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{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} It might be time to take another look at this IP – after just coming back off a block from you, they are immediately engaging in behavior that is at least borderline disruptive... Thanks. -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 06:28, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hello TNT! I've been away for a few days so I only noticed now, but moving
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thetranslaterofhistory to
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mazulu1010 was a mistake. When
I asked "this case" to be moved, I should have said "this section": it's only the accounts reported in the 31 August 2021 section (Polynoir and the list of accounts in my comment) which are sockpuppets of Mazulu1010 rather than of Thetranslaterofhistory. Mazulu1010 and their socks were originally blocked in March as socks of Xwasx12s (a confirmed sock of Thetranslaterofhistory), but as I point out in my overlong comment, Mazulu1010 and Thetranslaterofhistory are really two distinct sockmasters, each with their own editing pattern. Mazulu1010 and their socks also still need proper tagging. Sorry for the confusion!
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
Hi. Glad to see you back from your break. I just wanted to note that there were some errors in TNTBot's latest replacement task. Some pages had empty section headers/pseudo-headers remaining, some had section headers removed despite there being other content remaining under the section, and some, where the link was surrounded by a textual description, had the text remaining in a way that would confuse the reader. Most also left an extra blank line. I've made some fixes (and pinged you in some), but haven't been able to get to all of them. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 07:24, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
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Love, -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 02:09, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
You are loved and cherished here on-wiki. ~Gwennie🐈⦅ 💬 📋⦆ 01:36, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
Many thanks all, back on the mend ~ TNT (she/they • talk) 11:00, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Just to explain further, I agree that the first step in any case like this should be talking with the user. Tryptofish had already done that in this case, and TOA had responded with a too-cute-by-half answer before marking the thread as closed. I didn't see anything left to be done other than MfD or ANI, and I decided I'd rather focus on the narrow issue of the page and take it to MfD.
You know I don't like wiki-drama. I often go out of my way to avoid it. But sometimes there's no other option. If you'd like to reduce the amount of drama that's about to happen... Let's be honest, TOA's gonna be indeffed sooner or later. You or any other admin could always press the button now and save the community some time.
You know I think you're one of our best admins. I will keep in mind what you said. All the best, -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 20:52, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
You or any other admin could always press the button now and save the community some time." - it does trivialise things a bit though ~ TNT (she/they • talk) 21:39, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
<3
I always feel weird thanking admins for blocks of anything other than vandals, but, thank you for making this one. This was a case where someone could have kept on causing drama across multiple fora for weeks or months to come, absent an admin willing to make a tough call. Which I think answers your own question of "more or less drama". Sometimes it's not so much "more" or "less", versus "all at once" or "painfully slow". --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
21:44, 12 September 2021 (UTC)I apologize for even raising this, and I realize that by now you must be near to wit's end with this whole nasty business, but I feel the need to discuss with you the checkuser block of MPants ( [1]). I agree that it was appropriate to block the OhForFuqsSake account, for obvious reasons. But when MPants posted his now-infamous retirement statement, he said that he was going to save the edit and then scramble his password. Under the circumstances, the only way he could have commented was with a new account, and although the comment was inappropriate, there was nothing deceptive about it: it was plainly obvious who the user was. As such, I feel that it doesn't really meet the terms of the blocking policy for sockpuppetry. Would you be willing to reconsider? -- Tryptofish ( talk) 21:45, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
{{ done}} ~ TNT (she/they • talk) 09:45, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look at this page? I think there's more enough to justify a check of the two accounts. In addition to the rather strange dialog between the two accounts and me, which is sometimes hard to follow, there are additional points:
There's enough evidence to believe they are socks. At the same time, it's also possible they know each other (meat), but they deny having any connection to each other or to Reklaw. The checkuser needed template has been sitting there for a while. I'd rather a CheckUser decline it if they think I'm out of line than let it hang. Please let me know what you think, even if you disagree with me. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 12:23, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
@ Bbb23: just because they are technically unrelated does not mean there is not meatpuppetry going on. To me all 3 appear to be SPIs and/or paid. Giant Snowman 18:20, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
@ Bbb23, Qwaiiplayer, and GiantSnowman: I've just checked Metehanahmed and nothing is immediately visible - not keen to dig too deep on this one. They all show some sort of residential proxy use, and though this is common for the area, it could also be masking evasion I suppose. Apologies I can't be more helpful here ~ TNT (she/they • talk) 18:56, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
