Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections/Archive 29

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User:Jdx Please block upload and return.

Jdx (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) I don't know if this user is Korean or foreign, but WikiMedia Commons continues to act to reverse the files I uploaded. Take File:Flag of Elleore.svg for example. Here's the link. [1] The document is linked to Metawiki when you go in. From the fact that there is an English explanation, you can guess that it is a foreigner, but it could be Korean. Request to block this user. He's not a Wikipedia user, he's a Wikipedia public or English Wikipedia user. We haven't confirmed whether Wikipedia in Korean can block users in other places (English Wikipedia, Wikimedia, etc.). I'll leave a request for now. Thank you... 도성전 (talk) 14:17, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

  •  Oppose, User:Jdx is a trusted Administrator here, is also trusted on multiple Wikipedias, and has edited Korean Wikipedia for 4 years. He is trying to stop you and another user from overwriting a file in a controversial manner.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:25, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
  •  Oppose - If you're reverted the onus is then on you to seek consensus for your changes. That being said User:Jdx what's the harm with there being a larger file of the flag ? Just curious. –Davey2010Talk 15:28, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
@Davey2010: All these "new versions" are in fact bitmap images – just look into SVG sources and you will see only embedded PNG images. @Jeff G.: I didn't know that I have been editing Korean Wikipedia for four years. Well, I could have undone some changes there while chasing vandals, but I wouldn't call it "editing". --jdx Re: 15:55, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Ah okay thanks for explaining that JDX, Only thing I would support here is a stern warning to the OP and this thread being closed for being a timewaste. –Davey2010Talk 16:09, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
 Not done no need for a block because Jdx is in the right. 도성전: now that is explained why your edits are incorrect, please refrain from any new overwrites. Natuur12 (talk) 16:24, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

도성전

Overwriting files like File:Flag of Elleore.svg after warning, and filing the above report about a sitting Commons Admin who has been combating such overwriting. Forum shopping with identical reports at COM:ANU and COM:HD. Neglecting to notify reportee.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:02, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: I've requested an investigation. Nieuwsgierige Gebruiker Overleg • CA 16:46, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Upload protection for Biden portraits

In anticipation of the U.S. election tomorrow, I recommend temporarily upload-protecting File:Joe Biden official portrait 2013.jpg and File:Joe Biden 2013.jpg. Neither file is likely to need to be changed, and both are used across multiple sites—but most notably on en:2020 United States presidential election and en:Joe Biden, which are both in the top-25 most viewed articles of en.wiki (and that is bound to go up drastically tomorrow). They'll be highly visible during and after the election, and these images may be a target for vandalism that will not reflect well if it's done. For reference, Trump's respective images (File:Donald Trump official portrait.jpg and File:Donald Trump official portrait (cropped).jpg) are also naturally already protected. ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 02:48, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Protected as a precaution for 2 weeks. Can be increased if necessary Gbawden (talk) 07:03, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Чаховіч Уладзіслаў

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:35, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

? --Чаховіч Уладзіслаў (talk) 19:16, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
@Чаховіч Уладзіслаў: User talk:Чаховіч Уладзіслаў#You may be blocked soon.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 19:31, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
И? Какое отношение 2016 год имеет к сегодняшнему дню? --Чаховіч Уладзіслаў (talk) 19:37, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 Not done. Уладзіслаў makes a lot of work in Commons and uploads a lot of files. Couple of them have different problems, that's normal. Two of his uploads, most recently nominated for deletion, have been in Commons 6 years. In my opinion Jeff has a bit overreacted. Taivo (talk) 08:35, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

SlavaMK1

Uploads copyvio images after warnings. --A1Cafel (talk) 09:14, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him for a week. Taivo (talk) 09:38, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Shankerjai2020

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:37, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

 Not done. Copyvios have stopped after you warned him/her. Thank you for nominating all his/her uploads for deletion! Taivo (talk) 08:27, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Unprotection of File:Map of minorities in the Republic of Macedonia by municipality.png

The file was protected amid a dispute between a user and an IP, both no longer active, and another user. This happened in 2011, 9 years have passed, I don't see the need to keep maintaining an as protected file. In fact, I don't even think it was correct to protect the file in the first place, it would have been better to have tried to fix the conflict between the users or sanction them. The person who protected the article is no longer an administrator, that is why I have come here. Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 12:39, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 12:44, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Please have a look

Special:Contributions/2600:1700:DC00:6D60:3C22:E0ED:1685:2C1 --E4024 (talk) 01:14, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Mass-rollbacked and blocked three days. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 01:41, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

File:Costa Rica National Anthem.ogg

There's been some continued additions of spam and vandalism on File:Costa Rica National Anthem.ogg from IP editors. It should probably be semi'd for a month or so. Nathan2055talk - contribs 21:35, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I semi-protected it for a month. Taivo (talk) 08:07, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Dr Julie Dee Bell

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:38, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Please explain how File:Canadian Oil Sands in plain polarized light.jpg meets the criteria of either F10 or G10. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 05:17, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
 Info see also: COM:HD#Information being deleted -- Crep1711 (talk) 10:50, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
@AntiCompositeNumber and Billinghurst: It meets CSD F10 because it is a photo by a non-contributor (who has yet to have a project edit stick) and CSD G10 because it is a file created as an advertisement, both in the description and in the intended use in the uploader's userspace and draftspace autobiographies / curricula vitae here and on enwiki. It also appears to have been used before in the uploader's dissertation. The uploader appears not to be here for any encyclopedic or media repository purpose. See also Commons:Deletion requests/File:Canadian Oil Sands in plain polarized light.jpg and Commons:Deletion requests/File:Canadian Oil Sands.jpg.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:25, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
Pinging @Taivo, Túrelio, who deleted her other uploads and userpage here.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:32, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
 Not done User warned. I feel that it's more likely that they are confused or unaware of what material is acceptable on Commons than that they're here solely to advertise. If the behavior continues, of course, a block may be more appropriate. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 19:14, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

 Comment @Jeff G.: It reputedly comes from a published paper so at a preliminary assessment it aligns with our scope. There was no linked available evidence that it was being used in a promotional sense so it does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, so it should fall back to DR. F10/G10 do not overrule the concepts about scope, we have many photos in scope that get uploaded and later used. F10 are primarily for images that are less in scope, and primarily aligned with user photos as their primary focus. If you want G10, then probably needs the evidence available to the admin with the request.  — billinghurst sDrewth 20:23, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

@AntiCompositeNumber and Billinghurst: She recreated her user page yet again, now what?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:14, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
And I would say that her user page now is pretty much within scope. There are many worse. This person could bring quite interesting information, articles, and images if properly cultivated. Sure we want to stop abuse of autobiography.  — billinghurst sDrewth 21:31, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Jheme1997

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:33, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

 Not done Last edit of user is in 2019/early 2020. Minoraxtalk 06:22, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

User:Amir Noor Muhammad

Amir Noor Muhammad (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  seems to be repeatedly uploading copyrighted photographs taken from government and news websites under CC licences, despite multiple notices on the user talk page indicating that the photographs are copyright violations. — SGconlaw (talk) 07:34, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

OK, thanks. — SGconlaw (talk) 15:14, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protect logos

Please semi-protect File:WeChat logo Android.png and File:Facebook Messenger logo 2020.svg. Disruptive IP editing. Thanks, Aranya (talk) 17:30, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Protected for two weeks. 4nn1l2 (talk) 23:27, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

User:আমি_রফিক_বলছি

Hi, Could someone indef User:আমি_রফিক_বলছি please as they've uploaded personal photos, they've made this silly edit and this silly edit - IMHO they're not here to contribute to the project in any meaningful way. Thanks, Kind Regards, –Davey2010Talk 23:20, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I warned the user. All his/her uploads are nominated for deletion. Taivo (talk) 08:10, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Block and/or protect

Please: Special:Contributions/2600:1700:DC00:6D60:39D1:989A:675F:C43C. --E4024 (talk) 03:06, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

IP is now edit-warring to restore vandalism, has bee given final warning. Please block.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 03:26, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
✓ Blocked for 3 days. -- CptViraj (talk) 03:40, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
Yesterday s/he was also "blocked for three days" on a similar IP... Please protect Panthera leo and their other favourite pages from IP editing. Thx. --E4024 (talk) 03:42, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. I semi-protected something for a month. Taivo (talk) 08:05, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

2a02:c7f:982e:7900:81c0:b4ae:77d4:79b0

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:37, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked for a week. -- CptViraj (talk) 04:57, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
@CptViraj: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:06, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
@CptViraj and Achim55: It's back as 109.249.184.142 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) .   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:33, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
✓ Blocked for a week. -- CptViraj (talk) 12:37, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
@CptViraj: Thanks again!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:15, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Requesting protection of TimedText:Lupang Hinirang instrumental.ogg.tl.srt

A bunch of IP editors have been manually reverting the subtitle track of the Philippine national anthem back to the subtitles which use an archaic alphabet system that is no longer used by the Tagalog language. Virtually no one speaking Tagalog uses this system, as the Filipino alphabet is now used for writing and encoding documents in Tagalog. I'm also recommending this version for accessibility reasons, as the use of Baybayin symbols requires a special font which supports said symbols. On mobile phones and other devices, these symbols show up as boxes. Chlod (talk) 13:12, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done semi-protected 1 month. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 15:54, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Azhararain777

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:19, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

@AntiCompositeNumber: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:47, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Whocanitbnow

A1Cafel

@A1Cafel: Are you aware of this? Gbawden (talk) 09:52, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
@Gbawden: I have totally no idea of this. I seldom go to COM:SOCK to report about sockpuppet. I do have a discussion with them at User talk:A1Cafel#Australian Freedom of Panorama, and the discussion is constructive. Nonetheless, I have no objection in doing a RFCU with Whocanitbnow to prove my innocence. --A1Cafel (talk) 13:14, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
I doubt it is User:A1Cafel, though there is very limited writing style to work off, it isn't the same. Most likely a throwaway account on whoever is behind long term harassment (There is a long list; User:Standing in the kitchen, User:SockPuppetry INC., User:184.96.229.38, User:Willy Get His Wheels, User:110.54.242.175, User:FDZ 43 D, User:213.205.241.128, User:95.252.109.31, User:1.144.110.8, User:The Biggest Critic, User:2001:8004:2728:38:A08A:C7E6:1C1B:73DF, User:1.144.106.243, User:1.129.105.244, User:1.129.108.27, User:2001:8004:2721:10BC:9D3A:3005:6DA6:5AF1, User:Keepinitreal2020. Just to name a few.) Bidgee (talk) 04:08, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
@Bidgee: Thanks. I had no doubt either just wanted to make them aware of the accusation Gbawden (talk) 05:45, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

User:Thegwh32

Per en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jermboy27 Bidgee (talk) 04:11, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked as suspected. -- CptViraj (talk) 04:20, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Users Yitbe and Kalekidan Girma

  • Kalekidan Girma (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
  • Yitbe (talk · contribs)
  • Reasons for reporting: Both accounts are repeatedly uploading copyvios in spite of numerous user talk page notices. I believe they are sock accounts; Yitbe uploaded File:Pilot Kalekidan Girma.png; around the time that was deleted a new account "Kalekidan Girma" appeared. After Yitbe received numerous warnings about uploading copyrighted material as their own work, Kalekidan Girma started uploading where the sources were correct (or, at least, not the uploader), but incorrectly claiming CC0 as the works' license. I believe there's a basic misunderstanding about what is or isn't allowed for uploading. Not sure whether this has any bearing at Commons, but Kalekidan Girma's first edit at English Wikipedia was to edit Yitbe's talk page there ("new WikiLove message"). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 12:00, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
Reply Hello Gyrofrog , yes, I know I have made many mistakes, for I had not understood the copyright policies of the Wikipedia. Though I joined Wikipedia 2 years ago, I was active only for last 3 or 4 months. But now, I understood well what is right, what is wrong in the Wikipedia, and I'm trying to contribute what I can. But you're accusing me by the things that I have no idea. I am not using multiple account. Thank you. `` Yitbe (talk) 9:29 AM, 17 November 2020
P.S. Also, Kalekidan Girma uploaded a copyvio photo of Arun Raikar (since deleted), which Yitbe then added to en:Arun Raikar. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 12:14, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done? I blocked Kalekidan Girma indefinitely as sockpuppet. Taivo (talk) 17:44, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Promote justice

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:58, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him/her for a month due to large number of copyvios. Taivo (talk) 17:07, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:20, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

RyanCray

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:56, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Please read Commons:Deletion Policy and stop vandalizing my work on this page with your spam.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:10, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
I edited it with a mirror and filtered "wikimedia.org".Please don't novices,The machine translation I use may not mean what I want.--RyanCray (talk) 15:16, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

File:Peter Huang and Jason Lin 2018-03-25.jpg

Could this file be semi-protected for a long time please. It's been the subject of unexplained alterations by anon IPs for a long time. Rodhullandemu (talk) 11:16, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done by Jdx for a year. -- CptViraj (talk) 11:28, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
Sure, it could. Most likely this is LTA Nipponese Dog Calvero, AFAIK the guy on the right side of the photo. --jdx Re: 11:34, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Gabbosschabo

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:31, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

