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Gorepore

Gorepore is an obvious sock of Jurisdrew as per the duck test. Fry1989 ^eh? 14:51, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Blocked, thanks. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 15:29, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Oops, we've got another! Borepore. Fry1989 ^eh? 17:26, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Already globally locked. Taivo (talk) 10:45, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Vandalism

This user:Quick1984, registered 15 days ago, nominates all existing contract cases for removal. Please block this member as he is breaking the rules.

Diniyar Khasanov (talk) 15:59, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

 Not done. No evidence of vandalism is shown. Taivo (talk) 12:40, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@Diniyar Khasanov: You now have a week to reconsider your "Intimidation/harassment".   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:54, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Block request

白布街藝興大廈16樓12室 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Outlooik (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Tea Ma T-Ma (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Zitaa123 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Same user for Tricono (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user, first three please see CA, Zitaa123 please see edit.--MCC214#ex umbra in solem 09:06, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

I blocked Zitaa, the others have no edits in Commons, neither living nor dead. Taivo (talk) 10:49, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@MCC214 Reported to m:srg as socks of AXXXXK.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:57, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

LotobomyMaster2

• LotobomyMaster2 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Vandalism only account (cross-wiki vandalism). Marbletan (talk) 13:46, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@Marbletan: Reported to m:srg as a sock of LotobomyMaster.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:58, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked. Yann (talk) 14:06, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

File:Sharon Green Middleton (2023).jpg

Please protect File:Sharon Green Middleton (2023).jpg due to excessive vandalism. Johnj1995 (talk) 19:07, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@Johnj1995,  Done Kadı Message 22:59, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Tonowari

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

Repeated vandalism by creating false flags, publishing maps without a single source, and then inserting them into Wikipedia articles, often leading to editing wars. I think this is a Sockpuppets account of Takiva. Riad Salih (talk) 23:42, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for socking. Please nominate files on case by base basis. Yann (talk) 08:43, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Block request for Larigoll

Please block Larigoll (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user for continuous copyright violation. Flix11 (talk) 06:24, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

@Flix11,  Done Kadı Message 07:56, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Protection request:

• Category:Vorsetzer (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Latest target of banned LTA Projects w:en:WP:LTA/GRP. JavaHurricane 10:04, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done. I semi-protected the category for a month and blocked 6 IP-s. Taivo (talk) 11:52, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Aiman_Zaharuddin

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

User has been uploading copyvios since Dec. 2022 and re-uploaded copyrighted photo after receiving a final warning. 0x0a (talk) 14:03, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done. One week block, but I did not look his remaining uploads. Taivo (talk) 16:24, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Kämpfer Nik

• Kämpfer Nik (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Keeps uploading copyvios even after having been blocked for it on dewiki and multiple warnings. XenonX3 (talk) 20:25, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Blocked indef. All files deleted. --A.Savin 20:29, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Josmarck

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

Sock puppet re-uploading recently deleted spam image--Trade (talk) 00:55, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Indefinitely blocked by Pi. Taivo (talk) 16:25, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Categories being vandalized/spammed by WMF-banned LTA

Hi there - would you be so kind as to semiprotect the following:

• Category:Player pianos
• Category:Reproducing pianos

He uses a VPN or open proxies, so blocking his IPs has limited effectiveness. Thanks in advance, Antandrus (talk) 21:35, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done, both protected for a year. Ymblanter (talk) 11:44, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Protection request

File:Cold War border changes.png needs to be protected and probably be reverted to a stable version. FlorianH76 (talk) 04:09, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Gurwill

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

Advertising-only account. Has been warned, but persists in uploading promotional files. Marbletan (talk) 13:55, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@Marbletan:  Done, blocked thanks to Herbythyme.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:39, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Wilhelm the bad

• Wilhelm the bad (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

The user constantly uploads non-free images. For example, he has uploaded File:Vasily Kuznetsov (Diplomat), but the exact image had been deleted before File:Chairman Kuznetsov.jpg. Please block him for the multiple violation of the rules. FlorianH76 (talk) 17:08, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Botii12

• Botii12 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Obvious sock of Oscareduardo10 (see Category:Sockpuppets of Oscareduardo10). Re-uploading deleted files previously uploaded by other socks. Marbletan (talk) 18:17, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done: Indeffed and deleted the file. ─ Aafī (talk) 18:26, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Protection for Category:Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia [edit=semi]

Vandalism by GRP. --Leonidlednev (talk) 18:29, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done for one-month. I have also hidden the apparent libellous and offensive edit-summaries. ─ Aafī (talk) 18:36, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Socks of Shahrozahmed78888

• Mail7776 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Mail7666 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Noah7899 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Somr987 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Obvious socks of Shahrozahmed78888 (see Category:Sockpuppets of Shahrozahmed78888). Repeatedly uploading the same deleted file using multiple accounts. Marbletan (talk) 19:18, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done All gone. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:54, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done Mail8887 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Also blocked. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:16, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Atoyebi Taofeek001

Atoyebi Taofeek001 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

• File:Ujawal Jha.jpg
• File:Ujawal Jhaa.jpg

Appears to be the sockpuppet of blocked user User:Gbolahan070. Prev blocked account User:Mueezmuezzpeak. Continuing to upload pictures of person named Ujawal Jha. All articles and Wikidata items of Mr Jha have been repeatedly deleted. -- William Graham (talk) 01:03, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 07:18, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

File:2000-2001 Kia Spectra -- 09-24-2010.jpg

semi-protection needed; honestly we need a rangeblock for this LTA vandal, but they seem to be choosing one article per time in whackamole fashion Gnomingstuff (talk) 06:52, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

 Half done Protected. I'll leave the range block to another admin. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 07:16, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

@The Squirrel Conspiracy: Addresses are 109.107.224.115 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • abusefilter • tools • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log) and 5.45.138.229 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • abusefilter • tools • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log). Ranges are 91.186.240.0/20 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • abusefilter • tools • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log), 5.45.131.0/24 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • abusefilter • tools • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log), 37.220.112.0/22 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • abusefilter • tools • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log), and 92.241.32.0/20 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • abusefilter • tools • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log). All are in Jordan, in or near Amman.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 16:53, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

User:T-Series7

• T-Series7 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

It seems that they keep doing shenanigans on their user talk page. - THV | ♂ | U | T - 13:03, 8 February 2024 (UTC); edited: 13:05, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done by Elcobbola The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 20:30, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Another sock of Shahrozahmed78888

• Mail7744 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Obvious sock of Shahrozahmed78888 (see Category:Sockpuppets of Shahrozahmed78888). Repeatedly uploading the same deleted file using multiple accounts. Marbletan (talk) 15:15, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done. I blocked the user indefinitely. Taivo (talk) 15:57, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Protection for category targeted by LTA

• Category:Khmer Rouge

It's the usual WMF-banned pest, with his harassing edit summaries and revert-until-protected behavior - thank you in advance - Antandrus (talk) 19:41, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 20:29, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

@The Squirrel Conspiracy: Also Category:Cambodia.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:19, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Appears  Done. ─ Aafī (talk) 19:12, 9 February 2024 (UTC)