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He was blocked in the evening of yesterday. He was edit-warring regarding the infobox photo at Leon Trotsky prior to getting blocked and now I saw that some other IP address (84.32.71.105) with a single edit history made the exact same edit this morning (it's morning here) at - you guessed it - Leon Trotsky. Without writing anything in the edit summary. I suppose this one will continue with edit-warring and disruptive behavior. I wrote them to start a RfC in talk page before unilaterally changing the already-established photo. This is how it was done with Stalin's and Lenin's photos which were changed via a RfC few months ago. I wrote the same thing to 31.218.86.208 and they absolutely ignored this and I'm sure this IP will too, esp. if they're the same person, which I highly assume. GreatLeader1945 TALK 08:58, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies! I noticed your edits to the article on Luming Lu, and I understand that you made them in good faith. However, I am currently working on the article about Lu's sister, and I intentionally included the description in the infobox so that I can easily add the link later. If you take a closer look at the article, you'll see that I have already included an interlanguage link to the Chinese version of Jenny Lu. This indicates that: A, I am working on the red link, and B, it shows that the subject of the article is not non-notable. Therefore, I kindly request that you leave a message on the talk page first before making any changes to my edits next time. Thanks and cheers! Prince of Erebor( The Book of Mazarbul) 00:04, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
You may wish to revoke TPA. Cahk ( talk) 08:33, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Any idea who is behind this [1]? Meters ( talk) 08:43, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Now that M. Star Mississippi has just outed xyrself as a Tik-Toker with a "timeline" on the Administrators' Noticeboard, I can give you a source that indicates that your search of M. Binksternet will be in vain, and some more Tik-Tok dance videos for the three of you to watch and mutually support your youth cred statuses.
Since the split, EMI have issued a number of compilations of Talk Talk stuff, but there's a limit to the number of times any material can be recycled without degradation. Their latest venture is a 28-track collection of virtually every mix ever released of every single they did for the label. Asides & Besides (1998) had […] gave it rarity value. London 1986 (1999) recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, cxaptured the essence of the band's live performance and included most of their crowd-pleasers from the Colour Of Spring period plus "Such a Shame" and "It's My Life".
— Underwood, Robin (2003). "Talk Talk". In Buckley, Peter (ed.). The Rough Guide to Rock. Music Guides. Rough Guides. pp. 1050–1052. ISBN 9781858284576., p.1051
Talk Talk - Hammersmith Odeon - 08/05/1986 (As broadcast by the BBC) on YouTube
This BBC Radio 1 In Concert thing, Doktoro: Was this some sort of AM pirate radio station broadcast across international waters that you picked up on your transistor radio in Gallifrey? Neither Wikipedia nor this book have helped to explain this music-in-mono thing to me.
I'm confused by other books saying that your pirate radio programmes were recorded in Paris not in Hammersmith like you said, Doktoro.
This was still in use for Radio 1's In Concert recordings in the 1970s, and for BBC radio comedy shows right up to the mid-1990s; today it's a gym club, and where the auditorium was is now an indoor swimming pool.
— Garner, Ken (2010). The Peel Sessions: A story of teenage dreams and one man's love of new music. Random House. ISBN 9781409074830., p.26
Perhaps you, M. BInternets, and M. Mississississippi can explain all of this geographic confusion and why you, Doktoro, are trying to get music-in-mono from what is clearly and verifiably a gym club, replete with Tik-Tok dancing people. If the three of you do not, I warn, someone might nominate Paris for deletion given that that article is visibly false. There are even pictures of the gym being repaired after The Blitz, on Google Maps.
Is this swimming pool like those canals in Amsterdam that the Tijme Loords have given you fake childhood memories of? Using the same name for the author is a bit of a giveaway. The Tijme Loords should have been more inventive. Although they have gone to some great effort with this back-story of you listening to music-in-mono off pirate radio, even going so far as to invent a whole fictitious country.
Uncle G ( talk) 07:51, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
In order to convince Doktoro that xe really did listen in mono (hard to believe, I know) to pirate AM radio stations, as the false memories that they have implanted say, the Tijme Loords concocted this D'Ye Ken person to be the author of these books on John Peel and the like that Doktoro can consult to check the veracity of the memories. Dokotoro can read D'Ye Ken's books and find that yes, there were indeed music-in-mono bands named Talk Talk, Duran Duran (a name that the Tijme Loords took from Barbarella (band)), and the like.
Unfortunately, they concocted a fictional place named "Glasgow" for this person's university, and then decided that xe wouldn't use its own publishing house and invented another place named "Edinbrough" for that. In consequence of these mistakes they were required to make a significant expansion of the back-story to include the invention of an entire country for "Glasgow" and "Edinbrough" to be a part of. They populated it with a fanciful people who have funny hair and make music out of sheep's intestines, it seems.
Alas, in yet another mistake they created a conlang for these fictional people, and even taught Doktoro to moan in it. This caused yet another back-story headache that required the creation of a whole Wikipedia in that language. At this point, this is getting to Truman Show levels of deception all to make sure that Doktoro didn't cotton on to the lie of the AM pirate radio music-in-mono broadcasts. Of course since it had been, that Wikipedia looked like it had been written in a conlang, the normal English of Known Space with a moaning accent.
The Tijme Loords's quite clever explanation of that, as they finally learned not to exacerbate the problem by multiplying the falsehoods, was to say that yes it was written in a conlang by a citizen of Known Space, a cover story that you will find more on at Scots Wikipedia#Controversy.
And all because Doktoro mi estas is not allowed to know who xe really is.
Hi there. I'm starting to think that Chusada25 is a sock of Husada28. Would you mind giving it a look? Anwegmann ( talk) 04:09, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey, who's a category expert (and also an admin)? I used to go to BrownHairedGirl for questions, but... -- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:59, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi... looks like y'all have it well in hand now, but let me know if I can be helpful. I'm around more than I was for a good while (albeit less than I have been at other times). Ladyof Shalott 13:38, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Again, I didn't look deep enough into the sourcing but wanted to let you know about this as there is an obvious COI. CNMall41 ( talk) 18:30, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, Doc (and any friendly TPSes)! I and a few others have been dealing with a...persistent editor on Talk:Leo Frank, and I just wanted to get a sanity check on the merits (or lack thereof) of the issue at hand. I don't know how much this is up your alley, but figured you'd at least be passingly familiar with the historical event; can you confirm or deny my impression that it is uncontroversial that the historical consensus is that Frank was wrongfully convicted? Thanks, Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 13:20, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
Very well said. That wording should be added to the PAG. -- Valjean ( talk) ( PING me) 19:12, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey Drmies, how have you been? The RM on Bojana (river) has been open since February 23, but nobody has come to close or relist it. If time permits, can you see if there is anything wrong with how it was filed? Maybe it just happens that nobody has been interested in closing it, though I have never seen an RM stay open so long without being relisted. Ktrimi991 ( talk) 01:38, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
User DESERTSCHo0L20 just reverted an edit where I had reverted an IP sock of Hamish Ross. See this AN discussion. A quick look at this user's talk page history suggests a pattern of problematic editing. I am wondering if there might be a connection. Any thoughts? - Ad Orientem ( talk) 03:37, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
FYI, when you find an article on a academic field as bloated as that one with job titles and trivia about degree information, it is usually the work of Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Hoaeter. MrOllie ( talk) 21:31, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
I am seriously worried about the edits of 50.80.174.67. To me, it seems large scale destruction with as excuse promotion and being unsourced. No response on the talk page. Request for giving sources instead of removal of large chunks of text unsuccessful. This is going out of hand. I can agree with some of it edits, but mentioning the name of a business is not the same as advertising. The Banner talk 09:07, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for catching the paid editing from Dan1992mou, I'm kinda slapping myself for missing that. I did some digging on the PR person's Linkedin page, and they're 100% the same person. Thanks again! Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) ( Talk) 18:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if something could be done with this user? He's recently removed content with legit sources from these pages [2] & [3]. His reasoning in the edit summaries being "Living people don't have DOB". Which makes absolutely no sense. I have since then reverted them. And he's been warned several times about adding and changing content without valid reasons [4].
