Commons:Administrators

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This page explains the role of administrators (sometimes called admins or sysops) on Wikimedia Commons. Note that details of the role, and the way in which administrators are appointed, may differ from other sites.

If you want to request administrator help, please post at Administrators' noticeboard.

There are currently 181 administrators on Commons.

Administrators as of December 2024 Listing by: Language • Date • Activity [+/−]

Number of Admins: 181 1234qwer1234qwer4, ru, de-4, en-3 1Veertje, nl, en-4, de-1, fr-1 32X, de, en-2, hsb-1, ru-1 99of9, en (bureaucrat) A.Savin, ru, de-4, en-2 Aafi, ks, ur-5, en-3, hi-2, ar-1 Abzeronow, en, fr-1 Achim55, de, en-3, nds-3, la-2 AFBorchert, de, en-3 Ahonc, uk, ru-4, en-2, de-1 Aka, de, en-3 Alno, fr, en-3, es-2, pt-1 Андрей Романенко, ru, en-3, uk-3, be-2, fr-2, lv-2 Ankry, pl, en-2, ru-1 AnRo0002, de, en-2, fr-2, es-1 Anthere, fr, en-3 AntiCompositeNumber, en, fr-2 (steward) Aude, en, ar-2, de-2, es-3 Auntof6, en, es-2, fr-1 Bastique, en, fr-3, es-2, la-2, fi-1, pl-1 Bedivere, es, en-4, pt-1 Billinghurst, en Blackcat, it, en-3, fr BrightRaven, fr, en-3, nl-2, es-2, zh-1 Butko, ru, uk-2, en-1 Captain-tucker, en Christian Ferrer, fr, en-2, es-2 Ciell, nl, en-2, de-1 Common Good, en CptViraj, gu, hi-4, en-3 (bureaucrat) Cromium, en, de-1, fr-1 Cybularny, pl, en-2, es-1, de-1 Czar, en DaB., de, en-1 DarwIn, pt, en-3, es-2, fr-2, gl-2, ca-1, it-1, oc-1 Davepape, en DerHexer, de, en-3, grc-3, la-3, es-1 (steward) Dharmadhyaksha, mr, en-3, hi-3 DMacks, en Didym, de, en-2, fr-2 Dyolf77, ar, fr-5, en-2, it-1, es-1 D-Kuru, de, en-2, it-1 Ebrahim, en-3 Elcobbola en, de (checkuser) Ellin Beltz, en (bureaucrat) Ellywa, nl, en-2, de-1, fr-1 Emha, de, bar, en-3, fr-1 Érico, pt, en-2, es-1 EugeneZelenko, ru, be, en-2, bg-1, pl-1 (bureaucrat) Explicit, en, es, ko-2 Ezarate, es-3, en-1 Fitindia, en-3, hi-2, mr-2 FunkMonk, da, en-4, no-3, fo-2, sv-2, de-1, es-1 Gbawden, en-3, af-1 Geagea, he, ka-3, en-3, ru-1 Geni, en George Chernilevsky, ru, uk-3, de-2, en-2, bg-1, la-1, be-1, fr-1 Gestumblindi, als, de, en-3 Gnangarra, en, nys-1 GPSLeo, de, en-2 GreenMeansGo, en Grin, hu, en-3, de-1 Hekerui, de, en-4 Herbythyme, en, fr-2, es-1, it-1 Hesperian, en Holly Cheng, en, ja-2 Huntster, en Indeedous, de, en-3, fr-2 Infrogmation, en, es-1 IronGargoyle, en, de-1 Jameslwoodward, en, fr-1 (bureaucrat, checkuser) Jaqen, it, en-2 Jarekt, pl, en Jcornelius, de, lt-2, la-2, en-2, pt-2, fr-1 Jdforrester, en Jean-Frédéric, fr, en-4, es-1 Jianhui67, en, zh-4, ja-2, ms-2 Jmabel, en, es-3, ro-2, de-1, ca-1, it-1, pt-1, fr-1 Joergens.mi, de, en-3 JoKalliauer, de, en-3 Jon Kolbert, en, fr-4, de-2 (steward) Josve05a, sv, en-3 Jusjih, zh, en-3, fr-2, ko-1 Kadı, tr, en-5, fr-2, az-2 Kallerna, fi, en-3, sv-2, de-1 King of Hearts, en, zh-3, es-2, ja-1 Klemen