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Possibly unauthorized VFD tag removals (Special:Contributions/Maryam_AlAkini) edit

I found that this user has been removing VFD tags for pages that they made by themselves. I suggest our admins take a look at what they are doing. MathXplore (talk) 13:50, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

I have restored the 3 VfD tags and left a polite informative message for the editor. This new editor was familiar with the PROD process, and understandably assumed that the VfD tag could also be removed.

HouseOfChange (talk) 20:53, 25 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

A big fat (related) mess edit

A weird pattern emerges, including edits at Commons, en-wiki, and fr-wiki promoting Hakawi News (now at VfD here).

  1. Hakawi News, a WordPress site at https://hakawinews.com/, had an article in fr-wiki but it was deleted/userfied to the userspace of Ahmed_brens, see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Ahmed_brens/Brouillon_Hakawi_News on Feb. 24.
  2. The same username Ahmed_brens created an en-wiki article for Hakawi News on February 24; it is now at AFD there.
  3. At Commons, Maryam_AlAkini has uploaded a bunch of photos asserting that they show Hakawi News's owner with his 2023 Academy Award, which he won on April 22, 2023. Spoiler alert, those aren't Oscar statuettes, the 2023 Oscars were not in April, and nobody named Abdel or Nasser won an Oscar in 2023. This is the same person described variously at fr-wiki and en-wiki as the owner or the editor of Hakawi News, his photo is on the Hakawi website, along with claims that he also won many honors including a French Legion of Honor but doesn't mention his 2023 Academy Award.
  4. At Commons, after I nominated the photo above for deletion as a hoax, a third French-speaking user (who like Maryam_AlAkini claims to be affiliated with Wikimedia) removed the AfD tag from the image file without commenting on its deletion discussion, leaving this edit summary "Après vérification des sources, il n'est pas éligible à la suppression. Sahih Abdel Nasser, connu sous le nom de Muhammad, et dans plusieurs sources, cela est mentionné. S'il vous plaît, arrêtez de falsifier les articles, sinon je vous bannirai du ticket bénévole. Salutations de Wikipédia équipe" {tr: "After verifying the sources, it is not eligible for deletion. Sahih Abdel Nasser, known as Muhammad, and in several sources this is mentioned. Please stop tampering with articles or I will ban you from the volunteer ticket. Greetings from Wikipedia team.")

I am not sure if this is a hoax, a joke, PROMO gone awry, or just a big fat mess. Could more widely experienced sysops take a look? HouseOfChange (talk) 04:27, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Also: Maryam_AlAkini's userpage duplicates the Wikimedia userpage of User:PDas (WMF), who like most WMF employees includes WMF as part of his username. The Wikimedia userpage, by including PDas's category "Wikimedia employee", adds her username to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_staff , where again it is very unusual in having no WMF at the end (and using a gmail address rather than a WMF address.) HouseOfChange (talk) 20:50, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
This mess has now been largely taken care of by admins at Commons after I created [[an AN request there. HouseOfChange (talk) 17:25, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Edit request edit

Hi! I am not sure where the correct place to put this is (there doesn't seem to be a template?), so I am leaving it here: would someone with the requisite permissions please change "CC-BY-SA 4.0 License" to "CC BY-SA 4.0 License" at MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyrightwarning? Per the CC style guide, there should not be dashes after the "CC" descriptor. HouseBlaster (talk) 00:41, 18 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Y DoneJustin (koavf)TCM 00:46, 18 March 2024 (UTC)Reply