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This is a place where users can communicate with administrators, or administrators with one another. You can report vandalism, problematic users, or anything else that needs an administrator's intervention. Do not report child pornography or other potentially illegal content here; e-mail legal-reports@wikimedia.org instead. If reporting threatened harm to self or others also email emergency@wikimedia.org.

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Hello. Can anyone check this image file? It seems suspicious for me. Thanks in advance. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contributions) 02:51, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looking. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 03:30, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@JWilz12345 It does not appear that either revision contains stenographically encoded data (i.e. no hidden images). Seems COM:OOS though? —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 04:02, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mdaniels5757 unused in any Wikimedia area/site/page. No forseeable use. So yeah, out of scope too. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contributions) 08:58, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@JWilz12345: Nominated for deletion as OOS. --A1Cafel (talk) 09:24, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
See https://www.avid.wiki/Coventry_Productions Glrx (talk) 02:59, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Uploads by User:Thebigsixth

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

Could admin take a look at the files recently uploaded by Thebigsixth; they're all uploaded under a {{cc-by-sa-4.0}} and claimed as "own work", but that seems unlikely to be the case. This just could be a good faith misunderstanding of COM:L and COM:Own work, and some of the files might actually be old enough to be now PD. -- Marchjuly (talk) 09:51, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Mostly deleted, user warned. Yann (talk) 10:57, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Yann: Could you take a look at File:Richard Adams Hogan.jpg? It's the same uploader, and the file seems to be a reupload of one of the files you deleted per F3. The file name is at least the same, but the file itself might be different. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:40, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done blocked by The Squirrel Conspiracy. All the Best -- Chuck Talk 03:05, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
(Edit conflict) ✓ Done It was the same photo uploaded a day after they were warned. File deleted, user blocked for 2 weeks. I saw you tried to point them in the direction of the relevant policies (thank you!), but if they're not willing to read warnings, we can't help. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:06, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to everyone you took a look at this. FWIW, this user is working on a draft at English Wikipedia, and most of the files they uploaded here seem to be also uploaded to English Wikipedia as non-free content. The "problem" (if you want to call it that) they were having on English Wikipedia is that non-free content isn't allowed to be used in drafts per Wikipedia's non-free content use policy; so, the files kept getting removed by a bot. My guess is that they just mistakenly assumed that uploading the files here to Commons would make them OK to use in the draft. Obviously, that's not the case, but I don't think there's anything more to this than that. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:52, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the Occam's razor compliant explanation. All the Best -- Chuck Talk 06:12, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Hmd5i

They personally attacked me and harassed me on their talk page by calling me a dumb and stupid person just because I joined a few months ago. This is what they said: "Be careful next time , don’t be a dumb when waiting updates form website , you are here just months and look like crazy". If it is not there, check the talk page histpry and it should be there. They also put misinformation on the syrian coa varations by attempting to edit war with me, but luckily that's fixed. 🗽Freedoxm🗽 (talk) 08:31, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Freedoxm: I have given them a warning to remain civil in discussions, and removed both the words from the thread. Regards, Aafi (talk) 09:21, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. 🗽Freedoxm🗽 (talk) 16:59, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Candidates for revision deletion and its subcats have a backlog of up to a year. Is anyone taking care of this category at all? C.Suthorn (@[email protected] - p7.ee/p) (talk) 11:41, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

Would any admin like to assess the consensus of and close this discussion: Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Luigi Mangione? The Luigi Mangione article on the English Wikipedia is in the preparation queue for DYK, so it would be nice to have any copyright issues resolved before it appears on the main page. Thanks in advance! Some1 (talk) 19:15, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Photos deleted since there is no evidence that Altoona police waived copyright. Abzeronow (talk) 20:29, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, the user requests that all of his files be deleted.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Deletion_requests/az Sofia (talk) 05:37, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Accounts cannot be deleted, and their claim that got their account deleted on Wikipedia is absurd. Also, account renames are global and I don't see that here. Many of the links in the message are external. Regards, Aafi (talk) 06:43, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
He wrote this with his new account. He should log in to his old account and request that his files be deleted. Sofia (talk) 07:16, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Most of the links there aren't even links to anything. - Jmabel ! talk 18:26, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cross namespace moves by new users

I just noticed that new users are able to move pages between namespaces. I thought that was not possible. Was that always possible? If yes I think we should create a filter to block such moves. GPSLeo (talk) 15:42, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For others: Special:Diff/980262033 and Special:Diff/980261107 are examples. Regards, Aafi (talk) 16:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
per Special:ListGroupRights, autoconfirmed users have ability to move pages. Perhaps, ideally becauses talk-pages are different than files, and maybe not included in movefile, which is only reserved to file-movers apart from admins. Regards, Aafi (talk) 16:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Datasets about potential logos - December 2024 uploads

Hi all, we have released a new dataset of potential logos uploaded in December 2024, together with another one of those which have already been deleted as of 2025-01-07. We are sharing them with you for your consideration.

This is part of our current work with the logo detection tool. We hope it will be useful for your moderation activities.

If you encounter issues with the datasets or have comments/requests, please reach out to me or to Sannita (WMF).

Thanks for your attention! –-MFossati (WMF) (talk) 10:25, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]