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Just wanted to tell you that was a good suggestion, and I'm taking it. Thank you. (Sorry if this is the wrong place to send a message like this, I'm not up to date on all the wikipedia etiquette) ClearConcise ( talk) 21:28, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
Dear ToBeFree,
I hope this message finds you in good health. I am reaching out to inquire about the process of designating MilitaryLand.net as a reliable and trustworthy source of information. As I frequently refer to the content published on this website, I would greatly appreciate any guidance you can provide on how to establish its credibility.
Thank you for taking the time to consider my request. I look forward to hearing back from you soon.
Best regards, Uwdwadafsainainawinfi ( talk) 17:11, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
Dear ToBeFree,
I am writing to request an increase in page protection for the article on Offensive Guard. It is a project of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs with the aim to form new assault brigades in the structure of National Guard, National Police and Border Guards. I have attempted to increase the page protection level in accordance with the guidelines set forth in WP:GS/RUSUKR. Despite my efforts, however, my request has been denied.
I believe that the Offensive Guard page meets the criteria for increased protection outlined in WP:GS/RUSUKR. Given the potential for vandalism and misinformation, I strongly urge you to reconsider my request and increase the page protection level.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely, Uwdwadafsainainawinfi ( talk) 16:29, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi, here [1], i saw that this article was deleted by you. I found many sources for the same as the subject was a minister under Government of Bihar and elected member of Bihar Legislative Assembly, which makes it enough to qualify for WP:GNG and WP:NPOL. So can i create it once again. Admantine123 ( talk) 07:46, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
I see that in this edit you wrote "in case someone wonders, the edit summary of ... the user's first edit, seems to have conveniently removed any need for an edit warring warning", following a warning I had posted. In case it's of any interest to you, I actually noticed that edit summary after I had posted the warning, and considered going back and blocking after all. In fact I decided to let it go, and just keep a watch for continuation of edit warring, but I would have blocked immediately if I had noticed the edit summary at first. JBW ( talk) 19:56, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you! I do try my best to help out to make sure this is a safe environment. Cwater1 ( talk) 04:45, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree,
You recently posted this [9] notification on user:Golden's talk page, as a result of the AA3 case. Said user is still t-banned as per this [10] post, I quote: "...indefinitely topic banned from conflicts involving Armenia or Azerbaijan, broadly construed."
This diff from 25 March 2023 shows said user removing/reverting the Kurdish transliteration from the Kalbajar District article, a district heavily involved in the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. On the same day they removed a similar transliteration from the Lachin District article, another district heavily involved in the ongoing conflict. I'm wondering, does this constitute a violation of their t-ban? - LouisAragon ( talk) 21:28, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
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I think some of those are mine. Not intentionally breaking anything. Only noticed the issue because I accidentally clicked into the history. I know the evidence submission I just made had some of these; I'll check it now. It's the UTC part that needs to go? if I am right about that, no need to answer. If that submission is why I am on that list, my mistake, sorry. A lot of cut and paste was involved in putting that into date order, enough to make me resolve to find and/or write a script if I ever need to do that again Elinruby ( talk) 21:33, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
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Well, this is a bit different. Article was just created yesterday and there's already an edit war alleging libel. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 21:27, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
What prompted the protection? We've had a few content disputes over the last couple of years but nothing that got out of hand. The regular WP:CHESS editors like myself, User:Quale, User:Bruce leverett and User:Ihardlythinkso all monitor this page as a core chess article and regularly revert bad edits or vandalism. I just don't understand why it needs protection now. MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 01:10, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Hey, TBF, I see you EC protected this, but the current edit warring is all EC editors. What do you think of full protect for a couple days? I'm asking because it would of course override the long-term EC protection. Valereee ( talk) 15:34, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi This page was eventually moved to draft space following article creation by a non qualified user. Now it has been moved from draft space back to mainspace by another unqualified user here. Its not that I object to the article creation itself, I would just prefer it were done by a qualified editor. Selfstudier ( talk) 07:58, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
You blocked a certain IP range for editwarring at Alderwood Mall. There's another IP there doing the exact same disruption. ☆ Bri ( talk) 01:03, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
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Since Im new here, but not new because I was back editing to 2021 and I had an account. And revert people edits if they're Vandalism but, idk how to log in. 24.184.246.211 ( talk) 22:04, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
Hey, TBF. Just letting you know about three, possibly four, meatpuppets who have been adding unreferenced info here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:57, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
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Where did I go wrong in Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback, is it not auspicious? I'm doubting your acumen skills here, because there's a Wikipedia policy on unsourced edits, and I've indubitably seen users with the tool use it for this cause. I felt like I had to add that to my request even though it wasn't written on WP:Rollback. Any suggestions, for future reference? Dancing Dollar ( let's talk) 22:45, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
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Still getting my head around these changes. I see people doing all sorts of odd things. But shouldn't the editor be told that they should read the talk page as there may be restrictions, eg 1R? Doug Weller talk 16:34, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
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Hi. There is something that I don't quite understand: the semi-protection that you applied to the article was supposed to last until august 2024, but for some reason, following a full protection that lasted 48 hours, the article is now unprotected and back to the usual IP disruption. Was this supposed to happen? Best, M.Bitton ( talk) 21:44, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Would I still be able to edit the Alain Prost article to complete the Good Article nomination I had made before the case started? This article is not really related to Armenia at all, aside from the subject's ancestry, and I don't think I'll need to specifically edit the one line mentioning that. Whether this counts as an Armenian article or not, I hope that an exemption can be made to implement any changes the reviewer suggests just to complete the GA process. Dallavid ( talk) 16:05, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
User Gitz6666 made several comments that are irrelevant to the case, a distortion/mistranslation (e.g. I never said "shithole full of zombies") and offensive, i.e. this and this. He speculates about racists/racism, which has nothing to do with anything I said, about my "mental state" and "feelings". Would it be possible to remove these comments please? Thank you. My very best wishes ( talk) 21:08, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ ToBeFree: I understand I’m still on a one revert restriction so I’m stepping back from this but it would still seem @ Scientelensia: hasn’t learned their lesson and is continuing with ownership behaviour on ( Fabinho (footballer, born 1993)). im only coming to you as you dealt with this previously and I have no desire to continue reverting. Cheers. RossButsy ( talk) 16:16, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 20:32, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
Are these templates and if so can you point me to them? Both would be useful. CNMall41 ( talk) 00:21, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Good day, I'm reporting a vandal who evaded a previous block by changing his IP code which was 151.30.243.31 and was blocked by you, currently it's 151.30.34.219 and is being used for the same kind of vandalisms, I think that you may be able to do something about it. 151.82.213.149 ( talk) 13:35, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Good day,
I have applied a rollback request two days ago but no progress has been made yet. Even if the request is rejected due to any reason, I won't mind. But keeping like this is not good. Kindly please see the request and take necessary action (if required).
Thanks NFRAPC ( talk) 15:28, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
[42] Those pile-on opposes were totally unnecessary. Pawnkingthree ( talk) 21:36, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, that page seems to be attracting quite a flock of ducks. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 15:50, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
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Seems we have a pair of IPs from the same general area intent on keeping the rabbi's controversial views out of the article. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 21:08, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks for protecting the page. Can U please revert edits made by 2A02:2378:120C:C22D:0:0:0:1 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? Initially the release history were split but that user recombined them. 197.244.102.196 ( talk) 19:00, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
Dear ToBeFree,
I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to let you know that I have been suggesting for some time now that the 47th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) and 47th Assault Brigade (Ukraine) should be merged. However, as of yet, nothing has been done to move this proposal forward.
I would appreciate it if you could provide me with an update on the status of this proposal and any steps that are being taken to consider its implementation.
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See this diff. I didn't feel like starting a thread at ANI, and I saw that you were the user who most recently warned them. SamX ( talk) 15:07, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, as the edit warring at McAleer seems to be over and the editor has started talking (at least on their own talk page, where I'm engaging with them), do you think we could have the article protection lifted now please? I've checked the source used for the disputed content, and it looks like it's not RS and I'd like to tag it as such - I've started a discussion about it on the article talk page. (I'm watching the page too, and I'll come back if there's any further disruption). Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 16:09, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
The user Computer and Internet solutions that you blocked won't stop spamming their talk page. I think talk page access should be revoked. -- Drm310 🍁 ( talk) 14:34, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
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21:26, 10 May 2023 (UTC)Good day, I'd like to report again the same vandal I reported last month, this time his IP code has become 31.190.112.97 and he's using it for similar vandalisms. 151.82.233.57 ( talk) 19:50, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
Please revoke. - 🔥 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 01:22, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree, While patrolling new redirects I noticed some strange page moves and redirects relating to a page you protected ( Miss Universe Philippines) which you might be in a better position to understand. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 15:00, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
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Blocking these two ranges should stop that vandal for awhile... WHOIS only lists the /16 for each of them but those seem too wide for a block, so I think these two will suffice... 73.67.145.30 ( talk) 19:28, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Seems to be back as User:Essie Nyawai -- Denniss ( talk) 09:57, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
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You might want to block that POV pusher's range from editing the page. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:30, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Apparently this article was the subject of proposed deletion back in July and there was a decision to keep. Now we have an IP insisting that the cleanup template is no longer needed, even though at least one issue ( WP:PRIMARY) clearly has not been addressed. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:21, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, TBF. Maybe you could help Luke understand the difference between what is and is not a good BLP edit? – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:22, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, To. (I feel I have known you long enough to call you by your first name.) I see you have semiprotected Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Piermark. You probably noticed that I had previously protected it and then unprotected it. The reason for that is that I found that at least one sockpuppet had edited on other pages, apart from that page and Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Piermark, and in that situation it is often better to leave the usual target pages unprotected and watch them, since that way we can spot the vandal as soon as they act again, whereas if they can't edit the usual pages then they may just go ahead and vandalise other pages, which we can't watch, as we don't know which pages they may attack next. However, as my protecting first and then changing my mind and backtracking may suggest, I am far from sure which is best, so I have no quarrel with you over coming to a different decision than I did, but I just thought you might like to know. (Incidentally, I would have protected indefinitely, as it is difficult to imagine any situation in which an unconfirmed editor would have a legitimate reason for editing a sockpuppet category article, but there isn't really a lot of difference between indef and a year in this context.) JBW ( talk) 20:07, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, TBF. Someone called Reprogram needs help understanding what constitutes a reliable source and how to properly reference a source in the body of an article. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 05:23, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice, not clear why you removed the content in the Ravioli's talk page. However I have already talked to the user, check his sockpuppet's user talk page User talk:Juan.Alvarez6. He keeps providing sources which do not prove what he states. But admin blocked me for edit warring indefinitely. Ok, bad behaviour, i take my responsability, it is correct to be blocked. But how about the sockpuppet behaviour? shouldn't we mean to delete information which are not supported by valid sources or anything is changed in wikipedia? Also, you ignored other comments on User talk:Xiaomichel by another user which was even more detailed than me. Frukko ( talk) 16:33, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
Can you help me? I'm really trying to have something I feel is inaccurate off of my own Wiki page and there seems to be this insane bunch of people determined to prevent me from doing that. I'm not adding anything insulting or controversial, I'm simply trying to omit language that mentions religion, which is inaccurate. Marble Argument ( talk) 22:58, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
I’ve seen you doing a lot of work on that arbitration case. Thank you for all your effort. Jehochman Talk 00:19, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
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I always edit and add things according to reliable sources. I have done more than 950 edits and i am a extended confirmed user. I always follow the rules. Sometimes things go wrong because of some other people. I think i am a sensible user and editor here. Please unblock me i am appealing to you first. Thankyou. Rahil1610 ( talk) 14:15, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
I have several problems related to this article : The first of them is : there is an extended protection . Second: the article about the invasion itself is not updated. please remove the protection . And why is the article about the invasion not updated ? Kiriuxa2002 ( talk) 10:42, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, thanks for your reply on my talk page. It seems I just don't understand the rules. Some people say you shouldn't be called a sockpuppet without a WP:SPI I think and then I read this Bishonen talk contribs m 15,211 bytes 0 Changed protection settings for " Adam Leitman Bailey": Persistent sockpuppetry: the semiprotection isn't working very well against some obvious sock puppetry. ([Edit=Require extended confirmed access] (indefinite) [Move=Require extended confirmed access] (indefinite))
I do want to drop the matter but as you are the only person that has been kind then I thought I'd show you in the hope you could clarify things.
Bijou1995 ( talk) 20:00, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
2023-05-31T17:26:53 Abecedare blocked Bijou1995 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked): " Sock/meat puppetry; see my note at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Texasmom1965"
all edits are done after mentioning in the Talk Page. There is no consensus in the respective article's talk page that it was edit warring. All sentences are provided with the respective valid academic citations. Reconsider the decision on blocking me. അദ്വൈതൻ ( talk) 18:07, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
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Giving you a heads-up about a WP:BLP vandal here. Just one IP so protecting the page shouldn't be necessary unless they hop. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 00:01, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
User:ThorpeParkTheSwarm is abusing his talk page by making disruptive unblock requests and vandalizing the page. Please revoke his TPA. ChrisWx ( talk - contribs) 21:34, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Can you help me open a discussion to rename the article back to 'VSS (Vintorez) and AS (Val)'?
I don't know how to put the necessary code for the RSPM Guns & Glory ( talk) 12:40, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello, ToBeFree, I see you blocked LuGusDeclanBibaElodieBarnaby. They started out of the gate with reverting vandalism using tools and tagging pages for deletion using proper codes and even making a nomination at AFD after basically being active for a day. I know they are a returning editor but without CU goggles, I have no idea what sockmaster they might be. But hopefully this block will cause them to slow down because they had gone from 0 - 100 mph as a page patroller with apparently very limited experience. Liz Read! Talk! 06:12, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
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I see an arb saying If there are other recent (i.e. post-2020) issues that merit a look, then I could be convinced otherwise.
, so I give him something else that merits a look, and you remove my edit as off-topic.
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Hi, TBF. Seems to me that some of the legal issues section is appropriate for the article. The facts that there was a lawsuit and it got thrown out, for example. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 03:13, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
You will recall that about a week ago, you partially blocked a user from Marriage in ancient Rome for edit-warring. I first closed a DRN request, and then you said that your objective had been to encourage rather than discourage discussion. I reopened the case, and reminded the user in question to notify the other editors on their talk pages. The filing editor never did notify the other editors. The DRN case has now been archived by the archival bot because it had no activity for 48 hours after the expiration date, and I hadn't extended the expiration date. So maybe that editor doesn't care that much about discussion, or, maybe, doesn't understand the advice to contact the other editors. They can always resume discussion on the article talk page. Robert McClenon ( talk) 03:46, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
A recent restore of many previously removed and discredited edits by user Chrma626 have now been picked up by MartinPict and these new edits have ineligible sources (auction results), sources that do not confirm the assertions made in the Wiki page, incorrect information (Pierre Laval, for example, was not ever nor alleged to be a Nazi) and these recent changes reflects a negative bias toward and imbalance of tone on the page with an overemphasis on World War II -related allegations without adequate sources. To followup on your earlier actions on the Baccarat Talk page (see /info/en/?search=Talk:Baccarat_(company) ) there is evidence of citing user-generated content, original research based on primary sources, combining sources into something neither said, and an apparent lack of relevance. 104.234.53.123 ( talk) 16:33, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, TBF. Giving you a heads-up regarding the POV-pusher here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:29, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
Not sure what is going on with the IP here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:38, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey! How are you? I am the user of Pep Guardi who recently reported some misbehaviours caused by a user on Baruch Spinoza article. I am quite new on here then I am still learning some things. So just few minutes ago I discovered that I could revert the page to the stable version prior to that edit warring caused by the blocked user and this wouldn’t mean any edit warring given that “Reverting edits of banned or blocked users is not edit warring”, so my “ignorance” on this rule made me take a while to take that action hahah. However, I found really intriguing when I did the reversion that there was an edit made by a new user (Boerboel Yzer) which is the very same that was done by the blocked user ( Awater01). I checked it and he/she is a new user that created an account like 2 hours ago and has 8 reversions out of a total of 11 edits… something quite weird for a new user and reproduce the vary same behaviour of the blocked user ( Awater01). I was trying to find how to report it so that someone can check if it is sockpuppetry. Could you help me to report it? I mean you were very kind with me giving me advices of things I should avoid during arguments on Wikipedia, so I would very happy if you could help with this as well (and I hope I am not doing anything wrong haha) Thanks :) Ps: the suspicious “coincidence”: the “new” editor deleted the word “and”, something that was always there and the only one who made a point in deleting it was the now blocked editor: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Baruch_Spinoza&diff=prev&oldid=1158882459 PepGuardi ( talk) 04:10, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
See these diffs and this thread. Not sure if any action is needed at this point, but I figured I should bring this to your attention since you've sanctioned them in the past. — SamX [ talk · contribs] 00:49, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi again, TBF. Looks like there's a bit of confusion here; one editor claiming to be a relative of the subject continually removes sourced content regarding the subject's Romani heritage. Apparently the editor believes the content claims that the subject is Romani rather than Greek with Romani heritage. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:53, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree, I'm not quite sure about the appropriate noticeboard for this, so if you've got time, you might want to take a quick look at User talk:Hamaredha#applying for: one user revealing their conflict of interest regarding Ali Ahmadzadeh (quite obvious anyway looking at their xwiki contributions [84] [85]), the other one asking to be paid for writing the article... Johannnes89 ( talk) 08:38, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Kindly revisit the discussion regarding what name should be used for this article. Guns & Glory ( talk) 08:45, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
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"Reliable" in Wikipedia just means "conforming to a desired narrative." You have made this clear on many occasions, Hob Gadling. Unfortunately casual readers erroneously assume that "reliable" has some sort of connection with accuracy and truth, which of course it doesn't.[98]
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Could you take a look at this? Thank you for your generally excellent mopping. — Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 17:52, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey Tobi! A couple of days ago, I had a dream that we both are eating Dosa while our bikes are being repaired. Not in Deutschland but somewhere in India. Just wanted to share with you! — DaxServer ( t · m · e · c) 17:09, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, TBF. This article is only two days old and there's already a BLP edit war. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:08, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
I have no problem at all with the unblock. I would ask that you keep an eye on him for a while. Thanks for the very fair way you handled this situation. Sundayclose ( talk) 20:16, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for filling in for the absent bot. I took the liberty of moving the entries from May to June, having first consulted my calendar. Regards, Favonian ( talk) 18:42, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
I don't know if you already know about it or are interested in such activism, but there's a demo this morning in the city against the PAG. Reading thru https://www.nopagby.de/ about the PAG is rather concerning but I'm not surprised of the Kontrolle asserted by the Polizei Bayern. Heard of it in several forms from several people. Some photos: Category:NoPAG protest in Munich 2023 — DaxServer ( t · m · e · c) 18:10, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
I have to ask a dumb question, to be certain: If editor A makes 4 edits adding a paragraph each to an article, and editor B comes along and hits Undo for each one - 4 reverts in say an hour, did editor B violate 3RR (assuming not obvious spam, vandalism, etc.)? Scenario 2: Same actions by editor A another day, another article. If editor C comes along, and makes one manual edit that removes all 4 additions of editor A, did editor C violate 3RR? It seems you would say No for editor C, but Yes for editor B, and this is a huge loophole. -- Yae4 ( talk) 08:06, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
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I recently got a message on my talk page about the restrictions non-extended confirmed users have when it comes to the Russo-Ukrainian war articles, I am Extended Confirm by request, and wonder if that still counts with the Russo-Ukrainian war articles like the one I created that was recently deleted. RowanJ LP2 ( talk) 14:48, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Boom. Thanks for the good idea, should've done that long ago. OhNoitsJamie Talk 20:25, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
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We need you to weigh in here, editor has undid your prior changes with sources ineligible for Wikipedia authority, factual errors, and biased, discredited content /info/en/?search=Talk:Baccarat_(company) 2A0D:6FC2:45B0:FF00:EC8A:92EB:B200:EF7F ( talk) 12:55, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
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Sorry, I just see discussions here. The person who loves reading ( talk) 03:06, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
The IP user who inserts false information into Conan articles (who last used the IP 50.219.13.234) is now back as 2600:1003:B12C:66E0:C8E7:1422:C40F:64AA. Could you block him again? Or should I create a SPI case or something? LordKulgur ( talk) 04:40, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, TBF. Check out these edits when you get a chance. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:27, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi again, TBF. Two IPs have been claiming the subject has divorced Mr. Pond but have yet to provide a reliable source. The most recent edit summary contains a BLP violation against Mr. Pond, which should be deleted. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:49, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm back again. Some pretty strange edits here today. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 21:20, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for blocking 172.220.81.119 just now. You might want to look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Exnihilox which concerns this same editor and his behaviour at Rochdale. I doubt you even need to check the US-based IP of this US-based editor (confirmed on Exnihilox's user page) to realise this is a sock. 10mmsocket ( talk) 21:02, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
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Tidying up some loose ends and I see Exnihilox has carried on editing with an IP from the same IP. Look at the /64 range. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Exnihilox. Thanks in advance. 10mmsocket ( talk) 17:40, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, TBF. COI edtior JamesHawkes0161 apparently has been editing while logged out. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:55, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hi again, TBF. Looks like we have a POV-pusher trying to arrange this list into a non-standard format. I briefly looked at other Indian surnames and did not see any arranged according to heritage. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:11, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for protecting the French conquest of Algeria and rev-deleting the disruptive material. The editor in question is an obvious sock of "Norprobr" (see the list of socks that they created last week). After the recent block of "Gautretlion" and "Giuliottis", they created yet another sock ( Radichsper) to target one of the usual articles.
I wouldn't be surprised to see them repeat what they did last week and target these article again: Military history of France, Siege of Laghouat, Algiers, French Armed Forces, Oran, Military history of France, French Army, Algerians, French North Africa, French colonial empire, History of Algeria, Military history of Algeria, Algiers Province, Pacification of Algeria, Ottoman Algeria, North Africa, Constantine (which have been protected by ScottishFinnishRadish for a short while) and maybe others. Best, M.Bitton ( talk) 11:52, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hi ToBeFree, As a new page patroller and an experienced AFC reviewer, I kindly request that you move this page B4blaze to the Draft space and allow me to expand and improve upon its content using reliable sources. Additionally, if possible, could remove the name protection for this page? Padavalam🌂 ► 18:38, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello. The blocked IP editor who adds false plot summaries to Conan articles is back. I created a sockpuppet investigation,but no responses so far. Edit by blocked IP, by current IP. LordKulgur ( talk) 05:15, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hey how are you? Awater01 attacked again Baruch Spinoza page this time with the user 2600:100C:A211:73E1:A08C:466D:DF88:F3BB (same behavior, same edition, user joined in July 1st and few edits afterwards…) PepGuardi ( talk) 15:50, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree. I'm not asking for any administrative action at this point. I just wanted to keep you updated. Kesc4399 has resumed edit warring by removing this content for the fourth time, without consensus, which I have challenged. The content is properly sourced. If you cull through his walls of text you'll see that his only reason for removal is that he personally doesn't believe it happened. In the past he has asked for a source that King's family made the statement, but it is in the source which is cited before his removal of the content. I added a second source, even though that's not necessary. Hopefully this is the end of Kesc4399 edit warring. Thanks. Sundayclose ( talk) 13:29, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi, TBF. I stumbled into an active edit war concerning WP:SYNTH & WP:ONUS, possibly WP:BLP as well, here while patrolling recent changes and have to get back to work. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:26, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, giving you a heads-up about the COI edits here. Now there's a blatant copyvio as well. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:58, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
I've been helping maintain the Sound of Freedom article, which has been subjected to near-constant edit warring lately. One especially debated-over topic is, as you put it, "a (sub)section dedicated to connections to QAnon", which now has its own sub-section on the Talk Page. Does it seem like a consensus has been reached yet there, and if so, what should be done with the section? I'd like to reach a solid decision one way or the other, just to prevent any further edit warring. Thanks. -- Neateditor123 ( talk) 04:58, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
This IP Address vandalized own talk page while blocked. Probably the ability to edit own talk page needs to be disabled. 95.132.186.233 ( talk) 08:38, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi again. I stopped by recent changes during a moment of boredom and came across this messy edit war; one participant has been blocked as a sock and another blocked on suspicion of that sock editing while logged out. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 00:29, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
This time as Jordinesi and Reidinfors (targetting the articles whose protection has expired as well as new ones, such as Battle of Sig).
