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Jmabel

Joined 28 October 2003
Latest comment: 9 days ago by Bri in topic Windstorm check-up

I am currently only moderately active on Wikipedia. I've been uploading a lot of my own photos (and occasionally some other images) to the Commons, writing the occasional article, participating in other articles mainly on a "hit-and-run" basis, and maybe doing the occasional translation, but for the foreseeable future, that is my level of participation. I am not being one of the "mainstays", as I was from November 2003 to April 2007. - Jmabel | Talk 04:18, 6 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Archived

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Stray barnstars

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I've moved my barnstars, etc., to User:Jmabel/Barnstars. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:31, 6 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Stray DYKs

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My DYKs can be found at User:Jmabel/DYK - Jmabel | Talk 00:43, 30 September 2009 (UTC)Reply

Regarding recent refactoring/deletion in my user space

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Hi Jmabel,

[Perhaps Checkingfax and Wikicology might be so kind as to consider and take note of the following as well.]

Please explain what's going on with quote removal on my talkpage. It's my initial feeling that if someone has an issue with something left on my talkpage they need to be communicating such as a request—with context and explanation—to me directly in some manner (such as leaving a message on my talkpage and/or a 'pinging' me from another talkpage). I was considering transcribing the whole thread over to Commons ... So having the thread turned into a 'moving target' by others (without the courtesy of direct communication to me) felt disorientating and distracting. It seems reasonable to expect to have some input into how such gets handled on one's own talkpage, yes?

For example perhaps a bracketed "[A quote formerly in place here was redacted upon request.]" line left in place with the original signature and timestamp might have served to better preserve historical accuracy. But I wasn't given an opportunity in advance to suggest such—or anything else—and instead was just left to address the alteration (or not) myself after-the-fact ... <sigh> ...

If someone else would like to copy the whole thread from my talkpage over to an appropriate thread on Commons and then leave a link appended to the thread on my page noting such ("Discussion continued at ...", etc.) please feel free to do so. As the thread deals with confirming and/or establishing Commons policy it likely should, in retrospect, have taken place there in the first place—perhaps on the discussion page of the file in question. I was planning to copy the thread to Commons with a neatly placed and titled 'collapse top/bottom' template preceded by an introductory line or few and then follow from there with further thoughts/replies/policy research (feel free to consider such as a suggestion at this point; I'm going to divert my attention elsewhere for awhile).
--Kevjonesin (talk) 03:23, 20 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

  • Wikicology is apparently banned from the English-language Wikipedia. I'm the one who originally copied his remark there. He requested (on the thread I posted a link to right after I removed the copied remark) that I remove it, presumably because he doesn't want to be seen as trying to evade the ban by having someone else post his remarks on his behalf. - Jmabel | Talk 04:11, 20 January 2017 (UTC)Reply
Jmabel, I don't see "presumably because he doesn't want to be seen as trying to evade the ban by having someone else post his remarks on his behalf" as presenting a problem on my talkpage. You clearly conveyed that you were quoting a public record from elsewhere and indicated that it was you who had done so by signing and dating your comment. If Wikicology wishes to ping me on Commons or leave a message on my talkpage there explaining why they wish me to refactor 'my'* talkpage they're welcome to do so. In the meantime, I'll be restoring your quote-comment that was removed as at present I prefer to let it stand for the record as originally posted. Oh, and, BTW, FWIW, User:Checkingfax followed having been tagged above by making yet another unauthorized deletion at my talkpage. At present I'm inclined to respond to any further unauthorized mucking about in my userspace by initiating administrative action.
*[note: I'm aware my oversight of the User:Kevjonesin namespace is technically a privilege extended by Jimbo Wales, the Wikimedia Foundation, and to some extent the Wikimedia community at large rather than true 'ownership' per se; however, so far as I'm aware it's a matter of both custom and policy/guidelines to extend fairly broad authority to editors over their own user namespace excepting instances where other explicitly stated policy may supersede. At this time I feel inclined to exercise the authority I've been given, such as it is, rather than risk further erosion by rude indifference. I may eventually be open to considering written requests for future changes to be made with the understanding that such may only be implemented either by me or in some manner having received my explicit personal approval, in advance, on a case-by-case basis.]
[Also note: Hosting a Commons policy discussion on my Wikipedia talkpage was initiated by KDS4444 who also took it upon themself to invite others to come and join in. As I've already indicated, I think the relevant file discussion-page at Commons would have made for a more appropriate venue. Especially now that some of the guests to my talkpage have repeatedly shown discourtesy by 'failing to use their turn signals' – ie. by failing to offer me explicit cues and consultation before implementing anomalous actions on my page – and have done so apparently based largely on some dialog on another Wiki with another user, Wikicology, who has not chosen to communicate directly with me at all. Instead they've made use of proxies to extend their will from afar. Which seems quite ironic to me as fear of being perceived as 'using proxies to influence en:Wikipedia' has been presented above as an excuse for doing just that. A grand example of self-fulfilling prophecy!]
--Kevjonesin (talk) 13:11, 20 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Please see commons:User_talk:Kevjonesin#Your_talk_page., where Wikicology has clarified that I understood his intent correctly. This is a situation where it is impossible to make everyone happy. You and he are making conflicting demands. My edits to your talk page did not effectively remove information from the discussion: they turned a copy into a link. That seemed to be the closest I could come to accommodating you both. When I made originally copied the remarks, I had no idea Wikicology was banned from the English-language wikipedia. Similarly, he presumably will not be following our discussion here, and certainly cannot respond here. I personally have no problem with you restoring the quotation from him (and certainly no problem with you restoring me saying he's dead wrong), but do be aware that in restoring it you are going against his express request. - Jmabel | Talk 15:29, 20 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

It's my understanding that one's contributions to Wikimedia sites (including to talkpage discussions) are by default considered contributions to the public domain. I'll deal with Wikicology on Commons when and as I see fit.
Hi, Kevjonesin. No. Wikimedia contributions are not Public Domain. Wikicology requested that his words be removed and they were not. In good faith I removed them per his request to me. If you did not like the manner that I refactored things, you could have easily cleaned it up without making a federal case about it - and a huge mess. You still have that opportunity. Please remove my signature from your talk page, as I contributed no content to your page, and I do not care to be attributed for that which I am not responsible for. See my edit summaries for rationale. As always, WP:AGF and WP:TPG. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 00:21, 28 January 2017 (UTC)Reply
Jmabel as you yourself have indicated you were not acting upon the direction of Wikicology when you originally posted the quote in question to my en.Wikipedia user talkpage. However; again as you yourself have indicated, you were acting on behalf of Wikicology – a user banned from en.Wikipedia for—in short—disruptive and erratic editing and deemed untrustworthy and inconsistent by arbcom – when you chose to refactor the comment on my en.Wikipedia user talkpage; as was Checkingfax when he refactored the same comment previous to you (contrary to the very talkpage guidelines he linked in his edit summary wherein he offered vague 'acronym salad' rather than straightforward elaboration as to what had prompted his edit). You both performed an edit to my userspace at en.Wikipedia in response to a request from an indefinitely banned user made upon another Wiki without advance discussion with me or anyone else here on en.Wikipedia, correct? I am befuddled why you both seem to have felt such urgency to extend a courtesy to a self declared banned user speaking from another site, yet have not shown willingness to extend courtesy to me—an active en.Wikipedia editor in good standing—by by for instance including me in deciding how to respond to a request made elsewhere by a banned user regarding refactoring my own talkpage. Checkingfax made a third-party drive by edit without so much as a 'howdy-do', which I reverted, and then you, Jmabel, presumed to revert my reversion on my own talkpage without advance notice or consultation. Is it any wonder that I'm feeling abused and disrespected at this point? Would either of you appreciate it if I (or another editor) presumed to supersede you in your namespace? I reiterate, why have y'all held Wikicology's "express request" to be so urgent and important here on en.Wikipedia while brushing off my interest in being included in shaping my own namespace? I should hope it's clear by now that I feel I've been rudely disregarded in this matter; something along the lines of, "Oops, sorry I stepped on your toes, I'll try to be more careful in the future", would go a long way towards helping me put this to rest. --Kevjonesin (talk) 21:51, 20 January 2017 (UTC)Reply
My initial edit was indeed not at Wikicology's request: it was an effort to comply with User:KDS4444's request at commons:Village pump/Copyright "please respond either at the Village Pump or, ideally, on the talk page of one of the participants here rather than start another thread here at the copyright section of Commons." At the time, I had no idea why Wikicology nonetheless put his comment right there in the copyright section of Commons (in particular, I had no idea he was banned on en-wiki.), so I had no idea that anyone might consider my copying it to the requested location other than constructive. Once I was told (by Wikicology) about Wikicology's ban I tried to remedy my mistake. Again: I replaced a quotation with a link, there was no loss of information. And, again, if you want to leave the quote there despite his wishes, then that doesn't concern me. Of course I'll try to be careful in the future. - Jmabel | Talk 22:27, 20 January 2017 (UTC)Reply
(Goodness, all I was trying to do was create a centralized venue for a discussion— I did not figure it mattered greatly where it took place, so long as it did not take place in three different places. If that resulted in intrusion, then I am very sorry. I did not consider the decision of where to hold the discussion as at all relevant, I just wanted to have the discussion! KDS4444 (talk) 06:26, 21 January 2017 (UTC))Reply
  • Jmabel, you seem to have again missed my point. The quality of your rationale for reverting on my talkpage is not what I bring into question, but rather whether it was properly your place to do so on your own without consulting me in the first place, regardless of rationale. You lost sight of context, you forgot your surroundings (or so I give you the benefit-of-the-doubt, perhaps in fact you and Checkingfax simply hold no respect for en.Wikipedia customs regarding deference to users in regards to decisions about their own namespace). Whichever it may be, as I now feel you both have been rude guests, and appear to me unapologetic for having done so, I say "Sully my doorstep no more!" (ie. Jmabel and Checkingfax I, Kevjonesin, formerly request that you have no more interaction with my namespace at en.Wikipedia; henceforth do not post to, comment on, or otherwise edit User talk:Kevjonesin without explicit invitation by me to do so). --Kevjonesin (talk) 12:27, 21 January 2017 (UTC)Reply


  • KDS4444, "all I was trying to do was create a centralized venue for a discussion" ... about Wikimedia Commons policy-&-protocol on another's personal talkpage here at en.Wikipedia. By way of analogy, you chose to organize a party at my place, invited guests from another town, and never asked if I wanted to play host. Then after some of the guests you invited were rude to their host, presuming to rearrange as if they were in their own living room, you left me largely on my own to deal with sorting out the aftermath. "I did not consider the decision of where to hold the discussion as at all relevant, I just wanted to have the discussion!" ... Perhaps your desire got the better of your common sense (such has certainly happened to me before). I hope we all may learn to take better care when choosing venues in the future.
KDS4444, you've stated an apology, "If that resulted in intrusion, then I am very sorry."; something others have as yet not seen fit to do. Thank you, I appreciate the gesture. Perhaps you might be so kind as to put that sentiment into action by taking to heart the suggestion I presented at the start of this thread:

If someone else would like to copy the whole thread from my talkpage over to an appropriate thread on Commons and then leave a link appended to the thread on my page noting such ("Discussion continued at ...", etc.) please feel free to do so. As the thread deals with confirming and/or establishing Commons policy it likely should, in retrospect, have taken place there in the first place—perhaps on the discussion page of the file in question. I was planning to copy the thread to Commons with a neatly placed and titled 'collapse top/bottom' template preceded by an introductory line or few and then follow from there with further thoughts/replies/policy research (feel free to consider such as a suggestion at this point; I'm going to divert my attention elsewhere for awhile).

Please transcribe the text from the thread you started on my en.Wikipedia talkpage to the discussion-page of commons:File:Opened scallop shell (with arrows).png, give it an appropriate introduction (eg. "The following has been transcribed from en.Wikipedia and placed here on Commons as it addresses Commons policy in general and this file page specifically."), and then add brief notes elsewhere on Commons where appropriate (ie. where you've previously linked my en.Wikipedia talkpage; a link to the new target with a brief explanation directing folks to no longer use the previous link to my en.Wikipedia userspace should suffice). KDS4444, I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd take responsibility for these 'mopping up' tasks (ie. help clean up after your party at my place) so that I may feel free to get back to addressing the actual Commons policy/protocol issues you've raised regarding file authorship and such. Thanks for your time and consideration, -- Kevjonesin (talk) 12:27, 21 January 2017 (UTC)Reply
@Kevjonesin: I will stay off of your user talk page in the future. - Jmabel | Talk 18:17, 21 January 2017 (UTC)Reply
  • Thank you.
[Frankly I'm sorry it's come to this Jmabel, but at present—lacking recognition a misstep may have occurred—it seems for the best. Out of respect for your space here, if others continue responding to me on this thread I'll make an effort to continue elsewhere.]
--Kevjonesin (talk) 23:33, 21 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

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AN/I Kevjonesin vs Checkingfax

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  There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 05:08, 5 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Editing as Activism: Black WikiHistory Month Workshop and Edit-a-thon at UW Bothell

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Event poster for the Black History Month Editing as Activism Workshop and Edit-a-thon at University of Washington-Bothell Feb. 22-23, 2017.
Editing as Activism: Black WikiHistory Month Workshop and Edit-a-thon
Social Justice Organizers at University of Washington-Bothell are hosting a two-day editing event for Black WikiHistory Month on Feb. 22 and Feb. 23, 2017.
Main page: Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/Editing as Activism
Learn to Purposefully Edit Wikipedia
  • February 22, 2017 ~3-5:30pm
  • Location: UW Bothell Activities & Recreation Center (ARC) Overlook (Sports and Recreation Complex on the campus map), Second floor, room 202. Address: 18220 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011; vehicle parking in North parking garage $3 for 3 hours or $6/all day rate cash or card
  • This workshop gives you the critical tools you need to log on with purpose and make edits that make a difference.
  • Led by Monika Sengul-Jones
Black History Month Edit-a-thon
  • February 23, 2017 3-6pm
  • Location: UW Bothell Common Grounds Cafe in the Commons Hall (UW2), main floor. Address: 18115 Campus Way NE Bothell, WA 98011; vehicle parking in South parking garage $3 for 3 hours or $6/all day rate cash or card
  • Put your editing skills to work in a group editing session. Edit and/or create pages that improve Wikipedia's coverage of Black history and culture. All welcome. Novice editors encouraged to attend the Learn to Purposefully Edit session on Feb. 22. Bring your laptops, power cords, and books/articles to edit with.
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Art+Feminism March 2017 at UW Seattle

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Art+Feminism Learn to Edit Pre-session
  • When: Friday, March 3rd, 2017, from 12-2pm PT
  • Where: Research Commons, Allen Library South, Ground floor. University of Washington. Seattle, WA 98195
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
  • When: Saturday, March 4th, 2017, 9am-1pm PT
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The University of Washington Research Commons, Cascadia Wikimedians, iArts, & iQueeries will jointly host an Art+Feminism event in March at the Research Commons.

