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Could I get some additional background on your block of ZillennialWriter - issued without a warning for an editor with appreciable productive edits, I didn't know if it was a belief that they were also an undisclosed paid editor or if there was a recurring serious issue I've missed in my initial glance at their edits. Obviously I'm aware of the red flags that led to GN's question route, but the formal block didn't appear to really fall on that basis afaict. Nosebagbear ( talk) 01:29, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi Blablubbs, you recently blocked Thesixserra for sockpuppetry. They nominated an article for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roshni Kapoor. Per WP:SK#4, the deletion debate can be speedy kept if the nominator is a sockpuppet of a blocked user, but I can't tell if that's the case because the userpage was not tagged to indicate whether Thesixserra was evading the block of a previous account. Could you please clarify? ✗ plicit 05:14, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, looks like you were the last CU to run a check at SPI. What do you think of 21lf1Md315HfEOS3312 (now there's a mouthful)? There are an awful lot of similarities, that mixture of Filipino stuff and California stuff. OTOH, although there are an awful lot of socks to plow through, the username seems an unusual choice for this master.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:53, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
Somehow with all the work you did (thanks), the Winbytedemo doesn't have the usual notice on it pointing to Nestofbirdnests.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:50, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, I have a general CUer question. I just noticed that you recently blocked Riverbend21 who had been active in patrolling. Is there a reason why no sockmaster was identified in their block notice and on the User page? It can be helpful for other editors to recognize future sockpuppets should they be created and I'm not sure why this information would not be disclosed. I don't see it as DENY, I see it as useful data for others working on the project. Thanks for any perspective you can provide. Liz Read! Talk! 02:22, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi can you remove rollback and Pending changes reviewers rights right from Riverbend21 because they are blocked. DarkHorseMayhem ( talk) 00:50, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for blocking User:Bateros, everything about the account screamed sock but I had no basis for opening an SPI. Mztourist ( talk) 05:31, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
Blablubbs, can you identify the sockmaster of أسامة بن عبد الله وليد ? Would help detect future socks and also determine whether a couple of articles they created are G5 elegible. Cheers. Abecedare ( talk) 17:36, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Blablubbs, sorry to bother but I have a question I'm hoping you could help me with; I don't want to take it to ANI or SPI at least not yet. I found your name on the recently-active admins list, and I know you're also do SPI work, hence why I'm here. Hope that's okay. :)
There are two new user accounts, both registered today within 10 mins of each other, both user names almost identical (one letter difference), and both are editing the same draft. I figured there must be an innocent explanation, they probably just accidentally registered two without even realising it... but the user insists they only have one account, and know nothing about the other, which is strange.
What should I do – report this somewhere, leave it with you, or just drop it and mind my own business? TIA, -- DoubleGrazing ( talk) 14:08, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, you closed this as No Consensus. Looking at the arguments, for me at least, it appears the consensus was to Draftify (including Delete here). The arguments for Keep didn't show any sources that meet GNG/NCORP criteria nor overcame the criticism of individual sources. Many Keep !voters completely misinterpreted GNG/NCORP or used arguments not based on our criteria. Thank you. HighKing ++ 20:26, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Is another CLC sock. Could you block? 47.227.95.73 ( talk) 11:12, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
No consensus? There isn't a single person who has supported the OP and the OP has failed to make a policy based argument. Reexamine your close. Horse Eye's Back ( talk) 16:23, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
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I think you were able to remove information from User talk:YouAreGoingToSweden so can you do the same for this edit where someone posted what appears to be a phone number? ThaddeusSholto ( talk) 20:42, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
Someone asked me about User:Chiefofswatis, suspecting them as part of the Sekk-47 farm. You know that one better than I do... --jpgordon 𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 16:41, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, I was wondering what cleanup is needed to remove the "paid content" tag from the article /info/en/?search=Ofinno. Eaa83 ( talk) 14:23, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
