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Hey Serge and @ Ferret: Just letting you know that BlaccCrab is back after being blocked on 68.134.190.154 at 98.117.49.13. Ferret can privately confirm this is BlaccCrab but I know it can't be publicly revealed for privacy and that's not what I'm asking for. IP geolocates to Maryland; same topic area of country and rock songs; removing content regarding what's a "promo single" and what's not here. The edit summaries are very much BlaccCrab's style [1] [2]. Ss 112 19:50, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

I don't know if that enough for me to take DUCK action - that all seems possible, but also very much so like many rude/misguided music-related editors. Perhaps ferret can help you with his powers. Sergecross73 msg me 18:09, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello. I saw your posts at AN/I and on the user's talk page. I was planning to post that here when I started writing it, as you're familiar with the user. But when I found the SPI, it seemed a bit much; I didn't wish to impose, and thought extra eyes might help. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 18:42, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, FYI, feel free to come to me directly first in situations like this, so we can avoid the chaos of ANI. As long as it's active, I was going to wait and see if there was any point, but if there's no dissenting opinions, I'll probably indef him. Sergecross73 msg me 22:09, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. An indef does look like the only way out here. Dissenting opinions seem unlikely. BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 01:42, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, you're right. I'll issue the blocks and you can archive your ANI post and we can just have it all wrapped up. Sergecross73 msg me 01:47, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Blocked, and archived the discussion. (Don't know why I asked you to do that.) Sergecross73 msg me 01:58, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

I could do with a bit of practice. I so rarely close discussions, I have to read the template docs every time. Thanks for getting this sorted quickly. BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 06:28, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

@ BlackcurrantTea and Sergecross73: I'm super confused. The SPI case here has mostly people saying that he's definitely confirmed, and one with a nonsensical conclusion that there's no evidence of abuse. So why isn't there a template on each of the three users' talk pages saying they're at least suspected sockpuppets and name the sockmaster? — Smuckola (talk) 10:01, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Smuckola, from posts in various places on the topic of socks, I learned that some admins (both checkusers and not) prefer that the user pages not be tagged, so I leave it up to the blocking admin(s). Aside from WP:DENY-ing LTAs, whether or not to tag them seems to be a matter of personal taste. It's less convenient, but the information is often on the blocked user's contributions page. BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 22:12, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes, that's all it is. I don't usually spend time tagging socks. I won't stand in anyone's way though. Feel free to tag them. I don't know if all admin feel this way, but I don't care if anyone tags them as such when it's relatively clear that that's the reason I blocked them. Sergecross73 msg me 22:15, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

User was making vandalising edits to Privacy. /info/en/?search=User_talk:24.5.197.126#c-24.5.197.126-20231220185500-24.5.197.126-20231220185200 Geardona ( talk) 18:57, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Protected, warned. Sergecross73 msg me 19:01, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Awesome thanks! Geardona ( talk) 19:02, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello, I just wanted to thank you for undoing my edit. My initial thought was to be bold and remove inclusions of sources that did not have any explanation provided, but the more I consider it, I think you're right that there should be more discussion there before removing them outright. Thank you for your revert, I'm sorry for any inconvenience I may have caused. JeffSpaceman ( talk) 23:56, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

No worries at all. For the record, I do "practice what I preach" too. Years back I went through and started discussions for a bunch of the entries on there today. It got tedious after a while, so I stopped. But I'd be happy to help if you'd like to work on it some again. Sergecross73 msg me 00:05, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

I appreciate you offering assistance. Would it be OK if I add explanations for some of the blank sources based on what I find in discussions, or even from the sources themselves? Your edit summary actually prompted me to go to metalwani to see what qualifies that source as unreliable (so much so that it's on the spam blacklist), and I think it's worth pointing out that it does not provide any authorship for its articles and appears to be a content farm. However, do you think this is a good idea? JeffSpaceman ( talk) 00:19, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I think that generally works. Here's what I had done. I'd open up a discussion on WT:VG. I'd say "I'm trying to get start a discussion on this source so we have a more concrete consensus on it. I don't think Metalwani should be considered a reliable source. They seem to be an amateur blog with writers that don't have any credentials." Then wait and see what people say. And if there's a consensus (or no opposition) then add a link to the conversation on its entry at WP:RSMUSIC or WP:NOTRSMUSIC with some notes from the discussion.

