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Had a look through this and I think it's solid advice but thought I'd drop my two cents on the entire concept on clerkship - I feel that more and more often clerkship is being seen as a stepping stone to adminship, which in itself is not a bad thing but it gives me (and probably a few others) the aura that this is an exclusive club that someone needs to get into. This is also a problem with adminship itself, where candidates might tend to tailor their profile for the highest chance of success, which again is probably not a bad thing, in moderation. I feel that we tend to overdo things with advice columns ("advice for RfA candidates", so on and so forth) so as to most effectively meet the goal. In the midst of all of this, I think we lose the point of what Wikipedia is all about, and why we should probably leave editors to their own devices. Apologies in advance for the long ramble, especially when most of this is regarding advice columns in general and not yours specifically. I came across this when you added it to the SPI clerk noticeboard and realized that it's probably a more existing concept than it should be, especially for closed structures like SPI. -- qedk ( t 愛 c) 18:40, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Remember when MaranoFan accused me of being a sock puppet of youcancallmejimmy? The latter turned out to be a sock puppet of BillieKhalidFan. Does MaranoFan just get to get away with reporting me for no reason? The Ultimate Boss ( talk) 09:15, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ImNotAnEntrepreneur. This account was just created like a day. I doubt it was created just to vote as Keep in this [ [3]] discussion where lot of socks and IP addresses have been involved. I am not experienced dealing with socks. So please have a look at it. Regards Kichu🐘 Discuss 08:32, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
what is it man? u r posing baseless allegations on me. pls read wp:npa. u seem to be canvassing people to vote according to ur wish u can visit wp:spi to file the spi investigation, but don’t make rubbish spurious remarks. ImNotAnEntrepreneur ( talk) 09:32, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
ImNotAnEntrepreneur ( talk · contribs) I havent canvassed anyone in this AFD. And I did not accuse you for socketpuppetry. I just want this admin to have a look at it. Because that AFD have been involved by lot of socketpuppets. Did I opened any spi against you.? I just want this experienced admin to have a look at yours. Because some 1 day old accont like yours have previously voted at this AFD for vote sacking. Thats all. Regards Kichu🐘 Discuss 09:51, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
ImNotAnEntrepreneur ( talk · contribs), that is a very complex and messy AFD like you said. Let me tell you a thing. In that AFD, some new accounts have been already found as socks. So a new account of just 1 days suddenly showed up there, I felt something wrong. And believe me, I have nothing against you or anyone. One thing I agree with you, I should have told you first. And I apologise if I am wrong in that aspect. Let Generalnotability decides what to do next. Regards. And please keep this discussion out from this talk page. Kichu🐘 Discuss 10:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi GN - I'm considering asking for clarification from Arbcom of a piece of wording at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Antisemitism in Poland#Article sourcing expectations; specifically, how we are to interpret the phrase 'academically focused'. There is a looooooooong discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#The_Volunteer_(book), with quite a lot of back and forth, but it all boils down to the question of what that phrase actually means. I don't want to drag you into the discussion, I'm just looking for guidance on whether this is something that the Arbs could look at, and if so, how I would go about filling in the paperwork to raise a clarification request. I've looked at those pages, and 'daunted' would be an decent descriptor of how they made me feel, but 'shit scared of making an idiot of myself by screwing them up' would probably be closer the mark. GirthSummit (blether) 12:01, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
I'm cannot find a link at WP:A/I or anywhere else. Do you know where they are? It's not just in the page history is it? Levivich harass/ hound 02:53, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
Individual C/A requests are archived to the most relevant talk page (for cases, that's going to be the case talk page)) to WP:ARCA would be helpful. I was able to find the
That was some mass attack. Even cluebot was confused. Cheers, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 16:29, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hey GN, could you deal with Jonatitties ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? Some things are borderline revdellable. Thanks, Java Hurricane 03:40, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that while you closed this case the main case page still has a big "this case is open" template just above the text area. Asartea Talk | Contribs 15:45, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hi GeneralNotability. I noticed that you deleted 56 consecutive revisions by a variety of editors here. I'm just wondering if that was a mistake, or did you intend to delete all of them? Clayoquot ( talk | contribs) 17:11, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
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The idea is add the words, "The payer for the editing is not necessarily the subject of the article." to what is already there in the template.
