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You wrote me in May about about a possible copyright vio. https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2023052710004474 I am not sure how to approach that. It is a long video and in a foreign language. I can say unequivocally that I didn't give permission--if that image appears without proper attribution. I never dual licence images. If people want to reuse the things I upload--they have to follow one of the licences.

Does the WikiCommons send-out anything to the possible offender or is that up to the copyright holder (me)?

Having done >3,500 images on the WikiCommons, I have seen a few clear cut copyright vios of my work-- including one in a textbook (Silverberg's Principles and Practice of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology 5th Ed.) (cystitis cystica) and one on the cover of the print edition of a large medical journal (Canadian Medical Association Journal - July 12, 2021) (diffuse alveolar damage). In the case of the cystitis cystica, I asked the editor to upload an image of something that isn't in the WikiCommons and I would let it go. The editor did honour that ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prostatic_stromal_tumor_of_uncertain_malignant_potential_-_1_WBAL.jpg ). In the case of the CMAJ, I wrote them a letter. They didn't publish the letter... but they did issue a correction in a subsequent issue. Nephron  T|C 01:30, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Looks like a copyright vio to me - image appears at 20:08 in the video. Nephron  T|C 01:41, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

@Nephron We don't send anything to the possible offender (and cannot, of course, offer legal advice), that's up to you. It looks like YouTube has a DMCA takedown form at [1], if you want to go that route. Or if you're willing to let past violations go if they start complying now, perhaps emailing the provided email at https://drpatoloji.com/ could get you in touch with them.

In general, if you're interested in going after infringement, you may wish to reach out to Josve05a, who has gone after infringers legally [2] (looks like the case settled) and has written about his philosophy when pursuing infringers at w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-08-15/Opinion (see especially his comments). —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:55, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Mdaniels5757, you replaced this file's license and marked the file reviewed here: [3]

Why would the license you gave the file need to be replaced with another license? Here: [4]

What is the difference between these two licenses?

Thanks, -- Ooligan (talk) 16:05, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

@Ooligan CC0 and the Public Domain Mark are different: the CC0 is a legal document used to release a work to the public domain, or get as close to that as possible; the PDM is not a legal document at all (it just says that the person applying it thinks it is in the public domain). When it is applied to someone's own work, we take that as an intent to release the work to the public domain (discussion).

I can't speak to why A1Cafel replaced the PDMark-owner template with the PD-author-FlickrPDM template, which both indicate that the file was marked by the owner with the PDM (the latter is Flickr-specific). Both PDMark-owner and PD-author-FlickrPDM are correct here though (although, as explained above, CC0 is not correct here). —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:45, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the detailed explanation. Do you why a "Flickr specific," but apparently redundant PDM license was created? -- Ooligan (talk) 03:35, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

@Ooligan No clue; you'd have to ask Jarekt. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:38, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Ok, thanks again, -- Ooligan (talk) 20:09, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Mdaniels5757. I have been working on User:TheAafi/PageLinksCopier, a script that helps easily copy the page/file titles that are non-English in nature. I have tested it in English and Urdu, and would like to have some other languages included as well. Since you are an interface admin, you better know how these things work. I'd appreciate your advices. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 13:18, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

@TheAafi Sorry for the delay. I have no experience developing a script that uses multiple languages from scratch, but your implementation of internationalization seem to be good. Sorry that I can't be more helpful. (And also, congrats on your adminship!) —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:28, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Ah, its perfectly okay. Thank you. With this, this would now work on Special pages as well. It still lacks support to help copy such links on mobile but it works in most cases. Perhaps I'd some tweaks later when I get a better comprehension. I have based it on tweaks from the creator, and Yethrosh, a 'crat on Urdu Wikipedia, who has forked another version of it specifically for mobile where it works on all pages. I just have to collect stuff, combine, tweak, and then enjoy. ;) ─ The Aafī (^talk) 20:33, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi there! I wasn't sure exactly who to ask, but seeing as you are an Admin I was hoping to get some help.

I know that many files were uploaded with the template PD-1923, and they haven't been updated since the original upload. Since we are a few years removed now from 1923 works being public domain I was interested in updating the licenses to PD-US-expired. I'm aware that it makes no functional difference in the files, but I wanted to go ahead and update since it seems to be good for future users who come across those files. I was wondering if you knew of a tool to use that could help identify how many and which files had these licenses applied.

