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Hi Sro23, I hope the day finds you well. I'm hoping that I may solicit your attention regarding an SPI connected to some particularly troubling issues: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Researcher1000#28_September_2018. Normally even with high degree of disruption involved, I would be happy to wait out the behavioural and checkuser analysis, but this case involves recurrent WP:CHILDPROTECT issues regarding an article about a sex offender convicted of various crimes involving child sexual exploitation, who I believe is continuing to use a family of socks (some of them already blocked) to push his disturbing philosophies about how to approach a child for sex through our articles. So I believe the sooner the matter is addressed, the better. I don't really know your on-project work firsthand, but I recalled from your RfA a few months back that scores of participating editors referenced you as one of our preeminent experts on SPIs. As such, I was hoping you would bring your analytical skills in this area to bear on the matter. If you have time to take a look, I'd appreciate it. Snow let's rap 08:28, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
Can you keep an eye of the page to persistent block evasion by User:MariaJaydHicky. 123.136.118.150 ( talk) 12:22, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello Sro23, Some accounts namely TechnicalDevityoutube & Technicalahmed have done some misleading edits which voilate the policies of Wikipedia. I request you to look into the matter. Thanks ~Inked Soul~ ( talk • contribs) 04:45, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
Special:Permalink/865203376 could do witb a revdel too. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 12:50, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
Would you like to revoke talk page access for this LTA, as they keep trying to copy your talk page onto theirs, and delete Wikipedia:Sockpuppet Investigations/Sro23 and User:Srz23? Thanks!-- SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 13:29, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
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Please review the contributions of User:AAMerri12 on List of African-American United States Representatives. This user might be the same user that you "rv block evasion" on 20:49, 3 September 2018. Thanks. Mitchumch ( talk) 12:13, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Sro23, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD| Talk 21:08, 19 December 2018 (UTC) |
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Merry Christmas and happy new year! I was happy to see you have a successful RfA during 2018. I hope you will edit more happily in 2019 Hhkohh ( talk) 12:42, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
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Last night, I opened a sockpuppet investigation (or so I thought) for Do laima and presenting evidence that such new editor is a sockpuppet of the recently banned Kawhilaugh42. I added the page to my Watchlist, and this morning I noticed that my edit creating the investigation page was described as follows:
I went back and checked the investigation page that I created, even clicking on "edit" to see hidden text, and could not find any "checkuser=no" language.
Did I indeed fail to request a CheckUser when I created the investigation page? And, if so, what do I need to do? The page is the following: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Kawhilaugh42
I would appreciate any assistance that you may provide for me. Thank you. AuH2ORepublican ( talk) 11:45, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
It is perfectly sensible to add the table of contents of a book to its entry in an encyclopedia. Nerd271 ( talk) 00:10, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
GAB gab 14:49, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I have no idea what your link to another page means, but you are reverting back to a version of the article with made up information, with unreferenced detail. Pill-shaped-heart added two references for mundane details to try and make it look like they were adding factual refenced information. You may even see that the link to a band called The Tempers makes no mention of any member of Night Beats. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wibbleewobbleee ( talk • contribs) 12:15, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
It's normal? I'm trying to improve his voice but I've been threatened ("Presto ci vedremo in Tribunale"). https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Domenico_Morgante&diff=next&oldid=883473233&diffmode=source https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Domenico_Morgante&diff=883477700&oldid=883474907 https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Domenico_Morgante&diff=883477700&oldid=883473627&diffmode=source Driante70 ( talk) 17:30, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
I don't exactly know enough about Wikipedia to know how to formally go about accusing someone of sockpuppetry, but this Reddit post seems to have some convincing evidence of a new case.
