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User:R2dra

Greeting Mitchell, Please see Ajja Jhala. It seems R2dra is back again with new a account, Jhalleshvar. I am reaching out to you as you appear to be online. Regards. Maliner (talk) 11:59, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Mitchell. Maliner (talk) 12:05, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:09, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

You might want to check the recent history of that article. All the recent new accounts are socks. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:12, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/R2dra. Regards. Maliner (talk) 12:16, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

How about running a CU and blocking the confirmed one? Seeing the socking here, I think there might be some more accounts there. What do you think? Maliner (talk) 12:22, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Oh my, that's a lot messier than I have time to look at today. I ran a check on R2dra and blocked a few accounts. I'll try and look in more detail from a proper computer tomorrow. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:25, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

That's completely fine Mitchell. Please take your time . By the way, the recent SPI was by @Fylindfotberserk. They might have something to add to this. Thank you once again for your support. Regards. Maliner (talk) 12:28, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome. And it's Harry. Not Mitchell. Please. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:02, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

My apologies, I will use Harry in the future. I think I have used Mitchell in most of my email interactions with you too. So kindly forgive me for that. It was unintentional. Regards. Maliner (talk) 13:15, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

While Jhalleshvar's edits are obvious (I didn't come across) judging from the style (minor edit, etc), the name reminds me of a larger sock farm. Coincidentally, User:Phoenixdad (a suspected one) was edit warring with R2dra and their SPs. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 13:23, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	You may have gotten 2 of these recently, but thanks for reverting the IP's edits to Cumulus cloud. - Master of Hedgehogs (converse) (hate that hedgehog!) 20:20, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Which template?

I noticed you have a nice bar at the top of your user page with a lot of quick links, and I'd like to grab that for my user page. Which template did you use for that? 『π』BalaM314〘talk〙 14:14, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@BalaM314 they're from various {{userlinks}} templates but they're manually substituted. Copy and paste from the source if you want. :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:31, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

A question

What can i do to celebrate april fools on wikipedia? Sebbers10 (talk) 19:11, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

@Sebbers10 One of the best and funniest things you can do (in my opinion) is to write an article on a notable subject that has a name or a subject that lends itself to a clever play on words. That way, you've improved the encyclopaedia and hopefully made someone laugh. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:05, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

WP:PERM/PCR

HJ Mitchell, Hello, Can you review my request at WP:PERM/PCR because any admin cannot attention on my request on there, so, if you feel comfortable then please grant me this right. Thanks. रोहित^Talk_with_me 18:29, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @रोहित साव27: Hello, I think you ping any other admin on the request page because Harry are busy in her life, so, they do not gave attention on you're request.😊~~ αvírαm|(tαlk) 10:36, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Revdel request

Can you revdel this. I find it is a personal attack that warrants a revdel. Nagol0929 (talk) 12:04, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

@Nagol0929 Done. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:15, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Question

Do you wish there was an tool that scanned for typos? Do you mind if i do an april fools joke on your userpage? Sebbers10 (talk) 17:31, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Many of the more obvious typos re already fixed (or at least detected) with the help of computers. Some require human judgement to determine whether they're typos or not or what was originally meant. And as long as it's not offensive or disruptive, and I get m userpage back on the 2nd, I don't mind. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:48, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I

Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

• Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
• Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
• Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
• Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
• Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
• Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
• Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
• Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
• Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
• Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
• Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
• Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
• Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
• Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
• Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
• Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
• Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Hey HJ!

Howdy HJ, hope you are well! I have decided that after 6 years (and more on my old account) I would like to apply for adminship, having throughly read through WP:GRFA and WP:RFAADVICE, I thought it best to have an experienced admin look over my account (edit history, talkpage usage, ect) to see if it is worth applying at this time and if not what would be the areas to work on before applying (or nominated). I saw the best way forward was to request for nomination and you name came up on the list of users who can be ask for a nomination and having worked previously in the past with yourself, I felt more comfortable asking you to review and, if you feel happy to, nominate. I would appreciate any feedback that I can use to improve my chances if you feel now is not the right time to apply!

Many thanks, Tommi1986 ^{let's talk!} 12:14, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

@Tommi1986 If you can give me a couple of days, I'd be happy to have a look (on my way to work shortly and in the middle of something else!). WP:ORCP can be good for getting feedback and suggestions as well. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:19, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Amazing thanks so much, take your time! Thank you for the link to ORCP, I will take a look there also! Have a great day and look forward to hearing from you soon!

Many thanks, Tommi1986 ^{let's talk!} 12:43, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Hazooyi

Greetings Harry,

It seems Hazooyi has now been blocked by the CU as the sockpuppet of Gilabrand. Please check this out. Regards. Maliner (talk) 12:30, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

That's disappointing. I hoped Gila would see the error of her ways and write an acceptable appeal after a few months. I took a look for myself and I'm not entirely convinced they're the same person but the technical similarities are such that I would find it very hard to believe they're not at least aware of each other in real life. Something should probably be added to the Gilabrand SPI and block log for record keeping. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:47, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Ibne adam1

I just noticed you have indef-blocked this user. I had earlier filed an SPI and behaviorally I'm certain this is the same user. Could you please take a look and tag that account as a sock? ─ Aafī (talk) 18:12, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Aafi That's almost so obvious that it doesn't need an SPI but  Done. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:04, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Cyble

