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Undeletion of File:Marx Brothers Animal Crackers (1930).webm

Hello, now that the copyright is expired for File:Marx Brothers Animal Crackers (1930).webm, would you be able to undelete the file? We are set to use it at DYK on English Wikipedia in about 18 hours. Thank you! Darth Stabro (talk) 05:25, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

@Darth Stabro: Already done looks like Abzeronow did it about an hour after you wrote this, while I was still asleep. - Jmabel ! talk 17:05, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Sharing some Wiki-love

kaderloos

Your positive comments and helpful guiding of newsters sometimes makes me chuckle. :)

I wish you a great 2026 Joe, and do hope we'll meet again this year. Arnhem, Milan, Paris maybe...? I know the cemetery in Paris is worth exploring! Thanks for being you Joe. Ciell (talk) 22:02, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, Ciell, that is very kind. - Jmabel ! talk 22:04, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Your Most Memorable Shot Submission!

Hello Jmabel!

Camera1 mgx

Commons-Photographers User Group-logo-en

As we step into a new year, we’re happy to invite you to take part in “Your Most Memorable Shot 2025.”

Since 2018, photographers from across the Wikimedia community have come together at the beginning of each year to share the photographs that meant the most to them over the past twelve months. Now in its eighth iteration, this tradition continues to be a space for reflection, storytelling, and celebrating meaningful moments through photography.

Whether you are a member of the Commons Photographers User Group or not, you are warmly welcome to participate and invite others too. Every image carries a story, and your perspective helps enrich this collective showcase.

Whenever you’re ready, please select your most cherished photograph from 2025 and share it on the designated page.

The deadline for submissions is 28 February 2026, so we hope you’ll join us before then.

We look forward to discovering the moments that made your year memorable and to continuing this wonderful tradition together.

Warm regards, -- Suyash Dwivedi (💬) 22:36, 4 January 2026 (UTC) (CPUG)

No notification COM:ANI

Hello, on blatant cases, i.e. when a user has been given {{End of copyvios}} or has prior blocks for something and repeats the behaviour, I don't feel it's required to notify the user. The user will be notified by the admin who blocks them. I would have already tagged the user with {{File copyright status}} and {{End of copyvios}} which I think are sufficient notifications. I would only notify a user if I report them for something that isn't blatantly a blockable offence and where it is appropriate for the reported user to comment on the issue. I can't block the user myself, I have to report them first and then an admin can block them and notify them about the block. My notification would thus be redundant. An admin wouldn't first notify a user that ”I am going to block you” and then a new notification that ”I have now blocked your for /time/”, right? Jonteemil (talk) 01:44, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

@Jonteemil: I've seen more than a few cases where the person who reported something thought it was blatant, and it did not result in a block. There is never anything to lose by notifying. - Jmabel ! talk 01:46, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Of course, but I'm asking you to trust my judgement. I can't say for sure that it never has happened to me but, if so, very, very rarely. If there were a tool that would let me report a user and automatically also notify them that'd make it easier. As of now however, I have to manually enter their user talk page and notify them manually and since I am 100% sure they will be notified of a block before they even would have had time to read my COM:ANI notification, I don't bother to. Trust me that I would notify them if I'd think it wasn't blatant. Jonteemil (talk) 01:54, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Technical question about watchlists

Hi Jmabel, I'm contacting you because you seem to have the solution on how to exclude a specific tag (or word) from a watchlist. If it's technically possible, I don't find the field in my preferences. There is only an option "Muted Users" in the section "Notifications" and only on/off buttons in the section "Watchlist". I would appreciate very much if you could guide me. -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:12, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

@Basile Morin: It's not (or at least not necessarily) a permanent exclusion from your watchlist.

Assuming you are on a PC (I don't ever look at my watchlist on a phone), at the top of your watchlist is a list of active filters. Click on "Filter changes". Scroll to the bottom of that, click on "Tagged edits". Check the box(es) for whatever you don't want to see. - Jmabel ! talk 02:21, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

🙏Thank you very much, Jmabel. With your help I found the field and managed to add specific tags. (This part located in the section "View relevant changes" was not very intuitive to me). Have a nice day! -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:10, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Commons Photographers User Group: Board Elections 2026

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Please, have a look

...at the Requests page for the "Request an FBI image..." entry there, new as of this timestamp. We know that you are active at that page. With kind regard, ~2026-86110-3 (talk) 16:14, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

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Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been nominated for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Royal Palace, Bucharest This is a deletion request for the community to discuss whether the nominated contents should be kept or deleted. Please voice your opinion in the linked request above. Thank you very much! If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, 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!

Affected:

• File:Bucharest - Palace before dawn 01.jpg

And also:

• File:Bucharest Palace 1.jpg

Yours sincerely, A1Cafel (talk) 03:37, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

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Little extra help with wikidata

Hi there! You were nice enough to make a starting point for Category:Martadoris for me a couple days ago. I've been stubbornly experimenting for the past couple hours, and seem to have discovered the answers to almost all my confusions in the process. One continues to evade me though, and it's getting the relevant wikidata page to associate with the relevant category page. Thankfully, I have an example now.

I am running into this issue with my new Category:Martadoris amakusana. Note, I did a page move from Category:Tambja amakusana (it's my understanding one should always move rather than delete in cases like these). You might notice that M. amakusana category still displays the speciesbox from Tambja amakusana (Q14448995). This is because, as God is my witness, I've been unable to figure out how to break that association, and reassociate it with Martadoris amakusana (Q61701099).

I've been able to get lots of answer from comparing and contrasting edits you've made with pages I'm studying. I think where I might be messing up is relevant to the edit you linked here, though I'm not positive so don't let you throw you off if the answer to that issue is in the opposite direction.

Thank you muchly for your patience, and apologies if this answer is obvious. With any luck I'll have an epiphany before you reply. Snapplejackalope (talk) 19:57, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

@Snapplejackalope: Yes, moving a category (rather than deleting and making a new one) is almost always correct, and the exceptions are very much edge cases.

Is ~2026-13059-29 also you, or is it someone else?

Looks like you just ran into a caching problem. When I added ?action=purge to the end of the URL of Category:Martadoris amakusana and said "OK" to purging, it all settled out, at least as far as I can tell. - Jmabel ! talk 03:22, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

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The Beatles Abbey Road album cover

Hi, I have noticed that you have a copy of this album. It would be great if your could scan it, the current copy is not that good. Thanks in advance, Yann (talk) 13:17, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

@Yann: It would be a matter of photographing rather than scanning; I don't have a decent scanner.

Not sure if my copy is in good enough shape to be the best for this (it's over 50 years old), but if it is, I will. - Jmabel ! talk 16:40, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

@Yann: I checked it: it's not, it shows quite a bit of wear and there is a small sticker at upper right of the front cover. - Jmabel ! talk 04:04, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

PS; Could you please archive your talk page, it is quite long. Thanks, Yann (talk) 13:17, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Sure. - Jmabel ! talk 16:40, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Deletion notification

I see that you talked to Helios Domínguez on Commons:Help desk; you may wish to see Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Helios Domínguez. Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 02:22, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been nominated for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Doug Flag This is a deletion request for the community to discuss whether the nominated contents should be kept or deleted. Please voice your opinion in the linked request above. Thank you very much! If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have 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 them, 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!

