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Bad Flickr account 2[edit]

Please add 48973657@N00 to Commons:Questionable Flickr images/Users.

While it has a CC-BY-SA license, the description says (not just for this photo):

"You may syndicate this content for non-commercial purposes as long as you attribute credits to me. Commercial usage will be considered on a case-by-case basis."

So it's actually more like CC-BY-SA-NC. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 19:29, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with insource:"48973657@N00". - Alexis Jazz ping plz 20:27, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Not a good idea. The DR is leaning towards keep and there are lots of people who disagree with you on this matter (dual licensing etc.). So let's wait until the DR is officially closed. De728631 (talk) 16:09, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
@De728631: is okay for me. Do note the photographer also responded in the DR and said "These are my photos. I have licensed them with CC-BY-SA for non-commercial use". - Alexis Jazz ping plz 16:38, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
Yes, I saw that, but it has also been noted that the way he did it may have been ineffective in legal terms. Flickr does have dedicated NC and ND Creative Commons licenses to choose from, e.g. [1], [2]. De728631 (talk) 16:47, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
@De728631: (please ping me, I don't read all the boards all the time) even if it is legally ineffective, we may want to avoid importing any more from now on. But waiting for the outcome of the DR works for me. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 11:33, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

File:ANNE PROFILE (2016).jpg[edit]

Can one of you look at this image? I am not convinced that the licensing is done properly. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 02:34, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Obvious copyvio is obvious. Deleted. --Majora (talk) 02:42, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you much. Drmies (talk) 02:55, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for letting us know. --Majora (talk) 02:56, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

File:STILL LIFE WITH A GARLAND OF ROSES.PNG[edit]

Error message black list.png

tried to upload from http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/old-master-early-british-paintings-l11030/lot.187.html - got this error message ".*[НHΗＨⱧ]+[[:punct:] ]*[ΆAÁÀÃÄÂΑАＡ]+[[:punct:] ]*[GＧԌ]+[[:punct:] ]*(?:[ΆAÁÀÃÄÂΑАＡ]|[EЕΕËＥĖ])+[[:punct:] ]*[RＲЯ]+.* <casesensitive> @Special:Upload" -- Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 01:43, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

It appears to be the all caps title, Slowking4. Can you try again without the caps? Or does it have to be that way? --Majora (talk) 02:36, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
Specifically, it doesn't like the string "WITH A GARLAND" thanks to a prolific vandal from a while back. clpo13(talk) 02:41, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
thanks. i did not know "with a garland" was a blacklisted phrase. might want to adjust your blocked vocabulary, if it is not serving the purpose any longer. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 02:48, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
It's actually the bolded letters, though AFAIK, it hasn't been a significant problem since 2008, at least over on enwiki. clpo13(talk) 02:51, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
It is also not on any local list. It is globally blacklisted. You can always as over at meta for them to remove it. --Majora (talk) 02:52, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
I've made the request to remove it at meta. Guanaco (talk) 04:44, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Кирилий[edit]

Could someone reply in the same language to the user? These files might be OK, but we need the creator's name and death date to see if they are PD, as there is no FoP in Ukraine for 3D artwork. Ronhjones  (Talk) 16:55, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Request for IP block exemption[edit]

Could I ask to be given the IP block exemption right, please? I tried editing from my cell phone and there is a gigantic range block on it. It looks like m:Special:GlobalBlockList/2600:387:3:803:0:0:0:0 is affecting me. Commons:IP block exemption says to make the request as a part of an unblock message, but the block doesn't even let me edit my talk page. At :en, I am an admin and I can edit from my cellphone fine from there, so I'm assuming an IP block exemption can bypass this global block. Thanks, --B (talk) 20:40, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done For same as range block time (1 year) Ronhjones  (Talk) 20:46, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
Face-smile.svg Thank you --B (talk) 21:03, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

mass message for participants of WLE Germany 2018[edit]

Hello admins,

please place the text in User:Blech/WLE2018Dank on the discussion pages of the 683 users listed in User:Blech/WLE2018Teilnehmer.

Best regards, --Blech (talk) 21:19, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done --Didym (talk) 00:20, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Vielen Dank. --Blech (talk) 06:23, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Commons:Flickr2Commons problems[edit]

Hi, it looks like the Commons:Flickr2Commons tools isnt checking for duplicate images anymore, and a huge amount of dupes appearing currently on commons. I'm busy working on Special:ListDuplicatedFiles since months, and was able to reduce the count from nearby 5000 to under 3000 from about March to June. Then some users started mass uploads creating tons of duplicates. The dupes now often coming in quicker than I am able to process them. See the discusions at i.e. User_talk:Tyler_de_Noche#duplicate_images_again, User_talk:Tyler_de_Noche/Archive_1#uploading_duplicates, User_talk:Hiàn/Archive2#uploading_duplicates and some others. There a lot of (nearby) of of scope images uploaded by some users by flickr2commons as well. I think we are nearby the state that the trouble created by those mass uploads is bigger than the benefit we have because of the addional images. According User:Fæ there are other posssibilities than flickr2commons to do such transfers.

How we can prevent that in the future? Might it be an idea to disable flickr2commons until the dupe bug is fixed? Would that be technicly possible anyhow? Would it be possible to slow down the upload rate to i.e. 1 image per minute and user by flickr2commons? Any other ideas?

Other admins help on Special:ListDuplicatedFiles would be appreciated anyhow. Thx. --JuTa 15:34, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

@JuTa: there have been several discussion about this (if nobody produces the links I'll search for them..), but the main issue is that Magnus Manske doesn't seem to respond to anything. If Flickr2Commons breaks completely tomorrow, we're all fucked. It's a zombie tool. There is no maintainer. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 16:46, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Well as User:Fæ wrote, there are other tools doing the same tasks. I dont know which, perhap he should note them here. And a zombie tool would be another reason to disable it in my eyes. --JuTa 16:49, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Admins, license reviewers, and extended uploaders can upload images directly from Flickr with the UploadWizard (Commons:Upload Wizard/Flickr). It does batch uploading and will catch duplicates during the process. I don't know if it compares 1:1 with Flickr2Commons in terms of features, though. There are a couple more options listed at COM:FLICKR#Tools, but I don't have any experience with them. clpo13(talk) 16:59, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
+1 And if newbies need permissions we should revisit T90004 Enable Flickr import for all users on Commons. Most contributors are uploading fewer than 1000 images in a project, and doing 50 at a time this way is fine. If we want to create a better F2C (maybe with options to upload from other sources, like DVIDS), I suggest the Community support a development project <ranty bit> and a grant to get it done, rather than eating up/being reliant on free time from increasingly rare tech volunteers who rarely get any thanks for their efforts, and are more likely to get shouty complaints when stuff breaks, especially when breaks are down to WMF shifting the goalposts.</ranty bit>
BTW, no need to create a list, see Commons:Upload_tools#Uploading_from_Flickr. --Fæ (talk) 17:18, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but every time I've tried to use the Wizard to transfer from Flickr I get a million errors, and have to button mash upload 20 or 30 times to get it to work for the whole batch. So, not exactly a stellar option in my experience. Maybe I've just screwed something up I'm unaware of, or maybe that's a transient bug that's been fixed? GMGtalk 17:37, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Commons:Village pump/Proposals#Restrict usage of Flickr2Commons
Commons talk:Flickr2Commons#Flickr2Commons does not check for duplicates (or ignores them)
Flickr2Commons does not check for duplicates (or ignores them) (thread on the talk page of the maintainer, archived without response)
- Alexis Jazz ping plz 22:54, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
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