User talk:Tvpuppy

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Announcing the Winners of Picture of the Year 2025!

Hi everyone,

Wikimedia Commons is pleased to finally announce the winners of this year's Picture of the Year 2025 contest! We had some truly incredible finalists to choose from, but the community has spoken.

Here are your top three winning images:

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  First place: The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023, leaving widespread destruction in the Rimal area.
  Attribution: WAFA (Q2915969) / CC-BY-SA 3.0
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  Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia.
  Attribution: Giles Laurent / CC-BY-SA 4.0
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  Third place: A gigantic jet photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers.
  Attribution: public domain

You can view the full results and see where all your favorite images placed here: Full 2025 Results

I also want to highlight what an incredible turnout we had. In the second round, we saw a massive jump in both the number of users voting and the total votes cast. We had exactly 13,979 votes cast by 3,509 users! To put that in perspective, last year we had 7,403 votes from 2,837 users. It is amazing to see that level of growth and community engagement.

Thank you to everyone who voted, helped organize, and generally made the contest such a huge success this year!

Regards,
ZI Jony
For the POTY Committee 20:03, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Warning template

Could you make a warning template that asks users to remember to tag their files with Wikimedia Commons content descriptor (P14416) in the structured data? You can read more about the property at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikimedia_Commons_content_descriptor --Trade (talk) 05:35, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Trade, apologies but this is the first time I have heard about this property, so I don't really understand. Can you help me with my questions below?

1. Is this property only for certain NSFW files, and not for the regular files?

   (I assume it is only for files relating to these 4 contents: "Sexual acts", "Sexualized nudity, erotica or ecchi", "Graphic violence, bodily mutilation or corpses" and "Medical or surgical gore")

2. Is this property optional for these NSFW files?

   (I can't find where it said this property is a requirement)

3. You have mentioned in the Wikidata discussion that usage of this property can be discussed in "the Gadget talk page or have a dedicated project page". Which talk page is this?
4. You mentioned above that the warning template should "asks users to remember to tag their files", so is this property only meant for uploaders to add to their files? Can other users add this property to the files as well?

Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 09:15, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Have you considered Template editor?

Just out of curiosity, have you considered getting Template editor right? This is not the first time I've seen you with templates. If you apply, I would be happy to support or maybe I can apply on your behalf, a kind of nomination. Shaan Sengupta^Talk 16:19, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Shaan Sengupta, thank you for your supportive message and offer.

I have only been doing template work occasionally (0.8% of total edits), and even less often for protected templates (I think I have requested 8 edit-requests for templates so far). At the moment, I don't think I need the right for my current workflow, and I don't think I am going to be more active in template work. So, I feel comfortable to just request an edit-request when I need it, hence I'm not currently planning to get this right.

Still, I greatly appreciate for your message, so thank you once again. Tvpuppy (talk) 17:07, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

My photos were deleted.

WHy did this guy delete my photos? I thought this was straightened out? What is the issue? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_uploaded_by_MoonsMoon

Edit - Resolved, sorry.

MoonsMoon MoonsMoon 18:08, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

A Thank you, you made me learn something nice

Hello Tvpuppy,

because you wrote this, I managed to learn a really helpful way to use VFC that I was not aware of. I did think that I had to use RegEx manually, not that there was such a functionality built in. Thank you! Grand-Duc (talk) 19:38, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Great to know it is helpful to you! Tvpuppy (talk) 23:45, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Adminship

Hi, I see that you are a regular editor here with already advanced rights. Why don't you candidate for adminship? We are in dire demand for admin work, and you could help. Regards, Yann (talk) 10:20, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your offer, and I really appreciate it. However, I honestly don't think I'm ready for adminship yet, as personally I think I need more experience before becoming an admin. Also, I am comfortable with my current level of workload, so at the moment I don't have much interest to increase it. Thank you once again. Tvpuppy (talk) 13:41, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Tvpuppy.

It's great that you're satisfied with your current user level. However, I would certainly support your candidacy for admin position. Best regards, זיו「Ziv」 • For love letters and other notes 09:32, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Same here! Grand-Duc (talk) 16:51, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

China Airlines logo

Hello Tvpuppy,

can I ask you to satisfy some curiosity of mine? The flower logo of en:China Airlines is quite complex (and thus perhaps grounds for Commons hosting issues per COM:TOO), but I think that the actual image, a plum blossom per EN wiki, could be old enough for PD-Old. Do you have some info about the motif and its provenience? Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 16:51, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Grand-Duc. The current logo featuring the plum blossom flower was first introduced in 1995, which is mentioned in en:China Airlines#Change of logo and livery (1995–2010) and en:China Airlines#Livery and uniforms. The logo design was not credited to any specific designer, so per COM:CRT/Taiwan#General, I would assume the design is considered to be "authored by a legal entity", hence it should be copyrighted in Taiwan until 2046 (publish+50+1). Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 19:38, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

There's a reference (number 36) in en:China_Airlines#Livery_and_uniforms ("A new font was chosen for the company name and a new approach was taken for the appearance of the plum blossom trademark.^[36]") about the logo, but that URL is dead and not archived in the state it was included in the article. Nevertheless, I can't exclude the possibility that the text is still available (the Internet Archive got a HTTP 301, meaning the content was moved somewhere) and could contain details about the logo history, but any further research is impossible for me, as I cannot read the characters... Do you have the time to look into the matter? If not, then the info you already provided is already useful. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 20:14, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

Sure, I found the original text, it was a 2011 news article from en:United Daily News. I roughly translated and summarized the article, which states,

• The livery originally featured the R.O.C. flag, but due to political reasons, the airline changed it in 1995 to feature a "plum blossom in an ink wash painting style" instead.
• The airline originally used "stickers" for the plum blossom logo in the livery, but the stickers had peeling issues, so they decided to have the plum blossom logo to be hand-painted onto the livery.
• The logo has some minor adjustment in order to accommodate China Airlines joining the SkyTeam alliance in 2011. The alliance required the SkyTeam logo to be on the right side of text, so the airline move the plum blossom logo and the seal script to the left side of the text "CHINA AIRLINES".
• However, some online users commented on the new adjustment, which they said it makes the plum blossom logo "look more like plastic flower", "lost some of its ink wash painting style" and "less beautiful", but some says "the more simplified the better".

Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 20:46, 24 July 2026 (UTC)