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15:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Mz7, hope you are doing good. Last day I've applied for global IP block exempt ( [4]) and it is granted by Ruslik0 ( [5]). But it is not working on Wikipedia. As I mentioned there, My native is Thrissur in Kerala and I moved to Alappuzha along with my family. I'll be here for 3 years from today. Unfortunately I can't login to Wikipedia from some places here. I think many IP addresses are blocked here due to which I cannot work in Wikimedia projects. Humbly requesting you to add me to the IP block exemption. Thank you, -- Sreeram Dilak ( talk) 03:51, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
- Rng0286 ( talk) conts ( extended confirmed, rollbacker, and pending changes;) Excellent! ( rights) D'oh! 06:43, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
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15:32, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Mz7,a few days ago I watched indian horror show X Zone in which indian actor Manoj Joshi worked,so I edited Manoj Joshi wikipedia page with YouTube video reference in which actor Manoj Joshi worked,but one user Yappy2bhere deleting that information along with that YouTube video reference,so please look at that matter if that reference is not appropriate then I will not add that reference again but if YouTube video can be added as a reference and please stop that user Yappy2bhere removing information again and again,thanks Zoro0909 ( talk) 00:10, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
So then why most of wikipedia contents added without references?then we have to remove that editings whenever we find any editing without references? Zoro0909 ( talk) 13:14, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Mz7,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
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Hello Mz7! This SPI (cf. also this one) could really do with some CU attention. This master seems to have created multiple accounts at once in the last few weeks, and may have revived an older one at the same time. They edit profusely and disruptively, and always seem to have some sleeper at the ready to take over. TNT normally deals with this one, but she seems to be on a break. Feel free to point me to another CU. Thanks! ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 12:25, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
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16:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks so much for participating in Phase 1 of the RfA 2021 review. 8 out of the 21 issues discussed were found to have consensus. Thanks to our closers of Phase 1, Primefac and Wugapodes.
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15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
It is so frustrating that the article about my father which has been hosted more or less intact for 15Y on Wikipedia is being systematically destroyed by so-called editors following new dogma about wikipedia (that wikipedia is a digest of magazine articles and journal papers only, that other forms of evidence including historical correspondence which I have painfully made efforts to collect, is now rejected by wikipedia due to new dogma.) Anyway, the article has been shredded to 30% of its original length by junior folks, and I will soon disengage from this failing platform. This article was written as a joint effort between the my mother, the wife of Donald B. Gillies, and myself, son of Donald B. Gillies. But the good folks at Wikipedia choose to apply dogma to erase history. So be it. Enough. SystemBuilder ( talk) 07:28, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Since you were the closer here, I wanted to tell you that Alaskan wildlife fan has resurfaced at ANI with a comment that was reverted on ARBPIA 30/500 grounds. This after being inactive since the SPI discussion you closed in March, and within a few hours of me opening an ANI discussion about two users' tendentious editing at Talk:StandWithUs. Strange behavior for sure – I have no knowledge of the SPI area but figured I'd drop you a note just in case you feel any action is warranted. ezlev ( user/ tlk/ ctrbs) 05:17, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm coming to you because you're the most recent checkuser for Dopenguins at the SPI. Vuehalloo created Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ZH8000 accusing ZH8000 of editing logged out at Basel having to do with an MOS issue that Vuehalloo misinterpreted. Vuehalloo's stated purpose for creating an account was to file the SPI. I deleted the SPI as meritless (implicitly a personal attack against ZH8000). In looking through the Dopenguins archive, I noticed that Dopenguins socks have attacked ZH8000, although not, as far as I know, gone as far as filing an SPI against them. For those reasons, I blocked Vuehalloo as a suspected sock of Dopenguins.
Vuehallo has had an unblock request outstanding for about a week. Their first was declined by Yamla, but I have no way of knowing if Yamla ran a check. Then along comes the IP 81. who asked Vuehallo about 185., an IP whose edit to Basel was the same as Vuehalloo's. I reverted IP 81. as having no business in any of this, but Vuehalloo reinstated the IP's edit, and I left it alone. Today, the IP posted an extensive analysis of Dopenguins that is impressive in its depth.