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terms of use. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's
content policies. |
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I think your perspective could be helpful because you were involved in the sockpuppet investigation that led to this proposal.
My view is that this is just one additional sentence and provides helpful information to readers about what the situation is (based on how editors are using that template, say for example in sockpuppet investigations).
Praxidicae has said that it's silly and unnecessary, and may elaborate further on that.
As of this writing nobody else has responded.
Please feel free to offer any thoughts on it at the RfC.
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Jjjjjjjjjj ( talk) 21:02, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello GeneralNotability, I noticed you closed the above SPI with agf-sock warnings to the mentioned users. Today I encountered another account, Puraana_Bhoot ( talk · contribs). Could you advise me on what to do next? Thanks, Pahunkat ( talk) 17:09, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
I just found this diff in addition to what I sent you. 220 of ßorg 12:11, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, 103.39.132.188 ( talk · contribs) is the same person as 103.108.117.148 ( talk · contribs) and 104.244.208.0/22 ( talk · contribs), so I suspect the range has similar issues to the two you've blocked. Best, CMD ( talk) 17:36, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi! How's it going? Question. I want to make my own sandbox to do just some silly, alternate stuff haha. For example, I want to make an alternate list of presidents and prime ministers of Yugoslavia if the country had existed today, so 1945–present, and other stuff like that (ministers, etc.), just an idea of mine really and something I find interesting. So my question is, is it okay for me to make that, as in is that a problem? And also, when I make my sandbox, I presume no one can edit it besides me (apart bots who deleted non free images and so on)? And also, I don't need any refs. in my sandbox right? No one's gonna actually like check my sandbox, yes? I do hope to get an answer from you shortly! Bye :) Bakir123 ( talk) 23:02, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
Dear GeneralNotability,
I see that you just blocked Special:Contributions/103.115.184.249 as part of a proxy range block (if I misunderstand, please correct me, since I'm quite ignorant about these things). I just had an issue with a user editing from that IP, who showed up yesterday and started to systematically revert my edits. Trying to assume good faith, I asked for advice about how to best deal with this at the Teahouse. But now it seems as if someone may have taken special precautions for staying anonymous while systematically targeting my edits? Is that an accurate interpretation? Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 04:32, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Dear GeneralNotability, I appreciate that you may be rather busy, and that there are far more urgent things to do, but would you please give me a small update? Thank you very much, Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 14:34, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
Looks pretty thin to me. Wikaviani has 10+K edits in the last 3.5 years and has overlap in some RFCs? Wow. Do my edits overlap with 103.115.184.249? Yep. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 00:42, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for fixing this. I must have been trying to copy/paste their user name.--- Possibly ( talk) 02:52, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
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Re your comment here. While I don't dispute the block (since I assume CU evidence is solid), I am not sure I follow this: " Even if they are two separate people, this is meatpuppetry in my book.". IF they are two people, wouldn't this be fine? Co-workers or family members are not prohibited from editing Wikipedia, even if they edit similar topics, are they? We don't have any restriction that says 'one account per household/workplace', do we? Hypothetically, if one of us had a spouse, and she started editing Wikipedia and then joined a discussion we are participating in, would you recommend that she is blocked? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:49, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
RabbitFanon2021 has another sock. You looked into this before. If you could have a look at this it would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Whpq ( talk) 01:50, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
