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Block request for User:Mwakwe256

Mwakwe256 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Uploading copyrighted Internet images after final warning. 0x0a (talk) 03:15, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. One month block due to large number of copyvios. I'll delete the last remaining uploads as well (they were nominated for deletion already in April). Taivo (talk) 08:31, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection request

Please protect Category:NKVD prisoner massacres: vandalism. --Leonidlednev (talk) 18:07, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done for a year. Abzeronow (talk) 18:21, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection reqiest

Please protect Category:CPanel and Category:Victims of NKVD prisoner massacres: Vandalism. --Leonidlednev (talk) 18:33, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done by Squirrel. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:04, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lower or remove protection on File:Flag_of_Palestine.svg

The edit warring seems to have died down and it does not seem as if it will ruin everything, simply by unlocking it.

It should be fine to at least lower it.

Kxeon (talk) 14:13, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Yann: I think we could probably lower it to autopatroller. Abzeronow (talk) 16:52, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd agree with that Bedivere (talk) 17:10, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Reduced protection to autoconfirmed. I would raise it again if disruption starts again. Yann (talk) 19:44, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Added to my watchlist. Abzeronow (talk) 19:46, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adewale people

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

Obvious sock of Soladoye Kerimot (talk · contribs); uploading the same repeatedly-deleted file as previous socks. See history of File:Adewale Olalekan.jpg. Marbletan (talk) 16:46, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. ~~I warned the user.~~ You are right, this is sockpuppet and I blocked him indefinitely. The only upload is deleted. Taivo (talk) 08:34, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request to protect File:Flag_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party_(Pre-1996).svg and File:Second_War_Flag_of_Chinese_Soviet_Republic.svg

Content dispute. There has been no behavioural fault by NorthTension to warrant a block. I would advise both sides (but especially OP) to maintain civility and resolve this dispute via consensus. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 16:38, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

edit: I also forgot to note that there has been insufficient recent activity to warrant upload protection. Both sides can discuss their edits on the respective files' talk page instead of continuing a revert war. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 16:44, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

A disruptive user, NorthTension keeps forcing files, especially these two files to have standardized colors despite at the time it not being such colors. He keeps citing the reasons that he does so to be "colors, the PRC flag has been standardized to this specific shade so it stands within reason that everything else derived from it should be this color too as it is on wikimedia", which doesn't count for making flags non-historical, plus it's stupid because he knows those standardized colors only exist from 2022, which is like around 80 to 90 years after these flags were originally adopted! Wheatley2 (talk) 05:32, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Holy shit are you serious dude? I literally havent touched either file since May 5th and May 11th respectively, and then you come onto my profile to annoy me about this, and when I give you an answer and tell you to knock it off you do this? NorthTension (talk) 06:21, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I call it extra measures. Wheatley2 (talk) 06:29, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you make this post on my talkpage anyways? I don't care that you deleted it you very clearly have some kind of personal issue with me that you've decided to escalate to the Noticeboard for some reason I can't fathom. NorthTension (talk) 06:48, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Man get over it I say it's over so say it's over as well (because it is) Wheatley2 (talk) 06:56, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Plus I did remove that thing because I changed my mind. I just did this to ensure no supporter of you does it again Wheatley2 (talk) 06:30, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And your last "reply" read "Print =/= digital". What does that even mean? Wheatley2 (talk) 06:31, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Block request for User:Yarlet

Yarlet (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user Username for spam or containing advertising purposes All the best -- Chuck ^Talk 22:15, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done indef blocked, deleted Bedivere (talk) 00:35, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unlock images

Hello, please unlock this image to download the new Talysh Wikipedia logo because... Unfortunately, there are errors in the spelling of words and the display of the alphabet used in the Talysh Wikipedia. It should be written: VikipedijA, Sərbəstə Ensiklopedijə. A corresponding discussion took place at the local level - here. Best regards, Гусейнага (talk) 11:43, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please upload the file under another name and I will merge them @Гусейнага Bedivere (talk) 15:43, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bedivere I uploaded a new logo - here. Гусейнага (talk) 22:28, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Гусейнага Is there consensus to make the change to that version? I don't think it conforms to the actual typography of the logo. See wmf:Legal:Wikimedia trademarks/Word mark creation. Once you confirm, I will perform the change. Bedivere (talk) 23:51, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated the logo using the actual typography. Please let me know if anything is wrong. Bedivere (talk) 00:25, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User keeps uploading promotional pictures

User:Xiaoyao1979 appears to be only interested in promotion based on their activity here and on the EN. TornadoLGS (talk) 04:55, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]