You could just add your own notes, but you might get some opposition from others if they don't agree. If you write the notes as a summary of the discussion, it's a lot harder for anyone to oppose it. Sergecross73 msg me 01:33, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the feedback. This has been very helpful, thank you! JeffSpaceman ( talk) 02:33, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Hey Serge,

Look at the talk page for the 2600 games there is a lot of discussion about why the list is split into 3 sections on the same article.

The first being the Atari/Sears published games

The other about games made by third party publishers (which NO other lists does!)

The other about homebrew games (which I have no problem with but if it gets too many just make a seperate list of homebrew games in its own article.

So is there any way to bring this up to a higher up or something like we did with the merge NES and Famicom games? NakhlaMan ( talk) 04:54, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

I can start a discussion for you at WT:VG if you want, but the article doesn't seem to be very actively maintained, or have any experienced editors watching over it, so you might be able to just be WP:BOLD and just go for it. Your call. Let me know. Sergecross73 msg me 18:04, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes please start a discussion. Thank you very much. NakhlaMan ( talk) 00:21, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#List of Atari 2600 games cleanup input. Sergecross73 msg me 15:16, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Serge's 32nd iteration of his own personal WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. Feel free to report anything you feel may need admin intervention. Sergecross73 msg me 16:22, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

• I haven't gotten a response from RFPP yet, so please protect List of Red Dead Redemption 2 characters. QuicoleJR ( talk) 15:22, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

  Protected. Sergecross73 msg me 15:48, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

• 47.205.71.90 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Looks like block evasion of 47.202.17.99 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 22:13, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

  Blocked. Sergecross73 msg me 14:24, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

• AE3907 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) NOTHERE, keeps using their userspace as some weird forum of sorts. QuicoleJR ( talk) 15:48, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

  @ QuicoleJR This doesn't at all deserve a NOTHERE indef block, especially without any sort of warnings or outreach. -- ferret ( talk) 17:51, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

  Fair. QuicoleJR ( talk) 17:55, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

  Gave them a message, we'll see if it works. QuicoleJR ( talk) 17:58, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

• 73.176.236.82 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Edit-warring on Toad (Nintendo) to add pronouns. Might require the page to be protected. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 20:48, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

  Protected. -- ferret ( talk) 20:51, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

• Cramybuster ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) WP:NOTHERE, obvious spam-only account. Every single one of their contributions are attempts at publicizing their YouTube channel. QuicoleJR ( talk) 22:11, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

  Indef'd. -- ferret ( talk) 22:24, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

• 179.6.18.8 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Exceeded multiple last warnings regarding genre warring. No evident interest in complying. Blocked once already for 24 hours for the same thing just to immediately return to it. dannymusiceditor ^oops 02:35, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

  Blocked. Sergecross73 msg me 12:46, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

• Serge, could you restore long-term protection to Un Verano Sin Ti? For the last month, it appears ItsMario97 has been reverting that annoying IP editor that can't accept MOS:THEBAND is a thing. Three times today alone. ItsMario97 has also been reverting the editor several times on The Marías, so that might benefit from protection as well. Obsession is an understatement when it comes to this IP. Also, they were blatantly xenophobic to ItsMario97 earlier this month here. Ss 112 05:36, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

  Done. (I can't believe how persistent they are about such a minor thing.) Sergecross73 msg me 13:27, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

