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• Other speedy deletions: ~60
• Categories for discussion: 84 months
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• Undeletion requests: ~16

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 create a report

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.

Goattaker

• User: Goattaker
• Reasons for reporting: 257 and 257a hits.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 10:53, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done Blocked, all edits reverted. Yann (talk) 11:49, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

Yann: Thanks. Now we have them from HemmanHermit.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 21:04, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

Yann: Thanks again. Also from Yushiwaredom and Dustsunner.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:26, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done, locked thanks to Johannnes89!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 12:35, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Stalingrad Gangster

User: Stalingrad Gangster (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Vandalism. Long-term abuse. Delete. Vladimir LTA. XReport --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 07:38, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

 Blocked indefinitely, deleted. --Lymantria (talk) 10:36, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Ofenbach - Be Mine

User: Ofenbach - Be Mine (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Vandalism. Long-term abuse. Delete. Vladimir LTA. XReport --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 07:38, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

 Blocked indefinitely, deleted. --Lymantria (talk) 10:36, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

八王子ゴルフ

User: 八王子ゴルフ (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Userpage issues, removed CSD tag. XReport --MathXplore (talk) 03:23, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done. Userpage is deleted. Also I deleted multiple uploads due to different copyright violations. Taivo (talk) 09:59, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Kaab Consultoría

This user got blocked on ESWP for having a promotional username, and their edit on Commons is similarly violative and includes a spam link, so could you please block them? Faster than Thunder (talk) 03:52, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Achim55 reverted that and left them a warning. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 01:32, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Per my addition to COM:BLOCK:

• Users who are blocked on other Wikimedia projects for vandalism or other types of disruptive editing: If a user is blocked on another Wikimedia project and uploads a relevant malicious image or otherwise makes a similar malicious edit here on Commons, then the block settings used on the other project may be applied here without any warning. This does not mean that users must be blocked on Commons just because they are blocked on another wiki. However, if they continue the behavior that got them blocked on the other project, then they can be blocked without warning.

Faster than Thunder (talk) 16:56, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

 Not done Achim55 got to it first and decided not to issue a block. I don't see any reason to overrule them. I've also reverted your change the blocking policy page. Please do not make major changes to policy pages unilaterally; propose them on the policy's talk page instead. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 17:02, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Za Tatkovinata

User: Za Tatkovinata (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Vandalism. Long-term abuse. Delete. Vladimir LTA. XReport --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 09:41, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

 Blocked indefinitely, duck. File deleted. --Lymantria (talk) 10:23, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Akshaya Bhise

Akshaya Bhise (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Promotion-only account. I nominated their images for deletion. Faster than Thunder (talk) 17:18, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Vladimir Nimčević Suicide Squad

User: Vladimir Nimčević Suicide Squad (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Vandalism. Long-term abuse. Delete. Vladimir LTA. XReport --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 20:28, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done Obvious VOA, file deleted. Yann (talk) 20:44, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Vladimir Nimčević Suicide Squad 11

User: Vladimir Nimčević Suicide Squad 11 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Vandalism. Long-term abuse. Delete. Vladimir LTA. XReport --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 14:09, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

Already done Globally locked, file deleted. Yann (talk) 15:15, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

BB baal veer

Cross-wiki promotion-only account. Requested a block on English Wikipedia. Faster than Thunder (talk) 01:56, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done One more warning. Yann (talk) 13:23, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

2600:387:15:4B16:0:0:0:4

2600:387:15:4B16:0:0:0:4 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RBL • • guc • stalktoy • block user • block log • Abuse filter log)

I don't have a lot of experience blocking IP addresses. I know that in general we do not give them long blocks, because it is likely that they are not someone's fixed IP address. Given the latter, I have blocked 2600:387:15:4B16:0:0:0:4 for only 3 days, despite the behavior being such that I would give an indef-block to any account that behaved the same way (vandalism and abuse, some of it to the point of urging a user to kill themself). If someone thinks this should be a much longer block, feel more than free to go ahead. - Jmabel ! talk 03:57, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

@Jmabel, the level of abuse calls for a one-month block. The usage of inappropriate language persistently... Faster than Thunder (talk) 04:08, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done I blocked Special:Contributions/2600:387:15:4B16:0:0:0:0/64 for one week. No collateral damage. Yann (talk) 13:22, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

105.105.20.190

User: 105.105.20.190 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Vandalism Special:Contributions/105.105.20.190 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:53, 13 July 2025 (UTC)