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deletion of uploaded image that is not used

hi could you please delete an image that i have uploaded with my previous username. there is no use of that image any longer. could you please let me know wether you can do that so that i can provide you with the the image and username. thanks :) Fkcuter123 (talk) 05:42, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

I see three options:
  • You can log in with that username and mark it with a {{db}} tag (I think it's {{db-author}})
  • You could nominate it for deletion, either mentioning that you were the uploader or not, as an orphaned image
  • just leave it sitting out there until someone else comes along and decides it is not needed.
Hope this helps.  ★  Bigr Tex 19:50, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

wow wow so long ago you gave the answer and i did not check. if you are still around leave me a message. i am REALLY sorry that i did not get back to you. maybe you could run me through the steps. i dont know how to add the tag. if you login anytime soon, give me a shout and maybe you can help me. thanks Fkcuter123 (talk) 04:49, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

New image project

Hi. This little note is just to let you know that a proposal to merge the projects Wikipedia:WikiProject Free images, Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use, Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration into the newly formed Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media has met with general support at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Files. In addition, I'm proposing merging Wikipedia:WikiProject Image Monitoring Group, because their aims seem to be very similar. Since you're on the rosters of membership in at least one of those projects, I thought you might be interested. Discussion about redirecting those projects is located here. Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 19:26, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day (2011)

Happy First Edit Day, BigrTex, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Mheart (talk) 06:06, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day! (2012)

Happy First Edit Day, BigrTex, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

AFisch99 (talk) 15:04, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Decemmber 8 - Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle - You're invited
Seattle Public Library
  • Date Saturday, December 8, 2012
  • Time 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
  • Location Seattle Public Library Meeting Room 1 on Level 4, Central Library, 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle WA, 98104
  • Event An editathon on Seattle-related Wikipedia articles with Wikipedia tutorials and Librarian assistance on hand.
  • Hashtag #wikiloveslib or #glamwiki.
  • Registration http://wll-seattle.eventbrite.com or use on-wiki regsistration.

Yours, Maximilianklein (talk) 04:25, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Dear BigrTex

i've been here for about a year and have made 6 Edits, why cant i edit protected pages?UnMathew (talk) 08:20, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Better source request for File:HardWorkinMan.jpg

Thanks for your upload to Wikipedia:

You provided a source, but it is difficult for other users to examine the copyright status of the image because the source is incomplete. Please consider clarifying the exact source so that the copyright status may be checked more easily. It is best to specify the exact Web page where you found the image, rather than only giving the source domain or the URL of the image file itself. Please update the image description with a URL that will be more helpful to other users in determining the copyright status.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source in a complete manner. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page or me at my talk page. Thank you. Message delivered by Theo's Little Bot (opt-out) 21:19, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:01, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Just to let you know -- Missing Wikipedians

You have been mentioned at Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians. XOttawahitech (talk) 14:54, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Notification of automated file description generation

Your upload of File:BigrTex-Title.PNG or contribution to its description is noted, and thanks (even if belatedly) for your contribution. In order to help make better use of the media, an attempt has been made by an automated process to identify and add certain information to the media's description page.

This notification is placed on your talk page because a bot has identified you either as the uploader of the file, or as a contributor to its metadata. It would be appreciated if you could carefully review the information the bot added. To opt out of these notifications, please follow the instructions here. Thanks! Message delivered by Theo's Little Bot (opt-out) 13:22, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Great American Wiknic 2014 - Austin

I'd like to invite you to add an Austin event for the Great American Wiknic. This year we're aiming to coalesce nationally around July 6, but any date that is convenient to your local community works as well. And don't be shy about putting something preliminary on the national Wiknic page, it all helps!--Pharos (talk) 05:16, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Please explain this close

I don't see a consensus to delete. Samsara 11:18, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