• RFPP has missed the Talk pages and SPI has been absent lately on enforcing this four-year LTA sockpuppet using Wikipedia as a WP:BATTLEGROUND to reignite the actual Kansas-Missouri border war! Only Kansas City metropolitan area has been protected short term, so he seethes and trolls on Talk pages. Get ready to reprotect forever. All of the IP edits on all these article pages and most on the Talk pages are this guy, as he brags. Half of the content of Talk:Kansas City metropolitan area presently consists of broken-record trolling from his fictional robot character that effectively says "I was born yesterday and innocently just noticed this one detail", but also Talk:Johnson County, Kansas Talk:Economy of Kansas City Talk:Overland Park, Kansas and their article pages, plus User talk:DavidMCEddy User talk:Smuckola and multiple other user talks. Secondarily, my question is how to handle the threads of the willfully trolled respondent on Talk:Kansas City metropolitan area, who had previously handled this identical topic as vandalism on that very same page, and is now a belligerently oblivious participant. Oops. Do we delete the whole threads as per WP:BLOCKEVASION WP:DENY and does that require an admin to do it when a person aggressively swallowed the troll's bait? Not that it should matter, but the thread seems materially worthless, but maybe it just gets archived, I dunno, you tell me. The good villagers of the prairie took up a collection to ask Marshal Serge to help us. Or ya know, Obi-wan Kenobi, Festus, ferret, Batman, Darth Vader, or whoever's around, please. Thank you so much, o friendly and wise ones. — Smuckola (talk) 22:30, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

  Looks like the talk pages got protected for two weeks, which is pretty good, as generally protecting talk pages are seen as a last resort and only for very brief periods of time. Generally, if anyone else commented, I archive them, and if no one did and it's just the block evader's comment(s) in isolation, I delete them. Sergecross73 msg me 18:47, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

  I'm sorry about all the stupid details, but this issue has been at the end of my rope for weeks with still no response whatsoever from SPI and mostly getting juggled at RFPP. This was my crash course in both. — Smuckola (talk) 07:19, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

  It looks like it got declined on August 1st and they just haven't closed/archived it yet... Sergecross73 msg me 18:12, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

• 2009cATBOOK ( talk · contribs) pretty much writes all junk or WP:OR, spams endless patently unencyclopedic drafts, has a COI accusation, and won't respond to Talk page ever. WP:CIR WP:NOTHERE — Smuckola (talk) 07:19, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

  Gave him a detailed warning that his conduct needs improvement, but I don't think we're really at the level to do much else yet. His conduct feels more in the ballpark of "careless" and "sloppy" than "malicious". Sergecross73 msg me 18:11, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

  I’m not very experienced. I didn’t know I was supposed to respond to talk pages! Sorry about that; as you can see I’ve been checking my sources more thoroughly lately, as with the Yellow Industry, and I haven’t written a junk article in a while. I’ll try do do better ahead. Sorry about this. 2009cATBOOK ( talk) 02:18, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

• Regarding SuperWario64's final warning on adding unsourced information, would this count against him? -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 15:53, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
  • And this? -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 15:57, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

    Yes, the "Timer" was explicitly after my warning. And I think we're getting into CIR/NOTHERE territory. Blocked, with the option of unblocking if they can show they're serious about editing. Sergecross73 msg me 17:17, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

    Thank you. While I reverted both the edits I linked above, he reverted them both back before he was blocked. I re-reverted them again, SMDH. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 17:45, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

• SuperMarioAdvance2 2002 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Looks like that vandal who was block evading earlier today. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 22:27, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

  Yup. Thanks. Blocked. Sergecross73 msg me 23:26, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Can you indefinitely semi-protect Pizza Tower? It's constantly subject to bad edits and it shows no sign of stopping despite at least two previous protections. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 11:52, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Protected. Started at 6 months, but I'll expand to indef next time if it's still a problem. Sergecross73 msg me 12:04, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

• 2A06:C701:710E:E00:D5FF:74F2:BBD8:713D ( talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Vandalizing Kirby (character). The article might need to be protected also, it attracts vandalism similar to Toad. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 23:40, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

  Protected page. Will block IP if they come back and vandalize any other pages. Sergecross73 msg me 14:27, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