You blocked user Shawn Tet on March 5, 2024. User had created Draft:Cyble. User is a SOCK but was wondering if a master was identified. Newer user Garrywales Smith just created it in the mainspace and I moved it to Draft:Cyble 2. Want to file SPI but hoping you can lead me to the right case. CNMall41 (talk) 07:26, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@CNMall41 I don't think there was a case. I think I found that account when I cu'd another spammer. I often check spammers who look like they might be the SEO for hire types (as opposed to someone misguided trying to promote their own business). I'll have a look at your new friend when I get chance. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:37, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. --CNMall41 (talk) 15:55, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@CNMall41 this is going to take more digging than I can do on a phone. I might get chance to look properly tomorrow morning but it might end up being Saturday or next week. At a glance I think this might be related to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rrtttq. There's definitely something fishy going on. I can see this turning into one of those cases that takes an entire day to investigate and either results in blocking 100 accounts or nothing! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:37, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@CNMall41 I've blocked Garrywales Smith and a few other accounts. They're on proxies so it's difficult to conclusively tie them to any particular sock farm but there's definitely UPE going on there. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:45, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Kudos to you. Not sure what all a CU entails but things like this make me salivate on eventually becoming one. --CNMall41 (talk) 23:33, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

@CNMall41 +1. Maliner (talk) 01:25, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Please unblock me

Please unblock me Asmaoul Husna Mona Karim (talk) 04:21, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

I apologize that this is terse, but...

re: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism&oldid=1214876066 the easiest way to get the other IPs is search my edits to that page over the last three weeks or so. Maybe look at my contribs and search only the Wikipedia namespace. Sorry, but I have limited connectivity and can't dig deep to get the actual IP addresses at the moment, but I wanted to answer you ASAP. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:54, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Terse is fine. I've taken a different attitude to your AIV reports than many because your 0RR restriction makes it difficult for you to deal with vandalism but the point of AIV is that any random admin can quickly see what the problem is and deal with it. For that, we need as much information as possible unless it's kids adding "poop" to random articles. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:26, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Is there something I need to do differently? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:36, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

adding back some content

Hi Harry how is it going? Now that I have been unblocked and have been proven innocent at the sockpuppetry misunderstanding, do you think it would be okay for me to maybe revert some of the edits I previously tried to do months ago like doing the "Player profile" tab on the Steven Stamkos article like it has on other players like Alex Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, John Tavares, Patrick Kane, Evgeni Malkin or Connor McDavid?

In the Stamkos article I initially tried to describe sort of like his playing style and leadership and used a handful of quotes from superiors to back them up like in those other athletes article. Now that I have been unblocked do you think I could maybe add just a little bit back? I obviously want to take baby steps into being an editor again and when I do it I want to make sure I do it right and not be too run on. I think the first time I maybe did add one too many quotes but could I do it with less quotes to maintain consistency? Thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks for your attention.

Sincerely Ethan Parker Gymrat16 (talk) 20:00, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

@Gymrat16 I'm glad to see you're enthusiastic about getting back to editing. If it was me, I'd start with one article and see if the changes stuck. If there are objections, make your case on the talk page. Nothing on Wikipedia is set in stone so you can always go back and keep editing your text until everyone is happy. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:16, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Yessirrr if anyone finds anything unusual then I will do my best to answer as swiftly as possible so hopefully they understand. Obviously the goal is to improve Wikipedia and nothing else not harm it. Gymrat16 (talk) 23:22, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Have you alerted sbaio or the kip or 1995ho about my unblocking yet out of curiosity? Gymrat16 (talk) 15:24, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Hey HJ Mitchell. I reached out to sbaio to tell him that I am indeed a differnt person but he still doesn't beleive it. I don't know what else to say so since you are an administrator can you tell him that I am indeed innocent because I don't know what else to say or do. I need character witnesses to help me at this point since he isn't believing anything I am saying and I don't want to stir anymore drama. Would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Sincerely

Ethan Parker Gymrat16 (talk) 23:13, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Disruptive editing, continuing to add unsourced content, unexplained removal of maintenance tags, repeated addition of unsourced content

Hi HJ Mitchell, Found that there were 2 IP address ranges 2001:1388:A44:0:0:0:0:0 and 2001:1388:A45:0:0:0:0:0 All edits from the IP address found to be the same person. Harassing and deleting content in other articles which had administrators warn and rollback more than 20 disruptive edits Found the latest edit, redo it. 2001:1388:A44:EDDB:98F3:C8BE:82C6:175D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2001:1388:A44:EDDB:98F3:C8BE:82C6:175D Repeatedly adding unsourced content and deleting maintenance tags by correcting them and not explained in the article Nine (singer) in terms of being a fan club Due to adding content to live broadcast activities to sell products Duplicate content is added which is not important. As with most of the content in this article

Edit history Nine (singer) has only one person, IP addresses starting with 2001:1388:A45 and 2001:1388:A44 all are the same person The edits will be made in the same way, namely adding information to the article without the source in Nine (singer) and deleting and disturbing other articles. which always has admin rollback This person made repeated changes with new IP addresses like this.

The entire article was edited by the same person, unexplained removal of maintenance tags, and recently used a new IP address to add a lot of unsourced content.