I'd also like to mention that this very likely another account of this one [5]. Which has been blocked in 2022 for the same reasons. Kcj5062 ( talk) 14:38, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
User:Chilmihusada is a sock of several long-banned accounts, including Husada28, I suspect. Anwegmann ( talk) 18:08, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
I appreciate you stepping in re: Jack. He has also undone a good faith redirect twice. I am not going to restore it, as I am simply not here to fight him and will just let it go to avoid any drama. However, FYI anyway. Thank you very much, MC — MaxnaCarta ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:35, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
103.25.249.243 (
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May be a
sockpuppet of
103.25.249.227, an IP that you blocked. First 3 numbers are the same and they edit the same pages in the same manner. //●
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I have a suspicion that User:Cavide96 is a sock of User:Naxsy and User:Andriyrussu. They have very similar editing habits, at times making identical edits that were previously reverted. Anwegmann ( talk) 01:37, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
On 24 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Oakwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Oakwood Cemetery contains the graves of Confederate soldiers and officers, English, Canadian, and French World War II pilots, and Hank Williams? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Oakwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Oakwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Ganesha811 ( talk) 00:02, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
Drmies, my problem is that if I stop reverting and report, as I have done many times, then his version stays while I collect the evidence and the investigation is going on. Luckily I have found admins who now know him and are fast at investigating, but still it takes some time. And, once his sock is blocked, I can revert him... but then, in a second, his version will be back 'cause another sock of his will immediately appear. And if i do it all over, stop reverting and instead report, again his version stays while the process is ongoing. Effectively, many of his edits and versions stay, while my correction gets immediately reverted. For example...after some of the latest socks were blocked, I or other users corrected the Spain article, the genetic history of Italy article, the genetic history of the Iberian Peninsula article, the Romance languages article, the Battle of Lepanto article. But he just reverted with the new socks I mentioned at Talk:Trajan. And he will do it again when blocked. And so the current verion of these articles is his. I waste much more time than him at collecting evidence and reporting, while at the end of the day he acts not constrained by rules and is able to make much more edits than me with the many socks he creates. And (the irony!) I am the one who tries to be a good-faith user, while he is the permanently blocked one. But effectively he is the one not costrained. In this sense, sad for me to say it but it is the truh, he has been right to call me a fool who cannot stop him. Also, he checks every edit I do (so let me say "Hi" to Venezia/James who is reading this too) and often intervenes to change them later on. This is how I discovered some of his socks in previous years because I was like damn, so many of my edits are destroyed for no reason after a few hours or days. Then I discovered it was always him, chasing me. I let Venezia Friulano work for a lot of time on wikipedia eve I though i knew it was James Oredan. I was wrong because he did a lot of damage. Then he even said I WAS THE ONE chasing him ( accusation in a mirror is his forte). So now I am basically on this anti-vandal crusade and now the most I do on wikipedia is to control this blocked user and I cannot do anything else. I do certain edits without logging in because I want to avoid edit wars by not revealing my identity, or I had to come at certain discussions and say "hey this is Barjimoa, but I forgot to log in". Not to to sound miserable, but to an extend I kinda am. The only consolatoon is that James/Venezia is also wasting his days, months and years like this, so we are both miserable. I don't know if there are some solutions for this? Barjimoa ( talk)
Just so you're aware of what's going on see here. Moxy🍁 00:45, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Sorry, but what do you mean by be more explicit in edit summaries? Where did I go wrong. v/r - Seawolf35 T-- C 15:08, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Morning. The IPs have been busy adding more suspected socks above. I already closed the first naming DanaMichal for insufficient evidence. Undaunted, they've now added Pfomma. In reviewing the first article they listed, Auddy Kelly, I thought that Otuọcha's edits ran contrary to Pfomma's, e.g., adding a notability tag to an article that Pfomma created, but then I got stuck on Pfomma's and another user's behavior, Jparrd, suspicious that those two are socks of each other. First, take a look at their userpages: besides comparing the similarities between the two current versions, also compare the current version of Pfomma's userpage with a previous version of Jparrd's. It's possible that Jparrd copied Pfomma's, but it is obviously the same as Pfomma's. Also, the article intersection is substantial. However, they appear to edit using different platforms and some of Jparrd's edits, I believe (I looked at them a while ago and forgot to keep the window up), are vandalism of Pfomma's creation. Before I take action at the SPI, though, I'd like to know if Jppard is a sock of Pfomma, assuming you're willing to run a check. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:34, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, an editor Villkomoses has been converting fiction narratives from present to past tense. [6] They're probably new, they've done a lot of articles over the last few days, and are charging ahead quite fast. I'm not too fussed about this sort of thing, but noticed because they're introducing other grammatical errors and often leaving loads of present tense verbs in place, so the whole thing is a bit of a mess. I initially sent them a long message via talk-page asking them to be more careful, but I realise that the whole enterprise is fundamentally against MOS:PLOT. I've asked them to stop, but I think given the error-prone editing that it would probably be best to undo the whole lot. I'm asking you as a recently-active admin as I didn't want to humiliate a good-faith new editor with an ANI request. If there's somewhere more appropriate, please do let me know. Thanks! Elemimele ( talk) 13:11, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello. Why are you deleting Presidential results for the cities of Boston and Somerville? The results shown are for the cities in said Presidential elections, they do not show the results for the state of Massachusetts. There is nothing wrong with showing the Presidential results for these cities. If there would be, we might as well delete the election results on every single US county page. ZackCarns ( talk) 14:25, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
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Re Racial views of Winston Churchill -- there is an entire section on Churchill and Jews--the material I deleted was not based on reliable secondary sources and does not fit in this section in the first place. It is based on one editor's reading a snippet from a primary source and his claim that Churchill " was promoting the antisemitic Jewish Bolshevism conspiracy theory. So I deleted it again. Rjensen
Your services have been called for. We need someone who can read Gallifreyan to get at the good sources. Do you know anyone? Uncle G ( talk) 17:43, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
I have finished enough of Consciousness of guilt (legal) to go public with it. Further development will be appreciated. -- Valjean ( talk) ( PING me) 18:39, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Is it normal that once a thread at WP:ANI is archived without action, for someone to remove it from archive and restore it? W C M email 15:14, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Drmies, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft:Mohammed Ali Tayem, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 17:35, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
As an anonymous editor, I felt attacked. FBDB— Usedtobecool ☎️ 01:54, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Drmies/admin page watchers, please semi-protect and maybe also do some sock checking? Thanks, Natureium ( talk) 01:38, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
On 8 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cornelius N. Dorsette, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1890 Cornelius N. Dorsette, often referred to as the first African-American physician in Alabama, founded Hale Infirmary, a hospital for Black patients and staff in Montgomery? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cornelius N. Dorsette. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Cornelius N. Dorsette), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru ( talk) 00:02, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
On 8 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hale Infirmary, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1890 Cornelius N. Dorsette, often referred to as the first African-American physician in Alabama, founded Hale Infirmary, a hospital for Black patients and staff in Montgomery? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cornelius N. Dorsette. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Hale Infirmary), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru ( talk) 00:02, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi, Drmies. Special:Contributions/2607:fb91:900::/40 has too much collateral to be hard blocked. Soft blocking with {{ TMOblock}}, like the previous block, is more appropriate. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 07:35, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
I can't see the CU evidence, but it does look like a truly astonishingly wide range to be hard blocked, especially without talk page access. I also know of one apparently (as far as I can see) constructive and innocent editor who appears to be caught by this block. JBW ( talk) 13:49, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
You kindly restored an edited version of the Draft:John Paul (scientist) (removing copyright violations) I worked on it further, and the original editor User:Gcwcd then requested speedy deletion, (they had not actually edited that version of the draft) I should like to carry on working on it and move it to mainspace. Theroadislong ( talk) 18:22, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Do we give out boomerangs at XRV? The OP isn't coming off in a good light. (he understated) -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 01:54, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, I think the block should be indef here as I saw the sock notice in their userpage. I guess you might have missed it because of the existing block? Jeraxmoira🐉 ( talk) 06:29, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies,
I'm not sure why you reverted the blanking of this draft by the page creator. We usually respect their wishes and see this as a signal that they would like the page deleted. Thanks for any additional information you can offer. Liz Read! Talk! 00:35, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
I think it's blindingly obvious this is a sock of Exteahans71. I've raised an SPI case. Barry Wom ( talk) 14:20, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you reverted
this edit and left a Level 2 vandalism warning template on the IP editor's
talk page. Would a {{subst:uw-spoiler}}
or {{subst:uw-delete1}}
template be more appropriate in this case? The edit summary does have quite some emotion to it, but let me know what you think. Thanks!
CpX41 (
talk)
01:15, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies,
According to Draftify, we normally don't draftify articles that are more than 3-6 months old and this article was created in 2011. Do you think there are COI issues that have lasted that long? Liz Read! Talk! 02:31, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting the removal of unnecessary detail on the
Foot fetishism article, I greatly appreciate it. I believe there is a similar amount of excess celebrity detail on the
Midriff and
Cultural views on the midriff and navel if you are interested in looking at those articles for excess detail to trim. Thank you!
GnocchiFan (
talk)
12:43, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
I think local council pages fall under WP:BRANCH and they shouldn't have stand alone articles. What do you think? Merge/re-direct to something already in place or a should new target be created? Graywalls ( talk) 21:14, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
I appreciate your action here. As someone who appreciated the user's anti-vandalism edits, I was seriously disappointed to discover their sockpuppetry. I have left them a message on their talk page explaining the standard offer to them and warning them about the consequences of block evasion, more specifically pointing them to WP:3X. Speaking from my experience patrolling recent changes alongside them, I'd really love to see them return in six months, but unfortunately, if this continues, I don't think that will be on the table.