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Not sure how you feel about being accused of "revenge" editing here, but to me that feels like the last straw. I think this editor needs a rest from Wikipedia for a while to consider their options. For what little it is worth, suggestions have been made that theyare using a ChatBot. I suspect not. This sounds very much like young teenage indian speak. Velella Velella Talk 13:47, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi there. user:James W. Reader, whom you indef blocked 3 hours ago, is now user:James w. Reeder and posting on my talkpage. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 16:41, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I'm not sure if it's appropriate to ask for this here, but can you look into this? Thanks. Đại Việt quốc ( talk) 23:36, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm looking at a block of yours and I noticed that there appears to be a subnet (/23) that appears to be assigned to a legitimate ISP named Squirrel that provides static IP addresses to users ( [7]) rather than being an open proxy. Is there a technical way to unblock a particular suballocation of a range that's otherwise included as a part of a wider rangeblock, or is this sort of carveout not yet supported by MediaWiki software? — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 04:23, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
I am writing to ask for help in dealing with a new sockpuppeteer who is creating new accounts very fast. The accounts I have seen are Dunny1117, Dunny1117a, Dunny1117b, AppleG1117, Apple1117a, Greene1117, & AGreene1117. Their main activity is inappropriately closing AfDs. They are all ducks, and blocked, but because they create new accounts quickly after each block, I think the only hope for making a significant impact on their activity might be a range block. taking this to SPI would be pointless, because of the time it would take, so I wonder if you will be willing to do a CU. Naturally I don't expect you to tell me the outcome if you do so. JBW ( talk) 11:15, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
This time with this IP. A block should be needed. Thanks, 47.227.95.73 ( talk) 13:45, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
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I need IP block exemption. My blocked IP from which I am usually editing is 85.202.228.121. I was editing from my dormitory Wi-Fi, and I want to continue my Wikipedia contributions. Sadly, it shows that I can't edit due IP block, because it is 'open or anonymizing proxy'.
I don't ask for permission for every user to edit from that IP, but at least give me such opportunity. Thank you! MarcusTraianus ( talk) 12:19, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, what does this mean? (I tried to edit the Otaku article, and I managed to do it only once)
Error, edit not published. [668a66e7-af73-4a2e-b748-130156a21f12] Caught exception of type Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError @[66796a80-6bf7-4ef2-b38e-4cbb56530e37] Caught exception of type Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError Fleyzk ( talk) 13:46, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Blablubbs. Remember how you blocked User:AbiquiúBoy for being a sockpuppet of User:Becausewhynothuh?? Apparently this IP's contributions are roughly similar to both of them. It changed the image order of certain city pages such as Houston, Miami, and others as I was looking on my watchlist this morning (and I thankfully reverted those changes back to normal). When I saw this IP's information, it comes from the United Arab Emirates, the same area which BWNH's other IPs have come from. I've started another investigation on the Becausewhynothuh? casepage, and I'm waiting for a response that you may have. Thanks. NoobThreePointOh ( talk) 14:27, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
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talk) 18:49, 25 December 2023 (UTC)Hi Blablubbs, I'm a bit torn as to what to do with Eauho and Jonatanar. I'm vacillating between blocking on my own based on behavior, starting an SPI, or asking you if you're willing to check the accounts. As you can see from the editing history at Guillermo Lasso, Eauho edit-warred about the image, and after they were reported to WP:ANEW, Jonatanar restored Eauho's edit. More than that, although Eauho has edited only that article at en.wiki, they have also edited Lenín Moreno at pt.wiki, which Jonatanar has edited here. Both accounts are relatively new globally and seem to be doing the same stuff, although the edits at pt.wiki are much harder for me to follow, even with machine translation. I might also mention that Jonatanar made a similar image edit to Moreno at en.wiki. They also both use the visual editor, FWIW. I'd appreciate your input on the matter. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:58, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
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There's an extremely disruptive religious nationalist editor [8] who has been trolling the encyclopedia for the past 4 years. After one of his accounts, Javerine, was blocked in April, he has been on an aggressive campaign to aggrandize his religion through a combination of sock accounts, IPs and proxies, particularly to edit military history pages with the intent to glorify his side. He has made hundreds of block evading edits in the past few months. Kindly take a look at this- [9]. Southasianhistorian8 ( talk) 13:35, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Just a minor procedural note, I turned this account's talk page access off. As you said, obvious sock is obvious, and an obvious sock has no need to appeal on their talk page, or indeed edit anywhere on it, in my view. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:51, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
His disscussion with Antonio Vinzaretti on the talk page is a fake picture of talk like between 2 unrelated persons. Ghostfishing sockpuppet obviosly. Check his contrib page or IP please. ~~~~ Decrecre ( talk) 19:21, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Sorry to trouble you here, but on my talk page there's a discussion about an IP you blocked for, quite obvious, block evasion. I have a bit of concern with the editor that is rather strongly defending the IP, and wanted a second set of eyes on this. Something seems fishy. RickinBaltimore ( talk) 20:12, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your edits to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Another Wiki User the 2nd.
