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Theklan

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Scheduled to end: 09:20, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

I have been around for many years, and contributed with thousands of images, mine and from archives, and I have seen that admins have too much things to take care of. So I think that it's time to help with those tasks. I have good knowledge of copyright (as far as this is even possible), and experience working with GLAM institutions. My home wiki is Basque Wikipedia, where I'm also an admin and bureaucrat with more than a decade of experience. Thanks for your support! Theklan (talk) 09:20, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

Hardly 'riddled'. Most of them seem to be kept and some downright trollish DRs from an editor who was then indeffed for making them. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:37, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support See no problems. Good Luck. --Wikijunkie (talk) 21:39, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak oppose I don't see anything seriously wrong the user that makes me think they can't be an admin (but then I haven't dealt with them outside of this and checking their edit history just now either). The amount of deletion notices on their talk page is troubling though. Not to enough to make me think they should never be an administrator but the role does kind of require a basic understanding of copyright. So IMO it's a little premature. I wouldn't have a problem with them trying to go a while without any of the uploads being nominated for deletion, while they learn about copyright and participate in DRs, and then reapplying. But DRs are the main area that we need administrator to work in though. So it's something a user should have an understanding of to be one. --Adamant1 (talk) 01:15, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak oppose wie Vorredner --Mateus2019 (talk) 10:57, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I see no concerns here and would welcome someone with an interest in Basque culture to broaden our often rather insular outlook. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:37, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Zorte on! Yacàwotçã (talk) 20:37, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • Hi, Could you please explain why you uploaded Commons:Deletion requests/File:Euskal Herria Covid 19 fotomuntaia.jpg, deleted for missing sources, and Commons:Deletion requests/File:Herensuge (euskal mitologia) - Midjourney AI bertsioa.png, deleted for being out of scope? Thanks, Yann (talk) 17:31, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    For sure! The first one was a montage I made with files from the category c:Category:COVID-19 pandemic in the Basque Country, but I failed to record the sources of those, so it was deleted. I didn't have time when it was discussed to find the source images, so I didn't challenge the deletion itself. About the Midjourney file, this was uploaded within an experiment to upload AI generated images of mithological beings. It was superseded by another image (you can see it at eu:Herensuge), so an user asked to delete it because it was "out of scope". I don't think it is out of scope, but as the image wasn't in use, the deletion is not completely harmful. Theklan (talk) 15:11, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hi, here are a few questions about common DRs (feel free to answer inline btw), answer with your first thoughts (of course this may change through the course of the deletion discussion).
    1. Someone nominates File:Random logo.png for deletion with the rationale "redundant to File:Random logo.svg". Assume File:Random logo.png is not INUSE.
    2. Someone nominates a 1945 WW2 photo was published in 1945 in Germany. Assume the author is anonymous per Template:PD-anon-70-EU.
    3. Someone nominates a company logo for deletion with the rationale "copyright violation".
    4. Someone nominates a photo that they made 5 years ago for deletion stating "I don't want it on the internet anymore". The photo's subject is quite obscure and we don't have many photos of that subject. Assume no GDPR or related issues.
    5. Someone nominates a photo for deletion stating the data is unreliable and out of date. They provide a link to the correct data but haven't uploaded a file yet with the correct data. The file is in use on multiple projects.
—Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 16:29, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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