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Sincerely apologize for incorrectly doing that merge and I give my condolences for you fixing it. I could have sworn I was doing it wrong when I was doing it, anyways. Panini! 🥪 21:27, 1 October 2021 (UTC) |
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16:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
That was quick. Thanks! This puppet master is extremely annoying, though apparently not very bright. Skyerise ( talk) 17:02, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
[5] vs [6].-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:09, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
Deb ( talk) 11:11, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
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15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi GN, re
this closure; does that mean their comments on talkpages (including in an RfC) can be struck out per
WP:TPO (Removing or striking through comments made by blocked sock puppets of users editing in violation of a block or ban...
) in the same way as for blocked socks? --
DeFacto (
talk). 17:50, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Do you want me to just fix that? :-) Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 23:39, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
!a == b
means (!a) == b
(as in C etc.). Oddly !a rlike b
does mean !(a rlike b)
, but that one just drives me crazy so I always use the explicit parentheses anyway.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk) 23:55, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee is pleased to welcome the following editors to the functionary team:
The committee thanks all members of the community who participated and helped bring this process to a successful conclusion.
Katie talk 04:44, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi GeneralNotability. A little over a year ago you closed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Taricksalmaci/Archive and I've got not real problem with the way you did so; however, it seems that now that the protection on Tarick Salmaci has expired, that either Salmaci or someone claiming to be Salmaci is back as Boxingdetroit. It seems a new account shows up every time the article protection expires to try and re-add the same questionable images and make other edits to the article. I've tried to explain things at User talk:Taricksalmaci and c:User talk:Taricksalmaci, but there was never a response received. I could add this latest account to the SPI, but that seems pointless. The Taricksalmaci account is only soft-blocked on Wikipedia and that could probably be lifted if he just emails VRT and verifies his identity. Once he does that, then perhaps the other issues can be resolved as well. This has been going on for five or six years now and the article has already been protected multiple times (the last one for a year), but things start up again each time the protection wears off. Any suggestions on what to do here? -- Marchjuly ( talk) 06:31, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
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MNadzikiewicz (WMF) ( talk) 20:36, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Just like yesterday, i remember !voting a support at your RFA and today, look how far you've come. Congrats my dear friend and colleague. I know you shall do well with your new appointments and the tools that come with it. Congratulations once more you, & a major thank you for all the hard work you have put in towards bettering the collaborative project especially at SPI. Celestina007 ( talk) 16:42, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello GeneralNotability. Thank you for volunteering for the Electoral Commission for the 2021 ArbCom Election. Following the closure of the ELECTCOM RfC, you have been selected as a commissioner. Congratulations! Some important pages to watch about the election are: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination, Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination, Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021, and others in Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2021. Your duties may require some private communications with the other commissioners, traditionally wikimail and/or email has been used for this, along with IRC - but this is up to you to decide. Again, thank you for volunteering for this important position. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 23:38, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
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20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Hey, some time ago I filed an SPI [7] seeking to show that ElderZamzam is a sock account of TryDeletingMe. In addition to that, I sent further evidence to you through email. I just took a look at the concerned accounts today, and I noticed that ElderZamzam repeated an edit made around 2 years ago by the confirmed sock of TryDeletingMe, ThreatMatrix. [8] [9] both accounts remove the "where he was later promoted to platoon commander" part. Both touch the part on Glodjane/Radonic massacre too. Furthermore, if needed, I have noticed two other similarities between the accounts, but would like to show them only through email so the sock master does not learn to be more careful in the future. In any case, I think that the same edit on the Ramush Haradinaj article is enough in addition to the evidence I posted at the SPI and sent to you through email. What do you think? Ktrimi991 ( talk) 09:22, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, GeneralNotability,
