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22 April 2011

List needs updating again, please update the new users added after February 7th 2011. A hell lot of new Flickrwashing accounts. --Denniss (talk) 16:59, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

will do this. For the record for admins without deeper computer knowledge: update goes quickly with copy&pasting the whole page of Commons:Questionable Flickr images/Users to a txt file. Use text replacement to replace all | with a tab or ; and copy&paste the whole think to Excel, then you have the flickr IDs separated in one column that you can sort and copy here. --Martin H. (talk) 20:31, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Addition

Please add 8612652@N05 to the list. See Commons:Deletion requests/File:Maynard kickin it.jpg for details. --Stefan4 (talk) 00:08, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for the catch. Sven Manguard Wha? 01:06, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Data Sync problem

Please always note questionable users at the centralized discussion. User-ID added to this list should also be added to Commons:Questionable Flickr images/Users so no entry gets lost if someone syncs the ID list with the Users listed there. Thank you. --Denniss (talk) 07:47, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Addition

{{Edit protected}} Please add 14829735@N00 to the list. See Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Duncan.Hull for details. --Art-top (talk) 08:12, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Please also add 62465723@N04. See en:Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2012 September 30#File:Sharon C Glotzer.jpeg for details. --Stefan4 (talk) 22:11, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

First done. Second not done based on the outcome (OTRS ticket by uploader received). You are both good admin candidates. Give it try! Please apply! COM:RFA -- Rillke^(q?) 18:34, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Please read #Data Sync problem. Thanks in advance. -- Rillke^(q?) 18:38, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

66463488@N06 (Doha Stadium Plus Qatar)

What's the problem? --ManFromNord (talk) 13:02, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

There was a problem, but we fixed it. I thought we removed the stream from the list. -mattbuck (Talk) 13:12, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! --ManFromNord (talk) 13:19, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Possible addition

See: File:NolanTDKR.jpg, File:NolanTDKR 2.jpg, http://www.flickr.com/photos/14721802@N06/4969130558/in/set-72157624779305557 and http://www.ronphillipsphoto.com/bio . The Flickr user doesn't look very much like the exif photographer.--Canoe1967 (talk) 19:27, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Actually, most of the flickr-stream content was stolen from http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/dvd/gallery.php

In future, please request adding users at Commons talk:Questionable Flickr images. Thank you! -- Rillke^(q?) 10:35, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Please add 102589296@N05

Please add http://www.flickr.com/photos/102589296@N05 = all files grabbed from internet and then uploaded here by Flickr washer User:Sp-sorocaba. Gunnex (talk) 16:53, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done -- Rillke^(q?) 17:38, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

In future, please request adding users at Commons talk:Questionable Flickr images. Thank you! -- Rillke^(q?) 17:38, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Why is this user on the list?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69583224@N05/ Palosirkka (talk) 19:19, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Looks like they renege the license on their profile page... fuckers. http://www.flickr.com/people/69583224@N05/

"All our pictures are free of charge for EU-related information and education purposes, but please credit us © European Union, [year]

For any other use, prior clearance must be obtained from the The European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO)." Palosirkka (talk) 19:25, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

See also Commons:Questionable Flickr images Too many images in their Stream that are not their own or with "Editorial use only" restriction in Exif. At best license status is unclear. You may, however ask them for clarification. -- Rillke^(q?) 10:46, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Slight change in format

UploadWizard will respect this blacklist now, as requested in bug 42307. It also checks for usernames (the ones you can see in the URL), and it will interpret every word on the page as a username - please prefix comment lines with #. --Tgr (WMF) (talk) 23:27, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

