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Student editing project about fish on enWP leading to mass copyvio uploads on Commons

See en:WP:EDUN#Apparent student project on fish articles, uploading tons of copyvios to Commons. It appears that there's some unofficial student editing project going on that has students uploading tons of images to Commons under false or no licenses. I've tagged the ones I've come across that have false licenses, and the ones without license tags have been bot-tagged, but I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg since I'm only looking at Wikipedia articles that have citation errors.

• Cicada'sbug (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• RoundSe404 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Wildyackson (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Fortheloveoffish (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Lfriker (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• NKM697 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Ilovemycat333 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Offishal fish (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Absentbowl (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• R.Stick (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Twothreepeanutbutter (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Npomp (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Guatemaltecos-Visibles (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Benthicfeeder (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• StarfishPaperWriter (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• DontDrinkTheTapWater (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• GWsharklover (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

Jay8g (talk) 08:36, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, Yes, I have noticed these users looking at Category:Media uploaded without a license as of 2025-11, and there are indeed more. Yann (talk) 16:56, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

• Potatosac789 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Setgiant (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Sebssubmarine25 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• OKTJGojiGuy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• DahriusB (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Medharaj (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Oliveinmoon (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• M!nn0W17 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Martialngaha (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Gho$t$hark (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Sgfish98 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• Ymoja (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• AMANDi08 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

One more:

• M.banana.dm (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

Honestly, I'm less concerned about the ones that are uploading images without licenses (since that's easy to notice) than the ones who are using obviously false licenses. Jay8g (talk) 08:15, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

The issue is not the number of files, but the number of people. Each of them has only uploaded a few images, but the high number of people doing the same mistakes at the same time is a problem. Yann (talk) 08:24, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Two more:

• BrieSteele1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)
• ElCappu (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log)

Jay8g (talk) 05:37, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Have we been getting anywhere with determining who it was who aimed so many people at doing this wrong? - Jmabel ! talk 06:57, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Honestly I don't even know where to start. None of the accounts have replied to talk page messages here or on enWP, and so far no one has answered my post on en:WP:EDUN. There was another class doing work on fish-related articles around the same time last year (which didn't seem to have the image copyright issue, but I don't remember if I checked on that then) which was apparently from UC Davis, so maybe it's the same class again. Jay8g (talk) 08:44, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Looks like y'all missed tagging File:Distribution map of Laphotidae family in Mediterranean Sea.jpg --Trade (talk) 01:12, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Another one: Leokoeh356 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) Jay8g (talk) 09:05, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

First user (User:Cicada'sbug)'s upload (File:Diagram of Zameus squamulosus (a) and Scymnodom ichiharai (b) teeth.png) appears to be somewhat fine? They tagged a ProQuest source but I was able to find the original document. The document did state CC-BY 4.0 and the data within is released as CC0. Perhaps the student simply made a mistake by reading the very last part of the rights and skipped the first part? If I upload this file and tag it with correct license, it would have stayed on Commons. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 14:21, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

@OhanaUnited: Why did you not correct the source and license? --Lymantria (talk) 14:09, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Because this is a volunteer project and I am not required to give any more time and effort than I wish to? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:07, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Given that you have already done the research, unlike anyone else you could do this and take responsibility for it without re-researching. No, you are not absolutely required to do this, but it is reasonable for others to expect a certain level of collegiality. I gather you are an admin on sister projects, so certainly you understand that. - Jmabel ! talk 19:16, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bob Ross Air Force photo.jpg

I believe I've established a case for speedy deletion here. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 02:39, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

•  Done Deleted as OOS (though as apparently free licensed, so no apparent requirement for speedy.) -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 00:37, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Request to upload new version of File:Charles_Dorange_2017.png

Hello, I would like to upload a new version of this file: File:Charles_Dorange_2017.png However, the page displays the message "You cannot overwrite this file" and the “Upload a new version” link does not appear. Could an administrator please either: allow overwriting, or upload the new version for me (I can provide the file)? Thank you! JackLondon22 (talk) 09:05, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

@JackLondon22 Please upload it as a new file. I have my doubts over the copyright status of this file. Is the new image you want to upload one you took yourself or has someone else published it with a free license? Gbawden (talk) 09:21, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

