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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
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The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
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00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
The page Teefa In Trouble was blacklisted from creation by you and the article was subsequently created by some authors as Teefa in Trouble. The content seems to merit an article and it would therefore be nice if the original page had the administrator access revoked to allow creating a redirect page. The creator of the original article had given me a barnstar (one of the few that I have), and its not nice to see the redlink which indicates that I passed an article which would not have passed AFD (The original deletion was G5). Jupitus Smart 03:30, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
Also hi. TonyBallioni ( talk) 02:17, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hi you wonderful editors - these posts aren't what Wikipedia is about, I know that, but bear with me a moment..
I'm having an evening of realising that many of the editors I "started editing with" are disappearing - I guess that's par for the course, people move on. There's some editors however who have made a real lasting impression, to me personally and to the project as a whole - I won't list people (half won't want the pings, and the other half aren't active!), but I do want to say to no one in particular that your impact here goes beyond the edits you make, and the contributions you make to both the encyclopedia and to other people's lives are really appreciated.
My fondest memories to date have been the casual chats with editors I've come to know, those random emails asking how things are going.
The takeaway from this emotional message to myself? Be nice, try not to get sucked into the politics of editing too much, maybe let an editor you interact with a lot know how much you appreciate them - they might be gone before you get the chance. - TNT 😺 02:23, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
Hey TheresNoTime, I am The Medium (a student of the school). I have reported the ongoing Vandalism to our school authorities and I have confirmed that they are done by the students of our school. Whereas, I have undone all the Vulgar/Inappropriate changes done by the students and added some useful information on the school. It seems that you have mistaken me and TheStyxOath for Vandalizing the page, actually we aren't. You can thoroughly read the past 10 edits and find that we have been purging un-necessary info on our school. I hope you understand.
Medium — Preceding unsigned comment added by Medium offcl ( talk • contribs)
You didn't: see [42]. —— Serial 13:03, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Please revoke TPA for 2001:569:77A2:6700:C4CD:ACD7:9CD:689E ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). General Ization Talk 03:35, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
I'm not sure this one is a sock of xxxAnon. The behavior is basically a 0% match, even if the CU data says they are "likely". Not to put too fine a point on it, but I don't think the person behind that sockfarm is really capable of changing their behavior, to the point where the socks are extremely obvious, going back to the same subjects and making the same type of edits, whereas this account is coherent, actually responded to being blocked (a first for an xxAnon sock) and did not make any edits even remotely related to trains. Beeblebrox ( talk) 16:46, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
Welcome back! I'm glad to see you around! I hope you're doing well, and I miss talking to you! :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 02:20, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks very much for expressing trust so early in the process. As to if I have clue, please consult my future activities. If you like, continue supporting me by telling me directly when I err or by calling on me when I can be helpful. BusterD ( talk) 20:51, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SajidMir2. Multiple users including an admin have asked for CU. Thanks. Raymond3023 ( talk) 10:04, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
Hey there! I just saw that you trimmed some informations from my talk page that reveal myself little too much. I understand. No need to be sorry. I know you guys do these for best. Thanks for thinking about my safety! 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 12:05, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
Hey there again. I just saw that my request for Rollback rights was declined. I understand as you made it understand to me. I know I lost my temper many times but now, I no longer lose my temper easily. I wanted this right cause I fight many vandalism, and I mostly wanted the right when I was fighting horde of vandalisms in the Mohammad Mithun article until the page was protected after request from me. I obviously understand that I am not experienced enough yet to obtain the right. I will obviously let you know when I think I will be applying again for the right. Please let me know your opinion at the time cause your opinion is very important and you can also make things easy to understand like no other. I appreciate you. I thank you very much for your praise about my good works. I really appreciate that. Hoping to get your help whenever needed in the future, good friend. Cheers! 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 13:23, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
You are welcome. And I will obviously keep up my good work. It was an extremely pleasant and sweet conversation with you. Hope to talk to you soon again. Take care, friend! 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 18:30, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
I tried my best, do better work in every situation and did maximum to remove vandalism, please see my edits one more time. i have applied twice before. So I will accept your decision, but I will probably not apply for rollback again. I've talked to this admin a lot before ToBeFree and I tried to do work as he said, Thank you. ~ ItsSkV08 ( talk) 12:50, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi there. I was panicking over something. There have been multiple attempts to log in to my account from a new device. I didn’t log in to my account from a new device for the last 2 months. I am extremely worried and panicked. I don’t know whether or not that anonymous person was able to log in to my account but in my notification panel, it was written that ‘there was multiple attempts to log in to your account from a new device’ and a change password option was given below the message. My password was already very unique but I made it more unique. I am just panicking over the fact that my account could had been a possible attack to hacking. I also don’t know that was the person able to successfully log in to my account or not. Could you please help me in this regard cause I am extremely nervous. 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 14:10, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you so much. And yeah, I use one of the most unique passwords and I made it more unique after the event. Thanks for your cooperation again! 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 17:28, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
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For some reason, I get very confused whenever I request revdel, my apologies. I think I understand where to put the diffs, but it always seems to me that it wants the url that is being copy-violated, and I can't figure out where to put it. Maybe that is unnecessary? Thanks Jacona ( talk) 15:49, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I am curious if you would be able to take a look at some of the IP and SPA edits at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bmcabana SF. I have already opened up a SPI on the author [43] of the article and know that we publicly don't connect IPs to accounts, however we now have a number of IP edits in the AFD in which all of them have forged user signatures and were made in within a few hours. If the IPs are related to each other we can go from there to clean up the AFD if need be. Thank you in advance. This subject has a bit of history when it comes to sock puppets. McMatter ( talk)/( contrib) 14:31, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Hey, I'm messaging you to see if you could provide any assistance with a single purpose account who I consider to be a sock beyond all doubt. Here's the details.
