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Deletion of redirect

My request for a 2nd opinion on the Bessora redirect seems to gone nowhere on the OTRS noticeboard possibly because they feel it should have gone elsewhere so I put a note on the BLP noticeboard. --Big_iron (talk) 13:07, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sadman's latest one

I put a SPI a few days ago and it seems like this person defiantly is him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Shraddha_Arya Wgolf (talk) 19:25, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The dress

Why does this pic, File:The Dress (viral phenomenon).png, require a "non-free reduce"? The original file size is already small. If you see, Theo's Little Bot did not really reduce anything, and now the file size looks bare. 300px is the recommended size for non-free images, so why? That was 300x400 as it is not square. I don't get your logic. Nahnah4 (talk | contribs | guestbook) 09:34, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Nahnah4: I'm not sure where you get 300px as preferred - that may have been years ago - but there are far too many images that are non square so 300x300 is not a good standard - I've seen far to many 300x900 images and similar claiming to be within size. The guideline is at WP:Image resolution, which is a much simpler format in that you can have any shape you like, but it's the overall area that decides the size. Theo's bot did reduce the image, and it makes almost no difference - good, we have a reduction to fit the guideline and the image is still workable - I see no issue with that reduction. Theo's bot will allow up to a 5% oversize before it will reduce, so anything less than 105,000 pixels will never be reduced. The dress at 300x400 was 20% oversize. If the reduction causes an serious issue with the image (it does happen sometimes, especially if there is any text) - then it's up to the uploader to make out a special case within the FUR for the keeping of an oversize image. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 20:45, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Pandher Page124.253.133.161 (talk) 13:36, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Why have you deleted the Pandher page? It is a caste in Punjab area in India. This happens when a person knows nothing about a place and thinks himself as of all knowing

Unreferenced article - nominated for deletion by User:Sitush as "Fails WP:GNG. It certainly is a name used in India but I can find no sources that discuss it as a caste, clan or gotra. Tagged as unsourced for years." - see User:Ronhjones/DeletedPROD if you want it back, but it would be unwise to restore back to main space as it's unlikely to survive a full deletion process. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 21:17, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Zmaher sockpuppet

You blocked User:Zmaher indefinitely in January 2015, but he seems to be using a series of sockpuppets in the 146.163 range to edit war on Metallica and/or Guns n Roses concert tour articles. Aspects (talk) 20:30, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If there is any particular page then use WP:RFPP or tell me, if I'm around. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 21:19, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

For the past couple of months, it was just Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour, which I went to WP:RFPP once and it was protected for one week. But yesterday it extended to seven other articles, Damage, Inc. Tour, Use Your Illusion Tour, Damaged Justice, Wherever We May Roam Tour, Nowhere Else to Roam, Poor Touring Me and World Magnetic Tour. Aspects (talk) 21:31, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And another new IP address from the 146.163 range came in to edit war on Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour without any edit summaries or talk page discussion. Aspects (talk) 20:50, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Aspects: Let's see how that goes. BTW - any reason Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour is a sub page and not a full page? That looks a bit odd - why not Metallica Stadium Tour? Ronhjones ^(Talk) 21:23, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for not replying earlier, I meant to thank you for your help and answer your question, but I guess I forgot. I think the article is a subpage is because the tour was in the middle of Guns n Roses tour, Use Your Illusion Tour, while in between tours for Metallica, so it seems to fall in a weird area. I did not set this up, but I have tried to maintain, if the article is deemed to fall into another article, I would not have a problem with it.

As for your protection, that seemed to have lasted two days. User:146.163.48.162 made their first edit asking to add the history of the tour, 22 minutes later User:Maniac1993 starts making edits to articles typical of Zmaher's behavior, thrash metal and heavy metal music, to get confirmed and then heads back to the concert tour article to make the same type of changes without edit summaries again, [1]. Aspects (talk) 00:00, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting image un-deletion

Hello, Ronhjones, I'm writing to request undeletion of the following referenced image:

00:06, 19 February 2015 Ronhjones (talk | contribs) deleted page File:Aimpoint T-1 on Glock 17.jpg (File deleted: F11: No evidence of permission for more than 7 days (TW))

Permission was forwarded to permissions-en@wikimedia.org on February 11, 2015, and OTRS tag added the same day. Did I put the OTRS in the wrong field, maybe?

