User talk:Plugwash~commonswiki
please use my talk page on en to contact me
Admin[edit]
You're now an admin here on Commons. Congratulations! villy ♦ ✎ 29 June 2005 09:55 (UTC)
Commons-l subscription[edit]
Hello Plugwash,
as per Commons talk:Administrators, I am asking all admins to subscribe to commons-l, a mailing list for Wikimedia Commons policy and project discussion. Since many admins are only on Commons infrequently, this is a good way to alert people about important happenings. The mailing list is nominally multilingual, but predominantly English.
If you are already subscribed to commons-l, I apologize for bothering you, and you are free to ignore this message. If you don't want to use your regular e-mail account, feel free to leave me a message, and I can send you a GMail invite. Traffic on the mailing list is relatively low, and we do not expect admins to read all messages to the list, but it would be nice if you could check on it at least every few weeks. Thanks for your time,--Eloquence 23:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Admin news[edit]
Hello,
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cheers, pfctdayelise (translate?) 05:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC) P.S.: Pardon if this is a repeat (bot debugging...)
Category:Testredirectcattoimage[edit]
Hi, does your category Category:Testredirectcattoimage have any use, or should it be deleted? --121.73.5.55 08:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
- I created it for a bug report about poor handling of cross namespace redirects. Since that bug was closed some time ago i think it can be safely deleted. Plugwash 19:36, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
- almost forgot, i am still an admin here (though i kind of lost interest after we stopped having a usable list of images that had copyright tags but no other categories). Ive now deleted it. Plugwash 19:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Administrative notice[edit]
Hi. This message is sent out to you because you are an administrator on Commons, and you made little use (or no use) of the admin tools lately: less than 5 times in the last five months.
Commons has a new policy on admin activity, Commons:Administrators/De-adminship, taken into use on June 13, 2007 (after a poll among users). According to that policy, admins who use their tools infrequently will be asked whether they still need their adminship, and if they do not respond or require them the removal of the tools will be requested.
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--Leyo 15:59, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
File source is not properly indicated: File:SChinese TrafficSigns cropped.jpg[edit]
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Jodo (talk) 21:18, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
Tip: Categorizing images[edit]
Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.
Here's how:
1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:
2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.
[[Category:Category name]]
For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:
[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]
[[Category:Comets]]
This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".
When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").
Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.BotMultichillT 23:14, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Opuntia rufida01.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
File source is not properly indicated: File:Banya_bashi_mosque_cropped.jpg[edit]
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[[:File:Banya_bashi_mosque_cropped.jpg]] ).
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-Nard the Bard 17:17, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Please help replace this outdated license[edit]
Hello!
Thank you for donating images to the Wikimedia Commons. You have uploaded some images in the past with the license {{PD}}. While this was a license acceptable in the early days of Wikimedia, since January 2006, this license has been deprecated and since October 2008 no new uploads with this license was allowed.
The license on older images should be replaced with a better and more specific license/permissions and you can help by checking the images and adding {{PD-self}} if you are the author or one of the other templates that you can see in the template on the image page.
Thank you for your help. If you need help feel free to ask at Commons talk:Licensing or contact User:Zscout370.
The images we would like you to check are:
BotMultichillT 21:03, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for bringing these to my attention. The first one has already been deleted for some reason and I don't remember anything about it (though from the name it seems likely I only transferred or modified it). The second one is a hybrid image and one of the base images was deleted due to unclear permissions, I will sort this by rebuilding it with that base image replaced. The remaining two are things I transferred from en wikipedia (there are a number of other images in that same series too which are likely to have the same problem) and both look like they might also be problematic due to unclear permission (IIRC chamaeleon got permission from the site he copied them from but the text of that permission wasn't hugely clear on the exact licensing details). Since these weren't the best quality images to start with replacement would probablly be the way to go. We have lots of pics of the BS1363, we have at least one other picture of the Israeli socket but it dipicts a slightly different variant.
- It doesn't help that the english wikipedia admins had a habbit of deleting images after transfer and thereby effectively deleting the pre-commons history. Plugwash (talk) 01:36, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
File tagging File:G_plug.png[edit]
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Kelly (talk) 08:37, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
- See the section above, I only transferred this from en to commons. Chameleon got the permission but I agree it wasn't particually clear on the specifics. I have no interest in chasing this up if someone else wants to chase it up then fine but IMO it's probablly easier just to replace it. Plugwash (talk) 14:42, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
- P.S. IIRC the permission email can be found somewhere in the talk archives of en:AC power plugs and sockets but I doubt it would meet wikipedias modern standards so i'm not going to bother digging it out. Plugwash (talk) 14:46, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
File:Euro_converter_plug.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
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Missvain (talk) 05:06, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Your account will be renamed[edit]
Hello,
The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.
Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Plugwash. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Plugwash~commonswiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.
Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
22:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Renamed[edit]
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04:53, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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Geof Sheppard (talk) 12:57, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Copyright status: File:Cygnus cygnus from zh.JPG[edit]
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Thanks for uploading File:Cygnus cygnus from zh.JPG. I notice that the file page either doesn't contain enough information about the license or it contains contradictory information about the license, so the copyright status is unclear.
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Yours sincerely, JuTa 22:14, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
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PlanespotterA320 (talk) 21:29, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
File:Leon trotsky.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has 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 it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. |
PlanespotterA320 (talk) 00:36, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
Chemistry diagram has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this gallery, please note that the fact that it has 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 it. |
Leyo 22:29, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
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A1Cafel (talk) 02:49, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Richard Dale has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
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CzarJobKhaya (talk) 01:25, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Murten has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this gallery, please note that the fact that it has 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 it. |