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I saw you were trying to use MMS for FAR notifications. Were you successful? I've finally gotten the hang of it, so if you need help, let me know. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:18, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
Here you go ... I pounded it out kinda quickly, so let me know after you next do one if I missed anything or any clarification is needed:
Bst, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 17:38, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
Might want to take talk page access away at User talk:Sam van lustig. He's... not happy. — The Hand That Feeds You: Bite 20:51, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
This is mr Jimmy Wales and I have a small task I need you to complete for me as I am quite old now and want to spend the last of my days in a remote cabin . I need you to unban user User:Greogor Samsa3. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.209.117.110 ( talk) 20:27, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
You're crushing it today. I keep checking after closing an RFC to get a quick mindless palette cleanser and find at every contribs page I open you've already taken care of it. Thanks for the hard work. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 22:42, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks Harry!
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Sorry man. Listen, I'm cooking. Did we (Europeans) eat chicken thighs? I don't remember my mom ever cooking them, or them being in the store. We had breasts ("filet"), but what happened to the rest? Was it just whole chicken legs that people roasted? I get thighs all the time (and so does Cullen328, apparently), but it seems such an un-Dutch thing to eat, at least for my generation. Drmies ( talk) 00:06, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm sure you'll be a shoo-in and I'm looking forward to talking about how we can continue to improve ArbCom's functioning for the community. I presented a few thoughts on this at WCNA recently (slides here), and would be excited to chat more about our respective ideas. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 18:44, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
This IP is impersonating you. ~WikiOriginal-9~ ( talk) 02:41, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
Can this really be the man who used to slap blocks of 1001 days on editors? A 31 hour block for an IP address which has been the source of exactly the same kind of disruptive editing, clearly from one person, for two and a half months? JBW ( talk) 22:25, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
I am wondering how iam doing? •Cyberwolf• talk? 17:24, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, the following indefinitely semi-protected or extended confirmed protected pages have not had their prior PC settings reset for whatever reason.
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i'm just bored out of my MIND!
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Thanks for your comments. I'm happy to revise my statement but would appreciate some coaching where you think I could improve. I've already acknowledged I accept the inclusion of those videos? W C M email 21:38, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
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They're edit warring on their user talk page, as the blocking admin could you yank their TPA? LilianaUwU ( talk / contributions) 00:23, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Harry, I would appreciate your advice in respect of the recent burst of activity on the Landmark Worldwide page, as it seems to involve multiple violations of the Arbitrators' conclusions in the [ [1]] arbitration case, and you were the Admin who applied the protection on 5th March 2015 after the close of that case.
There have been repeated instances of edit warring, wholesale instant reversions, refusal to discuss matters on the talk page, personal attacks, and failure to remain civil or Assume Good Faith.
I can go into far more detail if you would like, but a quick glance at talk:Landmark Worldwide, and at the edit history of the article over the past 5 weeks will give you an idea of my concerns.
This activity was initiated by Polygnotus with a posting on the NPOV noticeboard [2]], where he starts by describing LM as a 'weird cult', and yet repeatedly claims to have no interest or knowledge on the topic. But enough, apparently, to make about a dozen edits, and post 65 comments on the talk page in the past month!
He also seems to be wikihounding me, and has posted 8 aggressive comments on my talk page.
Thank you. DaveApter ( talk) 11:14, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for standing to become arbitrator! My story today is Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his, - the composer, born OTD 110 years ago, didn't want it shorter (but the publisher), - more here. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:56, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for a reply to my cand question. I may discuss it after tomorrow's concert when we will sing the Mozart and listen to Pärt's urgent call for peace played by the strings, - I'm not in the mood before ;) - Enjoy time with your mother! - I mentioned Pärt for a reason, could have been Beethoven as well, in other words: I believe it's time for a fresh look, as we were told 10 years ago. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:39, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
Regarding your answer: 1) Please point me at where you think "roving bands of editors who turn up in every infobox discussion" are active, because I haven't seen them. We even had years without discussions, remember? 2) I wonder what you'd expect from a sitewide consensus, when the conflict is not sitewide - everybody reading Wikipedia can easily see that infoboxes are almost everywhere - but local: they are contentious only in a small corner of subjects, in articles by a small group of editors. I met the disputes in 2012, for Samuel Barber (where I opposed for redundancy, but understood within a day that the redundancy serves readers with different needs). Brian Boulton added a compromise to Chopin as a RfC result in 2015. I thought that would settle it, dreamer that I am ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:51, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Today: in memoriam Jerome Kohl who said ( In Freundschaft): "and I hope that they have met again in the beyond and are making joyous music together" -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:09, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello HJ, could you please help process my request? WP:PERM/AP is currently backlogged. – DreamRimmer ( talk) 18:16, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
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HJ, I was wondering if you could help me out. I try to avoid arbitration enforcement completely, but I stumbled onto a problem in the Arab-Israeli conflict topic that I am now floundering in. It concerns a brand new editor, Udnciemd93749 and two related articles, Harvard Law Review and Apsara Iyer (president of the Harvard Law Review). Neither article is directly related to the A-I topic, but the content being edited is.
