Commons talk:Deletion requests

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Deletions of batch uploads

Hello Commons admins!

The EditGroups tool tracks batch editing, including batch uploads. So far, it only allowed people to undo regular edits, not uploads, but I think it would be worth adding that, to make sure Commons admins are able to delete erroneous uploads easily. For all Commons tools that let EditGroups track their edits, you can reach the page about the edit group by clicking the "(details)" link in the summary of any edit in the group.

I have two requests about that:

• would any Commons admin volunteer to test the feature? Perhaps there are existing faulty batches (as in, batch uploads from OpenRefine where no license was added at all) that you could try deleting with the tool, or I could make a small one (only uploading a single media file, say).
• on Wikidata, this feature has been used for quite some time already, and regular users are able to request the deletion of a batch fairly easily, as follows:

• Log in to Wikidata's EditGroups instance
• Go to a batch that creates new entities, such as https://editgroups.toolforge.org/b/QSv2T/1698262804338/
• Click "Ask an admin to undo"
• This takes you to the page where deletions are requested, directly in editing mode to create a new section, with pre-filled information about the batch you want to undo.

We could enable the following for Commons, the problem is that you don't seem to have an equivalent of d:Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions. Where should the tool point users to instead? For now it's pointing to Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard, but that's probably not ideal.

Let me know what you think. − Pintoch (talk) 19:54, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

@Pintoch: That is the best place on Commons for such a request, unless you want the tool to create a DR or a new place can be specified and watched by lots of Admins.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 16:28, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

How do I find the deletion request is indexed?

I am trying to find what date was assigned to Commons:Deletion requests/File:Immanuel Estermann.jpg. It does not seem to be indexed here under 29 August. ReyHahn (talk) 15:11, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

See Special:WhatLinksHere/Commons:Deletion requests/File:Immanuel Estermann.jpg. Yann (talk) 15:18, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

@ReyHahn: It was 29 August - currently the third DR transcluded on Commons:Deletion requests/2023/08/29.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:44, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

O thank you all. But then why does this page only links to DRs from October on? and why is it not in Commons:Deletion requests/2023/08?--ReyHahn (talk) 15:50, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

@ReyHahn: Open DRs older than October are in a different section, Commons:Deletion requests#Open requests, as they may be closed at will by Admins. Commons:Deletion requests/2023/08 is too full right now to show everything, it only shows up to the first four requests on August 21 and is automatically in Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded. It should show all of August 29 after the first nine or so days' requests are cleared. Sadly, this is just the way it is until phab:T189108 et al are approved and implemented (not likely given this best reply). Or copyright violators slow down significantly.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 16:04, 22 November 2023 (UTC)