User talk:Ronhjones/Archive 38

18:09, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Hey. Could you reduce File:2017 Stanley Cup playoffs logo.svg and File:2018 Stanley Cup playoffs logo.svg? I have trouble doing it myself and cannot see what is wrong with the code. Thanks in advance. – Sabbatino (talk) 10:56, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

@Sabbatino: No problem. both done. I've a bot application in at present, hopefully they will be much faster in future. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 17:48, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I usually reduce logos myself, but some logos' codes are tricky and sometimes I upload them without being reduced if I cannot seem to find what is wrong. – Sabbatino (talk) 18:52, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Could you remove protection from these pages? Both are semi-protected and fully move-protected. Super Mario Guy (talk) 22:44, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

@Super Mario Guy: Such requests need to be done at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Current_requests_for_reduction_in_protection_level Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:52, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Re: 68.234.100.169 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and your comment. Don't you think five warnings in five days is more than enough? Especially as the IP blanked their page immediately after each warning. They must be laughing their head off at you. --RexxS (talk) 20:50, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

@RexxS: Bishonen decided to give them a warning (he's an admin) at 09:38, there were no edits after that. Therefore "No vandalism since final warning" is the required answer. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:17, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Soft Soap 'Shonen is a she, and I know she's an admin. But if you think about it, every warning is a final warning in that sense – it's the last warning the IP has received. So I'll ask you again, don't you think five warnings in five days, coupled with a complete lack of positive contributions, is more than enough to establish that the account is a VOA? You don't have to tell me about what's "required" by the bureaucracy of AIV; I'm perfectly aware of it, thanks, I just want to know if you're happy preventing another admin from taking action on that report? --RexxS (talk) 01:43, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

@RexxS: If Bishonen decided to give a warning, then that's it - that's the admin's decision. Admins don't wheel war. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 01:48, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

I'd have some sympathy with that argument if you'd accurately conveyed what a wheel-war was. By definition it's "reinstating a reverted action" - i.e it would be the third admin action in a sequence. Apart from AE actions, any admin is free to reverse – another admin's action once. If you mean you don't like the idea of taking action when another admin has chosen not to do so, then that's fair enough, but it's not wheel warring by any stretch of the imagination. --RexxS (talk) 02:03, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

I know what you mean, RexxS, and while I appreciate Ron's polite gesture, I don't altogether agree that the last admin to warn owns the decision whether to block or not. If that's a principle, I've violated it a few times, on the argument that the warning admin might not have noticed what I notice. OTOH blocking these obvious returning banned users is a bit of an empty gesture, as the world is full of proxies. Also, the IP can be blocked as soon as they resume trolling, and if they don't resume trolling, well then, mission accomplished, as the popular phrase has it. Bishonen | talk 08:59, 16 April 2018 (UTC).

15:21, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

This file is in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old, but your bot is neither deleting the old revision nor requesting manual review. Something seems wrong. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:32, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

@Stefan2: Thanks for note - going back to log - looks like it tried, decided to go manual, and failed User:Ronhjones/Sandbox2. Need to compare the print statements to the log output and see why it aborted. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:14, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Well it's has to be this line

    pagetext = re.sub(r'(?P<Main>\{\{(?:[Oo]rphaned non-free revisions|[Nn]on-free reduced).+?(?=}}))', r'\g<Main>|human=yes', pagetext)

which adds the "human=yes" bit. Not obvious why it's not fixing it. More thought required (how I hate RegEx!) Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:35, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

As I see it the ".+?" is match "one to unlimited as few as times as possible", with no date parameter in the template, we need "zero to unlimited", which is ".*?". I'll change the code. Hopefully it will work tonight. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:48, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

