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Wikicreator1231

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Persistent uploading of copyright materials. File:Nichkhun.png is a reupload of similar deleted File:Khungolfing.jpg, File:Nichkhun HVK.jpg, and File:NICHKHUN.b.png. Wikicreator1231 also uploaded their uploads to Flickr to "loophole" their way in, likely to bypass scrutinization considering that it's autoreviewed by bot. In addition, on Special:Permalink/997790391#File:Nichkhun HVK.jpg, where https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJkRNoQf0c0 was mentioned by Wikicreator1231, in which the exact same frame for those undeleted/deleted images could be found in the same link, the undeleted one could be found around 12:25~12:30. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 13:12, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Edit conflict) Blocked by Explicit for 1 week with copyvio deleted. Leaving this here for the record if any admin, including Explicit, wants to adjust the block considering their dishonest actions. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 13:15, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Checkmark This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Bedivere (talk) 17:39, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Ayratayrat

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  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:40, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done. I closed multiple bad deletion requests and blocked the user for a week. Next block can be indefinite. Taivo (talk) 16:57, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Prariwat Nuanma

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0x0a (talk) 08:04, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done. I blocked the user for a year (4th block) and will delete a lot of uploads. Taivo (talk) 14:11, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Rodlin LISEME

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Rodlin LISEME (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  is only uploading photos of himself, treating Commons as his personal photo gallery and advertisement. I flagged his uploads for speedy deletion and an administrator might want to block him.

Pierre cb (talk) 23:49, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Warned, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 23:53, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Ada Quyn

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Uploads stolen porn and nothing else Dronebogus (talk) 05:41, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you are supporting reporting someone at COM:AN/U you are supposed to notify them of that. I have now done so. - Jmabel ! talk 08:03, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jmabel: Reporting, certainly. Supporting, not so much. :)   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:24, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Be careful with GMatteotti

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Prolific sockpuppeteer GMatteotti wants advanced rights in Commons. His requests are generally declined (Naliloam for autopatroller, Salazor and Pal-lon-cin for template editor), but he successed with Yuonn. He uses multiple cosmetic edits to increase his edit count. I blocked yesterday Naliloam and today Pal-lon-cin. Often works with Japanese files. Be careful! Taivo (talk) 13:47, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Taivo: Please add to Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/GMatteotti as appropriate. I filed m:srg#Global lock for GMatteotti et al, as Stewards have more records to cross-check. @Abzeronow: FYI.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:39, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I've gotten wise to GMatteotti (so I didn't recognize that pattern with Yuonn since I didn't know about GMatteotti). Thanks for the headsup though, Taivo. Abzeronow (talk) 18:57, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Info: They now and then edit using IPs all of which point to Italy. Can be detected easily as they canvass for edits or deletions of files that they have uploaded using one of their sock accounts. --Achim55 (talk) 17:38, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Kwami Heude

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Hello, this user use Wikipedia for self promotion only. See his user page history or this file history or this one or this one. All pics uploaded here are for himself. Article deleted twice and protected on fr.wiki and user blocked indefinitely. I think he should be blocked here too. Supertoff (talk) 13:28, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Supertoff: Thanks for your report. I notified the user about it on their user talk page, as you should have per the above.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:39, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G. : sorry but I still was watching all what he was doing here and noted that: he is probably the sockpuppet of user:Kwami Izawaki (same first name, same date of birth, see [1] and [2]). Kwami Izawaki has already 3 files deleted. I think notifying him won't work but I let you manage it. My job is done on french wikipedia where, for your information, he created twice and article on him (deleted and protected) and he bypassed it by writing it on his user page. Supertoff (talk) 13:50, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeff G. : it didn't work (as I expected). User page deleted by @Achim55 and recreated by Kwami Heude... If you need translation about what he wrote on his talk page :
"car c'est ma vie ma biographie et cela me permet que les personnes me découvre moi mon univers et mes choix" means "because it is my life, my biography and it allows people to discover me, my universe and my choices".
"Ma biographie, pour que les personnes me découvre" means "My biography, to be discovered by other peoples". Supertoff (talk) 17:23, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, after having deleted his user page twice I now added it to Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Kwami Heude. --Achim55 (talk) 17:28, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:OperationSakura6144

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It seems to me that User:OperationSakura6144 has recently moved from being a bit overly insistent that others make their personal priorities into a priority for everyone (e.g. Commons:Village pump/Archive/2024/12#Replace non-vector files with its vector versions., Commons:Village pump/Archive/2025/02#About replacing File:75B.jpg with File:Bandera de la Provincia de Córdoba.svg.), which I've found annoying but tolerable, to an outright Trust and Safety violation. Their recent posts on User talk:ReneeWrites (permalink) and the related post on COM:VP#How to archive my user talk page conversations? (plus a personal message for @ReneeWrites) (permalink), which is what drew my attention to this, are absolutely out of line, especially in that the last was a continuation after ReneeWrites said unambiguously, "This is all deeply weird, I'm sorry. Please don't message me again. Don't message me to apologize, either, I'm not hurt or angry but I don't want to speak to you again."