Affected:

• File:2015 Fremont Solstice parade - Cascadia 01 (19310236282).jpg

And also:

• File:2015 Fremont Solstice parade - Cascadia 04 (18695948883).jpg

Yours sincerely, – Howardcorn33 (💬) 23:27, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you

I'm grateful for your input and for sticking with defining the problem. We can then deicide what to do and with what priority, if anything is to be done. I am not opening any further DRs in this matter unless and until consensus suggests that is the route forwards. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 00:09, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. - Jmabel ! talk 00:12, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

I hope you do not see this as our opposing each other in even slightest manner. I believe we are in broad agreement, with a difference of opinion only in the initial method of creating a solution. I will be bound by consensus, and willingly.

I believe we do need a solution to this single user issue that is easy to implement and usable for other users, assuming there are any, who upload in bulk uncritically. I suspect that solution ought to be under administrator control, not user control. That means it must be repeatable and not arduous. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 09:10, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Please will you consider also some form of preventative filtering process to seek to avoid a situation like this in the future. Even framing this is above my IT competence. I cant quite state in clear language what the filtration should be. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 09:14, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

@Timtrent: Don't worry, I've got nothing against you, just was concerned that you were heading rapidly in a wrong direction, sort of a "Ready, fire, aim."

As for the larger picture, I'm not sure there is a lot narrowly technical that will help. One mass upload like that at a time can be fine, as long as the person curates rapidly after the upload. It's a little surprising that no one doing new page patrol saw a bad pattern here earlier, but apparently that approach won't consistently find this. We probably need some thresholds like who is uploading more than, say, 1000 files per day over a period of 3 days or more and make sure their work is at least assessed, even if we don't set up a special right for that. Conversely, some of the hard-coded thresholds that some people were proposing were way too low: I'm not a particularly prolific uploader (3000 to 4000 files per year on average, I believe) and there have been days I've exceeded some of the proposed one-day thresholds because I had curated files on my own Flickr account, then brought them over in bulk.

Another thing we might do is just lay out best practices for bulk uploads. For example, some of our bot-based uploaders set up much better apparatus for reviewing their uploads than others do.

Also: we've had similar problems (on a smaller scale) even from very good uploaders. Fæ was an excellent contributor in most respects, and he did follow most of our best practices, but anyone who uploads over 6 million files in a little over a decade is going to make some mistakes. Normally, if someone has a 1% error rate, it's no big deal; here, a 1% error rate would mean 60,000 files. 5 years after his retirement from Commons, we are still finding stuff, but I think it was still a clear net positive. - Jmabel ! talk 14:46, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

I was 95% sure you were being advisory rather than thinking you were concerned about any lack of collegiality. Thank you for confirming that.

I feel we might need to reach a consensus, with a general discussion int he correct forum, first for broad rate limit gates, even if they will prove annoying, and then migrate those to better tech solutions, perhaps query based. I'm still struggling to frame events simplest of these.

One might be

If the file name is generic, then create a warning message to the uploader and create an immediate DR with an end date as an exception 14 days to allow modification of the generic filename

This effectively enforces curation.

If now or in the future we are ally to deploy "AI" file content matching then that allow the same style of action to be taken.

Things along these lines will remove the need for limit Gayegate (0.9 probability)

I feel it to be important to encourage excellent behaviour rather than appear to be punitive over goodwill well intentioned silly errors. With the vast volume of files uploaded a new page patroller is currently facing an almost unworkable burden. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 16:07, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

I just read "Ready, Fire, Aim" - Way back when I was a student I used to drive a large box van, a little larger that UPS domestic delivery route vans. It had sufficient bulk to make Signal, Manoeuvre, Mirror the order of the day! 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 16:10, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

@Timtrent: the need for limit Gaye?? - Jmabel ! talk 16:26, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

I have minor issues with fine motor skills currently. Autocarrot translated my typo of 'gate' to'Gaye'. I will correct it. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 16:52, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

No

Daedrich Tucker here I don't know what stock photo you are referring too but I never uploaded any stock photo to Wikipedia and your attitude will absolutely never ever happen again! I will not be seeing your replies or messages to this post as I will be logging out of this account forever, so waste your time replying if you want too! Daedrich JJ flfmjg (talk) 14:46, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

• For the record, I have literally no idea what this message refers to, and do not remember ever interacting with this user; since the person who sent it did not wait for a reply, I guess I never will. - Jmabel ! talk 15:43, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
• Ha! went and looked, they have literally no contributions prior to this message complaining about my purported interaction with them! - Jmabel ! talk 15:45, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

  Just in case you’re losing sleep over this ;) I bet it refers to a question you asked a couple of months earlier at UDR.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 06:59, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

  • @Odysseus1479: as I'm sure you can imagine, I hadn't given it another moment's thought, but it's pretty funny that he came in on a different account apparently expecting I'd remember a minor interaction from 2 months earlier. I have more I could say, but none of it would be kind. - Jmabel ! talk 14:42, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Please, close deletion request

Please, close Commons:Deletion requests/File:Musical instruments used in Strauss's Second Waltz.webm. Of course, I could add {{Delh}} and {{Delf}} myself, but for the latter there is, though optional, some additional content preferred (result and comment, cf. template doc), and I think it would be better you as deleting admin adding these (at least the result, I assume). — Speravir – 22:27, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. — Speravir – 23:07, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Please close two unblock requests

Hi, Jmabel. I am the main worker in unblock requests. But here are two cases, where I feel myself kind of involved and I do not want to close them. Nobody else has done it neither.

• Taylor 49 Please close the request on formal reason: the block is already expired.
• Osps7 The user bombs me with e-mails and writes me in meta and Estonian Vikipeedia and begs unblock. Please grant or decline the request in any way you like, main thing is that it must be closed, I don't care how. Taivo (talk) 20:57, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

@Taivo: done. - Jmabel ! talk 21:40, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

Question

Hello, I haven't followed the latest discussions, so I'm not sure. According to COM:AIP, are notable primary sources sufficient to justify the upload? I'm referring specifically to https://x.com/IraninSA/status/2041216153431802295. Also, does COM:INUSE take precedence over COM:AIP? Yacàwotçã (talk) 20:30, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

@Yacàwotçã: All of this is being argued out at the moment, with no clear outcome, though there seems to be a pretty strong consensus against AI representations of living people if they have not published the image themselves, and pretty clearly Donald Trump has not published this image). Might make an interesting test case at Commons talk:AI images of identifiable people: it is clearly essentially a political cartoon, that would normally be in scope, but happens to have been drawn using AI. - Jmabel ! talk 20:38, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

You have mail

Hi Jmabel, please check your emails, when you can. I need to discuss something confidential relating to a past thing. LuvsMG481 (talk) 17:55, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Please, you have to allow people more than a minute or two to deal with something. - Jmabel ! talk 18:10, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

That's cool. But I thought usually the practice was you send an email and put a dedicated template to say "you got mail"? I didnt expect you to check in a hurry lol... i'm sorry if i gave off the wrong impression. LuvsMG481 (talk) 18:14, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

