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Matt Campbell

Please jail this user.Edf55 (talk) 16:13, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

• @Edf55: If you have a problem with a user's behavior, I suggest (1) bring it to the administrators' noticeboard rather than one specific admin, (2) provide diffs that show their inappropriate behavior, and (3) notify the user so they have a chance to state their side of the matter; if you are really uneasy doing the last, indicate that and ask that an admin notify them. And I'd also suggest that "jail" is a very unlikely outcome. - Jmabel ! talk 23:40, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Sorry. He declined that Larry Philpot destroyed my work.Edf55 (talk) 08:04, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Again: (1) This is not the administrators' noticeboard. (2) I still don't see a single diff. (3) Your only notification to Matt Campbell seems to have been "Stop. You destroy all!" which communicates almost nothing. - Jmabel ! talk 15:51, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Circa 1889 Seattle waterfront

The following images have to be post-Fire because the Rainier Hotel was started right after the fire, built rapidly and opened in November 1889.

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Jmabel ! talk 20:54, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Note

I don't mean to be abrasive, but a lot of people find themselves here on accident, when they don't realize they're no longer on their native language project. It's generally a bit more COM:MELLOW to just brush it off as a newbie mistake, and kindly point them to their native language help desk using an inter-wiki link. After all, we wan't more contributors everywhere, because that usually means more contributors on multi-lingual projects too. If I can ever be of any help, please don't hesitate to contact me. Sorry if this comes off as too forward. GMG^talk 00:16, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

• @GreenMeansGo: Not at all, but what are you referring to? - Jmabel ! talk 00:22, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
• @GreenMeansGo: Just in case that wasn't clear, "not at all" was with reference to you being possibly too abrasive or forward. But I don't know where you think I stompled a newbie. - Jmabel ! talk 03:53, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

• It's no big deal, but it kindof felt like this could come off as a little overwhelming to a newbie. GMG^talk 10:03, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
  • @GreenMeansGo: Hmm. It could be, but there were 3 separate issues and I was afraid that if I mentioned only one of them (presumably wrong venue), this person would still have been stung by the other two. - Jmabel ! talk 15:28, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Septembrie 2019: A început Wiki Loves Monuments în România!

Primiți acest mesaj deoarece ați participat anterior la concursul Wiki Loves Monuments România.

Am fi încântați dacă ați participa și în acest an la documentarea fotografică a patrimoniului nostru cultural construit. Pentru detalii și reguli de participare, puteți găsi mai multe informații pe pagina Wiki Loves Monuments România. Dacă aveți fotografii și din alte țări, puteți verifica aici țările participante.

Mulțumim și nu uitați, concursul se desfășoară până pe 30 septembrie! Mult succes!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:09, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

• (Dar eu sunt acum in Statile Unite.) - Jmabel ! talk 15:21, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Community Insights Survey

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Hi Jmabel,

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Sincerely,

RMaung (WMF) 01:14, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. 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 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:Boehm's Candies - molded chocolate 01.jpg

Yours sincerely, Themightyquill (talk) 11:01, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

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RMaung (WMF) 15:24, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space

There are two separate blog entries for Structured Data on Commons posted to Wikimedia Space that are of interest:

• Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister, discusses some ways that editors can work with structured data. Topics include tools that have been written or modified for structured data, in addition to future plans for tools and querying services.
• Structured Data on Commons - A Blog Series, written by me, is a five-part posting that covers the basics of the software and features that were built to make structured data happen. The series is meant to be friendly to those who may have some knowledge of Commons, but may not know much about the structured data project.