Administrators address disruptive IP address user behavior issues. Continuously adding unsourced content to Nine (singer) A single person from Lima, Peru, used the IP address to reverse an update notification. Unexplained deletion of maintenance tags Modifications were not performed according to the maintenance tag instructions. Please disturb other articles as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2001:1388:A45:7B00:358F:FBE6:A148:46A0

repeated addition of unsourced content I think examining a person is difficult. This person from Lima, Peru uses a different IP address every time they resolve. Every time delete and add information to another article. will be reversed Then edit again with the new IP address.

This person created information in the Nine (singer) article and also caused mischief in other articles. Add information without references Administrators always roll back edits that this person deleted on other articles. Editing that disturbs another article and edited and added information only to the article Nine (singer) The person using all IP addresses in this Nine (singer) article is the same person who removed the maintenance tag without editing it.

The person using all the IP addresses I attached is the same person. I'm only giving examples because there are many. The entire article Nine (singer) has an IP address from the same person from Lima, Peru, but the IP address in the update is different every time the information is added. This person deleted the maintenance tag notice. Delete without correcting Most articles lack references. As I looked at the article's history, Nine (singer) has been doing this for a long time, but no user has come to check on this person.

Edit history of this article There is an IP address from Peru adding a lot of content. and repeat it many times continuously. without reference source The IP address in every edit is different. But I and another user checked and it was all the same person. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nine_(singer)&action=history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2001:1388:A45:7B00:F810:2A14:7BCB:F48B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2001:1388:A44:40B6:504C:F2CB:D823:F9B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2001:1388:A45:AEDB:F872:834B:5232:4D3E

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2001:1388:A44:EA0C:2594:EA67:F737:FD4B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2001:1388:A45:F15F:C574:7A91:49D9:AAC9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2001:1388:A44:23CC:DCF2:FD41:F2BA:FCE3 MeetHoneyBee (talk) 14:28, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Request to recuse

Per El C's evidence, and in line with WP:ARBPOL, you are requested to recuse from the Conflict of interest management case.

Please see also this discussion on the evidence talk page, which explains why I am posting this request. BilledMammal (talk) 05:02, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

@BilledMammal I will not be recusing. I've read everything in that thread (which I opened) at least twice. My refusal is not born of disrespect for you or the other editors there. I believe that the request for recusal is based on two flawed premises. First that arbitrators should only inhabit an ivory tower where they only act as arbitrators and do not get involved in community discussions, but if that were the community's expectation we wouldn't bother electing arbitrators from within the community. Second, that my brief comment at ANI somehow shows prejudges the situation or supports Nihonjoe, which is drawing far too much inference from such a short comment so early in the discussion. You are welcome to refer this to the whole committee for a ruling. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:38, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

"First that arbitrators should only inhabit an ivory tower where they only act as arbitrators and do not get involved in community discussions, but if that were the community's expectation we wouldn't bother electing arbitrators from within the community."

Where else would we get them from? That is such bad logic. There is nowhere else we'd get arbs from.

You might want to take a poll on this. Privately ask some editors you trust for their opinion on it. I for one do not want arbs involved in community discussions of things that might go to arbcom, like admin conduct disputes. I don't want arbs prejudging those things or trying to influence their outcome. If an arb does any of that, I'd want them to recuse. Levivich (talk) 13:46, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

”There is nowhere else we'd get arbs from”. Now that’s bad logic. Externally imposed by the Foundation is one idea I’ve seen mooted before, and that would be a very bad way to go. I think it shows bad faith in assuming that an Arb cannot have their mind’s changed by the evidence and further reflection.

@HJM, IF you decide to take a poll (not that I think it is necessary), but I would advise you do not recuse. - SchroCat (talk) 14:10, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

IF you decide to take a poll (not that I think it is necessary), but I would advise you do not recuse I agree with this completely (and it's not often I can recall saying that about SchroCat's comments). Thryduulf (talk) 16:01, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

I would struggle to pick two of my talk page watchers who have less in common! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:02, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for replying; I'll just add here something similar to what I said to ToBeFree; I understand you don't see yourself as uninvolved, and I understand why you don't see yourself as involved, but one of the purposes of our involved policies to preserve the communities trust in the process - and in the case of ArbCom, to preserve the committees legitimacy in the communities eyes.

In this case I think it is best for you to recuse and I hope you will reconsider your decision; the interpretation that your actions made you involved is not unreasonable, and a significant number of editors have requested your recusal. You are a good editor and a good arbitrator, but you are not indispensable and the case can proceed without you - and more importantly, the communities faith that the eventual result is the correct result will be stronger if you do recuse. BilledMammal (talk) 02:13, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I think requiring arbitrators who have taken no actions and left only minimal, non-partisan comments to recuse would be far more damaging to the integrity of the committee and the encyclopaedia. This is because it encourages editors who are partisan to a dispute to find ways to pick and choose which arbitrators they want adjudicating. You have made your case, multiple times, and on each occasion it has failed to convince Harry and failed to convince multiple independent uninvolved editors in good standing. Your only options now are to either accept that you failed in your goal, or try to convince a majority of other committee members. Making the same arguments here you've made previously is not going to be productive towards either goal. Thryduulf (talk) 03:18, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I note that I am non-partisan in this dispute; I’ve largely avoided it. BilledMammal (talk) 03:39, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I wasn't saying that picking and choosing arbs was your goal, just that setting this precedent would encourage editors who do have that goal. Thryduulf (talk) 03:48, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Message about a recent unblock