  • Yeah ✓ blocked again. I'll give this a bit of thought. My gut feeling is indef is the right way to go but I'll reflect first. It's the classic en wp "not here to build an encyclopedia" - pity there isn't something similar here. Thanks Jeff. --Herby talk thyme 15:53, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
@Herbythyme: Thanks, and you're welcome!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:03, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Protect my talk page

Please protect my talk page from unconfirmed users or block the IP range 195.114.144.0/22 due to harassement.--Andriy.v (talk) 15:35, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done for a week. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 15:55, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Requesting upload protection for File:Logo Petróleos Mexicanos.svg, persistent sockpuppetry by a globally-blocked user. Tbsock (talk) 04:01, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I semi-protected it for a year. Taivo (talk) 09:12, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

File:Paz é nós que faz.jpg

Quero a exclusão de uma imagem publicada na Wiki sem minha autorização, não sei quem é esse usuário que aparece, é um absurdo. Segue o link abaixo:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Paz_%C3%A9_n%C3%B3s_que_faz.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.159.161.99 (talk) 20:20, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Deleted by Podzemnik per Commons:Deletion requests/File:Paz é nós que faz.jpg. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 06:35, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Arthur Que

✓ Done User blocked for 1 week by DarwIn. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 05:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Burhan Uddin Hafiz Phayaj Uddin

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:02, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Indef. blocked as sock of User:Burhan uddin shabul and for uploading out-of-scope files after multiple warnings. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 05:34, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
@Nat: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:30, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Protection request

Hi, Could an admin very kindly please indef-protect User:Davey2010/Pentagon and User:Davey2010/PentagonAttribution please as vandals have targeted me in the past and I'm planning on vanishing soon so would rather these important pages are protected for as long as Commons is still alive,
Many thanks
Regards, –Davey2010Talk 13:34, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

@Davey2010: ✓ Done Minoraxtalk 13:43, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
Many thanks Minorax much appreciated :). –Davey2010Talk 14:04, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

User:Shekharstoneassociates

Crosswiki spam, only uploads are spam, stone with phone number. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 12:50, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Account is locked I see and the uploads are ✓ nuked thanks --Herby talk thyme 13:09, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

BNJ Nilam and JR Vid

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:41, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

The 2nd user, JR Vid removed the deletion tages saying "This image was perfectly fine and had no issues" (one example. Around 13th-14th Oct, BNJ Nilam was blocked, then the user JR Vid came and contributed on 16th-17th October. ArnabSaha (talk) 15:03, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. I blocked JR Vid indefinitely as sockpuppet. BNJ Nilam is warned and copyvios have stopped after last warning. If he uploads one copyvio, then (s)he should be blocked. Uploads of both are deleted. Taivo (talk) 09:14, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:32, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Request for protection

Hi! File:Aidan Gallagher - 2018 (cropped).jpg is regularly the target of vandalism and other unhelpful edits from IP and new accounts (see history). A semi-protection of a few months (since it's been going on for some time) would be helpful. Thanks. --Titlutin (talk) 20:21, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I cleaned file history and semi-protected it for a year. Taivo (talk) 09:06, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

LTA: Abusing multiple accounts, block evasion attempt for self-promotion

New sockpuppet account of User:Sapio7, globally locked for cross-wiki LTA. Same pattern of behavior: persistent uploading of promotional images of himself (i.e. Romanian young singer Claudiu Dumitrache). See previous report in Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections/Archive 28#Abusing multiple accounts: self-promotion. Thank you, --Pafsanias (talk) 23:38, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him indefinitely as sockpuppet and will delete his uploads as copyvios. Taivo (talk) 09:24, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

User:Yungelita

Specifically, this user replaced File:Naked slim woman 2.jpg with a cropped version, which I reverted (with a specific reason), then redid the crop. These edits are problematic for the following reasons:

  • The file is in use on vi:Khỏa thân with the caption "Người phụ nữ khỏa thân chải tóc" ("Naked woman combing her hair"); the crop breaks this use. This information is in the edit summary from when I reverted the first crop.
  • The crop is substantial, in violation of Commons:Overwriting existing files.
  • The file is currently subject to a DR.

Brianjd (talk) 12:37, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

@Brianjd: The cropped view of the back of a naked woman can also serve that page. Overwriting one's own upload is not a violation of COM:OVERWRITE.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:45, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: The crop might still be able to serve that page, but not with that description, and in any case, shouldn't this be up to the viwiki community to decide? Commons does not editorialise on other projects. Or at least that's what people keep saying in DRs.
Overwriting one's own upload is not a violation of COM:OVERWRITE. I don't understand this statement. I can't find anything in the policy that supports it. It certainly contradicts the warning given to the uploader:
Hi, do not overwrite existing images, even not your own uploads.
Brianjd (talk) 13:59, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
@Brianjd: Please see the bolded parts of ✓[OK] Blurring, cropping or otherwise obscuring unfree elements and any other unacceptable parts (like sensitive personal information) that would otherwise result in deletion or a DR, provided that the file is still useful and in scope after the offending element has been obscured.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:12, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: The section you quoted has nothing to do with whether the overwrite is done by the uploader or some other user, so it doesn't answer my question. Nevertheless, we must check whether it applies to the overwrites in question here. Which part is "unacceptable"? I presume the face. What makes it unacceptable (which is a stronger condition than undesirable)? I don't know; presumably it was acceptable when it was uploaded and used in another project. Would it otherwise result in a deletion or DR? Is the file still in scope after the offending element has been removed? Neither of these is clear to me. I was under the impression that in cases of doubt, you should not overwrite, even where overwriting might otherwise be acceptable: When in doubt, or to resolve inter-user conflicts, upload as a new file.. Brianjd (talk) 14:34, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Ø11

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:07, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

2601:CF:8480:E890:754C:CF87:D399:CD66

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:55, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for 1 day. But I think we don't need to take that serious. --Túrelio (talk) 21:18, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
@Túrelio: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:30, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

User:Kts861A

After previous blocks and warnings, Kts861A (talk · contribs) continues to upload copyrighted images and I don't think he will stop doing it. --Smooth O (talk) 18:10, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections/Archive 28#User:Kts861A was archived without action. Pinging @Elcobbola as blocking Admin. @Smooth O: When are you planning to notify them?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:34, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done, user blocked. Эlcobbola talk 18:48, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
@Эlcobbola: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:53, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Leonel Sohns

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 20:56, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

I support at least a block of using the Template namespace as they have been warned several times by different users. --Achim (talk) 21:23, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

I didn't want that Leonel Sohns 07:50, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

I am sorry Leonel Sohns 07:54, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
See also this edit. Leonel Sohns 08:03, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

This user has the hallmarks of at least one LTA but I haven't had the time to investigate properly: the numerous warnings in multiple areas (i.e., not just template space) and the lack of any meaningful response; the bizarre and inappropriate edits to template space (I fully agree with Achim that there should be a block here); misrepresenting themselves as an admin (and removed only by another user); the longing to be an admin; playing around with sock issues (e.g., related to long-gone socks [2][3] and creating a category on themselves (!!!)}; etc. The latter few especially look like VKras. Whatever the case, something is amiss with this user and the disruption needs to be addressed. Эlcobbola talk 12:45, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

This edit, at least, is encouraging.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:57, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

EEIM

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:52, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

All uploads logos are; image consists only of simple geometric shapes or text . Source web site. For example this logo . Abuse filter log files licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3 . This logo from png to svg.--EEIM (talk) 18:44, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Smooth O

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:00, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

 Comment I have used Administrators' noticeboard only several times for example to report sockpuppets (examples: 1 and 2) or report of copyvios uploads after last warning (examples: 1 and 2). As you can see in my contributions i do lot of work in Commons maintenance i never abused this noticeboard or Commons in general. I was not aware that i have to use "Discussion-notice" for these cases, so for now on i will use them in these reports. Usually i am using "no permission", "no source" and "deletion request" templates, where notification on user talk page is done automatically. P.S. Except you, i think no one else warned me before about this, because i would definitely use this notification even before. --Smooth O (talk) 18:46, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
@Smooth O: I notified you in this edit 14:45, 18 October 2020 (UTC), and then again 39 days later above in this edit 18:34, 28 November 2020 (UTC). The header of this page has clearly said "Notify the user(s) concerned. {{subst:Discussion-notice|noticeboard=COM:AN/B|thread=|reason=}} is available for this." for over seven years.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:59, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Quack quack!

Known sockpuppeteer came back as User:Ashaz mso. Thx. E4024 (talk) 00:32, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Probably Xufifcn. See also M:SRG#Global lock for شمون سالی.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:34, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. I have already deleted these files once! Indefinitely blocked. Taivo (talk) 09:03, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:40, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Template:Undeleted

Close to 1,000 transclusions, so either semi-protection or template protection. --George Ho (talk) 13:48, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Template-protected. -- CptViraj (talk) 15:26, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

User:ZofiaStaniszewska

SPA that uploaded a picture of Zofia Staniszewska (Q9391861) and had her as their username. It should either be verified that they are this famous person or the account name should be changed to something like User:ZofiaStaniszewskaFan to avoid the impression that they're an inpersonation. See Commons:USERNAME Vera (talk) 23:28, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Only one upload 2 weeks ago. Block is not needed, I nominated the image for regular deletion and that's enough. Taivo (talk) 08:04, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Known sockpuppeteer is back again

✓ Done. Indefinitely blocked, file deleted. Taivo (talk) 07:59, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
Now: User:Bhulzol. --E4024 (talk) 15:50, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Protection request

User:Terlines, an SPA as seen per their contributions, is removing Category:Capitals in Europe from Category:Ankara, claiming that the city is not on the European continent. There is no way to make them understand (experienced users here know very well you cannot convince people when they come here to do "something specific", the reasoning behind being an "SPA") that Turkey is a transcontinental country and almost all categories relating to the country appear both in Europe and Asia, the exception being most sports cats, because Turkish sports federations are only members of European sports confederations. I have no doubt where the city that has been my home for many years is situated, however, this is not about geography. (In that case Nicosia is also not in Europe, as the Island of Cyprus is part of Anatolia or Asia Minor. For some reason the SPA has no problems with that "transcontinental" case. :) This is clearly a POV campaign. Therefore I kindly request their last edit at Category:Ankara be reverted and the page protected from this SPA. Thanks in advance. --E4024 (talk) 14:10, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

  • Of course Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife may be in Africa, but no problem to consider them "in the European continent" when you are not really interested in geography but other things... Am I wrong? (Now I also understand better why the Iberian Jews converted for fear of death by Inquisition preferred to take surnames like "Santa Cruz"; intelligent people... In Turkey we do not know how to protect ourselves from being made "the other" all the time. What a pity...) --E4024 (talk) 14:28, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Bank12445

✓ Done, blocked one week. Эlcobbola talk 15:44, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
@Elcobbola: Many thanks. --Crep1711 (talk) 17:59, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

NinjaRobotPirate (Wikipedia) and Ferret (Wikipedia) was suspended. Request unblock "Dispute resolution noticeboard".

Need unblock better BlaineStu2025 (Wikipedia)

Learn explain Good faith

Safe to good faith without blocking (non-disruptive editing) helping you.

Bad faith

Other people when to revert helping better.

Don't blocking is it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BlaineStu2025 (talk • contribs) 23:46, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

For what it's worth, this editor is part of a sock farm that I confirmed on English Wikipedia. See en:Special:Diff/991671882. One is globally locked, but I don't think any of them are blocked yet on Commons. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:35, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
@NinjaRobotPirate and Ferret: I reported them at M:SRG#Global lock for BlaineStu2025.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 06:19, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
@NinjaRobotPirate and Ferret: ... and they're locked.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:35, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
I blocked the sockfarm yesterday and created a sockpuppet category. Taivo (talk) 08:22, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:46, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

RomeoJuliette1980

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:33, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

 Comment Edits have stopped after you warned him/her. Taivo (talk) 08:24, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Krizar10Z

✓ Done Blocked by Эlcobbola Gbawden (talk) 11:21, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

GTVM92

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:54, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

File:SARS-CoV-2 without background.png

Could we semi-protect File:SARS-CoV-2 without background.png? It's a highly visible file given that it's used in tons of COVID-19 templates, and it was recently vandalized. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 20:57, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Upload protected 3 months. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:23, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Clebrityprofiles

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 00:35, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef -- Disruptive editing & personal attacks → generally not here to build a free media repository. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:28, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
@AntiCompositeNumber: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:30, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
I reblocked Clebrityprofiles without talk page access for abusing it. Taivo (talk) 09:29, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:15, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

User:Riwiwiwi

✓ Done. Blocked for a week. Taivo (talk) 10:53, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Many thanks. --Crep1711 (talk) 12:09, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Files in Category:SVG sovereign state flags

Can all those be semi-protected? Some already are. Different unregistered users remove multiple captions on one of the flag files once a day on average. Today it was File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg, File:Flag of Niger.svg and File:Flag of Uruguay.svg. None is especially badly targeted but it adds up. Due to the nature of structured data edits the file histories get increasingly messy, especially when users remove 5–10 captions at once.--TFerenczy (talk) 22:43, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

