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Special:Contributions/Люа Твардовська

All of the created pages are unrelated to Wikimedia projects and contain almost zero encyclopedic content. They look more like main and subsidiary pages for some historical wikiprojects. --Microcell (talk) 11:13, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

There is a lot of content here and it seems not to be in English. Could you say something more about what this is? Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:34, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, as I said, a part of those pages resemble instructions which are common to the main pages of minor wikiprojects ("how to edit a page"; "our projects" with either external links or links to already deleted Meta pages). Further on, they include testing markup together with copypasted novels in Ancient Greek. Looks like she was trying to use Meta for creating a Ukrainian-language version of another site dedicated to hellenistic astrology. Obviously there's nothing that could help Wikimedia projects. --Microcell (talk) 19:45, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

• Was the user notified and asked to provide info about why the pages were created here? Nemo 21:09, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
  • I see only this message of Mathonius of 15 May. After that the user contacted Mathonius and he never did anything on Meta-Wiki anymore. Trijnstel_talk 13:09, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
    • Yes, that message contains a request to send her back a copy of the deleted page by e-mail, for she had no access to the material anymore. I suppose an admin will have no difficulty retrieving and sending the content if asked by the author. --Microcell (talk) 14:15, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

I've moved the pages to the author's userspace. They seem to be an attempt to translate another website; while it is not within the scope of existing Wikimedia projects, it could be, and there's no reason to prevent a userspace draft. I left her a message. –SJ talk  17:58, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Ja.wikinews メインページ

Must be an old version of ja wikinews (created in 2005). I don't see a need for this as ja Wikinews exists. Techman224^Talk 01:20, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

• Delete. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:56, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
• This was part of the old Wikinews incubator, cf. Ang.wikinews Héafodsíde, He.wikinews מזנון, etc. I think we should just archive them and move on. They might have interesting history (or for CC attribution). PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:02, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

  How about we put a soft redirect/interwiki redirect/historical hatnote on the Main Pages of these and delete all the subpages and templates? We should move stuff to the Incubator first if the project wasn't created, as was done for ang.wn. PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:05, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

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Special:ListFiles/Francis Kaswahili

Lots of different camera models, many images in web resolution, some found elsewhere on the Internet (examples: File:Naurastorey.JPEG, File:Around the Impala.JPEG), at least one image (File:Elephant Family.JPEG) with EXIF indicating that it was taken by someone other than the uploader. It's getting a bit tiring to search for all of the user's images on Google, so I suggest that we simply assume that all of the images by this uploader are copyright violations. The images also lack source and licensing information. --Stefan2 (talk) 14:10, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Note Speedy one have gone - they are copyvios IMO too. Off line for a bit but I'll look at the others when I get the time - they are certainly questioable. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:17, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Note The uploader has been building Wikimania 2014 bids/Arusha and this is where all the images are being used. Some are copyvios, but many are being copied from freely licensed media on Wikipedia or already exist on Commons. QuiteUnusual ^TalkQu 16:07, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Comment Maybe we should also check whether the text there is fine. I see that some sections (for example Wikimania 2014 bids/Arusha#About Arusha City) have been copied from w:Arusha (in this case from the section "Industry and economy"), although without acknowledging the source and thus violating the attribution requirement of Wikipedia's Creative Commons licence, since the authors aren't attributed in any way at all. Looking at the history of the page, it seems that text has been deleted from there because of copyright violations. --Stefan2 (talk) 12:42, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

I've removed a few more where the EXIF indicated some ownership that was not acknowledged and some tiny web grab shots. However there are still quite a number of images that at best are not attributed properly unless the uploader has a large number of cameras. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 18:34, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Delete. Nearly all grabbed from the internet: tripadvisor et. al. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:07, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Note I've tagged a few more as copyright violations. Some of the files had been grabbed from Commons or other websites. Not sure what to do with File:The surviving African Hero’s.jpg. Strictly speaking, it is a copyright violation, but it is at the same time being discussed at w:WP:PUF. Not sure if you wish to wait until the discussion ends there. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks again for the work on this - I've deleted the tagged ones now. There are still a few like the ones in hotel bedrooms and a few others that are questionable if only because of the varying EXIF info. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Additionally, all files are missing source and licensing information. --Stefan2 (talk) 12:42, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Progress report? -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:17, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi? -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:30, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

All files in Category:Unfree Wikimania bid media files

Copyright violations. Meta-Wiki does not allow unfree content. Per wmf:Resolution:Licensing policy and the result of a previous request for deletion on fair use files. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:35, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Can't they just be speedily deleted per WM:CSD#G5 or WM:CSD#I1? --Stefan2 (talk) 20:43, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

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