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Love your user page! I even stole some parts of it ;-; 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk, FAQ, contribs) 03:29, 14 September 2021 (UTC) |
In case you have the pings disabled, just informing you of this message of mine. I think CU comparison between MullahBalawar and AbbasWafadar might produce more conclusive results. Thanks. Abhishek0831996 ( talk) 04:47, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hi, just wanted to say thanks for closing the ANI discussion. I had a question on the followup though. Given their personal attacks against myself and others in that now revdeleted post by his sock account, would the best follow up be a new ANI thread? Thanks! PackMecEng ( talk) 17:47, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
Hey I don't mean to be a pest but have you had a chance to look it over? PackMecEng ( talk) 21:06, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
thx for removing the nomination of speedy deletion on my page. I don't know how to reward your kind actions Aniq Sufyan ( talk) 15:01, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi ThereNoTime, I have reported the page for protection. Lots of vandalism for this is a live event. Pls help to protect the page asap. Thank you. Cassiopeia talk 04:53, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
Sorry for disturbing, i just noticed and based on edit pattern i think they are back. Someone already made a request before me, if you have time, please consider checking Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dr Sachin Kapur Fanclub. Thank you. -- আফতাবুজ্জামান ( talk) 15:35, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
CosmicJacuzzi. First edit out of the box was to revert an IP with an edit summary of "rvv" (an edit summary more common to old-time admins, like me, for example) followed by a warning to the IP's Talk page. Answers questions at the WP:Teahouse. Hasn't answered my question on their Talk page about other accounts, although I did find the place (one of their posts at the Teahouse) where they state that they have used an IP for a long time. And then there's the colorful username, which, unfortunately, makes me think of User:CosmicEmperor, not that I think it's the same person.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:19, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
Would you be able to create a hidden category named "WikiProject Weather no task force" or something similar? I'm unsure what steps need to be taken to make it hidden. The articles in question that need categorization may be found here. It would be just the C, start, stub, list, and future components. I gave a notice here without any objections thus far. I would appreciate it if you are able to categorize these. Thank you. Noah Talk 12:54, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
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Don't apply maintenance categories directly: use templates.". Apologies. This discussion seems to have reached a conclusion, so I should probably ping Primefac and ask if reverting my 253 edits is appropriate at this time ~ TNT (she/her • talk) 09:02, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1079 § Serial sandbox spammer
Hi TheresNoTime,
About a week or so ago you dealt with an IP editor that was spamming the sandbox with nonsense/links related to mope.io. It seems the spammer has returned as 5.142.229.60 and is now spamming the sandbox with fake conversations about mope.io, adding {{ nobots}} to try to stop bots from refreshing the sandbox and reverting anyone that tries to clean up after them [2]. They also seem to have discovered the template sandbox, and are spamming that with more mope.io themed nonsense too [3]. Did you manage to get the site added to the spam blacklist? they don't seem to be adding links anymore but its probably still worth doing. 192.76.8.74 ( talk) 04:23, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
I didn't want to say anything at ANI because I didn't want to prolong what I thought was an unproductive discussion about your question. That said, I thought your question was understandable and in no way offensive. I didn't think they were an admin, either, and I personally have never seen the point of being an admin if one doesn't use one's tools (I also think admins should identify themselves on their user pages, although I know it's not required). As an aside, I didn't realize the vandal was a sock of CalebHughes, but it was obvious they were a sock of Hollonian, the account you blocked recently as VOA. I was just about to block Hardenian as a sock, but you acted more quickly. Looks like you have it all sorted.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 12:36, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hello! Sorry to bother you, I found two user ( User:ConyJuul & User:Random is a 15th) creating The Spine of Night and Draft:The Spine of Night, consider check those users that they are sockpuppet... Article recently I redirect to Draft. Thanks--- Limited Idea4me ( talk) 05:25, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, @ TheresNoTime: Sorry for bother you again! Can you check recently death Abdul Qadeer Khan? recently I requested to ( Liz;no reply) make semi-protection for short time to prevent constantly vandalism by ips. Thanks! ~ Limited Idea4me ( talk) 10:42, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} I sent an e-mail to the OS list related to what just happened. I didn't notice you were an OS or I'd have hit you up directly instead of bothering a whole mailing list. :) Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 15:04, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi TNT! I saw at
User:TheresNoTime/Barnstars#A_barnstar_for_you!_22 that you had a rather funny edit and I must admit I am curious the fuller context around it? Do you happen to remember where that edit was made? Also learned, in looking for it, that you have
magical powers...that's interesting.
