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To create a report please click on the button above and fill the fields. Alternatively you may copy the following template, replacing USER/IP and REASON with your content, and place it at the bottom of this page:

{{subst:Report vandal|USER/IP|REASON. ~~~~}}

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

TheAmazingofDavi

User: TheAmazingofDavi (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Habitual vandalism in response to deletion tags applied to uploads; involves cross-wiki abuse as recently blocked on enwiki, also for disruptive behavior. JalenFolf (talk) 17:52, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Yann warned the user. I agree: blocking is premature. Taivo (talk) 09:51, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

WhatsGood2

User: WhatsGood2 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Uploading copyvios after final warning. Belbury (talk) 11:51, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week, all files already deleted. Yann (talk) 15:27, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

SMS Text Messaging Software

User: SMS Text Messaging Software (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: LTA spam, here we go again Gnomingstuff (talk) 19:14, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

 Indef'ed. -- CptViraj (talk) 19:18, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Umbre04

User: Umbre04 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Uploading copyvios after a final warning Belbury (talk) 11:42, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week. Yann (talk) 19:57, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Mmaadvocates

User: Mmaadvocates (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: Spam XReport --MathXplore (talk) 12:31, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

 Done I do not think that there is an evident and continuous spam and vandalism from the user however I have blocked them as an inappropriate username as it appears so. One single deleted edit on the project is really not a good reason for me to block someone for vandalism and spam. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 18:04, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Businessbarcodes12

User: Businessbarcodes12 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: LTA spam, is there anything that can be done to keep this person from continually spamming us Gnomingstuff (talk) 23:39, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked, all files deleted. Yann (talk) 09:10, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Militum professio scriniarii

User: Militum professio scriniarii (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
Reason for reporting: User deleted a functioning category and replaced it with a redlink, despite my hint that this is wrong as long as no new one (blue link) exists:

• for 2011 and
• for 2015.
  Uli Elch (talk) 11:37, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

This is a blatant malicious report of 'vandalism'. I have used the correct level of granularity of categories for RAF Lossiemouth. The category which Uli Elch inserted covers airports for entire world - when RAF Lossiemouth is very clearly a UK airport. As for the 'red link' issue - there is absolutely no reason to obliterate red links - especially as it is blatantly obvious that the red link cat is perfectly valid, follows an identical schema as other existing cats, and is absolutely obvious that the red link cat will soon be populated.

Furthermore, I noticed that Uli Elch has made malicious accusations of vandalism against other users on Commons.

I trust that Admins will realise this is a malicious report by Uli Elch, and dismiss accordingly. Regards Militum professio scriniarii (talk) 11:48, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

@Militum professio scriniarii: What you are doing here, is at least a violation of COM:OVERCAT (a.k.a. over-categorization). If ever this category "2015 at airports in the United Kingdom" shall be added, this is to be done along with a removal of the category "2015 in aviation in the United Kingdom", which is meant as its parental category of course, because airports belong to aviation topics too and hopefully I don't have to explain why. On the other hand, I don't see any inappropriate edits by Uli Elch, in ideal case "2015 at airports in the United Kingdom" should be created and replace the other one. --A.Savin 12:02, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

@A.Savin: The reason why both categories are valid is because Royal Air Force aircraft - whilst being 'based' at one RAF station (i.e., a military 'airport') - they are frequently and regularly deployed to other RAF stations, overseas air force bases, and even civilian airports in the UK and overseas. So that is my justification for 'airport' and 'aviation' cats. Furthermore, I am following long-established convention for other air force categories which have used both airport and aviation cats.

Air force bases, and their aircraft, are very different to civilian aircraft and airports - civilian aircraft do not usually have a 'home' airport which they permanently operate from; air force aircraft do have permanent home airbase. Best regards. Militum professio scriniarii (talk) 12:17, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, but then you should categorize the RAF under "year xxxx in aviation" and not under airports. Airports are commonly meant as passenger airports, not military. And take for example this category created by you: Category:1984 in the Royal Air Force. IMO this is wrong to sort it under "1984 at airports in the United Kingdom", solely for the reason that pictures of RAF aircraft and/or of RAF infrastructure, personnel etc.pp. are not necessarily pictures taken at airports. --A.Savin 13:24, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

This probably needs to be sorted out on a talk page somewhere, or maybe the Village Pump, but whatever is going on here, it isn't vandalism. @Uli Elch, you should be much more cautious about making accusations of vandalism against anyone who is anything like a serious contributor to the project. Vandalism means willfully making edits to the detriment of the project, not honest disagreement, even if one of the parties to the disagreement might be misguided or even seriously wrong.

In short: take this somewhere else, it does not belong on this page, and certainly no admin intervention for vandalism is involved. - Jmabel ! talk 18:24, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

 Not done - Jmabel ! talk 18:25, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

"somewhere else" is not extremely helpful. If I had reverted him again, I would have been accused of edit war. So, what else to do in such a case of destroying correct categories of files ? --Uli Elch (talk) 18:30, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

His user talk page (which you never tried)? The Village pump, as I mentioned above? or if you really think there is an admin issue here, COM:AN/U with an appropriate note on his user talk page to let him know. But, I'll repeat: honest disagreement is not vandalism, even if one of the parties to the disagreement might be misguided or even seriously wrong. And it certainly doesn't merit coming to the one administrator's noticeboard that is for things so egregious that there isn't even any point to notifying the person in question that they are being discussed. - Jmabel ! talk 21:29, 29 August 2024 (UTC)