The email that I sent to the edit filter team is yet to be reviewed for approval (because it's not from a list member). Is there any way I could expedite the process? Best, M.Bitton ( talk) 22:56, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Not sure what's going on here but, so far, two IPs and one recently registered editor have been trying to add what appears to be nothing more than lists of students who made the schools' honor rolls. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:13, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello ToBeFree! I hope you're doing well. I was wondering if I am able to edit the article Fyappiy about a very niche Ingushetian ethnic group? The reason I'm asking is after editing the article, I noticed that in two map citations they mention "Armenia" and "Azerbaijan" in their reference title. Otherwise, neither the countries or anything related to them is in the Fyappiy article's content. The references are:
User WikiEditor1234567123, the main author of the article, recently asked for my help in reviewing it and helping it qualify for GA status which I am happy to do. Thank you! Best, – Olympian loquere 13:27, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
Feel free to improve any of these as well:
I'm assuming we will have some overlap on these for quite some time. — xaosflux Talk 22:50, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello, can you please take a look at the AIV report against 2402:80...88:9387? It has devolved into them spamming user talk pages with harassment. Apparently they are an LTA? – 2804:F14:8087:2401:5900:C362:50DC:32B0 ( talk) 06:10, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, giving you a heads-up about the WP:COI editor over here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:43, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
I'm sorry for my tone the other day. I was getting frustrated at being led in circles and then I was given your name and told to come to you, and from what I'm understanding now something else was going on. MJL asked me to "please try not to let your recent experiences color your judgement of ToBeFree too much. He tries his best, but we're all a little stretched thin" so I'm going to go with that. Can we be ok? Saikyoryu ( talk) 23:06, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
They've just posted legal threats on their talk page; probably grounds for TPA removal. lavender|(formerly HMSSolent)| lambast 02:07, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
Please revoke TPA for this range because this ip is now taking legal action against wikipedia [128] Untamed1910 ( talk) 02:46, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
TBF, am I correct that an unconfirmed quote evidently originating from what appears to be little more than a gossip column in an unreliable source falls under WP:UNDUE? – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 06:14, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey - I think it's admirable that you're still trying to figure out what the problem was there. Maybe I was wrong to try and help out, I seem to have made things worse rather than better. Girth Summit (blether) 19:39, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
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In'indian army equipment 'page i added 122mm D-30 howitzer in artillery section with proper citations but someone blindly undoing all changes he is repeating my two citations where it is mentioned the d-30 guns 'being phased out' or get's obsolete.But there is no mention of complete retirement of these guns even source given by someone mentioned there are 520-550 guns are in service and in future it would be retired or phased out but he is still not only blindly undoing change again and again also giving threat to me.I am giving some articles to you,read it and make conclusion.(all or some 122mm D-30 is in service of india or all guns are retired)
1. https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/Indian-army-weapons-artillery-Feeble-fire-in-the-big-guns/article62116525.ece (No. 1 article of the Hindu was published in 2014 and updated in 4 dec. 2021) 2. https://www.aviation-defence-universe.com/this-is-how-the-indian-artillery-looks-like/ 3. https://raksha-anirveda.com/regiment-of-artillery-the-second-largest-arm-of-the-indian-army/ 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDefense/comments/zzltsu/indian_army_122_mm_howitzer_2a18_d30_live_firing/ 5. https://21stcenturyasianarmsrace.com/2020/02/05/india-makes-a-lot-of-its-own-artillery 6. https://ssbcrackexams.com/types-of-artillery-guns-used-by-indian-army/ Dl ff ( talk) 12:52, 24 July 2023 (UTC) Dl ff ( talk) 13:17, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey, there are some ducks flocking to their most recently edited articles: Valery Tsepkalo & Prohibited degree of kinship. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:43, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
Yes, I acknowledge that. Had I appreciated up front how many of the edits were going to be vandalism, I have gone straight to AIV without wasting my time doing UWs.
No reply expected. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 ( talk) 22:39, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
[129] Would you mind revoking TPA? Dr.Pinsky ( talk) 18:22, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Tibby. 41.10.0.0/16 has a history of disrupting articles related to South Africa. Could you please keep them out of there? – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:54, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
Maybe the answer to my question is hidden somewhere on Wikipedia, so I apologize if I'm being lazy. Are admins able to view the edit histories of deleted pages? I would expect it to be so, but I want to be sure. Aintabli ( talk) 12:38, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
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I suggest removing this user's talk page access Notrealname1234 ( talk) 22:04, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, I have drafted an article following all Wikipedia policies and I would like you to turn it into an article.
Draft:List of governors of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province شامادورا ( talk) 19:53, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
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Brother,the flag of India, which is changed by you with darker colours is wrong.kindly re-upload the flag image which was there previously. You can check my correctness on official website of government of India. Thank you 171.61.122.28 ( talk) 05:58, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, I appreciate the advice. I don't think ANI will help, as it's a one-off personal attack by the IP (though their trying to argue about the antisemitic nature of the article is a bright red flag). I hatted the tangent and I'm hoping they get bored & wander off. — The Hand That Feeds You: Bite 18:19, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
Nothing urgent, just a thought. -- Tamzin[ cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 19:39, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi
Would you mind revoking TPA for that IP you blocked earlier? They are still abusing their access.
Thanks TLJ7863 ( talk) 22:52, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
Hey @ ToBeFree, This user you blocked just a few minutes ago is abusing the unblock request and keeps saying go play geometry dash. Could I request the user's talk page to be revoked? 🛧 Layah50♪🛪 ( 話す? 一緒に飛ぼう!) 03:19, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
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Looks like we have a newly-registered editor engaged in whitewashing so as not to speak ill of the dead. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:39, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Tibby. The IP here seems to have a WP:COMPETENCY issue. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:19, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
This, you've got to see for yourself. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:21, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Sorry if this is taking your time, but even after you warned AzorzaI they continue to revert on Battle of Kosovo in a WP:OWN fashion. AzorzaI has been reverting every day there since August 3, against 7 editors. After you warned them, they made 2 other reverts, suggesting they are not willing to stop. I am not familiar with filing reports on noticeboards, so can you please help? Uniacademic ( talk) 22:26, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
Somebody's having trouble distinguishing myth from historical fact. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:21, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I just noticed that IPs from the same geographic area had been making problematic edits there a year ago. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 23:03, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
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I was half asleep when wrote that request sorry and i would like to request you look at my new request which is way more neat.
Thanks, •Cyberwolf• 23:54, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Is Good Russians eligible for deletion? It was created and written by a non-extended confirmed editor. Most of the other edits is just edit warring between non-extended confirmed editors. But probably it needs page protection at the very least. Mellk ( talk) 03:32, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi ToBeFree! Am I supposed to be grateful to you for not blocking me?
While I can take any amount of stick from vandals, I see no real point in justifying my actions to admins, let alone arguing with them. But don't worry; the bottom line is that I'll make your life easier by staying well away from the Sandbox, thereby saving you the hassle of considering whether or not to block me, partially or otherwise, in the future.
That said, as I have a few moments to spare right now, here's my rationale for what you consider my reprehensible behaviour:
While your high level of AGF does you credit, I think it's safe to say that the IP will cherish your welcome and the rebuke you gave me. But surely there comes a moment when an IP has demonstrated, beyond any reasonable doubt, that s/he is not here to build an encyclopedia? Even without resorting to downright, blatant vandalism.
Obviously, that's a decision you admins have to take on a case-by-case basis, but isn't that what AIV is for? For notifying busy admins of things going on that they may not otherwise be aware of?
If removing the very template that clearly states "Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading) ... Feel free to try your editing skills below" is so apparently harmless as to warrant you rebuking me, why bother having that template there in the first place? I assume it's there to help all the other users who visit the Sanbox between bot clearing sessions you speak so highly of. What's more, while I have no doubt whatsoever that the vast majority of IPs that use the Sandbox do so more or less correctly, what to do with those who remove the template, not just once or twice, but systematically? And then insist on doing so after receiving warnings. Are they really here to build an encyclopedia? What's the tipping point?
BTW, following your kind welcome, you-know-who was right back at it... Quack! Technopat ( talk) 14:19, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Regarding this I didn't think about this until you pointed it out but the issue is that they're not extended confirmed, which per [ [152]] they need to be, right? I looked at the age of their account but didn't register the number of edits when I was looking. Would it be best to just apply ECP to the article itself to sidestep any continuing issue? - Aoidh ( talk) 01:44, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
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Just letting you know about some conflict I came across while patrolling recent changes. Some editors want to use Garfunkel's memoir as evidence of him being bisexual; however, the referenced page doesn't mention sexual attraction in the literal sense and there are no other sources. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:36, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
My user talk is being harassed and it's annoying me He is trying to get my rollback revoked He's a ip I made a mistake and he's knitt picking I warned him because he won't stop So I framed the ip's talk on my user page and that's unacceptable according to him He removed sourced content on tee •Cyberwolf• 22:40, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
I see you found a Canadian duck; I always thought they were known for geese. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 23:43, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
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On Veal Milanese article he reverted and deleted a source 79.50.172.35 ( talk) 11:01, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
This article has a long history of unsourced, promotional additions and quite a bit of activity along those lines today. Is this person even notable enough to have her own article? – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:57, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
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Would it be possible to revert back to a version of the article from 11:36, 25 August 2023 before user EmilePersaud started to add all the additional unsourced content? There was no consensus for it and some of the text that's in there now is rather dubious and not backed up by any of the references. E-960 ( talk) 20:56, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
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Please check my t/p. TrangaBellam ( talk) 10:26, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
Why did you delete this page - all information is accurate. Oceanview99 ( talk) 02:54, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi. You blocked this new editor. Looking at their edits, I think these may have been misguided, good faith efforts based on the “suggested edits” feature. My mobile web browser has tagged them as #suggested edits.
This would not be the first time #suggested edits has steered new people wrong.
Of course, I may be wrong, too. — A. B. ( talk • contribs • global count) 01:59, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Quack, quack. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 01:34, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, just alerting you about at least one edit warring POV-pusher here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:57, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
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Ajeeb agreed that my source is a reliable source but is choosing to ignore it. What do I do now? Master106 ( talk) 01:19, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
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Greetings, can you please apply extended-confirmed protection to Novorossiya (confederation) for some time to encourage non-EC editors to discuss changes first, thanks. Manyareasexpert ( talk) 09:10, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
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Sorry to bother you again. He comes back from time to time to remove content about an event in King's childhood that he has edit warred out of the article several times. His latest attempt is here. That's the fifth time. As always, it's not because of lack of sources, it's because he personally doesn't believe it's true. And as he often does, he leaves a deceptive edit summary ("fixed typo"), which is interesting because he rants about it in all of his other edit summaries for edits that have nothing to do with that content. I suppose he thinks he can make a sneak attack and no one will notice. You gave him every break imaginable, and I was OK with that. The only thing that got his attention in the past was a block, and I really feel that another block, even a brief one, is in order. Thanks. Sundayclose ( talk) 11:55, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi brother, I am native speaker of Amazigh language, I want to create new template for Template:User zgh ⵣⵉⵔⵉ ⴰⵎⵖⵏⴰⵙ ( talk). 00:55, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
{{#babel:zgh-n|en-2}}
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The above user was justifiably blocked earlier today. Almost all of their edits at their own talkpage were deleted. However, a simplified Chinese term was left behind. That term can be translated as an offensive one (similar to their English language edits, which were reverted in articles) and should be removed, too. shaidar cuebiyar ( talk) 04:13, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
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An editor pinged three editors on a talk page suggesting to them that the article should be merged. None of those pinged editors had made edits to the article before. I noticed that this editor only pinged those that supported their requested move on Republic of Crimea back in June (all three of them and in order!). They did not ever ping anyone who opposed their requested move. This editor also left a comment on one of the pinged editor's talk page after they began making the suggested edits, telling them to remove propaganda from other particular articles (they linked the articles in a follow up comment here). When I reverted one of the edits on the article they told the editor to remove propaganda from, they start a talk page discussion pinging other editors who did not edit the article before, which I can only assume is to influence the outcome of this discussion. I left a message on their talk page saying that this was canvassing but they simply removed this saying "No canvassing". Do you think this is something sanctionable/warrants a warning, or is it better to wait? Thanks. Mellk ( talk) 14:53, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
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ToBeFree, really sorry for making this discussion on your page even longer. Mellk, you called me a "partisan editor". I don't accuse you of bad faith, but I think you should either drop your "canvassing" case (which is built on the assumption that Panam2014 pinged such editors) or produce diffs that show me as such (in the sense of "a strong supporter of a party, cause [other than WP's core policies], or person" or "prejudiced in favour of a particular cause"; quotes from ODE). Rsk6400 ( talk) 07:14, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
It is time for him to stop agressive messages and calling others "propagandists"
Right after that 4RR report, I had just started to write out the evidence for an SPI (I've had both thier x-tools stats open in browsers for a day or so now). Thankfully you have saved me the trouble. Thanks for good admin'ing. - wolf 17:06, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
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I think this user that you just blocked and and I reported wants their block reviewed but they can't figure out how. I told them to put the template on their talk page but they might want an admin for it. Regards, Seawolf35 ( talk) 06:57, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I was looking at the McKamey Mannor page after watching Reckless Ben's series and Danny Berk's video about it. I was going to add some information to the controversies section about their investigation in to the haunted house when I saw that it had been attempted in the past and reverted, and that the page is now locked. I wanted to ask why this was done as their videos on the subject are well made and clearly show the scam that is taking place, on two ocasions they attempt the haunted house only to be refused entry after failing to essentially breathe underwater. There are many claims that McKamey makes about his attraction that are clearly impossible, such as the 2 mile long zip line, and I think that a source that clearly details the deception taking place here could be of great benefit to those considering attempting the haunted house as it could deter them from sustaining very serious injuries over a scam. I have never edited a page before so I may be out of line, and if I am I apologize, I just feel that if this information was not factual that in the two months his videos have been up McKamey would have any sort of rebuttal clearly proving this haunted house is real. Thank you so much for your time. PhantomRexx ( talk) 09:00, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
... disagree, but you do you. :) Drmies ( talk) 00:02, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello, was it your intention to restore unsourced material in Satrapy of Armenia after the IP block? Four editors have supported removing the unsourced material and I think there is a consensus to rollback to [185]. Thanks, // Timothy :: talk 22:11, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
Looks like this has been going on for a couple of weeks, some IP POV-pushers using WP:SYNTH arguments to paint the subject as some ultra-right wing stooge. You should take a look when get a chance. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 15:41, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree, this is LTA from dewiki, see de:Benutzer:--WikiUser1234945--/Bundesland-Troll for more information. I know how annoying that is, because I'm from dewiki. Have a nice Sunday. --WikiUser1234945-- ( talk) 16:49, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
I saw the warning about editing that page. If you would please, add the following just before "• purge" • [[Wikipedia:Editing restrictions/Archive/Placed by the Arbitration Committee|archive]]
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Hello ToBeFree,
I see that you have recently blocked Enciso_Systems, for Promotional username, promotional edits. All their edits have been reverted. [190] The first part of the reasoning is clear. The username is promotional, which may be a valid reason to block. However, I don't see any promotional editing. In fact, many (all?) of their contributions consist of adding JWST images to astronomy articles, which seems reasonable and unrelated to the business of the same name. A few of the edits had syntax issues, but that could be fixed. Was the mass reversal really necessary? Renerpho ( talk) 01:40, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
Just so you know an attempt is being made to drag you back into the middle of another ban request on my IP — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.236.126.177 ( talk) 08:21, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, just letting you know about the IP with an apparent conflict of interest who has been replacing sourced content with unsourced content. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 15:17, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi there, you previously blocked an IP edit-warring on Stargate (film). They appear to have resumed editing while blocked under a different IP. If you could take a look and perhaps weigh in at the edit-warring investigation I opened, I'd appreciate it. Thank you! DonIago ( talk) 17:33, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
The earlier edit said "she" is a social scientist, that's why i got confused when publishing the article, and assumed the subject was female, i am sorry about the mistake — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.106.8.27 ( talk) 01:17, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, I'm not sure what's going on here. Take a look and see what you think when you get a chance. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:47, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
Re: [204] Ha, apologies. When I get rushed and the four tildes don't work, I tend to slip back in to our local hot mess of dates/units/measures - will pay attention there. Sam Kuru (talk) 19:16, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi. Could you block 205.164.152.0/21 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · block user · block log) from the pages Saad Hussain Rizvi ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) please? If you search the contributions for the edit summary containing "Islam is not extremism" you will find them repeatedly making the same edit as far back as August last year. Thank you. FDW777 ( talk) 13:07, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I'm taking a wikibreak; would you mind blocking me for 24-hours to hold me to it? Thanks, Edward-Woodrow • talk 19:57, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to talk to you about whether I broke the community rules or not because I warned you that He's dangerous because he's an IP. He can find out where he is. And he still came up that I threatened him. I feel uncomfortable Because of the truth He also threatened me first that I would reveal personal information. And also intimidates me. อย่ามาตบะ ( talk) 10:35, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi there. I see you are active at WP:AN/3. Would you have a moment to look at this editor? They added several images to the Commons, and have been adding them to various Wikipedia articles. But some of the photos are really low quality. There has been discussion on their talk page, and wild edit wars at Durham, North Carolina and Cary, North Carolina. I'd start a central discussion on one of the articles, but there are several articles. I don't want to be the photo police, but Cary, North Carolina, is a good article, and a lot of work went in to making it a nice experience for readers. Thanks for your help. Magnolia677 ( talk) 23:10, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, I ran across something else that could use your attention. There appears to be someone with a COI issue removing referenced content here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 01:05, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
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They are again edit warring. [207] [208] Ajeeb Prani ( talk) 04:01, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hey! I have a question about why you 30/500 protected Anti-Palestinianism during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war? I requested it earlier but it was declined by someone else. I made a note on the talk page about it. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 20:52, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
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He's back Royal nail clippings 2 ThaddeusSholto ( talk) 17:28, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
Regarding the block, apparently the account is similar to Norprobr. As a result, it is still under sockpuppet investigation. Sorry about this but I forgot to add additional info on the WP:AIV. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd ( talk) 17:24, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I'd like to beef up this article with more refs. Can you move this WP:B4blaze to draft space? Jigar1984 ( talk) 16:50, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree, can you help provide some guidelines on how to resolve article censorship, and link hijacking?
A new article was created for Political views of Javier Milei, however shortly after the article was created and added to the main article Javier Milei, the new article on the same topic was created Political positions of Javier Milei, and the link on the main article was redirected to the new article instead; https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Javier_Milei&diff=prev&oldid=1182023220
Then the content of the old article was deleted !!!, and a redirect to the newly created one was added; https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Political_views_of_Javier_Milei&diff=prev&oldid=1182011968
After fixing this, it was reverted again by another user; https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Political_views_of_Javier_Milei&diff=prev&oldid=1182268028
The main article still directs to the new POVFORK Political positions of Javier Milei, instead of the original article Political views of Javier Milei.
A discussion was opened, but no response; /info/en/?search=Talk:Political_views_of_Javier_Milei#NPOV_dispute /info/en/?search=User_talk:Gobonobo#Reminder:_Discussion_invitation_Political_views_of_Javier_Milei
Thanks for any guidelines or help with this! Pedantic Aristotle ( talk) 13:42, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi there, guess who's back to take up your time again.
Special:Contributions/2601:243:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 looks like a shared IP range as it has a mix of good edits like typo fixes, misguided things like copypastes, and your typical silly vandalism and test edits. Mainly it just needs more eyes on it. The admin noticeboards don't seem like the appropriate place to put this, and not sure about the Pump either so hey I figured you could be volunteered to see what you thought would be the best course of action here!
I just stumbled upon a random bit of scribbling from it on an article, and smartly thought to go look up the overall range seeing as it's IPv6. Cheers and hope your day/night is going well!
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Hi ToBeFree,
I recently filed an AE Request relating to GWA88, who you blocked along with myself in early July. It seems that this filing has been interpreted as a retaliatory action for your prior block.
I'm not sure if this is because I received a second block this month and there may be some mix-up over the two blocks, making it seem like I immediately filed the AE request on GWA88, after a block resulting from a GWA88's filing had expired. Given that 4 months has passed with no action from myself, I don't think this interpretation is reasonable.
Could you have a look and add a comment if you feel it is appropriate? Carter00000 ( talk) 08:16, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
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@ ToBeFree: why is tu quoque argumentation not helpful there? When it comes to procedural fairness, tu quoque arguments seem exactly on point: if one party individually notifies certain editors of a conflict, that seems very relevant as to whether other parties can do the same thing, and/or whether other editors should be notified. Why remove the diffs of such notifications, which seem like key aspects of the question being asked?
More generally, I don't get why you'd treat diffs as being only for the evidence page? Leaving the diffs, and answering the question, seems like a much more fair thing to do, than removing the diffs and deciding what kinds of arguments parties can and cannot make when asking a procedural question.
Also, only removing diffs posted by one party as inappropriate evidence, while not removing diffs/links posted by others, seems one-sided. Levivich ( talk) 14:39, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Just in case... LourdesBot and Wìkìpe-tan. BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 07:12, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
Their talk page revocation recently expired and they're doing more. Needs some revdels. —asparagusus (interaction) sprouts! 14:47, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
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Got the notice they were already blocked when I hit submit in twinkle. Thanks. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 13:35, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
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At that arbitration case an editor, who I won't immediately name here but they are not an Involved Party, has in my opinion engaged in battleground behavior that includes bad-faith assumptions and aspersions. I can certainly provide multiple diff, but prior to doing that, could you tell me if there is a formal, within-case mechanism (perhaps in addition to notifying the clerks on their Talk pages) for reporting those concerns? Alternatively, do you suggest that I simply remain silent and let the arbitration committee consider, or not consider, such posts as they see fit? Thanks for your help. JoJo Anthrax ( talk) 15:14, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
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Seems to me that the Internet meme bit, which is not present on the page as of this writing, falls under WP:BLPGOSSIP. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 22:19, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
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IPv6 with apparent COI issues going back to March of last year has recently been removing certain personal details, claiming "confidentiality". These details are sourced to Vanity Fair, IndieWire, and the University of California. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:57, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ ToBeFree. Could you tell me how to delete my account on Wikipedia. Thank you ⵣⵉⵔⵉ ⴰⵎⵖⵏⴰⵙ ( talk). 19:35, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
[context] ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 21:38, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
And it would be verging on the Kafkaesque: but in that situation I might demand my appeal to be ''reblocked'' for the next ~16 days be filed at AN. Talk about bizarre. And I never even noticed that it was a fait accomplii already! *bigger facepalm* ——Serial 20:02, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
Responding to your question about Fair pie-cutting -- I'm trying to classify all the unclassified articles. This one is clearly not math. Could be classed as Game theory, but this seems pretty cut-n-dried economic theory to me. I mean, textbook economics, even, stuff you'd get in college. Note that game theory can be considered to be a sub-branch of both math and economics, while economics is a branch of sociology. There might be other sociology projects that might be interested in this topic. 67.198.37.16 ( talk) 01:18, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
A pie is usually modeled as the 1-dimensional interval [0,2π] (or [0,1]), in which the two endpoints are identified.
If the valuations of the partners are absolutely continuous with respect to each other, then there exists a WPR division which is also weighted-envy-free (WEF) and Pareto efficient (PE), and the ratio between the values of the partners is exactly w1/w2.[reference omitted]
Proof. For every angle t, let be the angle in which the ratio
The function is a continuous function of t that achieves a maximum for some . Cut the pie with radial cuts at and , giving the piece to partner #1 and the complement to partner #2. The partition is WEF because the value of each partner is exactly his due share. It is PE because the share of partner #1 is maximized, so it is not possible to give more to partner #2 without harming partner #1.
"Clearly not math."
Not going to happen though, even though I'm sure it would be a hoot. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 03:07, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I only created this account to speak with administrator. I want to appeal my suspended account but I don’t remember the password of it. What can I do? How can I appeal? Korem637 ( talk) 13:08, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree, you might recall putting 2023 Manipur violence on ECP. Despite all our efforts, an editor has showed up that edit-wars and claims WP:BRD doesn't apply etc. My gentle nudging is not being productive. Can you please have a word with the editor? -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 17:24, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
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In this instance, there is a Talk page discussion but it hasn't been active since it was started nearly four years ago. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:14, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Someone is currently edit warring at the page to which I linked above. Their comments on the talk page were removed once by one editor, then repeatedly reverted by the editor who posted it. I have rolled them back multiple times but haven't had time to post a warning because the user keeps restoring the problematic comments. The editor in question threatened to report me when I threatened to report them. Would you look that situation over and take any necessary action? Since I am directly involved, I don't want to take this any further myself. Sorry to bother you on Thanksgiving weekend, but I could use your help. Thanks. User:Jgstokes ( talk)—We can disagree without becoming disagreeable. 06:46, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
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Good day, I'm reporting again a vandal who evaded previous blocks, his IP code now is 151.48.176.41 and he's using it for the same kind of vandalisms as a few months ago. 151.82.63.18 ( talk) 15:50, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, just letting you know about the COI edits here. The most recent one specified that they're editing on behalf of the subject; the others removing content presumably have been as well. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 21:25, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello. I am having another issue similar to the one I last reported. On the page noted above, someone keeps adding unsourced information. I've asked them repeatedly to provide a source or leave the page alone, but they aren't listening. Would you be able to look this over and take any action on this since I am directly involved? Thanks. User:Jgstokes ( talk)—We can disagree without becoming disagreeable. 18:56, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
The 114.130.156.183 you blocked has already returned to push the same wrongheaded edits (unsourced claims, link mangling, improper punctuation) that have been reverted many times at Domestication of vertebrates; now they're at 114.130.156.11. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:26, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
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I saw that you blocked a editor for edit-warring [258] before and hoped you would help mediate in a similar dispute related to the editor.
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I was made aware recently that I could not edit anything on Israel/Palestine, but Russia seems to be unrelated to that. Even if editing is not allowed in certain cases, I would expect that, as part of the editing discussion process, editors should remain open to communication and not simply dismiss new editors. I'm really not sure what to do here, as the discussion seems unlikely to be productive now.