I wrote this message and wanted to publish it in the original section, but it was archived. You should know a few things about this particular case since you are an administrator:

• Moka Mo's IPs (mainly in Michigan and Virginia per available tools/websites) were/are located in the United States like this editor's.
• Creating an account and going straight to where Moka Mo or its sockpuppets edited naturally raises questions (knowledge of making edits and even restoring the same content).
• This editor has been harassing me while initially being blocked through various IPs (reason why my talk page was protected). And I am not even mentioning personal attacks that occurred more than once during that time.
• He went to other editors' talk pages after being unblocked to "make amends" or "bury the hatchet", but has singled me out at Conyo14's, Deepfriedokra's and The Kip's talk pages (some of the editors said that I should not be contacted by this editor).
• This editor even went to another administrator and asked to block me, because I do not believe or agree with this editor (this administrator also said that I should be left alone). This looks like some sort of vendetta against me (you warned this editor about this on his talk page).
• This removal of ANI notice from another editor's talk page is clearly not a misclick and immediately raises questions.
• One of the IPs from the same range as this editor's was used to edit a certain topic with those edits being reverted by another editor and pointed to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Leon103102 (I am not familiar with Leon103102 or that particular topic so I cannot comment on that).
• Since unblock many edits were made (I am sure they are well-intended), but someone has to go to those pages and clean them up. I do track this editor's contributions, but that is meant for fixing the mistakes done by this editor, other editors or even me. I initially thought that some edits were WP:POINTY, but I am now starting to think that there could be a WP:CIR issue.

I wrote this message not to make that particular editor look bad, but for you to understand this case better and probably see the reason why I chose to avoid any contact with this particular editor. – sbaio 18:51, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Disruptive editor at 2409:4054:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 it again

Less than a day after the one-month block [1] you placed on 2409:4054:0:0:0:0:0:0/32, they have resumed their disruptive editing. Can you add a new longer block?  — Archer1234 (t·c) 11:35, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

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Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear HJ Mitchell/Archive 135,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 16:45, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

UTRS appeal #86851

• CLCStudent (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Someone claiming to be CLCS student is requesting unblock cause he cannot edit his user talk cause it's ECP protected. Why he cannot log in I do not know. Did not know he was a sock of someone globally locked. 😢 I mean unblocking would be useless without logging in anyway. I don't kow if this is an imposter. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 02:15, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

I added userlinks to the top of this report. If this is the right person, their complaint is apparently that, when using an IP to edit their account's talk page, it does not work due to semiprotection. (Go all the way to the bottom of the page to see their post (as 41.203.1.190 (talk · contribs))and User:Favonian's reply). There is semiprotection but no EC protection on CLCStudent's talk page. The CLCStudent account does not seem to be globally locked and they should be able to log in and post on their own talk page. User:Yamla has also declined their complaint recently, and told them to use their talk page. The editor seems to have ignored this advice. In a sockpuppet case we would of course prefer to see the editor make any appeals while logged in to their actual account. EdJohnston (talk) 04:14, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

He's not glocked so he just needs to log into his account. Otherwise there's no way to tell if the UTRS correspondent is the same person, and even if they are they either need to appeal from their original account or very convincingly explain how they're not a sock. IPs have no need to edit the talk page of a user indef'd three years ago so I'm not inclined to remove the protection. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 10:23, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

I agree with HJ Mitchell's reasoning here. --Yamla (talk) 10:42, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

No, I wasn't asking for that. I'm puzzled as to why anyone as experienced as CLCS student isn't logging in to request unblock. Will see what responses I get. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 11:13, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

It'd be really weird if it was someone else faking CLCS student. But... not the first time we've had absolutely bizarre and pointless joe-jobs. --Yamla (talk) 11:25, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

It went on an on and then HJ protected the talk page. Weird indeed. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 11:26, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Looks like there's a long history of unhelpful edits there. I don't think I have any particularly deep involvement so I can't really shed any light on it and the blocking admin has handed all his flags in. It's weird, but at the end of the day there's no technical reason they can't log into their account and until they do we don't know it's them. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:47, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

March music

story · music · places

Thank you for the page protection, with Bach music for Easter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:47, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

You have been april fooled!

April fool another user! (optional) Sebbers10 Your bisexual friend! 17:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thank you so much for being extremely reliable and hardworking! PsychMysterio (talk) 23:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Spammer

You missed one, [2], spamming the same link as [3]. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 19:09, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

And another med spammer, [4] v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 19:24, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

And med spammer, [5], v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 19:27, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 That was an interesting little rabbit hole! There's very rarely just one spam account. Feel free to drop any more spam accounts here; they're almost always worth a look. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:47, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

ArbCom update

Hi HJ, I hope you are doing well. It's sad that GN resigned from ArbCom. I noticed that two pages, Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Clerks#Mailing list and User:ArbClerkBot/Authorized users need to be updated after GN's resignation. I could have done it myself, but I don't think it's within my authority to edit official pages. Thanks. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:30, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer Thanks for pointing that out. I'm going to ping Maxim who's more knowledgeable about this sort of housekeeping than I am. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:36, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I've updated both of the linked pages. Maxim (talk) 13:43, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Merry christmas!

and a happy new year! Sebbers10 I talk to cute people :3 17:25, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

also thanks for blocking over a hundred spam accounts in 2 minutes :3 Sebbers10 I talk to cute people :3 17:25, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Scrutinize this guy for me?

