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Hello, I've found a link to your post. Actually, there're a lot of dubious uploads there, including 'own photos' of people who died in 1961 and even in 1903, so I've decided to file RfDs. Komarof (talk) 13:44, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
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Hi Marchjuly. I noticed that a deletion request you made was not done correctly.
This is not an unusual mistake, but I'm leaving you this message to help you get this right in the future.
There are several steps to making a deletion request (DR) correctly; among other things you must transclude the deletion into the correct daily DR list, and to notify the page creator and optionally other human (non-bot) editors of the page. By far the easiest way to do all of this correctly is to use the automatic Nominate for deletion or Nominate category for discussion tool in the Tools menu on the sidebar per COM:DR#Starting requests and COM:CFD#Starting requests, which takes care of all that using vetted Javascript. If you prefer to add the {{Delete}} template or {{Category for discussion}} template manually, you are required to follow the instructions in the template, including the "Click here to show further instructions" portion (or Commons:Deletion requests/Listing a request manually policy or the "By hand" portion of COM:CFD#Starting requests, normally collapsed). Again, though, there is no need to follow complex instructions if you use the automatic tools.
Also worth knowing: on Commons, {{Delete}} is not a "speedy delete" request like it is on many other projects; instead, it starts a discussion of whether the file should be deleted. If you think a particular media file really obviously does not belong on Commons, see the instructions at Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion. Common cases that are better handled with a speedy delete than a DR include:
Common bad reasons people have for making DRs in the first place include:
- after renaming a category, trying to delete the resulting redirect in violation of policy COM:CATRED
- making a DR for a file where there is already a current DR
- trying to delete one's own work within 7 days (use {{G7}} instead)
- placing {{Delete}} on the deletion subpage itself, or on a talk page.
Also, please don't use {{Ffd}} (that's an English Wikipedia thing).
If you have further questions about the deletion process, you can ask them at COM:Help desk or COM:Village pump. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 01:35, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
- @Jeff G.: Please check that page's history again because I wasn't one the made the deletion request; it was another user named Yacàwotçã: they were trying to covert a copyvio tag added by yet another user named Black Kite into a regular DR. The syntax for the DR nomination was malformed, and I only tried to fix it. If I did that incorrectly, then my apologies for that. Now, this is the second time in recent memory that you've "warned" me about doing something that I really didn't do. You seem to be a little too quick to judge and warn me without taking the time to fully grasp what actually happened. Maybe taking a bit of time to see what actually happened before warning/accusing me of doing something wrong might be a better approach to automatically assuming the worst. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
- I saw what happened, you left the page in Category:Deletion requests - No timestamp given. P.S., this page looks terrible in dark mode. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 02:38, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
- Once again, I only tried to fix a syntax error in a deletion nomination template syntax made by someone else; I didn't nominate the file for deletion. If the attempt to fix the syntax error had a ripple effect on another DR related page, then my apologies for that. It should've, however, been relatively easy for someone as experienced with Commons as you to figure out what happened from looking at the page's history, the relevant diffs and the edit summary I left. There was absolutely no need for you to leave the overzealous warning you left above for such a thing, particularly in tone/manner like I was a complete newbie to Commons. Please don't do such a thing again. Lastly, I've got no clue as to what your P.S. comment about "dark mode" has to do with me or any of the above: you don't need to and I don't really want you to try and clarify. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:06, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
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