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Bull-Doser

Bull-Doser (talk · contribs)

Uploaded copyvio File:Billy Woods au Ritz PDB — 1.png after final warning. 172.59.211.202 00:19, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

That was actually MY photo! It ain't no copyvio! I used my iPhone X to do it! I used the screenshot subject to crop after my Ritz PDB photos! -- Bull-Doser (talk) 02:14, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

@Bull-Doser: You would have done well to say something at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Billy Woods au Ritz PDB — 1.png during the 12 days it was open. And you might want to make an undeletion request. - Jmabel ! talk 03:03, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

@Bull-Doser: What about File:Annika Chambers.jpg? 108.58.166.134 11:26, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

I would like to have the administrators examine the user's work regarding c:Commons:Country specific consent requirements#Canada. Many pictures illustrating people show signs of having being taken surreptitiously, or were notably taken that way, while under Quebec law, a photographer can take photographs in public places but may not publish the picture unless permission has been obtained from the subject. Other examples of candid photos include File:Rachel Therrien au Bourgie.jpg, File:Marie-Lyne Joncas dehors les studios Bell Média radio Montréal.jpg, File:Jocelyne Robert (Salon du livre Montréal 2015).jpg, File:Suzie LeBlanc chez la salle Bourgie de la MBAM.jpg, File:Jean-Michel Anctil chez le Monte Carlo à Charlemagne.jpg, File:Isabelle Cyr chez la cabaret Lion D'Or.jpg, File:François Maranda dehors les studios de CIME-FM.JPG, File:Viviane Audet au La Sala Rossa.jpg, File:Yolande Cohen.jpg, File:Véronique Béliveau au SLM 2019.jpg, File:Solon McDade au café Résonance.jpg, File:Gilles Laporte au centre culturel Notre-Dame-de-Grâce -- 2.jpg, File:Monic Néron au Chez Roger.png, File:Patrick Lagacé au Chez Roger.png, File:Élise Guilbault au bar Chez Roger.png, File:Sophie Deraspe et Nahéma Ricci au LSEEJ.png and many, many more ― I picked these while browsing through user's upload at random dates. While these seem to be problematic on many levels regarding COM:SCOPE (especially regarding COM:EDUSE vs image quality), they strike me as lacking explicit consent. Candid photography of people seem to have taken roots in the users' modus operandi. Some subbjects or their representatives have explicitly asked for removal due to lack of consent on their behalf : Commons:Deletion requests/File:Christian Chamorel dehors la chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur.jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Samuel Archibald (SDLM '16).jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Cynthia Girard-Renard au Stewart Hall.jpg, Commons:Deletion requests/File:Flore laurentienne au festival Santa Teresa 2021.png and, once again, many, many more.

Considering the systematic nature of the problem. I think the situation is beyond recovery and that a simple warning would have little to no effect. Webfil (talk) 16:57, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

I think a block is in order. 108.58.166.134 13:19, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

These people are individuals of public interest, photographed during public presentations/appearances, and permission is not required to publish photos of persons of public interest taken in public places, even in Québec.

However, it is true that a lot of these photos are of poor quality. D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 07:45, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@D. Benjamin Miller: The subject user has been known to license for commercial use and misidentify illegally posted photos of regular people as being of persons of public interest. See also this advice from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa. 108.58.166.134 13:20, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

1. Licensing for commercial use (in the sense of a copyright license like CC BY-SA) is not what is restricted by the law. It is the use of a person's likeness for certain commercial purposes which is restricted. That's a matter of personality rights; the copyright in the image belongs to the photographer alone. That's what we have the personality rights template for.
2. If the people are misidentified, that's a different issue. I'm only talking about when the people depicted really are who they're supposed to be.

