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User:Hmd5i

They personally attacked me and harassed me on their talk page by calling me a dumb and stupid person just because I joined a few months ago. This is what they said: "Be careful next time , don’t be a dumb when waiting updates form website , you are here just months and look like crazy". If it is not there, check the talk page histpry and it should be there. They also put misinformation on the syrian coa varations by attempting to edit war with me, but luckily that's fixed. 🗽Freedoxm🗽 (talk) 08:31, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

@Freedoxm: I have given them a warning to remain civil in discussions, and removed both the words from the thread. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 09:21, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. 🗽Freedoxm🗽 (talk) 16:59, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Category:Candidates for revision deletion

Category:Candidates for revision deletion and its subcats have a backlog of up to a year. Is anyone taking care of this category at all? C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 11:41, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

• I cleaned up a few. For what it's worth, of the ones I took on, about half were cases of people having done the work without removing the tag, and at least one was because of Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems/Archive_73#Better_quality,_but_without_reference_to_source, which I followed up as a decided matter but honestly can't see the point of revdels for this. - Jmabel ! talk 18:30, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
• I handled your files, everything in Category:Media with unacceptable data in old versions, and Category:Overwritten files requiring revision deletion. The other two subcats are too large for me to handle right now, but I can chip away at them. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 20:55, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Luigi Mangione

Hello,

Would any admin like to assess the consensus of and close this discussion: Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Luigi Mangione? The Luigi Mangione article on the English Wikipedia is in the preparation queue for DYK, so it would be nice to have any copyright issues resolved before it appears on the main page. Thanks in advance! Some1 (talk) 19:15, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done Photos deleted since there is no evidence that Altoona police waived copyright. Abzeronow (talk) 20:29, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

User:İnayət Süleymanlı

Hello, the user requests that all of his files be deleted.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Deletion_requests/az Sofia (talk) 05:37, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Accounts cannot be deleted, and their claim that got their account deleted on Wikipedia is absurd. Also, account renames are global and I don't see that here. Many of the links in the message are external. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 06:43, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

He wrote this with his new account. He should log in to his old account and request that his files be deleted. Sofia (talk) 07:16, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Most of the links there aren't even links to anything. - Jmabel ! talk 18:26, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Cross namespace moves by new users

I just noticed that new users are able to move pages between namespaces. I thought that was not possible. Was that always possible? If yes I think we should create a filter to block such moves. GPSLeo (talk) 15:42, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

For others: Special:Diff/980262033 and Special:Diff/980261107 are examples. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 16:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

per Special:ListGroupRights, autoconfirmed users have ability to move pages. Perhaps, ideally becauses talk-pages are different than files, and maybe not included in movefile, which is only reserved to file-movers apart from admins. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 16:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Datasets about potential logos - December 2024 uploads

Hi all, we have released a new dataset of potential logos uploaded in December 2024, together with another one of those which have already been deleted as of 2025-01-07. We are sharing them with you for your consideration.

This is part of our current work with the logo detection tool. We hope it will be useful for your moderation activities.

If you encounter issues with the datasets or have comments/requests, please reach out to me or to Sannita (WMF).

Thanks for your attention! –-MFossati (WMF) (talk) 10:25, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

• @Sannita (WMF) and MFossati (WMF): it would be spectacularly helpful if you could put all of the files that this tool identifies into a hidden category, so that admins can look at them in gallery view instead of having to open them one by one from the links in the CSV. Or maybe we could have a bot do that if it can parse the CSV? The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:36, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

  @The Squirrel Conspiracy I just made some tables: take a look at the subpages of User:Mdaniels5757/Logo data 2024-12. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 03:56, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

  • @Mdaniels5757: Thanks. Column headers would be nice, especially for columns with just Boolean values. - Jmabel ! talk 04:01, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    @Jmabel Try refreshing, I just fixed those after I posted :) —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 04:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    • @Mdaniels5757: refreshing not fixing for me at User:Mdaniels5757/Logo data 2024-12/03 and they appear not to be in the page source (sortable, but no headers given). - Jmabel ! talk 04:21, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

      @Jmabel Ah, I see the problem now. Fixed. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 04:36, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

      • Now we're good. - Jmabel ! talk 04:47, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

  Thank you! I've already zapped a bunch of spam and a few copyvios using those tables. Just what I needed. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 09:19, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

• How is that "confidence score" used? What (if anything) happens for files in what range of confidence score?- Jmabel ! talk 04:53, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

• @Sannita (WMF) and MFossati (WMF): Can you add a rule to ignore any file that begins with "BSicon"? For example, File:BSicon SFSKRZqu+l.svg. Files with this naming convention will never be logos (they're segments of transportation diagrams), and there are a lot of them. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 09:23, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Proposal Announcement

I made a proposal for abolish acceptance on the Commons:Freedom of panorama discussion page#Proposal to abolish acceptance. I would like to hear from many people, so I would appreciate a more widespread announcement. Y.haruo (talk) 12:13, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

I do not see why we should send a mass message or watchlist announcement for this discussion in the current status. This could change if this first discussion develops into an RfC to vote on. You can simply ask for comments on the Village pump. GPSLeo (talk) 15:03, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Closure requested on a month old DR

• Commons:Deletion requests/Category:Nicole Luisoni
• Commons:Deletion requests/File:Nicole Luisoni (52524729432).jpg

These have been open for a month and the subject clearly would like to see some resolution. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:55, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

@Andy Dingley: I've closed both DRs as deleted per consensus. Abzeronow (talk) 22:47, 9 January 2025 (UTC)