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Requesting blocks for long-term abuser

Just requesting blocks for the following accounts/IPs for long-term abuse (see LTA case page on enwiki) as they were continuously harassing me on my talk page:

• 92.247.9.130 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• 149.62.207.46 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• EvilAngelSD (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• EvilAngelHD (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Also thank you to Achim55 for semi-protecting my talk page. Aydoh8^{[contribs | uploads]} 01:21, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Also requesting that someone send the accounts to SRG for global locking. I would however I don't have autoconfirmed on Meta. Aydoh8^{[contribs | uploads]} 01:24, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Already done Globally locked. Yann (talk) 13:57, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Lower protection for File:Flag of Russia.svg

I wanted to upload a more optimized version but it said I couldn’t overwrite the file, so I came here to see if protection can be lowered. RobloxMiner$$ (talk) 20:59, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

I told RobloxMiner that upload protection for that file is sysop only. I think we can lower upload protection to autopatroller. Abzeronow (talk) 21:02, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Sure, that could work. RobloxMiner$$ (talk) 21:09, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Bumping since I could do this myself but would like some feedback before I do it. Abzeronow (talk) 00:14, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

To be honest, I really wasn’t sure where else this was about to go days ago RobloxMiner$$ (talk) 04:52, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

@RobloxMiner$$: "More optimized" means what? Any visual differences, or just tighter code? - Jmabel ! talk 18:41, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Well here’s the new code from the optimized file I got, which stands at 220 bytes:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 900 600" width="900" height="600"><path fill="#fff" d="M0 0h900v300H0z"/><path fill="#d52b1e" d="M0 300h900v300H0z"/><path fill="#0039a6" d="M0 200h900v200H0z"/></svg>

RobloxMiner$$ (talk) 02:51, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

@RobloxMiner$$: I'll do this; please indicate here when you are done so protection can be restored. That said, changing protection back and forth is a LOT to go through to shrink a file by 45 bytes, and I hope you do not plan to make a lot of requests like this. - Jmabel ! talk 04:03, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Done RobloxMiner$$ (talk) 06:16, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Protect POTY 2024 from vandalism

Dear administrators,

POTY 2024 is starting in approximately 24 hours. CentralNotice banners will be placed on all wikis with a link to POTY which usually drives huge trafic on POTY pages. Last year multiple POTY 2023 pages were repeatedly vandalized including the contest main page (see this history for examples) until they got protected. I think this time it could be nice to protect the pages before they get vandalized. Here are some pages that should be protected:

• Template:POTY2024/header
• Template:New-poty-header
• Template:POTY gallery/2024
• Module:POTY/state.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Arthropods/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Passeriformes/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Other birds/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Mammals/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Other animals/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Constructions and buildings/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Religious architecture/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Castles and fortifications/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Settlements/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Other places/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Astronomy and outer space/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Natural views/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Natural phenomena/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Vehicles and transport/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Sculptures/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Other objects/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Historical/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/People and human activity/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Food and drink/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Plants and fungi/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Non-photographic media/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/Uncategorized and other/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery/All/data.json
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Gallery
• Picture of the Year/2024/Rules
• Commons:Picture of the Year/2024/Help
• Commons:Picture of the Year/Committee

And all galleries accessible from the gallery page.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Kind regards,

-- Giles Laurent (talk) 21:12, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

• @Giles Laurent: is there some reason you took perfectly clear internal links and recaptioned each of them to make it, more confusingly, a URL? Do you mind if I (or someone) remove those link captions here? - Jmabel ! talk 21:18, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

  @Jmabel: All those links are publicly shared in the Picture of the Year talk page, they are not secret and it's already been like that in 2023. There was also a request for protecting all those links in the 2023 POTY edition which was granted. I just made links for making administrators job easier to protect the page. There was no problem with these links being asked for protection in 2023, I don't see why it would now in 2024. Anyway if you think it's wiser to delete the links from this page you can (but I don't see the point because they are no secret) but most importantly I think the pages should be protected. Thank you for your understanding. -- Giles Laurent (talk) 22:01, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

  I have changed the URLs to internal links. I think there is a bit of misunderstanding here, I think Jmabel was asking why you decided to use URLs (e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024) instead of internal links (e.g. Commons:Picture of the Year/2024). Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 23:06, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

