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We welcome and appreciate civil discussion of requests to delete or undelete pages when reasonable objections are made or are likely, the advice in Wikiversity:Deletions is followed, and other options have failed. A good attitude is to explain what you have tried, ask for help or advice from fellow Wikiversity participants on what to do now, keep an open mind, accept any community consensus, and focus on how pages can be improved. Finding ways to improve pages is the preferred outcome of any discussion and consensus here. Pages should always be kept when reasonable concerns are adequately addressed. Reasons and responses should be specific and relate to Wikiversity policy or scope in some way, kept brief, and stated in a positive or neutral way. Vague reasons ("out of scope", "disruptive") may be ignored. A clear consensus should emerge before archiving a request. Often discussion takes a week or more to reach a clear consensus. Remember to add {{dr}} to the top of pages nominated for deletion. You can put "keep", "delete", or "neutral" at the beginning of your response, but consensus is established by discussion and reasoning, not mere voting.

How to begin discussion

Add {{Deletion request}} or {{dr}} to the image, category or resource nominated for deletion. Add a new section to the end of this page using the following format: == [[Page title]] == reasons why this page ought to be deleted --~~~~

Undeletion requests

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Similarity of matter levels

On December 25, 2022 User:Guy_vandegrift renamed the Similarity of matter levels page to Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Similarity of matter levels page without leaving the redirect to new page. But in Wikiversity there are some pages with links to Similarity of matter levels page, such as

Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Infinite Hierarchical Nesting of Matter, SPФ symmetry, Stellar Stefan–Boltzmann constant, Stellar Dirac constant, Substantial neutron model, Scale dimension, Gravitational constant, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Praon, Stellar Boltzmann constant, Nuon, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Discreteness of stellar parameters, Substantial electron model, Electrogravitational vacuum, Quantization of parameters of cosmic systems, Stellar constants, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Hydrogen system, Substantial proton model, Coupling constant, Stellar Planck constant, Strong gravitation, Model of quark quasiparticles, Characteristic speed, Substantial photon model, Strong gravitational constant, Gravitational model of strong interaction, Covariant theory of gravitation, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Monopoles, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Velocity circulation quantum, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Gravitoelectromagnetism, Field mass-energy limit, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Quantum Gravitational Resonator.

There is no any explanation for the action of the User:Guy_vandegrift. I suppose he can explain. On the other hand it would be much better if the User:Guy_vandegrift take part in improvement of the Similarity of matter levels page, before its deletion in main space of Wikiversity. Fedosin (discuss • contribs) 06:39, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

My two edit summaries at User talk:Elominius (non-urgent)

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Draft:Universal Bibliography

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Resolved to keep in mainspace--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 01:06, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

There has been a request to move this back into mainspace.

Discussion

If you have a lot to say, you are encouraged (but not required) to create your own heading and continuously edit it to make your strongest case for your position.

Guy Vandegrift

I personally have no strong feelings on what does and does not belong in draft space, but as a custodian with the authority to delete and move large projects, I handle several requests for speedy deletion every day. I moved it out of namespace due to a belief that this was what the community would want. So far, only one editor has expressed an opinion, which was to move it back to mainspace. I will move it back to namespace unless there is a clear consensus to keep it in draftspace.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 07:01, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

James500

• See Colloquium#Moving_Universal_Bibliography_into_draftspace? @James500: Modify this space as you wish.--Guy

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Voting

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• NEUTRAL I moved it to draft space to get the conversation started --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 06:23, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
• Move to name space -- User:James500 (proxy vote entered by User:Guy vandegrift based on discussions on talk pages and Colloquium
• Keep by default. I see no basis for deleting this or moving it to draft space. While I do feel that it's an unusual project which could use a bit more explanation of its purpose and scope, I don't see any compelling reason to delete it. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 04:42, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Help:Guides

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Pervasive copyright violations by User:Marshallsumter

Though still active, this is a long discussion that should be archived and replaced by a status report--user:Guy vandegrift

