User talk:Jeff G.

 

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Portal link

Hi Jeff, sorry to be a bit dense, but I’ve looked and can’t work out what a portal link is. I’m wondering if I’m looking in the wrong place, or perhaps my permissions are a bit too low. I recently uploaded three sets of streets and completely messed up the naming - so I was hoping to fix the issue myself without having to go through every image individually! - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 14:28, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

@Chris.sherlock2: You are not yet a filemover+, so you can't use it yet. Please read more carefully, and try the RenameLink gadget, or tell me exactly what to change from/to.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:05, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, that was what I had asked before - I can move files, so wasn’t sure if I had that permission or not. I need to move all the files in Category:Dun Road, Austral to the correct spelling. Also, I messed up Category:Winterhead Street, Austral. Furthermore all the wrongly named files in Category:Sixth Avenue, Austral need moving.

Apologies for the error, I usually don’t make these sorts of mistakes - at least I try not to. It would be nice to be able to correct my own errors, how does one apply for filemover+ permissions? Understand if this is not possible, of course.

Thank you for providing the tool, by the way :-) and also any assistance you can give me! FWIW, I’m trying to take extensive photographs of South West Sydney, an area experiencing massive growth and thus change. Also an area overlooked by many Sydney-siders! - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 15:29, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

@Chris.sherlock2: You may make rename requests using {{Rename}} or our RenameLink gadget, but you may not actually rename files. Ok, I'll bite. What's the right spelling of Category:Dun Road, Austral? How is Category:Winterhead Street, Austral messed up? What are the right and wrong names of files in Category:Sixth Avenue, Austral? Is it just your files that need renaming? I need specifics, regexes if you have them. I live half a world away.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 01:35, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

It's OK, I have the rights now so I can fix this :-) Thanks anyway. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 04:49, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

P.S. no need to bite, I don't imagine I taste all that nice. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 04:50, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

@Chris.sherlock2: I was biting the vague bait you put above. :) Congrats on the autopatroller right, but it's not filemover.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:00, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

I’m not sure what baiting you are referring to, if it appeared that was what I was doing then I apologise for any confusion I may have caused. I genuinely wasn’t sure what rights I had, I guess it should have been obvious in retrospect but at the time it wasn’t to me. I have FileMover+ rights now. Peace :-) and genuinely, thank you for creating the mass mover tool - it’s really useful and I am really thankful for it! - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 19:29, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

@Chris.sherlock2: Congrats on being an autopatroller and filemover now. See Special:ListGroupRights in general and Special:UserRights/Chris.sherlock2 in particular. I did not write this script, I copied it from the work of Legoktm and Perhelion at User:Perhelion/massrename.js and documented it and my uses of it at User:Jeff G./massrename. Sadly, m:User:Perhelion/userstatus.js does not show that you have filemover group membership; hence my confusion above at 11:00, 2 January 2024 (UTC). I wish Perhelion would come back, I miss him.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:42, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks :-) what happened to Perhelion? I know how it feels to have someone leave a project, when I discovered SlimVirgin had died on Wikipedia my heart was broken. I hope you are OK. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 12:42, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

@Chris.sherlock2: I don't know. He went on holiday 09:16, 17 October 2019 (UTC). I am OK, thanks.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:59, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Why are you not an admin on commons?

Hi Jeff G., why don't you run for admin? Is there some issue I am not aware of? I believe you'd make it easily.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 00:54, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@Paradise Chronicle There have been previous RfAs. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:35, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Uhh, oje. Ok, that's what I didn't know. Still thank you very much for your helpful edits at the help desk and noticeboards. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 06:52, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@Paradise Chronicle: You're welcome.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:35, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

About my Newly Upload File

Hi, Mr. JEFF G., I want to know if the file I used to upload as I undergone a lot through exchanging emails with Wikipedia Commons and the Organization owner of logo and with that being said the organization that I exchange emails with they agreed to used their organization's logo in Wikipedia article the File:Miss Intercontinental logo.jpg and have tickets of wht the Wikipedia Commons volunteer and they said that I will wait what's the next step?? Do I need just to wait to the file to be uploaded here on Wikipedia? Or what?? Thank you and your response are highly appreciated. Take care ❤️ ~Rc ramz. Rc ramz (talk) 14:07, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

@Rc ramz: First of all, please read the first paragraph of en:H:PIC#Linking without displaying; I don't want to have to defang your addition of that file a third time. Secondly, VRT Agents need permission communicated directly from the copyright holder for each file (in this case from MIO); forwards without RFC822 full internet headers are not trustworthy. Thirdly, in the Licensing section, you have "{{self|cc-by-4.0}}", indicating that YOU are the copyright holder; from your posts, I doubt that - "{{cc-by-4.0}}" would be more believable. If you are not the one communicating with a VRT Agent via email, who is, and do you get carbon copies of the messages? Also, this site is "Wikimedia Commons" (with an "m" in the middle of the first name). We serve files for Wikipedias in 326 languages, plus hundreds of other projects. In addition, from a logo design perspective, why do they need all that whitespace around the content (20% horizontally and 35% vertically; in other words, only 52% content)?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 14:36, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi, the organization send me their pictures logo and yes I have carbon copy of their approval on via email. They said that I have their approval and attached the photos of their logo. Thank you Rc ramz (talk) 15:42, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

