User talk:Russavia/Archive 21

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COM:AN

In case you haven't noticed, an IP started a discussion about an action made by you and a different user at COM:AN#Fastily and Russavia starting again without notifying you. --Stefan4 (talk) 13:00, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Stefan4 yeah I saw that, no biggy, I think I'll completely ignore it :) russavia (talk) 13:03, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Tinajas

Hello! Russavia. Last August you have included in TINAJAS:jars: Pottery by shape. Ceramic containers, some files of TINAJAS (Ecuador). Look at it before the next time. Thank you.--Latemplanza (talk) 18:39, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Duplicate image

I was wondering of you could delete File:C-FZOP & C-FFEV Air Nunavut Falcon 10 01 (8707601187).jpg. It got uploaded from my Flickr account and is a duplicate of File:C-FZOP and C-FFEV at Cambridge Bay Airport.JPG which I uploaded. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather Talk 17:19, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

CambridgeBayWeather done and done. Cheers, russavia (talk) 18:02, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks and Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather Talk 23:03, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Picture deletion.

Dear Russavia:

Just to note all photos have been taken by me. I own several bridge cameras -except the DSC-H1, that died in my arms-, almost all bought second-hand during the years, and like to test them to see differences in resolution, noise, etc -or to take advantage of what some of them have and others not such as scene modes, a wider lens, etc. EDIT Note how almost all my pictures, except those noted below, come from the same cameras, all of them old, discontinued models by now. I'd really like to have a dSLR, but not only so far I lack the money to buy one (as well as lenses), but also don't want to be carrying everywhere a bag full of expensive photographical equipment. The rate I post stuff is also high, since I like very much airliners and have a vast repository of them -thank advantages of digicams over analogic cameras-, attempting too when I can to go planespotting as I've more spare time than I'd like. You can check it in Google image search; except on Deviantart, where I've posted some of them, all of them are just here in Commons.

Others are crops of pictures edited with GIMP since the trimming function cameras have tend to degrade quality image (thus size varies), and others have been taken of places such as WikiSky (SDSS) -not sure if their work comes under CC-

Yours truly --U-95 (talk) 15:25, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

U-95 thanks for the message. Could you tell me which of the photos you didn't take personally and where you uploaded them from. We will need to verify images on those. The other photos, now that you have left this message should be ok. Cheers, russavia (talk) 06:12, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi again, this is the unique the picture that could be more problematic:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NGC2685WikiSky.png

Note, however, the SDSS Image usage policy allows the use of their work for non-commercial purposes as long as its credited to the SDSS, which I've done -except adding the link back to their site, which I should instead of the link to WikiSky-.

Yours truly. --U-95 (talk) 16:25, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

(PS: sorry for the delay. I was expecting to see an "1" above in the Discussion part, but it seems it does not come when someone replies to a discussion)

Uploaded a picture of my toys except for the E3200 -used for the shot- and the DSC-H1, broken down and returned to shop: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C%C3%A1maras_bridge.JPG --U-95 (talk) 21:42, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Norden1990

Norden1990 has illegally removed my commment on a talk page when revealing his en.wikipedia sockpuppets. Should he be blocked for this incivility? Iaaasi (talk) 14:00, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

File:Ham the chimp.jpg

Was able to make the edit adding the duplicate tag. Fire at will, Gridley. :) Revent (talk) 04:17, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Oh yeah, I also have a TIFF of this at much higher resolution now, so no need to save the 'full' version at this time, I'll upload PNG and JPG versions, and fix the crops in the 'right' direction once you've fixed this. Revent (talk)

Christopher Michel photos of Ladakh

Hi Russavia

I'm wondering why there are so many of these files you got from Flikr and placed in the categories Kalachakra, Leh, Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama in 2014? Many bear little relationship to the category names, some seem to be just pictures of the photographer's friends, and the file names - which are usually nearly the same - often don't have anything to do with the content. Some of the photos also don't seem realistically useful for any Wikimedia project or educational purpose. (And do we need so many pictures of Robert Thurman? - why not just select the better ones?) These files also nearly all need much better descriptions. I've tried to sort this out a little - mostly by moving many of the images to Category:Kalachakra empowerment, Ladakh, 2014 (which at least separates them from the main Kalachakra and Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama in 2014 categories) - and, where the content was obvious to me, to other relevant categories. If you are going to do this kind of mass upload, don't you think it might be better to just place the files in a holding category until they can be properly renamed and categorized rather than flooding useful categories with files not really relevant to the category? Cheers. Christopher Fynn (talk) 10:06, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

