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Bull-Doser[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
@Bull-Doser: What about File:Annika Chambers.jpg? 108.58.166.134 11:26, 14 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
I think a block is in order. 108.58.166.134 13:19, 18 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
  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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]

01:12, 12 May 2021 (UTC) the user uploaded File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM.png.
12:52, 24 May 2021 (UTC) Myloufa nominated that file for deletion in Commons:Deletion requests/File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM.png because "Subject barely recognizable. Out of COM:SCOPE as it has no educational use."
15:10, 24 May 2021 (UTC) the user reuploaded the file as File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM -- 2.png, probably because of the above.
02:37, 7 June 2021 (UTC) Missvain closed Commons:Deletion requests/File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM.png and deleted File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM.png.
13:01, 16 June 2021 (UTC) Ytoyoda nominated File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM -- 2.png for deletion as one of three files in the seventh section of Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Bull-Doser because they were "Low-quality images unsuitable for Wikipedia."
15:09, 17 June 2021 (UTC) Racconish closed Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Bull-Doser and deleted File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM -- 2.png.
15:29, 4 July 2021 (UTC) the user reuploaded the file as File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM 107.3 Rouge.png, probably because of the above.
17:32, 14 February 2024 (UTC) Deletion Notification Bot 2 notified the user that Webfil had tagged File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM 107.3 Rouge.png for speedy deletion with "Reason: Repost of File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM.png, with added text at the end to make it through the filters."
19:38, 14 February 2024 (UTC) Túrelio deleted File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM 107.3 Rouge.png because "CSD G4 (recreation of content previously deleted per community consensus): Repost of File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM.png and/or File:Jay Du Temple CITE-FM -- 2.png, with added text at the end to make it through the filters."

108.58.166.134 20:25, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I have to say that I do not understand why Commons's administrators keep not doing anything about this user. It has been brought up many times that this user is problematic. Not only the quality of his pictures is quite questionable, but the context in which he takes them is problematic too. We had a user (resident wikimedian) reporting on FRWiki that this user is oftenly agressive when taking pictures. I would also like to cite @Webfil: here : "On La soirée est encore jeune, the host referred to Bull-Doser as Ti-Monsieur Louche ("Creepy Lil' Guy") a couple of times (they even had their own jingle!), because the person was nabbed multiple times taking surreptitious pictures of guests from outside the venue, making the guests uncomfortable." I am pretty sure that it is not the kind of thing Commons and by extent Wikimedia wants or should be associated with. He also has been permanantly blocked on FRWiki (which is technically not a ban, but is a point of no return) for adding his poor quality images that Wiki's article despite having been warned not to. When looking at all of this, I cannot understand why Commons is in a hurry to do nothing about it, considering it is not the first time these issues are reported.
--Myloufa (talk) 23:37, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Myloufa: I don't understand it, either.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:52, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Likewise. Andy Dingley (talk) 02:39, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Ditto. He's not getting permissions of people to take their photos and the images are often terrible. Shawn à Montréal (talk) 14:31, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wider opinion on these images (and their negative effects on the perception of Wikipedia) [edit]

