Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Vandalism/Archive 2

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Captain Scarlet substituting images with bad text

This user, recently blocked on Wikipedia for sock-puppetry, has substituted at east 64 images with a text-image asking for their deletion. Many are live in Wikipedia: [1]. Pigsonthewing 19:31, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Seems that multiple users have reported this: See bottom of COM:AN/V, COM:AN/U and COM:AN/A -- Bryan (talk to me) 19:47, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Discussion will continue on Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems -- Bryan (talk to me) 20:16, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia's Front Page Picture of the Day Vandalized

Image:Plunging bronco, Bar Diamond Bar range.jpg is the Picture of the Day on Wikipedia and it is being vandalized by User:HatesWM2. He keeps replacing the correct picture with a pornographic picture. We keep reverting. He's been warned on his talk page. Please block him or protect the picture! OCNative 02:23, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia FP vandalism

Image:Plunging bronco, Bar Diamond Bar range.jpg is the Picture of the Day on Wikipedia and it is being vandalized by User:HatesWM2. If it was on Wikipedia I'd block him, but I just have to keep reverting. Please do something!--HereToHelp (talk) 02:24, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

CheckUser vandal

Please block Special:Contributions/User_is_blocked and either delete his page creations or make soft-redirects. Cbrown1023 talk 16:54, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Has been ✓ Done Cbrown1023 talk 16:54, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
This one should be CU'd - I'll ask --Herby talk thyme 17:03, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
"CheckUser is not for fishing" as they say on en:... this fellow appears a common garden variety vandal, is there something in particular we are looking for? Some association with other users? Pattern of abuse on other wikis? If the latter we may need someone with checkuser on the other wiki to work with. Please let us know. ++Lar: t/c 17:42, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
This ain't en (<g>) [2] & [3] may help? --Herby talk thyme 17:56, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
OK, thanks. I still think that "not for fishing" IS a good policy, we need to use CU with care and respect for privacy. I don't see any other socks from this IP at this time on Commons. M7 is on the case over on Meta... (the log shows the same IP being checked there) so hopefully that should be that. If not, maybe some more interproject coordination is needed? ++Lar: t/c 18:08, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks - appreciated, given the number of "users" created at Meta I was concerned that the same would happen here (& they appear not to like Checkusers). Me - I'm all for interproject co-ordination on vandals --Herby talk thyme 18:12, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Destroying categories

As suggested by someone, moved this to Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/Attention#Destroying_categorisation_schemes --LimoWreck 22:48, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

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

A heads-up; this user's first contrib was a spiel on his userpage with something to do with heavy metal, second was replacing the Portuguese main page with the same thing, and then he uploaded two images and replaced their description pages with the spiel, again. A Portuguese admin may want to look into this... I've left him two warnings so far but the images should be looked at as well. -- Editor at Large • talk 20:10, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

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

This user has vandalized "Image:Borderfence.jpg" which has affected numerous pages on other wikis. ~ Rumour 10:36, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done - blocked and deleted - thanks --Herby talk thyme 10:39, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Academy Requests Editorial Privileges Blocked on IPs 66.173.66.131 & 66.173.66.132

It has been reported to us and we have confirmed that vandalism of various wikipedia entries has originated from the Academy of Holy Angels IP 66.173.66.131. Although we will remain vigilant in our efforts we truly do not have the means to prevent this from continuing.

Hence our request: PLEASE BLOCK IP 66.173.66.131 AND IP 66.173.66.132 FROM EDITING WIKIPEDIA PAGES.

Please inform me of any further steps we at the Academy of Holy Angels may need to take in order to achieve this result.

Thank you.

J Keyser --jk@ahastars.org 14:15, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Technologist Academy of Holy Angels

Please send this request to info@wikimedia.org from an e-mail address associated with this organization. Thanks, Yonatan talk 03:52, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism: 72.10.102.163

72.10.102.163 has vandalized Image:FoodApplePie.jpg several times this last few days (he also vandalized Image:Lego CAD Racecar.JPG), it seems that the warning I left in his talk page doesn't work. Er Komandante (messages) 00:18, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Blocked and notified of the block. Thanks for reporting it :) -- Editor at Large • talk 01:25, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

main page

Please someone stop the vandal that is currently spoiling the main page. Lycaon 07:04, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't see any edits since 13 May. -- Bryan (talk to me) 08:16, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Found. It was on Template:Spaces. I have semi protected all templates permanently embedded in the Main page. The vandal has been blocked by Herbythyme. -- Bryan (talk to me)
Thanks too ;-). I used several channels, cause as a non-sysop there was little I could do, but reverting uploads... Lycaon 09:57, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

graphic for Image:Flag of Germany.svg mysteriously missing

I noticed it on the Polish Wikipedia, that the flag images are red links. Checking logs for the page and page history does not explain why its no longer there (this is a very recent change). Checking usage shows that it is used all over the place but its not there. Is this some sort of vandalism or a malfunction? Right now, while editing this message, the graphic is showing on Commons, and I see that it was just uploaded at 06:09 UTC just a few minutes ago, but it still does not show on Polish Wiki (see pl:Warszawa#Miasta partnerskie for one example). --Mareklug talk 06:27, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

This is a technical malfunction, not vandalism. Please report any other cases on the Village pump. The Germany flag has been re-uploaded now, so just try reloading/purging cache and those usual tricks. --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 07:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Spreading images in two categories.

OK, as there seems no reasoning or stopping this user:

It's about the category of a city. One single city/municipality in Flanders, Belgium.

A template with the proposal to move the thing is put on the original one. No discussion whatsoever.


Problem: Half of the images are moved. I tried to revert this twice, but the user keeps moving half of them again. Moreover, there seem to be problems with this users conduct (He's listed 3 times onCommons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems).

Now: I put lots of effort in organizing Belgian municipalities... but spreading images of a single city through two separate categories is plain nonsense. I even consider this vandalism: that's not exactly the user friendly and easy to navigate way to track the images right? Having different opinions ? Fine. Discussions ? Fine. But on the talk pages, and not at the expense of the category structure that must be accessible by regular users !

Now my question: HOW on earth can I get the images back to their original state, without this user keeping destroying the category scheme?

--LimoWreck 18:43, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

With your scheme, we can't differentiate between a Belgian municipality and the town which has the same name. So, don't dramatize the Ieper/Ypres case. There are thousands of miscategorized files in Commons which cannot be found; that's not the case for the files in Category:Ieper or Category:Ypres.
If you think that you can improve the move procedure, write a help page. It will be linked with the move template. --Juiced lemon 20:24, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
This off-topic answer is quite useless (no point going into factual mistakes above). I'm actually hoping to find a 3rd party looking at this, cause this gibberish is getting us nowhere. --LimoWreck 21:04, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

My thoughts on this: yes, Juiced lemon can sometimes be seen as difficult and the user should definetly communicate his actions better to other users, I speak from my own experience. However, he rightly pointed out to me that categories work in English, while articles remain in native tongue. Therefore the article should remain at "Ieper", while the category should be called "Ypres". I normally refer to the English Wikipedia as a guidance in that case to find out which name is normally used in English. This in itself is controversial. I believe there is a debate or proposal to at least have place names in native language as well. But take a look at Category:Munich, which is not listed as "München". The point is to make it easy for all users to find a category. I honestly would not recognise "Ieper", but I do recognise "Ypres". sincerely Gryffindor 00:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

User:Sap32aaa

Sap32aaa (talk · contribs) is loading up (bad) nld Images of Busses and ignores the warning. __ ABF __ 10:11, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Yung6

2 weeks account and already multiple 3RR violations, multiple image reverts, changes heavily used images without prior discussion.

Gonioul 15:09, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't know that "vandalism" is the right word. Changing a tick from dark green to light green is a weird form of intentional harm, if so. But his edits do have a strange single-mindedness in their focus on tweaking image colours, and he seemed to have little familiarity with the concept of consensus, so I am unsurprised this has happened. (Although I was rather hoping his obsessiveness could be turned to something useful. But no such luck.) --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 16:22, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
After Yung6 continued to revert several highly used images back and forth, I had him blocked for 24 hours. I think he got the message (User_talk:Yung6#Blocked). / Fred J 04:55, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Disrespectful summary

I'm sorry but I don't know how to edit the following problem:

page-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DeadBigfoot.jpg

vandalism-- the summary for the graphic in section "Role in Wounded Knee Massacre" reads as follows:

"Chief Lanky lies in the snow, adopting the pose of his much-loved idol, the Fonz."

Please correct this to read something like "Chief Big Foot lies dead in the snow after massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee"

It has been corrected. / Fred J 16:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Da Man2

He has been here for about 2 weeks and he has been vandalizing 2 of my files, Image:Do Not Enter sign.svg and Image:Stop sign MUTCD.svg. He has even gone far enough to actually try to delete one saying that Image:Do Not Enter sign.svg looks horible and needs to be deleted when all he did was copy mine and made a different color red. Yung6 has even been doing the same thing and now I hear that the both of them are good friends. They even talk like they are administrators on here when they have only been here 2 weeks. Ltljltlj 20:22, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

See also COM:AN/U#Da Man2 (talk • contribs). -- Editor at Large • talk 00:25, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm not "vandalizing" your stop sign image, I'm simply giving it a better summary. See your talk page. Da Man2 18:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

annoyingly resilient vandal images

Image:Glutathione-3D-vdW.png and Image:98-04_Dodge_Intrepid.jpg don't seem to want to be reverted. I erased all revisions and re-uploaded them, but to no availe.

For reference, the correct images are Image:20070622161906!Glutathione-3D-vdW.png and Image:98-04_Dodge_Intrepid-OK.jpg. Rama 16:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Wow - even deleting the image completely and reuploading them doesn't achieve anything. We probably need a developer to take a look at this? I note that the image seems to display correctly elsewhere - e.g. Category:Dodge Intrepid. WjBscribe 17:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Now fixed by our heroic developers. All hail the developers ! Rama 17:47, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

penis-photo

Will nicht mal jemand von den Admins dieses Bild hier löschen?

Wenn man bei Google-Fotos nach Gerhard Schröder sucht, kommt dieser Penis, der gerade bearbeitet wird:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/9/94/20060401205745!Gerhardschroeder.jpg

Diese Sauerei muss entfernt werden. —the preceding unsigned comment is by 84.56.178.109 (talk • contribs) 23:19, 25. Jun. 2007

Ich habe das Bild aus der Versionsgeschichte eines Schröder-Photos gelöscht (dort hatte ein Vandale es platziert), angezeigt wurde es aber nur wegen Googles Cache. --Polarlys 21:39, 25 June 2007 (UTC) wenn ich aber bei google images das hier suche, taucht das foto weiter auf http://images.google.de/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=de&q=gerhardschroeder.jpg das wirft auf wikipedia kein gutes bild :-( --84.56.178.109 21:49, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

@Polarlys, wenn man auf obiges Link (das erste) klickt, kommt aber weiterhin das unerwünschte Bild. -- Túrelio 22:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


löscht das ding einfach

Many clear copyvios uploaded

Someone please check out Special:Contributions/Axelgz -SCEhardT 04:47, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Looks like LX has dealt with it, thanks --Herby talk thyme 07:48, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:Cat03.jpg

Image:Cat03.jpg, used in many projects, has just been overwritten, by known vandal User:Chayama. William Avery 19:00, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done, restored and blocked. —LX (talk, contribs) 19:09, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
The thumb had to be purged manually but it is now fixed. -- Editor at Large • talk 19:13, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Please somebody! Watch this administrator: “Lmbuga” he is abusing his priviledges against the entry for FERROL in Nothwestern Spain.

One of your administrators who respond to the name of “User:Lmbuga” is deliting photos with or without certificates. He appears to be a Spaniard from the Galicia region. It must be noted that in that part of Spain there are problem between the City of El Ferrol and nearby A Coruña. I believe this administrator is taking to wikipaedia his personal “vendetta” deleting as many good photos of Ferrol as possible. Ferrol was the birth place of General Francisco Franco the former dictator of Spain that could be another reason why he appears to be so incredible bias against the naval station of Spain (The most important Naval Station of the Northern Iberia).

PLEASE HELP AGAINST CARELESS VANDALS WHO DON’T COMPILE WITH THE WIKIPAEDIA ADMINISTRATORS ETHIC CODE --Ferrol26 08:08, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Are you the uploader of the deleted images? Has User:Lmbuga warned the uploader before the deletion of the images?
Don't accuse an administrator, if you cannot demonstrate he did't comply with existing procedures. If you are the uploader, I suggest you to request the undeletion of these images. You'll have to prove that there are no copyright violations. If you cannot, the images will be deleted again. --Juiced lemon 09:58, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Related threads: Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/Attention#Users_editing_Ferrol.2C_related_pages_and_categories, Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Ferrol. -- Bryan (talk to me) 10:53, 1 July 2007 (UTC)


  • Also, I deleted the images:

--Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 18:53, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

User:Seveneleven

User:Seveneleven with a previous block for violating copyright, is at it again with the tyra banks pictures. Could someone block him indef as it appears he is not going to contribute constructively to Commons? -N 20:54, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done. Thanks for the heads-up. —LX (talk, contribs) 21:11, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

User:Michael Koenig

Michael Koenig (talk · contribs) vandalises different user talk pages. User is already stalking User Magadan on German WP under different names and is expanding his destructive activities to Commons. --Eva K. Message 17:39, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for ignoring my note. --Eva K. Message 20:54, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Actually blocked by LX --Herby talk thyme 06:57, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
You're welcome. —LX (talk, contribs) 09:16, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Heads up for those interested/concerned. This is continuing with an IP and a user (user:Youareapaedo!) blocked a short while ago. To me any sign of vandal/attack edits to Ferrol and related pages (including user:Lmbuga & user:Prevert) should result in immediate blocks. I suggest indefinite for users and one month for IPs however this may be up for review and extending if other think appropriate. The attacks are unpleasant. Thanks & regards --Herby talk thyme 09:19, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Shock image

Could someone please delete Image:1184239954840.jpg ASAP? It has been used extensively on the English WP as a shock image by a now-blocked user. Since it's on Commons, deleting the image locally didn't remove it from diffs. Thank you, Fvasconcellos 14:43, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done - uploader also blocked indef --Herby talk thyme 14:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

IP vandalising

The IP 62.171.194.8 vandalises Commons since a long time. The last time at Image:Francisco Villa.gif (removing the license-tag by replacing with "hi"). Herby has warned him a few months ago. ← Körnerbrötchen - @ 17:49, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

The IP address belongs to ifl.net and is probably shared. With a manageable average of less than one edit per month in the last year, I don't think a block is necessary to protect Commons at this time. Thanks for undoing the vandalism, though. —LX (talk, contribs) 20:24, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

User:Stelllamariss and User:Salmoria

User has persistently removed deletion templates from fair use media on English Wikipedia (See w:Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Salmoria. User came to Commons and uploaded a copyvio, most likely thinking he wouldn't be tracked cross-wiki. Highly unlikely user will constructively contribute to Commons. -N 22:07, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done, all uploads deleted and both accounts blocked indefinitely. —LX (talk, contribs) 23:16, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
CU ✓ Done too! Thanks --Herby talk thyme 10:10, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

User:Baltizar

Goatse vandalism at Village Pump. -N 16:32, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done - blocked, deleted and will be CU'd shortly - many thanks --Herby talk thyme 17:14, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

User:216.194.61.143 vandal?