Kocjancic, sl, en-3, de-2, hr-1, bs-1 Krd, de, en-3 (bureaucrat, checkuser) Krinkle, nl, en-3, de-2 Kritzolina, de, en-3, fr-2, it-1 Léna, fr, en-3, es-1 Leyo, gsw, de, en-3, fr-3, es-1, la-1 Lofty abyss, en, mt, it-2 Lymantria, nl, en-3, de-2, fy-2, fr-1, zea-1 Magog the Ogre, en, es-2 Mahagaja, en, de-4, fr-2, ga-2, la-2, cy-1 Maire, pl, en-4, es-2, fr-2, de-2, ru-1 Marcus Cyron, de, en-2 Masur, pl, en-3, de-1 Materialscientist, en-4, ru-4, nl-3, fr-1, es-1 Matrix, en, ta-2 MB-one, de, en-3, fr-1, pt-1 MBisanz, en Mdaniels5757, en, es-1 MGA73, da, en-3, de-2, no-1, sv-1 Mhhossein, fa, en-3, ar-1 Micheletb, fr, en-3, it-1, es-1 Mike Peel, en, pt-2, fr-1 Minorax, en, zh (oversighter) Missvain, en Mitchazenia, en, es-2 Miya, ja, en-2 Moheen, bn, as-1, bpy-1, en-3, hi-1, hif-1 Morgankevinj, en MPF, en, da-2, de-1, fr-1 Multichill, nl, en-3, de-1, fr-1 Mys 721tx, zh, en-3 Nagy, de, en-3, fr-2, es-1, sv-1 NahidSultan, bn, en-3, bpy-1 Natuur12, nl, en-3, de-1 notafish, fr, en-4, de-3, es-2, it-2 odder, pl, en-4, de-2 (bureaucrat, oversighter) P199, en, nl, fr-2, tl-2, de-1 Pi.1415926535, en, es-2 Platonides, es, en-2, fr-1 Poco a poco, es, de-4, en-3, fr-2, it-2, pl-2, pt-1 Podzemnik, cs, en-2 Polarlys, de, en-2, fr-1, no-1 Pyb, fr, en-2 Pymouss, fr, en-3, de-2, it-2, he-1 Racconish, fr, en-4 Ragesoss, en, de-1, fr-1 Ra'ike, de, en-2 Rastrojo, es, en-3, fr-2, eo-1 Raymond, de, en-3, nl-1 (oversighter) Red-tailed hawk, en, es-4, pt-2, ug-1 Regasterios, hu, en-1 Rehman, en, si-1 Reinhard Kraasch, de, en-3 Revi C., ko, en-3 Rimshot, de, en-4, fr-2, it-1 Romaine, nl, en-3, de-2, af-1, fr-1 Rosenzweig, de, en-3, fr-1, la-1 Royalbroil, en, es-1 RP88, en, de-1 Rudolphous, nl, en-3, de-2 Ruthven, it, fr, en-4, es-4, nap-4, ca-2, de-1 Sadads, en, es-3 Sanandros, als, de, en-3, fr-1 Satdeep Gill, pa, en-5, hi-5, es-3, fr-2, fa-1 Shizhao, zh, en-1, ru-1 Spiritia, bg, en-3, ru-2, mk-2, de-1 Sreejithk2000, ml, en-3, hi-3, ta-1, kn-1 Steinsplitter, bar, de-4, it-3, en-1 Stifle, en, ga, fr-2, de-1 Storkk, en, fr-3, de-2, eo-2 Strakhov, es, en-2 TadejM, sl, en-3, de-2, fr-2 Taivo, et, en-3, ru-3, de-1 Teles, pt, en-3, es-2 Themightyquill, en, fr-2, de-1, hu-1 The Squirrel Conspiracy, en Thibaut120094, fr, en-2, ja-1 Thuresson, sv, en-3, no-2 Triplec85, de, en-3, fr-1, hr-1, la-1 Tulsi, ne, mai, en-3, hi-2, hif-2, bh-1 Túrelio, de, en-3, es-1 VIGNERON, fr, de-2, en-2, zh-1 Wdwd, de, en-2 Well-Informed Optimist, ru, uk-4, en-3 Wikitanvir, bn, en-3, de-2, as-2, bpy-1 Wutsje, fy, nl, en-3, de-2, fr-1 Yann, fr, en-4, hi-2, gu-1 Yasu, ja, en-2, de-1 Ymblanter, ru, en-3, de-2, fr-2, nl-2, it-1, es-1 Yuval CT, he, en-3 Zzyzx11, en, es-1, fr-1 علاء, ar, en-4, he-1, es-1 (steward) Abuse filter, (automated account) CommonsDelinker, (bot) see request KrinkleBot, (bot) see request If 181 is not the last number on this list, there may be an error or there are some users assigned temporarily.

