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EC-Audiovisual delete request handling

The Category:EU Scopes - Information and education only is currently at 258 files with 11 uploaders, ranging from 203 files to 2 files. How do we handle mass deletion for these files? I feel a bit uneasy informing a user that 200+ files they uploaded are not allowed.

Also, the content for this category will keep growing as files in Category:EC-Audiovisual Center review needed are processed and possibly identified as problematic. Note that we have had delete requests processed (and pending) already because of disclaimer on source page.

How should we proceed with this?

Thank you, and regards. // sikander { talk } 🦖 14:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

I do not understand that case. The linked copyright page on the sources makes clear that all content is under CC-BY unless otherwise stated. And the files I checked did not have a different license on their page. GPSLeo (talk) 15:04, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

@GPSLeo: It is confusing, unfortunately. For example

• File:P050869-890766.jpg is from https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/photo/P-050869~2F00-08 and the copyright section on the source page states "European Union, 2021, Scopes: Information and education only"
• File:Floods, Italy.webm was from https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-242001 and the source page states "European Union, 2023, Scopes: Non-commercial use, Information and education only"
• However, File:Amalienborg Palace 6.jpg is from https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/photo/P-051259~2F00-33 and the copyright section states "European Union, 2021" without the scope disclaimer so all good here

That is the problem and VRT ticket discussion led to EU staff just saying read the copyright policy. // sikander { talk } 🦖 15:15, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

You mean they use the term scope as synonym for license or usage conditions? I would understand the term scope as the topic of the photo. If we have contact to them through VRT we should ask them to use a clearer term. GPSLeo (talk) 15:20, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I think so. Of all the files I've reviewed the "Scope" text on individual photo pages is the only data that matches the "unless stated otherwise in the terms of use accompanying each individual file" declaration in Copyright policy. At the same time, User Zoozaz1 disagrees (see Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:EU Scopes - Information and education only). What do you suggest next step should be? // sikander { talk } 🦖 16:06, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

 Withdraw: I will contact EC-Audiovisual staff again and ask for clarification about "Scope" text and whether Commons can host "Scopes: Information and education only" and "Scopes: Non-commercial use, Information and education only" files. Marking this as withdrawn for now and will re-create, if needed. Thank you. // sikander { talk } 🦖 14:20, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Category rename by overwrite

Please move Category:Families of Viruses to Category:Viruses by family.

The description of Category:Families of Viruses mentions Template:Taxonavigation populating that category, but the subcategories actually end up at Category:Viruses by family.

I'm posting this here following the suggestion by @Billinghurst [1]. Enhancing999 (talk) 10:24, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Is there any reason this is not to be handled by a normal CfD? - Jmabel ! talk 19:32, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

It could be, which was why I rejected the speedy deletion and asked for more detail for the assessment, as a move and overwrite seemed more appropriate. The two categories have now been merged, and tidied, duplicates removed, and he "... by family" is more inline with our current naming philosophy and therefore findable through HotCat.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:07, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't really have a preference for either name. At first I tried to fix the template to categorize into Category:Families of Viruses, but couldn't figure out how. In any case, if it's to be renamed again, one needs to fix the template first. Enhancing999 (talk) 05:51, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Enhancing999 (talk) 05:51, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Talk page fix please

For some reason a user modified my talk page and moved the welcome message from 2007. After that the Archiver bot archived the 2007 welcome message by Yann. Unfortunately I cannot undo this due to edit conflicts.

Can an Admin please revert the changes to so that the archiver bot doesn't archive the 2007 message in the next run? Thank you so much! // sikander { talk } 🦖 14:28, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

I think I fixed it, without being an admin. Enhancing999 (talk) 16:12, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

No, Enhancing999, your edit is a new edit which the archiver bot will archive again the next time it runs. Please leave this for Admnistrators. // sikander { talk } 🦖 16:13, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

@Sikander: The way to manage sections not to archive is through use of {{DNAU}}, or to remove a date in the last component of that section, as the archiverbot looks for the date in the sig for that identification.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:10, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

