User talk:SpacemanSpiff/Archives/2017/January

Happy New Year, SpacemanSpiff!

Happy New Year!

SpacemanSpiff,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Donner60 (talk) 07:57, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

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• Thanks and here's wishing you a Happy New Year too, Donner60! —SpacemanSpiff 11:17, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy new year! —Vensatry _(talk) 12:14, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks and Happy New Year, Vensatry. —SpacemanSpiff 12:17, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

FYI

Hi SS, you might find this discussion of interest. If it's too long to read, the short version is that I'm giving instructions to Padmalakshmisx about how he can take the standard offer. The socking has gone on too long. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:51, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Cyphoidbomb, good on you for trying but I have no hope in this case as he's taken disruption to a whole new level and refuses to acknowledge anything. Eitherways, I doubt we'll reach the six month window without uncovering fresh socks. —SpacemanSpiff 01:22, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained... Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:29, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Please look into this

Hi, Please check this and this. Not sure about deleted content. Something is fishy here or I may be hallucinating. (I am not using wikilinks deliberately). Regards. Hitro talk 11:36, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

HitroMilanese, no hallucinations. Blocked and new creations G5 deleted. SPI. —SpacemanSpiff 11:58, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

New Delhi

Hey SpacemamSpiff, I think I have added the correct information. I am staying in New Delhi for the past 20 years and I have personally visited those places. Therefore, I just wanted to add some more information to the page, thinking there is no information about those places. I will cite sources and references, thanks for your suggestion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harsh Tyagi009 (talk • contribs) 17:08, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Harsh Tyagi009, it appears that you don't know the difference between New Delhi and Delhi, Our article is in good shape, please do not spoil it. —SpacemanSpiff 17:19, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Okay, I got it. I was mistaken. Thanks for correcting me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harsh Tyagi009 (talk • contribs) 17:32, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Harsh Tyagi009, sorry for the brusque response, I should have explained it better at the beginning. —SpacemanSpiff 17:43, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting me. At first, I got somewhat angry, but then I realised my mistake. I apologise for the same and appreciate your effort to correct me. If you can help me in adding references to the text I am editing, it would be great. I am doing this task as a part of an assignment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harsh Tyagi009 (talk • contribs) 17:51, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Please see WP:INTREF for a guide on adding references (also check the links on the welcome message that I posted on your talk page). If you have questions then the best place to ask them is Wikipedia:Teahouse where a lot of editors participate and with expertise in different areas. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 17:56, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Sock alert

Hi Spaceman, I can't tell if this is a sock of somebody. Seems to know an awful lot on his/her first day of editing. I think most of the edits are reverted now. But they need to be watched. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 22:28, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Looks like it, but I don't follow this space as an editor or adminning, so can't place it (thought it might be Polynetian but it seems to be the opposing POV), maybe Vanamonde93 has an idea? Also, ARBIPA alert may be appropriate here. —SpacemanSpiff 01:28, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

No help from me, I'm afraid. I've been puzzling over it, too, but I cannot recall any sock with an anti-Hindutva POV that I have interacted with...Vanamonde (talk) 02:57, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

They've also posted a sarcastic thank you note to Kautilya3 on their user page. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:11, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Saraiki dialect

Why did you remove my response to Amakuru? That happened with this edit where you edit-summarized "Reverted to revision 758286371 by Uanfala (talk): Rvt self admitted off-wiki canvassed bit." My response to Amakuru was not a part of that "off-wiki canvassed bit". Therefore I have returned my response to the Talk:Saraiki dialect page.  Paine Ellsworth  ^u/c 11:40, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Paine Ellsworth, that was done in error, I think I might have missed the radio button by one line. Sorry about that. —SpacemanSpiff 12:19, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

No problemo, I'm sure I've made worse mistakes, SpacemanSpiff. Happy New Year!  Paine Ellsworth  ^u/c 12:22, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Constant vandalism

A user known as Flipro is constantly removing the whole sub section "slums" from "delhi" page. Why you are not responding to that user and block that user. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Winaniwe (talk • contribs) 22:27, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

References

• You are both edit warring, neither of you have discussed this with each other. —SpacemanSpiff 01:50, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Ok sir. I just reverted to the original version because the content was already there for almost one year. How can we talk about this in the respected page. Is there any talk page for delhi. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.97.251.62 (talk) 11:42, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Delhi is where you want to discuss this. Also, you have an account now, use that, not a dynamic IP that gives an impression that you are multiple editors. —SpacemanSpiff 12:20, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.97.76.146 (talk) 08:11, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm not a freaking sock.

