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Hi Maxim! I wanted to thank you personally for your contributions to the Arbitration Committee. I've observed that you played a key role during your term in responding to the steady stream of block and ban appeals that come in—making sure they are tracked and answered in an organized fashion. I know that arb work isn't always the most rewarding experience, in part because much of the work you do is behind-the-scenes and invisible to the broader community. For your diligent work in this thankless role, please accept this barnstar. Best wishes for the new year! Mz7 ( talk) 21:45, 31 December 2022 (UTC) |
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The RfA for MB has gone to a bureaucrat chat. Please join in the discussion. Primefac ( talk) 15:01, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
Curtis Joseph has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke ( talk) 00:19, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
Guessing you'll see the email before this talk page message but just in case.... Barkeep49 ( talk) 01:27, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
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It's ok to discuss this, but make it a public discussion, where I can defend myself. I was rather friendly in the discussion and Tony Ballioni strongly justified my block, to answer to that is only fair. Accusing me of Ethno-nationalist debates for reverting a disruptive and eventually blocked editor in a joint operation with another editor and justifying their oppose to the unblock based on that, is at least questionable. I edit for the calmness of wikipedia, and for this I get blocked...is this justice? Paradise Chronicle ( talk) 23:12, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Pppery/Bureaucrat chat and join the discussion when you have an opportunity. Maxim ( talk) 18:12, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Is there a log of every request for adminship that was closed via bureaucrat chat? Thank you. CityOf Silver 18:42, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Hey Maxim, Yunshui here unfortunately I lost access to my old account as I've forgotten my password and don't use that email anymore. I'm back and am ready to get back to editing again so please let me know if there's a way to get my account back. Yunsui ( talk) 09:48, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I'm cleaning up various syntax errors across Wikipedia that are collectively called WP:LINT, and the particular error I'm focused on, the tidy font error, I have down to 1900 errors on less than 400 pages. 38 pages you full protected, and per WP:RPPD I was wondering if you had any objection to lowing their protection to allow me to address these issues. The pages of interest are User talk:Sceptre archives 1, 3 through 16, 18 through 29, 31, 32, 35, 37 through 41, 43, 46, and 48. Do you have any objection to these pages being lowered?
If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. I have Extended Confirmed access, so that or lower is fine, and assuming this is a temporary lowering, I'd let you know when I was finished with the set.
Thanks, Zinnober9 ( talk) 18:47, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
...that you're running for ArbCom again. You have my support! :D Acalamari 21:28, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for standing to become arbitrator again! My story today is Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his, - the composer, born OTD 110 years ago, didn't want it shorter (but the publisher), - more here. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:55, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Did you know that I made {{ Benjamin Britten}}, 10 years ago on the occasion of his centenary? And have a tradition of presenting one of his works when his birthday returns, such as this latest? - Thank you for a reply to my cand question. I may discuss it after tomorrow's concert when we will sing the Mozart and listen to Pärt's urgent call for peace played by the strings, - I'm not in the mood before ;) - I mentioned Pärt for a reason, could have been Beethoven as well, in other words: I believe it's time for a fresh look, as we were told 10 years ago. - "Infobox chaos": no idea when that happened where. I met the conflict in 2012, for Samuel Barber, and then we discussed operas such as Siegfried, and we three discussing cordially (I think) were admonished by arbitration a few weeks later - no idea why, still ;) (the discussion is still on the talk, 10 years later) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:12, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
The concert was good, User Talk:Gerda Arendt#Mozart Requiem -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:59, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
Regarding your answer: the status quo is that editors are compared to armies, and I think that could be improved ;) - Many new editors have no idea of any conflict - we had years without disputes, remember? - and may be surprised that what they added thinking they improved Wikipedia is reverted citing some "PR/FAC" abbreviation they may not understand, instead of an argument. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:39, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Today: in memoriam Jerome Kohl who said ( In Freundschaft): "and I hope that they have met again in the beyond and are making joyous music together" -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:13, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for replying to my question; I didn't want to reply there as it doesn't seem overly relevant, but in regards to:
On the other hand, if the push-back happened to be related to a Committee decision, then there would be a responsibility to carefully review the original decision, at least internally. Perhaps it was communicated poorly, or perhaps it is indeed just a poor decision. Committees of the past have certainly made questionable calls, but I don't recall them provoking mass wheel and edit warring, and I like to think that it comes as much as anything from the fact that around this time each year, we as a community can chuck out half the committee, and the rest of it the year after.