D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 18:54, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@D. Benjamin Miller. I doubt taking pictures of a person driving their own car, dining at a restaurant or obviously trying to escape the photography/photographer (1, 2) is what the Supreme court justices had in mind in the Aubry case, when talking about the public interest. The decision defines the questions that must be asked in order to determine if the public interest prevails over the right to image :

• Is the subject of the picture engaged in a public activity? e.g. an artistic event, politics, a matter within the public domain such as an important trial, a major economic activity having an impact on the use of public funds or an activity involving public safety;
• If not, does the individual’s own action, albeit unwitting, accidentally places him or her in the photograph in an incidental manner? e.g. in a crowd at a sporting event or a demonstration.
• If not, is the individual an anonymous element of the scenery, even if it is technically possible to identify individuals in the photograph? The observer’s attention would then normally be directed elsewhere than towards the individual.

These four pictures no doubt escape the exceptions to the right of privacy as ruled by the Supreme court : in these, the subjects engage in private activities, they remain the main subjects of the photographs, they are not anonymous elements of a "bigger picture". Webfil (talk) 16:15, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

You could request deletion of these pictures. I would at least support deletion of poor quality pictures when not used. Yann (talk) 17:35, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

FWIW, File:Jean-Michel Anctil chez le Monte Carlo à Charlemagne.jpg doesn't looks like dining at a restaurant; it looks like some sort of banquet event, because pretty much everyone seems to be looking the same direction. And the latter two don't look like trying to escape the photographer, they look like rapid snaps of someone walking past. - Jmabel ! talk 20:48, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Kumarguptanikhil

Kumarguptanikhil (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions) Upload advertising files with phone number. メイド理世 (talk) 07:43, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Indef. Multiple warnings, spam only. Yann (talk) 09:01, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

user:70.68.168.129

This IP, which has already been blocked multiple times, is engaging in behavior that can only be described as showing a complete lack of competence, specifically:

Nonsensically claiming to be an admin (this is almost certainly not true because they seem to have absolutely no idea how Commons works):

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump/Proposals&diff=prev&oldid=852843553
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump/Proposals&diff=prev&oldid=852825201
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump/Proposals&diff=prev&oldid=852559416

Baffling vote argument that patently makes no sense in context:

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Deletion_requests/Template:LGBT_symbol&diff=prev&oldid=852572263

I think they should probably be indeffed for obvious reasons. Dronebogus (talk) 08:46, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Yeah, right. Blocked for a year. Claiming to be an admin which is obviously not the case... Yann (talk) 08:57, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Technical Wishes

I have been active on Wikipedia Commons for several years. My activity mainly revolves around Category:Noble families of Poland and concerns taking care of the aesthetics of this category, appropriately placing files in subcategories, etc. Before I started dealing with this category, many names were written in a random form, so for aesthetic reasons I chose the form "XYZ family" in the category naming (example: Category:Ankwicz family).

After some time, I realized that it was my mistake and I shouldn't have named these categories that way. People notoriously confuse families of noble descent with regular families with the same surname and mix up files related to two types of families with the same surname.

Since changing these categories manually will take me a lot of time, I am writing here to ask someone to use a bot to change the names of these articles from the form "XYZ family" to the form "House of XYZ" (example: Category:Ankwicz family reduced to Category:House of Ankwicz).

Category:Noble families of Russia has been using the "House of XYZ" provisions for a long time and in my opinion this is the best possible option to achieve order and aesthetics.

Thank you for understanding and for help. Heroldicas (talk) 12:43, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

• @Heroldicas: I'm trying to make sure I understand, because we don't have "articles" on Commons. You mean moving the content of the categories on Commons, right?
• You can request category moves, typically with a CfD; in this case, where the issues are all parallel, you can request any number of theme with one CfD. Please don't just create the new category and get rid of the old one; it makes the history hard to follow, and it can also make the next step much trickier.
• Once the category is moved, it is nearly trivial to move its contents with Cat-a-lot or VFC. - Jmabel ! talk 00:04, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

  Exactly this is what I meant, I'm talking about moving the categories and its content. Is there any place on Wiki Commons where I can apply to work with some bot on this subject? Heroldicas (talk) 10:49, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

