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Caught Jimbo pretty quick there, didn't we? Bishonen | talk 17:09, 8 September 2015 (UTC).
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The Admin's Barnstar |
Also anti-vandalism barnstar. Even though you're a sysop, I still have to give you a handful of credit for being on top of your game. Thanks for your hard work. It is greatly appreciated. JustBerry ( talk) 18:28, 8 September 2015 (UTC) |
Do you mind ensuring that none of their contribs have affected the mainspace or user spaces? Also, thanks for your efforts - I had actually reported it on WP:AIV here prior: [1] -- JustBerry ( talk) 19:53, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
SinusDrake seems like an obvious HarverCarter sock. Calidum 17:18, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
... for reverting and blocking. Evlekis lost a whole drawer full of socks today, because of his own incompetence. Socks that he has been creating over several days, probably to be used this weekend, so he's a bit upset. Thomas.W talk 20:21, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
On the article Avar Khaganate there is currently one sourced language listed Slavic. However, on the Pannonian Avars language section there are 6 sourced languages listed.
Should I add the other 5 languages despite Oghur Turkic, Caucasian and Mongolic being unverifiable? AND, in the book, "The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe, page 258, note 66, "The Avars seem to have spoken an Eastern Turkic language....". Should I add Eastern Turkic language instead of Oghur Turkic, since there is a source for it? -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 23:19, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Would it be possible to ask if you could delete these obscene, anti-semitic vandalism edits [2] [3] [4] here?-- Mr Fink ( talk) 02:10, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed that you recently removed my additions to the 'see also' section of the article on socialism of national socialism and right-wing socialism, with the explaination: "Revert to revision 680085460 dated 2015-09-08 16:38:23 by MusikAnimal using popups." Please forgive me, but I don't understand why they were removed. Do the popups refer to me, because if they do I don understand the concept. These edits had previously been reverted because I did not include an edit description, and so I then added such a description. I included them because I genuinely believe that they relate to the concept of socialism as covered in this article, but too far outside the scope of it to be included in the article proper. I eagerly await your response. Regards Aardwolf A380 ( talk) 22:32, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Regards, Aardwolf A380 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aardwolf A380 ( talk • contribs) 22:17, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian. Could you have a look at identical but uncited edits by different I/Ps on Ben Gummer? Many thanks JRPG ( talk) 12:07, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for protecting the article. Based on editing style, references used and the POV pushed I'm 99% certain that it's a sock of a fringepusher who was active in 2013 and 2014, but I don't have the time right now for digging for diffs and filing a report at SPI. Annika Dlb is probably also connected to it, based on both the user name (Swedish female given name), the very first edit (compare it to the very first edit of Åsa Gunilla) and the article edited. Thomas.W talk 10:29, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Would you please delete this edit summary? Also, that edit itself is just trolling and racist attack. Thanks. -- Zyma ( talk) 01:45, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the fix. I was trying to move a page out of my userspace but some how it moved my talk page? I dunno... Kindzmarauli ( talk) 20:24, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Given your block rationale of "account compromised or something", I've changed the block settings so that Rgloucester is not autoblocked and not prevented from creating another account: neither of those would be good for someone who's simply been the victim of a compromised account. Of course, if you meant to include autoblock and prevent account creation, feel free to restore your original block settings, but I'd ask that you use a rationale that explains why those settings are appropriate. Nyttend ( talk) 21:48, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Can you have a look at User talk:2600:1006:B11B:719C:14E8:C473:9B00:7111? As far as I know you may have excellent reasons for the block, but I can't find any evidence other than the one edit mentioned in the unblock request, which is not on its own enough. Also, I have checked a number of the IP addresses known to have been used by the blocked editor, and all of them geolocate to the United Kingdom, whereas 2600:1006:B11B:719C:14E8:C473:9B00:7111 geolocates to the USA, and I can't find any evidence that it is a proxy. If you know of other evidence that I haven't seen, I'd be grateful if you would let me know. The editor who uses the pseudonym " JamesBWatson" ( talk) 09:45, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
Oops, thanks! DBaK ( talk) 17:13, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for that IP block via AIV just now. I absolutely do not understand what is going on here ... best wishes DBaK ( talk) 18:35, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian,
You recently blocked
UniversalFan as a sock. The autoblock is catching students working on
a wikipedia assignment at Rollins College. Given that the master is (recently) active, it's probably not feasible to change the block settings, but I'd like to be able to figure out a way to allow the students to edit from the school. Would it be possible to
exempt the students in the course for the duration of the term. The instructor,
PCFleming05 can verify that they're his students. If not, do you know when the autoblock will stop triggering? You can reply here or contact me via email if you prefer (adamwikiedu.org). Thanks for your help.
