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User:Finoskov

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User:Finoskov made the same errors since years. I tried to discuss with him in the past. Look at User talk:Finoskov#Category:Bugatti Type 28 and Category:Bugatti type 28 torpédo 1921 (Cité de l'Automobile), User talk:Finoskov# Second problem, User talk:Finoskov# Third problem, User talk:Finoskov#category-changes, User talk:Finoskov#D'Ieteren. No success.

One part is his matter with creating new categories, moving files from existing categories in his new categories and speedy deletion requests to the old=empty categories. Instead of moving categories. Losing category history, sometimes category talk pages, and often creating failures in articles in German and other wikipedias with links to commons.

Categories like Category:1920s Bugatti automobiles in the Musée National de l'Automobile. All files in the category must match the category name. Pictures showing older or younger Bugatti automobiles are not allowed. Pictures showing something else than Bugatti automobiles are not allowed. Pictures made elsewhere than in this museum are not allowed. But we find Category:Bugatti Prototype 28 torpedo (M.N.A.0310) 1921 (chassis 5001) with Category:Paris - Retromobile 2012 - Bugatti type 28 Torpedo made at an old car show in Paris. Wrong! Also we find Category:Bugatti Type 43 Graber roadster (M.N.A.0616) 1928 (chassis 43-258) with Category:Bugatti Type 43 Grand Sport 1928 (chassis 43-258), inclusive pictures made in Sweden in den 1930s, long before the opening of the museum.

Other example: Category:1921 automobiles in museums. We find Category:Ballot 3/8 LC biplace de course (Musée National de l'Automobile) with pictures made at Retromobile in Paris.

Category:Roadsters made in France was wrong in the past before I used Category talk:Roadsters made in France. No answer by Finoskov, only by another author.

Category:Voisin cabriolets (French language) with two subcategories. Category:Voisin C15 Charnico "Petit Duc" cabriolet 1928 (chassis 27 086) has at least one picture made in Netherlands: File:Avions-Voisin C15.jpg. Category:Voisin C30 Louis Dubos cabriolet 1938 (chassis 60 007) has only one picture, apparently made in Mullin Museum in USA: File:Avions Voisin C 30 Louis Dubos cabriolet 1938.jpg

