DanielRigal

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Belmaachi

Hi, DanielRigal. Just wanted you to know that I placed a message at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard#145 hoax photos requesting that the 145 Selim Belmaachi photos be mass deleted and the accounts blocked as sock vandals. Just hoping to avoid having to tag all the images individually. Cheers. CactusWriter (talk) 18:45, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Great. Thanks. --DanielRigal (talk) 18:47, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

@CactusWriter & @DanielRigal Just to let you both know: Category:Sockpuppets_of_Aliases_Zahir contains the results of your efforts. Thanks again! Ellin Beltz (talk) 21:03, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. It is hard to believe that a total of 47 user accounts were involved and I still can't work out what the actual point was. It is a real pity that you had to give up your time to deal with this nonsense. Lets hope this has broken the back of it and it will now stop. --DanielRigal (talk) 21:16, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

We're up to sixty-two now. Good catch this a.m. BTW, I put searchable click links on the Category:Sockpuppets of Aliases Zahir page. You can just click them and search the regular spellings of the two most often used strings. It makes it easier to search than typing! Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 22:14, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

@DanielRigal Greetings again... Is it just me, or do these uploads occur primarily on Thursdays? I was driving yesterday and thought "it's Thursday, should check for SB spam"... and realized what my subconscious had whispered, especially after seeing yet another upload. I searched the username "s____b_____" on google and found a twitter account that looks like it belongs to a child, but with no entries. The text seems too "adult" for a child. It is puzzling. Also I know that Steinsplitter runs at least one bot, perhaps he could bot the task of looking for the keywords? I do not know enough about the creation of bots yet (wish I did) to offer services in this regard. I really appreciate you keeping an eye out for these, I do too, but so far I think you have me beat by a few! Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:56, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

@Ellin Beltz: You want a bot which is reporting if "Selim Belmaachi" is in filename? --Steinsplitter (talk) 18:04, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Great catch.

Never hesitate to ask me for any Commons help you need. I know how you feel being a 'pedian over here... it's how I feel over there! Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 19:18, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Thursday again

Happy Turkey Day! I zapped another suspected sock of Aliases Zahir today. Same MO, overlong description with the "magic words" repeated. Whoever it is really does like Thursdays. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 21:19, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Presumably it would be impious to be doing such misdeeds on a Friday. ;-) --DanielRigal (talk) 23:17, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

You might find this of interest, apparently same games at YouTube with many of the "old familiar" pictures we've come to know and delete on sight. Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:33, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

More & more mysterious

Please see [1]. I see that most of the color images in that set have (c) metadata to Benjamin Boccas. I nominated a couple and will come back later to see what you think. It's possible I'm totally wrong and this is the (c) photographer listed. I guess we'll find out. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 19:35, 6 December 2015 (UTC)