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Would you glance over the collection of socks for Shiptiss? I've just blocked (confirmed to each other, behaviorially to Shiptiss) DavaODrecca and Lyzrd. When searching through logs to check notes on past socks, several of which I blocked on behavior/NOTHERE alone without CU in the past, I kept seeing A134's name pop up. Just like a more familiar eye to take a look. -- ferret ( talk) 01:36, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
With one edit, most CUs probably won't be able to identify this user, but you aren't like most CUs. The pressure is on... -- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:11, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 07:03, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
I always give the weird ones to you. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Winged Blades of Godric and the filer Timovinga. Account created two days ago. First edit to create a userpage. Several consecutive edits to one article. And then an SPI with elaborate, detailed, well-presented evidence, using diffs AND special sub-tools of EIA that I haven't seen before.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:06, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Would you mind revoking TPA on this user? Joyous! Noise! 12:41, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
it looks like you and Widr might have had an edit conflict on this revert: [ [1]]? Ayenaee ( talk) 21:23, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
Ha, I had that contributions page open to see what edits would come out, and I see you must have been doing something similar. Thanks. Drmies ( talk) 16:41, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
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I see what you're doing: thank you. Drmies ( talk) 00:50, 7 February 2024 (UTC) |
Thanks for protecting the R262 page from IP socks. Didn't even realize crazy stuff was happening because I fell asleep.
Just curious, I know this probably constitutes "WP:PREEMPTIVE," but would it be possible to protect this page too in advance? The sockmaster seems to actively watch this page and fight over a picture the moment it is unprotected. ie - The page had been protected for over a year until a few days ago, when the sockmaster moved fast right after the protection was lifted lol. Mtattrain ( talk) 13:26, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
Saw you block John Long McDong & co. - see Dinglequeeef for identical user page. Schrödinger's jellyfish ✉ 03:28, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
ICYMI, there's also User:Airplane from Choopies Deepfake and User:The Alan Shearer Centre. Thanks. Wikishovel ( talk) 11:08, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure if you have pings enabled or not, so I'm just re-asking here:
At EFFPR (link in the title), there is a false positive report about a filter that you were the last to edit, it's been sitting there for a handful of days - can you check it out?
I think by now the IP has added most of the categories they said they wanted, but someone who knows what it's for still needs to check it out. –
2804:F1...0E:888D (
talk)
22:26, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
~~~~~
, but the IP part was manual. Oops.My name is Sanie Yahya, a representative of Open Foundation West Africa. I was recommended by Graham to help me request Ip Block address for our community members. Open Foundation West Africa hosts quarterly training sessions for newbies across the regions in Ghana , introducing them to Wikipedia. After every training season, we've interested newbies who are eager to create Wikipedia accounts, unfortunately 90% of the time they experience IP Block address.
I will be super glad if you can assist us by helping us unblock these new accounts from the IP address anytime the issue arises. Pirate 064 ( talk) 15:42, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey Zzuuzz, I just wanna to say, I’m sorry for vandalism the hoowinked 1 & 2 page, is because I was going to do inspect the edit because my brain told me so, but it ended up not working ( like just imagine if it would be a hacker ) but I decide to do editing, while it may be funny, but your could get block or even worse banned for this forever, and I’m sorry for that and I promise I will never ever ever ever ever do that ever ever again 2600:1700:6940:C370:794D:51C7:7FCC:6612 ( talk) 00:02, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for blocking Special:Contributions/147.235.192.16 that was vandalising Jonathan Glazer. The issue unfortunately continues such as this serious BLP violation [2]. Due to the Oskars controversy, the page would benefit from protection under Israel-Palestine. (I've submitted a request at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection/Increase#Jonathan_Glazer, but there appears to be a backlog.) -- K.e.coffman ( talk) 11:03, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Just wanted to check something with you as you're an an admin who happened to have recently posted to this talk page. Does this need any action? (redacting etc). Disclosure worried me slightly but I may be overreacting so not sure. DeCausa ( talk) 07:56, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
What is the difference in these edits that got reverted at Battle of the Granicus? I know I'm missing something but have no idea *what*... Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 20:09, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
BattIe, AIexander, and MiIetus
, using a capital I
. Also lssus
with a lowercase L. If you look at the page source for that revision you'll probably spot it. Me, I could see it in the diff. It's fairly obscure. --
zzuuzz
(talk) 20:17, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Shouldn't the block be changed to a CU block? Doug Weller talk 09:21, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Evening, I've blocked them both as their both as bad as each other, the ip's gone and hopped to a new one so I've ECP'd the page so neither of them can edit it when the block expires. Cheers for trying to use the carrot but unfortunately stick had to be applied. Amortias ( T)( C) 22:09, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey, hope you are doing well. This IP, who you blocked twice months ago and who was part of several blocks on multiple articles, has come back to make the same edits. They may continue their actions, so maybe another block is necessary? Have a nice day. ภץאคгöร 00:10, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
why did you removed the jimbo gif? W!kipedista ( talk) 15:10, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi zzuuzz. Could you please check WorkhouseNYC to see if it's related to Doniagohole? They're both entirely focused on Matthew Modine which has been disrupted since March 22. As specific evidence, this edit by the first account was followed by this edit from the latter account. Finally, the first account claims to be an official representative for the actor so there may be more activity than just these two accounts. Thanks. Daniel Quinlan ( talk) 22:09, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
I don't suppose you know which LTA We hate police is?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 03:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hello. I'm not sure if you're the right person to ask about this but I may as well try.