Join us for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism! Our focus is on improving Wikipedia's representation of North American Indigenous art, Indigenous womxn artists, and Indigenous feminism.

We will provide tutorials for beginner Wikipedians, childcare, refreshments, and live streaming for those unable to attend.

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Proposed deletion of Banana Boat

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The article Banana Boat has been proposed for deletion. The proposed deletion notice added to the article should explain why.

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Hackathon to help Wikipedia 1.0

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Hello! You're listed as a member of the Wikipedia 1.0 team, so I thought you might be interested in this Hackathon on August 13-18 in my home town of Potsdam, New York, right after Wikimania. Let me know if you'd like to participate. Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 04:51, 1 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Art+Feminism, Saturday, May 6, at Jacob Lawrence Gallery, UW Seattle

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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Despite its wide reach, content on Wikipedia suffers from the bias of its editors: white, technically inclined, English-speaking men that live in developed, majority-Christian countries. This represents an alarming absence of voices in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.

In an effort to change this, the Jake is organizing a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Saturday, May 6th, 1 - 5 pm. Our mission is to bring together diverse communities to participate in Wikipedia editing, and improve its coverage of queer people and women of color in the arts.

We will provide childcare, snacks, and tutorials for the beginner editor.

Bring your laptop, power-cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. No previous Wikipedia experience required!

RSVP at and stay tuned to our Facebook page for updates.

What: Improving Wikipedia's coverage on queer and women artists of color
When: Saturday, May 6, 1-5pm
Where: Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Art Building #132, 1915 NE Chelan Ln, Seattle, WA 98105
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Can you help verify translations of articles from Romanian

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Hello,

Would you be able to help evaluate the accuracy of translations of Wikipedia articles from Romanian to English Wikipedia?

File:Language icon.svg

This would involve evaluating a translated article on English Wikipedia by comparing it to the original Romanian article, and marking it "Pass" or "Fail" based on whether the translation faithfully represents the original. Here's the reason for this request:

There are a number of articles on English Wikipedia that were created as machine translations from different languages including Romanian , using the Content Translation tool, sometimes by users with no knowledge of the source language. The config problem that allowed this to happen has since been fixed, but this has left us with a backlog of articles whose accuracy of translation is suspect or unknown, including some articles translated from Romanian. In many cases, other editors have come forward later to copyedit and fix any English grammar or style issues, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the translation is accurate, as factual errors from the original translation may remain. To put it another way: Good English is not the same as good translation.

If you can help out, that would be great. Here's a sample of the articles that need checking:

  • Ellie White – ✓ Pass; accurate, but barely 10% of the Romanian article
  • Pegas – ✓ Pass; cleaned up and should be fine; some contradictions with ro version, but refs support en version so prob. ok
  • Toate pînzele sus – ✓ Pass; basically accurate; English wasn't very good, now fixed. 2 paragraphs in original not translated.
  • Genoese Lighthouse – ✓ Pass; basically solid; I've fixed two minor issues
  • Gelu Barbu – ✓ Pass; "basically accurately translated," but incomplete

All you have to do, is compare the English article to the Romanian article, and mark it "Pass" or "Fail" (templates {{Pass}} and {{Fail}} may be useful). (Naturally, if you feel like fixing an inaccurate translation and then marking it "Pass", that's even better, but it isn't required.)

If you can help, please let me know. Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 09:55, 29 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Wow, that's great, thank you! I'm still searching for additional helpers for Romanian, in fact, if you can drop a few usernames here or on my talk page of users you know who might be able to help with Romanian (also other Ctrl European languages), I'd love to hear about it. In the meantime while I'm looking, can I pass you another five articles? Thanks again, Mathglot (talk) 06:33, 30 May 2017 (UTC)Reply
  • Most days I won't have that kind of time to put into it; if you drop me more articles, don't expect anything like comparable response time. I'll get to it, but not necessarily promptly.
  • The problem in terms of contributors who can read Romanian is, unsurprisingly: most of them are native Romanian speakers who are not at a comparable level in English, so they can do a great job of translating English to Romanian, but not vice versa (much as I can competently translate Romanian to English, but not vice versa). I haven't been active enough lately in the English-language Wikipedia to name names of who is currently active and capable of going this direction, but I'd suggest that as this moves forward you just keep an eye out for who does the translations that turn out to be good, and try working with them. - Jmabel | Talk 14:38, 30 May 2017 (UTC)Reply
Hi, Jmabel. Understood, and I appreciate whatever assistance you can provide. Your comment about the ro->en vs en->ro is a good one, I will probably go mine the ro-5 and ro-4 lists and double-check that they are high- or native-English (as opposed to: <ro-4, hu-N, en-1> for example) to make sure they're good in the ro->en direction.
If you do feel like looking at some more, we'd certainly appreciate it, here's the remainder of the list:
List of articles translated from Romanian wikipedia
As far as spending time: it's much more important for us in the short term to get a Pass/Fail assessment, than to have the articles actually fixed. I assume that that would speed things up considerably for you since it's just a binary decision. But we're all volunteers here, so you do whatever you have time for, and what you enjoy.
Thanks again for your help, and happy editing! Mathglot (talk) 23:31, 30 May 2017 (UTC)Reply
FWIW, I only count myself as ro-2, en-N. I wouldn't presume to write anything in Romanian beyond an informal communication, but I read it pretty well. - Jmabel | Talk 23:41, 30 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

@Mathglot: Done. - Jmabel | Talk 20:18, 7 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! This is really helpful. I hope it has been enjoyable as well. I will keep my eye out for any more. Note that I've repatriated some of your assessments from talk pages of articles where you wrote more at length, to the list above; if you could just double check briefly to ensure that they are valid restatements of your opinions (which I've quoted and slightly abbreviated) I'd appreciate it. Adding @Elinruby: Mathglot (talk) 22:53, 7 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
Yes (on the first 5, you seem not to have done this on the others). - Jmabel | Talk 15:30, 8 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
Partly because I don't want to misrepresent your assessments. For example, for Filaret Barbu, when I see a comment like, "′I suspect someone would do well to start this nearly from scratch" I want to call it a "Fail" because if it's easier to delete the article and start it over from scratch, this for me is the very definition of a "fail". But I'd rather hear that from you directly, and not make interpretations.
Do you think you could propagate your assessments from the second batch to your talk page above and assess each as a pass or a fail? I realize that in some cases trying to summarize what may be an extended discussion on that talk page or capture it in just a few words maybe problematic, but it's the nature of the beast. Mathglot (talk) 02:18, 9 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
My assessment for Filaret Barbu, which I think I stated pretty clearly, is that someone should start over. What is the use in knowing whether it is an accurate or inaccurate translation of a poor article in Romanian? What matters is that it needs to be rewritten. - Jmabel | Talk 05:06, 9 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
This project has a narrow scope and attempts to answer the question, Should this article be deleted because of a worthless machine translation due to a misconfig in a provided tool? Any of these articles, even if the translation is accurate, may be deleted for any of the numerous reasons that any article may be deleted, such as those listed at CSD, and others. So you're right in a sense, if the original is poor, the worth of an accurate translation is low, and one might better spend one's time calling out that fact, like you have done. If you think it's poor enough to be deleted (i.e., that starting over from scratch would be simpler) then by all means nominate it for deletion if you like, or Prod it (a much easier process) and see if anyone comes forward to deprod. Having said that, the X2 deletion criterion is limited to a specific type of translation problem, and that's what we are trying to address, but that doesn't stop anyone, anytime, from deleting any of these articles for another reason; or even better, fixing them up so they are worth keeping. Nevertheless, you raise some good points which this project doesn't handle well, such as this article, and as you say, what's the point of keeping a good translation of a bad article? The answer, is probably no point, but we can't use X2 to delete it, we'd have to use some other criterion, or fix it up. I hope this answers your question, at least in part. Mathglot (talk) 05:44, 9 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
None of these are poor enough to be deleted. Where they were inaccurate, I've fixed that. However, for Filaret Barbu, what should be the heart of the article is missing in both the Romanian and the English. It's almost as if you wrote about Jackie Robinson as a baseball player and didn't mention race. It would still be a large portion of the article that is ultimately needed, but it would still miss the point. - Jmabel | Talk 15:10, 9 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

I propagated a summary of your evaluations from the respective talk pages to the items in the hide/show list; can you have a quick look to make sure I fairly represented them? In sum, I understand them all to pass, except for the one that can't be compared because the orig was deleted, and also #3153, where I understood an implicit "pass" from your description of your improvements, although it wasn't stated outright. Do these look about right? Mathglot (talk) 07:52, 10 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

Can you help verify translations of articles from Spanish

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Hello Jmabel,

Would you be able to help evaluate the accuracy of translations of Wikipedia articles from Spanish to English Wikipedia?

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This would involve evaluating a translated article on the English Wikipedia by comparing it to the original Spanish article, and marking it "Pass" or "Fail" based on whether the translation faithfully represents the original. Here's the reason for this request:

There are a number of articles on English Wikipedia that were created as machine translations from different languages including Spanish, using the Content Translation tool, sometimes by users with no knowledge of the source language. The config problem that allowed this to happen has since been fixed, but this has left us with a backlog of articles whose accuracy of translation is suspect or unknown, including some articles translated from Spanish. In many cases, other editors have come forward later to copyedit and fix any English grammar or style issues, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the translation is accurate, as factual errors from the original translation may remain. To put it another way: Good English is not the same as good translation.

If you can help out, that would be great. Here's a sample of the articles that need checking:

All you have to do, is compare the English article to the Spanish article, and mark it "Pass" or "Fail" (templates {{Pass}} and {{Fail}} may be useful). (Naturally, if you feel like fixing an inaccurate translation and then marking it "Pass", that's even better, but it isn't required.)

If you can help, please let me know. Thanks! Elinruby (talk) 07:49, 2 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

  • @Elinruby: I am in the midst of doing this for several dozen articles translated from Romanian. I suspect you should find something else: native English speakers with decent Spanish should be pretty easy to come by, but native English speakers with decent Romanian are in short supply. - Jmabel | Talk 14:54, 2 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel: Mathglot has been telling me this and and I was just now composing a message to this effect. Indeed, I agree. Your help is welcome with Spanish, where there is a high volume of articles, but you are the only editor we have found so far who can do Romanian so please do carry on with that as a priority. I was not aware you were doing Romanian when I sent the message about Spanish. Thank you for your help. Elinruby (talk) 15:17, 2 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Jacqueline Ayer has been accepted

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A kitten for you!

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Hi! I'm extremely new to Wikipedia user-hood, and I was looking for good examples of a user page when I stumbled across yours. Actually, I first saw your name in the discussions section and I wanted to let you know that you're inspiring! Thank you for all you've done here, both with photography and intellectual discourse.

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Personal acquaintances update

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I got verified at WP:Personal acquaintances and completed your third attestation making you confirmed as well. ☆ Bri (talk) 04:35, 22 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Oops - changed quotation

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I was working too fast and didn't notice this was inside a quotation. ☆ Bri (talk) 03:11, 17 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Grant Harrison Jones

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DYK for Architecture of Seattle

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On 6 November 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Architecture of Seattle, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that several buildings in Seattle (example pictured) deliberately evoke traditional regional Native American architecture? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Architecture of Seattle. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Architecture of Seattle), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Woot! Just saw this on the main page and didn't even know it was a DYK nomination. ☆ Bri (talk) 02:37, 6 November 2017 (UTC)Reply
Yeah. Had a little bit of a battle over it, because it's far from a finished article, but once you took it live it was now or never. - Jmabel | Talk 04:22, 6 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

Precious

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architecture of Seattle and Bucharest

Thank you for quality articles such as Architecture of Seattle and Casa Capșa, for adding to music, theatre and many more topics, for improving articles, such as Silo of Asturias, for uploading your stunning images, for help in many languages, especially Spanish and Romanian, - Joe, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:50, 8 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

Two years ago, you were recipient no. 1768 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:14, 8 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Joe, in case you are interested. Apparently you can use a two-factor auth code generator on either your PC or smartphone. Details are at Wikipedia:Simple 2FA. The instructions are on enwp but there's a similar page on meta so I think it's enabled across all Wikimedia projects. If you do this, please do heed the instructions about keeping written backup codes. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:54, 24 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Zongora for deletion

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A barnstar for you!

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Hello, I have looked at your edits, and they are very well done. Also, you are a nice admin! Great Gonzo (talk) 20:30, 5 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Elcor, Minnesota

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Hello, Jmabel!