The newest error and the reason for this message. Category:Panhard & Levassor Type X29 Sport 20 torpedo (M.N.A.2213) 1920-30 (chassis 8 156) has one picture: File:Panhard & Levassor X29 Torpedo 1925 (6853815687).jpg, made at Bremen Motor Show in Bremen, Germany. Last weekend I removed the two wrong categories claiming that this car was not photographed in a museum. I used Category talk:Panhard & Levassor Type X29 Sport 20 torpedo (M.N.A.2213) 1920-30 (chassis 8 156) with explanation and Ping to Finoskov. No answer. Today he made a revert without further details. --Buch-t (talk) 13:21, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I warned Finoskov several times years ago. One could consider removing ns Category access for, say, a month, hoping that they will change their behavior then. --Achim55 (talk) 07:11, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I do not understand ns in One could consider removing ns Category access for, say, a month....
I created the German articles to every Panhard & Levassor model in the past. For this reason I have a lot of this files and categories in my watch list. 2 two weeks I checked some edits made by Finoskov. I changed only some small things. I created some category talks, all with Ping to Finoskov. I hoped for comments. I received nothing. If he is not willing to discuss then he should avoid controversial things.
  1. Category talk:Panhard & Levassor Type A2 tonneau fermé (M.N.A.2220) 1899 (chassis 474) wrong datas in the source. Dimensions normalisées L (longueur/length) = 292 ; la (largeur/width) = 280 ; h (hauteur/height) = 225. This car cannot be 280 cm width. Through Wikidata the wrong width came to Commons. I hoped for an answer like this: „Yes, it must be wrong, I deleted the width everywhere inclusive Wikidata.“ But nothing happened. If I change the width at wikidata then I expect a revert because the source wrote 280 cm width.
  2. Category talk:Panhard & Levassor automobiles The sorting order is not clear. I had created my favorite beginning with T as Type in the past. Now he changed some, but not all, to sorting without Type. I started discussion. After that he changed more, but not all, to his favorite.
  3. Category talk:Panhard & Levassor 6 CV Charrette Anglaise 1897. This car made in 1897 cannot be a Type A1/A2 which was introduced 1899. I am excited to see if I will be reverted here too.
  4. Category talk:Panhard & Levassor X49 two-seater 20 CV Sport (M.N.A.6009) 1932 I wanted sources for this category. This Type 49 was not built 1932. Something is wrong.
  5. Category talk:Panhard & Levassor automobiles by chassis number Here I wanted a description for his sorting order. And noted that his system (when I understand his system) is limited to chassis numbers up to 99999. But there are lot of cars of Panhard & Levassor with chassis numbers over 100000 and over 200000.
  6. Category talk:Panhard & Levassor Type X29 Sport 20 torpedo (M.N.A.2213) 1920-30 (chassis 8 156)#Chassis number I noted that he created a category with this source. Note the question mark in Numéro de série : n° châssis 8156 ? The source is not sure about the chassis number. A 4-digit-number is not usual for a 1920 Panhard & Levassor. But Finoskov created the category with this name without stating any doubts.
  7. Category talk:Panhard & Levassor Type X29 Sport 20 torpedo (M.N.A.2213) 1920-30 (chassis 8 156)#Categories wrong category tree (picture made in Bremen not in the museum in Mulhouse): I tried to explain things like this to Finoskov in the last years - problably withour success. I removed the wrong categories with edit comment and creating the category talk and sent Ping to Finoskov. He made re-revert without comment without using any talk page. This must be misuse of the revert function.
Regarding the problem that Finoskov creates new categories and then empties existing categories and has them deleted via a quick deletion request, I also found: Category:Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport Coupe Saoutchik 1948 and User talk:Túrelio, where Túrelio confirmed that Finoskov's approach is not compliant with the rules.
I want that Finoskov will follow the rules and discuss controversial cases. Apparently, he needs a clear message from an administrator, a requirement (I do not know the english word for Adminauflage which is used in the German wikipedia) or a block, at least for certain areas. --Buch-t (talk) 08:07, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Buch-t: I think what Achim55 meant by "ns" in "ns Category" is "namespace". I would have switched the word order.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:27, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Now I see that it is my job to inform Finoskov. Done. --Buch-t (talk) 14:06, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Last Saturday I wrote the message at User talk:Finoskov. He was very active during this time with 104 edits. In this time he did not writing anything here or at any talk page.
But he continued his own wrong system of category-renaming. He created new Category:Gaston Grümmer coachwork and moved files from the existing Category:Carrosserie Gaston Grümmer to his new category. After that the old and empty category was deleted by Taivo. We have three articles for this coachbuilding company. Viewing fr:Carrosserie Gaston Grümmer and clicking on Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : Carrosserie Gaston Grümmer, sur Wikimedia Commons, then you will see nothing. He destroyed the link to the Commons category. And this was in the French-language Wikipedia, his main language. Also note: he went his own way, not respecting the existing system. Why should the new name better than the old name? Where is the talk before? Nowhere I think.
I saw the problem of the necessary of changing links after moving or creating new categories in January 2023 and wrote on User talk:Finoskov#Category:Bugatti Type 28 and Category:Bugatti type 28 torpédo 1921 (Cité de l'Automobile). No success. If you go to fr:Bugatti Type 28 today and click on Wikimedia Commons, you still end up nowhere.
Summary of breaking the rules:
  1. Misuse revert (like here, before his revert I started talk with Ping, he did not answer and did not write any explanation)
  2. Wrong system with new categories instead of moving, described at Commons:Rename a category#Rename process – talks since 2019
  3. Wrong main categories or subcategories (like in France) – talks since 2023
  4. Keeping dead links to deleted categories (like fr:Carrosserie Gaston Grümmer) – talks since 2023
  5. Ignoring the necessary of main categories (like Bugatti Type 28), described at Commons:Rename a category#Deleting the old category – talks since 2023
  6. He avoids discussions. In January 2023 he wrote: Désolé pour écrire en français mais je ne maitrise pas assez l'anglais. My own English isn't very good either. Not wanting to discuss things, but instead going the own way and asserting himself, that is not possible in a collaborative work like Wikipedia. Commons:Rename a category#Types of renames, part Controversial fixes.
What will happen next? --Buch-t (talk) 11:11, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Any comments?
Is he a rule breaker?
Are there ways to prevent him from breaking the rules again in the future?
If not, he can continue to do so for many years. --Buch-t (talk) 16:03, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I truly cannot follow most of the above, so let's take one case. @Buch-t, what is wrong with https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Panhard_%26_Levassor_Type_X29_Sport_20_torpedo_(M.N.A.2213)_1920-30_(chassis_8_156)&diff=next&oldid=946523224 ? - Jmabel ! talk 19:20, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Picture made at Bremen Classic Motorshow
In the Category:Panhard & Levassor Type X29 Sport 20 torpedo (M.N.A.2213) 1920-30 (chassis 8 156) there is in the moment one picture. According to the source flickr it is in album Bremen Classic Motorshow 2012 and it was made February 3rd, 2012. That date was the beginning of the show 2012. The Bremen Classic Motorshow is a multi-day show for old cars in halls in the town Bremen, north of Germany. You can see on the picture "MEILENWERK" and "MUSEUM FÜR FAHRKULTUR" (it is German) at the wall and "OLDTIMERZENTRUM FLENSBURG" (Flensburg is also a town in north of Germany). This picture must be made at the Bremen Classic Motorshow.
Finoskov created the category. He chose categories like category:1920s Panhard & Levassor automobiles in the Musée National de l'Automobile and category:1920 automobiles in museums. Both things are not true. The picture in the category was definitely not made in the Musée National de l'Automobile (a famous car museum in Mulhouse, France, commonscat, web) and was not made in any museum.
I removed the two wrong categories with edit comment and with extra explanation for Finoskov (with Ping) on Category talk:Panhard & Levassor Type X29 Sport 20 torpedo (M.N.A.2213) 1920-30 (chassis 8 156).
His reaction was a revert, without edit comment, without any answer on the talk page.
This must be misuse of the revert function. --Buch-t (talk) 08:10, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

