Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections/Archive 12

Sp-sorocaba

Please block Sp-sorocaba (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings + mass Flickr washing + vandalismus I, II, III, etc. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 16:43, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 19:06, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

RTL Nederland

Please block RTL Nederland (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user (2 uploads = 2 x copyvio) per using an inappropriate username = COM:UPOLICY: "(...) Use of a company or group name as a username is also prohibited...", considering en:RTL Nederland (a subsidiary of the RTL Group, Europe's leading entertainment company). Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 19:41, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 23:10, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Jaja1st

Please block Jaja1st (talk · contribs), as he is a sockpuppet of blocked user Jajadelera. - Areaseven (talk) 16:27, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 17:57, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Benedictine

Benedictine (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Please block Benedictine for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings.--CennoxX (talk) 21:19, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done 3 months break. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 21:35, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

User:Wiki-Bot

Resolved

User:Wiki-Bot is removing the {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2013}} template from recent uploads, saying "Uploaded too late. Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 ro has finished". However, Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 did not end yet (at least in Romania); it will end today at midnight (GMT+3). Posting this message too early may discourage the uploaders. I have contacted the bot operator, but he is not responding. Razvan Socol (talk) 18:16, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

He was fixing the bot. Platonides (talk) 18:22, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

The problem seems to be fixed now. Thanks, Razvan Socol (talk) 18:36, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Freddielovesu (talk · contribs)

Resolved

Just FYI: I indef-blocked this new user on the spot for harrassment (and likely cyber-bullying) as he had uploaded an indoor-photo showing a topless teenage girl and had inserted that image into an :en article about a school[1]]. There are enough victims of cyber-bullying already. I'm just not sure whether this should also be reported to legal; it's not childp*rn. --Túrelio (talk) 19:24, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

I don't want to look at the image personally, but if it's of an undressed minor, it should atleast be dealt with by oversight supression of the image, and a global lock of the account. INeverCry 19:59, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Reported to legal --Steinsplitter (talk) 20:17, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. After rethinking while offline, I came to the same conclusion. Though it was not CP strictu sense, the school should be notified (and eventually provided a censored version of the image for identification), just as a precaution against cyber-bullying. --Túrelio (talk) 20:20, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Ensuring information is removed from an image

There's an image I've nominated for deletion which will almost certainly be removed, but in the meantime I'd like the caption permanently removed from public view as it reveals personal details about a 13-year-old girl who isn't the uploader AFAICT and makes some allegations (which were almost certainly intended as a joke but they still shouldn't be out there).

How do I have this deleted without drawing attention to the image publicly? Ubcule (talk) 22:18, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

I've speedied the image. --Túrelio (talk) 22:24, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

I'd wondered how you knew which one I meant, then I realised.

Also, does this mean that the questionable caption text will no longer be publicly visible *anywhere*?

Can you tell me which channel I should use to report incidents like this entirely privately in future? Ubcule (talk) 22:31, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

a) No; anybody with admin-rights or higher can easily undelete the image and its description. I deleted it only to remove the immediate threat.

b) For privacy-related things you should contact one of the people listed on Commons:Oversighters. They can really delete things. As I am offline now, you should still contact COM:OV for this image. --Túrelio (talk) 22:39, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Fenixceleste

Please block persistent copyvio-only uploader Fenixceleste (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user again for continuing to upload nothing but copyright violations and recreating previously deleted copyright violations in spite of two batch deletions, countless warnings and a previous one-week block. This user is obviously not here to participate constructively. —LX (talk, contribs) 17:28, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

 Blocked for a long time. Caring for the remaining files now. -- Rillke^(q?) 17:42, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Strange semi-protected templates

Hi,
Many templates ({{Wikispecies}}, {{WikispeciesCompact}}, {{Taxonavigation}}...) that I maintain are protected but their protection is incoherent:

• When I click on "See source code", they display a banner : "This page is semi-protected and can only be modified by registered users" (approximate translation as my language is french).
• I am a long-registered User, but I cannot edit theses templates.

So either, there is a bug blocking my edition or the banner is buggy and should say that this template is fully protected and only an admin can edit it.
PS: I still dream of a 'authorized to change templates and modules' status not related to 'admin' status. An admin is not meant to develop templates and modules + A templates and modules editor may no wish to become admin.
Best regards, Liné1 (talk) 12:48, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

All three are fully protected and this is fairly common for high-use or high-risk templates. You always have the option to request changes via {{Editprotected}} on the template's talkpages. --Denniss (talk) 13:35, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Please, I am an advanced contributor, I know all this.

If these template are under 'full-protection', the issue is that the warning talks about 'semi-protection'.

Regards Liné1 (talk) 14:54, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

When I click edit on {{Wikispecies}}, I get: "AVERTISSEMENT : cette page est protégée. Seuls les utilisateurs ayant le statut d'administrateur peuvent la modifier." -- Do you see something different? -- Rillke^(q?) 15:33, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

I get "Cette page est actuellement semi-protégée, et ne peut être modifiée que par les utilisateurs enregistrés de Commons."

That is my problem. Regards Liné1 (talk) 16:04, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Ok, that should be fixed. I forgot checking all the translations when I fixed the English version. Liné1, as a long-term contributor you are, you could try COM:RFA explaining that you want to be able editing fully protected templates and edit COM:CDC as well as dealing with COM:CFD. -- Rillke^(q?) 16:29, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Pacoalb

Pacoalb (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Please block Pacoalb for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings.--CennoxX (talk) 15:42, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

 Blocked --Steinsplitter (talk) 15:45, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

User:Anny Kusuma kj

I have indef-blocked account Anny Kusuma kj (talk · contribs), which is also obviously a sock-puppet of User:Anny Kusuma, for uploading exclusively images showing herself, many of which are manipulated/photoshopped derivatives/copyvios (see: User talk:Anny Kusuma kj). The "mother-account" Anny Kusuma (talk · contribs) has exhibited the same behaviour. Their main intent is to create self-promotional pages such as en:User:Anny Kusuma, en:User:Anny Kusuma kj and th:ผู้ใช้:Anny Kusuma. As an indef-block on the spot may appear to be harsh, I leave it open for discussion and will not object if a colleague shortens it. --Túrelio (talk) 09:11, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Indef block for the obvious sock is 100% justified, I left a project scope info at main user talk page and deleted the sock uploads. Another sock or attempt to re-upload these trollish images and the main account should be gone as well. --Denniss (talk) 12:45, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

The 2 accounts and a third one, User:Anny kusuma justmin, have now also been indef-blocked on :en. --Túrelio (talk) 13:50, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Just for the record, today a third account was opened, Anny KJ Kusuma (talk · contribs), and used to upload again 2 of the manipulated images. --Túrelio (talk) 08:16, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

After this account was (ab)used to upload again the same full set of nonsense images (18), including 6 clear copyvios, I have blocked that account indef too. If this goes on again, we should consider involving meta or even the WMF in order to prevent any further uploads from the person behind all that. --Túrelio (talk) 09:17, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

In preparation of further measures, an overview of the involved accounts:
On Commons we have so far:

• Anny Kusuma (talk · contribs)
• Anny Kusuma kj (talk · contribs) indef
• Anny KJ Kusuma (talk · contribs) indef

While on :en Wikipedia there are:

• en:User:Anny Kusuma indef
• en:User:Anny Kusuma kj indef
• en:User:Anny kusuma justmin indef
• en:User:Timer99 indef

and on :th Wikipedia:

• th:ผู้ใช้:Anny Kusuma
• th:ผู้ใช้:Anny KJ Kusuma

--Túrelio (talk) 10:04, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

link-spammer User:Chris77greg

I have indef-blocked Chris77greg (talk · contribs) as a spam-only account. All his 7 uploads had a link to a commercial service and/or advertising text in the description. 5 uploads were also without permission. Some weeks ago we had an australian spammer (Andrewaustin (talk · contribs)) who showed the same pattern of behaviour. --Túrelio (talk) 12:26, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

I do concur with the block: Either they used the same spam-software or are one person/organization.

We recently lost 2 very active Check Users. -- Rillke^(q?) 08:48, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Jazz77brown (talk · contribs) seems to be the next one. --Túrelio (talk) 07:13, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Full block, uploads deleted. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 08:43, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

BSicon request

Please unprotect: File:BSicon hSTRrg.svg, File:BSicon hSTRrf.svg, File:BSicon hSTRlg.svg, File:BSicon hSTRlf.svg. No other BSicons are protected; whatever were the reasons for protecting these four, they are long past. Currently they need to be re-categorised. YLSS (talk) 15:26, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

 Done. --Túrelio (talk) 15:30, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

FSV (talk · contribs) (bot) operating without request, permission, flag

Just noting my discovery here:

• FSV (talk · contribs)

This bot is archiving talk pages while MiszaBot is down in violation of our bot policy. Bots need to be approved prior to running tasks. I have not blocked it - it's not doing any damage and the operator is trusted; if someone else feels differently, they are welcome to do so. I've asked Fastily to get it approved and it's probably best to enforce our bot policy across the board.

—Mono 15:39, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

For most bots I wouldn't care less, but it's really annoying to get the orange bar after the archive bot came along. Either stop it of flag it. Multichill (talk) 20:29, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Here you go -FASTILY 22:30, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Better not approve this bot. It does strange things, like adding a {{PermissionOTRS}} template, where the ticket does not contain a valid permission, see here. Jcb (talk) 20:38, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

I made those edits manually. For all purposes and intents, I made these edits with my main account -FASTILY 22:30, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

User:YodelingCowboy

Can someone grant a local IP block exemption to this user? See m:Steward_requests/Global_permissions#Global_IP_block_exempt_for_YodelingCowboy for details. Ruslik (talk) 19:16, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 19:29, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! --YodelingCowboy (talk) 09:02, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

User:Philippe1969

I have indef-blocked Philippe1969 (talk · contribs) who has uploaded 2 more manipulated (face-replacement per Photoshop) and copyviolating portrait shots of living persons, shot by other photographers, but claimed as "own work", even after being warned for his first upload. He then placed these manipulated shots into the related articles[2],[3] on :fr. Indef may look harsh, but nothing good can be expected from somebody doing such egregious violations. --Túrelio (talk) 10:20, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

 Agree --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 21:07, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Albatalab

Please block Albatalab (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user again for continuing to upload copyright violations with fraudulent authorship claims in spite of multiple warnings, a two-part mass deletion request and two previous blocks. —LX (talk, contribs) 09:31, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

 Done This is my first block in Commons ever. In Estonian wikipedia, third block is usually no less than year. This case I feel, that indefinite block is needed. Taivo (talk) 10:37, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes, indeed. If they would like to contribute in a useful manner to Commons, they can still ask for being unblocked. The user's uploads still need to be cleaned up. -- Rillke^(q?) 10:51, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Peaceful War Cover page

Dear Administrator,

The publisher of "Peaceful War" has had uploaded the cover page of this book. For some reasons (stating "Copyright violation: Book cover.) EugeneZelenko has deleted it from Commons on October 3, 2013 (see below, which I cut and pasted from "Peaceful War" page of View History). This is not a copyright violation since the owner (i.e., publisher) has uploaded it and ALSO this is in Public Domain and can be used as a "Fair Use" for Wikipedia. Here is our webpage: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780761861867

We appreciate your assistance to re-upload since I couldn't do this at the suggestion of my supervisor at the University Press of America at Rowman & Littlefield.

Thanks...Joseph M. Kaiping

---

15:19, 3 October 2013‎ CommonsDelinker (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (3,342 bytes) (-31)‎ . . (Removing "Peaceful_War.jpg", it has been deleted from Commons by EugeneZelenko because: Copyright violation: Book cover.) (undo) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Josephkaiping (talk • contribs)

File:Peaceful War.jpg had indeed 2 probably copyrighted photos on the cover. You should provide some evidence that these photos are really in the PD or released under a free license by the respective rights holder. Fair-use is not allowed on Commons. --Túrelio (talk) 19:27, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

User:Holycompanybd

Can someone please indefitely block User:Holycompanybd as a violation of the username policy? Thanks, --Jakob (Scream about the things I've broken) 12:25, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

You mean because he suggests to represent a company[4] ? --Túrelio (talk) 12:33, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes. --Jakob (Scream about the things I've broken) 12:35, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

+ spamming --Steinsplitter (talk) 19:58, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Blocked by colleague Steinsplitter. --Túrelio (talk) 19:27, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

PEI0212

Please block PEI0212 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to recreate previously deleted copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings to stop uploading copyright violations and not to recreate deleted files outside of process. Given that the user only has only showed up once or twice a year during the past two years to dump a bunch of copyright violations on us, I see no point in a block shorter than one year. While it's usually long for a first block, the user can always ask for it to be lifted if they decide to start communicating and contributing constructively. Cheers, —LX (talk, contribs) 16:30, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

This is a difficult one, because there is no solid proof that File:20120808pan.jpg (Canon PowerShot G12 with AF mode Face Detect), File:20120805wilber.jpg (Apple iPhone 4S), File:110123808wilber in Taipei.jpg (PENTAX K-m) are copyright violations. I found a few results but all of them were either lower resolution or wikipedia-references.

File:20120808pan.jpg is a cropped version of File:120805pan.jpg.

All 34 of their uploads were deleted, that's true and most of them, including the recently re-uploaded one are copyright violations.

