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C7pmc ‎[edit]

User:C7pmc has been removing deletion requests of files involving the user, removing deletion notices, and retaliating against me by trying to delete images I uploaded using frivolous reasons. DHN (talk) 00:02, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I warned the user. If (s)he continues, then (s)he must be blocked. Taivo (talk) 19:17, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Pictogram voting info.svg Info I've now blocked due to resumption of deletion notice removals.  JGHowes  talk 13:36, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

2019 Guatemalan[edit]

2019 Guatemalan uploaded many professional photographs, some of which have been found elsewhere on the Internet. I recommend a mass deletion and a warning. FunnyMath (talk) 03:36, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

@FunnyMath: I sent a warning.   — Jeff G. please ping or talk to me 03:47, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Please close these deletion requests for files uploaded by the user: 1, 2, 3

I did not file speedy deletion requests because they reverted a speedy deletion request for one of their images before without bothering to convert it into a regular deletion request. See [1]. They should be warned not to revert speedy deletion requests without converting them into regular deletion requests. FunnyMath (talk) 08:16, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

@FunnyMath: I sent a warning about that, too. Please read Help:Gadget-UserMessages.   — Jeff G. please ping or talk to me 09:53, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for that link. I'm new to Commons and still learning how things work here. I'll take a look at it. FunnyMath (talk) 09:55, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
You're welcome.   — Jeff G. please ping or talk to me 13:56, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

User:Tm[edit]

Tm still uploading images that are already existed on Commons. See the notice User talk:Tm#About upload image — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.217.189.107 (talk • contribs)

Meant probably File:Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIa ‘Z3055 - HA-E’ (50196737266).jpg and File:Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIa ‘Z3055 - HA-E’ (50196190043).jpg. --Achim (talk) 10:52, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Suggest that the OP raises a correctly formatted list of examples with Tm to review, rather than coming to AN before actually having that discussion. This may or may not be related to bugs with tools and the Commons API that have been discussed on this noticeboard before.
Note anyone, even an anon IP, is free to add {{Duplicate}} to duplicate files they identify. -- (talk) 15:39, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Yejin unnie[edit]

Uploaded another Getty image after final warning, no hope.--BevinKacon (talk) 15:29, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Tomski12[edit]

Tomski12 uploaded two more copyvios recently, after being given a last warning. I recommend a short block as a preventative measure. FunnyMath (talk) 23:25, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

 Not done Final warning is from 2014, most recent warning from 2017. @FunnyMath:, please remember to notify users when you tag their uploads for speedy deletion. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 00:07, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Done. I will do my best to notify users from now on. Thank you for the quick response. FunnyMath (talk) 00:10, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

MyPussay69[edit]

Inappropriate username. FunnyMath (talk) 21:30, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done blocked. -Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 08:53, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

User:A.Savin[edit]

Hello,

User:A.Savin emptied by moving the contents, then deleted at least 22 of my categories yesterday on "Spiral staircases" on the basis that they were empty. He did not leave redirects. This is not the first time he has done this to categories I have created. His basis, as posted at the Village Pump: "staircase means the room where the stairs are built in, and the room cannot be spiral". He was told by others that this definition is wrong. But he does not react to the comments of others.
I did post on his page regarding this definition given at the Village Pump by others and asking to discuss and he replied that I was wrong. Then he deleted my post as usual with the comment "useless as always".
He tried to get me blocked just recently when I reported him here on the advice of the help desk for similar behavior, reverting me almost daily and making it clear he is following me around to categories I have created like Category:Cross-bedded sandstone in Utah.
One of the help desk people whom I asked for advice said today they were "also afraid of A.Savin".

Category:Spiral staircases in the Czech Republic#Category:Spiral staircases in Scotland#Category:Spiral staircases in Portugal#Category:Spiral staircases in Ireland#Category:Spiral staircases in India#Category:Spiral staircases in Canada#Category:Spiral staircases in Spain #Category:Spiral staircases in Turkey #Category:Spiral staircases in Syria#Category:Spiral staircases in France#Category:Spiral staircases in Finland#Category:Spiral staircases in Austria#Category:Spiral staircases in Germany#Category:Spiral staircases in Ecuador#Category:Spiral staircases in Malasyia#Category:Spiral staircases in Sinapore#Category:Spiral staircases in Canada#Category:Spiral staircases in Hungary#Category:Spiral staircases in Poland#Category:Spiral staircases in Albania#Category:Spiral staircases in Slovenia#Category:Spiral staircases in the United States