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{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} It seems this IP is the very same recently blocked Michael ben Zvi. @ Bbb23: had dealt with him before but I am unable to contact the admin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.54.106.49 ( talk • contribs)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hello. User Adelphopolis ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) ban just endend and he again started his disputed edits, vandalism and edit warring in various Azerbaijani topic articles [4] [5] [6] and in the article he was blocked just few days ago for edit warring [7]. I thinkh we need give him a little bit more time to learn Wikipedia rules. Interfase ( talk) 20:58, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
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Greetings, TNT. Above, Interfase ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), known for deleting useful edits without rationale or reasons, canvasses you and threatens me instead of disputing my edits on respective talk pages. Also, I am not a "him", but instead a female user, and I object to Interfase's backward parlance. At [8], [9], [10], [11], and [12], Interfase labels my edits as "vandalism" without providing sources as to why figures and places are "Azerbaijani". Interfase's edits are anachronistic, and more importantly, disruptive. Adelphopolis ( talk) 21:11, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
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{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hello, TNT,
I think Felix345345 is another sockpuppet of Peluches extronidos, another editor of Eddswars and MissaSinfonia. It's a honeypot. Liz Read! Talk! 00:45, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello! @ TheresNoTime: Can you check Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/89.19.67.116 once time? If you have time.. They were all together vandalizing Mobutu Sese Seko at the same time gape. Thanks ~ Limited Idea4me ( talk) 09:06, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
da club....hehehe (this is obviously carrying on the conversation from the other place as my clever easter egg link wouldnt work) Cas Liber ( talk · contribs)
test! ~ TheresNoTime ( to chat) 15:07, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
test! ~ TheresNoTime ( to chat) 15:07, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for blocking those socks today. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 01:05, 12 October 2021 (UTC) |
Hello, TNT,
I was going through a broken redirect after broken redirect chain from today's multiple moves of Dedy Tisna Amijaya's socks pages as they went from main space to draft space and back again and I think you got them all except Sekala Brak. On this Sekala Brak-subject spree over the past 10 days, there must have been two dozen different pages of what was basically the same article under different titles. And I still could not understand what it was all about the writing was so obtuse. Liz Read! Talk! 23:42, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Can you please look at today's TFA? I believe needs a move but there is also an article named Doug Ring that looks very simple. NW1223( Howl at me| My hunts) 00:35, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
I was trying to sign up for the Tronox -- Tmilller07 ( talk) 22:21, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hey: since you declined the copy-vio revdel at Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, you might not have seen the resp. statement. Compare this sentence at the very end of diff 1049894656 : Dudhwa tigers are distributed in one major and three smaller populations. Major population is constituted by Dudhwa reserve which includes Dudhwa National Park, Kishenpur and Katarniaghat wildlife sanctuaries, Pilibhit forests and north and south Kheri forests. Smaller tiger populations are present in Bijnor forests in west and Suhelwa and Sohagi Barwa wildlife sanctuaries in east.