User:Marshallsumter has over 1500 images uploaded on this site. Most of these images were uploaded under a claim of fair use. Unfortunately, none of these fair use claims appear to be valid. Almost every one I have looked at followed the pattern "No free licensed or public domain alternatives known to exist to show…" followed by the description of the image. For example, some of this user's uploads state that: "No free use or Public Domain image known to show a group conducting psychotherapy in a clinical setting." - File:Grouptherapy.jpg "No free use or Public Domain image known to show a girl from China with her tongue colored to match the Union Jack." - File:English_tongue_chinese.jpg "No free use or Public Domain image known to show glacial grooves & polish on an outcrop in Central Park, NY, about 2014." - File:Glacialpolish.jpg "No free use or Public Domain image known to show the planet Earth is made up of three main shells: the very thin, brittle crust, the mantle, and the core; the mantle and core are each divided into two parts; all parts are drawn to scale." - File:Earth_Shells_to_Scale.png "No free licensed or public domain alternatives known to exist to show the sesquiterpenes from the essential oil of the Boswellia sacra resin." - File:Sesquiterpenes_from_the_essential_oil_of_the_Boswellia_sacra_resin.png "No free licensed or public domain alternatives known to exist to show one of the 140 pyramids imaged and observed by archeologists in the Madalena area of Pico Island, Azores." - File:Pyramid_on_Pico_Island_Azores.jpg "No free use or Public Domain image known to show an annotated image of Hudson Bay as viewed from space containing the Great Hudson Arc: A 250-mile-wide mystery." - File:Hudson-bay-annotated.jpg "No free licensed or public domain alternatives known to exist to reliably show colonial rule in Africa as of 1914." -- File:Colonial_Rule_in_Africa_1914.jpg If you have any familiarity with the legal history of fair use, then you'd know that all cases won against the use of fair use have been won only against .coms. None has ever been won against .edus or .orgs. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 17:14, 20 October 2022 (UTC) Moreover, most of these images are not used in ways which comply with Wikiversity's Exemption Doctrine Policy. The vast majority of them are used in a decorative fashion to illustrate a topic mentioned in the text of a page, not to further any specific educational goal. Does Wikiversity have a process capable of handling the bulk deletion of these images? I can't imagine RFD would be able to handle it. Is there any better way to address this? -- Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 01:27, 18 October 2022 (UTC) @Omphalographer Yes, we have bots and can handle bulk deletion of these images. Whether or not you can imagine it, RFD is the correct place for this discussion. Please note that your request would have much more credibility if you used your regular wiki account rather than a single-purpose account. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:15, 18 October 2022 (UTC) This is the only active account I have. I was an active editor on enwiki 10-15 years ago, but I've long since lost the login information. And my concern with using RFD is how to list somewhere around a thousand files for deletion - the ones I mentioned are representative examples, not the sum total of my concerns. (I don't know exactly how many files will be affected, but I'm reasonably certain that most of this user's uploads will be.) And I'm concerned by your suggestion that this request lacks "credibility". The invalid fair use claims on these files should speak for themselves. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 23:48, 18 October 2022 (UTC) All or nearly all of the users at Wikiversity 10-15 years ago are contributors listed in the "View history" of the Wikiversity:Main Page. Which one is you? Your unproven allegation: "The invalid fair use claims on these files should speak for themselves." suggests that you have little or no legal experience in these matters, which appears to be the case, as your actions here appear to be nothing more than disruption. You've stated "Recognizing and addressing copyright issues is the responsibility of all users of a wiki", but so far you have not presented any facts supporting that this is what you are doing. I've discussed these matters extensively with WMF legal and supplying the rationales here on Wikiversity as I've done for these images meets and has met their concerns. As I've indicated in the Discussion below you have failed to provide facts to support your allegation. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 03:39, 19 October 2022 (UTC) When and where did you discuss these issues with the WMF legal team, and what specific rationales did they approve? I would be interested to know more. If you don't recall, I would be happy to check with them - I'm sure they can provide details. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 04:37, 19 October 2022 (UTC) If you know where such discussions would take place then you'd know where to look. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 16:24, 20 October 2022 (UTC) Discussion I agree with the assessment that the use of many of these "fair use" images is not consistent with either the spirit of Fair Use or the Exemption Doctrine Policy. The simple solution is to delete all Category:Fair use files images uploaded by Marshallsumter. Are there any other suggestions? -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:26, 18 October 2022 (UTC) First, does the user:Omphalographer own the copyright to any of the images under fair use here at Wikiversity? Second, is the user:Omphalographer a lawyer, attorney or barrister in the employ of a copyright holder of any fairuse image at Wikiversity? Third, we've been over this issue numerous times and all the fair use files I've uploaded meet US fairuse law and the Exemption Doctrine Policy, all of its parts and should be kept. Fourth, the pattern noted by the user is the rationale statement as required. Fifth, "a decorative fashion to illustrate a topic mentioned in the text of a page" is an educational goal though less than the value of the use of the fairuse image to the resource. