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Block User:Shamshamster1234

Shamshamster1234 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  has repeatedly uploaded overtly copyrighted and derivative works. Has been warned multiple times. By six separate editors. Including warnings in early November 2019, escalation in early December 2019 and a more recent "final warning" after yet more copyrighted material was added subsequently. Today the uploader has added yet more copyvio or mis-labelled content. CIR and AgF are long since past. Guliolopez (talk) 19:19, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Comment. Here's just one very recent "for instance" for this user in which (in the space of a couple of hours):
This just isn't funny any more. Its just not. Guliolopez (talk) 20:56, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
Blocked for 1 week. --Túrelio (talk) 21:16, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Flappy

Can anyone please restore their talk page access so they can request unblock, it has been 10 years of talk page access being revoked. --VKras (talk) 14:51, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

VKras, did they ask you? --Achim (talk) 17:27, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

@ Achim No, but 10 years is extremely long time. --VKras (talk) 17:32, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

What makes you think that after ten years they would be interested in returning to Commons? At ENWIKI, the account has been renamed to en:User talk:Flappy~enwiki in 2015 and the user hasn't been active ever since. De728631 (talk) 17:45, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 Not done: Offending & harrassing sockmaster, at least one sock locked globally. Please refrain from scanning for LT blocks with revoked tp access as it had no benefit neither to us nor to the heroes that have been shown the door many years ago. If there is a recent request by an IP or by any other way I'd be fine to do so. --Achim (talk) 17:46, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

@ Achim Just for my curiosity, when will this user get their tpa back? I am definitely not asking for tpa restoration again. This question is not because I am feel bad or other problems, its only because I am interested in finding out. What do you mean by LT? --VKras (talk) 17:58, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

These users will likely never get their TPA back. LT = long term. ~riley (talk) 19:37, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
If it makes you feel better, I have enabled email access. ~riley (talk) 19:39, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

~riley Its not about me feeling better, its about them having any way of appealing their block. --VKras (talk) 15:53, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Dahalson

Can anybody please restore their talk page access to give them another chance to make a satisfactory unblock request. If they abuse it, it can be revoked again. Maybe they will do good in their next unblock request. Lets see how they go. --VKras (talk) 15:01, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

 Oppose. I explained on Dahalson's talkpage, why (s)he was blocked without talk page access. Taivo (talk) 19:17, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
If it makes you feel better, I have enabled email access. ~riley (talk) 19:39, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

~riley Its not about me feeling better, its about them having any way of appealing their block. --VKras (talk) 15:55, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Block User:कीर्तिप्रभा न्यूज़

Violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username (कीर्तिप्रभा न्यूज़ → Kirti Prabha News). Also revoke TPA if possible. -- CptViraj (📧) 05:46, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Blocked indef. Sorry, I've not revoked TPA because they might be unclear and wanted to need some info or something else. If they abuse feel free to ping me and i will revoke the TPA. Thank you for volunteering! Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 13:03, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
@Tulsi Bhagat: Posted news again, please revoke TPA. -- CptViraj (📧) 13:23, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
✓ Done. - FitIndia Talk Mail 14:01, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
Tulsi Bhagat and Fitindia:  Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 14:09, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Northernrailwaysfan (talk · contribs) blocked for sockpuppetry on wikipedia

Northernrailwaysfan is blocked for sockpuppetry on Wikipedia, can any admin please block that user and the accounts that he created from editing on Wikimedia Commons, please? 31.53.208.136 19:42, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Their account is now globally locked. Ahmadtalk 20:04, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Can you block F Limited from editing please?

Could you please block F Limited from editing and also revoke TPA? 31.53.208.136 19:46, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

F Limited (talk · contribs) has Zero edits on Commons. Why should they be blocked? --Túrelio (talk) 19:49, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

@Turelio - Sock puppet of Northernrailwaysfan. 31.53.208.136 19:53, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Ok, after they made a vandal-edit I've indef them. --Túrelio (talk) 20:11, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
  • F Limited created at 19:45, reported by IP at 19:46 with no edits globally. Túrelio advises they have made no edits, account proceeds to make an edit about being an admin. Blocked by Túrelio. IP proceeds to make 5 troll edits on user talk page of blocked user about being an admin. IP blocked for trolling, SPI concerns are evident here. ~riley (talk) 21:18, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Joseco Furniture

Promotional username violating COM:UPOL. - FitIndia Talk Mail 05:41, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Indef blocked by ~riley. -- CptViraj (📧) 08:21, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
Oops, yes, meant to write that. Thanks CptViraj ~riley (talk) 08:29, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Khetigaadi

Spam-only account, violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username (see userpage). -- CptViraj (📧) 09:01, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Indef blocked - FitIndia Talk Mail 09:39, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 09:50, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Pappu_Singh_Satya

Uploading OOS images and self-promoting after warnings. Masum Reza📞 15:20, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Egypt Freak VII

Vandalism only account. --VKras (talk) 19:48, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done by 4nn1l2. --VKras (talk) 20:08, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Mobiliar+Design

Violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username, see userpage. -- CptViraj (📧) 09:12, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done: Softblocked. --Achim (talk) 09:32, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 11:31, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Taxrise

Spam-only account, violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 09:15, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done. I warned the user, deleted the promotional userpage and nominated the only upload for regular deletion. Also I soft-blocked him/her indefinitely due to inappropriate username. Taivo (talk) 11:10, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 11:30, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Egypt Freak VII

Inappropriate use of talk page while blocked. Go revoke it. --VKras (talk) 15:56, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Yep, thanks. --VKras (talk) 16:14, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

@Vkras: Please don't make bad faith comments like you did here and here, Please see COM:GOODFAITH and COM:CIVIL. -- CptViraj (📧) 17:56, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
@VKras and CptViraj: I agree that Vkras comments should be more civil. But I would not assume good faith for vandal like him. Egypt Freak is a LTA, cross-wiki abuser, and of course as Vkras said "a lock candidate". @Vkras: please don't post comments like that to a obvious LTA's talk page, as you are just wasting your time. Instead just report him to m:SRG. Thanks. Masum Reza📞 18:29, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Protect file for CN banner

Hallo. Please protect this file for 2 months, per CN guidelines. File:Astronaut illustration simplified with Wikimedia logo.png We're planning to use it in a CentralNotice banner next week and again sometime in January. Thank you! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:07, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protection for User:YouTubeReviewBot/Trusted

I don't see any reason why any newbie should edit this page. All only trusted users. Thanks -- Eatcha (talk) 09:51, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done ~riley (talk) 10:03, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Kai3952

User has demonstrated zero interest in resuming "work", despite claiming otherwise. User has continuously tried to start a fight with another fellow user, despite told to stop. Continued twist of words, ridiculous misinterpretations, and it is not a language barrier. Forum shopping, accusations of lying, enough is enough.

I'm asking an uninvolved admin to evaluate this and see talk page access should be removed. Thanks. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 05:12, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

This is very sad, but I don't know how this could be resolved either. Kai wanted a problem to be resolved that simply didn't exist. He continued to worry that I would take work away from him, despite me stating on multiple occasions that I wouldn't. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 07:45, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Some discussion (Chinese) is still in progress, he might know how to participate and stop disrupting for now.--YFdyh000 (talk) 11:20, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Same person

Ducks. 大诺史 (Talk/留言) 12:08, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

protect File:TikTok Logo.svg

The is frequent vandalism at File:TikTok Logo.svg --GPSLeo (talk) 12:21, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

False nominations

Please protect User talk:Rijksmuseum. I removed a lot of false requests for deletion around a week ago. Now a registered user (new) begins again. Please protect it for IP-users and new registered users (for the first 4 days). Thnx. - Richardkiwi (talk) (talk) 13:44, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

 Not done Protecting the user talk page will not help, but only hide the problem. The images can still be nominated. Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 16:44, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
I must agree with Sebari. If the talkpage is not protected, then it is easier to track vandalistic nominations. These edits can be simply reverted and reported. Taivo (talk) 16:52, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

User:SocialStatista

Spam-only account, violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 17:17, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked the user indefinitely and deleted the spam userpage. Taivo (talk) 21:02, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 01:01, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Template:Nationality

High-risk template, please change protection from semi to template editers and sysops only. -- CptViraj (📧) 17:28, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done --Majora (talk) 17:38, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 01:01, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Template:SiteID

High-risk template, please add semi or template protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 17:32, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done 1101689 usages. --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:37, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 01:02, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Template:Mapframe/Wikidata

High-risk template, please add semi or template protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 01:07, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Protected indef. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 02:54, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 07:30, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

File:Lesser Coat of Arms of Ukraine.svg and File:NARA Logo created 2010.svg

Highly used files, please add protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 14:36, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

user:I-am-not-Benjamin

I-am-not-Benjamin: new created, single purpose, vandalism account. please block and undo edits. --C.Suthorn (talk) 18:11, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked Benjamin indefinitely. Taivo (talk) 20:28, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
What about the six deletion requests created by the account (the only edits)? --C.Suthorn (talk) 02:45, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

User:The association of banks in Israel

Violating COM:UPOL, account needs verification. -- CptViraj (📧) 02:58, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Blocked indef. for now. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 05:44, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 07:26, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Dublin City Council Commemorations

Violating COM:UPOL as a Organization.—-LoganTheWatermelon (talk) 17:35, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

User:DongshanGK

Posting copyrighted images repeatedly. --Buntschann (talk) 05:48, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

 Not done User has not uploaded anything after your warning. - FitIndia Talk Mail 08:10, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protection for File:6ix9ine.jpg

An anonymous user hides the license reviewed by a reviewer to try to fool commons administrators (diff). --Gindomarlo (talk) 09:19, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done. The file is temporarily semi-protected. Taivo (talk) 09:59, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Poly-clip System

Violating COM:UPOL as a organization name.LoganTheWatermelon (talk) 15:58, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

User:LoganTheWatermelon

Please verify editions of LoganTheWatermelon and revert or stop him. i've just noted actions like this and he's made several editions by the style. Thanks. --Ganímedes (talk) 01:07, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

I don’t want to vandalize wikimedia, so can you just warn me?LoganTheWatermelon (talk) 15:49, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
Why don't you start stopping your editions and undo what you've done? --Ganímedes (talk) 22:25, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

I don’t know why, I will change my Focus a little bit.LoganTheWatermelon (talk) 15:04, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

User:SBSVISION

Spam-only account, violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 08:53, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked the user indefinitely due to inappropriate username. Taivo (talk) 10:44, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 13:16, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Destiny1718

Copyvio-only account, uploading copyvios after final warning. --Paul_012 (talk) 22:10, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

 Not done. Copyvios stopped after Nat warned the user. Taivo (talk) 10:43, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

File:India Television icon.svg

Highly used file, please add protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 07:51, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done. I semi-protected it indefinitely. Taivo (talk) 08:57, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 12:48, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

User:IITC limited

Spam-only account, violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 08:41, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

protect File:Google "G" Logo.svg

There is frequent vandalism at File:Google "G" Logo.svg --GPSLeo (talk) 11:09, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Protected. 4nn1l2 (talk) 11:18, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/AshleyFurniture123

Spam-only account Ahmad Kanik (talk) 09:54, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks and ✓ Done --Herby talk thyme 10:02, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

File:Ali Tariq Mirza.jpg

Required creation protection on File:Ali Tariq Mirza.jpg as it is frequently created after deletion. --A1Cafel (talk) 14:24, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

User:JarektBot

JarektBot

Hi, this bot currently flags lots of my old files incorrectly as "original creation by uploader". Most of them were only uploaded by me, but not created. I had suggested on the bots talk page to restrict this task to files marked as own work by uploader; just now apparently a new batch load was started without reacting to this. Bot should be indefinitely blocked until this is addressed and old files are cleaned up. This bot generates a whole mess at the moment. Sorry. --Schlurcher (talk) 16:19, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Have blocked for a week and advised on talkpage. Rodhullandemu (talk) 16:46, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
I paused this quickstatements batch, but I need some examples of the issues. The database query I use (https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/40759 ) specifically only looks for files that transclude {{Own}} template and this property is 100% equivalent. --Jarekt (talk) 17:13, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I think this bot can be unblocked again with the understanding that the the task is not resumed. This noticeboard here is not the right place for a discussion regarding the bot task. As far as I see, JarektBot is also not approve for the performed task. Thus, my suggestion would be to get community input and discuss this properly as part of a new request on Commons:Bots/Requests. Part of this discussion should include, how the edits done so far can be corrected. --Schlurcher (talk) 19:20, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Unblocked now. However I still do not see what was the issue: source of file (P7482) = original creation by uploader (Q66458942) was designed to mean exactly the same as template {{Own}}, or that the file was created by the uploader. Today Schlurcher rewrote the documentation of the template to signify that image was created by the person mentioned in author field, which is the case (hopefully) for every file on Commons. Schlurcher if some of your uploads do not use Own work template correctly than by all means correct the wikitext and remove source of file (P7482) property. --Jarekt (talk) 20:38, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
The wording on {{Own}} reflects only the majority of the use of the template. I have raised this on the discussion page. The template is also used for cases where the "own work" applies to the author not the uploader. I doubt this is only the case for my uploads (especially as the cases currently changed by your bot have been updated to use {{Own}} after my initial upload). As far as I see, JarektBot is not approved for the performed task. Thus, please get community input and approval prior to performing any further changes. I'm happy to discuss your request on Commons:Bots/Requests. Part of this discussion should include, how the edits done so far can be corrected. --Schlurcher (talk) 21:40, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

