Fran Rogers

Welcome to the Commons, Fran Rogers!

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Categories

Why did you remove the categories here. It's okay to have duplicate files in the same categories, it is not, however okay to have duplicate files in the first place. If you think they are the same, you can nominate one of them (preferably the one with the more accurate name) for speedy deletion using {{Other_image_name.svg}}. Thanks, Yonatan ^talk 00:37, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I apologize, I just realized there are in fact differences in the two images. Krimpet 15:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:I-476_signs_on_Ridge_Pike.JPG

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:I-476_signs_on_Ridge_Pike.JPG. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag, then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{self|cc-by-sa-2.5}} to release it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license or {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find all your uploads using the Gallery tool. Thank you. Siebrand 09:40, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

RFA

Hi :-) I left you a question on your RFA. Hope this will help you gain support for admin tools by detailing more closely your past experience with your future admin actions. Take care, FloNight 22:17, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

CHH

Hey, I just wanted to say that's a very cool tool. I didn't even know it existed until today! :) --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 09:27, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Good Luck

I'm just here to wish you good luck on your Rfa:) Have a nice week and God bless.--Sir James Paul 11:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:Bsline.jpg

Pay attention to copyright

Image:Bsline.jpg has been marked as a copyright violation. The Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content, that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You can ask questions about Commons policies in Commons:Help desk. The file you added will soon be deleted. If you believe this image is not a copyright violation, please explain why on the image description page.

(→O - RLY?) 08:03, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Image:Zion_040.jpg

Oops... sorry about that. I was testing the "nominate for deletion" link on the left and didn't realize it would automatically save anything. --NE2 23:40, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations, Dear Administrator!

An offering for our new administrator from your comrades...

Fran Rogers, congratulations! You now have the rights of administrator on Commons. Please take a moment to read the Commons:Administrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Commons:Administrators' noticeboard and Commons:Deletion requests), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other admins, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care.

Please feel free to join us on IRC: #wikimedia-commons @ irc.freenode.net.

EugeneZelenko 14:36, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Congrats!! Enjoy your new tools. :-) FloNight 14:50, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your support! I'll make sure to wield the mop carefully =) --Krimpet 16:37, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Congrats! The proxies are quaking already... ;) WjBscribe 17:18, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Well done Krimpet! You deserve a daisy: File:Dainsyng.gif --Deskana 23:10, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Well done! ~Kylu (u|t) 04:49, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Your warning

I've responded on my talk page.Proabivouac 07:16, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Quick interwiki request

Heyya Krimpet. Pretty-please, could you possibly add the following line to Template:GFDL/lang in the usual place;

[[Template:GFDL|{{lang|ga|Gaeilge}}]] |

.. That'll add the Irish language GFDL boilerplate option to the generic GFDL lic template. The actual template is already in place

I love working away from en.wikipedia :)

Seeya - Alison ☺ 09:28, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

 Done -- many thanks for your translation efforts Allie! =) --Krimpet 00:10, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!!! :) - Alison ☺ 01:18, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Template the regulars

The relicensing status of this image has not yet been reviewed. You can help.

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Showing off the new template:GFDL/ga ;) - Alison ☺ 09:33, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Image:The Beatles album cover.jpg

Hello. I have requested the undeletion of the file you deleted at Commons:Undeletion_requests. Please notify the uploader when you delete a file. --Hautala 23:38, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

And undeleted. If the uploader has not been notified already of a copyvio, please do so before deletion. The reasoning for undeletion was because the design is way too simple to be copyrighted, even if others think otherwise. Cheers, (→O - RLY?) 00:16, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Toolserveraccount

Hello Krimpet,
please send your real-name, your wikiname, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to . We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB. 21:45, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
P.S:I'm not sure, if I have to say this: You are repsonsible for all action done by this account, so please programm wise :). --DaB. 21:45, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Commons:Village pump#Explicit image uploads by User:Taric25‎

