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Hello, I like to report a problem of a user targeting me and messing up my edits and it is no coincidence.
He hounded me on these articles after started a dispute with me on one of them before he was warned to stop hounding Beyond My Ken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Japanese_migration_to_Indonesia&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Chinese_Filipino&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Chinese_Indonesians&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Peranakans&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Persecution_of_Muslims&action=history
He hounded me on these articles both before and after he was warned to never hound an opponent again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Free_China_(Second_Sino-Japanese_War)&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Jambi_Sultanate&action=history
He hounded me on these articles after the warning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Empresa_de_China&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=China_Marines&diff=prev&oldid=1162971180
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Liver_(food)&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Chiragh_Kush&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Persecution_of_Yazidis&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Alawites&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Battle_of_West_Hunan&action=history
Also this is your warning to the user in question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:NmWTfs85lXusaybq&diff=prev&oldid=1151142165 Yaujj13 ( talk) 02:25, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
I will not edit any Wikipedia pages unless there are minor error. You can check our Interaction Timeline here. NmWTfs85lXusaybq ( talk) 05:30, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Could you please have a look at this AN3 thread? The disruption is ongoing and it hasn't received attention from an uninvolved admin despite being open for over three hours. — SamX [ talk · contribs 04:39, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
It's been 9 days since the SPI was last edited and SPI is pretty badly backlogged. Given that Dreamy Jazz and I found evidence supporting that this is a case of socking, I think you have the evidence to make a block. Jasper Deng (talk) 08:02, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello i noticed that you took part in my WP:AE report regarding the use of folkloric sources. I just had a question, is it allowed to elaborate some more about the WP:AE in other admin talk pages? because only 500 words are allowed in the report itself and i understand that it could be difficult for most to jump into that topic and read through all talk pages. The mixing of folktales to change an entire ethnicity of a historical figure was done by the user i reported after i provided evidence of the historical figure existing in history as you can see here:
Does this not directly go against Wikipedia's policy? i demonstrated in the WP:AE that he has a history of doing it as well which you noticed. Could you please check the diffs whenever you have time. Goddard2000 ( talk) 14:50, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
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Me and another editor have recently been arguing over the budget for Indiana Jones 5. Sources place the budget between $250 million and $400 million. It’s not unusual for such a big film to have a large budget discrepancy. This editor however has taken it into his own hands to continuously revert the budget to $300 million, as one source states. Instead of keeping the page as it was before the dispute and waiting for a consensus at the talk page, he keeps reverting the budget back to what he feels is the correct amount. I simply think we should wait until a consensus at the talk page and keep the budget the way it was before the dispute until a decision is reached. I would appreciate you stepping in to help clean up the situation, whether your help benefits me or the other user. Thanks Zvig47 ( talk) 00:57, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
“That insane bloated 300 mil price tag for Indy 5 doesn’t even include marketing costs, which is likely around $150+ million at least (i.e.bombing for the same reason as “The Flash” which has earned back more than its $220 mil production budget yet is still a HUGE flop when taking in account its roughly $150+ marketing budget which isn’t included in that initial $220 number).”(End quote)
do not synthesize…Avoid weasel words. If any form of paraphrasing is disputed, quote the source directly." and per MOS:FILMLEAD
“Any summary of the film's reception should avoid synthesis, meaning it should reflect an overall consensus explicitly summarized by one or more recent reliable sources” (i.e.in the form of a press consensus).
Greetings,
It looks like you had semi-protected Elissa Slotkin the other day in response to the large volume of controversial edits by IPs about her political positions. Well, it would appear that those IPs have set up accounts and have been aggressively attempting to push through those very same edits, despite opposition and reverts by a host of editors. I was wondering if you'd be open to increasing the protection level again. Best, Cpotisch ( talk) 06:52, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
...Reason l asked about that, is that can something like that be used without it being pornographic. I've seen videos on other articles that could be considered controversial - to put it politely. I see your reasoning on this matter. Now that business is out of the way, where is the WP:sandbox at, so I can play on it? Thanks. 😺😺😺😺😘🥰 Nuclear Sergeant ( talk) 04:45, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
Shouldn't this one have been anon-only? Plenty of non-blocked registered users from there. --jpgordon 𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 14:32, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
I didn't want to do that, it was a mistake, you can take off protection. I won't change anything 95.232.207.193 ( talk) 20:42, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Please stop blocking discussion of an obvious unresolved issue at Talk:Hunter Biden. There should be evenly used and unbiased editorial standards and a discussion clearly reveals there isn’t. You just stopped debate by closing a discussion and threatening anyone who attempts to further discuss with a block.
