User talk:Ooligan

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Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Ooligan!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 01:21, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations, dear license reviewer

If you use the helper gadget, you will find the links next to the search box (vector) or as single tabs (monobook). They are named license+ and license-.

Hi Ooligan, thanks for your request for license reviewer status. The request has been closed as successful, and you've been added to the list of reviewers. You can now start reviewing files – please see Commons:License review and Commons:Flickr files if you haven't done so already. We also have a guide how to detect copyright violations. Potential backlogs include Flickr review and files from other sources. You can enable the LicenseReview gadget from Preferences.

Important: You should not review your own uploads, nor those of anyone closely related to you!

Please feel free to join us on IRC: #wikimedia-commons ^webchat on irc.libera.chat. You can also add {{User license reviewer}} to your user page if you wish. Thank you for your contributions on Commons!--Shaan Sengupta^Talk 01:46, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

You talk page needs archiving now. The page has exceeded the limits of placing new templates. Kindly change auto archive time for 650d to a lot less. For example I and many others have it for 5 to 7 days. Shaan Sengupta^Talk 01:59, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

@Shaan Sengupta, Thank you for notifying me. I reset my archive time to 14 days.

• Best regards, -- Ooligan (talk) 02:26, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Warning

Hi Ooligan. I noticed that deletion requests you made 1, 2, and 3 were not done correctly.

This is not an unusual mistake, but I'm leaving you this message to help you get this right in the future.

There are several steps to making a deletion request (DR) correctly; among other things you must transclude the deletion into the correct daily DR list, and to notify the page creator and optionally other human (non-bot) editors of the page. By far the easiest way to do all of this correctly is to use the automatic Nominate for deletion or Nominate category for discussion tool in the Tools menu on the sidebar per COM:DR#Starting requests and COM:CFD#Starting requests, which takes care of all that using vetted Javascript. If you prefer to add the {{Delete}} template or {{Category for discussion}} template manually, you are required to follow the instructions in the template, including the "Click here to show further instructions" portion (or Commons:Deletion requests/Listing a request manually policy or the "By hand" portion of COM:CFD#Starting requests, normally collapsed). Again, though, there is no need to follow complex instructions if you use the automatic tools.

Also worth knowing: on Commons, {{Delete}} is not a "speedy delete" request like it is on many other projects; instead, it starts a discussion of whether the file should be deleted. If you think a particular media file really obviously does not belong on Commons, see the instructions at Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion. Common cases that are better handled with a speedy delete than a DR include:

• own work within 7 days (COM:CSD#G7)
• empty category never likely to be used (COM:CSD#C2).

Common bad reasons people have for making DRs in the first place include:

• after renaming a category, trying to delete the resulting redirect in violation of policy COM:CATRED
• making a DR for a file where there is already a current DR
• trying to delete one's own work within 7 days (use {{G7}} instead)
• placing {{Delete}} on the deletion subpage itself, or on a talk page.

Also, please don't use {{Ffd}} (that's an English Wikipedia thing).

If you have further questions about the deletion process, you can ask them at COM:Help desk or COM:Village pump.  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 21:50, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

@Jeff G., Since there was more than one I used the VFC tool, "perform batch task". There was an error message. This was the first time I ever received any error message using this tool. This message stated something like, I should check my contributions. I did look at my contributions page and it looked like normal tool output, but I did not open these three individual files. Thanks for letting me know.

Should I let this tool's owner know of this type of error? -- Ooligan (talk) 23:18, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

It appears that what you did introduced an unsupported "value" parameter, and you didn't follow through with the "Nominate for deletion" Action, including creation of the subpage, transclusion of that, and notification. You may discuss this gadget at Help talk:VisualFileChange.js.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:13, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Ok, I'll report this issue at the link you provided. Thank you, -- Ooligan (talk) 17:40, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done See: Help talk:VisualFileChange.js#Error message and malformed deletion requests -- Ooligan (talk) 07:16, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Confusing edit

You reverted me for not having an edit summary. Should I revert these 21,888 edits as well? Is there some policy or guideline here encouraging reverting an edit simply for lacking an edit summary? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:30, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello Justin @Koavf. There is a guideline encouraging edit summaries and I did not understand the reason for the edit with no summary given. I have reviewed the various links on these templates the about SVGs versus JPGs. I now understand this quality issue better and reason for your edit. Best regards, -- Ooligan (talk) 04:32, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

File:Nick Reiner and Rob Reiner at the 2016 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 2016 SAMHSA Voice Awards (cropped).jpg

File:Nick Reiner and Rob Reiner at the 2016 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 2016 SAMHSA Voice Awards (cropped).jpg has been nominated for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Nick Reiner and Rob Reiner at the 2016 Substa… This is a deletion request for the community to discuss whether the nominated page should be kept or deleted. Please voice your opinion in the linked request above. Thank you very much! If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Jrbwill (talk) 00:45, 23 December 2025 (UTC)