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Requesting auto patrol protection for File:Syrian Civil War map.svg

Since there isn't an extended confirmed protection on commons, like there is on Wikipedia, I'd like to request auto patrol protection for this. Currently this file is fully protected due the constant edit warring, and displays a highly outdated format, dating back to a week. I believe auto patrol protection would stop the edit warring on the file, while also allowing constructive editing to take place. Ecrusized (talk) 10:56, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely  Not done given the way you have been hanging around on this, and edit-warring. Kindly use talk-page. Regards, Aafi (talk) 12:27, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Christy Johnna

Uzume

  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:47, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Blocked for a day. Hopefully, we will get an answer. Yann (talk) 15:00, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am not running any bots. Rarely, I do use a few gadgets like Hotcat which I suppose could be considered automated edits but otherwise I make them each by hand (even when there are many similar tedious edits across pages). —Uzume (talk) 21:11, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, and I have imported media from other WMF sites and used IA-Upload both of which I suppose those could also be considered forms of automated edits (as they make edits owned by me). —Uzume (talk) 21:25, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Uzume: I mean the many edits marked "cite->quote" and "fix refs".   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:10, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G.: And that is a problem how? Is there some issue with the edit summaries? —Uzume (talk) 02:27, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Uzume: There would be an issue if you did these by making use of an unauthorized bot. And far more of an issue if you were to do so again in the future. - Jmabel ! talk 04:39, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jmabel: Well I don't have any bots and thus have not used any (unless you count the tools I have mentioned before). What exactly is objectionable about those edit summaries? Perhaps they were a bit brief/succinct. I really have no clue why I am being accused of using a bot. Anyone can examine my edits and see there are subtle changes sometimes and definitely the time between edits contain randomness because they were done by hand in the provided web editor. The only "automation" is human automation at my keyboard. I have not used any bots in the past and have no plans to in future (and if I did I would certainly go through channels and get its actions approved). —Uzume (talk) 05:25, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Uzume: May I presume that first sentence was meant to read, "I do not have any bots" rather than "I do have any bots"? - Jmabel ! talk 05:28, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jmabel: Why not? It seems many are presuming things about me. Sorry but this whole experience is very disheartening having my hard work called into question. —Uzume (talk) 05:32, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Uzume: Are you actually telling me that when you mean to say "I'm innocent" and accidentally say something to the effect of "I'm guilty" I should take that at face value rather than presume it was a typo??? - Jmabel ! talk 05:44, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jmabel: I am saying there is way too much presumption. I was presumed guilty and blocked before even being asked much less being allowed to respond to any such allegations. This is the first time I have been blocked anywhere at WMF since I started editing here back in 2004 (EN-WP of course). Does none of my history warrant looking into such an accusation further? —Uzume (talk) 06:03, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Uzume: Please see my last comment below. I am not the one who reported you or blocked you. - Jmabel ! talk 06:07, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jmabel: I saw that. Thank you, but it does not make me feel much better about how this was (mis)handled. —Uzume (talk) 06:10, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Assuming that is the case, you could have saved yourself (and others) a lot of time if you had answered the question shortly after it was first asked of you. - Jmabel ! talk 05:30, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jmabel: What question is that? —Uzume (talk) 05:33, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Uzume: Ah, now I see what happened. You were notified at User talk:Uzume#COM:AN/B of a discussion about you, but instead of responding in the conversation it directed you to, you responded right there on your user talk page, where of course no one saw your response. - Jmabel ! talk 05:36, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jmabel: I was forced to as I was blocked and could at that time only post to my own talk page. —Uzume (talk) 05:39, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Uzume: that makes sense. Also @Jeff G.: Your original post here said, "Unresponsive to user talk page concern" and I think Yann, who blocked, probably took that at face value and blocked but, really, your post at User talk:Uzume didn't ask a question or appear to seek a response. - Jmabel ! talk 05:44, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I do not understand why authorities here listen to complaints at this venue without doing their own due diligent investigations? It seems like they are opening themselves up to liabilities for their irresponsible behavior. I feel like I was just arrested by police for smelling bad or being at the wrong place at the wrong time, etc. —Uzume (talk) 05:54, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Uzume: Before I posted here, in this edit, I asked you to "Please stop" "modifying multiple closed discussions" that I had noticed. I sought that you would stop that behavior, which is in violation of established norms. You did not respond, and instead kept going, making more such changes to closed discussions on my watchlist without minor flag, so I reported you here. The closure of each such discussion told you not to modify it, so why did you? What is so wrong with {{Cite}} with a single parameter, "[[:Image:", "accessdata" in citations, etc. that makes you feel that you need to violate such injunctions without minor flags? Changing of "[[:Image:" to "[[:File:" is a telltale sign of AWB's standard general fixes, so I don't believe that you are not using automation. What automation are you using, and why?