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To discuss the operation of this page, please leave a message at "User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands/talk" or at the Village Pump.
This page is for editors who are not administrators to request for categories to be renamed and for files to be replaced by other files across all Wikimedia projects.
  • To request for a category to be renamed, go to the "Category moves" and follow the instructions.
  • To request for a file to be replaced by another file, for example, because the original file has been deleted or renamed, go to the appropriate sub-section of the "Image replacement requests" section and type the following command at the bottom of the relevant list: "{{universal replace|[OLD NAME.jpg]|[NEW NAME OR ANOTHER FILE.jpg]|reason=STATE THE REASON FOR THE REQUEST HERE.}}".
    • Requests relating to renamed files is for requesting occurrences of an old file name to be replaced with the new file name it has been renamed to. Click on the link in the sub-section.
    • Other requests is for listing other requests such as replacing one file with a different one.
    • Manual replacements is for listing files that must be handled manually. This sub-section is for experienced editors.

Please read the warnings below carefully before making any requests. Thanks.

Warnings


Please note:

  • No controversial name changes. All moves have to follow the language policy. Please do not request name changes that you know may be controversial (this includes, for example, renaming locations into a different local language—even if "that is the official name used there"). Do check file talk pages for objections before requesting a change here. If you wish to request such moves, please add the {{Move}} template to the category pages, or use the Categories for discussion procedure. This allows discussion on the issue to take place and objections—if any—to be made. You may wish to alert other editors to the discussion by leaving a message at the Village Pump.
If you challenge a request added here, please simply remove it and re-paste it below the "Category moves to be discussed" header down this page and add your reason for challenging it. It would also be kind to inform the requester (if signed) and invite them to discuss the requested name change.
  • Adding interwikis. Please include as many interlanguage links (interwikis) as possible in categories to be moved.
  • No replacement of images in other formats with SVGs. To avoid World War III, CommonsDelinker will ignore a command to replace an image if the new image is in an SVG format and the original is not.
  • Updating references to the new category name. It is the duty of the requester of a category move to update all references to the new category name where needed. This part of the task is not automated. (Use the "What links here" tab to find out which categories or pages are still linked to the old category name.)
  • MediaWiki limitation. If you add hundreds of requests at the same time, note that the MediaWiki software isn't able to process thousands of templates correctly for display. Thus, the statement "0 entries moved, 0 to go" may be inaccurate.
  • Bot problem. If the CommonsDelinker bot that carries out the tasks on this page is stuck for too long or you encounter other technical problems, please contact Magnus Manske.

Image replacement requests

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Requests relating to renamed files