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Christopher Fynn (talk)) 10:38, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I now realize this is an Instagram type effect as you also uploaded another version of this file. Christopher Fynn (talk)) 19:10, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

IDF file of three teens of 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers

I was trying to upload https://www.flickr.com/photos/idfonline/14433226962/ when I learned that it (Brother's_Keeper_Operation_in_Judea_&_Samaria_(14433226962).jpg) had already been deleted at the uploader's request due to concerns that it is outside of Commons' scope. It is obviously an IDF file meant to persuade people to take its side but it is a freely-licensed photo of the teenage boys who are the subject of the en:2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers so I would like to upload this file.

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 18:47, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

I actually deleted that file for COM:PRP. There's no evidence that the IDF owns copyright over the images. The photographer of each photo would need to give permission. russavia (talk) 20:06, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

What I plan to do is make a comment on that image and ask the IDF about the three images (I assume they got the images from the families): "Dear IDF, my name is WhisperToMe and I am a volunteer at Wikipedia. I wish to upload this picture to the Wikimedia Commons so Wikipedia articles (including but not limited to the Hebrew, English, Arabic, and Russian Wikipedias) will have the image of the victims. In order for me to do that we need to clarify the copyright status of the images of the three boys. Do you have permission to use the photos of the boys? What kind of permission did the owners of the photos give you? The Wikimedia Commons accepts freely-usable photos (may be redistributed commercially with attribution). Please clarify the copyright status. Thank you" WhisperToMe (talk) 09:07, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

I made the post. I hope the IDF responds. I would love to use the picture on various Wikipedias and add a multilingual description. WhisperToMe (talk) 11:12, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

That's fine, but tangible evidence is going to be required of any copyright transfer. russavia (talk) 16:48, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

What type of evidence would you request? I may post this request for evidence on the IDF page. It may be good to get input from the Commons community re:the needed evidence. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:27, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

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File moved

Just to let you know, OTRS received an email that a Flickr photo uploaded by you was incorrectly named. The Flickr user is to blame, so I have left a note there. I have moved the file and changed the description. Green Giant (talk) 22:45, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

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Draft pages polluting content categories

(something weird happened and the title of this topic came out wrong! Alan Liefting (talk) 18:26, 20 December 2014 (UTC))

Hello. I am doing some categorisation work and a very larg number of files uploaded by you are in categories they don't belong in. Here is one example: File:Morning game (5862150409).jpg. It should not have been in Category:Pacific Ocean and instead of Category:Chinatowns it should be in Category:Chinatown, San Francisco. Are the categories in your uploads automatically assigned or do you have input into it when uploading? Alan Liefting (talk) 03:19, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

As I've noted above Category:Kalachakra and others were similarly polluted by a mass upload of photos from Flikr many totally irrelevant to the concerned categories. I tried to start sorting this out but it is an awful lot of work taking many, many hours to manually even begin to sort this kind of a mess out. Many of the photos just looked like pictures of the photographers friends and serve no possible useful educational purpose on Commons. The file names and descriptions usually bear no meaningful relation to the content either. Flooding useful categories with irrelevant images does not seem to be good behaviour from a person who is an admin here. Christopher Fynn (talk)) 11:39, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Berlin is Prague?

