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Uploads by User:AntoineIDE

Hello dear colleagues,

A Wikipedia contributor mentioned me this user, active on Commons since June 2022. I was asked to delete a clear copyvio uploaded by AntoineIDE (File:CF1976.jpg). I had a look on the other files uploaded by this user and most of them are really suspicious. AntoineIDE claims that his uploads are personal work but the quality and the fact there are no Exif make me feel that these pictures are all copyvios. It would be nice if another admin could have a look on his remaining uploads.

On his talk page, we can read that he received many messages pointing his problematic uploads, but he went on uploading files found elsewhere as his personal works. Could we regard blocking this account for a while ?

Best regards, Pymouss Let’s talk - 20:51, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

@Pymouss: Here's one thing I found. Compare this with File:Michel Polnareff 012023.jpg (screenshot per exif). It looks like he may have taken copyrigted professional concert video and edited it to create this image. His remaining uploads may meet COM:PCP for deletion too. Geoffroi 20:10, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

This was all despite a final warning 16:58, 12 September 2022 (UTC). I notified them of this section for you, despite their legendary history of uncommunicative behavior. Hopefully, this user's empty block log will be no more.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:17, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

 endorse a block with TPA to try and get them to communicates. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 16:38, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

LaloLanda28

• LaloLanda28 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Buenas necesito que algun administrador bloquea este ,ese usuario es un títere (sockpuppet) de LaloLanda26 (osea mismo nombre LaloLanda) y también publico una bandera municipal en Venezuela que contiene el escudo de armas que tiene copyright como este (File:Bandera de El Socorro (Guárico).svg). AbchyZa22 (talk) 21:51, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

 Done Blocked. Should we delete all files? Yann (talk) 08:34, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

@Yann Yes,please AbchyZa22 (talk) 08:37, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

 Done OK. All edits also reverted. Yann (talk) 08:45, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

User talk:Pigsonthewing

User:Pigsonthewing uploaded a lot of photos, but does not categorize them (well enough or not at all). I put a message on his talk page about this subject, but he reverted it (what for me is the same as deleting and I know not any better than this is formbidden). I put another message with a question about this reverting, but again he reverted it. Can he get a warning? JopkeB (talk) 06:09, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Please notify the user per the notice on the top of this page. I have done it for you, but won't do it next time. Bidgee (talk) 06:19, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

User talk:SLBedit

• SLBedit (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

@SLBedit: is persistently modifying the kits on S.L. Benfica kits. This incident and their previous activity seems to indicate a COM:OWN issue to me. I have reverted their edits several times, on each occasion leaving reasoning in my edit summary and also addressing it on their talk page. SLBedit has consistently refused to engage in discussion and their edit summaries here and here shows no sign of intending to do so. I cannot bothered, neither do I want, to be involved in an edit war with someone who is repeatedly ignoring guidelines. SLBedit seems to feel they have control over the page. As a side note, an account on the mainstream wiki with the exact same name has received several blocks/bans over this exact same issue of edit warring/page ownership etc. Obviously there is no definite proof they are the same user but the behaviour is strikingly similar. Anywho I've warned them that if they carried on I'd bring this here and now I have.

I'd greatly appreciate input/help on this matter. I am happy to discuss it and if needed change my opinion on it but I am yet to find any reason why there can be no logos and this seems to be the only way to get SLBedit to actual respond to me. REDMAN 2019 (talk) 18:54, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

@REDMAN 2019: Hi. Since 2015, they cannot be different users; they appear to be one person obstinately editing against consensus. Also, Special:Diff/1061475936 and Special:Diff/1089545062 actually illustrate what you are writing about.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 17:51, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: Thanks for the reply. I reckon this will need dealing with by an Admin since they aren't gonna listen. REDMAN 2019 (talk) 17:00, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

@REDMAN 2019: Of course; this is one of the Administrators' noticeboards, after all.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 20:34, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

@REDMAN 2019, Jeff G., and SLBedit: I gave this a few minutes, but I can't readily see what are the relevant differences here, partly because it seems the edits change the layout of the page so I can't do a quick visual comparison. Can someone be specific about exactly what have been at least some of the substantive disagreements here? - Jmabel ! talk 22:02, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Of course. Basically it was originally a minor matter of should kit manufacturers logos i.e. Adidas, Nike etc, be included on the kit templates. SLBedit is opposed to their inclusion despite literally every other kit page on WikiCommons having them. Their reason for why they shouldn't be included has changed a few times, ranging from 'They are trademarked and can't be used on Commons' (they can), to they make the page look worse, and currently it seems to be simply 'I don't like/want them on the page'. This is what I can tell from the edit summaries at least as they won't answer any of the messages I've sent them. They have also removed an unrelated section on alternative kits but haven't provided any info why so far.