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CommonsDelinker: Replace File:M.E. Ravage, c.1960.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Marcus Eli Ravage c.1960.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 1 (original uploader’s request)
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:M.E. Ravage, 1909.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Marcus Eli Ravage 1909.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 1 (original uploader’s request)
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:M.E. Ravage and daughter Suzanne, 1921.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Marcus Eli Ravage and daughter Suzanne 1921.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 1 (original uploader’s request)
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:St. Getraudi 48 (2).jpg (LU,GU) with File:St. Gertraudi 48 (2).jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: -typo
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Macau Pass new machine in TCM bus.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Macau Pass new machine in TCM bus 15-05-2019.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 1 (original uploader’s request) and more specific date in image title
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Wohnhaus Böblinger Str. 21.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Wohnhaus Böblinger Str. 22.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: sorry
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Juletroll.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Theodor Kittelsen - Juletroll - Horse and Sledge in the Snow.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Crit. 2. To change from a meaningless or ambiguous name to a name that describes what the image particularly displays.
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Dijon le char Duguay-Trouhin 02.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Dijon le char Duguay-Trouin 02.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 3 (obvious error) · Bonjour, j'ai fait une faute de frappe lors de la saisie.
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:2025 John Arrigo (cropped).jpg (LU,GU) with File:2025 Sergio Gor (cropped).jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: better name - correction
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Blason Famille de Blé.svg (LU,GU) with File:Blason Famille fr du Blé.svg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: "du Blé" correct surname
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:BSSpec.svg (LU,GU) with File:Brush Script Specimen.svg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 2 (meaningless or ambiguous name)
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:DJK Wappen klein.png (LU,GU) with File:DJK Ammerthal Wappen klein.png (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: There are a lot of sports clubs with "DJK" in their name.
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Daikiti tenbou2.jpg (LU,GU) with File:大吉山展望.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 1 (original uploader’s request)
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Seiji Mataichi 20180815.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Seiji Mataichi 20160815.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 1 (original uploader’s request) · Wrong date
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Sp 1a.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Strada Provinciale 1a Italia.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed:
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Big Red mascots before the game.JPG (LU,GU) with File:Big Red and Lu.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 2 (meaningless or ambiguous name) · Added name and location
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Neoplan Centroliner (JUV-083).jpg (LU,GU) with File:Neoplan Centroliner N4522 (JUV-083) 2.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 6 (maintenance or bug fix)
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:MAN Lion's City A21 CNG (NID-009).jpg (LU,GU) with File:MAN Lion's City A21 (NID-009).jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 6 (maintenance or bug fix)
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:MAN Lion's City A23 (NID-026).jpg (LU,GU) with File:MAN Lion's City A21 (NID-026) 2.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 6 (maintenance or bug fix) · Típus megnevezésének elírása.
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:MAN Lion's City A23 (NME-038).jpg (LU,GU) with File:MAN Lion's City A21 (NME-038) 4.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 6 (maintenance or bug fix)
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Miranda Ker (8449761941).jpg (LU,GU) with File:Miranda Kerr (8449761941) 2013-02-06.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 3 (obvious error)
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Rt. Hon. Gerald Fauteux 02.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Rt. Hon. Gerald Fauteux in 1953 02.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: added date to file name
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:A38-20140325-003 (14248181945).jpg (LU,GU) with File:Sarbanissa interposita (14248181945).jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: descriptive name
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Thelepte.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Thermes de Thelepte.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed:
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:LCG.JPG (LU,GU) with File:Lungenklinic Großhansdorf.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: very ambiguous acronym
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:DJI 0203 (1).jpg (LU,GU) with File:Beaulieu, Hampshire DJI 0203 (1).jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 2 (meaningless or ambiguous name)
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Autostrada ASPV Italia.svg (LU,GU) with File:Autostrada SPV Italia.svg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed:
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Biblioteka i synagoga brzesko maj 2007 11.JPG (LU,GU) with File:Synagoga ul. Długa Brzesko maj 2007 02.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 6 (maintenance or bug fix) · to clearly differentiate from Puszkina Str synagogue, where the library (biblioteka) was located
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:LL-Q5146 (por)-Santamarcanda-director.wav (LU,GU) with File:LL-Q5146 (por)-Santamarcanda-diretor.wav (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 3 (obvious error) · Pre-reform spelling; more useful to, e.g., Wiktionary in the modern, official spelling.
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria 1941.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Archduke Rudolf of Austria 1941.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 3 (obvious error) · See this talk page: "The uploader missed the two siblings in the original photograph. This is Archduke Carl Ludwig, and the other person is Archduke Rudolph."
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:PW-4 aircraft.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Gallaudet PW-4 biplane fighter.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: full ID
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Suesswasserkrebs Kreta.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Potamon potamios Crete.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: Criterion 2 (meaningless or ambiguous name)

Other requests

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CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Itu sdkm.jpg (LU,GU) with File:Cultural Center of Suleiman Demirel.jpg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: the old photo is not good quality enough

User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands/Category moves

Notification of failed moves

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Latest comment: 13 days ago14 comments12 people in discussion
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Map AP dist all shaded.png (LU,GU) with File:Ap-districts.png (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: Updated based on changes to borders in 2015.