Bolstamar has an incredibly odd editing pattern for someone new to the site x1 day, including putting dig at RfA in here. I don't keep track on which LTA pattern this matches, but since you protected the last page to which he made an unconstructive edit, I thought I'd bring him to your (or any relevant admin TPS') attention. Jclemens (talk) 06:14, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

NVM, Izno took care of it. Jclemens (talk) 07:43, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I think it's probably Shanateen (who caused the protection). Someone burning a 2 year old sleeper on that is... a choice. I've got an open quick CU request out but it's as liable to find socks as it is to find proxies I'd guess, given LTA's apparent knowledge. Izno (talk) 07:46, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I don't mind blocking some proxies. I'll have a look when I get chance. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 08:42, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@Jclemens @Izno worse than a proxy, they're on a vast mobile range. I couldn't see any other accounts but that doesn't mean much. If this is going to be an an ongoing problem, we can upgrade the protection to ECP but there's always a chance they might go away if we ignore them. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:42, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Someone let me know it was probably A134. Izno (talk) 19:34, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Sounds about right. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:36, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

FYI

Good day, this is a LTA, so protecting the page is rather useless as they're targeting individuals rather than articles. --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 16:38, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

@Minorax I'm very well aware which is why the protection is brief. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:27, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Med Spammer

Here is another med spammer, I am sure you will find more. Special:Contributions/Mukesh Chandra Kumawat. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 14:36, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

I think you like rabbit holes with Checkuser so this should be a good one. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 17:42, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

I like blocking spammers! Bring me as many as you want. I will get to this, just not right now. :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:44, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 I've had a look now and blocked a few more accounts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:59, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Then I presume the one I linked above was not related. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 21:55, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Ha. Forgot to block the account I started the check from! There weren't so many this time but it was a much bigger range. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:07, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

About blocking some of the users

Hii sir,

Myself Dharmarajsinh, recently our medical College had given us project/assignment to learn and edit Wikipedia pages related to medical topics, however within last 2-3 days of about 120+ students out of 200 have complained that their accounts are globally blocked and it is done by you, so I want to ask why did you block them. Because out of all those barely 20 students had made a proper referenced and cited information in different wikipages and none were wrong , majority had not even started to edit, for rest their edits were removed by other editors due to different reasons , so overall the contribution to wikipages was nearly equal to null and as they haven't contributed anything means actually there is no violation of Wikipedia policies, so please help them to unblock....... Rathod Dharmarajsinh (talk) 04:38, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

@Rathod Dharmarajsinh I'm guessing this is related to the issue I flagged here? I found these accounts because several of them were spamming commercial links. I suppose a college assignment fits the evidence but I don't think any of the accounts I blocked made a helpful edit. Of the ones that weren't outright spam or junk, many were incomprehensible and none cited a source that complies with WP:MEDRS. Sending a group of 200 accounts to add external links to articles (or do anything to a small group of articles) from the same network without telling anyone in advance that it's a college assignment is an extraordinarily bad idea that is very likely to end with the accounts being blocked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:24, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, the links of wikipages that you flagged with that outlink are only the ones I'm talking of, no doubt your concern is in the best will for Wikipedia development but what next ,can they do anything now..... Rathod Dharmarajsinh (talk) 16:02, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

@Rathod Dharmarajsinh I'm not sure. Even if they did not intend to be disruptive, I'm confident that the blocks are preventing disruption and there's absolutely no way I can allow 200 accounts to run amok on medical articles, especially when the edits range from this and this (which, out of context, are blatant SEO-type spam and what prompted the investigation) to this (which at least attempts to cite a source, though probably not one compliant with WP:MEDRS, but is almost incomprehensible and introduces far more problems than it solves). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:25, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Another spammer

Special:Contributions/Rakib059, sure there is more. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 07:58, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

And another Steris Healthcare sock, caught this one through the spam blacklist. [6] v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 08:03, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

And a casino spammer, [7] v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 09:59, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

And another med spammer, Special:Contributions/Harsh nileshbhai pandya v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 16:54, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 the first one was on proxies; not much to see there. The Steris sock was on the same (enormous) range as the others; all the others I saw were already blocked. The casino spammer was interesting and turned up another couple of accounts. I'll leave the last one for now until the thread above is resolved. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:25, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Blocking "Screenshot test account"

Hello! I just created the account "Screenshot test account" to screenshot the different layouts of Wikipedia. I didn't realize there was already a function for that. May you block/ban/delete that account if possible? Thanks. Sorry about that Положение - Userpage 19:58, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

@Положение I can block it, which I've done. There's no way to delete an account completely. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:06, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Положение - Userpage 20:09, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Not sure

What I was doing there! Thanks for fixing that. Parsecboy (talk) 22:39, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 216, April 2024

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7, Nick-D and Pickersgill-Cunliffe discuss six (count 'em, six!) works comprising eight volumes Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on a lecture by the Australian official historian

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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 23:08, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

70.177.14.210

Thanks for having blocked 70.177.14.210 , however, I think it is necessary blocking also from editing their talk page, as edits done there are clearly disruptive and in bad faith. Kind regards 14 novembre (talk) 🇮🇹 16:32, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

I see it has already been done by @OverlordQ. Thanks to both of you, and kind regards 14 novembre (talk) 🇮🇹 16:35, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Leeds Wikipedia meetup on Saturday 4th May

Hello there! Interested in having a chat with fellow Wikipedians? There's a meetup in Leeds on Saturday 4th May 2024, at the Tiled Hall Café at Leeds Central Library.