Wow just a look at the talk page confirms everything. They did attempt an improper fresh start at FF25 YT. Anyway the issue is resolved because it was admitted by the sockmaster. Awesome Aasim 23:03, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
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Dear Blablubbs: I have just recreated this page. I see that you deleted it in 2022. I do not know why specifically it was deleted, but I do not think you will find any major problems with the version I just created. I translated the existing French WP version and added some details. In particular, I added some references—something the French version is deficient in. If there are any questions, please contact me.-- Toploftical ( talk) 14:54, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
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Being that you are one of the admins involved in this case, thought to let you know they're back here. Cheers Jamiebuba ( talk) 07:48, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Noticed a newly-created user making pointless template changes and these edits to every letter of the Latin alphabeter. Obviously not a new user. Thoughts? This IP was recently making similar pointless edits to templates, which I noticed when I noticed that they'd broken one of them). OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:35, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
You blocked TwoToTwoBecauseWhyNot?, and in the block log you said "{{checkuserblock-account}}: User:RANDOMISEDTOOMU etc." ( block log.) However, there is no User:RANDOMISEDTOOMU. Any chance of a clarification? JBW ( talk) 22:18, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
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Greetings. I am messaging you with a query. I opened an SPI case a while back here [10] and after being checked by a checkuser, a closer behavior investigation seems to be needed. I was thinking you might be authorized to make that judgement? I tried to provide a lot of diffs and information. Was curious if you would perhaps be down to check the case if you have free time? -- Creffel ( talk) 16:29, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Hey B, is there anything at all that you can tell me about Shewasafairy's block? They were a suspected UPE that I was watching quietly for lack of sufficient evidence. Did your block originate from a similar line of investigation? — Usedtobecool ☎️ 01:15, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
I was just checking one NPR which I accused and maybe you are well aware of User:Iamtla on deletion discussion of Justin Jin. Check this article created by them and the way another editor reviewed that and leave them a review note:Shewasafairy was in my radar from an earlier incident which I had shared with UtherSRG. I do not have anything specific to add about the non-blocked editors you mention. I am not familiar with Comintell; TLA has piqued my interest, however. — Usedtobecool ☎️ 08:43, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Sujin_Kim They are the one who were behind me and they have huge circle on Telegram just to defend afds, review pages etc but i don’t have proof of that for now but i am digging it while Sujin Kim is social media influencer those references are all paid and are in mexican but cannot see any korean rs sources and you can just dig into sheisfairy and most of them who defended justin jin you will get in some point ...
