User:Platonk/sandbox/temp1

Images that were in Mekelle article
Four Wikimedia Commons users and two Wikipedia users had added some unidentified images to the Mekelle article. They can be viewed in the old version here, scroll down to the "Gallery" section.

I believe all six accounts are the same person. The 4 Commons accounts uploaded 33 images, and the two Wikipedia users inserted them all into a single article (Mekelle, an Ethiopian city) using just 2 edits. All of the file names are constructed similarly, are titled incorrectly for the image subject, and indicate an advocacy for one side of the ongoing Tigray War (including using battle cry words and phrases). Many of the images aren't even of Mekelle. All of the images were uploaded as "own work", yet many are vintage photos (1930s). I have found most of the photos online with date stamps prior to the uploading into Wikimedia, and found in such a variety of places/sources that I doubt they are coincidentally from the same photographer. None of the images have metadata and the majority of the photos have a very low (poor) resolution.

The entire gallery was installed by just two SPA users: Tyrone Martin and አቡነ አረጋዊ from images uploaded by 4 almost-identical Commons users.

Set 1

 * 1)  - City of Mekelle 1935
 * 2)  - Mekelle castle courtyard 1936
 * 3)  - Abyssinian dwelling 1935 (Abyssinian house, in brick and wood, near Adua)
 * 4)  - Occupation of Mekelle 1935, from top of castle
 * 5)  - 1936 Door to Mekelle castle
 * 6)  - 1935
 * 7)  - Abyssinian dwelling 1935 (Abyssinian house, in brick and wood, near Adua)
 * 8)  - ?
 * 9)  - Google images says Facebook but cannot view this; is same building as 2019
 * 10)   - Shum Agame Sebhat Subagadis Castle at Hadush Adi, Adigrat, Mapio 2018, Tineye as early as 2018, TripAdvisor.com alt photo
 * 11)  - April 26, 2020 Facebook Twitter Apr 24, 2020

Set 2

 * 1)  - ?
 * 2)  - Gunda Gunde Monastery, cumaps.net
 * 3)  - Gunda Gunde Monastery, 2018
 * 4)  - 2019
 * 5)  - 2019
 * 6)  - ?
 * 7)  - ?
 * 8)  - same as this 2019
 * 9)  - 2019

Set 3

 * 1)  - ?
 * 2)  - Facebook March 5, 2020 2018
 * 3)  - Monastery Abune Aregawi Num, 2019, 2019
 * 4)  - ?
 * 5)  - 2019 (This building but not photo match). ditto
 * 6)  - Gunda Gunde Monastery orrob.org addisherald September 21, 2020 Youtube Dec 30, 2021 christianforums Jan 6, 2019. Post: The Caravel April 23, 2021
 * 7)  - ?
 * 8)  - ?
 * 9)  - Gunda Gunde Monastery, 2018

Set 4

 * 1)  - ?
 * 2)  - ?
 * 3)  - (Vintage) posted on March 24, 2020
 * 4)  - Adigrat 1939

A house in Aynalem
A house in Aynalem, a town adjacent to Mekelle.

Adigrat
Adigrat 1939

Gunda Gunde Monastery (near Adigrat)
Gunda Gunde Monastery

Cliff monastery
Facebook user said "Monastery Abune Aregawi Num" but that doesn't match up. See also Abuna Aregawi (monk). 2019, 2019