https://www.reddit.com/r/daverubin/comments/aw9yuv/dave_rubins_husbands_wikipedia_sockpuppets/
2607:FEA8:8400:1E9D:612E:B0C2:233D:D2D0 ( talk) 16:14, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
I’m sorry we’re you at their wedding? Did you go to school with the both of them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2D80:803D:8051:8C85:7665:6539:CEFA ( talk) 04:36, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Not the usual countdown, but other sandbox edits are a common red flag Special:Contributions/You_can't_park_your_car_here!. Another possible here Special:Contributions/Culldemcollards, IP is currently Special:Contributions/69.162.104.173 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.150.79.160 ( talk) 07:40, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
More incoming it seems: /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Gill_Lagrutta /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Mel_Marazita Proabable: /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Onmipresence Latest candidate: /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Rhiannon_Fitzgerald and again /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Carla_Wilkie
Hi Sro23. You seem to be having a similar problem to me and could use your input here. Cheers Rob van vee 16:34, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for blocking that persistent vandal! :)
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Thanks for the block of Special:Contributions/2601:646:C400:149D:2194:1D20:AE38:B66. Can you disable talk page access also? Thanks. - BilCat ( talk) 03:03, 18 April 2019 (UTC) Please can you do it,because he sent me some violent threats against my safety. Alhanuty ( talk) 03:18, 18 April 2019 (UTC) now he is harassing me on simple english and german wikipedia,can wikipedia do something about it. Alhanuty ( talk) 03:52, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for blocking the IP,who was harassing me and sending me harm threats against me. Alhanuty ( talk) 03:30, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
See [1] Meters ( talk) 06:04, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
Hey, would you mind blocking Special:Contribs/2600:1:92E1:A99E:D9E9:715:9F85:3AFB? I noticed you just blocked 2600:1:92E1:A99E:1800:DC10:174E:DAF3. Many thanks, -- SkyGazer 512 My talk page 02:14, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
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I noticed that you blocked User:Beyard508 for sock puppetry, but there was no sock puppet investigation. Who are they a sock puppet of? -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:54, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
Tracking down an IP's bad edits I came across cross-talk on a redirect Unikini. Then I noticed this and wondered how that could happen? See, the changed redirect doesn't 'work' - there is no such section in Bikini. That section got moved in 2009 to Bikini variants.
(Oh dear, that IP 134.154.53.236 is another of the same set of IPs I'm tracking - 134.154.53.236 and 76.126.49.152. Also 134.154.44.172? 134.154.52.180? 134.154.42.9? 134.154.45.85? Oh! Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Fangusu) I guess I'm off to AIV to ask about this/these.
Anyway, checking against the possibility the IP was right is an ideal. Oops
Can you explain why you made this edit? You replaced a perfectly correct redirect to an article section which doesn't exist, and indeed hasn't existed for more than a decade. It is difficult to imagine that you could possibly have intended to do that, so you appear to have reverted another editor's edit without checking to see whether it was valid or not. JamesBWatson ( talk) 15:37, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
OK, I have now found out what I did to get edit summaries with mass rollback. You may or may not be interested, but if you are then here is how to do it. It turns out that it isn't a "preferences" setting, as I thought, it's a script, which in your case you could load at User:Sro23/common.js. What you would need to add to that page is:
It gives the edit-summary option only for mass-rollbacks, i.e "rollback all", but that is no great problem, as reverting recent editing on a single page while giving an edit summary is easy enough anyway, by just editing the revision one wants to revert to. JamesBWatson ( talk) 21:00, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
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This is for your valuable efforts for countering Vandalism and protecting Wikipedia from it's threats. I appreciate your effort. You are a defender of Wikipedia. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 13:54, 2 June 2019 (UTC) |
I noticed the same edit being made from a different IP as an IP you blocked here. Seems to be an attempt to get around the block.
Cheers Mvolz ( talk) 15:31, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
You locked the article about a month ago and not long after it was unlocked the same anon IPv6 editor went right back and repeated the disruptive edits that caused the article to be locked. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ghost_in_the_Shell_(2017_film)&diff=901056201&oldid=899790123
The editor does not follow even the WP:SIMPLE rules by explaining changes with an edit summary or discussing on article talk pages, which is shows a serious lack of good faith. Please lock the article again, or block a range of his IP. -- 109.78.204.22 ( talk) 20:00, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:12, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
You wrote "The first IP appears to be someone else, given the location."
I am not sure I fully understand your closure, but, with regards to the other edits made by 24.113.241.151... I suspect that most of the edits made by 24.113.241.151 were made by my wikistalker, and that they had grown careless in mixing their edits in response to my edits with their general contributions.
Who is this wikistalker? They acknowledged they had a history of editing solely using IP addresses, prior to their creation of CommotioCerebri. They created that named id solely to respond to my reverting an edit they made as an IP.
After years of interaction with this individual I think their real history has been something like this:
So, I believe that this individual had a long history of editing using IP addresses, to evade accountability, for years prior to creating CommotioCerebri. I believe they continued to make unaccountable edits, using IP addressess, while still editing using the CommotioCerebri ID. I believe that the bulk of their activity on en.wiki, following their indefinite block, is making the same kind of half-assed IP edits as they were prior to their indefinite block.
