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Re request Massive message request for WLE BR 2025 contributors

Hi all, this is the secound time that I requesting, I need to send a request for feedback to the participants of the WLE BR 25, can you guys help me?

Preferable via "wikimail", if not possible, via their talk pages

Olá tudo bem?!

Queríamos agradecer sua participação no Wiki Loves Earth 2025! Se possível, estamos realizando uma pesquisa sobre o concurso para podermos melhorar para o ano que vem! Ela pode ser respondida de forma completamente anônima nesse link: link para a pesquisa, se possível, responder até o dia 30 de novembro!

Caso tenham alguma dúvida, contatofoto.wiki.br

Muito obrigado novamente, equipe foto.wiki.br

{{Rodrigo.Argenton/test}}

• Source:https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/99174

Thank you. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton ^m 12:37, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Could you please make a separate page with a plain bulleted list of users (no table), then it would be much easier to send a mass message (which would land on the talk pages, I do not know how to mass-send e-mails). Also I guess the subject of the message is missing. Ymblanter (talk) 20:14, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

@Ymblanter: here the list, the subject can be "Obrigado pela sua participação no Wiki Loves Earth Brasil 2025!", thank you in advance. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton ^m 14:07, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

The list also needs to be formatted in the format described here: mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage. To avoid accidental inclusion of parts not intended for the message text please put the the text and the subject on a separate page. GPSLeo (talk) 15:11, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

@Ymblanter: The list of user talk pages is User:Rodrigo.Argenton/test. If you need that without " talk", please instead see User:Jeff G./list.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:40, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Looking at it Ymblanter (talk) 18:25, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

I sent the mass message to the queue, but it has not been delivered. I check in a few hours, and possibly send it again if needed, this happened in the past. Ymblanter (talk) 18:33, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

 Done. At the end, I had to reformat the list manually and spent about half an hour for that. Not sure it was a good investment of my time. Ymblanter (talk) 20:04, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't get what was the problem, can you better clarify to avoid problems in the future? -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton ^m 09:10, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Please look how User:Rodrigo.Argenton/test is now formatted. The mass message tool did not recognize the old format (it thought I am sending a message to zero users). Ymblanter (talk) 11:36, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

You actually didn't include the link to the research. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton ^m 17:08, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I guess this is your way of saying "thank you, you wasted a lot of your time because I did not care to read policies, and now you will waste more of your time". Sure, I will add it now by hand. Ymblanter (talk) 18:41, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I’ve already made the adjustments, so there is no need to worry about it anymore. Thank you.

That said, I felt the annoyance directed at me was unfair. I was criticized for not knowing a tool I don't use, and don't have access, yet it seems you aren't familiar with the proper tools either, which forced you to do the work manually.

Manual work that could have been avoided... I recommend using GSheets, OpenOffice Calc, or Excel to modify lists easily. I also suggest using volunteer-made scripts for mass editing, such as JS Wiki Browser. It took me 7 minutes to fix, and adapting the list to Meta’s recommendations would take about 5.

I didn't mean to cause any trouble; I only asked because I was offline and thought your access levels would make the job trivial.

Thanks for your time regardless. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton ^m 16:03, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton ^m 16:08, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Mass deletion

Sorry to bother you, but we have a user named Taichi (User talk:Taichi) who decided to delete half of the maps on Commons, out of nowhere. This person is proposing to remove plain maps with no data whatsoever that have been here since 2018, maps drawn in Paintbrush, claiming they have no sources or are derivative works, as if anyone would sue Commons for that kind of thing (it will never happen). Stop him. ~2025-36846-72 (talk) 14:07, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

I fixed your link, but your ping of User:Taichi will not have worked. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:17, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

1. I sincerely doubt that he "decided to delete half of the maps on Commons".
2. It is not a matter of whether we could be sued. It is a matter of whether they conform to Commons' policies.
3. Little is more problematic than having a blank base map that violates copyright, because people will use them to make labeled maps, and then all of those derivative works are "poisoned" by the unclean copyright status.

Jmabel ! talk 22:27, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Is this by any chance Rodowai, who I see already engaged Taichi about this? If so, it would be very helpful if you would be consistent about logging in while discussing this; while it is not necessarily sockpuppeting to address part of a matter while logged in and part while not, it's pretty close, and it makes it very hard to sort out exactly whom we should be discussing things with. - Jmabel ! talk 22:31, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Rodowai is now blocked. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:38, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Also FYI: Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Rodowai. Taichi (talk) 21:02, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

I can't argue with the checkuser outcome, but I think the intimidation claim about [1] is a misunderstanding. Looks to me like he was not making a legal threat himself, just accusing someone of copyright paranoia. - Jmabel ! talk 06:06, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

I agree: no legal threat there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:46, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Problem with the bot

The bot is trying to deletd my original picture because I don't have license which is lie File:Streets at Philippines.jpg Jaredryandloneria (talk) 06:17, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

