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This user opposes the Wikimedia Foundation's arbitrary, opaque, and dictatorial office-banning of administrators when the community and ArbCom are more than capable of handling the issue themselves.

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Hello, Alexis Jazz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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"Wikipedia? Screw that. Wikipedia has never gotten me anywhere. But books!"

I don't know what you think about zhihu.com, but it is a website similar to wiki or Q&A. I personally don't think this type of website is reliable.Although zhihu.com seems to have added other features, I can be sure that https://www.zhihu.com/question/19734059 you restored is a Q&A page. The /question/ has been marked in the URL. Rastinition (talk) 16:34, 1 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

[1] Rastinition, I don't understand Chinese and can't navigate the site very well. Zhihu was the only one I couldn't quickly figure out. What mostly matters there is who answered the question. If it's just answered by a random person (like Quora most of the time), you were right in removing it. If it was answered by a developer who worked on the font or with a relation to those who did, it could be useful. If you believe it was answered by someone with no relation to the font developers I have no objection to the removal of the zhihu.com link. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 16:58, 1 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thank you so much. I kind of hate to be difficult here, but the more I dig, the worse it gets. Hell, I just remembered that I have CC-licensed some of my work in the past... and then found this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Spotsylvania_Court_House#/media/File:Battle_of_Spottsylvania_by_Thure_de_Thulstrup.jpg

Compare MediaViewer's read of the copyright status and attribution of that with File:Battle_of_Spottsylvania_by_Thure_de_Thulstrup.jpg.

I don't want to make a huge fuss over this, and, honestly, I'm half inclined to relicense that to a simple Attribution, since I think CC-by is honestly a bit more strict than I'd like. But I spent literal weeks on that, and Britain gives out copyright like candy, and that's just... blatant.

I'm happy to wait, but it's been 8 years at this point, and I'm kind of losing hope. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.5% of all FPs 18:26, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Adam Cuerden, thanks. I won't lead you on, either I'm unable to fix it and will inform you of that soon (bug me if I forget!) or there will be a proposal fairly soon. (think weeks, not years) My question I asked on phab:T68606 still stands though: if you use a pipe symbol or {{!}} instead of a new line, what happens? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 19:38, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
I tried this with File:Esther_Bubley_-_An_instructor_of_the_Capitol_Transit_Company_teaching_a_woman_to_operate_a_one-man_streetcar.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_women_in_World_War_II#/media/File:Esther_Bubley_-_An_instructor_of_the_Capitol_Transit_Company_teaching_a_woman_to_operate_a_one-man_streetcar.jpg - I'm not seeing any change in behaviour, but feel free to use that for testing. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.5% of all FPs 20:15, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Adam Cuerden, I see. On File:Mathew B. Brady - William Sidney Mount.jpg the restoration had it's own bullet point, on Esther Bubley it doesn't, so newline or not makes no difference for MediaViewer. I figured maybe MV was simply chopping off everything after the first line, I actually can't rule out yet whether or not it does, but it's not that simple. Leave it like this anyway, variations are always useful for testing. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 21:43, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_O%27Conor_(American_politician)#/media/File%3ACharles_OConor_-_Brady-Handy.jpg might be a good test case as well. A simple two-creator file. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.5% of all FPs 23:57, 17 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Adam Cuerden, here's a.. proof of concept? User:Alexis Jazz/MVattrib. Let me know what you think. Takes a moment to load because it just waits for a second before doing anything as otherwise the elements don't exist yet. (this can be much improved, it's a proof of concept) This isn't exactly the optimal solution, but the only thing Wikimedia/MediaWiki developers are really interested in is structured data. Unfortunately they cocked up the implementation, resulting in massive duplication of license information. I'm not sure if it's even possible yet to transclude information from structured data in wikitext (I've given up hope a long time ago so I don't keep track), but right now anyway the license information in wikitext is leading. Being license compliant should be top priority for them, but, sigh, what did I expect.
One thing though: I'm not sure I'll be comfortable creating a proposal. I've been shat on sufficiently for this month and probably the next as well. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 10:20, 23 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Adam Cuerden, in case it wasn't clear, the shitting is entirely unrelated to you. It's just stuff that happens and it drains my energy. You don't need me to create a proposal anyway. Any comment on the script? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 04:09, 24 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Afraid I've not had a chance yet - been a funny two days - but I will ASAP. I hope things improve. Commons can be...odd. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.5% of all FPs 16:17, 24 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Adam Cuerden, no need to self-censor for me. A Commons admin accused me of making death threats, which they fabricated. I doubt you can surprise me. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 23:53, 24 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Been barely functional due to sleep issues. Kinda prone to it. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.5% of all FPs 01:10, 26 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Adam Cuerden, I can relate. Also, I added a screenshot to User:Alexis Jazz/MVattrib. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 01:03, 8 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
It looks pretty decent, now that I've checked. Probably could figure out what we could leave out or keep in from there, but it's hardly the "Unfunctional mess" that was being claimed. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 04:14, 8 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Regarding this, it should be OK – I follow the instructions in the comment that includes the text RESETTING. In other words, only the status table starting after the commented section is reset after publication. Sometimes another editor does the reset, and they should be following the same instructions. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:43, 1 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hello Jazz, in instances like this, please address the requestor, not me. Thanx, - FlightTime (open channel) 23:33, 7 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