At the very least this calls for an interaction ban (that OperationSakura6144 may not communicate with or about ReneeWrites). I personally would be open to any sanction up to and including a global ban. - Jmabel ! talk 19:23, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to say I would support sanctions but after reading the disturbing messages regarding ReneeWrites, a Commons ban (followed by global ban request) for Trust and Safety violations. Bidgee (talk) 19:53, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Bidgee: I agree something should be done, but we don't have a ban policy.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 20:04, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
but we do have an indefinite block for intimidation/harassment, which I'll be placing shortly. ✓ Done Bedivere (talk) 20:17, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User requested an unblock by continuing to harass ReneeWrites and calling my actions "dehumanizing and discriminatory". Using autism as a wild card does not exonerate their disgraceful behavior. I've revoked talk page access and declined their "unblock" (if it can actually be called as such) request. Bedivere (talk) 06:10, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Bedivere. Good block. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:42, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And not letting it drop: [3] (on a wiki where my only prior contribution was to change a link when moving a Commons category). This seems to me to be the actions of a person who is constitutionally incapable of acting appropriately. - Jmabel ! talk 03:40, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly this. This isn't just poor judgment, it's an inability to respect boundaries and follow basic community norms. The repeated harassment, entitlement, and fixation on being 'forgiven' make it clear that this user hasn't learned a thing. I would support a global ban request, given that the harassment is now cross-wiki. Bedivere (talk) 04:00, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Tubby3

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Please see edit summaries at Category:Sabores regionales de la Provincia de Misiones and related issues. Thanks. 186.175.244.116 22:31, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Tubby3: can you please explain yourself here? Antisemitism is a pretty severe charge, and I don't see any evidence of it in the edit you reverted, nor do I see any good reason for your delinking the CfD. - Jmabel ! talk 22:50, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've now addressed this with a remark to User:Tubby3 on the CfD. - Jmabel ! talk 18:53, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I too responded the user. Chile had nothing to do in the original Tubby3 response, so I told them not to repeat that again, and explained the point of conflict is that the category is named in Spanish but would preferably be in English. Bedivere (talk) 21:58, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IA upload tool errors

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When i am uploading telugu books using IA upload tools, I am not able to see the file content as a result of malicious code. This problem is encountered in most of my uploads. As a result we are not able to use this file in wikisource. Example: File:భారత కథామృతము.djvu Please rectify the problem and help us. A.Murali (talk) 07:19, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Elinaxxx

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  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:25, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see that as wildly inappropriate. It amounts to a request for a courtesy deletion of their own upload, even if not well worded. - Jmabel ! talk 18:57, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Akasahe28

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Has uploaded File:2025 ST Open logo.png and File:2024–25 PVL AFC Logo Ad.jpg since having been reported in September with {{End of copyvios}}. Jonteemil (talk) 11:38, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Blocked for a week. Yann (talk) 12:00, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ydlp19

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Keeps uploading blatant copyvios despite several warnings and one prior block for it. See the upload history. Jonteemil (talk) 11:52, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Blocked for 3 months, obvious copyright violations deleted. Yann (talk) 11:58, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

NiseEdits

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Keeps uploading copyvios after several warnings and blocks. I tagged three files as copyvios but more might be as well. Jonteemil (talk) 12:27, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Blocked for 6 months (3rd block). Most files deleted, or nominated. Yann (talk) 13:13, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Contributions/Kouroukoto,Mali

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Please also revert the user's edits. Thank you! Prototyperspective (talk) 13:32, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done. --A.Savin 13:54, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bonanza1981

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Uploaded several copyvio files as "own work" and then removed the copyvio templates (added by Skazi). Bonanza1981 is already blocked indefinitely in ruwiki after some personal attacks. — 2A00:1370:8186:2EDD:A863:1F0A:6F9D:22C3 19:05, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Files deleted, user warned. Bedivere (talk) 01:39, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New sockpuppets of globally locked User:Wave of Pandas

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DESKTOP-424GOAL-3005 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) has started uploading today, with the same useless night photos of Hong Kong as Wave of Pandas and socks. Krok6kola (talk) 21:09, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Blocked by Ratekreel. Bedivere (talk) 21:49, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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