Yesterday, you blocked an IP range that was being used for vandalism. I noticed that the IP that was associated with a device I use was caught up in it. This wouldn't normally bother me, because 1 it happened before, and 2 I don't edit wikipedia from that particular device anyway.
The problem is, that the specific IP that the offending edits were made from was the one linked to my device. I initially thought my IP changed recently and I was unlucky enough to get one that was recently used for vandalism, however, that wasn't the case. My IP was unchanged for months until I forced it to reset this morning. This means that somebody else was making edits from the same IP that I use, while I was using it which, I was told, should not be possible.
I don't seem to have any malware, and didn't install any suspicious apps, or click any links that could lead to someone rerouting their connection through my tablet. There is no other suspicious behavior, neither on my device, nor any of the accounts I'm logged into. Proxy scans claim that the IP is not used as an open proxy. My browser history also shows no evidence of somebody else using my tablet.
The only thing I'm interested in is some advice. It this a common occurrence, that vandals just use whatever IP address they want, or is there something going on on my end that I should be worried about? I would appreciate a bit of input, and sorry for bothering you. 46.97.170.182 ( talk) 10:44, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
LilianaUwU ( talk / contributions) 23:40, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
I noticed that on March 11, 2024, you indeffed Mrs. Janice Jones as an LTA. I just blocked a new user, Diskyboy at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Diskyboy for persistent, disruptive WP:LOUTSOCKing. One one article (and one only), Never Say Die!, the two users intersect with precisely the same edits. Just wondering if they are the same person.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 22:37, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello. At the talk page of a user you blocked a short while ago, there was a message left in morse code. It translates thusly: "GOOD JOB, CHAMP! YOU WON MY LITTLE CHASE GAME. HOWEVER, THAT WAS LEVEL ONE. IF YOU WANT LEVEL TWO, I"LL GIVE IT TO YOU SOON. IN THE MEANTIME, RELAX AND ADORE YOUR STUBBORN LITTLE PERSONALITY." There was a warning from the now blocked user they had intended to turn things into a "game" (see edit summary here [4] and vandalism here [5]). There's a definite creepy factor to the message above, but maybe I'm reacting the way they hoped, which could be the extent and purpose of their "game". I'm completely new at encountering someone like this in Wikipedia and I have no idea what administrators are able to do to actually track users. If there's something that can be done to find this person as they create another account (whether they do it today or wait a spell to lessen the possibility of detection), I think it might be a good idea to employ whatever preventative measures you or others have at your disposal. Thank you for your time. A4M2 Alaska4Me2 ( talk) 21:49, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Hey Zzuuzz, I've never seen a SpaceX/Starlink range before but I came across 2a0d:3344:166d:9e10:3c55:ff26:20d8:8406/38 while investigating some spam. What would you do with it? I don't think there's a pressing need to block that range in particular but I'm wondering how legit traffic from that ISP is/how sceptical I should be of edits from it in future. Should I treat like a residential ISP or more like a proxy/VPN? Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:26, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
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Would you glance over the collection of socks for Shiptiss? I've just blocked (confirmed to each other, behaviorially to Shiptiss) DavaODrecca and Lyzrd. When searching through logs to check notes on past socks, several of which I blocked on behavior/NOTHERE alone without CU in the past, I kept seeing A134's name pop up. Just like a more familiar eye to take a look. -- ferret ( talk) 01:36, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
With one edit, most CUs probably won't be able to identify this user, but you aren't like most CUs. The pressure is on... -- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:11, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2024! | |
Hello Zzuuzz, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this
seasonal occasion. Spread the
WikiLove by wishing another user a
Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2024. Spread the love by adding {{ subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 07:03, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