  • FlightTime, I addressed both, but as a file mover, you're supposed to check requests for validity. It's okay you missed one, happens to the best of us, but I figure you'd want to know if/when you miss one, don't you? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 00:59, 8 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Hey   Sorry for being a little snappy above, bad day I guess and just wanted to say nice research on on the Gatorade file, keep up the good work. Cheers, - FlightTime (open channel) 18:05, 12 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Can File:Shyamoupti Mudly.jpeg be allowed on local English Wikipedia upload as the file could be adequately covered by a free-license via Commons (for example taking the photograph of the actress). Please have a look. If this continues, then all will bypass rules and upload copyright images. 42.106.249.159 (talk) 18:13, 9 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

I found the picture in a news article. Can it be uploaded in commons? If not, it can be deleted. Shinnosuke15, 06:50, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Shinnosuke15, no. Commons only accepts freely licensed files. On Wikipedia non-free files require a non-free rationale, which when the subject is a person is most commonly that the person is deceased so no new picture can be taken. From what I can tell Shyamoupti Mudly is alive. Is she one of the presenters in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XkcHxSrwqw ? That video has a free license, I could take a screenshot from it. (or you could, either way it would be easier if the whole video was uploaded if it's useful) The video description isn't clear but YouTube search gave me that video when I looked for her name. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 09:50, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
She is not Shyamoupti Mudly. She is actually Ishita Mukherjee, she says at the end of the video that she will play the character of Dipanwita in Alo Chhaya. The show had ended now and I have crossed checked it. 42.106.217.86 (talk) 12:16, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
42.106.217.86, thank you, no idea why YouTube search returned that video in that case as her name doesn't seem to be in the description or comments and the video has no subtitles. Actually, who exactly? The closest name I see in Alo Chhaya is Ipshita Mukherjee. Could an image of her be useful for any article? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 15:05, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Sorry for the spelling mistake. Yes, its Ipshita Mukherjee. I don't think its useful anywhere since the actress don't have any Wikipedia article. 42.106.217.86 (talk) 15:35, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
42.106.217.86, if she played a main character in a production that has a Wikipedia article, perhaps it could be used there. I don't know if she has, though. Oh well, I uploaded it anyway: File:Ipshita Mukherjee XkcHxSrwqw 5.46.jpg. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 15:49, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
👍👍👍 42.106.217.86 (talk) 17:33, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

I'm betting you understand what's going on here Category:Wikipedia files requiring renaming, Looks like a loose bot or something, so many files. - FlightTime (open channel) 04:54, 11 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