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Hi Blablubbs,
Could I get some additional background on your block of ZillennialWriter - issued without a warning for an editor with appreciable productive edits, I didn't know if it was a belief that they were also an undisclosed paid editor or if there was a recurring serious issue I've missed in my initial glance at their edits. Obviously I'm aware of the red flags that led to GN's question route, but the formal block didn't appear to really fall on that basis afaict. Nosebagbear ( talk) 01:29, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi Blablubbs, you recently blocked Thesixserra for sockpuppetry. They nominated an article for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roshni Kapoor. Per WP:SK#4, the deletion debate can be speedy kept if the nominator is a sockpuppet of a blocked user, but I can't tell if that's the case because the userpage was not tagged to indicate whether Thesixserra was evading the block of a previous account. Could you please clarify? ✗ plicit 05:14, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, looks like you were the last CU to run a check at SPI. What do you think of 21lf1Md315HfEOS3312 (now there's a mouthful)? There are an awful lot of similarities, that mixture of Filipino stuff and California stuff. OTOH, although there are an awful lot of socks to plow through, the username seems an unusual choice for this master.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:53, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
Somehow with all the work you did (thanks), the Winbytedemo doesn't have the usual notice on it pointing to Nestofbirdnests.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:50, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, I have a general CUer question. I just noticed that you recently blocked Riverbend21 who had been active in patrolling. Is there a reason why no sockmaster was identified in their block notice and on the User page? It can be helpful for other editors to recognize future sockpuppets should they be created and I'm not sure why this information would not be disclosed. I don't see it as DENY, I see it as useful data for others working on the project. Thanks for any perspective you can provide. Liz Read! Talk! 02:22, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi can you remove rollback and Pending changes reviewers rights right from Riverbend21 because they are blocked. DarkHorseMayhem ( talk) 00:50, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for blocking User:Bateros, everything about the account screamed sock but I had no basis for opening an SPI. Mztourist ( talk) 05:31, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
Blablubbs, can you identify the sockmaster of أسامة بن عبد الله وليد ? Would help detect future socks and also determine whether a couple of articles they created are G5 elegible. Cheers. Abecedare ( talk) 17:36, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
On 24 July 2023, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Bruno Flierl, which you had contributed to in 2021. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai ( talk) 12:25, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Blablubbs, sorry to bother but I have a question I'm hoping you could help me with; I don't want to take it to ANI or SPI at least not yet. I found your name on the recently-active admins list, and I know you're also do SPI work, hence why I'm here. Hope that's okay. :)
There are two new user accounts, both registered today within 10 mins of each other, both user names almost identical (one letter difference), and both are editing the same draft. I figured there must be an innocent explanation, they probably just accidentally registered two without even realising it... but the user insists they only have one account, and know nothing about the other, which is strange.
What should I do – report this somewhere, leave it with you, or just drop it and mind my own business? TIA, -- DoubleGrazing ( talk) 14:08, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
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You've got (non-urgent) mail. Extraordinary Writ ( talk) 07:11, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi, you closed this as No Consensus. Looking at the arguments, for me at least, it appears the consensus was to Draftify (including Delete here). The arguments for Keep didn't show any sources that meet GNG/NCORP criteria nor overcame the criticism of individual sources. Many Keep !voters completely misinterpreted GNG/NCORP or used arguments not based on our criteria. Thank you. HighKing ++ 20:26, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Is another CLC sock. Could you block? 47.227.95.73 ( talk) 11:12, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
No consensus? There isn't a single person who has supported the OP and the OP has failed to make a policy based argument. Reexamine your close. Horse Eye's Back ( talk) 16:23, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
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I think you were able to remove information from User talk:YouAreGoingToSweden so can you do the same for this edit where someone posted what appears to be a phone number? ThaddeusSholto ( talk) 20:42, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
Someone asked me about User:Chiefofswatis, suspecting them as part of the Sekk-47 farm. You know that one better than I do... --jpgordon 𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 16:41, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, I was wondering what cleanup is needed to remove the "paid content" tag from the article /info/en/?search=Ofinno. Eaa83 ( talk) 14:23, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
