User talk:Seraphimblade
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Hello, Seraphimblade, I saw that you made a draft for a new article at User:Seraphimblade/Dayton, Colorado. Short term hosting of potentially valid articles and other reasonable content under development or in active use is usually acceptable. But in this case, you haven't edited your draft for a long time. If you wish to improve the draft yourself, please do. Otherwise, you may consider donating it to WikiProject Abandoned Drafts (a participant can help). Thank you. Legend of 14 (talk) 15:09, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Probably get back to this at some point, now that DPL has reopened its Western History section. Seraphimblade Talk to me 16:27, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
File:Chatham Waterfront Aerial Hollaway Studio.webp
[edit]Hi Seraphimblade. I came across File:Chatham Waterfront Aerial Hollaway Studio.webp while looking at Special:NewFiles. It's newly uploaded and has a non-free use rationale, but it's missing a non-free license as required by WP:F4. I could add a license or at least ask the uploader to add one, but it might not matter since the file seems to fail WP:FREER and WP:F7. How would you assess this file's non-free use? Does it meet WP:NFCC#1 in your opinion? -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:20, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Marchjuly, I think it fails it by a mile, specifically NFCC #1. The area is still in existence, from what I can find, so freely licensed photos of that area are most certainly possible (and may already exist). The fact that a photo provides a certain perspective on something does not make it "non-replaceable"; since every photo has some distinct perspective, that would in practice mean no photo is ever "replaceable", and that's obviously a silly outcome. Seraphimblade Talk to me 06:52, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for looking at this. FWIW, someone nominated the file for discussion after I posted about it here; so, I guess it will now be resolved via FFD. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:14, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Access for the creation of Mike Okonkwo
[edit]Pls I request that you grant me access to properly create the article Mike Okonkwo. Thank you. Author Street (talk) 09:40, 4 June 2025 (UTC)
- Author Street, please (not "pls") do not use lulztxtspk on my talk page, as requested above. That aside, I will not unprotect the mainspace page, as it has been a frequent spamming target. You may create a draft article at Draft:Mike Okonkwo, and request review by articles for creation. If AfC approves the draft, I will at that point unprotect the mainspace title so that they can move it there. Seraphimblade Talk to me 09:49, 4 June 2025 (UTC)
- Ok Thank you Author Street (talk) 09:56, 4 June 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).
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- An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.
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- A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
- History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.
Arbitration
- An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.
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