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Hey, just a heads up, Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism is generally only for obvious spammers / vandals. If you are having sockpuppet issues, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations is the right place to report those. In other words, AIV isn't a one-stop block shop. SQL Query me! 22:18, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for doing the stub at
Talk:Cibuntu, Cigandamekar, Kuningan. I'm not sure if you know, the version number in the {{
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Si Trew (
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03:44, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi. While I disagree with your comment at Redirects for discussion regarding this redirect, and BDD's decision to close it, I understand your rationale. The issue is that the CSD was removed by an editor/admin (not sure, but I think they are an admin), who did not check any of the sources of the current article to see if the title was correct. I understand when a film is known by more than one name, like Portrait of Alison/Postmark for Danger, but that's not the case in this instance. The name is simply incorrect. BFI calls it by its correct name, IMDB calls it by its correct name, AFI calls it by its correct name, and contemporaneous sources call it by its correct name, yet Wikipedia has it by an incorrect name. Even the only other citation in the article calls it by its correct name. Regardless, if that's the way admins want it to appear on Wikipedia, no skin off my nose. Take care. Onel5969 TT me 02:02, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
I put semi-protection on the article a few hours ago to clamp down on drive-by IP assassination, but I see that the most recent revert was done by an "autoconfirmed" editor who came back just for that purpose after having not made a single edit to Wikipedia for almost nine months prior — and one of the IPs registered a brand new user name just to throw an allegation of biased editing at me on my user page. So, particularly given the autoconfirmed user, I'm soliciting opinions on whether I should escalate the page protection to full admin-only or not — I'd prefer not to, if at all possible, but I'm not sure what other choice we have if sleeper accounts are waking up just to attack her. Bearcat ( talk) 01:46, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Masterbated and Masterbatory. Since you had some involvement with these redirects, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — Godsy( TALK CONT) 20:51, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
You referenced an edit by Callmesir7 in one of your diffs in the SPI report for Fangusu. Do you suspect that editor is a sock as well? (I mean, that edit was their only edit; it may be inconclusive right now due to lack of evidence, but I was just wondering.) Steel1943 ( talk) 18:44, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
I need an unblock request from the user to act.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 20:53, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ivanvector! You've been interested in redirect categorization and the This is a redirect template in the past, so I wanted to let you know that there is a discussion at Template talk:This is a redirect#One parameter that might interest you. Good faith! Paine 21:12, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Sorry, but the redirect causes confusion for me. I find it necessary to start another discussion. I have all of the most recent info re: harry dennis (musician) after receiving updated information from him directly. I would like for the text box at the top of the page with the "warnings" to be removed. All of the info is linked or referenced to a point as not to oversaturate the page with info. Other information is self-reporting from my interview(s) with Mr. Dennis. Will you or someone remove the box that precedes the info because it is distracting to readers and in someway suggest that info is false or misleading. Harry Dennis is affiliated and knows the most notable personalities, musicians, dis, etc. in house music. When I learn how to insert images, I will insert a couple to support his information. Please respond to back directly to me because I may not find your answer in redirects. Thank you. --DA01 21:50, 19 February 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by DLOFT01 ( talk • contribs)
Hi Ivanvector,
I have been thinking the last couple of days, about Shlivovitz. I've decided to !vote for a weak keep for it, but the surprise to me is really that it got literally zero hits before the discussion at RfD. You would think it would get a few, since it's a fairly obvious misspelling (not to the online dictionaries an-other spelling, and my woodware dictionaries don't have it). And not even any bot hits.
It set me wondering, does the "autosearch" – I don't know the official name for this, but if you type a search in the Mozilla taskbar or another dropdown like that – does it automatically take you through the redirect without registering a hit for the redirect in the page log?
Since the autosearch detects and displays redirect titles, it obviously has some nous to the fact it's a redirect to another article (how clever its parsing is, I have no idea). If it then of its own volition performs the redirect, rather than letting the WP/Wikipmedia server do it by an HTTP request for the redirect page, then no hit count would appear in the page request log. (That, of course, is assuming that the search itself causes no hit to the page log – but that must be the case, else every single search result would be in the page log.)
If my premiss is right, this would mean we could never trust the stats for a redirect of itself because we don't know how many have been pre-empted, if that's the right word, by the autosearch doing the redirect itself and requesting not the redirect page but the target page. This of course benefits our readers (and HTTP servers) in not round-tripping via a redirect, but leaves us with queer stats for how many hits it gets.
The telling point, I think, – and both you and I have alluded to this in past RfD discussions – if is you hit a redirect for something but the page says it was redirected from somewhere else (or does not say it was redirected at all). I've not paid close attention to this.
You're better at this than I am, so perhaps a few words in the right places to the Wikimedia folks would clarify this? In the meantime, I am suspicious of obvious misspellings/alternative spellings and Rs without diacritics and so forth that are recorded as getting no hits.
Move this question to somewhere else if you think more appropriate.
Best as always. Si Trew ( talk) 16:24, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
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).Thanks to the whole debacle that we both know about, I've noticed that my ability to smell socks seems to have heightened. So, I'm wondering if you smell the same smell I am smelling when comparing these two accounts: Promise.scout vs. Prompri? It may also be worth stating that the latter account/editor erroneously declared themselves a "Wikipedia Online Ambassador" on their user page. Steel1943 ( talk) 21:39, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Reintroduced, Reintroducing, Reintroduction, and Reintroductions. Since you have had some involvement with the Reintroduced, Reintroducing, Reintroduction, and Reintroductions redirects (i.e. Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 February 5#Re-introductory), you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — Godsy( TALK CONT) 03:52, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
I read somewhere that you may think that a WP:DUCK WP:SPI "quick block" is a good idea. I may agree with that. In fact, I also think that there should probably be a guideline where sock masters with enough proven instances of socking should have official WP:SITEBANs. Steel1943 ( talk) 01:15, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
In case anyone comes by to confirm identities in an email I just sent: yes, it was me that sent it. Cheers. Ivanvector 🍁 ( talk) 14:49, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Have you changed your Sig lately (within the last couple of weeks)? It appears spanning multiple lines on my android tablet, lots of empty vertical whitespace. Only in edit window, the basic syntax highlighting edit box based one. Si Trew ( talk) 21:31, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
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tag in it, maybe your browser is misinterpreting it?