If they are making dozens, or hundreds of IP edits, that are not motivated by malice, should this be seen as a problem? Yeah, I think it should. They have vast overconfidence over their understanding of our policies, and cannot be trusted to make competent edits.
FWIW, it is quite possible they are harrassing other contributors who pissed them off, using other stables of IP addresses. Geo Swan ( talk) 13:06, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hey, Could you disable pending changes on Alliance Films as the semi protection expires goes up to a year?
Thanks! -- IanDBeacon ( talk) 22:20, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Can you or someone else who's in charge of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The abominable Wiki troll please get involved in the list of music considered the worst discussion? I know I have been uncivil in this, but it is infuriating how any attempt to remove Sgt. Pepper's from the list just dies off, even after it's been revealed that a certain troll helped push for its inclusion. Also, can you look into these anonymous users? User:5.64.203.172, User:5.71.123.48, User:5.71.120.78, User:94.6.137.205. Thanks. Rjrya395 ( talk) 02:42, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Have you seen Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/The abominable Wiki troll yet? LM2000 ( talk) 18:36, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
Paraphrasing Eliza Bennet, I'm exceedingly puzzled by this conversation. Even assuming you were reluctant to block the user for block evasion because for reasons that elude me you didn't think they were WP:BKFIP, given that I was the blocking admin on some of the accounts he confessed to, why didn't you alert me? The account is blocked now because of an IP's edit at ANI, but, please, next time - if there is a next time - contact me.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:50, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Do you know who Special:Contributions/2600:1702:C0:8CA0::/64 is? The edit summaries should be a dead giveaway, but I can't figure out if this is an LTA vandal or just some random IP editor. The M.O. is to invent full names for fictional characters. For example, the IP changes "Joe Character" to "Joseph 'Joe' Character". I know at least one sock who does that, but I can't think of anyone who has used that edit summary. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 02:51, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
user:Imstillhereitdyourname is abusing her talkpage. CLCStudent ( talk) 23:35, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
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Damon Runyon's short story
"Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the
hot Tom and Jerry
No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well Sro23. MarnetteD| Talk 21:54, 16 December 2019 (UTC) |
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Hope you enjoy the Christmas eve with the ones you love and step into the new year with lots of happiness and good health. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 16:26, 21 December 2019 (UTC) |
Thanks for dealing with the issue I was having with that other anonymous IP, who is evidently in India. And a Happy New Year to you as well! :) 208.138.53.57 ( talk) 17:34, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Why did you delete the added information regarding Matthew Guthmiller? Jwkane ( talk) 01:07, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
A court document isn't a reliable source? It is created under penalty of perjury and subject to judicial oversight and counter party analysis.
Could you refer me to the Wikipedia style guide that supports your assertion? Jwkane ( talk) 15:36, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
My apologies I re-read and didn't initialy recognize the link that you had anticipated my question. I don't agree with the policy , but you were correct in applying it. Jwkane ( talk) 15:38, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
needs blocking thanks.
-- 81.148.246.72 ( talk) 12:53, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Sro23 – could you please take a look at the recent editing of this article? Suddenly a series (and I mean like half a dozen!) unconfirmed accounts have popped up editing this article all just in the last few days. Because the focus of all of them seems to be on "grammar" at the article, I'm suspicious of Orchomen, esp. because you've found Orchomen socks editing in the last few days. Thanks. -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 13:25, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
Yes i admit it that i had created this article in past and wikipedia deleted it but at that time i didn't have any sourses of that and i just wanted to try it that's why i had multiple account but believe me i did't mean to violate wikipedia policies.. please guide me that how can i resolve this issue and kepp my article remain in wikipedia. i can also provide you my official documents and my company documnets where i work.
basically i want to explain you something about the article which was deleted my times by wikipedia SEE TV because our employees were trying to re-make our company article on wikipedia because in 2015 to 2018, someone created our company article See TV with some wrong information and he was trying to challange us a fake leadership which was definitely creating problem and damaged our company name in the pakistan satellite television channel market. that's why i want to request you to give me 1 more change to create our company article again with the name SEE TV and i promise that i will not do the same mistake that i did in past. Saaduddin2020 ( talk) 10:51, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
I'm talking mainly about my edits that I made to cultural appropriation. That is NOT my personal opinion, that's actually facts. I never heard the term 'cultural misappropriation', so me adding 'cultural appreciation' is completely fine, it's even a more known term. The fact that it is controversial when one culture adopts elements from another culture and disrespect it is a well known fact that were not written at the start of this article. 92.245.5.72 ( talk) 00:48, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Your nominee has received the Editor of the Week award. @ MarnetteD: seconded your submission while it was in the queue so I included him in the attribution. Thanks and hope you can find another worthy candidate. ― Buster7 ☎ 21:55, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
He responded to your comment on my talk page with this response.