My belief is that if there comes a point that ARBCOM makes such a questionable call (one example that comes to mind was the proposed source language restriction) that the community feels it cannot stand, the community will just abuse the ratification and amendment process to overturn it - I don't think it would come to any sort of edit or wheel warring because there is a clear path to correcting it through established processes. BilledMammal ( talk) 13:45, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
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Today's story is about Maria Callas, on her centenary. - Aaron Copland died OTD, and Jerome Kohl (mentioned in November) said something wise on Copland's talk, - yes, regarding a soft(er) stance towards infoboxes. - I can't follow your point that no compromise can be had because it's infobox or no infobox. The compromise offered by Brian Boulton in 2013 is a minimal box (which he called identibox), - his version is in Percy Grainger, my version in Beethoven (not by me but the community), and I wonder why that has not won more traction. Instead, opposers now came up with the idea that a link to a list of a composer's works is somehow a breach of MoS guidelines (Rossini), which sounds absurd to me. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:59, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Did you check out the history of the infobox of Callas? Compare Jessye Norman, Kathleen Ferrier and Jenny Lind. Did you check out the history of Copland? Compare Max Reger, Max Beckschäfer, Colin Mawby (from today's story), and Benjamin Britten (who died OTD). What's the difference? If what you see changes your answer to my question, feel free to change, and ping me. I would like to see a way to avoid in the future hundreds of editors commenting on Mozart RfCs, just to kind of restore the infobox he had in 2006. Happy new era ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:32, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I managed to get the pics to snow (on 28 Nov), and heard a lovely concert, after listening to a miracle of meditative dreaming on 6 December (or just click on music). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:04, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
... and today, to Paris (29 Nov) with a visit to the Palais Garnier, - to match the story of Medea Amiranashvili, - don't miss listening to her expressive voice. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:07, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
My story today is about Michael Robinson, - it's an honour to have known him. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:11, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:44, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Congratulations to your election! - I uploaded more pics, with Christmas trees and related artworks, and I have two women on the Main page (for a sad reason). Our Christmas singing (of my user's infobox music "singen, singen") was pictured! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:59, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️
Hi Maxim! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. I like how the AI extended the puzzle pieces to the gifts in this one. Best wishes with all your 'crat work! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!Cheers,{{u| Sdkb}} talk 06:46, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello Maxim, you have been elected to the arbitration committee! The results of the election are available here: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023#Results. You will likely be contacted by the existing committee for onboarding. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 01:43, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
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I wish to enquire under what arbitration case the sockpuppet user WacoBell was unblocked? I can't find the arbitration case you refer to in their unblocking, and on the talk page their most recent edit was removing the fact their appeal was declined in December (Decline dif, removal dif) which hardly seems the behaviour of someone deserving of such treatment. Rambling Rambler ( talk) 17:32, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Behavioral evidence has led me to believe Heyandwhoa's claim here that he is not a sockpuppet of Kingshowman as we have said in his block message. I mostly edit Wiktionary now and came across him there. He is not blocked there, although he had had some short-term blocks on the IG account, and I think he is mostly interested in Wiktionary and not Wikipedia, but even so, he is upset and may have at first believed that the administrators of Wiktionary were responsible for his indefinite block on Wikipedia. There is nothing we can do for him there, but I said I would pass the message along because it seems to me that Heyandwhoa could hardly have less in common in with Kingshowman. Unless we know that Kingshowman is fond of cleverly adopting wildly different personalities, I hope you will consider lifting the block on the Heyandwhoa account, or at least restoring his talkpage access here so he can make his case in his own words. Best regards, — Soap — 20:17, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
![]() | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Maxim! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 02:25, 10 February 2024 (UTC) |
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...did this happen? Are you able to say anything about it? I am interested in the nature of the evidence that resulted in CheckUser use, especially evidence of email canvassing and whether that has been provided to ArbCom. Sean.hoyland ( talk) 16:35, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
So a colleague of mine sent me a link to an interesting YouTube video that graphs and groups all the articles on English Wikipedia. It looked like a hypertrophied graph that might have started out looking like the one we made for the Orangemoody sockpuppetry investigation. The person who wrote the code grouped articles into "communities" that had similar trajectories. The one that cracked me up is the "Canada and Ice Hockey" community, which at first I thought was perhaps an exaggeration of how interlinked those are. Until I thought back to our FA collaboration on Jacques Plante - a Canadian ice hockey player....
