Talk:Powelliphanta patrickensis

message: This article was based on Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 . It has been revised on this date to eliminate a probable copyright violation of that book. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. (For background on this situation, please see the related administrator's noticeboard discussion.) Thank you.  -- ascidian | talk-to-me 12:20, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright problem removed

message: A high-quality picture of this snail was uploaded back in mid-to-late 2022 by . After a long period of inactivity on the account, Voidseeker returned to Wikipedia in late January 2023 to begin a protest against the new "Vector 2022" default skin. They started with vandalism, then tried to pull an image off Commons (an image which as of today, is currently used in this article). They also soon found themselves needing to build a web of lies to support themselves in this. These lies convinced many users and very nearly got the image deleted, until they began to be pointed out and steadily countered. Upon realising that they were being found out in their earlier lies, they resorted to ever more desperate lies and bad faith tactics, such as claiming in the image was misidentified and pulling their identification from iNaturalist, claiming that their computer was hacked by some malicious actorOddly, they were simultaneously malicious enough to hack someone's computer to steal files, yet also benevolent enough to make such stolen files available under a CC-BY-SA licence, therby removing any gain they night have got from the hack in the first place., and  claiming it was a random photo they had pulled off Flikrstrangely, this was somehow the highest quality version of all copies of this image. Eventually, it became clear that nothing they said since returning in January 2023 was able to be trustedSome claims they have made are outrageously contradictory, like claiming that they are old enough to have a son who can use a computer, yet simultaneously too young to enter into contracts legally. . So then they just threw it all away and started blatantly trollingY'know, the "hahaha trollololol" sort of trolling.. This (unsurprisingly) ended in a block. They would also be blocked on en.wiki, and eventually globally locked. 
Now why mention all this? Because they and their sockpuppets are on a campaign to remove that picture and generally disrupt Wikimedia Foundation projects (including Wikipedia) by any means possible. Along the way, they will almost certainly lie, and lie, and lie, and lie. They will obfuscate a situation and sow doubt wherever possible, but don't be taken in. The full refutation of their lies (and therefore the most powerful tool against them) is this :c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Powelliphantapatrickensis2.jpg#Closure which this (memo?) is based on. The second most powerful tool against them is a global block or lock, so it is a good idea to request one if you have identified them.
Why have I put this on the article talkpage? Because this is where they must come to discuss their attempts to remove the image.
Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 13:53, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: A note about the history of a picture on this article.

message: The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for speedy deletion:
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replies: text: The above is what happens when someone takes one of VoidseekerNZ's VRT tickets at face value. Fortunately, it was caught. Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 01:55, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: What happened? Trade (talk) 21:54, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for speedy deletion