Thanks for doing the research on all the sock puppets of that editor. I have no idea why he's so obsessed with Jeh. Guy Harris ( talk) 21:36, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
remove everything related to Drmies from here and here. This person recycles non-deleted vandalism to avoid filters, as explained here. Thanks. © Tbhotch ™ ( en-3). 14:27, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Re this: Point taken, but in the absence of categories with "homicide" in the title (which we really should have, at least in the U.S.) I think the "murder" cats are the least we can do. Daniel Case ( talk) 18:36, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
I'm not sure what on earth the user was thinking there. The Thanks log shows numerous actions of that user thanking mostly Geraldo Perez and made two edits before you blocked the user. Iggy ( Swan) ( Contribs) 17:53, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I was going to ask for assistance on how to properly incorporate my sources into the page. I don't think there is any issue of the sources themselves, because the proof is rather demonstrable. Please advise on how I should proceed, thank you.
Ziodyne ( talk) 19:35, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:48, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Sro23,
May you please share you issues here on this talk page before reverting any changes on the List of iOS devices article. Thank you! 😊 149.167.60.107 ( talk) 01:25, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, can you salt all these categorys, they have been created like 5 times today+yesterday..
-- TheImaCow ( talk • contribs) 18:10, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
Could you please block user:Sexybaileycries ASAP. She clearly will not stop until blocked. CLCStudent ( talk) 18:37, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Good times. Cheers, OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:46, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Sro23, I hope the day finds you well. I'm hoping that I may solicit your attention regarding an SPI connected to some particularly troubling issues: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Researcher1000#28_September_2018. Normally even with high degree of disruption involved, I would be happy to wait out the behavioural and checkuser analysis, but this case involves recurrent WP:CHILDPROTECT issues regarding an article about a sex offender convicted of various crimes involving child sexual exploitation, who I believe is continuing to use a family of socks (some of them already blocked) to push his disturbing philosophies about how to approach a child for sex through our articles. So I believe the sooner the matter is addressed, the better. I don't really know your on-project work firsthand, but I recalled from your RfA a few months back that scores of participating editors referenced you as one of our preeminent experts on SPIs. As such, I was hoping you would bring your analytical skills in this area to bear on the matter. If you have time to take a look, I'd appreciate it. Snow let's rap 08:28, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
Can you keep an eye of the page to persistent block evasion by User:MariaJaydHicky. 123.136.118.150 ( talk) 12:22, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello Sro23, Some accounts namely TechnicalDevityoutube & Technicalahmed have done some misleading edits which voilate the policies of Wikipedia. I request you to look into the matter. Thanks ~Inked Soul~ ( talk • contribs) 04:45, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
Special:Permalink/865203376 could do witb a revdel too. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 12:50, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
Would you like to revoke talk page access for this LTA, as they keep trying to copy your talk page onto theirs, and delete Wikipedia:Sockpuppet Investigations/Sro23 and User:Srz23? Thanks!-- SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 13:29, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Sro23. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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Please review the contributions of User:AAMerri12 on List of African-American United States Representatives. This user might be the same user that you "rv block evasion" on 20:49, 3 September 2018. Thanks. Mitchumch ( talk) 12:13, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I'm Barkeep49 and I am working to re-establish the Children's literature WikiProejct as an active project. It seems like you might be interested in (re)joining. If so I would encourage you to add your name back to the active members list. If you have any questions feel free to leave me a talk page message or ping me here. Otherwise I hope to see you around the project. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 04:44, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Sro23, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD| Talk 21:08, 19 December 2018 (UTC) |
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This greeting (and season) promotes
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Merry Christmas and happy new year! I was happy to see you have a successful RfA during 2018. I hope you will edit more happily in 2019 Hhkohh ( talk) 12:42, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
Sro23,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Donner60 (
talk)
06:49, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{ subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
Last night, I opened a sockpuppet investigation (or so I thought) for Do laima and presenting evidence that such new editor is a sockpuppet of the recently banned Kawhilaugh42. I added the page to my Watchlist, and this morning I noticed that my edit creating the investigation page was described as follows:
I went back and checked the investigation page that I created, even clicking on "edit" to see hidden text, and could not find any "checkuser=no" language.