Hope you're doing well! Risker ( talk) 22:03, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi Maxim. Could I ask you do run a quick check on several accounts? The oldest one was already blocked as a sockpuppet of Krajoyn. All three accounts added the same image of Riley Reid to Multiracial people as their first edit(s), all using the same text: QleverSnippums, MopaneWorms, and Hardeans (blocked December 2020). Thanks. Daniel Quinlan ( talk) 06:46, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi, re User talk:Renamed user 1oj3saabam/Archive 1 - since when did we start deleting user talk pages? DuncanHill ( talk) 23:21, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hi Maxim! I wanted to thank you personally for your contributions to the Arbitration Committee. I've observed that you played a key role during your term in responding to the steady stream of block and ban appeals that come in—making sure they are tracked and answered in an organized fashion. I know that arb work isn't always the most rewarding experience, in part because much of the work you do is behind-the-scenes and invisible to the broader community. For your diligent work in this thankless role, please accept this barnstar. Best wishes for the new year! Mz7 ( talk) 21:45, 31 December 2022 (UTC) |
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Happy New Year! |
Hello Maxim: Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary
blisters. |
The RfA for MB has gone to a bureaucrat chat. Please join in the discussion. Primefac ( talk) 15:01, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
Curtis Joseph has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke ( talk) 00:19, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
Guessing you'll see the email before this talk page message but just in case.... Barkeep49 ( talk) 01:27, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
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Din oz1 (chat?) (he/him) 15:25, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
It's ok to discuss this, but make it a public discussion, where I can defend myself. I was rather friendly in the discussion and Tony Ballioni strongly justified my block, to answer to that is only fair. Accusing me of Ethno-nationalist debates for reverting a disruptive and eventually blocked editor in a joint operation with another editor and justifying their oppose to the unblock based on that, is at least questionable. I edit for the calmness of wikipedia, and for this I get blocked...is this justice? Paradise Chronicle ( talk) 23:12, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Pppery/Bureaucrat chat and join the discussion when you have an opportunity. Maxim ( talk) 18:12, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Is there a log of every request for adminship that was closed via bureaucrat chat? Thank you. CityOf Silver 18:42, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Hey Maxim, Yunshui here unfortunately I lost access to my old account as I've forgotten my password and don't use that email anymore. I'm back and am ready to get back to editing again so please let me know if there's a way to get my account back. Yunsui ( talk) 09:48, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I'm cleaning up various syntax errors across Wikipedia that are collectively called WP:LINT, and the particular error I'm focused on, the tidy font error, I have down to 1900 errors on less than 400 pages. 38 pages you full protected, and per WP:RPPD I was wondering if you had any objection to lowing their protection to allow me to address these issues. The pages of interest are User talk:Sceptre archives 1, 3 through 16, 18 through 29, 31, 32, 35, 37 through 41, 43, 46, and 48. Do you have any objection to these pages being lowered?
If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. I have Extended Confirmed access, so that or lower is fine, and assuming this is a temporary lowering, I'd let you know when I was finished with the set.
