Jump to content

Commons:Administrators' noticeboard

Add topic
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

Shortcut: COM:AN

This is a place where users can communicate with administrators, or administrators with one another. You can report vandalism, problematic users, or anything else that needs an administrator's intervention. Do not report child pornography or other potentially illegal content here; e-mail legal-reports@wikimedia.org instead. If reporting threatened harm to self or others also email emergency@wikimedia.org.

Vandalism
[new section]
User problems
[new section]
Blocks and protections
[new section]
Other
[new section]

Report users for clear cases of vandalism. Block requests for any other reason should be reported to the blocks and protections noticeboard.


Report disputes with users that require administrator assistance. Further steps are listed at resolve disputes.


Reports that do not suit the vandalism noticeboard may be reported here. Requests for page protection/unprotection could also be requested here.


Other reports that require administrator assistance which do not fit in any of the previous three noticeboards may be reported here. Requests for history merging or splitting should be filed at COM:HMS.

Archives
26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
126, 125, 124, 123, 122, 121, 120, 119, 118, 117, 116, 115, 114, 113, 112, 111, 110, 109, 108, 107, 106, 105, 104, 103, 102, 101, 100, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91, 90, 89, 88, 87, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80, 79, 78, 77, 76, 75, 74, 73, 72, 71, 70, 69, 68, 67, 66, 65, 64, 63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58, 57, 56, 55, 54, 53, 52, 51, 50, 49, 48, 47, 46, 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
42, 41, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
102, 101, 100, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91, 90, 89, 88, 87, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80, 79, 78, 77, 76, 75, 74, 73, 72, 71, 70, 69, 68, 67, 66, 65, 64, 63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58, 57, 56, 55, 54, 53, 52, 51, 50, 49, 48, 47, 46, 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Note

  • Remember to sign and date all comments using four tildes (~~~~), which translates into a signature and a time stamp.
  • Notify the user(s) concerned via their user talk page(s). {{subst:Discussion-notice|noticeboard=COM:AN|thread=|reason=}} ~~~~ is available for this.
  • Administrators: Please make a note if a report is dealt with, to avoid unnecessary responses by other admins.


Urgent Request for Review and Correction on a negative slur

[edit]

Hi. I was redirected here by Trimtrent and believe this is the COM:AN noticeboard. I would like to raise a complaint about a negative slur attached to my uploaded file, which states the document was AI‑developed and/or partially developed. This is baseless and without evidence. I require this sub‑comment to be removed from my published file immediately, as it is hurtful and unfounded. I have only used AI tools in a limited editorial capacity — to check factual references and improve grammar and phrasing. All substantive intellectual work, sourcing, and analytical decisions were made and executed by me. Plus I have uploaded many other images I have worked on for the paper and shared it with the public on SA BY 4.0. Regarding whether the actual file is deleted or not, I am happy to wait for due process, but the AI slur on my work must be removed without delay.

Kind regards, Jeeva [Author of File:Dravidian Arc - Reframing Ancient India’s Civilisational Origins.pdf] Jeeva S Sk (talk) 20:58, 9 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Are you talking about the DR Commons:Deletion requests/File:Dravidian Arc - Reframing Ancient India’s Civilisational Origins.pdf? If yes, well, the mentioned statement by the nominator is just an opinion, which may or may not be true, but its not an insult/slur. Also, it does not say "the document was AI‑developed ", but "appears likely", which has a different weight. --Túrelio (talk) 21:08, 9 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Its appears as a slur because its not clearly stated as this objection view is from an external user and most people including myself viewed this statement its coming from a WikiCommon adminstrator. Can you please help to remove the potential AI usage to create the paper as its not correct and gives the wrong impression to public users Jeeva S Sk (talk) 22:14, 9 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Jeeva S Sk I think you, like very many people, misunderstand the role of administrators on Wikimedia Foundation sites. They have no special authority. They are delegated additional cleanup powers by consensus of the denizens of the different sites, but their role is to assist with cleaning up messes. They are truly the janitors here, not people with special authority. Their authority level is equal to yours, to mine and to everyone else's. Even their wielding of the janitorial mop and bucket is subject to the scrutiny of the community. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 22:37, 9 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
I assume that this request is now resolved, as the file has been deleted. @Jeeva, the (now deleted) file appears to me like a scientific paper. If it truely is, Commons is really the wrong place to publish it, and it can even be unwise to do so, because (real) scientific journals always ask whether a paper has previously been submitted elsewhere. So, you should find a suitable (scientific) journal and try to publish it there. --Túrelio (talk) 09:05, 10 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Túrelio I choose not to complain about the personal attack. It is insufficient to warrant action unless they persist, when a warning shot may be required over collegiality, though they doubled down on it elsewhere, too. From my perspective this can be closed and archived. @Jeeva S Sk may not check this board again so I have pinged them in order that they may comment if they wish to.. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 09:32, 10 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Okay thank you @Túrelio as it wasn't properly explained like you have done. I understand the research paper parts: abstract and overview (uploaded ) cant be posted on Commons - simiilar to WikiSource or WikiPedia- which I wasn't aware of before until last night. Jeeva S Sk (talk) 10:08, 10 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Timtrent: Please take care in judging whether content is AI generated. I have not seen the deleted file, so I cannot speak to its appearance, but I am sympathetic to the harm of associating someone's research with AI content when that is not the case.
@Jeeva S Sk: As others here are saying, Wikimedia Commons is generally not a place for hosting preprints or academic files. However, if you are patient, and if you wish to try using a new service, and if you can collaborate with all the volunteer editors, then I invite you to try publishing your preprint at Wikiversity:WikiJournal of Humanities. WikiJournal is a project within the Wikimedia platform, and it is a new option for publishing research. It is a place that can accept comments on preprints, and if you wish to advance your publication there, then it has an editorial board to provide peer review. This is an uncommon new service which is still being tested, and most reviewers for Wikimedia Commons are unfamiliar with it.
WikiJournal is a place where people are more accustomed to checking for AI submissions for academic research. I recognize that you have had some friction in editing Wikimedia so far, but if you want to give a try there, then editors can take your submission. Thanks. Bluerasberry (talk) 22:32, 11 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
However, judging by https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons_talk:Project_scope&oldid=1114944379#WikiJournal_of_Humanities, probably not. - Jmabel ! talk 06:46, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

