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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello Whpq,
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subhhash yaduvansh
why each and every time page for subhash yaduvansh blocked and blocked tell me genuine reason. so that i can creat tis page again. please contact me on 9415248588
please help MLC SUBASH YADUVANSH (talk) 12:52, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
- Any replies will be here on-wiki and not through telephone/email or some other means. You will need to be much more specific with your request. What page are you inquiring about? -- Whpq (talk) 13:41, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
My draft
Can you reinstate and review my draft on the lynching of George witherell please? Here:https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Draft:Lynching_of_George_Witherell IceStorm 54 (talk) 14:47, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- Copyright violations will not be restored. -- Whpq (talk) 20:20, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- I didn't know. Plus I rewrote it IceStorm 54 (talk) 20:21, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- I rewote the article with my own wording, can you not review it again? IceStorm 54 (talk) 20:24, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- No. You will need to submit trough AFC and a reviewer will look at it. -- Whpq (talk) 20:24, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- Can you the AFC page please? IceStorm 54 (talk) 20:27, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- Can you link the AFC page* IceStorm 54 (talk) 20:28, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- I've added an article for creation banner. When you feel it is ready for review, you can click on the submit button and it will be queued for review. -- Whpq (talk) 20:37, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- Can you link the AFC page* IceStorm 54 (talk) 20:28, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- Can you the AFC page please? IceStorm 54 (talk) 20:27, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- No. You will need to submit trough AFC and a reviewer will look at it. -- Whpq (talk) 20:24, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- I rewote the article with my own wording, can you not review it again? IceStorm 54 (talk) 20:24, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- I didn't know. Plus I rewrote it IceStorm 54 (talk) 20:21, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Irish in Britain Representation Group draft page
Please reinstate the full draft, all the material quoted or drawn on for the page comes from the IBRG archives 1981 to 2000 which have been posted publicly previously on the Lipstick Socialist blog, run by IBRG member Bernadette Hyland, who created the IBRG wiikpedia draft. We are not contraveing copyright , all the material belongs to IBRG. We have no idea who the Anarchist Federation are, mentioned in the reason for deletion... they ,nothing to with IBRG but they have reposted posts that appeared first on the Lipstick Socialist posted by Bernadeette Hyland and written by IBRG member Patrick Reynolds So if anyone has contravened copyright it is this organisation . . BFCHyland (talk) 17:17, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- Replied on user's talk page. Whpq (talk) 01:57, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
See this
[1] and this. Looks like someone is rushing toward ECP? Doug Weller talk 14:26, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- It sure does. I see you've expanded the block. -- Whpq (talk) 01:56, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
- They had enough edits anyway, I can't figure out why but they clearly don't have a clue about how Wikipedia works and what's expected from editors. Doug Weller talk 06:59, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Re: File:Norman Lowell campaigning in 2019 MEP election.png
Why was my dispute in the talk page of this file regarding it totally ignored and the image deleted anyway without addressing my dispute?
Mtonna257 (talk) 15:13, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- The deleting admin was User:Explicit so they would need to give you the official answer. But my likely accurate guess is that they did not ignore your dispute rationale. It's simply that it failed to convincingly address the reason for deletion. WP:NFC is pretty clear on this with
Non-free content should not be used when a freely licensed file that serves the same purpose can reasonably be expected to be uploaded, as is the case for almost all portraits of living people.
