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Eurovision Song Contest

Move Category:Eurovision to Category:Eurovision Song Contest, all "Category:Eurovision x year" to "Category:Eurovision Song Contest x year" (including Category:Eurovision 2008 to check. This is uncontroversial, and a move to the real name, that would avoid confusion with the EBU, Junior Eurovision Song Contest and the Eurovision Dance Contest. J 1982 (talk) 21:18, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Please use (the talk page of) User:CommonsDelinker/commands. Multichill (talk) 17:02, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Unrealistically high lifetimes

Is there a way to detect such unrealistically high lifetimes based on the categories xxxx births and xxxx deaths (e.g. difference > 105)? --Leyo 16:11, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

A toolserver query should be able to do that. Maybe you can convince MZM to add a report to Commons:Database reports, especially since it could run at Wikipedia as well. --  Docu  at 16:26, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Also, birth should be before death. Not sure if you're checking that. --Stefan4 (talk) 16:34, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

I think this is a good idea. We can probably add it to the creator template used on about 10% of Category:People by name pages. Of course that would not be much help to the rest of the categories. --Jarekt (talk) 03:04, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Commons:Database reports/Unbelievable life spans --MZMcBride (talk) 16:44, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Good work. BTW maybe the cut-off should be at 123: en:Jeanne_Calment reached 122. --  Docu  at 17:22, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

@MZMcBride: Thanks a lot.

@Docu: It seems that you've already corrected most cases. I just found a few that still needed to get fixed. --Leyo 22:35, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

I tried to do some of the categories (alphabetically by page title from "Category:A .." to "Category:I .." should be done). --  Docu  at 22:40, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

You should probably talk to en:User:WereSpielChequers, since he does some similar reporting across the Wikipedias (I did a one off once, not sure if I have the code though). Rich Farmbrough, 02:48 1 May 2012 (GMT).

Filmitadka EXIF

Per this thread, can we get a bot to modify all of the EXIF data from files in Category:Images from FilmiTadka to remove the passage mentioned in that thread? Sven Manguard Wha? 19:55, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Ps. Here's a list of all the images containing the passage (or, at least, the string "FilmiTadka is here") in their metadata:

—Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:38, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

 Support Unfortunately I do not know how to work with EXIF data cleanup. --Jarekt (talk) 15:36, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

How cleanup? Just remove attack text? PS: can see pyexiv2--shizhao (talk) 14:46, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

I would say remove "Image title" text and in some files like File:Aashita_Dhawan.jpg do something to "Copyright holder" field so it does not try to display Commons template. --Jarekt (talk) 15:34, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

I have remove "Image title" in EXIF (see File:Aanchal Kumar posing with her back at Tassel style lounge launch.jpg) and suppress old image, but "Image title" are still, not removed :( --shizhao (talk) 15:34, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

I just opened the new image with XnView and it still have both IPTC and EXIF tags:

• IPTC:

• Copyright Notice: {{cc-by-sa-3.0|FilmiTadka}}
• Caption: FilmiTadka, the Big Daddy to tame all the bitches and pompous assess has arrived...

• EXIF:

• Copyright: {{cc-by-sa-3.0|FilmiTadka}}

--Jarekt (talk) 15:45, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

I just remove "Image title" in EXIF(FilmiTadka, the Big Daddy to tame all the bitches and pompous assess has arrived...), Medaiwki support IPTC?--shizhao (talk) 15:54, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

I do not know. May be File:Aanchal Kumar posing with her back at Tassel style lounge launch.jpg is fixed now (except for {{cc-by-sa-3.0|FilmiTadka}}in the Copyright field) but it takes some time for some process to update exif data record in the database. --Jarekt (talk) 16:30, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki supports IPTC?: Yes, since a while. -- RE rillke questions? 10:59, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Snowbound images

There are a number of images like File:Reste des Forts Rheineck.jpg and File:Halbzeug_1.jpg which contain "2001 SNOWBOUND, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" in the author field of he EXIF metadata. This appears to be added by the image software, Snowbound, and it does not represent the true author or the true copyright status, since these have all been uploaded to Commons by their creators under a free license. Having the metadata like this is quite confusing to the viewer (it took me a while to figure out what was going on) and potentially quite misleading to reusers, since the file will retain that metadata once it is used outside of Commons. I found 90 images with that string using Google: [1]. Would it be possible to remove or clarify the metadata for all these images? Dominic (talk) 11:18, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

 Support Unfortunately I do not know how to work with EXIF data cleanup. --Jarekt (talk) 15:37, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

This sort of thing might be more common than I thought. There are more than 100 images with "1996-98 AccuSoft Inc., All rights reserved" in the author field, which should be stripped for the same reason. Dominic (talk) 04:45, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

See also Commons:Bots/Work_requests#Filmitadka_EXIF --Jarekt (talk) 15:46, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Category task

A Commons user looks for the quality images and adds the categories: Quality images of #### Oblast and Quality images of people in Russia. Is it possible to make this work automatically, based on the other categories stated in the images?--PereslavlFoto (talk) 12:35, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Most of the tasks here are one-time tasks, not continuous tasks, which might need some specialized bot. One solution might be to use Template:Intersect categories. --Jarekt (talk) 18:55, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

mushroom

I uploaded better versions of Sowerby's mushroom drawings a while ago.
The old ones are:
File:Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms - t. 1.png through File:Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms - t. 438.png,
the new ones are:
File:Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms - t. 1.jpg through File:Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms - t. 438.jpg.
(Take care - some numbers are missing: 409, 423, 427 and 437 are missing - at least).

Now i still need the descriptions fixed. Copying the appropriate description from the old file over to the replacement for each of the *.png files would already be sufficient.
Some minor other things from the "nice to have" category would be:

• Next thing that comes to mind is making the "source" statement fit the genesis of the new files. - Leaving those parts of the description like they are now and replacing only the rest of the description page would be great.
• the formatting of the "extra information": Instead of the with those nasty absolute measures, there should be simple definition lists, I think.--Natr(talk) 23:03, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Category:Media uploaded without a license

There's quite a large backlog of files in this category and subcategories, some going back to December 2011. Would it be possible to have a bot check the files in this category for a license tag, tag any that still do not have one with {{nld}} and notify the uploader, in the same way as User:Nikbot does for newly-uploaded files? January (talk) 18:58, 18 May 2012 (UTC)