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::Thanks for the cordial reply. But here’s my issue: Why is it that if you go onto the webpages of politicians who aren’t so favorable with the left, that we do the exact opposite and we do name their minor children? It would seem to me that if it was truly unbiased and people just cared about protecting innocent children, that if made aware of such a thing, the people who were so involved in debating it on the Hunter Biden page would hastily go over there and remove the content, but they don’t. And I’m pretty sure that if I myself went over there and remove the content, that someone (perhaps even someone who watched my edit at the Hunter Biden page), would revert it. So it really seems like there’s bias here and perhaps certain things are being redacted or allowed to stay for political reasons.
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Hi, John. We need to change the name of the article to National Training School for Music (consensus on Talk page), but there is a redirect blocking the way. Can you help us move it, please? -- Ssilvers ( talk) 18:01, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
While I like to think of myself as even-keeled, that subject is one that sort of immediately raises my hackles. A rational voice from outside is always a good thing. Cheers. Dumuzid ( talk) 13:54, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Johnuniq, hope all is well. Recall this conversation about 2 years ago: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module_talk:NUMBEROF .. after that I setup a watch to notify whenever the module changed. It looks like the same user has returned and made optimizations again. What do you think? -- Green C 21:43, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
{{
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Someone just moved a film title to Fitting In (2023 film), but it should be just "Fitting In", right? A redirect is in the way. Would you kindly fix the conflict? The previous title was Bloody Hell (2023 film). If you search for just "Fitting In", it brings you to another redirect. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 17:42, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Also, User:Sbirdelevation keeps edit warring (using both the user name and an IP), making it impossible for me to fix the text per the MOS. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 17:44, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
The mass of an electron is 9.109 383 7015×10−31 kg. Converting to grams gives 9.109 383 7015×10−28 g. Rounding to the nearest power of ten gives 1×10−27 g which is 1 rg. Just like The Guardian says. That problem fixed along with an editor who just doesn't get the idea of round numbers. Jc3s5h ( talk) 11:16, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
I am asking for your assistance to resolve the situation here before it has a chance to escalate. Thanks in advance. MSportWiki ( talk) 12:18, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
This IP's edit summaries have to be seen to be believed: [1]. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 15:19, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
What is the right thing to do here? As you can see, there have been at least 2 proposals here today (both opposed) to either delete the page or make it a disambiguation page. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 05:34, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! Thank you for blocking the IPs I reported. Just out of curiosity, how do you see what range of IPs does a certain IP belong to? Is there any article I could read to get informed on how the system works? In this particular case there were two IPs: 2600:4040:9306:9f00:e115:5e1e:435:8eff and 2600:4040:9306:9F00:145C:DF43:8714:9967. How did you come up with 2600:4040:9306:9F00:0:0:0:0/64? It would definitely help me to report vandalism more precisely. Thank you in advance Aspilemetala ( talk) 22:54, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, you might be interested in this discussion. I'm not sure how to proceed next or replicate the problem. If it's not an easy fix, can change the data back to the way it was before. -- Green C 15:52, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Matr1x-101 has asked for a deletion review of African eelephant. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. — Cryptic 17:15, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
I've just now swapped a FREELIBRARY url for a HighBeam archive-url in this article. The Free Library provides complete rendition of the particular article and the HighBeam was partial. (Because the HighBeam-archive url is not used, the "subscription" portion of the citation does not apply.) I trust this bit of fiddling is acceptable. – S. Rich ( talk) 00:12, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Can you revdel that? I handed in the bit for a while or I would have myself. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 03:05, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Shakespeare authorship question#Motion: Removal of Unused Contentious Topics, Shakespeare authorship question (October 2023). Tom Reedy ( talk) 16:24, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Should this account be indeffed? It looks like all the edits are vandalism. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 23:51, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Johnuniq, you recently closed Infinity Knight's appeal.