FlightTime, I do indeed.. I saw a few of these requests some days ago. This is about files that have a local description page (typically a DYK notice or similar) that were moved on Commons. It was only a few back then, now it's more. @Mitar:, file movers can't help you. We can't move a file page to a name that exists as a Commons image. I'm not sure if administrators could, you could ask I guess but I wouldn't be surprised if they can't do it either. You just have to recreate the page at the desired location and request deletion of the old page. Sure, we can do that, but so can you, so there's no point in requesting renames. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 05:50, 11 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I made few requests few days ago and I saw them resolved. So I thought it worked so I made requests for all cases where I found the issue. So I think there are few issues here a) why those descriptions are not moved when commons file is renamed, I think that should probably be filled as a bug in Phabricator, no? b) what is the best way to resolve existing cases for which I put the template on. If renaming cannot be done, then that is tricky. Doesn't recreation of the page loses history? It would be nice if original history is retained. How to do that? Mitar (talk) 08:44, 11 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
I have asked admins here. Mitar (talk) 12:35, 11 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Mitar, for those old requests I just requested their deletion and recreated them at the target. (indeed destroying the history) Here are some things you could do:
1. Sure, you could file a Phab task. I'm not sure if this qualifies as a bug or a feature request. If you wrongly file it as a bug they might close it as invalid instead of changing the subtype. Either way I wouldn't expect them to do anything about it, they are way too busy awarding themselves barn stars for inefficient tools with few features. (I should know, I wrote a more efficient tool with many features) and rationalizing bugs reports away. But who knows, maybe a volunteer will pick it up. Keep the hope alive.
2. Ask an admin if they can move it. Because I don't know for sure.
3. If they can't be moved the only way to retain history would be a crosswiki round robin move variant. Move the file on Commons without leaving a redirect, move the file locally, move the file on Commons back. This isn't going to happen.
4. I could rollback your requests if you want (I have the rollbacker right) so you can substitute the page at the intended target, the edit summary would show the subst template, providing a tiny bit of history. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 12:36, 11 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Jazz, thank you very much. I'm not sure I understand everything, but now I can figure it out. I get confused when there's cross wiki stuff, I tend to stay away from those requests, anyway thanx again for your (good) explanation. Cheers, - FlightTime (open channel) 01:24, 12 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Mitar, I was just thinking. As similar tasks are carried out by CommonsDelinker and Filedelinkerbot, this should probably be handled by a bot as well. So if you file any Phab task it should be to request a user right that allows overriding the create protection so you can file a request on Wikipedia:Bot requests. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 05:26, 2 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
You are right. This whole thing should be handled by a bot and make sure things are consistent. Should we maybe just ask an author of one of those bots to add this feature? Mitar (talk) 11:51, 2 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Mitar, they can't, not without the right to override the create protection. Asking Magnus is probably a waste of time, he's always busy. As for Krd, I wouldn't ask them either, but that's much more complicated. Just file a Phab task for the creation of a right to override the create protection first, think of Wikipedia:Bot requests second. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 12:02, 2 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
I made it: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305548 Mitar (talk) 12:19, 6 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Alexis Jazz, are you sure about tagging all of these pages for deletion? Some of them have notices about being Featured images. It's a big deletion to handle and if they have been mistagged, that is a lot of page restorations to do. Liz Read! Talk! 21:20, 14 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Liz, 155 of them have been recreated at the current filename with the same content, but feel absolutely free to perform another spot check, though I don't believe I missed anything. 17 had been recreated by Cyberbot I, that's the icky stuff. Even if I screwed up, there's c:Help:Gadget-Restore-a-lot. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 23:33, 14 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
It looks like Explicit took care of them. He is more knowledgeable about files than I am so I'm glad he took that on. I installed your script but have no used it yet so I'm not confident it using it to evaluate files. Liz Read! Talk! 23:54, 14 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hello Alexis Jazz I hope you're doing well. I have a query is there any problem with the file. You could have moved the file to commons. Or if I'm mistaken then I sorry. Thanks, stay safe. C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 06:15, 19 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

C1K98V, anyone who wishes to do so could move the file to Commons. I'm not editing Commons while this remains unresolved (the "If there is no evidence" part is true), and I haven't mustered up the courage yet to face the checkuser team again. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 12:04, 19 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hey, Alexis Jazz. I noticed you created these two templates. Why did you create these new templates instead of using what they actually wrap? Gonnym (talk) 06:18, 22 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Gonnym, I'm the developer of Bawl. Bawl has a checkbox to close sections as you reply, and the reply/edit summary become the result/status. As Bawl aims to work on any MediaWiki wiki, hardcoding {{Archive top}} did not make sense. Getting the template name from d:Q10809044 and d:Q6663585 is technically possible, but doesn't provide the parameters. Using unnamed parameters (1= and 2=) is not guaranteed to work with the template on all wikis, and some wikis could have the closing message as part of {{Archive bottom}} instead of top. The solution was {{Atops}} and {{Abots}} with a generic HTML fallback. If a wiki doesn't like the generic HTML fallback (enwiki wouldn't), Atops/Abots can be created to direct Bawl (or in the future possibly other scripts/extensions) to the right template with the right parameter names. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 11:32, 22 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi! Would it be possible for you to add