74.70.146.1 (talk) 14:29, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

• You were doing exactly what the editor in question was truing to do, so it appeared that way, but I didn't realize that you were a static up with other contributions, so I shouldn't have labelled it as such. —SpacemanSpiff 02:57, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

And you may want to disable ability to edit user talk

Per this [1]. Cheers, 2601:188:1:AEA0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 09:57, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

• Good grief, some fan I have! I think someone else got to it already. Thanks 99, Happy New Year! —SpacemanSpiff 09:59, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
  • Apparently we can't choose our fans. Happy New Year to you, too! 2601:188:1:AEA0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 10:25, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
    • Yeah, this one's taken it to a whole new level: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SpacemanSpiff‎. —SpacemanSpiff 10:26, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
    • Hey Spiff. You can delete that, I'm 100% sure that doesn't qualify for WP:INVOLVED. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 10:41, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
      • True, DatGuy, but the reason I prefer not to delete something like this is because to non-admins only the log will be visible (not the actual content) "SpacemanSpiff (talk | contribs | block) deleted page Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SpacemanSpiff (Multiple reasons: speedy deletion criteria G3, G5)" and it will result in more questions than anything in the long term. Whereas, with the block of SpacemanSpiff1, it's apparent to anyone that it was needed. Just saving everyone's time in the long run :) cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 11:04, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Problem at Durgwati Devi

Got a problem with a new contributor changing date of death at Durgawati Devi. They may be right but it isn't what the source says and they're not responding on their talk page either to warnings or explanations. - Sitush (talk) 11:43, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

• Apparently she died during the dark hours from Oct 14th to 15th, I'm guessing the first newspaper report might've just gone with the date. Maybe Utcursch who has a better grasp of these topics can dig deeper and figure it out and also perhaps explain it to the user. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 13:31, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

I could find two sources for 15 October[2][3], none for 14 October. The new contributor may or may not be right, but we've to stick to published sources per WP:NOR. utcursch | talk 18:17, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Coinage of Nepal

Sorry to say this but you made me furious this time .I just copied and pasted the table from the other page and edited according to the specification of that page..Please stop abusing and treating other users on the basis of your authority as Admin. AA 09:35, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Please stop lying. You copied content unrelated to the topic. You will be blocked if this nonsense doesn't stop. —SpacemanSpiff 10:55, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Dinanath Bhaskar

I think we may have a problem brewing at Dinanath Bhaskar. - Sitush (talk) 10:59, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Nadeem Javed

Hi Spiff, I saw that you indeffed X Host for sockpuppetry. The article Nadeem Javed is still up. Are you waiting for a CU before deleting? I'm not criticising, I'm just curious what the plan is, in case my help is needed later on. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:36, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Nominated it for deletion now. Aside from discouraging the socking, past articles from this user have also included blatant falsehoods and factual errors (i.e. this one contained a nonsensical "official" website). So it's better to get it re-started by a knowledgeable user in good standing anyway. GermanJoe (talk) 18:09, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

I left that one alone as a couple of others had worked on it at AfC, I generally leave such stuff out when I G5 on my own. It's gone now, so all good. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 01:33, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

About C R Krishnan

Sir, You could have kindly checked the Amazon page where C R Krishnan's book 'Frogs Under The wheels' was reviewed by Michael Bacon of 'Argos Newspapers' in Brighton. You said you couldn't find any reviews! Many thanks. Ian — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iansholt (talk • contribs) 20:56, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Repeated Vandalism

On Kannada people page, this User:2405:204:4000:8CD4:11A6:A88E:BDCA:6088 has been distributive editing for weeks now, he repeatedly keeps removing govt census and adds unreliable 'ethnologue.com' sources for population. I believe he is banned user User:Øystein.Eide. 117.192.216.177 (talk) 18:44, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

It's him alright, sadly he's got a new Reliance Jio SIM, too late to block now but if it continues then I'll semi protect the article (you won't be able to edit it either). —SpacemanSpiff 01:43, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Mobileum