  @Giles Laurent: @Tvpuppy is right; we vastly prefer internal links.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:47, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

So back to the substance of this: does someone want to take on doing all these protections? With the "all galleries accessible from" portion, this is quite a large task. - Jmabel ! talk 18:24, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

We use a titleblacklist for this. AntiCompositeNumber (they/them) (talk) 18:27, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Glad to hear there is a tool for this. New to me, and I'm not particularly interested in learning it. Does someone want to take this on? - Jmabel ! talk 19:02, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I understand there is a lot of pages to protected, but at the moment can someone please add protection to Commons:Picture of the Year/2024? It is the main page of the event and today it’s has been edited by good-faithed newcomers. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 17:04, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Agree, please protect at least the main page. Last year someome had completely deleted it and the contest was inaccessible for multiple minutes which is very problematic and inacceptable as there are links on all wikis advertising POTY so many people get impacted by vandalism! -- Giles Laurent (talk) 17:09, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Commons:Picture of the Year/2024 fully protected for 4 months.

@AntiCompositeNumber: if, as you imply, there is a relatively simple way to do this all, could you (or someone) please take that on? - Jmabel ! talk 17:49, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

I made the protection setting similar to last years at MediaWiki:Titleblacklist. But this only covers the pages below /gallery I am going to protect all remaining pages listed above. GPSLeo (talk) 19:29, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done Everything listed should now be protected through page protection or title blacklist. GPSLeo (talk) 19:34, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

rocca san nicola - unblock

Hi everybody. Please unlock this file File:Agrigento rocca san nicola.jpg, it was done 10 years ago. MrKeefeJohn (talk) 08:14, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done --Yann (talk) 13:53, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@Yann: thanks. MrKeefeJohn (talk) 08:25, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Daniel.9

• User: Daniel.9 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Reasons for reporting: Continued copyvio uploading with File:Petrochina logo.svg after final warning for doing so and Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections/Archive 41#Daniel.9.

  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:49, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week, file deleted. Yann (talk) 13:52, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, Yann!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:55, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Lower protection or fulfill edit requests

For the sysop-only for editing protected pages in this list: PD-Layout, GNU-Layout, CC-Layout, Other License-Layout, Deprecate License-Layout, FoP, Partnership, Source. Could the protection either be lowered to template-editor or the edit requests fulfilled when a sysop gets a chance? Waddie96 (talk) 07:36, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

• PD-Layout
• GNU-Layout - done Jmabel ! talk 16:19, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
• CC-Layout
• Other License-Layout
• Deprecate License-Layout - Done by Lucas Werkmeister 17:31, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
• FoP - Done by Lucas Werkmeister 17:33, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
• Partnership
• Source - Done by Lucas Werkmeister 17:33, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

Admins: Please track progress in bullet list. Jmabel ! talk 16:19, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

User:Esa Redžović

Esa Redžović (talk · contribs) continues to upload copyrighted images after last warning. --Smooth O (talk) 07:47, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a month. Lets see if they get the message Gbawden (talk) 09:52, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

User talk:Noeruchan

This page is usually be vandalized by a sockpuppet recently. It should be semi-protected for a long time. Nvdtn19 (talk) 05:13, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done by Achim55. Yann (talk) 16:34, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

User:O2532

User: O2532 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Reason for reporting: Apparently a sockpuppet (Category:Sockpuppets of Saranphat chaiphet) created for block evasion, because (1) the user uploaded copyvio files related to Nan province, which are exactly the same files as those uploaded by the socks in the mentioned category, and (2) the username is similar to those in the mentioned category, such as Oh-2532 (talk · contribs), which indicates their relationship.

-- Miwako Sato (talk) 08:56, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done Blocked. Yann (talk) 16:34, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Xyxyzyz

• Xyxyzyz (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user;
• User continued to upload problematic images like File:Sticker art and street art and graffiti in Sydney 2025 01.jpg despite warnings and blocks.

A1Cafel (talk) 14:13, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a month. Yann (talk) 16:32, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

User:July2806

User: July2806 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Reason: Uploaded copyvio File:Adidas 'Trionda' 2026 World Cup Ball Leaked.jpg on 11 September 2025 after final warning User talk:July2806#Copyright violations on 9 August 2025.

-Consigned (talk) 01:14, 20 September 2025 (UTC)