with verbatim sentences at the end of this
times of india (2012) article. –
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The same user added above sentence again. The entire section titled Ecotourism added by same user is copy-pasted verbatim from Pilibhit_Tiger_Reserve#Ecotourism. – BhagyaMani ( talk) 08:27, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
Yleventa2 ( talk) 20:37, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hi @ TheresNoTime:, Hi recently you had deleted the article which I mentioned above with the reason of SPEEDY DELETE G7/U1 but this CSD tag was done by me. That tag was not done by that article creator nor the nominator. Fade258 ( talk) 13:55, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} I thought it was all the intermediate edits that got nuked with these. (I think you only got rid of the one that introduced the copyvio.) I'll readily admit that I don't know the proper protocol, though, having only interacted with a few copyvios. Thanks. -- mathieu ottawa ( talk) 00:12, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
I understand you recently flagged a page I had created for speedy deletion, and/or acted on that flag and deleted the page. The page in question was Smart Design, which had been flagged as being subject to "G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion". Having now re-read the policy, I find it hard to square the description with the content in question, which I felt was (and was certainly intended to be) written in a neutral and encyclopediatic style, with multiple references from a range of sources. I had created the page in the past few days ago as I had been looking up something related, and been surprised to find that there was no page covering this topic; a previous version of the page had existed (and been similarly deleted due to G11) almost a decade ago - I have no idea why that would have been so, having not read that page (it may well indeed have been promotional!), but it seems odd to have this newly written page removed immediately after writing it. I work in the design industry - but not at the company in question, and have no ties to the firm - and believe it to be a clearly notable entity that should be represented on Wikipedia.
a) Would you be able to clarify what was inappropriate about the content? Why did you feel that speedy deletion was the best response, rather than highlighting issues with the page in a discussion?
b) Is there a process to contest the deletion?
c) Can you share with me the deleted content, so that I can review what was there and re-write portions of it if necessary?
Thanks,
Dotx3 ( talk) 22:14, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
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How do I enter a new person into Wikipedia -- Tweardy ( talk) 12:52, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, Sam. :)
I noticed that you protected
Adam and Eve (
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cetacean needed (she/they)
02:08, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Much appreciated. :) Sannita (WMF) ( talk) 15:50, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hello, thanks for your help at Hurricane Rita. However, I noticed that the protection you put in is significantly shorter than the previous protection which expired only a short time ago. The page has been an LTA target for quite some time now. Would you please look through the page's protection history and consider making the semi-protection longer? Thanks. Clintonan ( talk) 22:50, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi User talk:Oswaldian continuously and excessively disrupt this page Hurricane Ivan. Kindly look into it. thank you -- Robertjamal12 (talk) 23:50, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
I joined because of an error in a specific article. I am interested in that being corrected. How do I get back to that page to do that correction? -- Oncll ( talk) 18:10, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
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{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} You blocked my accounts from editing Oliver Emanuel despite the fact that I was editing it and protecting it in order to remove Biographies of Living Persons content that contravenes GDPR right to be forgotten.
Please allow me and only me to edit the page for a day and then I will leave the page alone and not edit anything else on Wikipedia. I promise not to edit any other pages, but I need satisfaction. I need to exercise my legal right to remove GDPR violating content from the public Internet.
Please do not stop me from doing so. The next step is a formal complaint to the Wikimedia Foundation User:Jimbo Wales.