Adam (Wiki Ed) (
talk)
17:03, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
I have reason to suspect that this IP user is a user that was blocked for edit warring, and has been sockpuppeting. He is going through all the edits made by User:Richard Harvey, and reverting them. New User Person ( talk) 08:00, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello Favonian. The problematic Worcester-based climate editor who you've blocked before (see here for a reminder) is active again (well, they're never really inactive...). See here for the latest battle zones... PaleCloudedWhite ( talk) 21:08, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Hey Favonian! I saw you reverted this IP at Invasion of England (1326) as block evasion. I've been trying to audit the extent of disruption, which for me began at 2004 French–Ivorian clashes, where they've added drastic unsourced claims about the number of casualties. On that page it has been going on for years. I've narrowed down the ranges to 83.113.0.0/17 and 86.208.0.0/12. Do you know if there is a documented LTA case? Thanks — MusikAnimal talk 18:48, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian, DaveBronx is also very likely a sock of Azul411. As evidence, I'd submit:
best, - Darouet ( talk) 18:31, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
These two editors appear to be edit warring over multiple articles.
Just to list a few. Thought I would let you know. The topic of the edit warring disagreement is over a website http://www.arabslavetrade.com being used as a source. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 06:32, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
Special:Contributions/188.220.96.248. Thanks, JoeSperrazza ( talk) 19:05, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian. Could you have a look at the I/Ps currently giving their opinion on Jeremy Hunt Theres a party conference going on so this will get worse Regards JRPG ( talk) 20:53, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Would you be able to take a look at the actions of user:Victar? Note messages to Andrew Dalby & Andrew Lancaster This editor has been canvassing to get a false consensus on John the Fearless.
Using the Medlands source to canvass support for his false consensus, Victar admitted that Medlands is an unreliable source, when asked directly by PBS. After Victar's attempt at being disingenuous(ie. lying):
I presented what was clearly stated on the talk page of John the Fearless article:
This is why Victar, after lying about the decision regarding Medlands and his own statement that it is unreliable is canvassing support to keep Medlands as a source on the John the Fearless article. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 05:15, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
I contacted PBS on his talk page, but have not received a response. [11] -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 05:19, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian. Can you comment on this user? Regards JRPG ( talk) 14:11, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Can you improve and correct the mistakes and to create another seasons : List of Real Madrid C.F. seasons. Thank you. The first seasons do not have correct information, I have on my computer, lists with all the official games played by Real Madrid, I can send it by e-mail to you. I wrote in Microsoft Word, but they are different format compared with the one from Wikipedia.-- Alexiulian25 ( talk) 16:41, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian, Please protect this page for a month. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.69.15.77 ( talk) 08:44, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian. You might want to look at this; I'm afraid the pattern looks rather familiar... PaleCloudedWhite ( talk) 22:08, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
On the
Noyon article, I found a copy & pasted sentence from an unreliable source. I clearly explained this issue on the talk page of the Noyon article.