It's basically a matter of me saying, 'this is on every other page and the kit templates are not prohibited in any way'. I don't understand what the issue is with them being on the page and SLBedit is yet to provide any concrete reason as to why they can't either. I've been editing kits and kit pages on Commons for years and I have never one come across this kind of situation/opinion.

That, at least, is my side of it. REDMAN 2019 (talk) 18:39, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Given that this appears to be SLBedit's sole activity (at least recently) on Commons, and that they refuse to engage and discuss, I'll block them from editing S.L. Benfica kits as a way to get their attention. I hope that will get them to come here and discuss the matter. - Jmabel ! talk 00:47, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

User:Kontributor 2K

They have labeled the liecence on the flag of Maine as Creative Commons. all us state flags are in the public domain, they are abusing copyright. Ice743 (talk) 23:44, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

 Boomerang OP is a sock and has been blocked. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 18:48, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

BidishaD87

BidishaD87 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Single-purpose dick pic account Dronebogus (talk) 16:13, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

 Comment One more warning, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 17:01, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Copyright violation by Amirsotoodehbeydokhti

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

none of these uploads are user own works

• File:خلاصه اصول تعلیمات ورویه معموله سلسله علّیه نعمت اللهیه گنابادی در کتاب بقعه متبرکه سلطانی بیدختی صفحه 6.jpg file like this from book's page
• File:1320 عزاداری محرم بیدخت.jpg file like this is belong to 1940s
• other taken from google image or Instagram pages

please delete all and gave waring to uploader

[[User:Modern Sciences|MSes]] (talk) 02:45, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

@Modern Sciences: if you are reporting a user on this page, you are required to notify them of that on their talk page. I will do that for you this time. - Jmabel ! talk 03:10, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

The uploads consist of a number of obvious copyright violations (example: File:عکس هوایی از تخریب زلزله.jpg), numerous scans of images out of printed publications with unclear copyright status as the source has not been provided (example: Commons:Deletion requests/File:حاج ملاسلطانمحمد لطانعلیشاه.jpg), and a set of more modern photos with low resolutions and no EXIF data. All uploads are marked as {{Own work}} even if a source has been provided in its description (see here). So I wonder if any of the uploads is genuinely the own work by the uploader. In my opinion, we should give the uploader a week or so time to react. If they are not forthcoming, we should delete the whole set per COM:PRP. --AFBorchert (talk) 14:37, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

In the meantime, Amirsotoodehbeydokhti has been warned multiple times at fa:wp (see fa:بحث کاربر:Amirsotoodehbeydokhti). This included also a warning about uploading non-free images. His galleries with uploaded images were reverted (example). After the last warning yesterday, Amirsotoodehbeydokhti went on a spree templating articles which was ended by an indefinite block by Persia. --AFBorchert (talk) 07:18, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Minorbx

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

Repeated vandalism. Consider protecting Template:Diffuseat as well. Thank you. Gikü (talk) 12:19, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Account globally locked. --Túrelio (talk) 13:19, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

User:BOKOBA veroly

This user has uploaded photos that are clearly not his own as own pictures. Examples: File:Présentation en.jpg, File:Excellent.jpg

I was one of the organizers of the event and do not know him. He does not respond to inquiries on his discussion page, even though he edited a Wikipedia project yesterday [1]. Given his discussion page in this project, I think administrators should take a look at this user. Stepro (talk) 20:42, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

@BOKOBA veroly please reply here and explain this. Otherwise we might have to delete all your uploads per our precautionary principle. GPSLeo (talk) 12:42, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

 Info Retrieved from the archives.
@Sysops: Please process this report instead of letting it go unresolved and end up in the archive. This user appears to be uploading large quantities of copyright infringements and passing them off as their own work. I don't think this should be ignored. Stepro (talk) 17:20, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

 Comment delete uploads per PCP. All the Best -- Chuck ^Talk 17:53, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

 Done blocked for 6 months. If this resumes when they return, then an indef-block is certainly appropriate. - Jmabel ! talk 23:41, 13 November 2025 (UTC)