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Had a look through this and I think it's solid advice but thought I'd drop my two cents on the entire concept on clerkship - I feel that more and more often clerkship is being seen as a stepping stone to adminship, which in itself is not a bad thing but it gives me (and probably a few others) the aura that this is an exclusive club that someone needs to get into. This is also a problem with adminship itself, where candidates might tend to tailor their profile for the highest chance of success, which again is probably not a bad thing, in moderation. I feel that we tend to overdo things with advice columns ("advice for RfA candidates", so on and so forth) so as to most effectively meet the goal. In the midst of all of this, I think we lose the point of what Wikipedia is all about, and why we should probably leave editors to their own devices. Apologies in advance for the long ramble, especially when most of this is regarding advice columns in general and not yours specifically. I came across this when you added it to the SPI clerk noticeboard and realized that it's probably a more existing concept than it should be, especially for closed structures like SPI. -- qedk ( t 愛 c) 18:40, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Remember when MaranoFan accused me of being a sock puppet of youcancallmejimmy? The latter turned out to be a sock puppet of BillieKhalidFan. Does MaranoFan just get to get away with reporting me for no reason? The Ultimate Boss ( talk) 09:15, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ImNotAnEntrepreneur. This account was just created like a day. I doubt it was created just to vote as Keep in this [ [3]] discussion where lot of socks and IP addresses have been involved. I am not experienced dealing with socks. So please have a look at it. Regards Kichu🐘 Discuss 08:32, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
what is it man? u r posing baseless allegations on me. pls read wp:npa. u seem to be canvassing people to vote according to ur wish u can visit wp:spi to file the spi investigation, but don’t make rubbish spurious remarks. ImNotAnEntrepreneur ( talk) 09:32, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
ImNotAnEntrepreneur ( talk · contribs) I havent canvassed anyone in this AFD. And I did not accuse you for socketpuppetry. I just want this admin to have a look at it. Because that AFD have been involved by lot of socketpuppets. Did I opened any spi against you.? I just want this experienced admin to have a look at yours. Because some 1 day old accont like yours have previously voted at this AFD for vote sacking. Thats all. Regards Kichu🐘 Discuss 09:51, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
ImNotAnEntrepreneur ( talk · contribs), that is a very complex and messy AFD like you said. Let me tell you a thing. In that AFD, some new accounts have been already found as socks. So a new account of just 1 days suddenly showed up there, I felt something wrong. And believe me, I have nothing against you or anyone. One thing I agree with you, I should have told you first. And I apologise if I am wrong in that aspect. Let Generalnotability decides what to do next. Regards. And please keep this discussion out from this talk page. Kichu🐘 Discuss 10:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi GN - I'm considering asking for clarification from Arbcom of a piece of wording at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Antisemitism in Poland#Article sourcing expectations; specifically, how we are to interpret the phrase 'academically focused'. There is a looooooooong discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#The_Volunteer_(book), with quite a lot of back and forth, but it all boils down to the question of what that phrase actually means. I don't want to drag you into the discussion, I'm just looking for guidance on whether this is something that the Arbs could look at, and if so, how I would go about filling in the paperwork to raise a clarification request. I've looked at those pages, and 'daunted' would be an decent descriptor of how they made me feel, but 'shit scared of making an idiot of myself by screwing them up' would probably be closer the mark. GirthSummit (blether) 12:01, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
I'm cannot find a link at WP:A/I or anywhere else. Do you know where they are? It's not just in the page history is it? Levivich harass/ hound 02:53, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
Individual C/A requests are archived to the most relevant talk page (for cases, that's going to be the case talk page)) to WP:ARCA would be helpful. I was able to find the
That was some mass attack. Even cluebot was confused. Cheers, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 16:29, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hey GN, could you deal with Jonatitties ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? Some things are borderline revdellable. Thanks, Java Hurricane 03:40, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that while you closed this case the main case page still has a big "this case is open" template just above the text area. Asartea Talk | Contribs 15:45, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Username now retired Aeribot ( talk) 10:10, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi GeneralNotability. I noticed that you deleted 56 consecutive revisions by a variety of editors here. I'm just wondering if that was a mistake, or did you intend to delete all of them? Clayoquot ( talk | contribs) 17:11, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
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The idea is add the words, "The payer for the editing is not necessarily the subject of the article." to what is already there in the template.