I've read through the ArbCom remedies, and frankly, the ban is way out of line. There is just no authority for it. Sysops can only invoke the sanctions if certain conditions are met. They were obviously not met here.
There are other issues (some of which I've already raised). In your response to the appeal, you linked to a thread in which you accused IN of sealioning. I don't think it was appropriate for you to then be the one to make the close.
I've got no connection with this bloke, but I really have an issue with how this has been handled. I've come across the user multiple times on Israel-Palestine articles, and it strikes me that he is not dissimulating or stonewalling when he appeals to policy. He is genuinely trying, and I hate to see him cut off at the knees.
I'm appealing to your better angels to self-revert the close, even if you cannot overturn the ban. Riposte97 ( talk) 09:54, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
What is your business reverting my spelling corrections, with comments like "where is that supported?", "is there a discussion somewhere supporting this?", and "that's terrible"? Why did you not do your own research to find out why "one's complement" is actually nonsense, or start a discussion before reverting these corrections, all motivated by an argument from incredulity? Did you even consult Wikipedia itself? It has a redirection from "One's complement" to "Ones' complement", so even if you misspelled it you would find the article with the correct spelling, and it immediately explains that spelling, in the first paragraph. Or, if you don't trust Wikipedia, you can read all about it in Donald E. Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Please undo these reversions yourself! — RFST ( talk) 10:56, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
spelling per [[Ones' complement]]
" which would display as "spelling per
Ones' complement" in an edit summary.
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Would you kindly semi-protect Back to the Future: The Musical? An IP has long been edit warring to change dates from a correct date to an incorrect date (using several IP addresses). -- Ssilvers ( talk) 03:54, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
This editor has been making numerous and entirely(?) unconstructive edits for more than two years and has been cautioned repeatedly. Is enough enough? -- Ssilvers ( talk) 23:19, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I have made an edit request for the page Bajirao I. Fortunately, you considered that, but please check that the page is not protected yet but you have made an edit summary. Hope you fix that. Thank you! Ajayraj890 ( talk) 13:13, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
For the record and as expected, this was another sock.
Johnuniq ( talk) 05:04, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello Johnunig, As you have previously protected the [[Areciibo message]] page: could I bring to your attention the activities of {{userlinks|Ksparkler}} recent "contributions" to this page. Not only have they have indulged in edit warring - four reverts in the last 24 hours - they have also been delibrately rude and indulged in shouting (caps) to try and get their points across - see [[Talk:Funnyfarmofdoom]]. This appears to be a user for one item only, but I do feel they have taken no notice of any warning(s) and maybe a short block would stop their poor actions on Wikipedia. Best regards, David J Johnson ( talk) 16:26, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
There is a lot of edit warring by IPs here. Would you kindly semi-protect the page? Also, should anything else be done to caution this IP in a meaningful way? All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 00:33, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi. What did you mean here by "just about any non-gnome edit is a revert"? I came here to ask because I'm not sure if / where I'm allowed to respond there (it seems i already got it wrong once or twice)? The OP seems to be counting A LOT of things as reverts that seem unreasonable? or inexplicable. Irtapil ( talk) 08:57, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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There are some persistent IP vandals at The Sound of Music (or one using several IP addresses). Would you please take a look? -- Ssilvers ( talk) 05:02, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
As per the page protection request for Maharlika Nation, I'm notifying you that the user concern still insist on maintaining their version with the WP:OR content. Repeated reasoning with the user involved has been to no avail and there has been no response ever since I talked about them about the apparent junking of a legal case involving the group which they sourced through a poor image copy of the ruling through Facebook. Hariboneagle927 ( talk) 10:36, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Johnuniq. You topic banned me from deletion related requests a while ago due the outcome of a discussion at ANU. At the time you decided to include redirecting articles in thst even though it had nothing to do with ANU complaint or original issues. Regardless, I've had zero problems since then. So I was wondering if you'd be willing to make an exception in the topic ban for redircting articles. I tried to appeal the topic ban it unfortunately seems to have failed. I don't think I deserve to be banned from doing things that weren't an issue to begin with though. Especially considering I've done nothing wrong since then, related to the area I'm topic banned from or otherwise. Thanks. Adamant1 ( talk) 07:31, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
