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This page is for any user to report vandalism they are witnessing here on Commons. Please feel free to report the ongoing vandalism. Remember to sign and date all contributions, using "~~~~", which translates into a signature and a time stamp.

Admins: once you've dealt with a report, please make a note, so that other admins don't waste time responding to it.

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[edit] reporting vandalism / awful pictures

i have found these at the "latest file" page. The dumps are looking like normal, but the picture are awful. It seems to be the same author all the time. One example - [[1]] yours 87.179.155.35 10:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

OK I think now - looking into it - thanks for the message. What other ones are there? --Herby talk thyme 10:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Note the contributions of Gavin.collins (talk • contribs), whose uploads have been cleaned up by an array of admins. I have also fully cascade protected the Main Page after massive image vandalism. (Totally stunned that this wasn't the case before.) - BanyanTree 10:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey Herby! There were others of the same author but they seem to be ok now. I just found another one by another author. {{http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:John_McCain_official_photo_portrait-cropped.JPG]]. Is these some kind of attack on commons? 87.179.155.35 10:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks all - Bryan has now blocked 5 sleeper accounts & we have both checked for others. All damaged repaired, CU list notified. In passing there was some "discussion" about main page protection on another board recently. There does not seem to be full agreement on it :) Cheers --Herby talk thyme 10:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your fast reply. I cannot figure out why anyone would like to upload such pictures. They are reality (unfortunately) but at commons there are kids looking around, so no need for such pictures. 87.179.155.35 10:42, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] IP 67.0.105.164

See Special:Contributions/67.0.105.164. Had it been one edit I would have assumed it was a mistake but after several identical edits... Short block should suffice. /Lokal_Profil 23:52, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

They're on a two-hour break now. —LX (talk, contribs) 00:05, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Something odd

Take a look at the edit histories here, here, here & here. Similar edits, widely spread IPs. Suggests to me Open Proxies or similar but the bot is not reporting anything. May be worth watching for, cheers --Herby talk thyme 16:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Seem to be a cross wiki phenomena [2] Regards, Finn Rindahl 16:12, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Oh well, the good people at nn: deleted that page[3]. It was a new article created with the same text as in the diffs Herby provided above. Finn Rindahl 16:31, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
None of those IPs are open proxies as far as I can currently determine. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 03:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Revert and ignore (with block if you like) seems to be the best solution if this comes up again. giggy (:O) 08:51, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism of description, et cetera

I'm getting some person constantly changing the descriptions in my gallery, yesterday about a half dozen or more times to

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Will_Dockery_poet.jpg

I check back and undo these, but thought I'd pass it along since the person seems determined to keep it up.

"Will Dockery 16:07, 21 April 2008 (UTC)"

I have blocked Parnello (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · blocklog) indef for harrassment and protected Image:Will Dockery poet.jpg for a month from IPs. Patrícia msg 16:22, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism by User:I cant think of a good name

This user is uploading vandalised images which are identical to pre existent valid images but with 4chan memes hidden in them, and replacing them in en.wikipedia articles, Image:Military laser Experiment.jpg contains the IMA CHARGING MA LAZORZ meme, Image:United States One dollar bill, obverse.jpg contains a small mudkipz ( a pokemon, also a meme) inserted just above the 'N' in ONE DOLLAR; Image:Velsenwapen.png is a modified version of Image:Velsen wapen.png, with the sheep head replaced by a pikkachu head ( a pokemon). Jackaranga 11:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

The original images were Image:Military laser experiment.jpg, Image:United States one dollar bill, obverse.jpg Jackaranga 11:23, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Hum - deleted, just wondering if indef block is appropriate or whether to try a warning. My gut feeling is this sort of vandalism is unlikely to go away - views? Cheers --Herby talk thyme 11:31, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Don't know really, now that we know about him, it's unlikely he will go unnoticed anyway if he edits from the same account. Jackaranga 11:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
ABF abf /talk to me/ 13:25, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Good block. I'd go with Herby's gut (& mine agrees!) that this kind of thing is unlikely to go willingly. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 23:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Endorse block. giggy (:O) 00:54, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:Setdominguez

As noted by a user on the german village pump [4], there seems to be a problem with User:Setdominguez who systematically deletes all information from the description pages of images originally uploaded by himself. --Túrelio 20:30, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmm...a strange case. I'm not really sure if a block is in order...I'll leave the user a note about this, see what happens. giggy (:O) 01:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vittorio Sgarbi fecal vandalism

Please, block Special:Contributions/87.4.127.240 and Special:Contributions/87.11.195.46. --Dezidor 23:28, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Done Blocked for 24 hours. Finn Rindahl 23:46, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:Knorrepoes

Delete some correct licences here. --Atamari 11:07, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

and here and here and many other images --Atamari 12:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
I have warned the user to either correct the licenses or propose images for deletion if licensing is not adequate. I'm reverting in the meanwhile. Patrícia msg 12:46, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
OK, I think I rollbacked every removal done today, please warn me if I missed something, thanks, Patrícia msg 13:00, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
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