• Just a word filter is only a partial implementation as a username may be changed at Flickr but the underlying ID never changes. UW needs to resolve any non-ID username and then compare the ID to the blacklist. But at least it's a start. I don't change the first line to a comment as I'm unsure about possible side effects, possibly breaking other tools. But I have asked Rillke as he knows this stuff better.--Denniss (talk) 11:17, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
  • As far as I understand that, both the nsid and the path_alias are retrieved from flickr and both are checked against this blacklist. -- Rillke^(q?) 15:41, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Format change: I don't even know whether bryan's bot is still running. Additionally, I don't know whether other tools are depending on this list. But I guess one of Lupo's and Flominator's tools (something on ramselhof.de) do. All I know is that I've to slightly amend MediaWiki:Gadget-dashboard.AddToFlickrBlacklist.js so thanks for pinging. -- Rillke^(q?) 15:41, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Yes, Flinfo does use this list. Note that changing the syntax may break Bryan's bot, which evidently still runs and is very valuable. Adding the hash on that first line now won't break Flinfo. Lupo 20:16, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

    Looking at the source of Bryan's bot at [1], I don't see it using this blacklist at all. Strange, I thought it did check this list? Why else would the list be at this location?

    However, there are various Flickr upload bots. At least Magnus's Flickr2Commons used to check this list, too. (IIRC, an early version actually did it by asking Flinfo for the image info. Not sure what it does nowadays. If it still does rely on Flinfo for this, it's fine.) Flinfo is updated now and can handle either version of the blacklist. Lupo 22:31, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

    • Bryan's Review Bot does check the list, the upload bot doesn't. I also pinged Zhuyifei1999 as he set up a Review bot clone, he may answer this for sure. Magnus pinged as well on his talk page. anyone else known with Flickr-related Tools/Bots? --Denniss (talk) 00:01, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

      Could you please show me where exactly in the code FlickreviewR checks this list? I just don't see it in [2]. Maybe that's the wrong source? Lupo 07:18, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

      Can confirm Lupo above. I have tried to read and tried to find any possibility of the script checking this list, but so far I see nothing related. $ grep -r bad-authors . in Bryan's svn repo also returns no result. However, I'm not sure the script FlickrevirewR is running is exactly same as the public one in the svn repo/fisheye, although the public one also does the same checking as the running one. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:11, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

      Now reading that, I remember Commons_talk:Questionable_Flickr_images/Archive_4#Freedom House/syriafreedom -- Rillke^(q?) 10:39, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

      It's indeed possible the public version is not the same as the running version, I suggest you mail Bryan and ask for confirmation/sources. At some time in the past it wasn't using the Blacklist but colected files where the review tag was added or changed by someone else than noted as reviewer, now it uses the blacklist but doesn't collect the review info anymore (last edit at User:FlickreviewR/Images never editted by their reviewer in 11/2012. If someone could take over the upload Bot with the aim to move it to Labs and have it respect the blacklist + update to avoid dupes this would be a major relief for Admins and reviewers. --Denniss (talk) 10:47, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

      I have implemented the requested change, the review bot still works and Flinfo seem to work as well, license review script as well. Probably need to check again tomorrow. --Denniss (talk) 13:06, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

      Thanks Denniss! The first line was already a comment, so I doubt any tool could be affected by changing a character in it. As for username changes, Rillke is correct: UploadWizard checks both the user's NSID and path_info (the name in the URL, not the same thing as what Flickr calls the username) and stops if either one is in the blacklist. The path_info does not exist for a new user, and can be created at any time, but once it has been created, it cannot be changed anymore. (I didn't add any check for the normal username, because that one can be changed at any time, so it would only cause trouble.) --Tgr (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Please add 119892955@N06

|- | himanisdas | | 119892955@N06 | search | Flickrwashing of Getty images

cheers, —SpacemanSpiff 08:25, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done. just found (© Vidhu S/500px)(Bing United Kingdom) -- Rillke^(q?) 08:54, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I've tagged all the washed files. I presume that the 2-3 left over are ok. Unfortunately, this is a flickr account being run by a long time editor.—SpacemanSpiff 08:57, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

