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Category:History

Original discussion: Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 96#Rollback additions of thousands of uncategorized images to Category:History

Can someone do the mass revert, or can I be granted the rollbacker role to do it myself? Thanks. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 16:00, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

@Cryptic-waveform: we need to revert ~25K edits (as confirmed by the before-after from the Web Archive and now). I was considering using w:User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js but the contribs page will timeout with anything above 4K edits so I'd need to do 7 rollbacks, and there could be a lot of errors. If you know of any scripts to help do the mass revert please link it so I can do so, or I can just give rollback to you and let you figure it out from there if you want. Either way let me know. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 17:18, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I have a bot with bot flag and AWB permission, I can do that. MBH 01:16, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

@Cryptic-waveform @Mitte27 MBH 11:34, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Any chance that Batch Task --> custom replace would be useful here? The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:10, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

I want to get a confirmation from any admin that I could start this mass reversal. @Matrix? MBH 01:45, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Go ahead Bedivere (talk) 16:18, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

No objections here, go ahead. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 17:11, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

I have found a better solution: a JopkeB's proposal on Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/06/Category:History to move all suitable files to Category:Media from Library of Congress to categorize. I have started a bot run. MBH 12:31, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Deletion request

Hi. Please delete all non-latest versions of File:Nutri-Score_A_before_July_2024.png and File:Nutri-Score_C_as_of_July_2024.png, as these contained non-pixelated design portions that are not allowed per COM:PACKAGING. Thank you. --Talky Muser (talk) 07:53, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done: Revisions hidden. --Achim55 (talk) 16:30, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. --Talky Muser (talk) 17:37, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

User:리그마스터

• 리그마스터 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

kowiki LTA Xinema, and this LTA is uploading non-self images for kowiki vandalism. These are not all free images so should be deleted. LR0725 [ Talk | Contribs ] 07:54, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Did mass DR (Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by 리그마스터). Account globally locked. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 09:35, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

urgent speedy delete - Trump shooting image

Please urgently delete File:Shooting of Donald Trump.webp - it's a clear copyvio and already being used by 10 pages and counting. DGtal (talk) 11:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Can we just ban the Wikipedia users who keeps uploading this blatant copyvio at the first try? It's getting ridicolous at this point--Trade (talk) 12:28, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

"Do not remove this image without consensus. Being nominated at FfD is not a basis for removing illustrations from articles." Wikipedia is literally going out of it's way to defend blatantly stealing press photos for use in articles by calling it "edit warring" Trade (talk) 12:22, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Same here--Trade (talk) 12:28, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Photo got immediately added back to the article--Trade (talk) 12:28, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done by Thibaut120094 Gbawden (talk) 15:07, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Interfaz Wikimedia commons.

A raiz de cambiar las preferecias y despues de subir un archivo y publicarlo, en el menú de la página no me aparece subidas como me aparecía antes para ver las subidas que tengo. No se que tengo que hacer para que vuelva a estar presente en la página. Leoncio52 (talk) 11:56, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

@Leoncio52: No estoy seguro que quiere decir con "en el menú de la página no me aparece subidas". ¿Puede Vd. amplificar que, exactamente, ha cambiado? Special:ListFiles/Leoncio52 parece normal. Quizás haya seleccionado otro "skin", con el enlace a las subidas en un lugar diferente.

En cualquier caso, parece un problema técnico, no administrativo. - Jmabel ! talk 18:27, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Hide information

Hello, could you please delete the edition made by the IP. Includes personal information https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:FiveThirtyEight_Logo.svg&diff=prev&oldid=899388665 --Mazbel (Talk) 03:48, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done  — billinghurst sDrewth 04:24, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Overwritten file

File:Ph seal masbate.png looks to have been overwritten back in July 2018. No changes were made to the file's license or description; so, there's no way to no whether the originally added license still applies. The newer version was also uploaded by the same person as a flag (File:PH-MAS Flag.png) but that's incorrectly licensed. I tried to check the official website for en:Masbate, and found the new logo being used in November 2016, but can't find anything more recent. Anayway, it seems that the logos are different enough for the file to be split, assuming the licesning is OK for each. -- Marchjuly (talk) 20:56, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

I have reverted to the original file per COM:OW. If the same licensing applies, the replacement should be uploaded separately. Bedivere (talk) 03:24, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

User:Yann and wheel-warring

(This could be a user problem as well, but I think it's a better fit here).