  • @Heroldicas: If you'd like to do this in an automated way, you can put your requests at User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands; eventually an admin will move them to the queue at User:CommonsDelinker/commands and a bot will do the moves. - Jmabel ! talk 17:59, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

own work

non of these files are own works of the uploader. all taken from google Images or social media such as twitter, Instagram. please delete all.Luckie Luke (talk) 17:19, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Use {{Speedydelete}} with the X/Twitter, Google images, Instagram URL/link to the violating works. Bidgee (talk) 19:30, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Last warning sent, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 20:23, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Kynnap

Despite repeated requests, slowly escalating toward statements of exasperation, from User:Billinghurst and myself, User:Kynnap continues to upload images of relatively obscure Estonians and then leave it to others to do the categorization. His typical modus operandi is to create a category with no parents, which then shows up in Special:UncategorizedCategories, which leaves people like Billinghurst and myself to try to make sense of Estonian-language sources to work out who these people are and try to fill in parent categories. For the record: I'm good with languages, and Google Translate is often useful, but obviously it is tremendously more effort for me to work out who these people are than it would for the Estonian person who is photographing them, and presumably (1) already knows more or less who they are and (2) reads Estonian. It is absurd that the person who can easily do this task is leaving it for others for whom it is far more difficult. But, basically, we are left with a choice of cleaning up after Kynnap or leaving around a bunch of parentless categories, which get in the way of finding and fixing the ones that are created by inexperienced users who legitimately don't know better. - Jmabel ! talk 05:23, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: I agree, but I asked them to {{Please link images}} anyway.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 06:25, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

From what I can tell, though, that is rarely the problem. The problem is the user adding nonexistent categories, then creating what is basically the illusion that those categories exist by creating an absolutely empty (blank) category page, with no parent categories. The result is that Special:UncategorizedCategories is the only place where this rings any alarm bells. - Jmabel ! talk 18:12, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

 Comment I will also add that many of these people are not notable, and that there is little likelihood that the images will ever be used, so one has to challenge their addition to WikiCommons as their being educative. We are not a personal photo archive, there are many sites that can do that. There has been additional commentary added by some users reflecting the categories are for people who should not have Wikidata items as outside their scope. I am not seeing the value in >> 3 quarters of the uploads.  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:56, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

 Comment The problem arose over category:Anu Saagim (en:Anu Saagim). She is notable in Estonia, just like Kim Kardashian in USA, being famous for ... being famous. I categorized the category. Generally please do not delete uploads of Kynnap, at least without regular deletion request. His photos, even if they depict non-notable persons, are often made in 20th century and have historical value. I'll write him in his talkpage. Taivo (talk) 11:57, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

@Taivo: would you be willing to take on adding parent categories to the many blank categories he creates? - Jmabel ! talk 20:51, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

I went through his 250 last edits and categorized all his categories. Taivo (talk) 19:38, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

@Taivo: So I take it Category:Alari Volf must be farther back than that. Also Category:Margus Lindmets. Also Category:Teet Veskus, Category:Toomas Kaasik, Category:Urve Kaaristu. (All of these are from Special:UncategorizedCategories, were obviously Estonian names and, unsurprisingly, are Kynnap's.) - Jmabel ! talk 21:08, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

OK, I'll do the rest ... During couple of next days. Taivo (talk) 09:56, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Forn Sior

Hello. For information I tagged all upload from this user as copyright violation. All pics are from the site https://fornsior.com/ which is uner copyright since 2019. Supertoff (talk) 08:05, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Last warning for copyvios, SCOPE and abuse of COM:WEBHOST. All files deleted. These were probably out of scope, just for promoting their own book. Yann (talk) 20:18, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Creampussy

@Achim55: Please ban, too? Based on edit history (100% of it) and maybe inappropriate username. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 14:21, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done: Blocked indef. Might be a sock of Headlkamp30 (talk · contribs · logs · block log). --Achim55 (talk) 17:33, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Βολταίρος Χέμσγουόρθ