While I was considering the deletion request for this extremely poor image, I noticed that it was also linked to on in a discussion on the page of French Wikipedia user Julinette. (*) In response to the question "[translated] can you clarify why you are removing all these article illustrations please?", she says:-
[ auto-translated, with all emphasis added by myself ]
Hello JohnNewton8, I remove the images which are really of poor quality. For years, many articles by personalities from Quebec have been illustrated by Bull-Doser images which are often of very poor quality. I do not remove those where, at least, we can recognize the personality.
This contributor, although in good faith, greatly harms the image of Wikipedia. It was during several Radio-Canada broadcasts that I heard the hosts and columnists express indignation at the images of Francis Leclerc, the great Albert Millaire, Marie-Louise Arsenault, Sylvie Legault, Nathalie Mallette, Petru Guelfucci, Fanny Leeb , etc. There are hundreds of examples like these.
It was, among other things, for having degraded Wikipedia that it was banned in the English version... I hope I didn't make a mistake? Kind regards, Juliette (talk) December 23, 2018 at 3:45 p.m. (CET)
I've no reason to believe that this isn't true and, if so, it suggests that these images are perceived very negatively and reflecting badly upon French Wikipedia.
Of course, fr.wikipedia and Commons are separate projects, so what the former does/doesn't consider usable or acceptable doesn't automatically apply to us. But that's pretty damning regardless.
(*) Note; Julinette is also apparently on Commons (as Julinette (talk · contribs)) but apparently inactive since 2018. However, if she wishes to comment on this, I'd certainly welcome that.
Ubcule (talk) 22:59, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Regarding the effects on the perception of Wikipedia : Wikimedia Canada (based in Montréal, the same city as Bull-Doser) has been funnelling some funding into the Red Carpets Project for the last years, aiming "to improve the quality of photos in the biographical articles of the Wikipedia encyclopedia" by providing "public figures the opportunity to be photographed by Wikipedians under optimal conditions." The project was set-up in 2017, while Wikimedia Canada received regular requests either to remove the photo taken by an amateur or to replace them with copyrighted photos. With an average of 4 files uploaded every day for the last 17 years (not counting his sockpuppet's work), this guy has photographed a broad array of celebrities and artists in Montreal. I do not see how this project tightly linked to the Foundation would not be a counter-Bull-Doser operation. The project's description is allusive, yet not very ambiguous for that matter, even when you follow loosely the dude's work. To this date, Red Carpets Project collected 232 photos ― a mere drop in the ocean of noisy, blurry, poorly framed, poorly lit and sometimes unethical, nay questionably legal pictures.
I've talked about the malaise in the star system regarding his surreptitiousness and ubiquity ― some radio show even baptized him Creepy Lil' Guy and made a jingle for when he appeared. The whole story surrounding this is available here (at 19:58). I've translated the essence of it. The host is cocky about it, but there is a clear discomfort with the situation among the co-hosts (my translation) :
Host: The Creepy Lil' Guy was a man we didn't really know, who was always outside the window Chez Roger with his phone and taking photos of us without ever talking to us. He was like a squirrel; as soon as we came near, he ran away. It's very funny because last week, maybe a fortnight ago... well, we're in a studio overlooking Avenue Papineau at the corner of René-Lévesque...
Co-host 1: Don't say where we are!
Co-host 2: Not too many details, please!
Host: By the way, [Co-host 1] is sitting on the right, if you want to know...
Co-host 1: Please...
Host: No, but it's bulletproof glass! It's not even a joke!
Co-host 1: And my neck, it's the shiny one, it's easily accessible from the window...
Host: A couple of weeks ago, that Creepy Lil' Guy came to see us and took some photos. So he knows where we are.
Co-Host 1: All of this is not going to end well...
Co-Host 2: He's all over the place because I'd already seen him on the other side...
Host: The other side where?
Co-Host 2: Isn't Radio Énergie across the street?
Host: Yes.
Co-Host 2: He was there too and he was waiting for people at the exit. And I've already seen him at the Gémeaux gala, at the Place des Arts. He chases after the stars.
Add that to the numerous open complaints about the quality of Wikipedia's illustrations reported by Julinette, we can say that the discontent about the quality, quantity and ethics of work produced by this user is widespread and indeed affects negatively the perception of the Foundation's projects such as Commons and Wikipedia. Webfil (talk) 00:22, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Topic ban from uploading?[edit]

Community patience seems to have worn very thin. Is there support for a formal sanction here, such as a topic ban from further uploads? @Bull-Doser:
Support topic ban from uploading any further images to Commons
  1. As proposer Andy Dingley (talk) 15:03, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  2.  Support This is not a new user, or concern. The quality issues are ongoing, despite suggestions to Bull-Doser to get a better camera. I know that the torrent of images do include a lot that are of acceptable quality, so others may disagree. As far as consent, Quebec law seems to state that this user is not acting illegally even if he takes a picture without consent, as long as they are in some way "a person of public interest." So Bull-Doser reportedly behaving in a "creepy" way, as suggested above, may not be illegal but still harms the reputation of Wikimedia IMO as he is doing so on our behalf, whether we like it or not. Shawn à Montréal (talk) 16:36, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  3.  Support The low quality is an ongoing issue, and the manner in which the user takes photographs is also a detriment to Wikimedia's reputation as mentioned above. Abzeronow (talk) 17:10, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  4.  Support I think I've said enough on this thread. --Myloufa (talk) 23:05, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  5.  Support Bedivere (talk) 00:26, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  6.  Support --Adamant1 (talk) 02:42, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  7.  Support. 108.58.166.134 03:01, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose
Other (please comment)