Thanks, Zinnober9 ( talk) 18:47, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
...that you're running for ArbCom again. You have my support! :D Acalamari 21:28, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for standing to become arbitrator again! My story today is Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his, - the composer, born OTD 110 years ago, didn't want it shorter (but the publisher), - more here. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:55, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Did you know that I made {{ Benjamin Britten}}, 10 years ago on the occasion of his centenary? And have a tradition of presenting one of his works when his birthday returns, such as this latest? - Thank you for a reply to my cand question. I may discuss it after tomorrow's concert when we will sing the Mozart and listen to Pärt's urgent call for peace played by the strings, - I'm not in the mood before ;) - I mentioned Pärt for a reason, could have been Beethoven as well, in other words: I believe it's time for a fresh look, as we were told 10 years ago. - "Infobox chaos": no idea when that happened where. I met the conflict in 2012, for Samuel Barber, and then we discussed operas such as Siegfried, and we three discussing cordially (I think) were admonished by arbitration a few weeks later - no idea why, still ;) (the discussion is still on the talk, 10 years later) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:12, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
The concert was good, User Talk:Gerda Arendt#Mozart Requiem -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:59, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
Regarding your answer: the status quo is that editors are compared to armies, and I think that could be improved ;) - Many new editors have no idea of any conflict - we had years without disputes, remember? - and may be surprised that what they added thinking they improved Wikipedia is reverted citing some "PR/FAC" abbreviation they may not understand, instead of an argument. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:39, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Today: in memoriam Jerome Kohl who said ( In Freundschaft): "and I hope that they have met again in the beyond and are making joyous music together" -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:13, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for replying to my question; I didn't want to reply there as it doesn't seem overly relevant, but in regards to:
On the other hand, if the push-back happened to be related to a Committee decision, then there would be a responsibility to carefully review the original decision, at least internally. Perhaps it was communicated poorly, or perhaps it is indeed just a poor decision. Committees of the past have certainly made questionable calls, but I don't recall them provoking mass wheel and edit warring, and I like to think that it comes as much as anything from the fact that around this time each year, we as a community can chuck out half the committee, and the rest of it the year after.
My belief is that if there comes a point that ARBCOM makes such a questionable call (one example that comes to mind was the proposed source language restriction) that the community feels it cannot stand, the community will just abuse the ratification and amendment process to overturn it - I don't think it would come to any sort of edit or wheel warring because there is a clear path to correcting it through established processes. BilledMammal ( talk) 13:45, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
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Today's story is about Maria Callas, on her centenary. - Aaron Copland died OTD, and Jerome Kohl (mentioned in November) said something wise on Copland's talk, - yes, regarding a soft(er) stance towards infoboxes. - I can't follow your point that no compromise can be had because it's infobox or no infobox. The compromise offered by Brian Boulton in 2013 is a minimal box (which he called identibox), - his version is in Percy Grainger, my version in Beethoven (not by me but the community), and I wonder why that has not won more traction. Instead, opposers now came up with the idea that a link to a list of a composer's works is somehow a breach of MoS guidelines (Rossini), which sounds absurd to me. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:59, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Did you check out the history of the infobox of Callas? Compare Jessye Norman, Kathleen Ferrier and Jenny Lind. Did you check out the history of Copland? Compare Max Reger, Max Beckschäfer, Colin Mawby (from today's story), and Benjamin Britten (who died OTD). What's the difference? If what you see changes your answer to my question, feel free to change, and ping me. I would like to see a way to avoid in the future hundreds of editors commenting on Mozart RfCs, just to kind of restore the infobox he had in 2006. Happy new era ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:32, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I managed to get the pics to snow (on 28 Nov), and heard a lovely concert, after listening to a miracle of meditative dreaming on 6 December (or just click on music). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:04, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
... and today, to Paris (29 Nov) with a visit to the Palais Garnier, - to match the story of Medea Amiranashvili, - don't miss listening to her expressive voice. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:07, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
My story today is about Michael Robinson, - it's an honour to have known him. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:11, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:44, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Congratulations to your election! - I uploaded more pics, with Christmas trees and related artworks, and I have two women on the Main page (for a sad reason). Our Christmas singing (of my user's infobox music "singen, singen") was pictured! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:59, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️
Hi Maxim! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. I like how the AI extended the puzzle pieces to the gifts in this one. Best wishes with all your 'crat work! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!Cheers,{{u| Sdkb}} talk 06:46, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello Maxim, you have been elected to the arbitration committee! The results of the election are available here: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023#Results. You will likely be contacted by the existing committee for onboarding. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 01:43, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee welcomes the following new and returning arbitrators following their election by the community. The two-year terms of these arbitrators formally begin on 1 January 2024:
Upon meeting the Wikimedia Foundation's criteria for access to non-public personal data and signing the Foundation's non-public information confidentiality agreement, all incoming arbitrators will be subscribed to all Committee-managed email lists, assigned the CheckUser and Oversight permissions for use in office, and given access to the CheckUser and Oversight queues on the VRTS system.
