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User:Nordic9 edit

Looks to be a Category:Sockpuppets of Oatsandcream, uploading blatant Beatles copyvios and possible hoax images of lost 1920s films again, same kind of material as earlier sock Sir Robert PerPaper (talk · contribs). SPI also opened on enwiki at en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Oatsandcream. Belbury (talk) 19:01, 10 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User has since been blocked on enwiki. Belbury (talk) 11:14, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  Done Blocked as a precaution Gbawden (talk) 11:19, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Marchio Ephesi edit

Marchio Ephesi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) has been creating a bunch of dubious articles on en.wiki (see en:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marquess of Ephesus and en:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sovereign House of Nicaea) and has uploaded a bunch of files here to use on en.wiki. The problem is that I doubt they're free images. Take for instance File:Coat of arms of the Count of Prousa.jpg (a typical example). Its author is listed as "Italian Heraldic Council" or, in Italian, "Consiglio Araldico Italiano" and there's no indication that the council produces and releases free images. In fact the description reads "Coat of arms of the Count of Prousa The blazon is described in a private document, deposited at the Italian Heraldic Council and protected by the applicable trademark laws." which is a pretty strong indication that the image and many uploaded by the same user are not free. Pichpich (talk) 22:55, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Done I warned this user, deleted 3 copyvios, and tagged most files for missing permission. Yann (talk) 23:50, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks @Pichpich and @Yann. I actually have permission, but how can I provide proof of that? Sorry for being such a newbie Marchio Ephesi (talk) 08:30, 13 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Marchio Ephesi: Please have the person who gave you permission send it directly via VRT with a carbon copy to you. Is that "oscarannunziata"?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:09, 13 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
It's the Italian Heraldic Council, I'll file an inquiry immediately and report back to you. Thanks! @Jeff G.@Yann Marchio Ephesi (talk) 16:32, 13 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Please see the answer on your talk page. Yann (talk) 13:41, 13 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I think we should just see how the VRT goes here. It looks like this is someone well-intentioned, new to Commons, and confused. They could probably use some help in doing things correctly, but nothing more. - Jmabel ! talk 05:50, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Marchio Ephesi: if it is all right with you, it's probably best that you refrain from doing more uploads until we can sort this out. And don't worry about what has already been deleted: if the correspondence via VRT pans out, they will be restored. - Jmabel ! talk 05:50, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I much appreciate @Jmabel Marchio Ephesi (talk) 14:23, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Kylie Miley edit

Uploads non-free content Kelly The Angel (talk) 10:00, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

ː @Kelly The Angel Please note that if you bring someone to COMːAN you are required to alert them on their talk page
ː  Done Blocked for 2 weeks Gbawden (talk) 10:41, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Diogo Barcelos edit

Hello Team, I would like to highlight the behaviour of Diogo Barcelos. He is uploading obvious copyvio, but is continuing as of its upload, as of its yesterday upload : File:Capa Raimundos Acústico.jpg. Would it be possible to put a stop, please? CoffeeEngineer (talk) 12:12, 16 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Done Final warning sent, all files deleted. @CoffeeEngineer: You have to inform the user you report here. Yann (talk) 15:26, 16 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Danielg532 edit

Hi, User:Danielg532 is uploading image files to en:wp from where they are being cross-loaded here. Although warned previously for copyright issues, his last five uploads are all self-attributed but were actually the work of someone else. Several (most?) of these images were also originally posted to the internet with non-compatible image licenses. Not sure if this is best pursued here, CCI, or on en:wp, but suspect a deeper look at their past contributions is warranted. See:

Loopy30 (talk) 18:16, 17 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Whatever the sources say pobably none of these images are original enough to be copyrightable and as you point out one of them already freely licensed. Although the user shouldn't be attributing the images to themselves, but that's a different issue that at least IMO doesn't warrant the complaint. People will pretty routinely attribute themselves as the author of an image that they uploaded on here. Which is probably more due to confusion about exactly the "author" field is for to begin with then intentional nefariousness on their part. --Adamant1 (talk) 20:23, 17 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Four of these examples are unambiguous copyright violations and the fifth example contravened the sharing conditions of the Creative Commons license (failure to give attribution). Why should we consider that these images are not original enough to have been copyright-able by their original authors? Loopy30 (talk) 20:47, 17 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The sources can say they are copyrighted, but the threshold of originality is a thing. What's original about these pictures? Like what makes this image different from any other one of sea slug out there and what exactly makes it "complex enough to receive copyright protection"? --Adamant1 (talk) 21:00, 17 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Adamant1: I disagree. I believe that in the U.S. those are probably eligible for copyright, unless they were taken in such an automated way (equivalent to a security camera) that no individual can take credit for them. - Jmabel ! talk 01:08, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Photographs of 3D objects are almost always considered original works by the photographer. There are some exceptions but none of those seem likely to apply here. Omphalographer (talk) 01:13, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hasn't there been several discussions on here about things like images of greek coins or other artifacts from museums and the like where the photorgraphs were determined to be PD because the object in the photograph was and it wasn't original enough on its own to retain a copyright? I don't see how this would be any different. Its not like the sea slug is copyrighted or the photographer even posed it in an unusual way or anything. So what exactly is copyrightable there? The black background? --Adamant1 (talk) 01:19, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Adamant1 All these cases are obvious copyvios according to our long time use and policies, including the COM:PRP. If you disagree, you may continue your argument at the copyright VP or the undeletion requests. Darwin Ahoy! 02:10, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'm good. Thanks for the suggestion though. --Adamant1 (talk) 02:27, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  Done Persistent copyvio uploader. Final warning sent, all obvious copyvios deleted. There may be more undetected ones, though.-- Darwin Ahoy! 02:05, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@DarwIn: Even if the other images are COPYIO, File:Cuvierinaatlantica.jpg was CC licensed to begin with. So you can undelete it and I'll just add the proper attribution? --Adamant1 (talk) 02:11, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Adamant1 That one is still not OK for Commons regardless, it's a copyvio too. Darwin Ahoy! 02:20, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oh yeah, I see now that it's licensed non-commercially. My bad. I wouldn't call that copyrighted, but still not OK for Commons regardless. Thanks anyway. --Adamant1 (talk) 02:27, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
A permissive license is not the absence of copyright. Omphalographer (talk) 04:55, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'm aware. I was actually saying the exact same thing a few days ago in another conversation. I just misread the comment I was responding to. --Adamant1 (talk) 05:12, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks Darwin, it is File:Diacria.jpg that had the shareable license, not File:Cuvierinaatlantica.jpg as Adamant suggests. The original file source location can be found in the deleted file (I had changed the file source info and authors name in the meta info earlier today). Loopy30 (talk) 02:28, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Loopy30   Done Darwin Ahoy! 02:51, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Adamant1: "I wouldn't call that copyrighted": CC-BY-NC, like CC-BY-SA and CC-BY, is only relevant for images that are copyrighted. Just speaking for myself, I've probably got 50,000 CC-BY images here on Commons that I shot. Clearly, I still own copyright on those images. So I'm not sure what you are meaning to say here. - Jmabel ! talk 04:30, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: Honestly, me neither lol. --Adamant1 (talk) 04:39, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:SapthaRishi78 edit

SapthaRishi78 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

Continously uploads copyvio after final warning. -- Doclys👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️ 🩺 • 💉 10:15, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Done Blocked for a week, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 10:22, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Knolagee edit

Knolagee (talk · contribs), spam only. Lemonaka (talk) 17:48, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Not done for now, nothing after warnings. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:33, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
What Am I Supposed To Do In This Situation I Am New Wo Wiki & All Of This Tech Talk SonHow Can This Be Fixed Knolagee (talk) 20:12, 19 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
What Does Spam Only Mean Knolagee (talk) 20:13, 19 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Masdrdallah Knolagee (talk) 20:15, 19 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Knolagee: Wikimedia Commons is a media repository for educational resources, not a social media. We only accept documents (images, sounds, videos, etc.) useful as providing educational information. We don't accept advertising and promoting materials. Please read COM:SCOPE. Yann (talk) 20:50, 19 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Please define The Promotional Language As Stated Knolagee (talk) 00:54, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Knolagee: please don't come in here as a relatively new arrival telling the administrators what to do. If you really don't understand the difference between what you were doing and what the site is about, I suggest you look around the site a bit. - Jmabel ! talk 01:25, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:John Junnor VIP edit

Probably multiple reasons to block this account, but his threat against User:Taivo in the description of File:The Mains of Balhaldie - Location of the war of Balhaldie.jpg (a file that I just nominated for deletion) should be enough for an indef-block all on its own. - Jmabel ! talk 02:58, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jmabel You would have been justified in blocking them without bringing it here first.
  Done Blocked indef. They can appeal if they think its unjustified Gbawden (talk) 06:59, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Gbawden: I didn't want to do it with that little visibility. - Jmabel ! talk 07:17, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Also: I'd really appreciate if we can get a quick consensus to delete Commons:Deletion requests/File:The Mains of Balhaldie - Location of the war of Balhaldie.jpg. I suppose I could just delete the nastiness in the description, but I'd rather see the whole file deleted. - 07:19, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
Deleted. DMacks (talk) 07:49, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I deleted the userpage as blatant hoax. He claimed there: "He is the current top goal scorer in the Turkish Süper Lig, sitting on 65 goals in 21 games". Scoring more than thrice per every game is impossible. Per en:2022–23 Süper Lig top scorer of that season was Enner Valencia from Fenerbahçe, scoring 29 goals from 36 games. Taivo (talk) 09:37, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel Could you have posted here "I blocked X because they did Y"?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:43, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jeff G.: I suppose I could have, and I'll do that next time something similar arises. - Jmabel ! talk —Preceding undated comment was added at 21:18, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: Thanks.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 03:04, 21 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:重吉笑里 edit

重吉笑里 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

重吉笑里 repeatedly uploaded copyright violations and does not stop even after being warned.--Krorokeroro (talk) 08:48, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Done. One week block. Next blocks can be longer. Taivo (talk) 09:42, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Notem again edit

Notem (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) new copyvio - File:Española РФ.png after the one week block. Komarof (talk) 11:31, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Done, blocked 1 month. --A.Savin 12:57, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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