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Any admins who know Mongolian here?[edit]

Tsendeep keeps creating encyclopedic content here. Can someone who speaks Mongolian talk to them?

And could someone with Mongolian copyright law knowledge check if File:2V1A0075.jpg violates COM:FOP? I don't know when that building was built, maybe its copyright has expired. Thanks, pandakekok9 05:11, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

I nominated the image for deletion. Per COM:FOP Mongolia, there's no freedom of panorama in Mongolia. Taivo (talk) 07:53, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

IP user 2408:8215:1C01:7A4:84F3:23B8:748:17D0[edit]

Creates a lot of empty category. --A1Cafel (talk) 03:47, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. I blocked the IP partially (in category namespace) for 3 says and deleted his/her remaining empty categories. Taivo (talk) 06:53, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
What's mean of "3 says"?--Kai3952 (talk) 09:41, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Same person[edit]

--Minoraxtalk (formerly 大诺史) 14:06, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done; blocked DanGrinzzi00 indefinitely and DanrleySantana for a month. Ahmadtalk 17:35, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

حسن سلمان الحسن[edit]

What is not copyvio is by chance uncopyrightable. Already blocked. --Patrick Rogel (talk) 14:42, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Blocked for a month. I also deleted most of their uploads, fixed one, and nominated one for deletion. Apparently, they have little or no idea about copyright and the licensing policy. Ahmadtalk 19:15, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

ConstructorRob18[edit]

ConstructorRob18 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

Most if not all uploads have been deleted as copyvios. Behavior is persistent despite repeated warnings. JalenFolf (talk) 16:18, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. All his contributions are deleted. Copyvios stopped after he was warned. If this does not help, then he must be blocked. Taivo (talk) 20:52, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Ralf Roletschek[edit]