German sex worker

Could we semi-protect indef this please? It's potentially controversial and in wide global usage. There would have to be a very good reason to overwrite it and it looks like it's being targeted for mischief. --Fæ (talk) 11:47, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. However, to prevent against overwriting, what has actually happened, I had to fully-protect the file. --Túrelio (talk) 11:56, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
@Fæ and Túrelio: I dispute the "self-" portion of the naming of this file, as I can see no trigger mechanism or timer info in the metadata.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
The file is in wide use, was raised several times for deletion (not under the current name) and has been hosted long enough for COM:GOF to be a consideration.
If you want to raise copyright concerns, it would be sensible to put in some due diligence to see if these hypothetical issues have an existing consensus. This is not an especially important file, nor do I have any special interest in it, but Commons stability for the very long term is an issue that underpins GOF. --Fæ (talk) 14:09, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
@Fæ: My dispute is not about permission, which is covered by GOF; the file is not even tagged as GOF. I don't want to delete the file. But I am concerned about the name, as I don't think the subject was the photographer.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:41, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Sure, renaming would probably not harm anything. You may want to look at the usage, especially if you can read German, before choosing the new name. --Fæ (talk) 14:59, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
In this special case the "self" is indeed credible, though I won't provide more information. If you want to make sure more authentically, ask the uploader of the 2nd or 4th file-version. --Túrelio (talk) 15:49, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Block and protection of user talk page

Hi. An LTA is consistently leaving me nonsensical messages - a block and a possible protection of my talk page would be helpful. Thanks. -Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 18:49, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. --Achim (talk) 19:15, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

File:Sin título.png

Please protect the above as per {{prohibited name}}. Same as with File:Untitled.png. Thanks. —MarcoAurelio 22:26, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Minoraxtalk 22:57, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

User repeatedly uploading copyvio image under different names

Parthpandey16 has repeatedly uploaded a copyrighted image of en:T. Natarajan, each time under a different file name. Most current one is File:T.Natarajan.jpg.webp (but there will be other names in deleted contrbiutions). Can this user be blocked for copyvio violation? Joseph2302 (talk) 15:42, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Only 2 uploads, both deleted. I warned the user, that's enough. Taivo (talk) 12:03, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

User:Sarah 1985

The user Sarah 1985 was already warned two and a half years ago that it is not allowed to overwrite image files with completely different images. Two years ago, she was warned again. After another violation, her user account was blocked for a week. Now she has become active again and continues exactly the same misconduct. As the photos are on the subject of sexuality and the false images she uploads appear immediately in our articles, which can be very irritating, there is a particular urgency to this matter. Since she or he avoids giving credit to the true author of the photo in this way, it cannot be ruled out that some photographs were published against the will of the woman who was photographed and that personality rights are violated.

The fact that Sarah reverted the latest overwriting shows that she commits the violations deliberately, perhaps out of an inner compulsion, and then reverts it so that no action is taken against her user account. So intent is evident here. This is real vandalism. The effect was also very unpleasant for me personally, because after her renewed vandalism, which caused her wrong photo to appear in an article I had edited, I tried to get rid of it by resetting it. As a result, I now have photos in my list that I don't want in there at all. I don't want those pictures in my files. She didn't reset it immediately, she reset it after 52 minutes. That was a clear provocation. In doing so, she abuses the placating effect of visual sexual stimuli on male adminstrators. I think it is time for a permanent ban, because she is obviously either unwilling or unable to refrain such violations. Sciencia58 (talk) 08:27, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Clearly not here to contribute positively Gbawden (talk) 09:03, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Where ?? Sciencia58 (talk) 10:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

User:Studiomaster Profesional

The username is inappropriate and being used for promotional purposes. By its username it's evidently run by the company, where they uploaded their image: File:Studiomaster Professional.jpg, and used this image on now-deleted wikipedia:User:Studiomaster Profesional page for the same reason. --Stylez995 (talk) 09:00, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him indefinitely due to inappropriate username. Taivo (talk) 09:16, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Morrispedia2

Morrispedia2 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

AvratoMedia

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

✓ Done. No edits since October, block is not needed. Bot warned Avrato, let's hope that helps. I deleted the promotional userpage. Taivo (talk) 12:49, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
@Taivo: Fair enough, although the rationale for the block request was also the spam username, as well as the spam images. IWI (talk) 17:23, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Protection

Please protect flags of 1950-1959, only allow trusted users to edit this.

ColorfulSmoke (talk) 12:05, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

@ColorfulSmoke: why? I don’t see anyone else editing those pages, let alone vandalizing them. We don’t normally protect pages preëmptively unless they’re very prominently exposed (e.g. images appearing on a sister project’s Main Page) or they are heavily used templates where any damage done would cause widespread disruption.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 20:52, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Lietuvis999

✓ Done. Given big number of copyvios, I blocked him for a month. Taivo (talk) 09:02, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

User:EOLE79

Crosswiki abuse, see deleted contribs (I guess it's disruptive, or else they won't have 31 edits deleted) and SUL. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 13:28, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

 Not done. I do not see disruption in deleted edits. Mostly they were uploaded test files, one of them was deleted due to Eole's own request. Deleted userpage had a lot of edits. If that's crosswiki abuse, then you can lock the account, but I do not give any sanctions locally. Taivo (talk) 08:08, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

User:Elowa

Elowa (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  continue to upload copyvios after warning and after being blocked previously. --Smooth O (talk) 08:36, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 3 months Gbawden (talk) 09:30, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

MedicalWorker

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:12, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

See also Category:Sockpuppets of SuperSucker.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:01, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. Globally locked. Taivo (talk) 09:37, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Omkv69

Duck sock of globally locked Sajith Thomas. See uploads and UDR request for evidence. pandakekok9 04:28, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. blocked, tagged, deleted. Taivo (talk) 09:36, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

اکرم بابولی (talk · contribs)

I've indef-blocked this account, after realizing that he/she had overwritten >40 mostly high-profile image of (mostly) Pakistani personalities all with the same demeaning shot of a defecaeting man. Account is also indef-blocked on :ur wikipedia. --Túrelio (talk) 10:46, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

By the sound of it a puppet account. I had a couple of those recently. --Herby talk thyme 10:59, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Hosumyng123 (talk · contribs)

User has been caught uploading numerous copyvio photos several times as attested in their user talk page. Now they are uploading copyrighted photos through Flickr then assign them with a CC license to circumvent the Commons copyright policy. -WayKurat (talk) 05:52, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Final warning given per policy. Next time they will be blocked Gbawden (talk) 07:23, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Polish Cow12 (talk · contribs)

I've indef-blocked on the spot this account, whose first upload was a clearly racist attack-image. Was already indef-blocked on :en. Account-name probably also meant as an attack. --Túrelio (talk) 16:57, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

OK. Good block. Also globally locked now. Nothing good is expected from such account. Taivo (talk) 16:56, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
Looks like good ole Wikinger. --jdx Re: 02:20, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

File:Facebook Messenger logo 2020.svg

Please protect File:Facebook Messenger logo 2020.svg again - lots of disruptive IP editing. Thanks, Aranya (talk) 02:02, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done --jdx Re: 02:10, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Ken Tony Peter

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:15, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for a week Gbawden (talk) 06:21, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
@Gbawden: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 06:26, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

SuperScienceMaster124

Can someone block User:SuperScienceMaster124 while we wait for a global lock? This is Special:CentralAuth/PoliceOfficer124, a globally locked cross-wiki vandal. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:10, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

NinjaRobotPirate, ✓ Done —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 22:19, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Casting Director Girdhar Swami

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:40, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Already glocked but still ✓ blocked for local record. -- CptViraj (talk) 17:50, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
@CptViraj: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:52, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

누라나

ColorfulSmoke

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:48, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Requested protection for File:Iranian-languages-map.jpg

Looks like there's a edit warring since years, and therefore a protection/solving problems between users might be good. I'm not familiar with Commons' report system, so apologies if I did a mistake.Ahmetlii (talk) 11:01, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 17:14, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

MilvianBored

Vandalism, repeated removing of speedy deletion template, and user page vandalism, response to warnings: Don't tell me what to do! You're not my parent!, clearly not here to contribute constructivley. Dylsss (talk) 02:55, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

 Comment Probably also 2600:1700:dc00:6d60::/64 and DinosaursRoar, but I am too lazy to fill in request for CU. --jdx Re: 08:17, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
@Dylsss and Jdx: Please see Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/MilvianBored.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:25, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. Note that the RFCU was moved to Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/DinosaursRoar. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:47, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

File:H1N1 map.svg

Request unprotection of File:H1N1 map.svg. The H1N1 swine flu pandemic has terminated for 10 years, shouldn't be a target of vandalism. Also calling @Miya: as the protecting admin. --219.78.190.79 05:27, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 10:40, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

User:Хришћанство and User:Немања Панић

Хришћанство (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  and Немања Панић (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  are probably another Category:Sockpuppets of Миодраг Крагуљ since both users are uploading copyrighted images of same people related to Serbian Orthodox Church in same manner like all other detected sockpuppets (example) --Smooth O (talk) 20:41, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Blocked and tagged. Taivo (talk) 10:44, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Do we protect local files used in the interface of other projects?

Because if so, File:Pango-name.svg needs to be protected as it's used on es:MediaWiki:Nonunicodebrowser which is an interface page. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:18, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Indefinitely semi-protected. Taivo (talk) 10:47, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

User:Crazy&confused

Crazy&confused (talk · contribs) is another Category:Sockpuppets of Yahadzija, since he is uploading same previously deleted images. --Smooth O (talk) 08:24, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Smooth O, I'm less sure about that, there are some uploads that don't seem to be redos. CU assistance requested at Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Yahadzija. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:45, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Now Confirmed and blocked. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 20:12, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

User:Hanara143

I already warned Hanara143 (talk · contribs) about the file uploads but kept on uploading files (which now have been deleted) w/ copyright violation(s). — Emperork 🐋🐰 14:57, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked for 2 weeks. -- CptViraj (talk) 15:03, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Sock of K scream

Movablege (talk · contribs) is a sock of blocked K scream (talk · contribs). Uploaded File:Fx image.jpg which was used in enwiki spam of K scream. See also w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/K scream. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 15:10, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done --Minoraxtalk 15:11, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

ConstructorRob18

User uploads copyvio images after final warning. --A1Cafel (talk) 04:26, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done --Minoraxtalk 04:36, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

User:Amazingth

User:Amazingth is still uploading copyvios after their second block of 30 days. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:56, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indefinitely by JGHowes Gbawden (talk) 07:13, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Godwin Chikamso

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 07:17, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

 Half done Globally locked. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:00, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Bank12445

 Info Has been very quickly done already by Herbythyme - many thanks! --Crep1711 (talk) 16:58, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

2409:4052:793:31C3:0:0:261:F0AD

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:50, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Already warned. -- CptViraj (talk) 04:53, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Nayzaka

User uploads copyvio images after final warnings. --A1Cafel (talk) 07:08, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for a week Gbawden (talk) 07:29, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Comrade-yutyo

Upload copyvio images after final warnings. --A1Cafel (talk) 08:07, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

The image is public domain. --Comrade-yutyo (talk) 09:06, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
@Comrade-yutyo: You need to provide proof of your PD claim - where on the site is that license? Gbawden (talk) 09:35, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. I blocked him for a week. Taivo (talk) 14:05, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Vladybedinnnnnnnnnn

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:34, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

@Jeff G.:  Not done; last edit was nearly two years ago, so I don't see much reason to block. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:19, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

User:Adarshrathor

Vanity spammer, see uploads (at DR and etc). + enwp indef etc Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 17:53, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Warned. No need for a block yet Gbawden (talk) 07:41, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

User:點蟲蟲

Please block 點蟲蟲 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  for uploading multiple copyvios and vandalism. --Wcam (talk) 19:34, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Final warning given. Will be blocked if they persist Gbawden (talk) 07:40, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

File:COVID-19 Nurse (cropped).jpg

Request Semi Protection they are IP vandalism Pls See [4] [5] Thank you HurricaneEdgar 07:28, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Semi protected. Let us know if this is not sufficient Gbawden (talk) 07:37, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

File:Flag of Morocco.svg

Request unprotection in order to update file in accordance with this discussion (here). Thank you. --Flaspec (talk) 03:25, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done @Flaspec: Ping me when done so I can re-instate protection Gbawden (talk) 07:36, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done @Gbawden: you can re-instate protection now. --Flaspec (talk) 12:20, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done re-protected Gbawden (talk) 15:57, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Cassius of WWCC (talk · contribs · logs · block log)

This 12 years old kids has been warned that his uploads are copyvio or out of scope for Commons multiple times (see Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems). All of those uploads have been deleted so far but he persists in uploading new ones as useless and as copyvio as before. He should be blocked indefinitely.

Pierre cb (talk) 06:01, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

User PMRMaeyaert

PMRMaeyaert (talk · contribs) today I became aware of problems around uploads of PMRMaeyaert, problems others have adressed also, to no avail. He has uploaded tens of thousands of his own images, and it are good images, that's not the problem. But not only doesn't he categorize, he is also uploading duplicates, for years already. Besides that, reading his Talk page, I saw that he accused others of messing with at least 15.000 of his uploads, to which he gave an example: File:27439 Oudenaarde Eine Sint-Eligiuskerk 21.jpg. As anyone can see, but apparently nobody before me has, it was PMRMaeyaert himself who created the problem: he uploaded a file, the exterior of a church that is described in the filename, and minutes later he overwrote the file with an image of the interior of another church. The next in the sequence, nr. 22, has the same problem, so I fear this is a very mayor problem of thousands of files where the content does not match the description.

