Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 42

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User:CommonsDelinker is not working

Hi, the Delinker is not working. No replacement and no deletion. Can anyone fix them? --Knochen ﱢﻝﱢ‎  08:40, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

The Toolserver is currently (mostly or completely) down, just wait for it to come back. --Nemo 09:20, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Commons:Requests for comment/Translate extension

This has some (unanimous) support but needs more comments, can you please link it from MediaWiki:Watchlist-details or sitenotice? Thanks, Nemo 09:18, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

✓ Done at MediaWiki:Watchlist-summary (See talk page for the change from Watchlist-details). --whym (talk) 12:33, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Updating Licensing tutorial image in Macedonian

I translated the Licensing tutorial a while ago but failed to see that I had not used the option to make it propely legible. I have since corrected this, but cannot re-upload it to File:Licensing tutorial mk.svg in any way (there is a note to that effect where the re-upload link should be). What should I do? Can someone enable re-upload for a time while I do it, or? --B. Jankuloski (talk) 21:57, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

I have just unprotected the file—go ahead and upload the corrected version. odder (talk) 22:14, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Done now. Thanks a lot for the prompt response! --B. Jankuloski (talk) 22:37, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. odder (talk) 22:53, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Promotional username

User:INaCAGE Music and User:INaCAGE (band)--Motopark (talk) 04:25, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

✓ Done. I've blocked both accounts and deleted their contribs. 3 accounts of this user have been blocked on en.wiki for spam/promotion. INeverCry 05:11, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Toolserver down

Toolserver's geohack is not working, clicking on 'Camera location' on a file leads (after a tiresomely long wait) to a timeout. This is a long-lasting problem happening on-and-off (more often failing than not) for some time (several months). I note also Nemo's comment above (09:20, 12 May 2013) "The Toolserver is currently (mostly or completely) down, just wait for it to come back" - but how long must one wait? Days? Weeks? Months? Years? Any hopes of getting it working again? - MPF (talk) 11:08, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

WMF is rolling out a new labs project which will house some bots that currently reside on Toolserver. It all takes time, and there are decisions that the bot operators will be needing to make. All we can say is watch the appropriate spaces. Wikipedia Signpost reports on these matters occasionally in their technology section.  — billinghurst sDrewth 08:35, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Category renaming

Is it possible to rename the following categories:

This is the new proposed name for our Thematic Organization. Thank you.--Arnaugir (talk) 12:57, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Are you sure this is the correct name? Just making sure that you don't want to use the è in Wikimèdia… odder (talk) 14:58, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Yes, without the è. :-) see: [1]. Thank you. --Arnaugir (talk) 18:47, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
✓ Done, please let me know if there are other categories that you want to have moved. odder (talk) 19:11, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Zmaan-888

User has been uploading numerous copyright violations. S/he was warned on 14:07, 8 May 2013 but has continued. All uploads need to be deleted and the user likely merits a block. Thanks! --auburnpilot talk 03:04, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

✓ Done. Uploads nuked, user blocked. INeverCry 03:10, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Undeletion of Armenian FOP-deleted images

Dear colleagues, Recently the (noncommercial) restrictions to the freedom of panorama in Armenia have been lifted. Therefore I think that most of the files deleted per Category:Armenian FOP cases can be undeleted. I have dealt with two cases, but I think I will not have more time to do so today. Perhaps some of you can help going through these. Kind regards, Lymantria (talk) 08:07, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Try to be careful with adding {{FoP-Armenia}} in case someone has missed the recent change at COM:FOP#Armenia. If there is an FOP template there, there's a smaller risk that someone will nominate the files for deletion again. --Stefan4 (talk) 14:48, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Marisa Pavan.jpg

Hi,

It has been suggested on English wikipedia that this image is in fact of her sister Pier Angeli. Google images searches tend to support this. If this is the case then the image needs to be re-named. Jezhotwells (talk) 10:43, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Dominican fake flags

Hola.

Este usuario Cvkfekjf238 ha estado subiendo una gran cantidad de banderas falsas o creadas por él mismo a Commons. Las banderas fueron borradas el año pasado y resubidas nuevamente por el mismo usuario.


Hello. Sorry for my english.

