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To create a report please click on the button above and fill the fields. Alternatively you may copy the following template, replacing USER/IP and REASON with your content, and place it at the bottom of this page:

{{subst:Report vandal|USER/IP|REASON. ~~~~}}

• Administrators: Please make a note if a report is dealt with, to avoid unnecessary responses by other admins.

RaihanEXE99

• User: RaihanEXE99 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Reasons for reporting: Only spam vandalism and a complaint about not being able to post it.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:44, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

  Already done locked. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 14:39, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Afrowriter

User: Afrowriter (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Uploading copyvios after a final warning. Belbury (talk) 14:19, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week. Should have been blocked long ago: nothing is right. Bogus sources and licenses, copyvios only, etc. so Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Afrowriter. Yann (talk) 15:12, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

2402:1980:24F:27A:0:0:0:

User: 2402:1980:24F:27A:0:0:0: (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Vandalism-only IP A1Cafel (talk) 14:57, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

 Comment This IP doesn't exist. Yann (talk) 15:03, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Yann and @A1Cafel: Try 2402:1980:24F:27A::1 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log).   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:07, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done Special:Contributions/2402:1980:24F:27A:0:0:0:0/64 Blocked for a week. Yann (talk) 15:16, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

2003:D7:8724:B272:3C67:D2A6:697E:84B5

User: 2003:D7:8724:B272:3C67:D2A6:697E:84B5 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Vandalism-only IP ReneeWrites (talk) 16:09, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 16:12, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Oil-Neuro1994

User: Oil-Neuro1994 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Apparently a sockpuppet (Category:Sockpuppets of Saranphat chaiphet) created for block evasion, because this user and all the users in the mentioned category have been trying to upload the same copyright violation files which are related to Nan Province, not to mention that this user has "oil" in his username in the same manner as the sockpoppets in that category, such as Max-Oil2024 (talk · contribs), PickOil (talk · contribs), Pickoil412 (talk · contribs), PickOil9386 (talk · contribs), etc, which indicates their relationships.Miwako Sato (talk) 11:39, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done. I blocked the user indefinitely, all contributions are already deleted. Taivo (talk) 15:28, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Х у й в п и з д е 123

User: Х у й в п и з д е 123 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Vandalism XReport --TenWhile6 22:18, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

@TenWhile6, globally locked. Kadı Message 23:57, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

81.196.30.132

User: 81.196.30.132 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Made a really horrible and unfunny edit. Stink! Stink! Stink! SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 04:21, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done. 3 days block and I deleted something. Taivo (talk) 11:44, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

CangCot

User: CangCot (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Sockpuppet of Khangofficial. XReport --Ayane aka. eunn 13:13, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 13:26, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

DrWeber29

User: DrWeber29 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: The user does not stop uploading copyrighted works even after a clear warning from @Didym pointing out our guidelines. Lukas Beck (talk) 23:29, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Mitte27

User: Mitte27 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: This user is trying to enforce his POV regarding the naming of sports club categories by force (see also: User talk:Mitte27#Category:FC Bayern Munich and its subcategories, Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/12/Category:FC Bayern Munich, Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 98#Category:FC Bayern München/Category:FC Bayern Munich and its subcategories). The specific occasion for this report is that he started a category-move war by moving the category Category:Polonia Warszawa to the English name. This category, like all of our categories for sports clubs, was originally created under the original (in this case Polish) name Polonia Warszawa, but was moved to the English name Polonia Warsaw in 2019 without any discussion ([1]). I recently reverted this because using the English name is against our commons practice and such controversial category renaming should not happen without a CfD, anyway. On December 15, Mitte27 then moved the category back to the undiscussed title, with the deliberately misleading comment "renamed without discussion". This is clearly vandalism. His solo efforts in the sports clubs categories case are no longer acceptable. By this he causes a lot of extra work for other users and causes a lot of damage. Please strictly warn the user and explain him that this behaviour is not welcome on Commons and will result in serious consequences.
Furthermore, I ask for this cfd to be closed now: Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/12/Category:FC Bayern Munich.
Ping also to User:GPSLeo, User:Jeff G., User:Jmabel. -- Chaddy (talk) 00:13, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

@Chaddy: Whatever is going on here is obviously not vandalism. You may have an appropriate complaint to bring to Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Users, which requires that you notify the user in question. - Jmabel ! talk 00:33, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

On my home wiki, German wikipedia, an edit-war or a page-move war is seen as vandalism. Is that differently seen on Commons? -- Chaddy (talk) 00:36, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes. As used on Commons, vandalism is specifically conduct clearly intended to damage the project. That is why we have a separate board to report it: so it can be shut down fast, and because blatant vandalism does not require notifying the user that you've reported them, because there is no reasonable chance that they can explain their conduct as something acceptable. - Jmabel ! talk 01:04, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Interesting. But okay, then I will use the other page. -- Chaddy (talk) 01:10, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done -- Chaddy (talk) 01:10, 27 December 2024 (UTC)