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Block for Geoffroi

Please block my account indefinitely. LGBT users aren't welcome here. I don't want to be dumb enough to try coming back again and again. Thanks. Geoffroi 20:47, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

You can add {{Retired}} to your user page. Users should not be blocked unless it falls within the blocking policy. Thuresson (talk) 19:58, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. I was obviously in the wrong the other day. I'll do better in future. Geoffroi 16:24, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

File:Владимир Путин (08-03-2024) (cropped) (higher res).jpg

Caption vandalism due to the subject matter is a pain to revert all the time. Protection would be great. JayCubby (talk) 17:32, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done: Semiprotected for 3 months. --Achim55 (talk) 17:40, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Danke! JayCubby (talk) 18:04, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

User impersonation

Deantak (talk · contribs) has impersonated Dean Takahashi to upload his photograph; I've spoken to Dean, who confirmed the user is not him (though he has graciously granted permission for the photo anyway). I can't see anything in the username policy that addresses this directly, but I figured it was worth reporting the impersonation. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 22:09, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Against policy for being "confusing" and "disruptive". DMacks (talk) 22:33, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done indef-blocked. If they want to participate here, they need a different account name. No other edits on this one, so no point to renaming it. - Jmabel ! talk 01:41, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

File:Chris Rea 01 AB.jpg

This i MY photo and I'd like to upload better quality version of it. Chepry (talk) 03:08, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

It seems it is protected by cascading protection from Commons:Auto-protected files/wikipedia/pl, apparently bot-maintained and related to something in the Polish Wikipedia. It was added to that list only 4 hours before you made this request, which is about a file you haven't touched since 2012. Would you mind explaining why you suddenly now want to edit it? This all seems a bit odd.

Also Pinging @AntiCompositeNumber, Legoktm, Steinsplitter, Krinkle: what would be the preferred way to remove this from its cascading protection? - Jmabel ! talk 06:44, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

 Not done. Please upload better version of the file, using different filename. Taivo (talk) 12:18, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for making me sure that after 25 years it's time to stop supporting Wikipedia. You must be very proud of yourself @Taivo... Chepry (talk) 12:39, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

I want to edit it because it is my file. Simple because. And I noticed that someone (100cellsman) destroyed the picture by improperly editing it. Chepry (talk) 12:37, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Once uploaded and freely licensed it ceases to be your file. Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:38, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

@Chepry: How was an upload which "adjusted levels" improper?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:48, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

@Jmabel The file is cascading-protected because it's in use on the Polish Wikipedia main page, in their recent deaths section. The bot runs every 10 minutes and will include any image displayed on the configured pages for that wiki, overwriting any changes made to the protection gallery. In general, editing images currently used on a main page is discouraged, I'd suggest uploading the new version as a separate file, and we can merge/split them later as necessary. AntiCompositeNumber (they/them) (talk) 14:31, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

@Chepry: I really hope you do not abandon Commons over this. Please consider this situation from the point of view of the project, rather than just yourself. This picture is temporarily protected precisely because the Polish Wikipedia temporarily has it on its main page. Overwriting the picture with a different version at this time is effectively editing the main page of the Polish Wikipedia without their consent.

You would have been entirely within your rights to object in a timely manner to someone overwriting your image rather than creating a new version. Also entirely within your rights, even now: if you want, the authorship on that file page can be changed to say "author=Andrzej Barabasz (Chepry), significantly lightened by 100cellsman" to make it clear that the choices made in the overwrite are not yours. Still, at this point: your original version had this filename for a little under 4 months; this version has had this filename for over 13 years, and is used in over 100 places on Wikimedia projects. At this point, if you want your original version also to be available, that is fine but it really belongs under a different filename, as a matter of stability of the wikis. - Jmabel ! talk 19:25, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Седа Дудуркаева5

• Седа Дудуркаева5 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

LTA Special:CentralAuth/СедаДудуркаева368, Special:CentralAuth/СедаДудуркаева700, Special:CentralAuth/СедаДудуркаева32 etc. Please nuke all files and block. Jonteemil (talk) 23:22, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

•  Done globally locked. I deleted all contributions. - Jmabel ! talk 00:32, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

File:Wiktionary-logo-prg.svg and File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-lzz.svg

I need File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-prg.svg, File:Wiktionary-logo-prg.svg and File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-lzz.svg to all be protected so they can be set as the logos of the three wikis. Please do so. Thanks, Kxeo (talk) 03:14, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done. --Achim55 (talk) 15:58, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

副代表

• 副代表 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• User still upload copyvio images after unblock.

A1Cafel (talk) 13:33, 26 December 2025 (UTC)