I'm having trouble with all of this. Although I know from my own experience that checks of possible Dopenguins socks can be problematic, especially if they've made very few edits, because of Dopenguins' use of proxies. Still, as IP 81. says, Dopenguins doesn't edit from legitimate IPs in England (IP 81. himself is editing from an English ISP). If I've incorrectly blocked Vuehalloo, the block should be lifted, but I'm also suspicious of IP 81.'s behavior. Obviously, I'm not expecting you to disclose anything that connects IPs to named accounts, but whatever you believe you can do would be helpful. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:22, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello Mz7. Thank you for volunteering for the Electoral Commission for the 2021 ArbCom Election. Following the closure of the ELECTCOM RfC, you have been selected as a commissioner. Congratulations! Some important pages to watch about the election are: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination, Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination, Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021, and others in Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2021. Your duties may require some private communications with the other commissioners, traditionally wikimail and/or email has been used for this, along with IRC - but this is up to you to decide. Again, thank you for volunteering for this important position. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 23:38, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
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20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Mz7. I'm looking at the history of User:Mz7/SPI case list, and the bot appears to have stopped updating the list around 5.5 hours ago. There have been various updates at SPI since then, and I wanted to make sure you were aware of the bot's malfunctioning. — Mikehawk10 ( talk) 05:32, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
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20:27, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
Once upon a time, you once asked if my vote-history tool caught duplicate votes. It did at the time... sorta - all it did was use the vote appearing the furthest down the page, throwing the others away. But that was then, and this is now; I've fixed it to actually show a list of the duplicates. A tiny thing, but it merited a talk page post because it happened to be my final notification! I started at 74 notifications a while ago and went through them all, and now that I'm done with yours, my inbox is empty and I can finally... move on to my overgrown talk page (gulp). But anyway, thanks for the feature request and enjoy the new duplicate detection. Enterprisey ( talk!) 07:14, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Socks of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nair Saheb are again vandalising Sambandam after protection expired. Please lock it. [26] [27] 42.109.147.198 ( talk) 12:40, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Is the question that I asked of the ArbCom candidates considered one question, or two questions? So, am I allowed to ask another non-follow-up question? Robert McClenon ( talk) 03:57, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
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15:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Mz7, hope you are doing good. Last day I've applied for global IP block exempt ( [4]) and it is granted by Ruslik0 ( [5]). But it is not working on Wikipedia. As I mentioned there, My native is Thrissur in Kerala and I moved to Alappuzha along with my family. I'll be here for 3 years from today. Unfortunately I can't login to Wikipedia from some places here. I think many IP addresses are blocked here due to which I cannot work in Wikimedia projects. Humbly requesting you to add me to the IP block exemption. Thank you, -- Sreeram Dilak ( talk) 03:51, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
- Rng0286 ( talk) conts ( extended confirmed, rollbacker, and pending changes;) Excellent! ( rights) D'oh! 06:43, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. -- B-bot ( talk) 04:05, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
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15:32, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Mz7,a few days ago I watched indian horror show X Zone in which indian actor Manoj Joshi worked,so I edited Manoj Joshi wikipedia page with YouTube video reference in which actor Manoj Joshi worked,but one user Yappy2bhere deleting that information along with that YouTube video reference,so please look at that matter if that reference is not appropriate then I will not add that reference again but if YouTube video can be added as a reference and please stop that user Yappy2bhere removing information again and again,thanks Zoro0909 ( talk) 00:10, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
So then why most of wikipedia contents added without references?then we have to remove that editings whenever we find any editing without references? Zoro0909 ( talk) 13:14, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Mz7,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:32, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Mz7! This SPI (cf. also this one) could really do with some CU attention. This master seems to have created multiple accounts at once in the last few weeks, and may have revived an older one at the same time. They edit profusely and disruptively, and always seem to have some sleeper at the ready to take over. TNT normally deals with this one, but she seems to be on a break. Feel free to point me to another CU. Thanks! ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 12:25, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
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For your outstanding work as the primary CU at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sanketio31! KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 05:57, 8 October 2021 (UTC) |
Thanks so much for participating in Phase 1 of the RfA 2021 review. 8 out of the 21 issues discussed were found to have consensus. Thanks to our closers of Phase 1, Primefac and Wugapodes.
The following had consensus support of participating editors:
The following issues had a rough consensus of support from editors:
Please consider joining the brainstorming which will last for the next 1-2 weeks. This will be followed by Phase 2, a 30 day discussion to consider solutions to the problems identified in Phase 1.
