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Bot edit war

Two bots are edit-warring at File:Passengers on a Washington State Ferry, circa 1980s (54040757828).jpg. As the uploader, I'm the only admin who is not allowed to hand-review the license and clear this up. - Jmabel ! talk 04:14, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel,  Done but this edit-war made me laugh. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 05:51, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

@MGA73 some files do need manual review. please tweak your bot design to avoid repeating the review request too many times. RoyZuo (talk) 13:38, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

I stopped my bot. --MGA73 (talk) 13:41, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

User unilaterally changing and emptying categories, not responding to others' concerns

Rathfelder (talk · contribs) has taken it upon himself to rearrange and empty a number of categories in ways that other users think are problems (myself included) and is not engaging with those concerns at all. See (e.g.) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Koavf&oldid=952064437#Category:Caricatures_of_men and https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Rathfelder&oldid=953599427#Punch_cartoons. I don't think this is constructive and would like feedback on if this is the correct approach to editing. @Pigsonthewing: who was in one conversation. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:35, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

I havent responded to the comment about men yet because I have only just seen it. I will respond now. Rathfelder (talk) 09:12, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

There are around 1000 entries in caricatures of men. that is usually taken aa overpopulation. There are at least 10,000 more caricatures of men. Do you think they should be there too? I am trying to set up a consistent categorisation pattern for caricatures. Advice would be welcome. Rathfelder (talk) 09:20, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Do we need a category for Caricatures of male American politicians? That is what most of the existing subcategories are. Do we want to categorise politicians by gender? Rathfelder (talk) 09:36, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

export a file from Commons

I would like to export this file File:ŌgaiYatarō-An Airman.png, which was originally uploaded on the Japanese Wikipedia by me, to jawiki but do not know how to do it. The file is PD in Japan but may be non-PD in US. At least we cannot rule its possibility out nevertheless User:真夢城（まゆき） carelessly imported it to Commons. In my knowledge only administrators can revert it to jawiki so that would someone please do it instead of me? HinokisOfRoma (talk) 12:30, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Presumably you can just get ja:ファイル:ŌgaiYatarō-An Airman.png undeleted on ja-wiki. I'm not an admin there, so I cannot examine the history of deleted files there. - Jmabel ! talk 19:09, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for reply. Unfortunately your suggestion does not work because file history was already erased on jawiki. We can trace it just on Commons.--HinokisOfRoma (talk) 20:34, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

@HinokisOfRoma: I think you are misinformed about the history erasure on jawiki, please ask there on jawiki anyway.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 21:05, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

I think you may have to re-upload it to JaWiki and then have an importer import the Commons history. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 00:52, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Protection of User:Red link example

I have created User:Red link example for use in documentation and testing.

Can someone kindly permanently protect the user and talk pages, with an edit summary noting that purpose?

I have also requested that the account be globally locked. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:52, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

User and talk pages have indefinite protection of template editors and administrators. Abzeronow (talk) 22:11, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

File:Flag of Italy.svg

Italiano: si può (semi)proteggere questo file su commons permettendo solo gli autoverificati?

English: can you please (semi)protect this file, allowing edits only for autoverified user? ty

(last) reason: ip removing depict GioviPen ^{GP msg} 22:31, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done for 1 year. Abzeronow (talk) 22:48, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

 Thank you. GioviPen ^{GP msg} 22:49, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Move request for File:Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, University of Tokyo 20140308.jpg

Please move the file to File:Complete Annals of Great Viet, University of Tokyo 2014-03-08.jpg (edit protected): To clarify the name of the book and some date formatting. —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 16:55, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done Abzeronow (talk) 17:27, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 21:09, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

I fail to see the justification. RoyZuo (talk) 22:12, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

DR close request

Could an admin take a look at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Fuengirola - Monumento Juan Gómez González, 'Juanito' 2.jpg and determine whether it can be closed? No additional comments have been made more than a month, and I don't think that there's going to be a sudden increase in comments if the DR continues to remain open. I'm not advocating in favor of a particular close; just asking that it be assessed and then closed as the administrator sees fit. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:24, 14 November 2024 (UTC)