Ivanvector 🍁 (
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14:44, 6 April 2016 (UTC)I was just looking through my talk page of the discussion we had of whether A redirect -> B article mentions A redirect counts as a redirect loop. I dunno why but I never got back to you, I think "bounce back redirect" is the perfect term. Trampoline would be too obscure, but bounce back is common enough even stupid English people and half-awake Canadians know what that means. Brilliant term.
I tend to blank my talk page quite often so we better put this discussion somewhere, perhaps over on WT:RFD? I don't think that would hurt to do that, the discussion technically obviously didn't take place there but it is more easily accessible there than being buried in a user talk page that I regularly cut down (I leave the insults usually and delete the compliments). Si Trew ( talk) 05:07, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Note that I didn't receive any ping from you from a training subpage regarding Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Icerat/Archive. I don't even know where the training subpage is...-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:39, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ivanvector you are conspicuious by your absence at RfD. Is everything OK old bean? Nobody requires you to edit here but I am just a bit worried that you haven't been editing anything. Is it all right with you and yours? You have to get back cos there are lots of Canuck redirects from Neelix I need you to give a looksee. But enjoy your Wikibreak, as long as there is nothing wrong with you and yours that is fine, I am saying as a distant friend I do really care about you. No idea where you live in Ontario I guess, no idea what your real name is don't want to, but just a bit worried about you. Are you OK mate? Si Trew ( talk) 07:58, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
I back off that is fine thanks for the advice. When someone abuses me or hurts me I fight back. What would you do? But I appreciate the advice and I will back off. Si Trew ( talk) 21:33, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Si Trew ( talk) 21:42, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Abou Ben Adhem (May his tribe increase) Woke for a sleep with a deep dream of peace The Lord said now old Adem has gone, that's fine But I'll count him as one of mine
Wendy Cope I think but not sure. Si Trew ( talk) 04:28, 13 May 2016 (UTC): I am just going to take me coat and grab me hat Leave me worries n the doorstep (which is filthy) And just direct my feet To the sunny side of the street Can you hear that pitter-pat And that happy tune is your step Gold dust at my feet on the sunny side of the street I used to walk in the shade With those blues on parade Now i'm not afraid Moreover cross over If I never had a cent I'd be rich as Rockefeller Gold dust at my feet on the sunny side of the street. Bang bang in a four four D major now this is the problem with Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, as a porter or on the German railway. 04:36, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
And the confusion I originally caused here- sorry! Therer was no particular issue, and your revert was fine. I mean, iI wasn't that concerned whether it's a new thread or not. Also, apologies for not acknowledging you sooner- somehow I didn't get the ping, and just happened to see your edits whilst going through my own history. Cheers, Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 13:50, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Shurely that would be a neologism. Nice one! What would it possibly mean without well the obvious porno senses. Nice one! I note for the record that we do not actually have embeaver and if there is any danger of it being created I think we should kinda immediatelly revert it. Nice one. Si Trew ( talk) 08:31, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
My Ontarian Canadian family called it something and I can't remember what they called it, it is very odd in British English what is it. You know what I mean it has infrared thing and suddenly it goes from CBC to well CBC2! I am deliberately going round "The Projects" so as not to put words in your mouth I can just can never remember what it is in Canadian English. I'm not sure why I even want to know this except I hate having a gap in my memory. There is probably an article on remote control but deliberately not linking that they called it something different. The word made sense to me but not the meaning. Si Trew ( talk) 13:15, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
I have only looked at the ani thread for the topic ban of our friend user hullabaloo. I am glad that went in my favour I believe it makes the encylopaedia better. I should just like to thank the Court for their careful decision. It is the right decision. I was unhappy to hear that I am not the only editor this person leaves abusive remarks on edit summaries. Thee and I can have a joke because we know it is a joke. I don't imagine we shall find that user at RfD very much. I have to make a very careful judgement call and I get it wrong some times. You put it better than I could. If someone in real life called me the things I did I would punch his lights out and wash his mouth out with soap and water. I can't do that on Wikipedia and the editor knows that. Nemo me impune lacessit and all that or in Lallans wha dar' meddl wi' me. I am really rather a placid person but get my goat up and I will get you a goat. No hang on that must be wrong. Si Trew ( talk) 13:08, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
I tried to keep the conversation in one place i.e. at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive923#Indiscriminate deletion tagging and utterly uncivil comments by User:SimonTrew but of course it seems to have spread to my talk page and other pages.
I try to explain to you my "erratic behaviour". When you're looking through a stack of Neelix redirects and this is just how the human brain works with pattern matching then after a while they all start to look the same. Then I deliberately change tack and look at something completely different so that I don't start listing loads that are superficially literally to the human eye similar but could well mean different things, then I switch back. So I have not been going through the list at all in any kind of linear fashion.
I had a very bad hand injury so I have not been typing too well so I realise I have more typing mistakes than usual. Actually in this message I seem to have managed none so far but that's a bit of a coincidence. One thing I was trying to do, just as a personal thing, was using going through the Neelix list as therapy for my hand injury to exercise it, manipulate it, and if that brings a bit of good to Wikipedia then all the better, but it was three very deep cuts on my right hand (I am right-handed but have been doing pretty much everything left-handed) that I got from picking up some bit of litter from the street, a bit of glass or sharp metal or something I don't know, and to type here and exercise it helps it out a lot.
