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This is a place where users can communicate with administrators, or administrators with one another. You can report vandalism, problematic users, or anything else that needs an administrator's intervention. Do not report child pornography 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.

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RedseckerlEdit

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

Whole string of nonsense, useless uploads, mis-description. Rollback and delete, warn and maybe block. Sorry, no time to engage fruitlessly myself. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:14, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

@Andy Dingley: Already under discussion at #User:Redseckerl above. If Pius had notified the user on their user talk page as instructed above, you would have seen that.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 22:50, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
There are further uploads (same issue) since the thread above was closed too. Andy Dingley (talk) 06:57, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
One week block. Feel free to nominate any upload for deletion. Taivo (talk) 08:01, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
@Taivo: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:02, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Redseckerl requested unblock. Administrators, please review the block. Taivo (talk) 08:51, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

User:Wildhorse3, extensive copyvio by sockpuppeteerEdit

All of the images uploaded by this user are copyrighted images for which he owns no rights and has maliciously and falsely claimed them as his own creations. The user is a CU confirmed sockpuppeteer (see here), who's sock (User:Sitush7) has also made similar copyvio uploads with false self-attribution.

Let us start with the image on the user page (which the user egregiously says is him), it's of a popular Pakistani actress Nazish Jahangir from her Instagram account posted way back last year. Impersonation is not new to this user as the sockpuppet itself was named after User:Sitush.

Other images have also been similarly scrubbed from all over the internet; and posted under fabricated {{Own}} and {{cc-zero}} tags. To further legitimize claims over these images, he has linked them across enwiki and even created dubious categories/pages/templates here on Commons (page and cat [inc. sub-cats]; templ).

Listing other copyvio images and the places where they have been scrubbed from:

These are the ones where I could verify that there is demonstrable copyvio and the sockpuppeteer has maliciously claimed credit, including as can be seen going as far as to remove watermarks, logos, dubious captions etc. The other images uploaded (i. e. not listed here) by the sockpuppeteer and his socks have also likely been pilfered from social media, websites et al.

All of these images should be deleted, including the pages, cats, temps etc. created by this sockpuppeteer and his socks. Please block the master/his socks and see if a CU brings up more of his socks. Thanks. Gotitbro (talk) 21:04, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Please notify the user next time as per the notice on the top of this page. I have notified them but next time it is up to you. Bidgee (talk) 05:26, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
The user being a chronic sockpuppeteer, I did not think it was necessary. Gotitbro (talk) 06:33, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
@Gotitbro: It is always necessary.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:30, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
  Done All obvious copyvios deleted, user warned, other images without EXIF nominated. A COM:RFCU could be useful. Yann (talk) 11:37, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
User is blocked indef. for socking. Yann (talk) 21:15, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Child porn userEdit

User:뱁부 appears to be an elementary schooler and is uploading dick pics. Please delete immediately and block. Dronebogus (talk) 11:04, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

As per the notice at the top of this page ”Do not report child pornography or other potentially illegal content here; e-mail legal-reports wikimedia.org instead.” Bidgee (talk) 11:09, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
  Done Deleted by Strakhov, user warned. Yann (talk) 11:41, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Extremely uncivil userEdit

User told me to go kill myself here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Nude_Chubby_Male_In_The_Oregon_Forest.jpg&diff=674920684&oldid=674889781

I might not be super chill here either, admittedly, but jeez I think that’s crossing a line into insta-block territory. Their only upload is a bad naked selfie (the source of the argument) so they aren’t a net positive contributor either. Dronebogus (talk) 20:49, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

  Done Indeffed - clearly not here to contribute. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:11, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

John.GuzEdit

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:59, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

  Done All files deleted. It seems they stopped uploading after your warning. Yann (talk) 12:18, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

User:ZbvazquezEdit

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

  •   Done Blocked for a week, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 12:31, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

User:Vsa111Edit

Vsa111 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

  • The user has again uploaded copyright images from web. They have warned several times. Latest violation being File:JagdeepDhankhar.jpg. Thanks Run n Fly (talk) 12:47, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
  Not done While the licenses are wrong, files from the government of India may be under {{GODL-India}}. One file from a State government deleted. Yann (talk) 13:44, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Promotional activities by related usersEdit

This group of users are all promoting a company called Mayflower-Plymouth as well as its CEO and employees. In addition, there are lots of personal family photos of the CEO mixed in.

It all appears outside of COM:SCOPE, so I created a bunch of deletion discussions ...

