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Dali image[edit]

You might like to comment here, as you previously commented on this issue. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:19, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dali[edit]

The appropriate place for the discussion is the policy change talk page. Once that is ironed out, the image can be undeleted without any further discussion. But until such point, it is not de minimis per Commons now and is thus out of scope, as explained by MichaelMaggs in the discussion, including his conversation with Mike. The closure was not an indication that this must be salted never to return, but at THIS point, the conversation belongs on the de minimis policy page, not at COM:UND. Thanks! -- Avi (talk) 17:32, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The GC does not decide policy or matters of scope, Evrik, we Commonists do. Everyone but yourself believes that the image is NOT de minimis now and will not be until the Commons de minimis policy is changed. Please respect that and work on changing the Commons de minimis policy instead. That is the appropriate venue. -- Avi (talk) 17:53, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Evrik, if the consensus of the respondents in the discussion is not to restore it until the policy is clarified, the discussion should be closed. Do you realize that you are single-handedly ignoring the consensus opinion of all the other respondents? -- Avi (talk) 18:10, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion is over, Evrik. Everyone but yourself wants the image to be deleted until the policy is ironed out. Keeping it open will not return the image faster. -- Avi (talk) 18:16, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Evrik, this is just an unasked for piece of friendly advice. Your behavior in re-opening the discussion is grounds for a behavioral complaint. Furthermore, you may be alienating people who agree with you that the policy should be adjusted because of your perceived intransigence and possible lack of a desire to work with other people. My advice to you would be to accept the consensus on COM:UNDEL and work to quickly adjust the de minimis policy so thatthe image comes back into scope. Feel free to ignore me :) -- Avi (talk) 18:29, 15 March 2009 (UTC) /[reply]

I second that. Your attitude is becoming disruptive. –Tryphon 18:36, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Evrik. I'm going to reinsert Tryphons second closure of this undeletion request. A new undeletion request may be filed if, and only if, our policy of de minimis is changed. Do not revert this closure again. Regards, Finn Rindahl (talk) 18:45, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I second the above comments. Your re-opening of closed DRs is disruptive. Let me be frank: you are at risk on being blocked if you do it again. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:47, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, Dear Patroller ![edit]

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Hi Evrik !

You now have the Patroller right and may call yourself a patroller ! Please take a moment to read the updated Commons:Patrol to learn how Patrolling works and how we use it to fight vandalism.

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Categories[edit]

Hi. How does this edit make the image more useful? The categories seem completely relevent to me. Wondering, -- Infrogmation (talk) 04:13, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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ST 23:23, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't renew your copyvio, you might be blocked for this project otherwise. This is actual US-Law. That might be stupid (it is in fact), but it's real. --ST 06:26, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Boy Scouts of America[edit]

The Categories "Scouting in [state]" does not guarantee the photo also is part of "Boy Scouts of America", that's why photos have both categories. Boy Scouts of America is under Scouting in the United States, not under each individual state. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjrmtg (talk • contribs) 17:37, 4 February 2013‎ (UTC)[reply]

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Yours sincerely, russavia (talk) 20:45, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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On top of the world[edit]

Defy censorship

Too bad i didn't have a good photo of it to upload!

Smallbones (talk) 00:26, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]


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Gunnex (talk) 16:59, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

January 1 page[edit]

Hello. I have reverted you edit on the January 1 page. It is too specific and it looks like no other pages have that stuff. Also, It would be very hard to find similar files for other countries. Cheers. Alan Liefting (talk) 09:35, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS permissions queues[edit]

Hello Evrik. You are receiving this message as a license reviewer. As you know, OTRS processes a large amount of tickets relating to image releases (called "permissions"). As a license reviewer, you may have the skills necessary to contribute to this team. If you are interested in learning more about OTRS or to volunteer please visit Meta-Wiki. Tell your friends! Thank you. Rjd0060 18:38, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Prosfilaes (talk) 17:47, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Reguyla (talk) 15:14, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, he is a German and his name is Rudolf Heß, not Rudolf Hess. The category should be the same name as the person. Regards --Knochen ﱢﻝﱢ‎  18:25, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The page was written in English, and there was no German to speak of on the page. Hence the change. Evrik (talk) 18:31, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, you are a file mover. Com:MOVE#Which files should not be renamed? [Files should NOT be renamed only because the filename is not English and/or is not correctly capitalized....] for Categories the same is true. More than sixty wikipedia projects you have to change the link to the category. Great. --Knochen ﱢﻝﱢ‎  05:06, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I encourage you to put this up for discussion. Category:Rudolf Hess has three entries in wikidata. Of the 45 entires in wikidata in a roman alphabet, 39 use Rudolf Hess and six use Rudolf Heß. Evrik (talk) 20:54, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm nowhere more to this discussion. I do not mean also the categories to change that here or on wikidata itself are, but in the various Wikipedia projects. I'm going to change it in my home wiki. For me is done --Knochen ﱢﻝﱢ‎  02:39, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Scouting in...[edit]