Administrators are users with the technical ability on Wikimedia Commons to:

• delete and undelete images and other uploaded files, and to view and restore deleted versions
• delete and undelete pages, and to view and restore deleted revisions
• protect and unprotect pages, and to edit admin-protected pages
• block and unblock users, individual IP addresses and IP address ranges
• edit less-restricted interface messages (see also Commons:Interface administrators)
• rename files
• add and remove user groups
• configure Upload Wizard campaigns
• delete and undelete specific log entries and revisions of pages
• import pages from other wikis
• merge the history of pages
• modify abuse filters
• not create redirects from source pages when moving pages
• override the spoofing checks and title or username blacklist
• send a message to multiple users at once (massmessage)
• use higher limits in API queries

These are collectively known as the admin tools.

Administrators are experienced and trusted members of the Commons community who have taken on additional maintenance work and have been entrusted with the admin tools by public consensus/vote. Different admins have different areas of interest and expertise, but typical admin tasks include determining and closing deletion requests, deleting copyright violations, undeleting files where necessary, protecting Commons against vandalism, and working on templates and other protected pages. Of course, some of these tasks can be done by non-admins as well.

Administrators are expected to understand the goals of this project, and be prepared to work constructively with others towards those ends. Administrators should also understand and follow Commons' policies, and where appropriate, respect community consensus.

Apart from roles which require use of the admin tools, administrators have no special editorial authority by virtue of their position, and in discussions and public votes their contributions are treated in the same way as any ordinary editor. Some admins may become more influential, not due to their position as such, but from the personal trust they may have gained from the community.

Please read Commons:Guide to adminship.

Under the de-admin policy, administrator rights may be revoked due to inactivity or misuse of sysop tools. In a de-admin request, normal standards for determining consensus in an RfA do not apply. Instead, "majority consensus" should be used, whereby any consensus to demote of higher than 50% is sufficient to remove the admin.

All intending administrators must go through this process and submit themselves to RFA, including all ex-administrators who are seeking to return to their previous role.

First, go to Commons:Administrators/Howto and read the information there. Then come back here and make your request in the section below.

• After clicking the appropriate button and creating the subpage, copy the link to the subpage, e.g. "Commons:Administrators/Requests/Username", edit Commons:Administrators/Requests and paste it in at the top of the section, then put it in double curly brackets (e.g. {{Commons:Administrators/Requests/Username}}) to transclude it. Request a watchlist notice at MediaWiki talk:WatchlistNotice, or edit MediaWiki:WatchlistNotice to put up one if you are an administrator.