I believe that the editor should not be permitted to edit the material in the articles because they are not extended-confirmed. I left a CT alert on their Talk page a few minutes ago (it took me a while to find the template), and I reverted the two edits they made on the articles, restoring the related material. I have also left a personalized warning on the editor's Talk page.
Are my warnings right? Do I need to put templates on the two article Talk pages, something about "related content" I vaguely recall? I want to make sure I've covered all the bases if I believe the editor should later be sanctioned.
Sorry this is so rambling. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:49, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi HJ Mitchell. I'm looking for people to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 13:14, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello HJ Mitchell, I hope you're doing well. Could you please review my contributions and consider granting me Autopatrolled rights? If not, I appreciate any feedback or suggestions you may have. Thank you for your consideration. C1K98V ( 💬 ✒️ 📂) 14:21, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
It means a lot! AntiDionysius ( talk) 21:11, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, you blocked Maximillianperez a couple of weeks ago for non constructive editing at Gosford High School. You might want to look at the new editor there who made the same edit, Maximoo72. Thanks Melcous ( talk) 22:37, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi HJ Mitchell, recently you blocked the User:W688 account after a report I made at UAA. The exact external link that it added to an article is this one. Seems to me like a website that is selling a service, at the very least none of the content in it looks relevant to the subject of the article.
Just today, an IP address 112.199.123.202 reverted my edit to reinstate that external link on the article. Should we enable autoblock for the account (or block the IP)? — AP 499D25 (talk) 05:28, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Followup: I have reverted the IP's edits twice by now, but they just reverted me for the third time (
diff). I'll leave it to you to decide if this is spam or not as I'm at three reverts for that exact external link addition. The 3RRNO exemption #8 states Reverting unambiguous spam, where the content would be eligible for page deletion under criterion G11 if it were a standalone page.
, however the IP's addition is just a single external link, to the page number of a reference apparently, rather than a complete writing of spam.
Seems to me like they googled for "W688" for something to spam their website under, which led them to that Wikipedia article, thus adding in the link to try and get a higher presence in search engine rankings.
The user has been warned with a level 2 warning for adding spam links, alongside a previous notice about the use of IP addresses to evade blocks of accounts to repeat disruptive edits. The latest diff above comes after this lvl 2 warning. — AP 499D25 (talk) 09:52, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I have submitted a report to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Could you please handle it and let me know what I did wrong? Thank you. C1K98V ( 💬 ✒️ 📂) 10:18, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
This is another legit account of QuadriSyedSahab, i requested for Autopatrolled but you declined by stating about a SPI, where i was taken without any proofs and I wasn’t blocked also. I just clear that I’m not a Sockpuppet of any user, I’m an independent user. I am contributing about Sufism in India, a vast subject which was never attended by anyone. Look at my contributions pls, if you don’t want to give the permission just have a small look. Thanks — Syed A. Hussain Quadri ( talk) 14:49, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi,
I know you have seen me reporting open proxies to AIV, the main list I use is WP:Open proxy detection. Would you be fine with me handing you a big list of OPs on this page so you can block them? Seawolf35 T-- C 19:23, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
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Today's story is about Maria Callas, on her centenary. - Aaron Copland died OTD, and Jerome Kohl (mentioned in November) said something wise on Copland's talk, - yes, regarding a soft(er) stance towards infoboxes. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:47, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Did you check out the history of the infobox of Callas? Compare Jessye Norman, Kathleen Ferrier and Jenny Lind. Did you check out the history of Copland? Compare Max Reger, Max Beckschäfer, Colin Mawby (from today's story), and Benjamin Britten (who died OTD). What's the difference? If what you see changes your answer to my question, feel free to change, and ping me. I would like to see a way to avoid in the future hundreds of editors commenting on Mozart RfCs, just to kind of restore the infobox he had in 2006. Happy new era ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:35, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
In the whole process, SchroCat has talked down to me. He refused to listen to the perfectly legit reasons I had for that information being in the article. And as soon as others agreed with him, he started shoving it in my face. And this wouldn't be anywhere near the first time he's acted like that. When I warned SchroCat about it, he replied Don't come to my talk page and lie. p b p 20:52, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Dear HJ Mitchell, Hello, I'm created 28 articles releated to Indian politicians, and those are biography and they fullfill all creteria of WP:BLP but I have not an autopatrollers right, can you grant me this right after reviewing my article?. 😊~~ αvírαm| (tαlk) 15:54, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
This revert is a bit puzzling. Misclick? Favonian ( talk) 21:49, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
You may wish to revoke TPA. Cahk ( talk) 08:05, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello @ HJ Mitchell, please block this block evasion/LTA IP address:
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This IP address has kept spamming & adding unsourced information on multiple Disney related articles for the past few hours. No matter how many times I revert, the IP address will undo it no matter what. This is likely a block evasion of IP address User talk:136.169.173.251, which you blocked for a year. I've already reported this to the WP:AIV and the WP:ANI, however no answer. Your help will be appreciated. 🛧 Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁=☁=✈) 13:51, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello HJ! I was wondering if you could take a look at the deleted version of King Saha and let me know if it would be valid for a G4 deletion. As I'm not an admin I can't really do so, so I was hoping you'd be able to let me know. ― Blaze Wolf Talkblaze__wolf 15:59, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
I mailed you the next day after you replied 2 weeks ago, once I knew it's okay to work on sending and shaping short explanations; and another to ask a week ago. So I want to make sure it was sent, and if you can advise-reply there. Thank you. אומנות ( talk) 18:30, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Can you tell me HJ Mitchell - if you have access today (when you're on Wikipedia) to email as well? If so, can you look for a sec today for the content with explanations and links which I worked on further yesterday, as from what I wrote and thought I managed to send 2 weeks ago? This way I'll know not to wait more days to ask and realize it wasn't sent again, and I'll know to wait for an advise for if/what is most safe to proceed, also for my calmness, when you'll get available to address the message itself. אומנות ( talk) 19:07, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, would you mind temporarily semi-protecting Don Knotts and doing some revdel of the clearly defamatory remarks? There seems to be an LTA attacking the page. — MATRIX! ( a good person!) citation unneeded 21:23, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I had User talk:Nupter1234 on my watchlist, and I noticed that you blocked them definitely for vandalism. Their only contributions so far were to their user page and what seemed to me as a good-faith attempt at creating an article ( permalink). I was wondering if you could explain your reasoning further. Or maybe there is a socking/LTA issue that I'm not aware of. Thanks :) Thriftycat Talk • Contribs 20:54, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Ip is now doing personal attacks in edit summaries to their talk page. Shadow311 ( talk) 17:00, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi @ HJ Mitchell I am here to inform you something. You blocked Indiancitizen001 for using Wikipedia for spam. I think he has returned with a sock account Govindia007. If you see their contributions they want to add the same thing. I am not filling a sock report bcoz the backlog is too much. Rest I leave it on you. Thank you. ShaanSengupta Talk 18:34, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello HJ Mitchell: I see you recently granted autopatrolled to Tumbuka Arch. You might be interested in the discussion I opened at User talk:Tumbuka Arch#Bogus_sources. Articles like Evariste Niyonkuro, with sources published before any event described in the article are obviously not valid, and these articles do not belong to mainspace, especially since some of them might be BLP (even if the article talks about them in past tense, there's no death date, and if they are alive, that's a violation of BLP on its own). MarioGom ( talk) 17:26, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi HJ, I need help with a sock of Jordison.francisco, [4], whom I reported to ANI to no avail. Thanks, 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 13:37, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks for nipping the latest Tada-Perfect IP. It's long-term, a few admins have taken a sledgehammer to the ranges, so I expanded your single-IP likewise. DMacks ( talk) 18:50, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Harry, please could you suppress the most recent offensive edit summary on Silicon dioxide ( revision id 1191769141). Cheers and Happy Christmas. Polyamorph ( talk) 19:45, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
I appreciate it. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 21:58, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Said user edited the page on Benin. They replaced the flag with another one. That flag had a crowned elephant. OMGShay 92 ( talk) 00:18, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
I noticed you blocked an account that was impersonating me. Thanks for catching that! Annierau ( talk) 03:41, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
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I saw you were trying to use MMS for FAR notifications. Were you successful? I've finally gotten the hang of it, so if you need help, let me know. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:18, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
Here you go ... I pounded it out kinda quickly, so let me know after you next do one if I missed anything or any clarification is needed:
Bst, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 17:38, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
Might want to take talk page access away at User talk:Sam van lustig. He's... not happy. — The Hand That Feeds You: Bite 20:51, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
This is mr Jimmy Wales and I have a small task I need you to complete for me as I am quite old now and want to spend the last of my days in a remote cabin . I need you to unban user User:Greogor Samsa3. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.209.117.110 ( talk) 20:27, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
You're crushing it today. I keep checking after closing an RFC to get a quick mindless palette cleanser and find at every contribs page I open you've already taken care of it. Thanks for the hard work. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 22:42, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks Harry!