[12] IP 2.223.127.247, has chosen to edit war
[13]
[14]
[15] said sentence into the article, blatantly ignoring the talk page and posting this rant:
"NO YOU'RE GOING TO REPORT ME TO ADMIN COZ YOUR FRUSTRATED THAT THE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE SHOWS JOHN CALVIN WAS NOT BORN IN FRANCE AND HIS HOME TOWN WAS SOLD TO FRANCE IN 1559 HAS SET IN BOTH THE JOHN CALVIN WIKI, NOYON WIKI AND TREATY OF Treaty of (or Peace of) Cateau-Cambrésis WIKI, PLUS A GOOGLEBOOKS LINK CRAMMED WITH REFERENCES. GO AHEAD, IF YOU THINK HISTORIANS PULLED IT ALL OUT THEIR ARSES. BTW, PLEASE STOP WITH THE THREATS, WE KNOW YOUR GAME, UR JUST TRYING TO ENGINEER SOME PETTY BEEF SO YOU CAN GET ME CENSORED FROM COMMENTING ON WIKI PAGES. UNCLE SAM MUST BE PROUD"
Judging from the IP's nationalistic tone and unwillingness to discuss the issue on the talk page, I do not believe this IP is
here to build an encyclopedia.
(another example) &
(another) --
Kansas Bear (
talk)
04:29, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
You recently accused me of edit-warring. For your information, I was reverting to the original version of the page. The edit had been made without discussion on the talk page. Zacksfenton ( talk) 19:28, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
92.26.80.86 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) NE Ent 16:47, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Egregious racist politivandal placed improper template -- thanks! 50.174.200.16 ( talk) 18:10, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
User talk:12.12.220.130 is vandalizing again. You placed a block notice on that users talk page on 20:57, 9 September 2013. Can the block be made permanent? Thank you. Mitchumch ( talk) 07:06, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Favonian, there are a large number of openings on Arbcom this year (I believe it's 9) and a number of us are hoping to get some no-nonsense people to run who can reform it to be less of a law court. You're one of the goodhearted and strongwilled admins on my personal list. Would you consider running? Or if not, who would you consider a good candidate who is not already running? Yngvadottir ( talk) 20:39, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
As maglev technology is developing rapidly every day it is very difficult for me to update Wikipedia pages conventionally. I have found that current maglev information is freely available on Facebook and I believe users of Wikipedia that need current information will appreciate learning of that source under the "See Also" heading. ≈≈≈≈ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rick.clennett.8920 ( talk • contribs) 19:53, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current
Arbitration Committee election. The
Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia
arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose
site bans,
topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The
arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to
review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on
the voting page. For the Election committee,
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk)
13:52, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
At heliacal rising and winged sun. I know you've already blocked one of his IPs, but we'll probably need semiprotection for those articles. And no doubt for his other "Osiris-Orion" hangouts before long. A. Parrot ( talk) 23:35, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian, could you look at the quality of these edits? Thanks in advance. JRPG ( talk) 22:34, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
So he is still at it, currently attacking Ancient Egyptian architecture. Could you protect the page? Iry-Hor ( talk) 20:48, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Oshwah walks up to Favonian and gives him a hug.
Oh man, this guy just won't quit!!! It's almost hilarious. Anyway, thanks for going out of your way and for taking care of all of that talk page vandalism. I really should barnstar you, but I'm trying not to distract myself - I'm afraid to take my eyes of the RC list right now :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 15:09, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Is there any way you could please remove talk page access? They keep re-adding the stupid ping with the personal attacks. Thanks very much, GAB Hello! 15:56, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
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You won Othmanebenjelloun ( talk) 11:33, 2 December 2015 (UTC) |
Hi. I see you have already encountered this individual once last month. I was reviewing an article on /info/en/?search=Johann_Ludwig_Burckhardt and noticed someone had deleted most of it with no explanation or edit to the flow. His history and talk page shows he has done this many times before. Is there a way to put a block on him? I know this was done once before. I think he is rapidly inflicting damage on quality Wikipedia articles. I know it is not the spirit of Wikipedia but he has thousands of mostly unneccesary edits in just the last two months. I already reported him to info-en-o@wikimedia.org as well. Fax10 ( talk) 07:09, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Well, I did talk to him about it. We negotiated. I decided to write a completely new and sourced article. I went to source his opinion on it and it looks like he has been "Semi-Retired", whatever that means. I have the article written. It's in my sandbox if you care to take a look. Is it appropriate to upload a completely new article or should I source the opinion of an administrator? Thanks for your help. I'm still trying to figure out procedures with Wikipedia. Fax10 ( talk) 13:35, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian. Could you determine whether the above I/P's references to other editors and also to Prof
Jim Al-Khalili meet the courtesy and charm standards we all expect within Wikipedia?
