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Block request for User:An account name

An account name (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log An account solely for advertising purposes --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 22:36, 29 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done. All contributions are deleted. The user stopped after your warning. Taivo (talk) 10:14, 30 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:LolaThePistola

LolaThePistola (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log An account solely for advertising purposes --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 22:42, 29 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done. Considering, that the article about the band is nominated for deletion in de.wiki due to non-notability, I decided to block the user for a week. All her uploads are speedily deleted as different kind of copyvios. Taivo (talk) 10:24, 30 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Page protection request for File:'Assembly of Sikhs and Sansar Chand of Kangra', attributed to Purkhu of Kangra, ca.1780.jpg

A disruptive editor keeps removing content from the file description. MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 00:21, 30 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:30, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Block request for User:Wedigitaldeliver

Wedigitaldeliver (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log An account solely for advertising purposes --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 07:14, 30 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done. I warned the user, the only upload is deleted. Taivo (talk) 10:28, 30 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Gaystaiano rapenaldo

Gaystaiano rapenaldo (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log Grossly offensive username but also seeing uploaded images, not here to contribute

  Blocked. -- CptViraj (talk) 16:04, 30 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

88.251.82.151

Pattern of very odd editing by 88.251.82.151 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (pick any three edits at random and you'll see what I mean). Not clear if this requires a block or not, but I'd like another pair of eyes to take a look. - Jmabel ! talk 18:00, 30 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Blocked by Achim55 for a month. -- CptViraj (talk) 14:53, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:TajikAryan7

Insult, also banned on ruwiki. Incall talk 07:01, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Three more insults: «ты дурак» (you’re an idiot), «не позорься» (in Russian, this is an insult), «никчемный киргиз» (useless Kyrgyz). Incall talk 08:38, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Actually, you're an idiot, and you're disgracing yourself, and you're an Pan-turk dumb Kyrgyz, you're making fake maps and it should punished. You are not an ethnographer, not a linguist and are making maps on you own. TajikAryan7 (talk) 09:29, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done indef-blocked - Jmabel ! talk 16:42, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Incall

He making fake maps as this - File:Distribution of the Tajik language.png — Wikimedia Commons. Please delete the file. TajikAryan7 (talk) 08:03, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Comment the map has been around since 2024-10-09 and is heavily INUSE. Involved in edit warring: m:Special:CentralAuth/Incall, m:Special:CentralAuth/TajikAryan7, m:Special:CentralAuth/2dk. Underlying reason: probably stupid nationalism. -- Taylor 49 (talk) 10:56, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Is that correct he made a fake map about my language - my people?
He marked Afghanistan - where this language(Persian) counts as "Dari" - mistake, in post-soviet states our language counts "Tajik".
He didn't mark Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and some Tajik-speaker settlements of the Uzbekistan, and even he didn't marked own territories of Tajikistan - North of Sughd region, Isfara district, every citizen of Tajikistan must can speak Tajik language the state language, but.. he's kidding us. He's mocking!
You should check another reliable maps, as this one -https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Distribution_of_Iranian_Languages.png TajikAryan7 (talk) 11:28, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
I would just like to point out that in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, they live in cities where they make up a small portion of the population (somewhere between 1% and 5%, which is very little), and in Uzbekistan, the Tajik language is not officially widespread. This should be taken into account. Incall talk 12:08, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
He just drew the map the way he wanted, without any sources, just drew it randomly. TajikAryan7 (talk) 11:31, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

I have blocked TajikAryan7 for his insults above. However, that does not necessarily mean that his complaint here has no merit, and I'd ask an admin with some knowledge of the subject matter to look further into this. - Jmabel ! talk 16:47, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

I can present a full analysis of the map in the discussion with official sources and tag you under it. Incall talk 17:39, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Incall: FWIW: what I see when I look there is a map on a potentially controversial topic that cites no sources. I would expect it to indicate the sources of its data, so it was clear what it represents. I presume you can fix that, and you certainly should. - Jmabel ! talk 18:04, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Okay Incall talk 18:15, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