It would maybe be a good idea to change the template so that all files end up in the "manual" category after ten days. That would catch all kinds of situations where your bot won't do anything. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:52, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Not a bad idea, I'll have a look. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:23, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Just sending you an FYI that I extended the original block you placed on this user to an indefinite block for creating another account to evade the block you placed. I let the user know that they'll need to appeal their block before they can continue editing due to the evasion of their block. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers - ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 00:45, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your help and suggestion on my talk page. I've updated Template:Sortname/sandbox and it seems to be working (see table at the foot of User:Greenshed/sandbox). Can you change the main template for me? I will update the documentation once the change is live. Thanks. Greenshed (talk) 02:13, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

18:17, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

I can add the company logo to wiki because although it is a non-free logo, there is almost certainly no free representation. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary. Li.andy (talk) 18:43, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@Li.andy: Correct. but it has to follow the non-free policy and guidelines. The guideline for NF images is 100,000 pixels. The automatic bot will sort it our for you, you don't have to do anything, the notice to you is for information only - because a very few images will be badly corrupted on reduction, therefore it's useful to know what will happen, so you can check the result (but looking at the image, it should be just fine - it has none of the problem type detail that does not reduce). Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:48, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Ronhjones!

Can you send me one (ore several) (diff-)links where the community agreed that NFC-SVGs should be reuploaded just to reduce the preview-size (without changing content). I won't read everything in the Archives of Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content.

If I can see a clear consensus I would support the approval of the bot.

JoKalliauer (talk) 18:40, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

I'll try, but don't hold your breath! As Stefan2 and I both said, that item was added to the documentation of Template:Non-free reduce some 7-8 years ago. Any discussion could have been in a multitude of places - en-wiki was rather different then. There are (I have links somewhere) discussions that state that official svg logos do not need to vector reduced - it's such a grey area! FWIW, I would prefer that SVG images are not allowed for non-free images, but that's another discussion that has been tried (and failed). Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:58, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

I'll add interesting links to User:RonBot/4/Links as I find themRonhjones  ^(Talk) 19:13, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

I agree with the conclusion on the second link: Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content/Archive_61#SVG_non-free_content:

Personally, I think we should just put a hard ban on all non-free SVG's regardless of source. It is impossible to meet the low-resolution requirement, even if its rendered at low-res, if the image has a de facto infinite resolution."

Also I personally think reupload as png makes more sense (that can be done by a bot).

1. Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)/Archive_12#Disallow_non-free_SVGs: "There's no consensus above for us to not use non-free SVG files, so can we force people to not use non-free SVG files?" No. Anomie⚔ 12:09, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
2. Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content/Archive_61#SVG_non-free_content: Personally, I think we should just put a hard ban on all non-free SVG's regardless of source. It is impossible to meet the low-resolution requirement, even if its rendered at low-res, if the image has a de facto infinite resolution.
3. Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content/Archive_64#Non-free_images_and_SVG: Given that there is no guidance whatsoever in NFC or NFCC on vector images, I'm not sure it's necessary to make this clarification, but if there's a consensus on this page that vectorized versions of non-free images are definitely forbidden, I can modify the RfC wording.
4. Change of Documentation That is just a maintenance-category, because NFC-SVGs are avaiable also they are depreciated.

Maybe you find any specific link which agrees with your (and not with my) opinion.

JoKalliauer (talk) 20:43, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

As I said, discussions can happen anywhere, I looked at the editor who made the template documentation 8 years ago, and I have no idea how he got that data - he had not (apparently) been near any non-free discussions, so how did he know about "nominal size", that makes no sense. If you are correct then you should start a new discussion to resolve the template documentation if you truly believe it is incorrect. If that is then the case then I must remove the {{non-free reduce}} template that I added in over 2000 files as they have been tagged on an incorrect assumption, based soly on the template documentation I viewed. It would be stupid to leave them in, with 12,000 SVGs which on a quick look are just as complex SVGs, but not tagged as their nominal size did not show up in my special search of https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=File%3A+incategory%3A%22All+non-free+media%22+fileres%3A%3E325+filemime%3Asvg - which is just a search based on "nominal size". I will keep looking though. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:10, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Can you direct me to a link that guides me through the process of reducing an image's pixels.128.32.87.201 (talk) 22:28, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

