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File:14-05-06-budapest-RalfR-11.jpg

User:Globetrotter19 wrote: "Please help me! There is a user Ralf Roletschek who use bad names (14-05-06-budapest-RalfR-44.jpg, 14-05-06-budapest-RalfR-11.jpg and so) and revert multiple of my renaming question" [1].
It is told on Commons:File renaming cite, that a names like "File:Paris 319.jpg" should be renamed into names like "File:Paris 75018 Rue Norvins no 018 Le Consulat z.jpg"
The File:14-05-06-budapest-RalfR-11.jpg is licensed {{GFDL-1.2}} only.
What should be done? Should such a file be renamed or not? I don't know what to do. I have too little knowledge/experience to solve this problem :(
Help me, please... Wieralee (talk) 16:06, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Filenames are not descriptions. --Ralf Roleček 16:08, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your filenames are meaningless. It means enough to renaming Criterion 2 - - --Globetrotter19 (talk) 16:15, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No, meaningless is DSC001122.jpg. My Files have Date, town and my name. A description is right in description field, not in the filename. --Ralf Roleček 16:22, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Globetrotter19 and Wieralee are right in the interpretation of COM:MOVE. However, it is a bad idea to edit war over this as it happened at File:14-05-06-budapest-RalfR-11.jpg. And finally, if you proceed with such rename requests you will not make friends with long-time uploaders of thousands of photographs who are using a naming scheme to organize their photos. The file names include the name of the city and or town. This is at least something. There is no harm done in keeping these file names as they are. --AFBorchert (talk) 16:50, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Avatar9n

Keeps reverting valid categories in File:Mosin-nagant ecomare.JPG (for context see Commons:Village_pump#Deletion_request) like Category:Uploaded with UploadWizard, Category:Photographs taken on 2013-04-11 and Category:Taken with Sony DSC-T7, despite being reverted since May 25 by User:DAJF, User:DMacks and me, and being called to attention to his acts in his and mine talkpages. Probably best to edit protect the image to avoid this unwanted deletions. Tm (talk) 09:28, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In the light of recent harassment from Avatar9n (talk · contribs · logs · block log), including abusive moves of Tm's user pages, can we see a rapid block to avoid more disruption along with removal of the file move right? Thanks --Fæ (talk) 10:14, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Avatar9n has no file move right (non-filemovers can move pages in any namespace except the file namespace). I recommend indef blocking Avatar9n. ★ Poké⁹⁵ 10:50, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done I blocked the user for a few days, next time the block will be longer. --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:28, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Lemonyellow010498

Lemonyellow010498 (talk · contribs · logs · block log)

User is upload of bunch of copyright person of en:Liza Soberano here in common. most are related of en:ABS-CBN of copy the Google image and Social Media leading the shows. Oripaypaykim (talk) 12:59, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done Only 4 uploads, all copyright violations, all nominated for speedy deletion. I warned him/her. If (s)he continues with copyvio, then (s)he should be blocked. Taivo (talk) 13:28, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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User stated „own work“ and it was/is not

User:Geo-Science-International several times stated pictures to be her own work but they were not. I again found a new case. Does somebody want to talk to the user in an administrative manner? Anka (talk) 19:26, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I got the image somewhere else before. I thought it was public domain. Now I wrote to the museum in Bern and asked for a licence. I hope they will give it and maybe send a better version. When I started working for Wikipedia, I didn't know, where to write the source of an image, therefore I called them own work and wrote the source in a wrong place. This problem has been solved already and I learend how to do it. Geo-Science-International (talk) 20:44, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be

Done for now. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 00:19, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Bhumij user content

What can be done about the user BHUMIJ LANGUAGE (talk · contribs · logs · block log)? Their only contributions are to their userpages, and are both articles masquerading as user content. Bhumij language has been a redirect since 2010 on Wikipedia, but their content is new. They've also created {{Unicode chart Ol Onal}}. Their content is currently at Draft:Bhumij language so no need to worry about losing anything. --Auric (talk) 22:22, 29 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done Nuked and info left. Hope that finally helps. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 00:09, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Changing categories without consensus

User:ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 started a discussion for a category at Commons:Categories for discussion/2016/04/Category:Low quality food and drink pictures. Despite the fact that 3 other users objected against the deletion of the category, User:ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 effectively deleted it by changing it into a redirect, something that wasn't agreed upon at all, whilst stating "kept" on the discussion page. I raised this issue on the user's talkpage a few days ago but they haven't replied. Why specifically this category had to be dissolved whilst there are many more similar subcategories at Category:Images of low quality is a mystery. It would seem that the user just didn't like it. It seems strange that someone who initiated a discussion then closes it themselves with an action that was not discussed at all. I would like the content of this category restored, awaiting a proper conclusion of the discussion. - Takeaway (talk) 14:30, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I reopened the CfD. Unfortunately, I cannot revert RussBot's category changes. I ask ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 to stop performing non-admin closures while they don't have the experience to close discussions. Thanks, ★ Poké⁹⁵ 00:06, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mywikimediaaccount

Could someone please check if Mywikimediaaccount his/her acces to the global replace tool has to be stripped? He got warned here and blocked here. It seems that not all this user's replaces are wanted and he/she doesn't respond to complaints. Natuur12 (talk) 07:19, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]