I just wanted to let you know that an article you have deleted twice per WP:CSD#G5 (Mobileum and Mobelium Company) has been recreated again as Mobileum Inc. The article's creator, Leo.John123, is presumably a sock of the banned user associated with the previous articles. Gnome de plume (talk) 21:56, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Looks like this has been zapped. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:27, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

I've blocked the account as a suspected sock of Itsmukeshhere. Maybe Deli nk who tracks this mess can add Leo.John123 to the SPI list the next time they file one. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 01:57, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

I can't see the deleted pages, but it certainly seems likely that this is the work of Itsmukeshhere socks. I'll keep this one in mind with the next SPI, which seems likely to happen at some point. Deli nk (talk) 12:07, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Jallikattu

Hi Spiff, could you please watchlist Jallikattu? I've floated an invitation to the noticeboard for India-related topics to get more eyes as well, but I haven't heard anything yet. Jallikattu, a bull-riding/wrestling/taming event was banned by India's supreme court as cruelty to bulls, and the court recently upheld the ban, so there have been numerous recent protests in Tamil Nadu related to this. PETA was involved in the ban as well. (Forgive me if you know all of this.)

I don't really recall how I wound up there, but in the last few days there have been numerous attempts to change the description of the sport from bull-taming and bullfighting to "bullembracing".[4][5] or "bull baiting"[6] Twitter has seen some uptick in "bullembrace".[7]. In my estimation, this looks like POV editing, specifically by shifting the "taming" or "fighting" terminology to something far softer and innocuous. To be fair, from what I've learned, the ancient term for the practice does translate to "bull embracing", but the modern term "Jallikattu" apparently means "coin package". Anyhow, I've semi-protected the article for a week, but wouldn't mind another eye or two there to help with talk page responses and such. This isn't a huge catastrophe, I'm just swamped. Also, the guy you recently blocked, Social Informer, had some intersection at Jallikattu, and he's created an article about one of the protest groups. That raises my suspicions that this might be coordinated disruption, with SPAs posting requests on the talk page. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:23, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Social INformer is just here to spam himself and the political outfits he starts. I'll keep an eye on the article. AntanO has edited the ta.wiki article in the past few days, so he may be able to help here editorially. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 01:50, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

It's on my watchlist and do my best. --AntanO 02:41, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Great, thanks to you both. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 05:25, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Cyphoidbomb, your old friend Barney83Stinson is back as FloydLawton and there are at least a couple more that I've seen. I'm comfortable wiht a duck block for this, do you want to file this under the spi for Ponyo to check for the rest? Obviously, can't be CU linked to the old farm, only behaviorally. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 06:40, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) I am familiar with Barney83Stinson. They usually edit articles about upcoming Indian actors/producers. My impression is that all of these socks are somehow connected to an agency called "Whacked Out Media". From the looks of it FloydLawton, MG0167 and Naansayee are definitely socks/meats. Considering the possibility of sleepers, I think it would be worth it doing a checkuser. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 08:39, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Yes, it's related to WOM but I can't find the relevant WOM articles, the one currently deleted is only linked to Barney but I clearly remember more WOM nonsense that I had to block and protect around. —SpacemanSpiff 09:39, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Here we go. I think the barney SPI should be merged with Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tha D.f4c3r based on behavior and the new ones blocked linking to this too. —SpacemanSpiff 09:44, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Would anyone mind getting the balls rolling here? My day has been busy IRL and I fear this'll slip off the radar. :/ Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:23, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Lemongirl942, could you file the SPI please? I think you knw the other accounts involved. I've blocked Floyd per WP:DUCK so there's something new to compare the new accounts to. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 03:46, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

OK, I will file an SPI later today. If possible, I will try to locate more of their socks. Otherwise, the 3 accounts I mentioned are good enough for a sleeper check. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:32, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Jeeshan patel