File:Bharata Natyam Performance DS.jpg

Highly used file, please add protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 09:09, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Creativewebpixel

Spam-only account, violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 13:17, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Blocked indef. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 13:24, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 13:25, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Invisibelibrarian

Invisibelibrarian (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) - Nonstop copyright violations. -- Whpq (talk) 18:33, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done. Ymblanter blocked him/her for a week, all contributions are deleted. Taivo (talk) 15:31, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Decasurger

Decasurger (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) - repeatedly uploads copyvios over many years, despite of final warning. --Wcam (talk) 04:46, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked Decasurger for a week and deleted some copyvios speedily. Taivo (talk) 15:42, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

File:Bharata Natyam Performance DS.jpg

Highly used file, please add protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 09:09, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Creativewebpixel

Spam-only account, violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 13:17, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Blocked indef. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 13:24, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 13:25, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Sade Official Design

Spam-only account, violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 10:00, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done. I soft-blocked the user indefinitely and nominated his/her upload for deletion. Taivo (talk) 15:45, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 16:13, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Template:Biohist

High-risk template, please add semi or template protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 17:23, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Module:Biology

High-risk module, please add protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 17:26, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

High-risk template, please add semi or template protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 17:28, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Rprsdm

Spam-only account, violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 08:38, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Possible block for User:KDOIS

See Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_uploaded_by_KDOIS for potential problems for their uploads here and ptwiki. Seems to me a promotional username at least. Possible spammer also. --Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:21, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Template:Supported by Wikimedia Deutschland

High-risk template, please add template protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 04:48, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Block for User:Dz666host

Promotional username, via google search I found this and some other which implies some sort of promotion. User 1st contribution is dubious too (I tagged for spam / out of scope). ----Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 13:58, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

User:RSTohid

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

Spam and copyvio-only account. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 15:39, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

✓ Done I warned the user. All uploads are deleted. Taivo (talk) 15:47, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

For what it's worth the behaviour continued and the images - free or copyright - were simply uploaded to promote a streaming website. As such the user is now blocked and remaining contribs gone. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 14:18, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Block PrinceAnand2003

Any sysop please block PrinceAnand2003. He is continuously uploading copyvios to Commons. See proof at his talk page. Previously he was blocked for 1 week for the same reason.--Tæ 07:42, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

User:B2Labels

Violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username, needs verification. -- CptViraj (📧) 14:33, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Captions by Hama_m._jalal

Hi, could you please check those editions? I have tried to translate the caption added to my image and Google Translate gives some nonsense not related to picture content. Other translations give similar results, or no result. The selection of pictures for captions looks random. Vandalism? -- Jakubhal 07:09, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Charbonniparis

looks like a recurrent spammer.--Roy17 (talk) 02:37, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked them both indefinitely and reverted and deleted their contributions. Taivo (talk) 17:41, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Block Leo Rugien (talk · contribs)

Leo Rugien (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Uploading unfree files after warning. Renamed user uofgjwfojfowubwofemipvwjboiw (talk) 10:56, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

 Comment If I'm not wrong, you shouldn't be editing with this username. Minoraxtalk (formerly 大诺史) 11:01, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
^. I have no idea what he is trying to do here after getting "vanished". I tried to tell him the same on meta. @Renamed user: if you want to avoid harassment, you should use a new account. Masum Reza📞 14:10, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. I blocked Leo for a week. And we are not discussing here the vanished user. Taivo (talk) 17:52, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Template:Wiki Loves Monuments country logos

High-risk template, please add template protection (allow only template editors and sysops). -- CptViraj (📧) 08:00, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Copy-Vio

Please delete File:LAHS Strohhalm.jpg! --Sockenschütze (talk) 04:06, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Deleted by Raymond as copyvio. The uploader's last remaining contribution is also nominated for deletion. Taivo (talk) 15:59, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Block for Sandesh9822 and their socks

Sandesh9822 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

  • There has been a long history of copyvio's and uploads with wrong licenses, including socking on various projects. Even here they have been warned several times and they are still doing the same by uploading copyvios. Here they were blocked for a week and their sock was indef blocked. Recently their two socks got blocked on enwiki, out of one is active here on this project too. I request admins here to take whatever action is needed to stop them from abusively using multiple accounts. thanks QueerEcofeminist "cite! even if you fight"!!! [they/them/their] 16:41, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
  • The uploads by the socks probably need to be evaluated, and if needed added to the DR for the master. It looks like the locked sock still has some live uploads. So they may not all be bad. GMGtalk 17:40, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Hotelschooldelhi

Spam-only account. -- CptViraj (📧) 08:46, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked indef. Spam-only account. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 08:54, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
 Thank you. -- CptViraj (📧) 08:54, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Request for semi-protection

Please semi-protect Muhammad Ali category. George Reeves Person (or another LTA) is attacking it. Thanks. —Hasley 20:57, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done for a month. Rodhullandemu (talk) 21:04, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

User:CygnetTheatreUK

Username is violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username, needs verification. -- CptViraj (📧) 12:58, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

File:Sultan Haitham Swearing In.jpg

This file is a obvious copyright violation. Clearly a screenshot of television broadcast. I have warned the talk page of fr.wiki main page. Qualifies for COM:F1. Delete. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 00:39, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Nevermind. It is unprotected now. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 01:28, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Template:Unbulleted list

High-risk template, please add template-protection. If possible add semi-protection to Template:Ubl. -- CptViraj (📧) 06:28, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

User:ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2

Although I have many tasks, but due to this problem I want my account to be permanently banned ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 10:28, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

By principle, you can create an alternate account, declare it as such ({{User Alternate Acct}}) and use it for uploading. If this is impossible (you will get error messages), then blocking your main account does not help as well. Taivo (talk) 10:58, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Because of the problem of not being able to upload pictures, I want to leave (retire) Commons completely ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 11:52, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
That case you can simply retire and never use your account. Taivo (talk) 14:45, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Socks blocked

Greetings: I do very few blocks, but I am making an exception for two of the three names in this Category:Sockpuppets_of_Spam_crats. The nominate account was blocked by ~riley, I blocked the other two for spamming identical incoherent dramatic emails at me as I received formerly from Spam crat. If there are others that should be in this group, please add them or let me know. Thank you! Ellin Beltz (talk) 07:52, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

User:CFBTThailand

Violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username, needs verification. Also check uploads they may need OTRS permissions. -- CptViraj (📧) 09:04, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

thank you for the concern. the permission mail has been sent to OTRS by CEO Chadchaleo Bunnag (D.D. Fire & Safety Co.,Ltd., CFBT-Thailand) CFBTThailand (talk) 01:23, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
Thanks! -- CptViraj (📧) 03:35, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Rowingasia2

Rowingasia2 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

This user is an LTA, and is currently attacking me personally at my talk page, as well as sending threats. I've already requested for global lock, but can someone please block the user here until a steward locks their account? Thank you. Ahmadtalk 15:24, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Also, if possible, please hide the content and summary of their edits. They contain "purely disruptive material". Ahmadtalk 15:25, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done by ~riley. Thanks! Ahmadtalk 16:31, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Gaga0000/Operahome socks

Somebody please block МАНУ-Македонија (talk · contribs), who is almost certainly a ban-evading sock of User:Gaga0000 (aka User:Operahome), a long-term cross-project sockpuppeter/harassment vandal. That username is also against Commons:UPOL, as it is impersonating a well-known institution ("MANU" is the en:Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, under whose name the sock has attempted to upload an image).

Also block the IP socks (most recently 37.25.86.60 (talk · contribs)) that have been edit-warring to remove maintenance tags at File:Ratko Janev.pdf (or protect that file, or delete it). Those IPs are from Operahome's well-known IP range and location. Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:03, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked MANU indefinitely and 2 IP-s for a week and deleted speedily the nominated file as having no permission. Taivo (talk) 18:20, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

File:Canadian Horseshoe Falls with city of Niagara Falls, Ontario in background.jpg

Repeated target for vandalism (namely groundless file rename requests) by block-evading LTA beginning 2020-01-02 and continuing periodically thereafter. Request semiprotection for as long as admins deem appropriate. -- Andre Carrotflower (talk) 03:59, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Google nexus

The username violates COM:UPOL as while "Use of the names of organizations is allowed on Commons", this is not a verified account. --Ìch heiss Nat ùn ìch redd e wenig Elsässisch!Talk to me in EN, FR, PL, GSW-FR(ALS). 03:15, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. In my opinion this is an acceptable name, because Google Nexus is a product and not a company. However, I warned Nexus not to upload copyvios. Taivo (talk) 10:12, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

semi protect User:EatchaBot/english

I chose to keep some words that change weight of a keywords prediction , but this page must not be edited by any vandal. I am using these text to improve EatchaBot's language detection capabilities. I could have kept them in an array on write protected servers but I would most likely encourage trusted users to add valuable English words to that page in the near future. -- Eatcha (talk) 06:00, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Please block Gzen92Bot (talk · contribs)

The bot has been approved for one task Commons:Bots/Requests/Gzen92Bot-2 with an expected edit count of 5000 max (first task was rejected, Commons:Bots/Requests/Gzen92Bot). The bot was since then used multiple times unapproved and way to fast. The bot has 5 warnings on the user page. My last one is from 16 July 2019 and read Please stop your bot and get approval for the task.. I think it is about time to block this bot for unapproved use (permanently) until a corresponding request is made. Especially these mass changes should not be performed under a bot flag and hidden on other users watchlists. I'll inform the bot on the userpage of this request. --Schlurcher (talk) 17:09, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked the bot indefinitely. Let's hope, that he requests unblock. Taivo (talk) 18:27, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
Thanks. I have Commons:Bots/Requests on my watchlist and will look out for the request there. --Schlurcher (talk) 19:03, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done Gzen92Bot requested unblock and I granted unblock. Taivo (talk) 09:45, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

User:AlisonMaupin874

Spambot--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:47, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef by Billinghurst Gbawden (talk) 11:35, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Template:United States

High-risk template, please add template-protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 13:17, 17 January 2020 (UTC

Commons:Deletion requests/Mass deletion request

Need admin help here.--Infogeek244 (talk) 21:19, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done --Didym (talk) 21:28, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

HeyItsMeYoBoyy

Lock evasion of Special:CentralAuth/Swarup_Kumar_Solanki. Kindly nuke. Minoraxtalk (formerly 大诺史) 13:39, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done thanks --Herby talk thyme 15:43, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Hoteltara19

Advert only. Minoraxtalk (formerly 大诺史) 15:28, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Contibs already deleted but now blooked - thanks --Herby talk thyme 15:45, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Please protect File:Jaime Camil in 2015.png

Suffered too much vandalism. 轻语者 (talk) 01:03, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

User:AutoMapa

Promotional username, promotional edits. See Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by AutoMapa --Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:00, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Blocked and nuked by ~riley. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 09:24, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Sagarkakadeo

Spam-only account. -- CptViraj (📧) 14:14, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Not a prolific spammer, so just warned for now. --jdx Re: 15:00, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Englishwiki0000 and User:Hindiwiki12345

Per history of this file and simplewiki CU confirmed, socking. Please nuke all contributions (i.e. File:Nitish Sahani.jpg. If possible protect from recreation. Thanks--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 14:30, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done --jdx Re: 15:28, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Ecohos

Promotional username. Ahmadtalk 22:00, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 12:36, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Alek Savic

User continues to upload copyvio images after two warnings. --A1Cafel (talk) 03:01, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him for a week. Taivo (talk) 09:21, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

InklingGirl error/コロコロコミックエラー sockpuppets

Per evidence at the enwiki sockpuppet investigations page. The user has also been illegitimately using sockpuppets here as well (see history of User:InklingPro X, categories Pro Users and Error Scanning Users, and general disruptive editing - such as [1] [2]).