• If someone else nominated you, please accept the nomination by stating "I accept" or something similar, and signing below the nomination itself. The subpage will still need to be transcluded by you or your nominator.

Use the box below, replacing Username with your username:

Any registered user may vote here although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted. It is preferable you give reasons for both Support and Oppose votes as this will help the closing bureaucrat in their decision. Greater weight is given to an argument, with supporting evidence if needed, than to a simple vote.

Promotion normally requires at least 75% in favour, with a minimum of 8 support votes. Votes from unregistered users are not counted. However, the closing bureaucrat has discretion in judging community consensus, and the decision will not necessarily be based on the raw numbers. Bureaucrats may, at their discretion, extend the period of an RfA if they feel that it will be helpful in better determining community consensus.

 Neutral comments are not counted in the vote totals for the purposes of calculating pass/fail percentages. However, such comments are part of the discussion, may persuade others, and contribute to the closing bureaucrat's understanding of community consensus.

Purge the cache Use the edit link below to edit the transcluded page.

When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Administrators/Archive.

• Please read Commons:Administrators before voting here. Any logged in user may vote although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

Related requests:

• Administrators/Requests/Iwaqarhashmi

Vote

Iwaqarhashmi (talk · contributions (views) · deleted user contributions · recent activity (talk · project · deletion requests) · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)

Scheduled to end: 15:59, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

I am glad to propose Iwaqarhashmi for adminship on Wikimedia Commons. He has fair number of edits, although relatively less on the uploading-side, but he has been actively patrolling areas like COM:RFR, and significantly works in the areas of file-renaming and license reviewing. Good at communication, and net-positive. The temperament that Waqar possesses is something that I usually look at when supporting anyone for adminship. Besides all of this, I believe Waqar's diplomatic and balanced approach, is good for the community in managing conflicts between users. Additionally, the languages he knows, would be a great addition to admin team. Waqar, Kindly indicate your acceptance, and tell the community about the areas where you can offer your support _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 15:59, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am honored to nominate Iwaquarhashimi for the mop. Waqar is fluent in Punjab and Urdu, languages with only one admin speaker ( Satdeep Gill and Aafi respectively), a huge boon for new users. Waquar consistently demonstrates his commitment by actively reviewing candidates at RFR and frequently engaging in LR requests, Areas he plans on staying active in. Waqar always accompanies his input with clear rationale and sound judgment. Additionally, he contributes to DR on occasion and often stands as the sole commenter beside the nominator. Notably, this is the first non-admin nomination since Gbawden's nomination by 1989 in 2019, and to my knowledge, it marks the first RFA where a user has both an admin and a non-admin nominator in over a decade. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 23:55, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination acceptance: I am truly honored and thank you so much for nominating me. I wholeheartedly accept this nomination and look forward to contributing more to the project. The areas where I've been generally willing to participate and help would be CAT:CSD (deleting images that are the candidates for speedy deletion), COM:RFR (reviewing requests), COM:DR (closing deletion requests), CAT:U (deleting images with license issues), COM:AN (helping at the administrators' noticeboard), and COM:RFPP (dealing with reports and protection requests). I'd like to say that the Commons community has always been very supportive and helpful to me. I've learned lots of good things in the past few months here. It'd be an honor for me to contribute more to this community, and I'd always try my best to be sincere and helpful to everyone as much as possible. Thank you! Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 20:11, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