@Rc ramz: Thanks. What did the Agent last write?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:50, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Off the record

Hello Jeff, wondering if you could help me with this word ...boys beg a stickl of gum... Is that a typo of gum stick? I possitive, I could correct it. Thank you ever so much. Cheers. Lotje (talk) 04:13, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

@Lotje: That is a typo, it should read "stick".   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:41, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Thank you ever so much Jeff :-) Lotje (talk) 06:00, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

@Lotje: You're ever so welcome, Lotje. :-)   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 06:55, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

More communication for you to peruse please

RE - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Matriach_Sarah_Meadows_Martineau_%28d.1800%29.jpg Thank you for your input regarding the re-namimg of this (currently inappropriatly-named) file to Dame Sarah Martineau - (this name appears on the Leodis website which I reference on my original suggestion - see the Commons Help Desk.

Please read the latest communications - we are awaiting your approval it seems! I hope I am doing the right thing here. Thank you 175.38.42.62 11:38, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Please keep the conversation at COM:HD#A more correct name for an old portrait on "Commons" please.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:31, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

how to handle E-Mail-undeletion-requests of possible blocked sockpuppetry

I received an undeletion-request of File:Portrat_císaře_Františka_I_Štěpán.png per E-Mail and I checked and the PD-old-100-license seems to be valid since the person died in 1765, so I undeleted the image.

However after some thinking and some research, if that was correct, I found a comment of you of another image "{{Vd}} as an upload of A3cb1 while blocked."

We can't distinguish between

• someone asking me, because they need the image for a Wikipedia-Page (however they did not mention something like that)
• User:A3cb1 not accepting his block and try to bypass the rules as much as possible

Now I think if someone asks public at Commons:Undeletion_requests or at someones talk-page, that might be okay, but possible spamming so many admins till one agrees might be problematic (Maybe they looked for an unexperienced admin or they just took someone who is from Austria as the picture.).

Therefore I suggest

• Deleting this image
• I reply them (per Mail) and link to this discussion here (that they know why such a request per mail has to be rejected)

I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

PS:I found it strange that I received it on my E-Mail-Address, which I nearly only use for Wikimedia, however it was not sent via Special:EmailUser/JoKalliauer, and I never received an E-Mail from this address before. (If you google me you can find several E-Mail-addresses [@tuwien.ac.at, @mit.edu, @wikipedia.at, @gmail.com, other gmx.at] but imho not this gmx-Address.) Maybe I just oversee something, not so important how they received my address.

 — Johannes Kalliauer - Talk | Contributions 19:42, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

@JoKalliauer: Hi, and thanks for writing. Checkusers like Krd and Stewards can distinguish between actions of A3cb1 and actions of innocents, I suggest you consult with him in private, with RFC822 full internet headers. I just alerted him to this discussion via Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/A3cb1 in special:diff/839640339. You may also want to report the source IP Address to the Stewards via m:srg for global lock evasion. Yes, I would lean towards redeletion.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 20:00, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Flickr review

Hi Jeff. If you have time, are you able to help review this Flickr image: File:Luke Williams in 2022 cropped.jpg? The bot couldn't do it for some reason, and it says a human should do it. Many Thanks. Doogooder (talk) 10:34, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

@Doogooder:  Done. The bot doesn't like crops.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:41, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Ah, thank you Jeff. Doogooder (talk) 10:52, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Mass deletion request

Hi Jeff G., Happy New Year! I spotted many, almost the same or controversial, maps about 9th(-11th) century Serbia. While trying to verify their accuracy in the sources it became evident all of them are of suspicious or blatantly unscientific sourcing, scientifically outdated, fringe or fantastic, many of them being derivatives/duplicates/redundant of the same original file/idea (partly also original research and synthesis), some possible copyright violations for the background and so on. Some of them aren't used on any Wikipedia. Ultimately they don't have educational purpose because are misleading (some totally wrong), actually, out of them would keep one file which is directly based on a reliably sourced map (as an example of exaggerated borders, presumably the file could be placed at en:Časlav of Serbia#State borders, but where's already more accurate map). For the topic already exist much better and accurate maps on Commons. Can you tell me whether I've correctly made the mass deletion request? What would be your opinion about it? All the best! Miki Filigranski (talk) 02:28, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

@Miki Filigranski: It appears that you did, people are discussing.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:21, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

File:Aux aurores sur la Cresta Signal.jpg

Hi, Could you please review the license of this file? Thanks, Yann (talk) 23:14, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

@Yann: Already done by 1989 23 minutes before you posted in special:diff/840348895.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:19, 10 January 2024 (UTC)