-- Whpq (talk) 15:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
I'm working on adding sources to the article right now. Someone just nominated the article for speedy deletion once again, though. Could you please remove their speedy deletion tag for the second time?--LadybugStardust (talk) 03:37, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
deletion of Copy notation
You deleted my article Copy notation as invented but I didn't invent it, and it is in the Approximations section in User:JrandWP/Twenty-twos — Preceding unsigned comment added by Numspan33 (talk • contribs) 20:48, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- It is completely unsourced, and from what I could see, likely would remain that way. But, I've restored it to Draft:Copy notation so you can work on it. -- Whpq (talk) 21:00, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Admin's Barnstar |
| Thank you so much for handling so many of my rd1 requests. Scorpions1325 (talk) 20:55, 10 April 2024 (UTC) |
- Thanks! -- Whpq (talk) 21:01, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
The Image seems PD
It seems i improperly uploaded File:Official Portrait of Emperor Haile Selassie I.jpg on The English Wiki, it should and now i have uploaded it on Commons, since according to the "Copyright Act 1956" Any work before June 1956 is in the Public Domain whether Government Works of Private Works, for the Painting dating to 1954, this is because it appears Edward Copnall painted it while Selassie received his Order of the Garter which was in 1954. So this work does appear overwhelmingly to be a 2 Dimensional Photography of an Artwork dated to the early 50s which makes it Public Domain. You could delete it from the English Wiki since again it its supposed to be on Commons CtasACT (talk) 21:55, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
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CSD U5
Hi Whpq, I saw you declined a couple of CSD tags I placed under U5 for example here. This draft is not suitable for mainspace, hasn't been edited in 13 years, and is from a contributor who has made not a single other contribution. This kind of misuse of userspace as a de facto webhost is routinely deleted under U5 so I'm quite surprised by your decision. AusLondonder (talk) 07:05, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- These are drafts in user space. Creating a draft is certainly something that would qualify as writings closely related to Wikipedia's goals. These are drafts for things that quite plausibly could be articles as opposed to a biography of my pet dog Rexie-poo. As such they do not meet the criteria for U5 irrespective of the age of the draft or the amount of other contributions made by the editor. That is not to say that these should not be deleted, but that would need to be through WP:MFD. If these are the being deleted U5, and the community agrees that these should be speedily deleted, then this needs to be reflected in the U5 criteria, or a new CSD created. -- Whpq (talk) 13:28, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- I disagree with your interpretation of U5 and you are the only admin to reject speedy deletions under this criteria for users who have made few or no other edits. AusLondonder (talk) 16:52, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 62
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About Conan (military dog)
hello whpq This brave conan has passed away October 6, 2023 nut its not registered in the article of wikipediaConan (military dog) source: https://ylhsthewrangler.com/90079/features/canine-hero-delta-force-vet-dog-conan-laid-to-rest/ This news was posted on october 6 2023 officially From Conan's former handler on Instagram and later was published in different website https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/famous-military-working-dog-conan-has-died/110184039/ please verify --Nimburaj (talk) 06:28, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- Neither of those would be considered reliable sources. -- Whpq (talk) 11:27, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Numspan33
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Continual creation of non-notable pages and drafts by Numspan33. Thank you.--Jasper Deng (talk) 21:38, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
File:Bangladesh Football Federation.svg
Hi Whpq. Would you mind taking a look at this edit? You removed the file from Bangladesh national football team per Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2022 December 14#File:Bangladesh Football Federation.svg started by JJMC89. For what it's worth, the same user who added the rationale for this file's use in the national team article has done similar things for files that were removed per FFD or NFCR discussion. Their account is only a day old, so they could just not be aware of why the files were removed. At the same time, their account is only a day old, but they could have just created it specifically to readd files to team articles and avoid using perhaps their primary account. -- Marchjuly (talk) 12:51, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Acapulco Chair- backwards copy?
Sorry to bother you, but, as the deleting admin, would you mind taking a look at Acapulco Chair and double checking whether it was a copyvio or an unattributed translation from the es:Silla Acapulco article that was later backwards copied and machine-translated to that webpage? (the esWiki article appears to pre-date the website by a few months). I'm really only asking because I'm wondering if I should request a CCI into the article's creator, and I want to see if I should list this example as a unattributed translation or a straight-forward copyvio. Thank you for looking into this. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 06:06, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
- I see you've checked. Thanks for looking into it! GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 00:29, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for spotting this. I've undeleted the article and added the appropriate attribution. A CCI request is justified only if there is a evidence that there is a problem. Usually, this would be five instances of copyright violations. -- Whpq (talk) 00:29, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- Well, I've definitely found over 5 instances of copyvios, plus a few unattributed translations, plus some dodgy commons files, plus copyright warnings on here and eswiki going back as 2018. I ended up opening a request yesterday, which I hope was the appropriate thing to do. I'm not entirely familiar with CCI (the only other request I've been involved in is one Diannaa filed for me, but I don't think I can expect her to do everything for me lol) Thanks again for looking into the chair article. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 09:51, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
I understand the removal of the copyvio-revdel template (I had not dug deeply enough into the websites copyright section to recognize the CC-BY statement), but this additon of the "CC text attribution notice" was probably unnecessary as the copied text had already been removed as irrelevant to the article. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 11:29, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- I tend to err on the side of caution figuring if it was worthy of rev-del as a copyvio then an an attribution should be added if it is missing. As for the licensing, academic papers seem to hide their licensing in a myriad of ways. sticking in the CC license in the paper itself would be the logical thing to do and sometimes that happens. And then sometimes it is in a separate license link on the web page like here. And I'm pretty sure I've seen an instance of the license statement being a general one for the journal with no mention in the paper or the specific web page. -- Whpq (talk) 15:32, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.