• Hey Serge, would you be able to protect The Love Album: Off the Grid, if you think it's worth protecting yet? In the last half a day I've reverted two rounds of IPs adding unverified information and as the album approaches release I can foresee it getting worse. Ss 112 22:43, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

  It was kind of on the edge of needing it, but it would have been hard to justify protecting it through its release. And since this, its largely died down. For now, I think it'll be better to just keep an eye on, and it can be protected if it starts getting worse again. Sergecross73 msg me 16:43, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

• Not exactly vandalism but was wondering if you can temporarily semi-protect List of highest-grossing media franchises? I don't want to keep reverting. I should note that the user brought back some of the sources that were added by User:Maestro2016. Timur9008 ( talk) 17:49, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

  I started off with a warning - page protection probably wouldn't work like you'd want it to - its not a brand new account or an IP, so protecting it either wouldn't lock them out of the article, or higher protection would lock you out of it too. Let's see if they engage in any discussion first and take it from there. Sergecross73 msg me 18:02, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

• 69.123.102.47 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) -- I'm pretty sure this is the same user who uploads poor decorative screenshots to articles, having put the same terrible image on both Mario Kart 8 and Kart racing game. His edit summaries are the typical BS like "F-Zero with Captain Falcon!" and "Racing with Mario and his friends for 31 years and adding Hot Wheels Unleashed!". -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 02:04, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

• They've uploaded these terrible images as Star3434 on Wikimedia Commons, so they might need to be blocked there too. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 02:07, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

  I've blocked the IP. I don't really do anything in Commons, so I'll let someone else get him. (It's inevitable with how bad his decisions always are...) Sergecross73 msg me 02:13, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

• Mind protecting Super Mario Galaxy 2 for a while? There's an IP-hopping vandal for keeps adding Switch as a platform. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 17:37, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

  Done. Sergecross73 msg me 18:30, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

• Not vandalism, but 71.95.195.207 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) might be related to Only1greenyoshi ( talk · contribs) / Newjeani ( talk · contribs). Their editing patterns and the time of day at which they edit are all similar. Harushiga ( talk) 05:12, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

  I don't think that's really enough for me to do a WP:DUCK block. You might want to try starting up an WP:SPI case... Sergecross73 msg me 13:27, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

• Hey Serge. Would you be able to protect Bewitched (Laufey album)? There's an IP editor who doesn't appear to be editing on the same range each time they edit who's changing the genre from what the source says and has done so three times in the past several days now. The issue here is the musician and YouTuber Adam Neely did a video on the singer Laufey being called "jazz" in which he took issue with her being considered jazz as she doesn't meet the "criteria" laid down by jazz historians and disputed what "non-jazz reviewing critics" have described her latest album as. I don't particularly care what she's considered, but I'm sticking to the source(s). So obviously his viewers (including this persistent IP editor) have come here and taken issue with the genre on her latest album and are not following WP:BRD or WP:STICKTOSOURCE. Ss 112 18:13, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

  Protected the page, left a note on the talk page about how we handle genre on Wikipedia. Sergecross73 msg me 18:37, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

• Where did Linus go, Charlie Brown? ( talk · contribs) See the user talk page please. And I think we probably have the Kansascitt sockpuppet back at Kansas City metropolitan area. And I'd sent you an email several weeks ago. Thank you! — Smuckola (talk) 19:23, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

  NinjaRobotPirate has given them a final warning since you've written this, and I think that's probably the same thing I would have done. Yes, "Linus" needs to start using sources, but their edits appear to be both in good-faith and not-very-prolific (3 edits this week, 50 edits in about 5 months) so I'd rather not jump to blocking yet.

  sorry, I must have missed your email. I protected the page because that IP seemed disruptive regardless of who they are, but I'm not super familiar with this sock, so I may not be a great go-to on this one in a general sense... Sergecross73 msg me 13:00, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  Thank you so much and maybe y'all wouldn't mind getting this protected also. Here is his latest confession of lifestyle commitment to wikicrimes, couched as an unblock request, for your amusement! Or I'll post it at RFPP. — Smuckola (talk) 20:42, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