Please block all of the listed accounts indefinitely. Note that "InklingGirl error" is not registered here on Commons and cannot be blocked. theinstantmatrix (talk) 07:45, 23 January 2020 (UTC) edited 08:33, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked and tagged them and created a sockpuppet category. Taivo (talk) 09:45, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Block 轻语者 (talk · contribs)

Uploading unfree files after warning. Juan90264 (talk) 04:07, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

The account Juan90264 was blocked, not your account. --Fæ (talk) 15:26, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

protect File:MediaWiki administrator.svg

There is frequent vandalism on File:MediaWiki administrator.svg --GPSLeo (talk) 16:00, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Unlock Vietnamese Wikipedia Logos

Please allow 2 files below:

The Wikipedia logo system has been defined in the Wikimedia server system, no longer using the Commons logo, so completely blocking this page is unnecessary and redundant. Please allow unlock to allow users to edit files above. Thienhau2003 (talk) 16:24, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Nobody is against, so I lowered protection level to semi-protection. Taivo (talk) 10:43, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Jam Bait

Violating COM:UPOL as a promotional username, account needs verification. -- CptViraj (📧) 14:12, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

 Comment Uploads are deleted, except one simple logo, which is used in ru.wiki in article, which is nominated for deletion due to non-notability. Taivo (talk) 09:31, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Report

2409:4072:6385:A6D5:EFEA:15FE:94A8:502D 14:58, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Yasproject

Yasproject (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

LTA (مهیار مهرنیا/ArmanAfifeh) sock, already blocked indefinitely on Persian Wikipedia. I have made a global lock request at Meta, but we are still waiting for stewards to take action, and the user is active on Commons. I can provide evidence privately via e-mail if needed. Thank you. Ahmadtalk 21:26, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

@Magog the Ogre: GMGtalk 15:06, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done by ~riley, thanks! Ahmadtalk 12:08, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
On a side note, user is currently blocked on English Wikipedia based on CheckUser evidence. Ahmadtalk 12:13, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

File:"The Minuteman" by French.jpg

As per Commons:Deletion requests/File:"The Minuteman" by French.jpg, the statue inside the file regarding is of course in US public domain. However, as the file is in chain protection, may an administrator help to remove the delete template in the file? Many thanks.廣九直通車 (talk) 08:47, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 09:38, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Pakelectricalservice

Promotional username, promotional edits, crosswiki spam.--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:41, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked indef. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 10:55, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

File:Forms of government.svg

Can this item, File:Forms of government.svg be unprotected? The map is no longer up to date; last updated 2014. Louisiana22 (talk) 11:10, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

That's not true, during last year the file was updated 13 times. Taivo (talk) 12:14, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

FORCEAIRDZ

Hi FORCEAIRDZ for the sixth time, he continued to upload file with false free licence. --Panam2014 (talk) 19:58, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

  • Blocked for one week. Ideally we would give explicit warning for this here on Commons, but it also looks like the user has gotten multiple warnings about these same images on fr.wiki, all of which they've apparently ignored. GMGtalk 20:17, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

protect Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore and translations

There is many vandalism by IP users at the translations of Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore. Especial the ID version, but not only. --GPSLeo (talk) 18:12, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

 Not done Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like this was already protected a few days ago by User:Tulsi Bhagat. GMGtalk 19:23, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Only the English main page is protected the translations are not. --GPSLeo (talk) 19:34, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Ah I see. My apologies. Well, I'm confused. It won't let do anything directly to the translated pages. I don't understand. COM:TA doesn't say anything about protection. GMGtalk 20:50, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
I'm not that familiar with translations, but I think (and I think I've read it somewhere) protecting translations is not like the normal protection process. Translations are not in fact one single page, but a series of translation "unit"s. Any update on units will automatically be applied on the main translation page. So, the only protection method I can think of is cascading protection, but that's problematic as well, because it doesn't protect uncreated pages/units from being created. There is, of course, another way as well: adding the title to the title blacklist. That being said, I'm not sure if this is the right method to do it. In addition, I don't know if the translation extension is designed to work with such protection methods. I don't know if it will show a proper error when the user is not autoconfirmed, or if it just shows something like "an error occurred". Ahmadtalk 20:59, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Well, my understanding is that cascading semi-protection is hard disabled. The button is there, but you can't click it. Given that per COM:TA, only admin+translation admin can delete translation pages, I'm betting that only they can protect them too, and we just haven't added that bit to the existing guidance. But I'm not sure who we could ping that currently holds both flags. GMGtalk 22:35, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Nope. That's not it either. I'd very much like someone to come along and explain how this is supposed to work. It's probably something obvious and I'm not not tech savvy at all. GMGtalk 22:44, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Maybe @Ymblanter: knows. They're also a sysop on Wikidata, which also uses translation. GMGtalk 22:46, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
No, I do not know, sorry. I think Tulsi Bhagat below is right.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:18, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Well, protecting translations in an easy way has always been pain in the ass. I couldn't find a word about it in the documentation, probably even creators of Translate extension don't know how to do it. Anyway, as a quick fix I just have created rule #229 for AbuseFilter. As you can see, for now it works for Indonesian, but can be easily extended to other languages or other Wiki Loves contests. Feel free to modify the rule (if you're an admin) or propose changes. I didn't bother myself with a proper message for anonymous users (default is used) because I think it's just waste of time. --jdx Re: 01:48, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Guys, It is possible to protect individual translation unit pages, though it is not advisable. Also, to prevent further edits to translations, we should add the source language as only priority language and disable translations to other languages. See mw:Help:Extension:Translate/Page translation administration. At this point, IMO we can only do is revert and block IP. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 05:49, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Yeah, it's possible to protect individual translations of each translation unit (TU), but it's painful, softly speaking. I don't think anyone finds protecting (for a given language) e.g. 30 translated units a nice job. And every TU may be translated to many languages and these translations may be and often are vandalized. Just pain… Anyway, in about 3 hours since it started the AF has rejected three attempts to vandalize Indonesian translation – see the log. --jdx Re: 07:37, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Gunamurugesan

User:Gunamurugesan has continued to upload copyright violations. -Whpq (talk) 22:26, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done I have given the user a final warning. Next time we can block Gbawden (talk) 11:46, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Djdarki

Djdarki (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

Self promotion, and continuous upload of out of scope images after warning and a block. Masum Reza📞 14:27, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. I blocked him/her for 3 months (second block). All uploads are deleted. Taivo (talk) 14:59, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

protect File:Democratic Party presidential primaries results, 2020.svg

Edit war by new registered users on File:Democratic Party presidential primaries results, 2020.svg --GPSLeo (talk) 20:45, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done I just went ahead and upload protected it to autoconfirmed users only right through the nominating convention in July. I doubt any shorter protection is going to be useful. --Majora (talk) 23:02, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Protection request

Please protect these heavily used templates:

that only admins and template editors can edit them. Thanx -- sarang♥사랑 08:24, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Strange to see, that Commons has more than 15 000 invalid SVG files. Taivo (talk) 08:39, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: The W3C-invalidity means only that an SVG file does not comply properly to W3C-estimated formal restrictions, as defining an ID starting with a number, or containing an illegal space. W3C-invalid SVG files are not always bad, it is more a categorization property than a classification; but Commons has also a lot of really bad files... -- sarang♥사랑 08:53, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Promotional account User:VeteransCouncil

Per en, promotional username account, I don't know what the last edit is, but rest seems to be promoting their organisation. A soft block?--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:21, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Username blocked; soft block. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 12:07, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

User:SEKHEMX

User:SEKHEMX is a sockpuppet account of User:NEGUS1010. This new account just uploaded File:Cohee.jpg claiming it is a free image from flickr with no actual flickr link. This same image was uploaded to the English Wikipedia under the English Wikipedia account NEGUS1010. See this message on the English wikipedia wher I posted a warning about fair use being not valid for that image. The image was deleted as replaceable fair use on the English Wikipedia (see this where the time stamp is 00:03, 9 February 2020. Shortly after the same image was uploaded to Commons as File:Cohee.jpg (timestamp 00:44, 9 February 2020). Please block for sockpuppetry and continued copyright violation under this sock account. -- Whpq (talk) 01:16, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Both are now blocked indefinitely, upload is nominated for speedy deletion. Taivo (talk) 08:10, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: This is now turned into an cross-wiki issue. Maybe you should file both accounts on SRG to consider the globally lock both users for the cross-wiki abuse. 2600:6C4E:580:A:2CD7:FF26:B5F7:824 08:15, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
I do not see evidence of going cross-wiki, so at moment I do not request anything. Taivo (talk) 11:42, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

User:El Kharisma Kasilembo

Just for the record, I've blocked this User with a long history of Copyviolations now indefinite after beginning again uploading copyvios. -- Marcus Cyron (talk) 15:03, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

 Agree Good block. I'm going to delete copyvios. Taivo (talk) 08:45, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Ivissonfigure8

This user, Ivissonfigure8 (talk · contribs), keeps taking images from somewhere else in the internet and uploading here. They were already warned at least two times (including in his native language) and they keep doing it. I think there's not another option, but block them.--SirEdimon (talk) 04:31, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

I left them a last warning. Ahmadtalk 08:56, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Block for User:Diamond Plastic Co Pvt Ltd

Promotional username, crosswiki spam, nuke please too. Thanks--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 06:38, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

@Fitindia: There is a request that you already filed here on SRG, once the steward will take a look on the spammer and it will be locked globally for spamming. 2600:6C4E:580:A:2CD7:FF26:B5F7:824 08:10, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

protect File:Xiao_Zhan_-_Big_Show_1.jpg

en：User:Linhmtt 、User:Dadadr and User:Linhmy95 upload files from unknown sources，and replace verified image, please protect File:Xiao_Zhan_-_Big_Show_1.jpg, See file history for details,thank you.

zh：User:Linhmtt 、User:Dadadr and User:Linhmy95 多次上传未知来源的图像文件，来替换掉已经过验证的图片，请保护图片 Xiao_Zhan_-_Big_Show_1.jpg 更多请详见文件历史，谢谢。

--Air7538 (talk) 15:26, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

File:Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg

Highly used file, please add protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 01:58, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Request to protect File:蔡英文官方元首肖像照.png

Please protect File:蔡英文官方元首肖像照.png from disruptive captions being added. --Wcam (talk) 14:09, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Block for User:Mucusslide544 Backup

Not here to contribute, LTA blocked at simple.--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 18:25, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done And also here. Rodhullandemu (talk) 19:25, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

protect Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore and translations

There is many vandalism by IP users at the translations of Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore. Especial the ID version, but not only. --GPSLeo (talk) 18:12, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

 Not done Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like this was already protected a few days ago by User:Tulsi Bhagat. GMGtalk 19:23, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Only the English main page is protected the translations are not. --GPSLeo (talk) 19:34, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Ah I see. My apologies. Well, I'm confused. It won't let do anything directly to the translated pages. I don't understand. COM:TA doesn't say anything about protection. GMGtalk 20:50, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
I'm not that familiar with translations, but I think (and I think I've read it somewhere) protecting translations is not like the normal protection process. Translations are not in fact one single page, but a series of translation "unit"s. Any update on units will automatically be applied on the main translation page. So, the only protection method I can think of is cascading protection, but that's problematic as well, because it doesn't protect uncreated pages/units from being created. There is, of course, another way as well: adding the title to the title blacklist. That being said, I'm not sure if this is the right method to do it. In addition, I don't know if the translation extension is designed to work with such protection methods. I don't know if it will show a proper error when the user is not autoconfirmed, or if it just shows something like "an error occurred". Ahmadtalk 20:59, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Well, my understanding is that cascading semi-protection is hard disabled. The button is there, but you can't click it. Given that per COM:TA, only admin+translation admin can delete translation pages, I'm betting that only they can protect them too, and we just haven't added that bit to the existing guidance. But I'm not sure who we could ping that currently holds both flags. GMGtalk 22:35, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Nope. That's not it either. I'd very much like someone to come along and explain how this is supposed to work. It's probably something obvious and I'm not not tech savvy at all. GMGtalk 22:44, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Maybe @Ymblanter: knows. They're also a sysop on Wikidata, which also uses translation. GMGtalk 22:46, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
No, I do not know, sorry. I think Tulsi Bhagat below is right.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:18, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Well, protecting translations in an easy way has always been pain in the ass. I couldn't find a word about it in the documentation, probably even creators of Translate extension don't know how to do it. Anyway, as a quick fix I just have created rule #229 for AbuseFilter. As you can see, for now it works for Indonesian, but can be easily extended to other languages or other Wiki Loves contests. Feel free to modify the rule (if you're an admin) or propose changes. I didn't bother myself with a proper message for anonymous users (default is used) because I think it's just waste of time. --jdx Re: 01:48, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Guys, It is possible to protect individual translation unit pages, though it is not advisable. Also, to prevent further edits to translations, we should add the source language as only priority language and disable translations to other languages. See mw:Help:Extension:Translate/Page translation administration. At this point, IMO we can only do is revert and block IP. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 05:49, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Yeah, it's possible to protect individual translations of each translation unit (TU), but it's painful, softly speaking. I don't think anyone finds protecting (for a given language) e.g. 30 translated units a nice job. And every TU may be translated to many languages and these translations may be and often are vandalized. Just pain… Anyway, in about 3 hours since it started the AF has rejected three attempts to vandalize Indonesian translation – see the log. --jdx Re: 07:37, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

I'm reopening this thread as it is necessary. The problem increased to 200+ vandalistic edits per week. It looks like a botnet attack, some IPs (I did block) are confirmed by Spamhaus' CBL to be botnet IPs. Filtered recent changes show what's going on. Page creations are no problem as they are blocked anyway by filter 105. jdx' filter 229 is working very well, so I suggest to extend it for all languages (=subpages) until the game is over. --Achim (talk) 14:49, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for reopening the thread. I agree that we should extend it to other languages. In my opinion, the rate of vandalism is too high, and the rate of good edits is too low. Ahmadtalk 14:55, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Hehe, I was just about to do it myself, but it's nice that there is some support. Anyway, it's done. Although please note that only translations of the main page are protected. Let me know if the regexp should be modified to match other (sub)pages: Rules, FAQ, International Team, etc. I haven't watched their translations, but I bet that they are also heavily vandalized. --jdx Re: 16:05, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Is working fine, thanks to jdx. --Achim (talk) 08:45, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

BTW, I have done a quick research and, strangely, translations of pages other than main were anonymously edited only 3 times (!!!), one edit was constructive. At the same time translations of the main page were edited 528 times, AFAIR 2 or 3 of them were constructive. --jdx Re: 11:22, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Please protect custom user license

I noticed that a user uses a personal license page without substitution (User:JarrahTree/K200). Worst of all, I was able to edit without restrictions. I understand that personal license pages are generally depreciated, and if done the template has to be permanently protected. Could an admin please permanently protect this page? I informed the user on the talk page about this request. Thanks --Schlurcher (talk) 14:53, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I semi-protected the page. In my opinion nothing more is needed. Taivo (talk) 10:32, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protection for File:Soccer Field Transparant.svg

I request a semi-protection for File:Soccer Field Transparant.svg, which seems to be a common target for vandalism by unregistered users. --Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 11:53, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Only auto confirmed can edit Gbawden (talk) 16:51, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

some special treatment required

I'm off now, could someone clear this case of defamation please?