Hi. What is wrong? The categories, or the coordinates? --ŠJů (talk) 17:57, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

ŠJů I'd say the co-ordinates. Tags on Flickr say it is in Prague. russavia (talk) 18:05, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

The photo is created by SONY DSC-HX5V camera with GPS and compass. I cann't imagine somebody falsifying EXIF data from the camera in such way, also such defect of the camera is not just probable. Thank you for the information that the "Prague" was from Flickr tags. --ŠJů (talk) 18:15, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Mass deletion of kept files in an already closed DR

Hi, on Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:La Nación Argentina Libre justa y soberana you have deleted 110 files listed in an already closed (after 7+ days) deletion request. That's not covered by the deletion policies here. Admins might overrule each other for obvious reasons, e.g., fixing errors or reverting abuse, but otherwise they are supposed to follow the same rules as everybody else.

Opening the DR again or just restarting it from scratch is an idea, if you don't like the "appeal" business in the deletion policy, but at that point you are the nominator, i.e., you can't close your own DR "per nom". Please undelete the files and find a solution reflecting what the deletion policy means. As an admin you can't pull IAR when using elevated rights.

Regards, Be..anyone (talk) 04:22, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

The most important policies on this project are COM:L and COM:PRP. If files on this project are in violation of either of those policies, then they unfortunately have to be deleted. The close by Yannf was not in compliance with any of those policies and used a discussion which was firmly rejected by the community.

There may be other solutions to this issue, such as hosting some files outside of the US, but then this still presents a problem in that they can't be used on projects such as English Wikipedia which uses US law in its guiding principles. A solution is out there, but there needs to be the will by the community to find it.

Until such time as that occurs, we simply can not, and will not, allow files which are in direct contravention of COM:L and COM:PRP to be hosted on our projects. We have an obligation to ourselves and our re-users (including outside of Wikimedia projects) to ensure that files we host can be safely used by anyone for any purpose. If we ignore this obligation, then we may as well shut up shop and all go home.

You can take this to COM:UDEL if you so wish, but the same argument will be made there. russavia (talk) 04:29, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

PRP protects the WMF as hoster (incl. uses on WikiMedia projects) and other re-users. The WMF in essence already said that they are not interested in URAA bulk deletions. And for "other users" somebody added a template clearly stating that this could be one of those URAA cases, if a legit third party shows up claiming a copyright. So all users are warned and willing to let's see what happens.

A third important policy is "in use". PRP should beat "in use" only in hopeless cases, i.e., nobody including the uploader has a clue about author/source/license. Already existing good faith users also need protection, if they link to their source here. And a fourth important policy could be "admins don't overrule each other ignoring all rules for non-admins, unless they must", but admittedly that doesn't exist outside of my imagination.

If you can tell that there were no "in use" cases for these images I'd skip the undeletion procedure as not really important, but (formerly) used images would deserve a third (admin) opinion about the procedural question. Was that also you, with some laser show, where an admin reverted his own "keep: no copyright for light" after an immediate new DR discussion to "delete"? That also upset me, because it ignored all others supporting the original "keep". –Be..anyone (talk) 06:51, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm not repeating myself here. I've said everything that needed to be said both on the DR and above. russavia (talk) 07:11, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy holidays! 2015!

		*** * * Happy Holidays 2015 ! * * ***
		* Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! * Joyeux Noël ! Bonne année! * Frohes Weihnachten! Frohes Neues Jahr! * Счастливого Рождества! С Новым годом! -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 19:54, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks George Chernilevsky, happy holidays to you too and all the best for the new year. russavia (talk) 07:14, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Barnstar

{{subst:The Islamic Barnstar|For moving the flag name for ISIL away from name usage that is widely rejected within the Islamic world. thank-you. Gregkaye (talk) 03:45, 26 December 2014 (UTC)}}

Please transfer this to any wikipedia page you may similarly have or create P (P) Gregkaye (talk) 03:47, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Gregkaye, my involvement in this was purely an administrative one. But thanks anyway. Cheers, russavia (talk) 07:15, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Incorrect categorisation

Hello again. I came across about 20 files that started with "Backroads New Mexico" in the filename (e.g. File:Backroads New Mexico (14229826890).jpg). You had uploaded them from Flickr and added two incorrect categories, one of them being Category:Mexico instead of Category:New Mexico. Can you please be more careful with assigning categories? Inaccuracy is harmful to Commons. Regards. Alan Liefting (talk) 01:14, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Alan, these are in Category:Files uploaded by Russavia (cleanup), meaning I have to do the full cleanup on images. It's more important to have the images whilst they are available under CC licence, and then the real work can be done by myself. Thanks russavia (talk) 01:30, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