Thank you for commenting, however, because the license is sound, users of Wikimedia Commons should not make deletion requests in the village pump, and we should use the relevant process for it instead. Also, you said, "but these photos seem excessively gratuitous and seem like vanity material." I do not understand how an image like Image:Free Subtitles.PNG is either "overly gratuitous" or "vanity material". We use it in the articles for Subtitle (captioning) on both the English and Chinese Wikipedia. Please undelete the images, and follow deletion per Commons:Deltion requests to decide whether to delete the images or not because of their content, since license is no longer an issue. Taric25 01:09, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Christian_B_Anfinsen.jpg

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Christian_B_Anfinsen.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag, then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0}} to release it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license or {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find all your uploads using the Gallery tool. Thank you. Polarlys 18:03, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:AnyasOldskoolHeatShrinkHair.jpg

Why was this deleted? I've read the OTRS ticket but don't understand the justification behind your decision. Adambro

Image:150gizmocat.jpg

Image deletion warning

Image:150gizmocat.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 image, 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. In all cases, please do not take the deletion request personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

-Nard 17:37, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Burgesplan.jpg

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Burgesplan.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag, then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} to release it under the multilicense GFDL plus Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike All-version license or {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find all your uploads using the Gallery tool. Thank you. Infrogmation 15:42, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Many Thanks

Dear Fran Rogers,
Thank you for supporting my Request for Adminship. I’m honored by your trust and will do my best to help build a better site. Durova 21:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Start small, close obvious deletion discussions. Get bolder with experience. Pretty soon Commons will have ten thousand images! (giggles, flees) ;)

Image:Www usda gov Acceptence Test for Digital.pdf

Image deletion warning

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--WayneRay 09:11, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Commons Helper helper

I think this script has some bugs, its not working on wikipedia. I'm using firefox3 on Ubuntu. It seems that CommonsHelper is not getting all the variables. --Inkwina (talk • contribs) 15:56, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:Bettaflare.jpg

Image deletion warning

Image:Bettaflare.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 image, 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. In all cases, please do not take the deletion request personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

~ JohnnyMrNinja (talk / en) 07:13, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Image:Bubblenestd.jpg

Image deletion warning

Image:Bubblenestd.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 image, 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. In all cases, please do not take the deletion request personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

~ JohnnyMrNinja (talk / en) 07:18, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Ginger Jolie.jpg

I noticed you deleted Ginger Jolie.jpg as a courtasy. This article is at AFD right now at wikipedia. Is it normal to delete an image without a discussion for the purpose of privacy? Her PR person is who is requesting the article deleted (per the person's admittion) because she is moving up in her career. I am not sure that this is the same as protecting an innocent victim. Pharmboy (talk) 11:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Images moved from Wikipedia

E.g. Image:Passer.jpg, please add the template {{subst:ncd}} at the Wikipedia image so it will be deleted. Thanks. Richard001 (talk) 06:17, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

D&D Wiki

Hi, this is Daniel Draco from the D&D Wiki. A user account was recently created on there with the name Krimpet, and the user page contained personal information purported as yours. The page was then blanked by an anonymous user claiming to be Darkone, telling us to delete the page and block the user. Another admin did so. I just want to verify that this was not you who created the account and page. If it was you and you wish them restored, I will restore the page and account. --68.82.174.156 13:59, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Please link images

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Hello Fran Rogers!

Thank you for providing images to Wikimedia Commons. Please keep in mind that images uploaded to Commons should be useful to all users of Wikimedia projects. This is possible only if the images can be found by other people.

To allow others to find the images you uploaded here, the images should be in some place that can be found by navigating the category structure. This means that you should put the images into appropriate topic pages, categories, optionally galleries, or both of them (see Commons:Categories). To find good categories for your images, the CommonSense tool may help.

You can find a convenient overview of your uploaded files in this gallery.

The important point is that the images should be placed in the general structure somewhere. There are a large number of completely unsorted images on Commons right now. If you would like to help to place some of those images where they can be found, please do!

