Lofty abyss

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Help me!

Hello, my name is Sebastián Ramírez and i need yor help, because i have many duplicates files in my uploaded files and i want to delete this files to upload one original, the duplicate files are named "Escudo Oficial Colegio Mayor de San Bartolome" or have similar names that i just mentioned, please i need your help!, i could collaborate with this that urgent, thaks!!! user:Sebastián Felipe Ramírez

Mr.chickenchaser!

In my opinion it's not worth the trouble to warn vandals like Mr.chickenchaser. I've taken care of the problem. Thanks though. ~MDD4696 04:46, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

No problem. -- Mentifisto 04:55, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

See this

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Caution.21_Weird_user 92.230.92.38 22:48, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Er, you just need to explain in the edit summary why you removed that content. -- Mentifisto 22:50, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

I hope an administrator will explain that to you. Have you checked the categories? Be honest !! 92.230.92.38 22:58, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I admit the categories look like they've got nothing to do with the image, so I reverted it, but as I said, explaining it in the edit summary is the best whenever you edit anything. -- Mentifisto 23:04, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

You should first think, before you are doing anything here. But giving that note on my disc is impertinent. Do do that again. Good night. 92.230.92.38 23:24, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Image licensing

File:Windbreaker Adidas.jpg just showed up on en.wikipedia and I see you reviewed it. I'm curious: Although the Flickr image claims to be Creative Commons, the original source is not Flickr and doesn't seem to give any indication of a free license. The name of the Flickr uploader is not the same as the Etsy merchant, and they don't even appear to be in the same country (snappyfishvintage is in Vancouver, BC, and BitchBuzz is in Kingston Upon Thames in the UK). Is there some publicly verifiable indication that the Flickr uploader has the rights to the image? Thanks! Kafziel (talk) 17:27, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

No, not that I know of. :-S All those hundreds of uploads must be incorrectly licensed as cc-by, then. I'm not sure what's usually done on Flickr if anything to fix mislabelling. -- Mentifisto 17:42, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure either. I'm always leery of Flickr for just that reason. Anyway, thanks very much for the quick action. Kafziel (talk) 18:21, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Descriptions

Please write descriptions that actually describe the image in a useful manner. When you do stuff like you did at File:Slightly far away.jpg, you create a lot of unnecessary detective work for someone else. If it hadn't been for the clue in the name of File:Dunn fell radar station.jpg that you also uploaded I wouldn't have stood a chance. - Jmabel ! talk 04:12, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

I would, but I'm not sure about most of the subjects' specifics. :-| -- Mentifisto 05:38, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Also, thanks for your help there. -- Mentifisto 05:41, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Speedy delete a talk page?

Hi I see you added a Speedy tag to a Talk Page? Surely all that's needed is to revert the vandalism? SiGarb (talk) 16:56, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

If I remember correctly it was the only revision available, and deleting a page is more 'proper' than just blanking. -- Mentifisto 04:15, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Template

Grazie per la segnalazione, ne ho preso subito nota!

Administrator

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

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EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:55, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations! —Dferg ^(disputatio) 17:14, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! -- Mentifisto 19:40, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

File:Eclairage.png

Please don't delete these kind of files. You probably noticed the message Error creating thumbnail: Invalid thumbnail parameters or PNG file with more than 12.5 million pixels. That's because we currently don't render images more than 12.5 million pixels because of performance issues, but we might do that in the future. Multichill (talk) 14:04, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Certainly; my mistake. -- Mentifisto 14:29, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for removing my image.

Thank you very much for removing my image so quickly and before I get any copyvio warning, I was just on Commons:Administrators' noticeboard to ask them to remove it fast. thanks again, merry christmas and happy holidays. LiveChocolate (talk) 20:32, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. -- Mentifisto 20:59, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

File:Mini-islands.jpg

Do you have a location for this photo please? Knowing where it is of would make it a lot more useful! - Thanks, MPF (talk) 01:13, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

I updated it with the information. :-) -- Mentifisto 00:18, 8 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 14:23, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for everything that you did on Commons and the support that you gave me! --The Evil IP address (talk) 17:59, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Admin inactivity

Hello Mentifisto, you might be interested in this discussion: Commons_talk:Administrators/De-adminship#Activity -- A9 (talk) 05:55, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

New Page Patrol - Maria jose merida peña

If you delete a new page, it is removed from the New Page Patrol log automatically. If you move it, it is not, and, since the page no longer exists, it will remain in the log until someone recreates it, marks it patrolled, and then deletes it. The easy solution is leave behind the redirect and then delete the redirect....      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 10:43, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for doing it. It would be better if this is fixed somehow, though, since redirect suppression can be useful... -- Mentifisto 00:01, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Deletion requests

Hello!

Please close deletion requests of images that you have deleted orderly: File:Jjr1.jpg. Thanks in advance. --High Contrast (talk) 16:53, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Done (I hope you didn't mind my speedy deletions). -- Mentifisto 22:10, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Clean snow

I'd like to let you know that I've decided to place the photo Clean_snow.jpg on the front cover of the action-adventure novel that I've written. With that in mind, I want to ask you your real name so I can attribute you properly on the copyright page, as I'm required to do by the terms of the Creative Commons license. (If you'd rather not give me that info, I can still credit you as "Wikipedia user Mentifisto", but I think that would be out of place). Thanks! -- Danny 67.169.177.176 06:56, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

@Danny, you should not urge another user to publicly disclose his real name. Better offer him an opportunity to contact you or contact him directly per email from his userpage. --Túrelio (talk) 07:08, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Danny, feel free to use my username (if you don't mind). -- Mentifisto 14:29, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Request