I would prefer to have the categories are added after your cleanup so that we do not have inaccurate info on Commons. The series of images in question have been inaccurately assigned to a category for over three weeks. Alan Liefting (talk) 01:43, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

You have got 100,000 images in Category:Files uploaded by Russavia (cleanup)! Alan Liefting (talk) 04:48, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Yes...and? I've uploaded 500,000 images in the last 18 months. There is constant turnover in the category. What exactly is your problem. russavia (talk) 04:55, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Just seems like a lot of work that needs doing. Alan Liefting (talk) 05:53, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Not really, with a HotCat and Cat-a-lot I can knock off several thousand in a day. But at the moment I am concentrating on getting more permissions from numerous photographers. russavia (talk) 10:24, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

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Santa_Claus_makes_an_anonymous_donation_to_Wikipedia's_fundraising_drive.jpg

+1. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 16:32, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Category:Aircraft at Tampere-Pirkkala Airport

Hi! There are only nine images in Category:Aircraft at Tampere-Pirkkala Airport. There is absolutely no need for sub-categories by aircraft type or operator. (The same applies for all airports with only few aircraft images.) I tagged the subcategories with {{Speedy}}. The purpose of categorization is to make finding images easier, and too detailed categorization just works the other way round. Best regards, ––Apalsola ^{t • c} 13:31, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Apalsola I have undone the speedy deletion. Whilst there are only 9 images at the moment, there are going to be hundreds in that category in the very near future. Also, having, say the ATR 72 category will help people who are looking for ATR 72 images who may decide to choose one from Tampere to use. It's all part of diffusing what will be very large categories in advance. russavia (talk) 18:30, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Fair enough, if there will be more images in the near future. And thank you for uploading lots of good images. BR, ––Apalsola ^{t • c} 19:41, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

No prob Apalsola it's my pleasure. russavia (talk) 21:02, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Marshall Islands files

Hello again. I put a stack of files up for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/Assorted files in Marshall Islands category. Most or all of them are your uploads. Cheers. Alan Liefting (talk) 08:22, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Hey, I did not mean to annoy you but your arguments work both ways. BTW, I don't think it is a good thing to remove stuff such as file names from a discussion but I dunno what the policy, guidelines, or etiquette is WRT to that. Alan Liefting (talk) 10:00, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Alan, it's fine if deleted files are removed from the discussion. No point in clogging up DR's in that way. russavia (talk) 10:02, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Featured Picture Nomination

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that the image RAF Typhoon inflight.jpg, which was created or uploaded by you, has been nominated for featured picture status; have a look at the nomination page. Thank you and good luck! Gyrostat (talk) 11:00, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Gallery for uploaders

If you want me to create a gallery for you, you'll have to respond to my messages on IRC. Not sure if that was intentional or not. You can reach me on IRC (once in a blue moon), by email, or talk page. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 01:41, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Talk page ettiquite

I don't know what the policy or guidelines are but it would be a lot better, as well as being easier for you, if you used an automated means of archiving material on your talk page rather than simply deleting the comments. I had trouble finding a past comment that I made (on which a reply was not forthcoming). Regards. Alan Liefting (talk) 07:32, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Alan, you are talking about User_talk:Russavia/Archive_21#Draft_pages_polluting_content_categories or User_talk:Russavia/Archive_21#Incorrect_categorisation. russavia (talk) 07:42, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Ooops! Sorry about that. My mistake. From the page history it looked like comments were being deleted rather than archived. Alan Liefting (talk) 07:46, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Incivility

Are you seriously calling many users "cunt" Russavia? (Special:diff/144971261).--AldNon^Ucallin?☎ 11:52, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Your comment

Hi, I reverted your comment here. I don't think your language is appropriate. Regards, Yann (talk) 20:07, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