@LuvsMG481: When you send mail, there is an automatic notification to the recipient. You don't need to add another. - Jmabel ! talk 18:19, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Ok thank you. I'm sorry, but with enwiki they usually encourage users to give a templated notification. LuvsMG481 (talk) 18:25, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Lombardy IP vandal

Hi @Jmabel. Sorry to disturb you but as you blocked Special:Contributions/~2026-21656-63 I would like to report you also these IP Special:Contributions/~2026-21266-61 and Special:Contributions/31.190.228.70. Is it possible to make a mass revert? It's already a couple of year, if not more, that this IP Lombardy's lover is adding wrong categories in a massive way. Is it possible to do something? Thank you in advance. MrKeefeJohn (talk) 20:34, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@MrKeefeJohn: please bring these things to the appropriate Administrators' noticeboard, not to me personally. Among other things, it is almost invisible if handled privately. - Jmabel ! talk 21:59, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Thank you for your answer. Some months ago I wrote in the place you told me but I didn't get answer. I'll try again. MrKeefeJohn (talk) 06:10, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

User:Milan Szymon Szulc

Hi - just wanted to drop by and get some advice regarding what Milan Szymon Szulc has been doing. Ever since I opened that ANU notice he has continued to bother Verdy p about the same Unicode files, as well as various other users. I'm not quite sure if this warrants another notice, so I just wanted to ask you first. Thanks! applecuckoo (he/him) 21:06, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@Applecuckoo: Feel absolutely free to warn him again, and also to move or copy the section from the AN/U archive, point out that it was never resolved and that the problem is ongoing. Also, in the future, if you make a report like this and it has drawn no comment after ~4 days, it's fine to add a statement to that effect so it won't "fall off the board" like it did.

I usually go through AN/U periodically looking for things that got no timely attention, but I obviously missed this one. - Jmabel ! talk 21:23, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

For your information, that same user has the same behavior on Glyphwiki with their local users (including me). While I do not refuse his requests, the fact that this is done by sending imperative orders, as if they were "urgent", and repeatedly, is very annoying, this is not help at all, I know what is missing and what has to be done, but I want to keep my work schedule as much as possible, without having to digress on other works that he does not do himself. I have done things partailyl, but the amount of work he requests is far too high; and he insists when I do not reply him in the next few hours. Glyphwiki is very near from blocking him for what could be considered as harassment. I have made a few things he asked for, but if I'm busy on something else, I don't want to interrupt it just when nad as he wants. That user is using multiple sockpuppet accounts on this wiki (I cant't confirm, I am not an IP-user admin, but his language is easily recognizable and follows the same pattern, and some of his accounts are questioned on other wikimedia wikis; he is apparently Polish and does not know English very well, I would prefer if he just wrote in Polish or a language he really knows, even if I have to use some online translators, rather than trying to use English in a way that is very ambiguous/confusive). verdy_p (talk) 19:43, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

@Verdy p - just for your information I have reinstated the COM:ANU topic for him at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems#Milan Szymon Szulc. applecuckoo (he/him) 20:55, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Incomplete CfD closures

Hello, you closed Commons:Categories for discussion/2026/04/Category:American Water Landmark but did not remove the CfD notice from Category:American Water Landmarks. I noticed you closed another CfD earlier but did not remove the notice from affected categories but thought maybe it was because you closed it before noticing how many categories were affected and postponed it because of the work required if one removes the notice manually or didn't see which categories were all affected and just removed it from one/some but not all. However, in this case, it's just one affected category.
By the way, regarding CfD closures I think CfDs with no disagreements are good to handle differently than those with disagreements in them where those of the former type can be closed earlier. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:11, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Once the CfD decision is made, anyone can implement it. I follow up on others' pretty often. But I'll go back and deal with this one.

Even with no disagreements, I try to keep it open a week, because disagreement might come from someone who is not on Commons daily.

If you tell me what in particular you mean by "another CfD", I'll follow through, but I'm not going to go through all of my edits to find it (and it's OK, if you don't either). - Jmabel ! talk 16:43, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Regarding disagreements that was more about keeping things open if there are disagreements rather than closing early than about closing early where possible – and I wasn't suggesting you were doing either. The other CfD I was referring to is the one mentioned as one of the top CfDs by number of affected categories here. Prototyperspective (talk) 17:50, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

@Prototyperspective: Commons:Categories for discussion/2023/02/Category:Rendered names of countries? I commented on that, but not particularly in my role as an admin. It has not been closed. Or did you mean something else? - Jmabel ! talk 18:23, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

No, the one that has ""closed" but not actually closed" next to it, University and college yearbooks. Prototyperspective (talk) 18:28, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

@Prototyperspective: As I said above, once the CfD decision is made, anyone can implement it. Are you saying that you want me personally to remove all of these notices and place a "kept" notice on the user talk page? - Jmabel ! talk 21:27, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

I think CfD closing includes doing the actions required to close it if any such are needed. I think for many cases of CfDs, the reason why they haven't been closed is that some work is required. That's part of the the CfDs; it's not just about the decisions in regards to what should be done and having these CfDs be open means they can be found by people who can or are interested in finishing these backlog things. In this case, removing the notices is part of the CfD-closure. I don't think any 'keep' notice is needed anywhere in this case since the subject was renaming, not deletion. For cases where deletion was proposed it may be good to have that notice on the talk page but afaik it's not necessary. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:34, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Done. But it sure makes me see why almost no one wants to close CfDs affecting a large number of categories. - Jmabel ! talk 22:53, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! As mentioned in the thread I linked there's tools for doing this. Maybe instructions on how to use these for closure could be added by somebody; I can't test/do use these myself currently. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:55, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

I did it with AWB (which I rarely use) but it is still a pain in the butt. I wish VFC would work on categories, it is much simpler. - Jmabel ! talk 23:07, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

I wished so too and had asked about it here and here. I found and tried wAWB (the edit just wasn't implemented) and I think it suffices for what I'd use it for and has a neat UI; maybe you find it better to use (probably not that much of a difference to AWB though). Prototyperspective (talk) 23:12, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

File:Olympic Sculpture Park 03.jpg

File:Olympic Sculpture Park 03.jpg has been nominated for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Olympic Sculpture Park 03.jpg This is a deletion request for the community to discuss whether the nominated page should be kept or deleted. Please voice your opinion in the linked request above. Thank you very much! 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!

A1Cafel (talk) 03:09, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

Milan Szymon Szulc

Great job, you blocked this user! All that’s left is add “cannot edit own talk page” on this user’s block log. ~2026-22870-42 (talk) 16:15, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Also, the reason is this user wanted to begging to unblock on their talk page. ~2026-22870-42 (talk) 16:20, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

• @2026-22870-42: Please don't tell me how to do my job. That is exactly what this user was blocked for. - Jmabel ! talk 16:50, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Rotation

Are there any requirements to rotate a file? I was confused as I was not able to revert the rotation but another editor managed to do it, [1]. PieWriter (talk) 12:16, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

@PieWriter: Not sure what you mean by "requirements to rotate a file". Anyone can request a rotation; anyone who is allowed to overwrite the file can do it, or a bot can. - Jmabel ! talk 17:25, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

I meant how to revert a rotation by the bot. PieWriter (talk) 23:33, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

@PieWriter: The answer is more or less identical, though it is best done by reverting rather than by a second rotation in the opposite direction (so better done by a human than by a bot).