I've looked at the Tools page on Commons, and I know that MediaWiki does feature some things, but I am unsure where to look further.

I'm really interested in growing my skills of utilizing Commons tools and resources, so I would really appreciate if you could help send me in the right direction. SDudley (talk) 04:45, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

@SDudley Although there is no policy on Commons against cosmetic bot edits that I'm aware of, your proposed edits fall within w:en:WP:COSMETICBOT, and as such you may have a hard time getting consensus for making these changes. Per [5], PD-1923 has 341,184 transclusions, and you can view the pages that transclude it at [6] (although there is no need, the following command will find all usages for you). If approved, you could use pywikibot and the following command: python3 pwb.py template "PD-1923" "PD-US-expired". I hope this helps. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:29, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

This is hugely helpful! I was primarily looking for the tools needed to even tell how many pages were utilizing that template. But if there is a way to do a more massive change then I can look into that. Thank you again, I really appreciate this. SDudley (talk) 22:08, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello! I noticed that you pointed out some of my photos as possible copyright infringement. Why is that? All the photos belong to Georgios Tsianos and he personally gave them to me to use on the page I created for him. What do I need to do to upload my photos properly without problems? What steps should I follow? Vassilis Tsiotras (talk) 08:41, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

@Vassilis Tsiotras Please have the photographer send permission to COM:VRT. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:30, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

I notice that you have deleted this file a couple of times. It has been reuploaded again, but I can't see if it's identical to the deleted ones or not. Can you have a look? Thanks. Marbletan (talk) 14:11, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

A discussion regarding how the map should appear has opened up here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Somalia#rfc_BB10EEB. ASmallMapleLeaf (talk) 13:03, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Ciao, l'utente in questione (che avevi già avvisato) ha ricaricato nuovamente le immagini della Topolino coperte da copyright, con titoli peraltro inappropriati Moxmarco (talk) 19:46, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

File:BSHS Products.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you! Afrikaans ∙ العربية ∙ беларуская ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ ∙ বাংলা ∙ bosanski ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ Deutsch (Sie-Form) ∙ Zazaki ∙ ދިވެހިބަސް ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ English ∙ Esperanto ∙ español ∙ eesti ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ hrvatski ∙ magyar ∙ հայերեն ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ íslenska ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ 조선말 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Bahasa Melayu ∙ မြန်မာဘာသာ ∙ norsk bokmål ∙ Plattdüütsch ∙ Nederlands ∙ norsk nynorsk ∙ norsk ∙ occitan ∙ polski ∙ پښتو ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ shqip ∙ српски / srpski ∙ svenska ∙ ไทย ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:10, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

I changed my interface language to Urdu today and it appears that there comes an additional link to COM:دیوان عام above COM:Village Pump. Village pump is called دیوان عام in Urdu and there should exist only one link. The page at COM:دیوان عام is nonetheless spam which I nominated for deletion. Do you know why it appears double? ─ Aafī (talk) 06:39, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

@TheAafi Odd, was it fixed by your edit to MediaWiki:Village pump/ur? —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:36, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

I noticed Community Portal was mistranslated at translatewiki and I fixed the translation and translated it into چوپال. However, I couldn't locate a string for Village Pump there and attempted a translation here. There's an issue currently: The Urdu version for Community Portal - چوپال - leads one to COM:دیوان عام (which it shoudn't. It should go to the Urdu version of Commons:چوپال, and until then the base version at Commons:Community portal) and the Urdu version for Village Pump - دیوان عام - leads one to COM:Village Pump, which seems fine as village pump here isn't currently available in Urdu. The fix to Community portal should come from translatewiki I suppose, given that MediaWiki:Portal-url/ur was deleted long ago and has a string that comes from elsewhere. A quick fix would be to override and create the page at MediaWiki:Portal-url/ur. ─ Aafī (talk) 05:13, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

@TheAafi Made the change to MediaWiki:Portal-url/ur (and redirected Commons:چوپال to the base community portal), was that what you wanted/did it work? —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:01, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mdaniels5757. Perfect. Thank you! ─ Aafī (talk) 15:30, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Mdaniels5757

Please find this message with regards to the message you left on my talk page:

I have been re-uploading the file for several reasons. I initially was uploading the file under the incorrect Creative Commons license, as I am a new user to Wikipedia, but have now been advised that it cannot be uploaded in this way as it doesn't hold any type of Creative Commons license.