I hope these are informative and useful, comments and questions are welcome. All the blogs offer a comment feature, and you can log in with your Wikimedia account using oAuth. I look forward to seeing some posts over there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:33, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation

Check out: Commons:Village_pump#Disambiguation. Thanks. Evrik (talk) 03:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC) Do you think anyone would would object to this User talk:Evrik/sandbox, here: hella? Evrik (talk) 22:28, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

• @Evrik: Well, clearly you are not going to suddenly win over the people who object to disambiguation pages in the main (gallery) space, but it seems potentially useful to me. - Jmabel ! talk 22:32, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the input. Evrik (talk) 03:50, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

URL

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019_in_Morocco/Rules Salma.boug (talk) 12:05, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

• @Salma.boug: I'm not sure why you sent me this link. I've never set foot in Morocco in my life. - Jmabel ! talk 16:03, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Look at the rule number 5,it’ The hashtag I’m talking about Salma.boug (talk) 20:30, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

• @Salma.boug: I doubt that sharing on social media is a requirement of the contest, but maybe it is. Anyway, the only place you could get an answer to that is Commons talk:Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 in Morocco/Rules, so I suggest you ask there. - Jmabel ! talk 20:49, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Ok thanks Salma.boug (talk) 21:52, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Re: Chinese New Year

Hi, I saw that you discussed the topic of "Chinese New Year" on User talk:そらみみ. We traditionally considered January 1 of the lunar calendar as the first day of a year, so it's not like Christmas Day in the western calendar.--Kai3952 (talk) 17:08, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

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Sincerely,

RMaung (WMF) 20:04, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

I forgot you speak some Spanish

Mind taking a look at /w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles&dir=prev&offset=20191018194828&user=Sebasti%C3%A1n+Arena these uploads? Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but they look a lot like personal photos. The user is an xwiki contributor, but if there isn't any additional context there, that's a little excessive. GMG^talk 19:59, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

• @GreenMeansGo: There is really no captioning on any of them, and for a lot the Spanish-language filenames just mean "scanned document such-and-such" (if that much), so my Spanish is largely irrelevant. They are certainly mostly poorly titled and under-described, at best. If you look at the parent categories of Category:Araujo family it strongly suggests he doesn't get the point of Commons. They're not notably technically good photos, but certainly some are of possible interest as things in Venezuela we don't have a lot of images for: a lot of semi-decent candid pictures of soldiers going about their day-to-day, people receiving diplomas, stuff like that. But then there are useless images like File:Documento escaneadoXXXVII (12250715326).jpg.

And then there's stuff like File:Ferry (16215002865).jpg, File:GEDC0316 (14871491107).jpg (really a nice photo), and the quite good batch in Category:Black and white photographs by Sebastián Arena. Doubtless a lot of these would be useful if they had been decently described.

So I don't know. It would be cool if someone (it won't be me, I have other fish to fry) would mentor him more on describing and categorizing photos, but certainly there is enough here that is decent that anyone who takes this on should be careful not to drive him away. I don't see where we are really hurt by letting the sleeping dog lie. It might be worth nominating some for deletion as unused personal photos or so low-quality as to be useless, but I'd start with a small batch if you go that way, and test the waters [yeah, yeah, mixed metaphor]. - Jmabel ! talk 21:21, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

I'm not really sure I have the cultural competency to evaluate the images individually, or the language competency to mentor the user (or to not come off as BITEY in trying to explain things). Maybe we just bide our time then. GMG^talk 21:47, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

@GreenMeansGo: Repeating my bottom line: I personally would let sleeping dogs lie, but if someone wanted to discourage him from continuing to upload the least useful stuff he uploads, they should pick a handful of unused personal photos (snapshots of non-notable people) or images so low-quality as to be useless. - Jmabel ! talk 23:22, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for a short translation into Romanian

Hi, would you be willing to translate the sentence "What's making you happy this week?" into Romanian? See meta:User:Pine/WMYHTW translations. Thank you, ↠Pine (✉) 21:17, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you very much. I moved the translation to meta:User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations/ro. ↠Pine (✉) 22:13, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Chinook Jargon

Hello sorry about that, I did find the Chinook Jargon book. Thanks so much for your work! Sincerely, Irene Bjerky — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cataline01xx (talk • contribs) 03:19, 11 December 2019‎ (UTC)

• Context: [1] - Jmabel ! talk 03:28, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for renaming a file to Gangadhar Meher University maingate.