216.194.61.143 (talk · contribs) adds {{Copyright}} tags to images uploaded by User:Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff. Probably a vandal attack. --Denniss 18:12, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

There's already a thread about this on the User problems noticeboard. (→O - RLY?) 18:13, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

User:Mueveelombligo

This user removed the description of an image and added a song (?) instead. See Image:Caballos.JPG. ← Körnerbrötchen - @ 11:57, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reversion - I placed a warning on their talk page (they have made no other edits so far) - regards --Herby talk thyme 12:05, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

User:195.22.235.7

Changed the source of an image from Flickr to a URL which is clearly not the source of that image. [4]. William Avery

User:Monarchy

Monarchy (talk · contribs) has systematically (and for the last 10 months or so) been adding (Spain) to wherever he finds Gibraltar on image description pages as well as categories. This is just blatant vandalism because Gibraltar is not Spanish and all these edits are simply misleading to others. Here are just some of the many examples: [5], [6], [7], [8]. And I will mention one particular case where he replaced an image of the British overseas territories (Image:LocationBritish overseas territories.png) with the same one but again with (Spain) after Gibraltar, and not to mention various other politically-based changes. In my opinion this is serious vandalism (especially the latter case) because such an image as that would appear on an encyclopaedia and provide palpably wrong information. Thanks in advance, RedCoat 10:05, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Did you try to discuss it with the user? -- Bryan (talk to me) 10:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
No, I didn't think it would make much of a difference. Shall I though? RedCoat 10:14, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I've put a message on the user's talk page - feel free to raise it again if the removal of correct information continues - thanks --Herby talk thyme 10:21, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Ok, thank you. RedCoat 10:25, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
  • reset

There might even be a question mark on some of the uploads from this user as well. For example Image:Castillo del Desnarigado, en Ceuta.jpg is stated as being "own work" with the Author as "www.conoceceuta.com" and it appears the image was scanned (per meta data)? They have already been questioned about Image:Raúl Castro.jpg and have not so far responded as far as I can see --Herby talk thyme 10:33, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Disruptive behaviour uploading a file that doesn't match the existing description at Image:InternalWaves Gibraltar ISS009-E-09952 54.jpg too. William Avery 12:19, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

User:Monarchy has cropped the image, in order to remove the part which displayed the rock of Gibraltar. I think that is patent vandalism. --Juiced lemon 13:06, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Partly yes & partly no. Do check the image differences but a second overwriting of the image without explanation warrants a warning and I have done so --Herby talk thyme 13:26, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
The cropped image could be upload with a different name. The overwriting is contentious. --Juiced lemon 14:04, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism by Wb678

Please block User:Wb678 for vandalisng my user page, see: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:MathKnight&diff=prev&oldid=7126991 . MathKnight 13:40, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Warned - I (or anyone else) should block if such edits are repeated. --Herby talk thyme 14:00, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Image:Don_Drini.jpg

Repeated vandalism from anonymous addresses in the 88.11 block history. William Avery 16:34, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done - thanks for the heads up - I reverted one myself a while ago. I've blocked the IP that has "attacked" twice and semi protected the image for a while. Regards --Herby talk thyme 16:40, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Expiry of the semi-protection has been followed by a repeat of the vandalism. William Avery 11:12, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done and thanks again - protected for a month this time. Someone doesn't like Drini! --Herby talk thyme 11:15, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

User:Barte

All of his three edits in Commons have been manipulations of photographies of austrian politicians. Obviously he does not like the president and the chancellor. He may articulate this whereever he likes, but this is definitely the wrong place for political "satire" ... or simple trolling. Could an admin please block him? He does not show any sign of constructive behaviour. --Tsui 22:20, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Blocked and will delete the troll bad versions of images. (→O - RLY?) 23:11, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Gemberling

Gemberling (talk · contribs) is still vandalizing Image:Shinzo Abe, 2007Apr27.jpg by uploading a picture of another japanese (may be en:Pat Morita). For the 3rd time now! Please block his account. Regards --Alcibiades 12:06, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Blocked indefinitely. —David Levy 12:13, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


Image:Amur_Leopard_Pittsburgh_Zoo.jpg

This is vandalism, isn't it? Normally I do not remove a deletion request, but this is the picture of the day and that doesn't look so good. Thanks, ← Körnerbrötchen - @ 18:31, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Heh, I just finished taking care of that :) It was just someone fooling around with the "nominate this image for deletion" button, cleaned up and fixed. -- Editor at Large • talk 18:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Ok thanks to you. That's just a funny happenstance. ← Körnerbrötchen - @ 18:39, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Most welcome, thanks for reporting it so quickly! -- Editor at Large • talk 18:42, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Granadin

User:Granadin is atributing himself some work [9], [10]. This images can be found with a simple search with google [11], [12] and in they respective pages seem to have copyright. He is also wanting to delete without reason some images [13]. When he was advised once [14] he answered (from anonymous ip, I can not assure it, but the content seems to be an answer to this message) with terrible words [15] (you are bad person because you are saying the administrators I am uploading images with copyright). He was blocked for "stealing repeatedly images of others with explicit copyright notice, claiming himself as ownership" and it seems he continues doing the same. Therefore, I think he should be blocked much longer and all his images should be deleted. Thanks.--Xtv 03:34, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

So far - I've warned the IP that used the terrible words (babel fish gives me enough of an idea). I've reverted the removal of deletion tags by this IP and warned them. However a number of other edits by that IP are questionable in my view (changing/providing licensing) and someone else's views would be good. I am satisfied that the two files mentioned above are copyvios and will delete them. I'll look at blocking the user concerned then. Other views on the rest of their contributions would be welcome - thanks for bringing it to our attention --Herby talk thyme 07:26, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Yes - seems to be uploading copyvios again after blocks last year. I've blocked for 6 months but if someone feels "indefinite" is more appropriate I'll not argue. Later I'll take a look at the possibilities of multiple accounts being involved --Herby talk thyme 07:32, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
I'd appreciate another admin's views on whether User:Gabri-co might be involved with this case. It was mentioned in a block on User:Granadin last year - cheers --Herby talk thyme 07:51, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

The problem is that it seems he took all the photos from Internet: [16] = [17], [18] = [19], [20] = [21], etc, etc, etc... I won't check if there is one of the images he uploaded which has the good copyright. I think it's much easier and safer to delete all his images. About the other user, I just don't know.--Xtv 12:53, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, he has uploaded many location images which I suppose he stole the ownership but I can't find from whom, so, all these shouldn't be deleted. But I think all the "escudos" and "banderas" (shields and flags), and all the photos from people, are taken from Internet... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xtv (talk • contribs) at 13:46, 18 Aug 2007 (UTC)
Deleting all his contribs sounds fair to me. -- Bryan (talk to me) 20:34, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
So, what you decide? I insist, I think all this copyvios should be deleted. Could be that User:Monarchy and User:Granadin are sockpuppets?--Xtv 15:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism on the First_steps/Account page

Hi, I'm a new user, still finding my way around, but I'm pretty sure this isn't what I'm supposed to find when I look for info on setting up my account: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:First_steps/Account Rebekahn 08:09, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

You are so right - thanks, reverted now --Herby talk thyme 08:12, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism Cecil (talk · contribs)

Repeated vandalism from Cecil (talk · contribs) He is permanently vandalizing the following images:

Image:Fragment of a clock.jpg

Image:Ceremonial sword Poniatowski.jpg

Image:Silver regalia Augustus III.jpg

Image:Coronation robe Władysław IV.jpg Polaco77 09:15, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

It's no vandalism to restore a running request for deletion (especially if the requirements of the according license template aren't fullfilled). And please keep this “problem” on one page. Thank you. BTW: Please read Commons:Licensing and Commons:Derivative works. Don't put free content under licenses like GFDL. You are obviously not the author of http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image%3ASigismund_III_on_his_death-bed.JPG&diff=7673988&oldid=7657011 and nobody has to provide your name to use this reproduction. --Polarlys 10:16, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Mark Harris

This user has uploaded a vulgar image, which he used later to vandalise the Dutch wikipedia (contributions), for which he was blocked indefinately. --Hardscarf 10:46, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done - deleted, blocked and many thanks for the info --Herby talk thyme 10:52, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Possible vandalism

by User:Richardprins at User:Siebrand and User talk:Siebrand Havang 15:24, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Very likely vandalism I would say. This is way out of line, and I blocked this user indef. If anybody wants to reduce the block and try a dialogue with him, please fell freee to do so.Finn Rindahl 15:39, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Unblocked by Siebrand after communication with user and a helpful contribution by user:Havang. All is well that ends well :-) Finn Rindahl 12:31, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Heads up on crosswiki school vandals

Just a warning that I have come across 6 IP addresses making considerable vandal edits in the past few hours. One set begin 81. and the other 82. (see block log for info). The first I just blocked for a day (must be in a good mood) but checking en wp block logs some are on 6 month school blocks. Given that if they are bored they may well be back. Cheers --Herby talk thyme 11:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

209.123.28.250

209.123.28.250 (talk · contribs) inserts random nonsense. // Liftarn

No edits since 30 minutes. Seems the user has stopped by himself. -- Cecil 15:32, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

76.174.134.16

The user 76.174.134.16 (talk · contribs) continues to vandalize user and user talk pages after receiving his final warning from both myself and CO (talk · contribs). I believe a block is appropriate. Nishkid64 (talk) 03:23, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Drini got it but way too lenient for my liking! En wp has a substantial block and I don't like attack IPs, blocked for a month and thanks for the help --Herby talk thyme 08:02, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

I had some vandalism to the caption of Image:Rosetta Stone BW.jpeg. I went place a message to the user's talk page only to find that my normal vandal template that I use over on the English wikipedia, {{subst:uw-vandalism1|PageName}}, does not work here. I cannot even find documentation here of what templates are available! Help! Jeff Dahl 16:48, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

We use mainly {{Test}}, {{Test2}} and {{Test3}}, {{Test4}}. They're listed in Commons:Message templates, but I admit it took me some time to find that page the first time I looked for it. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 17:11, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
OK, thanks. Jeff Dahl 05:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm curious, Jastrow, did you first try Commons:Templates. If yes, was it hard to find the appropriate link on that page? If no, what was your first place to look at? I'm asking because our navigation certainly could be better... Samulili 13:34, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
In fact, I (Jeff) did just that! I could not find the appropriate place. Next I tried "vandalism" which of course returns only images of vandalism. Perhaps a see also link at the top of category:vandalism?. Jeff Dahl 05:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
This is personal obviously but when I first get to a wiki I'll probably look at RC. If vandalism is around then I want to know what to do about it and how to warn someone. I don't recall a wiki I have found it easy on (although experience makes it easier to know where might be good to look). I tend to try "community portal" or similar as there is usually an admin link there. Allowing my inability in languages the worst so far was finding "speedy delete" on fr wp - I got there but... --Herby talk thyme 13:42, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Maybe we should create redirect for some of the names of common vandalism templates from other Wikimedia sites to the closest corresponding template here on Commons? —LX (talk, contribs) 20:52, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
The other side of the coin - being used to "our" warnings I have been irritated when trying to use them elsewhere (particularly where they used to work) so all other project should create redirects to help us! More seriously it is one of those things that seems hard to find on a number of wikis and I am sure we could/should improve it --Herby talk thyme 10:17, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Is this new page, I have things to report, what is administrators board and noticeboard for then? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.99.1.143 (talk • contribs) at 19:11, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

This was a new page as of this edit, 20:22, 2 October 2006 (UTC). Commons:Administrators' noticeboard is for notices to Administrators that do not fit in to its section subpages as seen in "Administrators' noticeboard sections" above.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 21:27, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

88.228.171.4

Somebody with IP address 88.228.171.4 has just let an insulting message in my talk page. This IP address is in the range of TurkTelekom, so I think that IP is used by User:Abdullah Köroğlu. Please, check it and warn the user if need be. --Juiced lemon 13:53, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

No idea whose IP it is but I do not like "attack IPs" - I've blocked it for a period. If you get more let us know & we will follow it up further, thanks --Herby talk thyme 13:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

User:Scot nyboer

Inappropriate username, only posted attack image Image:Scot nyboer.jpg. Imposter, ought to be blocked. Patstuart 21:51, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Why is the name inappropriate please, thanks (Equally why is the image an "attack" one?) --Herby talk thyme 13:15, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
It's not an attack pic per see, but this description is certainly a derisive one. User:Scot nyboer is probably some teenager trying to poke fun at a schoolmate. Deletion seems a good idea. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 13:43, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Deleted - happy to hear about the username still? --Herby talk thyme 13:55, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Since the account was used to make fun of an individual by the same name, it seems like a case of {{Imposter}}, albeit of a "real person" rather than a Commons user (as far as I know, anyway). I don't think we have a username policy on Commons, and it doesn't go against the letter of Wikipedia:Username policy#Inappropriate_usernames, but it certainly goes against the spirit. In any case, the account is obviously created solely for purposes of vandalism. —LX (talk, contribs) 15:15, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

User:87.220.9.113

continued to remove speedy deletion tags after final warning. Has been removing tags without comment, and posting spam under User:Cinco-cero-cinco, User:Josse5valen and User:5-0-5 (Pop-Rock) (same actions: editing each other's spam userpages, etc). 87.220.9.20 appears to be a sock as well. Patstuart 23:03, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

User:74.166.148.15

Tried to rig Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Atlantis picture.jpg and vandalised a set of interwiki links. I've reverted these edits. Valentinian T / C 11:31, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Warned thanks --Herby talk thyme 12:09, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

User:5-0-5 (Pop-Rock)

Continual spam after multiple multiple warnings. First report is two above this one. User page User:5-0-5 (Pop-Rock) is recreated spam, User:Josse5valen‎ is recreated spam; known socks are also User:Cinco-cero-cinco and several addresses in the 87.220.8.0/23 range (87.220.8.188, 87.220.8.4, 87.220.8.46, 87.220.8.208, 87.220.8.201, 87.220.8.37, 87.220.8.97, 87.220.8.79, 87.220.9.113). Please block; this user has been warned multiple times, and probably should have been blocked on the last report (removed speedy notices many times after warnings). Patstuart 16:57, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Is someone going to take care of this or not? I've been watching this idiot spam for weeks and ignore warnings, and no one's even taking the time to block him or delete his pages, which are spammed recreations. Patstuart 16:29, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Deleted, warned the three users. The IPs are probably dynamic so not a lot of point in chasing them for now. It it is recreated it probably should be protected --Herby talk thyme 17:13, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
That's my point, it already was recreated, and, at that, I was reverted several times. Patstuart 17:19, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Yes & that is twice I've deleted it. However Commons is multilingual and they are not English speakers so we will assume good faith for now but an es admin might be useful, --Herby talk thyme 17:22, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
I speak Spanish; I warned him on his page and at User talk:87.220.9.113. Patstuart 17:23, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Great - if you could translate my warnings on each of their pages we will know that they have had warnings (User:5-0-5 (Pop-Rock) 's was a "final" one in my view). Thanks --Herby talk thyme 17:28, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

This is the same user. They've been editing each other's page, and using the same IP's (evident via IP contributions). Patstuart 18:18, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Serious vandalism by Tolling (talk · contribs)

Tolling (talk · contribs) has left two obscene comments on Commons:Forum [22], [23], including an allegation of pedophilia against a named (fake?) person, but more importantly he created the spam gallery page Talk:Www.ratemypoo.com on Commons, obviously only to provide advertising for a porn website. Please block indefinitely and delete the gallery page. -- Túrelio 09:57, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up - blocked, deleted, cheers --Herby talk thyme 10:01, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
@Herby, thanks for the very rapid reaction. -- Túrelio 10:07, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Open Proxy/Bot vandalism

Over the past couple of days there has been quite a bit of apparently random (possibly bot) vandalism coming from Open Proxies (virtually every time). There is either a page created or one blanked leaving a random set of letters such as here. Worth watching out for (& as open proxies the IPs need blocking with anon only unchecked, my preference is a year), thanks --Herby talk thyme 11:40, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

User:204.185.26.251

[24]. --Juiced lemon 21:02, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Reverted and warned, will block if s/he does anything again. Thanks for the help, Patrícia msg 21:42, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Vandal active on FPC

Vandal currently rampant on FPC. Lycaon 22:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

user:Dennis_the_Menace

His exploits : [25]. --Juiced lemon 22:57, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Dennis the Menace

This user is vandalising pages: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dennis_the_Menace Could any adm stop him? Thanks. --User:G.dallorto 22:58, 7 November 2007 (UTC) Reported on Village Pump.[26]

✓ Done Indefinite block; vandalism only account; vandalism reverted. Walter Siegmund (talk) 00:27, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

User:Granadin

A discussion about some copyvios was archived without being solved. There are many copyvios still to be deleted. This talk can not be closed. I beg some administrator to check and delete all the contributions (all copyvios) from Granadin. Thaks.--Xtv 18:15, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I've gone and deleted some of the obvious ones noted in that post - I'm a bit short on time now, if another admin could clean up after me? Giggy\Talk 09:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

User:Topicant

User:Topicant has received several warnings about no longer removing the no source tag from images. He has been removing them via IP (apparently he found them on his watchlist or contribution list). See the history for any of the image deletion warnings placed on his page to see the removal of warnings. First warning, Second warning. Went back to doing it again anyway and again, after even another warning. Please delete these images (or revert and protect them; there's no point in me sitting here and reverting all day) and block this user for a time. Users should know they can't continue to ignore policy. Patstuart 20:44, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Is anyone going to do something about this or not? If not, I don't have the time to mess around here, and if this user will be removing tags for possibly copyrighted works, and no one cares to even address my concerns, then fine, commons will suffer by having illegal works on it. Patstuart 19:36, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Issue solved. Patstuart 21:24, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

User: 88.90.76.43

User from this IP seems to think that he's a hacker. I've already reverted all edits under this IP, since they were just attempts to insert html into the bodies of the Commons pics that were edited

That's just spam. If he continues, someone please block; I warned. Patstuart 23:13, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
User appears to have stopped - no need to block for now. If he persists, leave me a note or post here. Giggy\Talk 09:16, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

User:71.194.16.178

I'm just going to go ahead and report this user now, as I seriously doubt he will stop after his last warning. Patstuart 20:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Done. Was blocked for a day by User:White Cat. Lupo 20:45, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

User:Btr

See Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Attention#User:Btr trying to retract CC licenses. Lupo 23:14, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

User:荒らし続けよう！

Open Account (He says "my password is 1".).--Monaneko 13:25, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

thanks, "public user" account and blocked as such --Herby talk thyme 13:32, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Funny, not so long ago I did the same type of block. I wonder if it's related or just a coincidence, or if this happens often anyway? Patrícia msg 13:47, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