Full details here.

You're receiving this one-off message as you're either a member of WikiProject Yorkshire, you've expressed an interest in a previous Leeds meetup years ago, or (for about 4 of you), we've met :)

I plan to organise more in future, so if you'd like to be notified next time, please say so over on the meetup page.

Please also invite any Wikimedia people you know (or have had wiki dealings with) – spread the word! Hope to see you there.

Jonathan Deamer (talk)

20:35, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

@Jonathan Deamer: Fabulous to see the Leeds meetups coming back to life. I made it to a couple while I was living in Nottingham but it's a bit of a trek from the south coast. I hope you get a good turnout and stimulating conversation! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:31, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Another Spammer

Here is another spammer, probably will lead to more, Special:Contributions/Web_soft_world. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 14:43, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 Thanks! Nothing leapt out at me on that one but they have a very common user agent and they're on a huge range belonging to a major ISP in a vary populous country so that's not entirely surprising. It led to another handful of blocks but they could easily be different individuals. I'll still take any spammers you want to throw my way though. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:07, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Regarding edits on History of bitcoin

Hi, HJ Mitchell! It would be helpful when you are reverting spam or a sock puppet if you would then leave an edit summary. Having several friends who are admins, I was surprised that upon reverting my edits you left the edit summary don't revert spam removals if you don't want to be blocked for spam, which seemed a bit testy for a response to an experienced editor. Had you mentioned spam or check user in the edit summary, I certainly would not reverted your edit, even though a cursory glance at the source did not immediately smack of spam to me.

I realize that as an admin you are probably hard-pressed with all the work that you do. While not an admin, I do a lot of page patrol myself. I do not always get it right, & I apologize if I got in the way of your anti-sockpuppet/anti-spam work that you do. Peaceray (talk) 17:18, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

@Peaceray It's baffling to me that you would revert an admin's rollback, especially as the problems with the edit should be obvious to an editor of your experience—and if they weren't, it would have taken you a single click to see that it was a spam account blocked as a sockpuppet of another spam account. Nonetheless, I was possibly more strident than I needed to be and for that I apologise. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:41, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi HJ Mitchell. I will try to alleviate your bafflement. I believe I did the reversion before you had blocked Sumz30 as I also immediately had welcomed that editor & saw none of my accustomed visual clues (automated crossing out of user name, automated notice on the talk page that the editor has been blocked). Afterwards, the block log did popup when I refreshed my watchlist, & I was attempting to undo my own reversion when you got there first & reverted it. Certainly if I had seen something in the the edit summary indicating it was spam or a sockpuppet, then I would have left it alone, but again, the edit summary indicated that the edit had been reverted, but not why.

I do not always check to see who a reverting editor is, so occasionally I find myself reverting an admin or another editor with considerably more edits than I have. Most of the time when these reversions are reverted, that admin / editor leaves a fuller explanation in the edit summary. There are even times that my reversion stands. As someone who makes my share of mistakes, I believe it is possible for more experienced editors & admins to also make mistakes. I try to make sure that I have good cause to revert. In this case, I did look at the citation. While I recognize that it might have been a borderline blog (hence my comment in the edit summary), it did not strike me as spam. Of course, I did not know at that time that Sumz30 was a sockpuppet & only saw that editor had a single edit.

I think that we are both here to improve the encyclopedia & to rectify disruptive editing. Thank you for your service & I am sorry if I impeded your work. Peaceray (talk) 07:26, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Proxy IPs

105.88.57.227 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

197.33.209.132 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Could you change these to proxy blocks? Thanks. 73.67.145.30 (talk) 19:31, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Done, thanks. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:36, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Spammer … again

Hi. Found another med spammer, [8] v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 16:16, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Have fun :) v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 16:16, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 I'll leave that one for now. We still haven't resolved the situation fully and their only edit was actually constructive (it cited a reasonable source at least, even if it had other issues). Will see if we get any more replies or developments wrt these accounts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:39, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Dear, why did I get IP blocked even when I did nothing offensive, I am really sad that I am unable to edit for past 2-3 months, I request an IP exemption, please! Harshvardhan 1427 (talk) 13:43, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

@Harshvardhan 1427 You managed to post that message, which suggests you're not blocked. If you run into more problems, follow the instructions you see when you try to edit. If it's an IP block the message is probably this one or this one. You can email me if you prefer. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:41, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, I used mobile hotspot from my mom's phone, my wifi is blocked and as you know cellular data is not always there.

And the block message is the second one of the above stated. You can look at my edits, there is always something constructive I don't know why I was IP banned!