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 07:39, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G.: I stopped making those changes to those pages as soon as I noticed your request (you did not ask a question so I did not respond and just stopped as requested). I am sorry if my response was slightly delayed. The only automation I am using is browser (Firefox at the moment) based search and replace or the same from the provided wiki editor (under "Advanced"; "search and replace" icon on the right that looks like a magnifying glass). Why do I use search and replace? Well, I do sometimes manually paste during a search in a page but because it is easier and directly provided? Why are you harassing me? —Uzume (talk) 07:50, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Uzume: You seem to be spamming my watchlist. Why are you spamming my watchlist? You made 25 identical edits in the space of 10 minutes.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:05, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G.: I have no idea what may or may not be on your watchlist. Maybe you need to fix your watchlist? —Uzume (talk) 08:10, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Uzume: No, you need to fix your behavior, my watchlist was fine until your recent behavior came along. What gadgets, add-ons, etc. do you have on Firefox?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:14, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G.: *sigh* I have better things to do than babysit your watchlist (which I do not really care to even try to look at, if I am even able to do such a thing). I am just using search and sometimes search and replace—nothing more. I am sorry if that bothers you but I am not doing anything wrong. Please find something more constructive to do than harassing me. —Uzume (talk) 08:21, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Uzume: You have yet to answer what is so wrong with {{Cite}} with a single parameter, that you still feel compelled to change it? Who elected you to police uses of {{Cite}}?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:28, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G.: There is nothing wrong with such any more than there is something wrong with anything that gets changed here or {{quote}} (and many of those actually have more than a single parameter BTW). I like to work on templates and Scribuntu modules. That sometimes has the need to make many similar structure edits to change semantics of such things. —Uzume (talk) 08:33, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Uzume: So what Scribuntu or Lua modules are you using on instances of {{Cite}}, and why aren't the edits marked as minor?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:41, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G.: Do you understand what those are? I am not using any such things. But they are similar to templates just invoked via {{#invoke:}} syntax instead of {{msg:}} syntax (or the default without any parser function name, i.e., just {{}}). I can easily mark them as minor if you like but sometimes I can and do make other changes at the same time. —Uzume (talk) 08:46, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You still did not explain how and why you did those edits, as instructed by Yann. I want to know exactly, because I don't see what you described in my installation of Firefox on Windows. How may I duplicate your installation to see what you described? I see that you are continuing.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 09:24, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G.: How? I am not sure how to explain how to use Firefox. I click "edit" on the page. I press Ctrl-F and search for something with the "highlight" checked and then use Ctrl-V to paste. Then I move to the edit summary and type a few characters of a summary I have recently used and choose one of the autocomplete values I used recently that applies, check the "minor" box (now) and then press "Save". It is a fair bit of work (longer now that I have to check "minor" all the time). Why? Well would you rather I consolidate {{quote}} to {{cite}} the other way around? I choose this way because it seems more standard across WMF sites and {{cite}} tends to have other meanings at other sites. Also {{quote}} has 47k+ transclusions where as {{cite}} only has 600 (I think it was just over 1k before; so it was a smaller job too). —Uzume (talk) 09:58, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment For the record, here is a reminder of what happened. Jeff warned Uzume at 13:36, 13 December UTC. Uzume continued to make semi-automated edits. So I blocked Uzume for one day. I unblocked Uzume as soon as I saw their answer. I think that such a high number of semi-automated edits need community approval. As Jeff mentions above, they clutter people's watchlist, among other issues. The fact that Uzume continues today is a problem. Yann (talk) 11:36, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