This user Cvkfekjf238 is been uploading a lot of fakes flags to Commons. The flags were deleted the last year and reuploaded again by this same user.--Inefable001 (talk) 14:11, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

name change

please change name of this image File:Miodu Polish Rapper.jpg to "Miodu Polish Singer", he is not a rapper, and also fix the name of File:Czarny (Brat Squad).jpg to "Czarny (Beat Squad)" DingirXul (talk) 19:06, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

✓ Done Next time please use Template:Rename. Thank you.--Steinsplitter (talk) 19:17, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Name change

I would like to change the name of File:La nena obrera.jpg to File:La petita obrera.jpg --Andri8 (talk) 10:17, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

✓ Done Next time please use Template:Rename. Thank you.--Steinsplitter (talk) 10:54, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/RobertoRobertuz

see edits of Special:Contributions/RobertoRobertuz--Motopark (talk) 14:43, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

✓ Done blocked for 1 week. Thank you for reporting.--Steinsplitter (talk) 16:10, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Inappropriately named images

I would like to humbly suggest that in this category it is inappropriate to use names like 'black cock' rather than more respectful terminology. I note as well the racist implications of using this kind of slang, when other photos are named in a more scientific manner. And finally I humbly suggest that you look with extreme skepticism on all human sexuality related images that are uploaded by single purpose accounts with no proof (nor even evidence) of the claim that this is 'own work'.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 13:52, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

1st part (4 images:[2],[3],[4],[5]): ✓ Done. --Túrelio (talk) 14:24, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Are you suggesting that "colored" is not racist, while "black" is? I know a lot of black individuals who would disagree with you. If you wish to make it even more racist than it is now, you can say "colored boy" (the term 'boy' needs to be pronounced with the southern accent) that will not only make a neutral (but non-pc) term racist, but will also get a rise out of "OMG CHILD PORN" croud. Sinnamon Girl (talk) 16:46, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
As I am not a native-english-speaker feel free to rename them more appropriately, though a bit less aggressive attitude towards other users would be welcome. --Túrelio (talk) 16:49, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, I did not realise that you are not a native speaker of English. In many countries (USA included) the term "colored" is considered extremely offensive by many people. As for the question about the appropriate name I would go with either "Black cock" or "Black penis", preferably the former since the image is not medical in nature and there's no reason to apply medical terminology. But, of course, Jimbo doesn't like it. Sinnamon Girl (talk) 17:04, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Why the former? Penis is the default neutral term in English; it's not medical terminology. Cock is vulgar. Maybe it would be nice if English had terms between penis and cock in formality, but it doesn't.--Prosfilaes (talk) 20:31, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Might I suggest tally-whacker? russavia (talk) 11:54, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Typo in #3... unless it's a pacifist vegan penis.Clin — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 17:21, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Around server-time 18:13 UTC I have renamed them again, now to File:Penis8 uplByMs65876.jpg, File:Penis7 uplByMs65876.jpg and File:Penis3 uplByMs65876.jpg (I didn't touch the 4th file as it's subject to a DR), assuming that this is at least 200% pc. --Túrelio (talk) 20:42, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello Jimbo, and welcome back to Commons. We welcome your comments, and this is something that could be looked at. Perhaps you would like to pitch in with this effort. You can use {{Rename}} on any image to request a rename. Your reasoning would be #7 from Commons:File renaming. If you would like to pitch in and do some of these we would welcome that. You might even find a few problematic images, for example copyright violations, that you could take to COM:DR for community review. We are of course a collaborative community and if everyone pitched in and helped, these issues would be dealt with in a much nicer time frame. In fact, scrub the use of {{Rename}}; I've just given you the file mover right, so you can now move files to a more appropriate name; just be sure to get a quick grasp of that policy, and quote the rationale (in this case #7) in the reason, and you're set to go. If you run into any snags, we're here to help. Cheers, russavia (talk) 14:40, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
"And finally I humbly suggest that you look with extreme skepticism on all human sexuality related images that are uploaded by single purpose accounts with no proof (nor even evidence) of the claim that this is 'own work'." That's the default practice, unfortunately. There are countless explicit images that fit that description, and they tend to survive every deletion request unless you have absolute proof that the image is problematic. --Conti|✉ 16:00, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Using the word "Black" certainly is not racist, replacing it with "colored" is more likely to cause offence to the general public and replacing it with "African" or "African American" would be bizarrely inaccurate. As for "cock", yes it can be swapped to penis as a slightly more accurate word, however this is such a common English word for penis that Commons even redirects the category cock to penis. If there needs to be a discussion about what counts as defamatory language on Wikimedia projects, I suggest we move from the 1970s use of American English and move to modern international English by starting with the word "queer", which apparently has been determined to be okay to use to randomly describe gay contributors to Wikimedia projects, and the WMF actively defers to that consensus when interpreting its website terms of use. --Fæ (talk) 19:56, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