I would really appreciate some help as I'm quite new here. I've also had a difficult week on Wikipedia, so would hope to avoid any further drama. Marwanaircalm ( talk) 17:12, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
Merged into one large section after Dynasty Power was blocked as a sockpuppet and Montigliani was unblocked. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 13:34, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree. I expect you to take action against this. They won't stop despite your warnings. CCing WikiDan61, who first intervened. Dynasty Power ( talk) 13:28, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
I just saw you blocked him User talk:SportsGreece as my puppet!!! I have no words. You know what I'm starting to believe? ; So I think you are playing his game just fine Dynasty Power. It's sad for a manager. I think you don't deserve the position. Thank you for making fun of me. Finally, it goes without saying that I have nothing to do with him and you can check that. Montigliani ( talk) 19:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
See this https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Checkuser#Requests
But I don't know how to transfer it to Wikipedia:RFCU. If you have the kindness, help me at least now. Montigliani ( talk) 11:49, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Thank you very much . Your help and advice taught me a lot and you were the best teacher. I apologize for tiring you so much. With your permission, I need to remind you that puppet edits must be undone according to wiki policy. The article Super League Greece remains closed and I can't do it myself, so I ask you to either open it or do it yourself. Montigliani ( talk) 08:12, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
This does not mean that edits must be reverted). I sometimes let others decide whether something should be undone after I block a sockpuppet or witness such a block. This is the case here; you are welcome to revert them of course (and already have done so, thanks).
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Hello TBF - I see that you blocked IP 59.91.132.204 today. I believe they are evading their block using IP Special:Contribs/2A00:23C4:9F9B:1401:6846:8DBF:FEB3:6744 - I reported it to AIV but it hasn't been noted yet, so I thought I'd get in touch with you here and ask for your advice on the matter. What are your thoughts? Patient Zero talk 23:05, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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You blocked this account and named a Slowking4 sock in the reason. Should the account be tagged? ☆ Bri ( talk) 01:00, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
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I noticed that you remove my arbitration case requested. I also see that the reason for the removal was violation of which I disagree. I did not violate any of the. I hope you can give me a real detailed reason for my removal as soon as possible as I feel that it was unjust. Thank you. LegendaryChristopher ( talk) 23:35, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
I request that you reverse the speedly deletion of my user talk page. LegendaryChristopher ( talk) 00:01, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello To.Be.Frei,
I came to your user page just to get better acquainted with you and to give you my congratulations on the ArbCom election. Congratulations!
I did notice something on your user page that interested me. Are you any relation to World B. Free? Now that would be quite an honor! (even if his first name at birth was Lloyd).
Sincerely,
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Hi ToBeFree,
I was hoping you could take a look at the Battle of Kosovo article where edit warring between another editor and me is happening. The other editor is reverting based on WP:CON and WP:DEADHORSE, which is a misuse of policies—similar to the reason you once blocked me. I've genuinely tried to cooperate with this editor, explaining how the edit doesn't violate any guidelines, but my contributions have been completely shut down. I've also previously suggested that if the editor has issues with specific parts of my edit, it would be better to address those instead of completely reverting everything. This is no longer a content dispute; it's becoming extensive stonewalling. If you could take a look, it would be a great help. Thanks. --Azor ( talk). 13:48, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
The responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content.This is something that this user has failed to do for a variety of edits across a number of articles, and they have instead resorted to trying to push through particular edits by constantly edit-warring over the same things for no apparent reason. Most of the time, they will make edits and keep trying to draw me and other editors into the same conversations over and over again with the same results. I apologise for my phrasing here, but a lot of the time, their contributions on the TP are paragraphs of nonsense, resulting in a deadlock where the conversations continue to circle around again and again with no consensus for whatever edits they try to make. WP:DEADHORSE exists for this very reason, but they just keep bringing the same things up for months on end. Battle of Kosovo isn’t the only article where AzorzaI adopted an approach of cyclical and monthly edit-warring in which they bring almost zero sources of their own to the table - Andrea II Muzaka and Voisava Kastrioti come to mind. On the Battle of Vajkal, they intervened on the TP to push an ahistorical narrative that has no backing by any sources anywhere whatsoever (so it would seem to be an intervention carried out more so to spite me, rather than to intervene in good-faith). I’ve had my fair share of disputes across a number of articles and with a variety of editors as that is the volatile nature of the Balkan topic area, but unlike my disputes with AzorzaI, they come to natural conclusions which are typically accepted and upheld by those I am engaged in disputes with.
Would you have another look at User: Regulartrongdd's edits? They seem to be creating a lot of new redirect pages for what looks like every song they can think of since being blocked from editing category pages a few days ago, and their three one line drafts they sent to AFC don't instill much confidence in their editing or their editing goals here. Zinnober9 ( talk) 19:20, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
While exploring the Wikipedia article on 2019 Balakot airstrike, I noticed a link to Open source satellites. However, upon reviewing the Satellite article, I couldn't locate any specific section related to "Open source satellites." If it's not too much trouble, could you kindly check and, if necessary, update the link for accuracy? King Ayan Das ( talk) 08:13, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
[[Satellite#Open source satellites|Open source satellites]]
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Thank you for stepping up to serve on the arbitration committee. Could I respectfully suggest that some of your comments on Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case could be problematic, as you appear to be stating findings before even the case is open. For example "correct – you have not been wheel warring", "you used your administrative tools to undelete it. Do you see the problem", etc. Such findings would arise in a case after hearing detailed evidence and analysis. The purpose of that page is to decide if there is a case to answer, not to hold the case itself. (I know lots of arbs do similar things!) Thanks again — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:59, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
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Greetings. I have reverted your deletion of material placed on my Talk page. In the future I’d appreciate you not doing that. Thanks, Jusdafax ( talk) 23:16, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Asking you because I see your name at page sanctions for the Russia/Ukraine topic area, provisions I have just noticed, and requiring extended-confirmed would definitely benefit whoever closes Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gonzalo Lira (5th nomination)...Is this RfPP? I would appreciate some guidance if possible. Thank you Elinruby ( talk) 18:00, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you very much. I really appreciate it both the information and tbe protection. Elinruby ( talk) 19:39, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
For last 7 days, this editor keeps edit warring to incite a new edit war on Shambuka [282] [283] [284] while falsely describing other's edits a "vandalism", [285] (also see grave-dancing in edit summary) and also assume bad-faith by referring to the opposing stance as " brahminical superiority". [286] This is all when he is warned over this very article since 2020 to this year. [287] ArvindPalaskar ( talk) 14:01, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, I had a lot of trouble to find Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1132#Disruptive editing by Yae4 on elive article and others. The section doesn't show up in ANI search results when searching for "Yae4" (although the archived page itself has two sections on Yae4). The Special:Log/Block reason for Yae4's CBAN links to a WP:ANI revision Special:Permalink/1163489790#Community_ban_proposal, which has been unfortunately suppressed for unrelated reasons (HazaraHistorian discussion on that page, suppressed from 22:36, 4 July 2023, to 10:57, 9 July 2023). Question: Is it possible for you to re-apply Yae4's block with a new link to archived and non-supressed Special:Permalink/1189736348#Community ban proposal for the CBAN discussion, for transparency, so that editors (and unrelated admins) can better understand why he was blocked and what the CBAN consensus was? 84.250.15.152 ( talk) 13:17, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey, just wanted to let you know that two IPs registered to the United States House of Representatives and a third from the same general area have been continually removing the same reliably sourced content from Adriano Espaillat over the past two weeks. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:04, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Can you delete their edit summaries ( [291] [292] [293] [294] [295] [296] [297] [298] [299]), because 183.171.0.0/16 has been unblocked after it clarified that they have been used by different person (the quote has mentioned at User_talk:EvergreenFir#Malaysian_IP_rangeblock). 2001:D08:2940:4340:17AD:534E:6FDF:877D ( talk) 15:57, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
On 25 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Shalom chaverim, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that " Shalom chaverim" ('Peace, friends'), a Hebrew traditional folk song, has been sung at events commemorating the Holocaust and victims of anti-Semitic violence? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shalom chaverim. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Shalom chaverim), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hey, thought you'd like to know that I just removed some Sovereign Citizen-style nonsense from Talk:Vernon Coleman as WP:NOTFORUM. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 13:46, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
I don't know what's happening with this article but there appears to be WP:BLP issues. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:43, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi! You blocked T-Series3 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) just now (thanks!). There's more sleepers in this pattern: T-Series4, T-Series5, T-Series6, T-Series7, T-Series8, and T-Series9. Any chance of nuking them before they strike? 81.187.192.168 ( talk) 17:35, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hi ToBeFree, I figured The Macbook Air User ( talk · contribs) wasn't new--given the editing here [312], is it possible they're not StarryNightSky11 ( talk · contribs)? It's so helpful when they leave clues. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 22:40, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
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A while back, you had commented on my use on the term 'appeals' to discuss concerns raised regarding rollbacks/undos from
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After 3 weeks of this edit to the disputed content, all discussion died and the page got stable. However, Redtigerxyz has resumed his edit war without gaining consensus. [314] He has been edit warring in a similar disruptive manner for months. [315] [316] [317] [318] He is evidently aware of every block and its circumstances with regards to this page per this thread. ArvindPalaskar ( talk) 15:20, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, you partial-blocked this user some time ago at Battle of Kosovo for three months. Now they have joined an edit-war at Lynkestis and are making really snide comments against another user: As a side note, I don't know what kind of children's books Alexikoua is reading. None of the books I read as a child were all about domination.... The part about the "children's books" is way over the line if you ask me. Khirurg ( talk) 00:32, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
I do not follow you around. I have had this tp on my watchlist since I posted here some time ago. Not surprising though since you consider me an "enemy" [332]. As for the rest, no admin would sanction someone for such comments; at least they are not worse than your patronising tone there. Cheers, Ktrimi991 ( talk) 02:39, 14 February 2024 (UTC)Nice to see you still follow me around
... behaving in a childish manner. [335] (you can ignore the first part of the comment, Alexikoua seemed determined to accuse me of writing puffery language that I actually had nothing to do with...)
What would have been the best practice to have dealt with the Aegean Sea dispute, given I was stripped of rollback for using it too aggressively there. Asking for future reference. Will120 ( talk) 21:26, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
[[WP:V|unsourced]]
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uw-vandalism1 that was originally left. You used the "unsourced" warning series afterwards, which is generally a good choice for dealing with editors who silently fail to provide explanations and sources for their edits. However, the user clearly tried to engage in a discussion with you through edit summaries, so creating a talk page section and inviting them there would have been perfect.Hey again, I really appreciate admins that are willing to walk back an action. I've had rollback for quite some time now and have made way too many reverts using it. I know when I first got it I probably made mistakes after first getting the perm. I didn't have the goal of getting the above editors perm restored, but I did just want you to be aware that it was likely block evasion. I don't think I'll ever want the mop personally but if I ever become an admin I hope I can at least be willing to reverse an action with as much courtesy as you did. Making mistakes is never fun, right? Philipnelson99 ( talk) 22:44, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I just blocked Sally-yates-21 for disruption. I suspect they are a sock of the above farm. I noticed that you've done a lot of the checks and blocks in that case, so I thought I'd ask you to check. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 21:00, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
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Greetings ToBeFree, I hope you are doing well. I'm puzzled, and I need your advice on the boundaries of my topic ban. I was reading though an article, and while reading, I noted missing citations here and there; subsequently, I made a few edits. Then I realized that this article contains mentions of Azerbaijan and Armenia, and although my edits did not touch those parts, I am still not sure—do those edits fall outside the boundaries of my topic ban? or am I not allowed to edit that article, which is not about Armenia or Azerbaijan but mentions them? Thank you! A b r v a g l ( PingMe) 16:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi dear friend! Thanks for the heads up on the registered email that is used on my old account brother!!! I wanted to send you a message on libera, but I think you have disabled private chats :'(
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Do you mind explaining [348]. At no point have I attempted to resolve this other than on a user talk page, not sure what you are referring to here. 184.152.68.190 ( talk) 19:28, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
I was trying to catch up on things at least a little, and I noticed there's a thread on VPP on the very same topic. Glad to see we aren't the only ones trying to figure this out. 184.152.68.190 ( talk) 00:22, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Tobi, I was going to email you but didn't want to spam you so I thought I could ask here. Remember of the 500/30 restriction I had, and the whole being locked out of my account and having to need to use Elijahtree etc. I thought I it wasn't against the rules to use my sandbox to test edits, since nothing was mentioned on the
BADSAND page when I checked before going ahead and making random edits on the page. I literally called every edit "Random edit x" so I wasn't trying to obfuscate anything. Further seeing that I already have quiet a few edits on my other account and ip address, I was almost certain this should be fine. Apparently there is another rule which affects sandbox and I was reported for
WP:GAME. I mean even though it says edits are considered gaming the system when 'An editor makes many unconstructive edits in a sandbox to become extended confirmed, and then makes controversial changes to extended confirmed protected articles', I purposefully did not add the controversial conflict topic, since I don't really think it is necessary anymore, and if I did I would have called for a census between us three editors in disagreement.
Alas even with everything I explained, the mods all unanimously sided against me and removed my status indefinetly. I mean i dont know what to do, the least they could have done was remove the edits, even though it wasn't mentioned under WP:BADSAND but whatever, instead they revoke indefinetly? I was just reaching out regarding potentially anything I can do? I do not want to open an arbritration case since the person who reported me, although kept an eye on my edits, seemed to be nice. I don't understand why the mods are so discriminatory and favoritize against me everytime, like look through my edits Tobi, I was being extremely careful to follow the rules and keep the other editors in consensus, yet there still is an issue and side against me. He said to message them when I get 500 edits, but I know they will not respond. I asked for a checkuser I think 2 or 3 times now and nothing. Yet when someone reports me, they are on it asap. It feels to exclusionary, even when I am making fair, resourceful edits. Sorry for the long message, just wanted to ask you if you had any ideas? thanks :) ~ Mohamed 18:33, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hey ToBeFree,
I hope you don't mind if I continue the discussion on your talk page. I feel it has ventured a little bit away from the clerical and into the personal, plus I feel there's a bit more space to expand on certain things here.
The purpose of my continuing this on your talk page isn't so much to change the decision as it is to address some of the concerns on my end with your replies. To provide clarification, seek clarification and to see if we can at least have some mutual understanding, regardless of if we end up agreeing on certain points. Nevertheless, here and there, I'll make some points of a clerical nature.
It's a bit long, so I've made sections for ease of reading. On a similar note: while I'll, of course, try to avoid any misunderstandings, due to it being a rather long comment I might not be able to achieve this, so I hope I can count on a generous intepretation from your side.
You made some good points in your reply, but I feel that I failed to get across what I was trying to say. I'll quote the relevant parts as I reply to them.
My request made no secret of my main motivation for submitting the request. I put it front and center in no uncertain terms at the beginning of my request:
Mainly asking to be able to continue to reply on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Josh_Cahill after it received a much needed ECP[…]
— User:ConcurrentState 02:23, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
The context here, which I perhaps should've included in the request itself (although it remains questionable if it would've mattered at all, with the way RFP/ECs are currently handled, but that's perhaps a topic more suitable in a policy discussion), is that this is an AfD pertaining to an article that has been overrun with sockpuppetry and other shenanigans.
I was part of the initial efforts to deal with those shenanigans, I initiated efforts to get the involvement of the rest of the community, I participated in the SPI that followed, and in the AfD in question. I was even subject to, whatever this was on my talk page, which I believe you supressed.
All of that is to say that I don't think it is unreasonable for me to participate in the AfD in question. Especially considering the fact that people made comments that directly relate to my contributions to the discussion.
Because the shenanigans continued even on the AfD, @ Vanamonde93 put ECP on the AfD. To be clear: I don't fault them for that. In fact, I welcome it because I also think it was much needed to curb the disruptiveness of the person/people involved, to maintain the integrity of the discussion, and I can't think of a lesser way in which to achieve all that considering WP:SEMI and WP:PCPP didn't do much to curb the disruptions on the article of topic in that AfD.
This did put me in a little of a bind, though, because I don't have 30/500 so I am not able to reply to comments addressed at me or my comments in the AfD, and it causes a bit of the privilege issues the ECP guidelines talk about:
nor should it be used to privilege extended confirmed users over unregistered/new users in valid content disputes
— WP:ECP
Initially I didn't think that it was that big of a deal, because we have WP:ER for that, so I created one. But it turns out that people don't dare to touch it and as a result, it's been collecting dust, which isn't exactly desirable in a rather dynamic and short-lived process such as AfD.
I can only presume @ Some1 (and perhaps others) noticed this, because they soon after suggested I should request EC, and while I didn't have high hopes, I nevertheless put in my request, as you know, under the adage that it can't hurt to ask.
While all of this context wasn't provided in the request itself, the main motivation was provided. Nevertheless, at no point in your replies did you acknowledge this main motivation, nor did you address it.
Your initial reply starts off focusing on the vanishing, suggesting that this is the most important motivation for your decision.
Hello ConcurrentState, if you really mean "vanished" as described at Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing, I'm afraid that should ideally be undone as you have returned to editing.
— User:ToBeFree 18:11, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
The real problem, however, is that the matter of "to undo, or to not undo" seems to be an entirely separate matter that, to my knowledge anyways, has no bearing on granting EC, nor am I sure if that matter merits discussion in public on WP:RFP/EC.
The consequence of doing so and in the manner which you did, while I'm sure is unintended, makes it seem to the rest of the community that I'm doing something inappropriate, if only because of your standing within the community as a member of ArbCom.
This seems an especially harsh consequence, considering I went out of my way to disclose my return to ArbCom via WP:EMAIL with ample context specifically to avoid situations like this. This is also, in part, why I mentioned my disclosure in the request to begin with, and I think a reply to my email would've been the most opportune way of addressing the matter of undoing the vanishing if that matter was of paramount import to you.
Still, I can't help but wonder how important it really is to you and the rest of ArbCom when, as of this writing, I haven't even received so much as an acknowledgment of my disclosure via email, much less an attempt to broach the subject.
In your follow-up reply, you bring up a pretty good point about me mentioning the vanishing in my request:
Hello ConcurrentState, I've since had a look at the disclosure, but I can only address what is publicly written here on this page. In response to the public description of a vanishing that should probably be undone, I stated that the vanishing should probably be undone. It was you who brought up the topic as an argument for receiving a permission, and it seems legitimate to respond with at least a short clarification that vanishing is not really meant for this purpose
— User:ToBeFree 0:39, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
As stated above, part of the reason for me mentioning it in the first place was to avoid issues such as those described above. However, another reason for me mentioning it is because the the WP:RFP/EC process pretty much solicits information like that, because it is made clear that EC requests are almost always guaranteed to be a WP:SNOW unless a different account is part of the equation:
Unless you are requesting confirmation for a legitimate alternate account your request will almost certainly be denied.
— WP:RFP/EC
And a lesser reason was to refer to a history of good behavior.
Keep in mind, that this was a relatively minor part of the request itself, I didn't make it part of the main argument nor link it to the lesser translation argument. It was a separate clause, detached from the main arguments, at the end of the request, to convey a piece of information of lesser importance as you can see (emphasis mine):
Mainly asking to be able to continue to reply on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Josh_Cahill after it received a much needed ECP and to use the Content Translation tool to translate articles from nlwiki. It goes without saying that I wouldn't abuse it if I were to be granted the right. Alternatively, a temporary right would also be useful. I'm a reborn Wikipedian and have disclosed my prior vanished account to ArbCom. The old account was in good standing on both enwiki(11 edits) and nlwiki(~800 edits).
— User:ConcurrentState 02:23, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
Still, while yes, I brought it up for the three reasons mentioned above, I don't think it merits going over the vanishing policy. Even setting aside the way it looks and my motivations for mentioning it in the first place, as I touched upon above, given the minor role it played in the request and the lack of follow-through on your end (I will touch upon further a bit later), I don't see what it adds to the RFP/EC conversation.
In your follow-up reply, you continue with:
I personally am not granting the permission because of the concerns I described above – and I (think I) have to explain this instead of simply saying "Not done". I understand that the explanation is easily perceived as biting, and that a small amount of not assuming good faith is part of it.
— User:ToBeFree 0:39, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
I'm not sure if the part about having to explain decisions was meant to relate back to the matter of the vanishing, but if it was, I don't see how the two are related. Your comments don't seem to indicate that the vanishing policy motivated your decision other than starting off your decision with an emphasis on the policy. Rather your motivation seems to focus on the matter of me mentioning the translation tool.
Nevertheless, the whole matter of the vanishing is left in a weird place. You bring up the policy with the optical consequences I described above, and you further reiterate your interpretation of the policy in the follow-up reply, but there is no follow-through, even after explicitly inviting you to follow through:
Still, since you brought it up, I'm not opposed to undoing it and merging the two accounts, since it would eliminate some of the issues I've so far encountered. Perhaps we could even roll my name change request into it as well and get it all done in one fell swoop.
— User:ConcurrentState 19:36, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
You said you could only address what was publicly written on the page. Why not address it in a reply to my disclosure email, or address the disclosure itself via email, for that matter?
Respectfully, you a rather big deal out of needing to undo the vanishing, but then you leave me hanging. I haven't heard from ArbCom in general about my disclosure, and I haven't heard from you directly about what needs to be done and how to get it done. As it stands now, you essentially publicly gave me the Mark of Cain and then went on with your merry way.
Again, I don't think this was necessarily intended, or there is bad faith at play here, but I'm a bit puzzled by this all because it's hard to gauge your motivation behind it all.
Apparently it's important enough to draw attention to it in public, but not important enough to actually resolve the matter?
Lastly, before moving onto the matter of the language tool and me using it as an argument, I think it might be important to express my views on the policy and clarify my wishes.
I genuinely don't have a good grasp on the policy of undoing a vanishing. Both enwiki and metawiki only make very vague, non-committed, minor reference to undoing vanishings.
enwiki states:
If the user returns, the "vanishing" will likely be fully reversed, the old and new accounts will be linked, and any outstanding sanctions or restrictions will be resumed. […] If you make a request to vanish, and then start over with a new account, and are then discovered, the vanishing procedure may be reversed, and your old and new accounts may be linked.
— WP:RTV
Words like "likely" and "may" don't clearly indicate a certain outcome. Also, does the second clause quoted above only apply when an editor is discovered? What if they, like I did, disclose it? Honestly, the overall tone in WP:RTV seems to be talking about people who essentially "fake vanish" only to immediately return with a different account, because some of the language sounds weird when applied to situations in which editors have left years prior with the intent of not returning, like I have.
metawiki isn't much clearer on this:
Even if vanish is intended to be permanent, it may still be reversed.
— meta:RTV
It's the same vague "may."
None of this explains when it will be reversed. Clearly it's not in all cases otherwise stronger language would've been used, no?
Also who is the final arbiter of this. Is it enwiki because I'm here now with a new account with enwiki as my home wiki? Is it metawiki because they do global renames and everything tied to global accounts or is nlwiki, which is the home wiki of the old vanished account?
In my disclosure to ArbCom, prior to the RFP/EC, I expressed the wish to essentially do a clean start because the old vanished account was made when I was underage and I'm fairly sure I've inadvertently outed myself back in the day, plus I'm a different person now that lives entirely elsewhere in the world. So, all in all, at the time, I preferred the prospect of starting clean and with privacy.
Since then, however, I've noticed the downsides of starting new, down to other editors being, rightfully, confused about my experience and knowledge of wiki policies. Which is why in the RFP/EC I indicated that I'm also open to reversing the vanish and merging stuff.
It seems that I have no clear preference either way, and I need to defer to you and others at ArbCom on what needs to happen and how the policies regarding this work. That said, I would appreciate it if could be actively involved in whatever needs to be done, so that I end up in a situation that I can work with and can ask help with setting everything up in the right way if needed.
As stated above, in my initial request and my follow-up reply, my main motivation for the request wasn't the Content Translation tool. I've never made that a secret and I've in fact admitted to not knowing of its existence prior to seeing the other request while I was submitting my request.
Your follow-up reply suggests that I was unable to convey my main concern regarding your remarks.
Specifically, you said:
As I have expected and you have confirmed, the idea of integrating the Content Translation tool into the permission request came from LuCKY's request and wasn't the reason why you opened this page. Even if this resulted in actual interest in also using the Content Translation tool, it clearly wasn't the reason for your request, so I decided not to take it into account too much.
— User:ToBeFree 0:39, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
Which seems to serve as a form of "gotcha" while entirely ignoring the context.
While you're right in that it wasn't the initial reason for opening the request, you never acknowledged the actual main reason I stated in my request, much less addressed it, not even in the follow-up reply. The result of this is that it feels like you're making it look like I'm doing something inappropriate, despite having clearly stated my main motivation. A similar effect to that of the whole part about vanishing.
Furthermore, I don't think it's unreasonable to realize during my request that EC comes with additional rights I can put to good use and to add that to my request. Especially considering the fact that it is a lesser known right tied to a lesser known tool.
Brushing that aside by "not tak[ing] it into account too much," as you stated, seems especially unwarranted considering that how I learn about a tool is less important than how I intend to use it and end up using it.
I've learned nearly 98% of what I know on Wikipedia by seeing others do it, even as I write this to you, I've looked up certain templates and policies and how they've been applied. That doesn't change the legitimacy of the use of those tools.
To insist that the only thing that matters is what my intention was before I opened the page is to insist I submit multiple requests simultaneously, one for each motivation up until the moment I opened the page.
What doesn't help either is questioning my commitment to using the tool to then completely ignore the parts in my follow-up that explain my commitment.