I am not sure, because I have not and will not check, what your reference for the personal insult thing was but it may have been calling you a stupid Canuck. If you were offended by that, or by any other remark, I truly apologise because I am not in this world to hurt other people's feelings. It was meant purely as a joke and quite the opposite I have the utmost respect for you and all the hard work you do at WP and I know you work at places other than RfD. I probably just put it very badly and for that I can only sincerely apologise and ask you to accept my humble and sincere apologies. I am not trying to win any favours at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive923#Indiscriminate deletion tagging and utterly uncivil comments by User:SimonTrew here, not trying to WP:CANVASS, but if a man is in the wrong he stands up and says sorry and I was in the wrong. I get lots fired at me but that does not mean I should kinda ricochet one at you. I'm sorry. Si Trew ( talk) 23:43, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
I really do not mind if I am banned or not. I couldn't care less, I have other things to do in life. I have children's toys to mend which I can't quite do yet because of this hand injury then they can go to a nursery school. I have wallpaper to put up which I can't do yet but it has to wait. I am staying off that discussion because of the clean hands doctrine. WP:ANI is not a court of law, of course, but I am not going to go wandering in there with me size eleven steel toecaps and start barging around the "court". That would do no good to anyone. Certainly would do no good to me. But what I can do is say sorry when I have hurt someone's feelings. Si Trew ( talk) 23:51, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
Nor without the experts I call on User:Plantdrew and User:Peter coxhead are brilliant at taxonomy, User:Mjroots popped up unexpectedly the other day I was not sure if that user was active to do a railway one, User:Lenticel does the East Asian ones, I tend to take the European languages, User:Ivanvector and User:Tavix well I dunno the first is just some idiot Canuck so what does he know but they both do a lot of general mopping up, User:BDD is good in the background. It is starting to sound like an Oscars award ceremony I know but I think they should have some credit too because well we have got it done. They thought we'd never get it done and we did. I have probably missed a few so I apologise for that. User:Steel1943 is a stalwart, all the regs at RfD. TOGETHER WE DID IT. WE DID IT LIKE WHAT WIKIPEDIA SAID WE DID AS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TO MAKE THE ENCYLOPAEDIA BETTER. We did it.
Only another four lists to go! Si Trew ( talk) 17:08, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
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. Ring any bells? If you were treated as I am treated you would be as pissed off as I am. Try it, just try it for a couple of hourse trogging through the Neelix list and see how much abuse you get back. You're relatively polite but you're wrong. Zou post my comments on your talk page so I don't get a chance even to be notified of what is there, I don't watch your talk page. You'd think it weird if I did. Then you swear with your potty mouth that my grandfather would wash it out with soap and water, and then go around making more accusations. I expect it from people when I list redirects I did not expect it from you. You are no better than I am but at least I can put a sentence together without five f's in it.
Si Trew (
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00:33, 25 May 2016 (UTC)An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Hockey on the ice. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. . Right now this links to bandy, which is quite ridiculous if you ask me. Hockey on ice is ice hockey, and the redirect should justifiably go to that page. Sportsfan 1234 ( talk) 00:23, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
After the recent run-in you and I had I am glad at least we are on speaking terms. That was a bad one and if I said anything that personally offended you, again, I can only apologise. I am glad we are on speaking terms. I have to be cagey I don't know if that exists in canadian english but kinda stand off of things because with the Neelix redirects I really have to stand back and be kinda the judge and jury and I have to be very kinda stand-offish. I am glad we are on speaking terms. Let's get on with it. Si Trew ( talk) 23:42, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
User anarchyte is starting on the Neelix list. Unfortunately he (if he is a he) has tackled exactly one that I did yesterday and sent via CSD to delete a lot of them leaving a lot left because the kinda more sensible ones I left for another day, which seems to be today! So I am trying to have a kind word that these can go straight CSD rather than RfD under the WP:G6 Neelix concession and a word from you in the user's shell-like might be useful? Very keen editor and should not discourage that we might get there by Christmas 2018 if keeps up at this rate!
"Concession" maybe sounds odd to you does it? In Hamilton, Ontario it meant essentially a well how can I translate a block of things owned by the government and rented out. (Deliberately not trying to translate accurately) a housing estate. I know literally that the Canadian government, or rather the Ontario government, gave concessions to things to build this or that, I can't think of the English English word but actually yes in English English it would be to grant a concession a limited license essentially but that probably sounds very odd to you doesn't it? In fact my Canadian family lived on Concession Street. Must sound odd to you. Si Trew ( talk) 11:43, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
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... Look who's back! It's been a while. Steel1943 ( talk) 19:43, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ivanvector. I saw your post at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sevcohaha. I was not aware of the connection between the username and a real life individual. Would this particular choice of user name be, in your opinion, not allowed per WP:IMPERSONATE if this person is not the real " Helen Mitchell", regardless of whether the account is a sock of Sevcohaha? -- Marchjuly ( talk) 01:38, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Why are you reverting my edit which removes the Non-breaking space improperly given in a code example? Code examples, in their direct nature, are not meant for user readability, which the supposed reason you reverted my edit. The code example given for REDIRECT is broken because of the non-breaking space, which I am trying to remove. I opened a discussion about this on the relevant talk page, please respond there. ....SandwitchHawk.... ( talk) 02:00, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
So I say "Are you serious?" and you completely ignore my arguably uncivil comment and thank me. I need to take interpersonal skills training from you. Actually, I was more ticked off at the sockmaster and his endless use of different IPs that make a couple of edits and then stop. Almost every day someone brings IPs to SPI, and it's almost always a waste of time, even though it's understandable. Regards.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:58, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry my bad. I forgot to fix it when I copied it. Thanks. JLOPO ( talk) 22:42, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
Hello. Can you please tell why my SPI case [2] is not showing on the front page at WP:SPI? Have I done anything wrong? Thanks. Ramaswar57 ( talk) 17:36, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for the wb. There is always a time when my infuriation at minor errors and slips and stuff in Wikipedia outweigh, over the days, my infuriation at the people who cannot see why I am infuriated. I do think there are things wrong with banning someone immediately when they voice any legal concern – because then they have no chance to explain themselves, without subterfuge, before it gets out of hand and goes to court. Nevertheless, let that pass for now, I have backed down graciously although with rather a primary school finger telling me off.
You'll be pleased, or at least not surprised, that in the meantime I have redecorated my study and installed a new second-hand computer with a new second-hand hifi and a new second-hand cat. (Nah, actually it is the same cat, nobody would give me a trade-in). The cat quite likes cheddar and fortunately Hungarian Lidl has some nice strong English cheddar, he likes it much more than the local cheese (although he likes that too). I have been doing lots of painting and decorating and doing up the house while my wife has been working abroad, got two and a half rooms done and new electrics and stuff, so have not been exactly idle, but she can break things about as quick as I can fix them. I have painted nice rather turneresque violent seascape mural 15 feet (4.6 m) by 12 feet (3.7 m) on my next door neighbour's walls that face my study, with his consent cos he can't see that wall but it needed re- stuccoing anyway (strange Hungarians put plaster on the outside of the walls, so I did that) but the sea I painted at the bottom gives me a bit of mal de mer, perhaps I should concrete it back in again and have hovercraft and a hoverport instead of the tall ships and stuff. Still as eccentric, and still I hope that eccentricity is as valuable to wikipedia as it always has been, like a good spider lurking in corners and grabbing all the little bits of flotsam that come by so they don't bug other people. (If you can use flotsam for bugs floating in the air rather than things floating on the sea, not sure).