I'd actually delete all images: Flick user registered in 2014, images with strange exif and low res = indication for pure washing account. --Denniss (talk) 14:11, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

existing files with sources from bad authors list

Hello. I currently see 2325 files which refer to IDs from the bad authors list. Is it correct that all of them should be deleted right away, or is it possible that some of them are ok? --Krd 09:54, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Not all of them are completely bad, some are on the list because their portfolio has a mix of clearly own work images mangled with images from other sources without either stating so or accidentally offering them under free license. Some are/were image collectors with files from everywhere and only those confirmed as free images were kept, usually applies to US Fedgov images. Only those were block reasons clearly state flickrwashing or pure copyvios should be deleted. --Denniss (talk) 20:05, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

I see two scenarios:

a) Flickr account carries mix of obvious copyvios and other photographs which could be or could not be own work of the user. Are the latter to be kept or deleted per COM:PCP if not PD-whatever?

b) When a Flickr account gets listed here because Commons User:XY uploads files from there, is it also be checked if there are already other files from this Flickr account present at Commons uploaded by other users, which then should be reviewed?

--Krd 06:28, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

For case a these uploads have usually already been dealt with so no reason to change anything here, they were added for PCP to prevent further automated uploads. For case b it's usually done (at least by me) once added to the blocklist. As this has most likely never been donw before, could you compile a list of images from blocked Flickr users, both active and from inactive list? --Denniss (talk) 06:56, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

I've put a first guess at User:Krd/Test (4532 entries). --Krd 15:33, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

flickruser:142715467@N06

{{Edit protected}} I spotted w:File:RaleighRitchie2015.jpg from this Flickr account, sourced to flickrphoto:26212407034. The title of this photograph, 19862194755_aa52614cd5_o, reveals that flickrphoto:26212407034 is a flickrwashed copy of flickrphoto:19862194755, and flickrphoto:19862194755 was uploaded by flickruser:78213071@N08, who is listed on this page. For this reason, we should probably also add flickruser:142715467@N06 to this list. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:59, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

Also, the uploader's two other files are titled "Screen shot", suggesting that they aren't own work either. Consider adding flickruser:142715467@N06. --Stefan2 (talk) 19:49, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

 Done Awesome! Thank you! ~riley (talk) 21:27, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

~riley, note that new additions also need to be added to Commons:Questionable Flickr images/Users. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:40, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

flickruser:130557019@N06

{{Edit protected}} Please add flickruser:130557019@N06 to the list. See w:Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2016 May 14#File:Ayah Bdeir littleBits.jpeg (about flickrphoto:15898247314) for the reasoning. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:35, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

 Done Awesome! Thank you! ~riley (talk) 21:27, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

~riley, note that new additions also need to be added to Commons:Questionable Flickr images/Users. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:40, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

Users should never be manually added to the list here without adding an entry to the questinable list/table. There's actually a function on top of this page doing this. --Denniss (talk) 23:38, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

flickruser:28567825@N03

{{Edit protected}}

File:The Catch Dwight Clark 1982.jpg was Flickr washed from this account onto Commons. This account has about 6,000 images on the project, so unfortunately, there's a lot of work to be done. Some are actually his copyright, but many aren't. To complicate things, he's uploaded many images to his Flickr account containing himself, meaning he often lets others use his camera and passes off the pictures as his own. Very hard to tell the true licensing status on any of these. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 02:57, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

 Done Awesome! Thank you! jdx ^Re: 15:47, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

158763005@N03

{{Edit protected}} A newly created User without any followers, the image uploaded has been nominated for deletion because of possible flickr-washing. --B dash (talk) 06:05, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

 Not done While the Flickr account is not linked from the architect's website, there is no indication that this is a Flickrwashing account. Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 15:42, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Tupac fan page

{{Edit request}}

• 93259690@N04
• Serial copvio fan page of dead artist.--BevinKacon (talk) 10:00, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

 Not done Files seem to be marked as "All rights reserved", so files should get flagged automatically. Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 15:45, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Inquiry into rationale for adding 62558987@N07