to the top and

to the bottom of User:Alexis Jazz/Bawl-extra.js? By putting these tags inside of javascript comments, it won't impact the functionality of your script, but it will keep the backend software from transcluding Template:Preloadparams. You will know if the tags worked if Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Preloadparams no longer shows your javascript page. By fixing these, we can keep the number of entries in Special:WantedTemplates to a minimum. Thank you in advance for your help! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:19, 26 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Plastikspork, hmm, seems like an error of a different kind. It's supposed to be possible to substitute that page to generate some templates. Those templates have parameters, one of which is {{{preloadparams}}}. To prevent that from getting substituted on template creation I wrote it as {<noinclude></noinclude>{{preloadparams}}} which, as I see now, caused it to get interpreted as a template. I moved the noinclude tags one curly bracket over, this probably fixes it. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 17:25, 26 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 19:51, 26 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Super Goku V here. I figured I should respond here to your request rather than in your userspace. (Sorry if that was an incorrect assumption.) So, to start the explanation of what happened off, I should note that I had made a few edits prior to my comment because the Template:sources-talk was causing issues when using DiscussionTools and trying to put my comment in the middle of the discussion. I ended up moving the template to the bottom of the page and double spaced it so that it wouldn't cause more trouble. (I didn't know if it was possible to make a sub-section due to some, if not all, AfD discussions being transcluded on other pages.) After that, I clicked the reply button next to the nominator's initial comment to begin. Since they had two points I wanted to address, I decided at some point to split my response so that it would be easier to discuss if someone replied to it. And since User:IndentBot had corrected me in the past, I went to their talk page and eventually ended up at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/IndentBot#Changes to bot, which I thought was showing me the proper way to indent. (Which as you implied, is apparently not the right way to do so.)
So, I wrote up the text for both comments in the same comment through DiscussionTools. Since I was in Source mode, I could see that only the second comment was going to have a signature. Knowing this, I added "----~~" to the end of my first comment, so that it would be signed as well. For my second comment, I only added the dashes as I prefer signing with dashes. (In fact, if you look closely at the edit, you can see that the signatures are not identical; the manual signature does not have a space between the dashes and my username while the one added thru DiscussionTools annoyingly added a space.) Upon submitting, it somehow added an additional colon to both of my comments, presumably because my indentation is causing an issue, DiscussionTools apparently wasn't designed with someone writing multiple comments at once, and/or replying to the original comment caused an issue. (Testing does show something isn't working right, but it only occurred the first time.) If I do figure out anything else, I will make sure to let you know in case it helps you with Bawl. --Super Goku V (talk) 06:50, 1 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Super Goku V, thanks for the details! You are already helping: Bawl (and this goes for every reply-solution out there, including DiscussionTools) was never designed for placing multiple comments at once. So I should warn users who try to do that and inform that it's better to place two comments in two edits. I just tested and if I'd respond to KidAd with Bawl now the comment would end up above the {{sources-talk}} line with a single asterisk indentation. This is the expected behavior, the {{sources-talk}} has no indentation so it's considered to be the end of that discussion. Having a {{sources-talk}} that doesn't "belong" to anyone floating about in the middle of a discussion isn't ideal, but what can you do. DiscussionTools just made a mess: Wikipedia:Articlesfordeletion/WillSmithassaultofChrisRockattheOscars (diff 1080186239) inserted above the sources-talk (as Bawl would) but with an empty newline and a change in indentation. (as Bawl wouldn't) Wikipedia:Articlesfordeletion/WillSmithassaultofChrisRockattheOscars (diff 1080186549) was a wikitext edit that added a comment below the {{sources-talk}}. A few wikitext appended comments later there's another DiscussionTools comment, and it goes above the {{sources-talk}}: Wikipedia:Articlesfordeletion/WillSmithassaultofChrisRockattheOscars (diff ~1080189833). If something should be forced to the bottom of the page (I generally keep my references inline nowadays to avoid this, external links are fine on discussion pages), it should have its own (sub)section to avoid these issues. You can always use noinclude if you don't want that to be transcluded. Anyway, I wonder why you don't add the dashes to your default signature in Special:Preferences so you never get that extra space? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 12:29, 1 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
No problem and that is good to hear. I do want to quickly correct my earlier post; the template when I added my comment was {{refList}} and it was modified three minutes later by another user to be {{sources-talk}}. (That doesn't likely change things as your test lined up with what happened to me, so presumably refList also has no indentation.) I will try to keep in mind that using both noinclude and a subsection would have taken care of the issue. --Super Goku V (talk) 00:59, 3 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
As for making a default signature, I should say that I do not know if I noticed the spacing issue before or after making the comment. Regardless, I didn't think about doing so, possibly because I don't edit that much compared to other users. Either way, as you can see, I ended up figuring out that I could just manually add the signature to the end of my comment instead of letting DiscussionTools automatically do so for me. It also works with multiple signatures at once, even if that isn't useful given your recommendation to do two separate edits instead. --Super Goku V (talk) 00:59, 3 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Super Goku V, about the indentation, you are right as indentation isn't part of the template. For the template to have indentation, it would have had to be :{{sources-talk}} or :{{refList}}. * would also work, and in case of Bawl # would also work, oddly DT doesn't recognize # as a possible indentation. (it's common enough for votes, isn't it?) When you add your signature manually, I suspect DT does the same thing Bawl does: wipe it before automatically appending the signature. Actually accepting your manual signature can result in more complications, so that doesn't happen. Though, the adjustment to not trim whitespace characters or add a space at the end if the last non-whitespace character is a dash or minus sign, shouldn't be terrible complicated, so I'll probably add that to Bawl. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 06:00, 3 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
 