Do you have Overwrite rights (typically granted as part of Autopatrol)? - Jmabel ! talk 23:39, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

No, I don’t think so. PieWriter (talk) 23:40, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

@PieWriter: Then that is why you cannot overwrite any files except your own uploads. - Jmabel ! talk 23:53, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Oh, Okay PieWriter (talk) 23:55, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

You may be an eligible candidate for the U4C election

Greetings,

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) seeks candidates for the 2026 election. The U4C is the global committee responsible for overseeing enforcement of the Universal Code of Conduct. Elections are held annually, if elected a committee member serves for two years.

This year the U4C requires candidates to hold administrator rights on at least one wiki, which is why you are being contacted as you appear to hold this right. There are other requirements, such as candidates must be at least 18 years old and may not be employed by the Wikimedia Foundation or other related chapters and affiliates. You can find more information in the call for candidates on Meta-wiki. Additionally, the committee's working language is English; some ability to communicate in English is required.

The election opens on 18 May, if you are eligible and interested you have until 10 May to submit your candidacy. There will week between for candidates to answer questions from the community. Voting takes place privately in SecurePoll, successful candidates must receive at least 60% support. More information is available on the 2026 Elections page, including timelines and other candidacy information. If you read over the material and consider yourself qualified, please consider submitting your name to run for the committee. If you think someone else in your community might be interested and qualified, please encourage them to run.

In partnership with the U4C -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:30, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

I'm too busy with other stuff to even consider this. - Jmabel ! talk 19:05, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

File:Seattle's first Potlatch, September 14, 1883 - DPLA - c93f1322f07309747e7d0b71b5505be7.jpg

You seem to have introduced a syntax error. Could you please fix it? Leyo 13:35, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

@Leyo: Done. - Jmabel ! talk 14:45, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. Category:Pages using Artwork template with incorrect parameter is now almost empty. :-) --Leyo 15:37, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Restorer

Hi again. Sometime back, when you were replying about your troubles reverting a particularly troublesome youtube spammer on a noticeboard we frequent, I mentioned a "restore" link that you mentioned you didn't have. Mine comes from en:User:BrandonXLF/Restorer.js with documentation at en:User:BrandonXLF/Restorer. I installed it 4+ years ago in m:special:diff/22236768 and have had no issues with it, other than that the restored edit must have been already viewed by the user (you may do that by viewing any more recent edit or the current version).   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 19:02, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: thanks, I'll try it. - Jmabel ! talk 19:20, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

You're welcome.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 21:12, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Keeping this logged out for the sake of privacy

Hi Jmabel! I have a guy down in Bamako, Mali who have agreed to share the photographs and videos he have taken with Commons under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. He asked me if i had any requests of specific places, locations, people or things for him to photograph or film. Because of that i am open to suggestions from the Wikimedia community

--~2026-26740-48 (talk) 20:53, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

It looks like https://wikishootme.toolforge.org has a lot of requests for that area: https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/#lat=12.621887791421686&lng=-8.018989562988283&zoom=12 - Jmabel ! talk 21:08, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

What about w:2026 Mali offensives? Any photos i could get that would fit the article? --~2026-26784-74 (talk) 21:22, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

If someone is in a position to get relevant photos without putting themselves in harm's way, sure, but I have no suggestions.

I know little enough about Mali that I am not one of the more likely people to have ideas. You might look in at en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Mali or its talk page. - Jmabel ! talk 23:56, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Löschabsicht

Hallo Jmabel, zu der Absicht, mein Foto eines Gemäldes der Malerin Beate Heinen zu löschen, habe ich mehrmals erklärt, dass ich die Freigabeerklärung der Künstlerin am 1. Mai 2026 an Wikimedia permissions schickte. Ich erhielt eine automatische Antwort mit der Bitte um Geduld, weil die E-Mails von Ehrenamtlichen bearbeitet würden. Aber das scheint nicht zu genügen. Andererseits haben wir Hunderte, wenn nicht gar Tausende Fotos moderner Kunstwerke ohne Genehmigung in den Commons, gegen die niemand etwas einzuwenden hat. Die Jagd auf von mir hochgeladene Bilder macht allmählich keinen Spaß mehr. Freundliche Grüße Spurzem (talk) 20:40, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

@Spurzem: Ich nehme an, dein Englisch ist besser als mein Deutsch. Falls nicht, sag mir Bescheid, dann versuche ich es zu übersetzen.

You failed to mark the file page with "permission pending", as is required in this case: Template:Permission pending, inserted by using {{subst:PP}}. This is explained at COM:VRT#If you are NOT the copyright holder and in German at COM:VRT/de#Wenn Sie NICHT der Copyright-Besitzer sind. Given that you did not do the required process, what followed should be no surprise.

There is no point further discussing this on my user talk page, discuss it in the linked DR (Commons:Deletion requests/File:Gemälde von Beate Heinen in Urmitz-Bhf. (2020-06-23 Sp 4).JPG). The whole point of my creating a formal DR was to head off the speedy deletion that was under way and give you a place to discuss this. Would it be alright with you if I link this exchange from that location? - Jmabel ! talk 21:04, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

In Ordnung. Noch mal viele Grüße -- Spurzem (talk) 09:20, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Renaming U.S. presidential election county maps

Hi Joe, I started a topic in File talk:Alabama Presidential Election Results 2024.svg last month proposing a new standardized naming scheme for U.S. presidential election county maps. All users who participated in that discussion showed either indifference or support for adopting my proposed naming scheme for U.S. presidential election county maps. My reasoning for changing the names of these maps is outlined in the topic in the talk page I linked above and includes the fact that these files have very ambiguous names compared to other county maps for elections. Am I allowed to request to rename U.S. presidential election county maps using the scheme I proposed? Thomascampbell123 (talk) 00:31, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: (sorry if the following is a little bit scattershot.) I would lean much more heavily to the principle that we do not generally adopt and enforce naming schemes, and certainly "file talk" for an individual file is no place to form a meaningful consensus for one. Commons places a rather strong value on filename stability, far more than on uniform naming schemes. You are, of course, welcome to have a naming scheme for your own uploads, but not generally to rename others' to match your preferences.

I can think of a few areas where there is an imposed pattern of filenames (e.g. the tiles used in making route diagrams) but there it is mainly because there is a whole system of templates that depends on filenames fitting a particular schema. I have some ideas how a comparable consensus could be formed; let me start with a question: is there a WikiProject of people who do election maps? - Jmabel ! talk 00:48, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Yes, I think the WikiProject you're asking about is en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 00:54, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: Great! Too bad it is not a project on Commons, but that still might work. I'd say that the talk page of that would be a good place to start a discussion (probably with an initial apology about the cross-wiki aspect, and explaining that there simply is no analogous group on Commons). For the users whose uploads are likely to be affected, ping them there and notify them on their Commons' talk page. Assuming at least a few people support your proposal, and no one actively dissents, I think that would be a basis that could be called a consensus. It would certainly be best if each affected party would explicitly request that their own files be renamed according to the scheme, because there is usually a lot more willingness to grant a renaming request when the uploader is the one who requests it. I would worry less about users who are no longer active: if the active users all agree to a naming scheme, I think it would be fine to complete the pattern.