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15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
It is so frustrating that the article about my father which has been hosted more or less intact for 15Y on Wikipedia is being systematically destroyed by so-called editors following new dogma about wikipedia (that wikipedia is a digest of magazine articles and journal papers only, that other forms of evidence including historical correspondence which I have painfully made efforts to collect, is now rejected by wikipedia due to new dogma.) Anyway, the article has been shredded to 30% of its original length by junior folks, and I will soon disengage from this failing platform. This article was written as a joint effort between the my mother, the wife of Donald B. Gillies, and myself, son of Donald B. Gillies. But the good folks at Wikipedia choose to apply dogma to erase history. So be it. Enough. SystemBuilder ( talk) 07:28, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Since you were the closer here, I wanted to tell you that Alaskan wildlife fan has resurfaced at ANI with a comment that was reverted on ARBPIA 30/500 grounds. This after being inactive since the SPI discussion you closed in March, and within a few hours of me opening an ANI discussion about two users' tendentious editing at Talk:StandWithUs. Strange behavior for sure – I have no knowledge of the SPI area but figured I'd drop you a note just in case you feel any action is warranted. ezlev ( user/ tlk/ ctrbs) 05:17, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm coming to you because you're the most recent checkuser for Dopenguins at the SPI. Vuehalloo created Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ZH8000 accusing ZH8000 of editing logged out at Basel having to do with an MOS issue that Vuehalloo misinterpreted. Vuehalloo's stated purpose for creating an account was to file the SPI. I deleted the SPI as meritless (implicitly a personal attack against ZH8000). In looking through the Dopenguins archive, I noticed that Dopenguins socks have attacked ZH8000, although not, as far as I know, gone as far as filing an SPI against them. For those reasons, I blocked Vuehalloo as a suspected sock of Dopenguins.
Vuehallo has had an unblock request outstanding for about a week. Their first was declined by Yamla, but I have no way of knowing if Yamla ran a check. Then along comes the IP 81. who asked Vuehallo about 185., an IP whose edit to Basel was the same as Vuehalloo's. I reverted IP 81. as having no business in any of this, but Vuehalloo reinstated the IP's edit, and I left it alone. Today, the IP posted an extensive analysis of Dopenguins that is impressive in its depth.
I'm having trouble with all of this. Although I know from my own experience that checks of possible Dopenguins socks can be problematic, especially if they've made very few edits, because of Dopenguins' use of proxies. Still, as IP 81. says, Dopenguins doesn't edit from legitimate IPs in England (IP 81. himself is editing from an English ISP). If I've incorrectly blocked Vuehalloo, the block should be lifted, but I'm also suspicious of IP 81.'s behavior. Obviously, I'm not expecting you to disclose anything that connects IPs to named accounts, but whatever you believe you can do would be helpful. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:22, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello Mz7. Thank you for volunteering for the Electoral Commission for the 2021 ArbCom Election. Following the closure of the ELECTCOM RfC, you have been selected as a commissioner. Congratulations! Some important pages to watch about the election are: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination, Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination, Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021, and others in Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2021. Your duties may require some private communications with the other commissioners, traditionally wikimail and/or email has been used for this, along with IRC - but this is up to you to decide. Again, thank you for volunteering for this important position. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 23:38, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
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20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Mz7. I'm looking at the history of User:Mz7/SPI case list, and the bot appears to have stopped updating the list around 5.5 hours ago. There have been various updates at SPI since then, and I wanted to make sure you were aware of the bot's malfunctioning. — Mikehawk10 ( talk) 05:32, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
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20:27, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
Once upon a time, you once asked if my vote-history tool caught duplicate votes. It did at the time... sorta - all it did was use the vote appearing the furthest down the page, throwing the others away. But that was then, and this is now; I've fixed it to actually show a list of the duplicates. A tiny thing, but it merited a talk page post because it happened to be my final notification! I started at 74 notifications a while ago and went through them all, and now that I'm done with yours, my inbox is empty and I can finally... move on to my overgrown talk page (gulp). But anyway, thanks for the feature request and enjoy the new duplicate detection. Enterprisey ( talk!) 07:14, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Socks of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nair Saheb are again vandalising Sambandam after protection expired. Please lock it. [26] [27] 42.109.147.198 ( talk) 12:40, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Is the question that I asked of the ArbCom candidates considered one question, or two questions? So, am I allowed to ask another non-follow-up question? Robert McClenon ( talk) 03:57, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)