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• Personal photos/selfies: ~1
• Other speedy deletions: ~98
• Categories for discussion: 84 months
• Media requiring a split up: ~1
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• Undeletion requests: ~10

Protected edit requests:

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• Interface admin: ~13
• Technical: ~2
• Template protection: ~31
• Protection level: ~0

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User:Alwataralwatar30

• Alwataralwatar30 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

User continued to upload a large number of copyrighted files and claim own works, including re-uploading deleted files, and do not seem to have learned from a previous block. 0x0a (talk) 08:07, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for 3 months - lets hope they get the message Gbawden (talk) 10:12, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

@Gbawden Please also close the DR. 0x0a (talk) 10:20, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Tool issue. Sorted now Gbawden (talk) 10:28, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

HelpfulHens & 81.101.7.190

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

These accounts are being used to evade a global lock applied to the master's prior accounts.

Both the account and IP have been blocked on enwiki due to being socks of the master Lostonmyway. See the most recent SPI here.

Several other blocked socks of the master have been globally locked due to cross wiki abuse:

• Barrow65 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Barrow1965 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• IloveCrovan (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

HelpfulHens has separately been blocked on several other wikis for abuse.

Similar behaviour is going on on commoons, including socking between the account and IP ([1][2][3]) and edit warring against a number of editors without consensus (File:European Union member states and candidates v2.svg). After their IP sock was blocked on enwiki, HelpfulHens retaliated by going on a cross wiki streak of disruptive edits targetting the admin with personal attacks and arbitrary reverts: [4][5][6][7][8][9]. TDL (talk) 06:01, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done I blocked indef. Lostonmyway and HelpfulHens, and the IP for 3 months. I also reverted most of their edits. Yann (talk) 07:23, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

User:Minnerbot XD

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

Username implies a bot. 0x0a (talk) 07:02, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done - OP blocked by elcobbola as block evading sock . 0x0a (talk) 10:53, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

User:Ikhee130

• Ikhee130 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Has repeatedly uploaded the same copyvio/suspected copyvio. Remsense (talk) 18:35, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week, and Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Ikhee130‎. Yann (talk) 18:56, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

IP block

Hello, I am a long time contributor (w:user:Gwillhickers). I was right in the middle of an editing session on English Wikipedia (main) when I got an IP Address blocked notice. When I attempted to bring this to the attention at the Help Desk there I still got the IP Blocked message. Ironically, I am able to make edits here at Commons, which is why I'm posting this message here. I realize that my IP address has been blocked at Wikipedia main for some time ( I use a cell phone hot spot), but I have always been able to log on and edit under my user name. Don't know where else to turn. Any help resolving this problem would be greatly appreciated. -- Best, Gwillhickers (talk) 21:06, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Okay, the problem has disappeared. I logged off, wen}}t off line, and closed my browser (Firefox). Then I fired up the browser again, searched and selected my usual internet signal and logged on at Wikipedia. After I logged again on I was then able to make edits again. Don't know what was going on, but I suppose we all know how flakey software and servers can be at times. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 21:25, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi, You may be able to get w:Wikipedia:IP block exemption on Wikipedia, or Commons:IP block exemption on Commons. Yann (talk) 10:39, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

User:DIGITAL TREND

• DIGITAL TREND (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user (re)Upload of an Adverb, ignored warning --Oesterreicher12 (talk) 13:27, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

  A warning at this point should be enough. I do not see active disruptions from this user. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 10:18, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Block request for Ghasabalada

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

Sock of User:Achim55/Sockpuppet investigations/Laxmi. Bovlb (talk) 18:00, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked. -- CptViraj (talk) 18:05, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

File:Bambuser logo.png

OK this one is weird -- the logo is of a likely notable e-commerce platform with an enwiki article (albeit spammy, may or may not pass NCORP depending on how the winds shift that day, but it exists for now), but it seems to have been created to spam a vlogger's stuff, and continually is re-vandalized by multiple IPs/single purpose accounts with more spam. I removed the spam but it should probably be semi-protected so it doesn't keep coming back. Gnomingstuff (talk) 19:20, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Semi-protected for six months. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:16, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Download file names

File:Download (6).png not deleted is move file, this File:Download 3.jpg is deleted file. please protect this file name. メイド理世 (talk) 09:12, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done I have protected both file names Gbawden (talk) 13:12, 15 January 2024 (UTC)