User:Kynnap[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]

 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)Reply[reply]

 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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
I went through his 250 last edits and categorized all his categories. Taivo (talk) 19:38, 23 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
OK, I'll do the rest ... During couple of next days. Taivo (talk) 09:56, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sriro[edit]

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

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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
Thank you for your prompt response and for removing the large number of images.--Krorokeroro (talk) 10:49, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
Thanks for the heads up! Sriro's duplicates 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)Reply[reply]
 Not done No block needed. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 04:15, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Saidibn[edit]

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

User:AKGman[edit]

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

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

User:Yousifali777[edit]

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

 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)Reply[reply]
I apologize for uploading copyrighted content without permission I only wanted to help and contribute images to Wikipedia and admin Number 57 told me how and will abide with the forced block until it ends
and thanks for notifying me about my wrongdoings Yousifali777 (talk) 13:06, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Number 57: FYI.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:13, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jeff G.: He's just uploaded this image, which is a copyrighted image taken from Getty Image's website... Number 57 (talk) 21:35, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
✓ Done Blocked for a week, file deleted. Yann (talk) 21:47, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yann: Thanks!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:36, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:RichelieuGVG[edit]

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

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)Reply[reply]
Ваша работа является производной и поэтому права не могут принадлежать полностью. —Well-Informed Optimist (talk) 19:02, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
Правообладателем является Центральный банк Ирана. —Well-Informed Optimist (talk) 19:01, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
центральный банк ирана НЕ может быть правообладателем тех изображений, которые сняты мною лично. RichelieuGVG (talk) 19:32, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Commons:Currency/ru 💚Kelly The Angel (Talk to me)💚 11:39, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@RichelieuGVG 💚Kelly The Angel (Talk to me)💚 11:39, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
благодарю всех причастных, кто помог восторжествовать справедливости и восстановил мои файлы! RichelieuGVG (talk) 19:55, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]

@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)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
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)Reply[reply]
@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)Reply[reply]
Anyways, there are no legal treats in the above discussion (native speaker here). Ymblanter (talk) 10:31, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Though the diff is not nice, and a repetition can lead to a block. Ymblanter (talk) 10:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Alexandrajtoth[edit]

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)Reply[reply]

✓ Done. I warned the user about scope. All uploads are nominated for deletion. Taivo (talk) 10:10, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Rasbak[edit]

  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:51, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

 Not done. User stopped creating DR-s after you warned him/her. Taivo (talk) 08:50, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Bad faith from User:Stanley Gordon[edit]

File:United States Air Force AP Portrait - Aaron Bushnell.png: Not only they uploaded a copyrighted file (see here the original version of it), but also Photoshopped it in a way to bad-faithly use a free license template (see the first revision of the file). This was first noted on the English Wikipedia. By the way, the image should be speedily deleted. RodRabelo7 (talk) 15:34, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I don't see a reason of why i'm being accused of personally "tampering" with the image Stanley Gordon (talk) 16:09, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You take a copyrighted image from LinkedIn, then you use a non-valid license to upload it on Commons, not without Photoshopping it in order to deceive users. RodRabelo7 (talk) 16:15, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
✓ Done Blocked for a week, long overdue. Yann (talk) 17:19, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:United States of America Republic[edit]

United States of America Republic (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log)  uploading personal photos and unknown source thumbs of bad quality for self promotion. I have marked them for deletion and an administrator should at least warn him. A block may be necessary. Pierre cb (talk) 04:54, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done. I warned the user. You could do that yourself as well. Taivo (talk) 08:53, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Jahn Smiith[edit]

No idea if Jahn Smiith (talk · contribs) is LTA or not, said something which doesn't look like useful at Commons talk:Abuse filter and Commons talk:Media help. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 05:31, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done. I blocked him indefinitely. Taivo (talk) 08:51, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Seol2004[edit]