Ralf Roletschek (talk · contributions · Number of edits · recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Edit war in File:Hubschrauber Bell 407 auf dem Flugplatz Borkum, 2011.jpg. — Ирука13 14:28, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Pictogram voting info.svg Info I have removed his rollbacker flag, as this time it clearly was abused. Regarding his other recent edits, such as this one, may an other admin decide, I'm really fed-up. --A.Savin 14:47, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
See also Commons:Help desk#file renaming (mix of English and Russian; Ralf does not speak English, but I think he tried in the past with help of a web translator), Commons:Forum#wie und wo stellt man hier eine VM? (German) and perhaps also Commons:Форум#Взаимоисключающие параграфы (Russian). Ralf is convinced that the filename is unimportant, because there is the file description.
You will see above that I am involved, so you should probably take my words with a grain of salt: I get the impression that Iruka13 (Ирука) has put an eye or both on Ralf’s images, and it could be a good idea of Iruka13 to avoid adding rename requests on Ralf’s files (Ralf definitly feels like hunted by a rename troll, cf. Special:Diff/404265922/404341124).
— Speravir – 02:33, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for reminding: edit wars (the file I indicated is not the only battlefield) + repeated insults (see links above + User talk:Marcus Cyron#Umbenennungstroll) + Cat-a-lot (also @Uli Elch:) + unreasonable by rules multiple cancellation of requests for renaming in "other people's files" (for example: diff1 and diff2) + change of rights from December 9, 2018. — Ирука13 08:10, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Since I've been mentioned here, some excerpts of the bombardments he gave me on my talk page (translated):
User talk:Uli Elch#Verschiebungen, 27 August 2015:
"Stop to move pictures of mine to pointless names !"
"The file name is comletely unimportant. ... I'm not interested in any rules and regulations written in English."
"Useless actions like yours confirm my intention to use kyrillic file only in the future."
"Don't touch other people's files !"
"Your changes are neither useful nor required."
User talk:Uli Elch#sinnlose Verschiebungen, 19 June 2016:
"Refrain from moving files which are usefully named. There is neither a reason nor a consensus to do that. "
"I am going to name files with kyrillic letters. Then Trolls (!) like you will leave me alone." This referred to his 52 files with exactly the same file name ("fotofluege-cux-allg", plus numbers) but all showing completely different subjects. --Uli Elch (talk) 09:48, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
File renaming is always an issue. Some think we should leave things as they are and other users like to make things "pretty". If you ask me I think we rename way too much. Rolf clearly wanted the name to be as it is so to him it makes sense. In my opinion the original name was not meaningless. It was just not as detailed as the new one. But details should be in description and the structured data so they can be internationalized. So if there is a problem it is the user who requested the move and the one that did the move. In fact I think only admins should have the right to move files. There is plenty of useful work to do like and renaming files is in most cases a waste of time. --MGA73 (talk) 10:33, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
I see that Ralf Roletschek is the original author. Maybe it's better to change the name(s) back to what it was (the original name), but I have to mention that Ralf is playing a sort of 'owner role'. He gave the pictures free under a license here. / I agree that there are a lot of requesters that want to rename a lot of things, that's a little too much. I don't agree to only let moderators rename. A moderator is not 'a better user' or something, just has more rights and they are busy enough. The rename criteria could be a little more strict, so that someone cannot rename hundreds of files. There are also users who are not satisfied with their chosen names of their own pictures and put the rename section full with 50 or 100 files and the day after 100 more, etc. That's not where rename requests are for. For changing the policy, the community must decide by voting, but I have no idea how to do this here, I'm from the NL-Wikipedia and am filemover here, patroller, etc. For now: let's see how it goes. I will try to be a little more strict. Some users get mad if you don't rename a file and they revert it (or revert it and change it). That's not how it has to go. / Also I saw there are 450 (or more?) file movers who do almost nothing. Maybe it should be reduced to 100 users (excl. moderators, who are 'automaticly' file mover). Greetings from the Netherlands (very quiet here, but in many countries). - Richardkiwi (talk) (talk) 13:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Pictogram voting comment.svg Comment It is a little depressing to observe that those who resist arbitrary and unnecessary file name renaming are punished, while the initiator of these unnecessary renaming is not even made aware of the existing rules. This is disgusting and makes the victim the perpetrator. --Smial (talk) 13:36, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
This doesn't answer the question why R.R. is abusing Cat-a-lot to remove hundreds of pictures with really meaningless / purely numeric titles from the "bad file names" category. Cat-a-lot is for simplifying category work, certainly not for editcount-pushing. --A.Savin 13:57, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Und was hat das Ganze mit Rollback zu tun? Herr Savin möchte doch nur seine Macht mittels Adminknöpfen beweisen. Bitteschön, der Laden stinkt mir schon lange. Und solange Trolle hier sinnlose Umbenennungen veranlassen dürfen, ist Commons kein Ort mehr für mich. Schreibt mal fleißig weiter ganze Romane in Dateinamen, das ist ja sooooo wichtig. Wen interessieren schon die blöden Fotografen? Die haben nur die Klappe zu halten und müssen sich alles gefallen lassen. Trollige Massenbearbeiter, die selbst nichts beitragen, dürfen sich natürlich alles erlauben. Déu sense saludar --Ralf Roletschek 15:40, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Ich bedauere das!— Speravir – 21:33, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
A remark regarding Smial’s “while the initiator of these unnecessary renaming is not even made aware of the existing rules”: The sad thing is Iruka13 has been pointed before to COM:FR and the regarding phrase, cf. Commons:Help desk#file renaming. AFBorchert wrote about this on 11th March and I on 12th and on 13th March, I even pointed to the Russian translation! Nethertheless Iruka requested in Special:Diff/376413296/404092450 on 14th March the renaming of the file in question here ignoring Ralf’s filename scheme. This was an unnecessary escalation. — Speravir – 21:33, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Nebenbemerkung @Uli Elch, Michael.Kramer: Wir sind Menschen und machen Fehler. Bitte in Zukunft beim Umbenennen darauf achten, ob dabei evtl. ein potentielles Namensschema zerstört wird. Wie man sieht, gibt es Leute (übrigens nicht nur Ralf), die darauf Wert legen! — Speravir – 21:33, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Hallo Speravir, kannst du mal erklären, warum du dich hier ausschließlich auf Ralf Roletschek's Dateien beziehst? Obwohl eigentlich offensichtlich ist, dass Ralf Roletschek das Cat-a-lot Tool missbraucht, um eine Umbenennung Hunderter von nicht seinen Fotos zu verhindern? Und wieso stellst du ihn ununterbrochen als Opfer, obwohl er mich hier beleidigt und nicht ich ihn? Danke. --A.Savin 22:07, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, the name change was okay and not a mistake Speravir. from the rules there was not mistake. to change the name to a name explaining the picture is was okay by commons rules. please, take care of this. a lot of my pictures have been changed, where is the problem? I'm taking care of every renaming request to make the name explaining the picture. please, using english is better than switching to german for international use. meaningless names for pictures have to be prohibited. --Michael (talk) 06:21, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
meaningless names for pictures have to be prohibited: Maybe, but presently they are not prohibited. So, you are changing from one allowed title to another one, against the uploader's intention. This is not o.k., and I can understand his anger.--Chief tin cloud (talk) 08:36, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
Of course that's true, but the function of renaming is existing. presently it is not prohibited. You are welcome to make a change requiring the uploader's approval. Feel free. everything conforms to the rules here. I cannot understand the problem.--Michael (talk) 10:36, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
The problem is that changes need agreement, which your changes obviously don't meet. So, you can't execute the changes and ignore the protest. That's a very basic principle on Wikipedia. Yes, I change titles, too, but only when I see that it contains an obvious error or it is misleading. I can't know the system on which an uploader names his/her files.--Chief tin cloud (talk) 12:32, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
Er macht weiter [1] und keiner sagt irgendwas dazu. Soll er sich doch an den POTY 2018 und 2017 vergreifen, da wäre es vielleicht angebracht. Er scheint zu viel Zeit und Langeweile zu haben. --Ralf Roletschek 15:04, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
Sagt einer, der selber für solche extrem sinnvolle Edits zu viel Zeit und Langeweile hat. --A.Savin 15:09, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
Ralf, soweit ich das sehe, ist hier aber dein Namensschema beibehalten, und damit ist die Anfrage von den Regeln gedeckt. — Speravir – 18:11, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
O, etwas zu früh abgeschickt: OK, das Schema ist nicht ganz eingehalten. — Speravir – 18:15, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
A.Savin, (in English) I simply wanted point to the unnecessary escalation part. I am still convinced it would be wiser by Iruka13 for a while not to request renaming files of Ralf, or at very least to respect the filename scheme. I did not contradict you in regards to possible misuse of tools by Ralf. Actually, I did not check this. — Speravir – 18:11, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
You did not check this, oh well. Unfortunately this doesn't mean that the problem is not there. --A.Savin 18:29, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
Once again in other words: I do not disagree with for this part. I meanwhile have noticed Uli Elch’s answer below. — Speravir – 19:33, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
I answered Michael in German on his talk page, but: It’s not about the renaming in itself if the name is ambiguous (and Ralf’s images are unfortunately often very ambiguous …), it’s about respecting the filename scheme. This would help for deescalation. As told above, Ralf is not the only one who insists on the scheme, others just do not oppose, but are angry and in worst case disappear from Commons. — Speravir – 18:11, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