Thanks! -DFN (talk) 00:50, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, seems to me my error and I know not why! I have to assume I've been caught out by Wikipedia caching - I must have seen the page earlier and the PC has remembered the old version (it's a sick PC at present - still at the repairers - maybe that did not help). Restored to allow OTRS to proceed. I just looked - ticket is in the queue, not looked at yet. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 20:15, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dan Lowenstein (physician) page

Hi, fuck.

I just saw your note about the removal of the image I had attached to Dan Lowenstein's page.

As a novice and infrequent user, I thought I had thoroughly read the details about the attribution process and uploaded the photo to something called the wikicommons (or wikiimage?) area.

I'm sorry but I don't understand the specifics of your directions in your 2014 message to me.

At the time I had posted the image, I had requested a photo to use directly from Doctor Lowenstein, and he had graciously emailed one to me.

I would like to put the image up again, and I hope you can help me find the right way to do so.

Thanks!

Itsnotsanfran (talk) 02:48, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

File:Daniel H. Lowenstein (physician).jpeg - you and only upload images you have the copyright. Otherwise you have to get the copyright donated. That system is explained at WP:DCM

OK, your image had on it {{OTRS pending}} - maybe added by the wizard. That gives you 30 days to provide the copyright evidence. Now there is a further issue (sorry...) in that I do not think that Daniel H. Lowenstein took the photo, it does not look like a selfie. The copyright belongs to the person who pressed the shutter. That's the only person who can donate any of the copyright. So there must be a copyright release from the photographer. If the photographer sold the copyright with the photo to Daniel H. Lowenstein, then we need to see that signed release, and then we would need a release from Daniel H. Lowenstein as he then owns the copyright. Once OTRS has all the informtion then they will undelete the image. Whoever owns the copyright can use the standard form at WP:CONSENT to send in. Hope that makes some sense - images are rather complex items when you don't take the photo yourself. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 20:49, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I understand. Thanks for the detailed response. It seems that getting a photo of him on here is more work than it's worth. How about if I go take a photo of him myself and then release it to Wikipedia? Less paperwork pushing. Will that be a satisfactory solution? Thanks in advance.

Itsnotsanfran (talk) 12:11, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Itsnotsanfran: Correct. Any phot you took is yours nto do waht you want - but note - be sure to upload it to Wikipedia first before any uploads to any other web sites, otherwise users will supect it's a copy! Ronhjones ^(Talk) 20:56, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

About a deleted page - Shweta Taneja

Hi Ronhjones, i was creating a page for "Shweta Taneja" which i had saved as a draft. A day later it got created as a page (i dont know how, i am a newbie) and few days later it got deleted by you with a note that a banned user created it so the page was deleted.

I tried to create the draft again but after a couple of days of editing, the new draft also does not show in my list of contributions. Is there a way to get back that page in draft mode either from the version you deleted or from my second round of editing? I dont want to lose that work and would like to have the page created eventually after going through the submit and review process.

Thanks Ashwaniapex (talk) 15:37, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Ashwaniapex: No, no. There were 2 pages - the draft one was never approved.

Shweta Taneja created by Sameer Paudwal at 10:57, 25 February 2015 (and you added a bit to it later) and deleted by me 18:47, 8 March 2015 deleted page Shweta Taneja (G5: Creation by a banned or blocked user (Sadman Sakibzz) in violation of ban or block)
Draft:Shweta Taneja created by you at 05:29, 19 February 2015 and deleted - 11:53, 11 March 2015 user:Graeme Bartlett deleted page Draft:Shweta Taneja (G5: Creation by a blocked or banned user in violation of block or ban)

You will have to talk to Graeme Bartlett to get the Draft version undeleted. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 21:08, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The deleted article and the deleted draft are almost exactly the same so I concluded that the same person made both articles. I do not particularly like the G5 criterion for deletion. And I am not easily able to see what led to the ban/block. When I look at the history I see that Ashwaniapex is correct that the draft was first and that Sameer Paudwal copied it without credit. Since Ashwaniapex is not blocked I will restore the draft. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:59, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Ronhjones. I guess your action started some kind of chain and the article was eventually approved and created today. It needs polish by way of copy-editing and i still have more references to add but it is now live and that is a start :-). Thanks again.

Ashwaniapex (talk) 17:30, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]