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Copyright:

• Copyright violations: ~268
• Unfree Flickr files: ~0
• Recent unfree Flickr images: ~11
• No permission since 28 January 2025: ~4
• Media uploaded without a license as of 2025-02: ~210

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• Duplicates: ~1
• Advertisements/spam: ~1
• Personal photos/selfies: ~29
• Other speedy deletions: ~28
• Categories for discussion: 84 months
• Media requiring a split up: ~0
• Requests for unblock: ~5
• Undeletion requests: ~20

Protected edit requests:

• Full protection: ~20
• Interface admin: ~9
• Technical: ~0
• Template protection: ~32
• Protection level: ~2

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Wiki Loves Folklore 2025

Please protect Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 as the campaign starts today and will be used in central notice. Please protect till 01 April 2025 ✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 19:13, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done Abzeronow (talk) 19:17, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Happysadhappy

• Happysadhappy (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• User continued to upload poor quality penis photo despite warnings.

A1Cafel (talk) 02:48, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

 Done The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 05:21, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

Topup10

• Topup10 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• User continued to upload poor quality penis photo despite warnings. One of their uploads were re-uploading previously deleted image just a few days ago.

A1Cafel (talk) 03:51, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

 Done The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 07:19, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

User:JosephC5

JosephC5 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

Block for reuploading at least 12 copyright violating images of Costa Rican buildings that were deleted in this DR and this DR. They have deletion notices on their talk page going back to 2017 and have been blocked twice before for unfree uploads. By this pattern, I believe that this user just refuses to accept that there's no FoP in Costa Rica. — Rubýñ ^(Scold) 21:55, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

 Done. I blocked Joseph for 3 months (3rd block) and mass deleted all his uploads. Taivo (talk) 11:55, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

DUCK socks?

Hello,

NeoArchivist888 (talk · contributions · Statistics) and ByteChronicleXYZ (talk · contributions · Statistics) seem to be socks or meatpuppets. Evidence: same kind of spam-like AI-made uploads with similar names and appearances. That would be against the rule of w:WP:SCRUTINY, assumed applicable here per the link to EN-WP on COM:SOCK. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 16:07, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

These additional accounts are doing the same:

• OmniSage42X (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• QuantumWikiX97 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Marbletan (talk) 16:24, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

 Done All blocked, all files deleted. Could you please create a request for check user, to catch sleepers and block the range(s)? Thanks, Yann (talk) 16:33, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

@Yann: Thank you, Yann. Here is one more: DataMancer777 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. I'll create a checkuser request now. Marbletan (talk) 16:35, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

I have now started a checkuser request: Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/NeoArchivist888. Marbletan (talk) 16:41, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Star Avenue 2018 sock

• McDull Avenue HK (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

New account uploading the same kind of unwanted content as past User:Star Avenue 2018 socks; repetitively dark and blurry photos of Hong Kong at night, as if someone has just walked along taking photos and then uploaded the whole camera folder to Commons. Belbury (talk) 19:37, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Abch222

• Abch222 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

User has racked up 10 copyright violations. I'm also skeptical about the rest of their images being their own work – some are missing relevant metadata which is suspicious. EthanL13 | talk 21:04, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

I don't think any action is required. The user has not been warned and has no recent activity (last edit is 4 months ago). If anything is wrong with their rest of uploads, take the files to DR. --Ratekreel (talk) 21:21, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

User 173.165.191.21

See Special:Contributions/173.165.191.21, suspected block evasion for IP user: Special:Contributions/2601:CF:8200:5830:0:0:0:0/64. This user kept adding irrelevent infos to category pages. I already manually reverted their edits back in January, but they did the same thing again. Tvpuppy (talk) 06:10, 5 February 2025 (UTC)