--Achim (talk) 15:13, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Unfortunately captions like "SWINDLER" are not in the wikitext. To date, there are no systems to track vandalism like this, so it is wide open for abuse. It has been discussed several times on the Village Pump. --Fæ (talk) 15:27, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
I've been in a hurry.

✓ Done by stewards along with blocking some other socks. --Achim (talk) 18:59, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked the swindler also indefinitely due to inappropriate username. Taivo (talk) 09:56, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Block for user:Дарья Маршалова

user:Дарья Маршалова - uploads copyvio; warning ignored. 94.25.229.150 11:53, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. After warnings copyvios have stopped. All uploads are nominated for speedy deletion. Taivo (talk) 07:12, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

File:Wikidata-rollbacker.svg

High-risk file, please add protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 14:06, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Block for 彰師大物理實驗室

This user is importing screenshots and other material of copyrighted sources, most of it deleted for Copyvio. He/she has been notified many times about it but keep importing. Therefore he/she should be blocked for an extented period.

Pierre cb (talk) 13:35, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

File:Anonymous emblem.svg

Highly used file, please add protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 00:41, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Block User:Vontixy

Vontixy (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  - uploads copyvios after the final warning. --Wcam (talk) 04:21, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Block and delete files of User:Pustahyja

Pustahyja (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  - another sockpuppet of Yahadzija. Re-uploads previously deleted photos. --Smooth O (talk) 17:41, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done --Majora (talk) 17:47, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
@Majora: Maybe you should go to m:SRG and consider a global lock as an globally banned user. 64.113.165.126 19:04, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Block for User:محمد_حسن_وزیری

Crosswiki vandal, out of scope creations, nuke all please. Thanks.--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 14:20, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Davey01

Davey01 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  is a single-purpose account that uploads copyrighted photographs of stadiums. Already blocked twice for doing exactly the same. Ytoyoda (talk) 19:20, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done: Blocked for 2 months, all uploads nuked. Next block will be indef. --Achim (talk) 19:58, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Spam account

Dear admins, could you please block this user for doing spamming? Thanks, ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 02:20, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. At first I warned Latifbastian. If this does not help, then he must be blocked. Taivo (talk) 08:54, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Block for User:Jitendra_bhilwada

Crosswiki spam, nuke all uploads as per out of scope + spam. Thanks--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:41, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Jianhui67 T★C 11:08, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

User:World's Lamest Critic blocked for a month for outing (again); consider indefinite ban?

Resolved

Unfortunately I found this user outing people, which they have a history of (and led to them being indefinitely banned from the English Wikipedia).

I've provisionally blocked them for a month to give themselves a chance to cool down and reflect on how their actions are disruptive and potentially harmful, but I think there is some merit in discussing a full, indefinite ban.

Thoughts?

James F. (talk) 00:42, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

 Comment I do not see evidence of outing. What happened on Gorilla Warfare's user talkpage, was not excellent, but I don't see reason for block. Taivo (talk) 08:20, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
The 2018-11-16 condition of unblock on Wikimedia Commons User_talk:World's_Lamest_Critic#Blocked was extremely clear "For all intents and purposes, what you posted was not acceptable and you did it not once but twice. Public mailing list or not that is using information posted outside this site to out someone when they have not personally stated such information here, on this project. Doing so will not be tolerated. Period. This isn't a game of connect the dots. You cannot use outside information to post personally identifiable information. I am willing to give you one more chance provided you promise that you will never do that again but that is it. If you break this promise I will reblock you indefinitely but this time it will be with talk page access revoked. " This agreement has been broken, the block can be reinstated.
Ever since the unblock they have been skirting the agreement, and they appear to have been unable to resist targeting other users. The Oversight block on the English Wikipedia was justified, and behaviour since then, along with a lack of recognition that taunting others with outing or skirting outing is not a game that they can have fun trolling others with. I would rather see a global ban being considered rather than continue to argue the pros and cons on Commons. The argument that they have "technically" not outed anyone today, is very different from creating a hostile environment by using the same tactics.
Recent examples of deliberately skirting the unblock by using real-life identities as a weapon:
  • 2020-01-07 It's time for male high school students like yourself to raise their voices and say they support sexual content on Commons? No need. It is already assumed. diff
  • 2020-01-29 Linking contributors to email list accounts to attack them on Commons using off-wiki material archive
Though the cases may not be outing, it is still using off-wiki material to hound others, create a hostile environment and close down discussion from their targets. --Fæ (talk) 09:59, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
Even before the enwiki ban it was clear that WLC knows exactly where the line is, and knows exactly how to talk their way out of sanctions; implications and dropped hints as to the identities of other editors. While I don't condone people breaking the rules (as far as socking/vandalism goes), I don't condone connecting people to their IPs or their real-life identities revealed. If WLC wants to dig dirt on people, let it be on WPO. Primefac (talk) 10:53, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

 Info: As an update, they've been globally locked by the stewards. Thank you, Green Giant James F. (talk) 20:38, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

As a note since I was the one that did the original block and set the unblock restrictions. Looking at the edit in question that resulted in this I support the reinstatement of the block. Previous incidents that were brought to my attention resulted in no action, as Primefac stated they know exactly where the line is most of the time. But that post crossed it. Per my unblock conditions the block could have been indefinite with TPA revoked but that seems a little moot now due to the lock. --Majora (talk) 21:54, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Please block Đặng Vũ Lân (talk · contribs)

Upload unfree files after warning. 轻语者 (talk) 14:22, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Protection of File:COVID-19 Outbreak World Map.svg

Request semi-protection on File:COVID-19 Outbreak World Map.svg. As it is a highly edited file, and we can see that some IP and non-autoconfirmed users often adding wrong data. --A1Cafel (talk) 14:07, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done GMGtalk 14:11, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

protect File:State-Bank-of-India-Logo.svg

Many vandalism at File:State-Bank-of-India-Logo.svg --GPSLeo (talk) 09:21, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

✓ Protected. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 09:27, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Srk2005

Not here to contribute, per enwp, uploaded nonsense logos, should be nuked. --Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 14:38, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Swastik Mridha

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:14, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

 Not done for now. Left a final warning with an explanation on how copyright works. It appears that they are trying and that they simply have a misunderstanding that I hope can be worked out without having to block them. I'll keep an eye on them in the meantime. --Majora (talk) 03:18, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Protection required for File:Iraq (orthographic projection).svg

Upload protection is needed for File:Iraq (orthographic projection).svg to stop the overwriting of the file. Bidgee (talk) 22:24, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Highly visible image. Indef sysop only upload protection. --Majora (talk) 22:28, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Please block Kgw1226 (talk · contribs)

Upload unfree files after warning. 轻语者 (talk) 10:43, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked Kgw for a week. Taivo (talk) 09:03, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Nibbotinternational10

Promotional username, promotional uploads, nuke them please. Thanks--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 19:32, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Sorted thanks --Herby talk thyme 19:43, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Please block WillyQS19 (talk · contribs)

Upload unfree files after warning. 轻语者 (talk) 04:11, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done for a month. Taivo (talk) 07:15, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: He uploaded copyrighted images began your blocking. Plese delete it if you in free :-) 轻语者 (talk) 07:18, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. I created a bulk deletion request. Taivo (talk) 12:44, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

User:LM Marketing

Implies shared use, promotional, as they uploaded Leroy Merlin related files, block and nuke thanks :)--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:15, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 10:31, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

User:MarieGlyde5

Spambot.--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 15:56, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done (by Tulsi) thanks --Herby talk thyme 16:03, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

User: Hetherkatherine

Vandalism only account, you can not milk a chicken.--Giftzwerg 88 (talk) 11:26, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Satyaagarbattistores

Uploads are blatant adverts --Ìch heiss Nat ùn ìch redd e wenig Elsässisch!Talk to me in EN, FR, PL, GSW-FR(ALS). 07:17, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

 Not done. After you warned the user, spam has stopped. If (s)he continues, then (s)he must be blocked. All contributions are deleted. Taivo (talk) 08:59, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Djwrite1969

Porn Rots61 (talk) 16:52, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him/her for a week, all uploads are nominated for deletion. Taivo (talk) 13:07, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Block for User:日本男児と大和撫子を守る会

LTA, crosswiki abuse, see SUL. Edits here on commons doesn't make sense and the category they added and created doesn't seem right.--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:19, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Globally locked sockpuppet, edits are reverted. Taivo (talk) 13:03, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

user:Кочерга

Кочерга (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  for new incorrectly licensed uploads after multiple warnings and blocks. --VLu (talk) 15:28, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:PD MacaoGov

Can any administrators un-protect re-open this deletion request, and add the files listed in Commons talk:Deletion requests/Files in Category:PD MacaoGov for deletion? These files are uploaded again after the deletion request is closed for the same reason, and somehow the request itself is protected after it is closed, thanks.廣九直通車 (talk) 02:26, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

@廣九直通車: Go ahead and do it yourself. The protection has been removed. --Majora (talk) 02:30, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks.廣九直通車 (talk) 03:09, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Unknown author

Semi-protection or Template protection. Transcluded in 4,000+ pages. George Ho (talk) 20:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Semi protected. Ahmadtalk 21:00, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Socks

User:Rahulact and User:Ambika prasad kushwaha socking. Both accounts uploaded File:Amit kumar.jpg. Vanity spammers.--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:52, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Ambika is globally locked and all his/her contributions are deleted. Rahul hasn't edited since August, so block is not needed. Taivo (talk) 08:21, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Block of User:Bidgee

Looks like the general feel is to have this over at AN rather than here. So we should probably corral discussion in one place, otherwise it will just be more difficult for uninvolved users to figure out what's going on. GMGtalk 13:10, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Here have a fine example of one admin blocking another diff, and telling that admin that they will never support the person Gnangarra 12:29, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

For the some background an image Bidgee uploaded here was used by a newspaper source from here, an IP nominated it as a CV its been restored. NOw because Bidgee is unhappy with the original action he gets blocked for it.If commons wasnt screwed before its definitely screwed up now. Gnangarra 12:32, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
“For the some background”: a) User:Bidgee is not an admin. b) I am not in conflict with this user. I've supported his undeletion request, have invited the administrator involved, blocked the account created for unreasonable nomination of the file discussed , and answered Bidgee’s question whether his file was used in Wikimedia projects. After the discussion he started on my discussion page, I asked him to be calm. c) I don't mind this block to be lifted and hidden, but I still believe at that time the actions of both him and the anonymous user required an immediate response. Sealle (talk) 12:47, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
cool off blocks never work, and should never be the reason to block a user or deny them access to their talk page. It would be better if apologise and reverse your own actions Gnangarra 12:53, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Comment moved to Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard#User:Sealle. Bidgee (talk) 13:04, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Block for User:MusicSafeDRug

Promotional username, promotional userpage. Thanks--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 08:36, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 08:44, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Block for User:Decasurger

Please block Decasurger (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  for repeatedly uploading copyvios after previously being blocked for doing the same. --Wcam (talk) 17:58, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. EugeneZelenko blocked Decasurger for 2 weeks. Taivo (talk) 07:54, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Downgrade protection request.

Request downgrade protection for coronavirus map, it is frequently updated, and is not vandalized or disruptively edited to require full protection. Request semi-protection. File: [4] Bill497 (talk) 08:43, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

@Bill497: File:COVID-19 Outbreak World Map.svg is currently cascade protected by Commons:Auto-protected files/wikipedia/en, which means the admins at English Wikipedia fully protected a page (which is the Main Page, which has always been protected) that is cascading and includes the said image. Unfortunately, you have to wait until the image is no longer in the Main Page of English Wikipedia. pandakekok9 09:08, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
@Pandakekok9: In that case is there any way to just get it off the main page? I understand that it’s there because of the relevancy of the topic, but this map also cannot afford to not be updated for a long period of time due to the extremely fast changing situation. It is already outdated significantly after only a few hours. --Ratherous (talk) 09:16, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
@Ratherous: We could ask Krinkle to add an exception to KrinkleBot for File:COVID-19 Outbreak World Map.svg. I don't know if they will agree though. pandakekok9 09:21, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
@Pandakekok9: Maybe the main page can replace the main map with the temporary map made by Bill497. --Ratherous (talk) 09:23, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
That's plausible. pandakekok9 09:24, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
@Bill497 and Ratherous: I started a request at enwiki's VP/misc. I don't know though if it was the right venue (I'm not a regular there). pandakekok9 09:34, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Okay thanks for your help! Hopefully they'll agree to change the map. --Ratherous (talk) 09:36, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
@Bill497 and Ratherous: Hurrah! pandakekok9 10:52, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
@Pandakekok9: Thank you! --Ratherous (talk) 11:49, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Kerber Arts & Services

Promotional only account.--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:39, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 16:41, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

EatchaBot

Not sure where to discuss this, but User:EatchaBot is currently archiving Flickr-pages, which seems to me a total waste of energy and supplies. Sources of Flickr-images on Commons have been verified, so why should Commons archive it even elsewhere? The bot-owner, User:Eatcha, appears to be on a long holiday, that's why I came here to request the bot being stopped immediately. I want to add that while the bot is busy, it seems totally impossible to archive any other page on Archive.org, Eatchabot seems to usurp all capacity.