While I appreciate the advice on translating without the tool, it should go without saying that comparing the source with the translation side-by-side is invaluable because it allows you to keep an eye on the context of different paragraphs to make sure the translation makes sense. I'm currently doing this off-wiki by juggling windows side by side, so it's not the end of the world, but it's yet another hurdle on a long list of hurdles I've encountered since my return that grinds away at my motivation.
It wasn't lost on me that the whole vanishing matter is kind of like Schrödinger's vanishing. If one were to insist the vanishing needs to be reversed, then it would make sense to take into account the global edits of that account, if however one were to insist that only the edits on enwiki are relevant, then it doesn't make sense to insist the treatment of my current account and the vanished account as one and the same.
I know you only focused on the enwiki contributions in your replies, but it wasn't entirely clear to me why you disregarded the (old) nlwiki edits, especially when seemingly feeling rather strongly about reversing the vanishing. Both for the purpose of translation as well as for the purposes of the RFP/EC (adding up to 500), considering you did take into account global edits when deciding on other editors' requests.
I appreciate you clarifying what you are and aren't able to see as part of ArbCom, sadly it was my hope that you could, to further assess my commitment of using the translation tool for good purposes.
As alluded to elsewhere, since my return to Wikipedia, I've encountered a long list of hurdles that are grinding away at my motivation because they hinder my ability to contribute and participate as an editor.
The biggest one that affects every single move I make is the hard block policy on iCloud Private Relay, which prevents me from editing anything, including my own talk page, and it makes using scripts cumbersome. I'm not eligible for an IPBE, and wiki doesn't always properly detect when I've turned it off, so it's actively hindering me at every step along the way. But I'm working up proposals on both enwiki and metawiki to see if we might be able to mitigate some of that for me and other editors.
Other hurdles are, of course, the special protections and the lack of access to the Content Translation tool, but I'm not too concerned about those. At my pace, even while hampered by the hard block, 30/500 isn't too far away.
Your comments made me feel like I was being put on the spot and as if you're making it look like I'm doing something inappropriate, so it added to those hurdles.
I hope I was able to convey my respect towards you regardless of everything else, and I respectfully ask, in light of all of the above, that you strike out or reword some of your comments.
With kind regards, ConcurrentState ( talk) 21:38, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, I hesitate to bring this minor issue to ANI, so I wonder if you could help. Over the past few weeks, the IP 94.114.243.248 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been persistently adding to cryptography-related articles external links to programs that they say are "commented by Google AI". There is no indication of who wrote the program (AI or human) or what part of the comments are AI-written (the comments are in both English and German). All their edits have been reverted by 5 or 6 different editors, and they have multiple warnings on their talk page about these edits. Yesterday they created an account CryptoDiscussion ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and have continued adding these links. I left a message on the account's talk page explaining that Wikipedia:RSPCHATGPT says such links should not be added. They have ignored that message as they have ignored all other messages left for them, and have continued re-adding these links. Could you help to get their attention? Thanks! CodeTalker ( talk) 19:16, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
In reference to this report, it seems that the IPs that were involved in edit warring were actually 1 person who is evading his ban for months now. See [355]. Interestingly, the IP user himself confirmed his personal feud with Abhishek0831996 (the reported editor). [356] Perhaps this block evader's edits shall surface again on ANEW anytime soon so kindly keep this in mind. Thanks Ratnahastin ( talk) 04:04, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Greetings,
I wanted to ask for your experienced opinion about sockpuppets and reverting if this is alright.
For about two years now a certain sockmaster has been creating new accounts, often IP accounts, and brigading various Azerbaijan-Armenia related pages, and basically spamming edits. This is the link to the investigations Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Əzərbəyəniləri
I was wondering, what is the Wikipedia guideline on reverting the edits of a new, spam sock account? Is it generally accepted that all edits made by the sock should be reverted, or is it advised to consider the edits on a case-by-case basis?
It seems logical to me that reverting all the edits of a sock, regardless of whether they are of good quality, makes sense because that way the sockmaster is discouraged from creating new accounts continuously. This is especially the case given that as I said, this has been going on for two years now, and doesn't seem to end.
I wanted to ask you specifically because you were the person who blocked the original sockmaster back in 2021, when the case name was "ClassicYoghurt" Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ClassicYoghurt/Archive
Please share your thoughts on this, your opinion would be very appreciated. - Creffel ( talk) 00:22, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
I figure you should be the one blocking Mickey The Meat, so I haven't even reverted their edit.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:39, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
There are outing concerns so I will be vague but direct: the edits by Thmazing are within the scope of the COI concerns about Nihonjoe. They are directly related in a way which arbcon is surely already aware of but which hasn't yet been acknowledged on-wiki in such a way that we can talk openly about it (or at least until I feel comfortable doing so, I am rather paranoid about outing). Horse Eye's Back ( talk) 17:23, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hey, mind weighing in over here? Content is being removed by someone claiming to be an alumnus, therefore has no conflict of interest. Methinks they doth protest too much. Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:50, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey, just wanted to let you that someone claiming to be the wrestler has been editing here. It appears that he's not at all clear on how Wikipedia works. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:24, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for catching that! I never noticed. I certainly think Mozart would probably be less... energetic than most of the alternatives! :) ——Serial Number 54129 14:06, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
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Why delete valid information, when the statement made by nintendo never even actually named Palworld, but shut down a company no more than 5 days later? Seems kinda sus to me that you would do something like that. My sources are 100% valid, trolls just kept deleting it. Apparently they didnt like the link having %s in it, so i added 4 verifiable sources instead. Im not so sure how thats not valid when it was speculation that nintendo was going after pocketpair in the first place. Elinias1 ( talk) 21:08, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi Thanks for the information. I have started the conversation... please feel free to invite the others. JKNZ99 ( talk) 00:03, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
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There is an editor who has been removing multiple sources statements on the SpaceX Starship Flight Tests. They are not auto-confirmed, and their editing is extremely disruptive.
If this is the wrong place to request article protection, then please let me know where I can put in a request to protect the article. Redacted II ( talk) 14:54, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hello dear friend. I would like to inform you that the famous puppet User:Dynasty Power is back with a new name: /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/EverLove124. Montigliani ( talk) 20:02, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
On the SpaceX Starship talk page, there was a discussion on whether IFT-3 was a success or failure.
The overwhelming consensus was success.
@ Redraiderengineer started an RfC on whether or not IFT-3 was a success or failure earlier today. Multiple editors (including myself) have questioned the need for the RfC.
Given than you were not involved in the previous debate, nor have you been involved in the RfC, can you close the RfC? Redacted II ( talk) 20:59, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey, looks like we have a couple more cases for that wellknown block here; one hasn't been active since their handful of posts a couple of years ago, though. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:38, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
I made this request /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/EverLove124 I would ask you with the experience you have in the matter to help the other administrators, if of course you don't mind. Thank you very much. Montigliani ( talk) 09:31, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
EverLove124 is clearly Dynasty Power based on their behavior in the Super League Greece article ( [376] [377], sock's first Wikipedia edit)
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Per El C's evidence, and in line with WP:ARBPOL, you are requested to recuse from the Conflict of interest management case.
Please see also this discussion on the evidence talk page, which explains why I am posting this request. BilledMammal ( talk) 05:02, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
one of the dozen arbs to speak on behalf of arbcom and let us know if they're going to do anything or not. While I explicitly didn't speak on behalf of the committee, I explained why the requested statement was unlikely to appear in the requested form at least from my perspective. The only alternative at that point would have been silence. There should ideally not be silence in response to such messages, although I'm sure uncountable examples exist of cases where silence was the response.
This is a community discussion to me unless WP:COI becomes policy and gains strict prohibitions that it currently lacks, which can be interpreted as you rejecting the evidence presented and saying there is no case for Nihonjoe to answer.
unnecessary dramaproves engaging these with you to be as pointless as I predicted, ToBeFree. El_C 20:52, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
One editor received a 48-hour block for edit warring two weeks ago and has yet to return to the page but this newly registered editor picked up where the other left off. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:25, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Dear Mr Fei,
How are you doing,
I really appreciate your efforts in improving articles in Wikipedia and appreciate your role as an administrator, as you must have observed Mr Saqib has been very unreasonable to me, he has been insulting me again and again which is against wikipedia WP:NPA policy, I forgot to write user edit he reported me to you and then he requested two articles for deletion and being very unreasonable and he has doing personal attacks. We are all here to contribute Wikipedia give our precious time to make this place a better place and do the research to improve each other and he also allege me for creating paid articles, which is truly unacceptable all I said we should take responsibility of each article we create as its our responsibility to continuously improving thus I keep improving my articles I give each day to improve my articles and if I get time I edit or improve or create new article.
Whatever he reported as per policy I improved but he has being very unreasonable and continuedly disrespecting please your kind action is required.
It seems as he toxic person should be reported even I tried to send message on his personal talk page to resolve the issue between us, I am very peaceful person I am here to improve quality of Wikipedia and improve articles in South Asian Region.
As per Wikipedia WP:DRR policy. I hope you will assist me I do not know him personally being from same country he suppose to be supportive and improve articles together, if you review his profile he has doing personal attacks to everyone in his contribution history its mostly these maters. WP:NPA
I hope you solve this issue and issue him warning to comply with policy. Waiting for your kind assistance. Faizan Munawar Varya chat contributions 11:01, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Encountered another uw-ublock-wellknown candidate here, apparently first edited as an IP then as the subject himself. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:56, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Greetings,
I created this SPI report sometime back and I just wanted to ask for your experienced opinion on it? I tried to make it as detailed as possible, but I have not received further opinion on this yet - Creffel ( talk) 02:54, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
hello tobe! I was wondering if you are able to remove the restriction you placed on Al-Daraji since the May 2024 deadline has passed :) I will avoid writing about contentious information on the article and just leave it to genealogy. Wiki-heIper ( talk) 22:35, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Dunki2024 blocked on 4 March 2024 at 11:24 by you. Pathaan2024 joined Wikipedia on same day 15:25 4 March 2024 couple of hours after Dunki2024 was blocked. Both users have same username pattern based on Bollywood movies Dunki and Pathaan. Both users made first edits on article Ghor Province. Significant article and edit overlap. These two are same. I have created a SPI for it. Dekhoaayadon ( talk) 21:28, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for this. Best wishes, El_C 18:13, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Dear Fei,
Thanks for kind assistance and reply regards to issue between me as you must have seen all his edits were against me thus can you please remove the invalid request and keep the articles which he has requested for deletion and warm him please edit with responsibility and as per policy and do read articles. I would like to kindly request in removal of deletion templates for Faysal Aziz Khan and Ovais Mangalwala. Faizan Munawar Varya chat contributions 20:32, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
ToBeFree, in a now archived discussion here, you said on 25 March that you would not recuse from the COI case. But it appears that on 6 March you recused when you created the Proposed decision page and its talk. Did you change your mind? Yngvadottir ( talk) 21:27, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed the comment you made and corrected my requesy. However, I was @ for @ Rydex64 review, was that by accident or for something else? Reaper1945 ( talk) 23:41, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Ramkripalyadvg Can you create a page and add it to Wikipedia You can get the material from here Draft:Ramkripalyadavge Muskang375 ( talk) 03:59, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
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I have responded to your seemingly arbitrary request/command in my talk page. Thanks. Thinker78 (talk) 19:18, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Not sure what's going on here but there is at least a WP:COI issue, if Wisc1999's claim of editing on behalf of Joe's family is true. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:23, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
2600:1003:b11a:4a88::/64 ( block range · block log ( global) · WHOIS (partial)) ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 23:44, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Just so you know, that's a duck for BadfingerFan69, who just had another duck blocked. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:39, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
I appreciate this post. But I don't understand why you found it necessary, or appropriate, to recuse from the arbitration case. Because Thinker wrote an irritating post to you in 2022? Really? Bishonen | tålk 17:38, 1 April 2024 (UTC).
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Just saw that you'd been elected to ArbCom! Good for you!! I know this is probably old news by now, but I think it's an excellent thing. Couldn't have happened to a better wikiadmin. Hope you don't hate (what I can only imagine is) the extra headache too soon :) — Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 22:17, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Noah, AA Talk 21:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
The political background section appears to be badly-worded WP:UNDUE, primarily focusing on a non-notable relative. Most of it has also been directly copied from the source provided. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:34, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi there, do you remember this thread- [386]. It turns out my suspicions concerning Dekhoaayadon were correct as he was blocked a few days ago by Ponyo who conducted a CU check and confirmed that Dekhoaayadon was indeed a sock of HauhgtonBrit. I filed a SPI on Historian2325 if you're interested- [387]. Thanks. Southasianhistorian8 ( talk) 06:17, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
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... for thanking me for this (Interesting where it came from ...). Daniel Case ( talk) 19:41, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Please visit [394]. You had previously blocked Georgethedragonslayer in 2021. The person continues to create trouble by engaging in edit wars. 2409:4073:8F:A4CC:2087:509A:147C:D17A ( talk) 11:58, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree, hope you're doing well. Regarding [395], I have evidence of them creating a thread at Reddit after their block to ask for assistance. But from my understanding it is a violation of WP:OUTING if I post it here? Can I email you the link, or do you think I should take it to ArbCom? HistoryofIran ( talk) 17:01, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
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My bad on Connie Mulder, I was just looking at where and what they changed, and then looked at the whole sentence. Are you sure that is what the name is supposed to be?
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Could you please review history for Shōgun (novel)? Direct link: Shōgun (novel): Revision history - Wikipedia Myrealnamm ( 💬talk · ✏️contribs) at 00:10, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hi ToBeFree, I hope you're well. I am not sure if this is the right place to be doing this, but would it be possible for you to look over this short report thread [407] on the ANI and potentially action it based on your opinion? The user in question was already reported previously, but that report was sadly auto-archived [408] and by the looks of it, the current report will also be auto-archived. I don't quite understand why no one has looked at it or taken any action, especially when multiple editors from different topic backgrounds seem to take serious issue with the behaviour of the editor in question.
Again, I am not sure if this is the right place to do it, but you've shown yourself to be a capable and fair admin in the interactions I've had with you in the past, and I would hate to see this report go under the radar. The subject of this report really needs to be dealt with according to Wikipedia policies. Much appreciated! Botushali ( talk) 12:52, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
collaboratively improve the infobox…because you made the move without seeking consensus. In fact, you must’ve expected a negative reaction from me ahead of time, hence why you’ve followed me to ToBeFree’s TP without being tagged in it.
… arguing for "twelve RS supporting your standpoint"…That’s right - 12 reliable sources included in the article should have bearing on said article. I don’t see the issue with supporting something that is backed by a dozen reliable sources.
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Hello. I'm following up on some feud that took place in February and that led to edit warring. It was agreed upon that any further changes should be discussed in the country's talk page (Colombia). However, it looks like Zaquezipe just kept on adding information in Colombia's wiki page, without reaching any consensus. I'm referring to the genetic study he posted. He also edited the country's page in Spanish. Is there anything that can be done to prevent this. Thanks. Dougwash ( talk) 21:33, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
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I'm unable to determine who is behind 103.176.190.39 other than it belongs to an ISP in India but they've been making some questionable edits here. I've issued a WP:COI notice on their user talk. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 15:36, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Please see their talk page with blocks and their recent edits. And those edit summaries... Shearonink ( talk) 13:09, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
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Hi ToBeFree!
I just wanted to ask you this question since you seem to be a Linux user, what distro do you use at home and what's your favourite?
Currently I'm on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 22H2; however, I am growing frustrated and tired of modern-day Microsoft Windows and am looking to learn and switch to Linux as my main OS some time in the near distant future. I hope to start contributing to Wikipedia from there one day.
Note, this is not a request for help or anything, just wondering what distro you use, that's all! I'm probably going to start with using Linux Mint and go from there. — AP 499D25 (talk) 14:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
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as a universal graphical tool that works on all Debian-based distributions.Hi, it is regarding this edit. Do you think it is CoI? I noticed this warning in the user's t/p. Please have a look. Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk ( talk) 11:18, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
But if you look at the talk page the consensus is yet to be found. It only has two 3POs so far, and one of them suggests keeping the section while shrinking the content. Do you think the edit was fair? PotatoCyborg ( talk) 12:11, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi, a few months ago you banned user "StarryNightSky11". I've opened an investigation ( Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/StarryNightSky11) as I'm certain he now uses a sock account. Can you please look into this? Thanks, Eem dik doun in toene ( talk) 08:34, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
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I know you're really busy, but please take a look at this discussion. I've changed my userboxes a couple days ago so some of the stuff there aren't the same anymore, but still. Is this showing respect to other editors and showing that they are here to build an encyclopedia? Thx.
I've also "think" that some of the userboxes were also the same from other users. What's it called when you copy userboxes from another user?
I would understand if Me Da Wikipedian does use
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No further positive purpose will be achieved from my interacting with this editor. Thank you for your guidance. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 21:49, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
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To my knowledge, Open heaven reflection's now-deleted userpage promotes a religious organization, which by search engine can be verified as real and active. I assumed that the account was promoting the organization with that webpage. I have not been informed by anything related to this user prior to encountering them on Wikipedia or outside Wikipedia besides my websearch. Air on White ( talk) 22:52, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi there. I have alerted User:Dmytrootamanenko two times on their talk page about the editing restriction due to WP:RUSUKR. One of the edits they made was particularly disruptive. When they continued to make edits in the topic area, I raised this on WP:ANI but no one was interested in taking action and this was left to be archived. They also never responded. Following this, they have continued to make edits explicitly about the war such as this. What is the best way to approach this and other similar situations in the future? Thanks. Mellk ( talk) 18:07, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
{{subst:Gs/alert|rusukr}} ~~~~
does indeed not even inform the user about the restriction, so I think it's currently not useful. In case of general disruption, {{subst:alert/first|e-e}}
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Not sure what's going on here but there appears to be ongoing BLP issues for the past seven weeks. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:44, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
There appears to be whitewashing happening here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:09, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
For some reason the block was missing. Fixed. Cheers! -- Alexf (talk) 12:42, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:33, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Obvious socks are expensive. People should be encouraged to report ducks to AIV, which I have definitely been doing of late. Izno ( talk) 23:48, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Reports of sockpuppetry should be made at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations unless the connection between the accounts is obvious and disruption is recent and ongoing.~ ToBeFree ( talk) 00:28, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
Maybe 2001:8003:47a2:d301::/64 has a point and that content is WP:UNDUE, I don't know. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 13:36, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
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Hi there, I trust you're doing well. I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at this report as a CheckUser when you have the time. The reported account is quite active. If my report has merit, which has often been the case in the past, the amount of scrutiny and work they require is increasing day by day as they are editing almost every day. The report has been waiting along for about three weeks, and I thought reaching out to active CUs would help as this is a typical WP:LTA. Thank you, Aintabli ( talk) 03:30, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, I know you take WP:BLP seriously, so would you mind looking into the report I created on WP:AN/I about Fastcar4924539 ( talk · contribs)? This editor shows little to no regard to the policy despite being told numerous times about it, I was hoping it would be dealt with posting on the board, but no administrator has even commented, so I thought I would see if you can do anything/have input on how to deal with such things. Thank you. TylerBurden ( talk) 22:26, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
IP, currently blocked, is claiming to be the subject. Thought you'd like to know. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:19, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
I don't know what's going on with this KnoweldgeSeeker but it's certainly not appropriate. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:17, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Hey ToBefree.
How are you? Hope you have been well.
Here we go again, one year after you solve the problem of sockpuppetry on Baruch Spinoza article, it seems the problem is affecting th article again. Here’s my full report:
Nico Gombert /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Nico_Gombert
Account created on May 16, 2024 at 23:59.
He is currently edit warring to change a stable version of Baruch Spinoza page, making a point to describe him as a “Dutch philosopher”, a matter that disrupted this wikipedia page many times in the past because he was born in Holland as a refugee, his family had to leave Portugal due inquisition. Amsterdam hosted many Jews at the time, when they were persecuted everywhere else in Europe. But they were refugees, not citizens. So, since this is a matter with no consensus, Spinoza description on Wikipedia was made without claiming any nationality just to avoid unnecessary potential disruptions.
1 year ago though, a Dutch user Awater01 started disrupting the article, edit warring, saying it was unacceptable that the article was not claiming his nationality. Other editors explained this was unnecessary because there is no consensus about it and not claiming any nationality was the most impartial way to go. He carried on edit warring and due to 3 reversion rule he created other accounts, all of them doing the same edition. It turned out he had 4 accounts/sock puppets (see here /info/en/?search=Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Cornelis_Dopper)
Now we have new sock puppets with same behavior doing the very same edition/reversion for the first time since those other sock puppets were banned:
Nico Gombert /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Nico_Gombert
created his account on May 16, 2024 at 23:59.
He is certainly a sock puppet of GoneWithThePuffery.
GoneWithThePuffery ( /info/en/?search=User_talk:GoneWithThePuffery): Joint February 18, 2024, and was banned on May 15, 2024 for persistently making disruptive editions. His final edit warring was in Baruch Spinoza article, doing the same thing Nico Gombert is doing: trying to claim his nationality, even though there is an waring in article text saying “Not put Dutch here”.
Interesting point is that this user, who is now banned had already been denounced as a sock puppet, but it seems there was no clear evidence at that time, so he was allowed to carry on editing. (here is the discussionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=1223997015#GoneWithThePuffery).
So it seems both Nico Gombert and GoneWithThePuffery are the same person. However, given that GoneWithThePuffery account was created recently and his behaviour was really similar to a sock puppet, I decided to do by myself further investigations that took some weeks. After a deep analysis on GoneWithThePuffery former edits, I found out a Dutch nationalist/patriot who basically dedicates his editions almost entirely to Dutch subjects on Wikipedia. The user is DavidDijkgraaf, he has an account fairly old, was created in 2020.
On May 15, 2024 DavidDijkgraaf was the first one to start the disruption on the page, by claiming a Dutch nationality for Spinoza. A couple of hours later GoneWithThePuffery keeps making another string of other disruptions and edit warring. This ended up leading GoneWithThePuffery to be banned.
So I decided to wait to see a further evidence that DavidDijkgraaf was in fact the head account operating those sock puppets. A further evidence came up few days later, when DavidDijkgraaf started searching for information on how a sock puppet can be caught. (see here https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Eastfarthingan&oldid=1227571489#Sockpuppets).
So I decided to make a trap to see if he would make the same edition on the Baruch Spinoza page if I reverted the article for the stable version. So I deleted “Dutch” (see Baruch Spinoza history - 13:52, 8 June 2024). Then the new user Nico Gombert came up and reverted it. (see 13:21, 12 June 2024). I was wondering what should I do, then I remembered that one of the main reasons why sock puppets are used is to avoid breaking the 3 reversions rules and to give the impression that there are more editors who agree with a certain edition. So I decided to revert Nico Gombert edit (see at 17:04, 12 June 2024) and then it happened what I was expecting: on the same day few minutes latter DavidDijkgraaf pops up and makes the same reversion Nico Gombert did few hours earlier ( see 18:17, 12 June 2024). To confirm what I had discovered I undid it again (see 01:32, 13 June 2024), logically if it follows the typical behavior of a sock puppet the next one to revert my edition should be Nico Gombert, and this exactly what happened (see 16:39, 13 June 2024). Then I friendly even tried to warn him not to carry on that behaviour, it didn’t work he acted the same way as when he was using GoneWithThePuffery account. So once I already caught him, I did not to revert his latest reversion. I think the better way is reporting what I found out and let you guys solve this issue. It is possible that DavidDijkgraaf have more sock puppets but you probably have better tools than I have to confirm this. PepGuardi ( talk) 08:23, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
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Hey, I wanted to ask whether there is a way to check if a user is in the mentoring program. (I was just reading about that, and trying to find appropriate answers.) JackTheSecond ( talk) 20:44, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
~ ToBeFree ( talk) 22:04, 21 June 2024 (UTC)How can I display the mentor of a given user? / How do I add the mentor name to our welcome message?
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Quite a lot of activity here today, largely unsourced. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:36, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
Seems Khan is ducking that. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 13:00, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Hey, just wanted to let you know that someone claiming to be the subject has removed sourced information twice, under two different accounts. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 01:37, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Page is already protected but that doesn't seem to have helped much. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 13:46, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
I started a RFN discussion at WP:RFN#Dave Chappelle and the Dreamer but it doesn't seem to be getting any attention. Meanwhile, the editor is still making the same problematic edits, just elsewhere. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 04:42, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
The IP is already blocked but I wanted to give you a heads-up. I ran this through Google Translate:
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:57, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
I tried simply reverting the IP who has been editing today but they're too quick for me. The article would still be a bit of a mess, anyway. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:40, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
You gave Marshyg notice on edit warring but the editor continues to do the same by reverting changes 3 times to his version on page List of highest-grossing Telugu films. He is rude in his description even after I posted on his talk page about the concern over the reliability of sources. Day before on June 29, he again reverted changes of other editor 3 times to his version. I do not see warning having any influence on him even though he has been warned 3 times on his talk page in June 2024. Need your intervention. RangersRus ( talk) 18:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
I don't know who this "Crystal Omimi" is but editing suggests a conflict of interest. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:05, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that it appears the subject has been editing about himself. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:51, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi! I wonder if you could take a look at 67.83.125.225 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). This user was reported to ANI by User:Waxworker for disruptive editing (persistent addition of unsourced, false and/or nonsensical content) on 1 July and was blocked for 31 hours by Robertsky. After the block expired, the user resumed the same type of edits. Waxworker and I reported this resumed activity on the ANI thread but it was archived without action. Also note my last addition to that thread, in which I present evidence that the same editor has been making these same kind of edits using other IP addresses for several years, and some of these alternate IPs have already been blocked for long periods (up to 3 years). I did send a note to robertsky yesterday but got no response. I hope that the current IP can be blocked for a longer period of time, as it's quite tedious to keep up with these disruptive edits. Thanks for your help! CodeTalker ( talk) 00:16, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
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I see you recently blocked that IP. Just so you know, they're likely evading a longer block. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 06:18, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:30, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
A blocked vandal that edits articles about Conan the Barbarian is back. I created a sockpuppet investigation three days ago, but so far no one has looked at it. He edited again today, but fortunately only a few pages.