--Arjunaraoc (talk) 11:13, 16 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Weltkarte tropen.png (LU,GU) with File:Koppen-Geiger Map A present.svg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File:Weltkarte tropen.png is outdated (1992) and the equator is placed wrong. File:Koppen-Geiger Map A present.svg uses current data (2016) and has the correct equator. Can some bot please change all uses of the old one for the new please? TIA --User:H-stt 14:29, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Manual replacements

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Non-SVG to SVG replacement
Used on too many pages
Other
Not appropriate for batch move, as some usages are for Mars, and others for male + used on too many pages
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Mars symbol.svg (LU,GU) with File:Male symbol.svg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: File renamed: 50:50 ratio is male
Will need to ensure sizing is correct + used on too many pages + Non-SVG to SVG replacement
CommonsDelinker: Replace File:Blank.jpg (LU,GU) with File:3by2white.svg (LU,GU) across all Wikimedia projects. Reason: better svg image
Uncategorized

Replace images with .svg version

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I am active in the SVG project, converting raster graphics into scalable vector graphics (mainly coat of arms). The new images have a better quality but I always need to replace all occurrences of the old image in all articles, templates and in all language wikis by hand which sometimes takes longer than creating the new .svg image. I know that the bot currently will not replace raster graphics with a .svg file. This rule was made 15 years ago (in 2007 maybe .svg were not that popular), has the opinion about this rule changed or is there room for a new discussion?

As I am creating .svgs from raster graphics I need to replaces the old image manually on all sites in all MediaWiki occurrences (Wikipedia (all languages), Wikidata,...). Maxwxyz (talk) 08:52, 17 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

i agree that the file replacement with (verified) svg should be permitted. GioviPen GP msg 15:05, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Krd, You were around during that time, Do you remember the main reason(s) why that rule was created? All the Best -- Chuck Talk 21:36, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Mostly, because a few svg enthusiasts did very bad conversions to svg, guessing colors etc. and communities got pissed off because we were replacing correct pngs with incorrect svg interpretations of those pngs. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:17, 6 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
I cannot find any evidence. PNG by PNG, SVG by SVG, GIF by PNG, no PNG by SVG ever. Were all the piss-bad replacements done manually? Taylor 49 (talk) 21:57, 6 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
 Support I strongly plead for allowing CommonsDelinker to replace PNG with SVG files because in most cases the SVG is much better and should be used instead. ChemSim (talk) 21:22, 19 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
 Strong support for allowing CommonsDelinker to replace non-SVG with SVG. Maybe we need a rule of type "do NOT request more than 3 such replacements during one day". PS: CommonsDelinker is currently on strike NOT doing ANY global replacements at all. Taylor 49 (talk) 10:34, 25 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
 Comment Upgraded to RFC and listed at Template:Centralized discussion. My proposal is now:
  • remove the technical restriction from CommonsDelinker making it refuse PNG to SVG replacements
  • make a rule "a user may request maximally 3 PNG to SVG replacements per 24 hours, requests moved by a sysop from an accessible page to a protected page where CommonsDelinker picks them from do NOT count to the limit"
Taylor 49 (talk) 19:44, 5 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
 Support.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 07:54, 6 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
 Support do we have consensus now? —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 10:01, 25 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
 Support makes sense. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:30, 15 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Sint S...

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Latest comment: 24 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

It appear the bot has changed "Ofbyld:Sint-Anne vlag.svg" into "Sint_Annaparochie_vlag.svg", claiming "Criterion 3 (obvious error) · The village is called S".

Indeed, the village is called 'S...', thus a slightly more elaborate reason would be in order. As it is, it goes against your "No controversial name changes." (I am not sure why one would need to enforce 1 name in a multilingual area, but at the least it should not identify the issue as "obvious error".) Mysha (talk) Mysha (talk) 10:19, 4 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Request for file replacement on article: Hidaka, Kōchi

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Latest comment: 7 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

replace File:Hidaka in Kochi Prefecture Ja.svg File:Hidaka in Kochi Prefecture Ja Update2025.svg Lli at (talk) 09:49, 8 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

✓ Done, I also removed the unnecessary white border without content. זיו「Ziv」 • For love letters and other notes 05:47, 21 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Command to move category, `Category:Computer mice with RS-232 conncetor`

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Latest comment: 18 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Rename Category:Computer mice with RS-232 conncetor to Category:Computer mice with RS-232 connector (0 entries moved, 0 to go) (Requested by CompuHacker)
Reason provided: Fixing typo in "conncetor" → "connector" CompuHacker (talk) 01:31, 11 September 2025 (UTC) – Admin: ApproveReply
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