User:Alanood

User repeats meme of deleting licensing info from Mohammed pictures despite warning. Request account creation blocking with autoblocking to prevent this repeat vandal from continuing. -N 03:07, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks & ✓ Done. There is another account doing similar things so gone to take a look, cheers --Herby talk thyme 08:27, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Erkelenz

IP 87.164.196.218 has again deleted serveral pictures and their copyright-licenses as well. I suggest to save this Artikel to prevend an editwar. (same Problem in the german wikipedia) Bodoklecksel 15:14, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done Ruhe bis nach Weihnachten. Der eine revert von hier war nicht ausschlaggebend für mich, sondern die Vorgeschichte von de:. __ ABF __ ϑ 15:31, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

User:Lets Vandalize togther

Vandal. -N 21:47, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Blocked[27] by User:S1. -Rocket000 22:28, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

User:Reino Helismaa

User:Alex Spade has some kind of dispute with this user (see http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Alex_Spade&diff=8959049&oldid=8958212 and other history of same page). User blanked Alex Spade's talk page and user page in retaliation. -N 11:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, that's weird. Alex says that Reino's blocked, but I don't see anything in the logs... --Boricuæddie 14:59, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Please see User talk:Boricuaeddie#Reino Helismaa. The dispute is at ru.wp, where Reino is blocked for breaking their policies. There's nothing we can do here. --Boricuæddie 16:51, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

User:100 ViAGENS no OLHAR

User is bypassing the spam filter by uploading images with the URLs directly in the initial description. -N 16:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks, blocked & deleted, cheers --Herby talk thyme 17:14, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Shadow-tdg

Look at the contributions. --Euku 19:31, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up - blocked --Herby talk thyme 19:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
And any es admins may care to look at this which is "strangely" similar --Herby talk thyme 19:47, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

User:24.165.124.148

Nominated the same pic for deletion twice in 3 days, blanked the description. Deletion reason was "weird". -N 02:09, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for a month. Closed the deletion requests. Thanks. Rocket000 02:19, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Anomo, User:Arkalochori

I have reverted what I expect is unwanted additions to User talk:Riana, does someone want to check out these two users and perhaps block? I presume Riana hadn't yet seen the additions but wouldn't want them. Image:RianaC.jpg should perhaps be marked with {{Personalityrights}} --Tony Wills 01:09, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Blocked both. I deleted the image too, I think if Riana wanted it uploaded she'd upload herself. Majorly (talk) 01:30, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
CU'd too - it was a cross wiki issue --Herby talk thyme 09:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

78.49.174.64 (talk · contribs)

{no source since|month=December|day=18|year=2007} and [Category:...] tags were removed - still no source and now again without a category. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 78.49.190.84 (talk • contribs) at 07:55, January 8, 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. In both cases the uploader is Yaşar Kadıoğlu (talk · contribs) and the licence is GFDL & CC-BY-SA. The picture was first correctly described with {{Information}}, then the uploader removed the template, to keep only the description field (thus deleting the 'source' data). The pictures were then tagged twice as missing source by 78.49.* ; the notice was reverted twice by users with different IPs. Well, I reverted both pages to their first version with full description and added correct cats. I have some doubts about copyright, though. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 08:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

193.190.88.130 (talk · contribs)

Special:Contributions/193.190.88.130 All of his contributions consist in vandalism. --User:G.dallorto 15:09, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, blocked, thanks for picking it up, regards --Herby talk thyme 15:11, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Please edit this

In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_&_Bee

there is no book in the ant n bee saga called "Ant and Bee an the artificial orgasm" (but it will bwe a nice book to have;) ) please anyone with the proper credentials edit it salut

Wikipedia is a wiki; anyone can edit it, even yourself. So go register there, and make that correction ;-) --Boricuæddie 18:25, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Image:Hurricane Kenneth on September 18 2005.jpg

Currently on the English Wikipedia Main Page. The Wikipedia admin who rotated it in forgot to upload a local copy, and TestedToComply vandalized it, which briefly got on the Main Page. I put up a local copy on en, so that's not a problem anymore, but you might want to clean up after the vandal. --Slowking Man 20:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done. Thanks for the heads up. --Boricuæddie 21:47, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Looks like our good friend User:Learnsales is back. How productive. —LX (talk, contribs) 07:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Likely to be dynamic on past performance but I may dig. I have protected (I hope) the creation of "HAGGAR" type pages however, may help, thanks for the help all --Herby talk thyme 09:51, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Explicit content

Hi I'm not sure if I did good on that but I've removed a submission on the listing. View it here. If I did wrong, just tell me and I'll never repeat this. Thanks. -- Acarpentier 12:13, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

It seems to me that the person making the nomination had other things in mind than celebrating that great content which is found on Commons. I know I won't condemn your action. Samulili 12:28, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
It is a valid picture, let it run its time. I've put an {{FPX}} template on it so it will probably be gone in 48hrs. Lycaon 12:50, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Atentos! Imagenes robadas!

Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems#Atencion.21_Imagenes_robadas.21 has this as well, so I removed it, let's keep the discussion in one place. ++Lar: t/c 02:45, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

SieBot

I don't like being spammed 'welcomed' by a bot and the author didn't mention it at Commons:Administrators/Requests and votes/SieBot--Bettywins 08:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
This is not vandalism. Rocket000 08:56, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Commons:Welcome log. There is a reason for doing it, because most new users make typcial errors and this should introduce them to the most important facts, so that we don't have to spend our work with cleaning up after them. Please don't misuse this page. -- Cecil 22:46, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Downstage (talk · contribs)

User is replacing US official's images with genitalia. I'm not active enough here to know anything as far as warnings/blocks/etc, but this guy needs a block IMO. auburnpilot (talk) 04:48, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done. Blocked indefinitely. Vandalism revisions deleted. Thanks for the notice. —LX (talk, contribs) 07:39, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Please block this IP!

70.57.161.134 (talk · contribs) I've spent hours reverting 99% of his/her contributions! S/He was adding parent cat everywhere, creating duplicate cat, etc, etc... It's a real pain in the ass! Thanks a lot! --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 14:50, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Have you tried talking to him/her? --Boricuæddie 21:05, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Several people had. No reaction at all; the user just kept charging forwards. I don't think it was intentional vandalism, just a disruptive cocktail of eagerness and ignorance. Blocked for three days but with the ability to create an account left intact in hopes that the user is willing to take a first step in facilitating a dialogue. —LX (talk, contribs) 22:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

212.219.59.241

hi there,

people are constanly messing around in the college. please can you unblock the account as i am unable to creat an account as the ip address is blocked from your server, —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.219.59.241 (talk • contribs) at 12:25, 8 Feb 2008 (UTC)

My thanks for drawing attention to your own edits which cannot be called constructive I'm afraid. Your IP was not blocked however I have now changed that & blocked you from editing for a day. When the block expires please contribute in a constructive manner - thanks --Herby talk thyme 12:35, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Probably yet another case of someone thinking they're on English Wikipedia for some reason, since the address is subject to a long-term block there. —LX (talk, contribs) 13:07, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Indeed - or even because I just blocked them a little earlier on en wb... :) --Herby talk thyme 13:14, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:2005-10-26 Brandenburger-Tor.JPG

Hi. I'm the author of the Image 2005-10-26 Brandenburger-Tor.JPG. As you can see the User:Frau Olga always trys to push his adaptation of the picture, which I consider ugly. Is there anything I (or you) can do prohibiting another change by Frau Olga? --Axel.Mauruszat 22:35, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Since his version is a derivative of yours, tell the user to upload his version under a different name, obviously crediting you for the original image. --Boricuæddie 22:41, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I left a message to Frau Olga. Samulili 13:09, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Mass deletion of The Yorck Project images?

I cannot see the collection of images allegedly collected at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:The_Yorck_Project

I am not the only one with this problem.

I don't know if this is "vandalism" or not, but if the images have been legitimately withdrawn, it would only be polite to give proper notice of same at places like: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:10%2C000_paintings_from_Directmedia

Thanks! —the preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.78.54.251 (talk • contribs) 06:02, 11 February 2008

Did you look at Category:PD-Art_(Yorck_Project)? It is a subcategory of the one you cited above that contains more than 200 images. Walter Siegmund (talk) 06:17, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

User:Ltljltlj

This user removed my comments from his/her talk page using the edit summary "removed unwanted junk". I do believe that s/he can't do that without archiving it. I think that is considered vandalism. Rappingwonders2 23:02, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Not really. Your talk page is yours; what you do with it is not our problem, to a certain extent, of course. --Boricuæddie 23:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
But the comments that this user removed are warnings, it is frowned upon to remove warnings. Rappingwonders2 23:06, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
You are not even an admin. Stop harassing me! --Ltljltlj 23:07, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Now I'm "harassing" you? I don't see why you have something against me when I have absolutely NOTHING against you. Rappingwonders2 23:08, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Stop vandalizing my talk page! --Ltljltlj 23:10, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
First of all, I'm not "vandalizing" it I'm just re-adding the comments you refuse to archive. And answer my question: What do you have against me and why? Rappingwonders2 23:12, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Actually, nobody is compelled to archive anything. Only removing serious warnings like copyvios should not be hidden, but not usual user communication like yours. So please stop editing his talk page if you are not welcomed. -- Cecil 09:39, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Just noticed, Rappingwonders was blocked. So this issue should be solved. -- Cecil 09:42, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Attack picture versions

Hi guys. Image:Neouvielle and lac d' aumar.png was brought to our attention on the French-speaking Bistro. The original picture represents a nice mountain lake, but another version was later uploaded by Rando-photo (talk · contribs), the author/uploader, with the mention "[fr: user] est un gros naze" ("[fr: user] is a twerp"). It was reverted, an edit war began and the uploader was blocked.

The file history still stands. As for me, I would delete all file revisions and let the original picture stand alone. What do you think? Jastrow (Λέγετε) 18:00, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. --MichaelMaggs 19:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Likewise --Herby talk thyme 19:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
✓ Done. —LX (talk, contribs) 21:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Also, I'm guessing User:Jidubas is a sockpuppet? —LX (talk, contribs) 21:52, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

75.100.80.182 (talk · contribs)

Please block 75.100.80.182 (talk · contribs). Lycaon 08:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Blocked, thanks. giggy (:O) 08:28, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. Lycaon 08:35, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Eek, just realised I indefblocked. Changed that to a week. *guilty face* giggy (:O) 09:37, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

User:Mikas

This user is constantly changing map of Serbia despite relevant UN source at [28]. Also he has made another map whit same change despite this reference form UN site. Please, can someone contact this user about this. Thanks, --Pokrajac 22:20, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Protected both images for a week. Please sort this out without shouting at one another; thanks 哦，是吗？(O-person) 01:25, 18 February 2008 (GMT)

Flag of Iran

Flag_of_Iran.svg vandalized in most recent upload, my acct. is too new on commons to restore it to older version by re-uploading. Levskaya 06:16, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Deleted from upload log + blocked user indefinitely. Thanks, Nishkid64 (talk) 06:25, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Image:Ajaxjood.jpg

Please delete this image immediately: it says something like "Smoking kills you, so give free packets of cigarettes to all Ajax Jews" (note: this is about hating fans of the Dutch football club Ajax). - Erik Baas 13:35, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Agreed & ✓ Done. That image & the other uploaded (which was on the same theme & probably a copyvio anyway) deleted. User warned & thanks for the info, regards --Herby talk thyme 13:43, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

User:Public Domain

User is retagging a bunch of images uploaded by an unapproved bot. User should be blocked for this. The bot is currently blocked, and its contributions should also be deleted. If the user wishes to have his work on Commons he should start a normal account and upload them like everyone else. -N 02:28, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Blocked as a sock. I'll see what I can do about the images. 哦，是吗？(O-person) 04:48, 14 March 2008 (GMT)
The user has finally responded to our concerns, see Commons:Deletion requests/Image:GT056-Antigua TitTwins.jpeg. I'm not against this person continuing to contribute but he should do it right. -N 18:02, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Socks

User:Melissaferreira and User:Raryana appear to be socks due to uploading the same copyright violation under the same file name. -N 21:48, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Image deleted and both users blocked. Maxim(talk) 21:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

User:1fortune4m

Uploaded a picture along with a credit card spam link at Image:Easy To Get Credit Cards.gif. Should be blocked. --Jan Hofmann 11:21, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

The image is deleted, but I think it's not (yet) a reason to block. →Christian.И 11:35, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Alert please

Check mine & Raina's block logs. Series of vandal accounts being created & main page vandalism. I'm blocking some associated IPs at present, cheers --Herby talk thyme 15:10, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Cross wiki issue & CU list. They hit en wp earlier & are working en wb at present. I've placed some harsh range blocks but it is a collection of script kiddies & I have only done 6 hours --Herby talk thyme 15:24, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Gore uploads

Some guy vandalized my user page by posting photos of gore. [29]

This guy's user page has gore photos too: User:In b4 Bel-Air - And he tried vandalizing the noticeboard [30] WhisperToMe 05:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

People misusing commons for spamming purposes

hi,

there is some being spamming a picture uploaded to your repository to spam around different mediawiki installations. the picture he includes there is located at: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6b/XRumer_screenshot.gif/200px-XRumer_screenshot.gif

spam seems to be used to advertise a product called "XRumer"

would be nice if you could not only delete this and all relating pictures, the uploading user, but also ban the word "Xrumer" to prevent that kind of misusage in the future.

thanks

Nope, that's a "fair use" screenshot uploaded at the English Wikipedia: en:Image:XRumer_screenshot.gif. You need to complain over there. Lupo 10:26, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

User:In b4 Bel-Air

Blatant vandalism in progress. I noticed because my user talk page was one of the targets. - Jmabel | talk 05:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

My user talk page was also hit by this sick Vandal. -- Bidgee 05:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

As of a few minutes ago, we were caught up with fixing the vandalized pages, but someone needs to delete the (uniformly disgusting) images that he uploaded, since they are almost certainly copyright violations, and in any case we could not take this blatant vandal's word for any claim to having rights to them. - Jmabel | talk 05:42, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

They have stopped for now. Fixed the template which meant the images where shown in here[31]! -- Bidgee 05:44, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done User blocked, and disgusting images deleted - ugh >_< krimpet✽ 06:19, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

en:Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Roitr

Could you please help me to monitor new users & uploads. Today I've blocked 8 (i've tired to change this while the message being written) sockpuppets of him [32]. He uploads Russian private orders under PD-RU-exempt license, which is not applicable to them, they are surely fair use. See also my deletions log [33] for today. --Panther 15:28, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I'll keep an eye on this too; is he changing his IP all the time? Why isn't autoblock working? Patrícia msg 15:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Changing IPs over quite a range. Range blocks would have collateral damage - still digging --Herby talk thyme 15:38, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
+user:Topawerence blocked - think it is one --Herby talk thyme 15:41, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Can't see any more obvious ones at present. Will point fellow CUs to thread, thanks for the work --Herby talk thyme 15:47, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Blocked Versedoor (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  and Werance (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) , and Panther beat me to block Theyevery (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) . Thank both of you for your work! Patrícia msg 15:50, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Noticing this continuing I guess range blocking to account creation may be worth considering. However we are talking 8 or so /16 ranges so other views welcome? I'll be offline for a bit but I've informed active CUs --Herby talk thyme 16:02, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Another suspect Jokestand (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) , indef blocked. /16 ranges? Ouch... Blocking account creation and leaving autoblock disabled, I'd agree with a short block (starting with a couple of hours?) Patrícia msg 16:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Yes, it's he. Thank you all, I'm expected to disconnect now. --Panther 16:37, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Range blocks appear to have been placed by Yann. They have now expired but any admin could repeat the blocks looking at Yann block log --Herby talk thyme 18:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

(reset) Just a recap, account blocked by Panther, Herby and myself (mostly by Panther):

Did I miss any? (is CAPTCHA suggesting names to vandals? :P) Patrícia msg 22:54, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

He's back. Just caught Denidrama (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  in the act... Patrícia msg 23:06, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Reviewed the IPs as of now & there are no further accounts I can see (& I'm guessing you are right about CAPTCHA!). Any outbreaks today (or any time) just nudge me, cheers --Herby talk thyme 07:10, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Please check Savchenko (talk · contribs) - I sure it's him, but Savchenko's files probably are PD-exempt and I'm not sure to delete them right now. --Panther 17:53, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

And Tavriat (talk · contribs) too. --Panther 18:49, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
And Navigators (talk · contribs). --Panther 18:54, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Oceantubis (talk · contribs). --Panther 19:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Probable All users in the same range. Bastique demandez 19:09, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Vorsax (talk · contribs). --Panther 07:10, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

(non-CU speaking here) Why hasn't a rangeblock been applied? giggy (:O) 07:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