For the avoidance of doubt, as a physics graduate I know that Newton was absolutely notorious for not acknowledging work by others. I did read the source and note that Al-Khalili says "..in the field of optics, Newton himself stood on the shoulders of a giant who lived 700 years earlier." The
Alhazen article shows he was already known in Medieval Western Europe ..but I will discuss exactly what can and can't be reliably said on the talk page when hopefully everyone is a bit more friendly. Thanks for the courtesy you've always shown me.
JRPG (
talk)
00:13, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Requests for page protection#Requests for edits to a protected page. What I had done is that I had added a request on the
Favonian article to be turned into a Wiktionary redirect, with full protection or semi protection added to prevent IPs from attacking you. Thanks.
Qwertyxp2000 (
talk |
contribs)
02:26, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
So you named yourself after western winds? Qwertyxp2000 ( talk | contribs) 23:14, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
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Add {{pp-semi}} 122.61.191.174 ( talk) 00:11, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
To You and Yours!
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 14:26, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
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Talk is wishing you
Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's
Solstice or
Christmas,
Diwali,
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Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{ subst: User:WereSpielChequers/Dec15b}} to your friends' talk pages.
Thanks for having again dealt with Zarahus etc. Do you think is it possible to semi-protect Darius I's page in order to prevent his/her future edits? Khruner ( talk) 14:58, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
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Spread the cheer by adding {{ subst:Xmas6}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Poepkop ( talk) 16:58, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi! I'd like to hear your thoughts on UTRS ticket #13647 by LouisPhilippeCharles -- you don't have an UTRS account (yet?) so let me know if you'd rather request one so I can approve it, or maybe I can paste his appeal here? He calls you a moron and whatnot (surprise!) but the most recent abuse I could find at the SPI dates from July 2014 so I was wondering if there was any more recent abuse you might be aware of that I might add as a supplemental reason to decline. Thanks! ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 23:41, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
I'm unarchiving this old thread (sorry if it irks you, but background matters IMO) because back then LPC asked me about the standard offer and I told him "no earlier than December", and now he's asking me about it again; to the best of my knowledge, there has not been anything on enwiki since last time from this user, which means I'm leaning to AGF him some ROPE, but I'd still prefer your input beforehand, especially w/r/t if you're aware of more recent disruption. Thanks! ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 14:22, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
@ Salvidrim!: Don't suppose I'm in any position to speak against the five mighty pillars and the hallowed consensus regarding the prodigal sons and their return to the congregation. Personally, I have zero faith in this persons intentions and abilities, so it's should be a relief to both him and me that I'm not around that much anymore. Favonian ( talk) 14:05, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
FYI here 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 15:45, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
You didn't have to do what you did , But you did And I thank you. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 15:52, 29 December 2015 (UTC) |
[18] Thank you for your help! It's hard to deal with a sock farm. Callmemirela 🍁 {Talk} ♑ 16:32, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Glaedlig jul from wherever the heck I am!!! :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.21.106.63 ( talk) 00:05, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Dear Mr/Ms Favonian. What is the problem with my contribution as an Appendix ? The results are original and brand new. Happy New Year: White Tiger ( talk) 19:14, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Ok now I understand. HNY. White Tiger ( talk) 19:42, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Favonian,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Poepkop (
talk)
13:52, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
.
Thanks for grabbing the block evading IP - I know
AIV probably isn't the best place for it so thanks again. Happy new years
--
samtar
whisper
13:48, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
125.24.72.6 is currently very active restoring edits by socks of WorldCreaterFighter. [19] [20] Could you bock it? Krakkos ( talk) 13:45, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Favonian, could or should the edit summary of this edit [21] be removed? The edit itself has already been undone. Is there a place where one can bring nasty but remaining edit summaries to, perhaps ANI next time? In this case, the IP is not very active so far, so no AIV report. Cheers, Poepkop ( talk) 16:23, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for your timely action regarding the disruptive editor posting on users' talk pages. I greatly appreciate the work you do! 68.35.140.198 ( talk) 21:08, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
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Caught Jimbo pretty quick there, didn't we? Bishonen | talk 17:09, 8 September 2015 (UTC).