More socks

Please see w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nkzgay85 from which admins here may decide on any action to be taken. 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 06:54, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done I blocked Kamalı Zeybek for socking, and warned Nkzgay85. The other account doesn't exist on Commons. File deleted. Yann (talk) 11:24, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

possible child p...graphy

with a serious warning to Modern primat that they do not do this again, and answer like a troll. As you yourself quote the guiding statement, do not report stuff like this here but privately. I don't want to comment on Telegram thing but it is inappropriate (morally as well). Asking others to show you policies on that, is simply a troll-ish behavior. You need to desist and un-learn this. Next time you report such a thing or grossly do the opposite, you might face a block. Regards, Aafi (talk) 09:18, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

"Do not report depictions of child sexual abuse or other potentially illegal content here; e-mail legal-reports@wikimedia.org instead. If reporting threatened harm to self or others also email emergency@wikimedia.org." these images should be removed ASAP. i dont believe email will do it. dear admins please help.

im sorry to write like that. i saw these.. images and immediatly nominated them to deletion. Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by 1000 days away. and block this user... modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 20:16, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Modern primat, ✓ Done. @Raymond, @Minorax, and @Odder: Could you suppress the user's edits? Regards. Kadı Message 20:32, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Kadı, @Modern primat Oversight done. Raymond (talk) 20:36, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Modern primat What you did is explicitly the opposite of what you were supposed to do. You literally included Do not report [...] here in your original comment and then reported it here. Anything that needs to be oversighted needs to be handled by email only because we do not want to draw any attention to it. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:07, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
first: if a person wants to find cp he wont look for COM:AN/B. and if a person dont wanna see cp, he is already warned.
what should i do? it already harm our community. take a look https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=&page=File%3AHuman+Penis+at+14+Years+of+Age.jpg&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype=&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist . 40 minutes pass before deletion. that image stayed for 40 minutes in recent files section.... + if that email thingy is not a policy then i believe im free to do as i choose. modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 22:36, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
++ more attention=fast deletion. modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 22:38, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
what should i do? Email the oversighters. Do not post about the images on public forums. Period. The odds of anyone finding any file on Commons in the few hours between when you send the email and when they oversight it is incredibly low, even ones in DR. By posting here, lots more people's attention is drawn to it. Regardless of your personal feelings, the instructions in the edit notice are explicit and are not negotiable. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:44, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
ok modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 00:09, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Modern primat: I hope you take the advice of TSC seriously. Such things should be handled privately and if an oversighter doesn't respond immediately, just email an active admin to have the file deleted immediately. Oversight could work later. Regards, Aafi (talk) 07:52, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
ok im sorry. next time i will do it better. modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 14:16, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This was completely inappropriate @Modern primat, there are no excuses for this behavior. If you read "do not report depictions of child sexual abuse or other potentially illegal content here", then you don't do that. Plain and simple. Bedivere (talk) 23:53, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can this section be closed and revdeled? All the Best -- Chuck Talk 23:56, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No need to revdel since the files are not accesible to the public. Bedivere (talk) 00:05, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Modern primat, I saw your post via Commons Telegram group, then I immediately deleted the images. You drawn most people’s attention by posting here and TG group. Do not repeat this behavior again. You must email to oversighters or an admin. If you do this again, I will block your account. Kadı Message 00:06, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
ok... tell me about it. how you gonna block with what reason? do you see me as the person who post his genital here? i just tryed to make it fast. what will we see in block log if i do same or similar mistake? could you please give me a policy or rule that says "you cant open a topic here about immediate deletion". edit notices are irrelevant i want policy.
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and an idea comes to mind. we need "deletor" user group. deletors just gonna delete these kind of files and notices the admins. or that notice will be on dedicated separete page. not obvious copyvios, just these kind of files. @Kadı. modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 08:58, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bedivere, this is also posted to Telegram group by Modern primat. Kadı Message 00:08, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
still, edit notices says "you cant do that here. telegram group is not "here". modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 08:59, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

User:Maxington2007

Uploaded copyvio after final warning. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:50, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Blocked for a week, deleted the most recent image. Bastique ☎ let's talk! 01:04, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

please delete the first version

of File:Betrugs-SMS (Deutschland 2023).jpg because it is against German law to publish phone numbers who contacted others. Thank you. --Mateus2019 (talk) 13:27, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mateus2019: ✓ Done - let me know if I missed anything. Regards, Aafi (talk) 13:44, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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