Regards, Harshvardhan 1427 (talk) 04:09, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Talk:2024 Iranian strikes in Israel

Can you protect this page please? Pornography and hateful language is being spammed by different IP's. Ecrusized (talk) 18:11, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

@Ecrusized IPs range blocked and junk cleaned up. Let me know if they come back. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:20, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

They are back already. Ecrusized (talk) 18:22, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

@Ecrusized blocked another range. See if that makes any difference. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:28, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

User returned again. Please protect the page. Ecrusized (talk) 18:51, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

2409:40F3:29:BC91:0:0:0:0/64

They're attempting to be disruptive on their talkpage, see filter log. Could you revoke their talkpage access? Thanks. 73.67.145.30 (talk) 20:10, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Done. And they can have a slightly longer time out as well. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:12, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Check this out!

Hi HJ,
You may take a look at this:
User:Kemmsy joined few days ago and the first was here, inputing to Chris Ifediora. Puff & image here. As if not to mention the other disruptive edits, the editor on their talk page here issued for the removal of the "paid tag" on the article. Here comes User:Sonnie Nwosu Abuja relatively new with maybe a day or two after Kemmsy. This user edited the same article adding almost the same context -related words here. Plus that, they have created/submitted a draft Draft:OCI Foundation here which happens to be that of "Ifediora". Now, the sock there is that when User:JarrahTree welcomed Sonnie Nwosu Abuja, and after two discussions, the editor affirmed a relpy here with "we" and here again (it shows there is sock..ing). After my warning to them because of their edits to "Ifediora", they replied here with the same response exactly as Kemmsy and was repeated here again. Thanks! — Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 11:46, 15 April 2024 (UTC) — Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 13:04, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Casino Spammer

Found you a casino spammer, probably on a proxy and probably will lead to more. Special:Contributions/Vegasslot303 v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 16:02, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 The casino spammers are always paid-for SEO. That one is  Technically indistinguishable from Delvi388 (globally locked) and Lahir99.games (blocked and locked). Mahrum82 (talk · contribs) and Ratumilyar2 (talk · contribs) are also  Likely. I'll block the range later on. Thanks! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:46, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Here is another one, probably on a proxy and probably a trail of breadcrumbs leading to a few more. Special:Contributions/Slotgopayx. Thanks, v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 21:03, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

@Seawolf35: that one was quite easy. Not a proxy. Second one today from southeast Asia (I'm more used to seeing this kind of thing originate from Pakistan). Looks like a steward beat me to it because although there are several more spam accounts on a fairly narrow range, they're all globally locked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:13, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Do you want another, maybe eventually they will run out of usernames, Special:Contribs/Jelsmith99 v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 21:17, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Looks like they are spamming the transfer savvy site. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 21:18, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 no luck there. They're about where you'd expect them to be and they're on a /8 (even if it would let me check something that big, I'd be there all day with no guarantee of finding anything!). I'd guess that's more self promotion than paid-for SEO but keep 'em coming. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:39, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Does this account seem LTA like to you, it would seem that they are here on a mission, Special:Contribs/FixerUnbiased. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 21:44, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

File that one under "watch and wait". Their one edit was to remove vandalism which had gone unnoticed for most of the day; maybe that's all they wanted to do? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:46, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

They hit whatever the 1107 LTA filter is, probably a FP. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 21:48, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Filters struggle to tell the difference between additions and what was already present. That one tracks the addition of words like "paedophile" which was already used in the article and used legitimately, given the subject matter. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:51, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Here is a spambot, probably will lead to more, like always, User:SpencerVirtue08 v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 01:35, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

And another, more same pattern ref spam, Special:Contributions/Fnmfollower v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 13:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

SEO Spammer

Another, will probably lead to more, [9] v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 05:50, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 as far as I can tell, that one is isolated (which is unusual) but the ranges they're on are vast. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:26, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

RevDel Please

Hi HJ, please RevDel this for obvious reasons. Nobody (talk) 13:52, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

@1AmNobody24 because somebody hates me? Not really grossly offensive. If anything, I take it as a compliment! ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:55, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

I've seen similar ones deleted so I dropped a notice, but I'm fine with it either way. Nobody (talk) 14:00, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Poor edits and ban

Hey there, been looking at User:2600:1700:4006:B000:A5D0:D5FC:D17F:FD51, and I think you might have banned him unjustly. Not great edits, but definitely not vandalism. JackTheSecond (talk) 21:55, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

School vandal(s)?

Hi.
I saw you were the last of 3 admins to block this range (72.138.0.0/16) as a school block on the 12th of April of last year (expired recently). Is this still a school IP? I was looking at some IPs from the range, and honestly there's already been quite a few vandal edits in the last ~5 days since the block has expired.
I also found this appeal on the day it expired, where @Yamla says there is sockpuppetry involved: 1218609548). Just thought I should inform you of all this. – 143.208.237.220 (talk) 02:07, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Also 6 blocks on IPs in the range in the last 3 days:

72.138.79.170, 72.138.168.106,

72.138.79.10, 72.138.179.154,

72.138.65.26, 72.138.132.102.