When I pointed this out to him, all he could do was brag about his collection etc. and he didn't take back any of the accusations. After that, he refused to further reply. At the same time, others made clear that also today he is uploading duplicates, in high speed.

So without bothering about what he called 'ravage' (havoc), he continues to give other people a lot of work to clean up the mess, ongoing while I write this. Would it be welcome to instant block this user, to take some time to consider how to correct this all? This can't go on. Eissink (talk) 16:17, 3 January 2021 (UTC).

This is an example of a duplicate he uploaded today: File:PM 092350 B Kluisbos.jpg (duplicate of File:Kluisbos PM 092350 B.jpg). I don't have the skills and means to mass identify duplicates, but it is to be feared that this is far from the only one. The Talk page learns that the uploader also tends to duplicate by later uploading low resolution duplicates. Another curious thing is that PMRMaeyaert, after all these years, still refuses to sign his comments, which makes communication even harder. Eissink (talk) 16:29, 3 January 2021 (UTC).
Final remark: after pointing user to this AN/U, he responded by maintaining that others have changed the file names (this concerns the first example I gave). It is hard to say if user is clueless or trolling, but to yet another request to sign his postings, by Jeff G., he responded right behind the date: "Thanks for advising", without signing. This all is not normal behaviour. Meanwhile he continues to high speed upload uncategorized pictures that might very well be duplicates. Eissink (talk) 16:42, 3 January 2021 (UTC).
A random pick from the last ten minutes indeed gives a duplicate: File:PM 091046 E Granada.jpg (today) / File:Granada PM 091046 E.jpg (2015). Block this user now. Eissink (talk) 16:50, 3 January 2021 (UTC).
Random pick from one minute ago: File:PM 039927 B Lissewege.jpg, a lower resolution duplicate of File:ID79787-Lissewege Onze Lieve Vrouw Bezoeking-PM 39927.jpg, of course not categorized.
I don't know how I can make more clear to admins that this guy is giving a lot of troubles, ongoing, in high speed. Eissink (talk) 17:17, 3 January 2021 (UTC).

Additions

Copy Violation => Portrait of bishop Arthur Luysterman who is stil alive... - --Carolus (talk) 23:18, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Keep calm

Let's focus on the main points for now (doubles, naming and categorization), and keep our calm. User:PMRMaeyaert has uploaded close to 33,000 images over a period of 10 years. Even if all images would be doubles, that would mean the addition of 16,500 good and valuable images of Belgian religious heritage to Commons -and Belgium isn't exactly over-represented on Commons. An important task would be to make clear to Maeyaert that the community will listen to his arguments, but that the community will ultimately decide on the naming and deduplication of images. As a start: it's easy to make one category containing all images made and uploaded by Maeyaert, and work from there. We then could, perhaps in cooperation with Wikimedia Belgium @Geertivp: , try to work out a secure and smart way to both categorize and deduplicate. Vysotsky (talk) 00:25, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

@Vysotsky: You seem to have overlooked that he blames others of renaming his uploads, while it was he himself who overwrote his own files with unrelated new images. For me, there is no need to keep calm when someone accuses others of his own wrongdoing, someone who after over ten years still doesn't sign the comments that he attaches with no space to other people's comments and get's sarcastic when people ask him to sign, then starts bragging about all of his work, then refuses to further communicate and instead continues to upload hundreds and hundreds of lower res duplicates, just because he can do so probably because for years people have said "Keep calm". Good luck with cleaning up the mess, I hope you can catch up while he continues to deliver more havoc. Eissink (talk) 01:33, 4 January 2021 (UTC).
I don't underestimate the problem. I am just trying to find a solution. Vysotsky (talk) 01:41, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
Any solution, except blocking to prevent further damage, requires PMRMaeyaert to acknowledge or at least recognize the problem, but signs appear to show quite the opposite. Eissink (talk) 01:57, 4 January 2021 (UTC).
@PMRMaeyaert: What to do with the double images in (for example) Category:Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Paix (Ellezelles) Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 17:13, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
Resolved(doubles removed)

Proposal

I will deduplicate all photographs uploaded by User:PMRMaeyaert. I will try to bring all useful information to the file with the highest resolution (in most cases: the first uploaded version). This will take several months, as Maeyaert uploaded >30,000 photographs, of which >3,000 are doubles. Doing this manually ensures that useful descriptions won't get lost. At the same time this causes extra work, so it is vital that no new duplicates will be uploaded by User:PMRMaeyaert. I told him so at his talkpage. Vysotsky (talk) 10:25, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Okay. Eissink (talk) 17:53, 10 January 2021 (UTC).

Yprpyqp/Qiushufang/Gunman Dan

In April 2020 serial copyright violator Qiushufang was blocked and many hundreds, though not all of his copyright infringements were finally deleted. In August he apparently returned unnoticed as Gunman Dan, on whom I requested now a check-user. Being a shape-shifter of some sorts he very likely started his career as Yprpyqp before he received a final warning for copyvio and thought it wise to change his ID to someone else (Qiushufang). To date, all three accounts are still unblocked on WP.EN with Qiushufang being as active as you can.

The whole episode hasn't been exactly a testimony to the ability of Commons to detect and root out mass copyright infringement. While it was already quite a struggle to get the administrative process going on Qiushufang, I just noticed that some deletion requests of mine on Yprpyqp haven't been addressed even after half a year... (see blue links on his talkpage). Now I have initiated a batch deletion request on Gunman Dan, and, frankly, I don't want to wait another one for them being dealt with. I understand, we are all volunteers but if it takes that long then something's undeniably wrong with the process.

But the overall issue I am having difficulties in getting my mind around is why is it made so complicated to treat the entire case as it obviously is: a user who has been committing mass copyvio for years and should be therefore blocked indef (if not banned) on all projects. The motions I tried last year were sucked up by the bureaucratic process and went to nowhere ([6], [7]).

Now can somebody please talk me through what needs to get done to bring the matter to its rightful end? Gun Powder Ma (talk) 03:51, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

@Gun Powder Ma: Have you considered making a case on m:srg with diffs?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:57, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Thanks for the hint. I did briefly look into it, but found the hurdles somewhat discouraging, namely that the case should be "mentioned widely on meta, and on all communities where the user is active in the local language" (source). But since in this case the said user is mostly active on WP.EN, yes, it could be worth a try. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 17:15, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
@Gun Powder Ma: You're welcome. For accounts, they would be m:Global locks.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:10, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

For information: Another mass deletion request. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 17:17, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Stop such needless DRs. Problem reported to special:permalink/525375630#Large_number_of_acceptable_files_being_needlessly_DR-ed.--Roy17 (talk) 20:25, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry

Othayoth shankaran and Kalangot are the same person abusively using multiple accounts. Othayoth has been repeatedly uploading copyright violated images [8], including a $65,000 priced painting as his own work in public domain. English Wikipedia has already identified sockpuppetry, both these accounts belongs to Adhithya Kiran Chekavar (see Kalangot), Othayoth shankaran was indeffed for WP:NOTHERE and harassment, who is also a sock of Adhithya Kiran Chekavar, evidences can be seen at the SPI and the CU result is "likely". Additional evidence: this edit, if you open that reference it's a self-published manual written by "Adhithya Kiran", who is User:Adhithya Kiran Chekavar. At commons, both have uploaded image and title with same content Othayoth, Kalangot.

Additionally, Vvian980 is also the same user. Both Vvian980 and Othayoth uploaded the same [9],[10] on the same date (6 October 2020) and both uploaded the same $65,000 priced painting of Unniyarcha with the same deceptive rationale - [11],[12] (there was also a sock Unniyarcha in En.Wikipedia). If this cannot be solved here can someone help transfer this to Check User page as a new request? 2409:4073:393:F917:C164:BDEF:B30D:3339 07:16, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Pardon, but where's the abuse here? Is Othayoth evading their block here? No, because they were never blocked here. Some of the users you linked here last edited on 2019; and you expect our checkusers to confirm that they are Othayoth? If there's anyone who's disruptive here, it's you, as you are repeatedly tagging files like this for deletion, even if they are clearly in the public domain and properly sourced! pandakekok9 02:45, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Repeatedly uploading copyright violated images not an abuse? Even uploaded a $65,000 painting in public domain. And bypassing his image deletions by uploading same images from other accounts, and making fake allegations against me. 2409:4073:2E9B:1B70:A54A:EE38:59DB:95D0 07:39, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
I missed the 65,000 painting, sorry about that. You could have been straight to the point and provided wikilinks instead of using external ones though. @Othayoth shankaran: Do you confirm or deny that the Vvian980 is yours? If you deny, or not answer within 48 hours, then I will have to open a request for checkuser against you. Note that if you deny and the checkusers say otherwise, you will most likely be given sanctions, with the best case scenario being a block on the sock, and worst case, the main account that is the Othayoth one will be blocked too. So I highly suggest that you tell the truth here.

I also don't condone Othayoth's allegations against the IP. If you believe that 99v is this IP, then you will have to prove it by linking to diffs.

Now back to you IP, just because I agree with you here doesn't mean you're out of trouble. pandakekok9 09:14, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Not only you were too lazy to start a deletion request and exert the effort to provide a good rationale for deletion, you are also too lazy to notify Vvian980, Kalangot, and Othayoth shankaran about this thread. And no, pings are not enough; you must use the talk page. pandakekok9 02:56, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a new user and the IP user has been deleting my uploaded works using speedy deleting without any reason. initially, I have lost many photos because I do not know how to tackle this vandal. Later I got advice from other admins and editors here and he has been warned for nominating my uploads for speedy deletion. You can see it my page edit history.

This IP user is reported in Wikipedia (yes, it is another project) for IP Gaming.

Now he got a warning from the editors in nominating my works for speedy deletion, so he found another way to delete my works by accusing me a sock puppet, which is a serious allegation i haven't done. he found many users and cooking up stories to claim I'm a sock puppet.

I suspect he is user 99v (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:99v) who is now into logged out editing.

This IP user is repeatedly tagging this sourced photo , which is an online pdf published some 200 years back , for speedy deletion and he has been warned multiple times for that.

This IP user is into disruptive editing and vandalizing and attacking some specific photos related to Kalari and some community photos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Othayoth shankaran (talk • contribs) 06:22, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

LOL. This comes from a user who has been banned and blocked from both English and Malayalam Wikipedias for vandalism, disruptive editing and harassment. He makes fake allegation against anyone who reports him, can be seen above too. He is editing Wikipedia only to promote his caste, Thiyya. Even here this clown is not admitting the copyright violated images he uploaded. 2409:4073:2E9B:1B70:A54A:EE38:59DB:95D0 07:39, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Please don't lie here, Othayoth. I may had defended you on my talk page, but you're clearly not a new user. You know that. pandakekok9 09:14, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
pandakekok9: Your 48 hour ultimatum is over and he has not brought anything to the table, as expected. 2409:4073:106:9BBD:F486:584:35A3:EE67 09:17, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Opened an RfCU at Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Othayoth shankaran. pandakekok9 12:59, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Category:Azzeddine Farhane

  • Category:Azzeddine Farhane
  • Reasons for protection: Edit war with an IP who keeps adding extensive biography of subject. Has been going on since page creation in December 2019. Category was protected from May to November 2020, now edit war resumes.
  • Protection type and proposed protection time span: Semi-protection, 1 year.

B2Belgium (talk) 16:35, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Indefinitely semi-protected due to long-term (more than year) problematic edits. Taivo (talk) 11:33, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Бмхүн

Problems:

  1. Verbal abuse in upload summary in File:MDos khams Commanding Office.png.
  2. This user has been told to observe COM:OVERWRITE at least twice, but s/he is still violating it. Even though some of the changes might have merit and be made in good faith, it's tiresome to tell the user comply with rules.