All of this is insanely complicated. @Buch-t, it would be much simpler if you could just clearly and briefly indicate three inappropriate things Finoskov has done.

That said: @Finoskov, it looks to me like at the very least you have been inappropriately uncommunicative in reverting another apparently experienced and competent user, and you have not responded at all here. It looks like for over a year you have been completely unresponsive to several users on this front. If you do not come and discuss this here, I am very inclined to block you in simple hope of getting your attention. - Jmabel ! talk 20:53, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Category:Panhard & Levassor Type X29 Sport 20 torpedo (M.N.A.2213) 1920-30 (chassis 8 156) (history) / Category talk:Panhard & Levassor Type X29 Sport 20 torpedo (M.N.A.2213) 1920-30 (chassis 8 156) (history) / wrong subcategories in museum
  2. Category:1898 Panhard & Levassor type A1 landaulet in the Musée National de l'Automobile (history - with his removing of my German explanation) / Category_talk:1898_Panhard_&_Levassor_type_A1_landaulet_in_the_Musée_National_de_l'Automobile (history) / he quoted incorrectly from the book
  3. He created Category:Gaston Grümmer coachwork, the existing Category:Carrosserie Gaston Grümmer was deleted later, causing dead links after clicking on fr:Carrosserie_Gaston_Grümmer#Liens_externes and Wikimedia Commons, ignoring Commons:Rename a category #Types of renames since years and after several talks to him
--Buch-t (talk) 09:08, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Three more fresh errors made this week found and noticed at User talk:Finoskov#Monotrace, User talk:Finoskov#Rally / Salmson, User talk:Finoskov#Bugatti up to 1918. --Buch-t (talk) 16:49, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Buch-t: you are not helping things a bit by piling on details of small disputes. Nothing here has clarified the nature of your complaint, and none of this appears to add relevant new dimensions to it. Unless you have something genuinely new to say (not just an umpteenth parallel example) or can actually write up a decent summary of your issue, please stop adding to this section, which is only preventing this from ever getting resolved. - Jmabel ! talk 21:33, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Achim55: it looks from your remark above that you may have more understanding than I of what is going on here. Could you please decide on the appropriate action to take here? - Jmabel ! talk 21:35, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I do not understand what I should do. On novembre 9th I wrote 6 points. Your answer: I truly cannot follow most of the above, so let's take one case. I thought, that for your understanding it was better to write more details. You wanted only one case. You wrote https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Panhard_%26_Levassor_Type_X29_Sport_20_torpedo_(M.N.A.2213)_1920-30_(chassis_8_156)&diff=next&oldid=946523224 ? It is one of the six which I noted. I gave a detailed answer. (Please note: I cannot know if you are knowing about Bremen, Flensburg, Mulhouse, Bremen Motor Show, the museum in Mulhouse, or whether you can recognize where the picture was taken.) Your answer was insanely complicated and it would be much simpler if you could just clearly and briefly indicate three inappropriate things Finoskov has done. No word whether new or old things. I understand: you wanted 3 points in short. I gave 3 short points from the six above. And hours later, after finding new errors, I wrote one set with 3 links zu User talk:Finoskov. Now I get the impression that this was not desired at all.
You want a summary? I will try. He did and does controversial things, wrong things, some with reverts, rarely responds to discussions or addresses on his user talk page, and it is to be feared that he will continue to do so. There were multiple addresses in the past – without success. What is the next possible step: blocking for a time? --Buch-t (talk) 08:00, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