Thanks for deleting a page I nominated. Can you please check if we can apply speedy deletion to this file too and delete it? Reason is given below the template, in practice it's a mistake. --Elitre (talk) 15:17, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

It was a valid reason, yes. -- Mentifisto 15:43, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you so much. --Elitre (talk) 15:48, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Protection of Template:2010POTY

Hi, is it a joke to protect the incomplete manual for the 2010POTY? The manual is fatally incomplete: if your browser does not automatically add your name, you are stuck! In german version (as main-template-version is not editable) I addet point 4 as follows: if your name does not appear on the list automatically, follow the instructions (mentioned with link) to add it manually. Can you please give free again the main template - or tell anyone who has editing-rights to add the solution to that problem in all versions! Thanks --ProloSozz (talk) 12:00, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

It's only semi-protected, and from what I can see you are auto-confirmed. Are you sure you can't edit it? (What kind of message do you get?) -- Mentifisto 17:00, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

ProloSozz, what you want is not edit that template (which you can, btw, because is only semiprotected). What you want is edit Template:2010POTY/Finalistsheader/en to add the 4th point who is here Template:2010POTY/Finalistsheader/de. That you can do because none of those pages are protected. Best regards, Béria Lima ^msg 17:27, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, I could not edit it - or I could edit it, but there was nothing to edit, just a referrer to another template - and I am told that it is (fully) protected. I edited the german template - where I am told not to edit the german template, but to edit here ... After editing german template, it did not show my changes. Very confusing and very obscure where to edit what ... But for now it is fixed, and there are the instructions to the workaround of the problem I had. ... PS: it was me to have added the 4th point in the german version (but it was not visible)! --ProloSozz (talk) 20:51, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Documentation for gadget authors

I saw you had done some work on a gadget. We are trying to start a library for gadget authors to use. Please check it out and post any questions or comments there. -- ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 17:41, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

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Code issues in User:Mentifisto/common.js

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Your CommonsMaintenanceBot (talk) at 18:01, 29 September 2014 (UTC).

Code issues in User:Mentifisto/common.js

Hi Mentifisto, I am a bored bot (this is kind of a computer program) that is watching the recent changes and tapping buttons like I did now.

Curious about the reason? Possibly not but I will tell you anyway:

1. You edited User:Mentifisto/common.js. Glad to see you coding in javascript! Have you ever considered becoming a MediaWiki hacker?
2. Though, that change appears to introduce 1 new esprima issue — the page's status is now having ERRORS. Note that invalid or ambiguous code often has unwanted side effects like breaking other tools for you. If you cannot find out how to fix it, I suggest blanking the page for now.
3. To help you understanding where the issues are, I have aggregated a report here and now. If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask users experienced in javascript writing for help. But do not ask the bot's operators (chronically overwrought) unless you suspect an error of mine. If you prefer not getting spammed by me, you can opt-out reports by adding {{ValidationOptOut|type=all}} to your user page or cmb-opt-out anywhere on your your global user page on Meta. Good luck at Wikimedia Commons and happy hacking!

1. ERROR: Cannot parse line 1 column 1: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

Your CommonsMaintenanceBot (talk) at 18:01, 29 September 2014 (UTC).

To comment out JavaScript, use

// two slashes

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De-adminship warning

Dear Lofty abyss, I am writing 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/Feb-Mar 2015 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, odder (talk) 20:49, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Dear Lofty abysmal

--Hibernated sleeper (talk) 07:35, 7 December 2019 (UTC) (Arturo)

Please participate in the Universal Code of Conduct consultation on Wikimedia Commons!

Dear Lofty abyss

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After the months-long policy consultation, we have prepared a policy (available in many languages) that has been ratified by the Board of Trustees. We’re currently in the second phase of the process. During this round of consultation, we want to discuss the implementation of this policy. As a member of the functionary team of Wikimedia Commons, your opinion on enforcement is of great value. We want to hear from you on how this policy can be enforced on the Wikimedia Commons community and what might be needed to do so. There are a few enforcement questions so you can easily outline your answers based on them. Please do not hesitate to bring any more questions/challenges you think are not yet discussed.

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As a valued member of the Commons community, please share your thoughts, ideas, and experiences that relate to UCoC. Let us know what needs to be improved so we can build a more friendly and cooperative space to increase editor engagement and retention of new users.

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Thank you! Wikitanvir (WMF) (talk) 10:18, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Please take a short survey regarding UCoC

Hello Lofty abyss,

I would like to inform you that we now have a survey in place to take part in the UCoC consultation. It is not a long one and should take less than 10 minutes to complete. You can take the survey even if you have already participated in the on-wiki consultation. It has a different set of questions and allows you to participate anonymously and privately.

As a member of the Commons functionaries, your opinion is especially essential. Please click here to participate in the survey.

You are still welcome to participate in the on-wiki discussions. If you prefer you can have your say by sending me an email. You can also drop me an email if you want to have a one-to-one chat.

Thank you for your participation! Wikitanvir (WMF) 13:54, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

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Sound Logo

Hello,

I am messaging you because a contest for a sound logo for Wikimedia is being developed and your opinion as a Wikimedia Commons admin is appreciated. My team would like to know if it is possible for the top finalist sound logos in the contest to have attribution temporarily hidden from public view until all the votes are final? The idea is to let the public judge the sound logo contestants based on the merit of the logo, not the person or people who made it. Again, any feedback is appreciated.

Thank you,

VGrigas (WMF) (talk) 17:54, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

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