Feel more than free to link this discussion. - Jmabel ! talk 01:03, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Okay. I already outlined the naming scheme I prefer on the file talk page I linked above. Should I just copy the topic I started on File talk:Alabama Presidential Election Results 2024.svg and paste it on en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums without replies? Thomascampbell123 (talk) 19:28, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: I'd copy-paste the whole discussion, with an indication of where it was moved from. You might have to adjust some links to be on a different wiki (I haven't looked at the specifics of this discussion). Have a look at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems#Possible copyright violations by User:Depuyjeremias for an example of how to mark when doing this. You should also indicate the move at the bottom of the original discussion. - Jmabel ! talk 19:35, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

I moved the entire discussion from File talk:Alabama Presidential Election Results 2024.svg to en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums and one user has already replied to the new discussion expressing support for my proposal. Do you now want me to notify all users I pinged in the new discussion on their talk pages apart from the ones that have already replied? Thomascampbell123 (talk) 20:07, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: It couldn't hurt. The clearer the consensus, the less likely that anyone (a) gets angry when their file name is changed (b) disputes the whole process. - Jmabel ! talk 20:12, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Alright, I notified all but two of the users who I pinged but haven't yet replied to my discussion on en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums on their Commons talk pages. One of the users I didn't notify has been blocked indefinitely for sockpuppetry and the other appears to have not uploaded any versions of the files that are subject to my discussion. Is there anything else you want me to do now or should I just wait for more replies? Thomascampbell123 (talk) 20:57, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: That's about it. And, assuming you get consensus, then (1) it should be very straightforward to rename the files that came from the people who actively consented and (2) once that is done, you have something strong to bring to COM:VPP and ask for community consent to apply this to what remains. - Jmabel ! talk 21:01, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Hey, it's now been over a month since I moved my discussion about renaming U.S. presidential election county map files to en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums and two users expressed support for my proposal on that talk page. Should I now bring my proposal to COM:VPP? Thomascampbell123 (talk) 18:16, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: are the users who agreed people whose own uploads would be affected? - Jmabel ! talk 18:20, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

One of the users who agreed while the discussion was in File talk:Alabama Presidential Election Results 2024.svg was the original uploader of some files that would be affected. A lot of the files that would be affected were originally uploaded by User:TylerKutschbach, who has been blocked indefinitely for over three years, which prevents me from getting input from that user. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 18:33, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: I wouldn't worry too much about the blocked user. I'd say we should start by getting User:AveryTheComrade's in line with your standard, since that could be done under rename criterion 1. Do the name changes for his fit a readily described pattern? If so, and if you can describe that pattern, I can do this pretty readily.

You may have more of a sticking point with Orca who pretty much said (I paraphrase here) "You can rename my files, but I still won't do uploads according to the new pattern."- Jmabel ! talk 18:43, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

The name changes do fit a readily described pattern. They go (year) United States presidential election in (state) results map by county (e.g. 2024 United States presidential election in Alabama results map by county). There would be some variance between states since some states do not have counties and have parishes, boroughs, census areas, or independent cities instead. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 19:01, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

I don't really understand why I'm being involved in this given I haven't uploaded a relevant file in over two years, please do whatever you'd like with their names. I'd also like to stop being pinged if the people who are involved here could. AveryTheComrade (talk) 21:56, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: If I'm going to do this, I need more than an assertion that a pattern exists. You need to tell me "files with this form of name need to be changed to that form of name", e.g. File:STATE Presidential Election Results YEAR.svg needs to be changed to something in particular; if there are different patterns for different states, I need a list of which states use which pattern, etc. - Jmabel ! talk 19:11, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Okay, I will give you more of an assertion that a pattern exists. File:Alabama Presidential Election Results 2024.svg need to be changed to File:2024 United States presidential election in Alabama results map by county.svg and all other svg Alabama presidential election county maps need to have their names changed following that same pattern. This same pattern also needs to be used for svg presidential election county maps for Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. File:Alaska Presidential Election Results 2024.svg needs to be changed to File:2024 United States presidential election in Alaska results map by borough and census area.svg and all other svg Alaska presidential election borough and census area maps need to have their names changed following that same pattern. File:Louisiana Presidential Election Results 2024.svg needs to be changed to File:2024 United States presidential election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg and all other svg Louisiana presidential election parish maps need to have their names changed following that same pattern. File:Virginia Presidential Election Results 2024.svg needs to be changed to File:2024 United States presidential election in Virginia results map by county and independent city.svg and all other svg Virginia presidential election county and independent city maps need to have their names changed following that same pattern. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 19:33, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

I see only five uploads by User:AveryTheComrade that fit anything like this naming pattern:

• File:Washington Presidential Election Results 2020.svg
• File:Arizona Presidential Election Results 2020.svg
• File:North Carolina Presidential Election Results 2020.svg
• File:District of Columbia Presidential Election Results by Ward, 2020.svg
• File:Nevada Presidential Election Results 2020.svg

Am I missing something? - Jmabel ! talk 20:02, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

You are not missing something. User:Elli, who was the original uploader of File:Maine Presidential Election Results 2020.svg and File:Wyoming Presidential Election Results 2020.svg, expressed support for my proposal at en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/Archive 31#Presidential election county map names. As I said earlier, a large number of these files were originally uploaded by TylerKutschbach, who is blocked. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 20:21, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: Sorry, from the way you had worded this above I presumed that User:AveryTheComrade had uploaded a significant number of the relevant files. So for the D.C. one, do you want File:2020 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia results map by ward.svg or something else? - Jmabel ! talk 20:26, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Sure, File:2020 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia results map by ward.svg works. That seems like a satisfactory naming pattern for other svg District of Columbia presidential election ward maps as well. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 20:31, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: I've done those five. The old names are now redirects. Before I take on anything else, please verify that everything is as you'd want it (including how these are now included in other wikis). - Jmabel ! talk 20:40, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Everything is as I'd want it. Thank you. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 21:01, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Just a bit of a nitpick, I'd still have Virginia just be "by county". Broadly support this effort though (as I've tried to do for other US elections). While generally we prioritize name stability here consistency is much more important for this sort of election map (which are meant to have a consistent style). The prior system (where maps were named in an uncoordinated manner) was pretty awful if you wanted to see if a map for a particular election existed (to avoid duplicated work). Elli (talk) 20:33, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: Any objection to that?

