Some baklava for you! edit

  Please could you take a break and stop lock users, I think the community would take care of this. The Photographer (talk) 20:00, 18 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

Another baklava for you! edit

  Please could you take a break and stop it, I think the community would take care of this --The Photographer (talk) 23:37, 16 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Special:Contributions/HMSBEL edit

Hi, It would be useful to know which user is this? This account nominated an image for featured pictures, and we are left with what to do now. Regards, Yann (talk) 14:20, 18 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

The account is fairly well confirmed to be owned by the banned user Russavia. -- Wikimedia Foundation office (talk) 20:34, 18 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

Deleting pages edit

Could you please stop using this account to delete images if you do not know how to do it correctly. You are deleting categories without removing links from existing subcategories, or handling the redlinks left on remaining image pages. Your actions are leaving a mess that would not be created if you asked existing volunteer Commons administrators to take a look at these mass deletions for you.

If you continue taking actions in such a clumsy away, without making effort to engage the Commons community in dialogue, I shall raise this account for attention on COM:AN as a misuse of rights by an anonymous WMF employee. Thanks -- (talk) 08:02, 9 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Regardless of the intentions of WMF, and WMF's bans, content cannot be deleted with no consideration for the effect it may have. WMF cannot delete files and leave a mess for the rest of us to cleanup. WMF's actions are causing enough dispute, we don't need to add to the mess. Riley Huntley (talk) 08:15, 9 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
Even if the actions from this account are anonymous If there is ever a concern about an action from this account you can always reach out to myself or Maggie (Usually myself but obviously I would never wish to cut you off from my boss). I just checked the other contributions and saw 2 red linked categories (now removed by rollback) however wasn't able to find any subcategory links. If there is something I've missed please feel free to point it out both so that I can fix this instance and know how to find it in the future. @Riley Huntley: As I just said we are definetly willing to help, and if you see something we missed after something like this please feel free to point it out. We will always attempt to help clean up the consequences of our actions as much as we can however it is important to remember that the ultimate cause of the "mess" is not the actions but the banned user continuing to violate the terms of use and, even more dangerously, putting innocent photographers in the line of fire by trying to be their proxy. Jalexander-WMF (talk) 08:45, 9 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

You fixed the example I had a link to, I'm not going to spend my unpaid volunteer time checking the rest. If you were interested in resolving the "root cause" you would have a proper dialogue with Russavia (yes, it's safe to use the account name), rather that continuing to treat him as if he were a convicted criminal and make threats against everyone else in the Community should we dare to talk to him. If Russavia has broken the law, then for goodness sake pass the evidence to his lawyer, who would advise him to shut up and find another hobby. Until then, this looks like you are obsessed with punishment and revenge, rather than assisting this project with improvement.

P.S. If you tot up the WMF employee hours burnt chasing and punishing Russavia, you could have paid for several days of excellent lawyer time for someone independently to give serious advice to Russavia based on whatever evidence of wrong doing you have. This might have resolved the issue within weeks, rather than the actions you have taken (incredibly) over the last two years attempting to hound him off the project. It's a *terrible* waste of charitable money creating pointless work for employees. -- (talk) 11:50, 9 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

@ The foundation is not interested in actually supporting or helping the community (who actually collaborates and without using forced metrics) and thus lives in a kind of peace, WMF make money using our contributions and it's ok, however, in some point the separation between the community and WMF will end with the projects, and in fact the community is in decline. It's a matter of time for a much better alternative to Wikipedia or Commons will begin and in this moment, I'm not interested in reporting corruption (voluntary or by omission, bad decisions (Especially when you have people with serious emotive maturity issues commanding WMF programs.)...) within WMF and I have learned to accept that I could be blocked at any time for no reason. I come from a country in dictatorship and really this shit don't mean anything to me and I am here simply to collaborate and learn a coexistence with this necessary evil called WMF. Russavia began to report corruption publically and this began to annoy was course maybe Russavia possibly broke the law or not, however, this user started to be a stone in the shoe for WMF and at that time, any reason was enough to block him --The Photographer 20:16, 11 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Notification edit

Washington, July 30, 2021.

For the attention of the Wikimedia Foundation staff.

I am writing to you, as a member of the WMF staff, to inform you that the user INeverCry, on whom the Foundation imposed a global ban on January 31, 2018, has requested assistance to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, of which I am a representative, to demand an immediate revocation of the global bans (community and office). The reasons she has given for the appeal are as follows:

FIRST: The user has not committed any of the abuses of which he is accused.

SECOND: Someone impersonated him, probably with the intention of having him banned.

THIRD: You have tried to appeal the ban by the conventional method and this has not been successful.

Our legal team is drafting a lawsuit to request the immediate judicial revocation of the global bans, an economic compensation to the victim and the reinstation of their user rights.

However, we prefer to resolve this matter amicably. We offer you the possibility to revoke the prohibitions and return to the user the rights that he had at the time of being banned. If they proceed with it, the judicial process will not be resorted to.

If it is not solved in this way, the pertinent judicial procedure will be initiated, through our legal team.

Yours truly, Joseph Morris, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights representative. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 46.6.193.107 (talk) 09:01, 30 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

@46.6.193.107: It doesn't appear that this talk page is actively monitored. Legal threats should be emailed to legal@wikimedia.org instead. --SixTwoEight (talk) 20:25, 14 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

hellö edit

  award of jimmy wales
award of jimmy wales baby! best man in the world!

wow, that wmfoffice has to be most powerful account i guess? could ban anyone in all wikimedia projects? a god?

good luck ----modern_primat ඞඞඞ TALK00:36, 14 January 2023 (UTC)Reply