I had a great re-entry doing a rather uncontroversial article at WP:PNT from Spanish to English, which turned out to be a one-woman revolutionary party, so was not quite as uncontroversial as I first thought.. hey ho, I will immerse myself into the intelligentsia at RfD for a while, if that is OK with you.
Hope all is well with you and yours in Canadaland. Si Trew ( talk) 16:30, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
Sorry, I checked 27century for prior blocks, but didn't realise that there was an open SPI. I blocked User:FredericDe and User:Pablo Linz as duck blocks. I see that FredericDe was the account in the SPI - I had been looking into Pablo Linz and saw the connection with 27century, and then wondered about the article completed in 27century's sandbox, so made the same connection that Blythwood (and subsequently you) made with FredericDe. Pablo Linz is a clear paid editor, but also has sufficient editing similarities to 27century to have triggered this in the first place.
I've been finding that indefinitely blocking paid editors who (generally) disclose on their main account just leads to them relying entirely on throw-away socks and not disclosing at all, so I was hoping to convince 27century to stick to the one account and meet the relevant policies instead. It may be overly optimistic, though. - Bilby ( talk) 23:12, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
You moved the filing here, but the original move of the SPI was because this account was unrelated to the farm. Here, I'm specifically asking about this account as the other one (and the associated farm) has no bearing on this case as they are definitely not related. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 01:30, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
Well, I've been going through some Wikipedia relapses. You may delete this once you read it, I do not mind. I find it excruciatingly difficult to restrain myself from sharing my array of information on an open and well distributed encyclopedic database. The information I add is not even a fraction of the plethora of sourced and researched information I have. I understand that the reason I was blocked is because I warred instead of civily taking it to talk and presenting detailed evidence. However, I am afraid I have burned my bridges. I would just like an honest opinion from you; based on your knowledge of Wikipedia community, do you believe the 6 month wait to appeal could be worth it for me or should I give up entirely? I just want to know for my own mental sake over a 6 month period that could only lead to disappointment. And I also want people to stop calling my edits nationalistic. Some may have been wrongly portrayed by removing information and adding my own, I understand Wikipedia is a collection database of many sources. There is an editor on here who received an award for abundantly contributing to Bulgaria. I am not a petty nationalist! I just have an interest, but my information includes everything from Mexico to the Balkan and past Persia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.89.61.118 ( talk) 19:27, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
moved to User talk:Filipz123 Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 00:53, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I can't see why your're asking for a block here. This is a legitimate alternate account, and there's no policy requiring me to make it public. Please see Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Legitimate_uses for policy. If I'm wrong about this, please just point me at the policy. -- Markshale ( talk) 13:53, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
Regarding the notification policy: "Except when doing so would defeat the purpose of having a legitimate alternative account". My motivation in doing this is to protect my privacy: laptops can be stolen. I have never misused this alternative account: I take great care to make sure I use it within policy. -- Markshale ( talk) 13:57, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
You shouldn't need that. A checkuser should be able to verify what my main account is: I've edited from the same address on my main account today. Flyer22's accusations are completely illegitimate, and I'm really quite offended by them. -- Markshale ( talk) 14:06, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
I saw the conversations going on about alternate accounts and saw your comments that policy requires them to be disclosed. Can you point to the policy that says that because I can not find it? WP:ILLEGIT says: Editing project space: Undisclosed alternative accounts are not to be used in discussions internal to the project. WP:SCRUTINY also talks about undisclosed accounts. So if there is a different policy that says alternate accounts must be disclosed, we need to fix the policies so they don't contradict. -- GB fan 14:59, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
You previously made a change at Kim Kardashian that was later reverted without consensus. The outcome of the RfC (to restore your edit) has not been enforced. I cannot make the edit because the article is semi-protected. My edit request has not been answered. Would you care to restore your edit? 2A00:23C0:A680:CE00:35CA:C6EE:E7C2:F74D ( talk) 16:51, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ivanvector, I’ve just been having another look at your entry at WP:ORCP. It may well be time for you to start a new poll and see what happens. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 07:07, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
My comment was constructive criticism of the way accounts are being fished and reported under LX and none of them were confirmed as him. 19 accounts and none of them were him. Since you were involved editor, you should have open-heartedly accepted the criticism instead of reverting. Being a CheckUser Clerk or even a CheckUser does not give you immunity from constructive criticism. I do not think that my comment violated any policy and you overstepped when you removed it. It was directly related to that SPI and was added under the proper space available for other users to comment and it's not just you, there are others who have also made it a hobby of reporting any accounts they disagree with under LX. There are some who do nothing else except coming back after a while and report an LX sock. There is much more to do on Wikipedia than fishing and hunting socks of one master. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 16:12, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ivanvector, I've removed both April Fools threads at ANI, As you commented on one I feel it's only fair I tell you - I don't mind the whole AFDing and Mfding thing but I feel the jokes should be kept off of ANI as admins could potentionally miss important threads ... that and the fact if one editor starts a thread they all start one,
If you (or anyone else) believes they should remain then I have no objections to anyone reverting as you are an admin afterall but in my eyes these sorts of things should be kept off of ANI not potentially encouraged,
Many thanks, –
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).