I would also like to emphasise that I am confident this user was a sockpuppeteer since this account made similar actions to the same files the confirmed sockpuppeteers Anchuhu and others edited.--Roy17 (talk) 20:25, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

@Roy17: Roy, why not open a RFCU Gbawden (talk) 09:02, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Multiple users spamming same image

They are abusing multiple accounts to add upload the same image multiple times under nonsensical name, possibly using it for spamming purposes. Also the image is copyvio as screenshot from non-free email message. All images at the time tagged for speedy deletion. --Stylez995 (talk) 02:16, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked both for abusing multiple accounts - they can appeal. Deleted all uploads Gbawden (talk) 09:00, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Sockpuppets

And sockpuppet account Gonaourik12 uploaded same spam image as before. Drop the nuke on the sock's images. --Stylez995 (talk) 19:05, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Update: Already blocked and images deleted. --Stylez995 (talk) 19:29, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

User:Swgweather

Please block Swgweather (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  for uploading copyvios after final warning. --Wcam (talk) 04:59, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done blocked for a week and uploads nuked Gbawden (talk) 09:03, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Protection request

Thank you for consideration, — xaosflux Talk 02:48, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 03:15, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

DZwarrior1

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:49, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

To be fair to this user File:LOGO du NAHD.png and others, for which he received a DR notice, weren't uploaded by him. They merely uploaded a better quality file. Not sure a block is merited, this user genuinely appears to be trying to contribute from what I saw in a quick glance Gbawden (talk) 06:45, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Protection request

Please protect File:WP20 NoWiki Logo.png for a week. It is used as a logo for the Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia (no:). Jon Harald Søby (talk) 18:10, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 18:42, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Protection request

Thank you for consideration, — xaosflux Talk 18:21, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 18:31, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

PMR Mayaert

Hello, after multiple warnings and patiance, (long after "administrator assistance") this user still refuses to change his way of working. Today he - again - added exactly the same images. For the protection of wikipedia, he should be blockes, ASAP. please see his talkpage for the whole history. Thank you,--Carolus (talk) 08:21, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

1/ the discussion needs to be held here, not on nl-wiki and 2/ what are these? Identical images File:PM 132864 B Schorisse.jpg & File:PM 132863 B Schorisse.jpg => this is not the purpose of Commons, this is realy dumping images like Bulk cargo on our servers. He could even not be bothered to create a usefull discription name. This has to stop at once. Vysotskyare, is the only one who agrees with his work esthetics. --Carolus (talk) 06:43, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
(1) Files 132863 and 132864 are photographs of two different works of art in Schorisse, both part of a series of The Descent from the Cross - to which File:PM_132862_B_Schorisse.jpg also belongs. That makes this part of your argument invalid. (2) You misrepesent my opinion about the modus operandi of User:PMRMaeyaert. I'd rather have him also categorizing his images (see a few lines above), but I don't think a block will enable this. Maeyaert seems to have stopped uploading duplicates, which is a first step in the right direction. Vysotsky (talk) 11:50, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

User:Rusmirko

User Rusmirko (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  continues to upload copyrighted images after two final warnings. --Smooth O (talk) 12:06, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ blocked for a week rubin16 (talk) 15:31, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Raa555

Constant edit warring at File:Lezgin_map.png. The account's whole purpose seems to be reverting the file to an unsourced version of the map (which the original publisher changed from) as their Contribs page consists of 5 edits, with all of them being same edit warring on same file. CuriousGolden (talk) 14:48, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

@CuriousGolden: Involved users should be notified after you report them here. I did that for you. pandakekok9 14:58, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. I'm somewhat new to Commons, so I didn't know how to do that. CuriousGolden (talk) 18:17, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
 Not done Raa555 has not continued after AntiCompositeNumber warning left on their talk page. @CuriousGolden: Please also familiarize yourself with Commons:Overwriting existing files, as your uploads potentially were in contravention of that policy. Thank you. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 12:55, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

File:Python logo and wordmark.svg

IP editors keep vandalising this by removing captions in languages other than their own. Please semi-protect. Rodhullandemu (talk) 10:08, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done File semi-protected. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 12:42, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Ентусиастъ

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:24, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

you have warned him today and he hasn't uploaded anything else afterwards... if he continues, we can use a block, I think rubin16 (talk) 15:29, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
See also Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Ентусиастъ.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:18, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Ronny Hendra Noegraha

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:58, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Blocked indefinitely based on the blocks in other wikis and for other his accounts rubin16 (talk) 10:36, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
@Rubin16: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:38, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

RonmessRajuKandel

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:09, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Blocked for a week rubin16 (talk) 10:43, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
@Rubin16: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:44, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Kuull

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:24, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Category:The Wiggles

Target of IP editors, probably kids, who don't get COM:OVERCAT and who might think that creating multiple categories will improve the internet profile of their "heroes". Please apply cascading semi-protection until they grow up or get it. Thanks. Rodhullandemu (talk) 23:08, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

User:Necacar5277

Necacar5277 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  After being blocked and warned second time for overwriting images with copyrighted images, he continues to do it. Also copyrighted version of File:Тихомир Станић.jpeg uploaded by this user should be deleted. --Smooth O (talk) 10:54, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indefinitely Gbawden (talk) 10:59, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Template:Museo Civico di Modena

Authorization procedure via OTRS finished, please apply protection. --.avgas 18:09, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Over9000edits + associated socks

User Over9000edits has been blocked for over two years on the English Wikipedia for sockpuppetry but is still active on Commons. Multiple confirmed sockpuppets, including Melvingatez34, Svgguy5, and OneToughNerd, are also blocked on English Wikipedia yet the puppetmaster continues to be active on these accounts on Commons, with the most recent edits from all accounts being within the last month. The puppetmaster is disruptive, repeatedly performing mass reverts of map files to fit their own aesthetic standard and uses multiple accounts to engage in this. No sign of stopping. Kingofthedead (talk) 06:16, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

See also m:srg#Global lock for Over9000edits.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:19, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
All locked.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:19, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Mirtalebi.official

Blocked and files deleted rubin16 (talk) 15:48, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

@Rubin16: The editor is now evading their block, creating User:Mirtalebi.official1. They have re-uploaded one of the images that got them blocked on the first account. See their upload at File:Mearaj tabasi lotfabadi.jpg and compare against File:Mearaj Tabasilotfabadi.jpg (deleted as a copyvio). Please block the sockpuppet and delete the new copyright violation. Note: I have blocked both of these accounts on en.wikipedia. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 22:47, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

See also m:srg#Global lock for Mirtalebi.official.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:13, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Blocked, thanks rubin16 (talk) 08:27, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

File:6ix9ine.jpg

Persistent vandalism from IP editors over time. Frodar (talk) 00:51, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Due to long-term anonymous vandalism I semi-protected it for a year. Taivo (talk) 08:20, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

TheUSSocialist

TheUSSocialist (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) This user has uploaded a very large number of copyvios. They have been warned many times and every once in a while try to delete the notices. Should be blocked. DemonDays64 (talk) 06:44, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done blocked for 2 weeks Gbawden (talk) 15:19, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

TheSubGeniusGuy1979

User claims to be User: SleepyHollowGuy1999, as CU might be needed for that claim. Bidgee (talk) 06:51, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Indeffed as VOA for now. -- CptViraj (talk) 07:47, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Ratan tukali

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:43, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 2 weeks Gbawden (talk) 06:34, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
@Gbawden: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:32, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

possibly offensive username

User:Remove kebab vol.2. DMBFFF (talk) 01:43, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

I do not understand. Offensive for kebabs? Who is offended here? Taivo (talk) 09:13, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
w:Remove Kebab. DMBFFF (talk) 09:45, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
"Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the Australian gunman in the 2019 mass shootings at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, had the phrase "Remove Kebab" written on one of his weapons.[3] In his manifesto The Great Replacement (named after a far-right theory from France of the same name by writer Renaud Camus), he describes himself as a "Part time kebab removalist".[4][22] He also livestreamed himself playing the song in his car mere minutes before the shooting."
I first read the phrase in 4chan.DMBFFF (talk) 09:50, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Full protection for File:Wikipedia20 hashflag.svg

  • Time span: till January 31, 22:00 UTC.
  • Reason: file is used in a CentralNotice banner.

@Ahonc: fyi -- Ата (talk) 17:01, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

XxAlanEZExX

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:09, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indefinitely. All I see is vandalism Gbawden (talk) 15:21, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
@Gbawden: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:55, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
@Jeff G. and Gbawden: Sorry, but unless I'm missing something here, the indef (!!) block seems to be overkill IMHO, especially for a user who seems to be an established user at eswiki. Jeff's warning about copyright is also unnecessary, as the last copyvio notif was on Christmas 2020. I also don't understand the block rationale given by Gbawden, which is "vandalism". Where is the vandalism? Is it deleted? pandakekok9 14:10, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
@Pandakekok9: Perhaps Gbawden was looking at the contributions of the uploader of File:The Real Nikita Mazepin.jpg, Maisppo.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:19, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
I looked at 2 of their edits which looked suspicious. Re-looking at it again it was probably overkill and I have unblocked them but will keep an eye on it Gbawden (talk) 15:26, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Nurani15

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:02, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't see any deleted files in deleted user contributions? Inappropriate use of a user page may have happened because they are a new user. The page was deleted and they were warned. This may be enough Gbawden (talk) 06:37, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done This is strange, but the user was really warned before creating the userpage. I blocked the user for a week. Taivo (talk) 10:46, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:31, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
@Gbawden and Taivo: The user started their editing here by trying to advertise / promote on their user page User:Nurani15 starting at 02:21, 24 January 2021 (UTC). When that was blocked by multiple filters, they complained at COM:FILTERT at 02:36, and continued trying to create that page until 02:51. In the meantime, upon noticing their complaint and nefarious activity, at 02:48 I warned them and replied to them. Then they actually were able to slip a version of that page past the filters some time before 03:00, and I tagged the page for speedy deletion using criteria U3 and G10, notified them of the tagging at 03:00, created this section at 03:02, especially including "after warning for doing so" and "See Abuse filter log for initial attempts.", and notified them of this section at 03:03. Thankfully, Billinghurst deleted the page at 03:11.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:10, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Slazlo22

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:25, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

 Not done. No activity after you warned him. All uploads are deleted after regular requests. At moment block is not needed. Taivo (talk) 09:11, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done today by Taivo, thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:38, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Chen0110

✓ Done. Blocked for one week. I deleted all uploads with "source – Google, author – Google". Taivo (talk) 16:26, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Please protect Template:For

Hi, I recommend template-level protecting Template:For, per the accompanied lua module? Currently transcluded by 20k pages. Thanks, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 15:38, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done for the template. Does the mentioned Module also need protection? --Túrelio (talk) 15:43, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

User:Neyu1410

Please block Neyu1410 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  for uploading copyvios after the final warning. --Wcam (talk) 21:13, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him/her for a week. Taivo (talk) 08:59, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Mayhem Entertainment Rhodes Greece

Mayhem Entertainment Rhodes Greece (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

Obvious spam name. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:18, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him/her for inappropriate username. Taivo (talk) 08:58, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

RC-1841

RC-1841 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

Instead of blocking, just delete my account if it possible.I do not want to be on the same resource with such aggressive users.RC-1841 (talk) 18:33, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

@RC-1841: Please see COM:FAQ#How do I close my account?.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:36, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Thanks for the advice. Can you give me another day to upload my latest images? — Preceding unsigned comment added by RC-1841 (talk • contribs) 19:51, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Freddycastillogallardo

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:43, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him for a week. Copyvios are nominated for deletion. Taivo (talk) 11:18, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:49, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

User:庄国泰

庄国泰 (talk • contribs • block log • filter log) appears to be a sockpuppet of Swgweather (talk • contribs • block log • filter log). I noticed that 103.138.75.48 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • abusefilter • tools • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log) was removing/vandalizing the speedy deletion tag on File:Zhuangguotai.jpg and they made a similar edit to File:Liuyaming qixiangju.png, uploaded by Beijingmtr (talk • contribs • block log • filter log), a Swgweather sockpuppet. And it looks like 218.190.230.28 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • abusefilter • tools • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log) has been used by both accounts. Ytoyoda (talk) 18:23, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Master and sockpuppets are all indefinitely blocked. I blocked 3 IP-s, their edits are reverted. Taivo (talk) 11:25, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Dboy28

Upload copyvios after final warning. --A1Cafel (talk) 03:32, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked him for a month. Taivo (talk) 11:29, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Silviaguiar

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 01:46, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

 Not done. No edits after you warned him. Thank you for nominating copyvios for deletion! Taivo (talk) 11:13, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo: They were notified 00:18, 30 January 2021 (UTC) that "Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing." They uploaded copyvio File:Gontijo Petrônio.jpg 14:06, 30 January 2021 (UTC).   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:40, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

User:TqOMGh

✓ Done. I blocked the user indefinitely. Taivo (talk) 11:55, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Semiprotect Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Orlando Paride

✓ Done. I semi-protected it for a month. IP is blocked for a day. Taivo (talk) 11:11, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

File protection File:Ukrainian Wikipedia 17 logo v01.png

✓ Done. I semi-protected it. Taivo (talk) 11:51, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Missologa.world

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:06, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef. We can reduce the block if they turn out not to be a sock but blocking as a precaution Gbawden (talk) 18:31, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
@Gbawden: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:06, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Stefanik

User upload copyvio images after warnings. --A1Cafel (talk) 15:26, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 2 weeks Gbawden (talk) 18:36, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

SubGeniusSlackmaster8000

Reason for reporting: Lies — Preceding unsigned comment added by CokesBucks (talk • contribs) 18:26, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done: Indeffed for block evasion, sock of User:TheSubGeniusGuy1979. Edits reverted. --Achim (talk) 19:25, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

S.A.Farabi

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:36, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Last action was on 3 November 2020, so a block is useless here. pandakekok9 02:44, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Koreller

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:56, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

File:India Uttar Pradesh location map.svg

Much vandalism, please semi-protect. I'd do it myself, but... Rodhullandemu (talk) 13:02, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

EduWiki

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:48, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

I'm confused. Where's the vandalism here? Also, File:Cataratas Foz de Iguazú.jpg is not an obvious copyvio, so I converted that into a DR. pandakekok9 03:28, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
@Pandakekok9: This mess isn't vandalism?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 06:21, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: And you didn't bother to translate it? You're better than this, Jeff. pandakekok9 06:24, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

-- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 01:17, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Welp, seems like barnstars make you sus now...