Βολταίρος Χέμσγουόρθ (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions) New batch of blatant copyvios after warnings and deletions. Quick1984 (talk) 18:49, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week, long overdue. All files deleted. Yann (talk) 20:14, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

User:IllyStar and User:Eron Lushaj

• IllyStar (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Eron Lushaj (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

These two users are confirmed sockpuppets of one another - they're both blocked on enwiki for related activity. More concerningly to us, they have a pattern of uploading misattributed or entirely falsified content on topics involving the military of Kosovo; for instance:

• Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by IllyStar and Commons:Deletion requests/File:Kosovo Interceptor FORD Police Car.jpg involved poorly edited photos of alleged military equipment
• The company "Militrex Kosova Defense", referenced in files uploaded by both accounts (e.g. File:Motori i Militrex Kosova Defense SS2 (GEN 1).pdf, File:Establishment of Militrex Kosova Defense industry.jpg, etc) appears to be fantasy content; I can't find any sources describing it which don't lead directly back to these users.
• Many of these images refer to an alleged "Kosovo Air Force", and/or were uploaded while editing an article about it. Investigations on enwiki found that no such force exists.

I don't know enough about the military of Kosovo to fact-check all the uploads by these users, but something really fishy seems to be going on here. Can someone take a closer look? Omphalographer (talk) 10:14, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

It is understandable for you not to know much about the force as already many other admins of Wiki don’t. But it is not right to delete and remove anything that has to do with “Kosovo Air Force” without proving right or wrong, there are so many links of social medias that I can not use as a reference in Wikipedia unfortunately. About “Militrex Kosova Defense” of course you will not found info about this new company, that’s exacly why Wiki is being used to share the info for this company. Hope for understanding, Best regards! 185.179.31.72 10:26, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Both blocked, long overdue for massive copyvios, etc. Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by IllyStar and Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Eron Lushaj. Yann (talk) 11:20, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Yann: Thanks for that, and for blocking the IP.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:36, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

User: Sangeethkumar07

Sangeethkumar07 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user repeatedly uploading deleted images. AntanO 12:38, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

I am uploading the images that are my own work there is no copyright issues for my work.I Will ready to submit the raw working files. I can't understand what's the reason for this deletion can I know about that.explain that Sangeethkumar07 (talk) 12:46, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

We need to verify that you are the photographer or have permission from him Trade (talk) 19:25, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

what is the format for getting permission Sangeethkumar07 (talk) 04:28, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

If you are indeed the photographer, you should follow up with the process on COM:VRT. It will probably take some emails back-and-forth but, yes, if you can send them an example of a raw working file for a couple of these photos, that will probably satisfy them that you are who you say you are. - Jmabel ! talk 05:09, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Edit-warring to remove Cumbria from geographical categorization?

Fifty years ago, the English counties of Cumberland and Westmorland were merged to form Cumbria. Accordingly we now have a large category tree for Category:Cumbria, including topics like Category:Churches in Cumbria. Ambleside is an important town in Cumbria, so we have categories and children for it such as Category:Ambleside, Cumbria, Category:Buildings in Ambleside, Cumbria, Category:Houses in Ambleside, Cumbria, Category:Churches in Ambleside.

Commons uses categorization into Category:Westmorland as well. Some of this is historic, some is less clear. I've largely been against this, as many of them have been anachronistic. For some long-term examples, such as Category:Houses in Ambleside, Cumbria, there's obvious overlap. I wouldn't add this, but nor would I remove it.

@HwætGrimmalkin: is now removing the '<> in Cumbria' parent cats from children though. They did this in November, I raised this with them but got nowhere: User_talk:HwætGrimmalkin#Cumbria. Today though they're now 3RR edit-warring to remove Category:Churches in Ambleside from Category:Churches in Cumbria:

• "removed Category:Churches in Cumbria"
• "Please don't add parent categories. Additionally, at present, Cumberland is both a historic county AND a district of Cumbria."
• "Stop adding redundant parent categories."