Did I indeed fail to request a CheckUser when I created the investigation page? And, if so, what do I need to do? The page is the following: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Kawhilaugh42
I would appreciate any assistance that you may provide for me. Thank you. AuH2ORepublican ( talk) 11:45, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
It is perfectly sensible to add the table of contents of a book to its entry in an encyclopedia. Nerd271 ( talk) 00:10, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
GAB gab 14:49, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I have no idea what your link to another page means, but you are reverting back to a version of the article with made up information, with unreferenced detail. Pill-shaped-heart added two references for mundane details to try and make it look like they were adding factual refenced information. You may even see that the link to a band called The Tempers makes no mention of any member of Night Beats. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wibbleewobbleee ( talk • contribs) 12:15, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
It's normal? I'm trying to improve his voice but I've been threatened ("Presto ci vedremo in Tribunale"). https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Domenico_Morgante&diff=next&oldid=883473233&diffmode=source https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Domenico_Morgante&diff=883477700&oldid=883474907 https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Domenico_Morgante&diff=883477700&oldid=883473627&diffmode=source Driante70 ( talk) 17:30, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
I don't exactly know enough about Wikipedia to know how to formally go about accusing someone of sockpuppetry, but this Reddit post seems to have some convincing evidence of a new case.
https://www.reddit.com/r/daverubin/comments/aw9yuv/dave_rubins_husbands_wikipedia_sockpuppets/
2607:FEA8:8400:1E9D:612E:B0C2:233D:D2D0 ( talk) 16:14, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
I’m sorry we’re you at their wedding? Did you go to school with the both of them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2D80:803D:8051:8C85:7665:6539:CEFA ( talk) 04:36, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Not the usual countdown, but other sandbox edits are a common red flag Special:Contributions/You_can't_park_your_car_here!. Another possible here Special:Contributions/Culldemcollards, IP is currently Special:Contributions/69.162.104.173 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.150.79.160 ( talk) 07:40, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
More incoming it seems: /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Gill_Lagrutta /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Mel_Marazita Proabable: /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Onmipresence Latest candidate: /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Rhiannon_Fitzgerald and again /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Carla_Wilkie
Hi Sro23. You seem to be having a similar problem to me and could use your input here. Cheers Rob van vee 16:34, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for blocking that persistent vandal! :)
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Thanks for the block of Special:Contributions/2601:646:C400:149D:2194:1D20:AE38:B66. Can you disable talk page access also? Thanks. - BilCat ( talk) 03:03, 18 April 2019 (UTC) Please can you do it,because he sent me some violent threats against my safety. Alhanuty ( talk) 03:18, 18 April 2019 (UTC) now he is harassing me on simple english and german wikipedia,can wikipedia do something about it. Alhanuty ( talk) 03:52, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for blocking the IP,who was harassing me and sending me harm threats against me. Alhanuty ( talk) 03:30, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
See [1] Meters ( talk) 06:04, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
Hey, would you mind blocking Special:Contribs/2600:1:92E1:A99E:D9E9:715:9F85:3AFB? I noticed you just blocked 2600:1:92E1:A99E:1800:DC10:174E:DAF3. Many thanks, -- SkyGazer 512 My talk page 02:14, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 03:00, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.
Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.
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I noticed that you blocked User:Beyard508 for sock puppetry, but there was no sock puppet investigation. Who are they a sock puppet of? -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:54, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
Tracking down an IP's bad edits I came across cross-talk on a redirect Unikini. Then I noticed this and wondered how that could happen? See, the changed redirect doesn't 'work' - there is no such section in Bikini. That section got moved in 2009 to Bikini variants.
(Oh dear, that IP 134.154.53.236 is another of the same set of IPs I'm tracking - 134.154.53.236 and 76.126.49.152. Also 134.154.44.172? 134.154.52.180? 134.154.42.9? 134.154.45.85? Oh! Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Fangusu) I guess I'm off to AIV to ask about this/these.