– 143.208.237.220 (talk) 02:30, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

I've put a long-term soft block on that /16. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 10:53, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Curious

What area is the target of this partial block? I don't see any defined parameters.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:00, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

What a fail on my part: this is the block I'm talking about.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:01, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

@Ponyo it just means you can't create an account from that range. If you're asking because you want to do something else with the block, feel free! :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:10, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

The range is being a total PITA today. Ugh.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:18, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

I know right! They were creating ... unhelpful accounts earlier (hence the block). There's way too much collateral for a hard block but if you wanted to make it anon only/account creation blocked for a little while feel free. We can always put the partial block back later. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:23, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

It seems to have tapered off, so I'll leave everything as is for now. That way I don't have to remember to reinstate the partial block.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:32, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

What are my chances of passing an RfA?

I've been dealing with vandalism for a while, such as warning editors, sometimes reverting edits, and checking the abuse log, and have even made some reports to AIV which were responded to by a block. I'm curious what my chances of passing an RfA are. Faster than Thunder (talk | contributions) 14:23, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hello @Faster than Thunder! I am not an admin, but I doubt that you would pass RfA. Many RfA voters are looking for candidates with 10k+ edits, and you have less than 2000, most of which are semi-automated. Also, what would you use the tools for? —asparagusus (interaction) ^sprouts! 14:39, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Consulate General of France, Miami for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Consulate General of France, Miami is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Consulate General of France, Miami 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.

AusLondonder (talk) 07:28, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

New message from Jo-Jo Eumerus

Hello, HJ Mitchell. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mount Hudson/archive1.
Message added 07:36, 21 April 2024 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Greetings, just pinging in case you have anything else to add to the comments there. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 07:36, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Another Spammer

Probably a spambot, see [10], probably will bring up more. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 18:48, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

@Seawolf35 they're on a proxy. If there are more accounts (which wouldn't surprise me in the least) they must be on different proxies. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:51, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

How to deal with paid editing/PR groups doing their own articles?

I recently ran across several articles that were both edited by or created by a member of the public relations team for a large company that include both company pages for their own company, their clients they have worked for, as well as the biographies for their bosses.

I know we have the paid@wiki email address we can report the undisclosed paid editing violation to but my concern lies with what to do about the articles in question since they read like advertisements, albeit somewhat well sourced. Or I guess a more accurate question would be how to properly nominate an article for deletion that has been created/edited by paid editors without 'outing' the editors. Do I report to paid and then wait to see if they get blocked, and only then nominate per the above since it would not be considered outing (I think)?

I'm just trying to see what the normal procedure is without compromising anyone's info or breaking a rule.

I appreciate any advice you can give or a push in the right direction you can provide, and thank you in advance.

Awshort (talk) 17:25, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

@Awshort the short answer is it depends. The longer answer is: deal with the on-wiki stuff on-wiki—if an article subject isn't notable or the article is promotional, consider CSD/PROD/AfD as usual; if an editor is being disruptive (eg they're only here to promote something), you can report them to the appropriate noticeboard. If you need off-wiki evidence to make your case for deletion/sanctions, that's when you should email the "paid" queue. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:18, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Rangeblock possiblity for a sockmaster

Howdy,

Upon recommendation from WP:AN to consult a CheckUser, I figured I'd ask if you could take a look here and determine whether a rangeblock would be an appropriate course of action. With over 80 socks in the past five years, it's becoming clear that mere SPI blocks aren't enough to deal with this sockmaster. The Kip 20:16, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

@The Kip it seems my friend Drmies has already handled it. The most recent socks were all on a single IP, which Drmies has hard-blocked for a while. Feel free to ping me (or Drmies if he's willing) if they get round that. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:45, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Ah, much appreciated - wasn't aware of that. The Kip 20:47, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Hmm I'm not sure exactly who we're talking about but I wouldn't comment on IPs anyway. ;) Harry, if we're going to call each other friends, it seems fitting that I'd hit you up on Facebook. I need more Brits among my friends anyway! Drmies (talk) 01:20, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

In need of a little Help

Hello Mitch, my apologies if you may not have all the answers or don't specialize in music, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask and maybe you might redirect me somewhere for help.

1. I wanted to ask if it was possible for a remix to have a standalone article? I have seen a lot of remixes that did extremely well in the charts, certifications, awards and obviously have news coverage so I was just wondering since I never came across one.
2. How does one go about creating a WikiProject page for an artist, do I keep it in my user/draft til it's complete or not because if it was an article I could probably create a stub, so how does it work?
3. What are the requirements for creating a album discography article?

dxneo (talk) 11:42, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

@Dxneo sorry, not my area of expertise. Ask me about bridges or old buildings and I can tell you all you need to know but I don't know much about music articles. I think a remix can/should have its own article when it gets to the point that it overwhelms the article on the original and there's enough to say about it that's different from the original. I would think you'd need quite a few editors interested in writing articles (and quite a few articles that would be in-scope) for a wikiproject. I have no idea about discographies. I know MaranoFan has a lot of experience writing those sorts of articles and might have some useful advice. Otherwise, you could ask at a wikiproject talk page. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:13, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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User:NojokingHELP

It's probably just a troll, but you might be interested in doing something with User:NojokingHELP – the page or the user. 81.187.192.168 (talk) 18:18, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Indef block?

Hi, and also congrats on your 14th anniversary. Is it time to block this vandal-only IP account?: User talk:66.211.208.114 -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:31, 1 May 2024 (UTC)