User talk:Adamant1

WEBHOST

Hi, You can tag abuse of COM:WEBHOST as speedy deletion, i.e. Commons:Deletion requests/File:Major KB.jpg, and also warn the uploader ([1]). Regards, Yann (talk) 15:48, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. I wasn't aware that was an option. I'll try to do it that way in the future. --Adamant1 (talk) 16:03, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not make any edits on my user page

Hello Adamant1, I hereby ask you not to make any changes to my user page or its subpages. Many thanks and best regards --Joachim Köhler (talk) 18:12, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Joachim Köhler: I don't think I've edited your user page. So what are you talking about and/or what does this have to do with? Otherwise sure, I'll keep not doing something I wasn't doing to begin with. --Adamant1 (talk) 00:56, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) presumably https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Joachim_K%C3%B6hler/Photo_credit_box1&diff=prev&oldid=906312715. I understand the project you were up to, but this does not look like an appropriate edit. People are permitted to use the word "postcard". - Jmabel ! talk 02:33, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel: Sure. But the usage in a template caused it to be added to thousands of files that were screwing with a search and there's no specific reason the template had to say "postcard." Is there a rule about what exactly a template has to say or one against people editing them just because they were created by another user? I was under the impression users don't own the content they upload or create on here. Like if I were to create a licensing template involving a list of random words that have nothing to do with anything for no other reason then I can would that be totally OK and un-editable by anyone else? --Adamant1 (talk) 02:37, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You could have discussed it with him but this was not "random", it was quite to the point. And, yes, as long as you are an active contributor (or even a past contributor, and not blocked) you do more or less "own" what is in your user space, as long as it doesn't outright violate policy (e.g. you don't get to make personal attacks there, or violate copyrights). This is why people are free to delete things from their own user talk page, even to the point of somewhat obscuring the fact that they've had a lot of warnings. For example, it would not be anyone else's prerogative to change which picture of a particular person I chose for User:Jmabel/People, or to change one of the descriptions there. - Jmabel ! talk 02:50, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And I understand how this was inconvenient for you, but it isn't as if you had been given mandate and permission to run roughshod over other user's pages to achieve your goal. - Jmabel ! talk 02:54, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel: Sure, I could have discussed it with him. Someone else modified their template to remove the word and I was under pressure to get rid of the maintenance templates at the time. So I didn't think it would matter that much since it was a fairly superficial change. It's not that it was an "inconvenience." It literally got in the way of curating images. So don't make this about my feelings.

Regardless, I don't consider templates that are used on thousands of files to be sacred cows. Nor are they IMO akin to something like a persons talk page, which I wouldn't modify since they don't effect other places on the project outside of the user space. At least IMO any time someone does something that has broad consequences that effect other people's ability to contribute to the project then it's fair game. Of course there's a balance there. I wouldn't have modified the template to get rid of a random word that had no effect on anything. If I ever create a template that has an impact on thousands of pages and fucks with other people's ability to do their work be my guest and change it. I'm not that much of a self-entitled control freak. --Adamant1 (talk) 03:01, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Historical images

What is this new thing of deleting the "Historical images" categories? Is there a discusssion about it? Thank you Sailko (talk) 13:36, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]