BIG ip ranges. Yann did range block early on & Cary ran through the ranges when looking at this one, equally I have just reviewed the one used here & there is nothing else currently. So the equation is damage v collateral damage & at present the "damage" side is less than the collateral would be my guess? Cheers --Herby talk thyme 08:02, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
And then thinking some - is there any time pattern in these episodes Panther? If there is then range blocking for quite limited periods at the "appropriate" time might well put them off? Cheers --Herby talk thyme 09:42, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Last days he was active at my evenings - from MSK 18:00 to 23:00 (UTC 14:00 to 19:00). But I think the ranges are too big to block them every day for hours. I'll watch the activity similar to him next days. I hope he will not be too destructive :). --Panther 10:07, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

--Panther 07:26, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

copyvio page creating vandal

please see: Special:Contributions/Anibal rodrigo and block him. thx - Franzenshof

Herbythyme took care of it, thank you for reporting! Patrícia msg 16:18, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

IP 190.43.186.182

See Special:Contributions/190.43.186.182. --BerndH

✓ Done; rolled back 20+ instances of vandalism. Walter Siegmund (talk) 18:12, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Image:StevenMFowler.JPG

This image has been uploaded as vandalism. The fact that it is not a likeness of the alleged subject can be seen on page 3 of the school newsletter here. Can this be deleted, please? TerriersFan 16:19, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done. --Panther 16:46, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
It's back - please redelete and also protect the namespace. TerriersFan 17:45, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Personal insults on Bolivia page

The headline pretty much says it all.—the preceding unsigned comment was added by Frankie816 (talk • contribs)

✓ Done Vandalism removed, user blocked Finn Rindahl 22:52, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

reporting vandalism / awful pictures

i have found these at the "latest file" page. The dumps are looking like normal, but the picture are awful. It seems to be the same author all the time. One example - [[34]] yours 87.179.155.35 10:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

OK I think now - looking into it - thanks for the message. What other ones are there? --Herby talk thyme 10:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Note the contributions of Gavin.collins (talk · contribs), whose uploads have been cleaned up by an array of admins. I have also fully cascade protected the Main Page after massive image vandalism. (Totally stunned that this wasn't the case before.) - BanyanTree 10:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey Herby! There were others of the same author but they seem to be ok now. I just found another one by another author. {{http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:John_McCain_official_photo_portrait-cropped.JPG]]. Is these some kind of attack on commons? 87.179.155.35 10:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks all - Bryan has now blocked 5 sleeper accounts & we have both checked for others. All damaged repaired, CU list notified. In passing there was some "discussion" about main page protection on another board recently. There does not seem to be full agreement on it :) Cheers --Herby talk thyme 10:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your fast reply. I cannot figure out why anyone would like to upload such pictures. They are reality (unfortunately) but at commons there are kids looking around, so no need for such pictures. 87.179.155.35 10:42, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

IP 67.0.105.164

See Special:Contributions/67.0.105.164. Had it been one edit I would have assumed it was a mistake but after several identical edits... Short block should suffice. /Lokal_Profil 23:52, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

They're on a two-hour break now. —LX (talk, contribs) 00:05, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Something odd

Take a look at the edit histories here, here, here & here. Similar edits, widely spread IPs. Suggests to me Open Proxies or similar but the bot is not reporting anything. May be worth watching for, cheers --Herby talk thyme 16:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Seem to be a cross wiki phenomena [35] Regards, Finn Rindahl 16:12, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Oh well, the good people at nn: deleted that page[36]. It was a new article created with the same text as in the diffs Herby provided above. Finn Rindahl 16:31, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
None of those IPs are open proxies as far as I can currently determine. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 03:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Revert and ignore (with block if you like) seems to be the best solution if this comes up again. giggy (:O) 08:51, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism of description, et cetera

I'm getting some person constantly changing the descriptions in my gallery, yesterday about a half dozen or more times to

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Will_Dockery_poet.jpg

I check back and undo these, but thought I'd pass it along since the person seems determined to keep it up.

"Will Dockery 16:07, 21 April 2008 (UTC)"

I have blocked Parnello (talk · contributions (views) · deleted user contributions · recent activity (talk · project · deletion requests) · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth) indef for harrassment and protected Image:Will Dockery poet.jpg for a month from IPs. Patrícia msg 16:22, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism by User:I cant think of a good name

This user is uploading vandalised images which are identical to pre existent valid images but with 4chan memes hidden in them, and replacing them in en.wikipedia articles, Image:Military laser Experiment.jpg contains the IMA CHARGING MA LAZORZ meme, Image:United States One dollar bill, obverse.jpg contains a small mudkipz ( a pokemon, also a meme) inserted just above the 'N' in ONE DOLLAR; Image:Velsenwapen.png is a modified version of Image:Velsen wapen.png, with the sheep head replaced by a pikkachu head ( a pokemon). Jackaranga 11:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

The original images were Image:Military laser experiment.jpg, Image:United States one dollar bill, obverse.jpg Jackaranga 11:23, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Hum - deleted, just wondering if indef block is appropriate or whether to try a warning. My gut feeling is this sort of vandalism is unlikely to go away - views? Cheers --Herby talk thyme 11:31, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Don't know really, now that we know about him, it's unlikely he will go unnoticed anyway if he edits from the same account. Jackaranga 11:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
ABF abf /talk to me/ 13:25, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Good block. I'd go with Herby's gut (& mine agrees!) that this kind of thing is unlikely to go willingly. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 23:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Endorse block. giggy (:O) 00:54, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Setdominguez

As noted by a user on the german village pump [37], there seems to be a problem with User:Setdominguez who systematically deletes all information from the description pages of images originally uploaded by himself. --Túrelio 20:30, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmm...a strange case. I'm not really sure if a block is in order...I'll leave the user a note about this, see what happens. giggy (:O) 01:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Vittorio Sgarbi fecal vandalism

Please, block Special:Contributions/87.4.127.240 and Special:Contributions/87.11.195.46. --Dezidor 23:28, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 24 hours. Finn Rindahl 23:46, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

User:Knorrepoes

Delete some correct licences here. --Atamari 11:07, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

and here and here and many other images --Atamari 12:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
I have warned the user to either correct the licenses or propose images for deletion if licensing is not adequate. I'm reverting in the meanwhile. Patrícia msg 12:46, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
OK, I think I rollbacked every removal done today, please warn me if I missed something, thanks, Patrícia msg 13:00, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Note, user continues to change license templates (though not removing them)...see their talk page. giggy (:O) 03:58, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

User:Lawd1234

Lawd1234 has been banned from en.wp for image vandalism. Could an admin here please ban and delete his uploads on this end. Thanks. -- Netsnipe 16:27, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Seems reasonable! ✓ Done thanks --Herby talk thyme 17:07, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
For completeness - User:Pixel1234 today. Sock of above, blocked & upload (The Shining related material) deleted --Herby talk thyme 07:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Rbenedict

User:Rbenedict is blanking some pages. // Liftarn

Warned – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 19:32, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism in Commons:Contact us

More and more users are using the Commons:Contact us-site for their own purposes. Please ban e. g. User:Charango7 for this advertisement. On the disussion-site, there is also vandalism like that from User:67.173.231.110 and far more type of shit by others many IPs...Thx, --Yikrazuul 09:43, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Warned the user, let's see what happens there. If they continue, a block will be in order. The page is protected currently:
18:44, January 17, 2008 Boricuaeddie (Talk | contribs | block) changed protection level for "Commons:Contact us" ‎ (to prevent further vandalism [edit=autoconfirmed:move=sysop]) (change protection)
– Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 11:21, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Крутой Комп (talk · contribs)

Pure vandalism. Patstuart (talk) 19:59, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Editing abilities suspended until further notice. --O (谈 • висчвын) 20:44, 28 May 2008 (GMT)

193.180.104.200 (talk · contribs)

Vadalised several articles in an unkown language probablby one of the northern one. (please see his edits).--Sanandros 14:28, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, blocked, regards --Herby talk thyme 14:41, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism by User:武陵春色

Probably a reincarnation of the indef blocked User:Highshines as the only attacks were images the blocked user requested removal from Commons. --Denniss 13:42, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

The edits of 武陵春色 (talk · contribs), that I examined, appear to consist of changing the capitalization of "Cixi" to "CiXi" in Category:Empress Dowager Cixi. The resulting category does not exist. I left an inquiry at User talk:武陵春色. Walter Siegmund (talk) 15:38, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Now we have User:别有洞天 acting like a vandal on the same or similar images and their cat. This user was more or less created at the same time as the previously mentioned user. User creation log shows at least four more (sleeping) accounts with a similar, probably chinese, name created nearly on the same time: User:万方安和, User:蓬莱仙岛, User:方壶胜境 and User:云海迢迢. Time to checkuser them as sockpuppet of Highshines? --Denniss 00:26, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Blocked a collection of them (I agree they look like puppets of Highshines) & looking into one or two more. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 06:53, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

He came back as User:142.103.168.26, all his edits need to be reverted. --Denniss 23:07, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
IP blocked 24 hours, doing rollbackFinn Rindahl 23:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
And again: User:Itemsoccur. It seems the guy is very active.... - maybe the related images and cats need a semiblock. Maybe another checkuser is needed to identify other socks.--Denniss 00:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
And three more accounts blocked. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 08:37, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
And the Troll is trolling again: User:Trenddaily and probably two or more socks registered at about the same time. Please revert his changes and semiblock the vandalized images and cats to stop this. --Denniss 23:19, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Trenddaily blocked indef, which other socks? Finn Rindahl 23:31, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Checking the user creation log I think I understand what you meant... No contribs though, so no action can be taken unless we've get a CU into this. Rolled back Trenddaily, but I have not protected the pages. Would like a second opinion on that. Regards, Finn Rindahl 23:53, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
I'll alert the other project CUs to this one shortly (& take a look myself) --Herby talk thyme 06:55, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
There's also eageralive (talk · contribs)... blocked and reverted. Finn Rindahl 06:59, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism by 71.108.50.39 (talk · contribs)

The system is very different from other language Wiki, so I report the vandalism by User:71.108.50.39 at Image:AllieAtWork.jpg. Thanks.--Applebee 01:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done Reverted by Applebee; single instance on Commons; blocked three months by Alison (Cross-wiki issues). Walter Siegmund (talk) 05:33, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing that out. I'd actually missed the vandalism when I blocked the IP :) It's Grawp from enwiki, BTW - Alison ❤ 06:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Should we do the whole protecting the talk page jazz? giggy (:O) 10:53, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Nahh. If anything, maybe mark it as being used by Grawp - it's a long-term IP on enwiki - but he's hopefully not here to stay :o - Alison ❤ 20:24, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

User:Trojan 2

User is sockpuppet of User:Kid Bengala. -N 02:37, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Collard got him. giggy (:O) 03:43, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Poked around some - blocked a couple of IPs for a bit. Cheers --Herby talk thyme 07:09, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Block request

Dear sysops, please block this moron. Kind regards, Woudloper 18:22, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes - moron, but it was yesterday so a final warning for now. Thanks for the info --Herby talk thyme 18:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Renewed request

He kept vandalizing. I renew my request. Best regards, Woudloper (talk) 13:22, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Agreed & ✓ Done. I've only blocked for a couple of weeks for now (no that is not harsh - the block log at en wp is long & currently a year :)). Thanks --Herby talk thyme 13:30, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

User:ЮгоСлавик

Erected penises etc. --Shakko (talk) 11:39, 20 June 2008 (UTC) +user:Faggot Cunt. And can somebody protect my userpage from new user's edits?--Shakko (talk) 11:44, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorted, blocked etc. We would not normally protect user pages - has you page attracted vandalism in the past or is this an isolated incident? Thanks --Herby talk thyme 11:52, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
+ user:Metrostan. he has open proxy?--Shakko (talk) 12:09, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Again done thanks --Herby talk thyme 12:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Maybe it's vandal from ru-wiki. He attacks ru-wp user's pages. And I saw the similar usernames on ru-wiki.--Ahonc (talk) 12:14, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Not bored with playing yet but at least I get an open proxy each time --Herby talk thyme 12:53, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Current vandalism - Info for admins

Currently a fairly sustained attack on Commons from accounts created on Open proxies vandalising user pages. My block log & the item above refers. Cheers --Herby talk thyme 12:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Please block ...

Special:Contributions/Timurka_1709 --chris 論 12:40, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

aww... Ahonc beat me too it. Thanks. Rocket000 (talk) 12:45, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
✓ Done :)--Ahonc (talk) 12:49, 20 June 2008 (UTC)


Angel 977 (talk · contribs)

Contributions indicate a vandalism only account. --Meno25 (talk) 13:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Blocked indef by Ahonc. --Meno25 (talk) 13:04, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for reporting here (and warning user) Meno25! Finn Rindahl (talk) 13:06, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
And they are after my password too now - you have been warned, --Herby talk thyme 13:19, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
mine too. --Shakko (talk) 13:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
ip 74.86.238.186 --Shakko (talk) 14:12, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Too slow for Herby[38]. :) Rocket000 (talk) 14:14, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the info though - it all helps build a picture, regards --Herby talk thyme 14:16, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
+ ip 195.189.143.40 --Shakko (talk) 16:26, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Blocked.--Ahonc (talk) 16:30, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
The similar request about password request was in ru-wiki: ru:Википедия:Запросы_к_администраторам#.D0.9F.D0.BE.D0.BF.D1.8B.D1.82.D0.BA.D0.B0_.D1.83.D0.B2.D0.BE.D0.B4.D0.B0_.D0.BF.D0.B0.D1.80.D0.BE.D0.BB.D1.8F--Ahonc (talk) 13:52, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Same here. Maybe it's time we start thinking about automaticly blocking proxy's like we do at nl wikipedia? See nl:Wikipedia:Lijst van geblokkeerde anonymizers. Multichill (talk) 17:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Trouble is a fair bit of useful editing arrives via proxies here & on other wikis. These days I only block disruptive proxies - some parts of the world have little choice. Equally these were users not IP edits so they would not have been picked up other than by CUs (which was the case :)) --Herby talk thyme 17:20, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:Laws on homosexuality.PNG

Recreation of deleted content by user:71.103.60.95. --Romeo Bravo (T | C) 01:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Someone has hacked the Bleach (manga) page!

A warning to Wikipedia administrators:

I access the Bleach (manga) page fairly often, and I definitely visited it the day before yesterday. But when I went to access the page a few minutes ago, there was a very weird picture with obscene language on it. The page is off-center and the picture is fixed in place, so it cannot be scrolled out of view. I believe that someone may have hacked it and put that image there.

Just as an FYI - you are on Commons - not Wikipedia. Secondarily, Bleach pictures are not allowed on Commons. I advise you go back to Wikipedia and post there. Thank you. --ShakataGaNai ^_^ 07:57, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism by User:MongrelFoolJewishTool

Badname, uploads are racist vandalism images that I have already marked for speedy. Userpage [39] contains the images and should be deleted if admins can do it please.--Paloma Walker (talk) 13:27, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

His uploads have been deleted and he's been warned about vandalism. Let one of us know (by reposting here) if he continues.—Giggy 13:39, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
He/she vandalized http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SieBot&diff=prev&oldid=12527183 SieBot's page. I warned for that, still watching.--Paloma Walker (talk) 13:44, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
✓ Done - not keen on people like that. --Herby talk thyme 13:54, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Not keen on that kind of people either. Thank you.--Paloma Walker (talk) 14:00, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Seems I'm a lot nicer than Herby! (I was aware of the SieBot vandalism at the time.) —Giggy 14:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Personally I'd say being firm with racists who have no intention of being nice themselves is the nice thing to do. Being nice to those who attack without provocation is not very nice to their victims. —LX (talk, contribs) 14:22, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Suspected vandalism

The user Aegean Boy is removing license information from several kurdistan-related images in order to promote deletion. I checked some original license informations and seemed valid (eg. flickr CC), so I suspect vandalism. Basilicofresco (talk) 09:30, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Left a note on his talk page alerting him to this. None of his edits are top (ie. all seem to have been reverted), so no blocking is needed for now... let's discus first. —Giggy 09:43, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

image version vandalism by Jhon33 (talk · contribs)

This user has vandalised Image:Bill Gates in Poland cropped.jpg twice by "version-uploading" first a distorted version of the original image and then a totally different image over the original image, while maintaining the now wrong description and thereby surrendering the image for inadvertent deletion. When looking at the other contributions of this user, I found that he had done the same with Image:L Sanger.jpg. As all of his 4 contribs have been (an especially nasty form of) vandalism, a block or even a ban might be warranted. Eventually, the Gates image should be protected. --Túrelio (talk) 20:29, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

David Shankbone image vandalism

IP vandalism on the series of images by David like Image:The making of an adult film 5 by David Shankbone.jpg. Admins, please watchlist these, and revert/block as needed. This vandal has been persistent - a rangeblock may be necessary in the future.  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 00:01, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

How about that rangeblock, please? —LX (talk, contribs) 00:22, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
They're at it again. I've protected the images that the stalker seems most obsessed with. Rangeblock, please. —LX (talk, contribs) 15:28, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Three-month rangeblock in place for the same ranges as on English Wikipedia. —LX (talk, contribs) 16:29, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
  • shankbone.org is blacklisted at Wikipedia. As such it cannot be linked to there, nor can its blog. The images here should not contain an address to a website that is blacklisted on Wikipedia.--72.68.30.127 15:39, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Wrong, it maybe is blacklisted at one local project, but not everywhere. -- Cecil (talk) 15:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
See below. —LX (talk, contribs) 16:02, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism by User:Revenge2008