Because of this, upon my most recent upload, I listed it as being in the public domain, which I believe to be true, as the image is available on Artuk.org for free download, and is currently displayed as part of the National Trust collection, in Tredegar House, Newport, Wales.

As it is in the public domain, I have credited the image appropriately, by including the following caption beneath it: John Morgan, Portrayed by Leonard Fuller, 1950

Furthermore, I have also been advised that, if I contacted the heir of the original painter, L J Fuller, then they could give me copyright permission to use the image.

I would like to ask you, @Mdaniels5757 , to allow me to use this file, under the "public domain" copyright status, as there are only two pictures of John Morgan in the public domain (of which this is one), I have no way of contacting L J Fuller's heir, and that there is no copyright status held against the image, as it is truly in the public domain - As I have mentioned, being on display in Tredegar House, and being free to download on Artuk.org.

I hope that this message helps convey my issues with the deletion of the image, and why, in my most recent upload, I have attached appropriate copyright status.

Regards, Mac Edmunds Mac Edmunds (talk) 09:58, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Mac Edmunds. Unfortunately, the image is still copyrighted, and being on display or available on the internet for free does not change that. (See COM:NETCOPYRIGHT and the invalid arguments listed at COM:PRP.) In the United Kingdom, paintings by known authors are copyrighted for 70 years after the author dies. Leonard John Fuller died in 1973, so the painting will be public domain under UK law on January 1, 2044. Until then, absent a license, it cannot be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 15:36, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

ref https://pixabay.com/illustrations/depressed-depression-despair-abuse-8268865 Hi totally accept your questioning, but after having misunderstood the license rules I then approached the original artist and he uploaded to wiki himself. If you message him he might have a way of proving to you that he is the long-standing Pixabay artist.

p.s. do you think the image is ok for fatigue? It was the best I found; I felt it gave some sense of bleak inner heaviness and weight and inability to move much/at all.

Best wishes Asto77 (talk) 14:47, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi Asto77. That's great, thank you for reaching out to the original artist. I sent a message with links to COM:VRT and COM:RELGEN to their Wikimedia Commons account, but if you have another way of approaching them, please feel free to let them know that way as well. Since the image was previously published elsewhere, we will need emailed permission from the original artist through the process at those links. And yes, I think the image is good for fatigue. Best, —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 15:24, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Jesus, you scared me with you changing my user rights XD. All best, A09 (talk) 22:48, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@A09 Haha, sorry about that :)! —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:34, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

I hereby affirm that I'am the creator and the owner of the exclusive copyright of the following media work. G21fouad (talk) 16:12, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@G21fouad This will not count as permission, please go to COM:RELGEN and follow the prompts. Thanks, —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:14, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello Mdaniels, I just got confirmation that Lingualibre v3 is on track. Still 6 months away, but we need help to push forward. Could you guide us Importer for Yug and create that phabricator ticket ?

« Lingualibre is not in the list of supported wikis to import from, that will need to be changed (I can file the phab task if you need once we agree that this should be done). »

Yug (talk) 10:05, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

@Yug I'm not comfortable creating a ticket without some level of community support (ideally, support sufficient for a steward to grant the transwiki importer flag). —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:03, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Oh, ok. We need to gather support first then. Thank you. Yug (talk) 09:19, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi there, reaching out because you protected both File:Flag of Virginia.svg and File:Seal of Virginia.svg back in December to administrators only. I've been working on an update to hopefully (fingers crossed) address most of the issues that led to the edit warring, and am ready to upload. Could you perhaps reduce the level of protection on these two? Perhaps to either extended or autoconfirmed users? Thanks for the help with this! -- Patrick Neil, _oѺ^∞/Talk 13:29, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

@Patrickneil I'd like to see some amount of consensus before changing the files. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 14:12, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

I understand that. I left a link to my proposed changes on the Flag talk page a week ago, but I haven't received any feedback. Let me ping the other participants, but if there's still no response in another week, would you then be open to lowering the level of protection? I note that several of the participants from last year's dispute haven't been active since, and those accounts seem to be more of the throw-away variety. -- Patrick Neil, _oѺ^∞/Talk 15:03, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

@Patrickneil I'd give the participants a couple days, then post to COM:VP and ask for feedback there. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:46, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

The images deleted by you due to Can't find permissions are photographs that belong to me and I want to share. The elimination of these images does not make any sense because it is the same author who is publishing them, so through this message these images are republished, which despite being the author, are for public use and anyone can use them , thank you!

