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Image deletion please

I accidentally uploaded an image with personal information by error (File:Klaus Dodds.jpg). Can someone please delete it? I have marked it for speedy deletion. Thank you. Coldupnorth (talk) 12:53, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Done. --Túrelio (talk) 13:15, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt assistance. Coldupnorth (talk) 13:24, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Incorrect edit summary

I pasted the wrong text here. Can you please remove or hide it? Thank you. - Erik Baas (talk) 09:05, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Is it an LTA-spammed video? Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 10:16, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Ah nvm I was thinking about the edit summary Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 10:19, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Done. --Túrelio (talk) 10:21, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Erik Baas, why did you add rotate to File:Görsel Çalışma Amasya.png? If justified, you need also to add the degree of required rotation. --Túrelio (talk) 10:24, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

No. {{Rotate}} says "Please add the parameters |degree=90/180/270 (clockwise) if you want SteinsplitterBot to automatically rotate this image", whih is not what I want. - Erik Baas (talk) 10:40, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Would you mind to answer my first question? --Túrelio (talk) 10:49, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

The image needs circa 2 degrees of rotation (let's leave that to an expert) , because the camera was not horizontal. - Erik Baas (talk) 10:56, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

If you don't believe me: ask User:Sebastian Wallroth, or compare (for example) File:Bachie Uchaf - geograph.org.uk - 8215427.jpg, File:Nederland volendam.JPG and File:De Bussel oosterhout P1170751.jpg to their previous versions. - Erik Baas (talk) 11:08, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Erik Baas, stupid AI can't even keep the camera level. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 11:48, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

AI?? I don't think so. - Erik Baas (talk) 11:55, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Erik Baas, Google disagrees. Upload it to https://gemini.google.com/app and say "scan synthid". - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 13:27, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Can an admin check if files listed on Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Aksaalp are reuploads of Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Alptugsezgin? Files names are very similar, for example:

File:Batman Görsel Çalışma.png vs File:Görsel Çalışma Batman.png vs File:Batman Yapay Zeka.png ("Görsel Çalışma" = "Visual Study", "Yapay Zeka" = "Artificial Intelligence" in Turkish)
File:Giresun Görsel Çalışma.png vs File:Görsel Çalışma Giresun.png vs File:Giresun Yapay Zeka.png

- Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 14:45, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz, the ones you mentioned above are same as you say it. File:Görsel Çalışma Gemlik.png is same as File:Gemlik Görsel Çalışma.png, and File:Görsel Çalışma Ordu.png is same as File:Ordu Görsel Çalışma.png. Good to believe that these all files are re-uploads. _signed,Aafi ^(talk) 03:30, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Captions reads like an LLM rather than a human wrote it

File:Margarita Moreno.jpg

Am i allowed to remove them? Trade (talk) 03:40, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Go ahead

The uploader is clearly doing self-promotion, but I can't delete the Wikidata item they created because it appears to meet the notability policy Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 04:01, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

l'ignorante sucaminghia tedesco

@Aletessaro might have some difficulties with our project scope. GeorgR (de) (talk) 10:54, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Civility and description ownership, too. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:07, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

I left him a civility-warning. However, next time he should be indef'd. --Túrelio (talk) 12:29, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Inaccurate protection message

File:Joaquin 2015-10-03 1437Z.png has cascade protection and says This page is currently protected, and can be edited only by administrators. But that's not really true, it is only protected from overwriting.
Can we adjust this message? I'm not sure about the details of cascading protection, can it inhibit editing (not just overwriting) in other cases? - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 17:05, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz: cascading protection used to inhibit editing. TPTB at WMF decided that it was too much protection, they just wanted to protect from overwriting. We should change that message. I think an Interface Admin has to make such a change. Do we need consensus for it? — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 17:26, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

I don't think we need a formal consensus process to say a clearly inaccurate message should be corrected. - Jmabel ! talk 03:56, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

I changed this at MediaWiki:Cascadeprotected. GPSLeo (talk) 04:20, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks all! — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:52, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

IBAN

Hello, I would like to request the end of my interaction ban with Dronebogus. During these past more than six months, I have not violated it at any point. Still I commit not to nominate his images for deletion or provoke him, and I apologize for having done so previously, unnecessarily taking up the community's time. I have recently started medication and am much calmer now. I would not mind if he nominated my uploads for deletion, including those by Panteleev; I no longer care about that anymore. Thank you. Yacàwotçã (talk) 22:57, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

I’m not sure if commenting violates my end but I would like to appeal to have the Iban removed completely. Besides a few incidents at the beginning of the ban I have only violated it accidentally and tried to remove or apologize for these violations. Dronebogus (talk) 23:25, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Agree if both parties think it's a good idea, then I'm in favor of removing it, the less IBANs on Commons, the better. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 01:27, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Agree, similarly, but please Dronebogus, don't nominate the Panteleev files for deletion. I think we've reached a reasonable state of things there, and it has eaten way too much time and effort already. - Jmabel ! talk 03:59, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Agree, please note Jmabel's suggestion. Shaan Sengupta^Talk 11:52, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Separate conduct dispute

Extended content

I would like an explanation from @Dronebogus and @Andy Dingley why they totally failed to assume any good faith in Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Edward Myer and made baseless nonsense statements in Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems/Archive 122#User:Edward Myer and never explained them at the time or last week and the latter user wanted to AGF for something with 0 evidence from 10 years ago and didn't want to believe something with clear and current verifiable license at the time!! Look at these statements "Wherever these images came from it’s certainly not the copyright holder" -@Dronebogus "