@Ronhjones, why was 62558987@N07 labeled a "bad user"? SecretName101 (talk) 01:22, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

greatdegree / 49431238@N07

{{Edit request}} All supposedly CC-BY-SA images, but from a variety of sources. A lot are from Commons (albeit with the wrong license because we have more choices than flickr). Others are from websites from which they have no license at all (e.g. https://www.flickr.com/photos/greatdegree/4606965533/in/photostream/) --B (talk) 21:32, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

 Done --Majora (talk) 20:48, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

brucedetorres

{{Edit request}}

Please add brucedetorres. Recently, he has uploaded all of the sample windows images. This one is likely a press photo. A bunch of them are logos from various sources. Unfortunately, we don't know if any of them are actually his. --B (talk) 15:28, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

 Done --Majora (talk) 02:23, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

ProgressOhio

{{Edit request}}

We should probably add ProgressOhio. I noticed at Category:Glenn Beck - Freedomworks Protest in Washington, D.C. (September 12, 2009) that their images seemed to have varying EXIF data. Then I saw [3] is a Getty photo, [4] is the logo for a different organization and it is followed by a number of photos without EXIF data that presumably came from that organization. [5] is clearly not their's, ditto for [6], [7], [8], [9], etc. The vast majority of their photos are from a "Panasonic DMC-TZ5" camera and have EXIF data and so (presumably?) those photos are valid. But then there are others with different cameras or no EXIF data at all so I don't know that we can trust their license. --B (talk) 13:57, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

 Done --Majora (talk) 02:25, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

81795419@N04

{{Edit request}} See Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Files from Rakib Hera Flickr stream. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 06:40, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

 Done Awesome! Thank you! Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 02:03, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

84017792@N00

{{Edit request}} This user find some old photos somewhere, then add a frame on it and claimed own work. --B dash (talk) 04:36, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

 Done Awesome! Thank you! Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 02:01, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

@Hedwig in Washington and B dash: I would like to challenge this block. I have flipped through hundreds of this user's 13k photos, but I did not find any CC-BY that are such. This user has a lot of useful shots and about 150 have been uploaded here. Could B dash please provide evidence?--Roy17 (talk) 21:46, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

 Support yuen yan shares mostly Creative Commons photos taken with a Ricoh camera. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 11:38, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

@Elcobbola: Hi! Could you please unblacklist his flickr? His flickr was blacklisted only because of Commons:Deletion requests/File:蔡東豪都來支持獨立媒體，71 行過，記得支持下，公民發聲 -71 -hk71 -Hk (14525866106).jpg. To unblacklist, you need to edit User:FlickreviewR/bad-authors and Commons:Questionable Flickr images/Users.--Roy17 (talk) 19:43, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

 Done. Эlcobbola _talk 19:59, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

102627552@N04

{{Edit request}} User made derivative works based on copyrighted photo and licensed as "CC-BY-SA". --B dash (talk) 14:55, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

CC-BY-SA is valid for their photoshop work, but it's still derivative work. Most of what T.J. Hawk shares is barely in scope. Has any of that been uploaded here? - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 11:44, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz: Seems that none were uploaded. --B dash (talk) 10:27, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

@B dash: There's probably no point in adding the account to the bad-authors list in that case. It just makes it harder to maintain the list. There are numerous accounts with problematic content, but if nobody ever uploads anything from those accounts we shouldn't be concerned with them. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 10:31, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

 Not done, withdrawn by nominator. --B dash (talk) 10:33, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

57156551@N06

{{Edit request}}

• flickruser:57156551@N06

Serial license laundering, filled with video game, movie, and website screenshots etc. See albums.--BevinKacon (talk) 13:52, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

 Done --Majora (talk) 02:18, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

94576140@N00

{{Edit request}}

• flickruser:94576140@N00

License laundering, famous photos, low res, no meta data on any.--BevinKacon (talk) 15:15, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