In 2012, you created the series of categories of Category:Scouting in Connecticut and its ilk. You then categorized them under Category:Events in Connecticut and so on. Since most images of scouting are not defined one-time events, I believe the scouting categories would be better under Category:Culture of Connecticut and so on. (Individual scouting events like Jamborees would still belong under the Events categories). Since this would affect a large number of categories you created, I wanted to check with you before making the move. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 15:56, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have no objection. Evrik (talk) 16:53, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Done, thanks for your reply. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:04, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]


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File source is not properly indicated: File:Barnabas McDonald.jpg[edit]

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Category:95 theses[edit]

Hi. I was just looking at Category:95 theses, and it appears that you added rather a lot of files that probably don't belong in the category. Could you please review your work? Thanks. - Eureka Lott 01:21, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@EurekaLott: I went in and removed 55 files. Evrik (talk) 04:33, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Looking better. Thank you! - Eureka Lott 04:46, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cira Center edit[edit]

Allow me to explain the reason for the edit I made on the file File:Cira Centre, Philadelphia-east.JPG that you reverted. The reason I removed the category 'Buildings by César Pelli' is a twofold reason. First off, the photo would belong in Category:Buildings by César Pelli which I created today rather than Category:César Pelli, as it is an image of one of his buildings and not of him himself. The second reason is that I placed Category:Cira Center, to which the file belongs, in Category:Buildings by César Pelli, thus the file is already included as a result and does not need to be tagged into this category individually. Have a wonderful day. Best wishes!
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Taivo (talk) 19:13, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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177.64.81.175 16:11, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Could you explain please[edit]

This edit of yours? I used an edit-summary to explain why I think it is not correct. DMacks (talk) 16:55, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

{{Information}}'s documentation for the |description= field says "Wikilinks to Wikipedia articles." and Commons:Guide to layout#File description pages also recommends "In-line Interwiki links". Is there some other guideline to the contrary? DMacks (talk) 17:02, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Those are both general guidelines, I wouldn't be surprised if the template language was lifted right from wikipedia. Evrik (talk) 17:12, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
That may well be, but they are nonetheless currently here on commons. Is there some other commons-specific guideline that makes any different recommendation? DMacks (talk) 17:30, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
They are not law. Reading through what you sent, I'm not sure how enforceable either is. Please leave the image as it is, thanks. Evrik (talk) 17:32, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I asked Template talk:Information for input. I don't appreciate your claim to first-mover fiat on this. DMacks (talk) 17:42, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You may not appreciate it, but you're making a much bigger issue out of this than you need to. There are a lot of other things that need attention on the commons. Evrik (talk) 17:53, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Auntof6 (talk) 18:33, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Evrik, the only thing your malformed/incomplete (didn't have a closer look) template does is adding the page it is used on to the Category:Pages with script errors like one can see at Silver Peak. Please do some tests using a sandbox or (better) leave it. By now I don't see any need nor advantage of more than one disambiguation template but maybe you can tell me. --Achim (talk) 16:56, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't and in won't do this way. You cannot expect one or two templates simply copied from en:wp to Commons to work properly here. Have a look at the source page of en:Template:Geodis and scroll down for to see its transclusions. And please stop immediately creating new disambig categories without previous discussion otherwise I will treat that as vandalism. Disambig cats have to be fed by templates only. --Achim (talk) 18:02, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It's not vandalism. Don't even go there. I created the categories so the template wouldn't exist in a vacuum. I also tied them to the exiting category structure on some of the other wikis. @Achim55: I would appreciate it if you could fix the template so it works properly. Evrik (talk) 18:06, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Category:All article disambiguation pages will be deleted because there are no articles on Commons. --Achim (talk) 18:16, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Achim55: , agreed. Evrik (talk) 18:22, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Changing the category name inside {{Disambig}} leads to a change of links on about 8.000 (didn't count exactly) pages. I'm afraid, but that shouldn't be done on the fly. --Achim (talk) 18:38, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Before you reverted me, the system had made the change rather seemlessly. In any case, it's 'more correct.' Evrik (talk) 18:43, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be some misunderstanding: Although articles on wp projects and galleries on Commons have the same namespace number 0 they are completely different. i) The purpose of galleries is to assist the categories. If a cat like for example Category:Cologne Cathedral contains thousands of images, some typical ones of these can be presented using a gallery (Kölner Dom for example) to get an overview. ii) So galleries without any image (for example Silver Peak by now) are treated as unwanted and can be deleted speedily according to the policy. iii) As Commons is a multilanguage project several galleries using different languages on the same theme can coexist being connected to the same category. iv) There are thousands of things/topics of which no gallery pages exist but cat pages do. Therefore disambiguations are here usually handled on category pages. Hope you understand my actions better now. Best, --Achim (talk) 19:12, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