  Where did Linus go, Charlie Brown? ( talk · contribs) Regarding this user again, NinjaRobotPirate blew off enforcing anything as usual, and this editor is just robotically unstoppable and uncommunicative. His only response to anything is edit warring to reinstate deleted and warned content. The WP:OR has recently escalated to naked corporate WP:PROMO like this. I've already reverted walls of WP:NOTDIR WP:TRIVIA but every other minor edit is just chipping away WP:OR about corporated trivia and about WP:FANCRUFT of books or whatever. Thank you. — Smuckola (talk) 20:41, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

  Gave Linus a final chance to discuss how Wikipedia's sourcing policy works. He didn't respond, and instead went and made another edit with sourcing issues, so I've blocked for a week. Sergecross73 msg me 16:08, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

  Yeah, his third final! — Smuckola (talk) 18:47, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

  I agree that his edits were disruptive, but things like "amount of disruption" and "level of good faith/bad faith intention" are factors that play into how to handle disruptive editors. Yes, his edits were not great, and he was not engaging in discussion. But he wasn't prolific, toxic, POV-pushing, or creating damaging BLP violations. His edits skewed far closer to "clueless" than "malicious". Sergecross73 msg me 19:02, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

• Possible revdel needed from a racist IP edit at Elliott Smith. Sorry I'm asking you to look at it. dannymusiceditor ^oops 20:12, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

  Revdel'd. Yikes, some people. I don't mind having to look at it if it means I can keep others from having to see it. Thanks for saying something. Sergecross73 msg me 21:21, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

• Sorry to be back so soon, but would you consider protecting one of my GAs, Deftones, to some degree? There's been an unusually high amount of vandalism and poor quality edits in the past week and change. Not sure if it meets the mark but it's definitely worth a look. dannymusiceditor ^oops 02:22, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

  Done, it was enough for a short one at least. Let me know if it continues after a week has passed and I can always extend it. (Any idea what's causing it? Something happening with the band/fandom? Or just random?) Sergecross73 msg me 16:03, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

  Seems like a random spike. I'd be inclined to believe the latest series might be the same person, but I haven't checked the addresses to confirm if that's likely. Dunno if this will indent properly on mobile, feel free to fix. dannymusiceditor ^oops 18:07, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

• 69.123.102.47 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) This block-evader is back, with the same useless edit summaries and original research. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 05:04, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

  Ugh. Blocked again. Longer this time, since he keeps coming back to the same IP. Sergecross73 msg me 14:41, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

• Hey Serge, could you protect Far Out (website)? There's an editor who has a registered account but is also editing with an IP address who is restoring several KB of unsourced PR speak for the website. Ss 112 18:29, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

  Done. Sergecross73 msg me 22:35, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

• 2409:4081:8790:b968::29ec:e8a1 ( talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) and 2409:4081:8798:9710:0:0:1B31:90A1 ( talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Not really a vandal, but it's giving me WP:CIR vibes. This user is going around to replying to random threads asking for help. When someone did respond, they replied with a rambling word salad. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 20:01, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

  Yeah, I actually stumbled across this separately at WT:VG. I'm told it's an indeffed editor from Simple Wikipedia. I blocked one of them. The other, I'm assuming, they've already jumped from, so it's probably not necessary to block them, but if they return I'll address it then. Sergecross73 msg me 23:54, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

• Elion.balaj ( talk · contribs) Vandalism only, in a WP:TENDENTIOUS pattern on very popular or generic articles just to annoy people. All edits were reverted. See the Talk page for effectively his confession. — Smuckola (talk) 07:34, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

  I'm having a hard time determining if it's vandalism or simply misguided, but either way, they haven't violated your final warning yet. I'll keep an eye on them though. Sergecross73 msg me 19:58, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

  Yeah, he won't stop. All nutty noise for disruption, all reverted. — Smuckola (talk) 18:47, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