Before:
This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's
terms of use. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's
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I think your perspective could be helpful because you were involved in the sockpuppet investigation that led to this proposal.
My view is that this is just one additional sentence and provides helpful information to readers about what the situation is (based on how editors are using that template, say for example in sockpuppet investigations).
Praxidicae has said that it's silly and unnecessary, and may elaborate further on that.
As of this writing nobody else has responded.
Please feel free to offer any thoughts on it at the RfC.
Also, if you aren't inclined to respond there, just feel free to offer any thoughts at all here on this talk page.
Jjjjjjjjjj ( talk) 21:02, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello GeneralNotability, I noticed you closed the above SPI with agf-sock warnings to the mentioned users. Today I encountered another account, Puraana_Bhoot ( talk · contribs). Could you advise me on what to do next? Thanks, Pahunkat ( talk) 17:09, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
I just found this diff in addition to what I sent you. 220 of ßorg 12:11, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, 103.39.132.188 ( talk · contribs) is the same person as 103.108.117.148 ( talk · contribs) and 104.244.208.0/22 ( talk · contribs), so I suspect the range has similar issues to the two you've blocked. Best, CMD ( talk) 17:36, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi! How's it going? Question. I want to make my own sandbox to do just some silly, alternate stuff haha. For example, I want to make an alternate list of presidents and prime ministers of Yugoslavia if the country had existed today, so 1945–present, and other stuff like that (ministers, etc.), just an idea of mine really and something I find interesting. So my question is, is it okay for me to make that, as in is that a problem? And also, when I make my sandbox, I presume no one can edit it besides me (apart bots who deleted non free images and so on)? And also, I don't need any refs. in my sandbox right? No one's gonna actually like check my sandbox, yes? I do hope to get an answer from you shortly! Bye :) Bakir123 ( talk) 23:02, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
Dear GeneralNotability,
I see that you just blocked Special:Contributions/103.115.184.249 as part of a proxy range block (if I misunderstand, please correct me, since I'm quite ignorant about these things). I just had an issue with a user editing from that IP, who showed up yesterday and started to systematically revert my edits. Trying to assume good faith, I asked for advice about how to best deal with this at the Teahouse. But now it seems as if someone may have taken special precautions for staying anonymous while systematically targeting my edits? Is that an accurate interpretation? Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 04:32, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Dear GeneralNotability, I appreciate that you may be rather busy, and that there are far more urgent things to do, but would you please give me a small update? Thank you very much, Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 14:34, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
Looks pretty thin to me. Wikaviani has 10+K edits in the last 3.5 years and has overlap in some RFCs? Wow. Do my edits overlap with 103.115.184.249? Yep. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 00:42, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for fixing this. I must have been trying to copy/paste their user name.--- Possibly ( talk) 02:52, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I reported an investigation at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shame on PJ Santos but has not allowed to publish. I need help from you to publish this user Kaputite ( talk · contribs) as this is the sockpuppet of Shame on PJ Santos. The sockpuppet was issued on March 23, 2021. Thank You! SeanJ 2007 ( talk) 08:37, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
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Re your comment here. While I don't dispute the block (since I assume CU evidence is solid), I am not sure I follow this: " Even if they are two separate people, this is meatpuppetry in my book.". IF they are two people, wouldn't this be fine? Co-workers or family members are not prohibited from editing Wikipedia, even if they edit similar topics, are they? We don't have any restriction that says 'one account per household/workplace', do we? Hypothetically, if one of us had a spouse, and she started editing Wikipedia and then joined a discussion we are participating in, would you recommend that she is blocked? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:49, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
RabbitFanon2021 has another sock. You looked into this before. If you could have a look at this it would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Whpq ( talk) 01:50, 31 March 2021 (UTC)