semi-protection request

Please semi-protection for all pages in actual Category:Unicode_Module_Datasets – content is used in more local Wikipedias (without Data:Unicode/data/blocks .tab because this). Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 08:28, 31 July 2025 (UTC), --Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 08:28, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Strong support protection (either "edit: only autoconfirmed, move: only sysop", or "edit: only template editor, move: only sysop" and give the right "template editor" to Dusan), used in many non-wikipedia wikis too. "Unicode/data/blocks .tab" is dupe of "Unicode/data/blocks.tab", please delete the former with junk space. Taylor 49 (talk) 10:50, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
No total: images & emoji images must be strict only semi-protection. Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 19:11, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
@User:Dušan Kreheľ: I suggest that you request the right "Template_editor". I do not suggest "total" protection. I suggest "move: only sysop" (it is very unlikely that one will have to move those), and "edit: only template editor". Of course this goes hand in hand with you receiving the right template editor. Unfortunately on many wikis the local data modules are currently protected to the "total" level ie "edit: sysop only", and I fear that those wikis will refuse to switch to the central data if it is almost unprotected ("edit: only autoconfirmed, move: only autoconfirmed"). So my suggestion is "edit: only template editor, move: only sysop" and give the right "template editor" to Dusan. Taylor 49 (talk) 08:54, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
That last sounds about right to me. There should be very few edits ever needed on these, anyway. - Jmabel ! talk 17:22, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
These all definitely need to be at least autoconfirmed, probably even autopatrol. — SURJECTION / T / C / L / 16:15, 3 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Presumably step one is for @User:Dušan Kreheľ to request template editor rights, citing this discussion. - Jmabel ! talk 16:50, 3 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Also: is there any tool for mass-protecting the content of a category, or is someone going to have to go through these one-by-one? - Jmabel ! talk 16:51, 3 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Al Barkaat Islam School

Al Barkaat Islam School (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log Username containing a commercial trademark --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 11:44, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Support block, m:Special:CentralAuth/Al_Barkaat_Islam_School. Taylor 49 (talk) 11:52, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Silex3D Print

Silex3D Print (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log Username containing a commercial trademark --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 12:58, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done Gbawden (talk) 14:10, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Luxuryroof

Luxuryroof (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log Username containing a commercial trademark --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 13:31, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Blocked by Pi.1415926535. -- CptViraj (talk) 14:51, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:אלומיניום

אלומיניום (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log An account solely for advertising purposes --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 13:41, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Comment User warned, all files tagged or deleted. Yann (talk) 19:10, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Stevehard

Stevehard (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log An account solely for the purpose of vandalism --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 13:58, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Persistent dick-poster. Useless uploader. Indef block IMHO --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 13:59, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Done Not here to contribute positively Gbawden (talk) 14:06, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Webmaster 2025

Webmaster 2025 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log An account solely for advertising purposes --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 14:04, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Comment Their only contribution so far has been to upload the logo of a company with a WD item. Not seeing blatant advertising? Gbawden (talk) 14:12, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
It's the promo work and the ambiguous username. IMHO block worthy, but you do you :)
--Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 01:25, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:B3lholdings

B3lholdings (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log Username containing a commercial trademark --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 14:08, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Not blocked as no edits after the warning on 1 August. -- CptViraj (talk) 14:49, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Rayenhamou

Rayenhamou (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log. New copyright violation after a block last december. Nicolas22g (talk) 18:06, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done Blocked for 3 months, no useful file. File already deleted. Yann (talk) 18:55, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Anthony60617

Anthony60617 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log An account solely for the purpose of vandalism --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 01:22, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done User warned, that's sufficient for now. Yann (talk) 18:52, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Please unprotect "Template:Universal replace"

Year 2013, 12 years ago:
> Yonatanh Protected "Template:Universal replace": no reason for anyone to edit this, could
> be used to make commonsdelinker do things it shouldn't do [edit=sysop:move=sysop]
Factual misconception. Most probably CommonsDelinker reads the source wikitext rather than the rendered HTML, thus it is inherently impossible that theoretically imaginable vandalism against this template would affect the work of CommonsDelinker in any way. Given that, no reason for this template to be protected to the highest level, just reduce to "autoconfirmed users only". See also Template:Universal replace/sandbox and Category:Commons_protected_edit_requests. Taylor 49 (talk) 08:59, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
Changes to this template could break the page at User:CommonsDelinker/commands. This justifies the protection as edits to the template should not be necessary that often. GPSLeo (talk) 09:23, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
Well, theoretically YES. Changes to any template (except unused ones) can affect or "break" some page. At least the level could be reduced to "template editor". Taylor 49 (talk) 09:32, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
Per above, important and mid-risk template, thus   oppose downgrading to autoconfirmed or autopatrol;   fine with template-editor. -- CptViraj (talk) 15:18, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
Someone please reduce the level to "template-editor" then. I still believe that the risk level is very low, given that the template does NOT affect CommonsDelinker, is transcluded from very few pages, and possible broken look of User:CommonsDelinker/commands due to vandalism of this template would not propagate to other pages, not cause any subsequent damage, and could be fixed quickly and easily. A wiki is a website that anyone can edit after all, the default state of pages is "NOT protected", and it is protection that needs good reasons, not vice-versa. Taylor 49 (talk) 20:03, 4 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Digimarkcorporation