You do not have to do it manually - the reducing bot has already been and done it for you. The full guideline is at WP:Image resolution Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:40, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Discussion here (at least I think that's probably what triggered my edit). Hope it helps. As you may be able to read, I found it odd at the time that it matters to Wikipedia editors, due to the infinitely-scalable nature of SVGs, but that's how it is. gringer (talk) 23:08, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

@JoKalliauer: another one for you to read. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:13, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

If you want to convince me, please send me a diff-link of one edit that shows what you want to show, don't mess me up with reading any bulk-discussion, with no clear conclusion. JoKalliauer (talk) 16:44, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

It did say "and may violate fair use rationale which does not permit large nominal sizes" - and that was back in 2010. This is all going so far back that links are very hard to track down. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 17:45, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

And there are at least 3 links in that Workshop, where users have been told to reduce the "nominal size" for non-free reasons. It appears to be the standard in the early 2000s. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 17:51, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, but you just found two people @Ronhjones, Orionist, and Jovianeye: and @Masem: , , but there are also persons who are different opinion @Anomie:, @ViperSnake151: , @0x0077BE:, @Jheald: , @Stefan2:...

So you want to say that there is no clear conclusion and it is still for discussion? (But why do you ask for approval for a bot, before discussion?)

Since Wikipedia (at least the german one) is not about wining most votes, it is about having the better arguments, you still can try to start a discussion.

Try to put that clear into a guideline that the preview-size of NFC-SVGs should be reduced without changing the content. If the community would agree on that, I am happy to support the approval of your bot.

Since @Masem: posted a usefull comment:, I might rethink my opinion. JoKalliauer (talk) 12:29, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

@JoKalliauer: I don't really care about the changing of the nominal display size of a non-free SVG. The comment of mine that you linked was opposing a proposal to disallow non-free SVGs entirely. Not watching this page, please ping on relevant replies. Anomie⚔ 13:13, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Some of the logos that you reduce for compliance purposes I reupload, the reason is that the tool you use leaves some compression artifacting (not a complaint, just an observation!). Example. Granted, it's barely visible, but it should look the best it can at the smaller size. At first glance my reuploads look the same, so I figured I'll let you know. --Ben Stone 09:25, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

@Benstown: Fell free to upload a better one if the reduction has gone a bit off. There are 3 ways it gets reduced - DatBot6 is usual reducer for jpg and pmg - if it crashes (as it did on this day) and DatGuy doesn't notice (it runs on his PC) then I'll do them semi-automatically for that day, if DatBot6 is likely to be down for some time then I would invoke the old Theo's Little Bot - also RonBot2 does the GIFs in the same way. All these bots (as far as I know) use Python Imaging Library 2.7, which is good, but maybe can be surpassed by better (and possibly expensive) software (python is free!). RonBot1 will hide the original after 7 days, you can always ask for me to unhide (or send by e-mail) the original, if you think there is a problem. I'm trying to get approval for RonBot3 (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RonBot 3), which will notify the uploader that there is an imminent reduction and request they check the reduced item - that might help this sort of situation. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 13:48, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

No worries. I've seen Twinkle fail to catch duplicate blocks executed within a close time frame. And to be honest I was very close to indeffing them. -Ad Orientem (talk)

No happened to me before. First time for every thing :-) I suspect the next block won't be far away... Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 01:58, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Can a file uploaded to English wikipedia be used in other language wikipedia? Can the File namespace pages be translated? Harsh Rathod Poke me! 13:52, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

@Harshrathod50: No. Local files are just local to that Wikipedia. Only files on commons are global - but commons only takes files that are both free in the US and free in the country of origin. Note that not all Wikis allow non-free content - see m:NFC for a full list. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 14:45, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for taking your precious time to reply me. Harsh Rathod Poke me! 15:30, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