I know you are only moderately active, but would you have any interest in translating the Featured Article Elcor, Minnesota for the Italian Wikipedia? Since many of the immigrants who settled here were from Italy, I think having the article translated in this language is important, especially for any relatives of former residents who may be looking for information about the town. DrGregMN (talk) 16:29, 13 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Request of an expansion of an article translating it from the one in Spanish

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Hola, hello, Jmabel, soy un user de la wikipedia en español, le escribo este mensaje porque usted hace traducciones del español al inglés, para pedirle que traduzca una parte del artículo en español de Jurate Rosales, que ya está creado en la Wikipedia en inglés. Se lo pedí a otro wikipedista, que lo hizo, pero es muy breve. Rosales defiende una interesante hipótesis histórica disidente, sostiene que los godos eran un pueblo báltico y que se expandieron hasta la India en expediciones de conquista. La petición es especialmente sobre el apartado 'Tesis sobre los godos'. ¿Podría expandir el texto? (tanto si lo va a hacer como si no ¿podría comunicármelo? Unas palabras bastarán) Un saludo. Regards. Rovirarovere (talk) 19:13, 27 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

It's ok, I'll try to find another translator. Un saludo. Rovirarovere (talk) 17:31, 28 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Jmabel, le ruego que me perdone, me disculpe y me excuse, I'm really much embarrassed, I'm sorry, me pareció que usted decía educadamente/politely que no quería traducirlo, acabo de mirar en su página de taller y creo que está haciendo un trabajo verdaderamente excepcional. Perdóneme, si es posible, por el innecesario malentendido. I didn't ask to anyone else to make the translation. You began to make it. There is nos reason for you not to follow working on it. I'm really sorry for the misunderstanding. Un saludo. Rovirarovere (talk) 18:05, 29 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hello,, thank you very much. Your translation is a first class job, may be I should translate it into spanish. You deserve be awarded with a golden medal for it (and also with a silver one and a bronze one). I made a few changes on it (punctuation), I think there was a confusion in the second paragraph. And may be it's not necessary to mention escita and Escitia in spanish (they were borrowed from latin), what Rosales holds is that the origin of those words is baltic. Sinceramente, enhorabuena, congratulations. Muchas gracias. Un saludo. Rovirarovere (talk) 19:06, 3 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

  • Thanks. I tried to improve the writing rather than just translate literally.
  • With reference to escita and Escitia: since I didn't have her original text (presumably in Spanish) at hand, I had no way to know exactly what she had written. I was assuming she was drawing from the text of the Crónica, so Spanish seemed perfectly likely. - Jmabel | Talk 19:12, 3 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Jmabel, It's all right. Well, if you are interested in this subject, Rosales' book "Los godos" can be found with this title [DOC]Jurate Rosales - Los Godos - IES T-004 Normal, the part about the Baltic etimologies for Spanish words seems really wrong in quite a few cases but that doesn't disprove her hypothesis, and also the American historian or orientalist Sundeep Jhutti has a work published in internet "The Getes"[1] which could be described as definitive. Maybe translating 'lugar de paso' as 'place of passing' and 'transeunte' as 'transient' is too literal, I think that translations of the kind of 'land to go through/across' or 'walker, traveler' (as examples) would be more explanatory, but you are the English native speaker and the article is yours, if you think that they are good enough it's ok. Un saludo.Rovirarovere (talk) 19:15, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

  • Those are certainly the closest literal equivalents of the Spanish you used. Since I don't have access to Rosales' text, I have no context to improve on them. transeunte, in particular, can have quite a range of meaning. If the intent was "traveler", wouldn't viajero have been a more likely choice? "Transient" emphasizes the "just passing through" aspect, as I believe does transuente. For lugar de paso, on further thought perhaps "place of passage" would be better than "place of passing"; am I correct that the connotation in Spanish is a particularly place that is relatively easy to get through, when what is to either side would not be, as (for example) a mountain pass, or a dry ridge in a boggy land?
  • Sorry that I don't have any interest in tracking down & reading the book, but I don't. Her views make Daco-Romanian continuity seem rock solid, by contrast. - Jmabel | Talk 20:00, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Jmabel, those translations are totally appropriate and their connotations are right in this case, the suggestion was meant to express in a clear way that Scythia is a land and that Scythian is somebedy who goes across it; without a doubt, the Spanish translations become clear in the context of Rosales' explanation (which you don't need to read), she says that they have the same origin of the lithuanian verb "eiti" 'to go', etc., but also in Spanish they are somewhat of cold, aseptic definitions, and I suggested only a translation with more common English words because "transient", especially, seems a bookish one. I'm sorry if I'm punctilious or fussy (puntilloso o quisquilloso). I've just realized that there is a mistake in the text in Spanish about asčiai it should be aisčiai. Aside from it I have no other "objection". Rovirarovere (talk) 18:09, 6 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hello, ok, aside from a [ is missing in the edit source for Scythian, I have nothing more to say, I'm really surprised for the speed of the reaction to the message. Un saludo. Rovirarovere (talk) 18:39, 6 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata documentation and RFC

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Hi Joe

It was a real pleasure to meet you at Wikimedia Conference, as promised here is a list of the Wikidata documentation i've written so far:

As we discussed I think the next step is to outline the user journeys for different kinds of contributors in an RFC and then create Phabricator tickets for each task, then organisations and volunteers can allocate resources to addressing them. I'll share something with you in the week or so for you take a look at.

Best

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 Wikipedia is one of the most wide-reaching repositories of shared knowledge, yet a 2011 survey found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female, suggesting an alarming absence of voices. What and how information is shared is skewed by this gender disparity. To help change this, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is organizing a quarterly series of Edit-a-thons to improve Wikipedia's coverage of womxn artists of color.

This Saturday afternoon's gathering will focus on creating, editing, updating, and expanding pages for womxn artists from Latin America and the Caribbean. The Edit-a-thon will feature a talk by Dan Paz, Lecturer in the UW School of Art + Art History + Design, an artist, and an educator who explores the labor of digital imaging production as a collaborative site where the intersections of the image-idea and lived experience are produced and contested. Through videos, photography, and sculptural projects that query the ability of documentary processes to be manipulated—to be multiplied and replicated, stopped and started, rewound and advanced—Dan works within the impossibilities of absolute replication to question the very ability of the image to truly represent.

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Trouble at Black Legend

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Cateyed, on the second day of his editing here, decided to create The Black Legend, covering Spain, and to reduce the long-established Black Legend page to a rump. Before he got started Black Legend was nearly 34k raw bytes, he then expanded it up to nearly 62K, before removing the Spanish stuff and reducing it to under 10K. I haven't had time to to work through his changes, though it is clear his English will always need a basic check for grammar and spelling, and his additions seem to be reference-free. I didn't think this was acceptable without discussion, so for now I reverted back to a version before his big cut. This page gets over 300 views a day, and has always been somewhat of a target for problems. I haven't formed a view as to whether a generalized "black legend" page is needed, but if it is, I don't think Black Legend and The Black Legend are sufficiently distinct titles. Perhaps this should be resolved by a WP:RM discussion, but I'm asking for preliminary views at the BL talk page first, ideally from those who have looked through Cateyed's many additions, at BL and at the other article. You're one of the top editors, so I'm informing you. Johnbod (talk) 01:56, 29 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Translation help request of 2 Argentine Spanish articles

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Hello, can you please help me translate es:Historias breves to Historias breves, and es:Rey Muerto (cortometraje) to Rey muerto??

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Collier's Encyclopedia

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Hi Jmabel! We met at the Seattle Wikipedia meet-up. One of the items on my to-do list is to do some work on the Collier's Encyclopedia entry. If you have a chance, take a look at the page for Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. In my quest to document publishing history--my hope is to up the game and provide a comprehensive story of who owned who, who bought who, who then became what, how their book/magazine lines changed over time, etc. In this entry, I started with the story of Crowell Publishing Company and the founder P.P. Mast and then it ends with them becoming Macmillan. I also covered a bit of how they went into the 1950s and grew the educational market. I'm planning on going back through the materials I sourced on the Crowell-Collier page to then flesh out the Collier's Encyclopedia page. I have a few entries on the various lawsuits, etc. I'd appreciate any feedback you have. Auldhouse (talk) 16:56, 28 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

I'll be on the lookout for errors like that. I'm assuming the book should always go back to the publisher of record at the time the first edition was published. Auldhouse (talk) 16:44, 7 October 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Auldhouse: In an article about a book: absolutely. In a citation, of course, you should cite the edition you actually used. - Jmabel | Talk 17:02, 7 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Can I request for a translation of a permissions request letter?

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Hello and good day. For more than a year now, I've been trying to get a free image of the Japanese singer Konomi Suzuki, but have been unable to get one; the people and events I've asked have either been unable to respond, declined, or had licensing problems. I am asking this because right now she is in Brazil for an anime convention (for reference, the event's Facebook page is at this link), and I was hoping to ask permission from them for photos they've taken of her. Would it be alright for you if you would be able to translate a letter I will send you (based on the example at Wikipedia:Example requests for permission#Semi-formal, Polite, Concise) so I could send it to them? Thank you and happy editing. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 23:42, 13 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Noted. Thanks for the response, though I've also contacted two other editor so far about this. Since DarwIn hasn't edited since the beginning of the month, if you have any more suggestions on who I could be referred to, that would be appreciated. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:03, 14 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Narutolovehinata5: I don't edit much here at wiki-en, but I'm around. ;) About the translation: Sure, in a second (I hope Jmabel doesn't mind placing it here):

Caro/a (note:male/female) <Dr.> (note:use Dr. if the person has some kind of degree) <insert first+last name>: Sou um dos muitos editores voluntários da Wikipédia (wikipedia.org), uma enciclopédia colaborativa baseada na Web.

Venho respeitosamente solicitar sua permissão para usar esta excelente imagem, <anexada, ou no seu sítio da Internet, <add link here>>, como conteúdo da Wikipédia, no artigo Konomi Suzuki. A Wikipédia é uma enciclopédia multicultural de conteúdo aberto que ambiciona ter conteúdo completo e confiável. Voluntários de todo o mundo trabalham colaborativamente na criação de conteúdo, mas a Wikipedia depende de imagens como a sua para ilustrar esse conteúdo de forma clara.

É para essa nobre finalidade que lhe faço este pedido. No entanto, para que a Wikipédia possa usar conteúdo fornecido por você, precisamos que concorde com a licença Creative Commons Atribuição-CompartilhaIgual 3.0 Não Adaptada (CC BY-SA 3.0) (muitas vezes referida como CC-BY-SA). Esta licença permite que conserve seus direitos autorais e a autoria sobre seu trabalho, mas permite aos outros usarem, copiarem e partilharem seu trabalho de forma livre, incluindo em possível uso comercial, desde que não tentem chamar a si mesmos os direitos de autor de seu trabalho, ou tentem impedir que outros o usem ou copiem livremente (e.g., "CompartilhaIgual"). Pode ler o texto completo da licença aqui: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.pt_BR".

Caso me autorize o uso desta imagem, seu trabalho será reconhecido, <e> ficará escrito que está sendo usado com sua autorização e, caso deseje, colocaremos uma ligação para seu sítio da Internet.

Fico-lhe muito grato (note:"grata", in case you're a female) pela sua atenção a este pedido. Por favor informe-me de sua decisão <por mail, email, telefone, etc.> e eu agradecidamente o enviarei para a Fundação Wikimedia.

Muito obrigado, e espero que considere aceitar este meu pedido.

Atenciosamente, <real name>

I'll also try to ask someone from Wiki.pt to help you in that quest. :)

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@DarwIn:. Thanks. However, it would be nice if it could be mentioned in the letter that the image would be for our article on Konomi Suzuki. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:29, 14 December 2018 (UTC)Reply
  Done Darwin Ahoy! 16:12, 14 December 2018 (UTC)Reply
Thanks very much. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 08:12, 15 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Proposed deletion of Rudolph Marks

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The article Rudolph Marks has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Both offline and online source searches (WorldCat, Scholar, Books, Google) reveal a few passing mentions but nothing which would satisfy notability guidelines for creative professionals or people in general.

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Nomination of Rudolph Marks for deletion

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Wikipedia Day 2019 — curating images from Asahel Curtis and older Seattle photos

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First Hill, Seattle, c. 1903, showing intersection of Columbia St and Summit Ave, Seattle, a panorama built from three Asahel Curtis photographs.
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Tuesday evening, January 15, 2019, 6-9pm at Wayward Coffeehouse, 6417 Roosevelt Way NE #104, Seattle WA 98115

Wikipedia Day celebrates the anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia. This year in Seattle, Cascadia Wikimedians' celebration of Wikipedia Day will focus on a different closely related project: Wikimedia Commons, which (among other things) functions as the media repository for Wikipedia. When you see a photo or map in Wikipedia, or hear an audio clip, etc., it usually is hosted on Wikimedia Commons and "transcluded" into Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Commons is a mix of users' own works and curated third-party content, either public domain or free-licensed. Our event is a hands-on workshop in curating third-party content, mostly early 20th-century photos of Seattle and other West Coast locations.

Currently, Wikimedia Commons has two intersecting sets of older photos, one from the Asahel Curtis Photo Company and the other a more general set of Seattle images. At this meetup, we will celebrate the 18th anniversary of Wikipedia by further curating these images by the creation and addition of categories, adding ImageNotes where useful, linking other versions of the same photo, enhancing the descriptions, and identifying and correcting errors. User:Jmabel has already categorized over 1000 images and corrected several hundred wrong dates, misidentified buildings, and etc., but there is much more to be done.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martha Choe

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I reviewed this, and I am not convinced she is notable. Let's have an AfD and see what happens. If there is consensus she is notable, we can remove the tag, but IMHO that's a promotional entry on a non-notable individual. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:37, 15 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

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Registered historic places

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You have noted in comments at headings in various articles: "Registered Historic Places" is a proper noun, keep it capitalized. What is your basis for this? Seems wrong. Dicklyon (talk) 18:30, 21 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Those sources don't really support capping "Nationally Registered Historic Place"; one is just a motel ad and the other doesn't have it in a sentence. Books also don't. There's a lot unnecessary capping on web pages, but WP style is to avoid that, per MOS:CAPS. I'll work on case fixes; we can decide later if there's a better term. Dicklyon (talk) 05:09, 22 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Category:1830s in Oregon Territory has been nominated for discussion

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Women’s History Wikithon, Washington State History Museum, Saturday 3/9

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Come document women's history in Washington state!
 Women’s History Wikithon
 
Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, WA
 
FREE. Please register in advance. Includes museum admission and snacks; please bring a sack lunch plus a laptop.

Scholars and interested citizens are invited to come together for an afternoon of collaboration to create or improve Wikipedia pages related to Washington State’s suffrage history. Learn from seasoned “Wikipedians” how to edit wiki pages, and work in small groups with women’s history experts. Honor Women’s History Month by updating our reference materials to reflect the dedicated work of Washington’s women suffragists. Bring a brown bag lunch, we’ll provide snacks. Hosted by Washington State Historical Society.

Women's Suffrage Centennial Program, Washington State Historical Society -> Events & Programs
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Would it be a good idea to translate this article into English? I never asked you for anything. 2804:14C:5BB5:A5B7:214A:A1BD:7097:D221 (talk) 11:22, 31 March 2019 (UTC)Reply

  • It certainly deserves to be translated, but my Portuguese is only at about the pt-1 level and I'm really busy both on Commons and in outside life, so I'm not necessarily the best person to do it. Do me a favor: if no one else picks it up before mid-April, feel free to get back to me and I'll try to find the time. - Jmabel | Talk 17:28, 31 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel: The deadline has passed. Now you can? 2804:14C:5BB5:A5C6:2134:DFD4:477D:925A (talk) 05:30, 15 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

Art+Feminism, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Saturday, April 6th, 1-5 PM

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For more info see
the meetup page
for Art+Feminism.
 Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors were women. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not: content is skewed by the lack of representation from women.

Let’s change that.

To help change this, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is continuing a series of Edit-a-thons to improve Wikipedia's coverage of womxn and gender non-binary artists of color.

Childcare, snacks from local businesses, and editing tutorials will be provided.

All you need to bring is your laptop, power cord, and ideas. No previous Wikipedia experience required!

Everyone is welcome. Access to UW wifi will be provided for non-UW affiliated participants.

Please create a Wikipedia account before the event.

RSVP through this Facebook event link.