 Not done - Jmabel ! talk 06:47, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Problema Blacklist durante caricamento file: progetto fontana Milano Centrale 1988

[edit]

Buongiorno,

sto tentando di caricare un’immagine relativa a un progetto per la **Stazione Centrale di Milano** (proposta/bozzetto di fontana, anno 1988). Anche tentando nomi descrittivi e dettagliati, ricevo sempre l’errore di **“nome file inserito nella Blacklist perché troppo comune o non informativo”**.

Nomi file provati

[edit]
  • Milan Central Station fountain project - 1988
  • Milan_Central_Station_fountain_project_1988.jpg
  • MilanoCentrale_fountain_project_1988.jpg
  • Render_fontana_Stazione_Centrale_Milano_1988.jpg
  • Proposta_fontana_Milano_Centrale_1988.jpg

Contesto

[edit]
  • L’immagine è un render/proposta storica di una fontana progettata per Milano Centrale, anno 1988.
  • Lo scopo del caricamento è documentare un progetto storico/architettonico.

Licenza / autore

[edit]

Mia opera creativa

Richiesta

[edit]

Chiedo cortesemente:

  1. Di verificare se la **TitleBlacklist** sta bloccando i nomi file in modo eccessivo.
  2. Se si tratta di un falso positivo, suggerire eventualmente un **nome file sicuro** da usare per consentire il caricamento.

Grazie ObservatoryDigi (talk) 13:20, 12 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

  •  Comment The first (with no suffix) makes no sense as a filename, but the others all look reasonable to me. Still, given those titles, it is hard to imagine that they would not be copyrighted: are you saying you are the person who designed this fountain, and that the renderings are your original work? We'd almost certainly need still to go through the COM:VRT process for you to verify that. - Jmabel ! talk 20:36, 12 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
  • I can't find anything in the logs. Does someone know where I should be looking? Also, has "filter log" been renamed when starting from user contributions (I don't see that anywhere; I see "abuse filter log", which has no hits for this user). Nor can I find anything starting from the history of these files. @ObservatoryDigi: Did you attempt to upload these using this account or another account, and were you using Commons:Upload Wizard or some other upload tool? (Hai provato a caricarli utilizzando questo account o un altro account e stavi utilizzando Commons:Upload Wizard o qualche altro strumento di caricamento?) - Jmabel ! talk 20:50, 12 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Does someone have thoughts here? This seems to have petered out, and I have nothing to add. - Jmabel ! talk 06:49, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Revdel request

[edit]

File:Orc mask by GrimZombie.jpg

The uploader have on Commons:Deletion requests/File:Orc mask by GrimZombie.jpg stated they wish for their user account to be hidden from the file Trade (talk) 19:32, 12 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

VRT ticket #: 2016052210013951
@Trade: I believe that miscategorizes what is on that DR. The Commons uploader is not who asked for anonymization, it is the source/author information for which that was requested, and that has been done. I will hide the history where that is revealed. If they want their pseudonym also suppressed, that would require that we rename the file; I think it is too late for that to be a reasonable thing to do, but won't object if I am overruled on that. - Jmabel ! talk 20:58, 12 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
 Oppose This file was uploaded in 2016 and is widely used. Geoffroi 22:16, 12 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Geoffroi: what is it that you oppose? Are you saying I should not have hidden the actual name of the Flickr user who requested that the file be anonymized? - Jmabel ! talk 04:50, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
I oppose renaming the file/supressing the nickname. I think what's been done is sufficient. Geoffroi 04:59, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
It's been a few days, and no one has argued against Geoffroi's view that what I've already done is enough so: Already done. - Jmabel ! talk 06:50, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Check their uploads

[edit]