And I have undone your revert. Do NOT censor discussions because you don't like. People are free to make idiotic comments; we are free to call them out on it. Saffron Blaze is doing nothing but trolling, and he'll be called out on it as I see fit. russavia (talk) 20:09, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Russavia, in this edit, you wrote in the edit summary "slaunger, it's pretty obvious who the troll is -- if people talk nonsense they will be called out on it -- don't like it? tough titties". I'm a not a native speaker and I am puzzled about the meaning of the last two words in that edit summary. Would you care to explain to me in a few words what is meant by that. I know the 'direct translation', but I find it hard to believe if that is really what is meant. Thank you. -- Slaunger (talk) 20:30, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Tough titties = deal with it or get over it. russavia (talk) 20:46, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

I see. -- Slaunger (talk) 20:51, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

And, as it seems you are not aware, you are shooting torpedoes to a sinking ship with your comments. I don't know if Fae's RfA had any change to succeed, but with your participation it doesn't have any more. With friend like you, Fae doesn't need any enemies. *sigh* Yann (talk) 22:45, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Yann, my participation has not had a bearing on it at all. If anything my participation has shown that we have many assholes on (and off) this project who are more interested in kindergarten bullshit. I'm not going to say who those people are; they know who they are. russavia (talk) 23:06, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Lascar...

Hi. I've noticed, that I marked a bunch of your photos for deletion - I thought they were uploaded by Lascar himself ;) I hope you don't mind me doing so, if I browse uncategorized photos and find something IMO out of the project's scope. Or maybe you have other suggestions? Regards. Pibwl (talk) 19:34, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

That's ok, I don't mind at all. There was around 4,000 photos in that stream and I thought I went through and deleted truly out of scope images once it was done. I obviously missed a few, so thanks for that. There's a couple I didn't delete because I do see some scope and I'll comment on those DR's now. Cheers, russavia (talk) 19:47, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Cleanup

If I categorize (and describe) a photo, like this File:Tram (9632690922).jpg, should I remove it from your cleanup category? Pibwl (talk) 00:14, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

If you could ensure that Category:Files uploaded by Russavia is at least present in the categories, then sure please do feel free to remove the cleanup category if it's been adequately described/categorised. But please do leave the category intact if the file is aviation-related or if it is related to international relations. Thanks for help. russavia (talk) 07:19, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Strange thing - geolocation given in Lascar's photos is not always trustworthy - in case of File:Polish Academy of Sciences (9629511131).jpg, a photo was taken nearly 1 km from a given location. I think that geolocation in such cases should be deleted, when spotted? Pibwl (talk) 20:46, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Pibwl I have noticed this with many photos, not only from Jorge's photos. I don't think there is any specific requirement that geolocations needs to absolutely precise. The general location is often acceptable. Whether to remove it in such instances I think should be left up to editorial discretion. Or better yet, it could be made more precise. My personal opinion is that we should keep it if the geocoding is in the general area, but better yet it is made more precise. As I am not totally familiar with Polish locations, it is a little difficult for me to make it precise. I'll leave it up to your own discretion what you want to do in this instance, if that's ok?

Thanks also for your "keep" on the Old Jerusalem photo. This a great example of where an "out of scope" image can be turned into an in-scope image merely by cropping. I think we can thank The Photographer for picking that up.

Also, if you come across images I have uploaded and you think they are out-of-scope, and you think I too would think this -- I have a very liberal understanding of scope on Commons -- if you want to save yourself the hassle of doing a DR, feel free to move the file into Category:Files uploaded by Russavia (delete) (so long as it isn't in use, aside from bot-generated gallery pages). I bulk delete such images when required, and it will save time on having to raise a DR. Are you cool with that?