YatIznassenRif96

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YatIznassenRif96 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) - clearly a sockpuppet of the Iznassen sockpuppetry: see https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=26604276#Global_lock_for_LTA. Wikiwerner (talk) 08:19, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Blocked, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 08:44, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much. I found Assen96 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) yet. Could you block this account too? Wikiwerner (talk) 09:48, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done Yann (talk) 10:10, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And RifIznassen9696 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)? Re-uploaded a recently deleted file still on my watchlist. Thank you (in advance) again! Wikiwerner (talk) 18:50, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done Blocked. Yann (talk) 10:49, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Broz1014

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Broz1014 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Hi, This user uploaded many US decorated car license plates as own works. Help needed to check them all by someone more familiar with this specific issue (i.e. State copyright and threshold of originality). Yann (talk) 11:31, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done. I deleted most license plates as copyvios. One has regular DR. One was previously kept after regular DR. Taivo (talk) 22:03, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew091870

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Could somebody please check and revert the edits by Special:Contributions/Matthew091870? Example. Probably something also needs to be done regarding the user, like at least a talk page message. There are many cases like this where people write to structured data to pollute files' data without people noticing (because SD-changes are barely watched and are not seen by most users). I hope there is some automatic method where users' contributions are flagged as needing review if a large share of them were reverted or similar and I don't know of any other place to report contribs of which many seem flawed. Prototyperspective (talk) 13:02, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Prototyperspective: I reverted a dozen edits and warned the user twice.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:00, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done. Thank you, Jeff, for reverting and warning! As Matthew has not edited for 1½ years, block is not needed. Taivo (talk) 19:55, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin has apparently been persistently uploading what appears to be blatant copyright violations. I’ve just tagged three of their pictures as copyvios as the pictures were clearly of coins made by the British Royal Mint. And when you look at their talk page; there is a long list of copyright violation warnings. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 11:34, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, scratch the recent part. Just looked at their contributions; apparently they haven’t edited since 2022. Someone should still probably look at their uploads to make sure there aren’t any more copyvios. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 11:39, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Hurricane Clyde: I added the copyright violation notifications for these files for you. Please do it yourself next time. Yann (talk) 12:26, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Yann, I did notify him of the copyright violations. I just didn’t know how to put the standardized templates on there, or if I was even supposed to (I didn’t know if we had a bot or something that did it). So I left a personalized message. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 12:32, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It would help the next time if I knew where the notification templates were at. That way I can do it myself. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 12:33, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please follow the instructions if you do it manually, or use the gadget. Thanks, Yann (talk) 12:37, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe ask @Raymond? Given the almost 10,000 uploads, a few errors can add up.
 ∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 12:48, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Hurricane Clyde: See Help:QuickDelete for information about the gadget and how to activate it. --Rosenzweig τ 14:12, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Enhancing999 Thank you for the ping. As I have helped with technical things only I will write an email to my contact person and ask for a statement. Raymond (talk) 19:55, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Raymond: I think what's need is to check the list of uploads for cases similar to the ones deleted. As an admin, I guess you could delete them directly. It happens that some stuff slips through checks, no need to go into details. Possibly for some cases, Commons is too restrictive (GDR coins) and we'd need to update our summaries. If they'd have clear info on that.
 ∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 09:57, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Why would Commons be "too restrictive" regarding GDR coins? German copyright law (Urheberrecht) does apply to those. --Rosenzweig τ 12:01, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, the coins that sent us here were definitely copyrighted UK coins. Hurricane Clyde 🌀my talk page! 17:28, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Copyright on coins would generally be government-owned and the German museum is a government entity.
 ∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 14:36, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Miguel Inigo Mercadal2 second warning