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 00:24, 19 October 2022 (UTC) No, as far as I'm aware, I do not own copyright to any of those images, nor do I personally represent anyone who does. But that doesn't matter. Recognizing and addressing copyright issues is the responsibility of all users of a wiki, not just the copyright owners. You claim that "we've been over this issue numerous times". Who, when and where are you referring to? The fair use statements you have applied to these images are not valid fair use rationales. The simple fact that you could not find a freely licensed image that met your needs (or did not care to use the ones you found) does not grant you the right to use anything you find online, for any purpose. This is not true of copyright law in general, and it is particularly not true on Wikimedia sites, which have stricter copyright policies. As a past Wikiversity administrator, you should have been aware of these policies; it was once your responsibility to enforce them! Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 00:40, 19 October 2022 (UTC) Wikiversity is the only .org managed by the WMF that permits fair use by its mission statement as an educational wiki. The rationales are legally valid independent of your opinion and are necessary and sufficient. I conducted a valid search and where found have used free media! Your statement "or did not care to use the ones you found" is subjective and potentially libelous, please refrain from statements you cannot support factually. In addition, thank you for accepting the fact that "a decorative fashion to illustrate a topic mentioned in the text of a page" is an educational goal. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 00:59, 19 October 2022 (UTC) "Wikiversity is the only .org..." This is flatly incorrect. There are many other WMF projects which permit the use of fair-use content under limited circumstances. Permitting fair use content under an EDP is not a unique feature of this site, nor does the EDP permit this site to use non-free content indiscriminately. You've deliberately ignored the key issue: "Wikiversity is the only .org managed by the WMF that permits fair use by its mission statement as an educational wiki." Even Wikipedia does not contain "educational" in its mission statement because it's not! It's an encyclopedia not a .edu as a .org. If you conducted any search for free content before uploading these images, that search was clearly so cursory as to be entirely ineffectual. For example, your upload of File:Earth_Shells_to_Scale.png somehow overlooked File:Earth-crust-cutaway-english.svg, which presents substantially the same information and was visible on the enwiki article "Earth" on the day you uploaded the image. (And no, even if you preferred some detail of the other image's presentation, that isn't sufficient reason to reject the freely licensed content and substitute a piece of non-free media.) The USGS image that I used is to scale and accurately represents the inner structure of the Earth for the purposes with which it has been used. I did not overlook the image you show. File:Earth-crust-cutaway-english.svg isn't accurate. Per the rationale: "No free use or Public Domain image known to show the planet Earth is made up of three main shells: the very thin, brittle crust, the mantle, and the core; the mantle and core are each divided into two parts; all parts are drawn to scale." Secondly, as stated under Permission: "Fair Use, USGS is usually PD, but Eugene C. Robertson may not have agreed to this." otherwise this image would likely be on Commons! Finally, I accepted nothing of the sort. The use of non-free media as decoration is not permitted by Wikiversity's EDP. Declaring that simple decoration is "an educational goal" represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what those educational goals are, and what fair use permits in general. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 01:32, 19 October 2022 (UTC) Once again you've ignored the key point: "a decorative fashion to illustrate a topic mentioned in the text of a page" is an educational goal. The USGS image is far more accurate than File:Earth-crust-cutaway-english.svg. It well points out how small the crust actually is. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 02:17, 19 October 2022 (UTC). (Unindenting for clarity.) With regard to the term "educational", the mission statement of the Wikimedia Foundation (as a whole!) is "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". Wikiversity does not have a unique mandate to create educational content - that is the purpose of the entire Foundation! - and neither does it have any unique privilege to use non-free content in the pursuit of that mission. You're focusing unduly on the single image I chose as an example, but I'll indulge you for a moment. The primary page where you used that image, Earth/Geognosy, does not even mention the image in the accompanying text. It appears alongside a definition of the term "geognosy". Moreover, it appears directly below another freely licensed diagram of the Earth's structure; you clearly found that one accurate enough to display, so it's not at all clear why you felt the need to use another non-free image with substantially the same content. Diagrams are almost never justifiable as fair use, as they are by their nature replaceable with free content (even if that content has not yet been created), and this one is no exception. If you believe "Diagrams are almost never justifiable as fair use, as they are by their nature replaceable with free content (even if that content has not yet been created), and this one is no exception.", then upload File:Earth_Shells_to_Scale.png or create your own to Commons. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 16:41, 20 October 2022 (UTC) Edit: I'll add that editing that page immediately after I mentioned it gives the appearance of a bad-faith attempt to cover your tracks. Please don't do that. You aren't deceiving anyone here. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 05:58, 19 October 2022 (UTC) You mentioned that the resource did not cite the image so now it does. You could have done that yourself but instead you've come here using the apparent threat of deletion to modify resources to be more like Wikipedia articles rather than Wikiversity resources. And, you still haven't identified yourself. Your apparent effort here is more along the lines of disruption than contribution. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 13:38, 19 October 2022 (UTC) Let me take another completely different example to show that this is not an isolated issue. On 28 July 2014, you uploaded File:Transportation-terminology.jpg, an image of a highway with cars and trucks at sunset, and declared that you were using it under fair use. You provided no justification for your claim of fair use, and you only used it on the page Draft:Terminology/Quiz, as a decorative element on a quiz about "terminology". At no point does the quiz even mention highways, cars, trucks, nor sunsets. The only connection I can see between this non-free image and the page you used it in is the fact that you obtained the image from a web page titled "The Definitive Guide to Transportation Terminology to Stay on the Same Logistics Page". The image was a decorative element on that page, and it does not serve any other purpose on this site either. The image File:Transportation-terminology.jpg is no longer available on the website provided so that no rationale is available for its status as fair use. I've requested it to be speedy deleted. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 02:38, 20 October 2022 (UTC) Or another: on 1 October 2016, you uploaded File:Diversity_of_plants.jpg under a claim of fair use, with the justification that "no free use or Public Domain image known to show the diversity of plants". I have an extremely hard time believing that no freely licensed images exist which contain multiple different plants, nor that it is somehow impossible to create a freely licensed collage of plant pictures. I am especially troubled by the fact that the image description indicates that you recognized that "apparently the image of sunflowers in copyrighted, and the image was deleted from Commons", and you uploaded it in knowing disregard of those copyright issues. At the time I uploaded this image File:Diversity_of_plants.jpg it had been deleted from Commons per the reason stated; however, as you failed to notice this image has been returned to Commons as File:Diversity of plants (Streptophyta) version 1.png. It simply hasn't been stated on the the page File:Diversity_of_plants.jpg that this is a duplicate of the now available file on Commons. It has been a common occurrence for files initially on Commons to be deleted sometime after I've begun using them. I have asked for them to be temporarily undeleted so that I can upload them to Wikiversity as fair use to continue their use here and Commons has kindly complied. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 02:38, 20 October 2022 (UTC) Or yet another: on 29 November 2017, you uploaded File:Referral_letter_1.png. This is a photograph of a private medical document which was deleted from Wikimedia Commons over copyright concerns. You provided no justification for it being fair use on Wikiversity, and you failed to provide accurate source information (the Commons URL it was deleted from is not the original source of the image), and the page you used it in contains no text referencing the image - it appears under a header with no additional caption or explanatory text. May I suggest you take a look at this file which I recently updated with its rationale for being fair use on Wikiversity. The instructor for this upper limb orthotics course was not against this fair use practice and did appreciate that her course here was now fully available, including her students efforts. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 03:09, 20 October 2022 (UTC) None of these uses are justifiable as fair use under any definition of the term - neither Wikiversity's, nor WMF's, nor the law. Claiming otherwise - claiming that any image can be an "educational illustration" if it appears alongside a related piece of text - represents a fundamental misunderstanding of copyright law and fair use. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 04:37, 19 October 2022 (UTC) I have gone through each of your file objections and handled them appropriately. With the exception of the File:Transportation-terminology.jpg for which the source of the rationale is no longer available, each is appropriately justified at the time for being fair use. Unfortunately, it still appears that your actions here, albeit perhaps well-intended, have been unnecessarily disruptive. I also urge those who may have prematurely reacted to this user's efforts to kindly reconsider their comments regarding my use of fair use. I really do legally know what I am doing regarding fair use and am conducting my efforts here in direct accordance per consultations with WMF legal and as noted with Commons. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 03:09, 20 October 2022 (UTC) I didn't have time to sift through all the nitty-gritty back-and-forth discussion between the two. So I jump right to the files. The fair-use examples that Omphalographer raised are quite concerning, and certainly requires Marshallsumter's adequate response given that copyright interpretation was a stumbling block during Marshallsumter's candidate for custodianship in 2013. I start to wonder if we're seeing a pattern here, or whether it was simply an old file/page that hasn't been noticed until now. For File:Transportation-terminology.jpg, there are plenty other similar images that can be re-used on Commons (e.g. File:Interstate 40, Arkansas 001.jpg, File:Wildlife Overpass east of Snoqualmie Pass on Interstate 90.jpg). When there is a choice between Commons vs. fair-use images, users should opt for Commons. And Omphalographer is right about Draft:Terminology/Quiz. It is not an appropriate usage for a fair-use image because it is not used to describe the content in question, but rather an image used for aesthetic purpose. Aesethic does not fall under fair-use. And echo what was said about File:Diversity of plants.jpg. You can combine a number of freely licensed images into a mosaic without resorting to using a fair-use. Moreover, it does not require author to flag copyright violations. Anyone can do it. OhanaUnitedTalk page 15:11, 19 October 2022 (UTC) I personally don't see any advantage in engaging with Marshallsumter regarding this issue. As with dozens or hundreds of previous discussions, it is likely to only result in long diatribes of misdirection without any acknowledgement or acceptance of the actual issues involved. Instead, I recommend we focus on the community response to the situation at hand. Omphalographer has identified issues which apply to hundreds of uploaded images. OhanaUnited has looked into several images and confirmed the findings. I have similar concerns regarding the images I've viewed. Others are welcome to review and confirm (or object) if they wish. But, accepting for the moment that the concerns are legitimate and widespread, do we want to just delete them all and have Marshallsumter start over, providing adequate fair use justification of any such images? Do we want to prohibit Marshallsumter from uploading any Fair Use images, as there is clear disregard for what Fair Use is and how it should be applied, and none of us has time to oversee this effort? Or is there someone willing to investigate the issues and identify which images legitimately meet Fair Use and EDP guidelines? I'm inclined to delete them all and give Marshallsumter a chance to start over and demonstrate that he is able to apply guidelines appropriately going forward. Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 16:45, 19 October 2022 (UTC) I'm concerned that allowing Marshallsumter to continue uploading non-free content without oversight provides us with no assurance that this situation will not arise again - or even that he would not reupload the same non-free images with the same sorts of inadequate fair-use rationales they already have. As such, my recommendation would be to require him to submit any future fair-use media he wishes to use, and his rationales for using them, to some trusted entity for approval - perhaps an administrator or a member of some group of trusted users? - before uploading those files. If he can demonstrate a consistent, long-term pattern of using appropriate, detailed fair-use rationales for media which is truly necessary for educational purposes and which cannot be replaced with freely licensed content, this restriction could be lifted. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 20:05, 19 October 2022 (UTC) @Omphalographer Quite honestly, it's easier to tell a bot what to delete than it is to supervise in advance or monitor in real-time. Unless you're also volunteering to be one of those trusted users. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 00:34, 20 October 2022 (UTC) @Omphalographer Your comment above is pejorative rather than constructive criticism! You've presented no facts to support your claims! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 19:00, 20 October 2022 (UTC) I may have missed some of the subtleties here, but would requiring images to be uploaded to (and suitable for) Wikimedia Commons rather than Wikiversity offer a practical solution? Generally speaking, I prefer images to be on Commons because there is more checking to make sure they are appropriate and the images can then be used in any sister project in any language. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:11, 19 October 2022 (UTC) I'm afraid that isn't applicable. Commons only accepts freely licensed content. The content at issue here is not freely licensed; it was uploaded to Wikiversity under (faulty) claims of fair use. Marshallsumter has uploaded freely licensed files to Commons in the past, and he is, of course, welcome to continue doing so as long as he complies with that project's content guidelines. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 22:30, 19 October 2022 (UTC) Your claim "uploaded to Wikiversity under (faulty) claims of fair use" without facts to support it is potentially libelous and is the second as such. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 16:27, 20 October 2022 (UTC) What is the status of this discussion? It's been open for nearly a month now with no action. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 08:04, 16 November 2022 (UTC) @Omphalographer Actually, there has been significant action. More than 1,000 images that were only used in non-main space were deleted in October. The remaining images require research and I really don't have time to address this right now. Some of them are licensed incorrectly. They should be PD-USGov but were listed as Fair Use. Others are legitimate use as is. Certainly many more should be deleted. But we are very shorthanded on people willing to do administrative work right now, so it is what it is. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:20, 16 November 2022 (UTC) Where does that put us with regards to further uploads by Marshallsumter, though? It appears that he's simply reuploading some of the images that were deleted, like File:1_2_Crystal_tcm14-406719.jpg and File:I-love-a-mystery-original.jpg. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 19:00, 16 November 2022 (UTC) Now blocked. Half of his file uploads for the last three weeks were repeat violations of the EDP. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 16:55, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Hydrogen system

