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2600:8807:a40:44:90b8:675d:e15c:a2e

User: 2600:8807:a40:44:90b8:675d:e15c:a2e (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Persistent nasty vandal comments to File:Adam Sandler Cannes 2017.jpg. Looks like a dynamic IP address. Has been warned. WikiPedant (talk) 21:20, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

 Blocked for 3 days. Thanks for reporting. Ahmad^talk 22:22, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

179.6.160.231

User: 179.6.160.231 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: persistent vandalism despite warning.

Hasley 14:55, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

 Done: 3 months, ongoing vandalism since October, 2nd block. --Achim55 (talk) 19:15, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Cookseiko

User: Cookseiko (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Uploading inappropriate images after warning.

Stang^★ 17:41, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

 Done by Herbythyme. --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 17:47, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Uglydolls and a Luca.

User: Uglydolls and a Luca. (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Vandalism on various file description pages.

Stang^★ 19:24, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

@Stang:  Done, blocked thanks to AntiCompositeNumber and globally locked thanks to Operator873.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 11:29, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Concerns with copyrights of multiple political images: HeminKurdistan

User: HeminKurdistan (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: This editor has published many images from unreliable websites, websites that have a political COI with hosted images, or images with unknown authors, uknown dates of publication, or shady copy-right claims. Most (if not all) of the images make controversial political claims directed at the People's Mujahedin of Iran, a political group with a complicated and bitter feud with the Islamic Republic's theocrats.

I first noticed this image here that made a false copy-right claim. Then checking through the other images uploaded by this user, I noticed similar uploads (like the ones below) with shady copyright claims. Many of these images have been used throughout Wikipedia by (often by topic banned or sockpuppets) editors for spreading political POV.

• Habilian which is a thorny source said to be a “stated associated media outlet” of the Islamic Republic of Iran. See also this from WP:RSN:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Militia_of_Khalq-5.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Militia_of_Khalq-4.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Militia_of_Khalq-8.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Militia_of_Khalq-6.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Militia_of_Khalq-7.jpg

• TASNIM NEWS uploads, another shady website with strong links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Militia_of_Khalq-1.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Militia_of_Khalq-2.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Militia_of_Khalq-3.jpg

• Iran-interlink another shady website:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MojahedEnglishNo2-1980.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Let%27sCreateAnotherVietnamForAmerica-English.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MojahedEnglish-No4.pdf

• PEYKAR.INFO, (ibid):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AttemptedAssassinationofAmericanDiplomat.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PMOIStatement24.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PMOIStatement22.png

• hamneshinbahar.net (ibid):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Letter_from_the_People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran_to_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union.jpg&oldid=320024876

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_from_Massoud_Rajavi_to_Mikhail_Gorbachev.jpg

• Mashruteh (ibid):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RecordofTerrorists.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MojahedinKillGeneralSaeedTahery1351.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MojahedinTerroristKillMajorJavidmand1351b.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Family_of_Lieutenant_Javidmand.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Family_of_Sergeant_Mussavipour.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kayhan-Ettela%27at-1973-06-16.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MojahedinTerrorGeneralPrice1351g.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SergeantMajorHamzehMussavipour1354.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GeneralRezaZandiPour1353.jpg

• shahsawandi.com (ibid):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kayhan-1981-05-12.gif

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AppointmentofAliZarkesh.gif

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IdeologicRevolution.gif

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IdeologicRevolution2.gif

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IdeologicRevolution3.gif

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IdeologicRevolution4.gif

• Iran, Resistance on the Rise; A Review of the Recent Resistance Operations of the Mojahedin, Iraq: Pub. Dept of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, 1988, ASIN B004JBUVM8 uploads:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resistance_on_the_Rise_(13).png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resistance_on_the_Rise_(1).png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resistance_on_the_Rise_(2).png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resistance_on_the_Rise_(3).png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resistance_on_the_Rise_(4).png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resistance_on_the_Rise_(5).png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resistance_on_the_Rise_(6).png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resistance_on_the_Rise_(7).png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resistance_on_the_Rise_(8).png

• Pbs.twimg.com uploads (see [1]):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Let%27sCreateAnotherVietnamForAmerica-Persian.jpg

• VOA uploads of images that don't specify date of publication, author, or are published in any VOA article :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Non-Iranian_rent-a-crowd_black_people_in_PMOI_rally.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Bolton_speaking_at_the_PMOI_event.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saddam_and_Rajavi.jpg

• Flickr uploads with shady titles:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Non-Iranian_rent-a-crowd_woman_and_her_children_in_PMOI_rally.jpg

• iran-ghalam.de:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Songs,_Poems_and_Revolutionary_Marches_of_the_People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran_-_Serie_4_(Back_Cover).jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Songs,_Poems_and_Revolutionary_Marches_of_the_People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran_-_Serie_4_(Cover).jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Songs,_Poems_and_Revolutionary_Marches_of_the_People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran_-_Serie_4_(Front_Cover).jpg

And there are many more such uploads by this user. Ypatch (talk) 05:46, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

@Ypatch: When reporting an account here, you have to inform the user. I did it for you this time.

Is your report politically motivated? It is not clear what issues you have with these files, e.g. files above from VOA perfectly OK. Yann (talk) 13:05, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

宿谷谷市

User: 宿谷谷市 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: jawiki abuse user. (w:ja:WP:VIP#相撲関係虚構記事作成荒らし)

アルトクール (talk) 10:09, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

 Done Jianhui67 ^T★C 03:09, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

陳畇榛

User: 陳畇榛 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: STILL UPLOAD NON-FREE FILE, INVAILD WARNING.

CreeperDigital 11:02, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week, all files already deleted. --Yann (talk) 13:01, 13 January 2022 (UTC)