I am going to block the user for one year now but please feel invited to comment here. -- Rillke^(q?) 21:44, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Luispedros

Please check this user activity and this page. He is new sockpuppet of user:mazandiran. --Mehdi^Talk 12:49, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Luispedros has just been blocked per Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Mazandiran. January (talk) 13:47, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Placar Abril

Please block Placar Abril (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to revert problem tags from file pages, clearing deletion request, vandalizing templates, insults, cleaning discussion pages etc. in spite of multiple warnings, including a last warning. Thanks. PS: Consider also to block the related socks Lauro Melo (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user and Futebol Brasil (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user, all accounts (I would not say "users") with contribuitions related to the same specific scan of a copyrighted image published by Brazilian magazine Placar = File:Galo em 1978.jpg/File:Time Galo 1978.jpg/ File:1978 Poster Campeoes.jpg/File:Campeao dos Campeoes 1978.jpg/ File:Campeao 78.jpg and Commons:Deletion requests/File:Campeao 78.jpg. Related: Commons:Administrators' noticeboard#some strange user pages. Gunnex (talk) 06:34, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

For now I've blocked Placar Abril for 3 days. To me, his vandalising edits in Commons:Deletion requests/File:Galo em 1978.jpg may result from not understanding what's happening. I may be wrong, but currently no time to dig-in deeper. --Túrelio (talk) 07:04, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Olivaresgro28

Please block Olivaresgro28 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user again for continuing to batch upload nothing but copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings and a previous two-week block. —LX (talk, contribs) 06:30, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 13:24, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

User:Bleggett316

Can someone block this user? The single purpose of this account seems to be to upload hoaxes and harass users.

The user also seems to be a sockpuppet of another, unidentified, user: here he wrote that User:Fry1989 has nominated something the user created for deletion, but the user has only uploaded one file (which was nominated for deletion by me and at the same time speedily deleted by Denniss (talk · contribs)), so the files nominated for deletion by Fry1989 must have been uploaded using a different user account. --Stefan4 (talk) 15:56, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

 Done -- Rillke^(q?) 16:07, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Huh?? I got a notification that I was mentioned here (love that these are available on Commons now btw) but completely missed the "action". Oh well. Fry1989 ^eh? 17:19, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Ohhh I see what they did. I probably know who it was too, not that it matters. Fry1989 ^eh? 17:24, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Block User:Uthaya3

• Uthaya3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

Has not learned from his previous three blocks for license-violations...back at it again. That's the only thing this editor has ever done in his 2+ year time here. DMacks (talk) 16:49, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:13, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

attack-image uploader blocked

FYI: I have indef-blocked TheSolarPoweredSexMachine (talk · contribs), who had uploaded a head-shot of an identifiable person (using the potentially defamatory description "I really enjoy scarves and wine"), which was then immediately inserted by his likely SP en:User:IEndorseThisEventOrProduct into 5 :en-articles about a Simpsons character, a race-horse, a dog-type, etc. — clearly intended as an attack image. The :en account has also been indef-blocked[5] and has thereafter disclosed his true intention with this image[6]. --Túrelio (talk) 09:18, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, this is a long-term vandal on en.wiki, with multiple socks. Materialscientist (talk) 10:10, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Further research by User:Materialscientist on :en has shown that the above mentioned and several other accounts are SPs of en:User:Cheesels999.

• User:TheSolarPoweredSexMachine [7]
• User:IEndorseThisEventOrProduct [8] (so far no account on Commons)
• User:EatYourPyneCone [9] now also blocked by Materialscientist
• User:Melikeybouncy69696969 (so far no account on Commons)
• User:Cheesels999 (so far no account on Commons)

--Túrelio (talk) 10:13, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Cheesels999 is the earliest account that I tracked by a quick CU scan on en.wiki, but my memory hints me that there were more and older accounts. Materialscientist (talk) 10:21, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Spammer

Please indefinitely block Somos_Flashback (talk · contribs). Thanks, --Jakob (Scream about the things I've broken) 22:17, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

I have warned him. If he goes on with his advertising, he'll get blocked. --Túrelio (talk) 22:23, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Túrelio OK, now they've done it. --Jakob (Scream about the things I've broken) 22:37, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 22:49, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

BSicons

Please unprotect File:BSicon utGRENZE.svg. No other BSicons are protected; any issues with this one are long gone, its target is scheduled for renaming and redirect will need to be updated. Is there a way to find all protected files (incl. redirects) beginning with "BSicon"? YLSS (talk) 20:13, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done --High Contrast (talk) 20:31, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Erm, thanks for un-protecting File:BSicon uetGRENZE.svg, its semi-protection was also needless, but I asked precisely about File:BSicon utGRENZE.svg (no e). YLSS (talk) 21:36, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 21:41, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

File:Forms of government.svg

This map has been repeatedly reverted by users claiming Portugal is a semi-presidential system of government even though the reality of the Portuguese political system does not meet the bill. There has been an attempt to discuss the matter on the talk page, but the only responses that I have received are unsourced claims of "I'm Portuguese, I know what my country is", insults, and scholarly papers on the concept. There are no solid sources, and for that reason I must request the map be protected under the revision of a parliamentary system of government until such time as a proper and sourced consensus is formed. Fry1989 ^eh? 19:28, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm confused. If scholarly papers don't count as sources, then what does? --Carnildo (talk) 00:20, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

They are sources to an extent but they are not conclusive when their purpose is to debate and theorize on the subject. So far nothing conclusive has been provided. Fry1989 ^eh? 01:41, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

File:Flag of Spain.svg

Please full protect the file. --Knochen ﱢﻝﱢ‎  09:06, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

A new user has made a request for renaming and deletion.history I mean this is the offical flag. --Knochen ﱢﻝﱢ‎  09:16, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

DR closed as trolling and file semi-protected for editing. --Denniss (talk) 12:10, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Block review

Could un-involved administrators please review Yann's block of Eleassar (talk · contribs)? I have concerns including, among others:

• A one month block for the user's first block is excessive, suggesting it is punitive, a violation of COM:BP;
• Yann does not appear to have been un-involved/acting dispassionately - "stop the bullshit" [10];
• The "several warnings" [11] appear to have come from involved parties whose uploads have been nominated (e.g. Sporti) or are otherwise in conflict with Eleassar (e.g. Colin). There is indeed an archived thread from AN/U (which largely devolved into a forum shopping-esque rehashing of issues from the X-Ray RfC). This thread was not closed and did not reach a consensus of inappropriate interpretation of COM:PRP or COM:EVID. There did seem to be a general concern that Eleassar has been too quick to reopen previously closed DRs without substantial new evidence. It does not appear that the DRs for which Eleassar was blocked were re-openings; and
• Request(s) to seek broader input were met with "stop with this 'take it to AN/U' bullshit" [12];

A block of this duration (or any at all) from a non-dispassionate admin, without genuine warnings from uninvolved parties, and/or without community consensus that a user is acting disruptively seems to me inappropriate. Эlcobbola _talk 16:14, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

This seems like a poor block to me. Assuming that Eleassar's actions were disruptive, there's nothing that couldn't have waited a few hours for an ANU thread to come to that conclusion and for an uninvovled admin to act. I suggest Eleassar be unblocked, and that the merits of his edits be discussed here. If the conclusion is that the edits are disruptive, they can be re-blocked if necessary, and if the conclusion is that their edits are constructive, then the matter can be considered settled. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:59, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Eleassar posts a great many DRs, many of them on FOP issues in eastern Europe. Unfortunately, he is not a popular person with those editors who would like architectural FOP to be true everywhere.

I disagree with about 10% of Eleassar's FOP DRs, but even those are often close calls. I don't think that very many -- maybe 1% of all his DRs -- were so far out of line that I would have been embarrassed to have done them myself.

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Trgovsko podjetje Moda je na Partizanski cesti odprlo trgovino z moško modo 1961 (5).jpg which, I think, precipitated this block, has two issues:

• Is it copyrightable? For me, that is clearly "yes". All architecture is copyrightable -- there are no exceptions in the case law for simple buildings as some of our colleagues would claim. In the USA case law, it is quite the opposite -- even very simple houses have a copyright and it is regularly enforced.
• Is it still under copyright? The 1928 addition is new enough so in the absence of other information, we must assume that the architect did not die before 1943. However, it would be nice to know when the architect died. By the nature of his work, an architect cannot be anonymous -- the government agency that issues building permits will require a name on the drawings. In most places, that person must be licensed.

So, I would have deleted this image. Yann decided to keep it. Yann and I disagree on FOP issues frequently and the fate of some images has rested on which of us got the closure first. So be it. But images over which two experienced Admins have honest disagreements should not be the basis of a block on the grounds that the nom was frivolous. -- 18:08, 5 November 2013‎ Jameslwoodward (Talk | contribs)

Slovenia is not in Eastern Europe... --Miha (talk) 23:37, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

It is clear to me for some time that Eleassar was heading for a block, if not ultimately a ban from the project. My main point here is to object to elcobbola's accusation of forum shopping. I was specifically asked by Eleassar to go to AN/U to raise concerns I had over his deletion nominations, and specifically the way he templated a long-time contributor of thousands of radiology images. That user needs our help wrt licensing, he does not need his images to be tagged with a 7-day timer on them. If we value our contributors and our body of images, then we should be working to define copyright law with the help of actual experts and document this for the benefit of contributors. We should be working with contributors to help them with licensing issues. I appreciate copyright is a serious issue that must be taken seriously, but users who want to play wack-a-mole games with images should find another hobby. -- Colin (talk) 18:34, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Colin, Эlcobbola's comment about "forum shopping-esque rehashing" was a characterisation of the AN/U debate (which I happen to agree with), not an accusation about your motives. Please do not try to derail this section into yet another discussion of radiology images.

Back to the block: I see Eleassar stated, a couple of days before Yann's block, that they had previously been in conflict, and neither Yann nor anyone else refuted this. I don't know anything about that conflict, but I would have thought such a statement from an active contributor would be a good reason for an admin not to block that person themselves, but to seek input from others. I do accept that Yann genuinely felt the DR was frivolous, but I think they made a bad call, both in closing the DR precipitously (only 40 minutes after nomination!) and in issuing this block where they could easily be seen as involved. I also do not think the block was deserved, for the reasons given by Эlcobbola and Jameslwoodward. I agree with HJ Mitchell that Eleassar should be unblocked pending further discussion here. Overturn block. --Avenue (talk) 20:12, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

I fully agree that the radiology issue should not be rehashed. However, Eleassar's attitude towards DR and inability to listen to advice is relevant. This can be seen from his recent talk page comments and that fact that even after re-opening DRs and failing on them, he still doesn't accept the result. His response, again and again and again, is "take it to AN/U" -- in other words: I won't listen to you unless you get the community to block me. Well that's happened and perhaps he can spend his month reconsidering his role here. Colin (talk) 20:23, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Although some of Eleassar's DRs are useful, many are not. There have been several disucssions and warnings that he doesn't evalute properly the cases before creating DRs. "stop the bullshit" means just stop pretenting there isn't a problem. When several experienced users question his actions, and he refuses to even consider that there is a problem, a block is really justify. I'd remove the block if he stops creating new DRs and acknowledges that there is a problem. I agree that 1 mon th may be too long. I changed it for 3 days. Yann (talk) 20:36, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

• Support block This user has made it clear here and here that they have little interest following community consensus. This has made them an overall harm to the project. Hopefully after a month block and time to consider they can return and be involved more constructively. James Heilman, MD (talk) 03:41, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Yann made poor judgements, speedy closing the deletion requests. Eleassar made this deletion requests in good faith and I think, that his last DR-s should be closed as deleted, not as kept. Taivo (talk) 10:27, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Not the DR's themselves are disruptive, but the nominator's tactics that any unsuccesful DR will be re-opened with same rationale again and again until an admin will someday close it for the purpose of the nominator. In many wikipedias there are restrictions on re-nominating same pages, which is good that way, as it helps to put a stop to POINTy behaviour, harrassment of particular users, and similar unpleasant things. Unfortunately, here on Commons the RfD procedure is VERY widely open for misuse. --A.Savin 11:57, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

We have UnDRs for closures in one direction, and therefore must allow repeat DRs in the other direction. Unless we assume that all Admins are perfect and refuse to acknowledge that there are major differences of opinion on FOP, I see it as perfectly legitimate to reopen a DR. I intend to reopen a number of Yann's keeps for reexamination -- the numbers that I report below suggest that is he who is out of line with the rest of the community, not Eleassar. .     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 12:39, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, we have UnDR's. But how would you react if a single user would re-open an unsuccessful UnDR thread on the same image or batch two, three, four,... times? In most wikipedias, it is commonly known as illustrating a point. --A.Savin 13:17, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

A few numbers: I went through the last 10,000 of Eleassar's contributions here and, using MS Word, picked off all of the Deletion requests marked N for "new". This gave me 567 DRs created by Eleassar. Using AWB, I then went through those and tabulated the results of the 314 that were closed.

• 255 closed as deleted
• 28 closed as kept
• 31 closed as withdrawn because the DR discussion turned up new facts

They were closed by a variety of Admins, including Fastily, Taivo, INC, Hedwig, Yann, and me.

I note that Yann closed 19 of these DRs, keeping in 14 cases and deleting in 5. That ratio is far different from the 250 to 14 for the rest of us (73% kept versus 5% kept). It therefore seems to me that we should consider whether the one who is acting differently from the community is not Eleassar, but Yann.