@Elli: do I take it that this is consent for your upload of this type also to be moved to the new naming pattern? - Jmabel ! talk 20:40, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Jmabel I do not object to that. U.S. Senate and gubernatorial election county and independent city maps for Virginia already say "by county" so I'm okay with that naming pattern for Virginia presidential election county and independent city maps since it's consistent. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 20:44, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Jmabel yes. Also just gonna note that Commons:WikiProject Elections and Referendums does exist (tho not super active) and I've documented some of the work I did towards naming consistency in the past at Commons:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/USA election map naming conventions (we should probably list presidential stuff by state there too). Elli (talk) 20:49, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: I took the liberty of doing Special:Diff/1229541583, which I think adds clarity.

Is there anyone who objected to having their files renamed? If not, then I think I'm willing to short-circuit this a bit and go straight to general renaming. - Jmabel ! talk 22:45, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

There is not anyone who objected to having their files renamed. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 22:55, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: I've done Alabama. It proved much more tedious than I thought for a variety of reasons; one of those is that there is no one category that contains all of the relevant maps, so MassRename is of limited use. (Another is that MassRename is subject to timing out and stopping, and another is that I made some stupid blunders, all of which I've now fixed.) Please check my work there.

It looks to me like Template:AL presidential election maps SVG was never entirely good, and now it is probably even less so; even at best, it is referring to a bunch of redirects. I leave that one to you to fix.

I imagine I could work this through similarly for all the other states, but it's really tedious. If there is any chance that someone with a bot could take it from here, I'd sure prefer that. - Jmabel ! talk 01:15, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

I can request to rename U.S. presidential election county map files for others states than Alabama using criterion 4 to take the the burden off you if you're okay with that. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 17:23, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: I'm all for that, probably at Commons:Bots/Work requests. I'll do this same semi-automated approach (like I just did) for the outlying cases of Louisiana and D.C., so the request is simpler. Also, you may want to look into the various related templates and see what you can accomplish with them, that shouldn't require admin or bot approaches. - Jmabel ! talk 17:47, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

D.C. done. If others have as much variation of prior names as that one did, a bot will have trouble finding the correct files based solely on the names. You may need to go through and use VFC or Cat-a-lot to add a maintenance category to the files you want moved so that the bot doesn't have to be smart enough to identify them. - Jmabel ! talk 18:29, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

I would prefer requesting to rename each file individually since there really aren't that many of them if that would be okay with you. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 18:37, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

You are asking filemovers to do something even more time-consuming than what I'm doing. Because so many wikis link to these, it's about one minute per file, and if they do them individually that is a manual task for each file. There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000-2000 files to move, so you are asking for about 15-30 hours of filemover time. - Jmabel ! talk 18:49, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Can you please turn me into a filemover temporarily so that I can complete this task? I can probably finish this task on my own pretty quickly since I'm very familiar with these types of files and which wikis they are used on. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 18:55, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: Will you agree to confine your file moves narrowly to this one task, and to tag them with COM:FR criterion 4 Commons:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/USA election map naming conventions so it is clear what you are doing? And to make sure that one way or another you deal with all of the issues this creates in terms of getting other wikis to point to the new files (which, unless I'm mistaken, for a non-admin means putting requests in at User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands? - Jmabel ! talk 19:11, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

I do agree to confine my file moves narrowly to this one task and to tag them with the tags you linked above so it is clear what I am doing. I will also make sure to get other wikis to point to the new files if I'm temporarily granted this user right. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 19:24, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: filemover granted for 3 months. - Jmabel ! talk 21:05, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! I just moved the 2024 Alaska map and left behind a redirect. This led to every other wiki that used that file immediately pointing to the new file. It doesn't look like I'm going to have to use User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands to replace old names with new ones on other wikis even though I'm not an administrator because that appears to be automated. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 21:30, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123: guess I've been an admin so long I don't know some of the non-admin behaviors. So does it overtly offer "Move and replace" for you (which is the effect you are describing)? - Jmabel ! talk 02:40, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

It overtly offers "Try to replace usage immediately using your user account" for me. That process is automated and involves my global account being used on others wikis to replace the names of the files I renamed (see here for an example of what I'm talking about on ko-wiki). Thomascampbell123 (talk) 17:58, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

@Jmabel Can you please delete File:2024 United States presidential election in Arizona results map by county.svg? That link is a redirect to the Alabama file and I need that name for the Arizona file (currently named File:Arizona Presidential Election Results 2024.svg). Thomascampbell123 (talk) 22:02, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

@Thomascampbell123:  Done. - Jmabel ! talk 22:14, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Louisiana done. - Jmabel ! talk 19:11, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#IBAN

You probably need to update something at COM:Editing restrictions, don't you? I'm afraid of messing things up Yacàwotçã (talk) 01:29, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

@Yacàwotçã:  Done, I hadn't realized it was that formalized. - Jmabel ! talk 01:50, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

UnniMan

Hi Jmabel. Regarding this, the user is also making massive transfers of stable categories. Some transfers may be justified, while others I'm not so sure about. The fact is, he hasn't justified them, nor has he opened any discussion.

Some time ago he was already warned on the Spanish Wikipedia not to continue with this unilateral practice. But, on the other hand, I must say that I don't like it when things are done on Commons as if they were derived from the Spanish Wikipedia. The transfers I pointed out follow that logic, even though other projects haven't followed it (see the English Wikipedia or the French Wikipedia). As I said, there are some cases where I don't see the transfer as justified.

For example, this series of locomotives is no longer in use, and its historical name remains the most common designation (also on the French Wikipedia). This is somewhat like if the provinces of the Roman Empire in Iberia had been transferred to the category of provinces of Spain. CFA1877 (talk) 16:13, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@CFA1877: As mentioned at the top of this page, I'm currently traveling. I do plan to try to spend much of tomorrow on Commons, but my availability is pretty limited in the next couple of weeks. Could you either bring this to COM:AN/U or to some admin who is more available right now? Thanks. - Jmabel ! talk 00:25, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Traveling

I will be traveling from 16 May 2026 until 9 May 2026. Please expect that I will be less available than usual during that time. Time traveling?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:22, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

fixed but the next few days I have only phone access & will not be on Commons much. Jmabel ! talk 03:40, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Commons Photographers: Our next meeting (05/2026)

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

I hope you’re well and enjoy your time as a photographer on Wikimedia Commons. In my role of the new chair of the user group, I have a couple of updates to share with you.

After the election, the new board met for the first time on March 21 and immediately got to work. We elected the organization’s officers and decided to move from quarterly to monthly board meetings. We believe meeting more frequently will create more opportunities to serve our members effectively and help move the group forward.

We also successfully applied for a pre-conference at the upcoming Wikimania in Paris (July 21–25). If you’re planning to attend the conference, please consider joining us on July 21th for a day full of conversations about photography and Commons. Please sign up here if you’re interested.

And finally, it’s my pleasure to invite you to our first online meeting, which will take place on May 31. Our member Wojciech, an experienced concert photographer, will give a talk on photographing orchestras during live performances. I’m especially excited that we’ll have the opportunity to meet online again and am very much looking forward to this event.

Please feel free to sign up for our first meeting in 2026 on this page: Online Meeting on May 31st.

In the meanwhile, I hope you're well and have a great time taking photos!

All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 14:09, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Reverted edits

Sorry, was going through my watchlist using a multi-link-opening gadget and accidentally rolled back multiple edits. I think I got them all restored. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 07:31, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Stuck file?