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I think this article should be the actual article name (small t in "the"), and the other one should be the redirect (per MOS:AT and WP:LOWERCASE): Theatre Under the Stars (Houston). If you agree, would you please switch them? (should "under" also begin with a small "u"?) -- Ssilvers ( talk) 00:10, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
For more than once clearly stating what I failed to express at WT:ACCESS#Making redundant table captions screen-reader-only. I fully concur with your latest reply there and I no longer really see a use for my input if you can express what I believe should be done going forward more succinctly than I. It appears nothing I say will convince SMcCandlish that I intended my thread to be: "Nkon21 is doing this. What do people think?" and if a number of users had said "it's fine to do this", I would have agreed and let Nkon21 proceed without raising any further issues. Instead I've apparently been a "strain on editorial good will" and some such. It was causing me distress late last month to be accused of all of these things that I genuinely did not intend to do, now SMcCandlish is repeating it when I thought it was resolved. I give up on that thread. I'm not sure if you intend to continue participating in that thread, but if there's anything further raised about how to continue from Nkon21 or anybody else, I think you'd have the best way of wording it. Also, apologies in advance for not pressing "+" to start a new section. Ss 112 16:25, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
If you actually want some kind of explicit rule about this, then you could RfC it, and it's probably the only way to get to a restriction against hiding redundant captions, if that were the goal. I think the things against that idea are multiple: 1) Hiding redundant captions is a net benefit at no cost, and it does not qualify as cosmetic under WP's definition; 2) there is no policy or guideline it is against; 3) banning it would be against WP:EDITING policy since we are free to make constructive edits as long as they are not against some other guideline, policy, or community principle (including harming accessibility or causing some other serious problem); 4) the entire rationale behind the idea simply seems to be that a sentence at MOS:ACCESS#Table captions about captions isn't as clear as it could be, yet the fix for that is obvious: adjust the sentence; and 5) the community is reluctant to impose new rules per WP:CREEP and especially new MoS ones per WP:MOSBLOAT. That's a lot to overcome.
Clearly, the best approach (which would likely not require an RfC, being WP:COMMONSENSE copyediting) is simply clarifying the MOS:ACCESS sentence to make it clear that table captions have to be present but need not be visible to non-screenreader users if they are simply repeating the table headers. Well, unless you really are wanting to prohibit {{ sronly}}-ing of redundant captions because you agree with Ss112's [ostensible] position on the matter, in which case you have an editorial community to convince that there's a good rationale for such a global restriction. I'm not presenting this as an argument to have, I'm just observing what the likely responses will be and on what grounds, based on lots and lots of MoS-related RfCs over the years. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 16:28, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
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I think you created a redirect to itself. Do you have any idea where this page should point to or if it needs to be moved to a different page title? Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 07:17, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi i saw you reverted my edit on the convolution page: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Convolution&diff=1190905497&oldid=1190641647 Can you suggest a better first sentence than mine? The one you reverted to is quite imprecise. DMH43 ( talk) 16:01, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
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I understand it has been only an hour since the protection I requested for this article was denied however what I suggested would happen is happening and its just causing unnecessary back and forth editing and reverting. Brandon Downes ( talk) 03:17, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi there, apologies for reverting you but that IP ( 184.22.29.241 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) was actually reverting the other IP 91.184.122.0/23 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · block user · block log) as the latter is a rampant LTA on numerous company articles for quite some time now. John Yunshire ( talk) 05:39, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, I like to report a problem of a user targeting me and messing up my edits and it is no coincidence.