Thank you. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:06, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

• Image:User Krimpet.jpg is uncategorized since 3 December 2008. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:06, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
• Image:Ridge Route Kelly's Halfway Inn.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Ridge Route National Forest Inn panorama.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Ridge Route guardrail.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Ridge Route Liebre Summit panorama.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Ridge Route Tumble Inn.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Ridge Route Halfway Inn site.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Ridge Route Tumble Inn hp.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Ridge Route end of cmr.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Aulonocara jacobfreigi.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Ridge Route Castaic Reservoir.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Ridge Route TUMBLE INN step.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Ridge Route Reservoir Summit.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Ridge Route Liebre Work Camp view.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Ridge Route Liebre Summit hp.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:Flying Squirrel (Wild America).ogg was uncategorized on 5 June 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 14:19, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Image:Free-software-song.ogg

Image deletion warning

Image:Free-software-song.ogg 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 image, 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. In all cases, please do not take the deletion request personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

83.194.95.239 23:48, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

File:Conservape-tan.png

File:Conservape-tan.png 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. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 09:11, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

File:I70ArchOhio.jpg

File:I70ArchOhio.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. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

--Leoboudv (talk) 05:03, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

De-adminship warning

Deutsch | Español

Dear Fran Rogers. I am writing to you to inform you that you are in danger of losing your adminship on Commons because of inactivity.

If you want to keep your adminship, you need both to sign at Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section within 30 days of today's date, and also to make at least five further admin actions in the following six months. Anyone who does not do so will automatically lose administrator rights.

You can read the de-admin policy at Commons:Administrators/De-adminship.

Thank you

Adminship

Hello Krimpet,

I would like to inform you that you lost your adminship here on Commons because you didn't signed the Commons:Administrators/Inactivity_section/Aug-Sep_2009, You're welcome to apply for adminship again in the normal way when you have more time for work on Commons again.

I would like to say that I'm deeply thankful for all the hard work you've done here on Commons, and I'm sure the complete communety agrees with me on this. I would love to see you again as active user, or administrator on Commons in the future.

Take care, Huib talk 19:15, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

ImageAnnotator

Awesome work! Thank you very much! Lupo 09:35, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations, Dear Administrator!

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An offering for our new administrator from your comrades...

Fran Rogers, congratulations! You now have administrator rights on Commons. Please take a moment to read the Commons:Administrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Commons:Administrators' noticeboard and its subpages), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other admins, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care. Have a look at the list of Gadgets (on the bottom there are the ones specifically for admins – however, for example the UserMessages are very helpful too).

Please feel free to join us on IRC: #wikimedia-commons ^webchat on irc.libera.chat. There is also a channel for Commons admins, which may be useful for more sensitive topics, or coordination among administrators: #wikimedia-commons-admin ^webchat.

You may find Commons:Guide to adminship to be useful reading. You can find the admin backlog overview at COM:AB.

Please also check or add your entry to the List of administrators and the related lists by language and date it references.

— Kanonkas // talk // e-mail // 00:43, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Have a slice. :)

Congratulations, and welcome back. Durova (talk) 01:15, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

• Mmm, pie; congrats! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:23, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the support! Hoping to put the bit to good use again. :) Fran Rogers (talk) 05:58, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

en:File:Pollock-green.jpg / File:Pollock-green.jpg

Please see Commons:Village_pump#File:Pollock-green.jpg_is_my_unauthorized_photo. -- User:Docu at 13:37, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

File:Angiogram_WHO_933.jpg

File:Angiogram_WHO_933.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. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

–Tryphon^☂ 12:58, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Please help replace this outdated license

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:

• File:Highway.406.train.jpg

BotMultichillT 20:30, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Don't know if you saw this

Regarding this brief message,[1] Wikimedia Commons is a different website. Commons is not obligated to observe the local policies of the English Wikipedia. Durova (talk) 15:51, 13 January 2010 (UTC) This is sort of for the IP's benefit.