Except for those closed by Yann, 95% of Eleassar's DRs either were closed as delete or were withdrawn because they had elicited new facts that allowed the image to be kept. A quick look at three days' DR archives suggests that the usual percentage of keeps is a little above 10%. That says that even with Yann's different take on the world, Eleassar's DRs are on target a little better than average. Surely a prolific contributor who does a little better than average is to be encouraged, not blocked. .     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 12:33, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

This analysis doesn't really tell much, because we don't know how many of the deleted images were actually free (this is what is harming the project, not the images that were kept - these are 'just' wasting peoples time). But as established at Commons:Undeletion_requests/Current_requests#Slovenia_FOP_Cases at least 1 admin (Fastily included - and he closed most of those I believe) went through the cases rather carelessly, so there were potentially 100s of free images deleted. This might be be because Eleassar managed to intentionally burry admins and potentially interested users in more DRs it is possible to handle. --Sporti (talk) 13:05, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Let's dont forget that such a "strike rate" is a bit tricky statistics here on Commons, as every DR with no further comments received within 7 days normally ends up in closing as deleted (several RfD admins, e.g. Fastily or INC, seem to use a script which allows them to delete a batch of uncontested DR's by a few clicks, without even looking at the nomination page to review the nominator's argumentation); and there are really many DR's that remain uncontested, especially those of images by newbies or low-active users. Amongst Eleassar's DRs, you will also find lots of uncontested successful DR's, and I'm not really sure if all of these images are indeed copyright violations and should have been deleted. --A.Savin 13:17, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

I hope Eleassar will learn from his/her mistakes. As the block is reduced to three days, I don't think a need for such a long discussion. There is no meaning in saying one user (at least to me) to don't reopen a DR already closed and allow others so. JKadavoor Jee 13:41, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

If the block was done inappropriately (and I believe it was), it should be overturned, even if it has only a minute left to run. If there's consensus that a block is needed, it should be put in place by someone uninvolved. --Avenue (talk) 01:19, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

• Overturn block - This is a bad block simply because of who is making it. Yann isn't uninvolved here, and indeed Yann and Eleassar have a history of going at each other. The fact of the matter is that this isn't an emergency block - Eleassar wasn't doing anything that needed stopping so critically that it couldn't wait for a neutral admin - so Yann had no business being the one issuing the block. Sven Manguard Wha? 23:39, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

I've unblocked Eleassar as there is no consensus here to keep him blocked. The analysis by Jameslwoodward shows that a wide majority of Eleassar's deletion requests are being followed. While some are not happy about his deletion requests, there was no strong evidence posted during the discussion that deletion requests were opened by Eleassar in bad faith. If there are significant concerns, I strongly suggest to open then a discussion backed up by careful analysis at COM:AN/U. Such cases need wide consensus and input from other admins. One of the strengths of the Commons community is the depth of discussions in regard to copyright. We all learn from these discussions and many of these debates and decisions, even if they get overturned, have improved all our knowledge in this difficult field. Hence, we should not intimidate users by blocking them without a prior discussion for opening deletion requests in good faith. --AFBorchert (talk) 06:29, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

• I endorse the unblock, since the block failed the blocking policy. Yann should've created an AN/U topic, rather than blocking. Also I'm rather concerned with the poor response to the block by Yann in this very topic. Bidgee (talk) 06:49, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

The stats by Jim are misleading: Yes, I have closed Eleassar's more often as kept then delete, but that just because I think that his arguments for deletion are vague, incomplete, or even wrong. Also, when closing as kept, I usually follow options by others. Yann (talk) 08:09, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

I don't think for a minute that you acted inappropriately in your closures -- simply that you have a different view of FOP than all of the other Admins who regularly close DRs. However, extending that different view to blocking Eleassar for posting DRs that all the rest of us find useful seems to me (and others who have spoken above) inappropriate. .     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 11:52, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

OK, I understand that you disagree about the pertinence of Eleassar's DRs. But I am not alone supporting a block for Eleassar. And the claim that I am invloved is far-fetched: I don't have any particular interest in this subject (architecture) nor in the area (Central and Eastern Europe). It just happens that I came accross his contributions several times, because of the number of DRs he created. I have nothing generally against Eleassar, and I even think that his contributions might be useful, if applied to the proper issues. I have even mentioned that to him. Considering that they are always thousands of pending real copyright issues, I find that his skill would be better applied elsewhere. Regards, Yann (talk) 11:06, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Everyone is free here to invest their time in areas they are interested in. If Eleassar contributes his time to check for FOP-related cases, he is very much welcome to do this like any other. If concerns arise from a long series of deletion requests, they should be discussed collaboratively without blocking the user first. This gives the defendant the opportunity to express their view and allows others to add their opinions as well. There is no need to rush into blocks in such cases. In particular, there is no need to speedily block a long-term well-known contributor with an empty block log and no history of bad-faith actions. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 15:18, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

I am very much open for discussions. But discussions need two sides. Here I feel I met only answers like take it to AN/U, like was said above. Yann (talk) 11:15, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

User talk:SieBot

I'm trying to nominate Category:Limestones for CFD, but the script repeatedly fails because it tries to notify the creator SieBot (an admin used the bot to move the category from its natural name to this bizzare one), and the bot's talk page is fully protected. Could protection please be reduced? I can't figure out how to nominate it for deletion unless we reduce protection, except by creating the discussion for a different category and copy/pasting the code. We shouldn't make some categories harder to delete than others just because of who created the pages. Nyttend (talk) 22:15, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Umais Bin Sajjad

Please block Umais Bin Sajjad (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user again for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings and three previous blocks. During the first block, the user promised to stop uploading copyright violations and asked to be blocked permanently if he continued. However, the second and third blocks were also limited in duration. I think it's time to finally grant him his wish this time. —LX (talk, contribs) 10:31, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:30, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

PedromartinsR

Please block PedromartinsR (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 12:39, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:44, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

File:Unasur countries color.svg, File:Miembros de Mercosur.svg, File:Unasur other members.svg, File:Comunidad andina.svg

Sdonatti (talk · contribs) has been edit warring for 2 months to try and COM:OVERWRITE 4 files with controversial variant images. The user has now been blocked for edit warring over a similar issue on en.wiki. I've requested that the variants be split. Could an admin please fully protect the image on the stable version to stop the edit warring? TDL (talk) 14:28, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Reverted and locked for a month. --Denniss (talk) 22:39, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Block or protect, please

Can someone either block this disruptive user or protect this user's talk page? thanks, We hope (talk) 17:14, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:35, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! We hope (talk) 19:08, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/194.113.247.64 at User talk:Marcel coenders

Seem to be harassment. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 12:42, 11 November 2013 (UTC)  Done Blocked for 1 year. Taivo (talk) 14:22, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Protection for 1.5x and 2x www.wikipedia.org images

File:Wikipedia wordmark 1.5x.png, File:Wikipedia-logo-v2 1.5x.png, File:Wikipedia wordmark 2x.png, and File:Wikipedia-logo-v2 2x.png are higher-resolution versions of the wordmark and puzzle ball at http://www.wikipedia.org/. For the time being, I've rigged the page to load thumbnails of the original images, File:Wikipedia wordmark.svg and File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg, but the thumbnails aren't quite as optimized. This is one of the most trafficked pages (if not the most) in Wikimediadom, so optimization is significant. Please protect the four hi-res images so that we can use them at the multilingual portal. Thank you! – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 13:25, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

User talk:George Ho

Hello, this is George Ho. I would like my Commons talkpage semi-protected please. I encounter a troublemaking sockpuppet. --George Ho (talk) 17:14, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done three months --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

User:3928l23

New sockpuppet of Messina (talk · contribs); see Category:Sockpuppets of Messina. --Jergen (talk) 18:08, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 18:22, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

+ User:Dfe203 (indef. blocked on dewiki) --Steinsplitter (talk) 18:34, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Editwar at File:Serbia location map.svg

I suggest a temporarily protection of this location map so that everyone is forced to find his way to the discussion page. NNW 09:06, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done for 1 month. I hope, that this is enough. Taivo (talk) 11:13, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Aitäh! I hope so, too. NNW 11:35, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Rocío Dúrcal

Hi. Over and over Dalzate and David norato upload pictures of Rocío Dúrcal, who is sadly dead and that´s why there is no free pictures of her to upload. Is there any way to avoid RD uploads or avoid this users continue to uploading copyvios? Thanks. --Ganímedes (talk) 18:08, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Is there any way to protect Rocío Durcal files of been reupload? --Ganímedes (talk) 01:02, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

File:Lothar Späth Ilsfeld 2011.JPG

Please protect this file as it will be on the English Wikipedia's main page as "Picture of the Day" for 16 November 2013 and (apparently) the bot is down. Protecting File:Jebel Akhdar view.jpg (POTD 17 Nov) would be appreciated too. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:39, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Krinkle fixed it and the bot is now working again. -- Rillke^(q?) 23:18, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

• Thank you. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:01, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Taxiarchos228

Please make an IP-block on my own discussion page for half a year. Since months there is posting an austrian IP (85.127.xxx.xxx) unwanted articles and discussions about Arnold Schwarzeneggers body height (troll behaviour). He also tries to insult me. Thx --Wladyslaw (talk) 13:50, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done, erstmal für 3 Monate. --Túrelio (talk) 14:02, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Giliardgomes

The user in question blatantly violating this policy and copyright images direiros project. See the discussion page to him. I have lost count of how many times he repeated images deleted records wrongly and grossly the Commons when the correct thing in Wikipedia to this type of restricted content. Imadiato block request.

Sorry, do not know if this is the correct place to make such a request. Greetings. --Zoldyick (talk) 02:03, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Swarupskd.wiki

Please block Swarupskd.wiki (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user again for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings and a previous one-week block. Thanks, —LX (talk, contribs) 15:09, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 00:13, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Please unprotect File:2009_07_31_David_Tennant_smile_09_cropped.jpg

I would like to upload a revision with much better white balance as I did here: File:2009 07 31 David Tennant smile 09.jpg. Many thanks. - MrX 17:22, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Looks like this has been done. INeverCry 00:13, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I wasn't sure if it would be seen here so I asked the admin who originally protected it. Thanks for replying. - MrX 01:00, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Avionomant

Please block Avionomant (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user - repeated uploading copyright violations. See User talk:Avionomant. --Hercules63 (talk) 05:08, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 05:30, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Recategorize request

The files HSWikimedia.svg and Wikimedia Community Logo.svg belong rather to SVG Wikimedia community logos than to Wikimedia Community Logos. In cannot perform this diffusion because the files are protected from being edited by non-privileged users. sarang♥사랑 11:29, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:36, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Mehdi2pm

Please block Mehdi2pm. It is likely a sock-puppet of Arman0014: he uploads the same copyvio pictures. Please also delete all his uploads. Thank you. BrightRaven (talk) 08:18, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Some of the files uploaded by Mehdi2pm (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user have been deleted, but were uploaded again by another sock-puppet, Ali rostamipor (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. Could an admin do something please? BrightRaven (talk) 12:13, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Another likely sock-puppet is: Arman chonach (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. BrightRaven (talk) 12:31, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

One more: Arman 1369 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. BrightRaven (talk) 12:42, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Chonach2012 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. BrightRaven (talk) 12:48, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Inconsistent protection levels

Can we please have some semblance of consistency with regards to protection of our most high-profile problem tags and their subpages? And can we please not apply needlessly harsh protections as a matter of mindless routine? This is the current state of affairs:

Template	Main template protection	/en protection	/layout protection
{{Copyvio}}	Full	Full	Full
{{Delete}}	Full (cascading)	(Semi)	(Semi)
{{No license since}}	Full	Semi	None
{{No permission since}}	Full	Semi	Full
{{No source since}}	Full	Semi	Full
{{Speedydelete}}	Full	Semi	Full

These preemptive protections are unnecessary. Template:No license since/layout has been doing just fine without protection going on four years. One user made a misguided edit but realised their mistake and reverted it within a minute.

Denniss seems to be our staunchest supporter of full protection and is responsible for five out of the eleven full protections above. For example, The Evil IP address reduced the protection level of Template:Copyvio to semiprotection on 2010-08-07 at my request. On 2013-02-11 Denniss changed it back to full protection, apparently without any discussion. There was one instance of misguided editing of the template while it was semiprotected. That edit did not affect transclusions and was reverted within an hour.

I'm fine with semiprotection of the main templates to prevent accidental editing by newcomers, but subtemplates are hard to find (except maybe the /lang subtemplates, which are easy to get to and not included in this rant/whinge/proposal) and are unlikely to be accidentally edited or vandalised. Preventing established users from improving them for fear of some hypothetical vandalism is not in line with our core principles. If you're worried about vandalism, please use your watchlist rather than the protect-and-forget approach.

Cascading protection is of course in a category of evil all on its own. Here, it prevents editing of Template:Delete/doc.

Proposal 1: Semiprotect main templates. Unprotect subtemplates.

Proposal 2: Keep main templates fully protected, but remove cascading protection. Semiprotect subtemplates.

—LX (talk, contribs) 21:41, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

•  Support Agree with the above. Yann (talk) 21:53, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

• • The major use templates need to be fully protected so no one except sysops may alter the functionality (accidentally or not), not everybody may have all of these templates on their watchlist. This also applies to the direct-connected layout templates and should apply to the main english language version. This is especially relevant for license templates (does anyone remember the GFDL disaster at en wiki where someone added a general disclaimer to this template?). I don't know why cascading is on for the delete template but I assume it's because of the heavy use of this template (and multiple subtemplates?). It may be uncomfortable to post an edit request at the talk page or pinging an admin but this shouldn't be a problem to wait a little to get this fulfilled. --Denniss (talk) 23:02, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

    No, they do not "need" to be protected, because they are demonstrably not vandalised or edited accidentally on a regular basis when they're not protected. They don't need to be watchlisted by everybody either; a handful of active users is enough. Page protection is an extreme measure that should not be used unnecessarily. Having to do edits through {{Editprotected}} increases the risk of minor but useful edits being abandoned. I for one would rather leave a misplaced comma or minor grammar error in place than tie up scarce administrator resources to have someone else do the edit for me, go to the talk page, remove the notice and respond to the request. I'm sure others feel the same, so it is a problem even if you think it shouldn't be. Templates containing legal information are a different matter. They are mentioned separately on Commons:Protection policy and are not covered by this discussion. —LX (talk, contribs) 23:29, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

My suggestion is to keep templates (at least semi- but better fully) protected that a) categorize problematic files or b) contain x-to-DR. Translations shouldn't be protected, I believe. After migrating them to the translate-extension, it won't be possible at all applying semiprotection, AFAIK. -- Rillke^(q?) 13:40, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Protect File:VoticWPLogo.png

Please protect File:VoticWPLogo.png with the protection settings Move=sysop (indefinite) and Upload=sysop (indefinite) because it is a Wikipedia wiki logo that is the logo of a Wikipedia that will soon get it's own site. CourtlyHades296 (talk) 02:00, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Very bad quality imho. Can you upload a better (svg?) version? --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:39, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

House of flying daggers

Please block House of flying daggers (talk · contributions · Statistics) for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings. Thx. Gunnex (talk) 09:40, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