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Not sure how you feel about being accused of "revenge" editing here, but to me that feels like the last straw. I think this editor needs a rest from Wikipedia for a while to consider their options. For what little it is worth, suggestions have been made that theyare using a ChatBot. I suspect not. This sounds very much like young teenage indian speak. Velella Velella Talk 13:47, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi there. user:James W. Reader, whom you indef blocked 3 hours ago, is now user:James w. Reeder and posting on my talkpage. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 16:41, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I'm not sure if it's appropriate to ask for this here, but can you look into this? Thanks. Đại Việt quốc ( talk) 23:36, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm looking at a block of yours and I noticed that there appears to be a subnet (/23) that appears to be assigned to a legitimate ISP named Squirrel that provides static IP addresses to users ( [7]) rather than being an open proxy. Is there a technical way to unblock a particular suballocation of a range that's otherwise included as a part of a wider rangeblock, or is this sort of carveout not yet supported by MediaWiki software? — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 04:23, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
I am writing to ask for help in dealing with a new sockpuppeteer who is creating new accounts very fast. The accounts I have seen are Dunny1117, Dunny1117a, Dunny1117b, AppleG1117, Apple1117a, Greene1117, & AGreene1117. Their main activity is inappropriately closing AfDs. They are all ducks, and blocked, but because they create new accounts quickly after each block, I think the only hope for making a significant impact on their activity might be a range block. taking this to SPI would be pointless, because of the time it would take, so I wonder if you will be willing to do a CU. Naturally I don't expect you to tell me the outcome if you do so. JBW ( talk) 11:15, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
This time with this IP. A block should be needed. Thanks, 47.227.95.73 ( talk) 13:45, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
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I need IP block exemption. My blocked IP from which I am usually editing is 85.202.228.121. I was editing from my dormitory Wi-Fi, and I want to continue my Wikipedia contributions. Sadly, it shows that I can't edit due IP block, because it is 'open or anonymizing proxy'.
I don't ask for permission for every user to edit from that IP, but at least give me such opportunity. Thank you! MarcusTraianus ( talk) 12:19, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, what does this mean? (I tried to edit the Otaku article, and I managed to do it only once)
Error, edit not published. [668a66e7-af73-4a2e-b748-130156a21f12] Caught exception of type Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError @[66796a80-6bf7-4ef2-b38e-4cbb56530e37] Caught exception of type Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError Fleyzk ( talk) 13:46, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Blablubbs. Remember how you blocked User:AbiquiúBoy for being a sockpuppet of User:Becausewhynothuh?? Apparently this IP's contributions are roughly similar to both of them. It changed the image order of certain city pages such as Houston, Miami, and others as I was looking on my watchlist this morning (and I thankfully reverted those changes back to normal). When I saw this IP's information, it comes from the United Arab Emirates, the same area which BWNH's other IPs have come from. I've started another investigation on the Becausewhynothuh? casepage, and I'm waiting for a response that you may have. Thanks. NoobThreePointOh ( talk) 14:27, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
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talk) 18:49, 25 December 2023 (UTC)Hi Blablubbs, I'm a bit torn as to what to do with Eauho and Jonatanar. I'm vacillating between blocking on my own based on behavior, starting an SPI, or asking you if you're willing to check the accounts. As you can see from the editing history at Guillermo Lasso, Eauho edit-warred about the image, and after they were reported to WP:ANEW, Jonatanar restored Eauho's edit. More than that, although Eauho has edited only that article at en.wiki, they have also edited Lenín Moreno at pt.wiki, which Jonatanar has edited here. Both accounts are relatively new globally and seem to be doing the same stuff, although the edits at pt.wiki are much harder for me to follow, even with machine translation. I might also mention that Jonatanar made a similar image edit to Moreno at en.wiki. They also both use the visual editor, FWIW. I'd appreciate your input on the matter. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:58, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
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There's an extremely disruptive religious nationalist editor [8] who has been trolling the encyclopedia for the past 4 years. After one of his accounts, Javerine, was blocked in April, he has been on an aggressive campaign to aggrandize his religion through a combination of sock accounts, IPs and proxies, particularly to edit military history pages with the intent to glorify his side. He has made hundreds of block evading edits in the past few months. Kindly take a look at this- [9]. Southasianhistorian8 ( talk) 13:35, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Just a minor procedural note, I turned this account's talk page access off. As you said, obvious sock is obvious, and an obvious sock has no need to appeal on their talk page, or indeed edit anywhere on it, in my view. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:51, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
His disscussion with Antonio Vinzaretti on the talk page is a fake picture of talk like between 2 unrelated persons. Ghostfishing sockpuppet obviosly. Check his contrib page or IP please. ~~~~ Decrecre ( talk) 19:21, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Sorry to trouble you here, but on my talk page there's a discussion about an IP you blocked for, quite obvious, block evasion. I have a bit of concern with the editor that is rather strongly defending the IP, and wanted a second set of eyes on this. Something seems fishy. RickinBaltimore ( talk) 20:12, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your edits to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Another Wiki User the 2nd.
