NicoScribe

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category:Carl Newman

in the future disambiguate categories, do not delete them, it is disruptive. Slowking4 § Richard Arthur Norton's revenge 14:28, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Hello Slowking4. Well, the three files were in a wrong category ([1], [2], [3]) so I have thought that it was OK to remove it. I am sorry for this disruption. Thanks for the advice. --NicoScribe (talk) 18:23, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Welcome, Dear Patroller!

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Counter Vandalism Unit

Hi NicoScribe,

You now have the Patroller right and may call yourself a patroller! Please take a moment to read the updated Commons:Patrol to learn how Patrolling works and how we use it to fight vandalism.

As you know already, the patrolling functionality is enabled for all edits, not just for new-page creations. This enables us to keep track of, for example, edits made by anonymous users here on Commons.

We could use your help at the Counter Vandalism Unit. For example by patrolling an Anonymous-edits checklist and checking a day-part.

If you have any questions please leave a message on the CVU talkpage or ask for help on IRC in #wikimedia-commons.

I also granted you the rollback right. jdx ^Re: 17:45, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Uploading an Image

PLEASE I need someone to properly attach an image to a wiki page I read that lacks image.

I added a link on the page indicating a proper image for that page. Please kindly help by attaching the image well & referencing it to proper image owner. Thanks alot for improving Wikipedia. Below is the affected page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mambilla_Power_Station Ebere Jude (talk) 16:16, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello @Ebere Jude: I have made this modification. Is it OK for you? Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 16:58, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Unexplained reverts

NicoScribe why provide a "question mark" without properly explaining your reverting of good fix of a inter-wiki link of a featured picture linked discussion whereas as opposed to a not present/existent, error-prone discussion link to a FOP on English Wikipedia. I suggest you stop doing this stuff as noticed on undoing, often providing unknown rationales, may lead to unpleasant edit wars for even uncontroversial IW-fix. Do not even noticed the revert, after having glance on my contributions. Please AGF before performing such actions, and use a descriptive edit summary. --182.58.165.9 16:51, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Small hint if you disagree (and probably) continue a disruption; see- en:Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/La Jaconde (current fix to WI-link) and this:- en:Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/La Joconde, correcting discussion links to show establishment of consensus and reverting improperly with a undesirable, completely bonk edit summary of a character ("?") is doing such bad will credit to its page (on English Wikipedia) itself. Using user rights with responsible manner is what I care. Patrolled (rollback) editing was not used, fairness achieved, revert back to improper version: nope. --182.58.165.9 16:57, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello. Yes, my edit was an error. I am sorry. Thank you! Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 18:52, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Message from Kaschmoney

U suc Kaschmoney (talk) 18:17, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello @Kaschmoney: did I make an error ? Do you remember it or the relevant page? Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 14:50, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Flag of Switzerland

Hi NicoScribe, Since your commit on File:Flag of Switzerland.svg, the flag of Switzerland does not appear on the french wikipedia (see [4]). I don't understand what happend and how to fix it. Do you have an idea? Thanks. 212.224.232.218 11:36, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi,

The template fr:Modèle:SUI-d is using File:Flag of Switzerland.svg, but my modification of this file should not alter its display. I see a correct display of the file in, for instance, the following pages:

• Police cars by country#Switzerland
• fr:Modèle:SUI-d
• fr:Christophe Blain
• fr:Chersonèse en Crète
• en:Auguste Piccard (PX-8)
• sv:Schweiz herrlandslag i ishockey
• de:Olympische Geschichte der Schweiz

Do you see a problem of display of File:Flag of Switzerland.svg in one of these pages? Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 06:19, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I know your revert should not modify the model. The flag of Switzerland is not loading on the pages using fr:Modèle:SUI-d but the model did not change since 2 years, neither fr:Modèle:CIO-d. All other flags are ok. Maybe it's because of its special shape. Here is what I see ([5]). 109.89.0.94 10:19, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Well, File:Flag of Switzerland.svg, fr:Modèle:SUI-d and fr:Modèle:CIO-d seem to be OK. And I have no problem to see the Swiss flag in pages using fr:Modèle:SUI-d, such as fr:Christophe Blain, in my configuration (Windows 10 + Google Chrome).

I don't know the solution, so you should add a message in fr:Wikipédia:Questions techniques (or perhaps Commons:Village pump/Technical), mentioning at least one page where you see a problem, and your configuration. --NicoScribe (talk) 12:47, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Ok thanks. I have the same configuration. 109.89.0.94 12:56, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

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Use rollback to undo captions

As you already might know, caption edits can not be undone by using "undo" feature. But you can use rollback to undone caption edits. Rollbacking an unpatrolled edit also already marks that edit as patrolled, so you wouldn't need to mark the rollbacked edit as patrolled. Also sorry for those accidental reverts, my hands slipped! Masum Reza^📞 18:48, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello @Masumrezarock100:

I know about the bug Phabricator:T236320. I hope that it will be corrected soon!

• For caption vandalisms or obvious caption errors, I already use rollback.
• For caption edits that are not "clear-cut" cases, the bug forced me to change my habits: now, instead of using the "undo" feature, I just remove the wrong caption (example).

I do not understand your remark because, for caption edits that are not "clear-cut" cases, I should not use rollback, according to Commons:Rollback#When to use rollback. Moreover, I am in the Patrollers group, so all my edits are automatically marked as patrolled.

Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 10:50, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Only "your" edits are automatically patrolled. But the edit you are reverting are not automatically patrolled unless you use rollback. So it's like this. If you remove a caption, it doesn't let you give a edit summary. Same thing happens with rollback, unless you use some sort of script (example) to add a summary of manually do it by putting the "summary" parameter in the URL. Use of rollback is allowed even in non-vandalism cases only if you give an appropriate edit summary. So I ask you to patrol the bad caption edit or use rollback which automatically marks it as patrolled. The caption edits you are reverting are still being shown in the RecentChanges even with the "Unpatrolled" filter turned on. This causes extra work for patrollers. I hope I have explained clearly. Masum Reza^📞 12:52, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

@Masumrezarock100: OK, now I understand. Thanks.

So, your remarks are also applicable for canceled edits that are not caption edits.

I will (try to remember to) "mark as patrolled" the vandalisms/errors after canceling them (except when I use rollback). --NicoScribe (talk) 15:43, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Article you reverted to me

I never used my picture for that. That's my picture how did you get my personal picture from my device? I have a hacker that I believe has cloned my phone and has 19 devices connected to my contacts on my phone. I had factory reset my phone which is not this device and I saw the connected 19 devices attached to my account. Can you please alert Wikipedia about this problem and see if they can assist me to solving this problem please. I did not give anybody permission to use my picture either and I would like it back please.

                                   (Steel9210 (talk) 03:30, 30 October 2020 (UTC))

Hello @Steel9210:

I did not "get [your] personal picture from [your] device". On 11 September 2020, I have undone some of your contributions because you have added wrong descriptions. For instance, you wrote that File:Search box vector.PNG depicted a namespace and a child, which is wrong.

Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 08:12, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

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