To be serious, I don't think there's enough behavioural evidence to justify a sock block or checkuser here. But maybe I'm wrong here. What do you think, Magog the Ogre? pandakekok9 03:28, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

@Pandakekok9: How about copyvios?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 04:09, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: In which only one is currently deleted, out of the three you tagged. Now that you mentioned it, I might as well ask Turelio to temporarily undelete File:Luna Llena de Cerca.jpg as well. pandakekok9 04:15, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

AlbertoDV

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:33, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't understand correct, what subpages? sorry :) AlbertoDV (talk) 09:38, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
@AlbertoDV: When using {{Delete}} manually, after you "Click here to show further instructions", the first instruction is to "Visit the deletion requests subpage and place the [variable] following code". Also, "This page is a member of Category:Incomplete deletion requests - missing subpage because it is incomplete (you failed to create the subpage SUBPAGENAMEHERE. PLEASE fill in all five variables and create the subpage!)" is hard to miss. You neglect to follow those further instructions.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:15, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
Jeff G. you are right, sorry again, it was not my idea to making extra work AlbertoDV (talk) 18:45, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
And you neglect to check on whether the user is being disruptive or not. pandakekok9 03:13, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
@Pandakekok9: Making extra work and leaving file description and DR pages in indeterminate states are disruptive activities.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 19:15, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Wasting administrators' time on good-faith users is a disruptive activity. pandakekok9 02:49, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
@Pandakekok9: What Admin thinks I'm wasting their time with such reports?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:02, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: No-one specific, but the fact that no admin responded to your request yet most likely means that the admins here think that your bad-faith request is a waste of time for them. pandakekok9 05:28, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Dvlalicense1

  Aranya (talk) 13:42, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Indef-blocked. -- CptViraj (talk) 13:50, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

User:點蟲蟲

Please block 點蟲蟲 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  for continue uploading copyvios after the final warning. --Wcam (talk) 18:20, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done 1 month. Lymantria (talk) 19:00, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Fernando de Gorocica

Commons:Auto-protected files/misc/logos

Hi, please re-apply full, cascading protection to Commons:Auto-protected files/misc/logos, as we're using it again. See phab:T273490 for the request. The new logo change process (documented at m:Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes#Changing_a_wiki's_logo) will require logos to be uploaded to Commons first, and once sysadmins pull it in and deploy it, the bot will now protect it. Thanks, Legoktm (talk) 09:38, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 10:01, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Thank you! Legoktm (talk) 18:09, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

User:06butterfingers06

✓ Blocked for a week. -- CptViraj (talk) 11:00, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

File:YouTube Logo 2017.svg

Please protect File:YouTube Logo 2017.svg; caption tomfoolery. Aranya (talk) 00:00, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done: Semi-protected for another year. --Achim (talk) 08:46, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

User:BosnianBeast60

After several warnings and two blocks, BosnianBeast60 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  continued to upload copyrighted images. --Smooth O (talk) 08:26, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Blocked again. Taivo (talk) 12:58, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Dienthoaiquangcao13

User: Dienthoaiquangcao13 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Reason for reporting: Looks like a  It looks like a duck to me of Dienthoaiquangcao82. Particularly, the user's overwriting on File:Icon no permission.svg directly affects {{No permission since}} - an important maintenance template that affects many pages, and can be considered as a serious disruptive act. 廣九直通車 (talk) 11:20, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Indefinitely blocked by Minorax. I nominated one upload for deletion as well. Taivo (talk) 09:02, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Protection for Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore 2021

At least from IP-users editing, forever or till the winners are announced (April 1, 2021) -- Ата (talk) 16:54, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done for 3 months. -- CptViraj (talk) 17:07, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

User Schweinerl

Exhibitionist/self-promotion account for the sole purpose of sharing images outside of Commons' scope. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:22, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

I have deleted their user page which was a photo album. Assuming there are no issues with personality rights/permissions, I think most of the photos are in scope. We don't have many pics of anal sex with a cucumber for example. Someone might have a need for a photo of that Gbawden (talk) 07:44, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. Most of the photos were in scope, but I deleted them all per Schweinerl's request. They were eligible for speedy deletion as uploader's requests on uploading week. Taivo (talk) 09:14, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Category:Rebecca Ferguson

This is now, as it should be, a disambiguation page. But some anon IP insists on converting it to one of the targets without discussion. To prevent further edit-warring, please indefinitely semi-protect. Rodhullandemu (talk) 10:13, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Changed so that only auto confirmed can edit - is that enough? Gbawden (talk) 10:28, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Should be. Thanks. Rodhullandemu (talk) 11:41, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

User:135.180.8.42

LTA keeps reverting my edits. NASCARfan0548 ↗ 19:22, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done blocked several involved IPs, some others are already blocked globally by stewards. --Achim (talk) 21:47, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Category:Bubba Wallace

LTA keeps reverting my edits. NASCARfan0548 ↗ 20:35, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

IP, how did you gain botnet access? --Achim (talk) 20:51, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protect due to LTA. NASCARfan0548 ↗ 20:55, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done:Semi-protected for 2 weeks because of edit-warring. --Achim (talk) 21:50, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Bamberini8

✓ Done. I blocked him/her for a week. Taivo (talk) 09:14, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

User:AXXXXK 's sockpuppet

SCP-2000 15:44, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Block for socks of Weareme234

Posting here as CU isn't needed. In the archives at w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Weareme234/Archive (and in current un-archived cases), several of those socks have edited on commons in violation of User:Weareme234's active block. The list of socks who are unblocked on commons and have edited on commons since the block of Weareme234 is:

Let me know via a ping if you would like evidence. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 12:46, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Blocked. Thanks for reporting! -- CptViraj (talk) 13:20, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
@CptViraj: just a small question: this image by the blocked user seems to be a nice photo montage to be added to the article Rawatbhata and even to replace the the one which is now on Rawatbhata (Q2554975). Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 14:15, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
@Lotje: There is no copyvio image included so the file can be kept and used. -- CptViraj (talk) 06:54, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
Thank you CptViraj, that also answers my other question, if there could arise problems in using files from blocked users. Thank you ever so much. Lotje (talk) 06:59, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Sock of SuperSucker

This is a sock puppet of User:SuperSucker. See, for example, the same obsession with male-female suicide and writing encyclopedia articles in the text description field of Commons images. Compare also to User:LordOfBrexit's File:Male suicide rates 2015 IHME (crude).svg. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:24, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done --Minoraxtalk 01:42, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
See also m:srg#Global lock for Xyz0123456789.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:12, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Eti15TrSf2

Confusing username. Very similar to Eti15TrSf but it is not created by him. --A1Cafel (talk) 02:15, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

I believe that this account is an impersonator of me and a sock of Rgalo10. Eti15TrSf (talk) 02:19, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done Jianhui67 T★C 02:43, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

User:DickDangle

Inappropriate User name! Newuser - only uploaded one file and that has been nominated for deletion (copyvio)--Headlock0225 (talk) 12:10, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Meh, how about leaving it? I actually worked with a guy whose name was Dick Head, honest. --Fæ (talk) 12:35, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
 Not done per Fæ. At moment his both uploads are deleted. Taivo (talk) 12:11, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Драгица Поповић

Драгица Поповић (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  is probably just another Category:Sockpuppets of Миодраг Крагуљ, since he is uploading copyrighted images of people related to Serbian Orthodox church in same manner (example). Also all uploads should be deleted as copyvios. --Smooth O (talk) 18:14, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I am somehow specialist of Миодраг Крагуљ, I have blocked most of his sockpuppets. Taivo (talk) 11:35, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks, here are two more socks: Војин Поповић (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  and Momcilo Lukic (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) . --Smooth O (talk) 19:56, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. Both indeffed. Taivo (talk) 20:04, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Protection request

Hi, Could an admin kindly semi-protect File:VW LT35 2.5Tdi 2002.jpg for a year or 2 please - Various IPs keep adding "transporter" to the file despite the vehicle not being a VW Transporter. Not sure if indef would be better ?, Anyway many thanks, Regards ,–Davey2010Talk 23:44, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I semi-protected the file for a year. Taivo (talk) 12:02, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

File:Idioma azeri map.png

Please block File:Idioma azeri map.png for IPs. A changing IP address has been removing the DR tag for days, which refers to an ongoing deletion discussion. Thank you in advance. --Mosbatho (talk) 10:59, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 11:27, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

troll blocked

I've indef-blocked Dominicho777 (talk · contribs), who twice uploaded a troll-image and used it to vandalize an :en-article[13]. --Túrelio (talk) 22:30, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

troll sock-farmers blocked

I have indef-blocked Visitsovietunion (talk · contribs), Whenthesusisimpostor (talk · contribs), Amongsusimposter (talk · contribs) and Dibasu (talk · contribs), who all did upload today a meme-related[14] likely unfree (IMO attack-) image, which was used to vandalize article on :en. Most were already indef-blocked on :en. They were likely operated by the same person. --Túrelio (talk) 22:30, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Apparently, it's a meme: en:Special:Diff/1006768871. If it becomes a major problem, you might consider an edit filter. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 12:45, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Douurunzhu

Users uploads copyvio after final warning by Taivo--A1Cafel (talk) 03:47, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 04:19, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

File:Cryptocurrency Mining Farm.jpg

LTA by possibly scammers, addition of promotional websites nothing to do with this image. Please semi for a long time. I'd do it myself, but... Rodhullandemu (talk) 11:10, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Protected for 6 months. Jianhui67 T★C 00:12, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

File:Flag of Pattani.svg

Please block File:Flag of Pattani.svg for IPs for a longer term because of ongoing vandalism over several days. Thank you in advance. --Mosbatho (talk) 18:38, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Protected by Jdx for 1 month. Jianhui67 T★C 00:13, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Василије Веиновић

Василије Веиновић (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  and Срећко Тамбић (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  are probably just another Category:Sockpuppets of Миодраг Крагуљ, since he is uploading copyrighted images of people related to Serbian Orthodox church in same manner (example). Also all uploads should be deleted as copyvios. --Smooth O (talk) 08:36, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked both indefinitely and will delete their contributions. Taivo (talk) 09:23, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo: And another sock Меланија Росић (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  created today. --Smooth O (talk) 15:18, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. Taivo (talk) 07:40, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Malayah 69

Vandalism-only account, sock of locked LTA Malayah34. Please delete their upload as well. Thanks. —Hasley 18:48, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done: Blocked indef. Looks like a child dreaming of being an admin. --Achim (talk) 19:02, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Protection of LTA target

Please protect File:Bersaglieri Ukraine 1941.jpg for a short while. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 19:29, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

(Non-administrator observation) ✓ Done by Natuur12, JJP...MASTER![talk to] JJP... master? 20:07, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Logo protections

Please protect File:Google Forms 2020 Logo.svg and File:App Store (iOS).svg; vandalism, test edits. Aranya (talk) 23:37, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Semi protected Gbawden (talk) 07:11, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

138.19.24.64

SCP-2000 15:19, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Blocked for a week--Ymblanter (talk) 15:44, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Jegharenkempepik

Inappropriate user name - though misspelled it translates to “I have a giant dick”. Askeuhd (talk) 23:56, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

 Question What about user:Jegharenstorpik? Does it have a meaning as well? Taivo (talk) 08:23, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
Yes same meaning - stor translates as large where kæmpe translates as giant.
✓ Done. I blocked both indefinitely due to inappropriate username. Taivo (talk) 09:35, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

User:GrandCityPakistan

Crosswiki spam, indeffed on simple as spam only, for here their only upload is to upload a crosswiki upload from simple of File:Main_Garden.jpg which is the front garden of Grand City Pakistan (which is also their username). Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 13:10, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Jianhui67 T★C 13:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
See also m:srg#Global lock for GrandCityPakistan.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:42, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks @Jeff G.: . Missed doing SRG reporting due to something taking up my time on my talkpage. Appreciate the report. :) Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 14:08, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
@Camouflaged Mirage: You're welcome.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:52, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

File:2021 storming of the United States Capitol 09 (cropped).jpg

Request temporarily full protection on the file as edit warring occurred. --A1Cafel (talk) 02:01, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done protected for a month. Let us know if that needs to be extended Gbawden (talk) 06:13, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Katiebot

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

Resolved
For some strange reason the user talkpage attracts really a lot of vandalism. User talkpages are not fully protected, because somebody maybe needs to contact you, but I semi-protected it indefinitely. Taivo (talk) 12:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Requesting unprotection of File:Flag of Johor.svg

File:Flag of Johor.svg was last vandalised in 2013 by a single user. The admin who protected the file cited that it was a "highly visible" image, so it might have appeared on the front page then. I think the full protection has outlived its necessity after seven years. Seloloving (talk) 17:22, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. It is still highly visible image, but in my opinion full protection is not needed, so I lowered protection level to semi-protection. Taivo (talk) 12:07, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Josh Wood

The category Category:Josh Wood has some text that it seems will be attacked by IP edits or sockpuppets, can it be semi-protected? --ghouston (talk) 04:40, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