Seol2004 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

Persistent uploading of copyrighted materials despite multiple warnings on talk page. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 07:03, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done. I warned the user – (s)he was not properly warned previously. All contributions are deleted. Taivo (talk) 08:56, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Taras Myronyuk[edit]

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

most recent edit was spam, also blocked in several other wikis Denniss (talk) 09:46, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done Blocked for a week. Yann (talk) 09:58, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Qawesc[edit]

Qawesc (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

Uploading copyvios from time to time. Multiple warnings were ignored. 0x0a (talk) 18:46, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

An ocean liner fan234[edit]

User talk:An ocean liner fan234 joined Commons in mid-January, and uploads historic images of merchant ships. The user routinely fails to provide reliable copyright information; does not provide links to online sources; and categorises files extremely vaguely. I and other contributors have tried messaging this user, but have received no constructive response. I welcome the uploading of historic ship images, but I seem unable to persuade An ocean liner fan234 to apply the appropriate templates, links, and categories. Motacilla (talk) 22:01, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If this is about the images you’ve been applying on the deletion I didn’t know those where not public domain I had been using public domain for all my pervious images and used it out of habit after uploading over 60 images using the public domain thing. As for the categories I don’t know what else to add for categories. And for the links I have never been good with adding links I struggled when adding the links to the gallia 1879 and satellite Wikipedia pages on the Cunard ship list. An ocean liner fan234 (talk) 23:41, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Listen man I don’t want my hard work to be deleted I spent lots of time uploading on them pls don’t do this An ocean liner fan234 (talk) 00:03, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
✓ Done. An ocean liner fan intimidated not only the beautiful bird, but also other users. All his/her uploads are now deleted and it seems to me, that (s)he does not understand, why. So I decided to block him/her indefinitely. Taivo (talk) 10:08, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thankyou Taivo. I note that An ocean liner fan234 has asked to be unblocked. Outside of Commons I have a busy few days ahead, but I will try to follow the discussion if I get the opportunity. Motacilla (talk) 19:03, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I have unblocked them but with their compromise to not upload copyright violations again, or files without insufficient information. They may be reblocked at sight if they incur again in such problematic behaviour that led to their original block Bedivere (talk) 19:23, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I will keep track of the user contributions, too. Bedivere (talk) 19:24, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Puppets of Pablo Milano[edit]

Please, consider to delete all files uploaded by the following accounts and block them. These are another puppet of Milanopablojavier24. See: all the identified puppets.

Best regards, Banfield - Amenazas aquí 22:56, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks Bedivere, I also add:
Banfield - Amenazas aquí 20:19, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
✓ Done Bedivere (talk) 21:42, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

copyright violation by Mohamadelectronic1[edit]

non of these uploads are own work of uploader. please delete all and gave final warning to user

there is a logo on right botton sides of all files

also first six uploads are not own work of uploader [[User:Modern Sciences|MSes]] (talk) 04:38, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Juancho Alcalá[edit]

Juancho Alcalá (talk • contribs • block log • filter log) has repeatedly uploaded images with copyright violations despite the warnings and two previous blocks. --Ovruni (talk) 07:05, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done Blocked for 3 months, and Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Juancho Alcalá‎. Yann (talk) 08:47, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Həlimə[edit]

Həlimə (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) persistent copyvio uploading despite warnings and blocks. Quick1984 (talk) 13:42, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done Blocked for a week. Yann (talk) 15:54, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

copyright violation by Mohamadelectronic1 (second time)[edit]

One day after receiving warning, user violated copyrights rules for second time.

Non of these uploads are own work of uploader. please delete all and gave final warning to user.

There is a logo on right botton sides of all files.

This time compare to previous time, user uploads more and more file one commons

please delete all files and block the accounts. [[User:Modern Sciences|MSes]] (talk) 15:21, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done Blocked for a week, and Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Mohamadelectronic1‎. Yann (talk) 15:52, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Bot for Freedom[edit]

After the warning back in June 2023, the bot continues to upload files that infringe intact copyright. George Ho (talk) 20:44, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Hamboning300[edit]

Hamboning300 (talk · contribs) Upload video game screenshot. メイド理世 (talk) 07:48, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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