Translation of filenames
Robotranslation of the first part of filename, plus the English ending
 * 1) Historical Mekele Mekele ፫ Three Historic Center Mekele.jpg
 * 2) Historical Mekele Mekele ፪ Two Historic Center Mekele.jpg
 * 3) Historical Mekele Mekele ፩ One Historic Center Mekele.jpg
 * 4) Historical Mekele Mekele ፬ Four Historic Center Mekele.jpg
 * 5) Historical Mekele Mekele ፭ Five Historic Center Mekele.jpg
 * 6) Historical Mekele Mekele ፮ Six Historic Center Mekele.jpg
 * 7) Historical Mekele Mekele ፯ Seven Historic Center Mekele.jpg
 * 8) Historical Mekele Mekele ፱ Nine Historic Center Mekelle.jpg
 * 9) Historical Mekele Mekele ፰ Eight Historic Center Mekelle.jpg
 * 10) Historical Mekele Mekele ሥር Ten Historic Center Mekelle.jpg
 * 11) Historical Mekele Mekele ፲፩ Eleven Historic Center Mekelle.jpg
 * 12) Historical Land of Tigray ፩ Hade Historic Center of Tigrai.jpg
 * 13) Historical Museum of Tigray ፪ Art Historic Center of Tigrai.jpg
 * 14) Historical Museum of Tigray ፫ Celeste Historic Center of Tigrai.jpg
 * 15) Historical Land of Tigray ፬ Quadrant Historic Center of Tigrai.jpg
 * 16) Historical Land of Tigray ፭ Thursday Historic Center of Tigrai.jpg
 * 17) Historical Museum of Tigray ፮ Shideshte Historic Center of Tigrai.jpg
 * 18) Historical Land of Tigray ፯ Shawate Historic Center of Tigrai.jpg
 * 19) Historical Museum of Tigray ፰ Shemonte Historic Center of Tigrai.jpg
 * 20) History of Tigray ፱ Tishte Historic Center of Tigrai.jpg
 * 21) Historical Museum ያ Seleste Historic Center of Woyane.jpg
 * 22) HISTORICAL CULTURE Historic Center of Woyane.jpg
 * 23) Historical Society ፪ Art Historic Center of Woyane.jpg
 * 24) HISTORICAL CENTER Historic Center of Woyane.jpg
 * 25) Historical Museum ያ Thursday Historic Center of Woyane.jpg
 * 26) Historical Museum Historic Center of Woyane.jpg
 * 27) # Historical Museum ያ Shemonte Historic Center of Woyane.jpg
 * 28) Historical Center Historic Center of Woyane.jpg
 * 29) Historical Center Historic Center of Woyane.jpg
 * 30) Share the historical heritage ፪ Art Historic Center of Tegaru.jpg
 * 31) Share the historical heritage ፫ Celeste Historic Center of Tegaru.jpg
 * 32) Share the historical heritage ፩ Hade Historic Center of Tegaru.jpg
 * 33) Share the historical heritage ፬ Fourth Historic Center of Tegaru.jpg

Anomalies of those 33 images
These 33 files are numbered in the same order in which they were uploaded to Wikimedia commons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33


 * Named incorrectly:
 * All of them. None of them are "Historic center of (town)".
 * 1-11 are labelled "Historic Center of Mekelle" but 3, 6, 7, 9, 10 & 11 are not even in Mekelle
 * 12-20 are labelled "Historic Center of Tigrai" but Tigray is a region, not a city.
 * 21-29 are labelled "Historic Center of Woyane" but Woyane isn't a place, it's a "patriotic" concept.
 * 30-33 are labelled "Historic Center of Tegaru" which translated is "Historic Center of Tigray", again is a region not a city.


 * Wrong date:
 * 1-7 are given as 1956, but are from 1935/1936.
 * 8-11 give "1 March 2020" but these are from at least 3 different towns, so that is unlikely.
 * 25 & 27 give 1965, but are from 1935/1936
 * 30, 31, 33 look like more of the Italian WWI photos (soldier in 33; 30 & 31 match landscapes I saw in other 1930s photos)
 * 10, 14, 22, 29 were found posted online in 2018 but uploader says the photo dates are in 2020.
 * 9, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23 were found posted online in 2019 but uploader says the photo dates are in 2020.
 * 32 was found posted online with a datestamp in 2020 earlier than the uploader's 2020 date of photo.
 * I believe all of the photo dates are completely invented because all have single digit "days" (after the first 7 which are obviously incorrect anyway).


 * Wrong source:
 * 1-7 each give 5 online sources, none of which show these images.
 * 8-33 give source as "own work", many of which are not their own work.
 * 1-7, 25, 27 do not credit Istituto Luce who took these photographs.


