User talk:MECU

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If I marked an image of yours and you do not oppose the deletion, you do not need to notify me. If I marked the image as replaceable fair use, you need to follow the directions on the tag to dispute it. Providing your dispute here will not help you; though notifying me that you are disputing the tag will be appreciated. If I have tagged it as missing a source or missing a copyright tag and you have added the required information, just remove the deletion tag. Take care, though, that you have added a full source, not just "I got this from their website". If I have nominated a freely licensed orphaned image for deletion at WP:IFD and you feel that it might be useful somewhere sometime just not right here, right now, see directions for moving it to Wikimedia Commons. If you are here to give me a notice about a fair use image that I "uploaded" and you are marking orphaned, no rationale, or any other tag, I am most likely NOT the author. If you look on the history tag of the image, you will see the uploader as the first edit, and where I later fair use reduced the image which then requires I upload the image and past versions deleted making it look like I uploaded it. Please contact the author. I don't care about the images so leaving me a notice isn't notifying the uploader who likely would care and take action.

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Adoption

Hello, I did not know if you are currently adopting wikipeople. I am trying to get my articles to GA and FA status, such as East Carolina University. But I would like to learn more about other aspects of wikipedia. We have some of the same interest so I believe it will be a good match. Thanks in advance, PGPirate

April Ryan

Hello, I'm here to inquire about the artwork of April Ryan that you recently deleted. I'm positive that I don't recall it being tagged for deletion at any point before the 5 of July (which was when I last logged in), and although I admit that preliminary tagging is not required to just go and delete an image without a FU rationale, the uploader should generally be given a chance of correcting their carelessness, shouldn't they? Thus, I would like to reupload the image with an appropriate FU rationale, if you don't have anything against that. :) --Koveras ^☭ 15:09, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Little help on Commons?

Hi. I have modified the script and am almost ready for asking for permission and running a little test. Unfortunately, I will be busy until the middle of next week. In the meantime, do you think commons:Template:Unknown subcategory starter will be ok as a subcategory starter (parameters 1/2/3 will be year/month/day)? Tizio 16:42, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Page Benoit

Would you please protect the page Benoit from IP edits again. Anon editors seem to enjoy changing the page without any discussion or reason. CraigMonroe 20:27, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Your tool

Dude, your image-tagging tool rocks my world. Hard. Thanks! – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 15:12, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

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OTRS

Mecu, is the "permissions-en" section at OTRS backlogged? Haven't seen any updates lately to images whose license permissions I've sent in (User:Videmus Omnia/Free Images). I'm not complaining - just fairly new to using WP:ERP and want to make sure there's no problem on my end. Semper Fi - Videmus Omnia 00:49, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes. The permissions total queue was down to 200 a few weeks ago and has ballooned up to 400, mostly in the permissions-en queue. If there's a critical image that needs attention due to possible deletion or something else, I can look into it, but otherwise, the queue is slow and always backlogged and I've been busy at work and football is starting up so I have less time for WP. MECU≈talk 02:15, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Like I said, not complaining, just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong. Videmus Omnia 02:22, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

OTRS letters

Hi Mecu. This post might seem like its coming from nowhere, and it might be, so bear with me. Recently, User:Zscout370 reviewed some GFDL permission letters I sent to the OTRS system and deemed the letters to be "faked." Consequently, User:Jeffrey O. Gustafson deleted 6 images which I had documented permission for, since Zscout370 had estimated my letters to be forged. Jeffrey O. Gustafson does not actually have OTRS access, and apparently deleted the images solely based on Zscout370's accusation. Well, long story short, they weren't faked, and I have been able to get 4 of the 6 images restored by Zscout370. The remaining two image:Bob Ostertag.jpg and image:Cool Calm Pete.jpg were deleted presumably before the OTRS correspondences could be reviewed properly, and so Zscout370 doesn't want to restore them. (I guess just because reviewing the OTRS documents is not what he usually does). During this process, he referred me to you, since apparently you've reviewed my GFDL permission letters before, and that you might instead be able to restore the images, review the letters, and tag the images appropriately. I know it seems like out of nowhere that I am asking you this, but Zscout370 thought you'd be the person to talk to. If that is possible then great, if not perhaps you might be able to suggest another course of action for myself or Zscout370. Thanks for your time either way. Drewcifer3000 08:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey Mecu, thanks for the response. I don't know of any ticket number unfortunately. Would you prefer if I was to just re-upload the picture, so that anyone can take a look at the email when the time comes? It just seems like a potentially sticky situation since they were already deleted once. Whatever you think is most appropriate. Thanks again. Drewcifer3000 22:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good. Thanks for your time. Drewcifer3000 22:56, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

A little help

I've been going through a lot of band pages and have been removing album images on artist pages in discographies and have been tagging images with {{subst:rfu}}, {{subst:nsd}}, and {{subst:nrd}}. I came across an image Image:Bobby-dall-2004b.jpg where the uploader released it under a CC license when it's obvious that it's not his because he links right to the source. Can't this be speedily deleted? The only thing I can find what to do with this is to put it up for images for deletion, which is a huge pain for what I'm doing right now. Just wondering if there was a tag or something that I could quick add while I'm browsing through all these articles. Thank you for your time, I think you like responding on your own page, so if you could do that, that'd be great.++aviper2k7++ 03:04, 13 July 2007 (UTC)