In a site note, I like to also mention that it is not the first time these days that archive.org is connected to some of my worries, especially connected to users who get paid by archive.org, but I have no idea whether Eatchabot is performing paid actions. Eissink (talk) 15:50, 15 March 2020 (UTC).

You may find Commons:Help_desk#Sleepy_bot? useful. All your assumptions are false, I don't get paid by IA but there's a consensus to archive links (find that yourself) and "Eatchabot seems to usurp all capacity." Of what ? Your IP has a different quota than mine. //Eatcha (talk) 16:33, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your answer, but why are you archiving sources of files like this, that was uploaded ánd reviewed in January? Eissink (talk) 17:24, 15 March 2020 (UTC).
This might sound weird but I am trying to add the archive parameter to all files in Category:Flickr images reviewed by FlickreviewR 2, I can add links to latest files first but if older links are still alive, it makes sense to save them first. The files generator is returning files in alphabetical order. // Eatcha (talk) 18:08, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
If the only reason to add parameters is that FlickrReview is not completely up to date, then why don't you use your bot to make FlickrReviews? I guess it is all coincidence, but I don't really get it and to me it doesn't make a lot of sense, but I guess it now has the attention of others too, so I'll leave it here. Good luck. Eissink (talk) 20:01, 15 March 2020 (UTC).
Proposal to run a bot to archive every external link using the Internet Archive on Wikimedia Commons, passed with 23 supports and 0 oppose. // Eatcha (talk) 03:18, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the link. Maybe Bots should mention this kind of proposals and/or other, relevant constituting surveys in the edit summary by default, to prevent discussions like these. And maybe you should also not state on your Talk page that you are away for the next few months, because I would have asked you on your Talk page and not find another way to express my concerns. Thanks. Eissink (talk) 12:26, 16 March 2020 (UTC).
The message about wikibreak, I accept it's confusing I usually add such templates 1-2 weeks before leaving, but there's a reason : It's easy to take a brake if you don't get daily messages which are often bug/feature requests. I also added a big line on bot's user-page about the same, the summaries are already pretty big. Eatcha (talk) 14:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks. And that's it, as far as I'm concerned. Thanks, Eissink (talk) 16:42, 16 March 2020 (UTC).
Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --Eatcha (talk) 17:01, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Lidia-pan

Please block Lidia-pan (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  for uploading multiple copyvio images regardless of the final warning. --Wcam (talk) 11:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked Lidia for a week. Her uploads are mostly deleted, some are nominated for deletion. Taivo (talk) 08:10, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi protection for File:BMW.svg

Reason: IP user vandalism. --SCP-2000 16:26, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Clustermarket

Only contribution is to upload File:Clustermarket logo.png. Promotional username. --Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 19:36, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done - Inappropriate username, soft-blocked. Thanks for reporting. Ahmadtalk 20:33, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Killarnee

Please protect so that this page can only be created by administrators. --Killarnee (T•1•2) 12:24, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done GMGtalk 12:32, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

File:COVID-19 Outbreak Cases in India.svg

High-risk file, please add semi-protection. -- CptViraj (📧) 14:54, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Reuploading requires autoconfirmed status except overwriting own uploads. Then upload semi-protection is not necessary. – Kwj2772 (talk) 07:13, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Jason Uyeda-Faust

User is persistently reuploading the same copyvio file (File:For Lack of a Better Album Title.jpg) despite multiple warnings. JalenFolf (talk) 08:17, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for 2 weeks. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 08:21, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Affanso Lloyd Anglin

Affanso Lloyd Anglin (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  Keeps (re)uploading unfree (e.g. Getty Images) and out of scope photos. XenonX3 (talk) 09:24, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

+vandalism. XenonX3 (talk) 09:25, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked for 3 months. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk) 09:31, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

User:NarbutasA

Please block NarbutasA (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  for uploading copyvios after the final warning. --Wcam (talk) 12:24, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked for 2 weeks. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat [ talk ] 12:58, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

File:Provincia di Napoli-Stemma.png

Is it possible to unlock File:Provincia di Napoli-Stemma.png? The edit war was stopped more than 6 yeass ago.

The category “Coats of arms of provinces of Italy” should be removed since it's been added “Coats of arms of the province of Naples”. --Gambo7 (talk) 22:00, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Hopefully there will not be any issues. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:40, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

WelcometoJurassicPark sock

This is an obvious sock puppet of WelcometoJurassicPark (talk · contribs). See this sock puppet case and File:BurjKhalifaHeight.png. Also, for what it's worth, this. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 12:42, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

 ping @Magog the Ogre: MorganKevinJ(talk) 01:23, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. I blocked Rhincodon indefinitely. Taivo (talk) 09:01, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Eissink

NO ACTION NEEDED:

@Pechristener and Eissink: please continue to maintain the civil tone you have both been using since this request was posted. In this environment (online versus face-to-face), sometimes it is more difficult to work with others because we don’t have the additional cues that help us. In these strained times (corona lockdowns) it is even more difficult than normal. Let’s concentrate on improving Commons and Wikimedia in general. Cheers. -Green Giant (talk) 11:28, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

(moved from Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems, did not know first, where to place it.--Pechristener (talk) 19:56, 25 March 2020 (UTC))

Request: please block user for Harassment and Personal Attack I removed most of his edits on my discussion page already, but they are still visible in the history.--Pechristener (talk) 19:56, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Eissink is harassing me on my discussion page here and here. He is blaming my work and has a very rude language. Was aready blocked before. What I have to do? -Pechristener (talk) 19:01, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

I was never blocked before on Commons, so there's your first wrong. I was merely trying to make this User understand that a map without legend is worthless. When I saw that others too had asked for legend to his maps ánd I found that his maps do not reflect reality, I started wondering if he was perhaps trolling everybody. I might have gone a bit strong on language, but I can only say that Pechristener's answers are far from satisfying: here's someone who thinks he can make maps on an important topic, yet he or she cannot even tell what we are looking at, that is: what are the numbers corresponding to the colors etc. If anything, I think the work of Pechristener, at least the current Covid-19-maps, should all be deleted, because in my opinion they are not only worthless, but as I have tried to make clear on User's Talk page also, they are not reliable. I apologize for words too strong or maybe for escalating too fast, but I think my track record on Commons reflects my contribution to reliability of the image base and I don't think I'm wrong here. Eissink (talk) 19:12, 25 March 2020 (UTC).
Ok, now you start your harass me also here and start and continue with your insults and allegations.--Pechristener (talk) 19:21, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Please stop acting so offended and indignant. It's the content of your maps that is the problem, not I. Apparently you are of the opinion that I don't have the right to defend myself from your proposterous accusations, but that is not how things work. You sound as if you have never ever heard a critical word before. Eissink (talk) 19:30, 25 March 2020 (UTC).
Pechristener makes nice two dimensional maps of railway tracks and the like, but handling large scale statistics might be beyond user's reach. Pechristener might not like that truth, but trying to get another convicted for handing the truth over, is symptomatic for the amount of denial that I met. I don't know how I should have brought the message in another way, and no one else did. If you make a map that reflects the same death rate in Spain and the Netherlands, while the former is over three times higher and you cannot tell what is the legend of the map, than you shouldn't create those kind of maps for Commons. Period. Please don't blame the messager. Eissink (talk) 19:27, 25 March 2020 (UTC).
Blaming continues including the claim that I did not know the index. No improvement of the behavior of Eissink visible. I have deleted all insults from Eissink on my discussion page.--Pechristener (talk) 19:32, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
I have asked you for the numbers and you could not give them. It's not the first time that people start chasing me when they don't like the content of my words, yet blame it on my style. It's so tiresome. If you can't tell what the scale of your troublesome looking map is, than please stop making maps for Commons, but don't blame me for telling you that. Eissink (talk) 19:37, 25 March 2020 (UTC).
  1. regarding the numbers: Can't remember that you ask me for the numbers. If you want to have them, then please read the description of my files, there you can find the source. btw: I checked the description file of one of your maps. It is very poor.
  2. Yes, I see, that your words and your behavior is not welcome on Wikipedia. This is also the reason you are blocked in wikipedia.nl
  3. Administrators: Please block Eissink for personal attack also on Commons. He is already permanently blocked on the wikipedia.nl for the same issue. More the twenty entries in the Blocking Log and now permanently blocked.--Pechristener (talk) 19:46, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
If I didn't ask, then why did you answer: "The colors are automatically generated by QGIS base on a table with number of inhabitants and number of death. So nothing wrong with that. I only have to extract a reasonable legend out of this." If you fail to see that the coloring already is the reasonable legend, be it that you don't know what numbers they stand for, than I think my point is clear: you don't know what you are doing, you are coloring and you don't even know what numbers you are coloring, meanwhile have a scale that levels the death rate of the Netherlands to that of Spain and Italy. And your assumption that I cannot make maps while I have made many maps in recent days, as anyone can see and which is one of the reason for my interest in yours, is quite telling also. I want to ask you to let go of your claim, and I certainly want to ask you to stop pretending you know even the slightest of the reason for me being blocked on NLwiki, because you don't know anything about it and it doesn't play a roll in any of this. Why should I be trialed here by you again on a case of which you are totally ignorant? Is this how you think things should work? And btw, I am not even permanently blocked, but indefinite; I find it sad to see someone talk with all confidence in the world, while speaking untruth after untruth. Eissink (talk) 20:03, 25 March 2020 (UTC).
It's good that you continue blaming me here, then the admins don't have to read further. For sure, I see for what you are blocked, everybody can see that. Seems, that you didn't change your behavior. I still not see where your many maps are in you upload page, there are only a few Netherlands maps beside of some pictures.--Pechristener (talk) 22:01, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
I'm not blaming, I'm saying that your maps without legend, that you have been making for days, are of no use, and I perceive that you don't see what's wrong with them. I will not give you a pat on the shoulder for a map that is useless, I just tell you that your maps are useless, besides probably being incorrect, at least the last one (but who can check and verify if one doesn't know the distribution scale?). You may find telling the truth rude, but that should not be my problem. I apologized for too strong words, if they can be found, and one could argue that I should have taken a different approach, which might have been better, but it's always easy to say from a neutral position and given your response I doubt whether someone would have gotten you so far as to make a legend, I really doubt it, because you still don't seem to get it. I made eight maps the last couple of days, I'm sorry if you are not able to find them. Eissink (talk) 22:30, 25 March 2020 (UTC).

That my maps are of no use is your POV. People would not have integrated them in articles, if they had been useless. For sure, I would have made legends for the maps, maybe even some hours earlier, but I was for a long time distracted by your rude discussion style and blaming. Your eight maps is definitely not much work compared what I did for Wikipedia. --Pechristener (talk) 00:41, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

The difference between the first and your last version of this map is huge. If I would not have reprimanded you, I think we would still have the first unreliable and really unreadable map. Thank you for the last one; I'm not going to check if the data is correct, but it looks good, quite contrary to the earlier one. I'm glad you were able to do this. Eissink (talk) 09:33, 26 March 2020 (UTC).

You still not got it. I do not offend, when you write about my map, but your language was absolutely inappropriate and was personal attack of the rudest kind. The first maps are not wrong as you always try to state, but the color scale was according to the rank of the infection, so each country had a different color scale according to it's rank and not a color according to the quantity of infected people. I changed now the concept, so it is easier to understand. I still have the feeling that your communication style is to be as rude as possible to have the people doing what you want, but this is not the concept of Wikipedia, even you try to explain me that the real world is like this.--Pechristener (talk) 11:28, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

I hope we can end this conversation. I do not wish to be blocked and I don't see a reason for it. Please let it go. Eissink (talk) 12:27, 26 March 2020 (UTC).

