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Tluppuk[edit]

User: Tluppuk (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Reason for reporting: Also user "Hhahoaldg2". REASON = These are sockpuppets of "Musée Annam" and categorise images in a very idiosyncratic and unorthodox manner, see redirecting "Category:People wearing conical straw hats in Vietnam" to "Category:Nón tơi". --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:30, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I concur; both accounts seem to be his. It's quite clear from edits like this (using hyphens between words) and this (old-style swearing), not to mention the topic. Both reported to m:SRG. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 03:29, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
A puppet of C/Musee Annam/Đăng Đàn Cung. After insulting me [1] and was banned as an IP user, he now created a new account.
“Category:Fake flags of Donald Trung” created by this account is a desperate attempt to counter the Category:Fake SVGs by 南文會館. This puppet claimed Donald Trung was uploading fake flags, but Trung’s files were made based on sources. While Musee Annam’s only source is “trust me bro” (he added some links that claimed as source, but no one can check them (they just direct to Wikimedia-Wikipedia pages) — Daeva Trạc (talk) 03:49, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
✓ Done I have been through a lot of their edits (from all the three four accounts), and it is behaviourally "most likely", and a clear case of {{Duck}}. Blocked and tagged. ─ The Aafī (talk) 06:46, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Ggmarien is another sockpuppet; he's done the same exact bizarre editing error on all of his uploads that Hhahoaldg2 and like one or two other accounts did. They're spread out and he would abandon those other ones after uploading for some bizarre reason. NorthTension (talk) 11:02, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oh mb I didn't see Trung's new post, is it fine if I collect his dropped sockpuppets here or should I make a separate post? I've never used this page before NorthTension (talk) 11:05, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
✓ Done Blocked. Yann (talk) 11:24, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Donald Trung, Daeva Trạc, and NorthTension: Instead of moving categories, just report them and nuke all edits. This is the best way to DENY them the right to edit here. Yann (talk) 11:35, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yann, I'm not a fan of nuking and "WP:DENY", especially since a lot of their uploads are rare images which are often valuable, their only disruption came from categorisations, their uploads often need to be independently fact checked and I was in the process of fact checking their claimed "Flag of Hoa people" to see if it was accurate, it's quite common for them to upload legitimate images that are then deleted but later turn out to be quite valuable. -- — Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 11:41, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
As you like, but this just encourage them to continue. Why don't you upload these files yourself? Yann (talk) 12:15, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yann, many of these files are extremely rare to find or are SVG creations of files found in books. I don't like to encourage them, but if they don't disrupt I typically ignore him. Anyhow, thanks for cleaning up. — Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 12:40, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I think you may have just deleted the only instances of them on the internet, unless you can recover them someone else is going to have to dig and re-do every single file he did and who knows how long that's going to take. NorthTension (talk) 15:31, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Yann is there any way for you to restore any of the images you deleted? Like me and Trung said those are EXTREMELY rare. I can't find some archived on the Wayback Machine either. NorthTension (talk) 22:13, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I suppose you can make an undeletion request if you think any file is worth undeletion (and if license is fine) at COM:UDR. A direct way to locate the files is going to the user's logs. ─ The Aafī (talk) 22:35, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Donald Trung, Daeva Trạc, and NorthTension: I undeleted some files (scans of old documents). Yann (talk) 19:27, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

2003:CF:DF3E:EE00:C56B:5523:316A:2097[edit]

User: 2003:CF:DF3E:EE00:C56B:5523:316A:2097 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Reason for reporting: real estate company spam. Count Count (talk) 11:46, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Shahroz78999[edit]

User: Shahroz78999 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Reason for reporting: See history (also deleted versions) of File:Mvp Development.jpg. See also User User:Shahrozahmed789999, User:MVP development789 and User:202.165.235.129 - Plain advertisements. Pentachlorphenol (talk) 12:23, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Convenience templates: Shahrozahmed789999 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) , MVP development789 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) , and 202.165.235.129 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • abusefilter • tools • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log)   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:27, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
✓ Done Shahroz78999, MVP development789 and Mvp7888 - indeffed for spam and obvious socking. Shahrozahmed789999 does not exist locally and I don't see any local data for the IP. ─ The Aafī (talk) 15:20, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I also deleted the file under G10. ─ The Aafī (talk) 15:21, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Chrismb 11[edit]

User: Chrismb 11 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Reason for reporting: Threat or attack, including the description of the uploaded image. It may have been deleted already, though. Grand-Duc (talk) 16:29, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

112.201.163.81[edit]

User: 112.201.163.81 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Reason for reporting: persistent vandalism over extended period Gnomingstuff (talk) 04:54, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done. One week block. Vandalism is reverted. Taivo (talk) 11:46, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Onofrei69[edit]

User: Onofrei69 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Reason for reporting: LTA Gnomingstuff (talk) 04:56, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done. One week block. Taivo (talk) 11:49, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Demonx2010[edit]

User: Demonx2010 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Reason for reporting: sockpuppetry for adding hoaxes, uploading same flags as 8348e (talk · contribs) ‎
Lemonaka (talk) 01:55, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:20, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Mass rollback needed[edit]

Some user mass tagged images for cropping when it isnt needed at all https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/DebbieUfedo could the changes be rolled back? --FMSky (talk) 08:28, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@FMSky: while these may be bad edits, they are almost certainly not vandalism. And when reporting someone on a board like this, you should always notify them on their user talk page, which you didn't do. And I'm not immediately sure that all of them are "bad", though some certainly are. - Jmabel ! talk 21:10, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: I don't notify users of reports about them on this particular board, and I didn't put that in the header here, per en:WP:DENY.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:31, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
If the intent here were clearly vandalistic, I'd have no problem with that. This looks misguided, but quite possibly within the bounds of good faith. No objection to a mass rollback if someone thinks none (or almost none) of these are correct, but I'd suggest engaging this editor as a first step, not blocking them. - Jmabel ! talk 23:54, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: They stopped three months ago, so there may not be any point now, but I wrote to them anyway. The tool they used, FIST 1.1, is now 404 at https://fist.toolforge.org/fist/fist.php.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:10, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jeff G.: Ah, I hadn't even looked at dates on these. So there is no urgency. FMSky, would you be willing to look through, say, 25 of these and see whether it should really be a mass rollback or needs to be more selective? - Jmabel ! talk 00:48, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Already did, most of them are completely useless. How would it even be possible to crop this and this any further..? --FMSky (talk) 00:56, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User00002002[edit]

User: User00002002 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Reason for reporting: Already blocked on itwiki for trolling and block evasion, they add a lot of copyrighted images on commons (just see the deleted - but also the live - edits on commons), thanks! P.S. Please also see this diff (re: @Elcobbola: ) Superpes15 (talk) 23:18, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done Indef-blocked. I would only have gone a month or two for the copyvios but [2] puts this in another league. - Jmabel ! talk 00:57, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I deleted speedily two files with "source – Google". Taivo (talk) 12:58, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks both @Jmabel and Taivo:  :) A short block would not be enough in this case, they just love trolling (also while logged out), surely will start trolling elsewhere (and at this point I would consider a lock)! Superpes15 (talk) 16:46, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Revdel'd insulting comment. Yann (talk) 18:03, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

InilanNahklia[edit]

User: InilanNahklia (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Reason for reporting: Repeated copyvios, despite a final warning by user:Elcobbola. Grand-Duc (talk) 01:59, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

✓ Done. One week block, all contributions are deleted. Taivo (talk) 13:03, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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