User blog:Sammm鯊/Duplicate images


 * For those who don't know, to me, batch delete is actually a lot more easy; so please excuse me for organizing the to-be-deleted first, instead of outright deleting them on demand =] they will be taken care of, though.
 * -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 05:49, January 8, 2019 (UTC)

Previously included within another blogpost. For dupes that have been fully taken care of, see the below and its subsections lol. Will list out how many dupes previously existed and respective file names.

The purpose of still displaying the taken-care-of images, is in the hopes that, by chance, people may browse and find the images they wanted to use already present on HPW, thus not uploading dupes. Yes, chances are slim, I know. lol User blog namespace probably also isn't the best place to bring awareness, but it'll have to do for the time being.

In case anyone is curious, no, sadly I do not have a bot, which is why any action done for the related subject matter will be via this account. Those are the following scripts I'm using:
 * w:c:dev:FileUsageAuto-update
 * w:c:dev:AjaxBatchDelete
 * w:c:dev:MassEdit
 * w:c:dev:DupImageList
 * w:c:dev:MassCategorization

Also please feel free to chip in at Forum:Treatment for similar images. I suppose if you are reading this blog post and would like to join the hunt for dupes, feel free to share your findings on the forum thread. =D

-- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 23:05, December 31, 2018 (UTC)

Plans
On the off chance someone other than myself actually click into this blogpost, and merlin forbid, read it, and took pity on the whole situation and decided that maybe they wanted to help out, here's a couple of subjects I know to have dupes, and will eventually get to sorting them, but don't mind if you beat me to it, please do! So yeah; and if you don't feel like helping out, this is also announcing that you will eventually be likely to see mass changes for subjects above. =]
 * Promotional images: So many dupes. Images of the trio is harder to spot because their total file numbers being way larger, but at the moment, I know Luna, Ginny, Bellatrix, and Umbridge all have a lot of dupes.
 * Wizard of the Month: This is an odd one in the sense that there isn't that many of them to begin with, yet there's still multiple dupes for so many of them.
 * Mary GrandPré's US chapter art: Color and B/W those two versions of the same illustrations aside, both versions seemed to have dupes as well.
 * K, somewhat sorted out. 90 versions to be merged, with User:Arayamrosa's replacing User:Seth Cooper's (COS-GOF) and User:You-Know-Who's (DH) uploads. To preserve all history takes steps, so I guess I'll work on them if I'm in the mood, likely won't finish them in one go.
 * TCG undefined: A lot of them have dupes, but the bright side is that they usually don't have more than 1 dupe per card.
 * Chocolate Frog Cards: This I'm not so sure, a lot of them could just not have been used instead of dupes being unused, though it's still quite odd.
 * Image filename that starts with [...]px- prefix: This is not always true, but there are a relatively high percentage of images that have that prefix being the lower quality dupe of the file without said prefix.

As to how to "help", you can either create a list to group your dupe findings, or post them on my talk page. I don't actually expect anyone to lend a hand lol, so don't feel bad if you don't feel like helping. xD -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 07:12, January 12, 2019 (UTC)

Dupe script
Holy @#%#@Q. I was wrong. There are QUITE A LOT of those kinds. Will have to sort through them gradually. The below is the copy & paste of the list of result for people who can't see. Prior to the batch edit, there were 35,431 files in total on HPW, and currently there're , and that's with new files simultaneously uploading as well. Hopefully the decrease in file numbles will still be visible by the year ends, and people won't be uploading new pics faster than I delete the duplicates to see the number change lol. That, will be real amazing. =P -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 23:12, December 31, 2018 (UTC)

Current dupes
I'll be listing what they are duplicated from, with the actual duplicates, and what pages the duplicates can still be found on, which are usually User pages, and it'd be rude for a regular User like myself to go in and edit. I understand by adding them here, this blog would be listed as where they appeared on; however, this is the only way I can think of to put them side-by-side to show they really are duplicates and hopefully can be deleted in the near future.

As of the timestamp of my signature at the end of this paragraph, there are 30 images with duplicates (40 duplicates in total) listed, hopefully by next year, at least a quarter of them would be gone, if all of them is too much to ask for. -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 03:51, September 26, 2018 (UTC)


 * P.S.: 19 out of the 40 dupes don't appear elsewhere except for this blog, so no extra "swapping" action needed to be done, just waiting for deletion. =D -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 18:00, September 30, 2018 (UTC)
 * 2 more. -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 22:38, October 10, 2018 (UTC)
 * 15 more. -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 17:17, October 25, 2018 (UTC)


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 * Duplicate(s)' appearance(s)

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