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The Admin's Barnstar |
Also anti-vandalism barnstar. Even though you're a sysop, I still have to give you a handful of credit for being on top of your game. Thanks for your hard work. It is greatly appreciated. JustBerry ( talk) 18:28, 8 September 2015 (UTC) |
Do you mind ensuring that none of their contribs have affected the mainspace or user spaces? Also, thanks for your efforts - I had actually reported it on WP:AIV here prior: [1] -- JustBerry ( talk) 19:53, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
SinusDrake seems like an obvious HarverCarter sock. Calidum 17:18, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
... for reverting and blocking. Evlekis lost a whole drawer full of socks today, because of his own incompetence. Socks that he has been creating over several days, probably to be used this weekend, so he's a bit upset. Thomas.W talk 20:21, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
On the article Avar Khaganate there is currently one sourced language listed Slavic. However, on the Pannonian Avars language section there are 6 sourced languages listed.
Should I add the other 5 languages despite Oghur Turkic, Caucasian and Mongolic being unverifiable? AND, in the book, "The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe, page 258, note 66, "The Avars seem to have spoken an Eastern Turkic language....". Should I add Eastern Turkic language instead of Oghur Turkic, since there is a source for it? -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 23:19, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Would it be possible to ask if you could delete these obscene, anti-semitic vandalism edits [2] [3] [4] here?-- Mr Fink ( talk) 02:10, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed that you recently removed my additions to the 'see also' section of the article on socialism of national socialism and right-wing socialism, with the explaination: "Revert to revision 680085460 dated 2015-09-08 16:38:23 by MusikAnimal using popups." Please forgive me, but I don't understand why they were removed. Do the popups refer to me, because if they do I don understand the concept. These edits had previously been reverted because I did not include an edit description, and so I then added such a description. I included them because I genuinely believe that they relate to the concept of socialism as covered in this article, but too far outside the scope of it to be included in the article proper. I eagerly await your response. Regards Aardwolf A380 ( talk) 22:32, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Regards, Aardwolf A380 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aardwolf A380 ( talk • contribs) 22:17, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian. Could you have a look at identical but uncited edits by different I/Ps on Ben Gummer? Many thanks JRPG ( talk) 12:07, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for protecting the article. Based on editing style, references used and the POV pushed I'm 99% certain that it's a sock of a fringepusher who was active in 2013 and 2014, but I don't have the time right now for digging for diffs and filing a report at SPI. Annika Dlb is probably also connected to it, based on both the user name (Swedish female given name), the very first edit (compare it to the very first edit of Åsa Gunilla) and the article edited. Thomas.W talk 10:29, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Would you please delete this edit summary? Also, that edit itself is just trolling and racist attack. Thanks. -- Zyma ( talk) 01:45, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the fix. I was trying to move a page out of my userspace but some how it moved my talk page? I dunno... Kindzmarauli ( talk) 20:24, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Given your block rationale of "account compromised or something", I've changed the block settings so that Rgloucester is not autoblocked and not prevented from creating another account: neither of those would be good for someone who's simply been the victim of a compromised account. Of course, if you meant to include autoblock and prevent account creation, feel free to restore your original block settings, but I'd ask that you use a rationale that explains why those settings are appropriate. Nyttend ( talk) 21:48, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Can you have a look at User talk:2600:1006:B11B:719C:14E8:C473:9B00:7111? As far as I know you may have excellent reasons for the block, but I can't find any evidence other than the one edit mentioned in the unblock request, which is not on its own enough. Also, I have checked a number of the IP addresses known to have been used by the blocked editor, and all of them geolocate to the United Kingdom, whereas 2600:1006:B11B:719C:14E8:C473:9B00:7111 geolocates to the USA, and I can't find any evidence that it is a proxy. If you know of other evidence that I haven't seen, I'd be grateful if you would let me know. The editor who uses the pseudonym " JamesBWatson" ( talk) 09:45, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
Oops, thanks! DBaK ( talk) 17:13, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for that IP block via AIV just now. I absolutely do not understand what is going on here ... best wishes DBaK ( talk) 18:35, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian,
You recently blocked
UniversalFan as a sock. The autoblock is catching students working on
a wikipedia assignment at Rollins College. Given that the master is (recently) active, it's probably not feasible to change the block settings, but I'd like to be able to figure out a way to allow the students to edit from the school. Would it be possible to
exempt the students in the course for the duration of the term. The instructor,
PCFleming05 can verify that they're his students. If not, do you know when the autoblock will stop triggering? You can reply here or contact me via email if you prefer (adamwikiedu.org). Thanks for your help.