Removing Category:Churches in Cumbria in favour of Category:Churches in Westmorland is just wrong on many counts (as above, I wouldn't object to having both). Westmorland hasn't existed for 50 years, Cumbria does. Cumbria is the relevant county as a parent. It meets COMMONNAME, it's consistent with our other navigation and article structure, it is what our readers would expect to find, and where they would expect to find it.

Westmorland is wrong. The county has gone. There is now (since 2023) a unitary authority area of Westmorland and Furness which represents local government within the ceremonial county of Cumbria. British county structure is convoluted and confusing, as there are multiple overlaid divisions for different purposes. We have the civil parishes too, such as Category:Lakes (civil parish) (These are almost unknown by anyone outside local government, but it's how Geograph content gets imported to Commons, so they're a huge issue for those working on categorization of UK geography). But do not make a pejorative judgment that a 'ceremonial county' is something meaningless. HwætGrimmalkin seems to be regarding this as justification for replacing Cumbria with Westmorland. However there are several problems to that:

• This is not Westmorland. Category:Westmorland et al. refers to the pre-1974 county. They have not used Category:Westmorland and Furness.
• Westmorland and Furness is not a replacement for Cumbria. It is a local government structure, not the county that is what our readers are expecting, per COMMONNAME. We need to support Cumbria as a navigational path, it's part of our core function.
• There is no Category:Buildings within Westmorland and Furness structure. Commons has (rightly) used Cumbria for its structure instead.

Our nav bars are set up in terms of Cumbria, with Cumberland and Westmorland as historical counties. 'Westmorland and Furness' is not part of any such.

Ceremonial counties of England: Bedfordshire · Berkshire · Buckinghamshire · Cambridgeshire · Cheshire · Cornwall · Cumbria · Derbyshire · Devon · Dorset · Durham · East Riding of Yorkshire · East Sussex · Essex · Gloucestershire · Greater London · Greater Manchester · Hampshire · Herefordshire · Hertfordshire · Isle of Wight · Kent · Lancashire · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Merseyside · Norfolk · North Yorkshire · Northamptonshire · Northumberland · Nottinghamshire · Oxfordshire · Rutland · Shropshire · Somerset · South Yorkshire · Staffordshire · Suffolk · Surrey · Tyne and Wear · Warwickshire · West Midlands · West Sussex · West Yorkshire · Wiltshire · Worcestershire
City-counties: Bristol · City of London

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Former historic counties: Cumberland · Huntingdonshire · Middlesex · Sussex · Westmorland · Yorkshire
Other former counties:

There should have been discussion of this, probably within a bigger group (although subject project teams have largely disappeared from WMF projects as editor numbers dwindle) and there's no obvious platform for that. But when their only talk: comment was "[Westmorland is] a historical county (from that angle, it never ceased to exist)." (this is just plain wrong), it's hard to get much further. And now they've just switched to edit-warring anyway. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:13, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

It is evident that a factual correction is required here: I never removed "Cumbria" from the items (or started "edit-warring" — nothing rude or protracted has come from my end thus far). For the nth time: the subcategories I was adding to and removing the parent category from were immediately under the Cumbria one — because both are districts of Cumbria. Allow me to repeat for the nth time (since Andy Dingley evidently has yet to understand what I am saying) — shifting a category or file to an immediate subcategory is not "deleting" or "removing". Insisting or keeping the parent categories causes over-crowding — refusing to allow the application of subcategories to a category as large as "Churches in Cumbria" causes exactly that over-crowding.