Digimarkcorporation (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log An account solely for advertising purposes --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 18:13, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

  • I lean toward thinking the deletions and warnings so far suffice for now. Only two files, and I'm not even sure File:Digimark Corporation Solution.jpg is really out of scope; it isn't particularly an advertisement, even though that may be the reason they uploaded it. @Yann: the image itself doesn't even mention their company; I don't see anything but the title that is at all a problem. Can you explain why this is out of scope? - Jmabel ! talk 05:02, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
  • OK, may be not out of scope, but this is a company product marketing picture, is of web size, and has no EXIF data. We need a confirmation of the license via COM:VRT. Yann (talk) 10:45, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
    • Agree, and they should have been told that, but we should not be blocking an account for not understanding that on their second-ever upload. There may be a problem here, but it's not one that calls for a block at this time. - Jmabel ! talk 18:11, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Valérie Frick

Valérie Frick (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log An account solely for advertising purposes --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 18:28, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Comment User warned, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 19:12, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Tim9967243

Tim9967243 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log An account solely for the purpose of vandalism --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 19:16, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Comment User warned. Yann (talk) 19:31, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:Zorawar385

Zorawar385 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log

The user have received more than enough warnings against posting more copyvio @Zorawar385: --Trade (talk) 21:50, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Trade: Many files in Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Zorawar385 are in the public domain, either per PD-textlogo or PD-India, especially File:Logo of the Vice President of Republic of India.png. Last deleted file was on 12 April 2025. Yann (talk) 11:01, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:ThresholdManagement

ThresholdManagement (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log An account solely for advertising purposes --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 14:24, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Blocked. -- CptViraj (talk) 14:48, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request for User:FIGLINE99

FIGLINE99 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log Only copyvios, clearly doesn't want or is unable to adhere to basic rules. Maybe a CU could be helpful. --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 16:51, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Hedwig in Washington: CheckUser isn't for fishing. If you have evidence that they're abusing multiple accounts, please file a case at COM:RFCU. Otherwise, use of the tool would be inappropriate. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 17:58, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
I know, I just can't remember the name of the sockmaster the edits remind me of. ----Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 18:05, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Block request User:1957Acme

1957Acme (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log New user reverting back to edits of a sock account. Wowzers122 (talk) 00:09, 3 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Wowzers122: That would be Bend465, sock of TylerKutschbach, sock of Jurisdrew? I notified the user of this discussion on their user talk page, as you should have done per the above.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:39, 3 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
Yes, the account was created the same day as Bend465's block. Wowzers122 (talk) 00:44, 3 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Done blocked as probable sock. @Wowzers122: would you please add a legend in the description of the map? The colors don't mean anything without a legend. - Jmabel ! talk 00:49, 3 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
Done. Wowzers122 (talk) 01:15, 3 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Question to other admins: I don't have prior experience with blocking someone as a sock on a "duck" basis and having them appeal by simply denying it. Do we just say, "sorry, quacks like a duck" or do we do an RFCU or what? - Jmabel ! talk 05:02, 3 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Please, it has been over 24 hours and no one is helping me out here. - Jmabel ! talk 05:42, 4 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

This is an obvious sock in a long conflict about this particular diagram, hence this block is justified. There is no need to open a CU case in obvious cases as this one. This sock had just these two edits before being blocked. It is amazing that nowhere a discussion is going on regarding this diagram. --AFBorchert (talk) 07:13, 4 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
I've now declined the unblock request. --AFBorchert (talk) 07:25, 4 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
And a CU with TylerKutschbach wouldn't work anyway as that account is stale, i. e. the last edit is older than 90 days – after this period the IP addresses are gone. --AFBorchert (talk) 07:34, 4 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
See m:srg#Global lock for Bend465.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 08:35, 4 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
@AFBorchert and Jeff G.: Thanks. I do very few sockpuppet locks unless I really know the case myself, and hadn't encountered a denial before. - Jmabel ! talk 16:02, 4 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Upload protection request for File:Flag of Egypt.svg

Constant vandalism on important file. Should be overwritten by auto patrolled users only. Kaim (talk) 03:45, 3 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Semiprotected indefinitely by Yann. --Lymantria (talk) 20:09, 4 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Simplyarb

User: Simplyarb (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log
Reason for reporting: Uploaded copyvios again today despite having been finally warned in 2024. Grand-Duc (talk) 03:48, 3 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Blocked for a month. -- CptViraj (talk) 09:19, 3 August 2025 (UTC)Reply