Kindly check the uploads of Gamerheitor56 (talk · contribs). I have some suspicion over the licensing/copyright status of the files but I may request a third party user to conduct licensing review. Regards, JWilz12345 (Talk|Contributions) 07:54, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@JWilz12345 you are supposed to inform the user of this thread at their TP. I have done it this time for you. Please take care the next time. Good day. Shaan SenguptaTalk 10:34, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
✓ Done. I deleted one of them as copyrighted poster and kept the other as ineligible for copyright, educational value potentially exists. Taivo (talk) 13:23, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Attack image

[edit]

Can someone please delete File:GhwfZBuWIAADUm6.jpg? Thanks. Geoffroi 00:06, 14 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

✓ Done Abzeronow (talk) 00:12, 14 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Update gadget

[edit]

Wondering if an interface admin can update the OWID gadget

Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:22, 14 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Trying almost at random (picked an arbitrary part of the alphabet) to get someone's attention to this: @Matrix, Magog the Ogre, Mdaniels5757, MGA73, and Mike Peel: .
Is there a better place Doc James should have asked this? I'm not aware of one. - Jmabel ! talk 06:54, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Ok, will do —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 17:38, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Doc James: ✓ DoneMatrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 17:41, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

User:Thegreatrebellion

[edit]

This user has sometimes uploaded non-free images of unknown sources and tagging them as their own work.

Specifically, the images appear to be screenshots from social media. While a screenshot itself can be uploaded if the content is freely licensed (eg: CCBY), this is highly unlikely to be the case here, which suggests a copyright violation.

The examples provided below are not complete:

~2025-33749-29 (talk) 07:17, 15 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@~2025-33749-29: the normal way to proceed here would be, above all, to identify the source (rather than just say "appear to be screenshots from social media") and to mark as a copyvio, indicating that source. The user does have quite a few past copyvios, so I'm inclined to believe you, but it takes a pretty overwhelming pattern before we start deleting just on the basis of who uploaded the photo. - Jmabel ! talk 23:20, 15 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Looks like HejTuWou (not active lately) nominated quite a few of Thegreatrebellion's photos for deletion, then withdrew his own nominations. Some admin with a bit of time on their hands may want to sort out what is going on here. - Jmabel ! talk 23:23, 15 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

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

[edit]

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.

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

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)Reply

One more:

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)Reply

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)Reply

Two more:

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

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)Reply
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)Reply

Request

[edit]

Commons:Deletion requests/File:2022 Paskevich statue.jpg

Hello, dear administrations. Could someone summarize this unjustified nomination? The participants have expressed their opinions. Thank you Well-read MountainMan (talk) 08:39, 15 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Well-read MountainMan: I commented in the DR and warned both.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:32, 15 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
✓ Done I'll close it. Looks like nominator was confused about what country's laws apply. - Jmabel ! talk 06:58, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Need admin help

[edit]

I request to delete these files and restore them without my edits and uploads. It has been UploadWizard bugs. Thank. Юрий Д.К. 10:48, 15 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Revisions deleted. --Achim55 (talk) 20:45, 15 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
✓ Done - Jmabel ! talk 07:03, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Report of strange user

[edit]

So I am even not sure what is it. There is user https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dnaieldanieldaniel if you look at contributions you will see the similar images uploaded with not categorization (one of the images is falsely categorized as animation of geometry) and no usage. They have (almost sure) meaningless description. I don't see vandalism or etc but it is clearly not normal imo. Please look DustDFG (talk) 22:26, 15 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

✓ Done. Files (there were only 2) deleted by colleague Yann. --Túrelio (talk) 09:00, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

User:Excalibur

[edit]

He's still attacking me on his talk page! Can you please take his talk away? He's abused his talk three times now! Will you please stop him from trolling Commons users? Please? Geoffroi 02:13, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Already done - Jmabel ! talk 06:42, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

VisualChange fail

[edit]

While using VisualChange, I inserted the following string as the title of the deletion nomination:

The creation of the relevant page was blocked for having "https" in the title, however the deletion notices were sent out regardless, and now the deletion request is incomplete. How to solve this issue? Thanks. Howardcorn33 (talk) 13:01, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Or perhaps an admin could rollback the deletion request edits and re-open the request with the same rationale? Howardcorn33 (talk) 13:09, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Howardcorn33: please list the files on Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with "John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation" "https://www.macfound.org". The tool had only missed out creating the DR, which I have created. I don't know which and which file is to be listed there. signed, Aafi (talk) 13:25, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you. I have added the affected files. Howardcorn33 (talk) 13:30, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Looks resolved. Already done. - Jmabel ! talk 18:41, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Special:AbuseFilter/71 shouldn't be triggered on importations

[edit]

I was importing a file from English Wikibooks to Commons when I was hit with a message telling me to use the "Nominate for Deletion" gadget. This was weird, since I had not nominated anything for deletion. It turns out that an old version of the file's description page had the {{Delete}} tag on it. I was not the author of that revision. Is there any way to exclude file importations from this filter? JJPMaster (she/they) 01:15, 18 November 2025 (UTC)Reply