Thanks Durova (I know, though I don't think Misty does). This discussion continued over on my enwiki talk: she first claimed it wasn't her, then that it was a "pastel drawing enhanced by Photoshop," obviously untrue. An oversighter here considered it serious enough that they contacted a developer to delete the image permanently (since oversighting of images seems to be broken). So, the image is gone forever. :) Fran Rogers (talk) 22:39, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, on the second thought it was worth appending a comment because otherwise it might appear like an attempt to lecture you on policy you already know. I've got no problem at all with your decision to act conservatively when the material has those types of unresolved questions regarding its legitimacy. Durova (talk) 05:42, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

We need your help at the Wikiproject medicine

Hello, Sorry for spaming your talk page, but this is very important. On the behalf of the Wikiproject medicine at the en.wikipedia, I am inviting you to be a part of the discussion going on the project's talk page about Patient images, The discussion started after I obtained a permission to more than 23000 dermatology related images, and about 1500 radiology images. As some editors of the Wikiproject medicine have some concerns regarding the policy of using patient images on wikipedia, and regarding patient consents. Also they believe that common's policy is not so clear regarding the issue. And since you are the experts please join us at this very important discussion -- MaenK.A._Talk 14:21, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Deletion spree

Hi, you deleted a file, although it had been kept, see Commons:Deletion requests/File:Rendered Handcuffed Nude Model.png. Please restore and start a new DR. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 06:30, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Fran appears to have deleted a file that falls within commons speedy deletion criteria. I also ask that you take a look at [2]. I see no need for another DR to be opened. Tiptoety ^talk 06:34, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm not seeing an issue with this deletion especially given that it's clearly out of projects scope, and given the recent directive from the project's co-founder. To quote a later comment; "Existing policy can be enforced firmly and swiftly. Anyone doing so has my full support. Speedy deletion is an appropriate solution to a longstanding problem." - Alison ^❤ 06:37, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Also, in case folks were wondering: most of what I'm deleting were mass uploads of images from Flickr, some of which are porn/erotica, most of which have a fetishistic theme, but all of which are just random pictures of people that don't serve an educational purpose. Commons needs to get back on track, and it starts today. Fran Rogers (talk) 06:40, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

You are deleting files that were in use, see en:Special:Contributions/CommonsDelinker. It goes against policy to delete such files as out of scope. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 07:15, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Then policy can and should be changed. Fran Rogers (talk) 07:17, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

(e/c)I am pretty sure that Jimbo mentioned something about him changing policy if it gets in the way. But anyhow, I never liked the "it's in use!!1" argument. I can easily delink the file myself, and no one would ever know it was in use. Killiondude (talk) 07:18, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Local editors that had the article on their watchlist would notice. What is happening here is that Fran Rogers does not wish to edit the articles on enwp, where he might be reverted. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 07:21, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Well, the thing about the "it's in use!!1" argument is that it's explicitly part of our policy: a file used in good faith outside userspace on another Wikimedia project cannot be considered out of scope due to lacking educational use. Anyway, it looks like Fran has already undeleted those files. --Ilmari Karonen (talk) 10:01, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I was about to announce that; a few minutes ago I restored the files that were actually in use on a project, and reverted CommonsDelinker. I'll admit I should have deferred to existing policy in this case. Fran Rogers (talk) 10:12, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

In the meantime you just disregard policy? /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 07:19, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I think this is a prime example of ignoring the rules. Tiptoety ^talk 07:24, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

As Jimbo's word seems to be law (and the rest of the Board does not seem to matter at all), it may be useful to quote his opinion that "existing policies here on commons are sufficient to deal with the problem". /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 08:12, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