 Blocked for 1 week. Yann (talk) 09:58, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Martio123

Please block Martio123 (talk · contributions · Statistics) for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings. Thx. Gunnex (talk) 14:31, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

 Blocked infinite by High Contrast. Thx. Gunnex (talk) 19:33, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

This was/is an appropriate action because this use has never made one productive contribution over months. --High Contrast (talk) 15:10, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Oome170

Please block Oome170 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings + 2 previous blocks. Thx. Gunnex (talk) 19:30, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

19:44, 27 November 2013 Túrelio (talk | contribs | block) blocked Oome170 (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 month -- Rillke^(q?) 21:14, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Arman0014

I make a new request since the previous one does not receive any attention. In July-August 2013, Arman0014 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user uploaded a large amount of pictures to illustrate this article in Wikipedia in Farsi. Most of these pictures were found to be copies or derivative works of images found on various website (Panoramio for example). Since Arman0014 kept on uploading non free files despite several warnings and a 3-day block, he was definitively blocked on August 13th. Per precautionary principle, almost all of the files Arman0014 uploaded were deleted, even these of which the original source could not be found. Since then, several accounts were created. All of them have uploaded files used to illustrate the same article in Wikipedia in Farsi. Some of these files are identical (or almost identical) to the ones uploaded by Arman0014 (some have even the same name). Some of these files are blatant case of copyvio (see all the files already deleted, and also Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Mehdi2pm, Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Ali rostamipor, Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Arman 1369, and Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by User:Chonach2012). Therefore, I think we should block the following accounts:

• Mehdi2pm (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Ali rostamipor (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Arman chonach (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Arman 1369 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Chonach2012 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Additionnally, per precautionary principle, we should also delete all their uploads. Thank you for your help. BrightRaven (talk) 09:45, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done Uploads deleted, accounts blocked. INeverCry 19:59, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-tl-tenthanniversary.png

Please protect this for a day or two. It will become the logo for tlwiki. PiRSquared17 (talk) 05:23, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done by User:killiondude. Legoktm (talk) 05:35, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

It seems that they are using File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-tl-tenthanniversary-bluered.png instead. PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:04, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done Protected for 1 week. INeverCry 04:53, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

HopeYong

Please block HopeYong (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings (incl. a final). Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 11:06, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:40, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

DarthRazorBrum

Please block DarthRazorBrum (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings and 1 previous block. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 21:03, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 21:09, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

File:12eckhausRadeberg1.jpg

Please temporarily remove protection of this file or add Category:Buildings in Radeberg. |FDMS (WP: en, de) 20:15, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 20:43, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. |FDMS (WP: en, de) 20:44, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Category:Barack Obama

Please protect this category. The reason is vandalism. --Lystopad (talk) 23:13, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 23:18, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! --Lystopad (talk) 23:21, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

UjjwalRR1

UjjwalRR1 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user continues to upload copyrighted images after being warned. --Geniac (talk) 01:54, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done Yann (talk) 09:18, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

12.197.245.240 templating

12.197.245.240 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • abusefilter • tools • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log) apparently thinks that admin templates are magic. This can probably just be cleaned up with reverts, but I figured I'd mention it here so that users who really can protect and block can decide what to do with these edits. --Closeapple (talk) 05:44, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

 Blocked for 1 day. Yann (talk) 08:21, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Inshajee

Please block Inshajee (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 17:36, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

•  Done Blocked for one week. Эlcobbola _talk 17:39, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Cavid Süleymanlı

Please block Cavid Süleymanlı (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings, for removing legitimate warnings from talk page and for removing speedy deletion tags from own uploads. Details. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 18:07, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Update: Uploader continues to remove speedy deletion tags from uploads... Gunnex (talk) 19:13, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Not anymore. Just applied a 1 week block with the hope the he goes through COM:L and meditates about his role and attitude in this colaborative project. This behaviour against our policies and community is not acceptable. Poco² 19:16, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Hkjee

Please block Hkjee (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings + block evasion/sock puppetry of Inshajee (talk · contributions · Statistics) (yesterday blocked for 1 week) and Uwuhk (talk · contributions · Statistics). Details: User talk:Hkjee. All three users recently active at List of mosques, uploading the sames files repeatedly with the same nonsense descriptions. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 17:54, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done All 3 accts indef blocked. INeverCry 18:35, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Casuzzz

Please block Casuzzz (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 18:20, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 18:36, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Protection request

Hi there admins. Please semi-protect these pages temporarily due to excessive vandalism. Thanks.

• File:Pitt-rogers-danks syndrome.jpg
• File:Nelson Mandela-2008 cropped.jpg

Jianhui67 ^{talk★contribs} 05:34, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done Taivo (talk) 10:54, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

User:Oiew98 etc.

Some new sockpuppets of User:Messina; cf. Category:Sockpuppets of Messina:

• Oiew98 (talk · contribs)
• Rgleoifw (talk · contribs)
• Hnl54546 (talk · contribs)

--Jergen (talk) 14:13, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done Blocked and tagged. INeverCry 18:43, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

I found and blocked indefinitely Mdsaa45 (talk · contribs). Taivo (talk) 12:32, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

File:C o a Niccolo V.svg and File:C o a Callisto III.svg

Please revert and protect the files from the vandalism by Echando una mano Fry1989 ^eh? 18:49, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

They are new versions, following the rules of Wikipedia and Heraldry. --Echando una mano (talk) 18:51, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

When you are reverted by multiple users, you don't keep trying to force your version. You're just making up your rules as you go because you want it to look different. Fry1989 ^eh? 18:54, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Is someone gonna protect these or not? The user has been reverted by multiple users several times, the policy states that they should stop and upload separately if their version is disputed. Fry1989 ^eh? 21:57, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done Both files protected and history-cleaned, and user given a short block for edit-warring. INeverCry 23:32, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Angeliikiita

Please block Angeliikiita (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user again for continuing to upload nothing but copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings and a previous one-week block. And please remember to notify them about it this time. Thanks, —LX (talk, contribs) 12:37, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:41, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

File:Estadio.jpg

Please protect File:Estadio.jpg against reuploading. It was originally protected by Yann on 2013-02-27. Fastily unprotected it on 2013-09-09 with the rationale "Trying unprotection. I am watching the page, and will delete and re-protect immediately in the event of abuse." The overly generic filename ("stadium") has been reused three times and deleted twice as an obvious copyright violation, once by Fastily, who did not, however, protect the filename again. As I see it, the trial failed (as expected), and the original protection rationale still stands. (The latest version is probably a copyright violation as well.) Additionally, it is too generic to be a useful filename. —LX (talk, contribs) 15:37, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 16:32, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

User:Francieviolatingmason

I have blocked Francieviolatingmason (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user on English Wikipedia due to an inappropriate username and as a disruption-only account (for creation of an inappropriate article en:List of people who have been violated by Francie); I request the user to be blocked on Commons as well. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 20:50, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 21:53, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Brayanhuancayo

Please block Brayanhuancayo (talk · contributions · Statistics) for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings. Gunnex (talk) 00:23, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Only one upload after your warning, within a few minutes. Leaving it open for now, next upload is block. Jcb (talk) 00:32, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Cecubias

Please block Cecubias (talk · contributions · Statistics) for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings. Gunnex (talk) 18:48, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 18:52, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Templates

ResolvedRillke^(q?) 10:34, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello my friends,
As {{FishBase species}} and {{ITIS}} are protected, would you mind:

• copying the content of {{FishBase species/sandbox}} into {{FishBase species}}
• copying the content of {{ITIS/sandbox}} into {{ITIS}}

I added a check to verify if FishBase identifior is the same in commons as Property:P938 on wikidata.
In case of difference, it fills Category:Pages with biology property different than on Wikidata.
Of course, I did the same for other templates ;-).
Happy new year! Liné1 (talk) 08:39, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Liné1, when asking for editing protected pages, please use {{Edit request}} at the talk page of the page you are asking to be changed. If you want to post something on the Administrators' noticeboard, do so and do not use its talk page here which is for discussing, for example, the tone or style of the Administrators' noticeboard. I also wish you a happy new year. -- Rillke^(q?) 10:32, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done Please check that everything works as expected. Thanks for your help. -- Rillke^(q?) 10:34, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Cheers Liné1 (talk) 13:11, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

File:Wikipédia,_Deffontaine.jpg

Repeatly vandalized by an ip and a logged-in user. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 15:04, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done The file history was really horrible. I protected the file from anonymous users for 1 month. Let's hope that helps. Thank you, Zhuyifei! Taivo (talk) 17:15, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

User:Carlosalbertotelleldin

Carlosalbertotelleldin (talk · contribs) has uploaded multiple files that were out of project scope. After they were deleted he uploaded several more today although I explained him what the project scope is. Please block the account to stop this behavior. Thanks, XenonX3 (talk) 21:52, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done blocked for 14 days --A.Savin 13:15, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

User:Yobie005

Yobie005 (talk · contribs) has continuously uploaded copyright violations after they have been given many warnings, then a last warning. They do the same thing, but with text, on the English Wikipedia. Ramaksoud2000 (talk) 01:51, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 03:51, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

User:Xunito

Xunito (talk · contribs) possible abusing multiple accounts, Saransocoelho (talk · contribs). Duplicating images to vandalism on Wikipedia-pt. Check File:Cesar Menotti & Fabiano.jpg by Xunito and File:Cesarpauloa.jpg by Saransocoelho. Fabiano ^msg 18:41, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done Images deleted, users blocked. Saransocoelho names Xunito as the author in his Village People upload, so obviously the accounts are connected. CU didn't turn up any other accounts. INeverCry 18:57, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Closeup.jpg

File:Closeup.jpg was supposed to be protected after it was deleted in 2010, but it's still editable; please redirect it to File:Name.jpg and protect it, because it's a very non-descriptive title. Nyttend (talk) 22:20, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 23:38, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

User:Joselictos

Joselictos (talk · contribs) Duck, abusing multiple accounts, Xunito (talk · contribs) and Saransocoelho (talk · contribs). Fabiano ^msg 22:59, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 23:34, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

File:Keep tidy ask.svg

Used on the delete template and is highly used. Fully protect the image. --189.24.238.177 19:02, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Already fully protocted thru cascading protection. INeverCry 20:30, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Ludo amicitiae

Puppet user of EQUOeditor, actually blocked. This user is evading a block by uploading previously deleted files, at least one has been nominated for deletion due auto-promotion.--Coentor (talk) 15:50, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Miguelhnd

Please block Miguelhnd (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 10:02, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done Deleted. This was only one file, so I blocked him only for a month. No, three files were nominated for speedy deletion and I deleted them all. Taivo (talk) 10:17, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Upload help

The page is experiencing large amounts of spam and vandalism and should thus be semi-protected. --Jakob (talk) 18:38, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

 Not done semi-protection = page can not be edited by newbies --Steinsplitter (talk) 13:03, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Protected file

The File:Artalt.png is protected. I do not know what it is, but it is definately not a painting by Ralph Albert Blakelock and should have this category removed. Wmpearl (talk) 22:31, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done Unprotected and removed. Taivo (talk) 10:03, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Nifesti

Please block Nifesti (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 12:34, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:54, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Fl503

Please block Fl503 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings and mass copyvios. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 15:50, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 18:48, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

File:Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-zh-hant.png

Please upload protect this file as it is now highly visible as a logo of voy:zh: in Traditional Chinese (diff) --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 02:59, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done odder (talk) 11:45, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Upload protect for logos on the Korean Wikibooks

File:Wikibooks-logo-ko-new.svg is currently logo of Korean Wikibooks, so please fully upload protect this file. (See also Bugzilla: 56760). ㅡ레비Revi 10:01, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:23, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

File:Population curve.svg

Please semiprotect this file indefinitely. The number of anonymous users with nothing better to do with their time than to vandalize the data set presented below the graph is absolutely ridiculous. —LX (talk, contribs) 17:06, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

The file description also needs additional reverting, but at this point, I haven't got the slightest clue which edits are legit and which ones aren't. For example, there's a slew of unchecked IP editing from January to November of 2011, which includes this unexplained removal of half the data set by 194.209.19.92. —LX (talk, contribs) 17:33, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

But good to see that you are dealing with this matter, Alex. That's the disadvantage of the sourcing chosen there. If the authors would have just proven correctness for each single data point… -- Rillke^(q?) 17:38, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Well I yanked the data set out of the SVG, turned it into a CSV, plonked it into a spreadsheet and added the numbers up to reverse engineer the original data set. Turns out the last few data points in the graph are pretty obviously wrong. At least now we know, eh? —LX (talk, contribs) 19:14, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Wow, you know your business, thank you … and this illustrative language, I am green with envy. -- Rillke^(q?) 22:53, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done Yeah, some people obviously don't know what useful things they can do with their spare time. -- Rillke^(q?) 17:38, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Noedelgado93

Please block Noedelgado93 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 22:06, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 22:11, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Adsfree

Please block Adsfree (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. Based on their user name and their first and only edit so far, it's pretty obvious that they're only here to spam. —LX (talk, contribs) 16:44, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

 Blocked. Alan ^(talk) 18:18, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Mikhail1990

His response to this notice was this. I don't like the odds of him becoming a constructive contributor in three hours, so I think an extension of the block is called for, and I don't he'll be needing his user talk page privileges for anything useful in the foreseeable future. —LX (talk, contribs) 19:04, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done for a week, and no talk page any more. Taivo (talk) 10:49, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

DarthRazorBrum

Please block DarthRazorBrum (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings and 2 previous blocks. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 20:35, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done. Blocked 1 year. Alan ^(talk) 20:59, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Category:Flower of Life Category:Flower of Life

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Flower_of_Life&diff=114424185&oldid=114423791

