: There is no clear answer in this sort of situation. I tend towards the view that letting a blocked editor find that he or she can keep creating sockpuppets, and having them blocked, but it doesn't matter because their edits stay anyway, encourages them to keep socking, whereas letting them find that doing so is a waste of their time, because whatever they do with sockpuppets gets reverted or deleted, encourages them to stop doing so. For that reason, I usually delete in this situation. However, I can see that there is a case for the view that useful images are still useful even though uploaded in violation of a block, so I will not criticise you if you take a different view from me. The editor who uses the pseudonym ""