Do User:70.49.231.184 and/or User:Katy Park look like socks of User:Soulspinr to you? If so could you please add them to the open SPI? Nixon Now ( talk) 11:39, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Ivanvector
I noticed a new account user:Kornblade was created some days back and its edits resemble VJ-Yugo's previous sock accounts. Its adding the same content in the Terrorism in Yugoslavia page [3] which you removed some time back [4]. Could you look into it. Best. Resnjari ( talk) 11:54, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hey, just a heads up, Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism is generally only for obvious spammers / vandals. If you are having sockpuppet issues, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations is the right place to report those. In other words, AIV isn't a one-stop block shop. SQL Query me! 22:18, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for doing the stub at
Talk:Cibuntu, Cigandamekar, Kuningan. I'm not sure if you know, the version number in the {{
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Si Trew (
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03:44, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi. While I disagree with your comment at Redirects for discussion regarding this redirect, and BDD's decision to close it, I understand your rationale. The issue is that the CSD was removed by an editor/admin (not sure, but I think they are an admin), who did not check any of the sources of the current article to see if the title was correct. I understand when a film is known by more than one name, like Portrait of Alison/Postmark for Danger, but that's not the case in this instance. The name is simply incorrect. BFI calls it by its correct name, IMDB calls it by its correct name, AFI calls it by its correct name, and contemporaneous sources call it by its correct name, yet Wikipedia has it by an incorrect name. Even the only other citation in the article calls it by its correct name. Regardless, if that's the way admins want it to appear on Wikipedia, no skin off my nose. Take care. Onel5969 TT me 02:02, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
I put semi-protection on the article a few hours ago to clamp down on drive-by IP assassination, but I see that the most recent revert was done by an "autoconfirmed" editor who came back just for that purpose after having not made a single edit to Wikipedia for almost nine months prior — and one of the IPs registered a brand new user name just to throw an allegation of biased editing at me on my user page. So, particularly given the autoconfirmed user, I'm soliciting opinions on whether I should escalate the page protection to full admin-only or not — I'd prefer not to, if at all possible, but I'm not sure what other choice we have if sleeper accounts are waking up just to attack her. Bearcat ( talk) 01:46, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Masterbated and Masterbatory. Since you had some involvement with these redirects, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — Godsy( TALK CONT) 20:51, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
You referenced an edit by Callmesir7 in one of your diffs in the SPI report for Fangusu. Do you suspect that editor is a sock as well? (I mean, that edit was their only edit; it may be inconclusive right now due to lack of evidence, but I was just wondering.) Steel1943 ( talk) 18:44, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
I need an unblock request from the user to act.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 20:53, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ivanvector! You've been interested in redirect categorization and the This is a redirect template in the past, so I wanted to let you know that there is a discussion at Template talk:This is a redirect#One parameter that might interest you. Good faith! Paine 21:12, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Sorry, but the redirect causes confusion for me. I find it necessary to start another discussion. I have all of the most recent info re: harry dennis (musician) after receiving updated information from him directly. I would like for the text box at the top of the page with the "warnings" to be removed. All of the info is linked or referenced to a point as not to oversaturate the page with info. Other information is self-reporting from my interview(s) with Mr. Dennis. Will you or someone remove the box that precedes the info because it is distracting to readers and in someway suggest that info is false or misleading. Harry Dennis is affiliated and knows the most notable personalities, musicians, dis, etc. in house music. When I learn how to insert images, I will insert a couple to support his information. Please respond to back directly to me because I may not find your answer in redirects. Thank you. --DA01 21:50, 19 February 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by DLOFT01 ( talk • contribs)
Hi Ivanvector,
I have been thinking the last couple of days, about Shlivovitz. I've decided to !vote for a weak keep for it, but the surprise to me is really that it got literally zero hits before the discussion at RfD. You would think it would get a few, since it's a fairly obvious misspelling (not to the online dictionaries an-other spelling, and my woodware dictionaries don't have it). And not even any bot hits.
It set me wondering, does the "autosearch" – I don't know the official name for this, but if you type a search in the Mozilla taskbar or another dropdown like that – does it automatically take you through the redirect without registering a hit for the redirect in the page log?
Since the autosearch detects and displays redirect titles, it obviously has some nous to the fact it's a redirect to another article (how clever its parsing is, I have no idea). If it then of its own volition performs the redirect, rather than letting the WP/Wikipmedia server do it by an HTTP request for the redirect page, then no hit count would appear in the page request log. (That, of course, is assuming that the search itself causes no hit to the page log – but that must be the case, else every single search result would be in the page log.)
If my premiss is right, this would mean we could never trust the stats for a redirect of itself because we don't know how many have been pre-empted, if that's the right word, by the autosearch doing the redirect itself and requesting not the redirect page but the target page. This of course benefits our readers (and HTTP servers) in not round-tripping via a redirect, but leaves us with queer stats for how many hits it gets.
The telling point, I think, – and both you and I have alluded to this in past RfD discussions – if is you hit a redirect for something but the page says it was redirected from somewhere else (or does not say it was redirected at all). I've not paid close attention to this.
You're better at this than I am, so perhaps a few words in the right places to the Wikimedia folks would clarify this? In the meantime, I am suspicious of obvious misspellings/alternative spellings and Rs without diacritics and so forth that are recorded as getting no hits.
Move this question to somewhere else if you think more appropriate.
Best as always. Si Trew ( talk) 16:24, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
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).Thanks to the whole debacle that we both know about, I've noticed that my ability to smell socks seems to have heightened. So, I'm wondering if you smell the same smell I am smelling when comparing these two accounts: Promise.scout vs. Prompri? It may also be worth stating that the latter account/editor erroneously declared themselves a "Wikipedia Online Ambassador" on their user page. Steel1943 ( talk) 21:39, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Reintroduced, Reintroducing, Reintroduction, and Reintroductions. Since you have had some involvement with the Reintroduced, Reintroducing, Reintroduction, and Reintroductions redirects (i.e. Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 February 5#Re-introductory), you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — Godsy( TALK CONT) 03:52, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
I read somewhere that you may think that a WP:DUCK WP:SPI "quick block" is a good idea. I may agree with that. In fact, I also think that there should probably be a guideline where sock masters with enough proven instances of socking should have official WP:SITEBANs. Steel1943 ( talk) 01:15, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
In case anyone comes by to confirm identities in an email I just sent: yes, it was me that sent it. Cheers. Ivanvector 🍁 ( talk) 14:49, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Have you changed your Sig lately (within the last couple of weeks)? It appears spanning multiple lines on my android tablet, lots of empty vertical whitespace. Only in edit window, the basic syntax highlighting edit box based one. Si Trew ( talk) 21:31, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
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tag in it, maybe your browser is misinterpreting it?