When: Saturday, Apr. 6, 2019, 1–5 PM
Where: Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Art Building #132, 1915 NE Chelan Ln, Seattle, WA 98105
Event Sponsors: Jacob Lawrence Gallery, School of Art + Art History + Design
Event Page: Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Parking: Free parking is normally available on campus after 12pm on Saturdays.

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Could you - if you please and can - translate this article to the English speakers please? att 2804:14C:5BB5:A5C6:E129:3929:667F:5D69 (talk) 05:00, 12 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

  • Again: (1) I'm only a pt-1 level of Portuguese and (2) I work mainly on Commons. You would probably do well to find someone with more Portuguese and more time for Wikipedia. In addition, at the moment I am very backed up with tasks, both on Commons and "in real life." - Jmabel | Talk 05:11, 12 April 2019 (UTC)Reply
Here would also be a good translation. 2804:14C:5BB5:A5C6:D97C:43B6:F8B0:3EF1 (talk) 00:03, 14 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

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Translation of Villa Annoni

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Hi, are you available to translate this article https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Annoni from Italian into English? There are a lot of American tourists coming to Cuggiono to see the Villa and I think it would be helpful to have an article in their mother tongue. --DelicateAloe (talk) 16:48, 20 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

@DelicateAloe: I'm really up to my eyeballs with the projects I'm doing on Commons (not to mention my actual job). If you can find someone else to take this on, that would be good. I doubt I can get to it the next few months. - Jmabel | Talk 18:15, 20 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Hi, it's not urgent at all. I have tried asking other translators, too. If you ever have the time, do it. Otherwise, thanks for the prompt reply. --DelicateAloe (talk) 19:42, 20 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Translation needed

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Hi,

I noticed your username at Wikipedia:Translators available. Will you please help with translation of the following text (Villar, Francisco (2011). Lenguas, genes y culturas en la prehistoria de Europa y Asia suroccidental. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. p. 751. ISBN 978-84-7800-135-4.) to English language which probably may be used to expand article on Illyrian languages:

En los Balcanes noroccidentales, donde tampoco hay un predominio cla-ro de ninguno de los dos haplogrupos, se asentaban las lenguas ilirias habla-das por una serie de tribus distintas. Los esfuerzos de muchos estudiosos del tema para establecer si el ilirio pertenecía al grupo centum o al satem han tenido como resultado la recopilación de un manojo de rasgos contradicto-rios, algunos de los cuales parecen apuntar en una dirección y otros en la contraria. En realidad no hay otro fundamento que su vecindad geográfica para suponer que todas las lenguas habladas en esa zona de los Balcanes pertenecieran a un mismo grupo dialectal.

Thanks in advance.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:49, 11 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

In the northwestern Balkans, where none of these haplogroups ever clearly predominated, the Illyrian languages spoken by a series of distinct tribes took root. Much study expended on the question of whether Illyrian belongs to the centum or satem group has resulted in collecting a batch of contradictory features, some of which appear to point one direction and others the other. In reality, there is no basis other than common geography to suppose that all the languages spoken in this zone of the Balkans belong to the same dialectal group.

"took root" is a bit loose, but the Spanish "se asentaban" (a reflexive form of "they settled") doesn't work in English. "common geography" is also loose, the Spanish is "su vecindad geográfica"; "vecinidad" in this sense does not translate literally into English, we don't use "vicinity" that way. - Jmabel | Talk 23:57, 11 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

Thank you very much.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:32, 13 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

Seattle Wiknic 2019

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Was nice to see the Keister image uploaded. As a former Seattleite and former resident of Romania (now Vermonter) it's nice to see sometime traveling alone similar Wikipathways. Hooray and hello Jessamyn (talk) 23:43, 26 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Editing as Activism: Edit-A-Thon to Correct Systemic Bias in Wikipedia

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Allen Library, location of the Research Commons, University of Washington. Photo by Joe Mabel
Main page: Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle § Editing as Activism: Edit-A-Thon to Correct Systemic Bias in Wikipedia
Help address the systematic biases relating to gender, race, and social class that lead to under-representation of topics, people, and organizations on Wikipedia.

When: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 9am–1pm
Where: UW Libraries Research Commons, 4000 15th Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98195
Hosted by: Labor Archives of Washington, UW Special Collections, and Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

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Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

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Dear Jmabel,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Womxn Artists of the Pacific Northwest

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Calendar page Jacob Lawrence Gallery — Calendar | School of Art + Art History + Design | University of Washington
When Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, 1 – 5 p.m.
Campus location Art Building (ART)
Campus room Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Event types Special Events, Student Activities, Workshops
Event sponsors Jacob Lawrence Gallery, School of Art + Art History + Design with support from Wikipedia and Art+Feminism
Facebook event page www.facebook.com/events/2475807515865167/
Description
  • Free parking is normally available on campus after 12pm on Saturdays.
  • Check the Gallery's website for information about getting there.
  • The ‘Big Four,’ or the four white male artists that comprised the Northwest School, were the subject of the famous 1953 LIFE magazine article, "Mystic Painters of the Northwest": Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, and Mark Tobey. Each of these artists have robust pages on Wikipedia. However, key female-identifying artists from this time such as Margaret Gove Cafferman — who Mark Tobey cited as an influence on his work — lack Wikipedia articles.[* 1] To help address the imbalance of representation on Wikipedia, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is organizing an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon focused on female-identifying artists of the Pacific Northwest.
  • Childcare, snacks from local businesses, editing tutorials, books, and lists of artists will be provided.
  • All you need to bring is your laptop, power cord, and ideas. No previous Wikipedia experience required!
  • Everyone is welcome. Access to UW wifi will be provided for non-UW affiliated participants.
  • Please create a Wikipedia account before the event.
  1. ^ Mentioned in Emily Pothast's lecture "You Are Not Invited: A Critical Survey of Seattle Art History" on May 30, 2019 at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.
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OK. I plan to be there. Peaceray (talk) 04:39, 11 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

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

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Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

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Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Monday, December 23, 5:30pm PST

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Belated holiday greetings. Merry Christmas and happy new year.
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German Translation

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Hello Jmabel,

Would you be bale to translate the below article for the German wikipedia? I have been making requests to translators on the List of German translators. Have not yet had any replies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_graffiti_and_street_art_injuries_and_deaths (Happy to have replies any on my talk page) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xyxyzyz (talk • contribs) 22:42, 1 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

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When you closed the VPR thread requesting that WMF Legal take action, did you contact anyone in the WMF linking them to it? If so, did they say anything in response?

(I know Doc James mentioned that he would share it with the rest of the board, but I'm assuming this isn't primarily going through the board.) --Yair rand (talk) 01:30, 6 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Șapte Seri

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The article Șapte Seri has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:CORP.

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Uploading images to an infobox

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Hi Jmabel, I want to upload the image on this page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bailey_Doogan,_American_artist.jpg

to the infobox in the listing for Bailey Doogan. The image is already entered in the stored set of images for the Bailey Doogan article. (I don’t know what that space is called, but it’s where all the other images that have been uploaded into the article are stored.) If you go to do a manual insert, this image comes up as one of the options to choose. I just don’t know how to insert the image into the infobox rather into than the article itself.

Thanks! Dactyl123 (talk) 19:54, 13 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  • @Dactyl123: I don't see any reason to believe that is appropriately licensed. Unless you have a clear source to cite for that license being granted by the copyright holder (in which case, indicate it), then the copyright holder needs to go through the process described at commons:COM:OTRS. Your indicated source for the photo is the subject of the photo, so she is almost certainly not the photographer, which means she is almost certainly not the copyright-holder.
  • Also: assuming you can sort out the copyright, you should add some relevant categories. Category:Women is pretty useless here. The fact that it is a picture of a woman is not why it should be of interest. - Jmabel | Talk 19:59, 13 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • Further: I assume you want to add it to en:Bailey Doogan. Once you get the copyright sorted out -- and, please, not before -- you can edit source to add "| image = Bailey_Doogan,_American_artist.jpg" as a line in the Infobox at the top of that page, right under the line for her name. - Jmabel | Talk 20:04, 13 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the info. The photo is by Bailey Doogan’s daughter. I’ll get an email from the daughter giving her permission. What I got was an email from Doogan giving her daughter’s permission second hand to use the photo. I did the Category:Women as a sample to see if I was doing it right and didn’t get back to adding more categories, which I’ll do. Writing for Wikpedia has been an ongoing learning curve. I did this article, plus other things, as part of my first Art + Feminism WP Edit-a-Thon. It was all via Zoom, thanks to Covid-19. Even so, I think we got quite a bit done. Dactyl123 (talk) 20:50, 13 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Proposed article name change - Bayonne statute

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I see that you originally posted the English translation of the Bayonne Statute article, so I am contacting you directly. I posted on the talk page the following: I propose the article be changed to include the word "constitution." In the original document it is explicitly called a constitution (Constitution of 1808, PDF). It was drawn up after Napoleon invaded Spain; he sought to transfer the monarchy to his brother Joseph and provide a legal basis for his rule. To that end a "junta española" was convoked in Bayonne in 1808. The constitution was signed by Joseph as king, with other signatories being the Spaniards who approved the document. The Spanish Constitution of 1812, often called Spain's first written constitution, is a document that, in fact, was influenced by the Bayonne Constitution, with Spanish America being accorded representation. The title "Bayonne Statute" obscures, likely deliberately, the fact that Spain had a constitution prior to the one drawn up by the Cortes of Cádiz. I don't want to do a redirect from the existing title without community discussion.Amuseclio (talk) 18:28, 17 July 2020 (UTC)AmuseclioReply

@Amuseclio: No question given your PDF that the people who drafted it called it that; conversely, I'm pretty confident that the English-language literature on the subject usually calls it the "Bayonne Statute," and analogously in Spanish. (If you think I'm wrong about that, please feel free to make a case.) So unless you can show that it is more common to refer to it as a "constitution," the article should at its current title, but we absolutely should mention that it was self-described as a constitution, and if possible discuss the history of who has and has not referred to it as such, probably meriting a section in the article. - Jmabel | Talk 18:48, 17 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Oh, and thanks for getting hold of me to discuss this! - Jmabel | Talk 18:49, 17 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

I did a quick Google Scholar search for both "Constitution of Bayonne" and "Bayonne Statute." Overwhelmingly authors use Constitution of Bayonne, not Statute of Bayonne. Relatively few authors in English mention the Bayonne document; it does not appear in the title of any monograph or article of an English-language publication. An article by Wilman Amaya León, "El Estatuto de Bayona. La primera carta liberal de América Latina." Verba Iuris 33 (2015) does place it in the title. Fifteen authors in French and Spanish include "Constitution of Bayonne" in the title. I'll add a selection from the list to the further reading section of the current WP article.Amuseclio (talk) 20:21, 17 July 2020 (UTC)AmuseclioReply
If that's the balance of it, that sounds pretty clear, go for it. Probably post on the talk page what you just posted here to explain what you are on about. - Jmabel | Talk 20:51, 17 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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I replied to a plagiarism allegation at Talk:Jack Block Park. You might find the outcome interesting. Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 06:07, 11 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Hey, could you help me translate

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Hey, could you help me translate the article Fabrizio Romano into Italian? I have already started the page here, but I would appreciate some help. I do not speak Italian, but I am determined to get this done. Thanks for your help. Paul Vaurie (talk) 00:56, 26 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

  • @Paul Vaurie: my apologies, but I'm not much use translating into Italian. I read Italian pretty well by triangulating between Romanian and Spanish, but for writing I'm no better than Google Translate. You should probably look for a native Italian-speaker with decent English. - Jmabel | Talk 02:05, 26 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel: Hey, thanks for responding. Do you know anybody like this? On the translators thing, most users are inactive. Paul Vaurie (talk) 02:13, 26 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
I just put a request at the bar thing. I'll see what happens. Paul Vaurie (talk) 20:25, 26 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel: They reverted my edits (??). Can you please put in a request for me? Paul Vaurie (talk) 22:53, 27 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
* @Paul Vaurie: Sorry, who reverted what edits? Diff? - Jmabel | Talk 00:00, 28 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel: Basically, on the "Bar" thing in Italian, I tried asking for help translating, and they just reverted my edit (the edit where I tried making a submission.) Apparently I did something wrong. Can you please put in a message in there asking for help translating the article Fabrizio Romano in Italian, and please say that I asked you to write that message. Thanks. Paul Vaurie (talk) 19:14, 28 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Paul Vaurie: Really? I don't see any trace of your edit or of reversion. It seems odd that they would have scrubbed the history.
I didn't notice this before but (I'm guessing you worked this out) it looks like their protocols are a little different from ours. Questions are posted at it:Discussioni Wikipedia:Bar, not it:Wikipedia:Bar, and it looks like they often move them elsewhere & leave a link. - Jmabel | Talk 23:50, 28 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
And where User:Valepert reverted you, his comment is just "cambuso allo sportello", which, to be honest, makes no sense to me. I know all three words, but they make no sense together. "Cambusa" is like a kitchen, nautical I think; I've never heard of "cambuso". "sportello" is a counter (in the sense of where you prepare a meal). Makes no sense at all. @Valepert: you list en-3 in your Babel, which is definitely better than my Italian, so I'll keep this in English. What is going on here, why did you revert Paul, is there somewhere different he should have made the request and (for my own curiosity) what did you mean by "cambuso allo sportello"? - Jmabel | Talk 00:01, 29 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
hi! on it.wiki cambusa means "move/archive discussions (to the right place)", sportello (informazioni) is the Italian equivalent of Wikipedia:Help desk. the original request is now here. sorry for the confusion! --valepert (talk) 07:32, 29 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Paul Vaurie: So it looks like your request was just moved to the right place & everything is fine.
@Valepert: Is that any thing like a normal meaning of cambusa/cambuso in Italian or is it Wikipedia jargon? I kind of triangulate on Italian from near-fluent Spanish and good foreigner's Romanian. And I'm sure you can understand why neither Paul nor I had context for sportello (especially in conjunction with cambusa, where it almost but not quite made literal sense)! - Jmabel | Talk 07:40, 29 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
 