With regard to the board. Jimmy has already said the board will be making a comment in the next few days supporting cleaning up commons. Tiptoety ^talk 19:39, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I would also draw attention to what Jimbo has said. Jimbo has said "Existing policy can be enforced firmly and swiftly". Since existing policy says that an image legitimately in use on another WMF project is considered in scope, I hope no more images that are in use will be deleted with the incorrect suggestion as the deletion reason that they are beyond the project scope. Jimbo hasn't given the green light to ignore policies or the concerns of others about what is being done. Adambro (talk) 08:17, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I agree. Will you at least please stop deleting until we have formed consensus on this? Regards, -- ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 08:26, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Consensus has been clear for sometime now. Please read over COM:NUDE and COM:PORN. Tiptoety ^talk 19:25, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure I see why that's necessary. Stuff can be undeleted later. There has been endless talk and much derailing of efforts to move things forward by those blindly saying "Commons is not censored". True. But it has a scope. Getting things moving is goodness. Want to help? You can pick up the pace of working toward a good policy, that would be helpful. See what you can do about those who unreasoningly stand in the way of getting somewhere. ++Lar: t/c 14:14, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Please restore File:Doggirl in her routine shower.jpg and File:Doggril tries to escape.jpg. The Commons is not censored and these images have not even been proposed for deletion. Always in the past when sexuality images have been proposed for deletion on grounds of scope, the deletion request has been overwhelmingly rejected. We get rid of surplus penis pictures because there are so many: that is not an excuse to censor other images. Both of these pictures were transferred from the Wikipedia, neither are "random" or "from Flickr", there are no personality or copyright issues and both are illustrative. This deletion spree has clearly degenerated into pure vandalism. --Simonxag (talk) 09:20, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Endorse Fran's actions. Pure vandalism is an over the top characterization. ++Lar: t/c 14:14, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Second the endorsement. Simonxag, things may have changed a bit, but we can still have a discussion about any images that are being deleted. Nothing is irreversible.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 19:28, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

we meaning moderators, as bypassing the 'nomination for deletion' excludes the majority of the community from offering input. Ty (talk) 05:32, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Fran, I'd like to say that I think your actions were taken in good faith and I'm pleased you've reverted them in cases where they were clearly harming projects. When I made my criticisms I didn't fully know the context of Jimbo's ill considered intervention. I hope you don't get to be another admin demoralized by this sorry mess. --Simonxag (talk) 22:14, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

File:Jimbo_Scrolling.gif

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Pieter Kuiper (talk) 08:32, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Grow up. Fran Rogers (talk) 08:47, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Weren't you, like, warned not to do this before? I mean I remember a really lengthy discussion about you going after Cirt's files when he was pissing you off. Killiondude (talk) 08:54, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Prince_Albert_Piercings(expert19612005)..JPG

Hi Fran Rogers, you deleted the file File:Prince_Albert_Piercings(expert19612005)..JPG which was showing an streched prince albert piercing. Actually this was an importand picture for the de:Portal:Body Modification and used in the articles de:Dehnen von Piercings and de:Prinz-Albert-Piercing. We would really like to keep that picture. --Nicor (talk) 09:55, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Done (see above). Fran Rogers (talk) 10:19, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. --Nicor (talk) 10:23, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I cannot believe you're even deleting images currently in use in our projects! Stop censorship please. --Saibo (Δ) 00:46, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

File:Rendered Handcuffed Nude Model.png

Could you please clarify your reason for deleting File:Rendered Handcuffed Nude Model.png, which was mentioned at Commons:Village pump#Cleanup policy. Note, please, that the article had survived a previous deletion request. Thank you, Black Falcon (talk) 18:48, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Please see the threads above. This file meets commons criteria for speedy deletion. Cheers, Tiptoety ^talk 19:40, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I have read Commons:Deletion policy#Speedy deletion, and "out of project scope" does not appear to be one of the criteria. I have also read Commons:Sexual content, and it does not appear that a CGI rendering of a partially-covered (by arms) nude female figure meets any of the five specified "categories of sexual content [that] are generally not allowed on Commons". Lastly, though the image obviously contains a depiction of nudity I must question whether its content is in any way sexual. I would appreciate a more detailed clarification. Thank you, Black Falcon (talk) 19:58, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Actually, outside project scope is a speedy deletion criteria. Take a look under the heading "A page can be deleted if it is:". Tiptoety ^talk 20:00, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