I notice that one of the files in that batch of graphs you just G7-speedied, File:Función continua en a; 9 7273.svg, is still blue-linked and extant, although it no longer shows up in the category. Any idea what might cause that?—Odysseus1479 (talk) 03:49, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Not a clue, but I'll try again to delete it. - Jmabel ! talk 04:22, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Mass rename

In case you didn't see my comments on AN: MassRename really is broken and it's probably better to stop using it at all. I'll make a new script but this will take some time. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 18:03, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz: "broken" as in I've produced a bunch of incorrect results, or "broken" as in it constantly crashes? - Jmabel ! talk 18:13, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Crashes, and when an edit on a wiki fails it doesn't instruct CommonsDelinker as it should. Technically that's an incorrect result, but as you left redirects it doesn't break anything right away. The redirects should be resolved though, but I'll figure it out. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 18:52, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

User:DimiDimi/GlobalReplace2.js

Hi again, I could use your help in purging or deleting the subject page, as it is ostensibly js I'm not allowed to touch that qualifies for G7, but sitting in Category:Incomplete deletion requests - missing subpage.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:44, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

@Jeff G.:  Done - Jmabel ! talk 15:25, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Re Special:Diff/1245894413, the quick answer per this diff section is Wikinger but see also Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Maria666999.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 05:29, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

User:ShakespeareFan00/Extended context

Thanks. I moved it back to my userspace. It wasn't yet being understood by it's intended users. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 23:02, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Female categories

Hi, I saw a discussion where you said you had proposed merging women by occupation categories into people by occupation categories, but did not get consensus. Do you remember where and please could you link the discussion? TSventon (talk) 14:18, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

TSventon I've brought it up more than once. Two times I can see that this sort of thing came up are Commons:Village pump/Archive/2018/04#Ghettoization, again (and the very title says that was not the first time) and Commons:Village pump/Archive/2025/05#Category:2 men with other organisms; 1 boy with 4 women; 5 women with other people; etc. Other than that: you'd have to search on "Jmabel" and other relevant terms, which is how I found these. - Jmabel ! talk 17:16, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, I wanted to get the benefit of your experience. The way people create categories and nominate them for deletion seems a bit random, but messy categorisation probably isn't an urgent problem for Commons.

The background is that I have been trying to tidy up Wikidata items for female categories and attaching Commons categories where I found them. I found that Category:Female playwrights had a Categories for discussion nomination. Then I looked at previous discussions and found Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/12#Category:Photographs of male screenwriters, where you said dropping genders has been controversial. TSventon (talk) 00:45, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

TSventon, I wouldn't oppose this, but I did recently create Category:Male police officers of the Netherlands because we already had Category:Female police officers of the Netherlands. We shouldn't put just women in a box. I don't think we have any files of police officers of the Netherlands that identify as neither, but for some categories/countries I imagine that could be an issue.
It also makes me wonder why we still list gender on passports. Not particularly helpful for identification but causes plenty of controversy. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 00:07, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Alexis Jazz what wouldn't you oppose? I have generally been trying to add missing connections to Commons categories, e.g. links to Wikidata and missing categories, rather than create new categories. Apart from general interest, I wanted to know if the categories I was editing were against policy in some way, because if they were, there would be little (even less?) point in editing them. TSventon (talk) 17:45, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

TSventon, what wouldn't you oppose?
I wouldn't oppose merging women by occupation categories into people by occupation categories, lumping the men and women and nonbinaries together. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 18:25, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

C24 Honduras file protection

Hi, thanks for the semi-protection here[2]! Is there any chance for other C24 Honduras files to also be protected, like File:Canal 24 Honduras es un medio de comunicacion de Televisión y digital.jpg? Maybe even all files in Category:C24 Honduras and its sub-category? Nakonana (talk) 16:18, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

@Nakonana: I had a look. I didn't realize the whole category was getting vandalized. I'd be willing to do that, though not this minute. I have no idea what to make of edits such as the confusing change of authorship here. I'm beginning to think we may need to find some genuinely trusted hondureño, perhaps on the Spanish-language Wikipedia, who can help us sort out this situation. - Jmabel ! talk 16:53, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

The TA(s) are part of the sock/meat farm of Carlosarevalohnos. The socks of this puppeteer have also been blocked on eswiki for disruptive/promotional editing. I'm not sure how to solve the issue. The socks keep/kept uploading new logos while asking for deletions of previously uploaded ones due to alleged copyright violations. Nakonana (talk) 20:39, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Bizarre. Jmabel ! talk 20:41, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Looks like someone stepped up to delete (some of) the files under G10 (Commons:Deletion requests/File:Diario C24 Honduras ®️.jpg and Commons:Deletion requests/File:Diario C24 Honduras.jpg). I'm OK with this solution. Nakonana (talk) 20:57, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

@TheImaCow: can you explain the basis of your decision? The way I see it, both of these files were nominated for deletion by now-blocked sockpuppets, who have been falsely claiming to own the copyright and that this was a violation of their copyright (and who have been carrying on a major campaign of bogus speedy deletion requests and DRs). They've long since been told that if they have a valid copyright claim, either come through VRT to demonstrate who they are, or file a DMCA takedown notice; of course they have not done so. In my view, copyright shouldn't even apply here, because of TOO (though of course I acknowledge that TOO is always a judgement call); I can't tell from the basis of your deletion whether you may have an issue with that view. And I'll say openly: when I see a clearly unprincipled campaign to get rid of certain images, that makes me more inclined to keep them.

As for the G10 rationale, I don't see anything inappropriately "promotional" about uploading logos of what appears to be a legitimate online news outlet. We routinely host things like that. Why would this case be unusually problematic? - Jmabel ! talk 23:17, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

See my comment here: [3]. I agree with the G10 rationale. Nakonana (talk) 09:03, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Also, the uploaders of the files and the people who are nominating them for deletion are one and the same: they are all socks of User:Carlosarevalohn. Nakonana (talk) 09:05, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

So you are saying that the same person is continually uploading the logos, then asking that they be deleted as copyvios? Why on earth would someone want to do that? - Jmabel ! talk 16:01, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Yes, that's what they seem to be doing. For example, check File:Canal 24 Honduras.jpg:

• it was uploaded by User:Erick20mx (a sock of Carlosarevalohn)
• then it got nominated for deletion by User: Yovanyhn (a sock of Carlosarevalohn, and also the uploader of File:Canal 24 Honduras ®️.jpg)
• Erick20mx's file was also nominated for deletion by the sock master User:Carlosarevalohn (who also uploaded File:Canal 24 Honduras es un medio de comunicacion de Televisión y digital.jpg)

After the first DR for Erick20mx's file was closed as kept, it was renominated for deletion by another 3 socks of Carlosarevalohn:

1. User:Torresierravalle34
2. User:Manuelenriqueh
3. User:Samuelhernandezh

Nakonana (talk) 20:54, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

The file that was uploaded by sock Yovanyhn was then nominated for deletion by sock master Carlosarevalohn (and also by Yovanyhn themselves), see Commons:Deletion requests/File:Canal 24 Honduras ®️.jpg.

