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• Personal photos/selfies: ~39
• Other speedy deletions: ~17
• Categories for discussion: 84 months
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• Undeletion requests: ~16

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• Protection level: ~0

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Block request for User:NawonFoodAndBeverage

NawonFoodAndBeverage (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Username for spam or containing advertising purposes Alachuckthebuck (talk) 01:47, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done by Pi Bedivere (talk) 20:44, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Block request for User:Eartechnic

Eartechnic (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Username for spam or containing advertising purposes Alachuckthebuck (talk) 18:47, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done I am just not happy with misleading usernames. I blocked them for violating our username policy. ─ Aafī (talk) 19:23, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Block request for User:Shannonbeachcreative

Shannonbeachcreative (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Username for spam or containing advertising purposes Alachuckthebuck (talk) 20:32, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done Bedivere (talk) 20:43, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Category:Symbolic graves of Katyn Massacre victims in Poland

Please protect the category and revdel edit summaries. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 20:35, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked and protected. Bedivere (talk) 20:42, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

User:Sswetip

Keeps uploading deleted files, should be indeffed, it's a LTA with many socks anyway. Tehonk (talk) 05:54, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done. I blocked him/her for a month for re-uploading content deleted per community consensus. I am not sure in sockpuppetry. You can create a request for checkuser. Fellow administrators, feel free to lengthen the block, if this is really LTA. Taivo (talk) 08:32, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

File:Lugg Valley Travel bus (YG52 DGY), 22 March 2008.jpg

Please protect the file again and revdel comments. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 08:27, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done. One year semi-protection . I blocked the IP and hided the edit summary. Taivo (talk) 08:36, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

User:Kmarius

Please unblock this file file in order to update (I am the author), thank you. --Kmarius

 Not done. We cannot do anything, because the image is not protected in Commons. Instead, it is in Polish Wikipedia main page. All images in Polish Wikipedia main page are automatically protected. You must wait, until the image is taken down from pl.wiki main page and after that you can edit the image. Taivo (talk) 18:55, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@Kmarius: If you want a specific change while the file is protected, please mention it here and I (or another admin) can make it for you. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:35, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Block request for User:Stu the Hammer marshall

Stu the Hammer marshall (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Username for spam or containing advertising purposes Alachuckthebuck (talk) 20:17, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

 Not done. In my opinion acceptable username. Taivo (talk) 10:20, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Only edits have been promo shots. Alachuckthebuck (talk) 22:13, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Searched Guitarist and producer Stu Marshall on Google and seems to be legit. I don't think it's sanctionable. Plus the file has permission. Bedivere (talk) 23:10, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Saw the VRT ticket. No action needed other than a thank you for the contribution. Alachuckthebuck (talk) 23:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

File:InfoboxHez.PNG

The simplified version of Hezbollah's flag is not protected by copyright, but people continue to upload the full version of the flag, which is protected by copyright. It is hoped that the image will be fully protected for at least two years. --Fumikas Sagisavas (talk) 08:26, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

No new version have been lately uploaded. I see no point in getting it protected. --Bedivere (talk) 23:11, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

MAGICPOKEMON

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

Still uploading copyvios of Chinese actors after a final warning and previous block. No other contributions. Belbury (talk) 10:40, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a month, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 10:44, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Dajackson1981

• User: Dajackson1981 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Reasons for reporting: Continued copyvio uploading with File:Reddit logo 2023.svg after final warning for doing so.

  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:13, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week, file deleted. Yann (talk) 15:19, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@Yann: Thanks!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:30, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

File:Crocus City Hall1.png

Please look at File talk:Crocus City Hall1.png. User EggRoll97 claims that this protected file is a screenshot of Google Maps from August 2012 and, as far as I can see, he is absolutely right. Quick1984 (talk) 08:38, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

• This file can be painlessly replaced in all inclusions with File:Crocus City Hall 2015-09 1442079372.JPG. --Quick1984 (talk) 08:43, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

  FYI: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Crocus City Hall1.png ─ Aafī (talk) 11:19, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

User:Editorshinerpro

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

Copyvio after final warning. Belbury (talk) 12:38, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week, all copyvios deleted. Yann (talk) 12:48, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Sumatra XL IP-hopper

User: 140.213.0.0/16 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Vandalism on Indonesia national football team kits, adding non-existent kits. Flix11 (talk) 14:22, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done This range is too large. I blocked Special:Contributions/140.213.230.0/24 for 3 months, and semi-protected the page for a month. Yann (talk) 17:38, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

User:Baptiste38056

Baptiste38056 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Baptiste35363637782 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Warned several times, user keeps reuploading the copyrighted Disney trailer logo under different accounts. 0x0a (talk) 19:09, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

J me suis bien informé et ce logo que j'ai fait en capture d'écran n'est pas protégé par les droits d'auteurs donc veuillez s'il vous plait arreter de me déranger et ne plus d'eranger mon article car il est totalement legale. Veuillez donc le déblocer. Merci Baptiste38056 (talk) 19:39, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done Both accounts blocked for abusing multiple accounts. A block for copyright violations was overdue as a last warning was already given. Bedivere (talk) 20:22, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

@Bedivere: Thanks!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:47, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Ciwan2008

• User: Ciwan2008 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Reasons for reporting: For years, I have been railing against incomplete deletion requests, which are caused by malformed use of {{Delete}} templates and lack of follow-through, and which are populating subcats of Category:Incomplete deletion requests. This problem spurred the creation of that category 17:57, 1 February 2007 (UTC), over 17 years ago, and my tracking of it 18:16, 14 November 2020 (UTC), over three years ago. As a precedent, ColorfulSmoke was blocked 17:07, 29 December 2020 (UTC) by Mdaniels5757 with an expiration time of 3 days (account creation blocked) for "Continuing to make malformed deletion requests despite repeated instructions; not responding to concerns on talk page", pursuant to the discussion archived at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections/Archive 29#ColorfulSmoke, and Alex Neman was blocked 16:30, 27 January 2023 (UTC) by Yann with an expiration time of 1 month (account creation blocked) for "Continuing to make malformed deletion requests despite repeated instructions; not responding to concerns on talk page" pursuant to the discussion archived at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections/Archive 34#Alex Neman. Ciwan2008 made this edit on or before 12 February 2024: omitting transclusion, the subpage, year, month, and day. I warned them in this edit 02:01, 12 February 2024 (UTC), surviving as User talk:Ciwan2008#Warning. They neglected to respond and made such edits again in this edit 11:21, 26 March 2024 (UTC) and this other edit 11:22, 26 March 2024 (UTC): omitting the same.

  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:28, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Multiple accounts

• Денис Емельяненко (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Denisemelyanenko (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• TolicAntonov (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Therudekingsmusic (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Each of these accounts is re-uploading the same repeatedly deleted files (deleted, for example, as "cross-wiki spam"). Marbletan (talk) 12:38, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked 3 socks indef. Yann (talk) 12:55, 26 March 2024 (UTC)