This user is blanking the page of User:Mattbuck. Look at [40] and [41]. --NudoMarinero (Talk) 15:25, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

For the record: This user has been blocked for a week. If he continues vandalizing pages, it should be no problem to block him indefinite. Regards, →Christian.И 20:12, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

shankbone.org is blacklisted at Wikipedia

shankbone.org is blacklisted at Wikipedia. As such it cannot be linked to there, nor can its blog. The images here should not contain an address to a website that is blacklisted on Wikipedia.--72.68.30.127 15:39, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Just tried it, it definitely is not blacklisted on my main Wikipedia. If we would forbid anything only one of the projects forbid, not much would be left. If it is blacklisted on meta, that is something different, but even then we would be able to put it on a local whitelist. -- Cecil (talk) 15:56, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Background for other admins: blog.shankbone.org is temporarily blocked locally on the English Wikipedia edition because of the stalking of David Shankbone originating from the IP range of the author of the message above. The stalker seems to have taken the addition of blog.shankbone.org to the English Wikipedia local blacklist as an order to remove references to all shankbone.org addresses on other projects. This would violate the licensing requirements of the images and is done solely for disruptive purposes. I have protected affected images and blocked the IP addresses involved, and will continue to do so as I spot further vandalism and harassment. —LX (talk, contribs) 16:02, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

User:Darwinek

Darwinek (talk · contribs) is once again pushing his Polish POV about something related to Teschen, an Austrian city (and Duchy) which after 1918 was divided among Czechs (which he often "forgets") and Poles. This time it's about Image:Teschen-1900.jpg, a German language postcard from the year 1900 which he wants to attribute to states which have been founded 18 years later. --Matthead (talk) 19:09, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Protected for a week, as this seems to be normal edit warring. --O (谈 • висчвын) 16:44, 21 July 2008 (GMT)

User:Weezing

I'm not exactly sure what this user is trying to do with his/her contributions, but it's coming across as really strange vandalism. - EurekaLott (talk) 01:51, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Blocked him for 3 days. —Giggy 04:38, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

User:Pérez (header was User:O)

This user, an administrador, is doing an edit's war on my own work. I request only to delete some images but hi allways is reverting my changes, but I only ask to delete my own files. Pérez (talk) 03:51, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

May I ask what the reason is? If you have a good reason we can normally accommodate deleting your own uploads. If O is removing the templates I imagine there is good reason; they are a good admin. Let's wait for a comment before anything further.  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 12:21, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Pretty much the only reason for deletion is a self request. I removed the templates and deleted the DRs because such deletion would be against Commons policy and various laws. Had self request not been the reason, I would have only removed the speedy deletion templates. I do recall some being labelled as "privacy violation", but those images do not seem to have anything that would spark personality rights problems. --O (谈 • висчвын) 17:12, 27 July 2008 (GMT)

@Perez, please see what I wrote you on User talk:Coronellian. --Túrelio (talk) 12:30, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, what Túrelio said. Rocket000 (talk) 20:06, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
The answer to that was a full-blown blackmail threat against Commons/Wikimedia[42] by the Pérez-sockpuppet Coronellian: If Wikipedia or the sisters projects do not delete it unfortunately i must advise the public that it is not a good idea to collaborate in a project that do not respect the copyright of his users.[43] Though I wasn't much involved in that case, now I would ask some more experienced colleagues to take over. Among the uploads of this user, I did identify 1 real copyvio, but I did check only 2 or 3 of his files. He is now tagging his files as copyvio but without providing any reason or proof. It may be that they are copyvios or it may be a trick to get his way. He may simply have a problem with being honest about why he wants the images deleted. --Túrelio (talk) 20:20, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
It looks like this person wants to use any speedy deletion rationale to get his contributions deleted, even one that had nothing to do with the associated policy. I've reverted all of these edits, and if there is further blackmail, blocks on both of these users may come into consideration. --O (谈 • висчвын) 02:20, 28 July 2008 (GMT)
This is getting out of hand. I'm thinking about a block at the moment. --O (谈 • висчвын) 04:16, 28 July 2008 (GMT)
Blocked them both. —Giggy 04:39, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Would have definitely done the same. Rocket000 (talk) 20:22, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
I've heard that several administrators have received emails from one of the users I blocked yesterday. I have also been in email contact with said user. I would appreciate if you contact me before unblocking, preferably onwiki. Thanks. —Giggy 09:05, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Looking into this one I'm just confirming that I have indefinitely blocked User:Coronellian as a puppet of Pérez. Cheers --Herby talk thyme 09:47, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
The two users aren't socks, though the behaviour here may be highly similar. --O (谈 • висчвын) 16:51, 29 July 2008 (GMT)
Coronellian & Pérez are socks here from a CU perspective. Feel free to ask another CU to check if you wish - I have mailed them. --Herby talk thyme 17:23, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I think Pérez wants to delete the images because they have recognizable people on it, and because of what the images theme is (sindical-political demonstrations), this could perhaps violate the (spanish) right of self image and intimacy. If not deleted, please sholud the faces of the images be blurred. -Aleator (talk) 18:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
The underlying issue here still needs addressing. User:Pérez (I think) still has issues with wanting files to be deleted. Pérez is no longer blocked and I have suggested that they deal with this in a proper way. I'm guessing that "es" may be needed to deal with this in the best possible way. I have pointed out that my involvement relates to my CU tasks & I have not been involved with the deletion aspects. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 06:59, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

User:European Boy

This user is changing maps in which most parts of Turkey (sometimes also Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaidjan) are correctly shown as a part of Asia und makes Turkey in toto a part of Europe. I told him at his discussion page that this should be stopped but he's ignoring it and reverting again: Special:Contributions/European Boy. His earlier changes has been reverted by User:ShakataGaNai, today it was me (example: Image:TinyAsia.png). He probably has a certain intention corresponding to his username. Greetings, --NNW (talk) 18:38, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

I left a warning on the user's talk page. Lycaon (talk) 18:50, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you! --NNW (talk) 19:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

am I going crazy?

Can someone take a look at this page and tell me if they also see spam nonsense on this page? Category:Mahra Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra and Category:Emirate of Dhala? When i click however on the page to remove it, everything seems to be fine, no spam. What is going on here? Gryffindor (talk) 07:11, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

The culprit is {{Lang-ar}}. Should it just be deleted? Jastrow (Λέγετε) 07:14, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Spam, out of scope, gone :). Thanks --Herby talk thyme 07:21, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Hm, the reason I was wondering is that {{Lang-ar}} is actually used as a language template for Arabic. {{Ar}} also exists and seems to serve the same purpose. Does it? Jastrow (Λέγετε) 07:25, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Must be a redlink to the deleted one somewhere I guess. We could simply copy the content of the good one to the one I deleted? Or a bot "replace" task for the redlink one? --Herby talk thyme 07:33, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
I think I understand now. People have been using {{Lang-ar}} because of en:Template:Lang-ar. It's used for untransliterated strings in the Arabic script. {{Ar}} is a “block“ template by default but there is an inline option. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 07:48, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Plyman (talk · contribs)

This is a puppet of a banned sock master from the main space over at WP, is his permanent ban there applicable here? --Jerem43 (talk) 05:40, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, I wouldn't block him as long as he's not violating any local guidelines. Regards, →Christian.И 13:10, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Your argumentation is correct, but we could block him for spamming. abf /talk to me/ 13:27, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Two contributions, one on his own user talk. It might be okay to warn him, but not to block ;) →Christian.И 15:19, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

76.195.181.153

IP user has been changing years on page descriptions. IFCAR (talk) 12:58, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

For me, his changes haven't been obviously wrong. Nevertheless, I've asked him to discuss such changes in the future first on the talkpage of these image. --Túrelio (talk) 16:25, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
The changes are definitely wrong. He also changed category listings to non-existent ones. IFCAR (talk) 17:28, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Anyway, a block would be useless as 14 hours have gone by since his/her last edit. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, I'm watching the IP for now. Regards, →Christian.И 18:31, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Slmcom

Continuous copyright violation.--Sdrtirs (talk) 03:46, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked Slmcom (talk · contribs) for one day. S/he may be a Farsi or Arabic speaker. Perhaps someone can offer assistance in the appropriate language. Walter Siegmund (talk) 04:47, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Edu Elche

Continuous copyright violation. The user uploads images from football/soccer club site without permission.--Sdrtirs (talk) 14:06, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

User:ChannelNewsAsiaFanatic

User claims s/he has permission to uploaded images but removes {{No permission since}} in image descriptions. Some images requiring permission were deleted.--Sdrtirs (talk) 16:16, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Deleted the two that remained. —Giggy 03:21, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Pmontaldo

This user uploaded an logo image claimed to be owned by the uploader but it's a screenshot of the logo in a web page.--Sdrtirs (talk) 00:23, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Deleted all the copyvis and left a copyvio warning. —Giggy 03:20, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

User:SpeedDemon

Continuous vandalism by uploading copyrighted images.--Sdrtirs (talk) 01:33, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Blocked, deleting. —Giggy 03:10, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Vaskk

This user uploads images saying s/he has permission showing a link to Spanish language Wikipedia but removes the template {{No permission since}}.--Sdrtirs (talk) 15:19, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

  • Someone else should be following this because the user has left this message:

    Ya ves que estás muy equivocado, portugués. Por favor, no te metas en asuntos que no conozcas.

    English: Can you see now you wrong, Portuguese. Please, don't mess with subjects that you don't know.
    So, someone else should pay attention to this user to avoid wars.--Sdrtirs (talk) 15:27, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
It is completely false. I have uploaded a image with permission. In Commons there are hundreds of coats of arms and flags with the same permission (Vexilla Hispanica): [44]. Vaskk (talk) 15:30, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
User vaskk was indeed vandalising. I issued a warning and if he can't function in a community, he might need some cool down period. --Foroa (talk) 17:05, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Henrique163264

This user recreated a deleted copyvio image after images uploaded by the user deleted for copyvio. S/he had received a warning from other user but still s/he uploaded a copyvio image again.--Sdrtirs (talk) 17:26, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done deleted one image. I don't think a block is needed at the moment. Regards, --Kanonkas(talk) 18:09, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Kabal7th

Continuous vandalism after given warnings.--Sdrtirs (talk) 01:36, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done blocked and deleting. KveD (talk) 04:53, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Gusguisse2

Recreation of deleted copyvio.--Sdrtirs (talk) 01:51, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done Deleted. KveD (talk) 05:06, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Hadeer08

This user had made some copyright violations and warned for that. S/he uploaded some images with the tag {{OTRS pending}} which requiring OTRS permission check.--Sdrtirs (talk) 02:17, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done blocked and deleting. KveD (talk) 04:39, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

User:宅女战色腐女闲情

This user uploaded copyrighted images such as logos and screenshots of web pages and inserted the tag {{PermissionOTRS}} with the link of the site and not the link to permission.--Sdrtirs (talk) 11:10, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

See here too, thanks --Herby talk thyme 12:24, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Mizunoryu

This user uploaded a MSN Messenger emotion which is a copyvio, tagged and deleted, but uploaded others that may not be free images.--Sdrtirs (talk) 18:49, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Deleted some more emoticons. Appears the user was confused over those as they have made some valid uploads in the past. —Giggy 01:32, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Sofiaduarte

This user had uploaded copyrighted images which are now deleted but she uploaded more images which are probably copyvios.--Sdrtirs (talk) 19:08, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

No more uploads after the warning you gave. I'm gonna let this one sit for now, but poke us if they upload any more junk. —Giggy 01:27, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Caen824

This user recreated copyvio uploads after being told him not to.--Sdrtirs (talk) 01:03, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Deleted 1 remaining image and blocked for 3 days. —Giggy 01:24, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Enen

This user had uploaded copyvio images, it was given a stop warning, still s/he uploaded NASA logo, copyvio according policies.--Sdrtirs (talk) 17:37, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

The last deleted contributions, before the NASA logo, are from October 2007 and since then there has been a lot of good contributions. I think the NASA logo was a honest mistake, and it was an isolated act, so I'm not blocking. Patrícia msg 19:07, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Gilbertus

This user has a history of copyvio uploads and still the user uploaded a copyvio image.--Sdrtirs (talk) 18:09, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done deleted one image. You should give an end copyright violations note & then a block should be given if they continue. --Kanonkas(talk) 18:14, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Fotero

Continuous copyright violation.--Sdrtirs (talk) 18:44, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Blocked for a week, but this is a long term problem user - I suggest indefinite block if he returns with the same pattern. Patrícia msg 19:04, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Gjyaj

Keeps replacing Image:Star_of_David.svg with a swastika... I guess this is the commons equivalent of a hatecrime. -- 77.12.224.169 09:18, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done. Vandalism cleaned up, user blocked indef. Cirt (talk) 09:29, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Spammer

79.173.253.249 is spamming with publicity, see Image:Boxing080905 photoshop.jpg and Image:NickelCreek2005.jpg. Havang(nl) (talk) 09:39, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Blocked for a day, I don't think it's a proxy, but if I figure that out in the meanwhile, I'll prolong the block. Thank you, Patrícia msg 09:46, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Update: This is a cross-wiki spammer, see [45]. I reported it at Meta-Wiki, see [46]. Cirt (talk) 10:00, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Yes, edits have been reverted in the meanwhile, thanks for reporting it on Meta. Patrícia msg 10:01, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
No prob, they're on it. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 10:02, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Yes - I see it is now blacklisted at Meta. Given no rDNS it looks like it could be open/compromised but with the site blacklisted it should stop it anyway. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 10:19, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Is such spam also removed from the history? Havang(nl) (talk) 10:22, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
No - that would not usually happen anywhere that it is placed. It would always be possible to delete & selectively restore & so eliminate it from all but admin eyes. However I'm guessing many pages have some "unacceptable" content in their history somewhere. Regards --Herby talk thyme 10:52, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

75.47.212.7

Californian Route speedy delete requester ? Seems to throw copyvio allover the place. --Foroa (talk) 21:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Jeblad

This user worries me about the way s/he is leading with messages. Please check this user edits.--Sdrtirs (talk) 16:56, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't believe their is any vandalism, if somebody wants to blank/archive their talk page, they can. --Kanonkas(talk) 17:19, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Jeblad seems to misunderstand what you mean by getting “permission of the photographer,” but you are of course perfectly right that he should forward the permission to OTRS. He did so 6 hours ago, but as the email from the copyright holder said “here are images you may use when updating Wikipedia,” I asked Jeblad to get a clearer statement regarding the alleged Creative Commons license. --Kjetil_r 21:52, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Agree with Kanonkas (talk · contribs) and Kjetil_r (talk · contribs), hopefully we will get a clearer statement back from the user on OTRS. Cirt (talk) 22:22, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Update: Jeblad asked the copyright holder if they could make some images freely available, and made it clear to the copyright holder that “images will have to be released under an open license,” and he then got the reply that “here are images you may use when updating Wikipedia.” In my opinion, this is not enough to claim that the copyright holder agreed to use CC-BY-SA (“open license” could mean a noncommercial or a nonderivative license), and I told Jeblad that he need to get a more explicit release. It does not seem like Jeblad is willing to do that, though. --Kjetil_r 13:56, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Imad007

Continuous copyvios after the user received an end copyvio tag.--Sdrtirs (talk) 19:19, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Latest copyvio deleted, user blocked for a week & warned again. If copyvios persist after the block expires, it will be significantly longer next time. -- Editor at Large • talk 19:39, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Darthlola

Continuous copyvios after received warnings to stop.--Sdrtirs (talk) 00:55, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Some new uploads deleted, blocked for 3 days. Thanks for your continued work. Giggy (talk) 00:57, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Lobothomy

Did not have a very helpful first edit (which I reverted). -- Slaunger (talk) 08:51, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Left a warning. Will keep an eye out. Giggy (talk) 08:53, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Ongoing David Shankbone harrassment - page protection needed

Image:Friends eating lunch at the home of Michael Lucas on Fire Island.jpg has been vandalized multiple times by different AOL proxy IP addresses, which are hard to block. This is part of the long running harrassment case where David Shankbone is being stalked and harrassed by a particular New York City person.

That image needs to be at least semi-protected for a while, and it's likely that the vandals will target other pages of Davids (there's a long history and pattern of that...).

Thanks. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 23:58, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Image:Friends eating lunch at the home of Michael Lucas on Fire Island.jpg is vandalized by an IP again [47]. Probably the same user which started vandalism before the image was protected for 2 days. --Nerzhal | ?! 15:47, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
✓ Done by ABF, Thanks! --Nerzhal | ?! 16:04, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

A suggestion about the Shankbone stalker

Hey guys, so many of my images are vandalized right now, that I'm going to start to make Shankbone categories to make it easier to find the photos, and mass protect them if needed (can a script be written for that, if a list of photos is provided?) Otherwise, we have some serious defamation and personality rights issues that they are daily bringing. This is the banned Gay Pornography vandal on Wikipedia. They have recently switched servers from their old 72.76 range, amongst others.