Currently, your behaviour is ok, yerstday, it was not. If you can stick to this behaviour, then it is ok, when your not get blocked. ... but I will keep an eye on it, also how you communicate with other users.--Pechristener (talk) 12:56, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

File:Ambigram of the word ambigram - rotation animation.gif

Regularly vandalized by anonymous users. So, it would be nice if only confirmed users were allowed to modify it -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:35, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done It's not particularly intense, but it is persistent as heck, and on a widely used file where the only constructive IP edits are the ones reverting the vandalism. GMGtalk 14:03, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks -- Basile Morin (talk) 15:22, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Constant vandalism on File:Google Classroom Logo.png

Constant vandalism by IP-users. - Richardkiwi (talk) (talk) 13:15, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done: Semiprotected for 1 month. --Achim (talk) 13:29, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Block for YASSER_ARAFAT_TACKIE (talk · contribs)

Vanity spammer. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 15:09, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Already globally locked. --Túrelio (talk) 15:21, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

User talk:Alexis Jazz

This is the talk page of an indef'd user whose talk page access has been removed. In additon, the talk page was fully protected by Magog the Ogre. I suggest to remove the talk page protection as it is standard practice for indef'd users such that deletion request notices etc. can be posted without restrictions. As I do not want to reverse admin actions single-handedly, I am asking for comments at this board. --AFBorchert (talk) 10:24, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

I support the removal of protection on their talk page. Other users should be allowed to post notices which they may be interested in (like DRs and CfDs), and there are probably some users who wish to be able to thank them for their contributions. pandakekok9 10:55, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
  •  Support Ordinary users should be able to notify Alexis Jazz of the deletion requests and Alexis Jazz's userpage watchers may respond to these requests, just as Alexis Jazz used to do the same for User:Chyah/User:Rafic.Mufid out of sheer kindness. Now it's time for some of us to return their kindness. Furthermore, some users may want to thank them for their over half a million contributions to this project: en:Special:Permalink/948121876#A_barnstar_for_you!_4. 4nn1l2 (talk) 11:00, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
  •  Support Making talk pages like this sysop-only is a critical obstacle for simple maintenance and is a sysop action that adds zero value. @Magog the Ogre: --Fæ (talk) 11:50, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
  •  Support - On one hand it stops the drama and escalation but on the other as pointed out above it does indeed stop notices, I still 110% support unblocking Alexis without a doubt .... however inregards to TP access I still have to support that purely on the basis that this block to my knowledge cannot be overturned and so therefore restoring talkpage access to a CU-blocked editor would be pointless and would simply lead to it being revoked again I assume(/presume?),
As I said a few days I want Alexis unblocked, Zhuyifei1999 and Majora both to un-resign and for everything to go back the way it was. –Davey2010Talk 11:52, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Note that locking down the talk page as sysop edits only affects everyone, effectively punishing everyone who is not a sysop. This is entirely separate from whether a blocked user is allowed to edit their own talk page. --Fæ (talk) 12:02, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Yes I'm well aware of the difference between talkpage protection and talkpage revocation ..... To clarify I support the protection being removed however I oppose AJ having talkpage access ...... –Davey2010Talk 14:26, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Clear consensus. --A.Savin 17:30, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Rotation of .gif by SteinsplitterBot

I don't think that this rotation is in the intention of the original author. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Expansion_of_the_universe,_proper_distances_(Animation).gif Please take care of this. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2A02:1205:5013:AF0:7D1F:706C:F684:A105 (talk) 06:41, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Reverted to previous version. pandakekok9 06:47, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Block for User:シャシャリデール

Please block シャシャリデール (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  for uploading copyvios constantly. His latest post seems to be cutting from Youtube ([5]), but he do not say anything in his home wp ([6])--Fusianasan1350 (talk) 08:18, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I warned the user. At moment that's enough. Taivo (talk) 08:47, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks--Fusianasan1350 (talk) 12:17, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Again disruptive uploading

This user, User talk:GdML continues with Uploading unfree files after warnings. Can you please-again- bloc this user? thank you, take care.--Carolus (talk) 08:16, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done I explained (in French as it seems to be their country of origin) what is wrong, and why uploading unfree files is a disruptive behaviour. Let's hope that in one month the contributions will not need a new block. --Ruthven (msg) 08:25, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Account marked as a bot

Hi there,

I'm not totally sure if I'm doing this help request correctly, but I entered the Wiki Loves Africa photo contest and my account was labeled as a bot? It's possible the mistake was made because I use a VPN.

If I can have this restriction lifted, I would appreciate it. I feel I should still be eligible for the photo contest.

Please reach out to me if you have any questions. Thanks! Gsalamander (talk) 23:55, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Your account has not bot rights and you are not accused in your talkpage for being bot or anything else. But you made more than 100 edits with less than 10 minutes and this is really suspicious. Taivo (talk) 08:19, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: They aren't autoconfirmed so they likely were CAPTCHAs, which ask you to prove your human (hence the bot comment), due to the rate they were editing at. Granted confirmed for a 2 day period until become autoconfirmed. ~riley (talk) 06:48, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Protection request

Please disable editing from non Autoconfirmed users. -- Eatcha (talk) 05:21, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Srguss

Srguss (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  has been uploading grossly insulting files and then using them in a Wikipedia article over and over; in esWP this user it's a sockpoppet of Gardenal Gasponte, indefinitely blocked by to vandalize the same article. Please verify. Thanks. --Ganímedes (talk) 12:02, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him indefinitely. Taivo (talk) 12:46, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, Taivo, can you please also delete the files? --Ganímedes (talk) 14:12, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. All deleted due to various reasons. Taivo (talk) 15:16, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Kagulajp

Everything the user uploads is copyright violation. --A1Cafel (talk) 14:20, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I warned the user. All uploads are deleted. Taivo (talk) 15:20, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Coelacanth1012

Xwiki spam. As meta sysop, I can see the deleted meta userpage states the user is spamming about "Coelacanth Gifts founding by Thomas W Lai and Moon Yee Yee. " and etc. The uploads here are stating that these are logos designed by Thomas Lai and etc. Nuke and block per en, meta please. Thanks.Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 19:34, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Is globally locked after this report by a steward, but a nuke will be appreciated :).Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 19:44, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 Not done. You created Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Coelacanth1012 and this was right decision. Regular deletion request will be closed after week or more time. The user is globally locked and we can allow one week for discussion. Taivo (talk) 09:38, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Noted, will keep to DRs the next time. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:04, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

User:ANGELSAMMAELHERNANDEZ

User uploads copyvio images after final warnings. --A1Cafel (talk) 03:54, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. due to large number of copyvios I blocked him for a month. Last remaining uploads are nominated for deletion. Taivo (talk) 08:27, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Possible socking

User:BigBenfan2020 on his meta userpage admitted this IP is his IP. The IP created a LTA userpage. I am seeing a link between the 2 accounts. I think they can be ducked. Thanks.--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:03, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

@Achim55: Might want to take a look. Thanks. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:05, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
User:BigBenfan2020 is made by people like you one more. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:24, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

User:BioSCGoldJakarta

Spam. Crosswiki. See idwpCamouflaged Mirage (talk) 11:27, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked & nuked, User:BioSCGoldJakarta = User:Ambakawa. --Achim (talk) 11:41, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

ALSalehBond

ALSalehBond (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

Semi-protection request for FfD and file

Requesting indefinite semi-protection for Commons:Deletion requests/File:LGBT rights rally during the Pohela Boishakh in Dhaka (2015).jpg and File:LGBT rights rally during the Pohela Boishakh in Dhaka (2015).jpg due to that file being persistently targeted for vandalism (slurs) by a homophobe over the last few months. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 04:56, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Template:Topic by country/layout

Requesting {{Protected template}} for:

This template is used on more than 2000 pages and is a relatively complex template. Recently an editor has tried to make major changes to all aspects of the template and been unwilling to stop despite it breaking the template implementation on several of the pages it is used on. I think the user has some good ideas, but they need to be individually discussed so they can be implemented in a way that does not adversely affect pages using the template. I have tried to encourage them towards discussion first, but their disruptive edits have not ceased. I am trying to assume good faith on their part so I don't want to make this about them, just want to put a protection on the template to give time for reasoned discussion on proposed changes to happen before making changes that affect 2000+ pages. Josh (talk) 14:12, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Withdrawn request ({{Protected template}} is deprecated) Josh (talk) 05:34, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done See #Template protection request. 4nn1l2 (talk) 19:11, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Template protection request

  • Protection type requested: Template protection
  • Protection time requested: Indefinite
  • Files to protect:
  • Reason for protection: This is a set of interconnected templates that has a high transclusion count.
  • Note that on technical grounds I have withdrawn an earlier request I made regarding one of these and re-formed the request to try and match current guidelines for requests at the top of this page. I'm new to making such a request so apologies for any confusion. Josh (talk) 05:53, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done No more edit wars at Template:Topic by country/layout or you will be blocked. 4nn1l2 (talk) 11:17, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Kiko Juncaj

Upload copyvio images after warning. --A1Cafel (talk) 07:32, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked Kiko for a year (third block). Taivo (talk) 08:34, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Pedroaren0722

Pedroaren0722 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

✓ Done Blocked for a month by Fitindia. De728631 (talk) 02:13, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Furqaanis

(Sorry french) Bonjour,

Ce contributeur fait de multiples imports d'affiches de films, séries et dessins animé et a déjà été averti. Cependant il continue alors merci de le sanctionner. Bonne journéée.--Sismarinho le blasé (talk) 15:37, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked Furqaanis for a week. Copyvios are nominated for deletion. Taivo (talk) 08:18, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Arrogant, abusive and violent behavior of some administrators in Russian Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Commons exercises no oversight over other local project, and cannot do anything to affect their governance. GMGtalk 16:23, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Hi! I’d like to draw your attention to the problem with some administrators in Russian Wikipedia (ruwiki) and Wikimedia, which abusive and destructive behavior toward competent authors leads to significant damage to Wikipedia content.

I’m a woman who holds two PhD degrees in physics /mathematics and chemistry. I was born in Russia and lived for many years both in Russia and in the USA. For last 25 years I live and work in Finland, published tens of scientific works on physics and nanochemistry in the highest level American and European scientific journals, and I am proud of being a referee in these journals.

Over last 15 years I also performed research on Russian history; my main focus here is the history of the ancient Russian noble family of Nebolsines, whose descendants now live in the USA, France, Belgium, Russia and Finland (I am one of them). The Nebolsines family gave the world 4 admirals in the Russian Imperial Navy, as well as lawyers, scientists, artists, musicians, engineers, journalists, etc. in the above mentioned countries.

As a result of my historical research, in year 2019 I published a series of 6 big scientific articles in a peer-review historical journal with independent editorial board. One of these articles named “The ancient Nebolsine family in the service of Russia: “Console yourself by consciousness of the holy fulfilled duty…””, published in September 2019 on 11 journal pages, with 76 references and 12 illustrations (Кочарова Н. В. Древний род Небольсиных на службе России: «Да утешит вас всех сознание свято исполненного долга…» // Военно-Исторический Журнал. 2019. № 9. С. 82-92.) This publication is about the life and military service of Admiral in Russian Imperial Navy Arcadi Nebolsine (1865-1917) and based on the previously unpublished documents of Russian, European and American archives; 3 photos of Admiral A. Nebolsine in the article are from the Nebolsine family archive.

In October – December 2019, basing on my aforementioned publication, I made substantial and notable contribution to biographical Небольсин,_Аркадий_Константинович| article about Admiral A. Nebolsine. In particular, I added previously unknown biographical facts, data on his origin, citations from published memoirs about him, reliable (published) sources and also uploaded the file of his photo, also published in September 2019 in my scientific article. Recently, this file was deleted from the article Небольсин,_Аркадий_Константинович, as well as from Wikimedia.

On 3/17/ 2020 the ruwiki’s registered user Wikisaurus, reverting my edits, committed vandalism, which significantly damaged this Небольсин,_Аркадий_Константинович| article. On Wikisaurus talk page I asked him to explain his action, but he insulted me, accusing me of impudence.

On 3/20/ 2020, seeing an absence of any arguments from Wikisaurus and other users as well as inaction of ruwiki’s bureaucrats, I reverted Wikisaurus’ edits to the article as vandal changes, after which administrator Lesless removed my last edit and gave me a warning “for insults, threats and aggression”. I asked Lesless on his talk page when and what kind of violations of ethical behavior or aggression have been seen from my part, but didn’t get any explanation (because there were not any). I underline that I always discussed with users /administrators with utmost correctness and politeness. This can be checked on talk pages of users Wikisaurus, Sealle, Neolexx (my discussions with them on their pages are already archived), as well as on my talk page and on the article discussion page.

On the same day 3/20/2020 users Yellow Horror, Neolexx as well as administrators Sealle and Lesless on the above mentioned pages began to discuss my personality and to troll me aggressively with obvious intent of provoking me into displaying emotional response. My persecution (otherwise it cannot be called) was led by Lesless and Yellow Horror. In particular, from Yellow Horror I heard “there are no irreplaceable authors” and from Lesless his confession that he is a macho and also accusations of my self-promotion. Despite this trolling, I was always ethically correct, free from any threats or aggression. With hope to reach consensus, I proposed to shorten my contribution in the the article text if the deleted by Wikisaurus template with part of my contribution will be restored. However, no one wanted to hear me.

On 3/22/2020, trying to reach consensus on the article content, I applied to community of ruwiki on the article’s discussion page, asking for opinions whether my edits are useful for the article quality or not. Right after that on the same discussion page Neolexx continued to troll me declaring that as notable source my historical publication about service of Admiral A. Nebolsine is “twice insignificant”. Despite this trolling, with hope to reach consensus on the article content, I tried to explain that my edits are accurate, neutral and based on reliable sources, but no one wanted to hear me.

On the same day 3/22/2020, seeing the absence of arguments for committed vandalism to the article, which Wikisaurus and Lesless made, but only continuous and aggressive trolling me from the above mentioned company of Russian males, I returned the article to its best state on 15 December, 2019. Next day, on March 23, at 14:38 ruwiki’s steward El-Chupanebrej reverted this edit and also, at 16:31, blocked me for one day “for unethical behavior”.

On 3/25/2020 the user Neolexx continued direct attacks and trolling me aggressively. On the article discussion page he declared that I am not a historian and my scientific publication about Admiral Nebolsine is “twice insignificant”. On the same day 3/25/2020 Neolexx removed from the article the only reliable source - my scientific publication about A. Nebolsine, and instead included not reliable source (ref. # 4), where Nebolsine’s name is not even mentioned. In addition, in the article chapter “Memory” Neolexx, contrary to my wish, mentioned my name as a descendant of Admiral A. Nebolsine (which is not true).

On the same day 3/25/2020, I expressed my indignation at Neolexx actions and trolling, and also demanded to remove my name from the article text as well as to return the only reliable source – my historical publication. After that, my name from the article text was removed and my publication as reliable source was included again (ref. # 3). However, in order to push me out not only from Wikipedia, but also from Wikimedia, to my persecution connected administrator Sealle and from his submission - Wikimedia bureaucrat NoFrost.

I also made significant contribution to all sections of biographical Фену,_Александр_Николаевич| article about historical figure, Colonel in Russian Imperial Army Fenoult Alexander Nikolaevich (1873-1954). I also uploaded all images in this article, including the main photo of A. Fenoult from my family archive file. I personally scanned original photo, made its restoration, uploaded restored file to Wikimedia and to the article.