I think you are familiar with Jeeshan patel (talk · contribs), who was socking while I was not very active. The 11th edit of this new account seems to be returning to the promotion of connections to the Reddy community, this time at Kapu (caste). I think past targets were that article, Kamma, Velama etc. The Kapu article is under semi-protection, so hitting it on the 11th edit seems fortuitous. Could it be the same person? - Sitush (talk) 17:46, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Could you file an SPI? THere's at least one more account in that article's recent history that may be linked. Also with just this one duck edit and all other edits just to get autoconfirmed status I'd like to wait without an SPI connection, an SPI should also weed out more of the socks, he usually has 3-4 as you know. —SpacemanSpiff 07:44, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Will do if they return. Meanwhile, this is becoming tiresome. I did open a discussion on the article talk page, and I have previously issued the sanctions alert. - Sitush (talk) 09:39, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh

Why exactly did you revert? Within 30 seconds? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.182.129.86 (talk) 12:00, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

vested sold out editor

Needless to say you are a vested stooge of your political masters. Clearly I gave the proof of the link where Atal Bihari Vajpayee categorically denied on Aap ki Adalat that he ever called Indira Gandhi Durga. I don't know which all masters of yours you want to keep happy by providing unverified and wrong information by pining wrong info on other tall leaders. And don't try and threaten me ever again or write despicable messages to me. This is my country and I am given full rights of freedom of speech and expression under Article 19 of the Constitution of India. You think you can delete my privileges. I snatch that undeserving power bestowed upon you and am deleting my account. I don't want to be a part of free information movement where people involved have lost their objectivity and integrity. I don't have and never will. Cheerios! — Preceding unsigned comment added by HimachalPradesh (talk • contribs) 14:46, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

delete my account

Sadly there is no way to delete an account on Wikipedia. Use your undeserving power and go ahead and delete my account. I wouldn't want to touch Wikipedia ever again even with a pair of tongs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HimachalPradesh (talk • contribs) 14:50, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Obviously that's not going to happen, but I've indefinitely blocked this editor with an explanation that if they state that they will edit constructively and refrain from personal attacks I'll support any Admin wishing to unblock them. Doug Weller talk 15:10, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

I doubt that's ever going to happen, been treating this as a blog since they joined, I should have blocked a long time back for the nonsense in article space, but I was too kind I guess. —SpacemanSpiff 07:26, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

I figured...

that Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AbhijitSonavane and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Theactingeeker were related. May be worth requesting a clerk to merge (if the case is not merged after archiving). --JustBerry (talk) 14:16, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

I don't think they are the same, they are more likely two different groups that happened to interact with each other to help each other out as evidenced by the latest sock; both are political promo farms and it's likely that they figured out the email this user feature. —SpacemanSpiff 03:14, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

User Nishant k. pandey coi?

I just ran across these [8] edits to Ramdev that significantly change the pov, remove sources, and adds a source that verifies little or nothing. It looks like WP:REFSPAM of some sort, but it's not clear. When I saw that the last comment on Nishant k. pandey (talk · contribs)'s talk page was a coi-notice from you, I thought it might be a good idea to look into it a bit more. Looking over the edits prior to your notice, I assume it has to do with your speedy deletion of Satya bhanja. Anything you can tell me that you think might be relevant to the edits to Ramdev? --Ronz (talk) 17:23, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Ronz, I believe I'd given the COI notice for editing related to Ramdev (see this version of the Trust's article, not the Satya Bhanja article which was a misguided one line stub about a non-notable IT professional (although it might have caused me to look at the other edits). As for the new edits from last week, Ramdev is generally known as a Yogo guru and he is definitely a businessman (Patanjali Ayurved), so while the referencing issues are troublesome, I can't fault this specific content change. Even if this goes to COIN, I don't see any particular action coming out of it at this point. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 02:12, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Glad I asked. As far as I understand it, "guru" is not to be used without context as it is often derogatory. Likewise, I'm having a hard time seeing anything appropriate in the removal of sources, the removal of his political activities, the emphasis on a person mentioned once in the article, and the addition of a source that apparently supports none of this. --Ronz (talk) 15:33, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

I don't think the use of guru is derogatory in this context, while I agree that removing the source is problematic, I don't think he's particularly well known for his "work in politics", but that's something that someone like Vanamonde93 or Kautilya3 who edit in this space can address better. Even if removing the "known for work in politics" is problematic, I don't think it's straightforward enough for any admin action at this point. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 03:13, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