He hounded me on these articles after started a dispute with me on one of them before he was warned to stop hounding Beyond My Ken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Japanese_migration_to_Indonesia&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Chinese_Filipino&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Chinese_Indonesians&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Peranakans&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Persecution_of_Muslims&action=history
He hounded me on these articles both before and after he was warned to never hound an opponent again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Free_China_(Second_Sino-Japanese_War)&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Jambi_Sultanate&action=history
He hounded me on these articles after the warning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Empresa_de_China&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=China_Marines&diff=prev&oldid=1162971180
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Liver_(food)&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Chiragh_Kush&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Persecution_of_Yazidis&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Alawites&action=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Battle_of_West_Hunan&action=history
Also this is your warning to the user in question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:NmWTfs85lXusaybq&diff=prev&oldid=1151142165 Yaujj13 ( talk) 02:25, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
I will not edit any Wikipedia pages unless there are minor error. You can check our Interaction Timeline here. NmWTfs85lXusaybq ( talk) 05:30, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Could you please have a look at this AN3 thread? The disruption is ongoing and it hasn't received attention from an uninvolved admin despite being open for over three hours. — SamX [ talk · contribs 04:39, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
It's been 9 days since the SPI was last edited and SPI is pretty badly backlogged. Given that Dreamy Jazz and I found evidence supporting that this is a case of socking, I think you have the evidence to make a block. Jasper Deng (talk) 08:02, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello i noticed that you took part in my WP:AE report regarding the use of folkloric sources. I just had a question, is it allowed to elaborate some more about the WP:AE in other admin talk pages? because only 500 words are allowed in the report itself and i understand that it could be difficult for most to jump into that topic and read through all talk pages. The mixing of folktales to change an entire ethnicity of a historical figure was done by the user i reported after i provided evidence of the historical figure existing in history as you can see here:
Does this not directly go against Wikipedia's policy? i demonstrated in the WP:AE that he has a history of doing it as well which you noticed. Could you please check the diffs whenever you have time. Goddard2000 ( talk) 14:50, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
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I only recently discovered {{ IP range calculator}} and it's quickly become something I use all the time. It's so helpful to be able to see different combinations of ranges. Thank you, eight-and-a-half years later! DanCherek ( talk) 01:27, 13 July 2023 (UTC) |
Me and another editor have recently been arguing over the budget for Indiana Jones 5. Sources place the budget between $250 million and $400 million. It’s not unusual for such a big film to have a large budget discrepancy. This editor however has taken it into his own hands to continuously revert the budget to $300 million, as one source states. Instead of keeping the page as it was before the dispute and waiting for a consensus at the talk page, he keeps reverting the budget back to what he feels is the correct amount. I simply think we should wait until a consensus at the talk page and keep the budget the way it was before the dispute until a decision is reached. I would appreciate you stepping in to help clean up the situation, whether your help benefits me or the other user. Thanks Zvig47 ( talk) 00:57, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
“That insane bloated 300 mil price tag for Indy 5 doesn’t even include marketing costs, which is likely around $150+ million at least (i.e.bombing for the same reason as “The Flash” which has earned back more than its $220 mil production budget yet is still a HUGE flop when taking in account its roughly $150+ marketing budget which isn’t included in that initial $220 number).”(End quote)
do not synthesize…Avoid weasel words. If any form of paraphrasing is disputed, quote the source directly." and per MOS:FILMLEAD
“Any summary of the film's reception should avoid synthesis, meaning it should reflect an overall consensus explicitly summarized by one or more recent reliable sources” (i.e.in the form of a press consensus).