Ivanvector 🍁 (
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14:44, 6 April 2016 (UTC)I was just looking through my talk page of the discussion we had of whether A redirect -> B article mentions A redirect counts as a redirect loop. I dunno why but I never got back to you, I think "bounce back redirect" is the perfect term. Trampoline would be too obscure, but bounce back is common enough even stupid English people and half-awake Canadians know what that means. Brilliant term.
I tend to blank my talk page quite often so we better put this discussion somewhere, perhaps over on WT:RFD? I don't think that would hurt to do that, the discussion technically obviously didn't take place there but it is more easily accessible there than being buried in a user talk page that I regularly cut down (I leave the insults usually and delete the compliments). Si Trew ( talk) 05:07, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Note that I didn't receive any ping from you from a training subpage regarding Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Icerat/Archive. I don't even know where the training subpage is...-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:39, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ivanvector you are conspicuious by your absence at RfD. Is everything OK old bean? Nobody requires you to edit here but I am just a bit worried that you haven't been editing anything. Is it all right with you and yours? You have to get back cos there are lots of Canuck redirects from Neelix I need you to give a looksee. But enjoy your Wikibreak, as long as there is nothing wrong with you and yours that is fine, I am saying as a distant friend I do really care about you. No idea where you live in Ontario I guess, no idea what your real name is don't want to, but just a bit worried about you. Are you OK mate? Si Trew ( talk) 07:58, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
I back off that is fine thanks for the advice. When someone abuses me or hurts me I fight back. What would you do? But I appreciate the advice and I will back off. Si Trew ( talk) 21:33, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Si Trew ( talk) 21:42, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Abou Ben Adhem (May his tribe increase) Woke for a sleep with a deep dream of peace The Lord said now old Adem has gone, that's fine But I'll count him as one of mine
Wendy Cope I think but not sure. Si Trew ( talk) 04:28, 13 May 2016 (UTC): I am just going to take me coat and grab me hat Leave me worries n the doorstep (which is filthy) And just direct my feet To the sunny side of the street Can you hear that pitter-pat And that happy tune is your step Gold dust at my feet on the sunny side of the street I used to walk in the shade With those blues on parade Now i'm not afraid Moreover cross over If I never had a cent I'd be rich as Rockefeller Gold dust at my feet on the sunny side of the street. Bang bang in a four four D major now this is the problem with Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, as a porter or on the German railway. 04:36, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
And the confusion I originally caused here- sorry! Therer was no particular issue, and your revert was fine. I mean, iI wasn't that concerned whether it's a new thread or not. Also, apologies for not acknowledging you sooner- somehow I didn't get the ping, and just happened to see your edits whilst going through my own history. Cheers, Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 13:50, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Shurely that would be a neologism. Nice one! What would it possibly mean without well the obvious porno senses. Nice one! I note for the record that we do not actually have embeaver and if there is any danger of it being created I think we should kinda immediatelly revert it. Nice one. Si Trew ( talk) 08:31, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
My Ontarian Canadian family called it something and I can't remember what they called it, it is very odd in British English what is it. You know what I mean it has infrared thing and suddenly it goes from CBC to well CBC2! I am deliberately going round "The Projects" so as not to put words in your mouth I can just can never remember what it is in Canadian English. I'm not sure why I even want to know this except I hate having a gap in my memory. There is probably an article on remote control but deliberately not linking that they called it something different. The word made sense to me but not the meaning. Si Trew ( talk) 13:15, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
I have only looked at the ani thread for the topic ban of our friend user hullabaloo. I am glad that went in my favour I believe it makes the encylopaedia better. I should just like to thank the Court for their careful decision. It is the right decision. I was unhappy to hear that I am not the only editor this person leaves abusive remarks on edit summaries. Thee and I can have a joke because we know it is a joke. I don't imagine we shall find that user at RfD very much. I have to make a very careful judgement call and I get it wrong some times. You put it better than I could. If someone in real life called me the things I did I would punch his lights out and wash his mouth out with soap and water. I can't do that on Wikipedia and the editor knows that. Nemo me impune lacessit and all that or in Lallans wha dar' meddl wi' me. I am really rather a placid person but get my goat up and I will get you a goat. No hang on that must be wrong. Si Trew ( talk) 13:08, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
I tried to keep the conversation in one place i.e. at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive923#Indiscriminate deletion tagging and utterly uncivil comments by User:SimonTrew but of course it seems to have spread to my talk page and other pages.
I try to explain to you my "erratic behaviour". When you're looking through a stack of Neelix redirects and this is just how the human brain works with pattern matching then after a while they all start to look the same. Then I deliberately change tack and look at something completely different so that I don't start listing loads that are superficially literally to the human eye similar but could well mean different things, then I switch back. So I have not been going through the list at all in any kind of linear fashion.
I had a very bad hand injury so I have not been typing too well so I realise I have more typing mistakes than usual. Actually in this message I seem to have managed none so far but that's a bit of a coincidence. One thing I was trying to do, just as a personal thing, was using going through the Neelix list as therapy for my hand injury to exercise it, manipulate it, and if that brings a bit of good to Wikipedia then all the better, but it was three very deep cuts on my right hand (I am right-handed but have been doing pretty much everything left-handed) that I got from picking up some bit of litter from the street, a bit of glass or sharp metal or something I don't know, and to type here and exercise it helps it out a lot.