It is impossible to determine the cultural heritage of a human penis from a photograph of said penis. Attempting to do so will only result in an arbitrary classification that is virtually guaranteed to perpetuate racial stereotypes. It's a question of accuracy not "political correctness". ArtifexMayhem (talk) 23:37, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
It is indeed an interesting question. How about we simple use the HEX/RGB/Pantone colour of said penis, and rename ALL penis photos to the format "#000000 male genitalia.jpg". This way we avoid having to making racist judgement on the name on said penis, and we also avoid discussion on whether to call it a penis or cock. And then we would also avoid people with a #000000 penis from complaining that #FFFFFF coloured penii are not separately required to have their colour distinguished; and then also possibly avoiding the argument of whether a white penis is really white at all. (we only need to look at en.wp lately to see how such things could result in bad publicity). We would need a bot to do this though. Any takers? russavia (talk) 05:58, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
I won't strike the comment above, but I will say I didn't know that this was an issue that Jimmy himself raised. Sorry if I took this too light-heartedly. I've explained the issues above to Jimmy over at en:User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Inappropriately_named_files_on_Commons, so anyone who's interested might want to take a look there at the issues I've raised. Cheers, russavia (talk) 17:11, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Black penis would be an acceptable name IMO. Colored just feels racist. A pantone thing wouldn't work, since colour balance is always wrong. -mattbuck (Talk) 21:04, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Some spam

Please, look at this pics: Special:Contributions/PoliNat_S.L.. Spam, IMHO. Longbowman (talk) 01:35, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Should I go through and crop out all the company text/watermarks and just overwrite the files? They are nice images and it sure was nice of the company to free licence donate them. The company logo itself should stay if they rate an article on a project somewhere.--Canoe1967 (talk) 02:32, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Are you sure that "donate" is the right word? "Ulteriorate", eh? Longbowman (talk) 03:28, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Well, I do not insist, but I must say that after you replaced the word, the part "was nice" is deprived of reason. Let us say, they uploaded something like that, but I have no suggestions, why would it be necessary. I tried to insert it in an article on plants, but there is logo. Where it can go else, I can't imagine.Longbowman (talk) 04:32, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
I think that cropping out the logo would be very useful. Sinnamon Girl (talk) 05:06, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Most of images are copyvio and should be deleted.  ■ MMXX talk 12:40, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

User:CommonsDelinkerHelper

Hello, the User:CommonsDelinker no longer works since 2013-05-10.Therefore, the Helper should not unsubscribe from the list → User:CommonsDelinker/commands the files. I mean its better to stop the User:CommonsDelinkerHelper. His edits should be made ​​there undo since 2013-05-10. --Knochen ﱢﻝﱢ‎  04:22, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

As far as I understand it, it only removes jobs that it has successfully added to its own internal database/queue. If the database/queue is lost however, we well have to dig through the revision history. -- Rillke(q?) 16:05, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Revision cleaning needed for files overwritten by Oyakmohsen

ResolvedRillke(q?) 16:06, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Please delete the file revisions of unknown origin added by Oyakmohsen to the following files:

Also, please block Oyakmohsen for continuing to overwrite files in spite of being warned at 04:54 not to do so (one additional revision to File:Dariush concert Kuala lumpur 2009.jpg at 05:04; three new revisions to File:Vigen.jpg at 05:30, 05:31 and 05:34; and one new revision to File:Bijan Mortazavi.jpg at 05:58). The user has also engaged in other disruptive behaviour, such as adding nonsense to help pages, creating nonsensical deletion requests, adding noise to translation projects, needlessly requesting one-degree rotations of images and removing information from file description pages. They do not seem to be willing or able to participate constructively. —LX (talk, contribs) 14:34, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Request for a special erase

Hello, Could you delete the first version of this picture? It shows faces of children. Thank you very much in advance.--Nachosan (talk) 22:39, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

The first version is now hidden. --Walter Siegmund (talk) 04:03, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

file:Bridgit Mendler 2010.jpg

Source picture has been deleted ?, what we shall do with this ?--Motopark (talk) 12:27, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

I restored the original source File:Jason Dolley, Bridgit Mendler and Bradley Steven Perry 2010 (cropped).jpg
I also restored one other file deleted in Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Blue Marble which had a dependant derivative file. I can't actually find the non-watermarked version of File:Mitchel Musso 2010.jpg, which was deleted for the same reason –⁠moogsi (talk) 13:46, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Broken location template