He also moved and deleted without redirects Category:Spiral staircases in the Vatican City (as well as its subcats) (categories I did not create) to Category:Spiral stairs in the Vatican City also without redirects. He also did other things related to those categories that I can't follow. He also moved Categories:Spiral staircases in England and Spiral staircases in the United Kingdom the same way, and maybe others , none of which I created. I think at the very least someone here should restore these categories as I have nothing to do with creating them so he is punishing the wrong people there.
He also reverted me 19 times yesterday on minor but irritating issues e.g. he removed "Sports in Pakistan from Category:Fishing in Pakistan (fishing in Pakistan is also a sport as well as a commercial enterprise). The redirect from Category:Spiral staircases to Category:Spiral stairs was made 12 years ago by User:Jmabel [2] who could have been helpful at the Village Pump when I brought this up but was not. It is unreasonable not to have a category for "Spiral staircase" as it is an important architectural element. I asked at the Village Pump how consensus can be obtained besides the category discussions, as of all those that I have started and/or participated in none have ever been resolved and closed.
Because I have this problem with A.Savin I am disliked by Admins and cannot get help. Before he entered my life at the Commons this year I had no problems and have been immensely productive since 2016. Now all has changed. I do not know how to remedy this. I have no problems at all with non Admins,
How can this be handled? What should I do? Can I recreate those deleted categories? They are perfectly valid and other users added to them, including User:Auntof6. I received a post on my talk page from a user upset with the spiral staircase deletion for France. Can A.Savin be made to follow policy if others are afraid of him? Thank you, Krok6kola (talk) 01:18, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
This is the second time I've been mentioned in connection with this issue. I wouldn't attach any special significance to the fact that I used any of these categories, and I don't think it matters which user(s) used them. When I used them, I wasn't aware that they were contentious. --Auntof6 (talk) 02:39, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
@Auntof6: I apologize to you for mentioning you. I did not know the categories were contentious at the time I made them. It was just so wonderful to see people using the new categories immediately. I am sorry. Krok6kola (talk) 04:01, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
  • I see the same contentious personalities conflict. Either way, while it would normally seems quite inappropriate for anyone to be intentionally gutting categories and then using the emptiness of the categories as an excuse for its deletion (worse if it's an administrator), the Village Pump gave you an answer. The person who created it didn't think it made sense and it was that way for twelve years. If you want it changed, then propose a renaming of the category (or suggest a split). Going in another place and arguing about the same people again and again (especially with the "cabal of admins all hate me" routine) will not get you a lot of sympathy. You created something that everyone else considered resolved, an admin enforced the old policy, and it's back to that. If you want it changed, go argue your case but drop the personal attacks as it does not change the issue. The discussion is ongoing at Village Pump. Can we agree to resolve it there rather than having rounds of the same issues everywhere? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 02:55, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
  • @Ricky81682: This Admin has abused his powers and done this repeatedly to me, starting with three block warnings for vandalism within a couple of days this spring. In four years I had never received any warning before. Here it was established that my edits were not vandalism and as a result, A.Savin is not allowed to block me.
    Also, the discussion at the Village Pump you mentioned is going nowhere. I started a CFD on the issue as I was told to do, although I've never seen one ever resolve anything. Krok6kola (talk) 04:01, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
  • Well, given that Krok6kola is now mass-moving files back into all these "Spiral staircases" categories anyway, without even waiting for responses, this discussion is pointless anyway; of course apart from the special point in reporting me on every occasion. --A.Savin 03:06, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
  • @A.Savin: I have removed all the red links, per your objection. I undid all the work I did to satisfy you, although I see relinks all the time and they are often helpful. I will not touch any of this images or categories again without permission. I Had thought this was a collaborative project. Krok6kola (talk) 05:07, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
    • This is the third place essentially the same discussion is taking place. User:Krok6kola was (and perhaps is) doing this wrong, editing where there is a dispute without first waiting to form a consensus. In fact, I agree that Category:Spiral staircases is a better name, and would support that in a CFD (which is where this should have been sorted out in the first place) but this is a process problem, not a content problem, and in any case there is no justification for having two parallel synonymous categories, each with their own large collection of images and subcats. I've found User:A.Savin high-handed in the past, but his conduct here is fine. Krok6kola: if you do the wrong thing, you shouldn't be surprised it gets reverted. - Jmabel ! talk 04:16, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
    • I see that Krok6kola says above I was not helpful. It all gets a bit hard to follow as the discussion is now spread over multiple venues. If I advise someone that they are doing something the wrong way and that the should stop, and they do not heed that advice, it is technically true that they have not been helped by my advice, but I believe that most people here would have found that advice helpful. - Jmabel ! talk 04:35, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
  • Korok6kola, a disagreement with you doesn't make it wrong, just a disagreement. If you cannot respect the idea that other people may have legitimate disagreement that aren't a personal attack on you, you will (and have) found yourself very frustrated here. And I don't see how it's an abuse of admin powers but you seem set on arguing yourself into getting blocked here so I can't help you there. Again, a fundamental rule here is assume good faith but better yet, you should just assume assume everyone else is an idiot and provide a better explanation than "admins hate me." I wish you luck. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 18:46, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
  • @Ricky81682: This is not about a disagreement. This is about continual harassment from User:A.Savin This only seems like a disagreement. And I have readily complied with all advice once I realized that I had created a problem. Please understand my history with A.Savin. This is the only time he has had a valid point in all the times he has complained about me.
  • After over 400,000 edits and having never received and warnings at all from Admins, I receive three warnings from A.Savin within three days in May 2020.
  • He then reported me here Admins said my behavior clearly was not vandalism. They said A.Savin could not block as he was personally involved with me.
    Since then he has harassed and followed me around reverting my edits in such places as Wisconsin, Utah, Alaska, wrongly deleting categories in Pakistan I created etc. So almost daily I get red alerts that he has reverted something minor. No other editor does that to me.
    He deletes all my attempts to reason with him on his page and does not communicate with me on mine.
    In this one time he was right about the staircase categories; but he could have explained to me why he was right before letting me continue. There are so many confusing and overlapping categories in "by country" and categories with "stairs" "staircases" etc. that in seeking to clean up the overpopulated Category:Staircases it was not obvious to be that I was committing a blunder. So all my hard work was deleted. And when I put redlinks in the hope that in the future this would be helpful, entailing more hard work, A.Savin complained about those so I removed them.
    I am unable to get help anywhere on the Commons regarding this problem with A.Savin which has removed my joy here; it has harmed me and I can no longer do good work here. I am too rattled and scared. I am no longer trusting and I cannot think clearly here. How would you handle this problem with A.Savin?
    I would truly appreciate any advice, not on this issue but on the harassment by A.Savin in general. The underlying reason I posted here is being ignored. Krok6kola (talk) 19:29, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
  • It is hard to believe every edit of yours is correct when there is no support for it. The number of prior edits to this conflict is irrelevant. Either way, this has been resolved and I find your antics annoying. After threatening to block you, A.Savin was actually blocked which found excessive so an unblocking following. Drop the damn stick and move on. No one cares about someone threatening to block you months ago when they were then blocked and everyone found that excessive. If you keep this up (and you should be blocked just to get you to move on), then feel free to complain yet again but you have already lost my sympathy here. You are being insanely and annoyingly sensitive about a warning which looks more and more legitimate the more I see you whining and complaining. I suggest you instead learn to communicate and have real discussions with other people before wildly creating categories that many, many other find not just wrong but actively disruptive. If someone notifying you that you are being disruptive enough to be worthy of a block (while actually doing nothing) results in you continually making page-long screeds about admin abuse months later and acting like it's the true end of the world if you got banned for something you don't consider disruptive, then you don't have the emotional competence to be here and should find something else to do with your time. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:44, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
  • @Ricky81682: I sadly have to agree with your assessment concerning Krok6kola. However I cannot share your view about A.Savin’s block, that «everyone found that excessive» — maybe everyone who expressed their opinion did, but many did not express their opinion. -- Tuválkin 12:35, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
  • @Tuvalkin: I just said it was found that excessive not that everyone found it that way. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:19, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