We also thank our outgoing colleagues whose terms end on 31 December 2023:
Outgoing arbitrators are eligible to retain the CheckUser and Oversight permissions, to remain active on cases accepted before their term ended, and to remain subscribed to the functionaries' and arbitration clerks' mailing lists following their term on the committee. To that effect:
For the Arbitration Committee, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 04:24, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Happy
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Send New Year cheer by adding {{
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CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:30, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Good Afternoon,
I wish to enquire under what arbitration case the sockpuppet user WacoBell was unblocked? I can't find the arbitration case you refer to in their unblocking, and on the talk page their most recent edit was removing the fact their appeal was declined in December (Decline dif, removal dif) which hardly seems the behaviour of someone deserving of such treatment. Rambling Rambler ( talk) 17:32, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Behavioral evidence has led me to believe Heyandwhoa's claim here that he is not a sockpuppet of Kingshowman as we have said in his block message. I mostly edit Wiktionary now and came across him there. He is not blocked there, although he had had some short-term blocks on the IG account, and I think he is mostly interested in Wiktionary and not Wikipedia, but even so, he is upset and may have at first believed that the administrators of Wiktionary were responsible for his indefinite block on Wikipedia. There is nothing we can do for him there, but I said I would pass the message along because it seems to me that Heyandwhoa could hardly have less in common in with Kingshowman. Unless we know that Kingshowman is fond of cleverly adopting wildly different personalities, I hope you will consider lifting the block on the Heyandwhoa account, or at least restoring his talkpage access here so he can make his case in his own words. Best regards, — Soap — 20:17, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
![]() | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Maxim! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 02:25, 10 February 2024 (UTC) |
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...did this happen? Are you able to say anything about it? I am interested in the nature of the evidence that resulted in CheckUser use, especially evidence of email canvassing and whether that has been provided to ArbCom. Sean.hoyland ( talk) 16:35, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
So a colleague of mine sent me a link to an interesting YouTube video that graphs and groups all the articles on English Wikipedia. It looked like a hypertrophied graph that might have started out looking like the one we made for the Orangemoody sockpuppetry investigation. The person who wrote the code grouped articles into "communities" that had similar trajectories. The one that cracked me up is the "Canada and Ice Hockey" community, which at first I thought was perhaps an exaggeration of how interlinked those are. Until I thought back to our FA collaboration on Jacques Plante - a Canadian ice hockey player....
Hope you're doing well! Risker ( talk) 22:03, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi Maxim. Could I ask you do run a quick check on several accounts? The oldest one was already blocked as a sockpuppet of Krajoyn. All three accounts added the same image of Riley Reid to Multiracial people as their first edit(s), all using the same text: QleverSnippums, MopaneWorms, and Hardeans (blocked December 2020). Thanks. Daniel Quinlan ( talk) 06:46, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi, re User talk:Renamed user 1oj3saabam/Archive 1 - since when did we start deleting user talk pages? DuncanHill ( talk) 23:21, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
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