I still consider it catspam what User:Silar did to the Category:Flower of Life. Flower of Life is obviously no subcategory of most of the categories User:Silar and Special:Contributions/46.174.26.234 added today. Especially absurd is Category:CIL XIII 011963 Category:CIL XIII 011963, which by definition can only contain one file but contains now Category:Flower of Life, too, with four subcategories. Competent help is needed to fix this mess. The same applies to Category:Sösdala-Untersiebenbrunn style Category:Sösdala-Untersiebenbrunn style with its absurd number of categories. Thank you. --Vsop.de (talk) 21:49, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Select "x" images from each category for positive category, example categories included "FoL", "Sosdala", and "IX". It should not surprise us that there are many possible likeness courses. BR xxx 09:09, 22 January 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.174.26.234 (talk • contribs) 08:08, 22 January 2014‎ (UTC)

ps. Assuming good faith ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.174.26.234 (talk • contribs) 08:31, 22 January 2014‎ (UTC)

Is no administrator prepared to stop this insanity? --Vsop.de (talk) 22:45, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

I've protected both cats mentioned above for a couple weeks to give time for this to be discussed. I reverted the overcatting of Category:Flower of Life, as that seemed pretty straight-forward. Category:Sösdala-Untersiebenbrunn style is more complicated, but it looks like the cats definitely need narrowing down. I'll defer to others on that though, as I'm not really a cat person (unless were talking felines). INeverCry 05:27, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Gabriel2000

Hello

Can someone block Gabriel2000 please ? See log (already blocked two times) and user talk (seven copyvio since the last block). Thanks Bloody-libu (talk) 17:35, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:38, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Gonguita

Please block Gonguita (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings. Thanks, —LX (talk, contribs) 20:06, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 20:23, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Please protect userpages of sopckpuppets

Special:Contributions/Kleonmenes has blanked the user pages and some other user also, could you always protect userpage after then you have confirmed that it's sockpuppet, thanks.--Motopark (talk) 05:30, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done Blocked this and another new sock. I'd prefer to leave the pages unprotected though, in case he wants to show us more of his socks. ;) INeverCry 05:48, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Ankur d

Please block Ankur d (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings. —LX (talk, contribs) 09:08, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 09:12, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Hadrajsaid

Please block Hadrajsaid (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings. Thanks, —LX (talk, contribs) 14:25, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for reporting. -- Rillke^(q?) 15:34, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

File:Flag of Myanmar.svg

File:Flag of Myanmar.svg has [upload=sysop] protection, so could someone upload File:Flag of Myanmar new file version.svg there? Thanks. AnonMoos (talk) 20:29, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done I've done a history merge, if I missed something, please let me know. Techman224^Talk 21:39, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks... AnonMoos (talk) 23:59, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Asaunte22

Please block Asaunte22 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 08:03, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done Yann (talk) 08:05, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

User:Faisal Al-Abdullah

Please block Faisal Al-Abdullah (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for numerous copyvio uploads despite warnings, and delete all his/her uploads. Ariadacapo (talk) 11:46, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done Blocked and nuked. Alan ^(talk) 23:18, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

User:SaidHadraj

Hello. For information, User:Hadrajsaid, blocked for one week 4 days ago, is now User:SaidHadraj. Bloody-libu (talk) 22:47, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done Blocked. Alan ^(talk) 22:58, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Requests for comment/USERNAME

Background: This page is normally created in error when new users unfamiliar with Commons accidentally click the "Create an RFC/U" button on the Commons:Requests for comment page to automatically generate the generic template RFC/U outline located at {{RFC boilerplate 2}}. One user whose account name was Josephgmedina (talk · contribs) did this in 2012, as evidenced by his signature at the top of the Commons:Requests for comment/USERNAME subpage.

Proposed remedy: To prevent this from happening again, I suggest deleting the current page and indefinitely full-protecting or semi-protecting page creation, with a generic editnotice warning at the top of the page instructing the reporting user to replace the "USERNAME" field with someone's actual username. TeleComNasSprVen (talk) 20:23, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Template:Test4

Please semiprotect this template. See the history and this discussion. Thanks, —LX (talk, contribs) 20:07, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 20:28, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

DanyLauratic

Please block DanyLauratic (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user again for continuing to upload nothing but copyright violations with false authorship claims in spite of multiple warnings and a previous one-week block. Thanks, —LX (talk, contribs) 16:20, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done. 2nd block (1 month). --Alan ^(talk) 16:35, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Commons:Requests for comment/a very important issue

For the same reasons as Commons:Requests for comment/USERNAME, i.e. this page is used as an example page linked from Commons:Requests for comment and should never have a reason for creation. TeleComNasSprVen (talk) 04:16, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done—레비Revi 07:25, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Update links to USPTO copyright rules at Template:PD-US-patent

Please update the links to the US patent copyright rules at Template:PD-US-patent The current links are broken. The page is protected. The correct links are:

37 CFR 1.7(d)

37 CFR 1.84(s) --Nowa (talk) 00:38, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done, thanks. --Alan ^(talk) 01:21, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

And thank you. Just curious,though, how come your edit doesn't show up on Page History?--Nowa (talk) 01:56, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Luiscarson01

Please block Luiscarson01 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations with false authorship claims in spite of multiple warnings. Considering this has been going on for years, I'm disappointed that they refuse to learn and surprised that they haven't been blocked before (under this user name anyway). —LX (talk, contribs) 06:58, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

 Blocked for 1 month. Yann (talk) 07:08, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Staceyaston8

Spam-only account. TeleComNasSprVen (talk) 08:28, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done I blocked Stacey for week. Taivo (talk) 09:58, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Template:Lucians Werke

Please unprotect Template:Lucians Werke. The protecting administrator ignored both of my previous attempts to get something changed there. -- Robert Weemeyer (talk) 08:54, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done I changed protection level from administrator into autoconfirmed users. Taivo (talk) 09:58, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

User:Windchaserpegausus

Copyvios. Repeated uploading of non-free images.--Juggler2005 (talk) 14:48, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done Yann warned him/her, uploads are deleted. Taivo (talk) 10:19, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

User:Redlier

Copyvios. Repeated uploading of non-free images.--Juggler2005 (talk) 14:48, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done Yann warned him/her, uploads are mostly deleted. Taivo (talk) 10:19, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

User:MichelleC7

Copyvios. Repeated uploading of non-free images.--Juggler2005 (talk) 14:48, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done Yann warned her, uploads are deleted. Taivo (talk) 10:19, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Swarupskd.wiki

Please block Swarupskd.wiki (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user yet again for continuing to upload copyright violations with fraudulent authorship claims in spite of multiple warnings and two previous blocks (one week and one month, respectively). The user goes to great lengths to crop out watermarks and clone out people and other elements from photos to obstruct identification of the real sources (cf. File:Dharmanagar Railway Station.jpg and https://www.flickr.com/photos/ks_bluechip/6683842953/), so this is obviously deliberate. —LX (talk, contribs) 22:22, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

 Blocked for a 6-month vacation. Yann (talk) 06:09, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

should we examine the file contributions and check for copyvios or has this already been done? --Denniss (talk) 09:27, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

I checked the contributions, and tagged the ones which look suspicious. Double checking would not do any harm. Regards, Yann (talk) 09:36, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

I deleted all images that were not taken with Nikon Coolpix cameras - images taken with two camera models is what I suspect is his own work, everything else not. --Denniss (talk) 09:48, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Please protect File:Republic of China National Emblem.svg

Carolinita TA

Please block Carolinita TA (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user again for continuing to upload nothing but copyright violations with false authorship and licensing claims in spite of multiple warnings and a previous block. They are currently attempting to obscure the source of their copyright violations by uploading them to their own Flickr account before uploading them here, so this is obviously quite deliberate. —LX (talk, contribs) 15:07, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done for a month. Uploads are deleted. Taivo (talk) 15:19, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Protection request: File:Wiatrak ostrów lednicki.jpg

Persistent nonsense vandalism (based on Google Translate) by multiple IPs belonging to the same user. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 16:49, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

 protected for 1 day. —레비Revi 16:54, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Phew. Thanks so much for the immediate response Revi. I was losing it for having to do the 5th revert just a few hours (and this is not Wikipedia). (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 16:56, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

User:Mr.choppers the Dancing Àdmin

Vandal account, already blocked on English Wikipedia. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 08:27, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

• Add to that User:BMW M5 Stupid. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 08:39, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done for user in the top. Second one seems not registered account in Commons. —레비Revi 08:49, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

JuanUbeda

Please block JuanUbeda (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload attack images and copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings. They received a warning about uploading attack images at 20:04 yesterday. At 22:28, they uploaded File:Pelé en Nueva York.jpg and added it to es:Pelé, thus falsely accusing a living person of criminal conduct. Indefinite blocking might be considered harsh as the first block, but in the two years that they've been active here, they haven't managed to contribute one single useful edit to Commons, so at this point, I think we can consider this a vandalism-only account. A nice, long Wikibreak is in order until such a time that we get an explanation of why they thought these uploads were a good idea at the time, how they learned to know better, and why we should trust them not to do it again. —LX (talk, contribs) 10:09, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done by Rillke. —레비Revi 10:27, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Only for a week, though, which they're probably not even going to notice given their editing habits. As I stated above, this is a vandalism only account, and I think we need some assurances if the user wants to change and start using their privileges for something lawful and useful. —LX (talk, contribs) 10:33, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Oh, you are too hasty (or I am too slow), I was just looking around their other contributions/contribution patterns and according to es:Usuario:JuanUbeda, Juan Ubeda is a 15 years old school boy and obviously needs some time to develop. I just don't know how much time - this can be everything between 6 months and 3 years - dependent on incidents in their live but their copyvios were quite obvious and at least the newer ones, uploaded with the wizard were not claimed to be own work so we're going to see how the situation is in 6 months. I just like to emphasize that this is not a vandalism-only account, at least at es:, there seem to be some useful contributions. -- Rillke^(q?) 10:54, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

New version of protected file

Could File:Twitter new file version.svg be made to be a new version of File:Twitter.svg? Thanks... AnonMoos (talk) 11:30, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Socks of Clécio Brito

At Category:Sockpuppets of Clécio Brito, I accumulated all socks of Clécio Brito (talk · contributions · Statistics), identified per Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Clécio Brito. Additionally are listed all socks identified locally at ptwiki (see user talk pages for more details). I don´t know exactly how Commons handles external checkuser-infos but - however - consider to block all these confirmed socks too. Gunnex (talk) 00:02, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done I've blocked those and found several more on the recorded range:

• FernandaMirandaBarros
• DISCOAWV
• Fernanda duarte lima
• Emerson860

I wonder if @Teles: and the other pt.wiki CUs know about these other 4? I'll check with him on pt.wiki as well. INeverCry 01:24, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Blocked on ptwiki. Not much to add. Thanks for notification.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 01:36, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

I've added a few things to the cu.wiki page. I'll keep an eye on that range. INeverCry 01:43, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

I didn't block Emerson860 tough, which is on range, but doesn't follow editing pattern.—Teles «Talk to me ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 01:56, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Nothing but long-term copyvios here, also the name matches up with another sock User:Emerson08. INeverCry 02:08, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

I've unblocked both Emersons. User:Emerson08 was added by Tiptoety to the original RFCU, but not blocked, so I don't want to use that acct as a reason for blocking this other Emerson, though the 2 Emersons are likely the same person. I've given the new Emerson a final warning about copyvios and I'll watch him. INeverCry 02:40, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Emerson860

Please block Emerson860 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings and 1 previous block. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 21:32, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done Blocked indef. INeverCry 22:05, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

New version of protected file

Could File:Twitter new file version.svg be made to be a new version of File:Twitter.svg? Thanks... AnonMoos (talk) 00:30, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Finland Greater Coat of Arms.svg

This file needs to be reverted to the version with the trunk per the source and permanently protected. The original uploader has an ownership problem and kept removing the truck, and a rag-tag team of other users keep supporting them despite the source. Fry1989 ^eh? 18:42, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Alinne Sampaio

Alinne Sampaio (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Recurrent uploads are copyright-violations, Fabiano ^msg 01:36, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done Blocked. INeverCry 01:42, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

New version of protected file

Could File:Twitter new file version.svg be made to be a new version of File:Twitter.svg? Thanks... AnonMoos (talk) 09:57, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Vandal account

User:Mexicanbag - uploaded a nonsensical picture File:Its a clean picture if the subject 2014-03-06 16-38.jpg to vandalize en:Pornography (disambiguation) with it. Already blocked on English Wikipedia. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 21:44, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done Image deleted, user blocked. INeverCry 22:01, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Image.jpg

Could this please be redirected to File:Name.jpg and be given full indefinite protection? Requesting redirection instead of doing it myself, since I don't want to make a mess by having a live image with a redirected description page: I assume you'll have to delete the image. Nyttend (talk) 23:50, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

•  Agree - To the indefinite protection.
•  Oppose - To redirection/deletion. It is an useful example image. And it is often used. --Angelus^(talk) 00:07, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

• Why? Have you checked WhatLinksHere for Name.jpg? It's our standard practise to redirect generic-name placeholders to Name.jpg. We might as well show everyone the same example image, rather than using multiple ones. By having just one example image with lots of redirects, we need to have exactly one discussion if we think that the text should be changed. Unlike the text in Name.jpg, the text in Image.jpg doesn't do a thing: the other file explains what's happening and why you can't upload anything with that title, while this one appears to be meaningless if you don't know what's going on. Nyttend (talk) 04:46, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

The file is heavily used on Italian Graphics Lab, for example. Anyway we can explain "what's happening and why you can't upload anything with that title in the file description"... as well. --Angelus^(talk) 04:54, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Moreover "Name.jpg" is not properly an "example image", but more than anything else is a warning picture, which signals the prohibition on uploading with that name. --Angelus^(talk) 05:00, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

I  Support Nyttend's proposal, but not doing them... — Revi_complaint? 05:12, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

• Image has been fully protected but not deleted/redirected. Valid image placeholder in some wikis. --Denniss (talk) 10:01, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Protection template added. — Revi_complaint? 10:05, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Hjk813

Hjk813 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
Please consider a block for repeated copyright violations after receiving a block warning. – Wdchk (talk) 06:14, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done Blocked 2 weeks. — Revi_complaint? 06:24, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

User:Holyspiritdance

Appears to be a single-purpose account. As the first contribution after coming from a one-week block for copyright violations, uploaded an inflammatory file File:InnocentFalungGongPeopleKilledBySoCalledHolyCommunistPartyOfChina.jpeg and spammed dozens of articles on English Wikipedia with it, then posted a rant on my talk page threatening me with hell. See user talk page and global contributions; perhaps a global block is in order. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 16:53, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done Blocked. INeverCry 17:17, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Insulto / Insult

Solicito que el usuario Fry1989 sea amonestado por falta de etiqueta e insultos, como puede verse aquí. Además se dedica a hacer cambios sin fuentes y a acosarme en mis aportaciones. --Echando una mano (talk) 04:04, 9 March 2014 (UTC) // P.S. Además ha eliminado las referencias que le he dado en su página de discusión // P.S. 2: Este usuario me está difamando .