I was not familiar with your bot but apparently it is removing a lot of sockpuppet categories from IP editors that were tagged as sockpuppets. One result of these actions is that it emptied out hundreds of Wikipedia sockpuppet and Suspected sockpuppet categories. These empty sockpuppet categories are routinely deleted as uncontroversial deletion when they show up on the Empty category list. Typically, a few of these categories show up every day as sockpuppet cases are moved around and moved to new sockmasters. Still, the appearance of hundreds of sockpuppet categories on the Deletion log might raise questions so I thought I'd give you a head's up. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 01:54, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi again, GN. At that SPI [34] the newest account is listed as the suspected master, while the two older accounts as the suspected socks. Since in a socking case, the oldest account is considered the master and the newer accounts as socks, should that be noted there? Ktrimi991 ( talk) 01:58, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello GeneralNotability, this sock has returned [35] [36]. The page may need to be locked. Magherbin ( talk) 12:24, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi GeneralNotability. You blocked User:Roxximanager yesterday due the continue spamming of Deshnie Govender. 41.13.14.91 ( talk · contribs) has taken over, adding the same spam. Would blocking or page protection be appropriate? Thanks ActivelyDisinterested ( talk) 23:46, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Very happy to see you joined the team. Well deserved and a boost to the project. If there's anything I can help with, please don't hesitate to reach out :) TonyBallioni ( talk) 06:43, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
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20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed you blocked Belteshazzar. I suspect this user might be sock-puppeting so I filed an SPI report but I messed up in the title [39] there is a gap where there should not be one and it hasn't been filed properly. I have tried to fix it but it does not work, I think an admin has to sort it. Is there any chance you could fix it for me? I do apologise for the mistake. If not, I will just recreate an SPI report. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 17:33, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
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Congrats on being promoted to full clerk as part of the Arbitration Commitee. And thansk for helping me with WP:SO. SoyokoAnis - talk 15:07, 27 October 2021 (UTC) |
User:Vkbg-3543 opened an AFD for this article ( Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Oliver_Emanuel). It is a new user with around 30 edits, and I see there has been disruption around this article. Before I fill the edit request and copy the afd tag to the article I would like to know if this is just more of the same disruption? Should the AfD be closed as disruption? The guy seems pretty clearly notable from the sourcing. Thanks. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 19:28, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
I see the bot remove the templates, which I think is often a good thing if they are old. But here it is removing one from an IP talkpage which is currently under a checkuser imposed block. Whereas many IPs are volatile, I am not sure if that is always the case. Maybe the bot should check the last time an account was under a checkuser-type block and reconsider? Dirk Beetstra T C 13:21, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed on
m:Steward requests/Global/2021-w43 that the underlining done by
User:GeneralNotability/mark-locked.js doesn't work, because the link is to Special:CentralAuth. I tinkered around, and it looks like this functionality could be added by changing line 25 to const userTitleRX = new RegExp( '^(' + userNS.join( '|' ) + '|' + 'Special:Contributions' + '\\/' + '|' + 'Special:CentralAuth' + '\\/)+([^\\/#]+)$', 'i' );
. Let me know what you think. Best, —
Mdaniels5757 (
talk •
contribs) 19:19, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar | |
Sincerely apologize for incorrectly doing that merge and I give my condolences for you fixing it. I could have sworn I was doing it wrong when I was doing it, anyways. Panini! 🥪 21:27, 1 October 2021 (UTC) |
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hidden
property will no longer say an entry is implicit
for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false
for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response.
[1]Future changes
wgExtraSignatureNamespaces
, wgLegalTitleChars
, and wgIllegalFileChars
will soon be removed from
mw.config
. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript.
[3]wgCookiePrefix
, wgCookieDomain
, wgCookiePath
, and wgCookieExpiration
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mediawiki.cookie" module.
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16:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
That was quick. Thanks! This puppet master is extremely annoying, though apparently not very bright. Skyerise ( talk) 17:02, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
[5] vs [6].-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:09, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
Deb ( talk) 11:11, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
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15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi GN, re
this closure; does that mean their comments on talkpages (including in an RfC) can be struck out per
WP:TPO (Removing or striking through comments made by blocked sock puppets of users editing in violation of a block or ban...
) in the same way as for blocked socks? --
DeFacto (
talk). 17:50, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Do you want me to just fix that? :-) Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 23:39, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
!a == b
means (!a) == b
(as in C etc.). Oddly !a rlike b
does mean !(a rlike b)
, but that one just drives me crazy so I always use the explicit parentheses anyway.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk) 23:55, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee is pleased to welcome the following editors to the functionary team:
The committee thanks all members of the community who participated and helped bring this process to a successful conclusion.
