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• Personal photos/selfies: ~2
• Other speedy deletions: ~7
• Categories for discussion: 84 months
• Media requiring a split up: ~1
• Requests for unblock: ~0
• Undeletion requests: ~13

Protected edit requests:

• Full protection: ~40
• Interface admin: ~14
• Technical: ~2
• Template protection: ~29
• Protection level: ~0

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Чръный человек

• User: Чръный человек (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Reasons for reporting: Continued copyvio and lack of COM:EVID uploading (as in File:Иеромонах Варлаам (Сацердотский). 1924.jpg) after final warning for doing so.

  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 20:02, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

• • File:Иеромонах Варлаам (Сацердотский). 1924.jpg was taken in 1924. Аuthor is unknown. What did I do wrong? ~ Чръный человек (talk) 05:13, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

    @Чръный человек: Where was the {{PD-old}} license in special:diff/841576065?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:16, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

    I hurried, and didn't notice the absence of license template. There was also a new download window. ~ Чръный человек (talk) 12:39, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

    @Чръный человек: Please take more time in the future.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:38, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

User:Ob9u

Clearly a sock of User:TCfanssos, see contribs and related files e.g. File:Hatay location Defne.png. I think it would also be beneficial if those files were given upload protection due to the excessive reverting. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - useless contributions} 17:42, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@Matrix: I added to Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/TCfanssos.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:28, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Indefinitely blocked as sockpuppet. Taivo (talk) 13:04, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

@Taivo: Thanks!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 17:37, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Ryan York

Ryan York (talk · contribs)
Continued uploading of copyright violations after a multitude of warnings and two previous blocks. — Frostly (talk) 00:34, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Indefinite block (fourth block). Taivo (talk) 13:13, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Jan Mehs

Jan Mehs (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user User notoriously uploading copyvios, files without permissions, warned in his talk. Please block this copyright violator. Michalg95 (talk) 18:44, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. One week block. Taivo (talk) 13:18, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Flags of cities of China

Flags of cities of China need semi-protect, excessive vandalism. Lemonaka (talk) 03:23, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Jurisdrew is an old vandal, so I semi-protected the page for 3 years. Taivo (talk) 13:19, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

User:Zoeleephine43935

Zoeleephine43935 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Multiple personal attacks against me, see their user page and talk page (in addition to attacks at en.wp). When I asked to remove the attack comment from their user page, the reply itself continued the personal attack. For this and their continued uploading of copyvios (and appears not to understand) this user needs to be blocked. As an involved admin, I can't do this myself. --P 1 9 9  ✉ 14:56, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for 2 weeks, user page deleted. Yann (talk) 22:39, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

LTA targets

• File:Hatay location Antakya.png
• File:Hatay location Yayladağı.png
• File:Hatay location Samandağ.png
• File:Hatay location Altınözü.png
• File:Hatay location Belen.png
• File:Hatay location Defne.png
• File:Hatay location Dörtyol.png
• File:Hatay location Erzin.png
• File:Hatay location Reyhanlı.png
• File:Hatay location Kırıkhan.png
• File:Hatay location Kumlu.png
• File:Hatay location Payas.png
• File:Hatay location Arsuz.png
• File:Hatay location Hassa.png
• File:Hatay location İskenderun.png

Can an admin protect the files above? They have been the subject of sockpuppetry. Also please block 7p-9 as a sockpuppet. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - useless contributions} 18:12, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

 Comment Sock blocked. Yann (talk) 18:23, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done All semi-protected for 3 months. Yann (talk) 22:34, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

File:2004-2006 Kia Spectra LX.jpg

semi-protection; not sure what's up with this kind of vandalism on Kia car photos, but it keeps happening -- they seem to be rotating IPs. Gnomingstuff (talk) 20:44, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Semi-protected for 2 weeks. Yann (talk) 22:16, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

User:MAGICPOKEMON

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

Just uploading copyrighted photos and film stills of the same actor, beyond a yellow warning. No other contributions. Belbury (talk) 17:49, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 18:35, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

File:Maurya Empire, c.250 BCE.png and File:Maurya Empire, c.250 BCE 2.png

Proposing semi-protection. while both of the maps have been targets of persistent edit warring for some months now, this past month especially has been seeing an increase of surreptitious (or with deceptive edit summaries) anon edits tampering with the sourced citations in the descriptions: check page histories. -Avantiputra7 (talk) 06:23, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Both semi-protected for a year. Yann (talk) 10:59, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Messapi

Messapi (talk · contributions · Statistics) Is a clear sockpuppet of Livioandronico2013. Block and/or tag advised. A09 (talk) 22:53, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked. Yann (talk) 10:57, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Protection request (GRP)

• Category:Katyń Monument in Niles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• File:Katyń Memorial - Niles, IL.jpg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

... are the latest targets of the globally banned LTA w:en:WP:LTA/GRP. Due to this pest's history of revert-warring via proxies, I am requesting protection for these pages in advance to not feed the troll and save editor time and energy that would otherwise be spent in revert-warring with him. Thanks! JavaHurricane 10:28, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 10:40, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Il Mastro Titta

Il Mastro Titta (talk · contributions · Statistics) Sock of Livioandronico2013 per itwiki CU actions. Block and tag advised. A09 (talk) 13:14, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done blocked. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 20:04, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

semi-protection for Category:Player pianos

Category:Player pianos - persistent abuse from some LTA. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 15:43, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@XXBlackburnXx  Done for one week. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 19:52, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

User:Flexifyme1

Flexifyme1 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user - repeated spammy PDF uploads. Omphalographer (talk) 21:58, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Indef., spam only. Files deleted. Yann (talk) 23:12, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Uploads by Thatsyrianitalian

Thatsyrianitalian (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

This person has uploaded around 50 images that appear to be film posters, screen shots of films, and the like. The items are all tagged as own work when clearly they are not. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:08, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Last warning sent, and Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Thatsyrianitalian. Yann (talk) 07:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)