Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

  Administrator changes

  Graham Beards
 

  Bureaucrat changes

 
 

  Oversight changes

  Dreamy Jazz

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous


File:Rafah displacement camp airstrike.webp

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I noticed you deleted File:Rafah displacement camp airstrike.webp with the rationale "Simply captioning an image fails to be transformative as noted in the discussion." But the image was more than captioned. The article text itself makes commentary on the image. WP:F7 for example says "where the file itself is not the subject of sourced commentary."VR (Please ping on reply) 03:17, 16 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Can you point out the text? -- Whpq (talk) 03:40, 16 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sorry!

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I'm here to apologize for accidentally reverting a LTA move into a wrong target. I mistook the revert vandalism was all changing something like Example clan -> Example (clan) and didn't notice some were named like Example Family. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 12:41, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

No worries. That was an easy mistake because of the pattern of moves. -- Whpq (talk) 13:17, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'd like to import the file to Commons, but undeleting the prior revision is required before doing so. George Ho (talk) 19:19, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done. -- Whpq (talk) 19:40, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Draft: Prosper Mackenzie Nude

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I understand you carry out your actions based on the reason stated. But Can you kindly retrieve it for me so i proceed with the necessary paraphrasing and resubmit for publication? 37.160.161.115 (talk) 14:14, 30 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Deletion of movie articles

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Hello, I really appreciate that you didn’t allow my article ‘Dil (1991)’ get deleted. The user ‘Saqib’ is always deleting my articles when they are notable. I have a passion for Pakistani cinema and Hindi cinema. I would really like you to approve of my future articles and allow them on the main space without them being taken down constantly. Thank you for your help and support!!! Saqib lollywood (talk) 16:22, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

i don't normally do AFC reviews. The best way to ensure acceptance is to have good quality reliable sources. -- Whpq (talk) 17:59, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Fwiw - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Poonam bollywood.Saqib (talk I contribs) 18:11, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Non-free images of still living persons

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Hi Whpq. Are you using a script or bot to search for possible violations of FREER? I used to use ToolForge page created by someone long ago which listed such images in tabular form, but that page stopped working a few months back. Now, I usually only come across some images through random clicking or scrooling through one of the subcategories of Category:All non-free media. It's not a very efficient approach, so I'm wondering if there's a better way. Perhaps a category page for recently updated non-free images? You also seem to be working in this area so thought you might've figured out a better approach. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:03, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Nothing automated. I just look at recent uploads and pick out images that look like they might potentially be a problem. -- Whpq (talk) 11:10, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
OK. Is there a particular category page for recent uploads or a category page for date uploaded? -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:21, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I just use special:newfiles. -- Whpq (talk) 11:22, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I didn't know about that link. Thanks for that. -- Marchjuly (talk) 18:19, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

 

  Administrator changes

 
 

  Technical news

  Miscellaneous


Wrong venue close

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You closed Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 July 8#User:UBX/Juve Merda as wrong venue, but you didn't procedurally nominate it at MfD as you should per WP:PROCEDURAL. Can you please do so? Nickps (talk) 18:31, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

My bad. Done! Thanks you. -- Whpq (talk) 18:35, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Nice. Thanks for the quick response. Nickps (talk) 18:39, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

PD-NWS

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Hey Whpq! I know you deal with a lot of copyright discussions, so I wanted to give you a little checklist for NOAA/NWS-related images. Based on the FFD, as you come across weather-related images in the future, this checklist will probably be fairly helpful.

Is it on a .gov page?

  • Yes – Most likely Keep
  • No – Delete (Unless it is from a U.S. government social media account on Facebook.com or X.com)

Is it from a branch of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?

  • Yes – Most likely Keep
  • No – Delete or follow other applicable U.S. Government copyright guidelines

Is it on a webpage of the National Weather Service (weather.gov)?

  • Yes – Most likely Keep
  • No – Delete

Does the image caption or webpage directly state a copyright symbol (©) for that image or subsequent image group?

Does the image itself have a watermark?

Does the image itself have a watermark specifically with the copyright symbol (©)?

Hope that helps solve some future weather-image questions you may have or find in the future! Cheers! The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 20:17, 9 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

TPA

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Could you please revoke talk page access for a user that you blocked (Accenox)? They've repeatedly spammed on their talk page with no apparent intention of stopping. Thanks. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:06, 11 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done. Whpq (talk) 17:13, 11 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 18:06, 11 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

nchervitz sandbox

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Is there any chance you have some copy of my sandbox page that you deleted? I was planning on rewording and thought it was still private on my page, thanks. -- Nchervitz (talk) 17:39, 15 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Copyright violations are not restored. -- Whpq (talk) 17:50, 15 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Books & Bytes – Issue 63

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The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 63, May – June 2024

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --12:16, 18 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

U5 for multiple pages

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Hello. My articles about Hong Kong transport was deleted under U5 but I didn't have a backup for it. Please can you provide the source for the following pages? I am planning to post these on other non-Wiki sites (aka outside Wikipedia).

My intention is to make a brief Hong Kong transport news that happened recently, but I didn't know Wikipedia is not the place for that. HingWahStreet (talk) 09:59, 19 July 2024 (UTC)Reply