Technical news
- Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
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Deletion review for File:SEYCGA.png
An editor has asked for a deletion review of File:SEYCGA.png. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 11:23, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Question about file permission
Would it be a valid form of permission for me to forward an email to the Wikipedia Commons team that includes permission for certain images? Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 15:31, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- I am not a VRT member and I am not familiar with their processes. The best course of action would be to contact VRT for guidance. Whpq (talk) 15:56, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
You deleted Danny Lauter
Hi, you deleted the Danny Lauter as a former AfD page, but the page is back after being recreated and then moved from Danny lauter, as well as Draft:DannyLauter. The WP:GAMENAME is obvious, but I want to confirm the page is the similar enough to the one deleted by the AfD discussion and completely correct as a candidate of the CSD before I take any further action. I would note that the author has been removing the CSD tags. If it's different enough, would you mind letting me know and I'll hold off? Thanks, microbiologyMarcus [petri dish·growths] 15:01, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- It's the same. -- Whpq (talk) 15:05, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Of course. Thanks for your attention. Any chance you feel the need to salt Danny lauter as that seems to be the current route of page recreation? microbiologyMarcus [petri dish·growths] 15:06, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Well, I've applied it to the title with proper capitalisation. Let's see if this stops. Whpq (talk) 15:11, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hey, how's it going, I was trying to move it to drafts. Anyway you guys could please help. I'm a bit confused. I created it to keep working on it but it would not let me move it to drafts. I am so sorry for all of the trouble! ElizaK89 (talk) 15:13, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- I'm trying to upload all of his stats and new news. The overall template was similar but there is a lot of new information. I tried to explain that on His talk page. ElizaK89 (talk) 15:15, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Of course. Thanks for your attention. Any chance you feel the need to salt Danny lauter as that seems to be the current route of page recreation? microbiologyMarcus [petri dish·growths] 15:06, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
The page User:Antny08/sandbox has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done for the following reason:
rm draft by BLP banned editor / CIR blocked
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.
Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 02:35, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Dennis Brown, this isn't in their userspace, curious why you notified them. If you reply here, please ping me. — thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 22:57, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Do you remember User:GrahamBould?
Hello Whpq,
You may be interested in this post at WP:AN, and this related discussion at WP:CCI, involving edits by User:GrahamBould. A lot of their problematic edits from 2006-2009 have been dealt with back then, by you and other volunteers at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gastropods/Subpage for organizing CopyVio Cleanup, but some that were missed have now resurfaced. One article had most of its revision history deleted yesterday (1251 revisions spanning 18 years), and there are about 1700 articles that may be affected. As one of the few editors who are still active out of those who were involved in the original cleanup operation, maybe you can remember what happened back then, and have ideas how to best proceed. Thank you! Renerpho (talk) 06:44, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- I've replied at the topic you started at WP:AN. -- Whpq (talk) 17:15, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Please help in editing this draft
https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Draft:Yash_Shah Johnson Fernando (talk) 10:35, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- No thank you. -- Whpq (talk) 12:01, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
- The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.
Miscellaneous
- WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!
File:Rafah displacement camp airstrike.webp
I noticed you deleted File:Rafah displacement camp airstrike.webp with the rationale "Simply captioning an image fails to be transformative as noted in the discussion." But the image was more than captioned. The article text itself makes commentary on the image. WP:F7 for example says "where the file itself is not the subject of sourced commentary."VR (Please ping on reply) 03:17, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
- Can you point out the text? -- Whpq (talk) 03:40, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Sorry!