Does anyone have an objection to my creating Shankbone categories, such as Shankbone Fire Island. And does anyone know if we can write a script to instantly protect a large swathe of photos? It would be a cool tool for admins to have, especially if situations like this pop up more in the future. He is nothing more than an annoyance, and I have learned he is handicapped, and I may be close to tracking him down; if my information is correct, he'll be getting a visit from the FBI. I'll be pressing full charges, which are severe given the death threats. I also have a lawyer friend who is working on a lawsuit so that I can subpoena Verizon and AOL's records on the IP range, and who is using it when - they only give that information out if you raise a "John Doe" court case so that you can get subpoena power.

In the meantime, advice on my ideas, or in general? I'm open. It is better to e-mail me privately, because the stalker likes nothing more than to have attention paid to him. The less said on-wiki, the less satisfaction he gets. I'm part of one Cyberstalker list where we monitor his (and other stalker) actions. I'm saying all this on-wiki because this guy may want to cut now; I'm not known as a shrinking violet, and I have a lot of lawyer friends and influential contacts. If he ceases immediately, then he saves me the trouble of all this, trouble that I am more than willing to go through. Really, why not join us instead of fight us, man? You are clearly smart and articulate, but your using those talent for nothing but bad; it's time to let go of whatever anger drives you, and start to be a part of something that is far more satisfying than what you do, which has a name: terrorism. That's also a crime. Seriously, you're in way over your head, and I know how to find you. I just am very busy, and would prefer this all to go away. I would even adopt you as a User. I see intelligence in your humor, and you have a lot of time. We could use you at Wikimedia. Really. Why not call a truce. Is your anger that Michael Lucas wouldn't meet you really worth being the person you are? Who will people remember more in twenty years? David Shankbone, or the person who vandalized. It's time to turn yourself around.

If my stalker agrees, and agrees to become a member of a Wiki project, I will help them anyway I can. But if they continue this, I will first track down the person I and Michael suspect; if that is wrong, your internet records will be subpoenaed and we will discover who you are, and you have committed some major federal crimes (and, of course, state). It's just not worth it. I don't find you or "the others" scary; you just seem kind of sad, maybe even lonely. But if you stop this campaign, right now, AND become a Wikipedia contributor in good standing, I will personally argue for you to be unbanned. Your choice. But this situation will end, one way or another. Trust me on that.

To the rest of you guys - thanks for all your help; I'm sorry you have to waste time on this stuff; I thought about becoming an admin on here just so that I can handle it, but I don't know if I'm admin material. Let me know about the categories and the auto-protect script idea. --David Shankbone (talk) 05:15, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Do you know how to mark a category as hidden? Look at how Category:Media by Cary Bass is formatted. All there in one place. I can think of one way to protect regular pages from vandalism... transclusion onto a protected page. But I'm not sure how that would work with Image pages. Might be worth a try. Bastique demandez 05:33, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Didn't work :-( Someone should file a bug! Anyway, keep your watchlist watched and we'll semiprotect the images as need be. Bastique demandez 05:53, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
For the record, reverted the diff in David's first paragraph. Still thinking about the proposal. Cary: __HIDDENCAT__. Giggy (talk) 06:50, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and see User:Giggy/Main Page salt for how to cascading protect images. Giggy (talk) 06:52, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Eterno campeon

Continuous copyvios after warned to stop.--Sdrtirs (talk) 13:42, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

The last copyvio was about 10 hours ago & the end copyvios note was given in August, I'll be watching the user. Thanks, --Kanonkas(talk) 13:46, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

User:ExideCom

Continuous copyvios after end copyvios warning.--Sdrtirs (talk) 15:17, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Hm, I'm not sure what to do. Maybe give the user a chance to send this to OTRS if they really own the images. --Kanonkas(talk) 15:24, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Leafnode

This will be an unusual report, but this administrator is removing categories from images without explanation. S/he had just empty a hole category.--Sdrtirs (talk) 21:04, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Looks like common sense actions to me. Lycaon (talk) 21:31, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
I don't see the problem. I've removed:
  • 'sun tanning' category from images of alcohol structure diagram and photos of people not sun tanning,
  • 'pornography' from photos of naked women (anyone disagrees?)
  • 'shorts' from photo of a man in trousers and a lady in panties.

Also, I've removed whole category of pictures which were:

  • of very poor quality
  • very creepy, because they were made from behind some bushes
  • depicting people in private situations - eg. massaging each other or undressing in hiding.

Removal of this category was made with consent of other commons users/admins on IRC channel.

If that's vandalism, so yeah, I'm guilty. --Leafnode 12:03, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Ah - I guess my name will be here one day. I have certainly removed cats "without explanation". Lets face it "hotcat" does that anywhere. No problems here to me. Cheers --Herby talk thyme 12:07, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

I didn't understand the edits of this administrator but I had received a valid explanation that made me clear. Sorry for bother you with this doubt.--Sdrtirs (talk) 13:01, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

No problem :) I'm happy that everything's OK :) --Leafnode 14:30, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Maybe I'll add something to fix a misleading image. I've asked other admins on #wikimedia-commons only for a second opinion, not treating this as any kind of consent. Making any bigger changes I'd ask directly on commons, seeking for a wider auditorium. --Leafnode 19:42, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Just marking this as ✓ Done as both agreed eachother above :) abf /talk to me/ 14:52, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Vitinho1st

Continuous copyvios after warnings.--Sdrtirs (talk) 02:33, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

User:BlassFamily

Continuous copyvios after warnings (see talk history).--Sdrtirs (talk) 02:21, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

I left a warning on the user's talk page. The enwiki talk page indicates problems there as well with this user.[49] Walter Siegmund (talk) 03:45, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Patrick image

Continuous copyvios after warnings.--Sdrtirs (talk) 19:43, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Blocked, deleted. Giggy (talk) 20:09, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism to 2 images

Some IPs keep vandalizing the pages with a couple images on them can someone look into this? the images are here [50] [51] I hope Im doing this right. on english wiki they kep saying the images are trademarked but when i checked around one of them is from the national park service website and the other is from the cover of a book about OSS so Im pretty sue they are real government images. Schweingesicht (talk) 21:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

User:68.165.208.42

This user continually blanks the description of OSS seals, for some odd reason. I didn't warn him when he started a week ago because I thought it was one off. When he returned today I gave him a level 4 warning. He vandalized twice after the warning was given. -Nard the Bard 19:19, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done, blocked the IP for a month, because i am shure its not a changing IP due to the long-time-vandalism. abf /talk to me/ 12:18, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
The contributions cover 8 days. That is not long-time-vandalism in my mind. --Herby talk thyme 12:26, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
I think it is, because 8 days are showing me his IP does not change. abf /talk to me/ 12:30, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
That is certainly possibly, however the vandalism is not long term. En wp have blocked for a day - possibly rather short, a month strikes me as excessive. Your idea that the IP should be blocked for a year next time would leave me lost for words. --Herby talk thyme 12:34, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Okay, I'd block for a week, okay? abf /talk to me/ 13:18, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Minorneck helm

...has twice replaced Template talk:Assessments with +1 MB of useless parserfunctions. I have reverted twice as well. -- Slaunger (talk) 13:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

...three times, actually. -- Slaunger (talk) 13:58, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
...four times, actually. -- Slaunger (talk) 14:25, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Yes agreed, blocked for a day but ought to be watched. Cheers --Herby talk thyme 14:33, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Herby, I'm interested in your thinking there (not critical, just interested), as I would have been tempted to block for much longer as a vandalism-only account. Would that have been out of line in your view? --MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:16, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Agreed - however I am not sure it was vandalism (I'd go longer if I was sure what it actually was - could just be a puzzled user?)? Equally I prefer to block IPs lightly to start with (something about AGF IIRC :)). --Herby talk thyme 16:24, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
OK, thanks. Just wondered if I had missed something obvious. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:27, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, it could have been the template itself, which would have been far worse. Still I definitely think it was done on purpose. Who else would repeatedly paste more than 1 MB of ParserFunction calls onto a page? I think it was some sort of teasing. -- Slaunger (talk) 20:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I sometimes find AGF quite hard :) Can I ask that folk watch out for Proofwaves helm bud (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  who has done nothing at all so far...... Should there be any inappropriate activity it would be in order to block this user indefinitely and change my block on the other one I guess!

I'd be happier/clearer if I knew what was going on/intended. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 21:17, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

This comment by CU Gmaxwell may have something to do with it. I have an eerie feeling about this. -- Slaunger (talk) 21:44, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Pjahr

Hi,

User:Pjahr is uploading images without permission. I have told him he must send the permission to otrs. But he keeps reverting me on the images. I can use some help here :) [53] [54] [55] [56]

Thanks, Sterkebaktalk 17:25, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

update:
[57]
I have told him permission should go to otrs [58] Sterkebaktalk 17:32, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
I sent asks to my friends who were so kind and have been sent me their photos to upload them by me onto Commons. I did it only for respect to them, for their time and politeness. Many of them have already sent permissions to OTRS. That was the last job I have done for Commons. During two years I have uploaded over 1000 images, everyone of them was with permission of the author. Sterkebak has destroyed me as Commons user. He has broken my credibility and I cannot work with people who don't believe me. Sami się dalej bawcie - without me... pjahr @ 20:13, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Dear Pjahr, i didn't say that i don't believe you. En i don't believe your credibility. You have uploaded some image's you have permission from the author and i am sure you have but i askt you to send the permission to otrs so it can be archived in the system. It was not met to attack you and i am sorry if you did think so. Sterkebaktalk 20:39, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

This is so unfortunate how this misunderstanding got out of hand. SterkeBak, when you see a user repeatedly undoing your edits, try to resolve the issue with the user directly. Only when the problem cannot be solved by communication, post your concerns for administrators to see. But this time you accused a valuable contributor of vandalism. Some people take these things personally, so we shouldn't press our points of view on them in such a manner that they feel unappreciated. These warning tags are very useful, but they're very impersonal and don't reflect the true attitude of people working together on one issue. Please resolve the problem in a relaxed way not to hurt anybody's feelings. I hope Pjahr will reconsider and not take this misunderstanding as a reason to leave this project. --Kimsə (talk) 08:22, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

192.139.27.18

please see http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image%3ACalgary_Zoo-Rocky_Mountains-cougar.JPG&diff=14622945&oldid=13231893; user has been warned already. Hope, I did not destroy User talk:192.139.27.18 too much. --Herzi Pinki (talk) 18:38, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


Such a history of edits and uploads (the deleted ones) should be enough for indef ban. Nothing useful is to be expected from this IP. Opinions? --Túrelio (talk) 18:51, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
I don't agree with blocking an ip indef. This ip seems to be persistent, see global contribs. I've blocked it for 2 weeks. --Kanonkas(talk) 18:54, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

207.181.250.249 (talk · contribs)

Going on a bit of a spree creating nonsense pages. Shell babelfish 22:26, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done blocked for a day. --Kanonkas(talk) 22:48, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Danifronter

Continuous copyvios after warnings.--Sdrtirs (talk) 21:16, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Dealt with. Giggy (talk) 00:24, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

User:66.162.207.31

This user copied my signature in a discussion. After I warned the user not to they left a snide comment on my talk page imitating me again. Annoying. -Nard the Bard 18:12, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

✓ three days abf /talk to me/ 19:10, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Just a head's up, this is a cross-wiki vandal, see [59]. Also to note, this IP has a 6 month block on en.wiki. -Nard the Bard 23:20, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Unblock request declined. Giggy (talk) 23:32, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Aptullah

Continuous copyvios after warnings.--Sdrtirs (talk) 23:26, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Blocked, copyvios deleted. Giggy (talk) 23:41, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Txusbixquert

Continuous copyvios after warnings.--Sdrtirs (talk) 00:23, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Blocked, copyvios deleted. Cirt (talk) 00:54, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Temuri-r

Several copyvios.--Sdrtirs (talk) 14:35, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

 Not done user haven't been warned enough. --Kanonkas(talk) 15:46, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Stoodcrazy

Continuous copyvios after warnings.--Sdrtirs (talk) 15:57, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Deleted, end copyvio warning. Block next I guess. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 16:02, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
I blocked. There appear to be plenty of warnings there. Feel free to change, however. Cirt (talk) 16:06, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Pyatachok (talk · contribs)

His only contribution is uploading of my photo under a fake license, while an apparent sock with the same name in Cyrillic (ru:user:г-н де Пятачок) appeared on ru-wiki to attack me and added this photo on his userpage which is now deleted; please indefblock him. --Mitrius (talk) 15:44, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done by Platonides (talk • contribs • blocks • protections • deletions • moves • rights • rights changes). --Kanonkas(talk) 17:46, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

72.1.205.79

Multiple vandalisms, the last one yesterday on Image:France Loir-et-Cher Blois Chateau Facade des loges 02.JPG, reverted by me. Croquant (talk) 18:43, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Watching the user. --Kanonkas(talk) 21:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

The user Cyberjobe has uploaded several images whith copyright despite our warnings not to do so. Final warning given the 2008/20/09. --Dferg (talk) 21:12, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Moneymakermachine (talk · contribs)

This user has edited an image page to include spam links - please take whatever action you feel necessary (I am unaware of [[:commons:]]'s anti-vandalism procedures). It Is Me Here (talk) 10:53, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

User has been warned. Cirt (talk) 11:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Cknet (talk · contribs)

Page blanking vandalism. TimVickers (talk) 00:55, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

OK, warned him. --Martin H. (talk) 02:22, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

121.6.147.64 blanked a page

See http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image%3ASBS9815H.jpg&diff=14886890&oldid=14066096 --Jarekt (talk) 02:05, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

✓ Already reverted  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 16:43, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Andreasr24 (talk · contribs)

Continuous copyvios after warnings.--Sdrtirs (talk) 19:49, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Blocked again for 3 days. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 20:22, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism on en:Dodworth

Hello there, I’d just like to point out on your page on ‘dodworth’ that there has been a spot of vandalism:

“The Phoenix Brass Band formed by local villagers and Eric Jessop, a nationally renowned knob head”

I happen to be the aforementioned’s grandson, and would appreciate it if you would kindly sort this out.

Thankyou.

Ryan Jessop

A prior revision has been restored. Please note that you are on Wikimedia Commons, for a guide how to deal with vandalism on Wikipedia, see en:Wikipedia:Vandalism. Regards, →Christian.И 06:48, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Xinunus

User:Xinunus is continuously re-uploading the copyrighted Image:Odinga obama.jpg despite of prior deletions, blanking deletion-request-page (diff), personal attacks on talk-page (diff). User is already blocked on enwiki. --R.Schuster (talk) 07:07, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Now blocked for a day here (tho that could be extended as far as I am concerned). Can someone sort out these as I'm offline again now? Thanks --Herby talk thyme 07:17, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Blocked indefinitely now as vandalism only account. Regards, →Christian.И 07:25, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Account have been used for harassment on e-mail & off-wiki. --Kanonkas(talk) 15:14, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Chess Titan

is Grawp (see en.wiki contributions). Please block and delete his contributions here. Thanks, NawlinWiki (talk) 19:04, 29 September 2008 (UTC) (admin, en.wiki)

✓ Done thanks for reporting. --Kanonkas(talk) 10:10, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Harassment

Hi! Could you please block user 87.17.25.102 for harassing me? Missie (talk) 21:26, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done - Badseed talk 23:49, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! Could you please also block 87.6.194.111 for the same reason? May I have my talk-page semi-protected for a short time, say a week? I'm being harassed by this troll who just won't give it up. :( Missie (talk) 02:48, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
✓ Done --S[1] 05:15, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

76.212.129.209

IP user is changing years on page description and disrupting category links. I reported the same behavior on the same pages from a previous IP user, 76.195.181.153, last month. IFCAR (talk) 00:30, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I gave him a short block. Giggy (talk) 00:56, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Vandalism from that IP resumed. IFCAR (talk) 00:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
IP continues to vandalize pages. IFCAR (talk) 11:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Blocked thanks --Herby talk thyme 12:05, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

More of the same, again. IFCAR (talk) 19:07, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Re-blocked for 3 weeks. - Rjd0060 (talk) 20:12, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

User:Vanripwinkle

User:Vanripwinkle vandalised my user- and talk-page (diff) (diff). Obvious Vanripwinkle is a sockpuppet of User:Xinunus, see enwiki. Vanripwinkle is uploading a picture which has been deleted several times before due to copyvio (contribs). --R.Schuster (talk) 10:37, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

✓ Blocked as vandalism only account. Regards, →Christian.И 11:16, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the quick response. 12.207.27.25 (contribs) seems to be another sockpuppet (resp. the logged-out-IP). Best regards, --R.Schuster (talk) 11:24, 4 October 2008 (UTC) IP is already blocked. --R.Schuster (talk) 11:30, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
I was just about to comment that I already blocked the ip. --Kanonkas(talk) 11:31, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