So you can see why I think this Looks like a duck to me. I would report this but I can't find a sockpuppeteer. Appreciate any help you can offer! –– 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲( talk) 21:20, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi @ TheresNoTime:, I think you are safe there. Can you tell me, If any new IP or Registered user add unsourced content on BLP on their first edit then what should we consider i.e delete1, vandalism1, or unsourced1. Damak15 ( talk) 11:00, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
@ TheresNoTime: Thank you for your guidance. Stay safe! Damak15 ( talk) 12:20, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi TheresNoTime, apologies for the random message. I'm approaching you after seeing this SPI. I have a query. Did you run a check on CoinR? Both CoinR and Recdot have created their userpages in similar style, and almost immediately after their accounts were created- compare Special:Permalink/1036283692 and Special:Permalink/1035756171. Also, Vertob and Peccot are likely same as Recdot. All three have been awarding barnstars only to CoinR, which is odd. Again, apologies if this isn't convincing. Hope you have a great day. -- Viridian Bovary ( talk) 18:10, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
I was just moving it into the right place, it ended up in the wrong place as I started typing before the collapse. My comment stands. DuncanHill ( talk) 21:26, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
I didn't know such a thing existed until I read your page!! Also, a great effort in de-escalating the BHG and Piotrus issue! -- DaxServer ( talk) 18:43, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
[[Category:India|]]
, what does it mean? The categories are anyway rendered without the prefix, with or without the pipe. How's it useful here?
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Hello, my rollback right is till tomorrow, please check my edits and give me rollback rights for extended period of time, so i can do my work to counter vandalism smoothly....Thanks. – ItsSkV08 ( talk) 03:48, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
A new account, registered two days after the last account here was blocked, recreating Uttar Lakshmipur High School with a bunch of COPYVIO content - hmm. Do you need me to fill in the paperwork, or can you do a quick CU? Girth Summit (blether) 12:07, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
Please revoke TPA for TikiTikiForReal ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). The account is a sock of My Royal Young, whose socks make abusive unblock requests involving abusive pinging of users. Thanks. Java Hurricane 03:57, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
Yes, that was an edit conflict; the way the pages work, I literally had no access to the comment I had typed without clicking "recreate". I was not trying to reinsert the SPI as active, but I also didn't want to compose the thing again elsewhere. My belief is that the piece of behavioural evidence is fairly telling, though I'm not sure anyone will care, either. Newimpartial ( talk) 00:58, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi TNT, I came across this account and find it odd they do not clarify their affiliation with the WMF on the their User page. It could be simply be a mistake but is there a way to determine if they are WMF or do we just ask them? S0091 ( talk) 18:54, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hello TheresNoTime, I noticed that you just suppressed some edits and edit summaries RE Pitzzaboy, you might also want to remove the edit summary of this diff [44]. 192.76.8.74 ( talk) 19:46, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello, please take a look at this sockpuppet that undid your edit and used bad words for you https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Cealicuca&diff=1039355787&oldid=1039300820 86.120.179.182 ( talk) 07:24, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
My apologies for messing up the revdel request. I was using a script, and was confused by the user interface. After it posted the request incorrectly, I didn't know how to fix it at that point. Thanks for figuring it out, and I will try to use it correctly next time, or else report the copyvio to an admin directly. BilCat ( talk) 19:27, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi there. Hope you doing fine. A relatively new editor named Sheikh Habib Rahman has contacted me saying that how can he contact me more easily and that he needs help. But the strange thing is he has been writing the same thing to a few other editors as well. I just can't understand his strange question and approach to editors. He can be a spam (I am just saying, not sure). So I wanted you to check on this editor and see that is he a spam or not. I hope you understand. Sorry for disturbing you. Thanks! 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 19:35, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