images:Torre del Milenio San Salvador.png, Templo Mormón de San Salvador El Salvador.jpg, Torre del Pedregal.png, San Benito Wiki.jpg, Estadio Cuscatlán San Salvador.png, Palacio Nacional de El Salvador.jpg, San Salvador.jpg. 4evermediapro (talk) 19:54, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

@4evermediapro Please send permission using the form at COM:RELGEN to permissions-commonswikimedia.org. If the permission is accepted, the photos will be undeleted. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 22:36, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Almost every person opposed an indefinite block of A1Cafel. What was the point if the extensive discussions if you just choose to unilaterally ignore them? - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 00:46, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

@Chris.sherlock2 I'm not sure where you get "almost every person" from. But I read and considered all comments, including yours.

Commons policy says that blocks are to protect the project, not to punish. I think that long, definite blocks are often punitive: they send the message that the user can come back in (e.g.) a year, change nothing, and continue doing what got them blocked in the first place, because they've "served their time". If we really want to make clear that a user is welcome to come back whenever they can commit to improving their conduct (as Commons policy requires), we cannot set the day they may come back in advance.

Additionally, an issue with suggesting A1Cafel be blocked for a year, then re-blocked for another year if the behavior continues (and then possibly another year, and maybe another), is that (1) it takes time for bad behavior to be noticed (2) it takes time for an admin to become convinced that another block is necessary, possibly after another noticeboard discussion or 3 in which yet more editor time is spent, and (3) it takes time to clean up after the mistakes A1Cafel makes. This does not serve the purpose for which blocks are imposed: protecting the Commons from disruption.

Finally, I note that indefinite could well be shorter than a year in this case. If, as you suggested, A1Cafel's "life circumstances" change earlier, such that A1Cafel can commit to improvements in his editing, A1Cafel can (and if he wishes to, should) submit an unblock request. This would be equally true if I had imposed a one-year block. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 16:24, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

I agree with Chris.sherlock; there was no consensus to indef A1Cafel. Your idealistic view of indeffing is not possible in practice— indefinite functionally means permanent because of the catch-22 that a blocked user cannot improve their behavior, but must improve their behavior to get unblocked. I specifically opposed action against A1 in this context because the case presented was insufficient on its own merits; by blocking him on the basis of an overall behavior pattern you effectively subjected him to double jeopardy. Dronebogus (talk) 20:28, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

There was literally one person who called for an indefinite block, everyone else wanted lower block amounts. I personally wanted a year long block, others wanted 2 week blocks, some thought a month would be sufficient - consensus was building for progressive blocks. If you took the discussion into account, on what part of the commentary did you base your decision on? Would you be willing for me to ask on ANU for a review of your decision?

I respect your decisions as an admin overall, but disagree in this instance - I think you got it wrong. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 21:02, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

@Dronebogus and Chris.sherlock2: I'll try to reply to both of you at once.

Regarding the number of people calling for indef, there were 3: Stemoc, Strakhov, and Infrogmation. (And sort of RodRabelo7, who struck their support of an indef block because they believed (as do I) that A1Cafel should be able to "request unblocking after some time").

Regarding unblocks: perhaps other admins take an approach in reviewing unblock requests that results in the Catch-22 Dronebogus mentions, but I do not: I will unblock A1Cafel if he can, at any point, identify the reasons he was blocked, and for each reason, come up with one change he would make that would help address the problem--I don't think demonstrating a change in behavior is needed.

Here's an example of what I would find sufficient to unblock, from an old issue (which I did not consider when blocking, but which he could address, and is welcome to copy or modify, anyways): "Reason 1: I uploaded a lot of duplicate files. Reason 2: Then I nominated the old ones for deletion as duplicates of my new ones. Change 1: I will spot-check some files in each batch upload I do to try to prevent duplicate uploads. Change 2: If I do upload a duplicate by accident, I will open the history of both files, determine which one was old and which was new, and will mark only the new one for deletion.".

This is all to say: the bar for me granting an unblock request here is quite low. I will leave a note on A1Cafel's talk asking to be pinged before declining an unblock request (as COM:BP only requests consultation when granting): I think I can make sure that what Dronebogus described does not occur here.