That is for pages. Not for files. You should not be an admin if you do not know the difference. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 20:02, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

It's actualy in scope as we don't have much in the way of images of virtual people (look at the ring no filter should do that). Probably a copyvio of some sort mind. doind something like that from scratch with blender would be doable but a serious bit of work.Geni (talk) 20:03, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Assuming it is the file I believe it is, I am 100% certain it was made from scratch. Max Rebo Band^{"almost suspiciously excellent"} 17:06, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

undelete File:Hodensack_(5).JPG

Please undelete File:Hodensack_(5).JPG which was deleted by you without discussion! A clearly non pornographic (guess - it's deleted ...) photograph of a de:Hodensack formerly used to depict de:Hodensackinfusion. Stop deleting useful images. That's vandalism. You are harming the project. --Saibo (Δ) 14:06, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

No, I am not undeleting them. Commons is not an amateur pornography site. We do not want or need images of exhibitionists mutilating their genitalia. Understood? Fran Rogers (talk) 01:00, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for replying. We do want images of this topic - obviously you do not want to see how things are in reality. I repeat: it was used in an article in the German wikipedia. Would you call the German Wikipedia an amateur porn site? But don't care about it - this is only one of thousands... :( --Saibo (Δ) 02:35, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism

Would you please kindly stop this vandalism of articles on medical issues? Thanks. --Matthiasb (talk) 16:40, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Strong support. Please handle these matters more carefull. It's not funny to see plenty of our articles on de affected.Nemissimo (talk) 15:51, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

deleted several images and undeleted them some hours later

Hello Fran, why have you first deleted several images and undeleted them some hours later? Example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=File:Wax_and_Pins_on_Nipples_edited-1.png

You have deleted quit tons of images. Apparently most of them you didn't undelete are not in current use in projects. But what's about the {{commonscat}} links in the wikipedia?! They are pretty useless now. It would be nice if you could clean up the mess by yourself and go through you deletions and undelete most of the images - they cannot be all of unusable quality. Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 01:09, 9 May 2010 (UTC) fixed misspellings --Saibo (Δ) 19:42, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

File:Cutaneous larva migrans.jpg

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See http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/copyright.html about the A.D.A.M. Encyclopedia --Raymond 20:55, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

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Pieter Kuiper (talk) 16:54, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

File:142421.jpg

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Kyknos (talk) 13:51, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you abf «Cabale!» 15:30, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

About Union County College drawing

I noticed you deleted File:Union County College Police.jpg. There is a backstory to this whole episode which you might check out this thread here. Essentially I had been trying to take pictures of the college to improve the article about Union County College. I was detained by campus police for half an hour who told me "No pictures were allowed". They did not take my camera. But I had the sense that if I tried to keep taking pictures, they would arrest me or kick me off campus. I asked the officer if I could take his picture: he looked like he would arrest me if I tried. But I asked: but drawings are okay? He said, "sure, drawings are okay, but NO PICTURES". So, I'm doing a drawing. I hope you will reconsider your decision in this light.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 12:55, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

On second thought, ignore the above. I read through peoples comments on the ANI fully, and I agree -- let's not restore this drawing -- it's me being childish (and wanting to strike back after being detained) but it makes all of us look bad. But there are better ways to deal with this.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 13:38, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

File:Carlb-McFreeway401-Mallorytown.jpg

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P199 (talk) 16:54, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Wild America sounds

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CND VET (talk) 08:06, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

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20:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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shizhao (talk) 02:43, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

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Kelly (talk) 08:09, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

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Jcb (talk) 17:33, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

File:Tissue expander diagram.jpg

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Castillo blanco (talk) 13:40, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

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Yours sincerely, Rrburke (talk) 12:19, 16 February 2019 (UTC)