From a cursory glance, BevinKacon, all their photos are listed as All Rights Reserved. Making listing here moot as the bot would catch them regardless. Am I missing something? Feel free to ping me or reactive this request. --Majora (talk) 02:20, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

110346578@N08

{{Edit request}}

• flickruser:110346578@N08
• Soft porn dump, serial license laundering, posting professional photos of famous models \ celebrities under public license.--BevinKacon (talk) 09:44, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

 Done Awesome! Thank you! Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 06:04, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

150493628@N06

{{Edit request}}

• flickruser:150493628@N06

files are not own work. Minorax^talk _{(formerly 大诺史)} 14:54, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

• flickruser:186452864@N02

Flickr account of globally locked user, Special:CentralAuth/Swarup Kumar Solanki. Minorax^talk _{(formerly 大诺史)} 14:32, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

@Gbawden: Kindly add these 2 accounts in. Thank you. Minorax^talk _{(formerly 大诺史)} 09:49, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

 Done Gbawden (talk) 09:50, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

72632597@N06

{{Edit request}}

• flickruser:72632597@N06

License laundering wallpaper dump, see File:Swift Fox (7162218864).jpg to delete.--BevinKacon (talk) 17:37, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

•  Done --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 04:07, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

185757748@N07

{{Edit request}} please add https://www.flickr.com/photos/185757748@N07/ as files copied from FB. for example, File:Ashi Singh.jpg. Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 09:23, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

@Túrelio: could you please do it. Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 12:46, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

 Done --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 04:08, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

39358821@N03

{{Edit request}}

• flickruser:39358821@N03

Serial license laundering dump, see File:Havasu Falls, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona (2017).jpg to delete.--BevinKacon (talk) 14:20, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

•  Done —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:28, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

36548298@N04

{{Edit request}} Plase add flickruser:36548298@N04 to the list, because all uploads of Flickr are random internet images. Examples: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Eminem and Rihanna.jpg and File:Katherine Moennig et Sarah Shahi.jpg. --Smooth O (talk) 19:09, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

•  Done —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:28, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

187320741@N04

{{Edit request}} Per: Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with 187320741@N0. --Smooth O (talk) 11:32, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

•  Done —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:30, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

28088814@N02

{{edit request}} |- | Tom53421 | | 28088814@N02 | search | Movie screen captures under invalid licence (PD) and license laundering Matlin (talk) 06:14, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

 Done The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 00:29, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

142791409@N03 (Coletivo Resistência)

{{Edit request}}

• flickruser:142791409@N03
• Flickr-washing files, see also DRs like this and this.

A1Cafel (talk) 07:33, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

 Done Already done. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 00:29, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Removing user from list

flickruser:77742560@N06 was incorrectly added to this list because they uploaded two images of trains that they downloaded from WP. These two photos both indicate that they're not the user's own photos in the description, and I have seen thousands of photos that are the user's own. How can that be fixed? Here are the two photos that got this user placed on the list: I was surprised to see a pink Shinkansen train on the way, There are two Hello Kitty themed pink Shinkansen trains. It is in no way a flickrwashing account, he even pointed out that these two are not his own photos.

To me, the problem seems to be User:RodRabelo7, who doesn't quite seem to understand copyright rules. mr.choppers (talk)^-en- 18:21, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Excuse me? RodRabelo7 (talk) 18:23, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

See here. Slow down, review rather than upload 30,000 photos. Your sloppiness got a perfectly good flickr user blacklisted. mr.choppers (talk)^-en- 18:29, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Just unlist it from the blacklist. No headache needed. RodRabelo7 (talk) 18:32, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

@RodRabelo7: How do I unlist them? Thanks. mr.choppers (talk)^-en- 18:35, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

I would start a discussion at COM:Questionable Flickr images that describes your findings in a bit more detail. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 18:39, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. mr.choppers (talk)^-en- 18:44, 2 March 2024 (UTC)