•  Support Good DR work. (Please don't stop that.) --Krd 16:24, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• if Krd OK, im OK too.  Weak support. why weak support? i dont know really too much about him. but he is doing good work. but also, maybe? sometimes makes these kind of comments. but still, he is good. he will improve. modern_primat ^{ඞඞඞ ----TALK} 19:54, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Good candidate. Yann (talk) 19:55, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support 1989 (talk) 20:08, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Would definitely do good work as an admin. Abzeronow (talk) 20:15, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Weak support, with regret that it's weak. While I appreciate what Waqar does, he has always struck me as moving too fast and being a bit of a hat collector, going from only having reviewer and rollbacker on enwiki to having pretty much every non-admin right on both Commons and enwiki and being a VRT agent in 7 months. While we shouldn't be importing enwiki drama, his withdrawn enwiki admin candidacy from last month is also telling: while I'm sorry that Saqib's comment made Waqar heartbroken, it was not a personal attack, which gives me pause on Waqar's temperament. Overall, I'm a weak support, although I could swing either way. Queen of Hearts (talk) 20:38, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, enwiki is a completely different project, but since you've discussed it, I'd like to make some things clear here. My admin candidacy was 2 months ago, not last month. Also, I didn't plan to apply beforehand and wasn't ready for it at that time. It was an experimental process, and I just tried it out without thinking much about it, and I accept it was my biggest mistake ever. But I learned a lot from it and changed my approach. I wasn't hat collecting, but moving too fast is something I agree with and realized I shouldn't have been doing and stopped since then. I'm glad you brought Saqib here. Saqib is long known for harassing users on enwiki. He was the first one to withdraw his adminship request after facing backlash and was blocked indefinitely on enwiki shortly after and is now globally locked this month. Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 07:14, 15 December 2024 (UTC) [reply]

•  Support Iwaqarhashmi has been highly active in DR lately, adding comments to hundreds of open nominations. That's a good thing, because a lot of nominations never get a second pair of eyes. Overall, I would say that Iwaqarhashmi gets it right 99% of the time, but I've seen a handful of cases where they miss an important detail and vote delete for a file that should be kept. I can't find the specific DRs because there's such a high volume, but I recall a handful of times where a file was legitimately in use that they said was out of scope. This is almost certainly going to be a successful RfA (which, again, I'm supporting), so my advice to the candidate is that once you're the one clicking delete, just make sure you take your time and check. As bad as the DR backlog is, it's better to take more time and close less discussions than to delete files that should be kept. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 20:41, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 21:00, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--UltimoGrimm (talk) 21:19, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Neutral per Queen of Hearts. Bedivere (talk) 21:49, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support I've been working together on deletion discussions and file moves lately and it's always been goal- and result-orientated interactions. Positive impression. --Msb (talk) 22:06, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose (might reconsider) I believe Waqar works with good intention, but in addition to what QoH said above, I've noticed that Waqar only participates in deletion requests the outcome of which is obvious (i.e. clear project scope issues, blurry, duplicates, FoP), never in DRs that require extra reasoning. The votes at majority of times are mere repetition of nominations e.g. "not in scope", "per nom", "blurry". While his participation is welcome, but this behaviour does seem GAMEy (at least to me). Similar GAMEy vote pattern was noted in his enwiki admin elections. Additionally, there is far less contributions on the content side and COM:TOYS issue as early as 27 July 2024. Ratekreel (talk) 22:23, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  I don’t think GAMEy is the right term, giving the meaning of it is to disrupt the project, which is the complete opposite of his contributions here. 1989 (talk) 22:32, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  It may sound harsh but I don't mean it literally. I'm just referring to the behaviour. Ratekreel (talk) 23:04, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  In addition to what I said above, I'd also note here that Waqar were granted TE on on 22 October and his last edit in template and associated namespaces is on 24 October. Ratekreel (talk) 06:01, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

•  Support as co-nom. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 00:02, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support as nom. Acknowledging that I had forgotten to drop of my own endorsement for the candidate and would advise that Waqar takes cognizance of TSC's advise. But over-all, he is net-positive. Else, as Abzeronow said, he would do good as an admin. For what Ratekreel and QoH bring, although this was also my initial thought (hat-collecting) - but I'm more occupied with the belief that Waqar has been beneficial to the project. All the best. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 03:58, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• I'll wait until Waqar accepts to vote (which would be a yes vote.) Abzeronow (talk) 19:00, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Abzeronow: I've accepted the nomination. Thank you :) Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 20:15, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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• Waqar, thanks for running. A couple of questions from me:

1. A user uploads a high quality photograph of a painting by an Indian painter (author unknown until 1997) who died in 1950. The painting had remained unpublished and was discovered and published in the US in 1997. Do you think the file can be hosted on Commons and under which conditions? What relevant policies of Commons apply here and which template should be used, if it can be hosted?
2. A user uploads a digital 3D rendering image of an ancient Greek statue that is in the public domain. Would this file be considered a derivative work and acceptable on Commons? How would you justify your decision?
3. Since you're very active in file renaming, I'd like to ask what do you think is the relevance of COM:File naming when renaming files?

Ratekreel (talk) 20:25, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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maybe you can see this as cliche, but how about indef ban? when and how you will indef ban accounts? and how about ban appeals? if an indef banned account makes appeal that he says "im sorry, never again" will you accept it? whatever he was, troll, sockpuppet, vandal, copyvio.lators... or will you trust him after say "im sorry"? man.. i got emotional. modern_primat ^{ඞඞඞ ----TALK} 21:58, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Related requests:

• Administrators/Requests/Adygrafix250

Vote

Adygrafix250 (talk · contributions (views) · deleted user contributions · recent activity (talk · project · deletion requests) · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)

Scheduled to end: 23:43, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

I am applying to become a Wiki commons administrator to address the challenges facing the Rwandan Wikimedia community. As a native speaker of Kinyarwanda, I have noticed numerous mistakes and inconsistencies on commons that undermine the quality and accuracy of its content. Unfortunately, there are currently no administrators from Rwanda who are proficient in Kinyarwanda and understand the cultural nuances required to manage and curate this vital resource effectively. By becoming an administrator, I aim to enhance the credibility of the platform by ensuring accurate edits, combating vandalism, and fostering a supportive environment for contributors. My passion for knowledge-sharing and dedication to promoting Kinyarwanda make me eager to serve the Wikipedia community in this role. (a short statement why you (or this person) should be an admin...) Your signature's timestamp for a self-nom is when the candidacy starts. For non-self-noms, the candidate should "accept" with a short statement and sign it... that timestamp is when the candidacy starts... Adygrafix250 (talk) 23:43, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

•  Oppose Just a terrible nomination. When a self-nom candidate cannot even rightly format their own RfA, I can't support. Thanks for the passion, nonetheless. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 05:40, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose I don't see why you'd need the mop in order to fix the mistakes and inconsistencies you've mentioned. I also don't see any edits in your edit history indicating that you've already done work in those areas. Almost all of your edits are uploads or edits to your uploads - there's no vandalism fighting, no creating/editing translations, very minimal activity in DR, etcetera. Finally, I have concerns that a significant number your those uploads - everything in the Kandt House Museum series - may be COM:FOP Rwanda violations. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 05:57, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose I'm sorry, but you do not have the level of experience or involvement in Commons processes that is expected of an administrator. You also seem uncertain of whether you're applying for adminship on Commons or Wikipedia; they are not the same. Omphalographer (talk) 06:11, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose insufficient experience, sorry. Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 07:12, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose No experience.--A09 (talk) 12:28, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose Very insufficient experience. --Prototyperspective (talk) 12:33, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose per above --TenWhile6 12:37, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose The RfA candidate has written that By becoming an administrator, I aim to enhance the credibility of the platform by ensuring accurate edits, combating vandalism, and fostering a supportive environment for contributors and that the candidate has noticed numerous mistakes and inconsistencies on commons with respect to Kinyarwanda content. It might be true that we are handling Kinyarwanda content poorly, and I don't doubt that having more people with native knowledge of that language would be quite helpful in improving the Commons—doing this is a noble goal, and I would like to thank the RfA candidate for this. But if the candidate wants to help fix these inconsistencies, then the candidate already has the power to do this as a normal editor—one does not need to be an administrator to fix captions and revert vandalism. As such, I would encourage the candidate to do this as a normal editor, and work towards the goal of improving Kinyarwanda content. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 14:40, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose per above - we would always appreciate your help over at rwwiki though! Ternera (talk) 14:46, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose per Aafi. Self-portrait on userpage looks like AI-generated? --A.Savin 16:12, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose Seemingly a ChatGPT nom. --Bedivere (talk) 16:13, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