Thanks for uploading File:Claudi Bockting by Trudy Kroese.jpg, which you've attributed to No reply to latest email in VRT of 12/21/2021. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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I'm afraid the template got a bit mangled there, but this is basically saying that while we've received some emails about this image there were some questions asked for required information back in December and we've not yet received a reply. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:15, 3 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Just a note for the future, regarding calling people's work "not salvageable": I don't mind at all, but I imagine other people may not take it as well. Enterprisey (talk!) 22:14, 15 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Enterprisey, sorry, I realize now that likely comes across different from how I meant it. What I meant with that was that it would be more efficient for me personally, to create the script installer/manager I envision, to start from scratch rather than fork script-installer. Script-installer does what it was written to do, that's just different from being a good starting point for any particular person to create something similar but different. Of course, forking is quite often more work. Forking is only easier when the original code merely needs a few tweaks to add all desired features or if it happens to be extremely easy to build upon or if the recreation of the original functionality would take months. In practice only the first possibility happens occasionally, where some minor tweaks make something work just the way you want it to. When I first discovered script-installer I absolutely loved it! Finally no more messing around with common.js. After a while I found some issues though, the biggest being that it still uses the deprecated importScript() which simply doesn't work on the mobile site. I guess if you must keep using importScript() (I admit, importScript() looks cleaner) you'd have to define importScript(), either in minerva.js (not sure about the load order so that might not work) or conditionally in common.js.
Much of my older work I'd also call "not salvageable" btw, especially for others. Take User:Alexis Jazz/LuckyRename for example, it works well (for now.. it uses synchronous HTTP requests, so it could break in the future if browsers really stop supporting them) but when I wrote it there were many things I didn't know. It's mostly salvageable for me as I'm familiar with it, but if anyone else wanted to add half a dozen features? They'd probably be better off starting from scratch.
Long story short, it was a crappy choice of words. Sorry. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 00:29, 16 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Enterprisey, I feel rather bad about this. You've contributed a ton to Wikimedia. I had been hammering away at some regular expressions for hours (you know how it is) and wasn't thinking properly about what the words I wrote actually meant. I don't really know what else to say, just hoping you can forgive me.. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 18:36, 16 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi Alexis Jazz. Do you think you could update File:NCAA 2018 Division III Women's Tennis Championship logo.svg? The most recent version can be found here. Perhaps all that's needed is the primary logo with the event name without any of the specific year information; otherwise, you may have someone trying to upload a new version each year. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:30, 26 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Marchjuly, WP:EVADEGDPR just struck again. NCAA.com shows nothing but some GDPR whining. It's not impossible for me to get around, but perhaps it's just easier to ask someone not affected? I wonder why you can't do it yourself though? And as for using only a primary or partial logo, you should discuss that Talk:NCAA Women's Division III Tennis Championship. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 02:45, 26 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
My bad. I wasn't aware of the GDPR stuff. I'm not able to download anything at the moment, but I'll give it a try later on. Thanks again. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:08, 26 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Marchjuly, np. If you can't make it work or find someone not affected by the GDPR stuff feel free to ask again, but I'm sure there'll be some sports nut who can do this more easily. Using only the primary logo is usually a good idea, but only if the isolated primary logo is also used by the organization in publications. If they never do (and I can't even visit their website, so how would I know?), it's not a good idea. Which is why I suggested to discuss that on the talk page of the article. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 03:34, 26 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi, hope you are well. I started Pamela Balash-Webber, and decided to add a non-free image of her since the situation allowed it. Took it from [2], and according to [3] it was taken by her husband. So, why does the meta-data [4] seem to insist the pic is from 2021? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:05, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Gråbergs Gråa Sång, and it was taken with an iPhone 12 which was released in 2020. So how did Andre get his hands on that, considering he died in 2014?
How old is Pamela on that photo anyway? Maybe 30? I'm not very good at guessing age, but she's nowhere near 50. So I think this photo was taken before the digital age. And now, people use the camera on their phone as an improvised image scanner. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 18:46, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
That would explain it. I prefer it to "vampires". Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:57, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Gråbergs Gråa Sång, vampires with iPhones, interesting idea. Btw, I suddenly see: I think the photo is framed. Look at the black part of her wetsuit. Does that look like a reflection? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 22:01, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Could very well be. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:50, 22 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
 