As per A.Savin for a part of the files hit by his mass removals of >300 files (not all) of Category:Images of aircraft with bad file names this cat has been re-added. Files with "titles" like "499dg", "A really good looking bird!" or dozens of "2014Kleine-Brogel-12345 etc" really do not fulfil Commons:File naming: "Names should be descriptive, chosen according to what the image displays or contents portray".

The Wikipedia rules have been installed after long discussions and final consensus. It is intolerable that an individual user who had publicly stated that he is "not interested in any rules and regulations" uses mass-editing tools for removing truly applicable and correct categories from files with which he had absolutely nothing to do; it is a form of vandalism. I wonder why this has been mostly tolerated by sysops during at least five years. --Uli Elch (talk) 15:23, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

+1 at Uli Elch! meaningless names for pictures have to be prohibited! and they are by this rule. --Michael (talk) 17:36, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
Das sehen aber nicht alle so.[2] --Ralf Roletschek 18:47, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Spam bots[edit]

All spamming same link.--BevinKacon (talk) 19:54, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Cosmeticplastic (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 

Same one?--BevinKacon (talk) 19:56, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Done? GMGtalk 20:00, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
✓ Done. I tagged them and created a sockpuppet category. Taivo (talk) 10:35, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Spam by User:Sisternamutekaya[edit]

Delete : File:Namutekaya Herbal Clinic Men's +27726364222 - +27730727287.png and File:Before & After Enlargement Products Whats App +27726364222 or +27730727287.jpg.
Spam edits : here
User page is advertising in nature : User:Sisternamutekaya
//Eatcha (talk) 12:20, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
  • Sadly, we will have to get our bums enlarged elsewhere. GMGtalk 14:09, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

2408:8215:1C01:A58:84F3:23B8:748:17D0[edit]

Creates lots of empty category in Category:2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic. Socks of 2408:8215:1C01:7A4:84F3:23B8:748:17D0. --A1Cafel (talk) 16:07, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

✓ Done. Blocked by DarwIn. Taivo (talk) 09:48, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
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