I am having to use Proxy because you blocked my real IP. Do not block this IP, allow me to edit the Oliver Emanuel page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.26.145.8 ( talk) 15:17, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
If you are an individual located in the United Kingdom, and have questions about your personal data or would like to request to access, update, or delete it [...]" which gives the email UKrepresentative.Wikimedia
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} As you know Wikipedia protected Nazia Hassan page to stop vandalism but once again the same user Kasim8999 started vandalism on the page. They don't have authentic source and editing again and again something proves bad intention of the user. Kindly protect the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arezhas98 ( talk • contribs) 15:02, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
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{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} It might be time to take another look at this IP – after just coming back off a block from you, they are immediately engaging in behavior that is at least borderline disruptive... Thanks. -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 06:28, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hello TNT! I've been away for a few days so I only noticed now, but moving
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thetranslaterofhistory to
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mazulu1010 was a mistake. When
I asked "this case" to be moved, I should have said "this section": it's only the accounts reported in the 31 August 2021 section (Polynoir and the list of accounts in my comment) which are sockpuppets of Mazulu1010 rather than of Thetranslaterofhistory. Mazulu1010 and their socks were originally blocked in March as socks of Xwasx12s (a confirmed sock of Thetranslaterofhistory), but as I point out in my overlong comment, Mazulu1010 and Thetranslaterofhistory are really two distinct sockmasters, each with their own editing pattern. Mazulu1010 and their socks also still need proper tagging. Sorry for the confusion!
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Apaugasma (
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17:08, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
Hi. Glad to see you back from your break. I just wanted to note that there were some errors in TNTBot's latest replacement task. Some pages had empty section headers/pseudo-headers remaining, some had section headers removed despite there being other content remaining under the section, and some, where the link was surrounded by a textual description, had the text remaining in a way that would confuse the reader. Most also left an extra blank line. I've made some fixes (and pinged you in some), but haven't been able to get to all of them. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 07:24, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
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Love, -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 02:09, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
You are loved and cherished here on-wiki. ~Gwennie🐈⦅ 💬 📋⦆ 01:36, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
Many thanks all, back on the mend ~ TNT (she/they • talk) 11:00, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Just to explain further, I agree that the first step in any case like this should be talking with the user. Tryptofish had already done that in this case, and TOA had responded with a too-cute-by-half answer before marking the thread as closed. I didn't see anything left to be done other than MfD or ANI, and I decided I'd rather focus on the narrow issue of the page and take it to MfD.
You know I don't like wiki-drama. I often go out of my way to avoid it. But sometimes there's no other option. If you'd like to reduce the amount of drama that's about to happen... Let's be honest, TOA's gonna be indeffed sooner or later. You or any other admin could always press the button now and save the community some time.
You know I think you're one of our best admins. I will keep in mind what you said. All the best, -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 20:52, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
You or any other admin could always press the button now and save the community some time." - it does trivialise things a bit though ~ TNT (she/they • talk) 21:39, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
<3
I always feel weird thanking admins for blocks of anything other than vandals, but, thank you for making this one. This was a case where someone could have kept on causing drama across multiple fora for weeks or months to come, absent an admin willing to make a tough call. Which I think answers your own question of "more or less drama". Sometimes it's not so much "more" or "less", versus "all at once" or "painfully slow". --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
21:44, 12 September 2021 (UTC)I apologize for even raising this, and I realize that by now you must be near to wit's end with this whole nasty business, but I feel the need to discuss with you the checkuser block of MPants ( [1]). I agree that it was appropriate to block the OhForFuqsSake account, for obvious reasons. But when MPants posted his now-infamous retirement statement, he said that he was going to save the edit and then scramble his password. Under the circumstances, the only way he could have commented was with a new account, and although the comment was inappropriate, there was nothing deceptive about it: it was plainly obvious who the user was. As such, I feel that it doesn't really meet the terms of the blocking policy for sockpuppetry. Would you be willing to reconsider? -- Tryptofish ( talk) 21:45, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
{{ done}} ~ TNT (she/they • talk) 09:45, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look at this page? I think there's more enough to justify a check of the two accounts. In addition to the rather strange dialog between the two accounts and me, which is sometimes hard to follow, there are additional points:
There's enough evidence to believe they are socks. At the same time, it's also possible they know each other (meat), but they deny having any connection to each other or to Reklaw. The checkuser needed template has been sitting there for a while. I'd rather a CheckUser decline it if they think I'm out of line than let it hang. Please let me know what you think, even if you disagree with me. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 12:23, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