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Apparent consensus to keep in Physics/Essays --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 06:55, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

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"Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Hydrogen system" has been moved to "Hydrogen system". I propose that it be either returned or deleted from Wikiversity. The move from mainspace into a subpage of Physics was was challenged by the author, User:Fedosin, who is an extremely prolific editor. And the prolific nature of the author complicates things. It's too much for us to carefully evaluate. Consider these four pages: De Broglie wavelength with pageviews I haven't carefully examined each equation, but it appears to be correct. It is somewhat quirky because it follows history and begins with Debroglie's original relativistic argument, which is typically ignored in introductory textbooks because it is too advanced for the majority of readers. Wikipedia block log One of many reverted edits on WP WP articles covered by sanctions on Fedosin We need to focus on Hydrogen system. I picked that page because both chemists and physicists can agree that hydrogen is a simple system that is used by both disciplines to introduce quantum mechanics at the high school or college level (United States terminology.) I have no objection to Hydrogen system being on mainspace. I don't think it should be a root page (i.e., it needs to be a subpage.) My request to User:Fedosin is that they explain what value hydrogen system has to chemistry and physics students. In particular, I would like to see a published paper or excerpt by another author on this subject. BTW, this wiki doesn't count потому что это одна и та же статья. --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 14:42, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

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For the first I repeat the situation in more details. On December 25, 2022 User:Guy_vandegrift renamed the Hydrogen system page to Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Hydrogen system page without leaving the redirect to new page. But in Wikiversity there are some pages with links to Hydrogen system page, such as Stellar constants, Quantization of parameters of cosmic systems, Stellar Dirac constant, SPФ symmetry, Coupling constant, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Infinite Hierarchical Nesting of Matter, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Fine structure constant, Stellar Boltzmann constant, Stellar Planck constant, Substantial electron model, Strong gravitation, Strong gravitational constant, Stellar Stefan–Boltzmann constant, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Selfconsistent gravitational constants, Scale dimension, Electrogravitational vacuum. Then On December 25, 2022 User:Guy_vandegrift renamed the Similarity of matter levels page to Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Similarity of matter levels page without leaving the redirect to new page. But in Wikiversity there are some pages with links to Similarity of matter levels page, such as Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Infinite Hierarchical Nesting of Matter, SPФ symmetry, Stellar Stefan–Boltzmann constant, Stellar Dirac constant, Substantial neutron model, Scale dimension, Gravitational constant, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Praon, Stellar Boltzmann constant, Nuon, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Discreteness of stellar parameters, Substantial electron model, Electrogravitational vacuum, Quantization of parameters of cosmic systems, Stellar constants, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Hydrogen system, Substantial proton model, Coupling constant, Stellar Planck constant, Strong gravitation, Model of quark quasiparticles, Characteristic speed, Substantial photon model, Strong gravitational constant, Gravitational model of strong interaction, Covariant theory of gravitation, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Monopoles, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Velocity circulation quantum, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Gravitoelectromagnetism, Field mass-energy limit, Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Quantum Gravitational Resonator. The main idea of User:Guy_vandegrift about renaming of the pages is: Hydrogen system and Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Similarity of matter levels is fringe science according to the opinion of Wikipedia. Some years ago, at Wikiversity there was great discussion about ways of development of Wikiversity. One of the questions was the next: Is it possible to use at Wikiversity a page that was abandoned at Wikipedia? The answer was: Yes. The reasons for such answer are: 1) Wikiversity is not the Wikipedia. 2) Wikiversity has its own internal policy. 3) All pages which useful for creative thinking and which summarize some research fields are welcome and should be developed in the best possible way. 4). Fringe science do not allow in Wikipedia, mostly due to of absence of reliable references. In Wikiversity the rules are not so strict, since Wikiversity is educational project and it is not encyclopedia. Sometimes fringe science today become advanced science in the future. The Wikiversity can help in the process of such transformation of fringe science. I agree with the User:Dave_Braunschweig that the resources needs to be better structured with an introduction and subpages. A much greater effort must be made to inform users of which parts are standard accepted science and which parts are original research. It seems it is important and should be taken in account all the editors. The value of Hydrogen system is mostly not for physics and chemistry. The hydrogen atom is only one example of Hydrogen system at nuclear level of matter. There are some other levels of matter and each of them has its own Hydrogen system. The Hydrogen system is a notion in cosmological picture of Universe named Infinite Hierarchical Nesting of Matter. I suppose add some new references to the page to support masses of the objects predicted in Hydrogen systems model, that are known now with more accuracy. Fedosin (discuss • contribs) 16:54, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