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  The Technical Barnstar
I am literally crying right now. Everyone was using your tool, Bawl, and I have to say, it crushes DiscussionTools in every aspect (except there is no visual mode)! I made a signature for all of my alternate accounts, and DiscussionTools kept breaking it by making two signatures! But Bawl is much smarter than that, and it fixed the problem in a jiffy! As it's only in beta right now, I only use it on my alts, but, oh, wow—this might be the first beta I'll install on my main account! — 3PPYB6 — TALK — CONTRIBS — 15:32, 6 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
3PPYB6, thank you! Actually there is a visual mode, though it's more limited than DT or VE: check "Enable switching between editors" on the Advanced tab in settings and/or change "Default editor for comments and new sections" to "VisualLight". (which I thought was a nice name, "light" referring to both visual light and its speed as lightweight solution) Alternatively, if you aren't already, you might find using live preview helpful, found on the Editing tab in settings. They are mutually exclusive though: you can't have VisualLight and live preview active at the same time. While typing plain text, Bawl's live preview is (probably unlike any live preview feature you've used before) actually fast most of the time. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 18:47, 6 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for letting me know! Should I find Bawl to be safe to use (I installed it yesterday on my test account and other alts), I will definitely install it! Farewell, DiscussionTools! — 3PPYB6 — TALK — CONTRIBS — 00:20, 7 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hello. Is there any particular reason why you uploaded this here instead of Wikimedia Commons? --Minorax«¦talk¦» 10:34, 10 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Minorax, fabricated death threats and because I never played Fortnite which seemingly caused an imaginary horse to be mistaken for a gun. Commons lost admins Zhuyifei1999 and Majora to that debacle. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 11:20, 10 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Would you mind if I move the file to commons? It's clearer than the other cropped version available there. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 11:25, 10 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Minorax, no problem. I never tagged my own files with {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} as that would have potentially been considered block evasion. Beware that actually using that crop may result in a revert. There's a very strange story behind that which I can't remember if I'm allowed to share publicly.
And if you're wondering why I haven't contributed to Commons even after my unblock, I'm rather uneasy with the way my unblock was granted. Saying you find an argument of the user disingenuous while also saying you now trust them in the same sentence comes across as.. really odd. Simply put, I'm not entirely sure why I was blocked in the first place, why I remained blocked despite a lack of evidence and why exactly I was unblocked.
I don't think anybody is quite sure why I was blocked indef in the first place. What I did wasn't great, but none of the procedures for an actual death threat were followed and the block was placed four days after the misinterpreted message so it wasn't a case of having to halt disruption immediately either. I possibly remained blocked due to my less-than-ideal response to the initial block. The unblock is a bit of a mystery because frankly, I never apologized for the death threats that were made up.
It's all largely a mystery, so anything I say could theoretically get me blocked again, at least that's how I see it. As long as I say nothing they hopefully won't block me again. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 11:58, 10 July 2022 (UTC)Reply