PLUS this is not a task for busy admininstrators. Your talk page is yours to manage.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:12, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Ah ok, thank you, didn't know of that and thought reverting edits and deleting them would be the ideal way. I'll make the adjustments. Thanks and regards // sikander { talk } 🦖 23:04, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Sikander

Santhosh kumar 001 uploads

Hello. Can an admin check the uploads of a certain Santhosh kumar 001 (talk · contribs)? I have tagged for speedy deletion two of their uploads (File:இருசக்கர வாகனம்.jpg and File:குழிப்பணியாரம்.webp) because of being apparent copyvios. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 00:45, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

A lot of these uploaded are copyright violations (I found three more). These all follow the same pattern: taken from marketplaces, with EXIF stripped, generic Tamil file names and little to no information on source. I think it's best to just start a mass deletion request. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 18:52, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Import Template from enwiki

I guess this is an admin task. Please import:

• w:Template:Resolve category redirect → Template:Resolve category redirect (after deletion of current content)
• w:Module:Template redirect regex → Module:Template redirect regex
• w:Module:Resolve category redirect → Module:Resolve category redirect

This should help solve some of the cases at Commons:Village_pump#Stuck_in_category_redirects. Enhancing999 (talk) 16:33, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Also: w:MediaWiki:Babel-category-override → MediaWiki:Babel-category-override

Then protect Modules/Templates for admin-only/template-editor only. Enhancing999 (talk) 16:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

I've imported the first page mentioned at top, but there is clearly a lot more to be done to make this work. No idea how to import a module. - Jmabel ! talk 17:50, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

I have done a lot of module importing and exporting at dcwwiki.org - and ideally there are two ways to do this but Special:Import does the job. Importing all templates included in this module will overrite the templates (if we have them here). ─ Aafī (talk) 18:10, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

I tried importing one but was caught with a database error. [402bfdcf-c194-435b-a77c-6769b9d46e73] 2024-06-03 18:14:10: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionStateError" ─ Aafī (talk) 18:14, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into this. There shouldn't be any dependencies other than the ones listed above, if one ignores the documentation subpages. Enhancing999 (talk) 20:24, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

@Enhancing999: I have imported the modules. Please let me know if anything else is required. ─ Aafī (talk) 07:07, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. It seems to work with {{Category redirect}} as expected. The regex still needs some work for all 12 redirects, e.g. Template:Seecat. Some samples at Template:Resolve_category_redirect/doc#Examples don't work yet. Enhancing999 (talk) 07:52, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Enhancing999 (talk) 07:52, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Please send me my own deleted file

I am the author of File:Mosquée Fayçal corrigée.jpg, which cannot be published on Commons because there is no commercial Freedom of Panorama in Guinea. I have not kept a local copy. Could an admin please send it to me at [my username]wp@gmail.com? Thank you! --GrandEscogriffe (talk) 10:26, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

I'll take care of this. - Jmabel ! talk 14:30, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Deletion request for intermediate file

I almost always upload the original JPEG file straight from the camera and then usually one or perhaps more edited and enhanced files: cropped, lightened, sharpened, and so on.

This particular intermediate file added nothing really from the previous version: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/e/e0/20240604193001%21Richard_Cluse_at_press_conference_hunger_strike_Berlin_3_June_2024.jpg and was timestamped: 19:15, 4 June 2024.

If some could delete the above version, that would be helpful. Otherwise it's presence is not really a problem. Just being tidy.

It could also be that the updating process is delayed somewhat on Wikimedia and that I was looking at stale versions and making incorrect assessments ?? Whatever the case, can you proceed as indicated. TIA. RobbieIanMorrison (talk) 19:46, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

No reason to delete things like this. They take up just as much space on the server either way, and it's a waste of admin time to go around deleting them. - Jmabel ! talk 04:56, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Cheers (and thanks for all your work). RobbieIanMorrison (talk) 06:25, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Insults

Insults in French on this userpage; was blocked earlier indefinitely on fr.wp. Thanks. --d-n-f (talk) 06:52, 7 June 2024 (UTC)