Regarding the double jeopardy concerns: the incident prompting the discussion was indeed minor, probably worthy of a talk page note only. But it was just the straw that broke the camel's back. I did consider all of the past issues, but mostly just to the extent they were still happening: e.g. the duplicates were old, but the lack of communication was continuing. Perhaps this mitigates your concern, or perhaps not.

Regarding challenging my decision: of course, either or both of you are welcome to bring this to an appropriate forum for review. I'm actually not sure whether it would belong on COM:AN, COM:AN/BP, or COM:AN/UP, but you are welcome to bring it to any of them. I'd just ask that you coordinate enough that you don't post two separate requests at the same time. No need to notify/template me here, just a reply here or a ping is fine. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 02:35, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

HI ! why did U refused new name for Berthe Morisot's creations ? She was french, and she gave french titles ! please RESPECT what she does ! Léah 30 (talk) 12:09, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Léah 30. She did give French titles, but we only rename files in accordance with the file renaming guideline, which does not permit renames for this reason. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 14:37, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

really that's a shame ! artists need and deserve respect ! nobody can name La Joconde : " THE Joconde ! " If U try sure U receive so many askings to rename ! Léah 30 (talk) 15:20, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Honestly I concur with Léa here. I think that it is legitimate to have the French title, specially when there is a spelling mistake in the English title. It is very difficult to sort out artist's works when the file names do not match the work names. Yann (talk) 15:49, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

@Yann I only declined the rename for the file that is now named File:Morisot - Paysage aux environs de Valenciennes.jpg (previously File:Morisot - landscape-near-valenciennes.jpg); as far as I can tell that file was not misspelled. And I would agree that the new name is better; I just don't think it's covered by the criteria. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 16:49, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Valenciennes should have a capital V. Yann (talk) 17:41, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

@Yann Yes, but per COM:FRNOT, capitalization is not a reason to rename a file. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 17:44, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi, sometimes criteria has to diseapear when we MUST respect an artist ! The first mistake is, that the first persons who televerse the pictures gave a false title. I repet, nobody would dare to rename creations of famous artists just with translation of their titles ; but Morisot is a great painter ; and every artist deserve respect ; even if unknown. Léah 30 (talk) 18:15, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

I was write to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org that photography is released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. see https://www.xxvi.cz/index.php/pozvanky/basnik-bez-jmena

Ticket#: 2024051510003316

Thank you

Layne Layne (talk) 10:00, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Great, thank you! —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:02, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Why you're keeping duplicates with idiotic automated titles, uploaded by bot and deleted files with good titles uploaded by Commons users? Юрий Д.К 15:56, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Юрий Д.К.. I'm keeping the newer bot uploads instead of the older manual uploads because (1) the metadata of the bot uploads is somewhat better and (2) the image quality of the uploads is slightly better (originals vs Flickr compression). The titles appear the same, except for capitalization (for some files) and the use of the government ID instead of the Flickr ID. I of course make sure that the good work done in categorizing the older files is carried over to the new files. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 16:03, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Flickr does not compress files so the quality of bot/user uploads the same. However, I will rename these files, the names are idiotic. Юрий Д.К 16:10, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

@Юрий Д.К. Per the file renaming policy, I don't think renaming the files is appropriate. The identifier is fine, and indeed identifiers in this format being part of the filename is common. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 16:15, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Ok, I will left them, but I don't know what will happen with my uploads of US-Gov related files from Flickr if we've decided to delete Commmons user uploads, not bot uploads... Юрий Д.К 16:40, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

@Юрий Д.К., Can you provide links to 3 or more files as examples? Thanks, -- Ooligan (talk) 18:33, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Mdaniels5757, Can you provide information and link(s) regarding "Flickr compression."

@Юрий Д.К., Do you have any information that Flickr photos are not compressed?

Thanks, --Ooligan (talk) 18:37, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

I was wrong, the files were not compressed (the filesize was just different due to metadata differences). —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:19, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

There are some users on Commons who also upload their works to Flickr. I've uploaded some files by this users via Flickr2Commons (long time ago) and these files were exact (technically) duplicates on Commons. It means that the Flickr doesn't compress any fotos. Otherwise, these files would be technically different (they would have a different code) and it would make it much more difficult to find these "duplicates". Юрий Д.К 20:14, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

@Юрий Д.К.- Can you share some files to which you are referring? -- Ooligan (talk) 21:39, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