((English)) I request that user Fry1989 request be admonished for breach of etiquette and insults, as can be seen here. He also works to make changes without sources and he harass me in my contributions. --Echando una mano (talk) 04:04, 9 March 2014 (UTC) // P.S. He has removed the references that I have given in him in his discussion page // P. S. 2: This user is defaming me.

Please note this user has opened the same AN on another page and I have already replied there. Fry1989 ^eh? 04:08, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Please discuss on COM:AN/U, so discussons are not divided. — Revi_complaint? 04:09, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Main page

Protect summary pages to get proteted reading !Ujhj (talk) 15:01, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Portal icon.svg

Long history of vandalism. Please protect indef. Thanks. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 17:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 17:13, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Holasoylucaseto666

Please block Holasoylucaseto666 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. Vandalism-only account. Please delete their uploads as well. —LX (talk, contribs) 22:24, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 22:40, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Harriet Tubman Locations Map.jpg

Is protection possible? There's occasional vandalism. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 14:11, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 14:19, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

User:Badukuba

Please block User Badukuba (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user who keeps uploading multiple copyvios despite warnings. Thank you, Ariadacapo (talk) 15:15, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done - nuked uploads (which contained several watermarks) and blocked user for one week. JurgenNL (talk) 15:24, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! Ariadacapo (talk) 11:48, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Limited recognition.png

Would and admin please restore the stable version of this file (ie [13]) and protect it from further uploads for the time being? This map depicts existing states, but a bunch of users are attempting to force erroneous changes into the map based on misinterpretations of sources and premature conclusions. See en:Talk:Declaration_of_Independence_of_Crimea_and_Sevastopol for a discussion where the consensus is that Crimea hasn't yet declared their independence. There is also active discussion on en:Talk:List of states with limited recognition, where this images is used, on how to deal with the situation with a rough consensus that no state of Crimea yet exists and should not be added. If someone wants a map of proposed states, then it should be uploaded under a different name, rather than attempting to force a change in the scope of this map, which is used across many projects. TDL (talk) 18:52, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Fat.Marcos

Fat.Marcos (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Multiple uploads are copyright-violations. Delete, please. Fabiano ^msg 23:58, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done 19 images nuked. — Revi_complaint? 05:48, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done I deleted 3 more uploads. They were small photos without EXIF data (biggest was 500×375 pixels). This is not a trusted user any more, I saw no sense in making a deletion request. Also I warned him on his talk page. Taivo (talk) 21:08, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Pierre fv

Hello, can someone block Pierre fv (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user who keeps uploading multiple copyvios despite warnings ? Thank you, Bloody-libu (talk) 10:26, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 16:32, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Bot Hazard-Bot (talk · contributions · Statistics)

Unsure to handle this case but consider to block bot Hazard-Bot (talk · contributions · Statistics) temporarily, considering User talk:Hazard-SJ (--> substitution of {{Uncategorized}}) as all related edits (example) are messed up, affecting hundreds of files. Gunnex (talk) 20:25, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done for 24hrs. INeverCry 20:31, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Task stop, see my talk page for info.  Hazard SJ  20:48, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

I've unblocked it. INeverCry 21:38, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Silar

Please block Silar (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to nominate my uploads in bad faith and disruptive manner in spite of multiple warnings (and apparently not understanding basics of licensing which is surprising, considering the 21456 edits in Commons)

Examples:

• Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Brazil 2009).jpg {{Agência Brasil}} (see here also the context)
• Commons:Deletion requests/File:Angela Merkel (G8 2007).jpg {{Agência Brasil}}
• Commons:Deletion requests/File:Luftbild Arzberg.jpg (transferred from dewiki)
• Commons:Deletion requests/File:Parque Dois Irmãos, Recife.jpg (Flickr reviewed file)

Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 14:08, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

User stopped his actions (2xDRs already got deleted and the others were quickly closed as kept) so I am  canceling the request (subject to withdrawal). Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 20:31, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Aquote1.png, File:Aquote2.png

Please semi-protect, widely globally used files in PD. Ignatus (talk) 14:57, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 20:36, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

User:Fuckdispussay

Inappropriate username. —Blurred Lines 16:02, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying. Account already indef'd by Billinghurst. --Túrelio (talk) 16:05, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Russian Federation (orthographic projection) highlighted.svg

Persistent vandalism over the last few hours. Probably protect a few days or until the crisis in Crimea is resolved. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 18:45, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

I have restored the last template version and semi-protected for 1 week. Eventually a non-nationalist :ru colleague can check whether the complaints on the talkpage merit corrections in the description of the image. --Túrelio (talk) 20:29, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

The file is nominated for deletion, but the deletion template is situated not on file page, but on file talk page. Please continue discussion on deletion request, not here. Taivo (talk) 08:14, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

1 block +1 protection needed

Please block Lahiruyapa22 (account created solely to cause disruption). Please also protect File:Beautiful Landmark Muslim Mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka.JPG. There's currently persistent vandalism from multiple IPs (and possibly the above account) possibly all belonging to the same person. --(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 07:46, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Protection  Done: file semied for a week, leaving block to others. — Revi_complaint? 07:51, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done VOA blocked. INeverCry 15:44, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

194.132.180.242 and 88.131.31.186

Trolls. Could someone block them? Their trolling comments severely outnumbers the very few constructive comments. On a side note, I ran a WHOIS check on them. They are most likely the same person. The WHOIS results states that the IPs are from different ISPs in Sweden. --(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 15:25, 22 March 2014 (UTC) The user is obviously out to cause disruption, and the severity of it is not worth our time keeping his constructive comments and constantly reverting his trolling comments. --(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 15:28, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done.

• 88.131.31.186 - 3 days (Static IP) N/A, N/A, Sweden
• 194.132.180.242 - 3 days (Static IP) Växjö, Kronobergs Lan, Sweden

--Alan ^(talk) 15:34, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

User:BriannaBoyceLuv4

Only purpose of this account appears to be uploading copyvio images over many months. Has ignored warnings, including a {{End of copyvios}}. DMacks (talk) 19:56, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done INeverCry 20:13, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

192.36.80.8

Same FPC troll as the 2 IPs above. Also from Sweden, so same person. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 06:39, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

It is not allowed to comment with IP on FPC page? This is something new. I think AK is overreacting ant removing all the comments he doesn't like. If someone needs a block then it would be AK. --192.36.80.8 07:16, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Nothing wrong with commenting with IP, but there something wrong with trolling, which I find is quite obviously your intention. We shall see who gets the last laugh. :) (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 07:31, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Nothing wrong in commenting from an IP; but logging out to hide the identity on purpose to attack another user is considered as sock. Here also your attack is against the same user (Jebulon). Jee 11:06, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

@Jee: Logging out? I don't see any evidence of an account, only automatic IP switching or deliberate switch of IPs (block evasion). --(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 11:08, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

I don't think an IP just comes there to sock. But I've no way to predict who is behind. :( Jee 11:25, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

@Jee: Whether or not he has an account, I think this guy must have had some experience trolling here or at other wikis. His knowledge of this place, and how he operates, I also find, is just too good to be some random newbie trolling on WMF projects for the first time. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 11:39, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:33, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

@INeverCry: [14] (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 11:41, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Arenal at night.jpg

Persistent vandalism within an hour or two from various IPs, most likely used bu the same person. Could an admin protect this page. Thanks in advance. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 15:46, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done Yann (talk) 16:07, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

User:Penyulap

FYI: I have blocked Penyulap for two weeks (continuous attacks). Enough is enough. --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:07, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

I fail to see how this can be block worthy? Are we banning people who criticise now? Sure, Penyulap can be a pain but I really had no issue with the comment. Unless you can demonstrate some "continuous attacks" from Penyulap, I think they should be unblocked. Bidgee (talk) 13:53, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

IMO, one needs to take into account 1) that Penyulap isn't an unknowing newby and 2) that a few days earlier he had performed nearly identical activity towards the same target, see User_talk:Penyulap#footer. He was even advised by one of his supporters not do so. That said, the block could surely be shortened a bit. --Túrelio (talk) 14:30, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

File:CH cow 2.jpg

Protection needed: Vandalism yesterday night, and tonight again. (✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 16:19, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 16:52, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Coat of arms of Chile.svg and File:Flag of the President of Chile.svg

Please, unblock File:Coat of arms of Chile.svg and File:Flag of the President of Chile.svg because I would like to continue my work with the desingn improvements of the supporters (animals) and the crest of the shield, keeping the white torse, a source of conflict with another user. --Echando una mano (talk) 23:27, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I oppose. Fry1989 ^eh? 00:24, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Scott Byron Nelson

Please block Scott Byron Nelson (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for repeated vandalism of Commons:Upload help. (Replacing other people's comments with off-topic nonsense.) —LX (talk, contribs) 18:11, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done by Denniss. Yann (talk) 02:49, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

User:Bdk/de

I see no reason for a page [that] is presently inactive and kept primarily for historical interest to be cascade protected ...    FDMS  4    16:02, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Krd 16:20, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Commons:歡迎

Protection needed: Vandalism twice in the last 3 days., most likely same person. Portugal and America. Probably a coincidence. --(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 13:37, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done high traffic page, indef admin only. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 14:01, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Jeanjeanseb'123

Please block Jeanjeanseb'123 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings. —LX (talk, contribs) 16:07, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

 Blocked for one week. All files deleted. Yann (talk) 17:16, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Francisco81a

Please block Francisco81a (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings. —LX (talk, contribs) 20:56, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done 3 days. Alan ^(talk) 21:32, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

File:Rio_Knock.jpg

Repeated IP vandalism. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 10:49, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done File nuked, IP-vandal blocked. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 02:09, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Please block

User:Black 45 Official, blanked talk page and creates out of scope pages.--Motopark (talk) 15:41, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done, userpage deleted, talk page rollbacked and user blocked 1 week. --Alan ^(talk) 16:00, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Kncedrick96

Please block Kncedrick96 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user again for continuing to upload nothing but copyright violations (33 copyright violations to date) in spite of multiple warnings and a previous one-week block (11 copyright violations since the previous block). And please remember to notify him of the block this time. —LX (talk, contribs) 15:56, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done - deleted uploads and blocked indef. JurgenNL (talk) 17:53, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Please block

Metin2 Pp Serverler (talk · contribs), see google result.--Motopark (talk) 17:55, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done User warned, files deleted. Yann (talk) 18:10, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Link Smurf and sockpuppets

Please block Link Smurf (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for abusing multiple accounts to reupload previously deleted files. Also, please delete said files, File:Porcelain figurine.jpg and File:Porcelana.jpg, and block the sockpuppets Link Osorio (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user and Interstate69 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. Thanks, —LX (talk, contribs) 10:20, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done nuked, blocked, keys thrown away. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 16:42, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Nastictarragona

Please block Nastictarragona (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user again for continuing to upload copyright violations and continuing to recreate previously deleted copyright violations outside of process in spite of multiple warnings and a previous one-week block. —LX (talk, contribs) 23:50, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done indef, some uploads nuked. What's the status of those kits he uploaded? Some have a pretty unique design?? --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 03:20, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

User:CaPaSu93

Hi, sorry if here is not a good place to post this message. I want to report the user CaPaSu93 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. He/she uploads copyrighted images. Last time with this file. Me and other users have left some different messages, but this user don't understand, and continuous uploading. What to do? Jmvkrecords ⚜ Intra Talk 00:04, 8 April 2014 (UTC).

 Done Upload deleted, User blocked for 1 month. Next time he get's a full block. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 03:25, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. Regards Jmvkrecords ⚜ Intra Talk 04:08, 9 April 2014 (UTC).

User:Pitlane02

Hi,

I'm blocked at my own request Pitlane02 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. Now colleagues have asked to correct one of my graphics. So please unblock my account, meine IP adress is 79.255.195.167 and the block request is 208641.

Thanks in advance -- User:Pitlane02 (at the moment 79.255.195.167 11:38, 8 April 2014 (UTC))

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:53, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Vielen Dank, --Pitlane02 _talk 11:53, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Manoelpastel

Please block Manoelpastel (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to (re-)upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 19:52, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

 Blocked for a week. All files deleted. Yann (talk) 21:58, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

LarissaDominicio

• LarissaDominicio (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Uploading copyrighted files after warnings. She has also been warned on Portuguese Wikipedia (see talk page). Francisco (talk) 01:55, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 03:17, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Awadewit (talk · contribs)

Please protect per Wadewitz (talk · contribs) (see en:User:Awadewit). TeleComNasSprVen (talk) 09:35, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Done, very sad she died. --Denniss (talk) 10:31, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

User:Tigerentenjäger

Please block Tigerentenjäger (talk · contribs), This account is a sockpuppet of Sendker (talk · contribs) aka Overberg (talk · contribs); compar the image description of this recent upload by Tigerentenjäger File:Ostbevern 50er Luftbild.JPG with this older upload by Overberg File:Luftbild-Ostbevern.jpg. --Jergen (talk) 11:48, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

See also Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Sendker. --Jergen (talk) 11:52, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

 blocked indef --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 23:01, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

142.22.16.56

Somebody please block the open proxy 142.22.16.56 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for a year? —LX (talk, contribs) 20:20, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Not a Open proxy (IPv4 142.22.16.56 = vance006.net.gov.bc.ca - Range: 142.22.0.0 - 142.22.255.255 - ISP: Province of British Columbia - Organization: Province of British Columbia - Network: N/A, Static IP) --Steinsplitter (talk) 21:17, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

It's listed on Commons:Open proxy detection, http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ip_142.22.16.56 and lots of other places where well-maintained servers don't get listed. I'm not really interested in the semantics. Whatever you want to call it, it's obvious that those responsible for ensuring that it's not abused aren't taking that responsibility. It's never been the source of any useful contributions. —LX (talk, contribs) 17:26, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I have blocked the IP for three days. Feel free to request a global block on metawiki. --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:42, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Request

Hi! Can anyone semi protect File:Wiatrak ostrów lednicki.jpg? I don't think the previous protection has worked. Thanks. Jianhui67 ^{talk★contribs} 15:13, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done by Steinsplitter. Yann (talk) 18:52, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Raemundcruzzz

Please block Raemundcruzzz (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user, abusing multiple accounts per Commons:Deletion requests/File:Davao-international-airport.jpg (sock of Roughvenboy (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user, already blocked). Per en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Roughvenboy/Archive consider also to block

• Richreyes (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Pauldesantosguerrero (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user.

Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 15:19, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done All blocked for abusing multiple accounts and uploading many copyvios. Yann (talk) 18:50, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Philipandrew

Please block Philipandrew (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user again for continuing to upload blatant copyright violations (e.g. File:Aspin dog.JPG) in spite of multiple warnings and a previous three-day block. For some reason, when the user continued to upload copyright violations immediately after the previous block expired, they were only given yet another warning instead of another block. Unsurprisingly, they ignored that too. How many more chances are we going to give this person? —LX (talk, contribs) 17:27, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

 Given 2 weeks holiday. Yann (talk) 18:36, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Please be on the lookout for sockpuppets, as the user is known to abuse multiple accounts on other projects. —LX (talk, contribs) 19:16, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

VÁNDALC0CK

Please block this user, as they have an inappropriate username. Thanks,—Clockery Fairfeld who, me? 17:36, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Locked already. Glaisher (talk) 17:38, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Link Smurf sockpuppet LG Airline

Please block LG Airline (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user, which is a sockpuppet used by Link Smurf to evade their indefinite block and recreate repeatedly deleted copyright violations. —LX (talk, contribs) 07:51, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

 Block their account for the foreseeable future. You may flag their remaining one upload for speedy-deletion. -- Rillke^(q?) 11:47, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

File:President and First Lady Obama with Chancellor Merkel.jpg

Repeated target of vandalism, please renew semi-protection (long-term, this time). --Sitacuisses (talk) 04:59, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done for one year. Yann (talk) 07:53, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Cat.jpg

Someone please protect File:Cat.jpg. It was protected against upload as a generic filename, but Fastily decided to delete it in March, and someone's since reuploaded another image that had to be deleted. While you're at it, you might want to remind Fastily that deleting a protected generic filename might be a bad idea, since it removes protection and permits people to resume uploading under the filename. Nyttend (talk) 11:19, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:24, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Is there a community consensus that uploaders should avoid using generic filenames like File:Man.jpg or File:Gay.jpg? Perhaps there is an expectation of anti-carpetbagger policy, but I think this does not actually exist. --Fæ (talk) 11:27, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

No, It is standard practice. --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:28, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Could you link to some community agreed guidance please? Considering my work in batch uploading, this does influence our batch-uploaders best practices too. --Fæ (talk) 11:31, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

There is no consensus because it is standard practice. Feel free to ask on COM:VP for community input. --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:35, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done Commons:Village pump#Policy against generic file names. --Fæ (talk) 11:54, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

User:Tommy Douglas

Please block User:Tommy Douglas, he has only been uploading copyrighted images. 117Avenue (talk) 03:54, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Entretenimento Jornal

Please block Entretenimento Jornal (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 07:36, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

 Done by Túrelio (1 week). Thx. Gunnex (talk) 07:41, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Baskoro F19

Please block Baskoro F19 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings, mass copyvio per Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Baskoro F19, use of sockpuppets and a previous block for 1 week in 08.2013. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 10:39, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Indeffed. --Denniss (talk) 12:18, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Desire generic solution to permit upload of entire group of images now open-licensed by active creator

As part of WikiProject Biophysics, we have been advocating various active creators of scientifically important images to give categories of them open license. Our most valued success so far was persuading both the artist David Goodsell and the RCSB branch of the worldwide Protein Data Bank to give a CC-BY-3.0 license to all of his past and future molecular drawings in his "Molecule of the Month" series. The new license is formally assigned by the RCSB at http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=general_information/about_pdb/policies_references.html Unfortunately Goodsell cannot include his even more famous drawings of cell contents, which is what he makes his living on - they are available educationally and by permission.

We have successfully uploaded some of the hundreds of already existing MoTM images (see Commons Category:Molecule of the Month), but since these are well-known and highly desired images, a number have previously been tried and (correctly) deleted, so often we are refused an upload with a message such as "94_superoxide_dismutase_heavy_metal.jpg There was another file already on the site with the same content, but it was deleted."

There is no clear way to contest this block at the time of upload, and this will be an often recurring problem. Surely this is not the desired effect when an entire group of images is finally made open license? Best would be a way to undelete all previously uploaded and deleted images in this group; second-best would be to provide a relatively easy way to allow such a now-incorrectly blocked upload, without needing a lengthy decision process each time. We are also fairly far along in negotiations with specific scientific societies and universities to make open license their photos of scientists & professors, so similar problems will occur with those as well.

I would be extremely appreciative of whatever scheme/policy/software mod you folks could come up with to make this situation workable. Thanks in advance! - Dcrjsr (talk) 14:34, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

If you can produce a list of the files that are to be undeleted, then you can take your case to Undeletion requests and have them all processed at once by a friendly admin. Without a simple list and a simple explanation, this would be too time consuming for most admins. You might be asked for an OTRS ticket, but that would be easy to sort out in your case. Note, this is not really the right noticeboard, the message you are seeing is a standard warning, it should be possible to upload for a second time, unless the filename was protected against it. Commons does not normally "block" names of deleted files from being uploaded again. --Fæ (talk) 15:19, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Fallacies4

Fallacies4 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

This user keeps uploading copyvios since February; the pictures can easily be found via Google Images. Please stop him to keep away damage from the project. Thx, XenonX3 (talk) 15:40, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 15:44, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

User:Marketingbyerick

Marketingbyerick (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user This user is an advertisement user via Category:Images which should be in PNG format. Please stop him to keep away damage from the project. Thx, -- Perhelion (talk) 18:51, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Blocked, that's spamming through the backdoor, not the first user I have blocked with the exact same behaviour to place spam links into the newly uploaded .png files. --Denniss (talk) 19:17, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Ростислав Камерістов

Please block Ростислав Камерістов (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user (lately active as Panoramio grabber, details at User talk:Ростислав Камерістов) for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 16:08, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done. --A.Savin 16:12, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

AlJX

User has once again reverted File:Scheme of administrative division of Ukraine-2.png and File:Scheme of administrative division of Ukraine.png to remove the Crimean peninsula despite being warned not to by both myself and an administrator. As the user has made no positive contributions, I believe they should be indefinitely blocked. Fry1989 ^eh? 01:01, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

I blocked AlJX for 2 weeks for edit warring, but feel free to discuss a longer blocking period. --Didym (talk) 01:08, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Mercy11

Please block Mercy11 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for this. —LX (talk, contribs) 10:19, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Grossly inappropriate personal attack. Blocked for 3 days. --Steinsplitter (talk) 10:14, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Oreynolds1972

Please block Oreynolds1972 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 10:02, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 10:05, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Sonu101

Please block Sonu101 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings and 2 previous block. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 06:46, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done, 1 month. --Túrelio (talk) 08:04, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Yogeshdube

Please block Yogeshdube (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings and 1 previous block. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 06:46, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Not necessary, IMO, as his latest upload was in December 2013. --Túrelio (talk) 08:03, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

I know that his latest upload was in 12.2013 but the "final" warning was in 10.2013, followed by a block. After the block the user uploaded again 4 copyvios (the latest only detected today) and I bet 1 EUR that the next "contribution" by this user will be copyvio too. Anyway, thx for the feedback and your eyes :-). Gunnex (talk) 20:40, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

 Blocked 1 week wasn't long enough before. I doubt we'll lose a valued user. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 04:50, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Billhopkins99

User:Billhopkins99 is repeatedly uploading copyrighted images as "own work" files. Please block. Thank you, 99.118.34.43 03:59, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done User warned. In case of blatant copyvios, you can use {{Speedy}}. Regards, Yann (talk) 04:04, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! 99.118.34.43 19:27, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Protections for main page of English Wikipedia

Hi all. KrinkleBot's been a little iffy recently, and to avoid any embarrassing mishaps I was wondering if somebody could protect the next week's POTDs for the English Wikipedia:

• File:Battle of Spottsylvania by Thure de Thulstrup.jpg
• File:Autorecessive.svg
• File:Clynotis severus, AF.jpg
• File:Butorides virescens2.jpg
• File:Visible Pinball III - Pacific Pinball Museum cropped.jpg
• File:Barnard 33.jpg
• File:Parish church Urtijei internal view.jpg

Thanks beforehand. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:16, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Bot was down, now working again: User talk:Krinkle#KrinkleBot_2 --Steinsplitter (talk) 14:10, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

• Just to be safe, I'd appreciate if File:Battle of Spottsylvania by Thure de Thulstrup.jpg (tomorrow's) was protected. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:20, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

It's already included in the auto-protected files list. Regards, --ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 21:56, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

• Alright, thanks. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:26, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

User:Screw lizzie hughes

Attack account, already blocked on English Wikipedia. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 15:30, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

 blocked, key thrown away --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 18:03, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Mabarraqa

Please block Mabarraqa (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload copyright violations in spite of multiple (final) warnings. Thanks. Gunnex (talk) 22:30, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

A typical-length block wouldn't make much sense, IMO, as his most recent upload was in October 2013. In order to get him taking notice, a block for >3 months would be required. However, if a colleague thinks otherwise, that's fine for me. --Túrelio (talk) 06:42, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done Yann (talk) 08:06, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Zvonimír Pružina

I just blocked Zvonimír Pružina (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for uploading a large number of stock images very rapidly. These images can be found all over the Internet. For now, the point of the block was just to get his attention, but if no satisfactory explanation of what the heck he's doing is forthcoming, his uploads should be nuked. Lupo 20:54, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

All right, here's just four:

• File:Krankenhaus gebäude.jpeg: watermarked "Foto 264263 www.bilderbuch.koeln.de"
• File:Eishockey158.jpg: according to [15], © Brian Blanco/AP
• File:Mathe Tafel grün.jpg: per EXIF: Copyright holder: "PantherMedia / Kesserin Schulze;" Image title: "PantherMedia 4978885"; Date: 2012-09-19
• File:Bergtouristik.jpg: 275×183px version of the first image here, which is [16] and is 1572×1050px.

No reply from user since the block. That's enough, I'm going to extend the block to indefinite and nuke his contribs. Lupo 21:45, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

And  Done. Lupo 21:51, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

HappyLogolover2011

User HappyLogolover2011 has made quite a bunch of reuploads of pictures with nothing but hue/contrast etc. edits. While they seem to be done in good faith, the results tend to be rather unrealistic and dissatisfactory. See eg. File:Jaundice_eye.jpg, File:Scheidenvorhof.jpg (probably NSFW), File:Plantains.jpg, File:Figure_28_02_02.jpg (I reverted this one, as I used that picture in an article and it looked really unnatural and weird). Many are legitimate edits, but there's quite a few I feel should be reverted. Because there's so many, I won't go about reverting them myself, so I'll report it here instead. Also, sorry if the links appear odd, I'm not quite sure how to link to files without embedding the files on the page.

Turdas (talk) 01:56, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

I went and reverted File:Jaundice_eye.jpg, too, since his change to it completely ruined the image's point, which was to demonstrate jaundice, the yellowing of skin, eyes and other membrane. I'll leave some of the less-obvious cases to you guys, though.

Turdas (talk) 02:14, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done User warned, edits reverted. Next time block. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 04:48, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

User:Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc.

