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File:Altacast Main Window.png

Hello

I made a discovery today: File:Altacast Main Window.png is actually a free image. It was mislabeled as non-free.

I was wondering if you could undelete its original larger revision, please.

Thanks.

Codename Lisa (talk) 08:49, 3 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Codename Lisa:  Done Ronhjones  (Talk) 15:04, 3 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:RonBot

User:RonBot has not made any edits or log entries this month. Is there something wrong? --Stefan2 (talk) 11:58, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Stefan2: Ooops, it's me. I was changing some supporting files around, and did not do all the replaces required. Running now to check all is well. Thanks. Ronhjones  (Talk) 18:27, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
On another note - there are about 650 GIFs in Category:Wikipedia non-free file size reduction requests for manual processing. I'll try and do them by month end. Ronhjones  (Talk) 18:31, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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22:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

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Proper background for image

Hello Ronhjones, I've uploaded a logo but the background of the image is not fitting for Wiki standards. I don't know who else to ask, so I'm asking you. Could you fix the background of this logo and give it the proper background. That would be really nice. Thank you in advance. Akocsg (talk) 15:05, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Akocsg: Is the blue supposed to be clear? Is that what you mean? Or cropped (and also reduce to NFCC size) Ronhjones  (Talk) 15:11, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Ronhjones: Yes it's supposed to be clear, like the other logos in similar articles. If the size is a problem, you can adjust that too. Akocsg (talk) 15:18, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Akocsg: Fixed, not a bad result in the end. Changing the background to white make a very rough outer circle - so that removed and a new one added. The star had a ragged blue edges after background changed, manually used a white brush at 2px wide to clean it up. Ronhjones  (Talk) 16:11, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. Don't forget to add it to the article! Ronhjones  (Talk) 16:15, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Ronhjones: Great. Thank you very much. Akocsg (talk) 22:35, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have noticed a minor issue though. If you compare it for instance with this logo, than you can see that the background is different. It makes the background in the actual article unseen. The logo of Fenerbahce shows the white background in the article. Can you fix that? Akocsg (talk) 01:09, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Akocsg: yes, The difference is one is transparent and one is white. I'll have to look up how to get PhotoShop to do transparent - not something I've done before. Ronhjones  (Talk) 13:28, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Ronhjones: All right. Please inform me of the result. Akocsg (talk) 12:50, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Akocsg: As always, it's easy once you know how. Select "magic eraser", click background. Thanks heavens for the internet. Ronhjones  (Talk) 17:19, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Ronhjones: Thank you very much. Akocsg (talk) 19:12, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

File:Kayhan.gif

Your reduced version of the file seems to be broken: the bottom half of the image is missing. I'd suggest reverting and re-reducing. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:06, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Stefan2: I just spotted that! Very odd - I have Explorer open, set to extra large icons, compare before and after and then upload - in this case something odd happened with the download - and naturally the reduced one was identical! Downloaded again and fixed with photoshop. Ronhjones  (Talk) 22:09, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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19:16, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

File:Windows logo - 2002.svg

Hello, Ron.

How do you do?

Several Wikipedia articles (Windows XP, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows CE 5.0) are currently devoid of a logo, even though they had one in the past. Someone thought the logo used on them was free and moved them to Commons. The Commons admins, however, didn't agree with that person and deleted the logo. (Well, actually, logos. Many of them. They did a thorough job of reading the copyright laws very loosely!) And now, there is no appropriate logos, neither on Commons nor on Wikipedia.

I was wondering if you could help return to the NFCC-approved status. File:Windows logo - 2002.svg, if undeleted, can be used for all these articles.

Can you help with that?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 14:00, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Codename Lisa: No problem, done. Commons is picky (I'm admin there as well!). I've add the "Do not move to commons" template. I'll let you put it in the articles. Ronhjones  (Talk) 14:15, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Well. Thanks a bunch!
I wouldn't call Commons picky; it was clearly a copyvio. It is just that the violators irk me and the recurrence was troubling. For a while, I couldn't bring myself up to send yet another message to the Commons admin and ask for the image AGAIN! I had done it so many times already.
I myself ended up discussing the use of one such logo on so many articles here, in the old copyright noticeboard (which is now replaced by WP:FFD). I had a heated discussion with another admin too! What we discovered much later was that the person who had started the controversial discussion was a sockpuppet of Betacommand! (Sigh!) We simply don't have enough respect for copyright. Anyway, if anyone pinged you and complained about so many usages, just let me know so that I can dig the old consensus up.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 21:50, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Codename Lisa: Betacommand - we'll let that sleeping dog lie... Since it was moved to commons and then deleted, there's no problem undeleting it - it should really have gone to c:Category:Requested fair use deletes to get moved back to en-wiki by c:User:Commons fair use upload bot - not that many users know that system, I think. The problem with all logos on commons is deciding if it falls foul of the c:COM:TOO - which varies considerably with country. In my view this one is just on the edge - I would have leaned to keep for a US logo, it's a simple shape with just a touch of shading, obviously the others thought the shading was just a bit too far. Ronhjones  (Talk) 22:01, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Does that bot even work? The original operator was banned by the WMF and the user name was taken over by a different user, but the new bot hasn't made any edits to this project. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:49, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Codename Lisa: Good question. The bot may be dead - but I do see the odd file in c:Category:Requested fair use deletes (often for quite a while!) - there probably is not enough activity to warrant time spending on it, maybe quicker just to move the odd file manually. Ronhjones  (Talk) 00:05, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

181.130.89.221

Was this supposed to be an escalating block duration? Regards. 174.135.40.152 (talk) 00:26, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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