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Miguel Inigo Mercadal2 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  continues to input Category:Satellite imagery and Category:Cyclones after being told that they are {{Categorize}} and redundant in the case of his uploads. Furthermore, he continues to upload photos without links to the source or in some case from copyrighted source like Getty. Finally, he created Category:Eastern_Philippines that seems totally futile with the description of "Eastern Philippines is in the east north and south acording to Wikipedia". He should be warned more forcefully or even blocked. Pierre cb (talk) 14:15, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done. One week block. Taivo (talk) 16:53, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Obvious sock

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Ssolbergj~commonswiki (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

Ssolbergj~commonswiki is an obvious sock of Trantrongnam~commonswiki. Please let me know if this isn't the right board for reporting obvious socking. M.Bitton (talk) 13:40, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Blocked. Yann (talk) 14:37, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Suspected socks uploading only useless content

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Hello,

I harbor the suspicion that Wjaah (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  and Chrismb 11 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  may be sockpuppets, based on the following evidence: both uploaded nonsensical content (read: stuff not wanted per our project scope) as File:Font Awesome 5 solid moon (1).svg. This is not a filename that one is likely to chose at random. Furthermore, when I had the chance to look at the contributions of Wjaah some hours ago, the list only sported random character strings as filenames, so I'm inclined to think that this account is only here to disturb the project. Are my suspicions shared among the administrators? Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 23:32, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Blocked and tagged. Yann (talk) 08:43, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:EX Centre from Star Avenue 2018

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On Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by EX Centre from Star Avenue 2018, user is repeatedly blanking filenames from the original deletion request post where they personally don't think the file should be deleted ([1], [2], [3]).

They've been asked twice to stop doing this but are continuing to do it. Belbury (talk) 08:51, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I added one more warning for Commons:Deletion requests/File:Victoria harbour blur 維多利亞港矓 (6210808250).jpg. Yann (talk) 09:08, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
They've also repeatedly removed other files from sister projects and put in their own, even when their images weren't relevant, and then asked for those other images to be deleted instead. I've avoided stepping in because I nominated most of their other uploads for deletion, but I take a dim view of that kind of nonsense. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 17:37, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the information. I reverted 2 replacements on the English Wikipedia which were clearly inappropriate. Yann (talk) 17:47, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done Finally, after reviewing some more retaliation DRs, I blocked this user for 2 weeks. Yann (talk) 17:52, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Vium Mundi

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User name almost equal to Virum Mundi (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  blocked in eswiki due to identity theft, I don't know if here there is a local policy forbidding this- The user is uploading copyvios, two blocks due to this. Regards!!--Ezarateesteban 13:51, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done You blocked this account for a month, so fine. Yann (talk) 17:24, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Possible sock - CottonDuggan / TylerKutschbach

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Based on editing behavior, this user looks like they might be a ban-evading sock of User:TylerKutschbach. Omphalographer (talk) 04:53, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Blocked. Yann (talk) 11:15, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

115.166.48.24

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Special:Contributions/115.166.48.24 seems to replace time-zone info with inaccurate data as well as a few other strange edits. I don't think it's a good approach to require manual listing of users with problematic edits here – instead I hope there is some tool that notices when a large fraction of a user's edits have been reverted; e.g. Automoderator(?) Prototyperspective (talk) 11:38, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Blocked for 3 days. Yann (talk) 11:41, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Donnysilva

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Donnysilva (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Copyvios (album art). Could someone nuke this user's contribs? JayCubby (talk) 19:22, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment I tagged some files, and further warned this user. As they claim to be the author or copyright holder, let's see if a permission is coming. Yann (talk) 20:47, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Military image sockpuppetry

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Something seems to be going on here, with all of these active accounts uploading the same kinds of content to Commons, five of them drawing from the Paraxade Flickr account and marcusburns1977 DeviantArt account (the latter of which was considered by a DR to be falsely licencing copyrighted content) and some interacting with each other's files.