• Equalwidth ( talk · contribs) This is one of the most gallingly bizarre cases I've seen in a long time, like the saying of "a chimp with a machine gun". This is a new user who, after less than 100 edits, acts like he absolutely WP:OWNs Wikipedia and started doing every kind of extreme thing possible. This is definitively WP:TENDENTIOUS WP:NOTHERE WP:CIR. He did drive-by nominations and rejections of Good articles; [3] see his talk page for the blithely defiant discourse where he's stringing people along, pretending to instruct them, and putting on airs of magical authority, with self-contradictions. Then just refusing to justify his unilateral edicts. He wrote a gibberish fake essay against making citations, in total hypocrisy of everything he pretended to lecture his GA victims about, by trying to lay out a nonsensical strategy that advocates maximal laziness in wrecking the encyclopedia and ignoring or redefining its base concepts. [4] He constantly tells everyone that he's constitutionally incapable of finding sources (like he can't operate google?), but sends warnings and AfD's to everybody else for not citing. [5] More rambling against competency. [6] He created at least one garbage article with no content, and junk citations, in total hypocrisy of his fake essay. This is just plain nuts to chastise someone just for sending him a welcome message, but especially while also sending tons of welcome messages to other users. [7] He randomly and wrongly renamed an article while admitting in the edit message that it is pointless. [8] [9] He wildly and baselessly accused me of vandalism [10] for simply reverting the abuser you had just blocked. [11] He demoted 3dfx!!!!!! [12] My mind is too blown to even start sending warnings. And I'm sick of it so there ya go! — Smuckola (talk) 09:22, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

  Um... That is because I HAVE edited Wikipedia before and because I don't know where to start to become a normal 500-edits user. I will try to cool this down, and I WILL try to stop the WP:TENDENTIOUS WP:NOTHERE WP:CIR because I feel tired of reading all this. 1788 characters? Really! I hope this does NOT happen again. This is just 10 edits out of all my edits. And also this is the wrong place to post this, you clearly did not read the page title. Equal width ( C) 10:30, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

  And why not throw in the obligatory WP:SOCKPUPPET just in case? Just for absolutely no reason at all but to WP:OWN the world? [13] — Smuckola (talk) 11:14, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

  That’s not a sock puppet, it’s my PS4/HP Victus 15L alt account. Equal width ( C) 14:27, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

  I've left my input at User talk:Equalwidth#Please change your approach, as I don't want it to get lost in my massive talk page. Sergecross73 msg me 15:01, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

  Blocked for a week, with a warning that the next one will be an indef. Sergecross73 msg me 15:40, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

• TheAnaheimDude ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Added the category "Hamster Corporation games" to dozens of articles, including "Super Mario Bros." In the few I checked, Hamster is not mentioned at all in the article, or the game isn't listed oon the actual Hamster Corporation article. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 22:07, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

To clarify, it seems all these games are on the list of Arcade Archives which is an emulation collection published by the company, but it doesn't mean the individual games are considered to have been published. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 22:11, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

I'm placing blocks here shortly. A lot of CU confirmed sockpuppetry. -- ferret ( talk) 22:22, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

See Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Enrique94834. -- ferret ( talk) 22:33, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Wow, yikes. Thank you for the help. Sergecross73 msg me 02:10, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

• There's an IP hopper that keeps editing New Super Mario Bros. U to say that it's the "final" entry. Would you mind protecting the page? -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 00:27, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

  Protected. Personally, as an editor, I'd remove/rework that whole bit, as the New games are less of a separate series and more of an art style, but I'll leave that others, as I don't want to get involved... Sergecross73 msg me 00:41, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

  Mind protecting these articles again? The IP hopper immediately jumped to adding that it's part of a series after it was unprotected. ThomasO1989 ( talk) 21:56, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

  Done. Sergecross73 msg me 22:22, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

• Hey Serge, do you think it might be worth protecting One More Time (Blink-182 song) to stop a slow-motion edit war? For the past several weeks, an IP editor has been removing a note I have put about the chart guideline WP:USCHARTS and restoring additional charts there, despite my efforts to try to tell them we shouldn't do this. They've also been making unsourced edits to the prose. Ss 112 00:31, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

