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Current time: Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 13:27 (UTC)

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Australian road signs[edit]

Hi, I was wondering if your opinion on the Australian road sign copyright issue [1] still is the same, or whether you would support moving those images to Commons. Rs chen 7754 18:23, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Rschen7754: Yes, I still think the roadsigns are ineligible for copyright. At least those that are just letters and numbers. --MGA73 (talk) 19:38, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your InternetArchiveBot run appears to be stuck[edit]

Hai! InternetArchiveBot run #14870 (submitted by you) seems to be going very wonky - it says it's run through the full list of pages, but apparently hasn't realized that it needs to finish the job and release its bot worker for other use. Could you maybe try manually killing the job and see if that clears up the issue? Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 20:38, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I just killed it. Hope it helps. MGA73 (talk) 15:20, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It has indeed - thanx! :-) Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 16:25, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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PROD'd files[edit]

Hello, MGA73,

Recently, you have PROD'd some files with an argument that they didn't need to be kept "local"as there were similar or identical images on the Commons. While I believe this is a valid justification, I and other admins are now deleting these files 7 days later and I can't help but notice that these local files were not replaced by the images on the Commons. For example, several of the files are/were on Butler matrixY but they were not substituted with files from the Commons so the images are just gone and not replaced. Can you take care of this for all of the files deleted for being local that you tagged for Proposed deletion? You can replace the images when you tag the files, not only after thy have been deleted. Thank you for following through and taking care of this. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:43, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz:! I try to be very careful not to tag files unless they are on Commons and I also try to make sure to replace usage if the file have a different name on Commons. But mistakes can of course happen. However, I checked Butler matrix and I do not see the problem. If I restore the version before you commented out the files it looks fine to me. I wonder if there is some time lag before the page update (so a purge or a null edit is needed). Could you check if you still see a problem? --MGA73 (talk) 18:53, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz:! I noticed that you commented out a few more files. This is really strange because when I look at the old version (and remove the out comment) the files work fine. I think this is just a time lag. If it happens again perhaps you could try to make a null edit or purge the page before you comment out the files? --MGA73 (talk) 20:56, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]