@ Bbb23: just because they are technically unrelated does not mean there is not meatpuppetry going on. To me all 3 appear to be SPIs and/or paid. Giant Snowman 18:20, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
@ Bbb23, Qwaiiplayer, and GiantSnowman: I've just checked Metehanahmed and nothing is immediately visible - not keen to dig too deep on this one. They all show some sort of residential proxy use, and though this is common for the area, it could also be masking evasion I suppose. Apologies I can't be more helpful here ~ TNT (she/they • talk) 18:56, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
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Love your user page! I even stole some parts of it ;-; 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk, FAQ, contribs) 03:29, 14 September 2021 (UTC) |
In case you have the pings disabled, just informing you of this message of mine. I think CU comparison between MullahBalawar and AbbasWafadar might produce more conclusive results. Thanks. Abhishek0831996 ( talk) 04:47, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hi, just wanted to say thanks for closing the ANI discussion. I had a question on the followup though. Given their personal attacks against myself and others in that now revdeleted post by his sock account, would the best follow up be a new ANI thread? Thanks! PackMecEng ( talk) 17:47, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
Hey I don't mean to be a pest but have you had a chance to look it over? PackMecEng ( talk) 21:06, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
thx for removing the nomination of speedy deletion on my page. I don't know how to reward your kind actions Aniq Sufyan ( talk) 15:01, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi ThereNoTime, I have reported the page for protection. Lots of vandalism for this is a live event. Pls help to protect the page asap. Thank you. Cassiopeia talk 04:53, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
Sorry for disturbing, i just noticed and based on edit pattern i think they are back. Someone already made a request before me, if you have time, please consider checking Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dr Sachin Kapur Fanclub. Thank you. -- আফতাবুজ্জামান ( talk) 15:35, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
CosmicJacuzzi. First edit out of the box was to revert an IP with an edit summary of "rvv" (an edit summary more common to old-time admins, like me, for example) followed by a warning to the IP's Talk page. Answers questions at the WP:Teahouse. Hasn't answered my question on their Talk page about other accounts, although I did find the place (one of their posts at the Teahouse) where they state that they have used an IP for a long time. And then there's the colorful username, which, unfortunately, makes me think of User:CosmicEmperor, not that I think it's the same person.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:19, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
Would you be able to create a hidden category named "WikiProject Weather no task force" or something similar? I'm unsure what steps need to be taken to make it hidden. The articles in question that need categorization may be found here. It would be just the C, start, stub, list, and future components. I gave a notice here without any objections thus far. I would appreciate it if you are able to categorize these. Thank you. Noah Talk 12:54, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Military history}}
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Redrose64 🌹 (
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08:45, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
Don't apply maintenance categories directly: use templates.". Apologies. This discussion seems to have reached a conclusion, so I should probably ping Primefac and ask if reverting my 253 edits is appropriate at this time ~ TNT (she/her • talk) 09:02, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1079 § Serial sandbox spammer
Hi TheresNoTime,
About a week or so ago you dealt with an IP editor that was spamming the sandbox with nonsense/links related to mope.io. It seems the spammer has returned as 5.142.229.60 and is now spamming the sandbox with fake conversations about mope.io, adding {{ nobots}} to try to stop bots from refreshing the sandbox and reverting anyone that tries to clean up after them [2]. They also seem to have discovered the template sandbox, and are spamming that with more mope.io themed nonsense too [3]. Did you manage to get the site added to the spam blacklist? they don't seem to be adding links anymore but its probably still worth doing. 192.76.8.74 ( talk) 04:23, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
I didn't want to say anything at ANI because I didn't want to prolong what I thought was an unproductive discussion about your question. That said, I thought your question was understandable and in no way offensive. I didn't think they were an admin, either, and I personally have never seen the point of being an admin if one doesn't use one's tools (I also think admins should identify themselves on their user pages, although I know it's not required). As an aside, I didn't realize the vandal was a sock of CalebHughes, but it was obvious they were a sock of Hollonian, the account you blocked recently as VOA. I was just about to block Hardenian as a sock, but you acted more quickly. Looks like you have it all sorted.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 12:36, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hello! Sorry to bother you, I found two user ( User:ConyJuul & User:Random is a 15th) creating The Spine of Night and Draft:The Spine of Night, consider check those users that they are sockpuppet... Article recently I redirect to Draft. Thanks--- Limited Idea4me ( talk) 05:25, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, @ TheresNoTime: Sorry for bother you again! Can you check recently death Abdul Qadeer Khan? recently I requested to ( Liz;no reply) make semi-protection for short time to prevent constantly vandalism by ips. Thanks! ~ Limited Idea4me ( talk) 10:42, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} I sent an e-mail to the OS list related to what just happened. I didn't notice you were an OS or I'd have hit you up directly instead of bothering a whole mailing list. :) Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 15:04, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi TNT! I saw at
User:TheresNoTime/Barnstars#A_barnstar_for_you!_22 that you had a rather funny edit and I must admit I am curious the fuller context around it? Do you happen to remember where that edit was made? Also learned, in looking for it, that you have
magical powers...that's interesting.