So: the etymology of cambuso turns out to be the same as the American English caboose. About two hours from where I (Jmabel) live in Seattle, in the rural town of Elbe, Washington, the Hobo Inn is a quasi-hotel made out of old railway rolling stock, about a third of them cabooses (see one here in the foreground). I photographed it in 2014.
I think it's old it.wiki jargon. in 2005 the users who archive the old discussions start to call themselves "cambusieri" (an old nautical term for storeman/warehouseman) and the related words ("cambusa", "cambusare", etc.) are still in use today. --valepert (talk) 08:04, 29 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
  1. @Valepert and Paul Vaurie: Ha! so my wretched triangulated Italian had the etymology almost right, just no clue about the jargon usage.
  2. I haven't done enough on Wiktionary to know their customs, but shouldn't wikt:cambusare give at least a link to wikt:cambusa? (And possibly a see also link back?) Doesn't Wiktionary deal with etymology?
  3. I see that wikt:cambusa covers the jargon meeting as well as the literal. Does Wiktionary not give conjugations of verbs? Unsurprisingly, "cambuso" as such got no relevant Google hits, probably would have if it appeared verbatim anywhere on the relevant page.
  4. "from Middle Dutch kabuys." So it must is the same etymology as English caboose, which apparently (I did not know this) once meant "A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel" so OMG I was right on the mark with "like a kitchen, nautical I think"! In America, caboose is mainly the traditional last car on a freight train, which included a small kitchen.
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Content you added to the above article appears to have been copied from https://www.erschools.org/district/what_does_union_free_mean_, which is not released under a compatible license. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, some content had to be removed, and I paraphrased some. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions. — Diannaa (talk) 14:29, 15 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Diannaa: I prefer to keep discussions in a single place. I hope pinging you suffices, but I'll also leave a note on your talk page directing you back here.
I feel that the amount of quotation I used there (all of it made clear by citation) was well within the acceptable. I'm pretty sure that few of the phrases I quoted were original with that site; they're pretty boilerplate as description of the legal concept of a Union Free School District. I kind of wish you'd consulted with me beforehand, and especially before suppressing my versions, which makes it very difficult to see diffs as a means of seeing exactly what you've changed and to tell what phrases you found problematic.
For what it's worth, I'm also an admin and have been a Wikipedian since 2003. I think I have a pretty good sense of what is and is not an acceptable amount of quotation. I'm not going to argue this heavily -- what you've left seems fine -- but in the future if you think my edits are so problematic that you need to remove them from the history and hide even the fact that the work in question was my contribution, I'd appreciate being engaged before the fact, rather than after. I'm mainly on Commons now, but I doubt I have ever left a note on this talk page unread for even 24 hours, unless perhaps I was in transit. Leaving the content there for (in this case) a few minutes wouldn't have killed anyone. Jmabel | Talk 14:57, 15 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hello Jmabel. You should be able to readily review what I removed and paraphrased by looking at this diff. The content is a match for the copyright source document. It's not "boilerplate"; it's copyright text, and we are therefore not allowed to include it unaltered. I did paraphrase the short quotation that you used, but I did that in a separate edit, which makes it easy for you to view separately.
Since there's only a very small group of people working on copyright cleanup, discussion of each individual violation is not practical. The high volume of potential violations that need to be assessed each day (75 to 100 cases) precludes the possibility of discussing each case with the editor involved or waiting to do the revision deletion at some later time. To do so would easily double or triple the time it takes each day to review all the reports. — Diannaa (talk) 15:11, 15 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
I am watch-listing this page for a while, so there's no need for a talkback template— Diannaa (talk) 15:19, 15 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
Talkback template was only because you specifically wrote, "Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions." - Jmabel | Talk 15:32, 15 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
I see. In "One or more revisions of this diff has been removed from the public archives…" as an administrator, there is a place I can click through and view the diff. On the specifics, you removed several things that as far as I can tell had nothing to do with copyright issues. I hate to be spending time on this -- I already wrote "I'm not going to argue this heavily… what you've left seems fine," but if you insist on saying I was violating copyrights, then I guess I'm compelled to give a detailed defense of my text as written. Would you be willing to restore the revisions you deleted so that I can point at diffs to make my case, or am I going to have to do this in such a manner that any non-admin looking at this accusation will have to take my word (or not) that I am describing this accurately?
Again: I'm not saying that you need to engage the original author every time you think something might raise copyright issues. I'm saying that when you are dealing with another admin who is also a major contributor to the site over time, you shouldn't be so sure that you are the one who understands the situation better and that they couldn't possibly be right. I would not have done this to your edits. - Jmabel | Talk 15:46, 15 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
Here is a side by side comparison of what I took out and the source document. Overlapping material is highlighted in bold.
Your addition:

The term, dating from 1853, has nothing to do with labor unions. It related to a "union" (joining together) of two or more common school (K-8) districts joining to provide a high school.

Union free school districts are governed by a board of education composed of between three and nine members who serve three, four or five year terms. Board size within these limits may be changed by the voters of the district. See Education Law 1702-1703.

Source document:

However, the "Union Free" in the district's official name has nothing to do with labor unions. As originally conceived, the legislation contemplated two or more common school districts joining to provide a high school.

Union free school districts are governed by a board of education composed of between three and nine members who serve three, four or five year terms. Board size within these limits may be changed by the voters of the district. See Education Law 1702-1703.

— Diannaa (talk) 16:02, 15 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Again, I would much rather see copy restored so that we can do diffs in the normal manner.

While what you are saying is technically true, I believe it is very misleading. In particular, the bulk of what comes from the source here, "Union free school districts are governed by a board of education composed of between three and nine members who serve three, four or five year terms. Board size within these limits may be changed by the voters of the district. See Education Law 1702-1703," is not original with the site in question, but is quoted by them, with attribution, from "A Guide to the Reorganization of School Districts in New York State from the New York State Education Department describes a Union Free School District". Admittedly, New York State publishes documents like this under something equivalent to an "NC" license but a quotation of this length from a government document that clarifies a law is certainly fair use. The East Rochester Union Free School District obviously felt free to quote a passage ten times that length on a fair use basis, from which I took this. You removed it entirely without even a paraphrase.

So we are left with "has nothing to do with labor unions" and "two or more common school districts joining to provide a high school." The latter is also verbatim from "A Guide to the Reorganization…" The former, "has nothing to do with labor unions" is admittedly a 7-word phrase quoted directly. I don't think that violates anyone's copyright, but if you really felt it amounted to a plagiarism, it would seem like that could have been resolved simply by placing it in quotation marks, not by removing it. It does make an important point, given how many people misunderstand "union free…" as meaning "union-free".

Further, and on a matter of accuracy rather than copyright. You changed "related to a 'union' (joining together) of two or more common school (K-8) districts joining to provide a high school" to "signifies that two or more common school districts were organized to provide a high school to serve all their students." That is not strictly true. While the name is related to providing a high school, it dow not signify that they are necessarily organized for that purpose. As indicated elsewhere in the rather short article, "thirty of 151 existing union free school districts provide only elementary education" and "16 'special act' union free districts serve only children resident in specific childcare institutions," so it is extremely unlikely that those ever had a high school in mind. - Jmabel | Talk 17:22, 15 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

I am aware that the prose also appears in the document published by the State of New York, but that document is not compatibly licensed either. Regarding the possibility of fair use, Wikipedia has a very strict copyright policy, stricter in some ways than copyright law itself, because our fair use policy does not allow us to copy material from copyright sources when there's a freely licensed alternative available. In this case the freely licensed material is prose that we write ourselves. Short properly attributed quotations are permitted, but prose written by Wikipedians is preferred. Please see WP:NFCCP for more information.— Diannaa (talk) 21:20, 15 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Diannaa: We are both longstanding contributors and admins. I believe I am not addressing you as if you are unfamiliar with policy (please indicate where I've done that if I have), but that is how you are addressing me.
Paraphrase is entirely acceptable but:
  1. Even if you feel that this was an issue in terms of my words needing to be edited, I believe you are conceding that it was well within the range of fair use (in the legal sense, not the Wikipedia policy sense) so there was no reason to delete my intervening versions from the history.
  2. I believe the explanation is important that this term absolutely does not mean "union-free" in the sense of excluding labor unions because the term is often misunderstood that way. You did not paraphrase that, you removed it.
  3. As I stated above, I believe your reworded phrase that begins "signifies…" is not accurate as you have worded it.
  4. You removed, rather than paraphrased the statement about the composition of school boards, which is an important part of the legal definition of a Union Free School Districts. - Jmabel | Talk 22:19, 15 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
  1. I do understand the difference between fair use law in the United States and Wikipedia's copyright policy. Wikipedia's copyright policy is stricter. Your second point is not correct however, as our revision deletion policy calls for redaction of violations of Wikipedia's copyright policy, not US copyright law. See WP:RD1 for more information on this topic.
  2. The patrolling admin is under no obligation to re-write copyright material when it's encountered. I could have removed it in its entirety, but instead chose to do a little paraphrasing. I don't have time to do very much re-writing of other people's additions, or there would be no editing time left over to assess the reports at CopyPatrol. I do the bulk of the work there, and it takes anywhere from four to eight hours per day to do so, depending on how many people help that day.
  3. If my prose needs further attention please go ahead and fix it, with the proviso that copying from the source is not an option.
  4. The patrolling admin is under no obligation to re-write copyright material when it's encountered. — Diannaa (talk) 22:47, 15 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

On the first point I did not accuse you of failing to understand the difference between these two things. In fact I wrote, "I believe you are conceding that it was well within the range of fair use (in the legal sense, not the Wikipedia policy sense)," making it quite clear that what you had conceded made exactly that distinction. I increasingly feel like you are trying to pick a fight rather than have a discussion. Please consider that I am something like a peer, not a brand new user who needs to be schooled.

  • WP:RD1 refers to "Blatant (emphasis mine) violations of copyright policy. I contend that this was nothing of the sort.
  • WP:RD1 says, "Best practices for copyrighted text removal can be found at WP:Copyright problems and should take precedence over this criterion." Wikipedia:Copyright problems#Blatant infringement says that "blatant" means "[t]here is no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a free license." The fact that you disagree with me does not mean that my claim is not "credible". I may be wrong. I tried early on to walk away from this and let your edit stand, but you apparently needed to come back here and argue, so I'm making my case. If you really feel that my statements here are so incorrect that I am "blatantly" wrong, please nominate me to be de-admin'd on the basis of incompetence or inappropriate editing or both. I promise to stay entirely out of the discussion of my qualifications to be an admin except to come in exactly once to be overt that I will stay entirely out of the discussion of my qualifications to be an admin.

On the other points: no, you are not required to fix the article. You are even allowed to make the error of incorrectly paraphrasing what was previously there, as you did in one case. You are required to assume good faith. You are expected, though not required, to consider that you might not always be right and to try to discuss matters in a way that scknowledges that someone who is roughly your peer might have a clue about the matter (which I am certainly assuming about you, notwithstanding your claim that I accused you of failing to make a distinction that I clearly acknowledged you making).

May I suggest that we might bring in a third party with whom neither of us has a close connection to look at whether it was mandatory to delete my intervening edits? That would have to be an admin, since given that you have deleted them, no one short of an admin can see them, and I am not going to start an edit war by undeleting them against your wishes. - Jmabel | Talk 00:13, 16 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

There's a list of admins with experience in copyright at Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to investigate copyright matters. — Diannaa (talk) 13:38, 16 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
I'm going to guess that is effectively a list of people you work closely with all the time, but I'll still take my chances and ping two more or less at random: @MER-C and Sphilbrick: could you please have a look at this and give an independent opinion of any of the following upon which you are willing to comment?
  1. Whether it is necessary to keep these revisions deleted.
  2. Whether I have, indeed, committed a "blatant copyvio" and, if so, whether I should consider resigning as an admin over either my ignorance of present practices (I'm not too active on en-wiki these days) or because you actually believe this was willful bad behavior on my part.
  3. If you do not think there is a serious problem with my behavior (or, I suppose, even if you do), whether User:Diannaa appears to granting me an assumption of good faith.
  4. Since you are both also involved in copyright issues, whether if you had removed material on the basis of copyright and a user said, as I did above, "I feel that the amount of quotation I used there (all of it made clear by citation) was well within the acceptable. … I think I have a pretty good sense of what is and is not an acceptable amount of quotation. I'm not going to argue this heavily -- what you've left seems fine -- but in the future if you think my edits are so problematic that you need to remove them from the history and hide even the fact that the work in question was my contribution, I'd appreciate being engaged before the fact, rather than after," you'd also feel a need to come back to the page and "school them" (and later complain how busy you are) rather than just let the matter lie.
  5. I don't mean to restrict you by asking these four questions. If something else here seems salient, go for it.
@Diannaa: if you have anything else you'd like to address to MER-C & Sphilbrick, or if you take issue with how I have worded my questions -- I realize that the fourth one was a little contentious, but at the moment I don't see a more polite way to word it -- please feel free to say so. - Jmabel | Talk 16:35, 16 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
Jmabel, I have some sympathy to the concerns of @Jmabel:. As someone who tries to help out at Copy Patrol, I sometimes feel a little a little like a bowl in a China shop. I revdel before talking to the editor in question, I do rollback rather than rewrite, and while I try to leave informative edit summaries and notes on talk pages, they are often boilerplate rather than custom. I do try to reach out when the issue involve someone with a lot of experience, but I won't guarantee that happens every time. The sad situation is the numbers don't justify it.
We have 1112 admins. I'm not unrealistic enough to expect that every admin should be actively involved in copyright issues on a regular basis. However, an ambitious, but not absurd desire is that 10% of our admins should have at least occasional involvement. If 10% of our admins worked on one item at copy patrol every day, that would roughly cover the number of new items each day. Under that scenario, it would be easy to imagine giving advice to admins in the area that they should open a discussion with any editor who has more than modest experience, attempt to rewrite issues rather than rollback when issues are identified, and consider holding off on revision deletion until a discussion has ensued. But we don't have 10% of our admins working actively in copyright. Closer to 1%. I tried to address 10 to 20 items a day, and can't really wrap my head around how Diannaa can do what she does, but even at my much lower level of activity, it's not really workable to carry out a more complete back-and-forth with an editor including rewrite for that many items. Of course, I could imagine it if I could dedicate my entire day to copyright issues, but there are other areas of Wikipedia that interest me and I actually try to carry on a life outside Wikipedia.
In cases where I do a revision deletion, many editors have expressed dismay that it makes it difficult for them to look into the issues. I understand it in the case of a non-admin. I'm slightly surprised to hear an admin make this observation as an admin can click on the diff and see it trivially. However, it is my practice (and I won't speak for others), in any situation where an editor thinks that looking at the diffs would help shed light on the issue, that I will undo the revision deletion temporarily so we can sort out the issue. Over 98% of the time, I am right and they are wrong, so I don't feel the need to wait until discussion before doing the revision deletion. In the rare cases where there's something to discuss I immediately undo the revision deletion, we talk about it, I'm usually right and then reinstate the revision deletion, but if I'm wrong, we will handle it differently.
I don't think it is at all reasonable to expect the admin reviewing a copyright situation to do a rewrite if a problem is found. If we had more admins handling things and admins were averaging one issue a day, and they were willing to do a rewrite rather than simply a rollback more power to them, plus thanks for going the extra mile, as well as a barnstar, but I wouldn't remotely consider it an obligation.
So far, I've commented without looking closely at the specific issues, but it is worth emphasizing that Wikipedia copyright policy is understandably and deliberately more stringent than copyright law. We permit less under fair use than might be legally permitted on purpose.
I am very concerned that this project is so heavily dependent on one admin for what I believe is a critical aspect of this project — keeping it reasonably free of copyright violations. I'd like to see some admins working on how better to share the load, and asking those few who are contributing to spend a lot more time doing it is not a step in the right direction. S Philbrick(Talk) 21:36, 16 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
  • @Sphilbrick: Got it; you are sympathetic to both of us. With all due respect (and I mean that, no sarcasm intended, thanks for weighing in), that really does not answer any of my specific questions above, including (question 2) whether I am indeed a "blatant" violator of copyrights, which it seems to me if true would be a reason to de-admin me and, if not (questions 3 and 4) wouldn't it have made more sense just to leave alone my willingness to accept her edits while demurring from them, rather than come over here and (in my view) fail to accept that I was acting in good faith, and come to my user talk page to "school me"? - Jmabel | Talk 01:32, 17 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