DR have been open for 16 years

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Henry Louis Gates, Jr. mugshot.jpg

Could we give the DR the peace it deserves? Trade (talk) 23:24, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

gone. thanks Bedivere (talk) 23:39, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks to you both! I presume that's a record for longest open deletion request... at least I *hope* it is. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 00:38, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

This DR is old enough to apply for a driver's license in some places. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:46, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks to @Trade, the nominator will finally have the peace of mind they deserve. Shaan Sengupta^Talk 08:14, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Question on admin being an "involved party"

I know that, in general, admins are not supposed to use their (our) admin rights in situations in which they are embroiled as a party, but sometimes it seems to me that this reaches the point of absurdity: you warn a user, they respond with a personal attack. Should this disqualify you from taking admin action yourself? Recently arose for me with Youmaywear (I warned, he responded by vandalizing the description of my self-portrait that I use on a subpage of my user page) and I see that after being blocked they Special:Diff/1121169240 used their talk page access to insult the admin who followed up and blocked them. Is that admin also now supposed to recuse, and then we need a third admin to decide whether to take away TPA? At a certain point, this becomes absurd. - Jmabel ! talk 19:11, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

For a disruptive user like this with little/no productive contributions, I don't think it's an involved action to block (or reblock). Personally I would have blocked much sooner both for personal attacks and spam. In any case, I've revoked TPA. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:24, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

I agree with Pi.1415926535 here. The block is clearly justified. Regarding TPA being revoked by "an involved admin", I think admins should be allowed to deal with these types of cases. And just for transparency, they can put out a thread here for other admins to review, just like COM:AN/BP# Block review: Dronebogus and COM:AN/BP#Block review - RodRabelo7. Shaan Sengupta^Talk 06:38, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Re request Massive message request for WLE BR 2025 contributors

Hi all, this is the secound time that I requesting, I need to send a request for feedback to the participants of the WLE BR 25, can you guys help me?

Preferable via "wikimail", if not possible, via their talk pages

Olá tudo bem?!

Queríamos agradecer sua participação no Wiki Loves Earth 2025! Se possível, estamos realizando uma pesquisa sobre o concurso para podermos melhorar para o ano que vem! Ela pode ser respondida de forma completamente anônima nesse link: link para a pesquisa, se possível, responder até o dia 30 de novembro!

Caso tenham alguma dúvida, contatofoto.wiki.br

Muito obrigado novamente, equipe foto.wiki.br

{{Rodrigo.Argenton/test}}

• Source:https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/99174

Thank you. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton ^m 12:37, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Could you please make a separate page with a plain bulleted list of users (no table), then it would be much easier to send a mass message (which would land on the talk pages, I do not know how to mass-send e-mails). Also I guess the subject of the message is missing. Ymblanter (talk) 20:14, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

@Ymblanter: here the list, the subject can be "Obrigado pela sua participação no Wiki Loves Earth Brasil 2025!", thank you in advance. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton ^m 14:07, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

The list also needs to be formatted in the format described here: mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage. To avoid accidental inclusion of parts not intended for the message text please put the the text and the subject on a separate page. GPSLeo (talk) 15:11, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

@Ymblanter: The list of user talk pages is User:Rodrigo.Argenton/test. If you need that without " talk", please instead see User:Jeff G./list.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:40, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Looking at it Ymblanter (talk) 18:25, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

I sent the mass message to the queue, but it has not been delivered. I check in a few hours, and possibly send it again if needed, this happened in the past. Ymblanter (talk) 18:33, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

 Done. At the end, I had to reformat the list manually and spent about half an hour for that. Not sure it was a good investment of my time. Ymblanter (talk) 20:04, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't get what was the problem, can you better clarify to avoid problems in the future? -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton ^m 09:10, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Please look how User:Rodrigo.Argenton/test is now formatted. The mass message tool did not recognize the old format (it thought I am sending a message to zero users). Ymblanter (talk) 11:36, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Mass deletion