@Jaredryandloneria: Hi, It is not a problem. It is normal that if you forget to add a license to your files, you get a warning. Now since you added a license to File:Street cat at Philippines at cavite.jpg, I removed to the warning to the file description. Yann (talk) 06:58, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Shaan Sengupta^Talk 07:53, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Please block the lock evasion and delete the attacks

Special:Contributions/~2025-37140-59 m:Special:Redirect/userid/43267643 -WikiBayer (talk) 08:59, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Jörgin_die_Wikingin -WikiBayer (talk) 10:48, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Seems to be taken care of by some other admins. (Noting for other admins…) — regards, Revi 20:44, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Already done - Jmabel ! talk 07:16, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Shaan Sengupta^Talk 07:53, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Views for video and audio files

Per Commons:Village_pump#Video_and_audio_plays, I am hoping to collect audio and video plays on Commons. We have built the technical infrastructure and now just need a interface admin to install it.

One can see the output here for Basque WP https://commons-play-listener.toolforge.org/dashboard/?website=eu.wikipedia.org

If installed on Commons, it would basically collect data whenever the play button is activated for a video or an audio file and list how much of the file was played. Thoughts? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:19, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Help

There is someone who keeps adding permission not granted template in my images please check it out. And they mistook that i dont have permission. The permisson was granted at <redacted e-mail> Ternant 728228 (talk) 01:48, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

If and when permission is confirmed, a VRT member will add the permission template to files. You don't add those permission templates. Abzeronow (talk) 02:12, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

The permission is confirmed at November 23 Ternant 728228 (talk) 04:54, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

File:Google Gemini.jpg

This image, supposedly of Google Gemini, advocates for self harm. The uploader has been blocked with talk page access removed on en.wiki for edit warring and using the image as an attack. The uploader has now moved onto simple [2]. The image is up for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Google Gemini.jpg, but really needs a COM:GCSD#G3 now. Further, the account needs a global lock (though, I don't know how to go about getting that). --Hammersoft (talk) 03:46, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Hammersoft: To request a global lock, go to Meta:Steward requests/Global, but you will need to be confirmed there to edit that page I think. TornadoLGS (talk) 04:10, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Someone already did. Very slow response on this both there, here, and elsewhere. --Hammersoft (talk) 04:12, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Shaan Sengupta^Talk 07:52, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

BOKOBA veroly

BOKOBA veroly (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Is there anyone who might be willing to take over from me on the interaction with BOKOBA veroly? Preferably this would be someone who has more than my minimal French, and ideally someone from Africa, since he has written, "It is easy for you, from the West, to make decisions about anything that deviates from the ordinary and comes from real Africa." I do not believe I am biased against him as an African, and I believe I would have blocked anyone for this level of copyright violations and failure to engage, but I would like to recuse myself based on the possibility that I was acting with cultural bias. - Jmabel ! talk 17:36, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I see that you did block this user for 6 months. It seems a bit harsh as a first block, specially because there are useful uploads. But I agree that at least a strong warning is needed. Yann (talk) 18:16, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Uploads that infringe copyright are generally not useful, but rather very harmful. Stepro (talk) 19:18, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Well, this comment is not useful. Did you check their uploads? Yann (talk) 19:20, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

I think it is.

Of course, I checked his uploads, which is why I posted the matter on the administrators' noticeboard: Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems/Archive 126#User:BOKOBA veroly

And I'm still waiting for his response as to how he was able to take photos in Potsdam, Germany, from Africa: User talk:BOKOBA veroly#File:Présentation en.jpg and File:Excellent.jpg

I actually believe that the sheer number of his uploads deleted due to copyright infringements speaks for itself. Stepro (talk) 19:35, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

I think you didn't understand what I wrote. Yes, there are copyright violations, but there are also useful uploads. So we usually do not apply a 6-month block the first time when the user is not a vandalism-only account. Yann (talk) 20:11, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

The problem is that we can not trust any own work claims of this user. GPSLeo (talk) 20:32, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

I'll try to communicate with them. I'm able to use French (I'm European, not African, though, but that shouldn't matter, I hope). Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 21:34, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I would reduce the block to one week. Hopefully that's sufficient to send the message through. Yann (talk) 16:18, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Yann: then will you take it upon yourself to do something about his continued effort to contact me outside of Commons [3] [4] (the last of which I am about to delete without reading, but this link will let you find out whatever it says)? There have also been emails. In response to one of the latter I told him (in English and French) that the only acceptable place for him to continue this during his block is his user talk page, to which he continues to have access. He ignored that.