Greetings,
It looks like you had semi-protected Elissa Slotkin the other day in response to the large volume of controversial edits by IPs about her political positions. Well, it would appear that those IPs have set up accounts and have been aggressively attempting to push through those very same edits, despite opposition and reverts by a host of editors. I was wondering if you'd be open to increasing the protection level again. Best, Cpotisch ( talk) 06:52, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
...Reason l asked about that, is that can something like that be used without it being pornographic. I've seen videos on other articles that could be considered controversial - to put it politely. I see your reasoning on this matter. Now that business is out of the way, where is the WP:sandbox at, so I can play on it? Thanks. 😺😺😺😺😘🥰 Nuclear Sergeant ( talk) 04:45, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
Shouldn't this one have been anon-only? Plenty of non-blocked registered users from there. --jpgordon 𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 14:32, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
I didn't want to do that, it was a mistake, you can take off protection. I won't change anything 95.232.207.193 ( talk) 20:42, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Please stop blocking discussion of an obvious unresolved issue at Talk:Hunter Biden. There should be evenly used and unbiased editorial standards and a discussion clearly reveals there isn’t. You just stopped debate by closing a discussion and threatening anyone who attempts to further discuss with a block.
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::Thanks for the cordial reply. But here’s my issue: Why is it that if you go onto the webpages of politicians who aren’t so favorable with the left, that we do the exact opposite and we do name their minor children? It would seem to me that if it was truly unbiased and people just cared about protecting innocent children, that if made aware of such a thing, the people who were so involved in debating it on the Hunter Biden page would hastily go over there and remove the content, but they don’t. And I’m pretty sure that if I myself went over there and remove the content, that someone (perhaps even someone who watched my edit at the Hunter Biden page), would revert it. So it really seems like there’s bias here and perhaps certain things are being redacted or allowed to stay for political reasons.
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Hi, John. We need to change the name of the article to National Training School for Music (consensus on Talk page), but there is a redirect blocking the way. Can you help us move it, please? -- Ssilvers ( talk) 18:01, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
While I like to think of myself as even-keeled, that subject is one that sort of immediately raises my hackles. A rational voice from outside is always a good thing. Cheers. Dumuzid ( talk) 13:54, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Johnuniq, hope all is well. Recall this conversation about 2 years ago: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module_talk:NUMBEROF .. after that I setup a watch to notify whenever the module changed. It looks like the same user has returned and made optimizations again. What do you think? -- Green C 21:43, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
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Someone just moved a film title to Fitting In (2023 film), but it should be just "Fitting In", right? A redirect is in the way. Would you kindly fix the conflict? The previous title was Bloody Hell (2023 film). If you search for just "Fitting In", it brings you to another redirect. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 17:42, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Also, User:Sbirdelevation keeps edit warring (using both the user name and an IP), making it impossible for me to fix the text per the MOS. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 17:44, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
The mass of an electron is 9.109 383 7015×10−31 kg. Converting to grams gives 9.109 383 7015×10−28 g. Rounding to the nearest power of ten gives 1×10−27 g which is 1 rg. Just like The Guardian says. That problem fixed along with an editor who just doesn't get the idea of round numbers. Jc3s5h ( talk) 11:16, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
I am asking for your assistance to resolve the situation here before it has a chance to escalate. Thanks in advance. MSportWiki ( talk) 12:18, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
This IP's edit summaries have to be seen to be believed: [1]. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 15:19, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
What is the right thing to do here? As you can see, there have been at least 2 proposals here today (both opposed) to either delete the page or make it a disambiguation page. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 05:34, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! Thank you for blocking the IPs I reported. Just out of curiosity, how do you see what range of IPs does a certain IP belong to? Is there any article I could read to get informed on how the system works? In this particular case there were two IPs: 2600:4040:9306:9f00:e115:5e1e:435:8eff and 2600:4040:9306:9F00:145C:DF43:8714:9967. How did you come up with 2600:4040:9306:9F00:0:0:0:0/64? It would definitely help me to report vandalism more precisely. Thank you in advance Aspilemetala ( talk) 22:54, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, you might be interested in this discussion. I'm not sure how to proceed next or replicate the problem. If it's not an easy fix, can change the data back to the way it was before. -- Green C 15:52, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Matr1x-101 has asked for a deletion review of African eelephant. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. — Cryptic 17:15, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
I've just now swapped a FREELIBRARY url for a HighBeam archive-url in this article. The Free Library provides complete rendition of the particular article and the HighBeam was partial. (Because the HighBeam-archive url is not used, the "subscription" portion of the citation does not apply.) I trust this bit of fiddling is acceptable. – S. Rich ( talk) 00:12, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Can you revdel that? I handed in the bit for a while or I would have myself. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 03:05, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Shakespeare authorship question#Motion: Removal of Unused Contentious Topics, Shakespeare authorship question (October 2023). Tom Reedy ( talk) 16:24, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Should this account be indeffed? It looks like all the edits are vandalism. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 23:51, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Johnuniq, you recently closed Infinity Knight's appeal.