I am not sure, because I have not and will not check, what your reference for the personal insult thing was but it may have been calling you a stupid Canuck. If you were offended by that, or by any other remark, I truly apologise because I am not in this world to hurt other people's feelings. It was meant purely as a joke and quite the opposite I have the utmost respect for you and all the hard work you do at WP and I know you work at places other than RfD. I probably just put it very badly and for that I can only sincerely apologise and ask you to accept my humble and sincere apologies. I am not trying to win any favours at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive923#Indiscriminate deletion tagging and utterly uncivil comments by User:SimonTrew here, not trying to WP:CANVASS, but if a man is in the wrong he stands up and says sorry and I was in the wrong. I get lots fired at me but that does not mean I should kinda ricochet one at you. I'm sorry. Si Trew ( talk) 23:43, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
I really do not mind if I am banned or not. I couldn't care less, I have other things to do in life. I have children's toys to mend which I can't quite do yet because of this hand injury then they can go to a nursery school. I have wallpaper to put up which I can't do yet but it has to wait. I am staying off that discussion because of the clean hands doctrine. WP:ANI is not a court of law, of course, but I am not going to go wandering in there with me size eleven steel toecaps and start barging around the "court". That would do no good to anyone. Certainly would do no good to me. But what I can do is say sorry when I have hurt someone's feelings. Si Trew ( talk) 23:51, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
Nor without the experts I call on User:Plantdrew and User:Peter coxhead are brilliant at taxonomy, User:Mjroots popped up unexpectedly the other day I was not sure if that user was active to do a railway one, User:Lenticel does the East Asian ones, I tend to take the European languages, User:Ivanvector and User:Tavix well I dunno the first is just some idiot Canuck so what does he know but they both do a lot of general mopping up, User:BDD is good in the background. It is starting to sound like an Oscars award ceremony I know but I think they should have some credit too because well we have got it done. They thought we'd never get it done and we did. I have probably missed a few so I apologise for that. User:Steel1943 is a stalwart, all the regs at RfD. TOGETHER WE DID IT. WE DID IT LIKE WHAT WIKIPEDIA SAID WE DID AS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TO MAKE THE ENCYLOPAEDIA BETTER. We did it.
Only another four lists to go! Si Trew ( talk) 17:08, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
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. Ring any bells? If you were treated as I am treated you would be as pissed off as I am. Try it, just try it for a couple of hourse trogging through the Neelix list and see how much abuse you get back. You're relatively polite but you're wrong. Zou post my comments on your talk page so I don't get a chance even to be notified of what is there, I don't watch your talk page. You'd think it weird if I did. Then you swear with your potty mouth that my grandfather would wash it out with soap and water, and then go around making more accusations. I expect it from people when I list redirects I did not expect it from you. You are no better than I am but at least I can put a sentence together without five f's in it.
Si Trew (
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00:33, 25 May 2016 (UTC)An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Hockey on the ice. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. . Right now this links to bandy, which is quite ridiculous if you ask me. Hockey on ice is ice hockey, and the redirect should justifiably go to that page. Sportsfan 1234 ( talk) 00:23, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
After the recent run-in you and I had I am glad at least we are on speaking terms. That was a bad one and if I said anything that personally offended you, again, I can only apologise. I am glad we are on speaking terms. I have to be cagey I don't know if that exists in canadian english but kinda stand off of things because with the Neelix redirects I really have to stand back and be kinda the judge and jury and I have to be very kinda stand-offish. I am glad we are on speaking terms. Let's get on with it. Si Trew ( talk) 23:42, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
User anarchyte is starting on the Neelix list. Unfortunately he (if he is a he) has tackled exactly one that I did yesterday and sent via CSD to delete a lot of them leaving a lot left because the kinda more sensible ones I left for another day, which seems to be today! So I am trying to have a kind word that these can go straight CSD rather than RfD under the WP:G6 Neelix concession and a word from you in the user's shell-like might be useful? Very keen editor and should not discourage that we might get there by Christmas 2018 if keeps up at this rate!
"Concession" maybe sounds odd to you does it? In Hamilton, Ontario it meant essentially a well how can I translate a block of things owned by the government and rented out. (Deliberately not trying to translate accurately) a housing estate. I know literally that the Canadian government, or rather the Ontario government, gave concessions to things to build this or that, I can't think of the English English word but actually yes in English English it would be to grant a concession a limited license essentially but that probably sounds very odd to you doesn't it? In fact my Canadian family lived on Concession Street. Must sound odd to you. Si Trew ( talk) 11:43, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
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... Look who's back! It's been a while. Steel1943 ( talk) 19:43, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ivanvector. I saw your post at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sevcohaha. I was not aware of the connection between the username and a real life individual. Would this particular choice of user name be, in your opinion, not allowed per WP:IMPERSONATE if this person is not the real " Helen Mitchell", regardless of whether the account is a sock of Sevcohaha? -- Marchjuly ( talk) 01:38, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Why are you reverting my edit which removes the Non-breaking space improperly given in a code example? Code examples, in their direct nature, are not meant for user readability, which the supposed reason you reverted my edit. The code example given for REDIRECT is broken because of the non-breaking space, which I am trying to remove. I opened a discussion about this on the relevant talk page, please respond there. ....SandwitchHawk.... ( talk) 02:00, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
So I say "Are you serious?" and you completely ignore my arguably uncivil comment and thank me. I need to take interpersonal skills training from you. Actually, I was more ticked off at the sockmaster and his endless use of different IPs that make a couple of edits and then stop. Almost every day someone brings IPs to SPI, and it's almost always a waste of time, even though it's understandable. Regards.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:58, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry my bad. I forgot to fix it when I copied it. Thanks. JLOPO ( talk) 22:42, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
Hello. Can you please tell why my SPI case [2] is not showing on the front page at WP:SPI? Have I done anything wrong? Thanks. Ramaswar57 ( talk) 17:36, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for the wb. There is always a time when my infuriation at minor errors and slips and stuff in Wikipedia outweigh, over the days, my infuriation at the people who cannot see why I am infuriated. I do think there are things wrong with banning someone immediately when they voice any legal concern – because then they have no chance to explain themselves, without subterfuge, before it gets out of hand and goes to court. Nevertheless, let that pass for now, I have backed down graciously although with rather a primary school finger telling me off.
You'll be pleased, or at least not surprised, that in the meantime I have redecorated my study and installed a new second-hand computer with a new second-hand hifi and a new second-hand cat. (Nah, actually it is the same cat, nobody would give me a trade-in). The cat quite likes cheddar and fortunately Hungarian Lidl has some nice strong English cheddar, he likes it much more than the local cheese (although he likes that too). I have been doing lots of painting and decorating and doing up the house while my wife has been working abroad, got two and a half rooms done and new electrics and stuff, so have not been exactly idle, but she can break things about as quick as I can fix them. I have painted nice rather turneresque violent seascape mural 15 feet (4.6 m) by 12 feet (3.7 m) on my next door neighbour's walls that face my study, with his consent cos he can't see that wall but it needed re- stuccoing anyway (strange Hungarians put plaster on the outside of the walls, so I did that) but the sea I painted at the bottom gives me a bit of mal de mer, perhaps I should concrete it back in again and have hovercraft and a hoverport instead of the tall ships and stuff. Still as eccentric, and still I hope that eccentricity is as valuable to wikipedia as it always has been, like a good spider lurking in corners and grabbing all the little bits of flotsam that come by so they don't bug other people. (If you can use flotsam for bugs floating in the air rather than things floating on the sea, not sure).