I gather neither of those two is going to way in on our conflict. Pinging two more from that list. @Galobtter and Hut 8.5: Diannaa seems to prefer this mediated by someone from and I won't argue the point if one of the seven people there other that herself will mediate. Care to help out? - Jmabel | Talk 16:07, 17 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

I also want to weigh in again on one particular piece of this, substantively. How can the phrase "has nothing to do with labor unions" be a "blatant copyvio" that must be suppressed from the record? How on earth else would you word that simple thought? - Jmabel | Talk 16:13, 17 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

  • Well, I've had a look at the edits and skimmed the conversation above, and I think Diannaa has a point. These edits contained several sentences which were taken more or less verbatim from an external source, and there doesn't seem to be any dispute that the source is non-free. As copyright problems go it's pretty small but I think it's large enough to be a problem. The phrase "has nothing to do with labor unions" wouldn't be an issue by itself, no, but that wasn't the only piece of text which was added from that source. The non-free content policy has restrictions on quoting from non-free content. In particular quotations have to be formatted as quotations, they must be brief, they must be attributed, and they must be used to "illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea". The "Union free school districts are governed..." bit wasn't formatted as a quotation, wasn't attributed to an external source, and it wasn't illustrating a point or anything like that. It was presented as just another paragraph in the article. As such I don't think its use can be justified under fair use. I should also point out that Diannaa has reviewed 479 edits like this one in the last week alone, and if anything I'm surprised she took the time to partially rewrite this one. Hut 8.5 20:09, 17 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
    • @Hut 8.5: Just want to make sure I understand: I said from the outset that I would let her edit stand, that was not what was in dispute. Are you saying: (1) this was such a "blatant copyvio" that it cannot even be allowed to remain in the article history and (2) that it was appropriate for her to come over here and "school me" even after I said a the outset that I would let her edits stand? The latter particular gals me because after taking time to do that, she complained about how she has to spend so much time dealing with copyvios. Or do you disagree with me on some aspect of how I just characterized that? - Jmabel | Talk 22:03, 17 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
      • Well it was a "blatant violation of the copyright policy", which is what WP:RD1 requires, the relevant policy recommends revdel in that case, and it is common practice if the material was added recently. There doesn't seem to be any dispute that the text in question was copied more or less verbatim from a copyrighted source. You've argued that it could be justified as fair use quotations, but since they weren't formatted as quotations and couldn't be used under Wikipedia's fair use rules I don't see how that affects things. I don't view this thread as Diannaa trying to "school" you at all. She posted here to let you know she'd taken this action and invited you to leave her a message if you had questions. You asked her, at some length, to justify this action, and she did so. Hut 8.5 08:56, 18 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Diannaa, Sphilbrick, and Hut 8.5: It does seem that you have consensus among yourselves on what constitutes such "blatancy" as to require removal from the history. Let me say clearly: as a fellow admin, I don't agree with that consensus, but I recognize that you are the group who has taken it upon yourselves to enforce your understanding and will defer to it for now. That is not my understanding of Wikipedia:Copyright problems#Blatant infringement in terms of deleting history, which may be because I am reading "fair use" there in the legal sense, and you seem to be reading it in the Wikipedia sense; it looks to me like it is completely ambiguous as written, and I think at some point it merits clarification. I'd like to start a discussion on that in a neutral forum at some future date, but I'm probably too busy to start that right now and then pay attention: I'm in the middle of returning right now to a career line I dropped thirty years ago.

I'm much more active as a Commons admin than an en-wiki admin, and it is perfectly possible that en-wiki consensus on this has shifted in the last decade or so and I've just plain missed it. Believe me, I know from Commons how much of a problem an out-of-consensus admin can be, and I doubt I will become reconciled to your view here, certainly not how we handle the same issue on Commons. If you feel that should disqualify me from being an en-wiki admin, as I said above, feel free to nominate me to be de-admin'd on the basis of incompetence or inappropriate editing or just plain being out of consensus. I promise to stay entirely out of the discussion of my qualifications to be an admin except to come in exactly once to be overt that I will stay entirely out of the discussion of my qualifications to be an admin. I would appreciate (but do not require) that you point to this discussion if making such a nomination.

One question: "has nothing to do with labor unions" is so brief and to the point that I don't see any way to word it that would not at least be such a close paraphrase as to raise essentially the same copyright issues. Can someone suggest how else to word it? Would "is not related to labor unions" be acceptable to you? Unless I hear otherwise, that is what I will use.

Where I plan to go with this article when I can have time to get back to it: I will try to find the text of the statute itself (which is certainly not copyrighted) or some pre-1926 NY state document (ditto) and quote that instead of the current guidance. I won't be surprised if it turns out to be verbatim. And I will definitely fix Dianaa's paraphrase that I believe is misleading. - Jmabel | Talk 12:14, 18 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Whoa - nobody suggested you should be desysopped for this! This wiki doesn't have a community desysop procedure like Commons does, and even if it did I certainly wouldn't send someone there for making one mistake like this. Just bear it in mind for the future. As I've said the phrase "is not related to labor unions" is fine by itself, it's only in combination with other text from the same source that it becomes a problem. Hut 8.5 17:40, 18 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Hut 8.5: Good to hear. On Commons, "blatant copyvio" would definitely be a last warning before a block, and if said by one admin to another would certainly imply that one of the two was in the wrong role. - Jmabel | Talk 07:39, 19 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

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  A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Michael Healy (Oz). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 April 18#Michael Healy (Oz) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Gonnym (talk) 17:01, 18 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

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Coordinators and help needed

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  • Apologies, but I generally have not picked arbitrary school topics to work on. I'm interested in the area, especially for school systems of communities where I've lived, but I have quite a backlog of projects I want to do (or have started and not yet completed). - Jmabel | Talk 16:00, 29 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

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I just wanted to post on Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous):

<code>Hi all; let's support our colleague {{U|Rehman}}, he is a great Wikipedian, and currently is in a critical economic situation. [https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-wikipedian-rehman-repay-hospital-charges Here you can support]; any donation and sharing this campaign (including Social media) is highly appreciated. Regards --~~~~</code>

As it seems, GoFundMe is on spam blacklist for whatever reason and I cannot post it with the relevant link; but actually would like to share the campaign on English WP too, as Rehman is basically a Wikipedian. Is there something we can do, can you help? Regards --A.Savin (talk) 13:16, 30 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

  • I know of this possibility of course... however such a post should be as barrier-free as possible, so my question to you as sysop wuld be, for instance, could you consider temporarily taking GFM from the spam list and return it there after I have posted? Thanks. --A.Savin (talk) 17:47, 30 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
    • @A.Savin: Although I'm an admin here, I've never worked on the spam list, and I'd be uncomfortable doing that. I think you should go to the Admin noticeboard, where it will be taken up by someone where this is more their realm. You can feel free to link this conversation, and my endorsement that this is a good cause. - Jmabel | Talk 17:49, 30 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

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I "translated" this article from Bulgarian (ie Google translate + common sense) but not sure what some of the transliterated acronyms mean (and they weren't linked). Thought you might have some interest and insights to contribute to the improvement of this article. Happy New Year! Skyerise (talk) 19:21, 2 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

  • @Skyerise: I worked out "SBMTD" for you & edited accordingly. Where does "SANPT" come from? The transliteration of the Bulgarian should be "DANPT" (it's "ДАНПТ", not "САНПТ"). But that's about it from me: swamped with other stuff, and I don't bring much to the Slavic languages beyond knowing the alphabet and being able to Google. - Jmabel | Talk 22:05, 2 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

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I found more info, so I went ahead and created Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Company. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:38, 13 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Hi, I am writing the new article, Topical humor, a subject surprizingly miissing from wikipedia and I wanted to add "Topical song" into its "See also". But unfortunately I found out it was nuked because it was unreferenced. I saw that you created it, but I also see you are no longer active. Still, I am curious whether you have a possibility to "resurrect" the article. Quick google search shows it is an interesting subject. While in America the concept is conflated with "protest song" folklorists trace the concept to the times when there were no newspapers, and songs were a vehicle for news reports (about notable events: from heroic deeds to disasters). Some of them, started as topical, became perennial. Loew Galitz (talk) 00:18, 8 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

  • @Loew Galitz: I'm active (I'm a admin), but I'm focused mainly on Commons these days. As I'm sure you saw if you looked at the history, that was written when there were almost no requirements about referencing on Wikipedia. I don't have any particular interest in doing the work it would take to write an article on that particular topic that is up to Wikipedia's current standards. Maybe at some point, but not now. Yes, I think such an article should exist.
  • Yes, certainly the old "broadside ballads" were also "topical". - Jmabel | Talk 00:24, 8 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Would you be able to provide some direction? I have been dealing with a copyright bot issue that does not provide a great deal of information to resolve my issue properly once I insert a fair-use authorized university logo. It simply removes the image and leads me to a long list of options.

The pages I'm interested in adding the, pre-authorized fair-use, logo to include:

The image currently appears inside the infobox on the Oregon State University page. The image is Oregon_State_University_primary_logo.svg

Each time I add the image to one of the infobox on the related college pages, it's removed. A message is left to properly tag the image for fair use. I believe I've already done that once, but it was removed again. What am I missing? This logo is not being used differently nor on a page that is describing anything other than Oregon State University.

I have added the three college pages to the original fair-use page, but again they were removed. Thank you for any assistance you can provide.Ludviggy (talk)

@Ludviggy: I think what User:Marchjuly told you at Talk:Oregon_State_University_College_of_Liberal_Arts#Use_of_OSU_logo_on_college_wiki_pages is absolutely clear: "[A]n individual college of an university is typically considered to be a "child entity" of the main university per item 17 of WP:NFC#UUI and the primary logo of the university is usually not allowed to be used by default. Instead, a logo specific to the individual college is preferred. So, if the College of Liberal Arts has its own logo or branding (maybe like this), then it should be OK to use that in the infobox. Otherwise, the use of the primary university logo is not automatic and a consensus may need to be established to do so." There is no consensus to do this. You'd need to establish such a consensus on the talk page of each of the respective articles, but most likely there will be no such consensus, because this is not our usual practice. We try to minimize our use of non-free images, and the logo of the university itself is clearly appropriate to the article about the university as such, but I don't really see a strong case for putting it on an article about a college within the university. If any of these colleges have logos of their own, there would be a strong case for including those. - Jmabel | Talk 03:57, 20 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Is it an option for me to make a logo (i.e., Oregon State University College of Engineering) that would match this use? https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/fy22-research-funding-highlights This would include Oregon_State_University_primary_logo.svg, but it would also include "College of Engineering" under it - just as the college uses it. Thank you. Ludviggy (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:31, 20 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Ludviggy: I don't believe so. Again, you would have to build consensus to do so, and as far as I can tell, that is not a logo of the College of Engineering. It is the logo of the university, which happens to have the words "College of Engineering" on the next line under it, but not as part of the logo.
I am not sure why you seem so concerned to come up with some way around this. Why is it so important to you to get logos onto the pages for things that don't seem to have logos of their own? This has been eating a lot of my time responding to you over something that does not seem to me to be either possible or valuable. - Jmabel | Talk 17:56, 20 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Many others editing university college pages, could be asked the same question. I'm not alone in doing so. However, it appears you are saying I would need to wait for an individual college (i.e., Oregon State University College of Engineering) to use a logo that includes the words "College of Engineering" inside the artwork file to use as a logo? Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Iowa_College_of_Engineering ~~ Ludviggy (talk) 20:12, 20 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Ludviggy: Yes. In that case, there I believe is a uniform use of a logo saying "Iowa Engineering" on various materials from that college of that university. I'm not aware of any such thing for University of Oregon, but if it does indeed exist then the case would be similar. In any case, though, that Iowa one is a "textlogo" and is not subject to copyright, so it doesn't raise fair use issues at all. - Jmabel | Talk 20:21, 20 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
It's Oregon State University. But thanks for the help. It is odd, however, it appears to offer the same level of fair use I was attempting to show. In fact, I can't find an example of the "Iowa Engineering" source. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:University_of_Iowa_College_of_Engineering_Logo.jpg Keep in mind, we are talking about the use of this logo and not the seal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_University#/media/File:Oregon_State_University_primary_logo.svg ~~ Ludviggy (talk) 21:00, 20 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Pike Place Market

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Hello! You may or may not have noticed, I've created many new Wikipedia entries related to Pike Place Market (see Template:Pike Place Market). I see you've worked on the PPM entry and uploaded quite a few images of the market at Wikimedia Commons. Thanks for doing so! I'm using your photos as possible to illustrate images. Anyways, I've created new stubs for Corner Market, Economy Market, and Sanitary Market. I was wondering if you'd be interested in helping to trim/move content from Pike Place Market to these pages appropriately. I'm also curious if you think any of the other buildings are independently notable. I've been through the market several times, but I'm still trying to learn how the buildings fit together, which businesses are housed in each, etc. This is just an invite in case you are interested! Happy editing, ---Another Believer (Talk) 14:07, 25 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

  • Right now, I'm kind of up to my eyeballs in projects of my own (Seattle Public Library recently donated about 34,000 images to Commons, high-res but not all well-curated), so I'm not that likely to work on this. Glad the photos were useful.
  • I see that the Butterworth Building already has a slightly-more-than-stub article of its own. Post Alley is now a redirect to Gum Wall, but probably deserves an article. The Pike Place Hillclimb might deserve an article, as might the armory that used to sit at the north end of the market.
  • Do feel free to get hold of me if there is anything specific I can help with, including if you want me to make a pass through something after you think it's basically good to go. Also, let me know if there is anything that still exists that you need photographed, I get down there now and then (as it happens, I'm going to a meetup at Kells this evening). - Jmabel | Talk 15:06, 25 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
    Thanks for the offer. I've been to the Market a few times recently, so I'm currently in the process of uploading hundreds of photographs to Commons. I'll let you know if I need assistance with anything specific, otherwise I'll just keep on truckin' with my visits, article creations, and photo uploads. For now, take care! ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:24, 25 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
    Spoke too soon! Curious about your gut reaction re: notability of Main Arcade, MarketFront, North Arcade, and Triangle Building / Triangle Market. ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:28, 25 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
    • I'd say they are all right in that range where an article could meet the threshold to be kept, but it would require good work to establish notability. La Salle Hotel would also probably be at the same level, and Leland Hotel could probably combined with the Main Arcade. Also possibly an article on the Joe Desimone Bridge and/or the Municipal Market Building that it originally led to, and which burned in the 1970s.
    • By the way: are you on Facebook? There is a recently-started private group on there for people working seriously on Seattle history to be able to help each other out on queries. Some very solid people in the group (e.g. Feliks Banel, Valarie Bunn, Lorraine McConaghy, Ben Lukoff, David B. Williams, Rob Ketcherside). If you want to join, message me from your account on Facebook and I'll invite you into the group. - Jmabel | Talk 17:47, 25 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Translation

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Hello Jmabel, I was wondering if you would be able to translate two paragraphs for me from Romanian to English? I am currently researching the history of transatlantic flights from the Bucharest airport in order to describe them in the latter article. Google's translations of these paragraphs didn't fully make sense to me.