I've read through the ArbCom remedies, and frankly, the ban is way out of line. There is just no authority for it. Sysops can only invoke the sanctions if certain conditions are met. They were obviously not met here.
There are other issues (some of which I've already raised). In your response to the appeal, you linked to a thread in which you accused IN of sealioning. I don't think it was appropriate for you to then be the one to make the close.
I've got no connection with this bloke, but I really have an issue with how this has been handled. I've come across the user multiple times on Israel-Palestine articles, and it strikes me that he is not dissimulating or stonewalling when he appeals to policy. He is genuinely trying, and I hate to see him cut off at the knees.
I'm appealing to your better angels to self-revert the close, even if you cannot overturn the ban. Riposte97 ( talk) 09:54, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
What is your business reverting my spelling corrections, with comments like "where is that supported?", "is there a discussion somewhere supporting this?", and "that's terrible"? Why did you not do your own research to find out why "one's complement" is actually nonsense, or start a discussion before reverting these corrections, all motivated by an argument from incredulity? Did you even consult Wikipedia itself? It has a redirection from "One's complement" to "Ones' complement", so even if you misspelled it you would find the article with the correct spelling, and it immediately explains that spelling, in the first paragraph. Or, if you don't trust Wikipedia, you can read all about it in Donald E. Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Please undo these reversions yourself! — RFST ( talk) 10:56, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
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Would you kindly semi-protect Back to the Future: The Musical? An IP has long been edit warring to change dates from a correct date to an incorrect date (using several IP addresses). -- Ssilvers ( talk) 03:54, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
This editor has been making numerous and entirely(?) unconstructive edits for more than two years and has been cautioned repeatedly. Is enough enough? -- Ssilvers ( talk) 23:19, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I have made an edit request for the page Bajirao I. Fortunately, you considered that, but please check that the page is not protected yet but you have made an edit summary. Hope you fix that. Thank you! Ajayraj890 ( talk) 13:13, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
For the record and as expected, this was another sock.
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Hello Johnunig, As you have previously protected the [[Areciibo message]] page: could I bring to your attention the activities of {{userlinks|Ksparkler}} recent "contributions" to this page. Not only have they have indulged in edit warring - four reverts in the last 24 hours - they have also been delibrately rude and indulged in shouting (caps) to try and get their points across - see [[Talk:Funnyfarmofdoom]]. This appears to be a user for one item only, but I do feel they have taken no notice of any warning(s) and maybe a short block would stop their poor actions on Wikipedia. Best regards, David J Johnson ( talk) 16:26, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
There is a lot of edit warring by IPs here. Would you kindly semi-protect the page? Also, should anything else be done to caution this IP in a meaningful way? All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 00:33, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi. What did you mean here by "just about any non-gnome edit is a revert"? I came here to ask because I'm not sure if / where I'm allowed to respond there (it seems i already got it wrong once or twice)? The OP seems to be counting A LOT of things as reverts that seem unreasonable? or inexplicable. Irtapil ( talk) 08:57, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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There are some persistent IP vandals at The Sound of Music (or one using several IP addresses). Would you please take a look? -- Ssilvers ( talk) 05:02, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
As per the page protection request for Maharlika Nation, I'm notifying you that the user concern still insist on maintaining their version with the WP:OR content. Repeated reasoning with the user involved has been to no avail and there has been no response ever since I talked about them about the apparent junking of a legal case involving the group which they sourced through a poor image copy of the ruling through Facebook. Hariboneagle927 ( talk) 10:36, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Johnuniq. You topic banned me from deletion related requests a while ago due the outcome of a discussion at ANU. At the time you decided to include redirecting articles in thst even though it had nothing to do with ANU complaint or original issues. Regardless, I've had zero problems since then. So I was wondering if you'd be willing to make an exception in the topic ban for redircting articles. I tried to appeal the topic ban it unfortunately seems to have failed. I don't think I deserve to be banned from doing things that weren't an issue to begin with though. Especially considering I've done nothing wrong since then, related to the area I'm topic banned from or otherwise. Thanks. Adamant1 ( talk) 07:31, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