Sorry to bother you, but we have a user named Taichi (User talk:Taichi) who decided to delete half of the maps on Commons, out of nowhere. This person is proposing to remove plain maps with no data whatsoever that have been here since 2018, maps drawn in Paintbrush, claiming they have no sources or are derivative works, as if anyone would sue Commons for that kind of thing (it will never happen). Stop him. ~2025-36846-72 (talk) 14:07, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

I fixed your link, but your ping of User:Taichi will not have worked. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:17, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

1. I sincerely doubt that he "decided to delete half of the maps on Commons".
2. It is not a matter of whether we could be sued. It is a matter of whether they conform to Commons' policies.
3. Little is more problematic than having a blank base map that violates copyright, because people will use them to make labeled maps, and then all of those derivative works are "poisoned" by the unclean copyright status.

Jmabel ! talk 22:27, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Is this by any chance Rodowai, who I see already engaged Taichi about this? If so, it would be very helpful if you would be consistent about logging in while discussing this; while it is not necessarily sockpuppeting to address part of a matter while logged in and part while not, it's pretty close, and it makes it very hard to sort out exactly whom we should be discussing things with. - Jmabel ! talk 22:31, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Rodowai is now blocked. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:38, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Also FYI: Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Rodowai. Taichi (talk) 21:02, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

I can't argue with the checkuser outcome, but I think the intimidation claim about [1] is a misunderstanding. Looks to me like he was not making a legal threat himself, just accusing someone of copyright paranoia. - Jmabel ! talk 06:06, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Mass deletion of User:LesMoodz

Violation of nudity images and copyright 0xEffaceCafe (talk) 19:30, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

 Done Files deleted and user blocked. GPSLeo (talk) 19:51, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

File:Borderline Patients- Psychoanalytic Perspectives.jpg

I can't help but notice the coordinates are in the EXIF despite the file being tagged with Category:Location withheld. Maybe someone should remove them? --Trade (talk) 13:20, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

EXIF data removed. Could someone please revdel the original? Omphalographer (talk) 17:49, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

 Done - Jmabel ! talk 06:07, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Problematic uploads by User:Annaperfilova

Annaperfilova (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions) has uploaded a number of photos, almost exclusively of sculptures in Russia (except for two photos). FoP issues aside, the uploads appear to not be their own work (as file sizes, lack of EXIF data, and file names like File:Изображение WhatsApp 2025-09-25 в 22.29.26 cd975e24.jpg indicate). They also have a noticeable focus on sculptures by Vadim Babak (who appears to be somewhat unknown, and makes — among others? — replicas of known sculptures, example) so that I'm wondering whether there's a conflict of interest going on. Their two uploads that are not depicting sculptures are photos of another also unknown artist. And maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but while I was trying to figure out the sculptor (Vadim Babak) to provide the information for this deletion request, I came across another user whose uploads are also all of sculptures by Vadim Babak (namely User:Willimbogo), however, this might be incidental because at least their uploaded files have files sizes in MB rather than kb (except for one), and they at least have some EXIF data. But I still wanted to mention it because it's a bit odd for two users to have a focus on a rather unknown sculptor. Nakonana (talk) 13:58, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I warned this user, deleted the WhatsApp files, and some files where I found copies on the Net. If you found more evidence, please tag the files. Thanks, Yann (talk) 15:25, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. The other files would need to be deleted due to the Russian FoP restrictions for sculptures. The sculptor Vadim Babak was born in 1973 and is still alive. His works are protected for 70 years after his death. Nakonana (talk) 17:04, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

See files in Category:Vadim Babak. Nakonana (talk) 17:05, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

@Nakonana: Please create a deletion request for files in this category with relevant information. Thanks, Yann (talk) 06:59, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Problem with the bot

The bot is trying to deletd my original picture because I don't have license which is lie File:Streets at Philippines.jpg Jaredryandloneria (talk) 06:17, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

@Jaredryandloneria: Hi, It is not a problem. It is normal that if you forget to add a license to your files, you get a warning. Now since you added a license to File:Street cat at Philippines at cavite.jpg, I removed to the warning to the file description. Yann (talk) 06:58, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Pleas block the Lock evasion and delete the attacks

Special:Contributions/~2025-37140-59 )[[:m:Special:Redirect/userid/43267643= WikiBayer (talk) 08:59, 29 November 2025 (UTC)