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Sorry man. Listen, I'm cooking. Did we (Europeans) eat chicken thighs? I don't remember my mom ever cooking them, or them being in the store. We had breasts ("filet"), but what happened to the rest? Was it just whole chicken legs that people roasted? I get thighs all the time (and so does Cullen328, apparently), but it seems such an un-Dutch thing to eat, at least for my generation. Drmies ( talk) 00:06, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm sure you'll be a shoo-in and I'm looking forward to talking about how we can continue to improve ArbCom's functioning for the community. I presented a few thoughts on this at WCNA recently (slides here), and would be excited to chat more about our respective ideas. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 18:44, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
This IP is impersonating you. ~WikiOriginal-9~ ( talk) 02:41, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
Can this really be the man who used to slap blocks of 1001 days on editors? A 31 hour block for an IP address which has been the source of exactly the same kind of disruptive editing, clearly from one person, for two and a half months? JBW ( talk) 22:25, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
I am wondering how iam doing? •Cyberwolf• talk? 17:24, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, the following indefinitely semi-protected or extended confirmed protected pages have not had their prior PC settings reset for whatever reason.
As an admin, would you please take care of this issue for each of the above pages at your earliest convenience? Thanks in advance. Something's Blue ( talk) 23:48, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
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i'm just bored out of my MIND!
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Thanks for your comments. I'm happy to revise my statement but would appreciate some coaching where you think I could improve. I've already acknowledged I accept the inclusion of those videos? W C M email 21:38, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
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Also, your editnotice's picture gave me a REAL good laugh. :) ThatOneWolf ( talk| contribs) 23:33, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
They're edit warring on their user talk page, as the blocking admin could you yank their TPA? LilianaUwU ( talk / contributions) 00:23, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Harry, I would appreciate your advice in respect of the recent burst of activity on the Landmark Worldwide page, as it seems to involve multiple violations of the Arbitrators' conclusions in the [ [1]] arbitration case, and you were the Admin who applied the protection on 5th March 2015 after the close of that case.
There have been repeated instances of edit warring, wholesale instant reversions, refusal to discuss matters on the talk page, personal attacks, and failure to remain civil or Assume Good Faith.
I can go into far more detail if you would like, but a quick glance at talk:Landmark Worldwide, and at the edit history of the article over the past 5 weeks will give you an idea of my concerns.
This activity was initiated by Polygnotus with a posting on the NPOV noticeboard [2]], where he starts by describing LM as a 'weird cult', and yet repeatedly claims to have no interest or knowledge on the topic. But enough, apparently, to make about a dozen edits, and post 65 comments on the talk page in the past month!
He also seems to be wikihounding me, and has posted 8 aggressive comments on my talk page.
Thank you. DaveApter ( talk) 11:14, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
Is it possible to nominate an article for both
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WP:GA? If not, then what is the right procedure? Thank you. dxneo (
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Thank you for standing to become arbitrator! My story today is Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his, - the composer, born OTD 110 years ago, didn't want it shorter (but the publisher), - more here. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:56, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for a reply to my cand question. I may discuss it after tomorrow's concert when we will sing the Mozart and listen to Pärt's urgent call for peace played by the strings, - I'm not in the mood before ;) - Enjoy time with your mother! - I mentioned Pärt for a reason, could have been Beethoven as well, in other words: I believe it's time for a fresh look, as we were told 10 years ago. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:39, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
Regarding your answer: 1) Please point me at where you think "roving bands of editors who turn up in every infobox discussion" are active, because I haven't seen them. We even had years without discussions, remember? 2) I wonder what you'd expect from a sitewide consensus, when the conflict is not sitewide - everybody reading Wikipedia can easily see that infoboxes are almost everywhere - but local: they are contentious only in a small corner of subjects, in articles by a small group of editors. I met the disputes in 2012, for Samuel Barber (where I opposed for redundancy, but understood within a day that the redundancy serves readers with different needs). Brian Boulton added a compromise to Chopin as a RfC result in 2015. I thought that would settle it, dreamer that I am ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:51, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Today: in memoriam Jerome Kohl who said ( In Freundschaft): "and I hope that they have met again in the beyond and are making joyous music together" -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:09, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
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HJ, I was wondering if you could help me out. I try to avoid arbitration enforcement completely, but I stumbled onto a problem in the Arab-Israeli conflict topic that I am now floundering in. It concerns a brand new editor, Udnciemd93749 and two related articles, Harvard Law Review and Apsara Iyer (president of the Harvard Law Review). Neither article is directly related to the A-I topic, but the content being edited is.
