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User:Jcb for edit war
[1] I was clearing my talkpage, however, @Jcb has done edit war on my talk page without any explanation, so I noted in an edit summary, "Rv as unexplained changes", since he didn't comment anything when he reverted my edits. However, he reverted it back, and saying "will explain". Actually, that revert was much unnecessary; it would be more rational and comprehensible to me if he had commented the explanation on my talk page or an edit summary, and then revert it.
In his explanation, he forced me not to clear the discussions until 6 months because it can cause confusions, and I understand this. However, that rule is not even able to be found on guidelines (it says, archiving is better, but it does not prohibit clearing), and these talks were almost 10 months ago, which means that I hadn't violated the rule over 6 months.
Per these reasons, I decided to report this user, as he has done unnecessary edit wars on my talk page (even though he was a former admin)[a], and as he acted in a way that did not align with what he had explained to me, which was much difficult to be understood.
- ↑ Please note that I'm not justifying my actions, but as he was an admin and is a professional user, at least he could treat other (amateur) users in more better ways.
Camilasdandelions (talk) 16:49, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
- This is related to Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems#User:Camilasdandelions. Camilasdandelions (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) removed several warnings for copyright violations from their talk page and then continued to upload copyright violations. Jcb (talk) 16:58, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
- Most of the violations on the past occured because I didn't recognize that the album covers were non-free contents. After those warnings, I didn't upload non-free licensed album covers or single covers on Commons. In these present case are new; copyvios related to YouTube license. As noted on my edit summary, there's no problem at clearing my talk page, and the guideline is also not talking about that. Camilasdandelions (talk) 17:05, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
E.g. there was a final warning in January from 0x0a (which they removed), then a warning from me in June to which they responded with a personal attack and which they later removed. Later they received some explanation from Wutsje, but they still continued to upload copyright violation. So Jmabel was very mild by giving another last warning, but after that, the user removed the previous warnings again. Jcb (talk) 17:06, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
- Does the guidelines prohibit removing previous talk pages, even though they are almost a year ago? I asked for the related guideline on my talk page but you ignored, plus, your previous warning in June is talking about not to remove deletion tags, not previous warnings. I don't think your unnecessary and uncomprehensible actions on my talk page cannot be justified as you explain my previous actions. Furthermore, there's no even personal attacks between you and me.
- Thank you for Jmabel for giving an opportunity to me. After this, I'll be cautious at uploding files from YouTube videos. Camilasdandelions (talk) 17:13, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
Info We do have a guideline regarding talk pages at COM:TALK, which doesn't prohibit users from removing old messages (including warnings) from their own user talk page. Furthermore, we had a long debate about this issue. 0x0a (talk) 18:22, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
- Boomerang block this serial copyright violator, who has been removing adverse posts from the user talk page allocated for communicating with them, sweeping those posts under the rug (as it were) without having addressed the substance of those posts (the copyright violations), allowing that user to fly under the radar for an extended period of time, as they are en:WP:NOTGETTINGIT. Perhaps that situation caused Jmabel to miss such posts. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 19:42, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
- No, I caught what was going on here, and I stand by what I have written on Camilasdandelions' talk page.
- As 0x0a notes, editing your talk page like that is not against the rules though, as I remarked on their talk page, it is certainly not widely seen as a good practice.
- @Camilasdandelions: : above you refer to Jcb as a "professional" user. Are you claiming that Jcb is somehow paid for his activity here? If so, that is something I was not aware of; if not, that is very out of line. Please either substantiate that or withdraw it. - Jmabel ! talk 21:13, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
- No, the reason why I said he is a "professional" user is, at least he could have done rationally in commons, not causing unnecessary edit wars in my talk page. I didn't mean that he is paid user or smth. Camilasdandelions (talk) 00:18, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
- So actually you don't understand the meaning of the word 'professional', you are just trying to utter something that sounds convincing (which failed). Anyway, if the 3-revert-rule would have applied at Commons (which it does not), you would have been the one violating it, not me. Please be aware that people are now watching your every move. The purpose of the warnings at your user talk page is to stop the uploads of copyright violations. Most people get that after one warning. If you may chose to continue uploading copyright violations, you will find yourself blocked one day. Jcb (talk) 10:46, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
- No, the reason why I said he is a "professional" user is, at least he could have done rationally in commons, not causing unnecessary edit wars in my talk page. I didn't mean that he is paid user or smth. Camilasdandelions (talk) 00:18, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
Vandal IP edits
There are frequent vandal edits on this file: File:Board of Control for Cricket in India Logo (2024).svg. Request any admin to semi or autopatroller protect it.. --Gpkp (talk) 08:30, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
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Done Semi-protected for 3 months. Yann (talk) 09:49, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
Off-topic religious comments in deletion requests
Are comments like this considered appropriate in a public deletion request discussion? Comments like this can be disturbing to LGBT people, non-religious people, and people of other religions. The user who made the comment I link above doubled down on it with another religious comment when I brought my concerns to his talkpage. I still feel that this could've been targeted harassment. I can't notify the user myself because the AN/U discussion ended with me being pushed into an unfair interaction ban.