Rocky 734 (talk) 06:52, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Note

Just want to say happy new year, and thanks for all your help at the help desk, especially when I get busy and can't immediately reply to a response from a new user. GMG^talk 00:00, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

• @GreenMeansGo: and the same to you! - Jmabel ! talk 00:05, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

I couldn't upload this old historic video from 1919 because of the spam filter

Hi! I uploaded this old 1919 video to a file sharing service, it is only 300Mbyte, and the spam filter did not allow me to upload it to the commons :( You can download the video from here: https://sendgb.com/ihJkawWP6FS Thank you for your help!

The video was shot by Film hiradó on 16 November 1919. English description: Admiral Miklós Horthy enters Budapest at the head of the National Army, 16 November 1919. Categories: Hungarian History, Miklós Horthy, Hungary in the 1910s--CumbererStone (talk) 20:30, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

It is a 100 years old video, which was created by 90y long defunct company. The copyright expires within 70years in Hungary. So it is a free stuff. Can you help me to upload it, because this spam filter look very dumb and stubborn. Thank you!

If you can upload the video to the commons, can you write/paste here its url? Thank you again!--CumbererStone (talk) 10:11, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

• I have no idea why you are replying on my user talk page to something that is being discussed on the help desk. - Jmabel ! talk 20:22, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Manual review

Hi, I'm quite new to Commons so apologies if I'm doing the wrong thing here. The picture I uploaded from Flickr was deleted because icon bottom-right of the picture indicated a non-free licence, even though the caption below indicated that it was CC-BY 3.0 licensed. I asked for it to be undeleted, and was told it would need manual review; the admin who deleted said I should ask another admin to do so. The file is at File:Joanna Cherry in Parliament.jpg. Can you help? (Sorry if I'm contacting the wrong person; I just picked an admin basically at random from the list.) YorkshireLad (talk) 22:21, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

• I'll deal with it, if someone hasn't beaten me to it. Jmabel ! talk 23:32, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Your best shot 2019

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

It's early 2020, which means it's time again to look back at photographs taken over the course of the past 12 months. As always, I'm curious – what would you consider your best shot of 2019 and why? I invite you to share your image and your thoughts in order to provide others with the opportunity to celebrate, learn, and enjoy:

Your best shot 2019

Thanks for all your effort in sharing your vision of the world with others under a free license!

All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 20:12, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

A subtle hint

Re the user asking this, you might want to review this. Cheers! World's Lamest Critic (talk) 05:09, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

• @World's Lamest Critic: I don't have checkuser privileges. If you think this looks like a sockpuppet you've seen elsewhere, you can report that, but I'm not sure I see anything special for me to do. The question itself seemed reasonable, and I believe I gave it a reasonable answer. - Jmabel ! talk 05:14, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Okey dokey. World's Lamest Critic (talk)

PDM/CC0

Did you delete anything (that wasn't in use) from https://www.flickr.com/photos/shelp/ ? It appears this photographer (probably after someone requested this) changed the license of their photos from PDM to CC0. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 18:43, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

• @Alexis Jazz: Aha! So I probably had not misread when I first checked that.
• While I cannot swear I've never deleted something uploaded by that Flickr user, I have not done so in the recent past. - Jmabel ! talk 21:28, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

File:Chart of military venereal disease cases in Seattle, 1943 (39267129940).jpg

Hi!:

I moved the file from Category:Health statistics to Category:Epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases and disorders.

"Epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases and disorders" is more especific. Almost all files contained within "Epidemiology" are "Health statistics", displayed as diagrams (i.e. this file, "Chart of military venereal...") or maps. That is the reason I also categorized "Epidemiology" within "Health Statistics".