And the file that was uploaded by sock master Carlosarevalohn was nominated for deletion by sock Yovanyhn.

After the sock master's file was kept, it was at first renominated for deletion by sock Torresierravalle34 and then by yet another sock: User:Samirperez9 (who also uploaded yet another logo: File:C24 Honduras.jpg).

The file was kept again and renominated again, now by sock Samuelhernandezh.

See Commons:Deletion requests/File:Canal 24 Honduras es un medio de comunicacion de Televisión y digital.jpg. Nakonana (talk) 21:11, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

To what possible purpose? - Jmabel ! talk 21:17, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

I have no clue. Their edits on eswiki are clearly of a promotional nature, so there's no doubt that the sock farm is associated with C24 Honduras (rather than being some rival media outlet on some sort of crusade against C24 Honduras), but their uploading and nominating for deletion of the logos on Commons is just ridiculous.

I was somewhat wondering, since it's a new channel/periodical, whether they have not yet 100% decided on what logo they should settle? Maybe they are still in the process of making up their mind regarding their logo and that's why there are several versions? They upload what they think they've decided on, but then change their mind and ask for deletion while uploading a new logo. Rinse and repeat. Nakonana (talk) 21:27, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

This is sounding more and more like at this point we should delete this all, rather than protect any of it. - Jmabel ! talk 21:47, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

I'd be OK with that too at this point. It's getting disruptive. Nakonana (talk) 21:53, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

And be surprised or not, but the file that was uploaded by sock Samirperez9 was then nominated for deletion by a new sock: User: Manuelvillatoros. Nakonana (talk) 21:18, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, sorry for late reply, my reasoning for closing those DR's as delete was A) as mentioned CSD G10 - created for advertising/out of scope. The logos were not in use & there was also no wikidata item on this organization or anything as far as I could see. (The television channel was apparently, according to their website, founded in October 2025.) So at least questionable of being in scope. What convinced me to delete was B) the odd "circumstances" surrounding these files - apparently multiple socks uploading those logos, and multiple socks requesting deletion sometime later. We could & try to figure out whats going on there, but I don't think it would be worth our time. (as mentioned, they're not in use/not even a wikidata item (also noting that one DR I closed had been open for almost three months)) ~TheImaCow ([[User talk:|talk]]) 21:11, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

@TheImaCow: perfectly reasonable, but it would have been good to see some more of that reasoning in the closure, since it is not what was going on in the discussion. - Jmabel ! talk 23:47, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Invitation to the Wikimedia Commons Pre-Conference at the Wikimania 2026

Hello Jmabel,

I want to invite you to participate at our Wikimedia Commons Pre-Conference at the Wikimania in Paris on July 21. If you want to join the pre-conference, please sign up on this page until July 7. Participation at the pre-conference is also possible without a ticket for the Wikimania. If you sign up before the deadline on July 7, you will get free access to the pre-conference day. Unfortunately, online participation will not be possible.

If you have something you want to present or you want to talk about at the pre-conference, please add it here, also until July 7.

There is also a service announcement for all photographers coming to Paris: Unfortunately, France has no freedom of panorama at all. Therefore, Commons does not accept photos of modern buildings, public art or light installations at night. Read more about the problem here.

Besides the invitation to our pre-conference, there is another announcement: We updated the membership list of the Commons Photographers User Group. The membership list is much smaller now and based on a template. This allows us to easily create message lists and statistics. Please have a look at your entry in the list and update it if needed.

Happy photographing! GPSLeo (talk) --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:10, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

DPLA files with metadata enhancements

Hi Joe! You might have noticed that DPLA bot has been converting many of the previous uploads to using the new {{DPLA metadata}}. If not, I wanted to give you a heads-up about some bot activity you'll see on files where you've enriched DPLA metadata. A quick example: File:Faculty of Central School, May 7, 1883 - DPLA - 892257585be252969284e2c7de6c4081 (page 1).jpg, where you added the gallery linking the front, back, and a similar shot from the same session, plus added the Creator box.

By migrating our legacy {{Artwork}} uploads to {{DPLA metadata}}, alongside the new Module:DPLA we developed for the templlate, it means we can power the template values by the SDC that we are syncing over time. The blue box on the migrated file now renders from SDC statements attributed to DPLA (title, creator, date, source, description, etc.), and a separate yellow box renders anything a Commons editor has added. For most fields the bot recognizes when any value matches DPLA's and lets SDC render it; when your value adds to or diverges from ours, we preserve it — either as an SDC statement with an inferred-from-Wikitext reference (for values that fit as structured data), or in the migrated template's own parameter (for wikitext structures like galleries, wikitables, or bulleted lists that structured data can't hold). This lets us strip out all the other Wikitext.

On the example file, your gallery landed in the second category — it's now preserved verbatim in the description= param of {{DPLA metadata}}, so it continues to render in the yellow user-contributions row. You can see the diff and how it renders now on the file page. This is obviously a bit of a chance (including, in your case, by separating the original description from your addition, when you originally placed them together. But I just wanted to make sure you are aware and that preserving community enhancements like yours is the top priority in this migration. That's why I have been holding off on migrating SPL en masse until we are getting this right, because I know you have done so much work on it.

The bot will continue running against other DPLA-sourced files across Commons over the coming weeks. Please take a look a the example file and let me know if you have any feedback. I have also created Category:Media from the Digital Public Library of America with metadata enhancements which is automatically added on aon page where the yellow box is emitted (though tight now it's mostly full of false positives I have to work through). In the future, if you spot a case where a contribution of yours was mishandled — dropped, garbled, misattributed to DPLA, or preserved awkwardly please let me know about it right away. Feedback on the shape of the migrated templates is welcome too. Thanks for the work you've put into our records. Dominic (talk) 19:12, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

@Dominic: Mostly, I think this is reasonable. My only qualm is that it places the user-contributed content way "below the fold", where it is much less likely to be seen (in particular, it comes after all the licensing information). Is there any chance that when such data is present, we could have something in the "This file was uploaded by the Digital Public Library of America…" statement that at least indicates that there are additional contributions below by Commons users, and (ideally) uses an anchor to link those? - Jmabel ! talk 19:53, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, think that’s a great idea! Check it now and let me know what you think. Dominic (talk) 00:03, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

@Dominic: excellent! You might want a linebreak before "↓ See additional user-contributed metadata below," bu that's trivial. - Jmabel ! talk 00:21, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, I actually tried to make a line break work several times, but it doesn't render as expected. I'll work on it. I will start rolling this our across SPL soon. Dominic (talk) 00:29, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

@Dominic: not sure what you tried, but presumably what you want is a "<br>" in the HTML. - Jmabel ! talk 03:01, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

COM:AN/U

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Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 06:49, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

About Ruslan Saberov

I invite you to check out COM:ANV § Silikkon; there's been a lot of sockpuppetry. I'm certain of Papalost and Nocommons being socks; both accounts have been reverting our requests for deletion, and the first one accused reporting user MathXplore of abusing admin privileges. Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 22:24, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

@Whyiseverythingalreadyused: quite possibly, but then all this should be discussed there. - Jmabel ! talk 22:55, 9 July 2026 (UTC)