On 3/25/2020, administrator Sealle on the discussion page of this file issued his verdict: “Historical photo, unlikely to be own work as claimed” and set the template to delete it.

Meanwhile, on 3/26/2020, administrator Neolexx on Небольсин,_Аркадий_Константинович| discussion page went over to direct threats addressed to me: “I recommend you to completely refrain from editing this article. If the recommendation will not be heard, Wikipedia has mechanisms to limit access by technical means.” Neolexx also accused me in a conflict of interest, which was expected, since it was for this reason that he had previously tried to include my name to the article.

On 3/26/2020, I replied to Neolexx attacks: ”Over the past 10 days, all of you, with whom I've tried to reach consensus, have not discussed the article, but instead, trying to push me out of Wikipedia, discussed my personality”.

After that, on 3/26/2020 at 7:54 PM Finnish time administrator Sealle, who on 3/25/2020 set a template to delete my Фену_Александр_Николаевич_.jpg| file, blocked me “for unethical behavior” with expiration time of one week.

On 3/27/2020 I sent an email for OTRS (Ticket:2020032710007141) declaring that I am the full copyright holder of both the original image and File:Фену_Александр_Николаевич_.jpg. Despite this, until 3/29/2020 I needed to prove to Wikimedia bureaucrat NoFrost that since I inherited this original photo from my relatives, I am the copyright holder of this file. Despite this, on 03/28/2020 NoFrost deleted this file from the article (template for deletion from Wikimedia still exists), while someone unknown took my other uploaded in the article photo of Colonel Fenoult, cropped it and inserted to the article as a main image.

On 4/2/2020 at 7:33 PM Finnish time Wikipedia user Diselist sent me a friendly message on my talk page, to which I replied the same day 4/2/2020 at 8:05 PM Finnish time.

Surprisingly, on 4/2/2020 at 8:23 PM Finnish time, administrator El-Chupanebrej unreasonably blocked me with with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page) “for unethical behaviour”. Ccitation from his message on my talk page: “because being blocked, you continued to violate the norms of behavior accepted in Wikipedia, you are blocked indefinitely”. However, on 4/2/2020 at 8:05 PM I wasn't already blocked, because the expiration time of one week was over (7 days passed), and I certainly did not violate any norms of behavior.

On 4/3/2020 at 11.50 AM Finnish time steward Well-Informed Optimist unreasonably and without any notification deleted file Файл:Небольсин_Аркадий_Константинович_1906.jpg from the article with the portrait of Admiral A. Nebolsine, which was published in my scientific work in September 2019 and which I uploaded to Wikimedia and to the article in October 2019. By this vandal act the article was significantly damaged: now it doesn't contain any photo, since at the present time not a single archive (except for the family archive of Nebolsines) has an identified image of Admiral A. Nebolsine.

Simultaneously, on 4/3/2020 at 11.50 AM Finnish time, steward La loi et la justice unreasonably additionally blocked me for indefinite time.

On the same day 4/3/2020 at 8:04 PM Finnish time, I wrote an email letter to Well-Informed Optimist with explanation that since I published the image Файл:Небольсин_Аркадий_Константинович_1906.jpg in a peer-review historical journal in September 2019 (I gave the reference), I am the author and a copyright holder of this file. I didn’t get any response to my statement, nor this file was restored in Wikimedia and in the article.

As a result of this incomprehensible war with me, which was conducted by bureaucrats of ruwiki and Wikimedia, two biographical articles are significantly damaged compared to their best condition in December 2019, and two files with unique images of historical figures deleted.

Earlier I wanted to create several articles in Wikipedia; however, now I am undeservedly and indefinitely blocked and, after terrible experience with ruwiki and Wikimedia, my wish to contribute to Wikimedia Commons almost vanished. I would not want the actions of the aforementioned males to go unpunished, since these persons caused me (I am sure that not only me) not only moral but reputation damage, as well as significant damage to Wikipedia content. --Natalia Kocharova (talk) 23:59, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

You complain due to your indefinite block in ru.wiki. Commons has nothing to do with that and Commons cannot unblock you there. Was the block correct or incorrect – Commons does not take position in that matter.
You uploaded some photos into Commons. Sealle nominated one of them for deletion, because you called it own work, although you are obviously not the photographer. The deletion request was correct. Real photographer and correct license are needed. We (including myself) wish to help you choosing correct license, but photographer and first publication data are needed for that. Was the photo ever published before upload into Commons? This must be discussed at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Фену Александр Николаевич .jpg, not here. OTRS-permission was received, but not accepted; apparently you did not give enough proof, that you are heir of the photographer. Taivo (talk) 09:57, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
@Wikisaurus, Yellow Horror, Neolexx, Sealle, Lesless, and El-chupanebrej: just to let you know about continuous and aggressive trolling by company of Russian males. --VLu (talk) 16:08, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
@NoFrost, Diselist, Well-Informed Optimist, and La loi et la justice: the same to you, dear Wikimedia bureaucrats and stewards. ) --VLu (talk) 16:16, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Requesting block of user:NickDonny

NickDonny (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  has, despite numerous warnings and a block for it in 2019, continued to upload copyrighted content under false claims of own work. It's clear that they either don't understand copyright or don't care, and that a longer, perhaps indefinite, block is in order. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 09:41, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked Nick for a month and deleted some copyvios. Taivo (talk) 10:36, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Лобачев Владимир

Лобачев Владимир (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  persistent copyvio uploads despite numerous warnings. --VLu (talk) 16:11, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Neil van wyk

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:59, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. One week vacation. Taivo (talk) 12:30, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:44, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Neil van wyk

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:59, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. One week vacation. Taivo (talk) 12:30, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:44, 11 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markfree123 (talk • contribs) 10:16, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Some templates

{{Distinguish}} and {{Info}} have 5602 and 57844 transclusions respectively. Please at least semi-protect or TE-protect the former, and upgrade to TE or full protection for {{Info}}. Thanks, pandakekok9 08:59, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Nirawattop2536

Vandalism-only account. pandakekok9 11:37, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Blocked for a week. Thank you for reverting vandalism! Taivo (talk) 07:41, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Nodobotoke_kiete_sine

Hi could someone indef Nodobotoke_kiete_sine as they're vandalising the project, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 01:45, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done by ~riley. MorganKevinJ(talk) 04:46, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

High-use templates

Please protect the following under the following levels:

Semi-protection

All done. ~riley (talk) 06:37, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Template-editor

@~riley: While it's better than nothing, please consider upgrading this to TE protection. One bad change to {{Best in Scope}} could ruin all usage of {{BIS}} on COM:VIC. Thanks, pandakekok9 06:46, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Another admin is free to protect this if they see the need. An autopatroller can also bring down the main page, COM:VIC is low on the list and it is not public-facing. My criteria for TE is 5000 transclusions. ~riley (talk) 06:57, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Full protection

pandakekok9 06:26, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Ok, fair enough. Better protected than not I guess. Thanks, pandakekok9 06:42, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
I guess? More than adequately protected. Have more faith in our TE team. :) ~riley (talk) 06:57, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
It's not that I don't have faith with TEs, it's just that IMO TE-protection should be used if edit requests are to be expected, unless they are either very sensitive like copyright licenses or redirects like these ones. But if our admins trust the TEs, I guess I should as well. :) pandakekok9 07:03, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Stefanietoukaka

Please block Stefanietoukaka (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  for uploading copyvios after the final warning. --Wcam (talk) 11:37, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 3 days Gbawden (talk) 12:26, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

File:Agam Riyandana.jpg

Reuploaded twice. Protection needed? Minoraxtalk (formerly 大诺史) 15:55, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked Miminagamriyandana indefinitely as sockpuppet of AR.AGAMRIYANDANA. Taivo (talk) 09:11, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Markfree123

IP and history will show that I am not Stan old, or another person like that. User:Wutsje seems to be quite frustrated with pics that have been posted by certain persons, regardless of similar pictures already being present. Markfree123

And still I am not 'stan old'. {User:Wutsje|Wutsje} is not behaving rationally. By the same logic you should have nominated hundreds of pictures. Markfree123 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markfree123 (talk • contribs) 13:09, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Sort of vandalism/test edits

Alfian1990 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

Adding captions. Sometimes adding nonsense. Sometimes adding wrong language. Sometimes adding a website. Just messing about. No urgency, not sure if you'd block it or not. ~ R.T.G 14:34, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

@RTG: I don't see that anyone ever tried to talk to Alfian1990 about this behaviour. Running straight to the admin board is not how to settle such issues. Also, you should at least have notified them about this discussion (see the template on top of this page).
That said, their edits are in fact somewhat erratic and unrelated to the images. What strikes me though is that all these seem to have been made with a tool #suggestededit-add 1.0. So it is probably the tool that cannot properly identify the images, but Alfian1990 just keeps adding these "suggestions" without scrutiny. De728631 (talk) 17:25, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
The tag "suggestededit" is from an Android app from Mediawiki[7] which doesn't suggest what text to add at all. ~ R.T.G 18:12, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
I see, thank you for clarifying this. Well, then these edits are even more unconstructive. Let's wait and see what Alfian1990 has to say. De728631 (talk) 18:58, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Dkhardware

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 03:29, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat [ contribs | talk ] 03:43, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

User:164巅8

Please block 164巅8 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  for uploading copyvios after the final warning. --Wcam (talk) 14:09, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked the user for a week. Uploads are deleted by others. Taivo (talk) 07:58, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

User:泰格尔将被发送到武汉车轮上因为冠状病毒会打有

WoW/BMX On WheeIs LTA sock. 61.203.233.118 18:23, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done and I also requested global lock. Thanks for reporting. Ahmadtalk 18:34, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Askforself

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 04:07, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat [ contribs | talk ] 04:13, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Mandsaur TODAY

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 04:25, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat [ contribs | talk ] 04:30, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Makerzzs

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 05:01, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat [ contribs | talk ] 05:10, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Tidmin

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 16:04, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Thanks for reporting. Ahmadtalk 17:28, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Some frequently vandalized files

These filepages are frequently vandalized by IP users and should become protected:

--GPSLeo (talk) 21:24, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

@~riley: Could you also consider full upload protection for File:Flag of Germany (1935–1945).svg (used 82815 times across Wikimedia projects) and File:Apple logo black.svg (5245 times)? One bad change for both of those files would break tons of pages. Thanks, pandakekok9 02:44, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

File:Commonist.svg

This file is used in a lot of pages, this should be upload protected (full protection, as semi-protection is useless). Thanks, pandakekok9 02:37, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

And also please TE-protect {{Commonist}} and {{Commonist no icon}}. Thanks, pandakekok9 02:39, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
And semi-protect {{Inkscape and Commonist}} which has 165 transclusions. Thanks, pandakekok9 02:51, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 07:27, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks. :) But could you remove the protection of File:Commonist.svg for editing and moving? Only upload protection is needed. (And TIL that you can TE-protect files) pandakekok9 07:33, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Mike.mic.m

Repeatedly uploading copyvios after final warning. --Paul_012 (talk) 14:34, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Studypool

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 04:40, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Undo protection of Category:Incomplete deletion requests - missing subpage

Hello!

For some reason Category:Incomplete deletion requests - missing subpage is protected. The protection was made by the globally locked user INeverCry. Category:Deletion requests isn't even protected so I see no reason why this category with some 10-20 entries in it should be. Please unprotect since I want to make some small edits to the category page.Jonteemil (talk) 11:01, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

These I see no reason for protection either. All protected by INeverCry:
-- Jonteemil (talk) 11:11, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
I support unprotection as well. There's no reason why categories should be indefinitely full protected. Protection should always be as short or as low as possible. pandakekok9 02:41, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. I fully unprotected two last categories. The first is target of inappropriate edits from inexperienced users, so I did not unprotect it fully, but semi-protection is enough. Taivo (talk) 07:15, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, though it seems you forgot Category:Incomplete deletion requests - missing subpage. pandakekok9 07:24, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
The only one I was planning to edit in... what can you do🤷‍♂️. Irony at its best. Pinging @Taivo: . Jonteemil (talk) 12:08, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done --Green Giant (talk) 13:05, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
@Green Giant: Thanks!Jonteemil (talk) 13:13, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

AkashNandabiography

Obvious sock of AkashNanda bio. pandakekok9 07:37, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Blocked by 1989. (Thanks) pandakekok9 07:57, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Peoplemaps

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 13:05, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done --Green Giant (talk) 13:09, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

User:First Station Media

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 14:09, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done De728631 (talk) 21:26, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Leticia Flores Prado (talk · contribs)

Uploading unfree files after blocked. 轻语者 (talk) 01:49, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

File:Flag of Honduras (Pantone).svg

Could a sysop protect File:Flag of Honduras (Pantone).svg? There's currently an edit war between Kes47 (the uploader) and Urbanuntil. A little additional note: It's used on 6301 pages across multiple Wikimedia projects. --Ìch heiss Nat ùn ìch redd e wenig Elsässisch!Talk to me in EN, FR, PL, GSW-FR(ALS). 04:49, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Onlineleads

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 06:48, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef Gbawden (talk) 07:07, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Digivyapaar

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 06:49, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done User warned. Username not particularly promotional IMO Gbawden (talk) 07:06, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
No problem, thanks :) -- CptViraj (📧) 07:17, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Royalty clothings

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj (📧) 06:52, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef Gbawden (talk) 07:03, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

