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Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with command module pilot Donn F. Eisele and lunar module pilot R. Walter Cunningham. |
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...how would an admin edit/remove a tag? I tried revdel and that didn't work. It is inconceivable that I would be right and you would be wrong about a technical matter, so I have no doubt you're correct. But how? -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 13:10, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
A discussion which is more heat than light is now taking place at Talk:Bates method. To cut a long story short: are they a WP:SOCK or simply a pro-quackery shill? Can you answer this question at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Belteshazzar? tgeorgescu ( talk) 01:38, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi! Reply-link has officially been superseded by mw:DiscussionTools, which you can install using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. DiscussionTools, developed by the WMF's Editing Team, is faster and has more features than reply-link, and it wouldn't make sense for me to keep developing reply-link. I think the Editing Team is doing amazing work, and look forward to what they can do in the future. Thank you for using reply-link over the years! Enterprisey ( talk!) 06:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi, two single purpose editors have recently been editing the article on Martyn Percy, who is controversial due to ongoing disputes with his employer, in the last month. Their edits have been reverted due to lack of sources and NPOV. Where is the best place report this? The COI is obvious so a COIN discussion seems unnecessary, but I think they could both be blocked from the main article to force them to make edit requests. TSventon ( talk) 10:51, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hey GN, just a little thank you for keeping an eye on my talk page lately - your support and helpful comments have been appreciated ~ TNT (she/they • talk) 13:58, 8 September 2021 (UTC) |
I remember you were working COIN and I came across Nottingham Castle Trust ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) editing at Nottingham Castle; nothing bad, but was unsure what to do next, per the Template I have used at their Talk which states multiple-user accounts will need to be blocked. Does it need to be listed at COIN to initiate further action? Please advise. Thank you.-- Rocknrollmancer ( talk) 02:21, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Found another similar, Beautyclear ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (UK government company information) - I've deleted some advertising content and kept some of the prose, albeit unsourced as yet. Thanks.-- Rocknrollmancer ( talk) 00:31, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
Strong feeling that user Noorullah21 and MbIam9416 are same person. Noorullah21 reverted the changes on /info/en/?search=Third_Battle_of_Panipat and then MbIam9416 who hasn't made any edits since 19th August 2021, pops up to just make change to same page on September 8, 2021 and this is the only page MbIam9416 makes change too on that day. I am pretty sure, this is not coincident. And both Noorullah21 and MbIam9416 enforce same changes to add Amb (princely state) and Khanate of Kalat. Looks like as MbIam9416, changes are made by Mobile Device whereas as Noorullah21 through different device. Comparison of diff on multiple occasions but here is quick two links to differences: This is the diff of change by Noorullah21 [ [4]] This is the diff in change by MbIam9416 [ [5]] Can you look into this? Canon8 ( talk) 13:17, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
I see you closed the SPI case despite that WayKurat was asking for help from any admins to take action against SeanJ 2007's sockpuppets because Sean already admitted doing a lot of sockpuppetry activities (using his user accounts and IPs) for more than a year. I found it very unfair. Is there any other way to block all of Sean's accounts? - 136.158.42.180 ( talk) 01:56, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
It was useful to keep track of the IPs used by this LTA, particularly as one or two admins routinely ignore reports of it at AIV. DuncanHill ( talk) 20:38, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
I see you have deleted this investigation due to it being IP only. The individual has recently struck again. (IP: 85.255.235.201 ) Where can I turn to next to stop this individual? Romomusicfan ( talk) 16:43, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
FYI:
User:SheryOfficial has now listed a number of his or her accounts at User_talk:SheryOfficial#Unban_me_please. The accounts include: SheryOfficial, SheheryarAwais, JafferAwan, SheheryarOfficial, SheheryarandAwais, MyNameIsJanMangu, Fayyaz Anwar, SAFSOfficial, FayyazFamily, SheheryarFayyazOfficial, Shehryar Fayyaz, Hira Fayyaz, Awais Gas, Shield Has, ShehzadaShery, Awais Shahbaz, Qazi Shah, ShahiShield, Hassan Shah Nawaz, MrBakar, KaimkhaniKamal, MianJawaad, Dugsen, Wordynilo, SharqHabib, RaziNaama, AliMurtazaYT, AliAther, Huwalhabib, Isaayi, UmatiKhan, Salamun44, ChampeonZekz, Semonlee, Kelzom, Dogrilo, Khaliafatun and AbnayZahra
Looks like some weren't identified as socks before.