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{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} It seems this IP is the very same recently blocked Michael ben Zvi. @ Bbb23: had dealt with him before but I am unable to contact the admin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.54.106.49 ( talk • contribs)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hello. User Adelphopolis ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) ban just endend and he again started his disputed edits, vandalism and edit warring in various Azerbaijani topic articles [4] [5] [6] and in the article he was blocked just few days ago for edit warring [7]. I thinkh we need give him a little bit more time to learn Wikipedia rules. Interfase ( talk) 20:58, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
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Greetings, TNT. Above, Interfase ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), known for deleting useful edits without rationale or reasons, canvasses you and threatens me instead of disputing my edits on respective talk pages. Also, I am not a "him", but instead a female user, and I object to Interfase's backward parlance. At [8], [9], [10], [11], and [12], Interfase labels my edits as "vandalism" without providing sources as to why figures and places are "Azerbaijani". Interfase's edits are anachronistic, and more importantly, disruptive. Adelphopolis ( talk) 21:11, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
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{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hello, TNT,
I think Felix345345 is another sockpuppet of Peluches extronidos, another editor of Eddswars and MissaSinfonia. It's a honeypot. Liz Read! Talk! 00:45, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello! @ TheresNoTime: Can you check Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/89.19.67.116 once time? If you have time.. They were all together vandalizing Mobutu Sese Seko at the same time gape. Thanks ~ Limited Idea4me ( talk) 09:06, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
da club....hehehe (this is obviously carrying on the conversation from the other place as my clever easter egg link wouldnt work) Cas Liber ( talk · contribs)
test! ~ TheresNoTime ( to chat) 15:07, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
test! ~ TheresNoTime ( to chat) 15:07, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for blocking those socks today. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 01:05, 12 October 2021 (UTC) |
Hello, TNT,
I was going through a broken redirect after broken redirect chain from today's multiple moves of Dedy Tisna Amijaya's socks pages as they went from main space to draft space and back again and I think you got them all except Sekala Brak. On this Sekala Brak-subject spree over the past 10 days, there must have been two dozen different pages of what was basically the same article under different titles. And I still could not understand what it was all about the writing was so obtuse. Liz Read! Talk! 23:42, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Can you please look at today's TFA? I believe needs a move but there is also an article named Doug Ring that looks very simple. NW1223( Howl at me| My hunts) 00:35, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
I was trying to sign up for the Tronox -- Tmilller07 ( talk) 22:21, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hey: since you declined the copy-vio revdel at Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, you might not have seen the resp. statement. Compare this sentence at the very end of diff 1049894656 : Dudhwa tigers are distributed in one major and three smaller populations. Major population is constituted by Dudhwa reserve which includes Dudhwa National Park, Kishenpur and Katarniaghat wildlife sanctuaries, Pilibhit forests and north and south Kheri forests. Smaller tiger populations are present in Bijnor forests in west and Suhelwa and Sohagi Barwa wildlife sanctuaries in east.