Once again, thank you for stepping in here. JeffSpaceman ( talk) 21:13, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for handling this incredibly prolific sockfarm. It feels like whack-a-mole. It's hard for Fylindfotberserk or me to catch up with filing new SPIs. Can we give you a short unbeaurocratic heads-up in case the next one flies into our respective radars? Austronesier ( talk) 15:59, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
is how we know them.😜 -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 02:09, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, you're certainly better acquainted with philosophy than me (even though I have Russell's "History of Western Philosophy" currently on my nightstand - I shit you not, at least a year :-). Could you have a look at this article and it's recent history and tell me whether I really am wrong about this? -- Randykitty ( talk) 18:17, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Just giving you a heads-up -- Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#oscar_isaac -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 13:18, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
BSarara looks like another sock of Sambrama urs. - MrOllie ( talk) 14:54, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
You've got mail!-- Ponyo bons mots 19:01, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Yes Yamla, Daddychill--that was very exciting and I figured how this was going to end. Still they played the split identity of the sockmaster well, for a while, no? Drmies ( talk) 19:31, 25 April 2024 (UTC)he can back a car forty miles an hour into a tight squeeze and stop at the wall, jump out, race among fenders, leap into another car, circle it fifty miles an hour in a narrow space, back swiftly into tight spot, hump, snap the car with the emergency so that you see it bounce as he flies out; then clear to the ticket shack, sprinting like a track star, hand a ticket, leap into a newly arrived car before the owner’s half out, leap literally under him as he steps out, start the car with the door flapping, and roar off to the next available spot, arc, pop in, brake, out, run.
Hi Drmies. I noticed that in December last year you left a note of thanks on User talk:Alcuin regarding their addition to a particular Neil Young article. Not sure you noticed or are aware of the significant copyright violations in most of their edits—they have copied entire (often block quote) paragraphs from multiple sources on each article they've edited, which I think is a significant WP:COPYVIO issue. They have done this on what seems like most of Young's, Aerosmith's, and now the Moody Blues' album articles. I've left a note on their talk page about using quotes and the amount of them in moderation and paraphrasing, but I thought in lieu of raising this at CCI or somewhere (not sure it's at that level), if you get time you might like to go through Young's articles they've contributed to and cut down some of their quote additions. Some of the quotes appear unnecessary—while it may be interesting to fans of his work, I'm not sure we need to quote the artist on every facet of an album's production and recording. I've already done a few. Ss 112 05:40, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello. Right after blocking ORIONIS EQUINOX, a brand new user with the same pattern of ORIONIS EQUINOX is editing Draft:Kharvela's conquests and invasions, User:Tikikam, was created recently, editing the same draft with the same pattern. Imperial [AFCND] 11:31, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Hey, could you take a look at Jacob Cowing? A new editor has been changing the height and weight and basing it on NFL Combine, even though the external links, ESPN and somebody else, say differently. And we're not talking about a minor difference in height, but 3". I've been posting warnings to the editor's Talk page, as well as some advice on what to do, but you know me and sports. I realize that Cowing is no longer a college footballer, but I'd hazard that you know more about professional football than I do, which is, as I've said repeatedly, nil. (This post was not generated with AI, but with the lower intelligence of a human (reportedly) being.)-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:32, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Was in the process of deleting stuff on that article and saw the conflict message, thought to myself "here we go, some fan's restored it" but was pleasantly surprised to see someone else appearing and noticing it's a load of absolutely useless fan wiki trivia. Loved the description of "useless table porn" btw. Rambling Rambler ( talk) 14:03, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi,
You blocked トンボ酋長. Looking at the history of this draft, Wolfvillage raises red flags. Logs show they registered the account 15 February 2024 but have done absolutely nothing until now although their editing did start before your block of the other account. -- Whpq ( talk) 03:24, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for closing Talk:Apple#Requested move 22 April 2024. I've removed the RM notice from Apple but RMCD bot keeps re-adding it. Does the close need to be tweaked in some way to stop this? (The problem may relate to a previous RM rather than the recent one.) Certes ( talk) 15:59, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
You welcomed] Delphi07 as a student apparently involved in a class project. Have you been able to identify the class or the teacher? Because during WP:RCP I've noticed a spike in activity in the area of socio-economics, including Delphi07's editing of Medical debt and Distribution of wealth as well as Briannahh's editing of Environmental racism. These edits all involve large blocks of changes involving copyright violations. I'd like to contact the teacher, if possible, and have them rein in their students' editing until proper copyright respect can be instilled. WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 16:45, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
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109.242.74.60 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Does this look like meatpuppetry/sockpuppetry to you? Another IP arrives while IP109.242.73.191 is still blocked, doing edits to Georgian topics.
Does this look like block evasion to you? -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 17:01, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
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RamzyM (WMF) 23:18, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
Hey Drmies, just a heads up that I haven't forgotten your 4/30 e-mail, but it is a greater challenge to my tired brain than other things, so it's still sitting in my inbox waiting for me to rise to the challenge. Thanks for your patience.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:38, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, I have noticed UPE/suspected UPE editors citing articles published by nl.mashable.com. In the vast majority of instances, the by-line is Redactie. Some examples are this, this, this and this link to a list of recent articles by Redactie/Door Redactie. I get different Google translate results for "Redactie" such Editorial or Editorial Staff. What does it mean in this context? I also noticed looking at recent articles some are in Dutch and some in English. Is it normal for a Dutch publication to have some articles in Dutch and others in English (or a different language)? Happy Friday! S0091 ( talk) 17:51, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
I recently noticed that a disruptive IP editor operating on the 6-month blocked 2003:C0:6F00:0:0:0:0:0/42 range has been utilizing the 2003:C0:6F00:0:0:0:0:0/41 range (despite the block notice for the /42 range being visible when viewing contributions from the /41 range). As the blocking admin, I request some sort of broadening of the net, if possible. Thank you, ~ Pbritti ( talk) 03:42, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello. I am unsure whether you are the one to contact about this or of the procedure. But I am messaging because I suspect the IP user https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2601:444:300:B070:E90B:1155:46C0:DBB0 to be a sock of the user USER:SteveBenassi who was blocked for being WP:NOTHERE. I thought I might bring this to your attention because you were the one who blocked SteveBenassi last time.
The IP is now active on some of the same pages and engaged in edit warring and POV-pusging edits. Similarities include POV-pushing in favor of the minority views on Jewish genetics of Eran Elhaik and Yardumian and posting their studies on the Talk pages of a range of articles related to Jews (especially Genetic studies of Jews and Ashkenazi Jews), insistence on edit warring, ignoring revert explanations and objections to their changes, and a refusal to build WP:CONSENSUS.( [21]), as well as WP:SOAPBOX-like starements in Talk pages. The same claim/insistence that, "Elhaik is a Zionist but is not biased." was also made by both this IP and the blocked user. See here [22]and here: [23]
SteveBenassi also claimed to be from Minnesota on his user page. And this IP geolocates to same region of the north Midwestern US.
Here is the article's revision history for reference. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?title=Genetic_studies_of_Jews&action=history
Their edit warring seems to be getting worse. Any attention to this matter is appreciated. Skllagyook ( talk) 12:31, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
So, I'm back and I have this thing being written up. Any chance you'd be able get me a copy of Sandeep Ray's article about it? Or if there are any Dutch sources... — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 00:57, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
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Thank you for stopping the vandalism on the Wayne Brady page. You deserve this star for your effort. NoobThreePointOh ( talk) 00:15, 7 May 2024 (UTC) |
I saw this and thought of you. -- Ponyo bons mots 17:21, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Yeah it's depressing. Funny, I know Cohen, the ASU dean--he works in my field and has written interesting material on monsters. There are so many factors here, like the lack of state funding, the fetishistic focus on STEM (at my wife's high school, teaching STEM gets you a 20k bonus), the enduring treatment of English faculty and English departments as service people--we get to teach the hard stuff, at half the salary, and the fad of Writing across the curriculum is probably over now because it turns out that the rest of the faculty can't teach writing and can barely write themselves, so it became English professors teaching everyone else how to write in their field.