  Done. Sergecross73 msg me 00:58, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

• 66.188.42.50 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) 138.199.107.18 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) Pure and delicious vandalism, as clear as a 90s craze. Except bad, very bad. — Smuckola (talk) 02:58, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

  No doubt, that's vandalism. But he's only made one edit in the last 8 months, and 2 in all of 2023. One was removed after a few hours, and one was removed virtually instantly from Cluebot. Theres...not exactly much disruption to be prevented here... Sergecross73 msg me 18:06, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

• Hey Serge, can you protect Edging (song)? An editor is edit warring to retain charts there just like on One More Time (Blink-182 song). Also, they're trolling now... Ss 112 19:02, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
  • Seconded, having tried to politely explain the US chart guidelines to one of the IPs involved, only to be summarily blown off. -- Dylan620 (he/him · talk · edits) 19:04, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

    Ponyo has already protected. -- ferret ( talk) 19:42, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

• 136.33.15.38 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) WP:SOCKPUPPET suspect. This is the same WP:QUACKery as my above reports, with the years of mass WP:TEND of the Kansas City articles. So I'm requesting a block and another protection of Overland Park, Kansas. Here's the quack criteria. Hair-raisingly desperately nonsensical WP:SYNTH about a city’s population being determined by daily commute, lol! SYNTH or OR conclusion from the demographic data about downtown population making it the biggest suburb and stuff. It has the same history of basic illiterate spelling and formatting mistakes and typos: malformatting all dates for non-US, putting a space before every bleeping <ref>, lack of apostrophes altogether unless they're MOS:CURLY, sourcing only either the census or random corporate spam advertisements like demographicsbyradius.com, and the dizzy clueless robotic politeness while obstinately reinstating mistakes. It's all an identical pattern. These articles will all inevitably require permanent protection. Thanks. — Smuckola (talk) 10:23, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Now the sockpuppet troll is at Downtown Kansas City. Anybody? @ Ferret:? Bueller? ...ferret bueller? — Smuckola (talk) 22:56, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

If you're unhappy with my response or response time, please feel free to ask elsewhere. Ive already mentioned that Kanas City related subjects aren't really in my wheelhouse. This area is really more for reporting simple stuff like "They keep changing Super Mario Bros to Super Poop Bros" or "They keep adding deathcore as a genre for Taylor Swift" type stuff. Not "IP hoppers aren't citing demographic data correctly for Kansas City statistics." Others are better equipped to act on that sort of stuff. Sergecross73 msg me 16:44, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

• /info/en/?search=User_talk:130.193.207.162 Seems to enjoy making vandalising edits to pages about bathrooms Geardona ( talk) 19:15, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

  Weird. Protected bathrooms, as it looked like multiple zips were making bad edits. Sergecross73 msg me 20:16, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

• User talk:71.94.198.36 is disrupting Back Bay Fens Geardona ( talk) 20:15, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

  Was blocked by Ingenuity. -- ferret ( talk) 04:12, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

• 118.34.42.146 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Persistent disruptive editing, was already blocked a few times before. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 22:48, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

  Blocked six months. -- ferret ( talk) 22:58, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

• 70.30.217.146 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Keeps opening discussions on a sequel to Talk:The Super Mario Bros. Movie that delve into WP:FORUM or WP:CRYSTAL. Received a direct warning but responded that they will not stop. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 04:19, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

  Final warned. Sergecross73 msg me 02:18, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

  69.159.165.127 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) They're block evading (this had gotten blocked by Ponyo before) and is spouting personal attacks. -- ThomasO1989 ( talk) 07:15, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

  Blocked. Sergecross73 msg me 13:41, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks! Same to you! Sergecross73 msg me 16:17, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

@ TheJoebro64: That's right, to you, Serge, talk page stalkers everywhere, and everybody else! — Smuckola (talk) 20:21, 25 December 2023 (UTC)