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purge Admin backlog

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• Personal photos/selfies: ~31
• Other speedy deletions: ~40
• Categories for discussion: 84 months
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Remove the autopatrolled and filemover of User:BabelStone

The user is deceased. Пусть от победы☆к победе ведёт! 07:33, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

@阿南之人:  Done. Best, ChemSim (talk) 09:09, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. ChemSim (talk) 07:52, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

Commons:Partial blocks

Hello everyone, I am really surprised to see that Commons:Partial blocks is still defined as a proposed guideline. @Jim while closing the RfC said that the proposal was accepted. And there have been partial blocks carried out on Commons. So I believe we should now consider, if required, re-write that page so that a formal policy is presented for our users. If there is some, please correct me. Thank you. Shaan Sengupta^Talk 09:29, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

The RfC was only about adding the technical feature. It was specified that changes to policy would require consensus through a separate proposal [1]. One user started working on something on the page you linked but the user is now inactive. A policy is not adopted until it's adopted. The current policy seems compatible with the use of the feature even without a detailed guideline. -- Asclepias (talk) 13:27, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

That's the only problem. A well explained guideline should be there. If someone is interested in doing so, it would be of great help bcoz its easy to explain users about the sanctions if they are written somewhere. I too would try to expand that page in the next few days (if possible) so that we can proceed on adopting it. Thank you. Shaan Sengupta^Talk 09:15, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

• The guidance at COM:PB is probably a little too long-winded. For example, there isn't really a need to delve into the philosophy of sanctions broadly. I would suggest trimming to something like this, and probably just adding it to COM:BLOCK. GMG^talk 14:56, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Extended content

Partial block is a less restrictive alternative to a site-wide block. It provides the ability to prevent specific types of problematic contributions while still allowing productive participation in other areas. It can be used to prevent Contributions to particular pages or namespaces, Uploading and overwriting files, Creating new pages, and/or Notifying others using the "thank" feature. Otherwise, legacy restrictions may be combined with partial blocks (e.g., unable to send thanks plus unable to send email). Partial block was piloted in 2019. While some opted-in earlier, partial blocks were enabled on most Wikimedia projects on January 6, 2020. After a successful request for comment, partial block was enabled on Wikimedia Commons on January 1x, 2020. Wikimedia Commons was the last Wikimedia project to launch the partial block feature. Limitations A maximum of ten specified pages may be part of a block at the same time. Any number of namespaces may be blocked. Multiple blocks with different durations cannot be placed at the same time; it is only possible to adjust settings of the current block or to set a new partial block. Users cannot currently be blocked from only creating file or other pages. Administrators are limited to blocking a user from editing an entire namespace, which also prevents file or page creation. Users cannot be blocked from editing pages within a specific category. They can only be blocked from editing a named category page. References

• Some of those technical restrictions are also outdated - page creation and upload blocks have been enabled for a while. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:19, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

  Admittedly, I was a little quick-and-dirty with the draft. Point remains: it can be drastically condensed and fit into COM:BLOCK as a section. GMG^talk 20:46, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Mass deletion required?

Hello. I noticed (as some images were being added to en.wiki today) that Famousseamus52 (talk · contribs) uploaded a large number of images of Pitcairn Islanders over a couple of days earlier in the year and tagged them all as cc-zero. Most of them seem to have been taken from the Pitcairn Island Study Center, but I cannot see any evidence that the site holds or waived the copyright to the images. In some cases they are taken from other website that clearly state copyright is held (e.g. File:Steve-christian-abyss.jpg is taken off this website, while File:Brenda_Christian.jpg is taken from The Times). I suspect the vast majority of uploads (over 140) need speedily deleting. Cheers, Number 57 (talk) 20:50, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done. Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Famousseamus52 is created. Taivo (talk) 10:14, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

File:Laura Chatti Venice09.jpg

Can someone correct the name of this file? I have already proposed an alternative on the dedicated page, that is Laura Chiatti Venice09.jpg Il lettore melodico (talk) 21:57, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

@Il lettore melodico: I renamed it for you.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 22:04, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

@Il lettore melodico: but normally, please use {{Rename}} rather than the Administrators' noticeboard. - Jmabel ! talk 22:16, 22 July 2025 (UTC)