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

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Copyright:

• Copyright violations: ~17
• Unfree Flickr files: ~0
• Recent unfree Flickr images: ~1
• Media uploaded without a license as of 2024-01: ~101

Other:

• Duplicates: ~8
• Advertisements/spam: ~2
• Personal photos/selfies: ~161
• Other speedy deletions: ~28
• Categories for discussion: 84 months
• Media requiring a split up: ~2
• Requests for unblock: ~3
• Undeletion requests: ~12

Protected edit requests:

• Full protection: ~44
• Interface admin: ~39
• Technical: ~2
• Template protection: ~29
• Protection level: ~0

See also: DR, HMS, …

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Informing you about the Mental Health Resource Center and inviting any comments you may have

Hello Commons Administrators! I work in the Community Resilience and Sustainability team of the Wikimedia Foundation. The Mental Health Resource Center is a group of pages on Meta-wiki aimed at supporting the mental wellbeing of users in our community.

The Mental Health Resource Center launched in August 2023. The goal is to review the comments and suggestions to improve the Mental Health Resource Center each quarter. As there have not been many comments yet, I’d like to invite you to provide comments and resource suggestions as you are able to do so on the Mental Health Resource Center talk page. The hope is this resource expands over time to cover more languages and cultures. Thank you! Best, JKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:05, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Error messages when deleting files

Are other admins also experiencing frequent error messages when trying to delete pages? I need to try multiple times to get a file deleted. GPSLeo (talk) 07:40, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

No, I do not have any issues. Ymblanter (talk) 21:24, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

I recently faced an error once. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 21:25, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Inconsistently, but yeah. Nonstandard characters are the only consistent trigger I've noticed. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:44, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Requesting semi-protection for File:Cumshot.webm

Vandalism--Trade (talk) 18:45, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done for six months. Abzeronow (talk) 18:56, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Add File:Romuald Twardowski.jpg to Category:Romuald Twardowski

I've created Category:Romuald Twardowski and wanted to add File:Romuald Twardowski.jpg to it. However the picture is now on the main page of the Polish Wikipedia and because of it I can't edit it. Could someone please delete the categories in File:Romuald Twardowski.jpg and add it to Category:Romuald Twardowski (Category:1930 births and Category:2024 deaths is added by Wikidata and the category I made is already in Category:Male composers from Poland)? Swam pl (talk) 15:33, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Accidentally forgot a comma Another mistake, I meant the colon Swam pl (talk) 15:36, 20 January 2024 (UTC) in category link. Sorry for this, just fixed it! --Swam pl (talk) 15:34, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

@Swam pl  Done. I have removed Category:Male composers from Poland and added Category:Romuald Twardowski. Best regards, ─ The Aafī (^talk) 15:54, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

@TheAafi: , thank you! I've also connected the category to Wikidata and thus Category:1930 births and Category:2024 deaths were added to the category along with some other categories. I think these two categories can be removed from File:Romuald Twardowski.jpg? Swam pl (talk) 15:59, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. @Swam pl, let me know if you need help with anything else. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 16:01, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Swam pl (talk) 16:07, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Fostera12

Reporting Fostera12 (talk · contribs) for multiple copyvio uploads after warnings. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 09:14, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done. One week block. Taivo (talk) 10:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Additional eyes requested on Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Police arresting Donald Trump (Midjourney)

The discussion there has gotten heated. I've asked both parties to disengage, but since I'm involved as a !voter, it'd be nice to have other eyes watching this. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 10:01, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Request

Hello, can an admin please look through the MUTCD images at Category:Media requiring renaming - target already exists? It's pretty tiring to G6 the redirect, wait for an admin to delete it and then move the file. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - useless contributions} 17:16, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@Matrix  Done. Taken care of. Best regards, ─ The Aafī (^talk) 18:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

User:YANKERS

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

This editor created an account and immediately began attempting to defame an individual on en.wikipedia. As part of that, their only upload has been File:Garry the liar.jpg. There is no value to this image and it needs to be deleted. Further, I recommend blocking the account. See edit filter log from en.wikipedia for this user. Yes, I know, it's not Commons activity. But, the intent is clear. --Hammersoft (talk) 01:48, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@Hammersoft: I deleted their one Commons upload. You seem not to have notified them that you were reporting them to COM:AN. - Jmabel ! talk 02:25, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. You're correct. There was no edit notice to that effect...and I see it now in notes at the top. --Hammersoft (talk) 02:27, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

•  Comment Already indef blocked on en:w; I suggest following their example, clearly the user is not here for anything constructive. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 03:04, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

   Done Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:48, 23 January 2024 (UTC)