User talk:Mets501/Archive 24

Improper NowCommonsBot tagging?
Your bot marked Image:Yarlang tsango river tibet.jpg for deletion as being correctly moved to Commons, but it doesn't seem to have met the critera: the copy on Commons has a slightly different name, and the article using the image hadn't been updated. --Carnildo (talk) 22:03, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

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This article and its talk page were deleted with very short notice. A quick summary, the Gilbert & Sullivan (early 1900s musical comedy) people thought that the mathematical presentation of the functions was a copyright violation.

Do you have superpowers which can restore that article and its talk page? The next logical step with the article was to figure out if the LaTeX \neq was broken in my ability or at wikimedia....

Thanks -- carol (talk) 20:27, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


 * It smells like Git (software) in some of the histories of the articles here, probably a great thing for software versioning and even for a group of people who are writing a text together; I am not convinced that it is a good thing for a wiki in which everyone can edit. -- carol (talk) 02:50, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

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Image:Latham Hall, Lancashire.jpg
Template:PD is deprecated both here and on Commons. Commons:Template:PD lists a number of valid alternatives, including Commons:Template:PD-Art, which is used for this particular image. Small-town hero (talk) 18:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

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Bot request
Mets, would you mind having a quick look and offer thoughts at this bot request? MetsBot does a great job of processing images already tagged as Commons duplicates; what would it take for a bot to actually tag the images as duplicates so MetsBot could process them? Kelly hi! 16:34, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Compatible licenses
Mets, can you make ConfirmationImageOTRS here compatible with PermissionOTRS at Commons? Kelly hi! 23:13, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

42nd MP Brigade image
That image is properly documented as a public domain image as a product of the US government. Why is it being considered for deletion? Niteshift36 (talk) 00:30, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

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To MetsBot
Hi, I transferred Image:Connecticut House of Representatives.jpg and Image:Connecticut Senate.jpg to Commons. Your Bot now gives the message "...may not pass the requirements for deletion..." because of the PD-user-License I put in over there. But I had no other choice than doing this because the No-Rights-Reserved template looks like that. When I'm told to use another license I do that. So perhaps you should modify your bot under these circumstances. Regards, --Scooter (this one)  20:46, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, the problem seems to be solved as the pictures are deleted here, but I really had thought you'd answer me... --Scooter (this one)  10:50, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

OTRS
Could you make it treat the same as ? Cheers. Ian ¹³ /t  09:33, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

MetsBot not looking at source for upload
As far as i can tell is the only way, to signal that an illustration exists as a an exact duplicate on Commons. Therefore it is the logical choice for me, when i found that file PH_Kamp.jpg on Commons is the exact same as Image:Poul.henning.kamp.jpg here. But this file was transferred from Billede:Poul.henning.kamp.jpg on DaWiki, where it was released under a different license, which has been retained on Commons. I would like a way to tell that to your bot, so it won't rereview Image:Poul.henning.kamp.jpg here. --DaWiki2Commons (talk) 09:53, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

MetBot is annoying
Hello,

your bot claims that Image:3-2-7-top.png would not be ready for speedy deletion. This is nonsense. Is there any way to stop your bot to put such stupid tags on image pages?

Thanks, --Sven (talk) 21:14, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

typo
I don't know if anyone's mentioned this before or not, but there's a very small spelling error in the template the bot leaves on various image pages (like this one, for example): "MetsBot was unable to determine if this image has compatable license information on Commons." Compatable should be compatible. Sorry to be a pest! Esrever (klaT) 16:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * No, don't be sorry, that was my fault :-) All fixed now. — M ETS 501 (talk) 01:34, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Compatable :) licenses
Mets, I move some images with the PD-USGov-Military tag - when possible, I make the Commons license more specific, i.e. with PD-USGov-Military-Army, PD-USGov-Military-Navy, PD-USGov-Military-Air Force, or PD-USGov-Military-Marines. Could MetsBot treat those as compatible? Thanks! Kelly hi! 01:54, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure, no prob :-) — M ETS 501 (talk) 02:33, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Image deletion notices
Your bot is saying things are ready to be deleted (like here) when the name on commons is actually different to that on Wikipedia, and not all the articles have the new location. As a result, the redlinks are being automatically removed from articles, and the image lost. Maybe the bot could check (or say in the green-box to check the 'what links here')? Cheers, Ian ¹³  /t  12:35, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Renaming images & File extensions
Would it be possible to change the name of an image? I don't see a move tag on a single image, and if I were able to change the names it could speed up the process of having some of them transferred to the commons. For those I don't feel like sending to the commons, they wolud just be improved in other ways. DanTD (talk) 22:14, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