Thank you for all the hard work you to do protect Wikipedia from vandals, by the way. LordKulgur ( talk) 19:15, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
Newly-registered editor Log6849129 appears to have a COI, taking an Instragram post at face value and removing content which contradicts the subject's claim. I've already reverted once. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 16:11, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
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Just wanted to tell you that was a good suggestion, and I'm taking it. Thank you. (Sorry if this is the wrong place to send a message like this, I'm not up to date on all the wikipedia etiquette) ClearConcise ( talk) 21:28, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
Dear ToBeFree,
I hope this message finds you in good health. I am reaching out to inquire about the process of designating MilitaryLand.net as a reliable and trustworthy source of information. As I frequently refer to the content published on this website, I would greatly appreciate any guidance you can provide on how to establish its credibility.
Thank you for taking the time to consider my request. I look forward to hearing back from you soon.
Best regards, Uwdwadafsainainawinfi ( talk) 17:11, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
Dear ToBeFree,
I am writing to request an increase in page protection for the article on Offensive Guard. It is a project of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs with the aim to form new assault brigades in the structure of National Guard, National Police and Border Guards. I have attempted to increase the page protection level in accordance with the guidelines set forth in WP:GS/RUSUKR. Despite my efforts, however, my request has been denied.
I believe that the Offensive Guard page meets the criteria for increased protection outlined in WP:GS/RUSUKR. Given the potential for vandalism and misinformation, I strongly urge you to reconsider my request and increase the page protection level.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely, Uwdwadafsainainawinfi ( talk) 16:29, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi, here [1], i saw that this article was deleted by you. I found many sources for the same as the subject was a minister under Government of Bihar and elected member of Bihar Legislative Assembly, which makes it enough to qualify for WP:GNG and WP:NPOL. So can i create it once again. Admantine123 ( talk) 07:46, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
I see that in this edit you wrote "in case someone wonders, the edit summary of ... the user's first edit, seems to have conveniently removed any need for an edit warring warning", following a warning I had posted. In case it's of any interest to you, I actually noticed that edit summary after I had posted the warning, and considered going back and blocking after all. In fact I decided to let it go, and just keep a watch for continuation of edit warring, but I would have blocked immediately if I had noticed the edit summary at first. JBW ( talk) 19:56, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you! I do try my best to help out to make sure this is a safe environment. Cwater1 ( talk) 04:45, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree,
You recently posted this [9] notification on user:Golden's talk page, as a result of the AA3 case. Said user is still t-banned as per this [10] post, I quote: "...indefinitely topic banned from conflicts involving Armenia or Azerbaijan, broadly construed."
This diff from 25 March 2023 shows said user removing/reverting the Kurdish transliteration from the Kalbajar District article, a district heavily involved in the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. On the same day they removed a similar transliteration from the Lachin District article, another district heavily involved in the ongoing conflict. I'm wondering, does this constitute a violation of their t-ban? - LouisAragon ( talk) 21:28, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
I think some of those are mine. Not intentionally breaking anything. Only noticed the issue because I accidentally clicked into the history. I know the evidence submission I just made had some of these; I'll check it now. It's the UTC part that needs to go? if I am right about that, no need to answer. If that submission is why I am on that list, my mistake, sorry. A lot of cut and paste was involved in putting that into date order, enough to make me resolve to find and/or write a script if I ever need to do that again Elinruby ( talk) 21:33, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
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Well, this is a bit different. Article was just created yesterday and there's already an edit war alleging libel. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 21:27, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
What prompted the protection? We've had a few content disputes over the last couple of years but nothing that got out of hand. The regular WP:CHESS editors like myself, User:Quale, User:Bruce leverett and User:Ihardlythinkso all monitor this page as a core chess article and regularly revert bad edits or vandalism. I just don't understand why it needs protection now. MaxBrowne2 ( talk) 01:10, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Hey, TBF, I see you EC protected this, but the current edit warring is all EC editors. What do you think of full protect for a couple days? I'm asking because it would of course override the long-term EC protection. Valereee ( talk) 15:34, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi This page was eventually moved to draft space following article creation by a non qualified user. Now it has been moved from draft space back to mainspace by another unqualified user here. Its not that I object to the article creation itself, I would just prefer it were done by a qualified editor. Selfstudier ( talk) 07:58, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
You blocked a certain IP range for editwarring at Alderwood Mall. There's another IP there doing the exact same disruption. ☆ Bri ( talk) 01:03, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:04, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
Since Im new here, but not new because I was back editing to 2021 and I had an account. And revert people edits if they're Vandalism but, idk how to log in. 24.184.246.211 ( talk) 22:04, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
Hey, TBF. Just letting you know about three, possibly four, meatpuppets who have been adding unreferenced info here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:57, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
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Where did I go wrong in Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback, is it not auspicious? I'm doubting your acumen skills here, because there's a Wikipedia policy on unsourced edits, and I've indubitably seen users with the tool use it for this cause. I felt like I had to add that to my request even though it wasn't written on WP:Rollback. Any suggestions, for future reference? Dancing Dollar ( let's talk) 22:45, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
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Still getting my head around these changes. I see people doing all sorts of odd things. But shouldn't the editor be told that they should read the talk page as there may be restrictions, eg 1R? Doug Weller talk 16:34, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
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Hi. There is something that I don't quite understand: the semi-protection that you applied to the article was supposed to last until august 2024, but for some reason, following a full protection that lasted 48 hours, the article is now unprotected and back to the usual IP disruption. Was this supposed to happen? Best, M.Bitton ( talk) 21:44, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Would I still be able to edit the Alain Prost article to complete the Good Article nomination I had made before the case started? This article is not really related to Armenia at all, aside from the subject's ancestry, and I don't think I'll need to specifically edit the one line mentioning that. Whether this counts as an Armenian article or not, I hope that an exemption can be made to implement any changes the reviewer suggests just to complete the GA process. Dallavid ( talk) 16:05, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
User Gitz6666 made several comments that are irrelevant to the case, a distortion/mistranslation (e.g. I never said "shithole full of zombies") and offensive, i.e. this and this. He speculates about racists/racism, which has nothing to do with anything I said, about my "mental state" and "feelings". Would it be possible to remove these comments please? Thank you. My very best wishes ( talk) 21:08, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ ToBeFree: I understand I’m still on a one revert restriction so I’m stepping back from this but it would still seem @ Scientelensia: hasn’t learned their lesson and is continuing with ownership behaviour on ( Fabinho (footballer, born 1993)). im only coming to you as you dealt with this previously and I have no desire to continue reverting. Cheers. RossButsy ( talk) 16:16, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
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Are these templates and if so can you point me to them? Both would be useful. CNMall41 ( talk) 00:21, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Good day, I'm reporting a vandal who evaded a previous block by changing his IP code which was 151.30.243.31 and was blocked by you, currently it's 151.30.34.219 and is being used for the same kind of vandalisms, I think that you may be able to do something about it. 151.82.213.149 ( talk) 13:35, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Good day,
I have applied a rollback request two days ago but no progress has been made yet. Even if the request is rejected due to any reason, I won't mind. But keeping like this is not good. Kindly please see the request and take necessary action (if required).
Thanks NFRAPC ( talk) 15:28, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
[42] Those pile-on opposes were totally unnecessary. Pawnkingthree ( talk) 21:36, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, that page seems to be attracting quite a flock of ducks. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 15:50, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
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Seems we have a pair of IPs from the same general area intent on keeping the rabbi's controversial views out of the article. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 21:08, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks for protecting the page. Can U please revert edits made by 2A02:2378:120C:C22D:0:0:0:1 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? Initially the release history were split but that user recombined them. 197.244.102.196 ( talk) 19:00, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
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See this diff. I didn't feel like starting a thread at ANI, and I saw that you were the user who most recently warned them. SamX ( talk) 15:07, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, as the edit warring at McAleer seems to be over and the editor has started talking (at least on their own talk page, where I'm engaging with them), do you think we could have the article protection lifted now please? I've checked the source used for the disputed content, and it looks like it's not RS and I'd like to tag it as such - I've started a discussion about it on the article talk page. (I'm watching the page too, and I'll come back if there's any further disruption). Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 16:09, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
The user Computer and Internet solutions that you blocked won't stop spamming their talk page. I think talk page access should be revoked. -- Drm310 🍁 ( talk) 14:34, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
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21:26, 10 May 2023 (UTC)Good day, I'd like to report again the same vandal I reported last month, this time his IP code has become 31.190.112.97 and he's using it for similar vandalisms. 151.82.233.57 ( talk) 19:50, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
Please revoke. - 🔥 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 01:22, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree, While patrolling new redirects I noticed some strange page moves and redirects relating to a page you protected ( Miss Universe Philippines) which you might be in a better position to understand. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 15:00, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
36.11.224.0/21 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS)
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Blocking these two ranges should stop that vandal for awhile... WHOIS only lists the /16 for each of them but those seem too wide for a block, so I think these two will suffice... 73.67.145.30 ( talk) 19:28, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Seems to be back as User:Essie Nyawai -- Denniss ( talk) 09:57, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
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You might want to block that POV pusher's range from editing the page. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:30, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Apparently this article was the subject of proposed deletion back in July and there was a decision to keep. Now we have an IP insisting that the cleanup template is no longer needed, even though at least one issue ( WP:PRIMARY) clearly has not been addressed. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:21, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, TBF. Maybe you could help Luke understand the difference between what is and is not a good BLP edit? – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:22, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, To. (I feel I have known you long enough to call you by your first name.) I see you have semiprotected Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Piermark. You probably noticed that I had previously protected it and then unprotected it. The reason for that is that I found that at least one sockpuppet had edited on other pages, apart from that page and Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Piermark, and in that situation it is often better to leave the usual target pages unprotected and watch them, since that way we can spot the vandal as soon as they act again, whereas if they can't edit the usual pages then they may just go ahead and vandalise other pages, which we can't watch, as we don't know which pages they may attack next. However, as my protecting first and then changing my mind and backtracking may suggest, I am far from sure which is best, so I have no quarrel with you over coming to a different decision than I did, but I just thought you might like to know. (Incidentally, I would have protected indefinitely, as it is difficult to imagine any situation in which an unconfirmed editor would have a legitimate reason for editing a sockpuppet category article, but there isn't really a lot of difference between indef and a year in this context.) JBW ( talk) 20:07, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, TBF. Someone called Reprogram needs help understanding what constitutes a reliable source and how to properly reference a source in the body of an article. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 05:23, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice, not clear why you removed the content in the Ravioli's talk page. However I have already talked to the user, check his sockpuppet's user talk page User talk:Juan.Alvarez6. He keeps providing sources which do not prove what he states. But admin blocked me for edit warring indefinitely. Ok, bad behaviour, i take my responsability, it is correct to be blocked. But how about the sockpuppet behaviour? shouldn't we mean to delete information which are not supported by valid sources or anything is changed in wikipedia? Also, you ignored other comments on User talk:Xiaomichel by another user which was even more detailed than me. Frukko ( talk) 16:33, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
Can you help me? I'm really trying to have something I feel is inaccurate off of my own Wiki page and there seems to be this insane bunch of people determined to prevent me from doing that. I'm not adding anything insulting or controversial, I'm simply trying to omit language that mentions religion, which is inaccurate. Marble Argument ( talk) 22:58, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
I’ve seen you doing a lot of work on that arbitration case. Thank you for all your effort. Jehochman Talk 00:19, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
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I always edit and add things according to reliable sources. I have done more than 950 edits and i am a extended confirmed user. I always follow the rules. Sometimes things go wrong because of some other people. I think i am a sensible user and editor here. Please unblock me i am appealing to you first. Thankyou. Rahil1610 ( talk) 14:15, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
I have several problems related to this article : The first of them is : there is an extended protection . Second: the article about the invasion itself is not updated. please remove the protection . And why is the article about the invasion not updated ? Kiriuxa2002 ( talk) 10:42, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, thanks for your reply on my talk page. It seems I just don't understand the rules. Some people say you shouldn't be called a sockpuppet without a WP:SPI I think and then I read this Bishonen talk contribs m 15,211 bytes 0 Changed protection settings for " Adam Leitman Bailey": Persistent sockpuppetry: the semiprotection isn't working very well against some obvious sock puppetry. ([Edit=Require extended confirmed access] (indefinite) [Move=Require extended confirmed access] (indefinite))
I do want to drop the matter but as you are the only person that has been kind then I thought I'd show you in the hope you could clarify things.
Bijou1995 ( talk) 20:00, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
2023-05-31T17:26:53 Abecedare blocked Bijou1995 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked): " Sock/meat puppetry; see my note at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Texasmom1965"
all edits are done after mentioning in the Talk Page. There is no consensus in the respective article's talk page that it was edit warring. All sentences are provided with the respective valid academic citations. Reconsider the decision on blocking me. അദ്വൈതൻ ( talk) 18:07, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
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Giving you a heads-up about a WP:BLP vandal here. Just one IP so protecting the page shouldn't be necessary unless they hop. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 00:01, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
User:ThorpeParkTheSwarm is abusing his talk page by making disruptive unblock requests and vandalizing the page. Please revoke his TPA. ChrisWx ( talk - contribs) 21:34, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Can you help me open a discussion to rename the article back to 'VSS (Vintorez) and AS (Val)'?
I don't know how to put the necessary code for the RSPM Guns & Glory ( talk) 12:40, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello, ToBeFree, I see you blocked LuGusDeclanBibaElodieBarnaby. They started out of the gate with reverting vandalism using tools and tagging pages for deletion using proper codes and even making a nomination at AFD after basically being active for a day. I know they are a returning editor but without CU goggles, I have no idea what sockmaster they might be. But hopefully this block will cause them to slow down because they had gone from 0 - 100 mph as a page patroller with apparently very limited experience. Liz Read! Talk! 06:12, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
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I see an arb saying If there are other recent (i.e. post-2020) issues that merit a look, then I could be convinced otherwise.
, so I give him something else that merits a look, and you remove my edit as off-topic.
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Hi, TBF. Seems to me that some of the legal issues section is appropriate for the article. The facts that there was a lawsuit and it got thrown out, for example. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 03:13, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
You will recall that about a week ago, you partially blocked a user from Marriage in ancient Rome for edit-warring. I first closed a DRN request, and then you said that your objective had been to encourage rather than discourage discussion. I reopened the case, and reminded the user in question to notify the other editors on their talk pages. The filing editor never did notify the other editors. The DRN case has now been archived by the archival bot because it had no activity for 48 hours after the expiration date, and I hadn't extended the expiration date. So maybe that editor doesn't care that much about discussion, or, maybe, doesn't understand the advice to contact the other editors. They can always resume discussion on the article talk page. Robert McClenon ( talk) 03:46, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
A recent restore of many previously removed and discredited edits by user Chrma626 have now been picked up by MartinPict and these new edits have ineligible sources (auction results), sources that do not confirm the assertions made in the Wiki page, incorrect information (Pierre Laval, for example, was not ever nor alleged to be a Nazi) and these recent changes reflects a negative bias toward and imbalance of tone on the page with an overemphasis on World War II -related allegations without adequate sources. To followup on your earlier actions on the Baccarat Talk page (see /info/en/?search=Talk:Baccarat_(company) ) there is evidence of citing user-generated content, original research based on primary sources, combining sources into something neither said, and an apparent lack of relevance. 104.234.53.123 ( talk) 16:33, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, TBF. Giving you a heads-up regarding the POV-pusher here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:29, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
Not sure what is going on with the IP here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:38, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey! How are you? I am the user of Pep Guardi who recently reported some misbehaviours caused by a user on Baruch Spinoza article. I am quite new on here then I am still learning some things. So just few minutes ago I discovered that I could revert the page to the stable version prior to that edit warring caused by the blocked user and this wouldn’t mean any edit warring given that “Reverting edits of banned or blocked users is not edit warring”, so my “ignorance” on this rule made me take a while to take that action hahah. However, I found really intriguing when I did the reversion that there was an edit made by a new user (Boerboel Yzer) which is the very same that was done by the blocked user ( Awater01). I checked it and he/she is a new user that created an account like 2 hours ago and has 8 reversions out of a total of 11 edits… something quite weird for a new user and reproduce the vary same behaviour of the blocked user ( Awater01). I was trying to find how to report it so that someone can check if it is sockpuppetry. Could you help me to report it? I mean you were very kind with me giving me advices of things I should avoid during arguments on Wikipedia, so I would very happy if you could help with this as well (and I hope I am not doing anything wrong haha) Thanks :) Ps: the suspicious “coincidence”: the “new” editor deleted the word “and”, something that was always there and the only one who made a point in deleting it was the now blocked editor: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Baruch_Spinoza&diff=prev&oldid=1158882459 PepGuardi ( talk) 04:10, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
See these diffs and this thread. Not sure if any action is needed at this point, but I figured I should bring this to your attention since you've sanctioned them in the past. — SamX [ talk · contribs] 00:49, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi again, TBF. Looks like there's a bit of confusion here; one editor claiming to be a relative of the subject continually removes sourced content regarding the subject's Romani heritage. Apparently the editor believes the content claims that the subject is Romani rather than Greek with Romani heritage. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:53, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree, I'm not quite sure about the appropriate noticeboard for this, so if you've got time, you might want to take a quick look at User talk:Hamaredha#applying for: one user revealing their conflict of interest regarding Ali Ahmadzadeh (quite obvious anyway looking at their xwiki contributions [84] [85]), the other one asking to be paid for writing the article... Johannnes89 ( talk) 08:38, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Kindly revisit the discussion regarding what name should be used for this article. Guns & Glory ( talk) 08:45, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
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Recent set of clear NOTHERE and FORUM from this IP which has been warned previously about such issues:
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"Reliable" in Wikipedia just means "conforming to a desired narrative." You have made this clear on many occasions, Hob Gadling. Unfortunately casual readers erroneously assume that "reliable" has some sort of connection with accuracy and truth, which of course it doesn't.[98]
Scientific sources routinely lie. Scientific papers are routinely retracted. See here[99]
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Could you take a look at this? Thank you for your generally excellent mopping. — Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 17:52, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey Tobi! A couple of days ago, I had a dream that we both are eating Dosa while our bikes are being repaired. Not in Deutschland but somewhere in India. Just wanted to share with you! — DaxServer ( t · m · e · c) 17:09, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, TBF. This article is only two days old and there's already a BLP edit war. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:08, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
I have no problem at all with the unblock. I would ask that you keep an eye on him for a while. Thanks for the very fair way you handled this situation. Sundayclose ( talk) 20:16, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for filling in for the absent bot. I took the liberty of moving the entries from May to June, having first consulted my calendar. Regards, Favonian ( talk) 18:42, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
I don't know if you already know about it or are interested in such activism, but there's a demo this morning in the city against the PAG. Reading thru https://www.nopagby.de/ about the PAG is rather concerning but I'm not surprised of the Kontrolle asserted by the Polizei Bayern. Heard of it in several forms from several people. Some photos: Category:NoPAG protest in Munich 2023 — DaxServer ( t · m · e · c) 18:10, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
I have to ask a dumb question, to be certain: If editor A makes 4 edits adding a paragraph each to an article, and editor B comes along and hits Undo for each one - 4 reverts in say an hour, did editor B violate 3RR (assuming not obvious spam, vandalism, etc.)? Scenario 2: Same actions by editor A another day, another article. If editor C comes along, and makes one manual edit that removes all 4 additions of editor A, did editor C violate 3RR? It seems you would say No for editor C, but Yes for editor B, and this is a huge loophole. -- Yae4 ( talk) 08:06, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
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likely will be needed to be added early july OJDriscoll ( talk) 20:06, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
I recently got a message on my talk page about the restrictions non-extended confirmed users have when it comes to the Russo-Ukrainian war articles, I am Extended Confirm by request, and wonder if that still counts with the Russo-Ukrainian war articles like the one I created that was recently deleted. RowanJ LP2 ( talk) 14:48, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Boom. Thanks for the good idea, should've done that long ago. OhNoitsJamie Talk 20:25, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/TruthWillOut2020
/info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/TruthWillOut2023
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We need you to weigh in here, editor has undid your prior changes with sources ineligible for Wikipedia authority, factual errors, and biased, discredited content /info/en/?search=Talk:Baccarat_(company) 2A0D:6FC2:45B0:FF00:EC8A:92EB:B200:EF7F ( talk) 12:55, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
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Sorry, I just see discussions here. The person who loves reading ( talk) 03:06, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
The IP user who inserts false information into Conan articles (who last used the IP 50.219.13.234) is now back as 2600:1003:B12C:66E0:C8E7:1422:C40F:64AA. Could you block him again? Or should I create a SPI case or something? LordKulgur ( talk) 04:40, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, TBF. Check out these edits when you get a chance. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:27, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi again, TBF. Two IPs have been claiming the subject has divorced Mr. Pond but have yet to provide a reliable source. The most recent edit summary contains a BLP violation against Mr. Pond, which should be deleted. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:49, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm back again. Some pretty strange edits here today. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 21:20, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for blocking 172.220.81.119 just now. You might want to look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Exnihilox which concerns this same editor and his behaviour at Rochdale. I doubt you even need to check the US-based IP of this US-based editor (confirmed on Exnihilox's user page) to realise this is a sock. 10mmsocket ( talk) 21:02, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
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Tidying up some loose ends and I see Exnihilox has carried on editing with an IP from the same IP. Look at the /64 range. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Exnihilox. Thanks in advance. 10mmsocket ( talk) 17:40, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, TBF. COI edtior JamesHawkes0161 apparently has been editing while logged out. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:55, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hi again, TBF. Looks like we have a POV-pusher trying to arrange this list into a non-standard format. I briefly looked at other Indian surnames and did not see any arranged according to heritage. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:11, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for protecting the French conquest of Algeria and rev-deleting the disruptive material. The editor in question is an obvious sock of "Norprobr" (see the list of socks that they created last week). After the recent block of "Gautretlion" and "Giuliottis", they created yet another sock ( Radichsper) to target one of the usual articles.
I wouldn't be surprised to see them repeat what they did last week and target these article again: Military history of France, Siege of Laghouat, Algiers, French Armed Forces, Oran, Military history of France, French Army, Algerians, French North Africa, French colonial empire, History of Algeria, Military history of Algeria, Algiers Province, Pacification of Algeria, Ottoman Algeria, North Africa, Constantine (which have been protected by ScottishFinnishRadish for a short while) and maybe others. Best, M.Bitton ( talk) 11:52, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hi ToBeFree, As a new page patroller and an experienced AFC reviewer, I kindly request that you move this page B4blaze to the Draft space and allow me to expand and improve upon its content using reliable sources. Additionally, if possible, could remove the name protection for this page? Padavalam🌂 ► 18:38, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello. The blocked IP editor who adds false plot summaries to Conan articles is back. I created a sockpuppet investigation,but no responses so far. Edit by blocked IP, by current IP. LordKulgur ( talk) 05:15, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hey how are you? Awater01 attacked again Baruch Spinoza page this time with the user 2600:100C:A211:73E1:A08C:466D:DF88:F3BB (same behavior, same edition, user joined in July 1st and few edits afterwards…) PepGuardi ( talk) 15:50, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree. I'm not asking for any administrative action at this point. I just wanted to keep you updated. Kesc4399 has resumed edit warring by removing this content for the fourth time, without consensus, which I have challenged. The content is properly sourced. If you cull through his walls of text you'll see that his only reason for removal is that he personally doesn't believe it happened. In the past he has asked for a source that King's family made the statement, but it is in the source which is cited before his removal of the content. I added a second source, even though that's not necessary. Hopefully this is the end of Kesc4399 edit warring. Thanks. Sundayclose ( talk) 13:29, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi, TBF. I stumbled into an active edit war concerning WP:SYNTH & WP:ONUS, possibly WP:BLP as well, here while patrolling recent changes and have to get back to work. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:26, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, giving you a heads-up about the COI edits here. Now there's a blatant copyvio as well. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:58, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
I've been helping maintain the Sound of Freedom article, which has been subjected to near-constant edit warring lately. One especially debated-over topic is, as you put it, "a (sub)section dedicated to connections to QAnon", which now has its own sub-section on the Talk Page. Does it seem like a consensus has been reached yet there, and if so, what should be done with the section? I'd like to reach a solid decision one way or the other, just to prevent any further edit warring. Thanks. -- Neateditor123 ( talk) 04:58, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
This IP Address vandalized own talk page while blocked. Probably the ability to edit own talk page needs to be disabled. 95.132.186.233 ( talk) 08:38, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi again. I stopped by recent changes during a moment of boredom and came across this messy edit war; one participant has been blocked as a sock and another blocked on suspicion of that sock editing while logged out. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 00:29, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
This time as Jordinesi and Reidinfors (targetting the articles whose protection has expired as well as new ones, such as Battle of Sig).