I'm here to apologize for accidentally reverting a LTA move into a wrong target. I mistook the revert vandalism was all changing something like Example clan -> Example (clan) and didn't notice some were named like Example Family. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 12:41, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
- No worries. That was an easy mistake because of the pattern of moves. -- Whpq (talk) 13:17, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
I'd like to import the file to Commons, but undeleting the prior revision is required before doing so. George Ho (talk) 19:19, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Done. -- Whpq (talk) 19:40, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Draft: Prosper Mackenzie Nude
I understand you carry out your actions based on the reason stated. But Can you kindly retrieve it for me so i proceed with the necessary paraphrasing and resubmit for publication? 37.160.161.115 (talk) 14:14, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Deletion of movie articles
Hello, I really appreciate that you didn’t allow my article ‘Dil (1991)’ get deleted. The user ‘Saqib’ is always deleting my articles when they are notable. I have a passion for Pakistani cinema and Hindi cinema. I would really like you to approve of my future articles and allow them on the main space without them being taken down constantly. Thank you for your help and support!!! Saqib lollywood (talk) 16:22, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- i don't normally do AFC reviews. The best way to ensure acceptance is to have good quality reliable sources. -- Whpq (talk) 17:59, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
Non-free images of still living persons
Hi Whpq. Are you using a script or bot to search for possible violations of FREER? I used to use ToolForge page created by someone long ago which listed such images in tabular form, but that page stopped working a few months back. Now, I usually only come across some images through random clicking or scrooling through one of the subcategories of Category:All non-free media. It's not a very efficient approach, so I'm wondering if there's a better way. Perhaps a category page for recently updated non-free images? You also seem to be working in this area so thought you might've figured out a better approach. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:03, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- Nothing automated. I just look at recent uploads and pick out images that look like they might potentially be a problem. -- Whpq (talk) 11:10, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- OK. Is there a particular category page for recent uploads or a category page for date uploaded? -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:21, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- I just use special:newfiles. -- Whpq (talk) 11:22, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- I didn't know about that link. Thanks for that. -- Marchjuly (talk) 18:19, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- I just use special:newfiles. -- Whpq (talk) 11:22, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- OK. Is there a particular category page for recent uploads or a category page for date uploaded? -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:21, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).
Administrator changes
Technical news
- Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)
Miscellaneous
- The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more
Wrong venue close
You closed Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 July 8#User:UBX/Juve Merda as wrong venue, but you didn't procedurally nominate it at MfD as you should per WP:PROCEDURAL. Can you please do so? Nickps (talk) 18:31, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- My bad. Done! Thanks you. -- Whpq (talk) 18:35, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Nice. Thanks for the quick response. Nickps (talk) 18:39, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
PD-NWS
Hey Whpq! I know you deal with a lot of copyright discussions, so I wanted to give you a little checklist for NOAA/NWS-related images. Based on the FFD, as you come across weather-related images in the future, this checklist will probably be fairly helpful.
Is it on a .gov page?
- Yes – Most likely Keep
- No – Delete (Unless it is from a U.S. government social media account on Facebook.com or X.com)
Is it from a branch of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?
- Yes – Most likely Keep
- No – Delete or follow other applicable U.S. Government copyright guidelines
Is it on a webpage of the National Weather Service (weather.gov)?
- Yes – Most likely Keep
- No – Delete
Does the image caption or webpage directly state a copyright symbol (©) for that image or subsequent image group?
- Yes – Delete (Example – "Tornado Photos" tab)
- No – Keep (Example – "Multimedia" tab)
Does the image itself have a watermark?
- Yes – Most likely Keep (Example 1) {Example 1 webpage "Multimedia" tab} + Example 2) {Commons DR}
- No – Keep
Does the image itself have a watermark specifically with the copyright symbol (©)?
- Yes – Delete (Example + Example webpage "Photos" tab) + Commons DR on that image.
- No – Keep (Example) + {Commons DR on that image}
Hope that helps solve some future weather-image questions you may have or find in the future! Cheers! The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 20:17, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
TPA
Could you please revoke talk page access for a user that you blocked (Accenox)? They've repeatedly spammed on their talk page with no apparent intention of stopping. Thanks. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:06, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Done. Whpq (talk) 17:13, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 18:06, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
nchervitz sandbox
Is there any chance you have some copy of my sandbox page that you deleted? I was planning on rewording and thought it was still private on my page, thanks. -- Nchervitz (talk) 17:39, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Copyright violations are not restored. -- Whpq (talk) 17:50, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 63
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Issue 63, May – June 2024
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U5 for multiple pages
Hello. My articles about Hong Kong transport was deleted under U5 but I didn't have a backup for it. Please can you provide the source for the following pages? I am planning to post these on other non-Wiki sites (aka outside Wikipedia).