LTA[edit]

DJ Parisa has come back as User:AmireeParis. --E4024 (talk) 01:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 04:02, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

User:Fady Nabil Ibrahim[edit]

User:Fady Nabil Ibrahim is obsessed with a copvio image which he uploads again and again after being deleted each time. --E4024 (talk) 18:15, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Iamveryshy22[edit]

Iamveryshy22 uploaded more copyvios recently after being blocked three times. Their third block was removed on April 26, 2020, after promising to not upload more copyvios. FunnyMath (talk) 06:15, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef. Thanks @FunnyMath: for catching this Gbawden (talk) 06:48, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Attack account[edit]

Attack account with uploads.--BevinKacon (talk) 13:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked indef Gbawden (talk) 14:33, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. I deleted speedily one photoshopped collage ("Me shaking hands with Putin") and nominated the rest uploads for deletion. Taivo (talk) 08:17, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Shuraahamsaha[edit]

Company spam account.--BevinKacon (talk) 13:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Australian spam[edit]

Company spam account uploading copyvios.--BevinKacon (talk) 13:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Fran micheli[edit]

Continues uploading copyvios after being given final warning on Sep 1, 2020. FunnyMath (talk) 05:06, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 2 weeks and nuked Gbawden (talk) 06:40, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Jessluu0403[edit]

Uploaded a copyvio on Aug 31, 2020 [3] after being given a final warning on Aug 30. [4] FunnyMath (talk) 05:24, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done Blocked for 3 days as a deterrent Gbawden (talk) 06:42, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Thireach09[edit]

Continues uploading copyvios after final warning on Sep 1, 2020. FunnyMath (talk) 17:46, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

  • ✓ Done Blocked 2 weeks as they're already indef'd for copyvio on enwiki. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 19:02, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Avishka996[edit]