No one talks or listens to the staff or the cleaning crew, and that's what we are, teaching freshman comp and lit survey--core curriculum, for as long as it lasts, and ChatGPT isn't helping. My colleagues in history have five years to bring up their number of graduating students, an impossible task given their current number of majors, which declines every year; in five years, they'll have to merge into something else. And a decade or more ago (there's much talk of institutional support and fancy new buildings in the article)--OK, 17 years ago, when I came to this place, the plans for a new Liberal Arts building were hanging in our conference room, but the old-timers were already laughing at that: a pipe dream. Ten years ago the repainted the room and quietly took the plans down; where that building was going to be are now a set of smaller labs, not far from the brand new science building. And of course we built a state of the art rec center because that, apparently, draws students. Ah well. The article included someone who was "late-career": I wouldn't have thought I'd feel that way so quickly. Drmies ( talk) 21:38, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
FYI: /info/en/?search=User_talk:SpooderMan6920no1#May_2024 Pilaz ( talk) 17:09, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
You told BeauSuzanne ( talk · contribs) to lay off editing while logged out, but they're still at it, making drafts using unreliable sources and even voting on AfDs, which feels like they're trying to WP:GAMING. — Saqib ( talk | contribs) 15:03, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
BTW I don't think that the sourcing in Draft:Gumn is significantly worse than for comparable articles in article space. Drmies ( talk) 21:52, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello @ Drmies. I wanted to inform you that an IP [25], likely a sock of User:Sudsahab, is trying to restore the article Northern Campaign of Raghunath Rao. It's likely that this will continue and so I suggest that you indefinite protect the page. PadFoot2008 11:42, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
I don't have the energy for this user. Not all of their edits are wrong, but many are, and they apparently don't feel the need to respond to my warnings, and I'm not comfortable blocking. Communication obviously isn't their strong point, but you're more willing than I to engage (new) editors. Plus humanities is more your area than mine. I don't believe in humanity. If you don't want to do anything, I absolutely understand, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Back to our Spring weather.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:31, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
I think this revision also qualifies for REVDEL because of its edit summary. Nickps ( talk) 11:32, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
@ Drmies:. Hesistant to reach you this way but I had no option. Southasianhistorian8 has done forum shopping for another deceptive and bogus SPI case against me and reached out to RegentsPark and Abecedere WP:OTHERPARENT. He has created a bully atmosphere. I am not asking you to look at this case (would be helpful though) but can you give your input on the SPI case since you looked at it before. RangersRus ( talk) 20:33, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Southasianhistorian8, you mentioned User:The Wordsmith--they were convinced that RangersRus was not an HB sock. I just looked at the other account and found no technical evidence of malfeasance. Drmies ( talk) 22:36, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
On May 11 I blocked Casteiswrong, a new account, for 3 days for edit-warring. On May 13, another user, GoneWithThePuffery (great username), an older but not very old account, started editing the article Talk page, apparently taking up the slack. GWTP was accused by a couple of editors of socking. They deny it. Can you check to see if they're the same person? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:20, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies,
I am currently IP block exempt until 14 June. I have these rights because I live in China during holidays. I am returning on the 18th of June, and I wish to edit during my time back, so I emailed the checkuser team two weeks ago, but I have gotten no response. Is it possible for me to get an extension on my rights? Thank you very much. Daftation 🗩 🖉 18:39, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies. I've never asked an admin for help before but if you can please provide an opinion here, I would be really appreciative. I am sorry if this sounds immature or against AGF, but I just do not consider it possible to have a reasonable discussion with Jack. I used every ounce of willpower not to revert his edit because, when there is an option here, I am determined to take the highest ground possible and act in accordance with the spirit of 3RR. — MaxnaCarta ( 💬 • 📝 ) 00:04, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello. You recently blocked IP range User:2601:98A:4000:3660:0:0:0:0/64 for edit warring on carbonated milk. They have returned as User:Flaerhart, an account created three days ago who has previously inserted the same link to a school news blog. Could you please apply a block to this account as well?
Regards, XabqEfdg ( talk) 01:37, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
I suppose that you noticed and understand that and that too ? I respect your work as an admin, and I would like to sincerely thank you for that here. I apologized because you asked me to do so and, again, as I know your work as an admin and I respect it, I did so, but I think you're mistaken about that editor, they don't seem to be here to build an encyclopedia. Best.---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 17:38, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your thoughtful handling of the victim's username block. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 15:59, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
I was considering blocking ਰਾਜ ਪਾਲ as a sock, and I noticed that you just recently confirmed Gundaraaj. Obviously, you didn't uncover ਰਾਜ ਪਾਲ in your check, but I'm not sure how many ranges this farm uses. ਰਾਜ ਪਾਲ edits the same election pages (compared to a different sock) and is fairly prolific quickly as have been many previous socks. Can you check?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:01, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
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User:MaartenEdieg who joined in less than a day, created a talk page reading WenguiGuo#WashingtonFarm The Kwok scam only pits the ants Guo Wengui touted things to the sky all day long, from farms to Xi Yuan, he declared, "Xi Yuan's encryption capabilities and future payments, as well as the future exchange with the US dollar, will create history, is the only stablecoin, floating, modern crypto financial platform." The ant help to fool the head, but after dozens of broken promises....
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User:LigonJudd who joined almost the same time did the same
here, and after a welcome message
blanked the talk page as usual. To show they aren't here to build an Encyclopedia, they recreated it on same TP
here until they got a warning by Viewmont Viking
here. After the warning, they
blanked it again. This same user created a sandbox
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User:ColbyIjazvHtE who joined at same time with the rest and created this
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16:57, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi doc. Long time, no see. Hope all is well. We got this account KockMasterM. Their only two edits are reverts of my edits using false edit summaries. Looks like LTA trolling. Reported at UAA but just in case. Thanks. Dr. K. 13:41, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
What to do about it? Look in talk and edit history. They're unwilling to accept consensus, wouldn't start their own RFC, and just continue to edit war outside 3RR. Graywalls ( talk) 12:00, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
I just wanted to reach out and explain my reasoning for ARV for the user, I know I only linked that one comment, but that was actually their second comment as such (first comment linked HERE). I fully support giving them a third chance, but I did just want to make you aware that this was not their first time, and they were vandalising Nonetheless and Pet Shop Boys prior to the comments. Again I support the third chance, I did just want to make you aware of the prior trolling that went unreported. Nigel757 ( talk) 18:42, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
I noticed your welcome here, and wanted to let you know that I put together {{ welcome-arbpia}} for just such a circumstance. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 17:11, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for picking up my slack. I've been too busy to look back into this, and as seems to happen pretty much every time I extend some good faith and try to help, it didn't work. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 12:56, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, hope you're doing well. In terms of Sudsahab's unblock request, I would highly implore (I hope I'm using the word correctly?) you to take a look at this first [29]. There's much more going on than meets the eye, I'm afraid if nothing is done, the Discord group will have a monopoly over Indian-related articles. Heck, they already kinda have. HistoryofIran ( talk) 13:04, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi again Drmies. If it's not too much to ask, would you be willing to look into my ANI report of the Discord group? It has been up for almost a month. And those are not even all the users listed, they probably number up in the 100s. -- HistoryofIran ( talk) 12:41, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
A new IP (that also geolocates to the same region as the last IP sock) is making POV edits at Genetic studies of Jews. When I reverted them, they reinstated their edit with some very inflammatory and hostile language in their edit note. See: [30] Skllagyook ( talk) 23:12, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Please look at Special:Contributions/Pradeepsethi.in the AfD they started and my comment on their talk page. I find the scent of fish all over it, and would appreciate either your action or your guidance. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 19:53, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
UTRS appeal #89010 -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 06:52, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
I doubt there is a need for an SPI, but there is odd behaviour.
Each states that the other is their alternate account. Each identity tag teams the other in editing, though edits in tranches from what I have seen. I have not checked (eg) deletion discussions. I see every reason to believe that they are telling the truth, but I see no justification in WP:VALIDALT for this usage of an alternate account. I may have missed something, though 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 18:23, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
I'm sorry to keep bothering you about this. Yet another IP, also from Minnesota, has added one of the same sources previously pushed by USER:SteveBenassi to the Genetic studies of Jews page, here [31]. I reverted them but I expect them to likely edit war, possibly with uncivil responses. This user really is determined to push his pov. It's getting very brazen. I'm not sure what to do. Skllagyook ( talk) 12:32, 24 May 2024 (UTC) Unsurprisingly, they reinstated their edit, here [ [32]]. Skllagyook ( talk) 13:22, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
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I copied you on an email exchange I've been having. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 18:12, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, could you protect the Jason Momoa article? An IP hopping vandal has continued to make unsubstantiated claims regarding the actor's relationship status.- KH-1 ( talk) 02:46, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
I was going to tag this one under U5 but honestly I don't even know what to make of it. User:Alexa6ray93/sandbox TornadoLGS ( talk) 02:41, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
-- Yamla ( talk) 11:46, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
It is fine, there is no need to be sorry! I only said he may be notable, not that he was :) -- NotCharizard 🗨 13:03, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Why did you delete the draft? The only reason to delete the draft is when the page is published. We are talking about the biography of a leading actress in a high-profile multi-season TV series. Please reinstate the draft, or even better, publish the page. Marbe166 ( talk) 06:15, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
I saw that on my watchlist, and was a little surprised since I assumed several editors including myself had spent time on editing it, though I don't know who the blocked or banned users are supposed to be. I'm not saying it's at WP:N at this point. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 07:41, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
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Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear (DYK) and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old (OTD). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:12, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
29 May 1913: The Rite of Spring - today's story, actually something I saw at that place in a revival (last century). - Look at Graham's page for the real thing yesterday ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:40, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Today's story is about Samuel Kummer, one of five items on the Main page - more musing on my talk -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:56, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks in advance for your time. Should this be revdel'd? Cheers. JFHJr ( ㊟) 01:29, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
Uhm, I don't want to be spoilsport for my own (and JT's) case, but actually, the work in question is available online [34]. But don't worry, I have more evidence up my sleeve (and already shared it in private with JT) if needed. I just don't want to publically give away all the characteristics that they will subsequently avoid when they read their own SPI case history. Austronesier ( talk) 10:55, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
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He was blocked in the evening of yesterday. He was edit-warring regarding the infobox photo at Leon Trotsky prior to getting blocked and now I saw that some other IP address (84.32.71.105) with a single edit history made the exact same edit this morning (it's morning here) at - you guessed it - Leon Trotsky. Without writing anything in the edit summary. I suppose this one will continue with edit-warring and disruptive behavior. I wrote them to start a RfC in talk page before unilaterally changing the already-established photo. This is how it was done with Stalin's and Lenin's photos which were changed via a RfC few months ago. I wrote the same thing to 31.218.86.208 and they absolutely ignored this and I'm sure this IP will too, esp. if they're the same person, which I highly assume. GreatLeader1945 TALK 08:58, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies! I noticed your edits to the article on Luming Lu, and I understand that you made them in good faith. However, I am currently working on the article about Lu's sister, and I intentionally included the description in the infobox so that I can easily add the link later. If you take a closer look at the article, you'll see that I have already included an interlanguage link to the Chinese version of Jenny Lu. This indicates that: A, I am working on the red link, and B, it shows that the subject of the article is not non-notable. Therefore, I kindly request that you leave a message on the talk page first before making any changes to my edits next time. Thanks and cheers! Prince of Erebor( The Book of Mazarbul) 00:04, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
You may wish to revoke TPA. Cahk ( talk) 08:33, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Any idea who is behind this [1]? Meters ( talk) 08:43, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Now that M. Star Mississippi has just outed xyrself as a Tik-Toker with a "timeline" on the Administrators' Noticeboard, I can give you a source that indicates that your search of M. Binksternet will be in vain, and some more Tik-Tok dance videos for the three of you to watch and mutually support your youth cred statuses.