Adam (Wiki Ed) (
talk)
17:03, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
I have reason to suspect that this IP user is a user that was blocked for edit warring, and has been sockpuppeting. He is going through all the edits made by User:Richard Harvey, and reverting them. New User Person ( talk) 08:00, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello Favonian. The problematic Worcester-based climate editor who you've blocked before (see here for a reminder) is active again (well, they're never really inactive...). See here for the latest battle zones... PaleCloudedWhite ( talk) 21:08, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Hey Favonian! I saw you reverted this IP at Invasion of England (1326) as block evasion. I've been trying to audit the extent of disruption, which for me began at 2004 French–Ivorian clashes, where they've added drastic unsourced claims about the number of casualties. On that page it has been going on for years. I've narrowed down the ranges to 83.113.0.0/17 and 86.208.0.0/12. Do you know if there is a documented LTA case? Thanks — MusikAnimal talk 18:48, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian, DaveBronx is also very likely a sock of Azul411. As evidence, I'd submit:
best, - Darouet ( talk) 18:31, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
These two editors appear to be edit warring over multiple articles.
Just to list a few. Thought I would let you know. The topic of the edit warring disagreement is over a website http://www.arabslavetrade.com being used as a source. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 06:32, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
Special:Contributions/188.220.96.248. Thanks, JoeSperrazza ( talk) 19:05, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian. Could you have a look at the I/Ps currently giving their opinion on Jeremy Hunt Theres a party conference going on so this will get worse Regards JRPG ( talk) 20:53, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Would you be able to take a look at the actions of user:Victar? Note messages to Andrew Dalby & Andrew Lancaster This editor has been canvassing to get a false consensus on John the Fearless.
Using the Medlands source to canvass support for his false consensus, Victar admitted that Medlands is an unreliable source, when asked directly by PBS. After Victar's attempt at being disingenuous(ie. lying):
I presented what was clearly stated on the talk page of John the Fearless article:
This is why Victar, after lying about the decision regarding Medlands and his own statement that it is unreliable is canvassing support to keep Medlands as a source on the John the Fearless article. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 05:15, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
I contacted PBS on his talk page, but have not received a response. [11] -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 05:19, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian. Can you comment on this user? Regards JRPG ( talk) 14:11, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Can you improve and correct the mistakes and to create another seasons : List of Real Madrid C.F. seasons. Thank you. The first seasons do not have correct information, I have on my computer, lists with all the official games played by Real Madrid, I can send it by e-mail to you. I wrote in Microsoft Word, but they are different format compared with the one from Wikipedia.-- Alexiulian25 ( talk) 16:41, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian, Please protect this page for a month. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.69.15.77 ( talk) 08:44, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian. You might want to look at this; I'm afraid the pattern looks rather familiar... PaleCloudedWhite ( talk) 22:08, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
On the
Noyon article, I found a copy & pasted sentence from an unreliable source. I clearly explained this issue on the talk page of the Noyon article.