Thanks for your edits here on Commons! Cheers, russavia (talk) 23:07, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

You are welcome my dear, I consider myself a person who wants rid of garbage a commons project, however, any image is potentially important, it is good to know that anything is really deleted. --The Photographer (talk) 13:05, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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Yours sincerely, Ytoyoda (talk) 05:57, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

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Would it be acceptable to turn alternative talk pages, such as User talk:CPAfan, into redirects to this talk page? I think that this would make all deletion notifications appear on this page, making them easier to follow. --Stefan4 (talk) 16:33, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

If the only real consequence is that those of us interested in tracking discussions about Russavia's very large collection of uploads to Commons (currently 155,974 files) are highlighted here, then this seems a positive thing to do. --Fæ (talk) 16:39, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

As there does not seem to be any opposition, I have created a redirect from that talk page to this one. I am currently going through WMFOffice's global lock log to see if there are other talk pages which also could benefit from a redirect. --Stefan4 (talk) 00:49, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Here I see "Account operated by/for WMF banned user" only; so no idea how we can assume they are all of this user? Moreover, I don't think it is good to encourage socking. (I had restored the archive and NOINDEX settings which seem useful.) J e e 12:15, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

It is entirely possible that some of the accounts blocked by the WMFOffice user were operated by some of the other WMF banned users. I only redirected two user talk pages to this talk page: User:Airenthusiast and User:CPAfan. In both cases, the operator of the accounts had self-identified as Russavia by uploading files to Category:Files uploaded by Russavia or one of its subcategories. I didn't bother trying to determine if other accounts belong to Russavia or not as they hadn't made significant file uploads to Commons as accounts without file uploads won't get deletion request notices in the first place.

Why do you think that redirects encourage socking? I would assume that Russavia would make just as many contributions with redirects in place as he would make without redirects in place. --Stefan4 (talk) 14:47, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

1. "Uploading files to Category:Files uploaded by Russavia or one of its subcategories" is not an evidence to identify a user; even I can do it. To confirm an account as a sock we need confirmation from a local CU or meta/wmf. 2.If redirects help to improve maintenance tasks, it will motivate that user to contribute more, which is possible only through socking. That said, I don't care it much. 3. He already said he will approach the court; so we should be very careful. Even innocent edits may make adverse effects to him in future. I share some of Fae's concerns below too. Even WMF used "by/for" not firmly "by".J e e 16:12, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

User:Jkadavoor: Right, so I won't add or change any redirects to this talk page. --Stefan4 (talk) 16:30, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

At of today, it is clear that WMFOffice is mistakenly blocking accounts not run by Russavia under the recent ban. As there is no appeal process without a legal case, and the actions remain non-transparent in terms of governance, there is a significant risk of Joe job accounts being created with the intention taking advantage of/hiding under a presumption of guilt for Russavia if discovered. I suggest Commons administrators researching vandalism on this project, avoid presuming that decisions taken by whomever is operating this staff group account, are based on unpublished logical hard evidence, but on guesswork that will easily go wrong such as the so-called flawed "duck test".

If this type of WMF office account blocking for suspected sock accounts is based on weak/bad evidence such as duck tests, close IP usage or browser headers, then Commons contributors should worry that their accounts are at risk of unexpected office blocks without appeal, should we ever unwisely use VPNs or edit from a café, library or take part in a sponsored Wikimedia edit-a-thon event using shared wifi access. --Fæ (talk) 15:15, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

User:Fæ, are you talking about m:User talk:WMFOffice#Solidpoop2 (where it seems unclear who the account master is), or is there something else which I have missed? --Stefan4 (talk) 15:42, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Something else, which I have every intention of keeping confidential for obvious reasons. --Fæ (talk) 15:46, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Stefan4, Ok, I will remember not categorize images uploaded by Russavia because I automatically will transform me into Russavia, that premise so absurd. WMF is globally locking it as if it is a Russavia. Is this evidence enough that they are simply playing whack-a-mole, and seriously have ZERO idea what is or isn't Russavia account. I can see there being some collateral damage along the way here in future..... --The_Photographer (talk) 15:10, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

The criteria I used for redirecting pages was that the account should have been globally locked by WMFOffice and that the account should have self-identified as Russavia by adding that category to its own uploads. Adding/changing other categories, or changing categories of other people's uploads, does not prove anything. I have no idea what evidence WMFOffice uses to determine whether an account should be globally locked. --Stefan4 (talk) 15:42, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

I assure you that it requires more than simply an upload to a category. :-) Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 06:22, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

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