I'm not sure why they have only mentioned asides in their comments — it appears that over half of what I said somehow got cut off, given how they have been quoting me. However, even were that not the case, our exchanges (if you can even call them that) have been exceedingly brief. For the first "exchange," when I objected to their initial objection, I never got any response, until today, that is. That second "conversation" hadn't even gone that far when they "reported" me. Regardless of whether I've been right about which categories should be used for what, please recognize that no misconduct has occurred on my end. HwætGrimmalkin (talk) 15:48, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

User: Alone GTO $$$

Alone GTO $$$ (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Hello, The user Alone GTO $$$ came back and uploaded copyrighted material after being blocked. Could you please advise? CoffeeEngineer (talk) 20:03, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a month, all files deleted. @CoffeeEngineer: Your DR was badly formatted. Please check how to create DRs. Yann (talk) 20:22, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

It seemed strange to me that the template did not upload this time. I will pay more attention next time. CoffeeEngineer (talk) 20:27, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Ocantoral1996

Ocantoral1996 (talk • contribs • block log • filter log) has continued to upload non-free images after the warning. --Ovruni (talk) 20:36, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 22:42, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Marcelo Rodrigues da Silva Estêvão

Marcelo Rodrigues da Silva Estêvão (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions) has a long history of copyvio. On Feb. 6, 2024, he was given a final warning. Today, they uploaded an image taken from Instagram. Kacamata! ^Dimmi!!! 20:47, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week, files deleted. Yann (talk) 22:38, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

J.Sekiya

• J.Sekiya (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Uploads photos of the same person Soman Chainani at a premiere, but they belong to photo agencies. Also, most of the uploads were deleted per DR discussions. Despite being notified about DR nominations, uploader continues to upload more of such images, including ones that I've nominated just now. George Ho (talk) 20:19, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Last warning sent, all files deleted. Only 4 uploads, so that should be sufficient for now. Yann (talk) 20:22, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Sriro

• Sriro (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

This user intentionally uploads a large number of duplicate images today.--Krorokeroro (talk) 09:30, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

For example, if you look at this file, you can see that the user intentionally uploaded existing images on Commons. Please look at File usage on Commons of this file. This user intentionally uploads a large number of duplicate images. As I noted again on the talk page, User:Sriro does not stop uploading.--Krorokeroro (talk) 09:49, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Something weird is going on. Most of the images are duplicates of pictures user:RitikaPahwa4444 uploaded in 2023. I've deleted the duplicates. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 10:31, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt response and for removing the large number of images.--Krorokeroro (talk) 10:49, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Krorokeroro for flagging and @The Squirrel Conspiracy for checking and deleting the duplicates! We're investigating this, I raised an issue on the Commons app GitHub repository. RitikaPahwa4444 (talk) 06:43, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Apologies, Sriro and Ritika are developing a Wikimedia Commons tool with me and there was a hiccup. Thanks for deleting the duplicates! I am talking with Sriro so that duplication does not happen again. Syced (talk) 11:49, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

@Syced, Sriro, and Steinsplitter: Not sure if these incidents are related, but SteinsplitterBot was also having issues yesterday, including with File:Fukushō-ji 10.jpg, one of Sriro's uploads. See Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/Blocks_and_protections#SteinsplitterBot. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 02:29, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up! Sriro's duplicate were not caused by a bot, just a human error. So SteinsplitterBot is not to blame here. :-) Syced (talk) 09:40, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Saidibn

• Saidibn (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user uploads fake nudes of female authors and actors. GeorgR (de) (talk) 23:17, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Indef for cross-wiki vandalism (Wikidata). Files deleted. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:15, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

User:AKGman

• AKGman (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

AKGman does not stop uploading copyright violation even after being warned on the talk page.--Krorokeroro (talk) 19:35, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done. One week block, uploads are deleted. Taivo (talk) 09:45, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Yousifali777

Yousifali777 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Uploads copyvio material. Pierre cb (talk) 13:53, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

 Not done You already warned this user, and everything is already deleted. Unfortunately, they were not informed of the copyright violations, so I did it now. Yann (talk) 15:33, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