Since the split, EMI have issued a number of compilations of Talk Talk stuff, but there's a limit to the number of times any material can be recycled without degradation. Their latest venture is a 28-track collection of virtually every mix ever released of every single they did for the label. Asides & Besides (1998) had […] gave it rarity value. London 1986 (1999) recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, cxaptured the essence of the band's live performance and included most of their crowd-pleasers from the Colour Of Spring period plus "Such a Shame" and "It's My Life".
— Underwood, Robin (2003). "Talk Talk". In Buckley, Peter (ed.). The Rough Guide to Rock. Music Guides. Rough Guides. pp. 1050–1052. ISBN 9781858284576., p.1051
Talk Talk - Hammersmith Odeon - 08/05/1986 (As broadcast by the BBC) on YouTube
This BBC Radio 1 In Concert thing, Doktoro: Was this some sort of AM pirate radio station broadcast across international waters that you picked up on your transistor radio in Gallifrey? Neither Wikipedia nor this book have helped to explain this music-in-mono thing to me.
I'm confused by other books saying that your pirate radio programmes were recorded in Paris not in Hammersmith like you said, Doktoro.
This was still in use for Radio 1's In Concert recordings in the 1970s, and for BBC radio comedy shows right up to the mid-1990s; today it's a gym club, and where the auditorium was is now an indoor swimming pool.
— Garner, Ken (2010). The Peel Sessions: A story of teenage dreams and one man's love of new music. Random House. ISBN 9781409074830., p.26
Perhaps you, M. BInternets, and M. Mississississippi can explain all of this geographic confusion and why you, Doktoro, are trying to get music-in-mono from what is clearly and verifiably a gym club, replete with Tik-Tok dancing people. If the three of you do not, I warn, someone might nominate Paris for deletion given that that article is visibly false. There are even pictures of the gym being repaired after The Blitz, on Google Maps.
Is this swimming pool like those canals in Amsterdam that the Tijme Loords have given you fake childhood memories of? Using the same name for the author is a bit of a giveaway. The Tijme Loords should have been more inventive. Although they have gone to some great effort with this back-story of you listening to music-in-mono off pirate radio, even going so far as to invent a whole fictitious country.
Uncle G ( talk) 07:51, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
In order to convince Doktoro that xe really did listen in mono (hard to believe, I know) to pirate AM radio stations, as the false memories that they have implanted say, the Tijme Loords concocted this D'Ye Ken person to be the author of these books on John Peel and the like that Doktoro can consult to check the veracity of the memories. Dokotoro can read D'Ye Ken's books and find that yes, there were indeed music-in-mono bands named Talk Talk, Duran Duran (a name that the Tijme Loords took from Barbarella (band)), and the like.
Unfortunately, they concocted a fictional place named "Glasgow" for this person's university, and then decided that xe wouldn't use its own publishing house and invented another place named "Edinbrough" for that. In consequence of these mistakes they were required to make a significant expansion of the back-story to include the invention of an entire country for "Glasgow" and "Edinbrough" to be a part of. They populated it with a fanciful people who have funny hair and make music out of sheep's intestines, it seems.
Alas, in yet another mistake they created a conlang for these fictional people, and even taught Doktoro to moan in it. This caused yet another back-story headache that required the creation of a whole Wikipedia in that language. At this point, this is getting to Truman Show levels of deception all to make sure that Doktoro didn't cotton on to the lie of the AM pirate radio music-in-mono broadcasts. Of course since it had been, that Wikipedia looked like it had been written in a conlang, the normal English of Known Space with a moaning accent.
The Tijme Loords's quite clever explanation of that, as they finally learned not to exacerbate the problem by multiplying the falsehoods, was to say that yes it was written in a conlang by a citizen of Known Space, a cover story that you will find more on at Scots Wikipedia#Controversy.
And all because Doktoro mi estas is not allowed to know who xe really is.
Hi there. I'm starting to think that Chusada25 is a sock of Husada28. Would you mind giving it a look? Anwegmann ( talk) 04:09, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey, who's a category expert (and also an admin)? I used to go to BrownHairedGirl for questions, but... -- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:59, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi... looks like y'all have it well in hand now, but let me know if I can be helpful. I'm around more than I was for a good while (albeit less than I have been at other times). Ladyof Shalott 13:38, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Again, I didn't look deep enough into the sourcing but wanted to let you know about this as there is an obvious COI. CNMall41 ( talk) 18:30, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, Doc (and any friendly TPSes)! I and a few others have been dealing with a...persistent editor on Talk:Leo Frank, and I just wanted to get a sanity check on the merits (or lack thereof) of the issue at hand. I don't know how much this is up your alley, but figured you'd at least be passingly familiar with the historical event; can you confirm or deny my impression that it is uncontroversial that the historical consensus is that Frank was wrongfully convicted? Thanks, Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 13:20, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
Very well said. That wording should be added to the PAG. -- Valjean ( talk) ( PING me) 19:12, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey Drmies, how have you been? The RM on Bojana (river) has been open since February 23, but nobody has come to close or relist it. If time permits, can you see if there is anything wrong with how it was filed? Maybe it just happens that nobody has been interested in closing it, though I have never seen an RM stay open so long without being relisted. Ktrimi991 ( talk) 01:38, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
User DESERTSCHo0L20 just reverted an edit where I had reverted an IP sock of Hamish Ross. See this AN discussion. A quick look at this user's talk page history suggests a pattern of problematic editing. I am wondering if there might be a connection. Any thoughts? - Ad Orientem ( talk) 03:37, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
FYI, when you find an article on a academic field as bloated as that one with job titles and trivia about degree information, it is usually the work of Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Hoaeter. MrOllie ( talk) 21:31, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
I am seriously worried about the edits of 50.80.174.67. To me, it seems large scale destruction with as excuse promotion and being unsourced. No response on the talk page. Request for giving sources instead of removal of large chunks of text unsuccessful. This is going out of hand. I can agree with some of it edits, but mentioning the name of a business is not the same as advertising. The Banner talk 09:07, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for catching the paid editing from Dan1992mou, I'm kinda slapping myself for missing that. I did some digging on the PR person's Linkedin page, and they're 100% the same person. Thanks again! Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) ( Talk) 18:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if something could be done with this user? He's recently removed content with legit sources from these pages [2] & [3]. His reasoning in the edit summaries being "Living people don't have DOB". Which makes absolutely no sense. I have since then reverted them. And he's been warned several times about adding and changing content without valid reasons [4].