• The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

• AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
• When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
• The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

• Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

Mr. Jones, Many thanks for your message about external links. I contributed links that I believe provides additional research about those individuals. Specifically, the links are to digital collections of these individuals; thus, providing access to primary-source materials. For example, on Alfred Junge's page, I added a link to Junge's digitized works: https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll33

For those interested in Junge, this link provides immediate access to his own materials and allows one to investigate and explore Junge's work online. Giving access to Junge's work seems like the strongest form of further, and relevant, research that could be provided to Wikipedia users.

In reviewing the acceptable links policy, I believe the listings I submitted are acceptable under Wikipedia: Some acceptable links include those that contain further research that is accurate and on-topic

I am submitting the links on behalf of the research library the Harry Ransom Center, which holds these collections, and is seeking to share these online research opportunities with people who have an interest in these individuals and/or subjects. Within "External Links" on many Wikipedia pages, I see several hyperlinks to other digital collections and/or archival collections relating to the individuals. There is no editorializing our links, but simply providing the information.

I hope that you will consider this information, and restore the links. Again, our mission is to further research, and sharing knowledge of these digital collections seems to be a contribution to Wikipedia users.

I appreciate your review, and look forward to hearing from you. Thanks, Meghan

@Meghanfarrell:The links are all from one one web site, so that is (usually) spamming the system, unless they have been agreed. You need to talk to other users either on the talk page or some appropriate project talk page. The repeated addition of WP:EL, using one web site, in quick succession, triggers the edit filter to post notices at the vandalism reporting page.Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:15, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. Yes, you are correct, the links are coming from a single source, specifically a humanities research library (Harry Ransom Center) that holds these collections of the noted individuals/subjects. I will follow your guidance to share this issue with a talk page. It's unclear to me if my sharing via a talk page is a public forum or is it geared towards Wikipedia administrators, etc. Could I please trouble you for your insight on what I will be seeking from that talk page, i.e. endorsement from others, sharing the discussion, seeking input, and such. This is new for me so I appreciate any suggestions that you can share. Thanks, Meghan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meghanfarrell (talk • contribs) 18:28, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

@Meghanfarrell: Talk pages are for all editors. You might not get a response, if the subject is not being well watched - then try a project that is listed on the talk page. Admins are only editors with a few extra tools (delete, protect, block, etc.)Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:35, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

The Image is used only in TheFatRat article, only in infobox. Can you explain why that isn't fair use sir? Hermit Curator 00:11, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

@HermitCurator: Image is replaceable as the person is alive. Only in very rare cases are images of living persons allowed to be fair use in Wikipedia. English Wikipedia's fair use policy is very strict - see WP:NFC. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:16, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you sir, I placed a speedy delete tag on the image. I will be very careful about my uploads hereafter. Hermit Curator 00:18, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

@HermitCurator: No problem. Non free is a minefield. Plenty of editors have problems, Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:54, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your responsiveness. I will take your advice and bring this issue to a talk page. Could I trouble you to let me know if you will reinstate the external links I submitted - as you may recall I shared their research value. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.116.202.174 (talk) 18:26, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

If no one objects then put them back. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:32, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I just wanted to let you know that you recently added {{non-free reduce}} tags to a number of images which were already tagged with the same template (or another deletion tag), and so I have reverted the edits. Thanks and regards. Linguist^unEins^uno 18:52, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

@Linguist: Thanks - that's always the problem with Landscape monitors, they don't show all the page... doh! Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:02, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

No worries . Linguist^unEins^uno (Linguist111) 20:35, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi Ronhjones! Happy Friday! Hey, so I saw the vandalism made to Anderson Valley by that person who created two accounts, which you blocked both for (nice!)... However, I also saw that you added semi-protection to the article for a duration of one month and you added pending changes protection to it indefinitely and immediately following the vandalism made by this one person - why was adding protection necessary here? And why did you protect the article for a whole month / indefinitely? Before today, this article was only edited a total of five times in 2018... I just think that adding page protection was unnecessary here; you're essentially letting one person control and restrict the ability for all other anonymous / new users to touch it now. Let me know if there's something I've missed; I might certainly have done so. Thanks :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:02, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

