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User:Mueezmuezzpeak

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

Reuploaded previously deleted file File:Ujawal Jha.jpg. Probably the same person or same group as blocked user Gbolahan070 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. -- William Graham (talk) 03:18, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 14:00, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Please protect this image file names.

File:Images(1).jpg, File:Images(7).jpg メイド理世 (talk) 03:45, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done As well as 2-6 and 8. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 13:55, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

EndzoneEnthusiast

• User: EndzoneEnthusiast (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Reasons for reporting: Continued copyvio uploading after final warning and block for doing so.

  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:48, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

 Comment The only recent deletion (File:Jude Bellingham with Real Madrid in 2023.jpg) is a derivative of a copyright violation uploaded by another user. Yann (talk) 10:29, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

Paolo Basso Pbmatrics

• User: Paolo Basso Pbmatrics (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Reasons for reporting: Spamming. Uploading oos content without evidence. NOTHERE.

  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:45, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Working Lover - continued upload of non-free images after warnings

Working Lover (talk · contribs) has continued to upload non-free images despite multiple warnings include a final notice about uploading copyright violations.[1] The most recent upload File:EMitraPradeep png.png is the same image they uploaded a few days ago and deleted as a copyright violation.Special:Log&page=File:Pradeep_emitra.png They haven't responded to any messages left on their talk page and have been blocked on multiple other Wikipedia's as a sock [2] of TechsonNet (talk · contribs).[3] Ravensfire (talk) 18:30, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week. Yann (talk) 10:19, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

File:President Muizzu sign (cropped).svg

It needs to be semi protected because its been vandalized many times by User:Common muizan MAL MALDIVE (talk) 10:53, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done Semi-protected for 2 weeks. I warned User:Common muizan. Yann (talk) 11:00, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

Automated subtitle translations

Special:Contributions/109.133.194.215

User:109.133.194.215 and User:2A02:2788:269:F854:5822:A70E:4066:7C54 are likely adding machine-translated subtitles to some videos.

I don't speak all languages, but they seem to be low-quality translations from the English subtitles.

This video File:Charge - Blender Open Movie-full movie.webm, for example, has the on-screen text translation for "Guard" as "Subscribe if you are a guard" in the French subtitles. And this video File:Glass Half - Blender Open Movie-full movie.webm is translated from gibberish, the only spoken language in the video, to other languages. In this case, it can be useful to translate the spelling (or script), the [sound effects], and some English words (such as "no"), but this kind of translation can't be done by a robot.

There are some style changes that one wouldn't expect from automated translations (such as changing what the speaker IDs and sound effects are surrounded with from brackets to other symbols), so I'd feel more comfortable if someone proficient in one of the languages that have been translated to verifies that they're low quality, machine translated, or both.

The English subtitles are fine, though.

Happy New Year :) FunLater (talk) 15:55, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

These aren't the only videos. Check the IPs' contribution history. FunLater (talk) 16:03, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

Nepenthes1001

Nepenthes1001 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

This user has kept uploading copyvios despite warnings from multiple users. It has been a problem ever since the user began uploading files. Consider a long block or indef. funplussmart (talk) 21:15, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week. Yann (talk) 18:53, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

File:Map of USA with state and territory names 2.png

The info page needs to be protected because it has been subject to repeat vandalism. Mayhair (talk) 18:34, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Semi-protected for 6 months. Yann (talk) 18:50, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

File:Kia Spectra -- 07-09-2009.jpg

Please protect this page due to persistent vandalism by various IPs in the past month 94rain ^Talk 07:36, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Semi-protected for 3 months. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 07:43, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

File:Syrian Civil War map.svg

I would like to request the title file to be overwritten with by this file, c:File:Syrian Civil War map (November 24, 2023).svg while still remaining protected. The reason for the requested change is that the main file does not cite any sources for the frontlines. The proposed change is based on Al Jazeera's map (external link). I would like the file to remain protected afterwards because there is a lot of edit warring regarding the situation in Syria. Ecrusized (talk) 09:54, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

File:Flag of Eswatini.svg

Requesting an increase in protection in some form due to what seems like a consistent back-and-forth series of reverts over the past year-and-a-half or so as a result of inconsistencies in the depiction of the flag's blue color. HapHaxion _{(talk / contribs)} 16:02, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Strange. This should be blocked by the abuse filter Special:AbuseFilter/290. In the testing environment it detects the overwrites correctly but the actual filter does not work as it should. GPSLeo (talk) 20:12, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done Reverted that file to its original colors (circa 2015), took the alternate colors and put them in a new file, locked down both files from being uploaded, and listed each in the other versions of the other. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 02:19, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@The Squirrel Conspiracy: Thanks, that seems eminently reasonable.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:30, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Tanzir Islam Britto and Sedativebritto

• User: Tanzir Islam Britto (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• User: Sedativebritto (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Reasons for reporting: Persistent spamming. See also d:Wikidata:Requests for checkuser/Case/Tanzir Islam Britto and m:srg#Global lock for Tanzir Islam Britto and socks.

  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:48, 4 January 2024 (UTC)