  • Sure, I'm happy to explain. After being open for 40 days and with no discussion for almost half of that, some administrator needed to step in and make a call. I reviewed the Deletion guidelines for administrators, and specifically the section on Rough Consensus: "Consensus is not determined by counting heads, but by looking at strength of argument, and underlying policy (if any). Arguments that contradict policy, are based on opinion rather than fact, or are logically fallacious, are frequently discounted." In reviewing the arguments about Radon.jpg, those that spoke to the underlying policy (specifically [[WP:NFCC#1|]]) were weighted more than those that pointed out that it would be extremely difficult to replace the image, a point which I believe is inherent in the policy.  ★  Bigr Tex 14:46, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Regarding File:Black Rhinoceros.jpg, this image was uploaded in 2005. We didn't really have these processes in place back then and the editing base was mostly much more conscious of such things, to the point where if someone from 2005 says they obtained a GFDL permission from the copyright holder and there is no evidence to the contrary, I'm usually inclined to take that at face value. Also, I am pretty sure, from looking at the deleted revisions of File:Thames Ditton Railway Bridge, United Kingdom.jpg that Etimbo is Tim Rogers. Certainly, the person who had it moved it to Commons thought so, as he or she credited the image as "Tim Rogers, aka Etimbo at en.wikipedia". --B (talk) 21:09, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Edits

Thanks for you contributions to german wikipedia. The addition of the pictures improved it quite a lot! Best regards --Minihaa (talk) 10:50, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Quixotic plea

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wikipediholism test. Thanks. — {{U|Technical 13}} (etc) 04:20, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Drive 94.3.png

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Orphaned non-free image File:KOSI 101.png

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Orphaned non-free image File:KIMM Radio.jpg

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File:KZ Radio Logo.jpg listed for discussion

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Orphaned non-free image File:James Avery Logo.jpg

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Orphaned non-free image File:QASymphony.jpg

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I uploaded a better image for the KLBJ-FM logo (without the dark border). You should receive separate message re: Orphaned image fileRudy2alan

82.112.144.10

Revoke user:82.112.144.10's talk page access. 2602:306:3357:BA0:91FA:29C8:1A98:AC81 (talk) 21:56, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

@2602:306:3357:BA0:91FA:29C8:1A98:AC81|2602:306:3357:BA0:91FA:29C8:1A98:AC81, I'm fine with the comments that he or she is leaving on his or her own talk page. I'm not clear why you are removing them.  ★  Bigr Tex 22:01, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Your edit to Viva Green didn't seem to work. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:58, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

The route map is hidden by default.  ★  Bigr Tex 23:00, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
Ah. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:52, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Hello! I'm interested in reviving the Wikipedia:Maintenance collaboration of the week and noticed that you're a member of the Uncategorized Task Force, which does similar tasks. Would you be interested in helping to restart the Maintenance collaboration of the week up again? Chickadee46 (talk|contribs) 00:56, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Fleming Villa Logo.jpg

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License untangling/ffd

You closed the FFDs for File:Dioxin from trichlorphenol.png and File:Hexachlorophenesynthesis.png and changed the licenses {{Non-free fair use in}}{{PD-chem}} accordingly. However, there are still non-free fair-use rationales on those images. Should they be removed? DMacks (talk) 20:41, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

If someone wanted to change them to a different summary template, they could. I didn't see a pressing need to do so.  ★  Bigr Tex 23:47, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Incruit.jpg

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User talk:68.46.28.103

Please review the block appeal on User talk:68.46.28.103. 2602:306:3357:BA0:4DB2:920F:8A07:D8CC (talk) 21:50, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Why did you remove the file for Surendra Kumar Surana

Why did you remove the file for Surendra Kumar Surana. I am an employee of his company, and created his wiki page with his consent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manojcsl (talkcontribs) 11:16, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

I missed the {{OTRS pending}} tag on the image when closing Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2016 May 26#File:Surendra Kumar Surana.jpg. I will undelete the photo, reopen the discussion, and mention the OTRS claim in the discussion. The email that was sent in late May should be getting near the top of the OTRS queue, and this should be resolved shortly. I apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for bringing this to my attention.  ★  Bigr Tex 15:49, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

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Probable typo

"The result of the discussion was: Result" [1] ;) -- Asclepias (talk) 02:28, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