@Oshwah: It's not just Friday, it's my birthday :-) Feel free to change it. It's either one person with two accounts of two people working together - whichever, they seem to want to target that page, and may well create new accounts. It's just an educated guess of their next move, it could go either way. The AIV report said "Probably sockpuppets for repeated vandalism on Anderson Valley", I assume the reporter has better knowledge of the page. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:26, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Happy Friday, and Happy Birthday! Why are you spending it on Wikipedia? LOL. It's definitely the same person; the accounts were created within a few minutes of one another, and they were using the same edit summary and disruption to the same article. As soon as the first received a bunch of warnings, the person jumped to the second. I went ahead and updated both blocks to log that information. I'm going to go ahead and remove the protection off the article completely - partially because of how I feel above, but also in order to keep a live watch on it and see if the vandalism continues. Waiting to protect an article being purposely disrupted and vandalized can often be just as informative and good for us (if not more so) than moving forward and protecting ;-). If more disruption gets added to the article, I'll of course add protection back to it. But I have a feeling that this was just someone trying to be creative, who made two accounts, and tried their luck to see how far it would get ;-). Thanks for the response and for letting me change the protection. I'm glad you didn't take offense to my concerns; you'd be surprised as to how many others would... lol. Anyways, I hope that you have a happy, fun, and safe birthday and I'm certain that we'll cross paths again here very soon. Cheers - ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:35, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

@Oshwah:No Problem. It's a Bank Holiday week end here - and the weather has just (this week) warmed up - so going out is likely to be a nightmare drive anywhere - I'm not wasting expensive diesel (£1.20/litre tonight) sitting in some traffic jam! So chilling out with a little port... :-) Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:40, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Fuel is expensive... especially if it's being spent to be burnt sitting in the middle of the road and literally moving nowhere, so I feel ya. Hey, so long as you're happy, you can spend your birthday doing whatever you want... after all, it's your birthday. If you're not spending it doing exactly what you want, then you're doing it wrong... lol ;-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 23:10, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

@Ronhjones i don't know why u have deleted nick joong's page can u explain it what is the mistakeNicknikio (talk) 16:06, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Could not find any reference to person in refs - just to the group. Not many reliable sources either. En-wiki article must be fully compliant with all policies and guidelines from the first save, unless in Draft space - new articles created direct are almost impossible to do. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 16:17, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

16:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi! Recently you tagged this non-free image for reduction, and DatBot dropped by to shrink it. However, a lot of what the image was used to illustrate in the article relied on the on-screen text (particularly the menu in the center of the screen), all of which has been destroyed in the reduction. After testing several reductions myself, it seems that the font in this game is only legible at 640x480—it becomes scrambled at lower resolutions. Would it be all right with you if I reverted to the original 640x480 image? JimmyBlackwing (talk) 13:02, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

@JimmyBlackwing: No problem. One good reason for the 7 day wait, before my bot hides the old versions. Screenshots do sometimes have these issues, it's not always possible to guess the result of a reduction until it's done. Some games will reduce to 320x240 - it all depends on the designer of the game. File tagged for no reduction. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:11, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks! JimmyBlackwing (talk) 18:18, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

@Ronhjones hello i am new to wikipedia i am trying my hard to do a article for Nick Joong but i can't can u help it because while i am creating it. it's getting deleted or some one is saying do not create hoaxes it is not fake Nick Joong is an artist under s.m entertainment but why it is getting deleted will u help me.Nicknikio 06:49, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