Why are religious comments necessary or constructive in a public discussion like a deletion request? Can more than one administrator please comment on this and give the community guidance? I would also like to get an opinion from WMF staff on whether this is appropriate behavior, but I'm not sure how to contact them. Thank you for your time. Geoffroi 19:24, 26 December 2025 (UTC)
- Did you follow up the link in that last cited post? Apparently, this related to an Internet meme (one I was not familiar with, and probably not in the best taste to have used this way), making fun of Chick tracts. So it appears to have been more poking fun at fundamentalist Christianity than advocating it, but I read it differently at first, as well (hence the "not in the best taste to have used this way"). - Jmabel ! talk 22:25, 26 December 2025 (UTC)
Mass upload of copyright violations
Not sure if this is the appropriate venue for this, but @Tanvirahmedgamers has uploaded a bunch of copyright violations. These should all be speedy deleted. Thank you. ArcticSeeress (talk) 12:44, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
- I've just been working my way through some but I agree with the comment. I think it's vanishingly unlikely any of the images are actually "own work". Herby talk thyme 12:56, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
- @ArcticSeeress: I warned and notified the user of this discussion on their user talk page, as you should have done per the above. Pings are not enough. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:07, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
- Done Final warning sent, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 17:11, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
Streamline abuse filter actions
I'm here to ask that the following changes be made to our various abuse filters:
- 60, 206, 210, 217 - Due to phab:T377579, please disable
blockautopromote. - 4, 16, 31, 53, 56, 75, 77, 84, 88, 96, 103, 105, 113, 116, 117, 122, 130, 174, 188, 192, 195, 195, 199, 208, 246 - Disable
warnwhile keepingdisallow, and replace the disallow message (e.g.,Abusefilter-disallowed) with the warn message (e.g.,Abusefilter-warning-somewarning).
JJPMaster (she/they) 20:39, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
- The first part is done. Yes, these warning and blocking combination seems not to make sense. Does anyone know why they exist? GPSLeo (talk) 21:06, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
yarışma ödülü
Aylık olarak düzenlenen fotoğraf yarışmalarını kazananlara dair ödüller nelerdir? Bu konuyla ilgili bir link göremedim. Bilgi vermenizi rica ederim. Iyifoto (talk) 21:45, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
- (Via Google Translate) To the best of my knowledge, there is no prize beyond the honor of having won. - Jmabel ! talk 01:33, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
User:GeographBot uploads of Commons:Derivative works from advertisements
@Multichill: I deleted more than 400 such files from Category:Aylesbury. It's likely that similar problem exists in categories about other UK locations (see Category:Advertising in Belfast as another example). Since file names contain advert, import of such files should be blacklisted by default by bot owner. Some of them are {{PD-text}}, but bot owner must review such files manually before allowing bot to proceed. Also bot owner should be responsible to at least for partial cleanup of existing uploads. Sure, this is holiday season and immediate reaction of bot owner could not be expected. EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:34, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
52 Images of Ants eating rice
This users has created and spammed many categories with many near identical images. For example 52 images of ants eating rice: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ants_of_the_Philippines_eating_cooked_rice there are many, many more images which are medium to low quality with many many copies. Example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:9797Malakapas_textures_Alakaak_textures_40.jpg also look at the description of that file:
Malakapas textures Mojarra Malakapas and Alakaak textures Tuel, Balat, DulamaCroaker Johnius amblycephalus Johnius amblycephalus (Bleeker, 1855) Dendrophysa russelii (Cuvier, 1829) Dendrophysa russelii in Poblacion, Baliuag, Bulacan Timeline of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the Philippines 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the Philippines Bayanihan to Heal as One Act (RA 11469) Bayanihan Act of 2020. Signed on March 24, 2020 7,958 Covid-19 cases in Philippines April 28; 12,933 as of May 19, 2020; 14,669 Covid-19 cases in Philippines May 26; 886 deaths; Covid-19 cases in Philippines June 2 - 18,997 and 966 deaths; August 18 - 169,213 cases COVID-19 Philippines, new cases 4,836, 53,665 active cases; 112,861 recovered, 2,687 deaths; August 20 Coronavirus Cases: 173,774 Deaths: 2,795 Recovered: 113,481; 178,022 cases COVID-19 Philippines, new cases, 4,339 added. 61,025 active, 114,116 recovered and 2,883 deaths August 22 Philippines Coronavirus Cases: 182,365 Deaths: 2,940 Recovered: 114,519 Category:Sitios and puroks of the Philippines Subdivisions of the Philippines Barangay Poblacion 14°57'17"N 120°54'2"E, Baliuag, Bulacan, Bulacan province taken under weather conditions of Habagat Monsoon of South Asia Low Pressure Area (LPA) Southwest Monsoon (Note: Judge Florentino Floro, the owner, to repeat, Donor FlorentinoFloro of all these photos hereby donate gratuitously, freely and unconditionally Judge Floro all these photos to and for Wikimedia Commons, exclusively, for public use of the public domain, and again without any condition whatsoever).
This text is in many many images. To create a Deletion Request would be a huge tast. Better an admin gets the ok to just go through and mass deletes most of those near identical images. Amada44 talk to me 21:14, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
- The uploader was blocked and globally locked years ago. File:9797Malakapas_textures_Alakaak_textures_40.jpg is very blurry and might be a good candidate for a deletion request. The parts of the text that do not refer to the image should be removed IMO even if the image is not deleted. --Robert Flogaus-Faust (talk) 21:35, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
- Correction: the global lock is from February 2025. Sockpuppets may be more recent. --Robert Flogaus-Faust (talk) 21:40, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
- @Amada44: for the future, VFC actually makes mass DRs like this pretty easy to create. - Jmabel ! talk 22:34, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
- Correction: the global lock is from February 2025. Sockpuppets may be more recent. --Robert Flogaus-Faust (talk) 21:40, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
I am going to greatly reduce my involvement in blocking accounts
I am not one of the main people here who imposes blocks on accounts. Still, I am about to cut back considerably from the moderate involvement I have had. Why? Because I keep encountering users who make vague reports, often seem to assume that every admin here is familiar with every LTA we've ever had (e.g. reporting behavior that, at least to me, looks innocuous on the surface because it apparently resembles some LTA, but they give no indication of whom), and at least one time out of ten if I ask any questions so that I can actually make an informed decision, they take this as hostility on my part. (Oh, also: reports that some user's edits are abusive or otherwise problematic, with no links or diffs provided, and where there are plenty of OK edits from that user.)
I'll continue to block obvious vandals, LTAs where I happen already to be familiar with the case, people who are egregiously inappropriate toward other users, etc., plus people where the person filing the report actually gives me enough to go on. But I am pretty much done asking for more information in the face of frequent hostility when I do so, and I am totally done taking anything longer than a very few minutes trying to work out for myself what is going on with a vague report.
If someone believes I should be de-admin'd for this, go ahead and start that process. Just so long as you permalink my remarks here, I'll stay out of the discussion except insofar as I'm directly addressed. - Jmabel ! talk 08:48, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- Perfectly reasonable position and very similar to mine from my perspective. Herby talk thyme 09:58, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- @Jmabel, there is no denying that these things discourage one to continue contributing with the same enthusiasm. But, if the community continues to loose people like you, it won't be good for the project. It is on us, as a community, to fight out of a situation like this. I say, take a (small) break rather than "greatly reducing" your involvement with blocks, maybe it'll help. Shaan SenguptaTalk 10:21, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- @Jmabel: Thank you for your continued commitment to the project. I share your frustration. Please note, however, that sometimes my vagueness (in the face of filter 257 hits) is because no one has been willing to make it more specific, and sometimes I am following en:WP:DFTT and en:WP:RBI advice. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:38, 30 December 2025 (UTC)