I would strongly object to him being unblocked without being assigned a mentor, and I would strongly request a mutual no-contact with myself to be a condition of the unblock. - Jmabel ! talk 16:58, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

OK, fine. I will give him these requirements for unblocking. Yann (talk) 17:03, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I would suggest to change to partial block for uploads until the status of all files clarified. GPSLeo (talk) 17:24, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

To whom it may concern but who's not able to understand French well: The linked EN-WP messages to @Jmabel are basically only a fact-centric defence (I didn't see things amounting to personal attacks) and explanation on how he (BOKOBA veroly) claimed to have produced (the second one: "Les photos signalées comme potentiellement en infraction sont mes propres créations, réalisées en partie avec mon téléphone personnel."; some apparently have been processed with Leonardo AI) some of the files in jeopardy. Additionally, he indeed asks for a mentoring guidance. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 21:58, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I propose extending his ban indefinitely due to his continued lies today about the authorship of the photos he uploaded: User talk:BOKOBA veroly#File:Présentation en.jpg and File:Excellent.jpg

He is lying to us completely brazenly, claiming to have taken the photos himself, even though he was demonstrably 4,700 km away from the scene. In my opinion, shortening the ban would be tantamount to supporting further copyright infringements. His statements in the above-mentioned discussion section also mean that this can no longer be considered a mistake, lack of knowledge, or other perhaps excusable behavior, but only willful and malicious deception. Stepro (talk) 17:36, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Stepro: in that response you linked, BV posted a text with a boilerplate feeling (he posted it 3 times: in your thread, on Joe's EN talk page and below my DR notice at the bottom of the page), without exact correlation to the Wikicon images. He said "Mes images constituent en grande partie mon propre travail, certaines ayant été créées à l’aide de Leonardo AI." which translates to My images [read:uploads] are mostly my own work, some having been created with the assistance of Leonardo AI.". That's not a claim about the authorship of the Wikicon copyvios, only a general statement. With the other messages he posted, I don't think that he has any intent to lie or to deceive, that's more an impression of him being overwhelmed and confused but also willing to learn, if given the chance and assistance. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 22:06, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

images I have taken =!= my own own images (that I have worked on myself, created with AI on my phone, downloaded to my phone). I still don't see a clear statement that he has taken the images, but only worked on them. This still lacks an understanding of what we want on Commons: own works or freely licensed images, and therefore I cannot support unblocking them for file upload. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 08:11, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I cannot support unblocking someone who contacted someone after being requested to stop, especially when they aren't indeffed. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 16:47, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Datasets about potential logos - November 2025 uploads

Hi all, we have released a new dataset of potential logos uploaded in November 2025, together with another one of those which have already been deleted as of 2025-12-02. We are sharing them with you for your consideration.

This is part of our current work with the logo detection tool. We hope it will be useful for your moderation activities.

If you encounter issues with the datasets or have comments/requests, please reach out to me or to Sannita (WMF).

Thanks for your attention! –-MFossati (WMF) (talk) 11:23, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Renatnom

Renatnom (talk · contribs) behaviour is strange. When I add an uncreated category by HotCat, the account immediately creates blank category pages (before I have a chance to create the category page properly). I don't know if it's automated, but definitely it's not desirable. I've posted on the account's talkpage, but it would be good to check the situation. — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 08:18, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

I've understand, don't worry. Thanks. Renatnom (talk) 08:20, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

File:Honor Magic V5.jpg

Pls suppress the original image which contains copyrighted wallpaper. 0x0a (talk) 14:37, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done GMG^talk 15:15, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Request for review of mass deletion of my user project pages

Hello,

I would kindly like to request a community review of several deletions performed by administrator The Squirrel Conspiracy, who used Nuke to mass-delete multiple pages in my user space under the criterion U3 (Inappropriate use of user pages).

These pages contained documented artistic and long-term photography projects, not drafts, vandalism, spam, nor external promotion. The pages were used to present my works, describe the concepts, show credits, and link to the projects as part of my artistic portfolio.

Examples:

• User:Nikasandler/The World of Hedonia
• User:Nikasandler/My Nonhuman Friends
• User:Nikasandler/Plant and Human Pain
• User:Nikasandler/The Black Sun
• User:Nikasandler/Mycophilia
• User:Nikasandler/A History of Teeth
• User:Nikasandler/The Ancient Depths
• User:Nikasandler/Commission for Issue 3 of Sensored Magazine''

No warning or discussion was provided before the mass deletion.

I kindly request:

1. a review of whether these deletions fall under U3,
2. consideration for restoring the deleted pages,
3. clarification on appropriate use of user space for artistic projects.

Thank you very much for your time and help.

— NikaSandler Nikasandler (talk) 23:31, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

These were entirely appropriate deletions. Personal artistic projects and portfolios are outside the scope of commons. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:50, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

User:Nikasandler/The World of Hedonia appears to have consisted entirely of a gallery of deleted images and some text about the context in which they were taken. That's pretty obviously out of scope, and does not encourage me to look at all the others. Can you point at any of these that are something more than that? - Jmabel ! talk 01:44, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Rename request

Can an admin handle the rename request for File:GsgshsgafaD (1).png? The file is cascade protected. Thanks. Geoffroi 01:31, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done Abzeronow (talk) 02:20, 4 December 2025 (UTC)