- User:HingWahStreet/HK Transport Journal/Issue 1
- User:HingWahStreet/HK Transport Journal/Issue 2
- User:HingWahStreet/HK Transport Journal/Issue 3
- User:HingWahStreet/HK Transport Journal/Issue 4
- User:HingWahStreet/HK Transport Journal/Issue 5
My intention is to make a brief Hong Kong transport news that happened recently, but I didn't know Wikipedia is not the place for that. HingWahStreet (talk) 09:59, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
- I've provided you copies at the above URLs. These are valid for 1 week after which they will disappear. -- Whpq (talk) 11:14, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for that! HingWahStreet (talk) 12:23, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
Technical news
- Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
- Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ
Discussion at File talk:Andijan Universal Sports Complex.jpg
You are invited to join the discussion at File talk:Andijan Universal Sports Complex.jpg. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:15, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Just posting this as a courtesy in case you've set your user preferences to not receive pings. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:16, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
New message from Beagall
You are invited to join the discussion at File talk:American drummer Uriel Jones.png § Contested deletion. I contested the speedy deletion request, as fair use is asserted. Beagall (talk) 13:56, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
File:SOmaliregulator DG.jpg
Is it better to tag NC files like this for speedy deletion per F3 or F9? -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:42, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Either works. I personally use F3 but it also qualifies as F9. -- Whpq (talk) 04:44, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
User Tnrajab's uploads
I just tagged a bunch of files uploaded locally by Tnrajab with {{npd}}, but think that many of them (if not all) are the same as the files you and Hoary nominated for deletion at c:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Tnrajab. Are they the same? My guess is that this might be someone related to Draft:Tareq Al-Sayid Rajab due to the choice of username and just thinks physical possession makes them the copyright holder of the photos. It might be possible that some are now PD for some reason (like the one with Thatcher and the one with Prince Charles), but that's going to take quite a bit of digging to figure out. -- Marchjuly (talk) 19:32, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- I don't remember for sure but the self-portrait certainly rings a bell, and the others certainly have the same issues even if they are not the same images. You may wish to check with the deleting Commons admin to verify. -- Whpq (talk) 19:42, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for the ping, Marchjuly. My visual memory is disappointingly vague, but I can say that several, perhaps all, seem very similar to what I listed for deletion. I agree with Whpg. -- Hoary (talk) 22:39, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks Whpq and Hoary for taking a look at these. Since I tagged the local files for speedy deletion per F11, things will be resolved one way or the other in a few days. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:45, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
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PVZ CSD declined
Saw this and wanted to know why it was exactly declined. I know I didn't bring an actual criteria from CSD, but since literally everyone in the afd says delete, wouldn't it fit for a speedy per WP:AVALANCHE and WP:IAR? If I really do need a specific criteria, I'd say G14 would match. TheWikiToby (talk) 03:47, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
- I declined it because you pointed to WP:AVALANCHE. That is an essay about early closures of discussions. It is not one of the criteria for speedy deletion. You can request an admin close the discussion early, but that is different from a speedy deletion. -- Whpq (talk) 04:14, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
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File:EvangeliaPlatanioti2024.jpg
Hi Whpq. You tagged File:EvangeliaPlatanioti2024.jpg for not having permission, but the uploader subsequently added a link to www{{npd}} template. The photo can be seen used here, and I'm guessing that it's a copyvio eligble for speedy deletion per WP:F9 because there's nothing to indicate in Sportal.gp's terms of service that its images are released under an acceptable free license. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:51, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- Yes it is a copyvio. The terms of use are pretty clear on this being copyrighted material. -- Whpq (talk) 13:39, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
Hi Whpq,
I'd appreciate your advice on the above, which was nominated for Speedy Deletion by another user without specifying a valid criterion and so untagged by you. Having looked at the history etc. this appears to have been written by the subject's 15yo son and then draftified by perhaps a relatively inexperienced new page patroller, when I think it should probably have been speedy deleted under A7 instead (per WP:Drafts "don't draftify junk") as it's a single sentence, wrongly titled, makes no assertion of notability, sole contributor has a COI, may be self-promotion (the author's user page was also a draft autobiography before it was blanked)... Now it's a draft I don't think it's eligible for A7 but speedy del does seem the right way forward. Do I need to PROD / xfD it? YFB ¿ 00:12, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- WP:PROD only applies to articles and files. You could nominate it at WP:MFD, but I would recommend to just ignore it. Nobody appears to be doing any editing on the draft so it will disappear via WP:G13 in six months without need to waste other editors time in reviewing a deletion nomination. See also Wikipedia:Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity. -- Whpq (talk) 00:28, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, I'd missed that about PROD scope. Will ignore as suggested. YFB ¿ 05:34, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
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