Wow just a look at the talk page confirms everything. They did attempt an improper fresh start at FF25 YT. Anyway the issue is resolved because it was admitted by the sockmaster. Awesome Aasim 23:03, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
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Dear Blablubbs: I have just recreated this page. I see that you deleted it in 2022. I do not know why specifically it was deleted, but I do not think you will find any major problems with the version I just created. I translated the existing French WP version and added some details. In particular, I added some references—something the French version is deficient in. If there are any questions, please contact me.-- Toploftical ( talk) 14:54, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
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Being that you are one of the admins involved in this case, thought to let you know they're back here. Cheers Jamiebuba ( talk) 07:48, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Noticed a newly-created user making pointless template changes and these edits to every letter of the Latin alphabeter. Obviously not a new user. Thoughts? This IP was recently making similar pointless edits to templates, which I noticed when I noticed that they'd broken one of them). OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:35, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
You blocked TwoToTwoBecauseWhyNot?, and in the block log you said "{{checkuserblock-account}}: User:RANDOMISEDTOOMU etc." ( block log.) However, there is no User:RANDOMISEDTOOMU. Any chance of a clarification? JBW ( talk) 22:18, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Aha! It must be
RANDOMISEDTOOMUCH. Missing ch.
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Hi! We're conducting a series of participatory workshops with Wikipedia editors, administrators, researchers, and Wikimedia employees to discuss, and hopefully improve, Wikipedia's structures for online research (see meta research page). In an effort to get the right people in the room to discuss these topics, I'm reaching out here to see if you are interested in participating as an active administrator. We'd work with you to ensure this workshop can fit into your schedule, but are targeting end of April/early May. I'm happy to discuss any of these topics further here or on our talk page. Zentavious ( talk) 16:25, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
I've been blocked from commenting on talk pages. Can I get access to 2409:40E1:A:52B0:8EED:1989:7D74:9C91 ( talk) 13:41, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
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Greetings. I am messaging you with a query. I opened an SPI case a while back here [10] and after being checked by a checkuser, a closer behavior investigation seems to be needed. I was thinking you might be authorized to make that judgement? I tried to provide a lot of diffs and information. Was curious if you would perhaps be down to check the case if you have free time? -- Creffel ( talk) 16:29, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Hey B, is there anything at all that you can tell me about Shewasafairy's block? They were a suspected UPE that I was watching quietly for lack of sufficient evidence. Did your block originate from a similar line of investigation? — Usedtobecool ☎️ 01:15, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
I was just checking one NPR which I accused and maybe you are well aware of User:Iamtla on deletion discussion of Justin Jin. Check this article created by them and the way another editor reviewed that and leave them a review note:Shewasafairy was in my radar from an earlier incident which I had shared with UtherSRG. I do not have anything specific to add about the non-blocked editors you mention. I am not familiar with Comintell; TLA has piqued my interest, however. — Usedtobecool ☎️ 08:43, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Sujin_Kim They are the one who were behind me and they have huge circle on Telegram just to defend afds, review pages etc but i don’t have proof of that for now but i am digging it while Sujin Kim is social media influencer those references are all paid and are in mexican but cannot see any korean rs sources and you can just dig into sheisfairy and most of them who defended justin jin you will get in some point ...
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