1) "Cand s-a decis oprirea zborurilor s-au luat in considerare tot felul de factori. Anul acesta pretul barilului de petrol a crescut foarte mult, iar acest lucru a influentat decizia reprezentantilor Delta de a anula zborurile pe timpul iernii, cumulat cu faptul ca in acele luni traficul e mai redus. Delta are o mare flexibilitate in gestionarea flotei, iar operarea unor rute depinde si de contextul economic. Momentan au reluat cursele doar pe timpul verii, dar nu putem spune cu siguranta ce vor decide pentru iarna anului viitor", a precizat Enciu. (source)

2) "Speram ca joint-venture-ul dintre Air France KLM si Delta Airlines sa ne creasca cota de piata in Romania, insa compania a fost nevoita, pe fondul recesiunii, sa redimensioneze zborurile spre anumite destinatii, si a decis sa nu mai zboare in Romania. Competitia pe acesta ruta era una foarte acerba si in aceste conditii tarifele practicate de Delta nu acopereau costurile de operare", a explicat Alexandru Dobrescu directorul pentru Romania al Air France KLM. (source)

Regards, Sunnya343 (talk) 22:20, 27 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Sunnya343: took a little help from Google Translate because I was in a hurry, but I can vouch for what I'm writing. Google Translate got totally thrown by luni meaning "months" and took it in the sense of "Monday". Otherwise, it was pretty OK, though as usual not very colloquial.

1) "When the decision was made to stop the flights, all sorts of factors were considered. This year the price of a barrel of oil increased greatly, and this influenced the decision of Delta representatives to cancel flights during the winter, combined with the fact that in those months there is a lot less traffic. Delta has a lot of flexibility in managing the fleet, and whether to operate some routes depends on the economic context. At the moment, they have resumed the flights only during the summer, but we cannot say for sure what they'll decide for winter of next year", stated Enciu.

2) "We hope/expect that the joint venture ul among Air France KLM and Delta Airlines won't increase the market price in Romania, but due to the recession the company had to resize the number of flights to certain destinations, and has decided to stop flying to Romania. Competition on that route was among very bitter and in those conditions Delta's fares didn't cover the cost of operations", explained Alexandru Dobrescu, director for Romania of Air France KLM.

- Jmabel | Talk 22:58, 27 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your quick response! Sunnya343 (talk) 23:25, 27 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

A Special Barnstar for you!

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Hi Jmabel....On behalf of the birthday committee... I wanna present to you this trophy on this day when you achieved your ten thousandth edit... Keep it going Volten001 ☎ 06:19, 28 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

View it! update

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September/October Happenings

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Advice about new (old) image to Commons

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Hi JMabel, Thanks for your help on the Taschereau image. I've got a new question. I'd like to add an image of a fellow who died in 1858, named Robert Christie. It's used in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and also the Archives of Montreal:

https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/christie_robert_8E.html

https://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/portraits/fr/fiches/P0413.shtm

However, I don't know how or whether this would pose any copyright problems? Commons is very much a mystery to me, so any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 19:12, 7 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

  • It says, "La gravure a été réalisée par C. S. Taylor d'après une peinture de Devis". "Devis" is presumably Arthur Devis. C.S. Taylor is presumably this guy. If he was "active in 1826" then obviously his work is all in the public domain by now. If you could pin down the date of Taylor's death that would be great, but even without that {{PD-old-100}} is safe: there is no way that anyone active in 1826 was still alive in 1923 (100 years ago). And no one would have made an engraving of something like this for any purpose other than publication, so we can presume it was published shortly after it was made. - Jmabel | Talk 19:19, 7 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

View it! has been expanded and will have an official launch demo session Jan. 12th

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Mariide

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This draft came to my attention. I suspect you might know whether there are better sources you could direct Jaywing18 (talk · contribs) to? Skyerise (talk) 19:02, 11 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

DYK nomination of Ladies Musical Club

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March 2023 Seattle meetup

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You are bad on Commons

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@Jmabel, I do not like you on commons. Thank you, @Turnup97(I think.) Turnup44 (talk) 14:28, 17 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Isn't that charming? Someone creates a new account to tell me they don't like me. - Jmabel | Talk 15:01, 17 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Good morning

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Good evening, with your permission, I would like to know how to make the photos that I took with copyright or copyright Jimmy Jimmy Yelzer (talk) 17:04, 21 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Jimmy Yelzer: Please keep Commons matters on Commons. This is my user talk page on the English-language Wikipedia. There is already a discussion going on the Commons help desk, plus several deletion requests. Please, let's not start yet another separate discussion. - Jmabel | Talk 17:07, 21 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Ladies Musical Club of Seattle

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On 28 April 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ladies Musical Club of Seattle, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Ladies Musical Club brought Sergei Rachmaninoff, Marian Anderson, and Pablo Casals to perform in Seattle? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ladies Musical Club. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ladies Musical Club of Seattle), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Nomination of Awesome (band) for deletion

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LGBT films from SIFF 2023 edit-a-thon

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Translation request

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Hi, I see you have stated that you know moderate Italian and are native in English. Is there any chance you could translate the page Antiprohibitionists on Drugs to the Italian language Wikipedia please? Helper201 (talk) 19:46, 23 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

There should be a lot more information on them in Italian than there is in English, so I'm sure a bigger and more detailed page could be created about them by someone that knows Italian. If you could use your knowledge of Italian to expand the English article using sources that would be great too. Helper201 (talk) 19:51, 23 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Helper201: I would not be qualified to do a translation into Italian. For that, you should look for someone who can claim more than "it-1" in their Babel box. I can do a fair job of translating Italian into English, but in the other direction I would probably not be at any higher level than Google Translate, maybe lower. - Jmabel | Talk 02:18, 24 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
Minor correction: When I wrote that just now, I hadn't looked and seen that this is just a tiny stub. I probably can do a serviceable job on that. I'll take a shot at it. - Jmabel | Talk 02:20, 24 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Helper201: Done: it:Antiproibizionisti sulla droga. Hopefully a native speaker will review this and fix anything I got wrong. - Jmabel | Talk 19:04, 24 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
But they apparently will delete it for lack of sources (presumably in terms of the electoral results). If you have citation for any of this, add it to the en-wiki article and I can try porting it over. - Jmabel | Talk 19:59, 24 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel: okay, thank you. I've tried looking for English sources but haven't seen any so far. I think you'll have better luck looking for sources in Italian. I think this would be much easier for you to do than myself, as I have no knowledge of the language. Helper201 (talk) 23:02, 25 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Helper201: I found very little in Italian offhand. It was a small and short-lived party before the time of the web, and the fact that it was a center-left party whose leaders later allied with Berlusconi can't have left a lot of people feeling very favorable about it. - Jmabel | Talk 23:34, 25 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel: Okay, thanks for looking and trying. Simply citing its political position on the English and the Italian page as centre-left if you found that would be good. Hopefully you or someone else can improve it before the Italian page is deleted. If you're looking for a Wikipedia page that could do with help translating content from Italian to English then the Love Party (Italy) is one I marked as needing translation from its Italian article recently. So that would be very much appreciated if you decide to work on translating from the Italian page to the English page on that. Helper201 (talk) 23:42, 25 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
FYI the work I did on the Love Party was using Google Translate from the Italian version. I'm sure it could be done better by someone with some knowledge of the language. Helper201 (talk) 23:45, 25 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Seattle Wiknic 2023

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Left-wing terrorism

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Hi, I've listed Left-Wing terrorism in Articles for Deletion. You were involved previously when it was discussed and you may be interested. AlanStalk 09:14, 29 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Jyllian Gunther, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Billy Porter.

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already fixed by someone else. - Jmabel | Talk 15:17, 23 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

The portrait of Susanna Victoria Reid

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Hello! Before publishing the sketch with the face of Susanna Reid, I read the rules of English Wikipedia, concerning the images, but the explanation in them is purely obscure, incomplete and unintelligible, in my opinion, so publishing this work was quite chancy and risky. I'd say that I'm quite an experienced user of English Wikipedia, so your voluminous critique would have been very apposite, apropos and indispensible.

What's your personal viewpoint on my work? Do you think this work is a treason? The thing is that Susanna is quite a reactionary, bourgeois journalist, so it appears to be that I made a right wing opportunistic (petty bourgeois) mistake. On the other hand, personally, I find her to have been quite attractive in youth, so, may be, this cause might have diminished the cruel punishment of proletarian intelligenzia and all the revolutionary workers of the world.

On the other hand, I asked a couple of persons about this work. They told me that Susanna was drawn realistically and vividly, so I didn't committed an antiproletarian crime. My mother, the gentlest and saddest of womankind, noticed that there's a decadent tendency in this work, though. Dr. Blofeld's opinion on the above-mention sketch isn't low. I find this user to be well-behaved, affable, and reasonable.

P. S. if you describe and discuss your opinion on this serious matter in a very voluminous reply to me, I'll be very glad. The point is that I'm really afraid of the decay, decadance and really obscurantism shown in this work. P. P. S. By the way, I'm inexpressibly sorry for my extremely verbose and stylistically incorrect English (it would appear that you noticed that there's a holy mess with grammar, vocabulary and stylistics in my present messages), so I've got to apologise. Роман Сергеевич Сидоров (talk) 18:53, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

more appropriate convenience link: File:SusannaReid2005.jpg.
@Роман Сергеевич Сидоров: I have little idea what you mean here by "treason." Treason is betraying one's country (unless maybe you mean it in terms of "a traitor to one's class"?). Frankly, I don't care much about anyone's politics here, as long as they follow the rules. The issues here would entirely be rules of copyright. If this is based on a copyrighted photo, then it's a derivative work, and cannot be hosted by Commons (or en-wiki) as long as the original on which it is based is copyrighted and unlicensed. On the other hand, if you happen to have crossed paths with her 18 years ago and drew it from life, fine. As for whether it belongs in the Wikipedia article, assuming there is no copyright problem that is entirely en-wiki's affair, not Commons, and I have no more role in that than any other user. - Jmabel | Talk 19:35, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
I appreciate your reply. In other words, thank you very much indeed! I officially declare that I used very many sources in the process of drawing. I drew her three years ago, so I don't remember their number exactly. And, accordingly, I never met Reid in real life. May I ask you whether this official statement in the present talk formally prevents me from the issues with copyrighted images or not?Роман Сергеевич Сидоров (talk) 19:57, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
You are in a gray zone. I've been there myself; I personally wouldn't put such an image on Commons or Wikipedia. You probably would do well to say overtly that the sketch was loosely based on a number of photos of her; I have no idea whether the consensus would be to allow it or not. - Jmabel | Talk 20:02, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
May be, I should ask a couple of your colleagues, taking legal action against artists in wikipedia. What do you think about this idea? Роман Сергеевич Сидоров (talk) 20:07, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
I suggest struggling with this pretty corrupted system of copyright. As I see, you're a victim of reactionary, repressive policies, so I would have supported you, if I'd been a participant of the trial.Роман Сергеевич Сидоров (talk) 20:15, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Use in Wikipedia is almost never likely to become a legal matter. As a non-profit educational site, Wikipedia would be granted very broad fair-use latitude. The issue is that we want to allow easy reuse, even commercial reuse, so we try to keep things to what would be easily defensible in that other context. - Jmabel | Talk 20:21, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
However, there're numerous committees of censorship, the rules (de-facto, the laws) have got the most ambigous wording, so I'm gonna go through the infernal regions of prosecution and repressions based on someone's hypothetical lost lucrum, even though it's almost entirely impossible to prove (and disprove) that my sketch is based on copyright photos because I've got my own bourgeois democratic right to express my thoughts, feelings in art, so, may be, I changed Susanna's physiological features to modify her facial expression, her countenance. Why not?
If Wikipedia had been a purely educational website, there had been such medieval policies in terms of copyright (so far as I remember, queen Anne signed the Copyright Act in the 18th; in other words, it's inconceivable, isn't it?).Роман Сергеевич Сидоров (talk) 20:37, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
First of all, if someome is gonna blame me in the violation of copyright, I've got a right to admit such words as calumnities because there're Susanna's photos which are certain to be in the public domain, so if someone is going to argue that I violated the copyright with uploading the above-mentioned image, I'll have got to admit this citizen as a calumniator, because his (her) evidence isn't based upon the official statement of specialist who're able to argue that the aforementioned portrait has got similrities with a set of copyrighted photos. Роман Сергеевич Сидоров (talk) 20:48, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Роман Сергеевич Сидоров: are you familiar with Commons' recautionary principle? Point four basically says if we aren't sure about the copyright status, we don't want to host it. Why? Because we want reusers including commercial reusers to be able to have reasonably high confidence that they are not accidentally violating someone else's copyright. - Jmabel | Talk 21:05, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
In other words, this point four blames me in violating the copyright, automatically. This point militates against UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 11, so I've got my personal presumption of innocence. In other words, Commons is strongly against one of the main principles of international law.
If someone has got facts, evidence, testifying against me, this person should have got a right to delete my files. Роман Сергеевич Сидоров (talk) 21:24, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
If Wikipedia declares that there's no international law's implementation here, Wikipedia is completely illegal as a project. Роман Сергеевич Сидоров (talk) 21:27, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Роман Сергеевич Сидоров: I think you are grossly exaggerating the situation. This is not a matter of criminal law. I take it that someone wants to delete a file where you yourself admit you are not quite sure of the sources from which it may derive, so you can't demonstrate that your work is sufficiently transformative not to be considered derivative work. They are not even proposing to take any action against you personally. They are saying that under the circumstances, they don't think Commons should host your photo. I've personally had photos deleted on similar bases (mainly lack of freedom of panorama in Romania). It's not a comment on me, and this is not a comment on you. And with that I'm done. If you feel a need to have the last word, go ahead, but I won't be responding further. - Jmabel | Talk 21:30, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

