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Some GODL-India to review

Latest comment: 5 days ago2 comments1 person in discussion

I am here with a request to the reviewers/admins to kindly review some GODL-India files. Some of these are used on multiple wiki projects. Everyone knows the backlog of GODL-India. So this is the only way. The list obviously looks long, mainly bcoz of multiple crops.

Please review all of these so that my unreviewed upload backlog and some uploads from others that I have fixed is cleared. Thank You Again In Advance. ShaanSengupta^Talk 16:10, 3 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Sikander, @Gabldotink and @C1K98V Just a gentle reminder. Will you be doing some more reviews? ShaanSengupta^Talk 15:39, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

XXXtentacion - dubious license

Latest comment: 5 days ago4 comments4 people in discussion

These two photos of en:XXXtentacion: File:Xxxtentacion mugshot.jpg (480x640 pix) and File:Look at Me!.jpg (3k x 3k pix) have a source of "Florida Dept. of Corrections". The 3k x 3k resolution and image quality is far higher than what I found on Florida's offender search engine. Photos there are small, often grainy, out of focus, and harsh lighting and shadows. The photo, to me, appears to be a photoshoot. I did a search on XXXtentacion (as "Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy", "Jahseh Onfroy" or "Onfroy" only) on that search engine and did not get any hits. A google image search of Look at Me!.jpg (will link work later?) returns numerous hits, many using "mug shot". Is this a valid license? Thanks Adakiko (talk) 18:51, 5 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

The link is broken due to reasons beyond my comprehension. Jeff G. can explain better. I'm leaning towards no based on the lack of evidence for a release under a compatible license.

All the best -- Chuck ^Talk 21:40, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

I recall this photograph being released all over the internet in that good quality. Being (the Commons version) in greater quality than it now appears on the search engine does not mean 1) the image is not free / public domain 2) only the lower quality version is PD Bedivere (talk) 21:59, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Chuck: Which link is broken? Only Google can explain Google broken links. The google lens search of Look at Me!.jpg works for me. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:56, 8 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Unprotect Template:PD-USGov-DOC-Census/lang

Latest comment: 1 day ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Please unprotect or reduce the protection level for Template:PD-USGov-DOC-Census/lang so editors can add translations. Eran (talk) 08:26, 11 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done Yann (talk) 12:38, 11 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Non-translation “translations” on Commons:FAQ/bn

Latest comment: 1 day ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Commons:FAQ/bn is seemingly 99% translated, but in fact many of these “translations” are just copies of the English texts. This causes several issues:

Readers who look at the translation percentage think that they can read the page without knowing English, but this isn’t true;
Readers using accessibility software like screenreaders don’t get appropriate markup, since the Translate extension thinks these parts of the text are translated;
When a part of the text changes in English, it doesn’t get updated on the translation page because the extension thinks the translation, albeit outdated, is still more useful for readers than the English original (which would be true if it really was a translation, but not in this case).

Of course, the best solution would be actually translating those texts, but in case no Bangla speaker volunteers for that, at least the non-translation “translations” should be deleted. To do so, go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Commons%3AFAQ&action=page&language=bn, and for each row where the right (translation) column contains obviously English text:

click anywhere on the row;
click on the unit name (e.g. Translations:Commons:FAQ/4/bn);
click on History;
now you’re on the page history of a wiki page, just delete it like any other wiki page. You may want to check the page history first, in case it previously had a proper translation, although none of the few I checked had.

Thanks in advance! —Tacsipacsi (talk) 09:36, 12 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

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