User talk:Sinigh

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Sinigh!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 11:06, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Autopatrol given

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. Abzeronow (talk) 17:12, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Sinigh (talk) 17:58, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Unidentified musicians

Hi. This category should only be used where you cannot identify the person(s) in the photo. In the case of File:Owen Vahey.jpg the name of the musician is clearly given so you shouldn't have added it to the category.
While categorizing, please watch out for copyvios. If something looks unlikely to be own work, nominate it for deletion Gbawden (talk) 06:58, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for noticing my mistakes and correcting them! I have been too lenient or trusting when it comes to deletion nominations, but I'm getting better. Sinigh (talk) 08:13, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Deletion requests

Hi, You must inform the uploader when you tag a file for deletion. Thanks, Yann (talk) 14:37, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

My apologies, I wasn't aware that that was necessary for speedy deletes too. Sinigh (talk) 14:48, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

@Yann Hello again. Since I failed to notify uploader Antoine77, you removed the speedy-delete tags I had added to the associated file pages. Then you created this deletion request, regarding the same uploader and using almost the same rationale, but without including the files whose speedy-delete templates were removed. I added the rest of the uploader's art to the request earlier today, but maybe I shouldn't have? I hope there isn't anything too obvious that I'm missing here. Sinigh (talk) 18:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

No, that's fine. Yann (talk) 19:02, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Com:Speedy deletion

Please reread the guidance on the criteria that can be applied for speedy deletion.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:51, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback. This is something I'd like to know more about, if and when you have a minute.

I have mostly nominated files for deletion, in bulk when there are several related ones. Since many nominations appear to have been uncontroversial, clear-cut cases, and since the general deletion and scope policies are quite clear, I've had a growing feeling that I'm just wasting people's time and space with a majority of my file nominations. Why start a discussion when there's nothing to discuss?

The cases you are referring to here seem to me like good-faith yet obvious misuse of Commons, and I've now explained this in the deletion requests (link, link). Would you still say that deletion requests are the approprate method here, or would it be better to use speedy tags with slightly more elaborate rationales than the one I originally provided?

Please don't get me wrong; this is not me trying to tell you no. I'm not at all against starting deletion requests. It's usually much more convenient than speedy-tagging. Sinigh (talk) 10:47, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

(@Billinghurst I just realized I should perhaps mention the people I address on talk pages? Or did I trigger an extra, unnecessary notification now? Sinigh (talk) 18:12, 30 June 2024 (UTC))

Hi. Deletion at Commons is by consensus. DR is the process for reaching consensus on deletions. A caveat is that there is the speedy deletion criteria which is a previously identified consensus of what administrators can do without further referral to the community; and administrators where they are uncertain about the speedy request can them push back to those speedy requests back to the community if they consider there is uncertainty about the fit to the speedy criteria. Obvious is in the eye of the beholder, so we have the criteria. DRs may or may not get commentary, and that is not the point, it is the consensus and the alignment to the project scope, and the argument of why it not within scope.  — billinghurst sDrewth 05:55, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Recent deletion requests

Hi Sinigh, thanks for the excellent categorisation work you've been doing. I just wanted to let you know, though, that in your recent DRs you take far too narrow a view of COM:PS, particularly "realistically useful for an educational purpose", which we interpret broadly. General stock images are well in scope, as they can easily be used to accompany educational blogs and the like, and variety of choice for re-users is a good thing. Remember that Commons is hosting for the whole world, not just for Wikimedia. To be specific, not one of these arguments takes an image out of scope: "of little use", "long-term unused [on Wikimedia]", "uncategorized", "stock-photo style", "not a meaningful contribution", "details are in scope but not the whole image" (can be cropped), "image probably won't be used", "partly out of frame and/or out of focus" (for many of the images you've tagged, that's mostly an artistic choice). MichaelMaggs (talk) 11:01, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your feedback, MichaelMaggs! To anyone else who might be reading this, this is where I responded: Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with "rawpixel.com 2017". Sinigh (talk) 13:17, 13 July 2024 (UTC)