[12] IP 2.223.127.247, has chosen to edit war
[13]
[14]
[15] said sentence into the article, blatantly ignoring the talk page and posting this rant:
"NO YOU'RE GOING TO REPORT ME TO ADMIN COZ YOUR FRUSTRATED THAT THE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE SHOWS JOHN CALVIN WAS NOT BORN IN FRANCE AND HIS HOME TOWN WAS SOLD TO FRANCE IN 1559 HAS SET IN BOTH THE JOHN CALVIN WIKI, NOYON WIKI AND TREATY OF Treaty of (or Peace of) Cateau-Cambrésis WIKI, PLUS A GOOGLEBOOKS LINK CRAMMED WITH REFERENCES. GO AHEAD, IF YOU THINK HISTORIANS PULLED IT ALL OUT THEIR ARSES. BTW, PLEASE STOP WITH THE THREATS, WE KNOW YOUR GAME, UR JUST TRYING TO ENGINEER SOME PETTY BEEF SO YOU CAN GET ME CENSORED FROM COMMENTING ON WIKI PAGES. UNCLE SAM MUST BE PROUD"
Judging from the IP's nationalistic tone and unwillingness to discuss the issue on the talk page, I do not believe this IP is
here to build an encyclopedia.
(another example) &
(another) --
Kansas Bear (
talk)
04:29, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
You recently accused me of edit-warring. For your information, I was reverting to the original version of the page. The edit had been made without discussion on the talk page. Zacksfenton ( talk) 19:28, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
92.26.80.86 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) NE Ent 16:47, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Egregious racist politivandal placed improper template -- thanks! 50.174.200.16 ( talk) 18:10, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
User talk:12.12.220.130 is vandalizing again. You placed a block notice on that users talk page on 20:57, 9 September 2013. Can the block be made permanent? Thank you. Mitchumch ( talk) 07:06, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Favonian, there are a large number of openings on Arbcom this year (I believe it's 9) and a number of us are hoping to get some no-nonsense people to run who can reform it to be less of a law court. You're one of the goodhearted and strongwilled admins on my personal list. Would you consider running? Or if not, who would you consider a good candidate who is not already running? Yngvadottir ( talk) 20:39, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
As maglev technology is developing rapidly every day it is very difficult for me to update Wikipedia pages conventionally. I have found that current maglev information is freely available on Facebook and I believe users of Wikipedia that need current information will appreciate learning of that source under the "See Also" heading. ≈≈≈≈ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rick.clennett.8920 ( talk • contribs) 19:53, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery (
talk)
13:52, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
At heliacal rising and winged sun. I know you've already blocked one of his IPs, but we'll probably need semiprotection for those articles. And no doubt for his other "Osiris-Orion" hangouts before long. A. Parrot ( talk) 23:35, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian, could you look at the quality of these edits? Thanks in advance. JRPG ( talk) 22:34, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
So he is still at it, currently attacking Ancient Egyptian architecture. Could you protect the page? Iry-Hor ( talk) 20:48, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Oshwah walks up to Favonian and gives him a hug.
Oh man, this guy just won't quit!!! It's almost hilarious. Anyway, thanks for going out of your way and for taking care of all of that talk page vandalism. I really should barnstar you, but I'm trying not to distract myself - I'm afraid to take my eyes of the RC list right now :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 15:09, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Is there any way you could please remove talk page access? They keep re-adding the stupid ping with the personal attacks. Thanks very much, GAB Hello! 15:56, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
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You won Othmanebenjelloun ( talk) 11:33, 2 December 2015 (UTC) |
Hi. I see you have already encountered this individual once last month. I was reviewing an article on /info/en/?search=Johann_Ludwig_Burckhardt and noticed someone had deleted most of it with no explanation or edit to the flow. His history and talk page shows he has done this many times before. Is there a way to put a block on him? I know this was done once before. I think he is rapidly inflicting damage on quality Wikipedia articles. I know it is not the spirit of Wikipedia but he has thousands of mostly unneccesary edits in just the last two months. I already reported him to info-en-o@wikimedia.org as well. Fax10 ( talk) 07:09, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Well, I did talk to him about it. We negotiated. I decided to write a completely new and sourced article. I went to source his opinion on it and it looks like he has been "Semi-Retired", whatever that means. I have the article written. It's in my sandbox if you care to take a look. Is it appropriate to upload a completely new article or should I source the opinion of an administrator? Thanks for your help. I'm still trying to figure out procedures with Wikipedia. Fax10 ( talk) 13:35, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Favonian. Could you determine whether the above I/P's references to other editors and also to Prof
Jim Al-Khalili meet the courtesy and charm standards we all expect within Wikipedia?