82.92.254.160

Special:Contributions/82.92.254.160 - Erik Baas (talk) 11:17, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Maybe they had stopped but agreed & blocked for a short period. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 11:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

User:Anilki

Please take care (not block, first after he vandalized again) of this user. I know vandalism often is not seen here, expecially by logged-in users. I myself will maybe not be able to check his contribs always. Regards, abf /talk to me/ 16:57, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

As you said, no need to block for now as they have stopped & that really didn't look like vandalism. --Kanonkas(talk) 17:40, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

User:Mytestuser

Contributions match banned sockpuppeteer en:User:Jj0909jj, see the checkuser I filed (en:Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Jj0909jj) and at any rate user's name and contributions suggest his "testing" will not be productive in nature. -Nard the Bard 01:55, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the "heads up", watching. If you think I might have missed something let me know - cheers. --Herby talk thyme 07:04, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Checkuser has established the connection is possible, same ISP and range, and user is indefblocked for vandalism on .en.wiki. Is there any reason we can't block him here as well? -Nard the Bard 18:07, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
What's the point? We don't block someone on our project because they're blocked on en.wiki --Kanonkas(talk) 18:27, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
I know but the person has no intention of being a constructive wikipedian, so why not? -Nard the Bard 18:28, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
In my eyes it would be no deprivation for us to bann banned users from fr: de: or en: per default if we can proove they are the same. Minimum requirement should be a bann on minimum one big project (en,fr,de) and on one other. Maybe we should discuss about this. abf /talk to me/ 08:33, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
No that's absolutely not how we work. Though I'm discussing with Herby if it's a possible block evasion. --Kanonkas(talk) 08:43, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
At the moment commons provides a host for many banned users from big projects. Because we have got other rules we often dont bann them and they cause damage here only slowly (mostly they do not do so much really good work) and they keep on wikiing - and thats the problem! Banning (prooved!!) trolls also here makes them having no home-wiki and it removes the "fun" of wikiing, what will result in a lower number of puppets at the other projects, and every trollsocket is one too much! abf /talk to me/ 13:56, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

User:72.28.228.128

[60] -Nard the Bard 01:54, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

blocked. --Mardetanha talk 02:59, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Many thanks. I wonder whose files I caused to be deleted that did this :) -Nard the Bard 11:23, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Barzoï

Vandalism at Barzoï by 201.255.186.27 - reverted already. Havang(nl) (talk) 18:46, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

I have given the ip user a warning. And watching the page. Thanks for the notice. Sterkebaktalk 18:52, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

user:168.221.143.68

Please look at his latest contributions. Thanks, Alonr (talk) 17:37, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done gave the user a warning. --Kanonkas(talk) 17:47, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

recent vandalism in cat photos page.

What page is that?  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 02:23, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Minor heads up

A spill over from en wp (sadly). I got involved in some reversion/protection there earlier which led to me being a target there and it has spilt over here somewhat. This & this will give a flavour & then here we have this.

The edits are being orchestrated and the CUs are aware of the situation. These edits are likely to be from open proxies/compromised machines so blocks are perfectly acceptable (!). I'll deal with the remaining issues tomorrow. Thanks folk --Herby talk thyme 19:24, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Just for info, Grawp goes on /b/ and posts "Please go to <link> and click save." These are most of the time not open proxies, but I see this is some kind of "imitating" Grawp. --Kanonkas(talk) 16:32, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:Breaking.png

Could an admin delete the revision from Wonkie or delete the image and reupload it? This image is used on our de.wikinews main-page. If someone clicks on it he see this strage revision. regards --Berliner Schildkröte (talk) 14:49, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Agreed & ✓ Done. Thanks for the information. --Herby talk thyme 14:56, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism / advert

Can an admin sort out the vandalism overlay advert for "Ass Pus" that currently appears on this page and the upload page. Took me a while to work out an alternate way to edit this page in order to report this. Mjroots (talk) 21:33, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

It's all over, you just need to fix your cache. Try adding ?action=purge to the link you're using. Best regards, --Kanonkas(talk) 21:36, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Vanripwinkle

Please (semi-)protect the page. User is indef-blocked. Frequent blanking of this page by IP 199.209.144.211. Brgds, --R.Schuster (talk) 09:59, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, ✓ Done. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 10:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Vandalismo

En el menu "Para contactar" en español.--BRONSON77 (talk) 01:20, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Disculpa, pero no estoy seguro de entender muy bien en qué página viste un vandalismo. ¿Podrías ser un poco más específico?. Gracias. KveD (talk) 01:29, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

En la página de Wikimedia Commons, hay un menu a la izquierda con las categorias: buscar, navegación, participa y herramientas. Dentro de participa, esta "Para contactar". Es en esa pagina donde hay vandalismo.--BRONSON77 (talk) 10:01, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Túrelio ya se ha encargado de revertir. Gracias por avisar. Saludos, KveD (talk) 16:51, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

User:91.144.50.89

Addition of spam, by the looks of things (and removal of content). It Is Me Here (talk) 07:37, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

User:SotosfromGreece

Please, look here, here ... and other similar edits of this user, please explain to me is this correct and what kind of actions you will take? Or should I stop to contribute here?--Brest (talk) 21:19, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

You should keep on contributing here. It's better if you mention it once too much than one too less.
I think it's all about the en:Macedonia naming dispute. Maybe he is a Greek national who feels pissed on by the of Macedonia.
However, 1) Commons is not the greek Wikipedia so I reverted the contribution by SotosfromGreece 2)Commons is multilingual. There is no reason to remove other languages, because it's a greek map. In article Deutschland the languages also don't get removed.
I kept the new style of the description and the new flag, because I prefer them. If somebody prefer the old ones change it.
--D-Kuru (talk) 23:34, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

User:GabrieleJefferis

repeatedly copyright violation --Fujugu (talk) 13:33, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Deleted files and warned the user. Thanks for reporting. Regards, -- ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 13:53, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

User:Альма

Replaced several pictures used in articles on the main page of Russian wikipedia by rubbish. Has the same name as an indefblocked user of ruwiki. I think this account should be blocked immediately.--Mstislavl (talk) 08:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done blocked by ShakataGaNai --Mardetanha talk 07:53, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

User:Staljaroff and User:A Ghost of Stoljaroff

Please block vandals and delete their provocative userpages.--Stoljaroff (talk) 12:59, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Bizarre vandals attack

I've now blocked 7 users in the past hour who are creating .js to make random disruptive edits on Commons. They are also abusing multiple accounts & results have been passed on to CUs. Can I ask those around to keep an eye - watching new user pages for .js ones which are using "special:random" to replace text will lead anyone to them. Block immediately please. Thanks --Herby talk thyme 09:35, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Any chance with an e-mail with more info, or here? Thanks, --Kanonkas(talk) 10:31, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
It's a cross-wiki problem, this user botify is web browser to automatically disrupt page, accounts at least on fr: and en: exist too. Phe (talk) 12:17, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Not sure what else anyone wants to know? Looking at the CU list now it is cross wiki. I saw some strange user names (in the first batch of three) all of whom creating a monobook.js (eg) which was set to edit random pages (only one had really got going). It made me look deeper and I found all three on the same IP. Shortly afterwards two more appeared (blocked immediately) on another IP and then two more on a further IP.
The info went to the CU list and the first names are locked anyway. Log watching can be worthwhile :). Regards --Herby talk thyme 12:31, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

User:Kravakalar

Userpage vandalism, vulgar threats in Czech language [61]. --Dezidor (talk) 14:50, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Blocked - vandalism-only account.  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 20:00, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

User:Makedonier

Please, look here, here, deleted proper macedonian translation in the article without any reason.--Brest (talk) 15:46, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

I notice there are no messages on Makedonier's talk page... have you asked why the change was made? There might be a reason. --J.smith (talk) 16:52, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
I notice Makedonier about his last deletion of macedonian language translation on his talk page. I was think that you see the reason.--Brest (talk) 09:04, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of comment on talk page

I would like to draw attention to this edit. I haven't reacted except posting here. I don't know the policy but think the user should be warned by someone, at least. --Ayacop (talk) 09:19, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

You've taken the second step before the first one. First, ask the other editor what happened (may even be a technical error) or why she did remove the comment of another user (that is not o.k., of course); if she doesn't give a reasonable reply, then you can post here. Thanks. --Túrelio (talk) 09:29, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thanks for the assumed good faith. I restored the entry and answered Ayacop on my talk page. --Elya (talk) 16:42, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Resolved, (software-[?])errors could be made by anyone. No reason for administrative action. abf /talk to me/ 16:52, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

User:Reino Həlismaa

ResolvedSee below

Please be so kind so take appropriate action as soon as possible. He/she is vandalizing Russian wikipedia's appearance.Main page, Forum and several other pages are affected. --Ahnode (talk) 18:09, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Already done, blocked indef by Putnik. /odder 18:47, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

User:Fritz grosses Klo

No comment. --Leyo 00:00, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Blocked indefinitely by User:Codeispoetry. --Leyo 00:41, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Please also remember to request hiding of such account names. Thanks and best regards, -- ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 00:43, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Don't see the need for hiding this one... →Na·gy 14:04, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Maybe hiding the vandal that edited User talk:ABF (intentionally not showing the user name here)? --Leyo 18:05, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Already done by Spacebirdy. Thanks for reporting. Regards, -- ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 18:45, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the vandal user name(s) is/are still visible in the history. --Leyo 18:57, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Yup, this is a known issue and cannot be fixed atm. The only way to remove it would be deleting the page. I don't think this is neccessary here, as it is a major task for the executing admin. If ABF doesn't like the name in his talk page history, he can delete it whenever he likes. Regards, -- ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 18:56, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Hiding only hides from the global userlist, of course not in the page history (there it should never be hidden), but unfortunatly it does not hide in the local userlist too. A crat could rename the accounts, could be done in 30 seconds for all of them ;) Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 20:10, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Yes, that's what I meant. I know it from de-WP. --Leyo 20:16, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
I renamed the accounts, I'd appreciate a note if I missed any. Thanks, Patrícia msg 21:07, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I think you got all of them. --Leyo 21:26, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

IP address 76.26.94.46

76.26.94.46 has not made a single meaningful contribution and has ignored a final warning of December 30. --BrokenSphere 18:53, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

The IP was blocked by Rama. --Kanonkas(talk) 18:56, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

image requires attention

I just recently visited your page from another link and discovered wikimedia...it was great and yes I enjoy most of the photos posted...except for the one below (Listed in "Latest Files"). Please make a notice and remove it....it does not seem to have a medical or any real purpose. What happened to your filtering? Do you have anyone check the images before they get into the open?

Male-penis.png Stew22 05:44, 12 January 2009

I do think its a bit funny and juvenile, but I also think you guys would do a better job.

    • I'm posting this here as I did not see the post under vandalism.

Cheers.

Commons is not censored, we have a lot of penises and vaginas here, we also have images of masturbation, ejaculation, urination and so on. Dont care about File:Male-penis.png, it will be deleted in a week: the author is a passing by contributor, his job here is done by posting is penis he will never come back - but he failed to provide a free license. --Martin H. (talk) 07:03, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Nominated for deletion due to lack of educational value with respect to our existing "collection". In addition to what Martin said, I'd like to add that it is impossible to check every single incoming file, and that we get quite a lot of penis pictures, which usually don't last long (unless they have significant educational value). --Eusebius (talk) 07:10, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Works by User:Comcast King

This user has been vandalizing WP, and appears to uploaded derivative images to Commons under a GNU Free Documentation license. Images including File:All-American.jpg and File:Ophan.gif have questionable copyright status at best and probably are not legally available under their claimed licensing. He has at least five uploaded images that can be seen here.

--Jerem43 (talk) 18:23, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Same user now uploadeing as Indulge in Almonds (talk · contribs) (same "I created by myself" upload comment. Blocking both and deleting all contribs. Lupo 14:37, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Steinbeisser

This user is deliberately blanking everything relating to Austria-Hungary in World War I. This causes the empty categories to get deleted too ! Please get rid of him and revert all his changes ! Rcbutcher (talk) 11:29, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Nobody is blanking everything relating to Austria-Hungary in World War I that's absolutely untrue. I simply tryed to lay together unnecessary categories with only one or three files for to make a better oversight and to avoid chaos. If User:Rcbutcher thinks that a good work is vandalism...so you can make for every single photo an own category .....my god!............--Steinbeisser (talk) 12:42, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I stand by what I said. This user blanked category comments, removed category info from images, replaced accurate specific categories with vague irrelevant categories, without providing any comments to explain reason for changes.
Examples : http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Skoda_24_cm_mortar_M_1898&diff=17792592&oldid=16858529
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Skoda_24_cm_mortar_M_1898.jpg&diff=17792588&oldid=9510386
This was done wholesale, as far as I can see for every image and category relating to Austria-Hungary in World war I. If you had no intent to vandalise the pages, I suggest you gain an understanding of the subject and how Wikipedia categories work before you jump in and make wholesale changes like you did. You basically wrecked the entire WWI Austria-Hungary ordnance category. 2 hours later you had done nothing to implement any "alternative structure". Rcbutcher (talk) 13:08, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Rcbutcher

User:Rcbutcher reverted all my work for to lay together unnecessary categories with only one or three files for to make a better oversight and to avoid chaos. Is he Godfather or somewhat else?--Steinbeisser (talk) 12:47, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

It is, how it is. User:Rcbutcher seems to be a fan of to create new categories, no matter if they are useful or not. That cannot be the sense of commons.Please get rid of him and revert all his changes - the common user would be thankful!--Steinbeisser (talk) 13:16, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

  • Please use the talkpage before placing/removing new category. Please talk about it and stop the editwarring. Abigor talk 13:29, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
    • Please note that the rule that you need a filled category with many elements before you can create a new category is coming from wikipedias and is not applicabale at commons. In commons, one can create a category with one single image if it simplifies the categorisation/finding or when you are confident that this category should/could have many more pictures. --Foroa (talk) 13:58, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
    • I checked, and indeed, Steinbeisser tried to empty and eliminate some quite interesting categories. Most rare but interesting categories start small remember (this is a collectors corner). As a general rule: never empty categories from another user before consulting him and proposing valid alternative category schemes. --Foroa (talk) 14:10, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
It seems that Steinbeisser is trying to improve things, not vandalising as I first thought.. which is good.. but please discuss with others before you make big changes like you did - removing category tags from photos is bad because it effectively makes them disappear. Also the connection tags on category pages to the other language Wikis are important so people can find articlers relating to them. Add new categories first, then discuss whether the new categories are better than the old ones. Rcbutcher (talk) 15:16, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

okay,okay --15:46, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

And yes, Category:Damaged guns is a nice addition, and I am sure both of you will meet there again, without making a war. --Foroa (talk) 16:01, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Asaejasjwjwakwafa

This user is here solely to harass me because I blocked his account on en.wp. I would like to request that he be blocked here as well. Thank you. J.delanoygabsadds 19:25, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

✓ Sorted thanks --Herby talk thyme 19:30, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

File:Alger front de mer.jpg

I reverted what was either vandalism or botched correction of the description at [62]. --Jarekt (talk) 14:17, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done IP welcomed, noticed and watched. --Eusebius (talk) 14:37, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Barack Obama needs protecting against vandalism

File:Official portrait of Barack Obama.jpg has been replaced by an image of a gorilla. This image needs protecting against racist vandalism. Jvhertum (talk) 12:10, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done by User:Samulili --Eusebius (talk) 12:17, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

File:Пистолет-пулемет системы Шпагина обр. 1941.jpg

Just fixed vandalized page: [63] --Jarekt (talk) 14:16, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done IP welcomed and warned. --Eusebius (talk) 14:25, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

File:Mordechaj Anielewicz.JPG

Fixing another page: [[64]] --Jarekt (talk) 14:16, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done IP welcomed and warned. --Eusebius (talk) 14:24, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Nikalas

Two edits: First edit was not useful, second edit was deliberate linkspam. --UV (talk) 15:41, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done, no more edits, no action needed. Thanks for the revert. --Martin H. (talk) 02:18, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism on Commons:Bundesarchiv

The vandalism of Commons:Bundesarchiv is already cleaned-up. --Jarekt (talk) 02:05, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done, semiprotected 1/2 year for IP vandalism, page is (was) on my watchlist. --Martin H. (talk) 02:20, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Vandal I.P. 24.251.98.222

All he or she is doing is constantly nominating a speed limit sign (which just consists of letters and numbers) for deletion. I.P's Contributions Jappalang (talk) 02:07, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I have undone all edits, but he/she seems to have stopped editing now. --Leyo 02:20, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

81.37.160.15

Harrasment and attacks Thank you. Dferg (commons-meta) 18:18, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Just a note that both of the IPs are dynamic. --Kanonkas(talk) 18:25, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Cheesecracker

Contributions here. Keeps vandalising highly-used images. --AdamM (talk) 08:43, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