I always give the weird ones to you. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Winged Blades of Godric and the filer Timovinga. Account created two days ago. First edit to create a userpage. Several consecutive edits to one article. And then an SPI with elaborate, detailed, well-presented evidence, using diffs AND special sub-tools of EIA that I haven't seen before.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:06, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Would you mind revoking TPA on this user? Joyous! Noise! 12:41, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
it looks like you and Widr might have had an edit conflict on this revert: [ [1]]? Ayenaee ( talk) 21:23, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
Ha, I had that contributions page open to see what edits would come out, and I see you must have been doing something similar. Thanks. Drmies ( talk) 16:41, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
I see what you're doing: thank you. Drmies ( talk) 00:50, 7 February 2024 (UTC) |
Thanks for protecting the R262 page from IP socks. Didn't even realize crazy stuff was happening because I fell asleep.
Just curious, I know this probably constitutes "WP:PREEMPTIVE," but would it be possible to protect this page too in advance? The sockmaster seems to actively watch this page and fight over a picture the moment it is unprotected. ie - The page had been protected for over a year until a few days ago, when the sockmaster moved fast right after the protection was lifted lol. Mtattrain ( talk) 13:26, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
Saw you block John Long McDong & co. - see Dinglequeeef for identical user page. Schrödinger's jellyfish ✉ 03:28, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
ICYMI, there's also User:Airplane from Choopies Deepfake and User:The Alan Shearer Centre. Thanks. Wikishovel ( talk) 11:08, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure if you have pings enabled or not, so I'm just re-asking here:
At EFFPR (link in the title), there is a false positive report about a filter that you were the last to edit, it's been sitting there for a handful of days - can you check it out?
I think by now the IP has added most of the categories they said they wanted, but someone who knows what it's for still needs to check it out. –
2804:F1...0E:888D (
talk)
22:26, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
~~~~~
, but the IP part was manual. Oops.My name is Sanie Yahya, a representative of Open Foundation West Africa. I was recommended by Graham to help me request Ip Block address for our community members. Open Foundation West Africa hosts quarterly training sessions for newbies across the regions in Ghana , introducing them to Wikipedia. After every training season, we've interested newbies who are eager to create Wikipedia accounts, unfortunately 90% of the time they experience IP Block address.
I will be super glad if you can assist us by helping us unblock these new accounts from the IP address anytime the issue arises. Pirate 064 ( talk) 15:42, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey Zzuuzz, I just wanna to say, I’m sorry for vandalism the hoowinked 1 & 2 page, is because I was going to do inspect the edit because my brain told me so, but it ended up not working ( like just imagine if it would be a hacker ) but I decide to do editing, while it may be funny, but your could get block or even worse banned for this forever, and I’m sorry for that and I promise I will never ever ever ever ever do that ever ever again 2600:1700:6940:C370:794D:51C7:7FCC:6612 ( talk) 00:02, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for blocking Special:Contributions/147.235.192.16 that was vandalising Jonathan Glazer. The issue unfortunately continues such as this serious BLP violation [2]. Due to the Oskars controversy, the page would benefit from protection under Israel-Palestine. (I've submitted a request at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection/Increase#Jonathan_Glazer, but there appears to be a backlog.) -- K.e.coffman ( talk) 11:03, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Just wanted to check something with you as you're an an admin who happened to have recently posted to this talk page. Does this need any action? (redacting etc). Disclosure worried me slightly but I may be overreacting so not sure. DeCausa ( talk) 07:56, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
What is the difference in these edits that got reverted at Battle of the Granicus? I know I'm missing something but have no idea *what*... Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 20:09, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
BattIe, AIexander, and MiIetus
, using a capital I
. Also lssus
with a lowercase L. If you look at the page source for that revision you'll probably spot it. Me, I could see it in the diff. It's fairly obscure. --
zzuuzz
(talk) 20:17, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Shouldn't the block be changed to a CU block? Doug Weller talk 09:21, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Evening, I've blocked them both as their both as bad as each other, the ip's gone and hopped to a new one so I've ECP'd the page so neither of them can edit it when the block expires. Cheers for trying to use the carrot but unfortunately stick had to be applied. Amortias ( T)( C) 22:09, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey, hope you are doing well. This IP, who you blocked twice months ago and who was part of several blocks on multiple articles, has come back to make the same edits. They may continue their actions, so maybe another block is necessary? Have a nice day. ภץאคгöร 00:10, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