with verbatim sentences at the end of this
times of india (2012) article. –
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The same user added above sentence again. The entire section titled Ecotourism added by same user is copy-pasted verbatim from Pilibhit_Tiger_Reserve#Ecotourism. – BhagyaMani ( talk) 08:27, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
Yleventa2 ( talk) 20:37, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hi @ TheresNoTime:, Hi recently you had deleted the article which I mentioned above with the reason of SPEEDY DELETE G7/U1 but this CSD tag was done by me. That tag was not done by that article creator nor the nominator. Fade258 ( talk) 13:55, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} I thought it was all the intermediate edits that got nuked with these. (I think you only got rid of the one that introduced the copyvio.) I'll readily admit that I don't know the proper protocol, though, having only interacted with a few copyvios. Thanks. -- mathieu ottawa ( talk) 00:12, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
I understand you recently flagged a page I had created for speedy deletion, and/or acted on that flag and deleted the page. The page in question was Smart Design, which had been flagged as being subject to "G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion". Having now re-read the policy, I find it hard to square the description with the content in question, which I felt was (and was certainly intended to be) written in a neutral and encyclopediatic style, with multiple references from a range of sources. I had created the page in the past few days ago as I had been looking up something related, and been surprised to find that there was no page covering this topic; a previous version of the page had existed (and been similarly deleted due to G11) almost a decade ago - I have no idea why that would have been so, having not read that page (it may well indeed have been promotional!), but it seems odd to have this newly written page removed immediately after writing it. I work in the design industry - but not at the company in question, and have no ties to the firm - and believe it to be a clearly notable entity that should be represented on Wikipedia.
a) Would you be able to clarify what was inappropriate about the content? Why did you feel that speedy deletion was the best response, rather than highlighting issues with the page in a discussion?
b) Is there a process to contest the deletion?
c) Can you share with me the deleted content, so that I can review what was there and re-write portions of it if necessary?
Thanks,
Dotx3 ( talk) 22:14, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
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How do I enter a new person into Wikipedia -- Tweardy ( talk) 12:52, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, Sam. :)
I noticed that you protected
Adam and Eve (
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views) for two weeks. That article was already under PC, and its only problematic edits since the 12th were by a single IP today who stopped after receiving their third warning. Would you consider returning it to pending changes? --
Tamzin
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{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Much appreciated. :) Sannita (WMF) ( talk) 15:50, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hello, thanks for your help at Hurricane Rita. However, I noticed that the protection you put in is significantly shorter than the previous protection which expired only a short time ago. The page has been an LTA target for quite some time now. Would you please look through the page's protection history and consider making the semi-protection longer? Thanks. Clintonan ( talk) 22:50, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi User talk:Oswaldian continuously and excessively disrupt this page Hurricane Ivan. Kindly look into it. thank you -- Robertjamal12 (talk) 23:50, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
I joined because of an error in a specific article. I am interested in that being corrected. How do I get back to that page to do that correction? -- Oncll ( talk) 18:10, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
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{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} You blocked my accounts from editing Oliver Emanuel despite the fact that I was editing it and protecting it in order to remove Biographies of Living Persons content that contravenes GDPR right to be forgotten.
Please allow me and only me to edit the page for a day and then I will leave the page alone and not edit anything else on Wikipedia. I promise not to edit any other pages, but I need satisfaction. I need to exercise my legal right to remove GDPR violating content from the public Internet.
Please do not stop me from doing so. The next step is a formal complaint to the Wikimedia Foundation User:Jimbo Wales.
I am having to use Proxy because you blocked my real IP. Do not block this IP, allow me to edit the Oliver Emanuel page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.26.145.8 ( talk) 15:17, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
If you are an individual located in the United Kingdom, and have questions about your personal data or would like to request to access, update, or delete it [...]" which gives the email UKrepresentative.Wikimedia
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} As you know Wikipedia protected Nazia Hassan page to stop vandalism but once again the same user Kasim8999 started vandalism on the page. They don't have authentic source and editing again and again something proves bad intention of the user. Kindly protect the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arezhas98 ( talk • contribs) 15:02, 29 October 2021 (UTC)