One of the location templates seems to have been modified and screwed up - every image with geocoding I now see (in addition to the geocode) has in red {{#coordinates:}}: invalid latitude. I can't find what was changed though. -mattbuck (Talk) 19:15, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

+1. But I see this error message only on my two very recent uploads, and only when there are decimal places. All previous ones look OK. Very strange --A.Savin 19:25, 1 May 2013 (UTC) Update: now I see it on several of my older uploads as well. It also seems that the files are now automatically sorted in Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags which recently contains about 9.000 files. --A.Savin 07:30, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

see also Template talk:Object location#Decimals are an error? and Commons:Forum#Meckermeldung_in_Koordinaten
maybe caused by [6]?
i've left a notice on Commons talk:Geocoding. Holger1959 (talk) 02:44, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
{{#coordinates:}} seems to always complain about an invalid latitude when you give it a valid one. Would point to a problem with mw:Extension:GeoData? I imagine if you force any pages that look ok to be rerendered (edit or purge them) then they will show the error, but only pages using {{Object location}}. Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags currently has 1385 members –⁠moogsi (blah) 03:02, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
I undid the last edit on {{Object location}} to see if it has any effect (it doesn't seem to). Bit of a long shot because it's a bit old for something that people are only just noticing now –⁠moogsi (blah) 03:39, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
This has done nothing except make the error more visible as the template is rerendered across ~80000 pages, sorry :/ (Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags was already slowly filling as people rerendered pages by editing them)
This does however seem to rule out the template as causing the problem.
The strange behaviour of the parser function is shown at User:Moogsi/Invalid latitude. Probably. I'm way out of my depth so I'll leave it here –⁠moogsi (blah) 04:48, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

It's a problem in the GeoData extension. It was broken here and fixed on 11:14, 2013-05-02 (unknown timezone), but the latter isn't deployed yet. Lupo 10:07, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Deployed now. Max Semenik (talk) 10:09, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Fixed by the lovely MaxSem, now deployed –⁠moogsi (blah) 10:10, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. --A.Savin 10:41, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
thank you, too Holger1959 (talk) 15:37, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Tracked in Phabricator
Task T50488
To me it still appears to be broken. A few minutes ago my File:Stuyvesant Fish house 2013-04-29 12-17.jpg was showing "invalid latitude". When I changed the coords from DM.xxS to DMS.x it stopped complaining. Has DM.xxx with S=0 become an unaccepted format? If so, hundreds of my coords will show this error flag even though Google Earth is going to the correct location when I click. Jim.henderson (talk) 02:53, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Until the pages are "touched", they will continue to show the error (see #Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags below). The coordinates you entered are still fine, you don't have to correct anything yourself –⁠moogsi (blah) 18:48, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
It seems like we still have a small problem here, as Jim.henderson says above. Some pages that previously showed no error before the bug still do. It seems to be a case of co-ordinates in H|M|S format, where M is a decimal and S is 0. This affects far fewer pages than before but it's still a problem –⁠moogsi (blah) 01:05, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
Problem is demonstrated at User:Moogsi/Invalid_latitude. Bug report is bugzilla:48488 –⁠moogsi (talk) 02:13, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Fixed. Again. There are ~8500 images incorrectly placed in Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags. It may be necessary to run touch.py on all the files in the category. Again –⁠moogsi (talk) 07:40, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

MediaWiki page edit request

Coming here because I don't expect to get any input at the talk page.

Could you please edit MediaWiki:Uploadtext to add "identifiable" before "people taken without their consent"? The following sentence talks about identifiable people, but someone might be confused or might try to wikilawyer something by claming that all photos of people would need permission; I just want to ensure that nobody uses this statement as a result to ask for the deletion of images such as File:Paducah Masonic Temple site.jpg, which obviously shows living people but not in an identifiable way. Nyttend (talk) 04:31, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

I think it would have been faster if you would have used {{Edit request}}. ✓ Done. -- Rillke(q?) 15:59, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js/ce

Please create a message that is -- here the translated code. -- Дагиров Умар (talk) 20:16, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

JavaScript files please always UTF-8 encoded. If you want me to do this, please paste it into our COM:SAND, save and give me the permanent link. I can't guess the encoding you used for sure. -- Rillke(q?) 21:12, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Here is the link. -- Дагиров Умар (talk) 22:52, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry I do not speak English and I find it hard to understand what needs to be done here is the link. -- Дагиров Умар (talk) 23:35, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Please create. -- Дагиров Умар (talk) 19:23, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

✓ Done Thank you! Lupo 21:48, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you Lupo. -- Rillke(q?) 15:48, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
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