After being notified by User:Schniggendiller I have indef-blocked Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. (talk · contribs) for inappropriate username (as there is w:Dr Pepper Snapple Group) and as he twice uploaded an (rather surely not own) image of "dog poop", first as File:Dog poop.jpg , then as File:95 cadillac fleetwood from arlington texas usa.jpg, which he (as an IP) used to vandalize :zh Wikipedia[17]. Obviously a vandalism-only account. --Túrelio (talk) 21:31, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Sinco96

Please block Sinco96 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload nothing but copyright violations (34 to date) in spite of multiple warnings throughout their more than 4½ years of refusing to understand what this project is about and in spite of two previous two-week blocks. —LX (talk, contribs) 07:34, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done. --A.Savin 09:03, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

File:General Al Sisi.jpg

Can an admin look at this it will need the other imgs deleted from the history and maybe protected. LGA _talk^edits 23:22, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done & user warned --Steinsplitter (talk) 23:39, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Copyright violation

Resolved

A admin should look here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AListFiles&user=Ashi_Khan&ilshowall=1 --Berthold Werner (talk) 06:55, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Files sind in der Tonne, Tonne bereits an die Strasse gestellt. :) Habe Ashi Khan 3 Monate Pause verabreicht. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 18:49, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Asking for edit permissions to Template:NetMarine

Hello, may a kind administrator please unprotect Template:NetMarine, at least temporarily? I would like to revise the harsh tone and ugly formatting in the template, as well as provide a French translation text. I am familiar with the Netmarine bank of uploads and I won’t break anything, I promise… thanks, Ariadacapo (talk) 14:10, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Putting your changes on the talk page and add a edit protect tag would be the fastest/easiest approach. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 15:09, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

This only has ~280 inclusions. Is there such a high risk of vandalism that we can't set this to autoconfirmed? Regards, --ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 15:31, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

No, it's not high risk. Yes it is high risk. :-)) It's a license template, therefore protected. I can't foresee a problem with Ariadacapo but we have many visitors :) It's easy to rewrite the whole thing and add edit protect tag. Or just dump it on my talk page. Doesn't matter to me. As soon as I know it's ready, I'll change the template. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 16:05, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Pasting stuff on someone else's talk page is not really the wiki way. It also creates attribution problems when not transferred correctly. While it is a license template not all license templates need to be protected on sysop level. Many are not (most prominent case I can think of right now is {{Cc-by-sa-4.0}}). Yes, we do have some "visitors" but license templates are rarely vandalized by autoconfirmed users. The good contributors by far outweigh the few vandals and if there should really be a problem we can reprotect. I don't really see the need here so unless you object I would like to unprotect it. Regards, --ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 21:50, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Right, if not done correctly there might be a problem. That's why I suggested the file talk page. All licensing templates are protected. That's the standard here on Commons and AFAIK on all other wikis. Those templates are highly sensitive and can't be left unprotected. I get your point Chris, but (c) is a pretty difficult issue and we just have to keep some things under wraps. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 19:59, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Well, I see your point and I disagree but since I am the only one disagreeing on here I will not push this. Regards, --ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 01:45, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. I’ll get to work on this shortly. Ariadacapo (talk) 14:00, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

BSicon request

Please unprotect File:BSicon ueGRENZE.svg & File:BSicon uexGRENZE.svg. If there were any vandalism issues, they are long past. Is there a possibility to find all protected BSicons? They should all begin with "File:BSicon ". I guess all of them should be de-protected, although it would be better to see such a list first... YLSS (talk) 14:53, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Wow... Thanks, Steinsplitter! With the exception of File:BSicon_TRAIN.svg (the issue is quite recent), all of these protection logs are from 2010, and it's unlikely that any conflicts will resurface, so it would be better to unprotect them. YLSS (talk) 15:58, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done files unlocked. Ankry (talk) 18:41, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Григорий225

I suppose that User talk:Tushino1995 & User talk:Grigori2014 belong to Category:Sockpuppets of Григорий225. See Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Григорий225 & Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 46#User:Григорий225. Apparently also ru:User talk:George1994. YLSS (talk) 14:44, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done. --A.Savin 10:36, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

File:Images2.jpg

Please restore the protection against uploading under this meaningless file name, which was removed without good reason by Fastily, claiming "I am watching the page, and will delete and re-protect immediately in the event of abuse," which obviously wasn't true. Files uploaded under this name have since had to be deleted three times (and will have to be done a fourth time as well) by other administrators, and the file is still unprotected. —LX (talk, contribs) 10:17, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Krd 10:38, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

File:Panoramic view of Oia, Santorini island (Thira), Greece.jpg

Hi!

Please unprotect this file for edit some wrong "Summary" in ukrainian. -- Володимир Ф (talk) 08:39, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, not possible, as the file is protected by a cascade protection. However, as admin can still edit it, you could simply post here the allegedly wrong old summary plus the corrected new summary. --Túrelio (talk) 08:48, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for quick response!

Is: "Панорамний вид Ойя, острів Санторіні (Тір), Греція". Should be: "Панорамний вид Ії, острів Санторіні (Тіра), Греція".

Best regards.-- Володимир Ф (talk) 09:17, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done. --A.Savin 10:09, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Дякую! Спасибо! -- Володимир Ф (talk) 11:20, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Repeated copyvios by User:Ana Xsosta (talk)

Purely in the last two days itself I believe that this quite-new user has uploaded at least six copyrighted files to Commons (maybe more, but I can't see since they have been deleted). Despite repeated warnings, this user is wholly ignoring their talk page. The only response was on my talk page after I had warned the user saying وانت مال اهلك يلا احمل اللى احمله (web translation: You and your family money to have Elly carry) If you look at File:Batista-defeated-John-Cena11.jpg, Ana Xsosta seems to have a basic grasp of English with It was taken in Batista vs John Cena match for The WWE Championship At Elimination Chamber 2010. The files being uploaded are clearly copyrighted by WWE, whether they originate from WWE.com or are a screenshot of WWE's television programmes. For the Batista file above, it's photo 34 of this WWE.com collection. Ana Xsosta does not seem able to comprehend this at all, and falsely claims that the photos are own work. Starship.paint (talk) 09:50, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

In my experience it was ((CNN)) who spilled the information. I have requested permision on this copyrighted issue and the dirctor of ((CNN)) has given me permission to use information on WWE.com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.184.14.8 (talk • contribs)

The director of CNN has no jurisdiction over WWE. Anyway, Ana is still uploading copyrighted WWE pictures... File:Rollins Peace of Mind.jpg, which is photo 21. Starship.paint (talk) 12:06, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Off for a week, next block will be longer. --Denniss (talk) 14:40, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks for your action, Denniss. Starship.paint (talk) 04:24, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Email user: Action throttled

User:FucktardObama

Though I'm no special friend of Mr. Obama (resp. his politics), I've indef-blocked FucktardObama (talk · contribs) on the spot for inappropriate username. His only upload was an own-claimed, not-self-created shot of Obama, used to vandalize :en:wiktionary[18]. --Túrelio (talk) 08:08, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Túrelio That's a completely non-controversial block, IMO. Sven Manguard Wha? 01:04, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

User:GlennyG

Vandal account - uploaded an explicit image to vandalize en:Ned Flanders with it. See user's contributions on English Wikipedia, including deleted article en:Ned Flanders.png. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 13:38, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

This user's only contribution here was this image. I think he/she doesn't deserve a block for this. ~ Nahid ^Talk 15:34, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Block sockpuppet

Please block to Kim Hyun Joong 10 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. This user is a sockpuppet of 9oo (talk · contribs), some this locked per Ajraddatz. Reason:Long-term abuse (NebrazkaBIEBER (talk · contribs). See cross-wiki sockmaster (cuwiki)). Thanks in advanced Leitoxx ^{Work • Talk • Mail} 19:27, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

 Blocked indef, talk page open --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 20:55, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection request

Can someone please switch User:INeverCry/Stuff from full to semi protection (permanent)? I forgot to do it before I left. Thanks. INeverCry 04:03, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 04:36, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

علیرضا اسدی

علیرضا اسدی is yet another rather obvious sockpuppet of Saran133, recreating previously deleted files out of process and uploading new ones with the same problems. Please block it and nuke its uploads. —LX (talk, contribs) 19:04, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Working on it. Эlcobbola _talk 19:52, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

•  Done User (and another sock) blocked and uploads nuked. Эlcobbola _talk 20:00, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

ChurchHesel.JPG

Bitte entsperren. Ich wählte beim Hochladen die falsche Dateiversion auf meinem Rechner aus. Da diese falsche Version zwischenzeitlich geringfügig (Auflösung/Beschnitt) verändert wurde, wollte ich meinen Fehler korrigieren. Die berichtigte Version hat ebenfalls eine Auflösung von 180 dpi wie das Original, außerdem wurde der Farbsaum entfernt. Gruß, MagentaGreen (talk) 18:12, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Nachdem die Datei nicht mehr auf "Commons:Auto-protected files/wikipedia/de" gelistet ist, war der Upload zwischenzeitlich möglich. Es gehört meiner Meinung nach jedoch zum guten Umgang, darüber auch zu informieren - das ist leider nicht passiert! Gruß, MagentaGreen (talk) 08:26, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Lyon Capanema

• Lyon Capanema (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Uploaded a copyrighted image (http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/politica/eleicoes/plinio-de-arruda-sampaio-quem-e-o-candidato-do-psol-a-presidencia,94e878ad60e2d310VgnCLD200000bbcceb0aRCRD.html). He has also been blocked on Portuguese Wikipedia.

Francisco (talk) 01:13, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

They will be blocked if uploading more unfree files. Ankry (talk) 07:08, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

User:UrMomSucksForFun

see at User talk:UrMomSucksForFun. Obviously inappropriate name, only upload is a copyright violation.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:25, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done —Mono (how to reply) 17:49, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Protection for Pratyya Ghosh

I would like to request an admin to make my user page semi-protected. Thank you. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 03:54, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Why is protection required? I see no history of vandalism. There's no provision in Commons:Protection policy for protecting user pages without reason. —Psychonaut (talk) 12:22, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done User request. --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:30, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

L89obe

L89obe (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user - sockpuppet of Messina (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user, again with incorrectly licensed files [19]. Both files uploaded by L89obe were included in an article draft by Messina on de.wp only a few minutes after the upload [20]. --Jergen (talk) 09:34, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 10:00, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

PAUL550001014

Hello, can someone block PAUL550001014 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user who keeps uploading multiple copyvios despite warnings ? Thank you, Bloody-libu (talk) 16:24, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:15, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Block of Hanay for cross-wiki canvassing

Silver Light Produtions

Resolved

• Silver Light Produtions (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Spam username (blocked on Portuguese Wikipedia). Francisco (talk) 03:30, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Related: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Álvaro Souza.jpg Sven Manguard Wha? 05:16, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

 blocked here as well. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 06:55, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-lb 10d.png

As lb-wikipedia plans to use File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-lb 10d.png as a logo on lb.wikipedia in order to celebrate 10 Years of lb-Wikipedia we would like to protect this file in order to prevent vandalism. For any further questions on this issue best contact me on my lb discussion page --Robby (talk) 22:35, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Robby: 1 month protection is okay? --Steinsplitter (talk) 22:38, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

It looks like it is going to run from 15 July to 15 September, if I am reading this page right. I protected it indefinitely, and we can set an unprotecton date once we know for sure lbwiki's timeline. Sven Manguard Wha? 00:58, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Agreed.--Robby (talk) 06:38, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Dblama sockpuppets JasonStack43, SadiU7 and Durlavkt7

Please block

• JasonStack43 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• SadiU7 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user and
• Durlavkt7 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

as sockpuppets of Dblama (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user a.k.a. PurNep (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user a.k.a. Snubssulky (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. See the following deletion discussions for details:

• Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by JasonStack43
• Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by SadiU7
• Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Durlavkt7
• Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Dblama
• Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by PurNep
• Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Snubssulky

Thanks, —LX (talk, contribs) 12:20, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:26, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

ArsenalCharles

Please block ArsenalCharles (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuing to upload nothing but copyright violations in spite of multiple warnings. Thanks, —LX (talk, contribs) 12:28, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:31, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Category:Lito Mayo Images

Inappropriate use/creation of a category. The user recreated it after Jim deleted it yesterday. I noticed it when the user added it to Jim's page. No idea what he is doing. Jee 02:33, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done already by Fastily Ankry (talk) 07:34, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

User:Thedarkknightjc

Thedarkknightjc (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

I think it is time for this user to be blocked, and for all of their uploads to be reviewed for possible copyvios.

Have a look at their talk page. They upload images of celebrities, many of which have turned out to be copyright violations. They were warned to stop doing this in 2012. They have not replied to any comments left for them or otherwise communicated in any way with anyone here since October 2012, yet they continue to upload images with copyright issues. Looking at their uploads i find it likely there are more copyvios lingering there. I will inform them of this discussion, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a reply.... Beeblebrox (talk) 18:11, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Looking through his deleted contributions, I am seeing a couple copyright violations that he uploaded and then flagged for deletion himself, a couple of images that he has secured permission for (and were deleted because he uploaded multiple versions), and at least one where he or she said permission was being sent to OTRS, but it never arrived. Looking through his existing contributions, it looks like he goes to various sites (Flickr and Flickr clones) and uploads photos of celebrities, occasionally trying to get images of celebrities under free licenses.

While there's an impressive list of deletion notices on the user's talk page, I'm pretty sure that there's not a conscious attempt to upload copyright violations. Rather, it seems that the user isn't careful (or cynical) enough to spot flickrwashing, and has slipped up a couple of times either reading the license (or in the case of Picassa and OTRS), making sure other people can verify the license.

It would be nice if he or she spoke up during the DRs and tried to explain the licensing situations, but we can't force him or her to. I don't think this is a case for admin action, at least not at this stage. Sven Manguard Wha? 19:19, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi! I was the one who left the latest notice. Thedarkknightjc might want to exercise more caution, but I don't think that this latest matter should be the straw to break the camel's back. The copyright violation not very easy to spot, at least not until the file was already on Commons. Unlike on Flickr, we show the EXIF data, and it was only from there that one could tell that the photo came from Wireimage. The photo was transferred from a corporate account on Flickr, so one might expect some professional-looking photos, and one would expect USANA Health Sciences, Inc. to know better than to try to sublicense Wireimage content. I've also found other images with the same problem from the same Flickr account but transferred here by other users. —LX (talk, contribs) 19:42, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for weighing in LX. I think that you can see metadata in the lightbox view mode, but since I've largely stopped using Flickr since their site redesign (as I find it rarely loads cleanly), I'm not sure how much it shows. Either way, if you run across accounts that are, to quote the page, "too questionable for our purposes", you should list them at Commons:Questionable Flickr images. That way, we're able to catch them no matter who does the uploads. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:06, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

On seeing EXIF data for Flickr images: there's actually several ways to do so:

1. Append "/meta" to the Flickr URL. Let's take a random Flickr image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/telemax/5842618889, which we have as File:"Diagoras", Blue Star Ferries.jpg. Append "/meta" to that Flickr URL to see the EXIF: https://www.flickr.com/photos/telemax/5842618889/meta
2. Flickr users can block that, so if that doesn't work, like for instance for https://www.flickr.com/photos/bortescristian/1413199715 (File:"DINTR-UN LEMN" MONASTERY.jpg), you can use regex.info: append "/sizes/o" to the Flickr URL, copy the download link given there, and paste that into the form at regex.info to see the EXIF: [21]
3. Use Flinfo: paste in the Flickr URL, click "Get info", then click the "View EXIF" link at the top right.

Lupo 06:03, 25 June 2014 (UTC)