Delete as nomination. I would agree, there is no credible situation where these are freely licensed by being the work of the uploader." -@Andy Dingley They gave 0 reasons to believe files like File:Big U During 2020 Interview.jpg are not recorded or licensed by the copyright holder and just kept insisting it with no explanation

999

REAL 💬 ⬆ 14:33, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

And what relevance does that have to Yacàwotçã or the matter at hand here? Andy Dingley (talk) 15:08, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

You 2 should be blocked if you don't produce a reasonable explanation no need to discuss IBAN if you can't edit

999

REAL 💬 ⬆ 15:15, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

I don't think that'll be enough for a block. There are far worse deletion nomination rationales and arguments out there, and even those don't lead to blocks. Nakonana (talk) 15:45, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@999real, if you have an issue with the conduct of Dronebogus and Andy Dingly, file a new thread. there is no need to drag Andy into a dicussin about dronebogus's IBAN. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 15:59, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

1st look at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems/Archive 122#User:Edward Myer and Commons:NPA "Accusations about personal behaviour that lack evidence"

Next see the extreme difference between where Andy Dingley wants to assume good faith to keep files from 10 years ago that can no longer be verified in any way rather than trust the uploader statement now that they do not remember even who took the photos and Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Edward Myer where they repeatedly falsely insist that all images are not licensed by the copyright owner even though it is clearly and fully accessible to see which ones are. Now what's the difference between these 2 cases it's that the 2nd one is about Black People!!

Now I aint making no accusations I am asking them to explain their behavior

999

REAL 💬 ⬆ 16:15, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

You are derailing a completely unrelated report (and are making implicit yet very clear and serious accusations yourself). Nakonana (talk) 17:09, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

(this is going sound like a broken record) @999real, if you want to raise these issues about Andy and Dronebogus, then make a new ANU thread. A wp:BOOMERANG is very much a possibility at this point. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 19:03, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

For what exactly? Right at the top of ANU is "Before reporting one or more users here, try to resolve the dispute by discussing with them first." That is exactly what I am doing asking them to explain their reasoning 999REAL 💬 ⬆ 19:19, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@999real: if (as it appears) you have an issue with the conduct of Dronebogus and/or Andy Dingley, please start a separate discussion in the appropriate place (COM:ANU) rather than derailing the current discussion, which is about something else entirely. And, no, "try to resolve the dispute by discussing with them first" does not mean "jump into an unrelated discussion on an arbitrary noticeboard and launch a full-scale attack." Surely you have been active on Commons long enough to know that. - Jmabel ! talk 21:44, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Abuse Filter blocking legitimate author name correction

I am user Reddyapuru, the uploader and subject of File:A_Purushotham_Reddy_author_photo.jpg. I am trying to correct the Author field to show my real name "A. Purushotham Reddy" instead of my username. The Abuse Filter is blocking this edit. The file is currently under a deletion request. Could an admin please make this correction or whitelist my account? I am the copyright owner and subject of this photo, released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reddyapuru (talk) 09:30, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Comment You already posted this on the Commons:Help desk, so you do not need to post it on several places. Yann (talk) 09:39, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

The file has been nominated as DR, can some admin do a SD. It clearly is OOS, self promotion/advert. Convenience link File:A Purushotham Reddy author photo.jpg. Shaan Sengupta^Talk 10:21, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

I started m:srg#Global lock for Reddyapuru. DR courtesy link: Commons:Deletion requests/File:A Purushotham Reddy author photo.jpg. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:23, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

The proper section name is now § Global lock for Reddyapuru and Latest2all. Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 04:37, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

@Whyiseverythingalreadyused: Thanks. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:22, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

@Jeff G. :) Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 11:35, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Request mass message for POTY 2025 Announce Results

I would like to request a mass message for POTY 2025 Announce Results.

Message: Commons:Picture of the Year/2025/MessageAnnounceResults
Targets: Commons:Picture of the Year/2026/Message/Targets

The first request was archived without any action. Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 15:52, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

@ZI Jony how was that list created? Seems like e.g. removed account is on the like User talk:AgainErick, which seem like an error. Did the users subscribe to this message in some way? Nux (talk··dyskusja) 16:03, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

@Giles Laurent, could you please clarify the comment? Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 16:15, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

@Nux and @ZI Jony: It is the list used for POTY announcements (see recent examples here 1, 2). The list is automatically generated by a script that visits every single contest voting page to make a list of users that voted during a POTY edition. For example it will grab all usernames in pages like this one and then make a list of all of them sorted by alphabetical order. The script includes a code to avoid having a same user appearing twice in the list. POTY Rules explicitely explain: "We may contact you on your talk page for up to 1 year after you vote to alert you to contest results and invite you to participate in next year's contest. You may opt out at any time."

As for users talk pages appearing in red like the one you linked, it is because users have since then changed their username without leaving a redirect. The new page for User talk:AgainErick is now User_talk:Renamed_user_78c4706c60d407044b2d781c6f7c281f as mentionned on AgainErick red link talk page. The red links have however never been a problem in the past for sending mass messages. -- Giles Laurent (talk) 16:28, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Done OK, sent Nux (talk··dyskusja) 20:01, 9 May 2026 (UTC)