... but ran out of steam before getting through them all. There may still be other accounts as well. Marbletan (talk) 18:48, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

@Marbletan: Could you please fill in a request for checkuser? I deleted all files. These accounts may be blocked for socking or advertising. Thanks, Yann (talk) 19:12, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
  Done: Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Rubennichea. Marbletan (talk) 19:17, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
  Done Now all blocked by Fitindia or I. Yann (talk) 14:44, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

MD SHAJAN KHANEdit

  — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:52, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

  • Only 3 edits. May be warning is sufficient. Yann (talk) 16:43, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Ser Amantio di NicolaoEdit

The user uploads lots of duplicate at Category:Collections of the Odense City Museums (Check Category:Duplicate and thanks User:Don-vip for tapping them). The user have to comply with these terms set by User:Pi.1415926535. Previously warned at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems/Archive 95#User:Ser Amantio di Nicolao for violating duplicate uploads and poor categorization but seems nothing have improved. --A1Cafel (talk) 03:32, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535: Ser Amantio suddenly blank the file and added {{Bad name}}. IMO it is a kind of disruptive action. --A1Cafel (talk) 10:42, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
I didn't intend to blank the page. I was trying to put some kind of template on it to mark it for deletion, or redirection, but not being familiar with Commons templates (as I don't use them often) I appear to have picked the wrong one. I left it be because a.) I didn't want to cause even more damage to the page, and b.) it was late, it had been a long day, and I didn't have the brain power to give it more thought. I'm traveling, and so will be away from the computer much of the day, but I will try and tag the duplicates for removal today. As to how they slipped in...I'm sorry about that, I did check the batches as I was uploading them, but apparently I glossed over a few images because I thought they looked similar, not identical, at smaller scale. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talk) 14:16, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
You should notice that after you tap {{Bad name}} on the file, then it appears "Please do not use the deprecated template {{Bad name}} for file", and you should fix it as soon as possible. Being tired is not an excuse of blanking a file. You caused User:AntiCompositeBot to incorrectly tape {{No license since}} on the file. IMO you're doing more damage to the page. --A1Cafel (talk) 15:03, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Hi! I'm indeed triaging the files but I think a small amount of files are concerned. It's not easy to spot the duplicates when you're not aware of the problem: it only concerns the pictures taken by the museum where several pieces with different inventory numbers are photographed (for example: a broken sword where each piece has its own inventory number, but the museum took a single photograph of all fragments together and uploaded it several times on Flickr). I don't see the import as problematic: I would rather blame the museum for creating the duplicates at first, then mediawiki for allowing upload of identical files, then flickr2commons to not checking this during the upload, rather than Ser Amantio. I would probably have missed these duplicates as well if I would have done the import myself. vip (talk) 19:09, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
@Don-vip: It looks like it's something like 80 or 90 out of a very large batch, 5,000 or so. (Unless something else turns up and I'm not aware.) I did a quick check last night, and don't believe I found any further duplicates. (Could be wrong, though.) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talk) 20:06, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

User:Modern primatEdit

Dear Wikimedia Commons community,

We are supporting the projects voluntarily. We are here to build a valuable online encyclopedia. So, we must block and ignore harmful users. Modern primat is a user from Turkish Wikipedia. He was banned for uncivil behavior and violation of some policies. This week his file was deleted by an administrator: @4nn1l2. His main purpose is trolling as the admin stated here. After the deletion, he harassed the admin with this message. Then, I warned him, he replied inappropriately.

In addition, (Let's move back to March 2022), I nominated one of his files, after this he replied with a link which includes a video which was about porn. This user violates policies and trolls the contributors. Yours sincerely, Kadı Message 18:18, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

[1] Kadı Message 18:20, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
harrassing??? i expressed my concern about my file. thats it. i think admin should write why he deleted it with better explanation instead just write "trolling content".
"""His main purpose is trolling as the admin stated here.""" no. i cant believe that...... my file, literally, didnt break any rules. but, in source(youtube), yes, bad things are there. but in my file(commons), there was nothing. so, it is not trolling. also, how this is trolling? calling people "troll" is direct violation of policies. you always calling me with that.
stop that, in here you also stated "his main purpose is that". im just tired. why are you doing that?
inaprororotiley? what? it is just a laugh! laugh!!!
porn? what??? it was never about a porn. never. it is funny montage. yes, there is "porn" at the start. but it is not directly mentioning it in whole time. you keep trolled me with keep nominating my file with not enough reason(you did put a source to show i uploaded my file from there. but actually that source took my file. and you wrote "this user stole this file from here" .image is describing it. it is very easy to see and you still did it. obvious trolling activity!!!) and i just send this. you either get laugh and move on, or get mad and report. there is no purpose of attacking. video is here, where is porn??? "about porn" haha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8o24X2OURY Modern primat (talk) 18:59, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
https://tr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%96zel:G%C3%BCnl%C3%BCk/block&page=User%3AModern_primat Modern primat (talk) 19:01, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Modern primat, you should never talk about users' religion and nationality on Commons. Never. That won't be tolerated again. Secondly, calling some content as an example of trolling is not the same as calling a person a troll. Of course, if the person keeps posting trolling content several times, then we may come to the understanding that they are indeed a troll. Do not upload trolling content to Commons again. Commons is not for having some fun. We only host content that have educational value. Turkish azan does not have any educational value. 4nn1l2 (talk) 06:27, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
wait a moment.. i can understand(actually not) why you deleted my file. because source is bad(file not contain anything that bad). ok, good...
but.... HOW you can decide turkish azan does not have educational value??? literally, it has information on articles! there is article: w:tr:Türkçe ezan . it definetly educatinoal..... you are wrong. Modern primat (talk) 08:06, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
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