Yesterday, I closed two deletion requests concerning Studio Harcourt photos as Delete with the rationale per nomination. Harcourt photos were declared to be collective works by a French court, which means they are in the public domain in France 70 years after first publication. This photo is less than 70 years old, and it will be protected in the US until the end of 2052. (see [1] and [2]) and deleted the files.

Several hours later, Yann undeleted the files, completely reverted (effectively removed) my changes to the deletion requests and replaced them with his own closures, with the rationale Kept: The French state bought the photo archives of Studio Harcourt in 1991 and released them under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. He also came to my user talk page (after he had already reverted my closures) and told me that As per the discussion in Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Tisourcier, Harcourt photographs taken between 1934 and 1991 are not under copyright per ticket:2020112910005534. Which is notably a different claim and not the same he used to close the DRs after reverting my closures.

Now I'm perfectly willing to discuss both these claims and the general copyright status of the Harcourt photos, and have in fact right now started a discussion at COM:VPC#Copyright status of photos by French photo studio Harcourt.

BUT just reverting another admin's DR closure which you don't like and replacing it with your own is not OK. That is wheel-warring and should not be engaged in. It simply cannot be the way we interact with each other here, and it is a profoundly disturbing way to treat a colleague. The proper way to handle something like this is to ask the admin in question to reconsider, and if that doesn't change things, take it to another venue like (in this case) a undeletion request or another appropriate forum. All things Yann should know. I've already asked him (on my user talk page) to do that, but he did not. So I'll ask him here again to undo what he did in this matter and follow a proper course of action. I realize Yann is a very prolific admin and valuable for Wikimedia Commons, but that does not mean he should get away with blatant actions like this. --Rosenzweig τ 09:36, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

I agree with you @Rosenzweig here completely. Reversion here is not a good step to begin with, simply because one disagrees with the closing statement of the admin. A simple way forward was to ask and I'm sure Yann knows it more than me. It is really not okay. I'd really appreciate him revert both of their edits and continue with the discussion and let uninvoled admins handle it. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 09:53, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

I agree with Rosenzweig, too, and I also respect Yann's many very valuable contributions to Commons a lot. But Yann has also a tradition of quite forcefully trying to push through things according to his opinion, sometimes making proposals and then deciding himself that they're accepted and implementing them. One example is here on my discussion page, another one I had not the energy to bring up yet is his introduction of his unclear proposed "orphaned old works" policy into COM:L#Old orphan works which makes things more muddled than helping in any way, but I digress... - Yann, I would recommend a bit more restraint in your actions when you disagree with your colleagues, because, as Rosenzweig says, we just can't work together like this. Gestumblindi (talk) 10:05, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

I find it problematic that Rosenzweig voted in the discussion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bergman Harcourt 1957.jpg and, despite the situation being controversial, closed it herself. That it's being reclosed by an admin that wasn't involved in it, seems normal. Enhancing999 (talk) 12:26, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

And if I had simply been asked to, I just might have changed that myself. I was not asked though. --Rosenzweig τ 13:39, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

That's a fair point, Enhancing999; I myself have made it my personal policy to never close deletion requests where I participated substantially in the discussion (with an opinion / vote on the matter) , but I know that other admins (including Yann and, apparently, Rosenzweig too) don't see that as an issue - in Rosenzweig's place, I wouldn't have closed that deletion request after voting in it, but this doesn't make Yann's overruling of Rosenzweig any better (I see both things as bad style). Gestumblindi (talk) 18:09, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi, These deletions were just wrong. It is very sad that Rosenzweig doesn't recognized that, and instead posts here. Yann (talk) 14:13, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