For the avoidance of doubt, as a physics graduate I know that Newton was absolutely notorious for not acknowledging work by others. I did read the source and note that Al-Khalili says "..in the field of optics, Newton himself stood on the shoulders of a giant who lived 700 years earlier." The
Alhazen article shows he was already known in Medieval Western Europe ..but I will discuss exactly what can and can't be reliably said on the talk page when hopefully everyone is a bit more friendly. Thanks for the courtesy you've always shown me.
JRPG (
talk)
00:13, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Requests for page protection#Requests for edits to a protected page. What I had done is that I had added a request on the
Favonian article to be turned into a Wiktionary redirect, with full protection or semi protection added to prevent IPs from attacking you. Thanks.
Qwertyxp2000 (
talk |
contribs)
02:26, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
So you named yourself after western winds? Qwertyxp2000 ( talk | contribs) 23:14, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
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Add {{pp-semi}} 122.61.191.174 ( talk) 00:11, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
To You and Yours!
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 14:26, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
MarnetteD|
Talk is wishing you
Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's
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Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{ subst: User:WereSpielChequers/Dec15b}} to your friends' talk pages.
Thanks for having again dealt with Zarahus etc. Do you think is it possible to semi-protect Darius I's page in order to prevent his/her future edits? Khruner ( talk) 14:58, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
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Poepkop ( talk) 16:58, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi! I'd like to hear your thoughts on UTRS ticket #13647 by LouisPhilippeCharles -- you don't have an UTRS account (yet?) so let me know if you'd rather request one so I can approve it, or maybe I can paste his appeal here? He calls you a moron and whatnot (surprise!) but the most recent abuse I could find at the SPI dates from July 2014 so I was wondering if there was any more recent abuse you might be aware of that I might add as a supplemental reason to decline. Thanks! ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 23:41, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
I'm unarchiving this old thread (sorry if it irks you, but background matters IMO) because back then LPC asked me about the standard offer and I told him "no earlier than December", and now he's asking me about it again; to the best of my knowledge, there has not been anything on enwiki since last time from this user, which means I'm leaning to AGF him some ROPE, but I'd still prefer your input beforehand, especially w/r/t if you're aware of more recent disruption. Thanks! ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 14:22, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
@ Salvidrim!: Don't suppose I'm in any position to speak against the five mighty pillars and the hallowed consensus regarding the prodigal sons and their return to the congregation. Personally, I have zero faith in this persons intentions and abilities, so it's should be a relief to both him and me that I'm not around that much anymore. Favonian ( talk) 14:05, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
FYI here 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 15:45, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
You didn't have to do what you did , But you did And I thank you. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 15:52, 29 December 2015 (UTC) |
[18] Thank you for your help! It's hard to deal with a sock farm. Callmemirela 🍁 {Talk} ♑ 16:32, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Glaedlig jul from wherever the heck I am!!! :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.21.106.63 ( talk) 00:05, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Dear Mr/Ms Favonian. What is the problem with my contribution as an Appendix ? The results are original and brand new. Happy New Year: White Tiger ( talk) 19:14, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Ok now I understand. HNY. White Tiger ( talk) 19:42, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Favonian,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Poepkop (
talk)
13:52, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
.
Thanks for grabbing the block evading IP - I know
AIV probably isn't the best place for it so thanks again. Happy new years
--
samtar
whisper
13:48, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
125.24.72.6 is currently very active restoring edits by socks of WorldCreaterFighter. [19] [20] Could you bock it? Krakkos ( talk) 13:45, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Favonian, could or should the edit summary of this edit [21] be removed? The edit itself has already been undone. Is there a place where one can bring nasty but remaining edit summaries to, perhaps ANI next time? In this case, the IP is not very active so far, so no AIV report. Cheers, Poepkop ( talk) 16:23, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for your timely action regarding the disruptive editor posting on users' talk pages. I greatly appreciate the work you do! 68.35.140.198 ( talk) 21:08, 2 January 2016 (UTC)