I took a look at this editor's contributions. I concur with Spiff that their editing circa March 2015 was problematic, in a COI sense. The recent edits? Meh. Yes, "work in politics" is puffery, but they've been warned about sourcing, and I think that's enough. I'm much more bothered by the state of that page in general: for instance, any material critical of him should not be segregated into a separate section, and should be summarized in the lede, where it currently isn't. Vanamonde (talk) 03:55, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

I have put it on my watch list too. But I am afraid I don't know a whole lot of the subject. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 08:52, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm not asking for any admin action, just trying to figure out what's going on. Looks like a pr campaign of some sort for Balkrishna . The related articles are a mess. --Ronz (talk) 16:47, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

That page is plain awful with all the spamming. The article is covered by WP:ARBIPA, so please provide an {{alert}} to any editors that may need it. If that's done then handling problematic behavior becomes breezy. —SpacemanSpiff 01:50, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

I've posted article talk page alerts on both Balkrishna and Patanjali. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 03:44, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm just waiting for some communication from one or more of the SPAs at this point. --Ronz (talk) 15:29, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Wanting to know why page pyaari yaari was deleted.

I learnt that the page pyaari Yaari was deleted. It was created by my team, the page is about a webseries on YouTube which is legitimate. I would suggest you to contact us on parulekar.amey@gmail.com or shivendu_menon@yahoo.com so we may clarify the possible dought of the legitimacy of the content of the page. Please restore the page. Shivendu menon (talk) 20:28, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Shivendu menon, Wikipedia is not for advertising your show. THat is why the page was deleted, Also, please read WP:MEAT, use of multiple accounts to further the same purpose is a violation of our policy, even if different people are behind the accounts. —SpacemanSpiff 03:53, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Dealing with the various permutations of user Worldciv 2017

As you are aware there seems to be a series of new contributors using the general name Worldciv 2017 (with topic suffixes) "contributing" to a range of Indian history related articles. As they seem to be different students doing a history course, their contributions are many and varied. Some are just cutting and pasting material from the internet or from published books without any concern for copyright. Others are making their own written contributions, but have very poor levels of English or have decided that Wikipedia readers will be interested in a massive amount of irrelevant detail.

Is there anything you can do about all of this??

Thanks--Chewings72 (talk) 23:34, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Chewings72, see User talk:Worldciv207 satavahanas. Utcursch and I have tried to alert them and to ask the instructor to get involved but it doesn't seem to have helped yet. If the behavior continues like this without any engagement from their side then I'm afraid blocks may be needed. Alternately, try checking with one of the education program folks to see if they can help, the last time I tried that I didn't have any luck. There may be other accounts that Utcursch or I haven't found yet, copyvios, plagiarism and OR/NPOV seem to be the standard problems here. —SpacemanSpiff 04:03, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I will keep on eye on any further inputs from these individual(s)and try to encourage them (nicely) to cease and desist.--Chewings72 (talk) 04:15, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

ANI time I think. They are making a mess, maybe someone can help. 07:22, 29 January 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller (talk • contribs)

I agree, this is becoming unmanageable now. The instructor is nowhere to be found either. —SpacemanSpiff 10:31, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

I have mentioned them to be aware of the policies of Wikipedia. Also I suggested them to go through guidelines and told them to take help from me. I introduced them about user talk page. As you suggested, I'll mention these things to my professor and request him to see once Wikipedia:Education Program. I am very sorry and apologized for their deeds. Very Very thanks for your valuable response.Worldciv207 satavahanas (talk) 12:56, 29 January 2017 (UTC

Full convo at User talk:Worldciv207 satavahanas‎. —SpacemanSpiff 13:28, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Dear Spaceman Spiff , We are posting this message as a group from our World Civilizations class at IIT Gandhinagar. We have discussed the issues you raised with our instructor Professor Srinivas Reddy. Thank you for letting us know about the Wiki education program. Since we are outside of US/Canada, we are creating a program in the outreach dashboard and would be open to any and all suggestions. Please know that we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of academic integrity. Thank you, on behalf of Srinivas Reddy and our World Civilizations class Worldciv207 satavahanas (talk) 04:28, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

, @Worldciv207 satavahanas: I have asked Graeme Bartlett to see if there's someone who can help you all with this. Maybe Drmies who is also an educator has some ideas. —SpacemanSpiff 05:02, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

