Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/April 2024

Locking Which is the best religion to follow?

I propose to lock Which is the best religion to follow? from anonymous IP editing indefinitely, or at least for a year, or at least for a month. The page is likely to attract low-quality edits from anonymous IP editors; and this has already happened. Anyone serious about making good edits can create an account, or can post using IP on the talk page. This measure is specific to this debate (and not all debates); this one is about a highly controversial subject likely to arouse passions and attract various no-so-gifted would-be contributors. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 10:47, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I not only support the proposal, but would probably agree with just about every kind of restriction on a topic as fraught as that. If it's not intrinsically absurd to try to rigorously analyze a question like that, then at least it requires someone who has demonstrated discipline and credibility. Addemf (discuss • contribs) 21:44, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see some disruptive editing in the history, hence it has been protected short term (already expired) by a colleague. @MathXplore: do you want to weigh in?

I am reluctant to do indefinite protection, but I am willing to do a longer term, let it expire and then see if we have issues again. If there are unconstructive edits shortly thereafter, lengthen the protection again, rinse and repeat. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:50, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have no objections to a longer semi-protection. If there are no objections in a week, we should start the new semi-protection term. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 01:35, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Koavf:, @MathXplore: if any of you could semi-protect the page for an extended period of time, it would be cool. Today, someone removed two arguments instead of addressing them. I favor semi-protecting for the longest acceptable period possible; I am fine with indef. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 15:50, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done for 1 month (the previously longest one was 2 weeks). If issues continue, I plan to extend the semi-protection term. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 15:57, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Moving free files to Commons

There have been some discussions about Special:UnusedFiles and if they should be deleted. Personally I think that if they are usable they should be moved to Commons and if they are not likely to be used or if there is any doubt that the file is actually free then it should be deleted.

Today I noticed File:20140317 225019.jpg and I wondered what could be. After a little search I found out it was related to Blood cooler and User:MuzicMan60/ENES-100/project 2. But that did not help me much because those pages did not really describe what a blood cooler was. Anyway after a little while I found c:Category:Blood cooler and noticed there were project categories in there so I created c:Category:MuzicMan60 (project 2-Blood cooler). So instead of nominating that one unused file I moved it to Commons along with the other photos from that project.

Some of you are probably not surprised that Commons had categories like c:Category:Wikiversity WikiProjects and c:Category:Enes100 for such projects. But if any of you ever thought of moving files to Commons but have not done so because you thought it would be difficult to categorize the files you could just do like me and move them and put them in a project category.

If possible files should of course also be added to the usual categories on Commons like c:Category:Balloons or c:Category:Inflatable objects.

There are 37 k files in Category:All free media but many are pdf-files and Commons does usually not like pdf very much. So for now I think it is best to leave those on Wikiversity. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 07:02, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I support deleting unused files. Please also see my talk page or permalink at [1] regarding LoC and PLOS image files. --mikeu ^talk 23:23, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]