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Hiding spam

I request these editions and the summary must be hidden because is a crosswiki spam for a YouTube video. Taichi (talk) 22:54, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

+1 — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:14, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Done. I hided a lot of edits and semi-protected a lot of files. Taivo (talk) 17:27, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Deletion request

I nominated several of my own uploads for deletion, as I uploaded them believing I had taken them ( I have been to these locations myself), and have since realized this was not the case. I would like them deleted whenever someone has the time. Kingsmasher678 (talk) 17:23, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Could you explain further what happened here (how someone else's photos came into your possession and appeared to you to be your own)? - Jmabel ! talk 20:42, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

I am a caver and have been to the places the pictures were taken, and taken pictures in some of them. I just forgot which ones I took and which others took till I went back through and realized I was in one of them. I have already removed them from the pages they were present on and replaced them. Kingsmasher678 (talk) 21:15, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

@Kingsmasher678: I still don't get it. Did other people's pictures end up stored on your camera? On your computer? Or what? - Jmabel ! talk 05:07, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Ended up in my camera roll on my phone after we exchanged pictures after caving trips. Thought I took some I did not not. Remembered who took which ones. Asked to delete them.

I don't really understand why deleting them is an issue, I have already removed them from all pages that use them and have been very upfront with this. I would like to just move on, it is an embarrassing mistake to make. Kingsmasher678 (talk) 15:51, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

@Kingsmasher678: Now that you've explained, it sounds reasonable.

FWIW, fairly often we have someone who discovers they could get paid for a particular picture, but only if they aren't also offering it under a free license, and tries to get it deleted here on a somewhat fraudulent basis, so we are always on guard for that. - Jmabel ! talk 22:10, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Nah, I license all of my photos under CC BY-SA 4.0, I don't do art for money. Have a good one! Kingsmasher678 (talk) 00:10, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

Revision deletion request

Hello. I am requesting the revision deletion of the following versions of File:Department of Education.svg:

Reason: I misunderstood the SVG license of https://simplemaps.com/resources/svg-license, which is the source where I got an SVG map of the Philippines. I uploaded 3 revisions of the file before realizing that https://simplemaps.com doesn't allow redistribution of the SVG code without permission.

Thanks. Ethan8192 (talk) 20:38, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Done - Jmabel ! talk 20:46, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Tricky rollback situation

When a user spams talk pages without signing, SignBot comes by in their wake and adds a pseudo-signature. This makes it very hard to do a rollback by any method I know. Is there a way to deal with that? (This is with reference to the recently blocked SaltyAFcsar1, but the modus operandi is one I've seen quite a bit lately.) - Jmabel ! talk 05:38, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

This user you mentioned has posted a youtube link in my talkpage, I don't understand. Tisha Mukherjee (talk) 08:01, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

@Tisha Mukherjee: Hi, and welcome. That was spam. The mentioned user spammed 70 times before being blocked. This section is about dealing with the spam efficiently and effectively. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 09:05, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

@Jmabel: After reading the offending edit and the SignBot edit, my go-to link has been the "restore" link near the end of the lineitem for the last good revision on that page on that page's history. If that link doesn't appear, I edit that last good revision, ignore the warning, and save anyway. Complicating matters is the fact that the offending video's ID shows up in (apparently cached) regular search results on page Template:Nationaal Archief/ru, where that ID was removed back on 11 March. For Special:Diff/1198324088, when restore would have produced poor results, I used "undo" on the two edits together. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:59, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Huh, I've never seen a "restore" link in the history; I wonder if it's from some configuration I don't have.

Yes, the "last good revision thing" is the usual way I do this manually, but it's really tedious to do for 70 or so files. I tried (and failed) to do a search for that URL with "insource:" and use some mass editing tool to get rid of this efficiently, but I did not have much success; kept having things remove only one or two of them, then choke. I'm afraid that at this scale, if I can't do it with a mass-action tool, and I can't just hit the history pages and click once or twice, I don't have the patience. - Jmabel ! talk 22:25, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth in Wales 2026: Request for Mass Message

Hi! Is there someone who could help me with sending a mass message please? For Wiki Loves Earth in Wales 2026, we'd like to send a message to invite those who participated in previous years to take part this year. Here's text of the message (lang switched between Welsh and English), and here's the list of who we'd like it sent to. Thanks! / Diolch! Gemma Coleman (WMUK) (talk) 13:44, 16 April 2026 (UTC)