Some account interactions:

Nearly all uploads from all of these users fall more or less into one of these categories:

Belbury (talk) 10:23, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Belbury Please also look at Salenij (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  who has interacted with NotLessOrEqual (editing logged out) on Enwiki and is uploading the same topics. -- ferret (talk) 15:01, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note as well all of these accounts set their user page to a single character, including Salenij. -- ferret (talk) 15:04, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, Salenij looks behaviourally similar: File:AIM54 A.jpg is taken from a new and single-upload DeviantArt account which claims AIM54A Missile I rendered in Blender; LeorkDreeam uploaded File:SpaceShuttIeSRBs.png, a rocketry image in the same AI-upscaled style, which was taken from a DeviantArt account which claimed My 3D rendering of the Space Shuttle SRB, using Blender.
The original marcusburns1977 DeviantArt account stopped posting in July, around the time that Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with marcusburns1977 was opened. Belbury (talk) 15:19, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Belbury I know commons policies differ in many ways from enwikis, but these are all CU-confirmed and blocked on enwiki now, plus a few more. The evidence is clear and unquestionable at that. en:Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_NotLessOrEqual. -- ferret (talk) 15:25, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I was going to wait for this thread to resolve before raising it an enwiki, since the Commons activity seemed more compelling, but fair enough if you've already looked at it! No block for Виктор Вихарев Марков? Belbury (talk) 15:31, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Missed it because stale, but I'm going to block on evidence. -- ferret (talk) 15:34, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Here's the accounts not yet listed explicitly here, who have also made the same questionable uploads of AI/game uploads of weapons, which should also reveal some more sources for deviantart laundering:
-- ferret (talk) 16:20, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
They're washing through separate DeviantArt accounts with no other uploads (DaVietDoomer114 = diwiyii1989, RealAlizzon = realalizzon, ReXM412 = tajeka3123, Soft Kima = kimasoft, Zamanoous = nozamasaa), presumably to avoid revealing each other like that. Belbury (talk) 16:30, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dizzlessportsmatrix

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  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:56, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you teach me how to use this website right without violating copyright? I don't know how to find licesening for the stuff I'm uploading and the closest thing I can tell you for the music is that I bought it online. Dizzlessportsmatrix (talk) 12:17, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dizzlessportsmatrix: Only upload stuff you have a legal right to upload and license. Did you buy the copyrights or the right to freely sublicense? I highly doubt it, check the fine print.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:33, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've fixed everything to the best of my ability and knowledge but I can understand if you still come to a conclusion of banning me. I apologize for the trouble I've caused on this site and I acknowledge the fact that I don't deserve the privilege to edit. Dizzlessportsmatrix (talk) 12:44, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dizzlessportsmatrix: For each and every one of your uploads, you have claimed to be the author and given a CC-BY-SA-4.0 license for content for which you are not, in fact, the author and not authorized to issue such licenses without documentation via VRT. You have been given plenty of information to help you come to the conclusion that you should not be doing that, ask any lawyer. Did you not learn anything from your first two blocks? See also en:WP:COI and en:WP:F.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:30, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I get that I shouldn't be calling myself the author but I don't know where to source the licensing, would I ask the schools for the sources? Dizzlessportsmatrix (talk) 17:30, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If i'm too young to understand copyright and licensing I probably shouldn't be uploading on wikipedia in the first place. I just wanted to help my school get more credibility. Dizzlessportsmatrix (talk) 17:34, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I thought because it stayed uploaded for so long without warning I did have right to the license because usually it gives you a warning if it's not lisence Dizzlessportsmatrix (talk) 17:48, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dizzlessportsmatrix: This sounds like honest confusion (major confusion, but honest) on your part, so I'd rather not see a block. Would you agree to the following:
  1. Do not upload anything to Commons or Wikipedia for the next six months.
  2. Somewhere during that time, or at least before you do any more uploads, read en:Copyright, en:Public domain, and Commons:Licensing.
Jmabel ! talk 20:30, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Will i still be able to edit pages without uploading content on them? Dizzlessportsmatrix (talk) 02:51, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Egorov123

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Egorov123 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  uploaded what seems medical commercial website images but claim that they are his own work. I have marked them for deletion but could an administrator verify them? Pierre cb (talk) 05:03, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Block

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Block user Ssorraa (talk · contribs), user casting personal attacks, also see abuselog. ToadetteEdit (talk) 08:22, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Block your dead mom Ssorraa (talk) 08:23, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done --A.Savin 08:31, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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