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I think this article should be the actual article name (small t in "the"), and the other one should be the redirect (per MOS:AT and WP:LOWERCASE): Theatre Under the Stars (Houston). If you agree, would you please switch them? (should "under" also begin with a small "u"?) -- Ssilvers ( talk) 00:10, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
For more than once clearly stating what I failed to express at WT:ACCESS#Making redundant table captions screen-reader-only. I fully concur with your latest reply there and I no longer really see a use for my input if you can express what I believe should be done going forward more succinctly than I. It appears nothing I say will convince SMcCandlish that I intended my thread to be: "Nkon21 is doing this. What do people think?" and if a number of users had said "it's fine to do this", I would have agreed and let Nkon21 proceed without raising any further issues. Instead I've apparently been a "strain on editorial good will" and some such. It was causing me distress late last month to be accused of all of these things that I genuinely did not intend to do, now SMcCandlish is repeating it when I thought it was resolved. I give up on that thread. I'm not sure if you intend to continue participating in that thread, but if there's anything further raised about how to continue from Nkon21 or anybody else, I think you'd have the best way of wording it. Also, apologies in advance for not pressing "+" to start a new section. Ss 112 16:25, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
If you actually want some kind of explicit rule about this, then you could RfC it, and it's probably the only way to get to a restriction against hiding redundant captions, if that were the goal. I think the things against that idea are multiple: 1) Hiding redundant captions is a net benefit at no cost, and it does not qualify as cosmetic under WP's definition; 2) there is no policy or guideline it is against; 3) banning it would be against WP:EDITING policy since we are free to make constructive edits as long as they are not against some other guideline, policy, or community principle (including harming accessibility or causing some other serious problem); 4) the entire rationale behind the idea simply seems to be that a sentence at MOS:ACCESS#Table captions about captions isn't as clear as it could be, yet the fix for that is obvious: adjust the sentence; and 5) the community is reluctant to impose new rules per WP:CREEP and especially new MoS ones per WP:MOSBLOAT. That's a lot to overcome.
Clearly, the best approach (which would likely not require an RfC, being WP:COMMONSENSE copyediting) is simply clarifying the MOS:ACCESS sentence to make it clear that table captions have to be present but need not be visible to non-screenreader users if they are simply repeating the table headers. Well, unless you really are wanting to prohibit {{ sronly}}-ing of redundant captions because you agree with Ss112's [ostensible] position on the matter, in which case you have an editorial community to convince that there's a good rationale for such a global restriction. I'm not presenting this as an argument to have, I'm just observing what the likely responses will be and on what grounds, based on lots and lots of MoS-related RfCs over the years. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 16:28, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Johnuniq,
I think you created a redirect to itself. Do you have any idea where this page should point to or if it needs to be moved to a different page title? Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 07:17, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi i saw you reverted my edit on the convolution page: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Convolution&diff=1190905497&oldid=1190641647 Can you suggest a better first sentence than mine? The one you reverted to is quite imprecise. DMH43 ( talk) 16:01, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
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I understand it has been only an hour since the protection I requested for this article was denied however what I suggested would happen is happening and its just causing unnecessary back and forth editing and reverting. Brandon Downes ( talk) 03:17, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi there, apologies for reverting you but that IP ( 184.22.29.241 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) was actually reverting the other IP 91.184.122.0/23 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · block user · block log) as the latter is a rampant LTA on numerous company articles for quite some time now. John Yunshire ( talk) 05:39, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
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