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Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
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Made me chuckle, and after performing a dozen or so reverts, I now understand what you meant ;). Regards, MattSucci ( talk) 04:57, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello GeneralNotablity, this user you blocked appears to be back (Roculator), usage of identical edit summary "misuse of sources" [12] [13]. Editing from a mobile device as well. Magherbin ( talk) 02:17, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for looking into the case and responding. Why this other person chose to copy my former user name is beyond my understanding. I'm just glad its been cleared up. Thanks for looking into it and asking for more clarity from EnPassant. I'm not sure what evidence they would have tried to present because the only connection is that user name but I do not blame them for bringing it forward. I know they were just doing their best to protect the integrity of the encyclopedia. Thanks again for all you do. -- ARose Wolf 11:43, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, I just wanted to open this chat to discuss the subject that your brought up in the arbitration forum. I went about a systematic update of company pages only because the UN report in question is something of a seminal work in terms of clearly defining, in thoroughly vetted terms, which companies are involved in what activities in the West Bank. It seemed like a glaring omission on Wikipedia that this significant report had gone unmentioned (I have sort of assumed it got passed over because everyone was busy with Covid-19), so yes, I've been trying to fill an information gap, but not in an unwarranted way I think. You were not the only editor that undid Mike Rothman2's reversions. So did the established editor Berrely, who noted on the Sonol article that the content was "written very neutrally and cites suitable sources".
The only POV I see this as pushing is that of the UN, which in my mind is not particularly POV, as the collective voice of the international community. Perhaps this is a mistaken viewpoint from the perspective of Wikipedia. I am happy to be put in my place on the subject if I am genuinely out of order. But I would add that before I added these new criticism sections, many of these articles were lazily unexpanded, glowing and semi-promotional, and that I have also made other changes, including thoroughly vetting the sources, improving readability and tagging dead links for the future reference of other editors that may wish to review and expand the articles.
I had no doubt that there would be users who did not like these additions, but, in line with the 'be bold' mantra of Wikipedia, that was not in my mind a reason not to go ahead with adding discussion-provoking material. The controversy over the Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot page, for instance, has already led to significant improvement of the overall sourcing of the piece. I would say that rather proves the point that adding this material is also a positive development for these articles by stimulating the re-editing process for what were otherwise a rather tired collection of ailing company profiles with rotting links. Iskandar323 ( talk) 15:25, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
"the second-largest recovery by the US Department of Justice since it began investigating the facilitation of US tax evasion by foreign banks in 2008"to a single line. Iskandar323 ( talk) 07:01, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, you might want to revert vandalism and POV edits by Serchia to the last stable version. He started an edit war by removing sourced content and causing an edit war, and even goes as far as changing the order of ethnicities in the city in a racist attempt to move the Turkmen name to the end and minimise their significance even though they are the historical majority in the city. Thank you. 82.24.229.152 ( talk) 17:03, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
FYI: someone seems to have added back the clubs and associations you removed. You might be interested in taking a look at it. Northern Moonlight | ほっこう 17:58, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi GN, I'm trying to move Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rezaee.original to show the oldest account as the master (although I intend to close it without action, as there's no evidence of WP:BADSOCKery). Trouble is, I can't. I select 'All sections', and tick the 'Move/merge full case' button, hit 'Continue', and am taken to the next screen; I can enter the new sockmaster's name, but there's no button to proceed with the move. Has something changed? Cheers Girth Summit (blether) 14:20, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello GN. Would you object to my converting your block of Special:Contributions/37.120.237.0/24 into a hardblock? I found some logged-in abuse from this range while researching a sock case. You had marked this range as a Colocation webhost. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 21:55, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
Ugh, looks like that was my fault. I had an edit conflict and must have resolved it incorrectly. Sorry about that! -- RoySmith (talk) 03:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
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22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
I see you’ve blocked User:EvidenceAlliquots for edit warring, I guess you’d better check my edits, as I’ve not been angelic myself. GimliDotNet ( talk) 17:32, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Kindly consider if this is block evasion. The first thing this user did was to create a template. Thank you. -- Whiteguru ( talk) 21:54, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello,
