. Since yiwiktionary does not have its own administrators' rights review process, the global one applies.

If you want to keep your rights, you should inform the community of the wiki about the fact that the stewards have sent you this information about your inactivity. If the community has a discussion about it and then wants you to keep your rights, please contact the stewards at m:Stewards' noticeboard, and link to the discussion of the local community, where they express their wish to continue to maintain the rights, and demonstrate a continued requirement to maintain these rights.

We stewards will evaluate the responses. If there is no response at all after approximately one month, we will proceed to remove your administrative rights. In cases of doubt, we will evaluate the responses and will refer a decision back to the local community for their comment and review. If you have any questions, please contact us on m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Best regards, Rschen7754 05:39, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Uzo19

Hello, following my request to the admin who deleted them, the files with names starting Nyírbátor-, Tivadar-, Turistvándi-, listed near the end of the deletion request as "Images which may have been taken by the uploader (same camera model and higher resolution)", have been restored. I see that reverting CommonsDelinker for these files would have to be made in too many places for a human (mainly the town Nyírbátor in every language). My question is, could you do it with CommonsDelinker? Thank you in advance: Oliv0 (talk) 06:43, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Artem Bessonov 1980

User:SiebrandHello! Why Your bot User:CommonsDelinker deletes my files? --Artem Bessonov 1980 (talk) 12:57, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

File:100%.svg

File:100%.svg 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!

Sreejith K (talk) 22:13, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

ArchiveBot

Hi, I noticed you have set up User:MiszaBot to archive your talk page. Unfortunately, the bot has stopped working, and given how its operator is inactive, it is unclear when/if this will fixed. For the time being, I have volunteered to operate a MiszaBot clone (running the exact same code). With that said, your input would be appreciated at Commons:Bots/Requests/ArchiveBot 1. Regards, FASTILY 07:36, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your contribution to 38th ADA Brigade.

Your bot on English Wikipedia

A proposal to de-authorize a group of idle interwiki bots on the English Wikipedia is currently in process. A bot account of yours has been included in the list. If you are no longer using this bot, no action is neccessary by you. Should you wish to revive your bot in the near future, please remove your bot from the list here: en:Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#Bot_that_are_inactive_for_the_last_2-4_years_and_may_lose_bot_flag. Thank you for your contributions. For the en: Bot Approvals Group, en:user:Xaosflux 12:05, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Category:Historical_information_signs

Historical information signs has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Skeezix1000 (talk) 20:32, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Replacement instead of deletion

Hi. Thank you very much for operating wikt:fr:Utilisateur:CommonsDelinker. I have talked with other French-speaking Wiktionarians about the deletions by CommonsDelinker (→ wikt:fr:Wiktionnaire:Wikidémie/juillet 2014#Utilisateur:CommonsDelinker). Currently it deletes an image tag as a whole, even though there may be a useful explanation. I am wondering if you could replace the deleted image file name in the tag by File:Image manquante.jpg instead of deleting the tag ([6] instead of [7]). — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 14:21, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker Wikinews-fr

Could you ask for the bot flag on the French Wikinews to avoid to flood the page of the recent changes ? Thank you. --SleaY (talk) 23:32, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

No. If you (as a community) think it should be a bot, please make it a bot. The maintainers of CommonsDelinker will not request a bot flag. Siebrand 01:31, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Gallery

Hello, could you find a way to delete also the files in the galleries? E.g. here you didn't passed to delete the gallery's files (but Filedelinkerbot did it on en.wiki). --Horcrux92 (talk) 09:52, 14 September 2014 (UTC) I'm no longer a maintainer. Patches adding improvements are appreciated and will be reviewed if you can provide them. Cheers! Siebrand 01:30, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker (feature request)

Hi,

1. I've noticed that after CommonsDelinker removes a deleted image from an article sometimes the formatting of the text changes to a preformatted text.[8] This is because there has been a space between the image and the text that was directly following it. I thought maybe you could change the regex in a way that it removes any such whitespace when removing images.
2. Also it would be nice if the bot could remove empty remained (gallery) tags after removing all images in them.[9][10]

Thanks. Dalba 01:56, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm no longer a maintainer. Patches adding improvements are appreciated and will be reviewed if you can provide them. Cheers! Siebrand 01:30, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Talk page take 3

