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BrandContentBOLD

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

Spammer with spam username. Geoffroi 21:12, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

 Not done Stale for a month. Revisit if they return. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 23:47, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

@The Squirrel Conspiracy: Commons:Username policy#Inappropriate usernames states Promotional usernames that are used to promote a group or company may be blocked. This should be removed from policy if it won't be enforced. Geoffroi 00:15, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Double Stone Worldwide

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

Spammer with spam username. Geoffroi 21:13, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

 Not done Stale for a month. Revisit if they return. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 23:47, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

@The Squirrel Conspiracy: Commons:Username policy#Inappropriate usernames states Promotional usernames that are used to promote a group or company may be blocked. This should be removed from policy if it won't be enforced. Geoffroi 00:15, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Blocking inactive accounts is not a great use of admin time. The point of blocks is to stop damaging behavior, and if an account is abandoned, it's no longer doing anything damaging. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 00:39, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

If they spam again, it will be a waste of patroller time. You have a policy based reason to block them, which literally takes under a minute, but that's a problem for you. Makes sense. Sorry for wasting your time. Geoffroi 00:51, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done Apologies to my colleague but I have blocked them indef - they may not come back but they were also not here to contribute

Gbawden (talk) 06:44, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Ricardotm10

Ricardotm10 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

This user has mass-uploaded 46 spam/out of scope website screenshots. I fucked up the batch task, so they're all in Category:Other speedy deletions with DR tags (I nominated the DR page for speedy deletion and removed it from the daily DR page). Sorry for the trouble. Geoffroi 23:33, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done Files wiped, spam warning placed. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 01:21, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Edit war: Official_Presidential_Portrait_of_President_Donald_J._Trump_(2025).jpg

The file File:Official Presidential Portrait of President Donald J. Trump (2025).jpg is currently undergoing an edit war reverting between a couple versions:

• 1,638 × 2,048 JPG that is apparently based on a PNG image released by the White House
• 3,277 × 4,096 version that is an upscaled and sharpened version of the above

Note: the PNG version from the White House website is here: File:President-Donald-Trump-Official-Presidential-Portrait.png

• this is a cropped version of this image from whitehouse.gov: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/President-Donald-Trump-Official-Presidential-Portrait.png

ThomasAnderson (talk) 12:54, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Standard procedure (as best as I can tell) and what I've done before in this case is revert to the last stable version (which there never had been, so in this case, the original upload), then upload lock the file indefinitely until a consensus can be reached or the other file is uploaded under another name, at which point it becomes the local projects' choice of which one to use. I've done that here. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 07:06, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

GJFBR

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

Long-time copyvio uploader still uploading copyvios like File:Planetshakers Kids - Nothing Is Impossible (CD australiano).jpg after warnings, numerous deletions, and 3 previous blocks including a 3 month block. Geoffroi 23:55, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Please protect at administrator level indefinitely

• User talk:Turvill

Jeffrey Epstein’s talk page. Account has just been locked (deceased user). See more here. Yacàwotçã (talk) 02:00, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done - Jmabel ! talk 04:51, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Block request for User:レのじん

レのじん (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user An account solely for the purpose of vandalism ShuQizhe (talk) 14:32, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Already done Already globally locked. Yann (talk) 14:49, 8 February 2026 (UTC)