I came across an edit that you reverted which I believe is accurate and is not a crypto scam or something of that effect as it appears you thought at the time. The website merely has an interesting domain name, perhaps the coinye.net website would have been a better choice for the original editor to have used to improve trust. As the edit states, The original Coinye (not a fork or modified or anything like that) is still accessible with running nodes and active miners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?diff=1020771435 EL-SSS ( talk) 13:01, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
No worries I completely understand. I'll take a deeper look and get back to you with some credible sources, or make the edit myself if you think that's the best option. EL-SSS ( talk) 13:57, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
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Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with command module pilot Donn F. Eisele and lunar module pilot R. Walter Cunningham. |
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...how would an admin edit/remove a tag? I tried revdel and that didn't work. It is inconceivable that I would be right and you would be wrong about a technical matter, so I have no doubt you're correct. But how? -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 13:10, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
A discussion which is more heat than light is now taking place at Talk:Bates method. To cut a long story short: are they a WP:SOCK or simply a pro-quackery shill? Can you answer this question at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Belteshazzar? tgeorgescu ( talk) 01:38, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi! Reply-link has officially been superseded by mw:DiscussionTools, which you can install using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. DiscussionTools, developed by the WMF's Editing Team, is faster and has more features than reply-link, and it wouldn't make sense for me to keep developing reply-link. I think the Editing Team is doing amazing work, and look forward to what they can do in the future. Thank you for using reply-link over the years! Enterprisey ( talk!) 06:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi, two single purpose editors have recently been editing the article on Martyn Percy, who is controversial due to ongoing disputes with his employer, in the last month. Their edits have been reverted due to lack of sources and NPOV. Where is the best place report this? The COI is obvious so a COIN discussion seems unnecessary, but I think they could both be blocked from the main article to force them to make edit requests. TSventon ( talk) 10:51, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hey GN, just a little thank you for keeping an eye on my talk page lately - your support and helpful comments have been appreciated ~ TNT (she/they • talk) 13:58, 8 September 2021 (UTC) |
I remember you were working COIN and I came across Nottingham Castle Trust ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) editing at Nottingham Castle; nothing bad, but was unsure what to do next, per the Template I have used at their Talk which states multiple-user accounts will need to be blocked. Does it need to be listed at COIN to initiate further action? Please advise. Thank you.-- Rocknrollmancer ( talk) 02:21, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Found another similar, Beautyclear ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (UK government company information) - I've deleted some advertising content and kept some of the prose, albeit unsourced as yet. Thanks.-- Rocknrollmancer ( talk) 00:31, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
Strong feeling that user Noorullah21 and MbIam9416 are same person. Noorullah21 reverted the changes on /info/en/?search=Third_Battle_of_Panipat and then MbIam9416 who hasn't made any edits since 19th August 2021, pops up to just make change to same page on September 8, 2021 and this is the only page MbIam9416 makes change too on that day. I am pretty sure, this is not coincident. And both Noorullah21 and MbIam9416 enforce same changes to add Amb (princely state) and Khanate of Kalat. Looks like as MbIam9416, changes are made by Mobile Device whereas as Noorullah21 through different device. Comparison of diff on multiple occasions but here is quick two links to differences: This is the diff of change by Noorullah21 [ [4]] This is the diff in change by MbIam9416 [ [5]] Can you look into this? Canon8 ( talk) 13:17, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
I see you closed the SPI case despite that WayKurat was asking for help from any admins to take action against SeanJ 2007's sockpuppets because Sean already admitted doing a lot of sockpuppetry activities (using his user accounts and IPs) for more than a year. I found it very unfair. Is there any other way to block all of Sean's accounts? - 136.158.42.180 ( talk) 01:56, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
It was useful to keep track of the IPs used by this LTA, particularly as one or two admins routinely ignore reports of it at AIV. DuncanHill ( talk) 20:38, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
I see you have deleted this investigation due to it being IP only. The individual has recently struck again. (IP: 85.255.235.201 ) Where can I turn to next to stop this individual? Romomusicfan ( talk) 16:43, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
FYI:
User:SheryOfficial has now listed a number of his or her accounts at User_talk:SheryOfficial#Unban_me_please. The accounts include: SheryOfficial, SheheryarAwais, JafferAwan, SheheryarOfficial, SheheryarandAwais, MyNameIsJanMangu, Fayyaz Anwar, SAFSOfficial, FayyazFamily, SheheryarFayyazOfficial, Shehryar Fayyaz, Hira Fayyaz, Awais Gas, Shield Has, ShehzadaShery, Awais Shahbaz, Qazi Shah, ShahiShield, Hassan Shah Nawaz, MrBakar, KaimkhaniKamal, MianJawaad, Dugsen, Wordynilo, SharqHabib, RaziNaama, AliMurtazaYT, AliAther, Huwalhabib, Isaayi, UmatiKhan, Salamun44, ChampeonZekz, Semonlee, Kelzom, Dogrilo, Khaliafatun and AbnayZahra
Looks like some weren't identified as socks before.