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Metsbot spelling error
Hi, I just noticed that a metsbot tag had the phrase "MetsBot was unable to determine if this image has compatable license information on Commons." It should be spelled "Compatible". Cheers, no need to reply. --Storkk (talk) 21:36, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Talk page moved to Commons?
Dear Mets,

your talk page is showing up in Category:All images on Wikimedia Commons, can't seem to fix the problem myself, could you have a try?

thx, --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 18:55, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hope it's okay, I did some  to clear that up. ~ JohnnyMrNinja  07:14, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Image:Western gull chick.jpg - the bot is saying credit is not given when it is
It says Sabine's Sunbird isn't being credited when he clearly is - this is what the CommonsHelper always adds. Any idea why it's doing this? Richard001 (talk) 05:55, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi, could you please fix the bot's logic so that the JewishEncyclopedia license tag on Commons is seen as a subset of (i.e. compatible with) PD-US. (See Image:Amun5.jpg, for example). Thanks, Storkk (talk) 09:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, is compatible with GFDL. :) --Storkk (talk) 09:15, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * is essentially . Would you like me to continue telling you about compatibilities as i run across them, or is this essentially useless information? Cheers, Storkk (talk) 11:32, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Hamid mir.JPG)
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Polar coordinates, Centrifugal and Coriolis terms
"Brews ohare" introduced this paragraph. It is similar to my "Mechanics" of "20:32, 23 July 2008" that I removed "20:46, 27 July 2008" as I agree with "Mets501" that this does not fit here. The interpretation of these terms as "virtual forces" should be by setting up the physical "equation of motion" in a rotating 3-dimensional coordinate system. And if these physical concepts should be discussed here at all it would be more important to point out that $$r^2\dot\theta$$ is the angular momentum (per unit mass)and that the time derivative of the angular momentum is the torque.

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Weird metsbot error
I haven't noticed before. I don't see any obvious problem with the Commons image. Ideas? Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

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Metsbot needs to provide more informative messages.
I've just seen a message "Image:Vertebrate n octopus eyes.png meets the criteria for deletion" - and similar messages for about 6 other images I've uploaded in the last moth. I turns out that the reason is transfer to Commons. I suggest that Metsbot needs to provide more informative messages. -- Philcha (talk) 21:34, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * That's why there's a link next to each edit that provides all the information you could need. — M ETS 501 (talk) 01:22, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Image:Democratic_presidential_primary_results.png
The bot left the following message on Image:Democratic_presidential_primary_results.png. MetsBot was unable to determine if this image has compatible license information on Commons.

The license(s) here: GDFL

The license(s) on Commons: GFDL

No idea why its the exact same license on both. Phatom87 (talk • contribs) 13:21, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

My Family Feud userbox
I was wondering, I recently created a new userbox at User:Andros 1337/Family Feud. However, apparently, it has gone unnoticed. I even created a category at Category:Wikipedians who like Family Feud. I also added it to User:UBX/Userboxes/Media, but still, I am the only user who has it on his/her userpage. Is there anything that I did wrong here? Hopefully you can find a solution to get make it more visible to other users. I understand that the current popularity of Family Feud is not as great as Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy!, however, there is no way that I am the only Family Feud fan on Wikipedia. ANDROS1337  18:21, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

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MetsBot is messed up...
It's marking images as having no problems when the image is still in use. I've blocked it indef until that's fixed... Maxim ( ☎ )  15:12, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey...can you show me an example so I can figure out exactly what's wrong? Thanks. — M ETS 501 (talk) 00:54, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

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I fixed your link!
I fixed the "watch this page" link near the top of the page so it actually works.--Ipatrol (talk) 21:33, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

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Metsbot heads-up
I dunno if this has come to your attention but I am sure that this result was not the intent of the bot. Could you pl. fix it? TIA. --Gurubrahma (talk) 10:56, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
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Free Library of Philadelphia Talk Page
Why did you delete the Free Library of Philadelphia Talk Page?

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 * I didn't. — M ETS 501 (talk) 00:38, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Help with coding
Hi Mets501. As I recall, you are an expert at HTML coding and wikimarkup. You did my user page, for which I am very grateful. I would like to make a subpage and I need to know how to make a listing of LEAD sections from various articles. Please use this page to show me how: User:Fyslee/Leads. -- Fyslee (talk) 18:04, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

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RE:Bot usage training?
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