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Bad redirection

Please, may you revert the mistake of JuTa (images are different !) (voir aussi la discussion (fr)).   <STyx @ (I promote Geolocation) 12:58, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

PS: looking his discussion page User talk:JuTa/Archive 61, it seems that this user don't do a good job. — Preceding unsigned comment added by STyx (talk • contribs) 13:00, 3 August 2023‎ (UTC)

The problem was that User:Sarangbot overwrote your original File:Arch dam 12x12 se.svg image with a duplicate of File:Arch dam 12x12 sw.svg. Most likely User:JuTa didn't look at the file history. I'll fix this. - Jmabel ! talk 14:35, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

 Done - Jmabel ! talk 14:41, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

ok. Thanks !   <STyx @ (I promote Geolocation) 13:19, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Watch this user

• Sum1x'll (talk · contributions · user rights management)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sum1x%27ll 維基小霸王 (talk) 14:01, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

 Done. One week block, all reverted. Taivo (talk) 16:02, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Two VRT requests

Hello! If you have access to the commons VRT-queue, would you mind responding to this IPBE and unblock requests? Thank you in advance! Bencemac (talk) 18:12, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

• @Bencemac: wouldn't this better be asked at Commons:Volunteer Response Team/Noticeboard? - Jmabel ! talk 18:20, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

  I am not sure, I have used this noticeboard a few times previously. The issue is that the commons queue is different from the permission queue and most of the agents have access only to the latter one: this is the reason why I wrote here. Bencemac (talk) 18:30, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

  • Having no access to VRT, I have no way to know what your links lead to, but I stand by my earlier advice. - Jmabel ! talk 22:50, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

 Done Did the first one, asked for additional info on the second. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 22:56, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! I closed the first one. Bencemac (talk) 07:04, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Oops, forgot. Thanks! :) —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 02:56, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

October 2023 may never happen. Do we document the future?

Maybe the world will end in August or September 2023, anything is possible. Yet Silar (talk · contribs) insists on maintaining filling the category October 2023 in Warsaw with a subcategory that he has created on 4 August 2023 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Million_Hearts_March&action=history), and which as of now contains only pictures from August 2023. Is that okay by Commons standards, or am I wrong to insist that we don't document the future? There may also be a COI involved because Silar may be part of the campaign of Donald Tusk, but that's only speculation at this point. Edelseider (talk) 07:14, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

@Edelseider, category deleted. Kadı Message 12:45, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Template:MonumentID

Several editors are changing the default behaviour of Template:MonumentID in a disruptive manner. The issue they are raising does needs resolving, but it needs more work to make the transition than just changing the settings abruptly - see the ongoing discussion at Template_talk:MonumentID#autocat_yes?_no!. I'd appreciate neutral input into this, and perhaps template protection. The template has 73,408 transclusions right now, so edit-warring about it is disruptive. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:09, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

You are the one that is being disruptive as you have been warned 6 months ago to the problem that this template and its stupid autocategorization "leaves images already categorized to subcategories in the main category and it is impossible to remove from the main category".

You had months to "make the transition" and yet you did exactly zero and still want to do zero even others have showed you several categories with dozens or hundreds of images hanging in the main category, even when they already have been subcategorized for several years. Tm (talk) 22:05, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Protected. Mike, although you have the technical ability to bypass the protection, please do not do so. Reach a consensus on the talk page. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 02:55, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

@Mdaniels5757: I was trying to buy more time to solve the problem properly without leaving photos uncategorised, but I think I can work around it a different way, proposed on the talk page. Thanks for the intervention, and I won't bypass the protection. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:51, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Alizadeh Zahra (Hadi Bagheri) socks

Hello; it would appear that Alizadehzahra4036 and Alizadeh.zahra1393 are the same user (based on uploads, and both having the sole purpose of promoting Hadi Bagheri cross-wiki). Tol (talk | contribs) @ 18:07, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

 Done Sock blocked. Yann (talk) 19:00, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

User uploads

Special:ListFiles/TinyPardus Many eligible files without permission Pierpao.lo (listening) 20:55, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Traditional specialities guaranteed

Hello, I need help for moving Category:Traditional Specialities Guaranteed of France and Category:Traditional Specialities Guaranteed of Latvia in Category:TSG by country with the name Category:TSG of France and Category:TSG of Latvia. All the other categories in Category:TSG by country are labeled "Category TSG of <nation>" and so are Category:PDO by country and Category:PGI by country.-- Carnby (talk) 16:42, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

@Carnby: The usual place to request a clearly uncontroversial category move is User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands. I think the instructions there should be self-evident. - Jmabel ! talk 17:52, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

DR never added to the logs

Commons:Deletion requests/Category:Lingua Libre pronunciation by Lepticed7 needing renaming was never added to the logs so it was never closed, and the logs were deleted. I recreated the logs and added this DR to it but that didn't catch any admin's attention. Would any admin be willing to close this one and redelete the, then, empty logs? I don't kno Jonteemil (talk) 01:55, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

 Done. Abzeronow (talk) 02:40, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

User:آیت الله محمدتقی پورمحمدی

The user has a name against Commons:Username policy (using a well-known name) and only uploads copyvio pictures of that person. HeminKurdistan (talk) 11:44, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Like you, I doubt that they are محمدتقی پورمحمدی, and I do think that it may well be worth dropping a note on their talk page. However, I don't understand Farsi, and that person is an Iranian cleric. @HeminKurdistan: do you happen to have knowledge of Farsi and, if so, would you be willing to leave them a note on their talk page explaining that they need to either e-mail VRT if they are indeed who their username implies them to be, or change it if they are not that person?

I'm not really sure that a block is necessary here; their last contributions to Commons appears to have been in 2017. If they come back to Commons, see your note, and change their username, then I think that this would be resolved. Likewise, if they never come back to Commons (which is probably a fair assumption), a block wouldn't actually be preventing anything. If they come back and continue to upload copyvio without addressing the concern about their username, a block might be warranted at that time, but I don't see a block as being warranted now. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 01:43, 11 August 2023 (UTC)