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Удаление содержимого

Mihail Burtyka Main Page: 3 октября удалены все страницы вносимые в течение 10 лет. Какая причина? Убедительная просьба все восстановить. Иначе теряется всякий смысл участвовать в конкурсах и т.д. Буртика Михайло Васильович 07:58, 19 October 2025 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mihail Burtyka (talk • contribs) 07:58, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Probably referring to this DR: Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Mihail Burtyka. Nakonana (talk) 15:33, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

 Not done. Ваши файлы удалены как псевдонаучный почти-нонсенс. Викисклад не существет для того, чтобы вам легче было бы участвовать в конкурсах и т.д. Файлы восстанавливают через COM:UDEL. Taivo (talk) 12:44, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Lil Luxe

Hi,

On WD, we've detected promotional edits. All images added by Lil Luxe were used to illustrate his edits, for promotional purposes. Could you please delete all of his pages? This will save me from adding a deletion request to each page. Regards. —Eihel (talk) 20:40, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

 Done Blocked and uploads deleted. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:46, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

User:Zabezt and File:Somali Civil War (Google Live Map).svg

This user has failed to provide ANY sources for his changes, and is presenting incredibly dubious information (such as Somalia controlling ALL of eastern somaliland) all while providing NO sources. WeaponizingArchitecture (talk) 01:12, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Linking user, and providing convenience link to file: User:Zabezt and File:Somali Civil War (Google Live Map).svg.

@WeaponizingArchitecture: Please do not blindside other users by reporting them in ways they are unlikely ever to see. Given that this is a complaint about a user's conduct, it really should have been at COM:ANU and you should have notified them on their user talk page. Jmabel ! talk 15:15, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Sorry for any confusion, this is the source I am using. Although it is definitely in the file’s summary no?

And Somaliland’s current state is pretty well known at this point, (see Las Anod conflict (2023–present) and Khatumo State.) Zabezt (talk) 16:04, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Unresolved issue regarding categorisation

Hello,
We recently had with ARK and Nebula84912, a discussion about “Categorisation of colors on flags” that was started on Nebula84912'talk page and continued on village pump without any follow-up (discussion was archived on october 14th), which is a problem since many files have been categorized in opposition to the existing principle, and thus the abandonment of the discussion suggests that those files are bound to be left as is, i.e. without any reversal or change in either direction.
It looks like additional advices may be required to help resolve this issue, hence the opening of this topic here,
Thank you, --Kontributor 2K (talk) 15:53, 23 October 2025 (UTC)