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• Personal photos/selfies: ~105
• Other speedy deletions: ~15
• Categories for discussion: 84 months
• Media requiring a split up: ~0
• Requests for unblock: ~3
• Undeletion requests: ~6

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• Interface admin: ~23
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• Template protection: ~10
• Protection level: ~0

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Block sock account D2803

• D2803 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user

Sock of Nv7801 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user and Nv8301 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user. Please block and delete all contributions. Wcam (talk) 15:02, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

•  Done Blocked and tagged. Yann already deleted their files. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 09:30, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Protection request for Category:National Educational Television

• Category:National Educational Television

IP vandal keeps adding category redirect to Category:PBS (United States) without discussion. Currently in the process of undoing all the images recategorized. William Graham (talk) 22:21, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

•  Done 3-month semi-protection (auto-confirmed users). - Jmabel ! talk 22:46, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

NOTE: that will protect against redirecting the category. However, it will not protect the individual images. @William Graham: you may want to watchlist those and see if they persist despite the category protection. - Jmabel ! talk 22:51, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Most of the time the IP vandal isn't doing the moves. Instead, it's other users/bots who are coming behind and recategorizing. But I will watch a bunch of files to be safe. William Graham (talk) 22:59, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

AlexisCdR

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

This user has repeatedly uploaded copyrighted images of Sri Lankan politicians - see their talk page. They have ignored warnings not to upload copyrighted images. Request admins take action. Obi2canibe (talk) 11:15, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done Blocked for a week, file deleted. Yann (talk) 13:20, 23 November 2024 (UTC)