User talk:Polygnotus

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Polygnotus!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 17:29, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

How to ask for category deletion

You deleted your question on the Help desk before I could say how best to ask for something like this in the future. Please use {{SD|C1}} to get an empty, poorly named category deleted; see Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion for why that is "C1". (I don't love these cryptic parameters, but they are what someone built.) - Jmabel ! talk 22:05, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you @Jmabel: . In the days of the Lua module we should be able to just have a delete template with a reason parameter that gets automatically handled correctly (e.g. listed in the correct list depending on if its a file or a category etc). Polygnotus (talk) 23:20, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

I've never really looked into how it categorizes. It certainly changes the display of the template based on the criterion chosen, expanding the criterion into text (which can be viewed in any of a number of languages). Speaking as an admin, I'm not sure it's important to categorize different speedy deletion requests differently: if you are processing speedy deletions, you tend to blast through them just the same; I don't think it would be any easier to look only at the ones with a particular rationale. - Jmabel ! talk 23:37, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Cropping

Commons:CropTool Just a reminder for myself Polygnotus (talk) 23:39, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Deleting

"Nominate for deletion" in the menu on the left. Polygnotus (talk) 21:00, 16 October 2024 (UTC)