I'd also like to mention that this very likely another account of this one [5]. Which has been blocked in 2022 for the same reasons. Kcj5062 ( talk) 14:38, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
User:Chilmihusada is a sock of several long-banned accounts, including Husada28, I suspect. Anwegmann ( talk) 18:08, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
I appreciate you stepping in re: Jack. He has also undone a good faith redirect twice. I am not going to restore it, as I am simply not here to fight him and will just let it go to avoid any drama. However, FYI anyway. Thank you very much, MC — MaxnaCarta ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:35, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
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I have a suspicion that User:Cavide96 is a sock of User:Naxsy and User:Andriyrussu. They have very similar editing habits, at times making identical edits that were previously reverted. Anwegmann ( talk) 01:37, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
On 24 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Oakwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Oakwood Cemetery contains the graves of Confederate soldiers and officers, English, Canadian, and French World War II pilots, and Hank Williams? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Oakwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Oakwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Ganesha811 ( talk) 00:02, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
Drmies, my problem is that if I stop reverting and report, as I have done many times, then his version stays while I collect the evidence and the investigation is going on. Luckily I have found admins who now know him and are fast at investigating, but still it takes some time. And, once his sock is blocked, I can revert him... but then, in a second, his version will be back 'cause another sock of his will immediately appear. And if i do it all over, stop reverting and instead report, again his version stays while the process is ongoing. Effectively, many of his edits and versions stay, while my correction gets immediately reverted. For example...after some of the latest socks were blocked, I or other users corrected the Spain article, the genetic history of Italy article, the genetic history of the Iberian Peninsula article, the Romance languages article, the Battle of Lepanto article. But he just reverted with the new socks I mentioned at Talk:Trajan. And he will do it again when blocked. And so the current verion of these articles is his. I waste much more time than him at collecting evidence and reporting, while at the end of the day he acts not constrained by rules and is able to make much more edits than me with the many socks he creates. And (the irony!) I am the one who tries to be a good-faith user, while he is the permanently blocked one. But effectively he is the one not costrained. In this sense, sad for me to say it but it is the truh, he has been right to call me a fool who cannot stop him. Also, he checks every edit I do (so let me say "Hi" to Venezia/James who is reading this too) and often intervenes to change them later on. This is how I discovered some of his socks in previous years because I was like damn, so many of my edits are destroyed for no reason after a few hours or days. Then I discovered it was always him, chasing me. I let Venezia Friulano work for a lot of time on wikipedia eve I though i knew it was James Oredan. I was wrong because he did a lot of damage. Then he even said I WAS THE ONE chasing him ( accusation in a mirror is his forte). So now I am basically on this anti-vandal crusade and now the most I do on wikipedia is to control this blocked user and I cannot do anything else. I do certain edits without logging in because I want to avoid edit wars by not revealing my identity, or I had to come at certain discussions and say "hey this is Barjimoa, but I forgot to log in". Not to to sound miserable, but to an extend I kinda am. The only consolatoon is that James/Venezia is also wasting his days, months and years like this, so we are both miserable. I don't know if there are some solutions for this? Barjimoa ( talk)
Just so you're aware of what's going on see here. Moxy🍁 00:45, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Sorry, but what do you mean by be more explicit in edit summaries? Where did I go wrong. v/r - Seawolf35 T-- C 15:08, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Morning. The IPs have been busy adding more suspected socks above. I already closed the first naming DanaMichal for insufficient evidence. Undaunted, they've now added Pfomma. In reviewing the first article they listed, Auddy Kelly, I thought that Otuọcha's edits ran contrary to Pfomma's, e.g., adding a notability tag to an article that Pfomma created, but then I got stuck on Pfomma's and another user's behavior, Jparrd, suspicious that those two are socks of each other. First, take a look at their userpages: besides comparing the similarities between the two current versions, also compare the current version of Pfomma's userpage with a previous version of Jparrd's. It's possible that Jparrd copied Pfomma's, but it is obviously the same as Pfomma's. Also, the article intersection is substantial. However, they appear to edit using different platforms and some of Jparrd's edits, I believe (I looked at them a while ago and forgot to keep the window up), are vandalism of Pfomma's creation. Before I take action at the SPI, though, I'd like to know if Jppard is a sock of Pfomma, assuming you're willing to run a check. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:34, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, an editor Villkomoses has been converting fiction narratives from present to past tense. [6] They're probably new, they've done a lot of articles over the last few days, and are charging ahead quite fast. I'm not too fussed about this sort of thing, but noticed because they're introducing other grammatical errors and often leaving loads of present tense verbs in place, so the whole thing is a bit of a mess. I initially sent them a long message via talk-page asking them to be more careful, but I realise that the whole enterprise is fundamentally against MOS:PLOT. I've asked them to stop, but I think given the error-prone editing that it would probably be best to undo the whole lot. I'm asking you as a recently-active admin as I didn't want to humiliate a good-faith new editor with an ANI request. If there's somewhere more appropriate, please do let me know. Thanks! Elemimele ( talk) 13:11, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello. Why are you deleting Presidential results for the cities of Boston and Somerville? The results shown are for the cities in said Presidential elections, they do not show the results for the state of Massachusetts. There is nothing wrong with showing the Presidential results for these cities. If there would be, we might as well delete the election results on every single US county page. ZackCarns ( talk) 14:25, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
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Re Racial views of Winston Churchill -- there is an entire section on Churchill and Jews--the material I deleted was not based on reliable secondary sources and does not fit in this section in the first place. It is based on one editor's reading a snippet from a primary source and his claim that Churchill " was promoting the antisemitic Jewish Bolshevism conspiracy theory. So I deleted it again. Rjensen
Your services have been called for. We need someone who can read Gallifreyan to get at the good sources. Do you know anyone? Uncle G ( talk) 17:43, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
I have finished enough of Consciousness of guilt (legal) to go public with it. Further development will be appreciated. -- Valjean ( talk) ( PING me) 18:39, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Is it normal that once a thread at WP:ANI is archived without action, for someone to remove it from archive and restore it? W C M email 15:14, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Drmies, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft:Mohammed Ali Tayem, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 17:35, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
As an anonymous editor, I felt attacked. FBDB— Usedtobecool ☎️ 01:54, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Drmies/admin page watchers, please semi-protect and maybe also do some sock checking? Thanks, Natureium ( talk) 01:38, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
On 8 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cornelius N. Dorsette, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1890 Cornelius N. Dorsette, often referred to as the first African-American physician in Alabama, founded Hale Infirmary, a hospital for Black patients and staff in Montgomery? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cornelius N. Dorsette. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Cornelius N. Dorsette), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru ( talk) 00:02, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
On 8 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hale Infirmary, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1890 Cornelius N. Dorsette, often referred to as the first African-American physician in Alabama, founded Hale Infirmary, a hospital for Black patients and staff in Montgomery? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cornelius N. Dorsette. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Hale Infirmary), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru ( talk) 00:02, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi, Drmies. Special:Contributions/2607:fb91:900::/40 has too much collateral to be hard blocked. Soft blocking with {{ TMOblock}}, like the previous block, is more appropriate. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 07:35, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
I can't see the CU evidence, but it does look like a truly astonishingly wide range to be hard blocked, especially without talk page access. I also know of one apparently (as far as I can see) constructive and innocent editor who appears to be caught by this block. JBW ( talk) 13:49, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
You kindly restored an edited version of the Draft:John Paul (scientist) (removing copyright violations) I worked on it further, and the original editor User:Gcwcd then requested speedy deletion, (they had not actually edited that version of the draft) I should like to carry on working on it and move it to mainspace. Theroadislong ( talk) 18:22, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Do we give out boomerangs at XRV? The OP isn't coming off in a good light. (he understated) -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 01:54, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, I think the block should be indef here as I saw the sock notice in their userpage. I guess you might have missed it because of the existing block? Jeraxmoira🐉 ( talk) 06:29, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies,
I'm not sure why you reverted the blanking of this draft by the page creator. We usually respect their wishes and see this as a signal that they would like the page deleted. Thanks for any additional information you can offer. Liz Read! Talk! 00:35, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
I think it's blindingly obvious this is a sock of Exteahans71. I've raised an SPI case. Barry Wom ( talk) 14:20, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you reverted
this edit and left a Level 2 vandalism warning template on the IP editor's
talk page. Would a {{subst:uw-spoiler}}
or {{subst:uw-delete1}}
template be more appropriate in this case? The edit summary does have quite some emotion to it, but let me know what you think. Thanks!
CpX41 (
talk)
01:15, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies,
According to Draftify, we normally don't draftify articles that are more than 3-6 months old and this article was created in 2011. Do you think there are COI issues that have lasted that long? Liz Read! Talk! 02:31, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting the removal of unnecessary detail on the
Foot fetishism article, I greatly appreciate it. I believe there is a similar amount of excess celebrity detail on the
Midriff and
Cultural views on the midriff and navel if you are interested in looking at those articles for excess detail to trim. Thank you!
GnocchiFan (
talk)
12:43, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
I think local council pages fall under WP:BRANCH and they shouldn't have stand alone articles. What do you think? Merge/re-direct to something already in place or a should new target be created? Graywalls ( talk) 21:14, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
I appreciate your action here. As someone who appreciated the user's anti-vandalism edits, I was seriously disappointed to discover their sockpuppetry. I have left them a message on their talk page explaining the standard offer to them and warning them about the consequences of block evasion, more specifically pointing them to WP:3X. Speaking from my experience patrolling recent changes alongside them, I'd really love to see them return in six months, but unfortunately, if this continues, I don't think that will be on the table.