@Nicknikio: Creating pages direct is almost impossible for anyone, I never recommend it - there are no advantages any more - all new articles either created direct or in Draft are automatically set to "noindex" to stop the search engines listing it, until it is reviewed. I always suggest starting any new article, in Draft, at WP:AfC Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:26, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

They're back at it again.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/49.230.214.248

Trafalk09 (talk) 04:57, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

@Trafalk09: I love it when a plan comes together. IP blocked for 2 weeks, and all those pages - which were protected for 2 days - obviously not enough, now 1 month. I doubt if we have seen the last yet. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 17:35, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello Ronhjones, I would like to ask you if you could make the background of this image transparent for me. I really don't know how to do that. Thanks in advance. Akocsg (talk) 22:50, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

@Akocsg: Not possible - it's a jpg file - there is no alpha channel in a jpg file. It would have to be a png file - I don't think the border is sharp enough to be worth converting to png and trying to make the outside transparent, it's likely to damage the border and not be very good. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:57, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello Ron! I am Märt Bormeister, an artist and a photographer living in Estonia. And there is a wiki site about me: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4rt_Bormeister_noorem

Actually I do not understand English at all (my friend is helping me with this translation and the letter to you). And as I am born on 1951 and not very computer savvy, I was trying to upload my works (photos and photos of my paintings + collages) here https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4rt_Bormeister_noorem, but often it happens, that these get deleted as fraud or not having permissions etc... This is pretty frustrating not being able to get my works to stay on the wiki site.. This has happened like 15 times already. I understand, that you are doing your job, but how can I prove, that these works are mine? I tried to set some copyrights to these via OTRS, but as it turns out, I might have not done everything correctly and am sorry.

Could you please advise on how to proceed as I would very much like to have my own works to be on the Wiki page. This is very important to me, my life depends on it in some ways (I can explain later). And if you need somekind of verification that I am whom I claim myself to be, I can provide you with proofs. If needed.

Thank you in advance and have a great evening! Märt B. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aeg-ruum-2 (talk • contribs) 19:20, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

@Aeg-ruum-2: Go to c:Commons:Email templates/Consent. Send in the form, as shown and OTRS will validate your claim and when they have done that, they will undelete the images. There is no Estonian version of the page, there is a Russian page (c:Commons:Email templates/Consent/ru) or a Polish page (c:Commons:Email templates/Consent/pl) if that is any better.

Mine c:Commons:Email templates/Consent. Saatke vormis, nagu näidatud, ja OTRS kinnitab teie nõude ja kui see on tehtud, siis ta tühistab pildid. Lehe eesti versiooni pole, on vene leht (c:Commons:Email templates/Consent/ru) või Poola leht (c:Commons:Email templates/Consent/pl), kui see on parem. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:49, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

@Ronhjones hello, you have deleted the post I made on the voice usa about adding the seasons 15 coach lineup and I know its my fault because I did not put in the website that I got this information from. and the reason I put this edit is because last year when we were in season 12, someone else put in the edit for the upcoming seasons 13, and 14 coaches so that's why I made that edit from now.

here is the website that shows where I made that edit that you have deleted: http://variety.com/2018/music/news/the-voice-season-15-coaches-kelly-clarkson-jennifer-hudson-1202806667/

would I be able to put this edit back in. ~~Spanisharabic~~ can you please put a response on my talk page instead. thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spanisharabic (talk • contribs) 16:09, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

22:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

They're at it again...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/182.232.113.148

Trafalk09 (talk) 21:36, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

@Trafalk09: No bother. All nicely sorted. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:47, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

I think they've realized that I'm a lost cause, but it seems they've moved on to some other poor sap?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/49.230.217.9

I don't get it? lol. Trafalk09 (talk) 10:18, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

@Trafalk09: So now there is a range block of 65536 addresses. Ooooh. That might surprise them. But sadly, that's not the only range they have been using - there is still the 182.232 series... Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 17:41, 15 May 2018 (UTC)