yes, but there are hundreds of galleries being used in lieu of categories. What to do with them? Evrik (talk) 19:19, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know if "in lieu of" fits or I don't get it (I'm no native speaker). If a cat contains 2 images and a gallery the same 2 images without any additional information the gallery can be deleted. If a gallery contains images of a special aspect of anything that is categorised correctly one can consider to create a new category. But on the other hand 1-image categories as well as galleries are unwanted (except a few special cases like notable persons or cats that might be populated per WLM or similar projects). --Achim (talk) 19:32, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Evrik, please have a look at some disambiguating pages I created during the past weeks: Category:Washington Park, Category:Ermengarde, Category:Alaincourt. Such pages may contain red links for not yet existing categories, doesn't matter. The advantage of disambiguating cats is that images can get assigned to them via upload so that they can be moved to an appropriate cat from there. That doesn't work using galleries as uploaders normally don't assign galleries during upload. Most of the existing disambiguating gallery pages are some years old and might be converted to disambiguating categories if someone finds the time to do so. Best, --Achim (talk) 21:28, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
That works. What then do do with all the galleries that currently exist? Evrik (talk) 21:45, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Auntof6 (talk) 08:25, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Silver Peak[edit]

Yes but since when do we have disambiguation galleries? -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 17:45, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I restored it. Have fun. Should you optimize or empty it let me know, it may be necessary to delete it after you're done. -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 18:03, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Herzi Pinki (talk) 08:46, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Misterpither (talk) 20:53, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, June 26 has currently only one image. Jcb (talk) 21:49, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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E4024 (talk) 13:54, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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100cellsman (talk) 06:26, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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211.28.133.245 08:18, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Auntof6 (talk) 10:55, 26 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

scout halls[edit]

Little point putting images into Scout halls if they're already in Scout halls in the United Kingdom or subcats thereof. I've just moved 147 out of that category but I have other things to do. Rodhullandemu (talk) 15:49, 27 March 2018 (UTC) @Rodhullandemu: You are correct. Sorry about the mistake. Evrik (talk) 15:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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E4024 (talk) 12:00, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Evrik; I noticed your revert, just wanted to inform you that I will undo it because as a matter of fact, linking to the commons categories is not the intention, linking to the Wikipedia articles is! -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lotje (talk • contribs) 00:31, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lotje, there are more than 365 day related gallery pages, most are done that way. I link to things in the commons before wikipedia. Evrik (talk) 14:17, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Time to start linking to other projects then! Never too late to begin... Lotje (talk) 14:22, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Lotje, the purpose of the pages when they were set up was to refer people to resources in the commons. If you look at May 21, you'll see a reference to Lynn Annette Ripley - there is no resource on the commons for her. Evrik (talk) 14:27, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:July 1863 in Europe[edit]

Hello Evrik, I am sorry that I did not give an explanation for my revert on the "July 1863 in Europe" -category. I thought it was just a mistake by you. There are many reasons for using templates on such categories: the template creates a navigation box on the page, sorting is standardized and if there is need for a change it can be implemented by just editing the template. I will now revert your change again, I hope it is ok with you now. --Estormiz (talk) 06:03, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Piscataway Powwow 2009 Flickr.jpg[edit]

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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Fall 2018 edition[edit]

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You have been blocked for a duration of 1 week[edit]

{{Autotranslate|1=1 week|2=disruptive edits after warnings|base=Blocked}} {{unblock granted|[[User:Jcb|jcb]] has elevated a disagreement on policy and blocked me in retaliation for bringing this disagreement to the [[Commons:Village_pump#Disambiguation|Village Pump]] [[User:Evrik|Evrik]] ([[User talk:Evrik#top|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:52, 7 January 2019 (UTC)|by {{noping|Jcb}} one hour after original block. [[User:Taivo|Taivo]] ([[User talk:Taivo|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:54, 8 January 2019 (UTC)}}

