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  • For page protection requests, please state protection type, file name, and proposed protection time span. See also: Protection Policy.
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Block request for User:NawonFoodAndBeverage

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

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

Block request for User:Eartechnic

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

  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)Reply

Block request for User:Shannonbeachcreative

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

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

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)Reply

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

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)Reply

  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)Reply

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)Reply

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

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)Reply
@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)Reply

Block request for User:Stu the Hammer marshall

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

  Not done. In my opinion acceptable username. Taivo (talk) 10:20, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Only edits have been promo shots. Alachuckthebuck (talk) 22:13, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
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)Reply
Saw the VRT ticket. No action needed other than a thank you for the contribution. Alachuckthebuck (talk) 23:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

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)Reply

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

MAGICPOKEMON

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

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

Dajackson1981

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

  Done Blocked for a week, file deleted. Yann (talk) 15:19, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Yann: Thanks!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 00:30, 24 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

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)Reply

Immanuelle

User:Editorshinerpro

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

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

Sumatra XL IP-hopper

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

  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)Reply

User:Baptiste38056

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

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

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

Ciwan2008

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

Multiple accounts

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)Reply

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