Anyway, checking against the possibility the IP was right is an ideal. Oops
Can you explain why you made this edit? You replaced a perfectly correct redirect to an article section which doesn't exist, and indeed hasn't existed for more than a decade. It is difficult to imagine that you could possibly have intended to do that, so you appear to have reverted another editor's edit without checking to see whether it was valid or not. JamesBWatson ( talk) 15:37, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
OK, I have now found out what I did to get edit summaries with mass rollback. You may or may not be interested, but if you are then here is how to do it. It turns out that it isn't a "preferences" setting, as I thought, it's a script, which in your case you could load at User:Sro23/common.js. What you would need to add to that page is:
It gives the edit-summary option only for mass-rollbacks, i.e "rollback all", but that is no great problem, as reverting recent editing on a single page while giving an edit summary is easy enough anyway, by just editing the revision one wants to revert to. JamesBWatson ( talk) 21:00, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
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This is for your valuable efforts for countering Vandalism and protecting Wikipedia from it's threats. I appreciate your effort. You are a defender of Wikipedia. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 13:54, 2 June 2019 (UTC) |
I noticed the same edit being made from a different IP as an IP you blocked here. Seems to be an attempt to get around the block.
Cheers Mvolz ( talk) 15:31, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
You locked the article about a month ago and not long after it was unlocked the same anon IPv6 editor went right back and repeated the disruptive edits that caused the article to be locked. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ghost_in_the_Shell_(2017_film)&diff=901056201&oldid=899790123
The editor does not follow even the WP:SIMPLE rules by explaining changes with an edit summary or discussing on article talk pages, which is shows a serious lack of good faith. Please lock the article again, or block a range of his IP. -- 109.78.204.22 ( talk) 20:00, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:12, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
You wrote "The first IP appears to be someone else, given the location."
I am not sure I fully understand your closure, but, with regards to the other edits made by 24.113.241.151... I suspect that most of the edits made by 24.113.241.151 were made by my wikistalker, and that they had grown careless in mixing their edits in response to my edits with their general contributions.
Who is this wikistalker? They acknowledged they had a history of editing solely using IP addresses, prior to their creation of CommotioCerebri. They created that named id solely to respond to my reverting an edit they made as an IP.
After years of interaction with this individual I think their real history has been something like this:
So, I believe that this individual had a long history of editing using IP addresses, to evade accountability, for years prior to creating CommotioCerebri. I believe they continued to make unaccountable edits, using IP addressess, while still editing using the CommotioCerebri ID. I believe that the bulk of their activity on en.wiki, following their indefinite block, is making the same kind of half-assed IP edits as they were prior to their indefinite block.
If they are making dozens, or hundreds of IP edits, that are not motivated by malice, should this be seen as a problem? Yeah, I think it should. They have vast overconfidence over their understanding of our policies, and cannot be trusted to make competent edits.
FWIW, it is quite possible they are harrassing other contributors who pissed them off, using other stables of IP addresses. Geo Swan ( talk) 13:06, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hey, Could you disable pending changes on Alliance Films as the semi protection expires goes up to a year?
Thanks! -- IanDBeacon ( talk) 22:20, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Can you or someone else who's in charge of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The abominable Wiki troll please get involved in the list of music considered the worst discussion? I know I have been uncivil in this, but it is infuriating how any attempt to remove Sgt. Pepper's from the list just dies off, even after it's been revealed that a certain troll helped push for its inclusion. Also, can you look into these anonymous users? User:5.64.203.172, User:5.71.123.48, User:5.71.120.78, User:94.6.137.205. Thanks. Rjrya395 ( talk) 02:42, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Have you seen Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/The abominable Wiki troll yet? LM2000 ( talk) 18:36, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
Paraphrasing Eliza Bennet, I'm exceedingly puzzled by this conversation. Even assuming you were reluctant to block the user for block evasion because for reasons that elude me you didn't think they were WP:BKFIP, given that I was the blocking admin on some of the accounts he confessed to, why didn't you alert me? The account is blocked now because of an IP's edit at ANI, but, please, next time - if there is a next time - contact me.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:50, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Do you know who Special:Contributions/2600:1702:C0:8CA0::/64 is? The edit summaries should be a dead giveaway, but I can't figure out if this is an LTA vandal or just some random IP editor. The M.O. is to invent full names for fictional characters. For example, the IP changes "Joe Character" to "Joseph 'Joe' Character". I know at least one sock who does that, but I can't think of anyone who has used that edit summary. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 02:51, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
user:Imstillhereitdyourname is abusing her talkpage. CLCStudent ( talk) 23:35, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
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Damon Runyon's short story
"Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the
hot Tom and Jerry
No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well Sro23. MarnetteD| Talk 21:54, 16 December 2019 (UTC) |
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!