User:RichelieuGVG

RichelieuGVG (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user special:diff/856135033 legal threat. --Well-Informed Optimist (talk) 18:33, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

в загруженных мною материалах стояла отметка о том, что авторские права ПОЛНОСТЬЮ принадлежат мне, и каждое изображение является моей собственной работой. поскольку вы не написали мне на почту, я заходить на сайт и проверять ваши закорючки я не обязан, вывод: ошибка полностью на вашей стороне, вы ОБЯЗАНЫ восстановить все то, что вы испортили. в противном случае я подаю жалобу на халатное исполнение ваших обязанностей как админа форума с требованием вашего разжалования. RichelieuGVG (talk) 18:44, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Ваша работа является производной и поэтому права не могут принадлежать полностью. —Well-Informed Optimist (talk) 19:02, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

прежде надо думать головой и связываться с правообладателем напрямую, а только потом стучать по кнопкам "бан" и "удалить". немедленно приступайте к исправлению своих же ошибок! RichelieuGVG (talk) 18:45, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Правообладателем является Центральный банк Ирана. —Well-Informed Optimist (talk) 19:01, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

центральный банк ирана НЕ может быть правообладателем тех изображений, которые сняты мною лично. RichelieuGVG (talk) 19:32, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

либо потрудитесь предоставить оригиналы загруженных мною изображений с не меньшим разрешением, с каким загружал я. (примечательный факт, что разрешение моих фотографий выше, чем у тех, которые загрузил цб ирана) RichelieuGVG (talk) 19:33, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

благодарю всех причастных, кто помог восторжествовать справедливости и восстановил мои файлы! RichelieuGVG (talk) 19:55, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Ну я восстановил файлы, только Вам от этого легче не станет. Я вынес файлы на обсуждаемое удаление и теперь с Вами будет разбираться другой администратор. —Well-Informed Optimist (talk) 20:02, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

@Well-Informed Optimist: at least based on Google Translate, I don't see a legal threat here. The statement of intent to demand someone's removal as an admin may be silly, especially given that there is no way that photographs of currency wouldn't constitute derivative work, but threatening a sanction internal to the project is not a "legal threat." Or am I missing something in translation? - Jmabel ! talk 21:16, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

I think the diff at the top is what‘s being referred to. I don’t trust Google to get the nuances right, but the gist of it seems to be Unless you can back it up, what you said is slanderous. So not an explicit threat, but probably verging into the “chilling” territory. In particular, how would any en-ru bilinguals here interpret “[…] ложной клеветы, является уголовно наказуемым”? (Do we have a local version of en:WP:NLT, or is that policy adopted here?)—Odysseus1479 (talk) 23:20, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Practically no Wikimedia projects allows legal threats, whether they have a project page about it or not Trade (talk) 23:36, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Sounds more like over-the-top bloviating than an actual legal threat. Not a very acceptable way to address another user, in any case. - Jmabel ! talk 00:44, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

@Trade: sure, and I believe the default practice here, where we don’t have our own P&G page, is to follow enWP’s. Use of legalistic language (libel, hate speech, stalking, criminal offence …) can be perceived as threatening, but that policy says nothing stronger than to refrain from doing so. OTOH explicit statements of intent (or even willingness) to contact authorities or to seek legal advice usually result in an immediate block there. As a multilingual project I think we need to be particularly careful about reading intentions from connotations of the words used, be they legalisms or profanities. Anyway, I was just curious as to whether we draw any ‘bright lines’ differently. (When it comes to permission-related notices, overreaction seems quite common; we say Please fix the documentation we need to accept your file and the recipient hears You stand accused of a heinous offence, so I think we should be—and usually are—tolerant of some venting. Less so, however, the more personal it gets.)—Odysseus1479 (talk) 01:58, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Alexandrajtoth

• Alexandrajtoth (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Uploading a flood of nonsensical files, mostly plain text PDFs consisting of content copy/pasted from web pages. Omphalographer (talk) 22:45, 26 February 2024 (UTC)