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Block appeal sent to a former sysop

Hi admins, formal former admin here. A user that I indefinitely banned a decade and half ago reached out and asked to appeal and unblock their account. What's the best place I can direct them to? with their permission I can also forward the email somewhere.

Thank you and it's nice to type ~~~~ again. -- Bencmq (talk) 06:07, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

@Bencmq: Do you mean "former"?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:30, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

ooops... yes Bencmq (talk) 18:05, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

Let him/her use {{unblock|reason for unblock}} on his/her user talkpage and the request will be reviewed. Taivo (talk) 22:57, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

@Bencmq: Or if they are blocked from talk page access, or there is a need for confidentiality, or some other similar issue applies, please give us the lay of the land so we can work out a way to proceed. - Jmabel ! talk 00:14, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

... law, I believe? Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk · contributions · he/him) 01:24, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

@Whyiseverythingalreadyused: Are you suggesting that I should have been asking for the "law of the land" instead of the "lay of the land"? No, I wrote what I meant. "Lay of the land", literally "a general description of the terrain", metaphorically "an overview of the situation." - Jmabel ! talk 02:05, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Ah, I see

thx Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk · contributions · he/him) 03:02, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

More vandalism

~2026-16319-8 is the same vandal from yesterday going after user talk pages. TornadoLGS (talk) 15:54, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done: Blocked indef. --Achim55 (talk) 16:02, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Ahmedderia

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

Reincarnation of Nurabdi11 (talk · contribs) — Preceding unsigned comment added by NordNordWest (talk • contribs) 13:34, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

@NordNordWest: Thanks, I added to Commons:Requests for checkuser/Case/Nurabdi11.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 17:53, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done. User has sockpuppetry confirmed and he is indefinitely blocked, all his edits are reverted. Taivo (talk) 11:09, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

~2026-18695-1

• User: ~2026-18695-1 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• Reasons for reporting: This is a followup to Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections/Archive 42#File:ZephyrMusic.jpg. Please see the history of File:ZephyrMusic avec son piano en 2024.jpg again. Temporary accounts keep attacking this and other files related to ZephyrMusic like it with unfounded incomplete reports. Please protect the files or block the underlying IPs.

  — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 18:00, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done: File page semi-protected for 1 month (2nd prot), IP range /24 blocked for 2 weeks (used by 3 related temp accounts). --Achim55 (talk) 18:13, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

File:Renee Good DHS agent perspective.jpg

High visibility file due to its use on w:Killing of Renee Good, w:de:Tötung von Renée Good and various other articles about this highly politicized event.
This edit was visible on other projects through com:Media Viewer. I don't have time to watch this file all day. Please apply semi-protection for, say, a month. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 16:12, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done page semiprotected for a month. Strakhov (talk) 17:17, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

Block request: FonzuHarp

• User: FonzuHarp (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user
• RockyWikiSantali (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user — Preceding unsigned comment added by BodhiHarp (talk • contribs) 19:09, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
• FonzuWiki (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)
• Reasons for reporting: It appears FonzuWiki now created a new account FonzuHarp and abandoned the old account "This account is inactive due to 2026.". However, this name is similar to my username BodhiHarp, even if this potential sockpuppet is not used for malicious purposes and implicitly declared, and it says "Hi! I'm FonzuHarp, and I'm the friend of BodhiHarp!", and I do not remember meeting them in person or off-wiki, though maybe they mean friends on wiki or something. This is not very good for them and maybe me.

BodhiHarp (talk) 18:13, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

 Comment I blocked FonzuHarp, but I think that a check user should have a look here. Yann (talk) 19:17, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done. I declined unblock request. For me, sockpuppetry is here totally obvious. Taivo (talk) 11:19, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I was thinking of blocking FonzuWiki for harassment. Yann (talk) 15:25, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

RockyWikiSantali (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) block user is another potential sockpuppet. BodhiHarp (talk) 19:09, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Confirmed Blocked and tagged. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 18:42, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protect File:Intellectual property Noun project.svg

The image at File:Intellectual property Noun project.svg has quite a bit of global usage in infoboxes on various content wikis. This seems to lead to more frequent vandalism of the image's File page and structured data than a typical icon receives. I would appreciate review of the edit history by an admin to see if they agree with me that semi-protecting the page is a reasonable action to take at this time. -- BDavis (WMF) (talk) 21:44, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done Will raise edit to auto-confirmed, and will raise overwrite and move to auto-patrol. - Jmabel ! talk 00:18, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Ivan05041

• Ivan05041 (talk · contribs)

Many of the participant's files have recently been submitted for deletion. The main reasons for deletion: copyright infringement and false authorship (he appropriates other people's works for himself) Zix001 (talk) 10:13, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done. I warned him. Next time block. Taivo (talk) 10:39, 13 January 2026 (UTC)