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First, it appears that "Hydrogen system" is named incorrectly in terms of current usage. A quick Internet search for hydrogen system describes hydrogen energy systems and hydrogen storage. There is no Wikipedia article for Hydrogen system, so the article should not remain as currently named. Second, if kept, the resource needs to be better structured with an introduction and subpages. A much greater effort must be made to inform users of which parts are standard accepted science and which parts are original research. The original research must be labeled as such, and perhaps as fringe science, unless there is any other resource Fedosin can point to that supports this research. I'll remain neutral for now as to move vs. restructure. But it should not remain in main space as it is currently presented. Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:00, 28 December 2022 (UTC) You aren't finding any current usage of the term "hydrogen system" because it describes a concept which is only relevant within the scope of Fedosin's "infinite hierarchical nesting" theory of physics/cosmology. This theory is not accepted by the scientific community at large, so there is no relevant usage of the term outside his publications (such as these pages). What concerns me most about this group of pages is, as w:User:Xxanthippe put it, that "they promote the impression that they are mainstream and are likely to mislead non-experts into thinking that the articles are authoritative" (source). This is a particularly pressing issue given that there are essentially no resources on Wikiversity which can counter this false impression by presenting scientifically accepted views on topics of quantum physics or cosmology, and that Fedosin's pages generally fail to mention those views. Categories like Category:Particle physics are dominated by nonstandard theories, and contain more information which could mislead a student than that which could teach them. One question I might propose is whether it would be more appropriate for this content to be reviewed and (potentially) published through a WikiJournal rather than presenting it directly as a learning resource. Peer review is a critical part of the scientific process, after all; bypassing that process by publishing an unreviewed theory directly as a learning resource seems improper. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 21:25, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