User has recieved his first and last warning, cleaned all images. And watching his contributions. Thanks for the notice. Abigor talk 09:04, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Bah. Was half-way through blocking him. Oh well. :-)
James F. (talk) 09:07, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Given the incredible amount of damage he did to Wiktionary this morning ([65]full extent not shown), are you sure it's wise to leave him with merely a warning? --AdamM (talk) 12:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I warn first and block if he doesn't stop. We are now 4 days later and he is still stopped, so a block wasn't needed. Abigor talk 21:41, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Actually anyone uploading "that" image should be indef blocked instantly & CU requested. Well known long term cross wiki vandal - just blocked the two extra accounts. --Herby talk thyme 11:48, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Mouse vandal back again

The same guy who keeps vandalizing Felis silvestris catus and various user pages is at it again as 76.167.201.241 (talk · contribs). Could we please have some pest control here? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 15:49, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done, Herby took care of him. Thanks for the note. Regards, -- ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 17:03, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Actually, that block was from November — the IP is not currently blocked. Not that they've vandalized after I posted this note either, but seeing as it's a returning pattern vandal, I'd say a block ought to be in order. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 19:06, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Uh, you're right, I must have misread the date. Sorry about that. However, I cannot really figure out whether this is a dynamic IP, so I'd recommend against a pre-emptive block. Regards, -- ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 19:46, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Seems dynamic.  — Mike.lifeguard 03:01, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism on File:The Chaser pantomime horse stunt (5 September 2007, Sydney) 2.jpg

I have reverted a piece of vandalism at File:The Chaser pantomime horse stunt (5 September 2007, Sydney) 2.jpg, where User:Abigor uploaded a new version of the image completly different to the existing with the edit summary "please use biggest version". Now the exiting image was relatively small in sixe to the new uploaded one. Maybe he was making a point about the size but at the source, it is the biggest version avaliable. And I am unaware of any policy restricing the size files on this "free" depository of media. SpecialWindler (talk) 20:46, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, Abigor is an admin here. This was surely just a sort of mistake.--Túrelio (talk) 20:59, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Ow, I just noticed I uploaded the image in the wrong window :(
Sorry for the trouble and thanks for the revert. Abigor talk 21:39, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Thats all right, we all make mistakes.  The Windler talk  06:13, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

file:Rainbow-diagram-ROYGBIV.svg

the page of the file has been number of times been blanked or vandalised... plz block all non registered users from changing the page. --Oren neu dag (talk) 21:03, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done - thanks for the notice. Abigor talk 21:25, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

File:La Verdadera Bandera de España.svg

the file La Verdadera Bandera de España.svg has been vandalized [66]. --Oren neu dag (talk) 10:04, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

I Give the ip a warning and I am watching the page. Thanks for the notice and keep up the good work. Abigor talk 10:16, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Permanent vandalism

Dencey is deleting the deletion request template permanently here and here (and revert the false PD-template). Would you ask him to stop it? Thanks. Ade-had (talk) 14:58, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

I give the user a template with information telling him he can't remove deletion templates. I am also watching the page so I will see if he does it again.
Can I ask to try informing the user next time before asking Admin help? You and I know that you can not remove the template but maybe he didn't know about that.
But thanks for the notice and keep up the good work :) Abigor talk 15:57, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. I think he know what he do, he always do it in huwiki... Ade-had (talk) 16:00, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

File:Fito.jpg

I don't know what's going on with this image, but it has been repeatedly vandalized by IPs, and the discussions on the talk page are pretty harsh (basically just shouting insults at each other, for no obvious reason). Can someone look into this? Looks like the license is wrong, and the source is unknown, but it is in use on a userpage at es.wp, so it would be nice if someone how can speak Spanish can sort this thing out. --Tryphon (talk) 14:43, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I've sent an email to Usuario:Fquezada who is allegedly depicted in that image.--Túrelio (talk) 14:56, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
This is not user Fquezadas image. The image at es.wp was embedded in October 2006, the image was deleted in Nov 2006. The spanish user has nothing to with this image uploaded in Nov 2008. So deleted it: not used userpageimage and (maybe) uploaders request (in a very bad tone). --Martin H. (talk) 21:44, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Ah OK, now it makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. I see the image is gone, the talk page should go too (no need to keep all those nice words, right?) --Tryphon (talk) 06:11, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Agree, deleted the talk page. --Martin H. (talk) 06:30, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done --Martin H. (talk) 06:30, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

89.226.117.72

This IP seems to have a problem with Template:Nopenis (category version) and keeps blanking it or removing it from categories (see his contributions from December). AnonMoos suggested that he places a DR on it so that it can be discussed first, but the user refused. This behavior is not appropriate, and if it continues, this user should be blocked. --Tryphon (talk) 13:06, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

75.144.161.113 & 24.147.113.189

These two IPs did nothing but plain vandalism (in conjunction, like on Monkey), repeatedly in the past few minutes. Other examples include Gold, Homos, Chess, Guyana. They should be blocked and have all their edits reverted. --Tryphon (talk) 15:36, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done and thanks Finn Rindahl (talk) 14:41, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

vandalism by user 86.121.54.19

See contributions of user 86.121.54.19. Looking at [67] I think I know who this is. Wouter (talk) 18:42, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Noted. I've warned the user.  — Mike.lifeguard 20:31, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

User:Sameboat on File:BSicon hSTR.svg

User:Sameboat made a new upload of File:BSicon hSTR.svg I made, I reverted and explained my revert on the "Diskussion" page. He ignored that, reverted back to his version asking "why ignore me?". This time I reverted with the explicit reference to the Disk page. He reverted again claiming not to know "where's the disk?"

That's absurd for an user with nearly 2000 commons-edits and more than 12000 edits in total! axpdeHello! 23:58, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

  • Don't you think it was just some kind of misunderstanding? Discussion is written with a c in English, so when you said read the disk, my first understanding was that you were talking about a hard drive! Anyway, I asked Sameboat to use the image talk page before he makes any more edits. --Tryphon (talk) 00:23, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Oh, sorry, my German preset changed it to "Diskussion" ... well, maybe I should consider going to sleep soon ;-) axpdeHello! 00:28, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

vandalism by user Abkboy

See contributions of user Abkboy. Vonvon (talk) 18:55, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done - I have warned the user and watching. Abigor talk 18:58, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Godzillastar7

This user is a persistent vandal at en.wiki and should be blocked to prevent the uploading of false free use content. Treelo (talk) 22:49, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Yep, it is. --Kanonkas(talk) 16:18, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Commons is not En.Wiki. If somebody is blocked on a other project than Commons it doesn't mean he/she will be blocked also. We don't block people to prevent something. If he/she makes faults or is vandalizing content he/she can be blocked otherwise everybody is welcome. Abigor talk 17:24, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

File:Kunstwerk Sehnsucht langs de A7 Noord Holland.jpg und User:Mamboea

An IP and the user tries to fake the orginal upload log. --Jodo (talk) 13:36, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

IP reverted and I've added the file to my watchlist, but I'm really curious what could be the prupose of this... Finn Rindahl (talk) 13:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
My understanding is that the sculpture is by Fred Broekkamp, while the picture is own work. But of course, there is no need to change the upload log for that. --Tryphon (talk) 14:29, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
I don't think this is vandalism, the user just doesn't know how it works around here. I changed the information template to reflect the own work. Multichill (talk) 14:42, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Fangusu

User:Fangusu has been banned from the English Wikipedia after a long history of being uncooperative, editwarring, copyright violations, causing general damage, and ultimately refusing to amend her behavior to be acceptable. She has a long history of sockpuppetry now (see sockpuppetry case archive). She has now created an account here to upload images for her Wikipedia sockpuppet accounts to add to articles, making it more difficult to handle her continued vandalism. I am not familiar with the Wikimedia Commons blocking practices, but I'm sure that this cannot be considered acceptable behavior. Please take whatever action is considered appropriate, and I will continue my efforts to clean up after this user once I have seen what that is. If there are any policy pages that could help me learn how to better deal with this cross-wiki issue, I'd appreciate it if someone could leave links to them on my talk page. Thanks! Icarus3 (talk) 05:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello,
I don't see any really bad edits yet on Commons, a few copyvios but that is normal from people coming from En.wiki (because En.wiki accept Fair use and Commons not). I see even some good contributions.
I think this is a case of AGF, if the user doesn't do something wrong here she is welcome to stay and contribute. I don't know how other admins think about this but I am not placing a block just because she is blocked indef on En.wiki. I would say she is welcome on Commons untill she does something really wrong.
Best regards,
Abigor talk 14:04, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
I'm not saying she should be blocked here just because she's indef blocked on en.wiki, but because she's using her accounts on commons to facilitate her continued sockpuppetry there, in violation of her block, by uploading images here and then using sockpuppets or IPpuppets to add them to Wikipedia. It's a tough situation, because she's not an outright vandal but rather a recalcitrant copyright violator and editwarrior who refused an extended attempt to get her to learn and abide by copyright rules and behavior guidelines. It's true that some of her edits are useful, but she simply caused too much disruption.
That said, if the Commons admins and policies favor your approach, I can understand that. My interest is not in pursuing her across the wide range of the internet (I have no interest in the non-wikimedia wikis she edits, for instance), but only to contain her continued abuse of en.wiki. I will accept the decisions of Commons admins more familiar with Commons practices, and try to work within those parameters. --Icarus3 (talk) 18:33, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Secret renaming operation by user:foroa, user:Siebrand, and user:Multichill

Resolvedthe Commons:Administrators' noticeboard, subpage "Vandalism" is not the appropriate page for this. Cirt (talk) 15:08, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

The users are have already renamed and are continuing to rename a couple hundred categories from unknown to unidentified. Category:Unknown Carabidae, Category:Unknown Lepidoptera, Category:Unknown Odonata and so on. There was no discussion. The categories were not even tagged for moving. These three users just decided about this operation just among themselves. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 09:40, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

There is nothing secret, this is part of the daily harmonisation work, mostly based on simple common sense and majority naming. When I started harmonisation of unknown/unidentified naming, there where about 60 "Unknown xxx" items , 700 "unidentified xxx". See for your self: Unknown categories and Unidentified categories. You might think that we do all that moving work for fun and to annoy people. This happens to be not the case. --Foroa (talk) 10:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
(ec) It seems to me that "unidentified" is the most used term, as in Category:Unidentified insects or Category:Unidentified subjects. A quick search gives this 2006 discussion. The change wasn't particularly controversial. Maybe you could have contacted one of the users on their talk page before reporting them for "vandalism"? Pruneautalk 10:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Also, "unidentified" is more specific, especially when dealing with species or similar, whereas "unknown" is an Commons-internal category-term that is displaid when the source of a image/file is missing.--Túrelio (talk) 11:19, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
The vast majority of the species in those categories are indeed known (to science) but unidentified. There could be an unknown category structure, but this would contain only species that are not described and as yet unknown to science. As such the renaming exercise is the common sense thing to do. Lycaon (talk) 14:00, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

A two year old discussion is obviously not sufficient. It is not to much to ask for a proper procedure; putting moving or cfd templates on the category pages starting a discussion and waiting for some time for reactions. Currently the whole thing is a giant secret operation. Obviously Foroa does not have to follow commons guidelines. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 12:41, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Apart from the fact that you don't like how these moves were handled, do you have a specific reason to oppose to these changes? Do you have an example of a category for which the Unidentified denomination would be wrong? –Tryphon☂ 12:45, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Commons:Categories for discussion/Current requests/2009/03/Category:Chemistry (unsorted). Because this whole operation is being covered up other mistakes will only be found out afterwards when other people start complaining. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 13:21, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
  •  Comment - I question whether the vandalism board is even the right board for this as the users were clearly acting in good faith for the project. Cirt (talk) 13:50, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks Cirt, the answer is that it is not. I concider this discussion closed, and would urge anyone with opinions about "unidentifyed" vs "unknown"/"unsorted" etc to voice their concerns at the relevant talkpages and/or Commons:Categories for discussion. Regards, Finn Rindahl (talk) 13:58, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Finn, there are no relevant talkpages because Foroa thinks that a discussion is unecessary plus my attempts to discuss the matter are ridiculed or ignored ([68]).--Cwbm (commons) (talk) 14:06, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

First things first: Are the above described actions vandalism? Certainly not, whether or not they are appropriate (most probably) is a different matter, but they are in good faith. Thus, the "vandalism" board is not the appropriate place for this. Cirt (talk) 14:16, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
They are clearly not in good faith. If they were Foroa would not circumvent the discussion. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 15:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
This is clearly not vandalism, thus this is an inappropriate location for this discussion. Cirt (talk) 15:08, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Then have at least the grace to tell me the appropriate location. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 15:16, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Gracefully open a discussion at Commons:Categories for discussion. Regards. Lycaon (talk) 15:26, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

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

School IP making a nuisance of itself... WJBscribe (talk) 13:52, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Blocked for 1 day.--Túrelio (talk) 13:56, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Please block this IP 75.175.242.206 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

Hello, administrators. Please block this IP 75.175.242.206, because he or she is vandalizing pages. Me and Boingerbox the red robot (talk) has been trying to warn him or her all day, but he or she just won't give up. The block I recommend must be at least longer than one week. Hope you block him or her... Bulbasaur1928 (talk) 00:14, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Done by Mike.lifeguard. --Túrelio (talk) 07:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Please keep an eye out for colour+robot-themed accounts (see my block log, for example).  — Mike.lifeguard 11:25, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Asinine vandal at work

I just noticed activity by one of our more infantile vandals User:Jack the Blipper at File:3ahead.png I have blocked the user name at Wikiquote already. ~ Kalki (talk) 07:28, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Kalki - appreciated & ✓ Done --Herby talk thyme 07:43, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Deleted image

I have just noticed that image Image:Ligia 2.jpg has been deleted. I am the owner of the copyright and have released it to public use according to the provisions of the GFDL license. This was stated in the description of the image. The picture has never been published and I am in possession of the original. There is no justification to the deletion of the picture and I kindly request it to be restored.Afil (talk) 17:06, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done I restored the image per request on my talkpage already, discussion uploaders talkpage. --Martin H. (talk) 17:11, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

68.55.85.104

Some vandalism here: [69] --Jarekt (talk) 21:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, thanks for reverting that. Only edit from that ip, so I don't think a block i necessary here. Finn Rindahl (talk) 21:55, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

92.243.167.178 / 65.254.197.51

Minor vandalism or experimentation: [70] - already reverted. --Jarekt (talk) 15:38, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Another vandal: [71] - already reverted. --Jarekt (talk) 15:41, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

As above, I don't think a block on these IPs is necessary as they've calmed down. Sometimes it might be useful to warn vandals using {{Test}} etc. Thanks, →Na·gy 16:03, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Funrunfunf (talk · contribs)

Sockpuppet of banned user from Wikipedia:en, blocked over there by me, needs a block here too per [72]. See [73] for context. Acroterion (talk) 01:55, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done & thanks, Finn Rindahl (talk) 03:12, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Objective333

Objective333 (talk · contribs) has been banned from the English Wikipedia for harrassing other users and abusing the unblock template. He's now come here solely to vandalize my userpage and talk page. Someguy1221 (talk) 17:59, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done - User is blocked. Cleaned up the history for your userpage and talkpage as extra service. Huib talk 18:04, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

76.124.107.192 (talk · contribs)

The user in question is vandalising pages, and has migrated here after being blocked by other wikimedia projects. Edits include: removal nonsense vandalism. Recommendation: Skip warnings and block for 4 weeks as he's beyond experimentation. --Sigma 7 (talk) 17:29, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done - I did give the user his first and last warning, I am not going to block somebody before he gets a warning. Huib talk 17:46, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Well, edit conflict. I blocked this IP as a crosswiki-vandal and I'm not sure if I should be going to unblock after having a look at its global contribs... →Na·gy 17:49, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

User:MultiplyPh

This user, as well as at least a few others, are sockpuppets of User:Gerald Gonzalez in the English Wikipedia, and is uploading copyvio images in Commons, despite several warnings. Blakegripling ph (talk) 08:00, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

✓ Thanks all deleted & a couple of accounts blocked. Regards --Herby talk thyme 08:13, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Oh, and here's another one: User:Grey Glinn; probably another GG sock. 01:12, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

user:Ingolfson

Although is change from category:Immune system to category:Immune systems is obviously not without objection [74] he doesn't care to start a discussion but just reverts [75]. And this is not the only such change [76],[77]. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 06:50, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Regarding immune systems: the guidelines say the category names must be in the plural form, therefore I see no problem in Ingolfson's edits. --Eusebius (talk) 07:29, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
You don't know the nameing conventions of the english wikipedia by any chance? --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 07:38, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
I don't know much about what happens on the Wikipedias. --Eusebius (talk) 09:09, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
It is also plural. Guess how the category on the english wikipedia is named. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 09:59, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps you should try talking to people, and starting a real discussion, instead of threatening them aggressively. The diff you provided doesn't show any argument against this change, just you saying that you disagree (why?) and consider it vandalism. I'm sure you would have better success if you actually tried and explain your point of view. –Tryphon☂ 08:55, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
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