User page link: Sheikh Habib Rahman 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 19:36, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your help! Cheers! 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 20:01, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi, you are the one who blocked "User:SachinKapurD" ( Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dr Sachin Kapur Fanclub). I am from bnwiki, i want to let you know that they created another account ("User:AssimAlHakeem") and i blocked them on bnwiki. I can see they are active here as well, as WP:BLOCKEVASION enwiki should block the "User:AssimAlHakeem". Here is CU data. Sorry if it isn't correct place for this type of request. Thanks. -- আফতাবুজ্জামান ( talk) 23:51, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello TNT! You've done some good work in the past on the block evasions by Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SajidMir2. Would you take a look there now, since there's already a pile of four suspected socks waiting for a CU check? Thanks, ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 18:31, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi, just so you know, I felt obligated to respond to the (multiple) pings I received from that now-confirmed sock on their talk page, but I won't be responding directly to them further. If there's anything you need from me, just drop me a note. Thanks. Taking Out The Trash ( talk) 16:14, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the Copyvio revdel on Antique Rome theatre of Ankara Vikipolimer* ( talk) 00:04, 25 August 2021 (UTC) |
Thank you for responding to my RD1 requests. However, I think you deleted one revision too many on all three articles I tagged. You also deleted the edits where the content was removed. I guess I might have tagged it wrong. Again, thank you for your time. Scorpions13256 ( talk) 17:31, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Hey TNT, we may already be needing your services again here, with four new accounts waiting to be checked. As requested by the two admins there, would it be possible to spare us some cleanup work through a range block of sorts? Thanks! ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 17:25, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
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-- Rosiestep ( talk) 21:37, 28 April 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hi TheresNoTime! I just wanted to leave you a message to let you know that I was thinking about you... I miss seeing you around, and I hope you're doing well. :-) Keep in touch! ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 20:20, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
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Women in Red | June 2021, Volume 7, Issue 6, Numbers 184, 188, 196, 199, 200, 201
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-- Rosiestep ( talk) 18:51, 28 May 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
– Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk)
00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
The page Teefa In Trouble was blacklisted from creation by you and the article was subsequently created by some authors as Teefa in Trouble. The content seems to merit an article and it would therefore be nice if the original page had the administrator access revoked to allow creating a redirect page. The creator of the original article had given me a barnstar (one of the few that I have), and its not nice to see the redlink which indicates that I passed an article which would not have passed AFD (The original deletion was G5). Jupitus Smart 03:30, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
Also hi. TonyBallioni ( talk) 02:17, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
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-- Rosiestep ( talk) 16:06, 22 June 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hi you wonderful editors - these posts aren't what Wikipedia is about, I know that, but bear with me a moment..
I'm having an evening of realising that many of the editors I "started editing with" are disappearing - I guess that's par for the course, people move on. There's some editors however who have made a real lasting impression, to me personally and to the project as a whole - I won't list people (half won't want the pings, and the other half aren't active!), but I do want to say to no one in particular that your impact here goes beyond the edits you make, and the contributions you make to both the encyclopedia and to other people's lives are really appreciated.
My fondest memories to date have been the casual chats with editors I've come to know, those random emails asking how things are going.
The takeaway from this emotional message to myself? Be nice, try not to get sucked into the politics of editing too much, maybe let an editor you interact with a lot know how much you appreciate them - they might be gone before you get the chance. - TNT 😺 02:23, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
Hey TheresNoTime, I am The Medium (a student of the school). I have reported the ongoing Vandalism to our school authorities and I have confirmed that they are done by the students of our school. Whereas, I have undone all the Vulgar/Inappropriate changes done by the students and added some useful information on the school. It seems that you have mistaken me and TheStyxOath for Vandalizing the page, actually we aren't. You can thoroughly read the past 10 edits and find that we have been purging un-necessary info on our school. I hope you understand.