Katie talk 04:44, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi GeneralNotability. A little over a year ago you closed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Taricksalmaci/Archive and I've got not real problem with the way you did so; however, it seems that now that the protection on Tarick Salmaci has expired, that either Salmaci or someone claiming to be Salmaci is back as Boxingdetroit. It seems a new account shows up every time the article protection expires to try and re-add the same questionable images and make other edits to the article. I've tried to explain things at User talk:Taricksalmaci and c:User talk:Taricksalmaci, but there was never a response received. I could add this latest account to the SPI, but that seems pointless. The Taricksalmaci account is only soft-blocked on Wikipedia and that could probably be lifted if he just emails VRT and verifies his identity. Once he does that, then perhaps the other issues can be resolved as well. This has been going on for five or six years now and the article has already been protected multiple times (the last one for a year), but things start up again each time the protection wears off. Any suggestions on what to do here? -- Marchjuly ( talk) 06:31, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Universal Code of Conduct News
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MNadzikiewicz (WMF) ( talk) 20:36, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Just like yesterday, i remember !voting a support at your RFA and today, look how far you've come. Congrats my dear friend and colleague. I know you shall do well with your new appointments and the tools that come with it. Congratulations once more you, & a major thank you for all the hard work you have put in towards bettering the collaborative project especially at SPI. Celestina007 ( talk) 16:42, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello GeneralNotability. Thank you for volunteering for the Electoral Commission for the 2021 ArbCom Election. Following the closure of the ELECTCOM RfC, you have been selected as a commissioner. Congratulations! Some important pages to watch about the election are: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination, Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination, Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021, and others in Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2021. Your duties may require some private communications with the other commissioners, traditionally wikimail and/or email has been used for this, along with IRC - but this is up to you to decide. Again, thank you for volunteering for this important position. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 23:38, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
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20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Hey, some time ago I filed an SPI [7] seeking to show that ElderZamzam is a sock account of TryDeletingMe. In addition to that, I sent further evidence to you through email. I just took a look at the concerned accounts today, and I noticed that ElderZamzam repeated an edit made around 2 years ago by the confirmed sock of TryDeletingMe, ThreatMatrix. [8] [9] both accounts remove the "where he was later promoted to platoon commander" part. Both touch the part on Glodjane/Radonic massacre too. Furthermore, if needed, I have noticed two other similarities between the accounts, but would like to show them only through email so the sock master does not learn to be more careful in the future. In any case, I think that the same edit on the Ramush Haradinaj article is enough in addition to the evidence I posted at the SPI and sent to you through email. What do you think? Ktrimi991 ( talk) 09:22, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, GeneralNotability,
I was not familiar with your bot but apparently it is removing a lot of sockpuppet categories from IP editors that were tagged as sockpuppets. One result of these actions is that it emptied out hundreds of Wikipedia sockpuppet and Suspected sockpuppet categories. These empty sockpuppet categories are routinely deleted as uncontroversial deletion when they show up on the Empty category list. Typically, a few of these categories show up every day as sockpuppet cases are moved around and moved to new sockmasters. Still, the appearance of hundreds of sockpuppet categories on the Deletion log might raise questions so I thought I'd give you a head's up. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 01:54, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi again, GN. At that SPI [34] the newest account is listed as the suspected master, while the two older accounts as the suspected socks. Since in a socking case, the oldest account is considered the master and the newer accounts as socks, should that be noted there? Ktrimi991 ( talk) 01:58, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello GeneralNotability, this sock has returned [35] [36]. The page may need to be locked. Magherbin ( talk) 12:24, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi GeneralNotability. You blocked User:Roxximanager yesterday due the continue spamming of Deshnie Govender. 41.13.14.91 ( talk · contribs) has taken over, adding the same spam. Would blocking or page protection be appropriate? Thanks ActivelyDisinterested ( talk) 23:46, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Very happy to see you joined the team. Well deserved and a boost to the project. If there's anything I can help with, please don't hesitate to reach out :) TonyBallioni ( talk) 06:43, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
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20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
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Nick-D (
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Hi, I noticed you blocked Belteshazzar. I suspect this user might be sock-puppeting so I filed an SPI report but I messed up in the title [39] there is a gap where there should not be one and it hasn't been filed properly. I have tried to fix it but it does not work, I think an admin has to sort it. Is there any chance you could fix it for me? I do apologise for the mistake. If not, I will just recreate an SPI report. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 17:33, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence | |
Congrats on being promoted to full clerk as part of the Arbitration Commitee. And thansk for helping me with WP:SO. SoyokoAnis - talk 15:07, 27 October 2021 (UTC) |
User:Vkbg-3543 opened an AFD for this article ( Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Oliver_Emanuel). It is a new user with around 30 edits, and I see there has been disruption around this article. Before I fill the edit request and copy the afd tag to the article I would like to know if this is just more of the same disruption? Should the AfD be closed as disruption? The guy seems pretty clearly notable from the sourcing. Thanks. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 19:28, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
I see the bot remove the templates, which I think is often a good thing if they are old. But here it is removing one from an IP talkpage which is currently under a checkuser imposed block. Whereas many IPs are volatile, I am not sure if that is always the case. Maybe the bot should check the last time an account was under a checkuser-type block and reconsider? Dirk Beetstra T C 13:21, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed on
m:Steward requests/Global/2021-w43 that the underlining done by
User:GeneralNotability/mark-locked.js doesn't work, because the link is to Special:CentralAuth. I tinkered around, and it looks like this functionality could be added by changing line 25 to const userTitleRX = new RegExp( '^(' + userNS.join( '|' ) + '|' + 'Special:Contributions' + '\\/' + '|' + 'Special:CentralAuth' + '\\/)+([^\\/#]+)$', 'i' );
. Let me know what you think. Best, —
Mdaniels5757 (
talk •
contribs) 19:19, 29 October 2021 (UTC)