About administrative maps of Austro-Hungary

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Hi Joe Mabel. From what I have observed recently, nationalist contributors, notably hungarian, romanian, polish, russian or turkish (but not only) cannot support the modification of their maps (see for example Ingush03.png) and are particularly indignant when someone add nuances, diversity or minorities where they want to show reductive simplifications. Following the COM:CROP rule, they consider any modification, even of a digital map created especially for Commons (therefore not a historical document) as a "falsification". They protect their mistakes, biased PoVs, spelling or geographical errors (wrong locations) by making inoperative the possibility of downloading new versions (the dialog window then asks to download the improved version separately under another name, and if we try, it tells us that we do not have the authorizations). Regarding Romania, they ignore the romanian legislation regarding works of art, historical monuments and old photos, to indiscriminately apply the no-FOP to any image that displeases them. Too bad, Trecătorul răcit (talk) [2] 14:39, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Trecătorul răcit: [I presume that throughout you mean upload, not download; the other makes no sense.]
The "new name" thing has nothing to do with nationalism. We made a decision recently on Commons to require the "autopatrol" right to overwrite a file that someone else uploaded, because there were too many bad overwrites, easily the majority. We also have a way to temporarily mark a file to be overwritten freely if a consensus has been reached on the talk page. For maps, in Commons' view, it's not a matter of "falsification": it's that if two different people cannot come to a consensus about a map, then Commons' policy is to host both, and let the individual wikis decide which they prefer to use. Obviously, the ideal remains changes by consensus. Of course it is best if you have a specific citation for each change you make; often the situation is that you can cite all of your changes to one or two maps from the period.
"[I]t tells us that we do not have the authorizations" is vague. You don't say exactly what error message you are getting, or what tool you are using. I strongly recommend (depending on your experience level with Commons) either commons:Special:UploadWizard or (what I use) commons:Special:Upload; the former guides you through the process, the latter more or less gives you tabula rasa. Remember to mark the original with commons:Template:derivative works and your upload with commons:Template:derived from. I'll be very surprised if you get that error from either of these tools, as long as you are logged in.
"romanian legislation regarding works of art, historical monuments and old photos": at least with regard to historical monuments, Romanian law has almost no allowance for FoP, even if the government does a poor job of enforcing this. Commons' policy is to follow laws like this even if the country in question never enforces them. I find it frustrating, too, but it's policy. I recently had a picture deleted that was of a building built in Bucharest in the 1920s, because the young architect lived to be old and it is less than 70 years since he died. As for works of art and old photos, I'm no sure what you have in mind. Anything with a known artist who died before 1953 should be fine, as should anything where the artist can't be determined and the work predates 1903. Anything more recent is not. Can you give me an example of something that was deleted where those rules weren't applied? As you probably know, I'm a Commons admin as well as an en-wiki admin, and from what I can see it's rare (though not vanishingly rare) for someone to close a Commons' deletion review in a manner that goes against the rules, and if they do then the undeletion review process is pretty robust. - Jmabel | Talk 16:09, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for these clarifications. If Commons' policy is to host both or several versions, and let the individual wikis decide which they prefer to use, so this will allow me to better record some "commons:Template:derived from" versions, explaining and sourcing the reasons, despite the simplifying nationalists who consider any improvement or enrichment as a "falsification". - --Trecătorul răcit (talk) 16:00, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Trecătorul răcit: Indeed. - Jmabel | Talk 17:07, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Indeed? Unfortunately only for six hours... Look, I try on the French wiki to introduce the complete version with this argument : Enriched map of religious minorities of this time, in accordance with https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Derivative_versions: Commons policy is to keep several versions if the authors do not agree on a map. The enriched one is challenged by the contributors who only admit the representation of state religions: see [3]. The colleague Мя Масніи ("My fatty"?), one of the most active defenders of Hungarian cartography concerning the history of Central Europe, revert my change with the answer Off-topic - suggest your changes in pdd. So, the religious diversity of this time and the whole context of the crusades, sourced and showing the majority opinion of historians other than Hungarians are... present in Commons [4] but not in use in Wikipedia, where it is... off-topic! Too bad, oversimplifying nationalism wins by knockout, because I cannot be right against the opinion of Enyavar, Gyalu 22, Мя Масніи, OrionNimrod, Pannonian, Pikerton and some others. Sincerely, --Trecătorul răcit (talk) 10:27, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Trecătorul răcit: I cannot be responsible for anything the French-language Wikipedia community chooses to do. I'm barely a participant there, let alone anything more than that. As I said, fr-wiki can choose what it prefers. - Jmabel | Talk 16:33, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I know, I'm not making you responsible, I'm just informing you. Fr-wiki (and all other wikis) can in theory "choose what they prefer", but in practice, sometimes it is the web brigades that dominate. In this specific case, a Hungarian nationalist web brigade. That's life! --Trecătorul răcit (talk) 09:49, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Hi there, you gave me some advice on commons, so I thought I'd pay respects and let you know there is a typo on your User Page in the following paragraph:


I was one of the mainstays of Wikipedia for about three and a half years. I backed off from such a major role in April 2007, though I am still a moderately active participant here, and quite an active participant in The Commons. My reduction in involvement was largely because Wikipedia is now basically a success, and does not need my time the way it once did. The equivalent of a second, unpaid, full-time job needs to be fun, and in recent years I've found Commons more fun that Wikipedia.

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Hello, I'm KB from Binance. I came across your username as someone who can help with translations of the Richard Teng article, which I worked with editors at Articles for Creation to create here. I have posted an Italian version and a Portuguese version. I saw you listed on "translators available" for both languages and was wondering if you'd be willing to take a look and if everything is good, create the translated articles on the Italian and/or Portuguese Wikipedias? Because I have a financial conflict, I don't directly create articles related to Binance.

Thanks so much. Let me know if you have any questions. KB at Binance (talk) 10:29, 21 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

@KB at Binance: while I am perfectly capable of translating from Italian or Portuguese into English, I am not capable of writing either language well enough to go the other direction. The only language other than English where I have the confidence to write for publication is Spanish. - Jmabel | Talk 13:39, 21 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Hi, do you know about red links on Wikipedia? I am not clear on something about them. Delectable1 (talk) 06:43, 10 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Delectable1: A red link means there is currently no such page. Anything else?- Jmabel | Talk 14:27, 10 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Sure, I keep trying to take them off and some user, Sable not only reverts but won't answer. Delectable1 (talk) 21:04, 10 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Delectable1: If the link is to something that would be an appropriate article topic, and it's the first time it has been mentioned in the particular article, it should be there as a "red" link. - Jmabel | Talk 21:09, 10 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
That's too much to try to analyze. There's one of these links in Lizz Wright. What about the Indy 500 articles? Particularly in the tables. Delectable1 (talk) 21:33, 10 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Delectable1: Provide specific links for where you want my opinion (e.g. link the diffs, or link the article and say what link in the article you are talking about). - Jmabel | Talk 22:18, 10 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
In a summary I would say red links usually do not belong anywhere. If they do fit then someone should make an article for the page. With the Indy personnel and why would each of those charts be better with people without articles? Other red links pop up like I said in the Lizz Wright article, Arban method (T.H. Rollinson and the Jean White Company), and more. Also in the 2019 IFSC Climbing World Championships and the IFSC World Climbing Cup the tables would be improved by having no red links. Delectable1 (talk) 21:16, 11 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Again: if you want to discuss a few specifics, I'm willing. If you want to give me a laundry list that links to nothing, I'm not interested. - Jmabel | Talk 22:55, 11 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I am trying to be very specific. In the 1955 to 1967 Indianapolis 500 articles as well as the 1977, 1990, and 2024 Indianapolis 500 articles I took out the drivers' names with red links in the failed to qualify section. With the Arban method article I took out the T.H. Rollison and the Jean White Company red links. With the 2019 IFSC Climbing World Championships and the IFSC World Climbing Cup articles I took out the athletes who had red links. Is that specific enough? Repeating the question, when are red links useful? In the Lizz Wright article the red link is for the National Choral Award. There is no article for the NCA. Delectable1 (talk) 06:29, 12 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
In answer to your direct question: red links are useful when they indicate something that links to an article we should have, but don't. In practice, they are the main way people notice that an article ought to exist, but doesn't.
Let me try to guess which phrases in the paragraph above are equivalent to the links I asked for; perhaps this will make it clearer what I wanted when I asked for links:
Convenience links: 1955 Indianapolis 500, 1956 Indianapolis 500, 1957 Indianapolis 500, 1977 Indianapolis 500, 1990 Indianapolis 500, 2024 Indianapolis 500, Arban method, T.H. Rollison, Jean White Company, 2019 IFSC Climbing World Championships, IFSC World Climbing Cup, Lizz Wright, National Choral Award. Is that correct that all of these in your paragraph above are either to be article names or, for the four that are red, things you are saying do not merit articles? - Jmabel | Talk 14:39, 12 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Yes, also the Indy 500 for the years 1958-1967. Apparently the other years of the race from 1911 to 1916, the years 1919 to 1941, the years 1946 to 1954, the years 1968 to 1976, the years 1978 to 1989, and the years 1991 to 2023 have these links too. The articles which you listed related to the Indianapolis 500 have the links. The red links you listed are correct except it's the IFSC Climbing World Cup which has an article. That article also has the links to which we're referring. Delectable1 (talk) 22:33, 12 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Delectable1: For the Indianapolis 500, it seems to me pretty much a wash whether these people have red links or not. It does look like the bulk of people who are listed as "failed to qualify" actually have articles; I honestly don't know what the notability rules are for race car drivers in particular, and if making it to the qualifying round of the Indy 500 (but no further) is, itself, considered enough to merit an article. If it is, then certainly the red links should be kept. If not, then I'd lean toward not keeping. I'd suppose Wikipedia talk:WikiProject American Open Wheel Racing would be the best place to ask about that notability threshold, and that certainly if there is anything like consensus there, you should abide by it.

IFSC Climbing World Cup: certainly the winners should have links, since obviously winning that would be sufficient to merit an article. Linking surfaces the need for the article. Second or third place? Again, I have no idea. And, similarly, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Climbing would be the place to develop a consensus.

T.H. Rollinson nl:Thomas H. Rollinson has an article in the Dutch Wikipedia, so probably merits one in English. I made this edit, which is how that should be handled. "Jean White Company" probably does not merit a link; if someone adds that back, ask them for some evidence of it being sufficiently documented and notable for an article. Similar suspicion on National Choral Award, and hard to believe that if it's something important we wouldn't have it, but someone might show otherwise. - Jmabel | Talk 23:46, 12 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Does this text say that Amerigo was born in this house?

Un edificio situato lungo la strada interna del borgo è tradizionalmente indicato come casa nativa della famiglia del celebre navigatore Amerigo Vespucci. L’architrave porta infatti lo stemma e la “V” della famiglia Vespucci.

It's from here [5], being used as a source at Amerigo Vespucci, and discussed at Talk:Amerigo Vespucci#Montefioralle. Thanks GA-RT-22 (talk) 15:45, 24 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

@GA-RT-22: Nothing nearly so strong. It says it is "traditionally considered" the home of his [possibly extended] family. "Casa nativa" really doesn't have anything to do with birth; I believe it's more like "long-term primary residence". It does say that the architrave (a beam over the front door) has the Vespucci coat of arms and the letter "V". So it seems likely (though, given the wording, possibly unproven) that it was his family home, but says nothing about whether he was born in the house. - Jmabel | Talk 15:52, 24 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

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  You are invited to join the discussion at WP:HD § Photos of living people. -- Marchjuly (talk) 12:06, 23 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi Jmabel. Since you're a Commons admin and a Wikipedia admin, perhaps you could help advise this user on their image uploads. I think someone might need to go through all of their Commons uploads and check their licensing because they seem to have been pretty much uploading everything as "CC-zero". I tried to fix File:William Cobbett (1763-1835) bust.jpg and File:Portrait of Mrs Claud Mullins.png, and also tagged a few others; however, I'm afraid that much more cleanup might be needed. Most of the photos of sculptures/statues seem to be of works installed in the UK; so, adding "FOP-UK" to the "cc-zero" license is probably fine as long as the uploader took the photo. Other files like File:Bauhinia blakeana, watercolour painting by Mark Isaac-Williams.jpg probably need VRT verification, but not sure. I don't think the uploader meant any harm; they just didn't really know what to do and decided to not ask for help until now. Anyway, my first response to their HD question seems to have not been received very well; so, I thought someone else experienced at answering HD questions but also familiar with image licensing stuff might be able to help them out. -- Marchjuly (talk) 12:15, 23 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Marchjuly: I don't really have too much to add to what is said there. I think people have raised the right points.
I did note, though, that no one has asked them what upload tool they are using. I think for people who find copyright confusing, Commons' Upload Wizard often guides them better than the cross-wiki upload from en-wiki. Jmabel | Talk 13:19, 23 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for taking a look at this, and also thank you for the comment you added to c:COM:VPC#File:Portrait of Mrs Claud Mullins.png. Perhaps that will help clarify things for this particular user. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:07, 24 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Hey Joe, just checking up on you post November 2024 Northeast Pacific bomb cyclone. I'm one of the lucky Eastsiders who had power pretty much all night and will be doing OK. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:19, 20 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

No power here, but I have cellular. Neighbors & I have cleared debris from street. Some nearby houses have power & one is charging a big battery for me so I'll have my CPAP tonight if power is still out. (I only have a little over one night's backup capacity.) City Light predicts power tom'w noon. Jmabel | Talk 18:32, 20 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Good to hear. Take care! I also got up before sunrise and cleared debris in my neighborhood, but didn't see anybody else doing so (grr). It looks like one of the two fatalities in the state (that I know about so far) was in an Eastside neighborhood that I know well. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:36, 20 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
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