Medium — Preceding unsigned comment added by Medium offcl ( talk • contribs)
You didn't: see [42]. —— Serial 13:03, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Please revoke TPA for 2001:569:77A2:6700:C4CD:ACD7:9CD:689E ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). General Ization Talk 03:35, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
I'm not sure this one is a sock of xxxAnon. The behavior is basically a 0% match, even if the CU data says they are "likely". Not to put too fine a point on it, but I don't think the person behind that sockfarm is really capable of changing their behavior, to the point where the socks are extremely obvious, going back to the same subjects and making the same type of edits, whereas this account is coherent, actually responded to being blocked (a first for an xxAnon sock) and did not make any edits even remotely related to trains. Beeblebrox ( talk) 16:46, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
Welcome back! I'm glad to see you around! I hope you're doing well, and I miss talking to you! :-) ~Oshwah~ (talk) (contribs) 02:20, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks very much for expressing trust so early in the process. As to if I have clue, please consult my future activities. If you like, continue supporting me by telling me directly when I err or by calling on me when I can be helpful. BusterD ( talk) 20:51, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SajidMir2. Multiple users including an admin have asked for CU. Thanks. Raymond3023 ( talk) 10:04, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
Hey there! I just saw that you trimmed some informations from my talk page that reveal myself little too much. I understand. No need to be sorry. I know you guys do these for best. Thanks for thinking about my safety! 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 12:05, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
Hey there again. I just saw that my request for Rollback rights was declined. I understand as you made it understand to me. I know I lost my temper many times but now, I no longer lose my temper easily. I wanted this right cause I fight many vandalism, and I mostly wanted the right when I was fighting horde of vandalisms in the Mohammad Mithun article until the page was protected after request from me. I obviously understand that I am not experienced enough yet to obtain the right. I will obviously let you know when I think I will be applying again for the right. Please let me know your opinion at the time cause your opinion is very important and you can also make things easy to understand like no other. I appreciate you. I thank you very much for your praise about my good works. I really appreciate that. Hoping to get your help whenever needed in the future, good friend. Cheers! 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 13:23, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
You are welcome. And I will obviously keep up my good work. It was an extremely pleasant and sweet conversation with you. Hope to talk to you soon again. Take care, friend! 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 18:30, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
I tried my best, do better work in every situation and did maximum to remove vandalism, please see my edits one more time. i have applied twice before. So I will accept your decision, but I will probably not apply for rollback again. I've talked to this admin a lot before ToBeFree and I tried to do work as he said, Thank you. ~ ItsSkV08 ( talk) 12:50, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi there. I was panicking over something. There have been multiple attempts to log in to my account from a new device. I didn’t log in to my account from a new device for the last 2 months. I am extremely worried and panicked. I don’t know whether or not that anonymous person was able to log in to my account but in my notification panel, it was written that ‘there was multiple attempts to log in to your account from a new device’ and a change password option was given below the message. My password was already very unique but I made it more unique. I am just panicking over the fact that my account could had been a possible attack to hacking. I also don’t know that was the person able to successfully log in to my account or not. Could you please help me in this regard cause I am extremely nervous. 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 14:10, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you so much. And yeah, I use one of the most unique passwords and I made it more unique after the event. Thanks for your cooperation again! 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 17:28, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
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For some reason, I get very confused whenever I request revdel, my apologies. I think I understand where to put the diffs, but it always seems to me that it wants the url that is being copy-violated, and I can't figure out where to put it. Maybe that is unnecessary? Thanks Jacona ( talk) 15:49, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I am curious if you would be able to take a look at some of the IP and SPA edits at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bmcabana SF. I have already opened up a SPI on the author [43] of the article and know that we publicly don't connect IPs to accounts, however we now have a number of IP edits in the AFD in which all of them have forged user signatures and were made in within a few hours. If the IPs are related to each other we can go from there to clean up the AFD if need be. Thank you in advance. This subject has a bit of history when it comes to sock puppets. McMatter ( talk)/( contrib) 14:31, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Hey, I'm messaging you to see if you could provide any assistance with a single purpose account who I consider to be a sock beyond all doubt. Here's the details.
