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This is a place where users can communicate with administrators, or administrators with one another. You can report vandalism, problematic users, or anything else that needs an administrator's intervention. Do not report child pornography or other potentially illegal content here; e-mail legal-reports@wikimedia.org instead. If reporting threatened harm to self or others also email emergency@wikimedia.org.

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Hi

Should file be deleted + user blocked ? --Panam2014 (talk) 13:41, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @Panam2014: The DR should be allowed to run its own course. If the user is causing disruptions, they should be warned, and then reported at an appropriate noticeboard. Block requests should be made at COM:AN/B, and if there is apparent vandalism, COM:AN/V. There is some discussion at User talk:Littlexiaogui and I believe the user should be warmly taught basics of the copyright. Best regards, ─ Aafī (talk) 16:41, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
✓ Done. The file in question is speedily deleted and DR is closed. Taivo (talk) 09:06, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Authorization

Hi, I am a photographer of opera, demonstrations, monuments and Stolpersteine. Hereby I declare that User:Jabberwockyunmastered is entitled to upload pictures of mine. He will be helping me in the Stolpersteine project. I would like to know if this statement is sufficient or if I have to send a letter or an eMail to someone. Thanks for Your help. Christian Michelides (talk) 15:24, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Christian Michelides: "Pictures of mine" - does it refer to the images that you have captured? If there are considerable images, I suggest sending an email to COM:VRT, in which you release those files under a CC-BY-SA or any such license, and also seek creation of a template that the mentioned user can use on the files. However, if the files are very few, I feel going through such a procedure is unwarranted, and a statement anywhere on Commons should be sufficient. Even this one, but a mention of the license is necessary. How many files do you have and is this is a one-time process or something that will remain "ongoing"? Best regards, ─ Aafī (talk) 16:34, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jabberwockyunmastered: do you mind if we add a permalink to this discussion on your user page to clarify that Christian Michelides has given you this permission? (Though VRT would probably still be worth doing.) - Jmabel ! talk 19:20, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@TheAafi: Thanks a lot for Your fast reply. "Pictures of mine" = my photographs. Sorry, I am still in a leading function at Lighthouse Vienna and I am working as a psychotherapist in private practice in the afternoon. Therefore my resources are very limited and I am grateful to Donna Gedenk that she is uploading most of my pics. She will still be in charge of Eastern Europe, Southern Europe and Western Europe while Jabberwockyunmastered shall take over Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. This will be an ongoing procedure for at least five years, with Jabberwockyunmastered uploading 100 to 200 pics a month. I will send an eMail to the address you mentioned .... Thanks. Be aware that there are already more then 100.000 Stolpersteine all over Europe, with both the Netherlands (Donna Gedenk) and Baden-Württemberg (Jabberwockyunmastered) with more then 10.000 Stolpersteine!!!! --Christian Michelides (talk) 20:55, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I have sent an email to VRT. Best wishes--Christian Michelides (talk) 14:59, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Christian Michelides: Thank you. I have left a link to this thread in the ticket. ─ Aafī (talk) 15:03, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

rename

compare Anna (mother) and Katarzyna (wife) with File:Anna z Jabłonowskich Leszczyńska.jpg

Please, rename File:Anna z Jabłonowskich Leszczyńska.jpg to File:Katarzyna z Opalińskich Leszczyńska.jpg; there is a request from 14:32 26 February.

Note. File:Anna Jabłonowska.jpg were immediately renamed to File:Katarzyna Leszczyńska z Opalińskich.jpg (see history, request at 15:20 26 February; renamed at 16:27 26 February)

Now there is an obvious contradiction with

Compare Category:Anna Leszczyńska (1660–1727) and Category:Catherine Opalińska.

— Yuri V (t•c), 13:34, 13:49, 28 February 2024 (UTC).Reply[reply]

Hoax collaboration including cross-project activity

File:Abdel Nasser won an Oscar on April 22, 2023.jpg
"Abdel Nasser won an Oscar on April 22m 2023" by MA 17 February
File:Agha Gruop.jpg
"Agha Gruop" by AB 17 February
File:Mugs Abdel Naser.jpg
"Mugs Abdel Naser" by KT 14 February

Images from the above three editors, using 3 different cameras but all taken mid-February 2024, are being used to promote on en-wiki, fr-wiki, wq, wikidata, and here a Wordpress website called AlHakawi News, its owner/publisher, and an Egyptian business Al-Agha Group he also heads. This man whose name is variously given as Abdel Nasser, Abdel Naser, "Abdel Nasser Abdel Fattah Mohamed" (at AlHakawi webpage), and "Mohamed AlAgha" is claimed to have won "the Academy Award" in 2023. Accordingly, photos of this man have been added to many Academy Award categories, including (my favorite) Category:Academy Awards after parties, where 3 of the 6 photos included are now this man.

Interestingly, MA claims to be "Lead Partnerships Manager, South Asia, Wikimedia Foundation" but this is probably because her very first edit on January 11, 2024 was creating her Wikimedia page as a copy of User:PDas_WMF except for using her own gmail address. HouseOfChange (talk) 18:38, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

कटासमुला is indeffed. I CSDed MA's meta-page for spam. ─ Aafī (talk) 18:55, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I zapped all of the uploads of कटासमुला. Blatant advertisements. There was a DR and I have speedily closed it. ─ Aafī (talk) 19:19, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I nuked other hoax uploads by these users. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:39, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Oriental Plane imported from iNaturalist photo 578170 on 28 February 2024.jpg

Hello, I am unable to upload the original version of the file for the INaturalistReviewBot to review. The error message states: "Upload error. Could not acquire lock. Somebody else is doing something to this file." Thank you for your consideration. C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 02:45, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The original doesn't appear to be larger that this one, i.e. [1] and [2]. Yann (talk) 08:58, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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