   Agree 100% AI generated probability according to GPTZero. Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 16:41, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

•  Oppose Per Bediviere, Waqar, Aafi, Red Tailed Hawk, and The Squirrel Conspiracy. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 16:40, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose I appreciate the enthusiasm of the candidate, but they need experience, and substituting a poor grasp of English with ChatGPT is just tacky. Bastique ^{☎ let's talk!} 01:51, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose Experience could advance! N. LA LÉGENDE (talk) 14:32, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose With less than a year of experience and few contributions overall, that doesn't make sense at the moment. There is a lack of experience. And: See a comment with question below. -- Triple C 85 ^{| User talk |} 19:32, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose and speedy close. Thanks for volunteering but this I way too early.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 22:56, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  there is no speedy close, it says ""Scheduled to end: 23:43, 17 December 2024 (UTC)"". modern_primat ^{ඞඞඞ ----TALK} 21:43, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Modern primat, COM:SNOW is invoked to close a discussion early rather than allowing it run its full course. Ratekreel (talk) 22:54, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  no. modern_primat ^{ඞඞඞ ----TALK} 22:56, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  No need to snow close this, it's a legitimate RfA. Abzeronow (talk) 23:16, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Perhaps legitimate, but there is no way this is rebounding from eighteen opposes and only one (moral) support, and keeping this open longer just further hurts the candidate. But this isn't a discussion on if RfAs should be speedy closed (although they absolutely should IMO). Queen of Hearts (talk) 01:55, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  I agree with QoH - when there's no scope of passing, no need to hang around. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 04:21, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

•  Support just because morale help. modern_primat ^{ඞඞඞ ----TALK} 21:46, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose AI-generated nomination is a big NO for me. --A1Cafel (talk) 04:55, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• """As a native speaker of Kinyarwanda""" please check COM:FR. we need more people for this area. before requesting file renaming user right please be sure you did good file renaming requests according to policies. modern_primat ^{ඞඞඞ ----TALK} 14:45, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • They appear to fit the criteria for file mover in number of edits. FM requests that they made from September look good to me Abzeronow (talk) 18:34, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

     Agree with Abzeronow. Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 20:13, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• @Adygrafix250: What were you thinking - just 3 months ago - with this edit: [1]? You have deleted almost the entire main Galleries page (−12.467) and replaced it with content that is useless for this page. It was reverted with the comment This looks very much to be violation. In other words: Vandalism. An administrator should prevent vandalism, not cause it. Greets -- Triple C 85 ^{| User talk |} 19:42, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Vandalism requires intent. To me that looks like a test edit by a then-still-inexperienced user, presumably with the intent of setting that up where it's supposed to be (which is not where the edit was actually made). Still not a great look, but not vandalism. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 20:34, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I don't want to assume any intention either. Just wondering what he was thinking. At this point he had already been logged in for a few months and already had around 1000 edits. Then why a test on the main page? -- Triple C 85 ^{| User talk |} 21:09, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Question suppose an image of one of the sculptures of recent Rwanda Genocide Museum, which was submitted as part of a recent (let's say, 2024) edition of Wiki Loves Monuments in Rwanda. It has all proper image licensing and cleared by the organizing team of WLM-Rwanda. However, there is no explicit COM:VRTS tag for the image (no indication of permission from the sculptor). Rwanda does not permit commercial Freedom of Panorama. What would be your response/action on it? JWilz12345 (Talk|Contributions) 01:58, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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