On this, Yann, I believe we are discussing a different thing and not if the deletion closures were right, but if the reversion without interaction with the closing admin, was fine or not. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 14:33, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

I see that you also posted to VPC. I am fine discussing the copyright status of these files. But what's the point to duplicate the issue here? Yann (talk) 14:21, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

@Yann: The VPC thread is about the copyright questions. This thread here is a complaint about your behavior in this matter and also asking you to undo it. --Rosenzweig τ 16:11, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

OK, I will undo my closure and delete the files, if the discussion on VPC shows that they can't be accepted on Commons. Yann (talk) 16:19, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

@Yann: I think it is very likely you are right on the substance of this, but also absolutely clear that you went about this wrong. Step one should have been to contact the closing admin (Rosenzweig), discuss with them and try to get them to revert themself. Failing that, you probably should have started an undelete request. What you did comes off as "I'm more admin than you." - Jmabel ! talk 17:31, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Редактирование фотографии

Конкурс «Вики любит Землю — 2024» в Казахстане

Я забыла указать координаты местности, где были сделаны фотографии.

Подскажите, пожалуйста, как можно внести эти данные? TatynaVK (talk) 13:17, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Просто редактируйте страницу файла, заполнив или добавив шаблон {{Location}}. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:39, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Спасибо!

Правда я уже успела добавить координаты, нажав кнопку "Добавить примечание". Я неправильно сделала?

Если честно, то после добавления примечаний, координаты отражаются в Лицензировании. Но я не знаю правильно ли это?

Я впервые на Вики. И не совсем поняла где этот шаблон найти? Чтобы уже правильно сделать.

Подскажите, в какой из этих категорий нужно внести правку по координатам? На странице файла я нашла редактирование:

1. Краткой подписи
2. Краткого описания
3. Лицензирования

TatynaVK (talk) 15:56, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Я кликнула на {{Location}} Попала в шаблон. А дальше "темный лес"....

Понятно, что ничего НЕ понятно...

Вы не могли бы как то по простому объяснить, что где нажать.

Пошагово так сказать. TatynaVK (talk) 16:13, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

@TatynaVK вот так: {Location|59.9125|29.75}. Широта - долгота. MBH 16:45, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Сорри! Где это надо поставить? Я понимаю, что Вы профи и Вам все ясно. Но все таки для особо "талантливых" где именно это надо поставить? TatynaVK (talk) 17:31, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Через Google Translate: шаблон {{Location}}, который в идеале должен обозначать местоположение камеры, может располагаться в любом месте страницы файла. Наиболее распространенными местами являются либо раздел «description» {{Information}}, либо сразу после {{Information}}.

Delete file history

I'm requesting the deletion of this revision of the File:Avv.Prof. Francesco Del Bene.jpg since there were some personal info (phone number and mail address). --Mannivu · ✉ 15:52, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Done - Jmabel ! talk 17:37, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

DelReqHandler April issue

As noted here, there's an issue with DelReqHandler on Commons:Deletion requests/2024/04 - the usual keep/delete links only start to appear somewhere in the middle of the April 18 requests, all requests earlier in the month are missing them, any idea what the cause may be and how to fix? Gestumblindi (talk) 18:32, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

File:FEC Thomas Crooks Donation 202102049425215728 189746.pdf

The file lists the living adress of Mr. Crooks parents. Could someone please censor it or delete the file?--Trade (talk) 22:02, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

I'm willing to revision delete it if someone wants to overwrite that with a redaction. Abzeronow (talk) 22:07, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

I've uploaded a version with the address suppressed, and I've made the earlier version invisible, but there still seems to be a caching problem. - Jmabel ! talk 01:55, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

suppress

I think at least the edit summary should be suppressed here. Tehonk (talk) 23:23, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

*poof* DMacks (talk) 23:28, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Gjergjan.jpg

This was closed as delete however it seems the file never was deleted if any admin can fix that. Jonteemil (talk) 23:53, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done File deleted. Abzeronow (talk) 23:58, 17 July 2024 (UTC)