The email that I sent to the edit filter team is yet to be reviewed for approval (because it's not from a list member). Is there any way I could expedite the process? Best, M.Bitton ( talk) 22:56, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Not sure what's going on here but, so far, two IPs and one recently registered editor have been trying to add what appears to be nothing more than lists of students who made the schools' honor rolls. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:13, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello ToBeFree! I hope you're doing well. I was wondering if I am able to edit the article Fyappiy about a very niche Ingushetian ethnic group? The reason I'm asking is after editing the article, I noticed that in two map citations they mention "Armenia" and "Azerbaijan" in their reference title. Otherwise, neither the countries or anything related to them is in the Fyappiy article's content. The references are:
User WikiEditor1234567123, the main author of the article, recently asked for my help in reviewing it and helping it qualify for GA status which I am happy to do. Thank you! Best, – Olympian loquere 13:27, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
Feel free to improve any of these as well:
I'm assuming we will have some overlap on these for quite some time. — xaosflux Talk 22:50, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello, can you please take a look at the AIV report against 2402:80...88:9387? It has devolved into them spamming user talk pages with harassment. Apparently they are an LTA? – 2804:F14:8087:2401:5900:C362:50DC:32B0 ( talk) 06:10, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, giving you a heads-up about the WP:COI editor over here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:43, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
I'm sorry for my tone the other day. I was getting frustrated at being led in circles and then I was given your name and told to come to you, and from what I'm understanding now something else was going on. MJL asked me to "please try not to let your recent experiences color your judgement of ToBeFree too much. He tries his best, but we're all a little stretched thin" so I'm going to go with that. Can we be ok? Saikyoryu ( talk) 23:06, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
They've just posted legal threats on their talk page; probably grounds for TPA removal. lavender|(formerly HMSSolent)| lambast 02:07, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
Please revoke TPA for this range because this ip is now taking legal action against wikipedia [128] Untamed1910 ( talk) 02:46, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
TBF, am I correct that an unconfirmed quote evidently originating from what appears to be little more than a gossip column in an unreliable source falls under WP:UNDUE? – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 06:14, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey - I think it's admirable that you're still trying to figure out what the problem was there. Maybe I was wrong to try and help out, I seem to have made things worse rather than better. Girth Summit (blether) 19:39, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
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In'indian army equipment 'page i added 122mm D-30 howitzer in artillery section with proper citations but someone blindly undoing all changes he is repeating my two citations where it is mentioned the d-30 guns 'being phased out' or get's obsolete.But there is no mention of complete retirement of these guns even source given by someone mentioned there are 520-550 guns are in service and in future it would be retired or phased out but he is still not only blindly undoing change again and again also giving threat to me.I am giving some articles to you,read it and make conclusion.(all or some 122mm D-30 is in service of india or all guns are retired)
1. https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/Indian-army-weapons-artillery-Feeble-fire-in-the-big-guns/article62116525.ece (No. 1 article of the Hindu was published in 2014 and updated in 4 dec. 2021) 2. https://www.aviation-defence-universe.com/this-is-how-the-indian-artillery-looks-like/ 3. https://raksha-anirveda.com/regiment-of-artillery-the-second-largest-arm-of-the-indian-army/ 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDefense/comments/zzltsu/indian_army_122_mm_howitzer_2a18_d30_live_firing/ 5. https://21stcenturyasianarmsrace.com/2020/02/05/india-makes-a-lot-of-its-own-artillery 6. https://ssbcrackexams.com/types-of-artillery-guns-used-by-indian-army/ Dl ff ( talk) 12:52, 24 July 2023 (UTC) Dl ff ( talk) 13:17, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey, there are some ducks flocking to their most recently edited articles: Valery Tsepkalo & Prohibited degree of kinship. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:43, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
Yes, I acknowledge that. Had I appreciated up front how many of the edits were going to be vandalism, I have gone straight to AIV without wasting my time doing UWs.
No reply expected. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 ( talk) 22:39, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
[129] Would you mind revoking TPA? Dr.Pinsky ( talk) 18:22, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Tibby. 41.10.0.0/16 has a history of disrupting articles related to South Africa. Could you please keep them out of there? – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:54, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
Maybe the answer to my question is hidden somewhere on Wikipedia, so I apologize if I'm being lazy. Are admins able to view the edit histories of deleted pages? I would expect it to be so, but I want to be sure. Aintabli ( talk) 12:38, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
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I suggest removing this user's talk page access Notrealname1234 ( talk) 22:04, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, I have drafted an article following all Wikipedia policies and I would like you to turn it into an article.
Draft:List of governors of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province شامادورا ( talk) 19:53, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
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Brother,the flag of India, which is changed by you with darker colours is wrong.kindly re-upload the flag image which was there previously. You can check my correctness on official website of government of India. Thank you 171.61.122.28 ( talk) 05:58, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, I appreciate the advice. I don't think ANI will help, as it's a one-off personal attack by the IP (though their trying to argue about the antisemitic nature of the article is a bright red flag). I hatted the tangent and I'm hoping they get bored & wander off. — The Hand That Feeds You: Bite 18:19, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
Nothing urgent, just a thought. -- Tamzin[ cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 19:39, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
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Would you mind revoking TPA for that IP you blocked earlier? They are still abusing their access.
Thanks TLJ7863 ( talk) 22:52, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
Hey @ ToBeFree, This user you blocked just a few minutes ago is abusing the unblock request and keeps saying go play geometry dash. Could I request the user's talk page to be revoked? 🛧 Layah50♪🛪 ( 話す? 一緒に飛ぼう!) 03:19, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
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Looks like we have a newly-registered editor engaged in whitewashing so as not to speak ill of the dead. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:39, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Tibby. The IP here seems to have a WP:COMPETENCY issue. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:19, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
This, you've got to see for yourself. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:21, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Sorry if this is taking your time, but even after you warned AzorzaI they continue to revert on Battle of Kosovo in a WP:OWN fashion. AzorzaI has been reverting every day there since August 3, against 7 editors. After you warned them, they made 2 other reverts, suggesting they are not willing to stop. I am not familiar with filing reports on noticeboards, so can you please help? Uniacademic ( talk) 22:26, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
Somebody's having trouble distinguishing myth from historical fact. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:21, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I just noticed that IPs from the same geographic area had been making problematic edits there a year ago. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 23:03, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
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I was half asleep when wrote that request sorry and i would like to request you look at my new request which is way more neat.
Thanks, •Cyberwolf• 23:54, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Is Good Russians eligible for deletion? It was created and written by a non-extended confirmed editor. Most of the other edits is just edit warring between non-extended confirmed editors. But probably it needs page protection at the very least. Mellk ( talk) 03:32, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi ToBeFree! Am I supposed to be grateful to you for not blocking me?
While I can take any amount of stick from vandals, I see no real point in justifying my actions to admins, let alone arguing with them. But don't worry; the bottom line is that I'll make your life easier by staying well away from the Sandbox, thereby saving you the hassle of considering whether or not to block me, partially or otherwise, in the future.
That said, as I have a few moments to spare right now, here's my rationale for what you consider my reprehensible behaviour:
While your high level of AGF does you credit, I think it's safe to say that the IP will cherish your welcome and the rebuke you gave me. But surely there comes a moment when an IP has demonstrated, beyond any reasonable doubt, that s/he is not here to build an encyclopedia? Even without resorting to downright, blatant vandalism.
Obviously, that's a decision you admins have to take on a case-by-case basis, but isn't that what AIV is for? For notifying busy admins of things going on that they may not otherwise be aware of?
If removing the very template that clearly states "Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading) ... Feel free to try your editing skills below" is so apparently harmless as to warrant you rebuking me, why bother having that template there in the first place? I assume it's there to help all the other users who visit the Sanbox between bot clearing sessions you speak so highly of. What's more, while I have no doubt whatsoever that the vast majority of IPs that use the Sandbox do so more or less correctly, what to do with those who remove the template, not just once or twice, but systematically? And then insist on doing so after receiving warnings. Are they really here to build an encyclopedia? What's the tipping point?
BTW, following your kind welcome, you-know-who was right back at it... Quack! Technopat ( talk) 14:19, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Regarding this I didn't think about this until you pointed it out but the issue is that they're not extended confirmed, which per [ [152]] they need to be, right? I looked at the age of their account but didn't register the number of edits when I was looking. Would it be best to just apply ECP to the article itself to sidestep any continuing issue? - Aoidh ( talk) 01:44, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
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Just letting you know about some conflict I came across while patrolling recent changes. Some editors want to use Garfunkel's memoir as evidence of him being bisexual; however, the referenced page doesn't mention sexual attraction in the literal sense and there are no other sources. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:36, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
My user talk is being harassed and it's annoying me He is trying to get my rollback revoked He's a ip I made a mistake and he's knitt picking I warned him because he won't stop So I framed the ip's talk on my user page and that's unacceptable according to him He removed sourced content on tee •Cyberwolf• 22:40, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
I see you found a Canadian duck; I always thought they were known for geese. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 23:43, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
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On Veal Milanese article he reverted and deleted a source 79.50.172.35 ( talk) 11:01, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
This article has a long history of unsourced, promotional additions and quite a bit of activity along those lines today. Is this person even notable enough to have her own article? – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:57, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, please consider switching to the new Move To Draft script. It is fork of the script that you are using, but has some bug fixes, important warnings, and some feature enhancements. Happy editing! - MPGuy2824 ( talk) 05:41, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
I don't import non-administrators' JavaScript if avoidable, as doing so provides administrator access to the script's creator.Ah, I understand.
I hope draftification becomes a MediaWiki gadget or extension one day.We (at NPP) hope to get the same functionality in the Curation toolbar someday. - MPGuy2824 ( talk) 07:46, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
Would it be possible to revert back to a version of the article from 11:36, 25 August 2023 before user EmilePersaud started to add all the additional unsourced content? There was no consensus for it and some of the text that's in there now is rather dubious and not backed up by any of the references. E-960 ( talk) 20:56, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
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Please check my t/p. TrangaBellam ( talk) 10:26, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
Why did you delete this page - all information is accurate. Oceanview99 ( talk) 02:54, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi. You blocked this new editor. Looking at their edits, I think these may have been misguided, good faith efforts based on the “suggested edits” feature. My mobile web browser has tagged them as #suggested edits.
This would not be the first time #suggested edits has steered new people wrong.
Of course, I may be wrong, too. — A. B. ( talk • contribs • global count) 01:59, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Quack, quack. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 01:34, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
i like it Chessepr ( talk) 00:29, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
Hey, just alerting you about at least one edit warring POV-pusher here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:57, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
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Ajeeb agreed that my source is a reliable source but is choosing to ignore it. What do I do now? Master106 ( talk) 01:19, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
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Greetings, can you please apply extended-confirmed protection to Novorossiya (confederation) for some time to encourage non-EC editors to discuss changes first, thanks. Manyareasexpert ( talk) 09:10, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
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Sorry to bother you again. He comes back from time to time to remove content about an event in King's childhood that he has edit warred out of the article several times. His latest attempt is here. That's the fifth time. As always, it's not because of lack of sources, it's because he personally doesn't believe it's true. And as he often does, he leaves a deceptive edit summary ("fixed typo"), which is interesting because he rants about it in all of his other edit summaries for edits that have nothing to do with that content. I suppose he thinks he can make a sneak attack and no one will notice. You gave him every break imaginable, and I was OK with that. The only thing that got his attention in the past was a block, and I really feel that another block, even a brief one, is in order. Thanks. Sundayclose ( talk) 11:55, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi brother, I am native speaker of Amazigh language, I want to create new template for Template:User zgh ⵣⵉⵔⵉ ⴰⵎⵖⵏⴰⵙ ( talk). 00:55, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
{{#babel:zgh-n|en-2}}
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The above user was justifiably blocked earlier today. Almost all of their edits at their own talkpage were deleted. However, a simplified Chinese term was left behind. That term can be translated as an offensive one (similar to their English language edits, which were reverted in articles) and should be removed, too. shaidar cuebiyar ( talk) 04:13, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
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An editor pinged three editors on a talk page suggesting to them that the article should be merged. None of those pinged editors had made edits to the article before. I noticed that this editor only pinged those that supported their requested move on Republic of Crimea back in June (all three of them and in order!). They did not ever ping anyone who opposed their requested move. This editor also left a comment on one of the pinged editor's talk page after they began making the suggested edits, telling them to remove propaganda from other particular articles (they linked the articles in a follow up comment here). When I reverted one of the edits on the article they told the editor to remove propaganda from, they start a talk page discussion pinging other editors who did not edit the article before, which I can only assume is to influence the outcome of this discussion. I left a message on their talk page saying that this was canvassing but they simply removed this saying "No canvassing". Do you think this is something sanctionable/warrants a warning, or is it better to wait? Thanks. Mellk ( talk) 14:53, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
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ToBeFree, really sorry for making this discussion on your page even longer. Mellk, you called me a "partisan editor". I don't accuse you of bad faith, but I think you should either drop your "canvassing" case (which is built on the assumption that Panam2014 pinged such editors) or produce diffs that show me as such (in the sense of "a strong supporter of a party, cause [other than WP's core policies], or person" or "prejudiced in favour of a particular cause"; quotes from ODE). Rsk6400 ( talk) 07:14, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
It is time for him to stop agressive messages and calling others "propagandists"
Right after that 4RR report, I had just started to write out the evidence for an SPI (I've had both thier x-tools stats open in browsers for a day or so now). Thankfully you have saved me the trouble. Thanks for good admin'ing. - wolf 17:06, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
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@ ToBeFreeI trust you're doing great. I kindly request your help to review and approve this page. An editor is abusing his rights, which is why I wanted another editor to help review.
Warm regards, mate.
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I think this user that you just blocked and and I reported wants their block reviewed but they can't figure out how. I told them to put the template on their talk page but they might want an admin for it. Regards, Seawolf35 ( talk) 06:57, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I was looking at the McKamey Mannor page after watching Reckless Ben's series and Danny Berk's video about it. I was going to add some information to the controversies section about their investigation in to the haunted house when I saw that it had been attempted in the past and reverted, and that the page is now locked. I wanted to ask why this was done as their videos on the subject are well made and clearly show the scam that is taking place, on two ocasions they attempt the haunted house only to be refused entry after failing to essentially breathe underwater. There are many claims that McKamey makes about his attraction that are clearly impossible, such as the 2 mile long zip line, and I think that a source that clearly details the deception taking place here could be of great benefit to those considering attempting the haunted house as it could deter them from sustaining very serious injuries over a scam. I have never edited a page before so I may be out of line, and if I am I apologize, I just feel that if this information was not factual that in the two months his videos have been up McKamey would have any sort of rebuttal clearly proving this haunted house is real. Thank you so much for your time. PhantomRexx ( talk) 09:00, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
... disagree, but you do you. :) Drmies ( talk) 00:02, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello, was it your intention to restore unsourced material in Satrapy of Armenia after the IP block? Four editors have supported removing the unsourced material and I think there is a consensus to rollback to [185]. Thanks, // Timothy :: talk 22:11, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
Looks like this has been going on for a couple of weeks, some IP POV-pushers using WP:SYNTH arguments to paint the subject as some ultra-right wing stooge. You should take a look when get a chance. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 15:41, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree, this is LTA from dewiki, see de:Benutzer:--WikiUser1234945--/Bundesland-Troll for more information. I know how annoying that is, because I'm from dewiki. Have a nice Sunday. --WikiUser1234945-- ( talk) 16:49, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
I saw the warning about editing that page. If you would please, add the following just before "• purge" • [[Wikipedia:Editing restrictions/Archive/Placed by the Arbitration Committee|archive]]
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I see that you have recently blocked Enciso_Systems, for Promotional username, promotional edits. All their edits have been reverted. [190] The first part of the reasoning is clear. The username is promotional, which may be a valid reason to block. However, I don't see any promotional editing. In fact, many (all?) of their contributions consist of adding JWST images to astronomy articles, which seems reasonable and unrelated to the business of the same name. A few of the edits had syntax issues, but that could be fixed. Was the mass reversal really necessary? Renerpho ( talk) 01:40, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
Just so you know an attempt is being made to drag you back into the middle of another ban request on my IP — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.236.126.177 ( talk) 08:21, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, just letting you know about the IP with an apparent conflict of interest who has been replacing sourced content with unsourced content. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 15:17, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi there, you previously blocked an IP edit-warring on Stargate (film). They appear to have resumed editing while blocked under a different IP. If you could take a look and perhaps weigh in at the edit-warring investigation I opened, I'd appreciate it. Thank you! DonIago ( talk) 17:33, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
The earlier edit said "she" is a social scientist, that's why i got confused when publishing the article, and assumed the subject was female, i am sorry about the mistake — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.106.8.27 ( talk) 01:17, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, I'm not sure what's going on here. Take a look and see what you think when you get a chance. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:47, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
Re: [204] Ha, apologies. When I get rushed and the four tildes don't work, I tend to slip back in to our local hot mess of dates/units/measures - will pay attention there. Sam Kuru (talk) 19:16, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi. Could you block 205.164.152.0/21 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · block user · block log) from the pages Saad Hussain Rizvi ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) please? If you search the contributions for the edit summary containing "Islam is not extremism" you will find them repeatedly making the same edit as far back as August last year. Thank you. FDW777 ( talk) 13:07, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I'm taking a wikibreak; would you mind blocking me for 24-hours to hold me to it? Thanks, Edward-Woodrow • talk 19:57, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to talk to you about whether I broke the community rules or not because I warned you that He's dangerous because he's an IP. He can find out where he is. And he still came up that I threatened him. I feel uncomfortable Because of the truth He also threatened me first that I would reveal personal information. And also intimidates me. อย่ามาตบะ ( talk) 10:35, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
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Regarding the block, apparently the account is similar to Norprobr. As a result, it is still under sockpuppet investigation. Sorry about this but I forgot to add additional info on the WP:AIV. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd ( talk) 17:24, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I'd like to beef up this article with more refs. Can you move this WP:B4blaze to draft space? Jigar1984 ( talk) 16:50, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree, can you help provide some guidelines on how to resolve article censorship, and link hijacking?
A new article was created for Political views of Javier Milei, however shortly after the article was created and added to the main article Javier Milei, the new article on the same topic was created Political positions of Javier Milei, and the link on the main article was redirected to the new article instead; https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Javier_Milei&diff=prev&oldid=1182023220
Then the content of the old article was deleted !!!, and a redirect to the newly created one was added; https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Political_views_of_Javier_Milei&diff=prev&oldid=1182011968
After fixing this, it was reverted again by another user; https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Political_views_of_Javier_Milei&diff=prev&oldid=1182268028
The main article still directs to the new POVFORK Political positions of Javier Milei, instead of the original article Political views of Javier Milei.
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Thanks for any guidelines or help with this! Pedantic Aristotle ( talk) 13:42, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi there, guess who's back to take up your time again.
Special:Contributions/2601:243:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 looks like a shared IP range as it has a mix of good edits like typo fixes, misguided things like copypastes, and your typical silly vandalism and test edits. Mainly it just needs more eyes on it. The admin noticeboards don't seem like the appropriate place to put this, and not sure about the Pump either so hey I figured you could be volunteered to see what you thought would be the best course of action here!
I just stumbled upon a random bit of scribbling from it on an article, and smartly thought to go look up the overall range seeing as it's IPv6. Cheers and hope your day/night is going well!
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Hi ToBeFree,
I recently filed an AE Request relating to GWA88, who you blocked along with myself in early July. It seems that this filing has been interpreted as a retaliatory action for your prior block.
I'm not sure if this is because I received a second block this month and there may be some mix-up over the two blocks, making it seem like I immediately filed the AE request on GWA88, after a block resulting from a GWA88's filing had expired. Given that 4 months has passed with no action from myself, I don't think this interpretation is reasonable.
Could you have a look and add a comment if you feel it is appropriate? Carter00000 ( talk) 08:16, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
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@ ToBeFree: why is tu quoque argumentation not helpful there? When it comes to procedural fairness, tu quoque arguments seem exactly on point: if one party individually notifies certain editors of a conflict, that seems very relevant as to whether other parties can do the same thing, and/or whether other editors should be notified. Why remove the diffs of such notifications, which seem like key aspects of the question being asked?
More generally, I don't get why you'd treat diffs as being only for the evidence page? Leaving the diffs, and answering the question, seems like a much more fair thing to do, than removing the diffs and deciding what kinds of arguments parties can and cannot make when asking a procedural question.
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IPv6 with apparent COI issues going back to March of last year has recently been removing certain personal details, claiming "confidentiality". These details are sourced to Vanity Fair, IndieWire, and the University of California. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 14:57, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ ToBeFree. Could you tell me how to delete my account on Wikipedia. Thank you ⵣⵉⵔⵉ ⴰⵎⵖⵏⴰⵙ ( talk). 19:35, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
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And it would be verging on the Kafkaesque: but in that situation I might demand my appeal to be ''reblocked'' for the next ~16 days be filed at AN. Talk about bizarre. And I never even noticed that it was a fait accomplii already! *bigger facepalm* ——Serial 20:02, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
Responding to your question about Fair pie-cutting -- I'm trying to classify all the unclassified articles. This one is clearly not math. Could be classed as Game theory, but this seems pretty cut-n-dried economic theory to me. I mean, textbook economics, even, stuff you'd get in college. Note that game theory can be considered to be a sub-branch of both math and economics, while economics is a branch of sociology. There might be other sociology projects that might be interested in this topic. 67.198.37.16 ( talk) 01:18, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
A pie is usually modeled as the 1-dimensional interval [0,2π] (or [0,1]), in which the two endpoints are identified.
If the valuations of the partners are absolutely continuous with respect to each other, then there exists a WPR division which is also weighted-envy-free (WEF) and Pareto efficient (PE), and the ratio between the values of the partners is exactly w1/w2.[reference omitted]
Proof. For every angle t, let be the angle in which the ratio
The function is a continuous function of t that achieves a maximum for some . Cut the pie with radial cuts at and , giving the piece to partner #1 and the complement to partner #2. The partition is WEF because the value of each partner is exactly his due share. It is PE because the share of partner #1 is maximized, so it is not possible to give more to partner #2 without harming partner #1.
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Not going to happen though, even though I'm sure it would be a hoot. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 03:07, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I only created this account to speak with administrator. I want to appeal my suspended account but I don’t remember the password of it. What can I do? How can I appeal? Korem637 ( talk) 13:08, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
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In this instance, there is a Talk page discussion but it hasn't been active since it was started nearly four years ago. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:14, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Someone is currently edit warring at the page to which I linked above. Their comments on the talk page were removed once by one editor, then repeatedly reverted by the editor who posted it. I have rolled them back multiple times but haven't had time to post a warning because the user keeps restoring the problematic comments. The editor in question threatened to report me when I threatened to report them. Would you look that situation over and take any necessary action? Since I am directly involved, I don't want to take this any further myself. Sorry to bother you on Thanksgiving weekend, but I could use your help. Thanks. User:Jgstokes ( talk)—We can disagree without becoming disagreeable. 06:46, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
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Good day, I'm reporting again a vandal who evaded previous blocks, his IP code now is 151.48.176.41 and he's using it for the same kind of vandalisms as a few months ago. 151.82.63.18 ( talk) 15:50, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, just letting you know about the COI edits here. The most recent one specified that they're editing on behalf of the subject; the others removing content presumably have been as well. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 21:25, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello. I am having another issue similar to the one I last reported. On the page noted above, someone keeps adding unsourced information. I've asked them repeatedly to provide a source or leave the page alone, but they aren't listening. Would you be able to look this over and take any action on this since I am directly involved? Thanks. User:Jgstokes ( talk)—We can disagree without becoming disagreeable. 18:56, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
The 114.130.156.183 you blocked has already returned to push the same wrongheaded edits (unsourced claims, link mangling, improper punctuation) that have been reverted many times at Domestication of vertebrates; now they're at 114.130.156.11. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:26, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
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I saw that you blocked a editor for edit-warring [258] before and hoped you would help mediate in a similar dispute related to the editor.
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I was made aware recently that I could not edit anything on Israel/Palestine, but Russia seems to be unrelated to that. Even if editing is not allowed in certain cases, I would expect that, as part of the editing discussion process, editors should remain open to communication and not simply dismiss new editors. I'm really not sure what to do here, as the discussion seems unlikely to be productive now.
I would really appreciate some help as I'm quite new here. I've also had a difficult week on Wikipedia, so would hope to avoid any further drama. Marwanaircalm ( talk) 17:12, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
Merged into one large section after Dynasty Power was blocked as a sockpuppet and Montigliani was unblocked. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 13:34, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree. I expect you to take action against this. They won't stop despite your warnings. CCing WikiDan61, who first intervened. Dynasty Power ( talk) 13:28, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
I just saw you blocked him User talk:SportsGreece as my puppet!!! I have no words. You know what I'm starting to believe? ; So I think you are playing his game just fine Dynasty Power. It's sad for a manager. I think you don't deserve the position. Thank you for making fun of me. Finally, it goes without saying that I have nothing to do with him and you can check that. Montigliani ( talk) 19:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
See this https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Checkuser#Requests
But I don't know how to transfer it to Wikipedia:RFCU. If you have the kindness, help me at least now. Montigliani ( talk) 11:49, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Thank you very much . Your help and advice taught me a lot and you were the best teacher. I apologize for tiring you so much. With your permission, I need to remind you that puppet edits must be undone according to wiki policy. The article Super League Greece remains closed and I can't do it myself, so I ask you to either open it or do it yourself. Montigliani ( talk) 08:12, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
This does not mean that edits must be reverted). I sometimes let others decide whether something should be undone after I block a sockpuppet or witness such a block. This is the case here; you are welcome to revert them of course (and already have done so, thanks).