So you can see why I think this Looks like a duck to me. I would report this but I can't find a sockpuppeteer. Appreciate any help you can offer! –– 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲( talk) 21:20, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi @ TheresNoTime:, I think you are safe there. Can you tell me, If any new IP or Registered user add unsourced content on BLP on their first edit then what should we consider i.e delete1, vandalism1, or unsourced1. Damak15 ( talk) 11:00, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
@ TheresNoTime: Thank you for your guidance. Stay safe! Damak15 ( talk) 12:20, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi TheresNoTime, apologies for the random message. I'm approaching you after seeing this SPI. I have a query. Did you run a check on CoinR? Both CoinR and Recdot have created their userpages in similar style, and almost immediately after their accounts were created- compare Special:Permalink/1036283692 and Special:Permalink/1035756171. Also, Vertob and Peccot are likely same as Recdot. All three have been awarding barnstars only to CoinR, which is odd. Again, apologies if this isn't convincing. Hope you have a great day. -- Viridian Bovary ( talk) 18:10, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
I was just moving it into the right place, it ended up in the wrong place as I started typing before the collapse. My comment stands. DuncanHill ( talk) 21:26, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
I didn't know such a thing existed until I read your page!! Also, a great effort in de-escalating the BHG and Piotrus issue! -- DaxServer ( talk) 18:43, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
[[Category:India|]]
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Hello, my rollback right is till tomorrow, please check my edits and give me rollback rights for extended period of time, so i can do my work to counter vandalism smoothly....Thanks. – ItsSkV08 ( talk) 03:48, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
A new account, registered two days after the last account here was blocked, recreating Uttar Lakshmipur High School with a bunch of COPYVIO content - hmm. Do you need me to fill in the paperwork, or can you do a quick CU? Girth Summit (blether) 12:07, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
Please revoke TPA for TikiTikiForReal ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). The account is a sock of My Royal Young, whose socks make abusive unblock requests involving abusive pinging of users. Thanks. Java Hurricane 03:57, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
Yes, that was an edit conflict; the way the pages work, I literally had no access to the comment I had typed without clicking "recreate". I was not trying to reinsert the SPI as active, but I also didn't want to compose the thing again elsewhere. My belief is that the piece of behavioural evidence is fairly telling, though I'm not sure anyone will care, either. Newimpartial ( talk) 00:58, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi TNT, I came across this account and find it odd they do not clarify their affiliation with the WMF on the their User page. It could be simply be a mistake but is there a way to determine if they are WMF or do we just ask them? S0091 ( talk) 18:54, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hello TheresNoTime, I noticed that you just suppressed some edits and edit summaries RE Pitzzaboy, you might also want to remove the edit summary of this diff [44]. 192.76.8.74 ( talk) 19:46, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello, please take a look at this sockpuppet that undid your edit and used bad words for you https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Cealicuca&diff=1039355787&oldid=1039300820 86.120.179.182 ( talk) 07:24, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
My apologies for messing up the revdel request. I was using a script, and was confused by the user interface. After it posted the request incorrectly, I didn't know how to fix it at that point. Thanks for figuring it out, and I will try to use it correctly next time, or else report the copyvio to an admin directly. BilCat ( talk) 19:27, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi there. Hope you doing fine. A relatively new editor named Sheikh Habib Rahman has contacted me saying that how can he contact me more easily and that he needs help. But the strange thing is he has been writing the same thing to a few other editors as well. I just can't understand his strange question and approach to editors. He can be a spam (I am just saying, not sure). So I wanted you to check on this editor and see that is he a spam or not. I hope you understand. Sorry for disturbing you. Thanks! 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 19:35, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
User page link: Sheikh Habib Rahman 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 19:36, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your help! Cheers! 👉Chynapras👈 ( talk) 20:01, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi, you are the one who blocked "User:SachinKapurD" ( Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dr Sachin Kapur Fanclub). I am from bnwiki, i want to let you know that they created another account ("User:AssimAlHakeem") and i blocked them on bnwiki. I can see they are active here as well, as WP:BLOCKEVASION enwiki should block the "User:AssimAlHakeem". Here is CU data. Sorry if it isn't correct place for this type of request. Thanks. -- আফতাবুজ্জামান ( talk) 23:51, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello TNT! You've done some good work in the past on the block evasions by Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SajidMir2. Would you take a look there now, since there's already a pile of four suspected socks waiting for a CU check? Thanks, ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 18:31, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi, just so you know, I felt obligated to respond to the (multiple) pings I received from that now-confirmed sock on their talk page, but I won't be responding directly to them further. If there's anything you need from me, just drop me a note. Thanks. Taking Out The Trash ( talk) 16:14, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the Copyvio revdel on Antique Rome theatre of Ankara Vikipolimer* ( talk) 00:04, 25 August 2021 (UTC) |
Thank you for responding to my RD1 requests. However, I think you deleted one revision too many on all three articles I tagged. You also deleted the edits where the content was removed. I guess I might have tagged it wrong. Again, thank you for your time. Scorpions13256 ( talk) 17:31, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Hey TNT, we may already be needing your services again here, with four new accounts waiting to be checked. As requested by the two admins there, would it be possible to spare us some cleanup work through a range block of sorts? Thanks! ☿ Apaugasma ( talk ☉) 17:25, 26 August 2021 (UTC)