Once again, thank you for stepping in here. JeffSpaceman ( talk) 21:13, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for handling this incredibly prolific sockfarm. It feels like whack-a-mole. It's hard for Fylindfotberserk or me to catch up with filing new SPIs. Can we give you a short unbeaurocratic heads-up in case the next one flies into our respective radars? Austronesier ( talk) 15:59, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
is how we know them.😜 -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 02:09, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, you're certainly better acquainted with philosophy than me (even though I have Russell's "History of Western Philosophy" currently on my nightstand - I shit you not, at least a year :-). Could you have a look at this article and it's recent history and tell me whether I really am wrong about this? -- Randykitty ( talk) 18:17, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Just giving you a heads-up -- Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#oscar_isaac -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 13:18, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
BSarara looks like another sock of Sambrama urs. - MrOllie ( talk) 14:54, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
You've got mail!-- Ponyo bons mots 19:01, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Yes Yamla, Daddychill--that was very exciting and I figured how this was going to end. Still they played the split identity of the sockmaster well, for a while, no? Drmies ( talk) 19:31, 25 April 2024 (UTC)he can back a car forty miles an hour into a tight squeeze and stop at the wall, jump out, race among fenders, leap into another car, circle it fifty miles an hour in a narrow space, back swiftly into tight spot, hump, snap the car with the emergency so that you see it bounce as he flies out; then clear to the ticket shack, sprinting like a track star, hand a ticket, leap into a newly arrived car before the owner’s half out, leap literally under him as he steps out, start the car with the door flapping, and roar off to the next available spot, arc, pop in, brake, out, run.
Hi Drmies. I noticed that in December last year you left a note of thanks on User talk:Alcuin regarding their addition to a particular Neil Young article. Not sure you noticed or are aware of the significant copyright violations in most of their edits—they have copied entire (often block quote) paragraphs from multiple sources on each article they've edited, which I think is a significant WP:COPYVIO issue. They have done this on what seems like most of Young's, Aerosmith's, and now the Moody Blues' album articles. I've left a note on their talk page about using quotes and the amount of them in moderation and paraphrasing, but I thought in lieu of raising this at CCI or somewhere (not sure it's at that level), if you get time you might like to go through Young's articles they've contributed to and cut down some of their quote additions. Some of the quotes appear unnecessary—while it may be interesting to fans of his work, I'm not sure we need to quote the artist on every facet of an album's production and recording. I've already done a few. Ss 112 05:40, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello. Right after blocking ORIONIS EQUINOX, a brand new user with the same pattern of ORIONIS EQUINOX is editing Draft:Kharvela's conquests and invasions, User:Tikikam, was created recently, editing the same draft with the same pattern. Imperial [AFCND] 11:31, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Hey, could you take a look at Jacob Cowing? A new editor has been changing the height and weight and basing it on NFL Combine, even though the external links, ESPN and somebody else, say differently. And we're not talking about a minor difference in height, but 3". I've been posting warnings to the editor's Talk page, as well as some advice on what to do, but you know me and sports. I realize that Cowing is no longer a college footballer, but I'd hazard that you know more about professional football than I do, which is, as I've said repeatedly, nil. (This post was not generated with AI, but with the lower intelligence of a human (reportedly) being.)-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:32, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Was in the process of deleting stuff on that article and saw the conflict message, thought to myself "here we go, some fan's restored it" but was pleasantly surprised to see someone else appearing and noticing it's a load of absolutely useless fan wiki trivia. Loved the description of "useless table porn" btw. Rambling Rambler ( talk) 14:03, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi,
You blocked トンボ酋長. Looking at the history of this draft, Wolfvillage raises red flags. Logs show they registered the account 15 February 2024 but have done absolutely nothing until now although their editing did start before your block of the other account. -- Whpq ( talk) 03:24, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for closing Talk:Apple#Requested move 22 April 2024. I've removed the RM notice from Apple but RMCD bot keeps re-adding it. Does the close need to be tweaked in some way to stop this? (The problem may relate to a previous RM rather than the recent one.) Certes ( talk) 15:59, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
You welcomed] Delphi07 as a student apparently involved in a class project. Have you been able to identify the class or the teacher? Because during WP:RCP I've noticed a spike in activity in the area of socio-economics, including Delphi07's editing of Medical debt and Distribution of wealth as well as Briannahh's editing of Environmental racism. These edits all involve large blocks of changes involving copyright violations. I'd like to contact the teacher, if possible, and have them rein in their students' editing until proper copyright respect can be instilled. WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 16:45, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
109.242.74.60 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Does this look like meatpuppetry/sockpuppetry to you? Another IP arrives while IP109.242.73.191 is still blocked, doing edits to Georgian topics.
Does this look like block evasion to you? -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 17:01, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
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Hey Drmies, just a heads up that I haven't forgotten your 4/30 e-mail, but it is a greater challenge to my tired brain than other things, so it's still sitting in my inbox waiting for me to rise to the challenge. Thanks for your patience.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:38, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, I have noticed UPE/suspected UPE editors citing articles published by nl.mashable.com. In the vast majority of instances, the by-line is Redactie. Some examples are this, this, this and this link to a list of recent articles by Redactie/Door Redactie. I get different Google translate results for "Redactie" such Editorial or Editorial Staff. What does it mean in this context? I also noticed looking at recent articles some are in Dutch and some in English. Is it normal for a Dutch publication to have some articles in Dutch and others in English (or a different language)? Happy Friday! S0091 ( talk) 17:51, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
I recently noticed that a disruptive IP editor operating on the 6-month blocked 2003:C0:6F00:0:0:0:0:0/42 range has been utilizing the 2003:C0:6F00:0:0:0:0:0/41 range (despite the block notice for the /42 range being visible when viewing contributions from the /41 range). As the blocking admin, I request some sort of broadening of the net, if possible. Thank you, ~ Pbritti ( talk) 03:42, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello. I am unsure whether you are the one to contact about this or of the procedure. But I am messaging because I suspect the IP user https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2601:444:300:B070:E90B:1155:46C0:DBB0 to be a sock of the user USER:SteveBenassi who was blocked for being WP:NOTHERE. I thought I might bring this to your attention because you were the one who blocked SteveBenassi last time.
The IP is now active on some of the same pages and engaged in edit warring and POV-pusging edits. Similarities include POV-pushing in favor of the minority views on Jewish genetics of Eran Elhaik and Yardumian and posting their studies on the Talk pages of a range of articles related to Jews (especially Genetic studies of Jews and Ashkenazi Jews), insistence on edit warring, ignoring revert explanations and objections to their changes, and a refusal to build WP:CONSENSUS.( [21]), as well as WP:SOAPBOX-like starements in Talk pages. The same claim/insistence that, "Elhaik is a Zionist but is not biased." was also made by both this IP and the blocked user. See here [22]and here: [23]
SteveBenassi also claimed to be from Minnesota on his user page. And this IP geolocates to same region of the north Midwestern US.
Here is the article's revision history for reference. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?title=Genetic_studies_of_Jews&action=history
Their edit warring seems to be getting worse. Any attention to this matter is appreciated. Skllagyook ( talk) 12:31, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
So, I'm back and I have this thing being written up. Any chance you'd be able get me a copy of Sandeep Ray's article about it? Or if there are any Dutch sources... — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 00:57, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
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The Admin's Barnstar |
Thank you for stopping the vandalism on the Wayne Brady page. You deserve this star for your effort. NoobThreePointOh ( talk) 00:15, 7 May 2024 (UTC) |
I saw this and thought of you. -- Ponyo bons mots 17:21, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Yeah it's depressing. Funny, I know Cohen, the ASU dean--he works in my field and has written interesting material on monsters. There are so many factors here, like the lack of state funding, the fetishistic focus on STEM (at my wife's high school, teaching STEM gets you a 20k bonus), the enduring treatment of English faculty and English departments as service people--we get to teach the hard stuff, at half the salary, and the fad of Writing across the curriculum is probably over now because it turns out that the rest of the faculty can't teach writing and can barely write themselves, so it became English professors teaching everyone else how to write in their field.