why did you removed the jimbo gif? W!kipedista ( talk) 15:10, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi zzuuzz. Could you please check WorkhouseNYC to see if it's related to Doniagohole? They're both entirely focused on Matthew Modine which has been disrupted since March 22. As specific evidence, this edit by the first account was followed by this edit from the latter account. Finally, the first account claims to be an official representative for the actor so there may be more activity than just these two accounts. Thanks. Daniel Quinlan ( talk) 22:09, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
I don't suppose you know which LTA We hate police is?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 03:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Where is Kate? (3rd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.IgnatiusofLondon (he/him • ☎️) 11:39, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello. I'm not sure if you're the right person to ask about this but I may as well try.
Yesterday, you blocked an IP range that was being used for vandalism. I noticed that the IP that was associated with a device I use was caught up in it. This wouldn't normally bother me, because 1 it happened before, and 2 I don't edit wikipedia from that particular device anyway.
The problem is, that the specific IP that the offending edits were made from was the one linked to my device. I initially thought my IP changed recently and I was unlucky enough to get one that was recently used for vandalism, however, that wasn't the case. My IP was unchanged for months until I forced it to reset this morning. This means that somebody else was making edits from the same IP that I use, while I was using it which, I was told, should not be possible.
I don't seem to have any malware, and didn't install any suspicious apps, or click any links that could lead to someone rerouting their connection through my tablet. There is no other suspicious behavior, neither on my device, nor any of the accounts I'm logged into. Proxy scans claim that the IP is not used as an open proxy. My browser history also shows no evidence of somebody else using my tablet.
The only thing I'm interested in is some advice. It this a common occurrence, that vandals just use whatever IP address they want, or is there something going on on my end that I should be worried about? I would appreciate a bit of input, and sorry for bothering you. 46.97.170.182 ( talk) 10:44, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
LilianaUwU ( talk / contributions) 23:40, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
I noticed that on March 11, 2024, you indeffed Mrs. Janice Jones as an LTA. I just blocked a new user, Diskyboy at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Diskyboy for persistent, disruptive WP:LOUTSOCKing. One one article (and one only), Never Say Die!, the two users intersect with precisely the same edits. Just wondering if they are the same person.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 22:37, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello. At the talk page of a user you blocked a short while ago, there was a message left in morse code. It translates thusly: "GOOD JOB, CHAMP! YOU WON MY LITTLE CHASE GAME. HOWEVER, THAT WAS LEVEL ONE. IF YOU WANT LEVEL TWO, I"LL GIVE IT TO YOU SOON. IN THE MEANTIME, RELAX AND ADORE YOUR STUBBORN LITTLE PERSONALITY." There was a warning from the now blocked user they had intended to turn things into a "game" (see edit summary here [4] and vandalism here [5]). There's a definite creepy factor to the message above, but maybe I'm reacting the way they hoped, which could be the extent and purpose of their "game". I'm completely new at encountering someone like this in Wikipedia and I have no idea what administrators are able to do to actually track users. If there's something that can be done to find this person as they create another account (whether they do it today or wait a spell to lessen the possibility of detection), I think it might be a good idea to employ whatever preventative measures you or others have at your disposal. Thank you for your time. A4M2 Alaska4Me2 ( talk) 21:49, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Hey Zzuuzz, I've never seen a SpaceX/Starlink range before but I came across 2a0d:3344:166d:9e10:3c55:ff26:20d8:8406/38 while investigating some spam. What would you do with it? I don't think there's a pressing need to block that range in particular but I'm wondering how legit traffic from that ISP is/how sceptical I should be of edits from it in future. Should I treat like a residential ISP or more like a proxy/VPN? Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:26, 22 April 2024 (UTC)