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I noticed that you remove my arbitration case requested. I also see that the reason for the removal was violation of which I disagree. I did not violate any of the. I hope you can give me a real detailed reason for my removal as soon as possible as I feel that it was unjust. Thank you. LegendaryChristopher ( talk) 23:35, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
I request that you reverse the speedly deletion of my user talk page. LegendaryChristopher ( talk) 00:01, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello To.Be.Frei,
I came to your user page just to get better acquainted with you and to give you my congratulations on the ArbCom election. Congratulations!
I did notice something on your user page that interested me. Are you any relation to World B. Free? Now that would be quite an honor! (even if his first name at birth was Lloyd).
Sincerely,
Smallbones( smalltalk) 17:39, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree,
I was hoping you could take a look at the Battle of Kosovo article where edit warring between another editor and me is happening. The other editor is reverting based on WP:CON and WP:DEADHORSE, which is a misuse of policies—similar to the reason you once blocked me. I've genuinely tried to cooperate with this editor, explaining how the edit doesn't violate any guidelines, but my contributions have been completely shut down. I've also previously suggested that if the editor has issues with specific parts of my edit, it would be better to address those instead of completely reverting everything. This is no longer a content dispute; it's becoming extensive stonewalling. If you could take a look, it would be a great help. Thanks. --Azor ( talk). 13:48, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
The responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content.This is something that this user has failed to do for a variety of edits across a number of articles, and they have instead resorted to trying to push through particular edits by constantly edit-warring over the same things for no apparent reason. Most of the time, they will make edits and keep trying to draw me and other editors into the same conversations over and over again with the same results. I apologise for my phrasing here, but a lot of the time, their contributions on the TP are paragraphs of nonsense, resulting in a deadlock where the conversations continue to circle around again and again with no consensus for whatever edits they try to make. WP:DEADHORSE exists for this very reason, but they just keep bringing the same things up for months on end. Battle of Kosovo isn’t the only article where AzorzaI adopted an approach of cyclical and monthly edit-warring in which they bring almost zero sources of their own to the table - Andrea II Muzaka and Voisava Kastrioti come to mind. On the Battle of Vajkal, they intervened on the TP to push an ahistorical narrative that has no backing by any sources anywhere whatsoever (so it would seem to be an intervention carried out more so to spite me, rather than to intervene in good-faith). I’ve had my fair share of disputes across a number of articles and with a variety of editors as that is the volatile nature of the Balkan topic area, but unlike my disputes with AzorzaI, they come to natural conclusions which are typically accepted and upheld by those I am engaged in disputes with.
Would you have another look at User: Regulartrongdd's edits? They seem to be creating a lot of new redirect pages for what looks like every song they can think of since being blocked from editing category pages a few days ago, and their three one line drafts they sent to AFC don't instill much confidence in their editing or their editing goals here. Zinnober9 ( talk) 19:20, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
While exploring the Wikipedia article on 2019 Balakot airstrike, I noticed a link to Open source satellites. However, upon reviewing the Satellite article, I couldn't locate any specific section related to "Open source satellites." If it's not too much trouble, could you kindly check and, if necessary, update the link for accuracy? King Ayan Das ( talk) 08:13, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
[[Satellite#Open source satellites|Open source satellites]]
by Open source [[satellite]]s
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Thank you for stepping up to serve on the arbitration committee. Could I respectfully suggest that some of your comments on Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case could be problematic, as you appear to be stating findings before even the case is open. For example "correct – you have not been wheel warring", "you used your administrative tools to undelete it. Do you see the problem", etc. Such findings would arise in a case after hearing detailed evidence and analysis. The purpose of that page is to decide if there is a case to answer, not to hold the case itself. (I know lots of arbs do similar things!) Thanks again — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:59, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
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Greetings. I have reverted your deletion of material placed on my Talk page. In the future I’d appreciate you not doing that. Thanks, Jusdafax ( talk) 23:16, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Asking you because I see your name at page sanctions for the Russia/Ukraine topic area, provisions I have just noticed, and requiring extended-confirmed would definitely benefit whoever closes Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gonzalo Lira (5th nomination)...Is this RfPP? I would appreciate some guidance if possible. Thank you Elinruby ( talk) 18:00, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you very much. I really appreciate it both the information and tbe protection. Elinruby ( talk) 19:39, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
For last 7 days, this editor keeps edit warring to incite a new edit war on Shambuka [282] [283] [284] while falsely describing other's edits a "vandalism", [285] (also see grave-dancing in edit summary) and also assume bad-faith by referring to the opposing stance as " brahminical superiority". [286] This is all when he is warned over this very article since 2020 to this year. [287] ArvindPalaskar ( talk) 14:01, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, I had a lot of trouble to find Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1132#Disruptive editing by Yae4 on elive article and others. The section doesn't show up in ANI search results when searching for "Yae4" (although the archived page itself has two sections on Yae4). The Special:Log/Block reason for Yae4's CBAN links to a WP:ANI revision Special:Permalink/1163489790#Community_ban_proposal, which has been unfortunately suppressed for unrelated reasons (HazaraHistorian discussion on that page, suppressed from 22:36, 4 July 2023, to 10:57, 9 July 2023). Question: Is it possible for you to re-apply Yae4's block with a new link to archived and non-supressed Special:Permalink/1189736348#Community ban proposal for the CBAN discussion, for transparency, so that editors (and unrelated admins) can better understand why he was blocked and what the CBAN consensus was? 84.250.15.152 ( talk) 13:17, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey, just wanted to let you know that two IPs registered to the United States House of Representatives and a third from the same general area have been continually removing the same reliably sourced content from Adriano Espaillat over the past two weeks. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:04, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Can you delete their edit summaries ( [291] [292] [293] [294] [295] [296] [297] [298] [299]), because 183.171.0.0/16 has been unblocked after it clarified that they have been used by different person (the quote has mentioned at User_talk:EvergreenFir#Malaysian_IP_rangeblock). 2001:D08:2940:4340:17AD:534E:6FDF:877D ( talk) 15:57, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hey, thought you'd like to know that I just removed some Sovereign Citizen-style nonsense from Talk:Vernon Coleman as WP:NOTFORUM. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 13:46, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
I don't know what's happening with this article but there appears to be WP:BLP issues. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:43, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi! You blocked T-Series3 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) just now (thanks!). There's more sleepers in this pattern: T-Series4, T-Series5, T-Series6, T-Series7, T-Series8, and T-Series9. Any chance of nuking them before they strike? 81.187.192.168 ( talk) 17:35, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hi ToBeFree, I figured The Macbook Air User ( talk · contribs) wasn't new--given the editing here [312], is it possible they're not StarryNightSky11 ( talk · contribs)? It's so helpful when they leave clues. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 22:40, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi.
A while back, you had commented on my use on the term 'appeals' to discuss concerns raised regarding rollbacks/undos from
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After 3 weeks of this edit to the disputed content, all discussion died and the page got stable. However, Redtigerxyz has resumed his edit war without gaining consensus. [314] He has been edit warring in a similar disruptive manner for months. [315] [316] [317] [318] He is evidently aware of every block and its circumstances with regards to this page per this thread. ArvindPalaskar ( talk) 15:20, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, you partial-blocked this user some time ago at Battle of Kosovo for three months. Now they have joined an edit-war at Lynkestis and are making really snide comments against another user: As a side note, I don't know what kind of children's books Alexikoua is reading. None of the books I read as a child were all about domination.... The part about the "children's books" is way over the line if you ask me. Khirurg ( talk) 00:32, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
I do not follow you around. I have had this tp on my watchlist since I posted here some time ago. Not surprising though since you consider me an "enemy" [332]. As for the rest, no admin would sanction someone for such comments; at least they are not worse than your patronising tone there. Cheers, Ktrimi991 ( talk) 02:39, 14 February 2024 (UTC)Nice to see you still follow me around
... behaving in a childish manner. [335] (you can ignore the first part of the comment, Alexikoua seemed determined to accuse me of writing puffery language that I actually had nothing to do with...)
What would have been the best practice to have dealt with the Aegean Sea dispute, given I was stripped of rollback for using it too aggressively there. Asking for future reference. Will120 ( talk) 21:26, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
[[WP:V|unsourced]]
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is sufficient). It should come with a notification on the user's talk page – something more specific than the
uw-vandalism1 that was originally left. You used the "unsourced" warning series afterwards, which is generally a good choice for dealing with editors who silently fail to provide explanations and sources for their edits. However, the user clearly tried to engage in a discussion with you through edit summaries, so creating a talk page section and inviting them there would have been perfect.Hey again, I really appreciate admins that are willing to walk back an action. I've had rollback for quite some time now and have made way too many reverts using it. I know when I first got it I probably made mistakes after first getting the perm. I didn't have the goal of getting the above editors perm restored, but I did just want you to be aware that it was likely block evasion. I don't think I'll ever want the mop personally but if I ever become an admin I hope I can at least be willing to reverse an action with as much courtesy as you did. Making mistakes is never fun, right? Philipnelson99 ( talk) 22:44, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I just blocked Sally-yates-21 for disruption. I suspect they are a sock of the above farm. I noticed that you've done a lot of the checks and blocks in that case, so I thought I'd ask you to check. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 21:00, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
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Greetings ToBeFree, I hope you are doing well. I'm puzzled, and I need your advice on the boundaries of my topic ban. I was reading though an article, and while reading, I noted missing citations here and there; subsequently, I made a few edits. Then I realized that this article contains mentions of Azerbaijan and Armenia, and although my edits did not touch those parts, I am still not sure—do those edits fall outside the boundaries of my topic ban? or am I not allowed to edit that article, which is not about Armenia or Azerbaijan but mentions them? Thank you! A b r v a g l ( PingMe) 16:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi dear friend! Thanks for the heads up on the registered email that is used on my old account brother!!! I wanted to send you a message on libera, but I think you have disabled private chats :'(
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Do you mind explaining [348]. At no point have I attempted to resolve this other than on a user talk page, not sure what you are referring to here. 184.152.68.190 ( talk) 19:28, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
I was trying to catch up on things at least a little, and I noticed there's a thread on VPP on the very same topic. Glad to see we aren't the only ones trying to figure this out. 184.152.68.190 ( talk) 00:22, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Tobi, I was going to email you but didn't want to spam you so I thought I could ask here. Remember of the 500/30 restriction I had, and the whole being locked out of my account and having to need to use Elijahtree etc. I thought I it wasn't against the rules to use my sandbox to test edits, since nothing was mentioned on the
BADSAND page when I checked before going ahead and making random edits on the page. I literally called every edit "Random edit x" so I wasn't trying to obfuscate anything. Further seeing that I already have quiet a few edits on my other account and ip address, I was almost certain this should be fine. Apparently there is another rule which affects sandbox and I was reported for
WP:GAME. I mean even though it says edits are considered gaming the system when 'An editor makes many unconstructive edits in a sandbox to become extended confirmed, and then makes controversial changes to extended confirmed protected articles', I purposefully did not add the controversial conflict topic, since I don't really think it is necessary anymore, and if I did I would have called for a census between us three editors in disagreement.
Alas even with everything I explained, the mods all unanimously sided against me and removed my status indefinetly. I mean i dont know what to do, the least they could have done was remove the edits, even though it wasn't mentioned under WP:BADSAND but whatever, instead they revoke indefinetly? I was just reaching out regarding potentially anything I can do? I do not want to open an arbritration case since the person who reported me, although kept an eye on my edits, seemed to be nice. I don't understand why the mods are so discriminatory and favoritize against me everytime, like look through my edits Tobi, I was being extremely careful to follow the rules and keep the other editors in consensus, yet there still is an issue and side against me. He said to message them when I get 500 edits, but I know they will not respond. I asked for a checkuser I think 2 or 3 times now and nothing. Yet when someone reports me, they are on it asap. It feels to exclusionary, even when I am making fair, resourceful edits. Sorry for the long message, just wanted to ask you if you had any ideas? thanks :) ~ Mohamed 18:33, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hey ToBeFree,
I hope you don't mind if I continue the discussion on your talk page. I feel it has ventured a little bit away from the clerical and into the personal, plus I feel there's a bit more space to expand on certain things here.
The purpose of my continuing this on your talk page isn't so much to change the decision as it is to address some of the concerns on my end with your replies. To provide clarification, seek clarification and to see if we can at least have some mutual understanding, regardless of if we end up agreeing on certain points. Nevertheless, here and there, I'll make some points of a clerical nature.
It's a bit long, so I've made sections for ease of reading. On a similar note: while I'll, of course, try to avoid any misunderstandings, due to it being a rather long comment I might not be able to achieve this, so I hope I can count on a generous intepretation from your side.
You made some good points in your reply, but I feel that I failed to get across what I was trying to say. I'll quote the relevant parts as I reply to them.
My request made no secret of my main motivation for submitting the request. I put it front and center in no uncertain terms at the beginning of my request:
Mainly asking to be able to continue to reply on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Josh_Cahill after it received a much needed ECP[…]
— User:ConcurrentState 02:23, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
The context here, which I perhaps should've included in the request itself (although it remains questionable if it would've mattered at all, with the way RFP/ECs are currently handled, but that's perhaps a topic more suitable in a policy discussion), is that this is an AfD pertaining to an article that has been overrun with sockpuppetry and other shenanigans.
I was part of the initial efforts to deal with those shenanigans, I initiated efforts to get the involvement of the rest of the community, I participated in the SPI that followed, and in the AfD in question. I was even subject to, whatever this was on my talk page, which I believe you supressed.
All of that is to say that I don't think it is unreasonable for me to participate in the AfD in question. Especially considering the fact that people made comments that directly relate to my contributions to the discussion.
Because the shenanigans continued even on the AfD, @ Vanamonde93 put ECP on the AfD. To be clear: I don't fault them for that. In fact, I welcome it because I also think it was much needed to curb the disruptiveness of the person/people involved, to maintain the integrity of the discussion, and I can't think of a lesser way in which to achieve all that considering WP:SEMI and WP:PCPP didn't do much to curb the disruptions on the article of topic in that AfD.
This did put me in a little of a bind, though, because I don't have 30/500 so I am not able to reply to comments addressed at me or my comments in the AfD, and it causes a bit of the privilege issues the ECP guidelines talk about:
nor should it be used to privilege extended confirmed users over unregistered/new users in valid content disputes
— WP:ECP
Initially I didn't think that it was that big of a deal, because we have WP:ER for that, so I created one. But it turns out that people don't dare to touch it and as a result, it's been collecting dust, which isn't exactly desirable in a rather dynamic and short-lived process such as AfD.
I can only presume @ Some1 (and perhaps others) noticed this, because they soon after suggested I should request EC, and while I didn't have high hopes, I nevertheless put in my request, as you know, under the adage that it can't hurt to ask.
While all of this context wasn't provided in the request itself, the main motivation was provided. Nevertheless, at no point in your replies did you acknowledge this main motivation, nor did you address it.
Your initial reply starts off focusing on the vanishing, suggesting that this is the most important motivation for your decision.
Hello ConcurrentState, if you really mean "vanished" as described at Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing, I'm afraid that should ideally be undone as you have returned to editing.
— User:ToBeFree 18:11, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
The real problem, however, is that the matter of "to undo, or to not undo" seems to be an entirely separate matter that, to my knowledge anyways, has no bearing on granting EC, nor am I sure if that matter merits discussion in public on WP:RFP/EC.
The consequence of doing so and in the manner which you did, while I'm sure is unintended, makes it seem to the rest of the community that I'm doing something inappropriate, if only because of your standing within the community as a member of ArbCom.
This seems an especially harsh consequence, considering I went out of my way to disclose my return to ArbCom via WP:EMAIL with ample context specifically to avoid situations like this. This is also, in part, why I mentioned my disclosure in the request to begin with, and I think a reply to my email would've been the most opportune way of addressing the matter of undoing the vanishing if that matter was of paramount import to you.
Still, I can't help but wonder how important it really is to you and the rest of ArbCom when, as of this writing, I haven't even received so much as an acknowledgment of my disclosure via email, much less an attempt to broach the subject.
In your follow-up reply, you bring up a pretty good point about me mentioning the vanishing in my request:
Hello ConcurrentState, I've since had a look at the disclosure, but I can only address what is publicly written here on this page. In response to the public description of a vanishing that should probably be undone, I stated that the vanishing should probably be undone. It was you who brought up the topic as an argument for receiving a permission, and it seems legitimate to respond with at least a short clarification that vanishing is not really meant for this purpose
— User:ToBeFree 0:39, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
As stated above, part of the reason for me mentioning it in the first place was to avoid issues such as those described above. However, another reason for me mentioning it is because the the WP:RFP/EC process pretty much solicits information like that, because it is made clear that EC requests are almost always guaranteed to be a WP:SNOW unless a different account is part of the equation:
Unless you are requesting confirmation for a legitimate alternate account your request will almost certainly be denied.
— WP:RFP/EC
And a lesser reason was to refer to a history of good behavior.
Keep in mind, that this was a relatively minor part of the request itself, I didn't make it part of the main argument nor link it to the lesser translation argument. It was a separate clause, detached from the main arguments, at the end of the request, to convey a piece of information of lesser importance as you can see (emphasis mine):
Mainly asking to be able to continue to reply on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Josh_Cahill after it received a much needed ECP and to use the Content Translation tool to translate articles from nlwiki. It goes without saying that I wouldn't abuse it if I were to be granted the right. Alternatively, a temporary right would also be useful. I'm a reborn Wikipedian and have disclosed my prior vanished account to ArbCom. The old account was in good standing on both enwiki(11 edits) and nlwiki(~800 edits).
— User:ConcurrentState 02:23, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
Still, while yes, I brought it up for the three reasons mentioned above, I don't think it merits going over the vanishing policy. Even setting aside the way it looks and my motivations for mentioning it in the first place, as I touched upon above, given the minor role it played in the request and the lack of follow-through on your end (I will touch upon further a bit later), I don't see what it adds to the RFP/EC conversation.
In your follow-up reply, you continue with:
I personally am not granting the permission because of the concerns I described above – and I (think I) have to explain this instead of simply saying "Not done". I understand that the explanation is easily perceived as biting, and that a small amount of not assuming good faith is part of it.
— User:ToBeFree 0:39, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
I'm not sure if the part about having to explain decisions was meant to relate back to the matter of the vanishing, but if it was, I don't see how the two are related. Your comments don't seem to indicate that the vanishing policy motivated your decision other than starting off your decision with an emphasis on the policy. Rather your motivation seems to focus on the matter of me mentioning the translation tool.
Nevertheless, the whole matter of the vanishing is left in a weird place. You bring up the policy with the optical consequences I described above, and you further reiterate your interpretation of the policy in the follow-up reply, but there is no follow-through, even after explicitly inviting you to follow through:
Still, since you brought it up, I'm not opposed to undoing it and merging the two accounts, since it would eliminate some of the issues I've so far encountered. Perhaps we could even roll my name change request into it as well and get it all done in one fell swoop.
— User:ConcurrentState 19:36, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
You said you could only address what was publicly written on the page. Why not address it in a reply to my disclosure email, or address the disclosure itself via email, for that matter?
Respectfully, you a rather big deal out of needing to undo the vanishing, but then you leave me hanging. I haven't heard from ArbCom in general about my disclosure, and I haven't heard from you directly about what needs to be done and how to get it done. As it stands now, you essentially publicly gave me the Mark of Cain and then went on with your merry way.
Again, I don't think this was necessarily intended, or there is bad faith at play here, but I'm a bit puzzled by this all because it's hard to gauge your motivation behind it all.
Apparently it's important enough to draw attention to it in public, but not important enough to actually resolve the matter?
Lastly, before moving onto the matter of the language tool and me using it as an argument, I think it might be important to express my views on the policy and clarify my wishes.
I genuinely don't have a good grasp on the policy of undoing a vanishing. Both enwiki and metawiki only make very vague, non-committed, minor reference to undoing vanishings.
enwiki states:
If the user returns, the "vanishing" will likely be fully reversed, the old and new accounts will be linked, and any outstanding sanctions or restrictions will be resumed. […] If you make a request to vanish, and then start over with a new account, and are then discovered, the vanishing procedure may be reversed, and your old and new accounts may be linked.
— WP:RTV
Words like "likely" and "may" don't clearly indicate a certain outcome. Also, does the second clause quoted above only apply when an editor is discovered? What if they, like I did, disclose it? Honestly, the overall tone in WP:RTV seems to be talking about people who essentially "fake vanish" only to immediately return with a different account, because some of the language sounds weird when applied to situations in which editors have left years prior with the intent of not returning, like I have.
metawiki isn't much clearer on this:
Even if vanish is intended to be permanent, it may still be reversed.
— meta:RTV
It's the same vague "may."
None of this explains when it will be reversed. Clearly it's not in all cases otherwise stronger language would've been used, no?
Also who is the final arbiter of this. Is it enwiki because I'm here now with a new account with enwiki as my home wiki? Is it metawiki because they do global renames and everything tied to global accounts or is nlwiki, which is the home wiki of the old vanished account?
In my disclosure to ArbCom, prior to the RFP/EC, I expressed the wish to essentially do a clean start because the old vanished account was made when I was underage and I'm fairly sure I've inadvertently outed myself back in the day, plus I'm a different person now that lives entirely elsewhere in the world. So, all in all, at the time, I preferred the prospect of starting clean and with privacy.
Since then, however, I've noticed the downsides of starting new, down to other editors being, rightfully, confused about my experience and knowledge of wiki policies. Which is why in the RFP/EC I indicated that I'm also open to reversing the vanish and merging stuff.
It seems that I have no clear preference either way, and I need to defer to you and others at ArbCom on what needs to happen and how the policies regarding this work. That said, I would appreciate it if could be actively involved in whatever needs to be done, so that I end up in a situation that I can work with and can ask help with setting everything up in the right way if needed.
As stated above, in my initial request and my follow-up reply, my main motivation for the request wasn't the Content Translation tool. I've never made that a secret and I've in fact admitted to not knowing of its existence prior to seeing the other request while I was submitting my request.
Your follow-up reply suggests that I was unable to convey my main concern regarding your remarks.
Specifically, you said:
As I have expected and you have confirmed, the idea of integrating the Content Translation tool into the permission request came from LuCKY's request and wasn't the reason why you opened this page. Even if this resulted in actual interest in also using the Content Translation tool, it clearly wasn't the reason for your request, so I decided not to take it into account too much.
— User:ToBeFree 0:39, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
Which seems to serve as a form of "gotcha" while entirely ignoring the context.
While you're right in that it wasn't the initial reason for opening the request, you never acknowledged the actual main reason I stated in my request, much less addressed it, not even in the follow-up reply. The result of this is that it feels like you're making it look like I'm doing something inappropriate, despite having clearly stated my main motivation. A similar effect to that of the whole part about vanishing.
Furthermore, I don't think it's unreasonable to realize during my request that EC comes with additional rights I can put to good use and to add that to my request. Especially considering the fact that it is a lesser known right tied to a lesser known tool.
Brushing that aside by "not tak[ing] it into account too much," as you stated, seems especially unwarranted considering that how I learn about a tool is less important than how I intend to use it and end up using it.
I've learned nearly 98% of what I know on Wikipedia by seeing others do it, even as I write this to you, I've looked up certain templates and policies and how they've been applied. That doesn't change the legitimacy of the use of those tools.
To insist that the only thing that matters is what my intention was before I opened the page is to insist I submit multiple requests simultaneously, one for each motivation up until the moment I opened the page.
What doesn't help either is questioning my commitment to using the tool to then completely ignore the parts in my follow-up that explain my commitment.
While I appreciate the advice on translating without the tool, it should go without saying that comparing the source with the translation side-by-side is invaluable because it allows you to keep an eye on the context of different paragraphs to make sure the translation makes sense. I'm currently doing this off-wiki by juggling windows side by side, so it's not the end of the world, but it's yet another hurdle on a long list of hurdles I've encountered since my return that grinds away at my motivation.
It wasn't lost on me that the whole vanishing matter is kind of like Schrödinger's vanishing. If one were to insist the vanishing needs to be reversed, then it would make sense to take into account the global edits of that account, if however one were to insist that only the edits on enwiki are relevant, then it doesn't make sense to insist the treatment of my current account and the vanished account as one and the same.
I know you only focused on the enwiki contributions in your replies, but it wasn't entirely clear to me why you disregarded the (old) nlwiki edits, especially when seemingly feeling rather strongly about reversing the vanishing. Both for the purpose of translation as well as for the purposes of the RFP/EC (adding up to 500), considering you did take into account global edits when deciding on other editors' requests.
I appreciate you clarifying what you are and aren't able to see as part of ArbCom, sadly it was my hope that you could, to further assess my commitment of using the translation tool for good purposes.
As alluded to elsewhere, since my return to Wikipedia, I've encountered a long list of hurdles that are grinding away at my motivation because they hinder my ability to contribute and participate as an editor.
The biggest one that affects every single move I make is the hard block policy on iCloud Private Relay, which prevents me from editing anything, including my own talk page, and it makes using scripts cumbersome. I'm not eligible for an IPBE, and wiki doesn't always properly detect when I've turned it off, so it's actively hindering me at every step along the way. But I'm working up proposals on both enwiki and metawiki to see if we might be able to mitigate some of that for me and other editors.