No one talks or listens to the staff or the cleaning crew, and that's what we are, teaching freshman comp and lit survey--core curriculum, for as long as it lasts, and ChatGPT isn't helping. My colleagues in history have five years to bring up their number of graduating students, an impossible task given their current number of majors, which declines every year; in five years, they'll have to merge into something else. And a decade or more ago (there's much talk of institutional support and fancy new buildings in the article)--OK, 17 years ago, when I came to this place, the plans for a new Liberal Arts building were hanging in our conference room, but the old-timers were already laughing at that: a pipe dream. Ten years ago the repainted the room and quietly took the plans down; where that building was going to be are now a set of smaller labs, not far from the brand new science building. And of course we built a state of the art rec center because that, apparently, draws students. Ah well. The article included someone who was "late-career": I wouldn't have thought I'd feel that way so quickly. Drmies ( talk) 21:38, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
FYI: /info/en/?search=User_talk:SpooderMan6920no1#May_2024 Pilaz ( talk) 17:09, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
You told BeauSuzanne ( talk · contribs) to lay off editing while logged out, but they're still at it, making drafts using unreliable sources and even voting on AfDs, which feels like they're trying to WP:GAMING. — Saqib ( talk | contribs) 15:03, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
BTW I don't think that the sourcing in Draft:Gumn is significantly worse than for comparable articles in article space. Drmies ( talk) 21:52, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello @ Drmies. I wanted to inform you that an IP [25], likely a sock of User:Sudsahab, is trying to restore the article Northern Campaign of Raghunath Rao. It's likely that this will continue and so I suggest that you indefinite protect the page. PadFoot2008 11:42, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
I don't have the energy for this user. Not all of their edits are wrong, but many are, and they apparently don't feel the need to respond to my warnings, and I'm not comfortable blocking. Communication obviously isn't their strong point, but you're more willing than I to engage (new) editors. Plus humanities is more your area than mine. I don't believe in humanity. If you don't want to do anything, I absolutely understand, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Back to our Spring weather.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:31, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
I think this revision also qualifies for REVDEL because of its edit summary. Nickps ( talk) 11:32, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
@ Drmies:. Hesistant to reach you this way but I had no option. Southasianhistorian8 has done forum shopping for another deceptive and bogus SPI case against me and reached out to RegentsPark and Abecedere WP:OTHERPARENT. He has created a bully atmosphere. I am not asking you to look at this case (would be helpful though) but can you give your input on the SPI case since you looked at it before. RangersRus ( talk) 20:33, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Southasianhistorian8, you mentioned User:The Wordsmith--they were convinced that RangersRus was not an HB sock. I just looked at the other account and found no technical evidence of malfeasance. Drmies ( talk) 22:36, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
On May 11 I blocked Casteiswrong, a new account, for 3 days for edit-warring. On May 13, another user, GoneWithThePuffery (great username), an older but not very old account, started editing the article Talk page, apparently taking up the slack. GWTP was accused by a couple of editors of socking. They deny it. Can you check to see if they're the same person? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:20, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies,
I am currently IP block exempt until 14 June. I have these rights because I live in China during holidays. I am returning on the 18th of June, and I wish to edit during my time back, so I emailed the checkuser team two weeks ago, but I have gotten no response. Is it possible for me to get an extension on my rights? Thank you very much. Daftation 🗩 🖉 18:39, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies. I've never asked an admin for help before but if you can please provide an opinion here, I would be really appreciative. I am sorry if this sounds immature or against AGF, but I just do not consider it possible to have a reasonable discussion with Jack. I used every ounce of willpower not to revert his edit because, when there is an option here, I am determined to take the highest ground possible and act in accordance with the spirit of 3RR. — MaxnaCarta ( 💬 • 📝 ) 00:04, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello. You recently blocked IP range User:2601:98A:4000:3660:0:0:0:0/64 for edit warring on carbonated milk. They have returned as User:Flaerhart, an account created three days ago who has previously inserted the same link to a school news blog. Could you please apply a block to this account as well?
Regards, XabqEfdg ( talk) 01:37, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
I suppose that you noticed and understand that and that too ? I respect your work as an admin, and I would like to sincerely thank you for that here. I apologized because you asked me to do so and, again, as I know your work as an admin and I respect it, I did so, but I think you're mistaken about that editor, they don't seem to be here to build an encyclopedia. Best.---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 17:38, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your thoughtful handling of the victim's username block. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 15:59, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
I was considering blocking ਰਾਜ ਪਾਲ as a sock, and I noticed that you just recently confirmed Gundaraaj. Obviously, you didn't uncover ਰਾਜ ਪਾਲ in your check, but I'm not sure how many ranges this farm uses. ਰਾਜ ਪਾਲ edits the same election pages (compared to a different sock) and is fairly prolific quickly as have been many previous socks. Can you check?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:01, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
1.
User:MaartenEdieg who joined in less than a day, created a talk page reading WenguiGuo#WashingtonFarm The Kwok scam only pits the ants Guo Wengui touted things to the sky all day long, from farms to Xi Yuan, he declared, "Xi Yuan's encryption capabilities and future payments, as well as the future exchange with the US dollar, will create history, is the only stablecoin, floating, modern crypto financial platform." The ant help to fool the head, but after dozens of broken promises....
These are the diffs
[28] and was blanked
here.
2.
User:LigonJudd who joined almost the same time did the same
here, and after a welcome message
blanked the talk page as usual. To show they aren't here to build an Encyclopedia, they recreated it on same TP
here until they got a warning by Viewmont Viking
here. After the warning, they
blanked it again. This same user created a sandbox
here of same content.
3. There comes
User:ColbyIjazvHtE who joined at same time with the rest and created this
sandbox with the same content.
Safari Scribe
Edits!
Talk!
16:57, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi doc. Long time, no see. Hope all is well. We got this account KockMasterM. Their only two edits are reverts of my edits using false edit summaries. Looks like LTA trolling. Reported at UAA but just in case. Thanks. Dr. K. 13:41, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
What to do about it? Look in talk and edit history. They're unwilling to accept consensus, wouldn't start their own RFC, and just continue to edit war outside 3RR. Graywalls ( talk) 12:00, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
I just wanted to reach out and explain my reasoning for ARV for the user, I know I only linked that one comment, but that was actually their second comment as such (first comment linked HERE). I fully support giving them a third chance, but I did just want to make you aware that this was not their first time, and they were vandalising Nonetheless and Pet Shop Boys prior to the comments. Again I support the third chance, I did just want to make you aware of the prior trolling that went unreported. Nigel757 ( talk) 18:42, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
I noticed your welcome here, and wanted to let you know that I put together {{ welcome-arbpia}} for just such a circumstance. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 17:11, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for picking up my slack. I've been too busy to look back into this, and as seems to happen pretty much every time I extend some good faith and try to help, it didn't work. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 12:56, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, hope you're doing well. In terms of Sudsahab's unblock request, I would highly implore (I hope I'm using the word correctly?) you to take a look at this first [29]. There's much more going on than meets the eye, I'm afraid if nothing is done, the Discord group will have a monopoly over Indian-related articles. Heck, they already kinda have. HistoryofIran ( talk) 13:04, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi again Drmies. If it's not too much to ask, would you be willing to look into my ANI report of the Discord group? It has been up for almost a month. And those are not even all the users listed, they probably number up in the 100s. -- HistoryofIran ( talk) 12:41, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
A new IP (that also geolocates to the same region as the last IP sock) is making POV edits at Genetic studies of Jews. When I reverted them, they reinstated their edit with some very inflammatory and hostile language in their edit note. See: [30] Skllagyook ( talk) 23:12, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Please look at Special:Contributions/Pradeepsethi.in the AfD they started and my comment on their talk page. I find the scent of fish all over it, and would appreciate either your action or your guidance. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 19:53, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
UTRS appeal #89010 -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 06:52, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
I doubt there is a need for an SPI, but there is odd behaviour.
Each states that the other is their alternate account. Each identity tag teams the other in editing, though edits in tranches from what I have seen. I have not checked (eg) deletion discussions. I see every reason to believe that they are telling the truth, but I see no justification in WP:VALIDALT for this usage of an alternate account. I may have missed something, though 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 18:23, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
I'm sorry to keep bothering you about this. Yet another IP, also from Minnesota, has added one of the same sources previously pushed by USER:SteveBenassi to the Genetic studies of Jews page, here [31]. I reverted them but I expect them to likely edit war, possibly with uncivil responses. This user really is determined to push his pov. It's getting very brazen. I'm not sure what to do. Skllagyook ( talk) 12:32, 24 May 2024 (UTC) Unsurprisingly, they reinstated their edit, here [ [32]]. Skllagyook ( talk) 13:22, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
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I copied you on an email exchange I've been having. - Ad Orientem ( talk) 18:12, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, could you protect the Jason Momoa article? An IP hopping vandal has continued to make unsubstantiated claims regarding the actor's relationship status.- KH-1 ( talk) 02:46, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
I was going to tag this one under U5 but honestly I don't even know what to make of it. User:Alexa6ray93/sandbox TornadoLGS ( talk) 02:41, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
-- Yamla ( talk) 11:46, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
It is fine, there is no need to be sorry! I only said he may be notable, not that he was :) -- NotCharizard 🗨 13:03, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Why did you delete the draft? The only reason to delete the draft is when the page is published. We are talking about the biography of a leading actress in a high-profile multi-season TV series. Please reinstate the draft, or even better, publish the page. Marbe166 ( talk) 06:15, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
I saw that on my watchlist, and was a little surprised since I assumed several editors including myself had spent time on editing it, though I don't know who the blocked or banned users are supposed to be. I'm not saying it's at WP:N at this point. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 07:41, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
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Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear (DYK) and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old (OTD). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:12, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
29 May 1913: The Rite of Spring - today's story, actually something I saw at that place in a revival (last century). - Look at Graham's page for the real thing yesterday ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:40, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Today's story is about Samuel Kummer, one of five items on the Main page - more musing on my talk -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:56, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks in advance for your time. Should this be revdel'd? Cheers. JFHJr ( ㊟) 01:29, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
Uhm, I don't want to be spoilsport for my own (and JT's) case, but actually, the work in question is available online [34]. But don't worry, I have more evidence up my sleeve (and already shared it in private with JT) if needed. I just don't want to publically give away all the characteristics that they will subsequently avoid when they read their own SPI case history. Austronesier ( talk) 10:55, 25 May 2024 (UTC)