 * Wrong or missing author:
 * 1-7 say "unknown author", but all 7 are from Istituto Luce during WWII.
 * 8-11 say "own work". 8 & 9 might be own work, but 10 & 11 are unlikely to be (per my research).
 * 13-14 say "own work" but they are not their own work.
 * 25 & 27 say "own work" but they are from Istituto Luce during WWII.
 * 22, 23, 26, 29 say "own work" but they are not their own work.
 * 30-33 say "own work" but these are not their own work.


 * Wrong copyright information:
 * 1-7 say they were published in Ethiopia. Incorrect, they were published in Italy.
 * 8-33 say the uploader is the copyright holder. Incorrect for most of them.


 * Misleading description:
 * 1-7 say "Tigray protect your artistic heritage for you for your children"
 * 8-11 say "Historic Center Mekelle" and at least 3 of those are not in Mekelle. (1 is unknown)
 * 12-20, 22-23, 25-26, 28 have Tigray War propaganda: "Tegaru protect the TIGRAY your freedom and democracy from Eritrean and Ethiopian dictators from envious thieves and murderers protect the history of your ancestors who built the true history of Ethiopia over the centuries and drive away the who want a new genocide of the Tigrayans and the Tigrayans culture protect the sacrifices of the Tigrayans martyrs"
 * 21-29 say "Historic Center of Woyane" and there is no place called "Woyane"
 * 30-33 say "Historic Center of Tegaru" and there is no place called "Tegaru" (which means Tigray, which is a region not a town).


 * No metadata:
 * None of the images have any metadata in them. (Vintage photos, obviously, have no metadata as they would be scans of printed photos or potentially created from negatives from the Italian archives.)


 * Sockpuppetry:
 * All 4 Wikimedia accounts are named similarly (Axumawit Yohannes, Axumawit Woyane, Axumawit Tigrai, Axumawit Tegaru).
 * All 4 accounts uploaded these 33 files named using the same filename structure/pattern (Amheric followed by English with repetitive names).
 * Accounts 2, 3 & 4 uploaded all their files within a 2-day period.
 * Accounts 1 & 2 uploaded photos of the same building (9, 15, 16, 19 & 20). Accounts 1, 3 & 4 uploaded files from the Italian archive. Accounts 2 & 3 uploaded images for Gunda Gunde.
 * All/every file from accounts 2, 3 & 4 were inserted into Mekelle article with a single edit just 5 hours after the last file was uploaded into Commons.
 * All files uploaded by account 1 (took 5 days) were inserted into Mekelle article with a single edit 7 days after the last upload, were reverted with caution to rename/describe the files, ignored, and re-inserted them in the identical manner.


 * Advocacy:
 * Wikimeda accounts 2, 3 & 4 uploaded their files within 6 days of the start of the Tigray War and the filenames and descriptions show a clear WP:ADVOCACY for one side of the military conflict.
 * All 33 were only ever put into the Mekelle article, and no others. Mekelle is the capital of Tigray Region. There is currently a war going on in Tigray.


 * Photo identification:
 * 2 & 5 are Yohannes IV palace from 1930s (in Mekelle)
 * 1 & 4 are Mekelle in the 1930s
 * 32 is a vintage photo of Mekelle, old quarter, date unknown
 * 9, 15, 16, 19, 20 are all the same house in Aynalem, a town adjacent to Mekelle (but not the historic quarter of Mekelle)
 * 7, 3 & 6 are a round rock structure and some monks in Adwa
 * 33 is Adigrat 1939
 * 13, 14, 26 & 29 are Gunda Gunde Monastery, possibly 22 as well
 * 10 is Shum Agame Sebhat Subagadis Castle at Hadush Adi, Adigrat
 * 24 is a rock-hewn cliff-face monastery, possibly "Monastery Abune Aregawi Num"
 * 25, 30, 31 are probably Mekelle 1930s
 * 25 is somewhere else (not Mekelle), 1930s
 * These are unknown/unidentified: 8, 11, 12, 17, 18, 21, 24, 28