Siebrand, you are the maintainer for Commons Delinker, right? You messages for communicating with editors are sorely lacking and are not helpful to the users who encounter your bot's edits, especially since there are so many new editors. I first replaced your talk page redirect on en-wiki with a post about how it leaves me unsure of where to go. Then, I went to the Commons Delinker talk page and didn't get a response. Apparently, maybe this is where I should go? If so, you need to look at those other two talk pages because there are issues you need to address placed by experience editors who failed to understand your messages. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 23:36, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

I'm no longer maintaining CommonsDelinker. Maybe it should be stopped altogether? Siebrand 01:28, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Image deleted

Hi, I had an image deleted from my wiki book chapter on dehydration and mood that i uploaded myself. I thought i had taken all the correct steps. could some one kindly help me upload the picture again??? if you go to my username you can find my book chapter link there thank you

Brookelouise23 (talk) 12:44, 22 November 2014 (UTC)brookelouise23Brookelouise23 (talk) 12:44, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Cancellazione immagine LAI promo genn 1954

Nella pagina di discussione della voce Linee Aeree Italiane avevo spiegato in modo chiaro perché quella immagine non era coperta da copyriht e come fosse impossibile risalire alle fonti, visto che parliamo di una pubblicazione di 60 anni fa, chiusa da più di 50 !. Trovo quindi singolare che essa sia stata cancellata senza neppure degnarsi di dare una risposta alla mia segnalazione postata nella pagina di discussione.--Francescosaverio50 (talk) 18:15, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker: Proposal of deletion with replacement

(Sorry, copy from User_talk:CommonsDelinker#Proposal_of_deletion_with_replacement) Hi, I know this bot for many years and I think that his job is fantastic. But I think that there is a problem: when the bot remove the file from an article it don't restores the previous file that the article had. In wikis with a small number of contributors that is a problem because we are loosing lots of images! I wanted to propose that the place to delete a file include an optional parameter to add the name of a image to substitute the deleted file to another similar, when possible. Sorry if it's yet implemented, I don't know all the features of the bot. Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 02:19, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Machine-readable markup for languages/language names in Commons i18n templates

Hi Siebrand! I am trying to come up with a machine-readable standard for i18n in Commons templates such as {{En}} or {{LangSwitch}} so that CommonsMetadata can parse them correctly (right now it returns something like English: <english text> in some cases). I would appreciate your input at Commons talk:Machine-readable data#Machine-readable markup for languages/language names. --Tgr (WMF) (talk) 00:26, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

File:War Flag of the Philippines.svg

File:War Flag of the Philippines.svg 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!

GeorgeLouis (talk) 15:45, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Utilisateur:CommonsDelinker

Hi, the community of fr.wikinews doesn't support this bot task. Please send a request here to obtain de flag.

Thank you. --SleaY (talk) 23:15, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I forgot my first message, but de flag was removed by a bureaucrat. --SleaY (talk) 23:26, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

FYI, the bot seems to have stopped working. At least we don't get any updated logs since 15 January. Please see the notice at the Commons admininistrators noticeboard. De728631 (talk) 17:11, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

File:Khamenei in battlefield.jpg

File:Khamenei in battlefield.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!

Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:37, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Utente:CommonsDelinker in it.wiki

Hi! There is some problem in the activity of it:Utente:CommonsDelinker: in this example you must not delete the "=" sign. (For answer, please use my Italian talk) Thanks! --BohemianRhapsody (talk) 08:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

File:Matchbox Ford GT.jpg

File:Matchbox Ford GT.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!

Vikiçizer (talk) 15:17, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

De-adminship warning

Dear Siebrand/Archive16, I am writing to inform you that you are in danger of losing your adminship on Commons because of inactivity.

If you want to keep your adminship, you need both to sign at Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section/Feb-Mar 2015 within 30 days of today's date, and also to make at least five further admin actions in the following six months. Anyone who does not do so will automatically lose administrator rights.

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

Thank you, odder (talk) 20:49, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Pierre Bourdieu drawing.jpg

This media was probably deleted.

A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Pierre Bourdieu drawing.jpg, was missing information about where it comes from or who created it, which is needed to verify its copyright status. The file probably has been deleted. If you've got all required information, request undeletion providing this information and the link to the concerned file ([[:File:Pierre Bourdieu drawing.jpg]]). If you created the content yourself, enter {{Own}} as the source. If you did not add a licensing template, you must add one. You may use, for example, {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} or {{Cc-zero}} to release certain rights to your work. If someone else created the content, or if it is based on someone else's work, 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. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. 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!

czar ⨹ 17:43, 18 February 2015 (UTC)