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Hope you enjoy the Christmas eve with the ones you love and step into the new year with lots of happiness and good health. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 16:26, 21 December 2019 (UTC) |
Thanks for dealing with the issue I was having with that other anonymous IP, who is evidently in India. And a Happy New Year to you as well! :) 208.138.53.57 ( talk) 17:34, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Why did you delete the added information regarding Matthew Guthmiller? Jwkane ( talk) 01:07, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
A court document isn't a reliable source? It is created under penalty of perjury and subject to judicial oversight and counter party analysis.
Could you refer me to the Wikipedia style guide that supports your assertion? Jwkane ( talk) 15:36, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
My apologies I re-read and didn't initialy recognize the link that you had anticipated my question. I don't agree with the policy , but you were correct in applying it. Jwkane ( talk) 15:38, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
needs blocking thanks.
-- 81.148.246.72 ( talk) 12:53, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Sro23 – could you please take a look at the recent editing of this article? Suddenly a series (and I mean like half a dozen!) unconfirmed accounts have popped up editing this article all just in the last few days. Because the focus of all of them seems to be on "grammar" at the article, I'm suspicious of Orchomen, esp. because you've found Orchomen socks editing in the last few days. Thanks. -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 13:25, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
Yes i admit it that i had created this article in past and wikipedia deleted it but at that time i didn't have any sourses of that and i just wanted to try it that's why i had multiple account but believe me i did't mean to violate wikipedia policies.. please guide me that how can i resolve this issue and kepp my article remain in wikipedia. i can also provide you my official documents and my company documnets where i work.
basically i want to explain you something about the article which was deleted my times by wikipedia SEE TV because our employees were trying to re-make our company article on wikipedia because in 2015 to 2018, someone created our company article See TV with some wrong information and he was trying to challange us a fake leadership which was definitely creating problem and damaged our company name in the pakistan satellite television channel market. that's why i want to request you to give me 1 more change to create our company article again with the name SEE TV and i promise that i will not do the same mistake that i did in past. Saaduddin2020 ( talk) 10:51, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
I'm talking mainly about my edits that I made to cultural appropriation. That is NOT my personal opinion, that's actually facts. I never heard the term 'cultural misappropriation', so me adding 'cultural appreciation' is completely fine, it's even a more known term. The fact that it is controversial when one culture adopts elements from another culture and disrespect it is a well known fact that were not written at the start of this article. 92.245.5.72 ( talk) 00:48, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Your nominee has received the Editor of the Week award. @ MarnetteD: seconded your submission while it was in the queue so I included him in the attribution. Thanks and hope you can find another worthy candidate. ― Buster7 ☎ 21:55, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
He responded to your comment on my talk page with this response.
Thanks for doing the research on all the sock puppets of that editor. I have no idea why he's so obsessed with Jeh. Guy Harris ( talk) 21:36, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
remove everything related to Drmies from here and here. This person recycles non-deleted vandalism to avoid filters, as explained here. Thanks. © Tbhotch ™ ( en-3). 14:27, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Re this: Point taken, but in the absence of categories with "homicide" in the title (which we really should have, at least in the U.S.) I think the "murder" cats are the least we can do. Daniel Case ( talk) 18:36, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
I'm not sure what on earth the user was thinking there. The Thanks log shows numerous actions of that user thanking mostly Geraldo Perez and made two edits before you blocked the user. Iggy ( Swan) ( Contribs) 17:53, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I was going to ask for assistance on how to properly incorporate my sources into the page. I don't think there is any issue of the sources themselves, because the proof is rather demonstrable. Please advise on how I should proceed, thank you.
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:48, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Sro23,
May you please share you issues here on this talk page before reverting any changes on the List of iOS devices article. Thank you! 😊 149.167.60.107 ( talk) 01:25, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, can you salt all these categorys, they have been created like 5 times today+yesterday..
-- TheImaCow ( talk • contribs) 18:10, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
Could you please block user:Sexybaileycries ASAP. She clearly will not stop until blocked. CLCStudent ( talk) 18:37, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Good times. Cheers, OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:46, 29 July 2020 (UTC)