Good bye, --Jmarchn (talk) 17:55, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

@Jmarchn: I see, way up the hierarchy you put Category:Epidemiology inside Category:Health statistics. That's reasonable for the way it's being used; it was just so far up the hierarchy I didn't find that it was an ancestor category. - Jmabel ! talk 21:08, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Potential copyright violation on the Commons

Hi Jmabel. Recently I noticed that a user named MiftachulJ has been uploading various pictures of different artists, all of which actually seem to be copyrighted and it is highly unlikely that they have been taken by him. Could you please take a look at his contributions and delete the copyrighted content? Thank you. Keivan.f^Talk 00:56, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

• @Keivan.f: I believe you can make nominations at COM:DR exactly as easily as I can. Am I missing something? - Jmabel ! talk 03:23, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

• Oh, I didn't know that I could do that. I'll nominate them myself then. Thanks for the info. Keivan.f^Talk 05:26, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Archiving with SpBot only in Help desk

Hello, you confused me, as well. I got your ping from Special:Diff/403053139/403053317, went to the talk page and, intending to add an answer, started researching. But when I opened the edit form your question has gone …
So in short: ArchiverBot had almost a year ago some issues causing it to be stopped on several pages (see for 2019 messages in User talk:ArchiverBot). I knew that SpBot which anyway had been active before could take over the work in almost the same manner and so I did the necessary changes first in COM:VP and later in the Help desk. See more in Commons talk:Village pump#First section header, but especially Commons talk:Village pump#Removing daily headers. — Speravir – 05:06, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

• @Speravir: sorry about that. I just started answering the newbie question, then assumed (incorrectly) I was on the help page, not the talk page, went on to the next item, said, "hmm, what's this about", etc. Then I got my bearings, but only after pinging you. - Jmabel ! talk 05:39, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

• Never mind, no problem. — Speravir – 05:43, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Helpǃ

Hi Jmabel, I got myself into a fankle I think.

I wanted to upload a bunch of fine art pictures from jfif files. Apparently (I now find out) all that was required was to change the extension from jfif to jpg, and then upload. Correct?

Just to make it worse, earlier than that, after reading the policy on it, I got the wrong end of the stick and converted the jfif files using GIMP to png files and then onto jpg, and uploaded both. So what now? Should I request their deletion and then re-upload afresh?

I also found out (ignoring for the moment the jfif mistake) that I should have translated them to tiff and then to jpg as opposed to png. Correct?

Anyway grateful for your thoughts... Broichmore (talk) 16:37, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

@Broichmore:

1. I don't know what a JFIF is. This sounds more like a Graphics Lab question.
2. I imagine the JPGs are more useful than the PNGs, but I don't see a reason to delete. PNGs certainly have their advantages in some contexts. Just connect in the "other versions" area of the template with {{Other}}.
3. I don't see any real advantage of TIFF over PNG here. TIFF is really just a bag you put formats in. PNGs are lossless, which is presumably the one advantage of those or TIFFs over JPGs.
4. I don't have time to look into this much further now. I think the item I bolded above is the only action step needed.

Jmabel ! talk 18:09, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Using rollback to edit another user's comments

Hi! Could you please provide an explanation for this edit? As you should know, it is considered poor practice to edit comments made by other users, and it is a violation of the rollback policy to use it for cases that are not clear-cut mistakes or vandalism. Cheers, Bovlb (talk) 13:58, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

• @Bovlb: My mistake. I missed the "Already blocked on Wikidata" and only say the "<!-- Please fill the template fields and press publish. -->: which looked like accidental copy-paste from somewhere. In fact, even now I don't get that comment, what did it mean in this context if it wasn't an error? - Jmabel ! talk 15:17, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

• Thanks for the explanation.

When I encounter a cross-wiki vandal, I usually include information about blocks on other projects as part of any vandalism report. (Blocks on other projects do not automatically cause a block here, of course, but the context is informative.) In this case, their Wikidata activity (and block) was sufficiently old that I did not notice it at first and hence had to add it afterwards. Cheers, Bovlb (talk) 15:31, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Again, sorry. But what is the "<!-- Please fill the template fields and press publish. -->? - Jmabel ! talk 15:57, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

That is inserted by the "create a report" button on Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Vandalism. Bovlb (talk) 16:34, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks

Will learn this! Appreciate it! Arwin11 (talk) 16:31, 13 March 2020 (UTC)