User talk:Malikxan

This user has now been blocked indefinitely for 1.5 years, and has made several ineffective requests for unblock. Could an uninvolved admin please check their latest request to be unblocked? De728631 (talk) 21:19, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

@Gbawden: Since you opposed the unblock request in writing, would also formally decline it (as in 'close the request')? I had warned Malikxan last year in August that making repeated unsubstantial unblock requests would lead to him losing talk page access again, so this option should also be considered. De728631 (talk) 16:56, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

{{BUser}}

This template is used tons of times, and is being relied upon by most babel templates. One bad change on this template would break tons of userpages. Please template protect this. Thanks, pandakekok9 10:13, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

{{?}}

Redirect of {{Question}}, and has 1457 transclusions. Please semi-protect. pandakekok9 05:35, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

{{Pro}} and {{Contra}}

They are redirects of {{Support}} and {{Contra}} (respectively), and they have 1471 and 649 transclusions respectively. Please semi-protect them. Thanks, pandakekok9 03:46, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Protected. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat [ contribs | talk ] 11:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Goswami666

廣九直通車 (talk) 06:23, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. These were different files, so I simply deleted some copyvios and blocked Goswami for a week due to uploading copyvios after warnings. Taivo (talk) 09:30, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

User:G11ninc

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj () 06:33, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done User warned. Not seeing the promotional username? Gbawden (talk) 08:27, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
@Gbawden: Huh? Please read the userpage. The username is unambiguously representing the name of a company/product. -- CptViraj () 08:41, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

User:MAANESTATE

Spamming, promotional username. -- CptViraj () 06:35, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done User warned, not seeing the promotional username Gbawden (talk) 08:27, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

{{Tracks are for trains}}

4162 transclusions; please TE-protect. Thanks, pandakekok9 11:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Protected. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat [ contribs | talk ] 11:20, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Tejastrivoli

Tejastrivoli (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

Uploaded same copyrighted image that was previously deleted. Based on behaviour on English Wikipedia, this image will just get uploaded again and again. -- Whpq (talk) 19:31, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Bancaria

Crosswiki spam, promotional username indeffed on simple, enwp, uploads here have been spamming posters. Thanks :)Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 19:32, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

{{WikiProject Ships}}

515 transclusions; please semi-protect. Thanks, pandakekok9 02:53, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

João908

João908 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

Uploading non free images even after last warning from @Krd: --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०†ลℓк †๏ мэ 11:31, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked by Herbythyme. Érico (talk) 12:07, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

{{IMO}}

23059 transclusions; please TE-protect. Thanks, pandakekok9 12:05, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Érico (talk) 12:08, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Jilligate

Uploading unfree image even after giving last warning --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०†ลℓк †๏ мэ 06:29, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked for 2 weeks. Kind regards, — Tulsi Bhagat [ contribs | talk ] 06:39, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Історія України

Inappropriate username. Misleading username that may give the impression that the account has authority it does not have. Translated as History of Ukraine. --Микола Василечко (talk) 04:52, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

What is the response to my request? --Микола Василечко (talk) 11:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Tamil Ma

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

Repeated uploads of copyrighted images, despite multiple explanations (at User talk:Tamil Ma and User talk:Bonadea, and also at en.wiki). Received a final warning and proceeded to upload a different unfree image, labelled as "own work". --Bonadea (talk) 13:07, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Історія України

Inappropriate username. Misleading username that may give the impression that the account has authority it does not have. Translated as History of Ukraine. --Микола Василечко (talk) 04:52, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

What is the response to my request? --Микола Василечко (talk) 11:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Gahcdh

uploading non free images even after warning --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०†ลℓк †๏ мэ 07:21, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him/her for a year (second block, has nothing learned). Taivo (talk) 08:09, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

File:A Hot Bath.jpg

I am requesting file protection for vandalism / sabotage. The license has already been confirmed but an anonymous user is changing it and marking it as a copyright violation. --I Mertex I (talk) 10:31, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. 1 month IP-protected. --Túrelio (talk) 10:42, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Huyle92

User continues upload copyvio images after notice. --A1Cafel (talk) 10:58, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

 Not done. No edits since 7th of March. In my opinion block is not needed. Taivo (talk) 14:26, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Leticia Lilia Flores Prado

Uploading non free images even after warning. --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०†ลℓк †๏ мэ 03:23, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked her for a week and deleted her uploads. Taivo (talk) 08:08, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

通りすがりの猛者

通りすがりの猛者 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

He is uploading a lot of pirated images. He probably doesn't have the concept of copyright. He is very vicious, forgery and plagiarism. He should be punished so that he cannot post.--RSSFSO (talk) 06:00, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Blocked for a week, uploads are nominated for deletion. Taivo (talk) 08:09, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

PF95-SAuto

Can someone unblock my alternate account above? Thanks, pandakekok9 11:04, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Rodhullandemu (talk) 11:10, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
Welp, I just realized I lost my password for my alt account. :\ So thanks anyway... (Is it possible to recover that account? I lost both the email and password of that account) pandakekok9 11:15, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
@Rodhullandemu: Can you grant my alt pandakokek9 autopatrol and confirmed rights? I will be doing some mass VFC work on that account. Thanks, pandakekok9 11:26, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
@Pandakekok9: Both ✓ Granted. I suggest putting a link to pandakokek9 on your main account's userpage, just in case. Ahmadtalk 03:24, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

File:Commonist.svg

Can someone remove the protection for editing and moving, only leaving out upload? Taivo went too far and fully protected all... Thanks, pandakekok9 05:33, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

In my opinion it's bad to unprotect it for moving. Taivo (talk) 07:20, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Maybe, but editing protection should be removed, as there could be someone who needs to update the description from time to time. pandakekok9 07:44, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo and Pandakekok9: How about semi-protection for edits, and TE-protection for move and upload? Ahmadtalk 03:18, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
I still don't think there should be protection for editing since there was no recent persistent vandalism or edit war, but I'm okay with it. pandakekok9 03:28, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Today ice cream

Uploaded a logo of a business located in India. Appears to violate Commons:Username policy, as it seems to be a promotional username or implies collective use. --Ìch heiss Nat ùn ìch redd e wenig Elsässisch!Talk to me in EN, FR, PL, GSW-FR(ALS). 22:27, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Soft-blocked. Thanks for reporting. Ahmadtalk 03:14, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Megantheee (talk · contribs)

Uploading unfree files after warning. 轻语者 (talk) 00:39, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked her for 2 weeks. Taivo (talk) 07:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Qiushufang

Massive copyvio after warnings in 2018 and 2019. I have identified 17 copyright violations. In a number of violations User:Qiushufang has cropped the watermark of the copyright owner away (e.g. 1 2, 3, 4). In others he ignored the copyright holder even though his name was directly to be found below the photograph (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4). This is deliberate intent and not anymore ignorance on Qiushufang's part. I only checked a sample. That he cared to comply to copyright with his many other uploads cannot be guaranteed. IMO the entire batch needs to be deleted. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 14:40, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. The user was not formally warned. I warned him/her. Copyvios are nominated for deletion, but this is not copyvio-only user. No edits after 4th of April. Taivo (talk) 08:02, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Is this seriously the procedure here? *lol* How many copyright violations does it need to be qualified as "copyvio-only user"? Obviously, it is impossible to prove a violation in every single case. The way you interpret the rules it can be easily gamed. Upload many pictures, get a few deleted, most get through. Repeat after block with new account. Sorry, but this is laughable. You are aware that there is now likely a large number of pictures that he has uploaded to Commmons that violate copyright? At what point does the burden of proof shift to him? Guys, get real. Law is broken here! Gun Powder Ma (talk) 11:20, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
I would block Qiushufang, if I had evidence of sockpuppetry or if (s)he had edited during last week or if (s)he had been warned in the past. Taivo (talk) 07:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
So his other, undetected copyright violating images stay on Commons and I am right that he has successfully gamed the system? Yours is a purely schematic procedure that does not take in account the dimension of the copyright violation. What if I had shown you 50 or 100 violations, would you have handed out only a warning too because he had not yet received one? Please specify at what point
  • a. the user gets permanently blocked for copyvio and
  • b. his entire batch of pictures gets deleted from Commons?
In other words, please specify at what point the burden of proof shifts to the user that his uploads are conforming to copyright laws? Gun Powder Ma (talk) 10:58, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
So far I have no evidence of sockpuppetry. If you cannot name his other accounts, then, yes, he has gamed the system successfully. And there are few clear lines, at which point the user gets indefinitely blocked, because any clear line adds possibilities of wikilawyering and gaming the system. The user gets blocked, if an administrator feels, that this is right. One clear line is uploading a copyvio after warning. Taivo (talk) 08:40, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
He has already gamed the system successfully because most of his copyright violations remain on Commons and you are not doing anything against it. That is why I am asking at what point does the administrative body recognize that his copyright violations constitute a systematic abuse that needs to be addressed in its entirety? I could provide more examples of copyvio, but you will understand that I am not going to the trouble to invest my time if the end result is that images are still only deleted on a case by case basis, while the copyright violator still gets a clap on the hand only. In this case it makes definitely more sense to take the whole matter first to a higher level to have a basic community decision which could be then acted upon in this particular and all the other cases which seem to pass administrative attention. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 09:56, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
@Gun Powder Ma: please give more examples of copyvio. If I will get evidence of abusing multiple accounts, then I will start to block sockpuppet accounts indefinitely. But I am not a checkuser. If you have strong feeling of editing under multiple accounts, then you can make a request for investigation. Taivo (talk) 07:23, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Sure. I have identified another twenty copyright violations today, raising the total to 40 cases. User:Qiushufang has been scraping together photographs from all over the internet, particularly blog posts. Again, in some cases I noticed he removed the existing watermark. The user has uploaded over 700 files. His uploads share suspicious characteristics:
  • Files are uploaded uniformly as "own work"
  • The descriptions are always very brief
  • Metadata is not included
The systematic nature of his copyright violation is absolutely evident. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 16:39, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
FWIW Qiushufang hasn't been active since 4 April so won't have seen his warning Gbawden (talk) 16:43, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
He has been active in the English WP as late as 12 April and will have received all the alerts over the global account he is using. There is a reason why he is not showing up. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 17:32, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: GPM and I were both part of an incident on English WP in which we were both warned to stay away from each other. According to the administrators' wishes I have stayed away from GPM, but I suspect he is continuing his war on me here as well: [8]. Qiushufang (talk) 23:07, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
There is no interaction ban. Nothing keeps you from defending yourself here, certainly not me. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 23:30, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Qiushufang has now been warned and is well aware of the issue. If they upload another copyvio, they will be summarily blocked. The user has over 700 uploads to Commons, many of which are plausible "own work", for example File:Ming mail.jpg, so I don't think a nuke would be appropriate. And regardless of the scale of the problem, blocks are preventative not punitive. There is a decent chance that Qiushufang will respond appropriately to the warning, so a block at this point would be inappropriate. Kaldari (talk) 00:04, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
File:Ming mail.jpg is actually a copyright violation too. Qiushufang took it from this blog post from 2017-01-16 or this one from 2016-01-02 . It is telling that one cannot find even a single proven non-copyvio. It stands to reason that most if not all of his 700 uploads are copyvios (minus perhaps the maps). If this is not sufficiently addressed on this level, I am going to take this one step up at a time until it is. Given the dimension of the copyvio, the reputation of Commons is at stake. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 00:39, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Info: Qiushufang had already been found in August 2019 to violate the copyrights of 14 images by User:Cold Season (Commons:Deletion requests/File:Armoured Qin general.jpg). User:Taivo himself deleted another one in a separate case. Thus, I am not the first user who noticed Qiushufang's copyvio behaviour and he had been duly warned. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 22:54, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
There should also be eyes on the account User:Yprpyqp whose edits stopped as soon as the account User:Qiushufang started. Both accounts are very similar to each other, with very similar behavior and problems (therefore I highly suspect that both accounts belong to the same person). The issues still persists (despite the user being made aware of it repeatedly) and both accounts need to be scrutinized. I agree with Gun Powder Ma's assessment that the copyright of the user's uploaded files cannot be guaranteed, as the user's uploaded files are done in a misleading manner on a large scale (for which evidence have been laid out over a long period). --Cold Season (talk) 01:22, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
The repeated disruptions (1, 2) of this page by redlink socks also seem connected to our discussion here. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 06:40, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Update: I requested a check user. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 06:58, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
I have reported another 32 copyright violations, bringing up the total to around 70 cases or 10 percent of all uploaded images by Qiushufang. Again, in a lot of cases the watermark of the original was cropped away. To this number have to be added 15 or so cases reported in the past by several other users. We are clearly dealing here with Commons:License laundering on a large scale. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 09:22, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Plus ten more copyvios. Now 80 altogether. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 14:21, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

OK User has been blocked. --Reinhard Kraasch (talk) 20:35, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Does his block extend to the other Wikis or is it limited to Commons? I am asking since he has a global account, and much of his editing on the English Wikipedia comprised adding the copyvios to its article space. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 22:23, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
The block is limited to Commons, if there are questionable edits in the English Wikipedia, you should address the issue on en:Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents. --Reinhard Kraasch (talk) 09:08, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
I would like to bring to your notice that most of his remaining uploads are still violating Commons policy. The user has invariably designated himself as the "author" of historic images (e.g.). However, the underlying template clearly informs us that " This field should not be used to specify the name of the person who is the scanner, finder, or uploader of the image – these things do not make that person the author!" The user, though, has given these images consistently a CC licensing that indicates himself as their original creator. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 14:26, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
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