I had a great re-entry doing a rather uncontroversial article at WP:PNT from Spanish to English, which turned out to be a one-woman revolutionary party, so was not quite as uncontroversial as I first thought.. hey ho, I will immerse myself into the intelligentsia at RfD for a while, if that is OK with you.
Hope all is well with you and yours in Canadaland. Si Trew ( talk) 16:30, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
Sorry, I checked 27century for prior blocks, but didn't realise that there was an open SPI. I blocked User:FredericDe and User:Pablo Linz as duck blocks. I see that FredericDe was the account in the SPI - I had been looking into Pablo Linz and saw the connection with 27century, and then wondered about the article completed in 27century's sandbox, so made the same connection that Blythwood (and subsequently you) made with FredericDe. Pablo Linz is a clear paid editor, but also has sufficient editing similarities to 27century to have triggered this in the first place.
I've been finding that indefinitely blocking paid editors who (generally) disclose on their main account just leads to them relying entirely on throw-away socks and not disclosing at all, so I was hoping to convince 27century to stick to the one account and meet the relevant policies instead. It may be overly optimistic, though. - Bilby ( talk) 23:12, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
You moved the filing here, but the original move of the SPI was because this account was unrelated to the farm. Here, I'm specifically asking about this account as the other one (and the associated farm) has no bearing on this case as they are definitely not related. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 01:30, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
Well, I've been going through some Wikipedia relapses. You may delete this once you read it, I do not mind. I find it excruciatingly difficult to restrain myself from sharing my array of information on an open and well distributed encyclopedic database. The information I add is not even a fraction of the plethora of sourced and researched information I have. I understand that the reason I was blocked is because I warred instead of civily taking it to talk and presenting detailed evidence. However, I am afraid I have burned my bridges. I would just like an honest opinion from you; based on your knowledge of Wikipedia community, do you believe the 6 month wait to appeal could be worth it for me or should I give up entirely? I just want to know for my own mental sake over a 6 month period that could only lead to disappointment. And I also want people to stop calling my edits nationalistic. Some may have been wrongly portrayed by removing information and adding my own, I understand Wikipedia is a collection database of many sources. There is an editor on here who received an award for abundantly contributing to Bulgaria. I am not a petty nationalist! I just have an interest, but my information includes everything from Mexico to the Balkan and past Persia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.89.61.118 ( talk) 19:27, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
moved to User talk:Filipz123 Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 00:53, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi. I can't see why your're asking for a block here. This is a legitimate alternate account, and there's no policy requiring me to make it public. Please see Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Legitimate_uses for policy. If I'm wrong about this, please just point me at the policy. -- Markshale ( talk) 13:53, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
Regarding the notification policy: "Except when doing so would defeat the purpose of having a legitimate alternative account". My motivation in doing this is to protect my privacy: laptops can be stolen. I have never misused this alternative account: I take great care to make sure I use it within policy. -- Markshale ( talk) 13:57, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
You shouldn't need that. A checkuser should be able to verify what my main account is: I've edited from the same address on my main account today. Flyer22's accusations are completely illegitimate, and I'm really quite offended by them. -- Markshale ( talk) 14:06, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
I saw the conversations going on about alternate accounts and saw your comments that policy requires them to be disclosed. Can you point to the policy that says that because I can not find it? WP:ILLEGIT says: Editing project space: Undisclosed alternative accounts are not to be used in discussions internal to the project. WP:SCRUTINY also talks about undisclosed accounts. So if there is a different policy that says alternate accounts must be disclosed, we need to fix the policies so they don't contradict. -- GB fan 14:59, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
You previously made a change at Kim Kardashian that was later reverted without consensus. The outcome of the RfC (to restore your edit) has not been enforced. I cannot make the edit because the article is semi-protected. My edit request has not been answered. Would you care to restore your edit? 2A00:23C0:A680:CE00:35CA:C6EE:E7C2:F74D ( talk) 16:51, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ivanvector, I’ve just been having another look at your entry at WP:ORCP. It may well be time for you to start a new poll and see what happens. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 07:07, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
My comment was constructive criticism of the way accounts are being fished and reported under LX and none of them were confirmed as him. 19 accounts and none of them were him. Since you were involved editor, you should have open-heartedly accepted the criticism instead of reverting. Being a CheckUser Clerk or even a CheckUser does not give you immunity from constructive criticism. I do not think that my comment violated any policy and you overstepped when you removed it. It was directly related to that SPI and was added under the proper space available for other users to comment and it's not just you, there are others who have also made it a hobby of reporting any accounts they disagree with under LX. There are some who do nothing else except coming back after a while and report an LX sock. There is much more to do on Wikipedia than fishing and hunting socks of one master. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 16:12, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ivanvector, I've removed both April Fools threads at ANI, As you commented on one I feel it's only fair I tell you - I don't mind the whole AFDing and Mfding thing but I feel the jokes should be kept off of ANI as admins could potentionally miss important threads ... that and the fact if one editor starts a thread they all start one,
If you (or anyone else) believes they should remain then I have no objections to anyone reverting as you are an admin afterall but in my eyes these sorts of things should be kept off of ANI not potentially encouraged,
Many thanks, –
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).
Do User:70.49.231.184 and/or User:Katy Park look like socks of User:Soulspinr to you? If so could you please add them to the open SPI? Nixon Now ( talk) 11:39, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Ivanvector
I noticed a new account user:Kornblade was created some days back and its edits resemble VJ-Yugo's previous sock accounts. Its adding the same content in the Terrorism in Yugoslavia page [3] which you removed some time back [4]. Could you look into it. Best. Resnjari ( talk) 11:54, 2 April 2018 (UTC)