Other hurdles are, of course, the special protections and the lack of access to the Content Translation tool, but I'm not too concerned about those. At my pace, even while hampered by the hard block, 30/500 isn't too far away.
Your comments made me feel like I was being put on the spot and as if you're making it look like I'm doing something inappropriate, so it added to those hurdles.
I hope I was able to convey my respect towards you regardless of everything else, and I respectfully ask, in light of all of the above, that you strike out or reword some of your comments.
With kind regards, ConcurrentState ( talk) 21:38, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, I hesitate to bring this minor issue to ANI, so I wonder if you could help. Over the past few weeks, the IP 94.114.243.248 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been persistently adding to cryptography-related articles external links to programs that they say are "commented by Google AI". There is no indication of who wrote the program (AI or human) or what part of the comments are AI-written (the comments are in both English and German). All their edits have been reverted by 5 or 6 different editors, and they have multiple warnings on their talk page about these edits. Yesterday they created an account CryptoDiscussion ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and have continued adding these links. I left a message on the account's talk page explaining that Wikipedia:RSPCHATGPT says such links should not be added. They have ignored that message as they have ignored all other messages left for them, and have continued re-adding these links. Could you help to get their attention? Thanks! CodeTalker ( talk) 19:16, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
In reference to this report, it seems that the IPs that were involved in edit warring were actually 1 person who is evading his ban for months now. See [355]. Interestingly, the IP user himself confirmed his personal feud with Abhishek0831996 (the reported editor). [356] Perhaps this block evader's edits shall surface again on ANEW anytime soon so kindly keep this in mind. Thanks Ratnahastin ( talk) 04:04, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Greetings,
I wanted to ask for your experienced opinion about sockpuppets and reverting if this is alright.
For about two years now a certain sockmaster has been creating new accounts, often IP accounts, and brigading various Azerbaijan-Armenia related pages, and basically spamming edits. This is the link to the investigations Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Əzərbəyəniləri
I was wondering, what is the Wikipedia guideline on reverting the edits of a new, spam sock account? Is it generally accepted that all edits made by the sock should be reverted, or is it advised to consider the edits on a case-by-case basis?
It seems logical to me that reverting all the edits of a sock, regardless of whether they are of good quality, makes sense because that way the sockmaster is discouraged from creating new accounts continuously. This is especially the case given that as I said, this has been going on for two years now, and doesn't seem to end.
I wanted to ask you specifically because you were the person who blocked the original sockmaster back in 2021, when the case name was "ClassicYoghurt" Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ClassicYoghurt/Archive
Please share your thoughts on this, your opinion would be very appreciated. - Creffel ( talk) 00:22, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
I figure you should be the one blocking Mickey The Meat, so I haven't even reverted their edit.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:39, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
There are outing concerns so I will be vague but direct: the edits by Thmazing are within the scope of the COI concerns about Nihonjoe. They are directly related in a way which arbcon is surely already aware of but which hasn't yet been acknowledged on-wiki in such a way that we can talk openly about it (or at least until I feel comfortable doing so, I am rather paranoid about outing). Horse Eye's Back ( talk) 17:23, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hey, mind weighing in over here? Content is being removed by someone claiming to be an alumnus, therefore has no conflict of interest. Methinks they doth protest too much. Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:50, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey, just wanted to let you that someone claiming to be the wrestler has been editing here. It appears that he's not at all clear on how Wikipedia works. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:24, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
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Why delete valid information, when the statement made by nintendo never even actually named Palworld, but shut down a company no more than 5 days later? Seems kinda sus to me that you would do something like that. My sources are 100% valid, trolls just kept deleting it. Apparently they didnt like the link having %s in it, so i added 4 verifiable sources instead. Im not so sure how thats not valid when it was speculation that nintendo was going after pocketpair in the first place. Elinias1 ( talk) 21:08, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
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There is an editor who has been removing multiple sources statements on the SpaceX Starship Flight Tests. They are not auto-confirmed, and their editing is extremely disruptive.
If this is the wrong place to request article protection, then please let me know where I can put in a request to protect the article. Redacted II ( talk) 14:54, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hello dear friend. I would like to inform you that the famous puppet User:Dynasty Power is back with a new name: /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/EverLove124. Montigliani ( talk) 20:02, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
On the SpaceX Starship talk page, there was a discussion on whether IFT-3 was a success or failure.
The overwhelming consensus was success.
@ Redraiderengineer started an RfC on whether or not IFT-3 was a success or failure earlier today. Multiple editors (including myself) have questioned the need for the RfC.
Given than you were not involved in the previous debate, nor have you been involved in the RfC, can you close the RfC? Redacted II ( talk) 20:59, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey, looks like we have a couple more cases for that wellknown block here; one hasn't been active since their handful of posts a couple of years ago, though. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:38, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
I made this request /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/EverLove124 I would ask you with the experience you have in the matter to help the other administrators, if of course you don't mind. Thank you very much. Montigliani ( talk) 09:31, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
EverLove124 is clearly Dynasty Power based on their behavior in the Super League Greece article ( [376] [377], sock's first Wikipedia edit)
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Per El C's evidence, and in line with WP:ARBPOL, you are requested to recuse from the Conflict of interest management case.
Please see also this discussion on the evidence talk page, which explains why I am posting this request. BilledMammal ( talk) 05:02, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
one of the dozen arbs to speak on behalf of arbcom and let us know if they're going to do anything or not. While I explicitly didn't speak on behalf of the committee, I explained why the requested statement was unlikely to appear in the requested form at least from my perspective. The only alternative at that point would have been silence. There should ideally not be silence in response to such messages, although I'm sure uncountable examples exist of cases where silence was the response.
This is a community discussion to me unless WP:COI becomes policy and gains strict prohibitions that it currently lacks, which can be interpreted as you rejecting the evidence presented and saying there is no case for Nihonjoe to answer.
unnecessary dramaproves engaging these with you to be as pointless as I predicted, ToBeFree. El_C 20:52, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
One editor received a 48-hour block for edit warring two weeks ago and has yet to return to the page but this newly registered editor picked up where the other left off. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:25, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Dear Mr Fei,
How are you doing,
I really appreciate your efforts in improving articles in Wikipedia and appreciate your role as an administrator, as you must have observed Mr Saqib has been very unreasonable to me, he has been insulting me again and again which is against wikipedia WP:NPA policy, I forgot to write user edit he reported me to you and then he requested two articles for deletion and being very unreasonable and he has doing personal attacks. We are all here to contribute Wikipedia give our precious time to make this place a better place and do the research to improve each other and he also allege me for creating paid articles, which is truly unacceptable all I said we should take responsibility of each article we create as its our responsibility to continuously improving thus I keep improving my articles I give each day to improve my articles and if I get time I edit or improve or create new article.
Whatever he reported as per policy I improved but he has being very unreasonable and continuedly disrespecting please your kind action is required.
It seems as he toxic person should be reported even I tried to send message on his personal talk page to resolve the issue between us, I am very peaceful person I am here to improve quality of Wikipedia and improve articles in South Asian Region.
As per Wikipedia WP:DRR policy. I hope you will assist me I do not know him personally being from same country he suppose to be supportive and improve articles together, if you review his profile he has doing personal attacks to everyone in his contribution history its mostly these maters. WP:NPA
I hope you solve this issue and issue him warning to comply with policy. Waiting for your kind assistance. Faizan Munawar Varya chat contributions 11:01, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Encountered another uw-ublock-wellknown candidate here, apparently first edited as an IP then as the subject himself. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:56, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Greetings,
I created this SPI report sometime back and I just wanted to ask for your experienced opinion on it? I tried to make it as detailed as possible, but I have not received further opinion on this yet - Creffel ( talk) 02:54, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
hello tobe! I was wondering if you are able to remove the restriction you placed on Al-Daraji since the May 2024 deadline has passed :) I will avoid writing about contentious information on the article and just leave it to genealogy. Wiki-heIper ( talk) 22:35, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Dunki2024 blocked on 4 March 2024 at 11:24 by you. Pathaan2024 joined Wikipedia on same day 15:25 4 March 2024 couple of hours after Dunki2024 was blocked. Both users have same username pattern based on Bollywood movies Dunki and Pathaan. Both users made first edits on article Ghor Province. Significant article and edit overlap. These two are same. I have created a SPI for it. Dekhoaayadon ( talk) 21:28, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for this. Best wishes, El_C 18:13, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Dear Fei,
Thanks for kind assistance and reply regards to issue between me as you must have seen all his edits were against me thus can you please remove the invalid request and keep the articles which he has requested for deletion and warm him please edit with responsibility and as per policy and do read articles. I would like to kindly request in removal of deletion templates for Faysal Aziz Khan and Ovais Mangalwala. Faizan Munawar Varya chat contributions 20:32, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
ToBeFree, in a now archived discussion here, you said on 25 March that you would not recuse from the COI case. But it appears that on 6 March you recused when you created the Proposed decision page and its talk. Did you change your mind? Yngvadottir ( talk) 21:27, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed the comment you made and corrected my requesy. However, I was @ for @ Rydex64 review, was that by accident or for something else? Reaper1945 ( talk) 23:41, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Ramkripalyadvg Can you create a page and add it to Wikipedia You can get the material from here Draft:Ramkripalyadavge Muskang375 ( talk) 03:59, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
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I have responded to your seemingly arbitrary request/command in my talk page. Thanks. Thinker78 (talk) 19:18, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Not sure what's going on here but there is at least a WP:COI issue, if Wisc1999's claim of editing on behalf of Joe's family is true. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:23, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
2600:1003:b11a:4a88::/64 ( block range · block log ( global) · WHOIS (partial)) ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 23:44, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Just so you know, that's a duck for BadfingerFan69, who just had another duck blocked. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:39, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
I appreciate this post. But I don't understand why you found it necessary, or appropriate, to recuse from the arbitration case. Because Thinker wrote an irritating post to you in 2022? Really? Bishonen | tålk 17:38, 1 April 2024 (UTC).
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Just saw that you'd been elected to ArbCom! Good for you!! I know this is probably old news by now, but I think it's an excellent thing. Couldn't have happened to a better wikiadmin. Hope you don't hate (what I can only imagine is) the extra headache too soon :) — Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 22:17, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Noah, AA Talk 21:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hi there, do you remember this thread- [386]. It turns out my suspicions concerning Dekhoaayadon were correct as he was blocked a few days ago by Ponyo who conducted a CU check and confirmed that Dekhoaayadon was indeed a sock of HauhgtonBrit. I filed a SPI on Historian2325 if you're interested- [387]. Thanks. Southasianhistorian8 ( talk) 06:17, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
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... for thanking me for this (Interesting where it came from ...). Daniel Case ( talk) 19:41, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Please visit [394]. You had previously blocked Georgethedragonslayer in 2021. The person continues to create trouble by engaging in edit wars. 2409:4073:8F:A4CC:2087:509A:147C:D17A ( talk) 11:58, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi ToBeFree, hope you're doing well. Regarding [395], I have evidence of them creating a thread at Reddit after their block to ask for assistance. But from my understanding it is a violation of WP:OUTING if I post it here? Can I email you the link, or do you think I should take it to ArbCom? HistoryofIran ( talk) 17:01, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
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Sorry,
My bad on Connie Mulder, I was just looking at where and what they changed, and then looked at the whole sentence. Are you sure that is what the name is supposed to be?
Apologize again,
Myrealnamm ( 💬talk · ✏️contribs) at 00:00, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Could you please review history for Shōgun (novel)? Direct link: Shōgun (novel): Revision history - Wikipedia Myrealnamm ( 💬talk · ✏️contribs) at 00:10, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hi ToBeFree, I hope you're well. I am not sure if this is the right place to be doing this, but would it be possible for you to look over this short report thread [407] on the ANI and potentially action it based on your opinion? The user in question was already reported previously, but that report was sadly auto-archived [408] and by the looks of it, the current report will also be auto-archived. I don't quite understand why no one has looked at it or taken any action, especially when multiple editors from different topic backgrounds seem to take serious issue with the behaviour of the editor in question.
Again, I am not sure if this is the right place to do it, but you've shown yourself to be a capable and fair admin in the interactions I've had with you in the past, and I would hate to see this report go under the radar. The subject of this report really needs to be dealt with according to Wikipedia policies. Much appreciated! Botushali ( talk) 12:52, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
collaboratively improve the infobox…because you made the move without seeking consensus. In fact, you must’ve expected a negative reaction from me ahead of time, hence why you’ve followed me to ToBeFree’s TP without being tagged in it.
… arguing for "twelve RS supporting your standpoint"…That’s right - 12 reliable sources included in the article should have bearing on said article. I don’t see the issue with supporting something that is backed by a dozen reliable sources.
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I'm unable to determine who is behind 103.176.190.39 other than it belongs to an ISP in India but they've been making some questionable edits here. I've issued a WP:COI notice on their user talk. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 15:36, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Please see their talk page with blocks and their recent edits. And those edit summaries... Shearonink ( talk) 13:09, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I need some help with this. Due to the article Don Pramudwinai there is Vandalism by deleting the position of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs by IP. I tried to get him to stop making unconstructive edits. But there's no sign of stopping. Can you help with Protection? Preime TH ( talk) 13:45, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
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Hi ToBeFree!
I just wanted to ask you this question since you seem to be a Linux user, what distro do you use at home and what's your favourite?
Currently I'm on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 22H2; however, I am growing frustrated and tired of modern-day Microsoft Windows and am looking to learn and switch to Linux as my main OS some time in the near distant future. I hope to start contributing to Wikipedia from there one day.
Note, this is not a request for help or anything, just wondering what distro you use, that's all! I'm probably going to start with using Linux Mint and go from there. — AP 499D25 (talk) 14:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
apt
on the command line or using synaptic
as a universal graphical tool that works on all Debian-based distributions.Hi, it is regarding this edit. Do you think it is CoI? I noticed this warning in the user's t/p. Please have a look. Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk ( talk) 11:18, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
But if you look at the talk page the consensus is yet to be found. It only has two 3POs so far, and one of them suggests keeping the section while shrinking the content. Do you think the edit was fair? PotatoCyborg ( talk) 12:11, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi, a few months ago you banned user "StarryNightSky11". I've opened an investigation ( Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/StarryNightSky11) as I'm certain he now uses a sock account. Can you please look into this? Thanks, Eem dik doun in toene ( talk) 08:34, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
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I know you're really busy, but please take a look at this discussion. I've changed my userboxes a couple days ago so some of the stuff there aren't the same anymore, but still. Is this showing respect to other editors and showing that they are here to build an encyclopedia? Thx.
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No further positive purpose will be achieved from my interacting with this editor. Thank you for your guidance. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 21:49, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
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To my knowledge, Open heaven reflection's now-deleted userpage promotes a religious organization, which by search engine can be verified as real and active. I assumed that the account was promoting the organization with that webpage. I have not been informed by anything related to this user prior to encountering them on Wikipedia or outside Wikipedia besides my websearch. Air on White ( talk) 22:52, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi there. I have alerted User:Dmytrootamanenko two times on their talk page about the editing restriction due to WP:RUSUKR. One of the edits they made was particularly disruptive. When they continued to make edits in the topic area, I raised this on WP:ANI but no one was interested in taking action and this was left to be archived. They also never responded. Following this, they have continued to make edits explicitly about the war such as this. What is the best way to approach this and other similar situations in the future? Thanks. Mellk ( talk) 18:07, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
{{subst:Gs/alert|rusukr}} ~~~~
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Not sure what's going on here but there appears to be ongoing BLP issues for the past seven weeks. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:44, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
There appears to be whitewashing happening here. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:09, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
For some reason the block was missing. Fixed. Cheers! -- Alexf (talk) 12:42, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
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Obvious socks are expensive. People should be encouraged to report ducks to AIV, which I have definitely been doing of late. Izno ( talk) 23:48, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Reports of sockpuppetry should be made at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations unless the connection between the accounts is obvious and disruption is recent and ongoing.~ ToBeFree ( talk) 00:28, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
Maybe 2001:8003:47a2:d301::/64 has a point and that content is WP:UNDUE, I don't know. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 13:36, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
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Hi there, I trust you're doing well. I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at this report as a CheckUser when you have the time. The reported account is quite active. If my report has merit, which has often been the case in the past, the amount of scrutiny and work they require is increasing day by day as they are editing almost every day. The report has been waiting along for about three weeks, and I thought reaching out to active CUs would help as this is a typical WP:LTA. Thank you, Aintabli ( talk) 03:30, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, I know you take WP:BLP seriously, so would you mind looking into the report I created on WP:AN/I about Fastcar4924539 ( talk · contribs)? This editor shows little to no regard to the policy despite being told numerous times about it, I was hoping it would be dealt with posting on the board, but no administrator has even commented, so I thought I would see if you can do anything/have input on how to deal with such things. Thank you. TylerBurden ( talk) 22:26, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
IP, currently blocked, is claiming to be the subject. Thought you'd like to know. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:19, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
I don't know what's going on with this KnoweldgeSeeker but it's certainly not appropriate. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:17, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Hey ToBefree.
How are you? Hope you have been well.
Here we go again, one year after you solve the problem of sockpuppetry on Baruch Spinoza article, it seems the problem is affecting th article again. Here’s my full report:
Nico Gombert /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Nico_Gombert
Account created on May 16, 2024 at 23:59.
He is currently edit warring to change a stable version of Baruch Spinoza page, making a point to describe him as a “Dutch philosopher”, a matter that disrupted this wikipedia page many times in the past because he was born in Holland as a refugee, his family had to leave Portugal due inquisition. Amsterdam hosted many Jews at the time, when they were persecuted everywhere else in Europe. But they were refugees, not citizens. So, since this is a matter with no consensus, Spinoza description on Wikipedia was made without claiming any nationality just to avoid unnecessary potential disruptions.
1 year ago though, a Dutch user Awater01 started disrupting the article, edit warring, saying it was unacceptable that the article was not claiming his nationality. Other editors explained this was unnecessary because there is no consensus about it and not claiming any nationality was the most impartial way to go. He carried on edit warring and due to 3 reversion rule he created other accounts, all of them doing the same edition. It turned out he had 4 accounts/sock puppets (see here /info/en/?search=Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Cornelis_Dopper)
Now we have new sock puppets with same behavior doing the very same edition/reversion for the first time since those other sock puppets were banned:
Nico Gombert /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Nico_Gombert
created his account on May 16, 2024 at 23:59.
He is certainly a sock puppet of GoneWithThePuffery.
GoneWithThePuffery ( /info/en/?search=User_talk:GoneWithThePuffery): Joint February 18, 2024, and was banned on May 15, 2024 for persistently making disruptive editions. His final edit warring was in Baruch Spinoza article, doing the same thing Nico Gombert is doing: trying to claim his nationality, even though there is an waring in article text saying “Not put Dutch here”.
Interesting point is that this user, who is now banned had already been denounced as a sock puppet, but it seems there was no clear evidence at that time, so he was allowed to carry on editing. (here is the discussionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=1223997015#GoneWithThePuffery).
So it seems both Nico Gombert and GoneWithThePuffery are the same person. However, given that GoneWithThePuffery account was created recently and his behaviour was really similar to a sock puppet, I decided to do by myself further investigations that took some weeks. After a deep analysis on GoneWithThePuffery former edits, I found out a Dutch nationalist/patriot who basically dedicates his editions almost entirely to Dutch subjects on Wikipedia. The user is DavidDijkgraaf, he has an account fairly old, was created in 2020.
On May 15, 2024 DavidDijkgraaf was the first one to start the disruption on the page, by claiming a Dutch nationality for Spinoza. A couple of hours later GoneWithThePuffery keeps making another string of other disruptions and edit warring. This ended up leading GoneWithThePuffery to be banned.
So I decided to wait to see a further evidence that DavidDijkgraaf was in fact the head account operating those sock puppets. A further evidence came up few days later, when DavidDijkgraaf started searching for information on how a sock puppet can be caught. (see here https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Eastfarthingan&oldid=1227571489#Sockpuppets).
So I decided to make a trap to see if he would make the same edition on the Baruch Spinoza page if I reverted the article for the stable version. So I deleted “Dutch” (see Baruch Spinoza history - 13:52, 8 June 2024). Then the new user Nico Gombert came up and reverted it. (see 13:21, 12 June 2024). I was wondering what should I do, then I remembered that one of the main reasons why sock puppets are used is to avoid breaking the 3 reversions rules and to give the impression that there are more editors who agree with a certain edition. So I decided to revert Nico Gombert edit (see at 17:04, 12 June 2024) and then it happened what I was expecting: on the same day few minutes latter DavidDijkgraaf pops up and makes the same reversion Nico Gombert did few hours earlier ( see 18:17, 12 June 2024). To confirm what I had discovered I undid it again (see 01:32, 13 June 2024), logically if it follows the typical behavior of a sock puppet the next one to revert my edition should be Nico Gombert, and this exactly what happened (see 16:39, 13 June 2024). Then I friendly even tried to warn him not to carry on that behaviour, it didn’t work he acted the same way as when he was using GoneWithThePuffery account. So once I already caught him, I did not to revert his latest reversion. I think the better way is reporting what I found out and let you guys solve this issue. It is possible that DavidDijkgraaf have more sock puppets but you probably have better tools than I have to confirm this. PepGuardi ( talk) 08:23, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:47, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
Hey, I wanted to ask whether there is a way to check if a user is in the mentoring program. (I was just reading about that, and trying to find appropriate answers.) JackTheSecond ( talk) 20:44, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
~ ToBeFree ( talk) 22:04, 21 June 2024 (UTC)How can I display the mentor of a given user? / How do I add the mentor name to our welcome message?
Type the magic word
{{#mentor:Foo}}
in a wikitext page, and preview. "Foo" has to be replaced by the username you target. This will display the name of Foo's mentor.This magic word can be used in a template: welcome message, user talk page messages, userbox, etc.
If the mentor changes, then the magic word picks the new mentor's name.
You can "subst:" this message if needed:
{{subst:#mentor:Foo}}
. Foo's mentor will then be saved as wikitext.
— https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/FAQ#How_can_I_display_the_mentor_of_a_given_user?_/_How_do_I_add_the_mentor_name_to_our_welcome_message?
{{subst:#mentor:JackTheSecond}}
currently shows: ToBeFree{{subst:#mentor:ToBeFree}}
currently shows: Usedtobecool{{subst:#mentor:ToBeFree_(mobile)}}
currently shows: --- yeah, nothing. Okay, so this is the answer, but being "in the mentoring program" just means having used it at least once in your Wikipedia life.
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22:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)@ ToBeFree Involving admins can see these pages: Chavda (Rajput clan), Vaghela dynasty disrupted by a recently blocked @ Hashid Khan If we see history of the linked clan-page we'll find page was redirected to a more relatively location by @ Rosguill:. 223.123.13.104 ( talk) 223.123.13.104 ( talk) 20:53, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:30, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Quite a lot of activity here today, largely unsourced. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 19:36, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
Seems Khan is ducking that. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 13:00, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Hey, just wanted to let you know that someone claiming to be the subject has removed sourced information twice, under two different accounts. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 01:37, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Page is already protected but that doesn't seem to have helped much. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 13:46, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
I started a RFN discussion at WP:RFN#Dave Chappelle and the Dreamer but it doesn't seem to be getting any attention. Meanwhile, the editor is still making the same problematic edits, just elsewhere. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 04:42, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
The IP is already blocked but I wanted to give you a heads-up. I ran this through Google Translate:
– Skywatcher68 ( talk) 17:34, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:57, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
I tried simply reverting the IP who has been editing today but they're too quick for me. The article would still be a bit of a mess, anyway. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 20:40, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
You gave Marshyg notice on edit warring but the editor continues to do the same by reverting changes 3 times to his version on page List of highest-grossing Telugu films. He is rude in his description even after I posted on his talk page about the concern over the reliability of sources. Day before on June 29, he again reverted changes of other editor 3 times to his version. I do not see warning having any influence on him even though he has been warned 3 times on his talk page in June 2024. Need your intervention. RangersRus ( talk) 18:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
I don't know who this "Crystal Omimi" is but editing suggests a conflict of interest. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:05, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that it appears the subject has been editing about himself. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:51, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi! I wonder if you could take a look at 67.83.125.225 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). This user was reported to ANI by User:Waxworker for disruptive editing (persistent addition of unsourced, false and/or nonsensical content) on 1 July and was blocked for 31 hours by Robertsky. After the block expired, the user resumed the same type of edits. Waxworker and I reported this resumed activity on the ANI thread but it was archived without action. Also note my last addition to that thread, in which I present evidence that the same editor has been making these same kind of edits using other IP addresses for several years, and some of these alternate IPs have already been blocked for long periods (up to 3 years). I did send a note to robertsky yesterday but got no response. I hope that the current IP can be blocked for a longer period of time, as it's quite tedious to keep up with these disruptive edits. Thanks for your help! CodeTalker ( talk) 00:16, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
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I see you recently blocked that IP. Just so you know, they're likely evading a longer block. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 06:18, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:30, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
A blocked vandal that edits articles about Conan the Barbarian is back. I created a sockpuppet investigation three days ago, but so far no one has looked at it. He edited again today, but fortunately only a few pages.
Thank you for all the hard work you to do protect Wikipedia from vandals, by the way. LordKulgur ( talk) 19:15, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
Newly-registered editor Log6849129 appears to have a COI, taking an Instragram post at face value and removing content which contradicts the subject's claim. I've already reverted once. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 16:11, 10 July 2024 (UTC)