Mark5677

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I have just granted you rollback rights because I believe you to be trustworthy, and because you have a history of reverting vandalism and have given in the past or are trusted in the future to give appropriate warnings. Please have a read over WP:ROLLBACK and remember that rollback is only for use against obvious vandalism. Please use it that way (it can be taken away by any admin at a moment's notice). You may want to consider adding {{Rollback}} and {{User rollback}} to your userpage. Any questions, please drop me a line. Best of luck and thanks for volunteering! upstateNYer 01:12, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Germans picture

Please read the discussion page under Germans! This topic was discussed before and since there have long time disagreement about doing Hitler in the picutre and stuff like this. A "everyday-life"-picture of Germans is a better option. For a good accample of a nation picture see the Dutch people side and for bad one see -Icelanders - for example 2 very unimportant beauty queens or look the Norwegians page befor I removed the Norwegian American pictures. I will revert it again without waiting for your answer like you did (oterhwise a prever a preview discussion). 195.243.51.34 (talk) 09:45, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

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Image array vandalism

This report relates to the following pages:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Acrobat

They both contain image arrays (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Image_array)

When viewing those pages as a logged in user, they appear as normal.

When viewing those pages anonymously (non logged in) certain image arrays redirect to this image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Middle_finger2.jpg.

This issue may be occurring on other pages - the 'middle finger' page indicates that More than 100 pages link to this file.

I would fix it myself, but it's not clear to me how or why it's happening.

Mark5677 (talk) 04:55, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

The image was vandalized onto the template yesterday, and it has since been reverted. However, due to how MediaWiki caches pages, the revert will unfortunately not be immediately visible everywhere. If you stumble across a page that still has the vandalized template, you'll need to purge the cache. There is a thing called forcerecursivelinkupdate (Wikipedia:Purge#forcerecursivelinkupdate) that allows you to automatically purge every page that transcludes a given template, and I've gone ahead and run that on {{Image array}}. However, it may take some time for the server to reparse all those pages. Mz7 (talk) 06:17, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Note: The above was originally at WP:AIV, but I've moved it here so that it isn't on the highly visible noticeboard. Mz7 (talk) 06:20, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

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