User talk:CitationAuditor

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 16:46, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

How do you sleep at night?

Persecute much? Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:11, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

I like to read Wikimedia Commons copyright explanations before I go to sleep. You wouldn't understand, seeing as you never read them. Purging copyright violations from Commons and dreaming of Serbs going to the Hague makes me sleep like a baby..--CitationAuditor (talk) 00:37, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Hello

I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that you are banned from posting comments on my talk page here and on en.wiki, unless, of course, you are required to by Wikipedia or Commons policy. If you are required to post a notice on my talk page, please clearly indicate in the edit summary what policy you are doing so under. Any other posted comments will be deleted without being read.

Please note that this ban also applies to pinging me.

Also, if you email me to get around this ban, I will assume that you are agreeing in advance that the entire contents of the e-mail can be released to anyone I wish to.

Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:57, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

You can't just say "I ban you from my talkpage" to stop me from making deletion nominations. That's a fake loophole to save your precious FoP violations. Furthermore with your super creepy "how do you sleep at night" comments, which are NOT about copyright, I hereby ban YOU from my talkpage!--CitationAuditor (talk) 01:06, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mural 20211113 193420511.jpg

Hi, I have closed this DR as clear copyvio according to COM:FOP United States. @Beyond My Ken: Please read the guidelines of COM:L and COM:FOP before uploading here. ChemSim (talk) 14:48, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Left this comment in response to my ping there, but edit conflicted with the closure. Putting it here FYI:
IP socking and insulting are issues for an admin, which I am not. That said, it only took a glance at the IP's contributions to see that it is more likely the original uploader of this file, and not BMK (who didn't take the photo to begin with). If you're going to escalate behavioral issues, it's important to get these things straight. Regardless, I'd also urge you to just end your participation at the nomination. Closing admins understand "no FOP in the US" and COM:MURALS are not overcome by allegations of trolling. Sadly, nominating photos for deletion requires a thick skin -- understandably, people don't like their work being deleted. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  14:48, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for addressing the merits of the case instead of making it personal. Cheers!--CitationAuditor (talk) 15:01, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Just one suggestion - maybe to deter personal attacks in other nominations, we make a category something like "deletion nominations involving insults" or something to that effect that will be monitored more, and then those images get fast-tracked to deletion instead of sitting in a backlog? I think such deterrent would significantly reduce drama.--CitationAuditor (talk) 15:06, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Retouched pictures.

Please, add an appropriate tag to your retouched images.

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_retouching [1]

Such as this: File:Portret van Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans, Comte de Paris, RP-F-F01142-BP (2).jpg. Respectfully, -- Ooligan (talk) 20:36, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Overwriting files

Hello!

Regarding your overwriting of the file currently named as "File:Михаил Иванович Калинин (1).jpg" (initially I uploaded it as "File:Якстере теште 1924-10 1стр изобр2.jpg" and you renamed it after that):

That file was first uploaded by me, it is an image from the newspaper issue File:Якстере_теште_1924-10_(6_апреля).djvu.

Recently I have noticed that you replaced the image with another image - by overwriting the image providing comment "original". That action was actually wrong. These images are scanned from different printed sources: the first one uploaded by me represents the image from the newspaper page, the second image uploaded by you - represents the image from a postcard. Regardless both these images originate from one source (I guess that source was some photograph of M. I. Kalinin), they should not be replaced with each other because technically they are not the same but different images scanned from completely different printed sources. Also you should know (or learn) that if some image (picture, drawing, portrait etc.) has been printed in several printed editions (books, magazine or newspaper issues, postcards etc.) then it doesn't mean that only one copy with "better" quality must be stored on Commons and all the rest should be erased - actually, each printed version of the same image may be (and should be) uploaded and stored as a separate file. Commons has a huge storage so there is no need for such limitations like "only one copy is allowed" (probably you think so but it is wrong).

So I would like to return the image back to the version initially uploaded by me, because it is needed so for Wikisource. The rules of the Wikisource require that if a content page reproduces some text from a printed source and that text contains some images, then the content page should contain the images the same as they were in that printed source (even if "better" copies from other printed sources are available - they should not be substituted). Currently the newspaper article created by me for the Wikisource Редакция "Якстере Теште" кучсь председательнень ВЦИК серма: Михаил Иванович Ялга! displays, after you did overwriting of the file, not quite the same image as it was in the newspaper. To make the article consistent with the original newspaper issue, I want to return that image back. And if you still want to keep the image uploaded by you on the Commons - so I propose to you to upload it as a different, separate file - I think you shouldn't have problems with that.

Also, maybe reading this help page: Commons:Overwriting existing files might be helpful for you.

Do you agree? What do you think? --Nigmont (talk) 16:48, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

I vehemently disagree! This was approved by an admin, and it is standard to overwrite newspaper scans with original images whenever the quality versions are found. Take it up with the admin hat approved it, and drop your tone with me. These are the same photo - you uploaded the grainiest quality possible version of it, I re-uploaded the original, which is standard practice here. Other people do this all of the time, see for example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Konkordia_Samoilova_01.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gelovani_M.G._2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limanovsky_G.M.jpg and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vaynonen_V.I.jpg This image in question was published in hundreds of newspapers over the years, we do not need 100 different grainy copies of scans from different newspapers, it is excessive, redundant and pointless. Upload a new grainy copy of the grainy image you want if you want, I can't stop you. But commons is a collaborative project for free images, and you should expect that when you upload grainy images, better ones will replace them. You should be very grateful I found the quality original of the photo, it is an improvement to Commons. To host 1,000 different newspaper scans of the same photo would be beyond absurd. You know how to operate the Upload Wizard Gadget, you can upload it.--CitationAuditor (talk) 22:41, 30 July 2025 (UTC)