(Some of the photos have turned out to be useful, especially once Josh Wood has been cropped out, and it seems useful to retain the category, but the person doesn't seem to be notable and his articles have been deleted on Wikipedia.) --ghouston (talk) 04:50, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

 Not done. Only one vandalistic edit during category's existence (more than 10 years). In my opinion protection is not needed. Taivo (talk) 12:11, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
Got a 2nd right away. I guess I'll ignore it. --ghouston (talk) 00:58, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. Second vandalism during short time – that's different. I semi-protected the category for a month. Taivo (talk) 11:25, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Protection for files used on m:Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month

Namely

At least from IP-users editing, till March 31. Thank you -- Ата (talk) 20:50, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Gbawden (talk) 12:32, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

File:Padlock-blue.svg

Major/High-use image with frequent IP vandalism. I suggest permanent semi-protection. --Denniss (talk) 12:02, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Gbawden (talk) 12:29, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Requesting unprotection of File:Flag of Kosovo.svg

Admin Jdx protected the Flag of Kosovo without any explanation, the file hasn't been revised very often so it doesn't meet the criteria to be protected. AceDouble (talk) 14:07, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

@Jdx: as courtesy Gbawden (talk) 13:44, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Requesting protection of File:THE KID LAROI in conciert 2020.jpg

Hello, please protect File:THE KID LAROI in conciert 2020.jpg for IPs and new users for the time the DR is still running. An IP is on a mission and keeps on reverting, see in the file history. --Mosbatho (talk) 21:26, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Remitamine

The user still upload copyvio images after warning from Taivo. See also Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems/Archive 89#User:Remitamine--A1Cafel (talk) 03:02, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked the user for a week. Taivo (talk) 09:05, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

user:Symbathikus, possible sock of globally banned user: Sikatus

Same style of nude NSFW images of the same woman, in the same or similar situation. user: Sikatus was globally blocked for crosswiki abuse. And both have the habit of adding images of the same nude woman to the same insulting category. Tm (talk) 00:16, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done The task of determining the "educational value" of said images is left as an exercise for the reader. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 00:54, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

User:Empire AS and socks

Empire AS confessed on enwp that Zindaaab and ALM Aadeez are their accounts and they used them to upload copyvio. Our blocking policy says "Abusing multiple accounts to mislead, deceive, disrupt, distort consensus or to evade blocks or other sanctions. Secondary accounts are typically blocked indefinitely. The primary account may or may not be subject to new or extended blocks depending on the circumstances.", after reading all the drama on enwp, I believe both socks should be indeffed and the master, Empire AS should be given a final warning as they haven't done much disruption and they now seem to be in good faith. Posting here as I have never handled this type of sockpuppetry case. Also see Special:Permalink/538084159#FYI. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 07:25, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked both socks, Jeff warned the master. Taivo (talk) 10:11, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo: Jeff G's warning is of different issue. -- CptViraj (talk) 11:10, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo and CptViraj: I just requested that they stop the sockpuppetry.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:29, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. -- CptViraj (talk) 09:18, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

I created that account to avoid the block due to receiving warnings multiple times. I don't think I'll ever be able to ... Block me indefinitely on commons too. Thanks. Empire AS Talk! 11:08, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

User:Nudepiggy

Afteruser:Symbathikus, being blocked for being a sock of the globally banned user:Sikatus, again another sock, this time user:Nudepiggy

Same style of nude NSFW images of the same woman, in the same or similar situation. user: Sikatus was globally blocked for crosswiki abuse. And both have the habit of adding images of the same nude woman to the same insulting category. Tm (talk) 18:52, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done by Elcobbola. -- CptViraj (talk) 00:47, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

File:Flag of the Crimean ASSR (1929).svg: edit warring

The flag was created as described in the Constitution.

Constitution of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of 1929. Section 108:

108. The national flag of the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic consists of a red (scarlet) cloth, rectangular, with a length to width ratio of two to one. In the upper left corner of the flag near the flagpole are placed the golden letters RSFSR and Kr. ASSR in Russian and Tatar languages.

The participant decided that the Constitution did not work and therefore such a flag did not exist. The reference to the original of the Constitution (description in the Constitution of the Crimean ASSR 1929) is ignored.

Please delete the template {{Fictitious flag}} to warn the participant about the inadmissibility of the war of edits. --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 14:07, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

1929 Flag of the Crimean ASSR [15] Чистякин (talk) 14:17, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

User:Чистякин: non-consensual file deletion

User:Чистякин actually non-consensually deletes File: Kok-bairak.png, replacing it with something else. It turns out creating a duplicate File:Flag of Crimean People's Republic 1917.svg or File:Flag of the Crimean People's Republic.png. I ask you to cancel its actions and warn about the inadmissibility of such a deletion. --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 14:17, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

On March 25 (April 7), 1917, in the city of Simferopol, at a general meeting of Muslims of Crimea, the Provisional Muslim Executive Committee (Musispolkom) was formed, the leaders of which formed the core of the Crimean Tatar National Party (Milli Firka) created in July 1917. Its symbol was the sky-blue flag ("kok-bairak"), which personified the belonging of the Crimean Tatars to the Turkic peoples (the color of the Turks is considered to be sky blue - the color of the eternal sky of the Turkic god Tengri). Simultaneously with the blue flag, the tamga of the Girey family of the XII-XIII centuries ("tarak tamgas") was also widespread [16] Чистякин (talk) 14:19, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

  • (Edit conflict) This user needs to understand that replacing a file’s contents is not the way to go about correcting errors: Just updoad another file and replace the reuse in question and/or edit the relevant file pages. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 16:43, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
If this is really Валко they should be blocked asap, because they have a capability to discuss any tiny detail forever, providing bullshit arguments and getting advantage by exhausting the opponent.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:24, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked Чистякин indefinitely as sockpuppet of Валко. Taivo (talk) 08:49, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

User:БАШҠОРТ

This user is a suspected sockpuppet of User:Валко. --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 14:48, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

@Лобачев Владимир: I notified them, which you should have done.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:03, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. I blocked the user indefinitely as sockpuppet. Taivo (talk) 08:09, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

User talk:Cloudboard

Cloudboard (talk · contribs) - this user repeatedly uploaded copyvio and has been repeatedly warned to no avail. Last warning of possible block of privileges Itssheenabautista (talk) 20:18, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

@Itssheenabautista: I notified them, which you should have done. They have been reported here three times now.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:59, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. I blocked Cloudboard for a week. All his/her uploads are deleted, except the last, which is nominated for deletion. Taivo (talk) 08:14, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Orani88

User upload copyvios after final warning. --A1Cafel (talk) 08:39, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. Due to large number of copyvios and 0% of acceptable uploads I blocked Orani for a month. Taivo (talk) 08:49, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

RezaTofani

User upload copyvios after final warning. --A1Cafel (talk) 09:09, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

@A1Cafel: I notified the user, as you are required to above.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:10, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 Not done Blocks are preventative, not punitive. No activity since the end of February, and no uploads after the copyvio SD taggings. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 05:49, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

138.19.24.64

SCP-2000 17:33, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

@SCP-2000: I notified the user, as you are required to above.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:09, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done Already blocked by AFBorchert for 1 month (Please see COM:ANV) --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 05:55, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

User:Драшко Мајсторовић

Драшко Мајсторовић (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  is probably just another Category:Sockpuppets of Миодраг Крагуљ, since he is uploading copyrighted images of people related to Serbian Orthodox church in same manner (example). Also all uploads should be deleted as copyvios. --Smooth O (talk) 17:41, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked Drashko indefinitely and will delete his uploads. Taivo (talk) 10:30, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo: Can you also block another, newly created sock Владимир Илић (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) . Thank you. --Smooth O (talk) 10:06, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. When the guy realizes that Commons administrators are more powerful than his faith? Taivo (talk) 10:14, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
@Taivo: Probably never. Here is another one if you can block it also: Миодраг Петровић (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) . --Smooth O (talk) 19:35, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. Indeffed, tagged, deleted. Taivo (talk) 22:10, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Requesting semi protection of File:Tmp 32458-El Pavo Real en la Vyshyvanka protege al hombre22109534.jpg

Reason: Persistent vandalism by IPs since 2019. Thank you. SCP-2000 05:24, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Semi-protected for a year. -- CptViraj (talk) 07:15, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Protection for files used in banners

Thank you -- Ата (talk) 20:24, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done with Ymblanter. -- CptViraj (talk) 01:15, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Aleyamma38

Copyright violations after final warning. Brycehughes (talk) 10:16, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

@Brycehughes: Sir, why would I violate copyrights when I have received a final warning? It jut that I'm not able to reach to Times Of India to give the proof of the copyrights. I have even contacted wikimedia commons admin regarding this issue.
Please try to understand my situation--Aleyamma38 (talk) 10:52, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
You should know that the warnings and copyright violation notices remain in your talk page history even if you remove them from your talk page. Brycehughes (talk) 11:11, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
@Brycehughes: I know they (warnings and copyright violation notices) remain there, I have not removed them to hide my mistakes, but because so many discussions were crowding the page and I was getting confused Sir.
Sir, believe me I have tried several times to reach the copyrights holder Times Of India, but was unable to do so due to some issue from the staff who deals with their copyrights. Please, I know what it means to be blocked. I never tried to breach any law or engage into vandalism. It's just that my situation is in the wrong mode.--Aleyamma38 (talk) 11:59, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

User:KanzatBot

NO ACTION NECESSARY:
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.

KanzatBot is my bot account (without bot flag). I prepared data and wanted to perform test upload of 30-50 edits according to Commons:Bots/Requests policy. However, administrator @Elcobbola: blocked my account, because he thinks that I need to have bot flag first and only then perform any run.

  • This contradicts to Commons:Bots/Requests policy, quote: "Make a short test run with your bot account (30-50 edits/uploads) to allow other users to review your bot's tasks."
  • This contradicts to Commons:Bots policy: "an unapproved bot may be blocked, though in practice unless the bot is doing harm the operator should normally be asked to submit a retrospective bot request"
  • This contradicts to other requests in Commons:Bots/Requests page, because all other guys who applied for bot flag - did test upload using their bot accounts, without having a bot flag. And noone ever blocked them. Just me.

So, please unblock my bot account. --Kanzat (talk) 09:58, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

The purport that the block is contradicted by "policy" (sic) is utterly disingenuous:
  • COM:BRFA says "If you want to run a bot on Commons, you must get permission first." (underline added)
  • COM:BOTS says "All bots running on Wikimedia Commons must have advance permission to do so." (underline added)
  • Contrary to the purport above, neither COM:BRFA nor COM:BOTS are policy (which I also told Kanzat); accordingly, whatever those pages say is subordinate to actual policies if there is conflicting guidance. Actual policy says the following: "Bot accounts not authorized by the Commons community are not allowed to operate on Wikimedia Commons, [...] Bots may not be operated on Commons without prior approval" (underline added)(COM:BP).
I've repeatedly asked Kanzat for this permission ([17][18]); those requests have been ignored. For the third time, Kanzat, where is the approval? That you've ignored my questions, failed to engage with the guidance I've cited (and indeed have conveniently omitted it in the report here), and have mispresented COM:BOTS and COM:BRFA to be policy seems rather telling. Эlcobbola talk 10:59, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
@Elcobbola: Are you kidding me? Commons:Blocking policy: "Bots may not be operated on Commons without prior approval" Can you please quote THE FULL SENTENCE? "Bots may not be operated on Commons without prior approval (which can be sought at Commons:Bots/Requests)." It means that everything wrote at Commons:Bots/Request is also part of the policy. And that's how it's de facto. Otherwise - why don't you block all other guys at Commons:Bots/Request without bot flags? --Kanzat (talk) 11:25, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
No, I rather think you're kidding me. The full sentence says where permission can obtained and does not change its meaning. So, for the fourth time, where is your permission? Use of the OTHERSTUFF fallacy generally betrays being on the wrong side of an issue. Эlcobbola talk 11:31, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
People won't be able to review what my bot does if my bot won't be able to do anything! People can't approve something they don't see! That's why test runs exist! God. --Kanzat (talk) 11:47, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Notwithstanding that you've already represented that the test edits have been made (!!!), bot flags are granted by bureaucrats and, as such, the bureaucrat reviewing your application will unblock if editing needs to be observed. Эlcobbola talk 11:50, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

I can't stand this guy and his manipulations. @CptViraj: , @Taivo: , @GreenMeansGo: , @Pi.1415926535: or any other admin - please review the above discussion. --Kanzat (talk) 11:47, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

"Manipulations" - COM:AGF appears yet another policy you've not read or understood. Эlcobbola talk 11:50, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
  • Sorry. I'm entirely too simple to have much of anything to do with bots. Regular contributing to Wikimedia projects is about the most tech savvy thing I can do. GMGtalk 12:51, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