Continues uploading copyvios after being blocked twice. Latest block was May 21, 2020. FunnyMath (talk) 20:38, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Itsmeant[edit]

Uploaded copyvios after final warning on Aug 13, 2020. FunnyMath (talk) 02:21, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

* Please explain why it violates copyright? Itsmeant (talk) 02:44, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
The explanation is given in the copyvio notices on your talk page and the copyvio notices on the file pages of the images. FunnyMath (talk) 02:48, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
By the way, next time please do not revert speedy deletion requests without converting them into regular deletion requests. Thank you. FunnyMath (talk) 02:50, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Please help me understand - How could I violent copyright if this is my own work? Itsmeant (talk) 02:56, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
They are derivative works of a nonfree design. Thus for them to be free, you need to have permission from the copyright holder of the original design. This guideline, especially the section "What is a derivative work?" explains a bit more. FunnyMath (talk) 03:00, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Well, not sure what you mean by non free work, so if I use following combination ❤️👊✌️ of the emoji smiles will you consider that as "derivative works of a nonfree design". Do you know who is the owner of them? Your request is ridiculous to me! Do they have rights for that as well? Itsmeant (talk) 03:12, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
That emoji combination would not be sufficiently similar to the nonfree design to be nonfree. Assuming the emojis that are displayed are freely licensed, I would consider that combination to be free. For an extreme example, if I were to represent Mickey Mouse, a nonfree character, with three black circles, that would be free (and more specifically, in the public domain, as it would fall below the threshold of originality).
By the way, I apologize for not fully explaining this to you beforehand. I did not mean to seem hostile to you. You are welcome to continue uploading files as long as you keep in mind about these copyright concepts. You can go to the Village pump copyright section if you have any questions about copyright. FunnyMath (talk) 03:27, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you guys for explanation as I was not really aware of it, I made a remake, please let me know if the newer version of it can be used? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Razam_vybary_2020.jpg Itsmeant (talk) 04:20, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
I think I would be OK with the new version. It looks different enough from the original. Good work! FunnyMath (talk) 05:00, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 Not done They believed in good faith that what they uploaded was their own work, and no one bothered to explain to them what a derivative work is. -- King of ♥ 03:01, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing this up! Itsmeant (talk) 04:24, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Repeatedly requesting previously declined file renames[edit]

User:Euro2024 is repeatedly requesting renaming of files with insufficient justification and which have already been repeatedly declined. He has previously been warned about this but it doesn't seem like this has changed his behavior TommyG (talk) 08:11, 3 September 2020 (UTC).

✓ Done. I blocked Euro for a week. Taivo (talk) 08:32, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

User:Pbdragonwang[edit]

I found this statement on Pbdragonwang's talkpage: “基於過去發生的種種不愉快,本人拒絕再與User:Kai3952互動.“ I think that this is indicative of his attitude: Refused to cooperate with User:Kai3952. Per en:WP:CIR and the obvious fact that this is a problem with his attitude used when socializing and cooperating with other users.

The last time I've tried to communicate with Pbdragonwang, but he is insistent that he is correct and and repeatedly emphasized “Some of these places such as Kinmen and Matsu should be belong to the Republic of China instead of Taiwan.“ In this case, I suggested he take it to the "Categories for discussion/2019/09/Category:Taiwan" page in order to get the consensus we need. However, he continually disregards my suggestion and continues to accuse me of wasting his time. I really felt his comments reflected more of his personal political views rather than being an insight into problems with working on categorizing the Taiwan categories. I have been quite patient with him and tried to give him explanations how Commons works, as well as there are still many major lingering issues that have not been clarified by the Commons community. That said,I rejected his request to placed them (Kinmen and Matsu) both under the Republic of China categories. Unfortunately, instead of the desired result, this simply led to increasing his hostility towards me and nagging me on my talk page.

I warned him about en:WP:CIR on his talk page, but instead of helping me and resolving this issue he continued to argue with me and prolong the situation. Now he is doing it again. Just look at 14:16, 4 September 2020. Honestly, I felt his behavior was harassment because he could not stop himself from nagging me even after warning -- I don't intend to waste my time on this, and eventually I was forced to do that (his request) by myself.--Kai3952 (talk) 15:14, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Because my English ability is limited, some sentences may be rather blunt.(I use google to translating) I never force Kai3952 to do anything . This is a false accusation. He thought I was putting pressure on him, but I don't. He keeps misinterpreting my words, so I had to refuse to interact with him. --祥龍 (talk) 15:32, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
Please stop and do not ping me again. You are boring, and not worth my time or energy.--Kai3952 (talk) 15:38, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
There seems to be a consensus on this point. I also have the same opinion. I won't try to explain my words again on your page. That doesn't work at all.--祥龍 (talk) 16:14, 4 September 2020 (UTC)