I believe that the editor should not be permitted to edit the material in the articles because they are not extended-confirmed. I left a CT alert on their Talk page a few minutes ago (it took me a while to find the template), and I reverted the two edits they made on the articles, restoring the related material. I have also left a personalized warning on the editor's Talk page.
Are my warnings right? Do I need to put templates on the two article Talk pages, something about "related content" I vaguely recall? I want to make sure I've covered all the bases if I believe the editor should later be sanctioned.
Sorry this is so rambling. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:49, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi HJ Mitchell. I'm looking for people to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 13:14, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello HJ Mitchell, I hope you're doing well. Could you please review my contributions and consider granting me Autopatrolled rights? If not, I appreciate any feedback or suggestions you may have. Thank you for your consideration. C1K98V ( 💬 ✒️ 📂) 14:21, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
It means a lot! AntiDionysius ( talk) 21:11, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, you blocked Maximillianperez a couple of weeks ago for non constructive editing at Gosford High School. You might want to look at the new editor there who made the same edit, Maximoo72. Thanks Melcous ( talk) 22:37, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi HJ Mitchell, recently you blocked the User:W688 account after a report I made at UAA. The exact external link that it added to an article is this one. Seems to me like a website that is selling a service, at the very least none of the content in it looks relevant to the subject of the article.
Just today, an IP address 112.199.123.202 reverted my edit to reinstate that external link on the article. Should we enable autoblock for the account (or block the IP)? — AP 499D25 (talk) 05:28, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Followup: I have reverted the IP's edits twice by now, but they just reverted me for the third time (
diff). I'll leave it to you to decide if this is spam or not as I'm at three reverts for that exact external link addition. The 3RRNO exemption #8 states Reverting unambiguous spam, where the content would be eligible for page deletion under criterion G11 if it were a standalone page.
, however the IP's addition is just a single external link, to the page number of a reference apparently, rather than a complete writing of spam.
Seems to me like they googled for "W688" for something to spam their website under, which led them to that Wikipedia article, thus adding in the link to try and get a higher presence in search engine rankings.
The user has been warned with a level 2 warning for adding spam links, alongside a previous notice about the use of IP addresses to evade blocks of accounts to repeat disruptive edits. The latest diff above comes after this lvl 2 warning. — AP 499D25 (talk) 09:52, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I have submitted a report to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Could you please handle it and let me know what I did wrong? Thank you. C1K98V ( 💬 ✒️ 📂) 10:18, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
This is another legit account of QuadriSyedSahab, i requested for Autopatrolled but you declined by stating about a SPI, where i was taken without any proofs and I wasn’t blocked also. I just clear that I’m not a Sockpuppet of any user, I’m an independent user. I am contributing about Sufism in India, a vast subject which was never attended by anyone. Look at my contributions pls, if you don’t want to give the permission just have a small look. Thanks — Syed A. Hussain Quadri ( talk) 14:49, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi,
I know you have seen me reporting open proxies to AIV, the main list I use is WP:Open proxy detection. Would you be fine with me handing you a big list of OPs on this page so you can block them? Seawolf35 T-- C 19:23, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
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Today's story is about Maria Callas, on her centenary. - Aaron Copland died OTD, and Jerome Kohl (mentioned in November) said something wise on Copland's talk, - yes, regarding a soft(er) stance towards infoboxes. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:47, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Did you check out the history of the infobox of Callas? Compare Jessye Norman, Kathleen Ferrier and Jenny Lind. Did you check out the history of Copland? Compare Max Reger, Max Beckschäfer, Colin Mawby (from today's story), and Benjamin Britten (who died OTD). What's the difference? If what you see changes your answer to my question, feel free to change, and ping me. I would like to see a way to avoid in the future hundreds of editors commenting on Mozart RfCs, just to kind of restore the infobox he had in 2006. Happy new era ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:35, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