File:Temple College logo (B&W).jpg

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File:TRAX 101.9.png

bsd. Although i made both edits, they were in completely different and unrelated instances, a few months apart. I'm not familiar with gallery policy for logos, and i didn't realize that the only reason the other logo under "Previous logos" was there, was because it's not eligible for copyright. Neither did i see that you had removed it. Sorry for the inconvenience. --Ben Stone 02:15, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

No worries. I apologize if I wasn't clear in the comment with the first notice that I put on your wall. This isn't much more trouble.  ★  Bigr Tex 03:00, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
In the future, just leave me a note. It will probably happen again, as i do mostly logos, and i have come across a lot of your work lately. Keep i up! --Ben Stone 23:00, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

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Orphaned non-free image File:Spire CU logo.jpg

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I invite you to discuss this image. --George Ho (talk) 17:26, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Peter Kennard @earth image

Hi there...perhaps we ought to clarify the origin of that image and contest that it is non-free. We are part of the team that created the book and the work itself and loaded the image onto Wiki at around the time of its release. Peter is also a firm believer in copy-left with regards to his work and although there is no 'site' that says this, there are a number of articles that quote it. Would be great if you could reinstate it. It is more representative of his more recent work than others. Would also be great if you could perhaps show us how to upload more images [marked ccbynd perhaps] for future use.

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.86.6.61 (talk) 01:53, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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Hi BigrTex. The Commons file was deleted c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Iraqi Football Association's Official Logo.png. Some uploaded File:Iraq national football team logo.png for use in the team's article, but based on the previous FFDs regarding it, non-free use is only considered OK for the association's article. I removed it from the team's article per your close. If that's unacceptable, then please revert. I think the use is fine for the association's article and was going to add it, but I'm not sure a new upload is needed since the deleted File:Iraq Football Association logo.png now seems to be a candidate for WP:REFUND. Just for reference, the uploader of the deleted file Hashim-afc has been blocked per WP:SOCK, but he asked me for assistance at c:User talk: Hashim-afc#Iraq FA logo. I'm not really sure whether it's appropriate for me to be his editor-by-proxy, so maybe you wouldn't mind taking a look at that as well. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:37, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

@Marchjuly:, I recommend not being editor-by-proxy. I also notice that there is now File:Iraq National Football Team Shirt Badge.png on Commons that is PD. I encourage you to follow your muse.  ★  Bigr Tex 19:20, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your comment. I think I'm just going to step back now per your suggestion and also after seeing his latest reply on Commons. I've tried in good faith to explain the situation to him depsite being the target a few months back of some mean-spirited IP socking related to this file's use. Continuing to engage him may also embolden him to some more WP:NOTTHEM, which is not going to help him or anyone else. He'll hopefully return to constructive editing once his block has run out. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:31, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

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Hi - I saw you did some editing with the logo for Houston Community College. The logo as it appears in the article's infobox is very blurry, but when I look at the image on file [[2]] it looks fine. I tried to change the resolution down to 100px but it didn't improve anything. Is there some hidden setting that degrades the image for copyright purposes? TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 17:42, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

@Timtempleton:, I didn't see any blur on my computer the first few times that I looked at it. Then it started. It could be because it is a jpg and was close but not exactly the size that the infobox was displaying it, or could be something about the grey that it was being displayed on. I've added a logo_size parameter to the infobox to display the logo at the actual size of the jpg file, which I don't think throws off the proportions of the page drastically. Take a look and let me know what you think. Also take a look at other pages that use the {{Infobox university}} and see if they are doing similar things with logos if you have some time. Thanks for pointing it out.  ★  Bigr Tex 20:25, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
That fixed it - good job. TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 20:43, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

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ArbCom 2019 special circular

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Administrators must secure their accounts

The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.

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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:52, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I notice you're able to find fair use images for infoboxes, as you did for Jeff's Gourmet Sausage Factory. Would you happen to know of a fair use image for this new restaurant article? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 13:15, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Happy to do so. I actually uploaded it to Commons because I felt it qualified for {{PD-textlogo}}.  ★  Bigr Tex 20:43, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Wow, thank you! Yoninah (talk) 21:07, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

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