@Ooligan: Hi. File:Bison Herd grazing as a storm rolls in.jpg, File:Lone tree and snowy hills in Hayden Valley.jpg, File:Long shadows and weasel tracks near a lone tree.jpg. Юрий Д.К 07:11, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, Mdaniels5757. I thought that may have been incorrect. -- Ooligan (talk) 21:42, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

the time and date format needs changed 2600:6C54:7900:2C63:613B:3199:8B8D:5695 18:17, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't understand what you are asking about. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:04, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Hey, avoid renaming those flags too fast. Something strange is happening. For example [7]. RodRabelo7 (talk) 16:01, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

@RodRabelo7 Just noticed this; thanks for letting me know. Will do. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 16:02, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

...for moving that people of Tibet category. -- Auntof6 (talk) 19:08, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

@Auntof6 You're welcome! —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:32, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

this? Looks like malfunction to me. Poco a poco (talk) 21:18, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

@Poco a poco Looks like someone added a nonsense DR at 13:42 (Special:Diff/883401175), and then the bot notified you at 13:54. The deletion template was removed at 18:48, so you didn't have a chance to see it. As the bot was designed to allow only a 10-minute "grace period" (to allow for manual notification), this seems to be working as designed. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Ah, ok, understood, thank you for your quick response. Best regards,Poco a poco (talk) 08:04, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello Mdaniels5757, the bot is going bananas, like here. What to do? Cheers. Jeff G. suggested I talk to you. Thanks. Lotje (talk) 12:50, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

@Lotje It looks like people were been making more deletion nominations without notifying people than usual; none of the notifications I saw seem to have been wrong. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 17:03, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Mdaniels5757. Though I do not understand why this on my user talk page. I did not upload this file. Hence my worries. Cheers. Lotje (talk) 03:40, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

@Lotje Ah, that was because you created the redirect that was nominated for deletion, not the file. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:29, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

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—Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 16:37, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi Mdaniels, the bot seems to be stuck. It has stopped working since 6 days ago. 0x0a (talk) 17:53, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@0x0a Fixed. Thanks for letting me know. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:53, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

@Mdaniels5757 stuck again? Tehonk (talk) 21:40, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

@Mdaniels5757 Hi, will this bot work again? Tehonk (talk) 22:22, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

@Tehonk Fixed again. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 17:04, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mdaniels5757 thank you for the fix, it was indeed fixed but it seems it's broken again? Tehonk (talk) 01:46, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

@Tehonk Ugh. It should be fixed for good now? —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:59, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

It seems to be running intermittently with some 24 hour gaps, since its return on the 16th. At the time I'm writing this comment, the most recent notification served by the bot was 27h30m ago. Belbury (talk) 15:00, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

@Belbury Thanks for letting me know. This appears to have been due to a different issue: some sort of error parsing the recentchanges feed. A restart fixed it, but I'll try to keep an eye on it. Please be sure to let me know again if you notice any issues. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 17:27, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, will do. And thanks for running a very useful bot! Belbury (talk) 17:48, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mdaniels5757 It's stuck again. 0x0a (talk) 04:53, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@0x0a Thanks for letting me know. I restarted it, and made it so it will show some more debugging info so I can figure out why I need to keep restarting it! —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:49, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@Mdaniels5757 Just letting you know that the bot seems to be taking 24 hour breaks again, at the moment. No notifications posted to talk pages on the 21st, only one on the 23rd, and it's been silent for the past 29 hours. Belbury (talk) 19:22, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

@Belbury Thanks, restarted. Hopefully I can look into the cause this weekend. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 23:30, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Is it by design or oversight that the bot now only seems to be running from 5pm to 5am UTC each day? Belbury (talk) 09:56, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

I think that's a coincidence with when it happened to break; certainly there are no settings for that. I'm probably going to need to rewrite it eventually, but I just set up an w:en:anacron job to restart it daily. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:32, 10 July 2024 (UTC) (forgot ping: @Belbury: —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:33, 10 July 2024 (UTC))

Curious! Twelve hours is a long time to be skipping notifications about things which happen speedily - from my own timezone it means pretty much no uploaders are going to hear about the files I've marked manually. Would it be a silly question to suggest restarting the script twice daily? Belbury (talk) 16:44, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

@Belbury It definitely is not silly, but setting that up as a cronjob is a bit harder if it's running off of my laptop. So I implemented it into the program itself; we'll see how that works. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:18, 13 July 2024 (UTC)