In the whole process, SchroCat has talked down to me. He refused to listen to the perfectly legit reasons I had for that information being in the article. And as soon as others agreed with him, he started shoving it in my face. And this wouldn't be anywhere near the first time he's acted like that. When I warned SchroCat about it, he replied Don't come to my talk page and lie. p b p 20:52, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Dear HJ Mitchell, Hello, I'm created 28 articles releated to Indian politicians, and those are biography and they fullfill all creteria of WP:BLP but I have not an autopatrollers right, can you grant me this right after reviewing my article?. 😊~~ αvírαm| (tαlk) 15:54, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
This revert is a bit puzzling. Misclick? Favonian ( talk) 21:49, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
You may wish to revoke TPA. Cahk ( talk) 08:05, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello @ HJ Mitchell, please block this block evasion/LTA IP address:
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This IP address has kept spamming & adding unsourced information on multiple Disney related articles for the past few hours. No matter how many times I revert, the IP address will undo it no matter what. This is likely a block evasion of IP address User talk:136.169.173.251, which you blocked for a year. I've already reported this to the WP:AIV and the WP:ANI, however no answer. Your help will be appreciated. 🛧 Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁=☁=✈) 13:51, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello HJ! I was wondering if you could take a look at the deleted version of King Saha and let me know if it would be valid for a G4 deletion. As I'm not an admin I can't really do so, so I was hoping you'd be able to let me know. ― Blaze Wolf Talkblaze__wolf 15:59, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
I mailed you the next day after you replied 2 weeks ago, once I knew it's okay to work on sending and shaping short explanations; and another to ask a week ago. So I want to make sure it was sent, and if you can advise-reply there. Thank you. אומנות ( talk) 18:30, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Can you tell me HJ Mitchell - if you have access today (when you're on Wikipedia) to email as well? If so, can you look for a sec today for the content with explanations and links which I worked on further yesterday, as from what I wrote and thought I managed to send 2 weeks ago? This way I'll know not to wait more days to ask and realize it wasn't sent again, and I'll know to wait for an advise for if/what is most safe to proceed, also for my calmness, when you'll get available to address the message itself. אומנות ( talk) 19:07, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, would you mind temporarily semi-protecting Don Knotts and doing some revdel of the clearly defamatory remarks? There seems to be an LTA attacking the page. — MATRIX! ( a good person!) citation unneeded 21:23, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I had User talk:Nupter1234 on my watchlist, and I noticed that you blocked them definitely for vandalism. Their only contributions so far were to their user page and what seemed to me as a good-faith attempt at creating an article ( permalink). I was wondering if you could explain your reasoning further. Or maybe there is a socking/LTA issue that I'm not aware of. Thanks :) Thriftycat Talk • Contribs 20:54, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Ip is now doing personal attacks in edit summaries to their talk page. Shadow311 ( talk) 17:00, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi @ HJ Mitchell I am here to inform you something. You blocked Indiancitizen001 for using Wikipedia for spam. I think he has returned with a sock account Govindia007. If you see their contributions they want to add the same thing. I am not filling a sock report bcoz the backlog is too much. Rest I leave it on you. Thank you. ShaanSengupta Talk 18:34, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello HJ Mitchell: I see you recently granted autopatrolled to Tumbuka Arch. You might be interested in the discussion I opened at User talk:Tumbuka Arch#Bogus_sources. Articles like Evariste Niyonkuro, with sources published before any event described in the article are obviously not valid, and these articles do not belong to mainspace, especially since some of them might be BLP (even if the article talks about them in past tense, there's no death date, and if they are alive, that's a violation of BLP on its own). MarioGom ( talk) 17:26, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi HJ, I need help with a sock of Jordison.francisco, [4], whom I reported to ANI to no avail. Thanks, 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 13:37, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks for nipping the latest Tada-Perfect IP. It's long-term, a few admins have taken a sledgehammer to the ranges, so I expanded your single-IP likewise. DMacks ( talk) 18:50, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Harry, please could you suppress the most recent offensive edit summary on Silicon dioxide ( revision id 1191769141). Cheers and Happy Christmas. Polyamorph ( talk) 19:45, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
I appreciate it. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 21:58, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Said user edited the page on Benin. They replaced the flag with another one. That flag had a crowned elephant. OMGShay 92 ( talk) 00:18, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
I noticed you blocked an account that was impersonating me. Thanks for catching that! Annierau ( talk) 03:41, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
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