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Thousands of unused files

There are thousands of unused files on Wikiversity. 5.000 can be seen on Special:UnusedFiles. There is a general clean up project on Wikiversity_talk:File_Review and one of the things discussed is unused files.

So far unused non-free files have been deleted and files without a license have also been tagged for deletion. That leaves files with a free license. So the question is what to do with those.

Unused does not always mean unusable. But if the file is not in use anywhere there is a risk that it is out of WV:Scope.

Example: The first file on the list is File:Sysop buttons.png. It is not in use and there is no links to the page. How to move forward?

1. Should files be discussed one by one?
2. Should there be a speedy template to add and if there are no objections after 90 7 days the file can be deleted? And if someone disagree they can remove the template and start a regular DR?
3. Should they be taken in batches?
4. Should we just leave all the files alone?

--MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 12:19, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

I'll wait to hear more from the community regarding which option(s) everyone would prefer. But regarding Option 2, I would use Proposed Deletions (90 days) vs. Speedy. We have a long history of tagging things and allowing 90 days for anyone to remove the tag if they want to keep the resource. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 19:26, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Then 90 days. No need to make a special exception for unused files. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 19:33, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Looking through the unused files list, I get the sense that the majority of them fall into a couple of basic categories:

• Slide presentations and other class documents created by User:Young1lim, which should probably be indexed somewhere and kept. There's a ton of potentially valuable material here and it would be a shame to delete it. (Update: this accounts for 4264 of 5791 total unused files in the last database dump!!)
• Graphs, diagrams, and homework assignments uploaded by ENES100 students. These are useless out of context and should be deleted.
• Files uploaded but not used by User:Jtneill's students for Motivation and Emotion pages. These should be deleted.
• Unused files or homework assignments from Filmmaking. These should be deleted as well.

I would hesitate to use proposed deletion for these files, as there's simply so many of them that it'd be difficult for other editors to review what's up for deletion.

Instead, as a first step, how about if we remove all of Young1lim's files from the list by creating a temporary page linking to all of his PDF uploads? Most of those files have fairly systematic names, so it should be straightforward to index them on that page. Getting those files out of the way will protect them from deletion, and should make it easier to figure out what's going on with the rest. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 22:12, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Update: I've created a temporary list of User:Young1lim's (previously) unused files in my sandbox. After Special:UnusedFiles updates, those files should be off the list, making it easier to handle those. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 23:35, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Omphalographer I do not think that a link is enough to make Special:UnusedFiles skip the files.

But I think it sounds like a good idea to take the deletions in similar batches. If they are added to categories it would be easier for users to see the files. Then files could be nominted for deletion one category at a time. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 06:42, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

I'm pretty certain the links I used should be sufficient; the files I linked to now all show my sandbox under "File usage", the same as any other file link would. It might be a few days before the page updates; it currently says the last run was on the 4th. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 07:08, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

UnusedFiles has updated and... well, either the links don't count, or there are a lot more PDFs that I missed somehow. Wow. I'll look into this. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 19:40, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Omphalographer I added all free files from Young1lim to User:MGA73/Sandbox2 and if https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/73587 is correct then there are 1845 unused files. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 16:46, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Omphalographer I wonder if system can handle it if a page use 20k files. For example this file File:DM.H.2.Logic.20180302.pdf is unused but if you click what links here it shows my sandbox. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 18:33, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

I have now added the files to 21 galleries in User:MGA73/Sandbox2 to User:MGA73/Sandbox22. Lets see if that does the trick. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 09:00, 28 May 2023 (UTC)