@Jmabel: like I said, I was being threatened (see this warning). I can no longer post any comments to Commons:Village_pump#Disambiguation. If you read this Commons:Administrators/Requests/Jcb (de-adminship), this Commons:Administrators/Requests/Jcb (de-adminship 2) and this Commons:Administrators/Requests/Jcb (de-adminship 3) - it's the same behavior. Evrik (talk) 16:52, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Oppose - you have been warned several times for this exact behaviour and you knew very well that your last edit at Silver Peak would get you blocked. So well, that you immediately started canvassing the next edition of a discussion that we have had over and over again in the past few years. The clear outcome has been over and over again that Wikimedia Commons only accepts disambiguation pages in category namespace. You are well aware of that. Jcb (talk) 17:11, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You say this, but you have never once listed an official policy, nor links to any policy discussions. I moved the discussion to the Village Pump and pinged anyone who I had seen had discussed this before, simply to move it off my talk page. Your block, and your subsequent comments here are pure retaliation. Evrik (talk) 17:17, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Jcb: If Evrik will agree to refrain from the conduct in question while discussion proceeds, I would strongly urge you to rescind the block. I don't see anything wrong with his canvassing to have a policy clarified or even changed. He should be able to advocate for that openly.
Evrik, would you agree to hold off on such edits while discussion proceeds? - Jmabel ! talk 17:14, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. Evrik (talk) 17:17, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, but please be aware this is your last chance. You have a history of being disruptive on purpose (e.g. all the repeated null-edits you have done to my talk page in the past) and enough is enough. Jcb (talk) 17:23, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Jcb: Null edit? What's a null edit? Evrik (talk) 17:26, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That's an edit that does not add anything, but does cause the system to attract my attention to my talk page, e.g. this edit. Jcb (talk) 17:37, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I might have done that, sorry if that bothered you. Evrik (talk) 21:13, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Captions in January[edit]

The previous message from today says captions will be released in November in the text. January is the correct month. My apologies for the potential confusion. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)[edit]

My apologies if this is a duplicate message for you, it is being sent to multiple lists which you may be signed up for.

Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...

Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:

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CFDs you closed[edit]

Hello, Evrik. You might have noticed that I undid several of your CFD closures. I think they were improper closures because:

  • You participated in the discussions, and CFDs should be closed by uninvolved users.
  • Your closures were contrary to the majority opinions. Sometimes that can be done if there is a good reason, but you gave no reason. In fact, you made no closing comment at all on the CFD page, contrary to standard practice.

By the way, the notices you left about the CFDs were left in the wrong places: They should be on the talk page of the category being discussed, not on the talk page of the discussion. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 19:40, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, until someone voted this month, opinion was against deleting the categories, so again ... so closing forgotten discussions after more than two years should have been no big deal.

I did make a comment in the Edit summaries when I closed the discussion. Finally, oops. I did put the tags on the wrong pages. Evrik (talk) 19:57, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You have to count the proposer as supporting, so the counts weren't quite as you listed. I also don't think it matters how much you participated. You not only participated, but you closed in favor of your own viewpoint -- that makes a difference, too. And people won't usually see comments in edit summaries: it's usual to comment on the page. See other closed CFDs if you aren't familiar with that. And the proposals aren't necessarily forgotten just because they're old. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:09, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • The counts were close enough, besides it's not a vote. There was no consensus for the idea. Put it up for a neutral and to see if the discussions get closed. Evrik (talk) 20:14, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, this file has now been undeleted and is available at Commons for Wikipedia use, should you have it in mind for National Scouting Museum.  JGHowes  talk 13:22, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Ytoyoda (talk) 13:49, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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User who nominated the file for deletion (Nominator) : TriggerOne.

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Revert[edit]

And why are you doing this?Jonteemil (talk) 20:36, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You're right that it isn't a good name, that's why you moved it. Now, what is the reason to why you're changing the redirect target from the proper file name to File:Name.jpg?Jonteemil (talk) 22:28, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
You have a better target? Evrik (talk) 22:29, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Eh, yes, obviously since I undo your edit haha, or am I misunderstanding something?Jonteemil (talk) 23:25, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The redirect for the word Violet should not be going to the wedding dress picture. If you want to redirect it towards a color, or a shade of purple, that might be OK. Otherwise because the commons controls images for all the wikis it should not go to the wedding dress.Evrik (talk) 00:57, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Yours sincerely, Elli (talk) 01:06, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Yann (talk) 10:59, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This image directly pertains to the Boy Scouts of America, even if it is a political cartoon in opposition to the organization. Did Category:Boy Scouts of America need to be removed? PseudoSkull (talk) 18:44, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You may want Category:Boy Scouts of America diffused, but as far as I can tell that doesn't make it a meta-category. Meta-categories are things like Category:Steamships by name or Category:Automobiles by year, things where it literally doesn't make sense to put an image directly in the category. - Jmabel ! talk 17:25, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think what you wanted was either {{CatDiffuse}} or {{Categorise}}. - Jmabel ! talk 17:26, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Jmabel ! talk 22:03, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Yours sincerely, Adamant1 (talk) 02:50, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Boston and Providence Railroad milestones[edit]

Why have you made this change twice? The Boston and Providence Railroad ran in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and the files currently in that category are from both states. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 05:34, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thread on your edits[edit]

Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems#User_engaged_in_edit_war,_does_not_seem_to_understand_category's_purposeJustin (koavf)TCM 00:11, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]