rsjaffe
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🖉 22:46, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
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For your arduous tasks at SPI, I feel like we really do not appreciate SPI clerks properly until a backlog begins to build then we realize the importance of your duties at SPI. Thanks for putting in work, I’ve never been an SPI clerk but I can tell the work you do there can be quite arduous and very daunting. So this is to say a proper thank you. Celestina007 ( talk) 02:01, 1 September 2021 (UTC) |
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Made me chuckle, and after performing a dozen or so reverts, I now understand what you meant ;). Regards, MattSucci ( talk) 04:57, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello GeneralNotablity, this user you blocked appears to be back (Roculator), usage of identical edit summary "misuse of sources" [12] [13]. Editing from a mobile device as well. Magherbin ( talk) 02:17, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for looking into the case and responding. Why this other person chose to copy my former user name is beyond my understanding. I'm just glad its been cleared up. Thanks for looking into it and asking for more clarity from EnPassant. I'm not sure what evidence they would have tried to present because the only connection is that user name but I do not blame them for bringing it forward. I know they were just doing their best to protect the integrity of the encyclopedia. Thanks again for all you do. -- ARose Wolf 11:43, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, I just wanted to open this chat to discuss the subject that your brought up in the arbitration forum. I went about a systematic update of company pages only because the UN report in question is something of a seminal work in terms of clearly defining, in thoroughly vetted terms, which companies are involved in what activities in the West Bank. It seemed like a glaring omission on Wikipedia that this significant report had gone unmentioned (I have sort of assumed it got passed over because everyone was busy with Covid-19), so yes, I've been trying to fill an information gap, but not in an unwarranted way I think. You were not the only editor that undid Mike Rothman2's reversions. So did the established editor Berrely, who noted on the Sonol article that the content was "written very neutrally and cites suitable sources".
The only POV I see this as pushing is that of the UN, which in my mind is not particularly POV, as the collective voice of the international community. Perhaps this is a mistaken viewpoint from the perspective of Wikipedia. I am happy to be put in my place on the subject if I am genuinely out of order. But I would add that before I added these new criticism sections, many of these articles were lazily unexpanded, glowing and semi-promotional, and that I have also made other changes, including thoroughly vetting the sources, improving readability and tagging dead links for the future reference of other editors that may wish to review and expand the articles.
I had no doubt that there would be users who did not like these additions, but, in line with the 'be bold' mantra of Wikipedia, that was not in my mind a reason not to go ahead with adding discussion-provoking material. The controversy over the Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot page, for instance, has already led to significant improvement of the overall sourcing of the piece. I would say that rather proves the point that adding this material is also a positive development for these articles by stimulating the re-editing process for what were otherwise a rather tired collection of ailing company profiles with rotting links. Iskandar323 ( talk) 15:25, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
"the second-largest recovery by the US Department of Justice since it began investigating the facilitation of US tax evasion by foreign banks in 2008"to a single line. Iskandar323 ( talk) 07:01, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, you might want to revert vandalism and POV edits by Serchia to the last stable version. He started an edit war by removing sourced content and causing an edit war, and even goes as far as changing the order of ethnicities in the city in a racist attempt to move the Turkmen name to the end and minimise their significance even though they are the historical majority in the city. Thank you. 82.24.229.152 ( talk) 17:03, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
FYI: someone seems to have added back the clubs and associations you removed. You might be interested in taking a look at it. Northern Moonlight | ほっこう 17:58, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi GN, I'm trying to move Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rezaee.original to show the oldest account as the master (although I intend to close it without action, as there's no evidence of WP:BADSOCKery). Trouble is, I can't. I select 'All sections', and tick the 'Move/merge full case' button, hit 'Continue', and am taken to the next screen; I can enter the new sockmaster's name, but there's no button to proceed with the move. Has something changed? Cheers Girth Summit (blether) 14:20, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello GN. Would you object to my converting your block of Special:Contributions/37.120.237.0/24 into a hardblock? I found some logged-in abuse from this range while researching a sock case. You had marked this range as a Colocation webhost. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 21:55, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
Ugh, looks like that was my fault. I had an edit conflict and must have resolved it incorrectly. Sorry about that! -- RoySmith (talk) 03:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
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22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
I see you’ve blocked User:EvidenceAlliquots for edit warring, I guess you’d better check my edits, as I’ve not been angelic myself. GimliDotNet ( talk) 17:32, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Kindly consider if this is block evasion. The first thing this user did was to create a template. Thank you. -- Whiteguru ( talk) 21:54, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello,
I came across an edit that you reverted which I believe is accurate and is not a crypto scam or something of that effect as it appears you thought at the time. The website merely has an interesting domain name, perhaps the coinye.net website would have been a better choice for the original editor to have used to improve trust. As the edit states, The original Coinye (not a fork or modified or anything like that) is still accessible with running nodes and active miners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?diff=1020771435 EL-SSS ( talk) 13:01, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
No worries I completely understand. I'll take a deeper look and get back to you with some credible sources, or make the edit myself if you think that's the best option. EL-SSS ( talk) 13:57, 30 September 2021 (UTC)