I see here clear contradiction. For bot approval you must have a test run, but you are not allowed to have a test run without bot approval. Эlcobbola, please explain, which must be first: test run or bot approval? If test run must be first, how to make it without bot approval? Taivo (talk) 17:02, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Three things, which I've explained above: 1) COM:BOTS is not a policy. If there is a contradiction, actual policy (COM:BP and COM:IU) is what governs; 2) Kanzat has already represented that the test edits have been made. If the edits have been already been made, there is no need for further edits; and 3) bot flags are granted by bureaucrats and, as such, the bureaucrat reviewing the application will unblock if additional editing needs to be observed. There is nothing to be accomplished here, especially when there is a pending bot request. If it is approved, the bot flag with be granted and the account unblocked. Эlcobbola talk 17:12, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Although you did not answer my question, I think, that I understand. BP and IU are policies, BOTS is not. So if there is a contradiction, then BOTS must be changed to remove contradiction. Taivo (talk) 17:23, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
That's correct. I also thought the answer implicit, but I'm happy to be explicit: as I said above, even COM:BOTS agrees with COM:BP and COM:IU. It says "All bots running on Wikimedia Commons must have advance permission to do so." The correct order of operations is 1) open an application at COM:BRFA; 2) get permission to make test edits; 3) make the test edits (if the bot has been blocked, the reviewing bureaucrat will unblock it for you); and 4) if everything is in order, receive the bot flag and operate the bot. KanzatBot does not have advance permission, and Kanzat has refused to provide it after at least four (!!!) requests. Эlcobbola talk 17:35, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

@Taivo: - the approach described by Эlcobbola is extremely bureaucratic and was NEVER EVER used before. He asked that I must show some approval to him, without specifying how to get that approval. 40 test edits that I made this morning is actually a violation of rules (in Эlcobbola representation, but not in real life) - because I run my bot using this account without approval and without bot flag - he forced me to do that, because I didn't have any other option. I won't be surprised if he will block me after these words. --Kanzat (talk) 20:05, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

  • Elcobbola's block of KanzatBot was well within the bounds of policy and is supported by policy. Kanzat had the option of requesting the unblocking of the bot through Commons:Bots/Requests/KanzatBot rather than running the tests out-of-process. Additionally, I would strongly suggest that the comment “I can't stand this guy and his manipulations” be withdrawn and that Kanzat be civil with future comments. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 05:30, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
    Again - there are policies and there is a common sense. Elcobbola decided to change the existing procedure that was a de facto rule for using bots and he was not explicit of what exactly he wants.
    Elcobbola proposal is: 1) open application at COM:BRFA 2) get permission to make test edits - question : permission from whom? Bureaucrats? Community? So I write 1 sentence "I want to upload xxx" or "I want to perform task xxx" and need to wait couple of days for a Bureaucrat to come into that thread, he will look at that 1 sentence and say - yes make test edits. Or wait couple weeks for community to discuss 1 sentence? So why does this approval even exist? There is no harm from running 50 test edits - if there's something really really bad with those edits - it's not hard to revert edits and remove uploads. Bots are regulated not simply because they are bots, but because they perform massive changes. If a bot performs a limited in time and scope test run, and there's a request that describes its purpose - there's no need to block it at all. --Kanzat (talk) 09:23, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
  • @Kanzat: Common sense and the proper process would have been to note in the Bot request that the account was blocked and it needed to be unblocked to run those test. A bureaucrat or an administrator would reviewed the unblock request on the bot page and, if everything was in order, would have unblocked the account for you to run the tests. Furthermore, Elcobbola did not change the existing procedures. You chose to act out-of-process at each step.

    You created KanzatBot on 09:04, 9 March 2021 (UTC) and proceeded to upload files on 14 March 2021 using the bot at 16:46, 17:51, and 18:04 -- the last upload being 5 minutes before being blocked per Commons' username policy. The request page was only created post facto and only after KanzatBot was blocked. You then proceeded to run the bot out-of-process from your main account from 10:28 to 10:34, and, thereby, circumventing the block.

    As I've stated above, the correct action would have been to request an unblock via the bot request page, rather then continuing out-of-process actions.

    If it wasn't clear before, I fully endorse Elcobbola's decision to block KanzatBot per COM:IU and support the position that “[t]here is nothing to be accomplished here, especially when there is a pending bot request,” especially as you've already run the tests -- albeit out-of-process. Until the bot is approved at COM:BRFA, there is no need to unblock the account and doing so will be out-of-process. If a bureaucrat approves the bot, they will unblock the account. Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 03:25, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

  • @Nat:
    "Elcobbola did not change the existing procedures" - you are lying that is not true. Show me previous bot requests that had approval before running a test run. --Kanzat (talk) 10:11, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
    "The request page was only created post facto and only after KanzatBot was blocked" - yes, I apologized for that at his user page. But he didn't care about request page - he wanted "advance permission" and he ignored that request.
    "the correct action would have been to request an unblock via the bot request page" - yes, everyone else running their test run without approval and bot flags, but I had to wait like a loser and wait for approval, because an admin found a silly gap in rules that allowed him to block me. --Kanzat (talk) 10:11, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
    You ignored question: Who I need to get approval from. A Bureaucrat ? A community ? They must discuss 1 sentence?
    You ignored question: Why running a limited test run is so extremely dangerous for Wiki, that is must have so complex procedure of approval? Uploading of 40 files at once can be achieved using button "Special:NewFiles" - the level of danger is the same. --Kanzat (talk) 10:11, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

While the cites to actual policy I've provided above are perfectly clear, a summary of the behaviour surrounding this issue is below, and is telling:

As I've indicated, resorting to OTHERSTUFF generally indicates one is not on the correct side of an issue;
Resorting to personal attacks (@Nat: is a "liar"; I am "manipulative"; both of us are "inadequate/incompetent") generally indicates one is not on the correct side of an issue;
Resorting to POINTy reports generally indicates one is not on the correct side of an issue;
Resorting to strawmen ("Why running (sic) a limited test run is so extremely dangerous") generally indicates one is not on the correct side of an issue;
Resorting to canvassing generally indicates one is not on the correct side of an issue;

Doing certain of this after I warned of COM:AGF and @Krd: warned of POINTy disruption is well into IDHT territory and one truly wonders how long this bizarre misbehaviour will continue. Эlcobbola talk 13:45, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

This sort of behaviour should not be tolerated. I will note that in addition to warnings regarding COM:AGF and of WP:POINTy disruption, I have already strongly suggested that their uncivil comments be withdrawn and that they should civil in their comments from that point. Warnings and advice to discontinue their unacceptable and disruptive behaviour clearly have not been heeded. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 15:03, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
  • I withdrew words about manipulation and lying, but not about incompetency.
  • A competent admin would help to solve this issue and would not allow this situation to escalate to this level. Revision #542424942
  • A competent admin would be explicit in terms what is needed to be unblocked especially if he just found an inconsistency between a policy and page referenced from a policy. At least someone tried Revision #542714402
  • A competent admin would point to a proper place where it's possible to discuss inconsistency between rules - or even created such discussion himself, because he has more experience.
  • Congrats to everyone - now you have Commons:Bots/Requests that is perfectly aligned with policies, but nobody will follow it. And I am the first one and the last one blocked because of that.

I don't plan to continue my work in Commons. Thanks. --Kanzat (talk) 16:54, 17 March 2021 (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.

User:Aosbot

Vanbasten 23 (talk · contribs) performed unapproved test run using bot account User:Aosbot, which is a violation of Commons:Blocking policy: "Bots may not be operated on Commons without prior approval".

He didn't get an approval before running a bot, so bot account must be blocked. --Kanzat (talk) 09:48, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

He also violated Commons:Username policy - because he named his bot - a "bot", but it doesn't have a bot flag!!!! --Kanzat (talk) 09:50, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Disruptive report per WP:POINT, see above. --Krd 09:54, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
 Not done, They were test edits required for crats to review the approval (2 crats have commented but no objection from their side) and also not a violation of the username policy: one without the bot flag doesn't mean it's not a bot, we have approved running bots without the bot flag, the policy applies when the account is making manual edits. -- CptViraj (talk) 09:58, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
@Krd: @CptViraj: - my bot was blocked for exactly same thing. See above discussion about User:KanzatBot. You must be consistent - either block both, or unblock both. --Kanzat (talk) 10:13, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
@Kanzat: I understand your annoyance. I didn't comment anything about your bot's block. I didn't look at the full issue, so I don't know whether your bot's block is appropriate or not. Just commenting on policy stuff: If you see loophole in the policy, just start a discussion about it. I declined this request because the crats didn't have any objection at the bot request page. IMHO it is pretty clear that there is need for explicit policy about whether one should make test edits prior approval or not, the crats practice and the unclear policy are conflicting. Also please don't make arguments/requests like these, It won't solve the situation but will expand it. -- CptViraj (talk) 10:43, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
@CptViraj: I started discussion above, if you know better place - tell me please where. Almost all admins ignored the discussion above and the consensus (that consist of 2 admins) in that thread is that users like KanzatBot and Aosbot must be blocked. I can accept such consensus only if it will be applied to every other bot owner from now on. So I will not withdraw this request for a block. --Kanzat (talk) 10:56, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

@Nat: @Elcobbola: the same case, block him. --Kanzat (talk) 10:32, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

You are mistaken at the point that decisions based on interpretation and judgement have to be consistent. Please stop disruption immediately. Thank you. --Krd 10:57, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
@Krd: I really don't understand what you mean. Do you mean user blocks must be inconsistent? I don't agree at all. When I tried to discuss other cases in that thread, they said I violate en:WP:OTHERSTUFF, so I created this thread. I'm not trying to be disruptive - I'm trying to be sure that rules are applied to everyone the same way. --Kanzat (talk) 11:09, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Also, there's no space for "interpretation and judgement" in this case. KanzatBot was blocked for "running without prior approval" (period). Aosbot was also "running without prior approval". Cases are exactly the same. --Kanzat (talk) 11:24, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
@Kanzat: , I understand you perfectly, but I think we should focus on your problem instead of creating problems for other users. Let's try to solve what happened to you, looking for it to happen to other users instead of harming the next ones. This is my 5th request in different projects, plus requests for new tasks in each one, and I'm often told why I haven't done the 40-50 edits before. That is the reason I did it and no other. I understand that I should have posted with my account instead of the bot's. @Krd: told me this, and I wrote with my user account (thanks Krd). I understand that blocking is the solution we have in the project to prevent vandalism and to comply with the rules, but I think common sense should be applied for these circumstances. I have no intention of vandalizing anything, and I never had any previous problems. I think this kind of situations only make users lose their illusion and we should be able to solve them in a calm way. Thank you very much and sorry for any problem I may cause. Best regards. --Vanbasten 23 (talk) 14:55, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
@Vanbasten 23: Thanks for your comment. Good luck. --Kanzat (talk) 16:56, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Marcos perdonal63

Marcos perdonal63 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
User keeps uploading copyrighted material, for days in a row now. Should be blocked, imo. Eissink (talk) 18:27, 16 March 2021 (UTC).

Agree. I have open deletion nomination, so someone else needs to do it. Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:44, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Final warning given, 1 more copyvio = block. -- CptViraj (talk) 10:03, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
@CptViraj: user uploaded some copyvio files again. Eissink (talk) 18:32, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done. I blocked the user for a week. Taivo (talk) 11:02, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

User:Hbqxahz

Please block Hbqxahz (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  for a longer duration as they have been uploading large amount of copyvios after being blocked previously. --Wcam (talk) 16:11, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 3 months. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 16:33, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

File:Goni 2020-10-31 1735Z.jpg

Semi-protection persistent remove deletion tag. HurricaneEdgar 17:52, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ Done. I semi-protected the file for a week and commented the DR. Taivo (talk) 09:03, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Toadboy123

User uploads copyvio images after final warning. --A1Cafel (talk) 15:50, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

✓ blocked. I am a little bit surprised this is the first block while the talk page even can't process warnings due to excessive number of template transclusions. rubin16 (talk) 17:28, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Mybreak2021

This user has uploaded nothing but copyright violations and should be blocked for doing so. Zppix (talk) 01:29, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

 Half done User warned. No further action necessary. --Ìch heiss Nat. Redd mìt mìr.🥨 02:37, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Commons:List of administrators

Template editors should be able to edit this, protection reason gives no reason why it shouldn't. Plus, Commons:List of administrators by language, Commons:List of administrators by date, and Commons:List of administrators by recent activity are left vulnerable. 1989 (talk) 18:07, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

It is regularly maintained by admins, so I don't see what's benifit in downgrading the protection. Am I missing something? -- CptViraj (talk) 02:04, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
"It is regularly maintained by admins" because the page is fully protected. I thought that'd be obvious, or am I missing something? 1989 (talk) 02:33, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
What I meant was, It's regularly maintained by admins so why downgrading is needed? -- CptViraj (talk) 06:22, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
What you're saying doesn't explain why template editors cannot edit the page while everyone else who's autoconfirmed can edit the others. Why not just template protect all of them? 1989 (talk) 13:07, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
I do not have objection for decreasing. Was just curious about the reason. -- CptViraj (talk) 13:54, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
  •  Support I support decreasing the protection level to the template editors level, so that experienced users such as User:1989 will be able to edit those pages. 4nn1l2 (talk) 13:11, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
✓ Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 19:55, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Roman Kubanskiy

User still have copyvio despite warnings and blocks. --A1Cafel (talk) 17:01, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

About the last copyvio, I can put a free photo instead of the one with an incomprehensible copyright status. Or I can send a request by mail to Press Service of President of Uzbekistan to try to get permission. So give some time and please don't jump to conclusions. Well, everyone makes mistakes. Roman Kubanskiy (talk) 17:31, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
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