• Ha, yes, my advice is to get all that stuff done before the semester starts. Sorry to be so obvious. (Spiff, I just got done grading a series of assignments for my Wikipedia class--it is so much more work than you might thing. But no plagiarism so far!) Anyway, the real hotshots are Adam (Wiki Ed) and Helaine (Wiki Ed). Drmies (talk) 05:05, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

I have sent an email to Srinivas Reddy (http://www.iitgn.ac.in/faculty/humanities/srinivas.htm) so see what happens next. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:09, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Graeme and Doc, Worldciv207 satavahanas: please ask your prof to look for Graeme Bartlett's email and engage with him on the process. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 07:04, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi, we've pinged @TFlanagan-WMF: about this. Helaine (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:40, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Edit warring at Languages with official status in India‎

Take look at its history. Edit warring between the IP and the editor since approx 23 Jan. I don't know much about the IP but at least the IP is trying to discuss unlike the editor with experience. What's really bad is the editor, you've given them the sanctions warning so you've probably seen this, besides not replying, even removed the IP's attempts of discussion by an insult in the edit summary. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 11:28, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm WP:INVOLVED with this article, but I think a topic ban related to Indian languages is in order here. THere was the earlier issue around Meitei vs Manipuri (that I'm not involved in) that I let slide at that time because the other person involved had done a more egregious action. It's not just at this article, but also at Hindi where I had to revert his hijacking of the article against years of talk page consensus (see Talk:Hindi#mix up. I'm pinging Bishonen to see if she can take a look and/or ask if she needs more info. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 11:32, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

I didn't realize that the edit warring continued after the DS alert, and this response to the IP who posted a reasonable note on their talk page. ANy further diffs that you can provide Bishonen to make an informed decision, Ugog Nizdast? —SpacemanSpiff 14:06, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

It does look like there is a strong case for both a topic ban from Indian languages as well as for a block for disruptive editing. Continually reverting an IP and then telling them to "piss off" when they try to engage in a discussion is not on. --regentspark (comment) 14:13, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

It sure looks like there are a lot of rather technical sources I'll have to get my head round... groan. I'll have a go, but I hope you guys aren't in a hurry. Yes, specific diffs with explanations would be a help. Bishonen | talk 15:06, 30 January 2017 (UTC).

For Bishonen's reference:

1. Hindi: This set of edit hijacked the article from the article subject to a broad spectrum of languages commonly known as Hindi languages despite prior article talk page consensus to the contrary.
2. Repeatedly making the above edits over multiple articles: [9], [10] On this, if Kwamikagami is around, he can explain things better and with context.
3. Meitei vs Manipuri:. I adminned this for a brief while (related to process at India) but stopped. Ish ishwar can provide more information on this, but the crux of the matter is that there was edit warring to preferred version at India and many other articles. This should have been settled after Talk:Meitei_language#Requested_move_04_December_2016 but he's continued to edit war his preferred version here after my discretionary sanctions warning.

Then there's the edit warring at Languages with official status in India where neither the IP nor Filpro are entirely right or entirely wrong.

1. This is unrelated to languages, but is symptomatic of the problems he's causing: [11] Neither the edit (and warring) or the edit summary are good in any way. —SpacemanSpiff 03:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Here's what I got from my experience with the editor:

• There was a sock who made arbitrary edits like this (saying "per MOS" etc) and enforced it on all Indian state pages. Long story short: we ended up wasting time reverting and questioning this sock who never bothered to discuss further or acknowledge that the MOS never mention any such thing. During the sock's reign, this editor took the side of the sock (just edit warring btw, not even discussing or defending the sock when we questioned) and did the same, at Kerala etc.
• Now even after the sock got blocked and found out as one via SPI, (I assumed previously the editor got carried away by the sock's misleading assertions) this editor again made those very same edits to state articles. Kerala, 2 and Maharashtra. I questioned the editor and got no response. The sock did ping this editor to encourage as a final attempt before losing talk page access.
• Note: that only these two states I watch and I knew this issue was discussed on both of them before, the rest, quite frankly was too tired of this pointless waste of time on a minor infobox change and had no idea of any form of prior consensus, so probably the edits to other state pages have remained.

The main issues with this editor seems to be, besides problems with the Indian language areas, an infobox fetish and edit warring with no discussion. I've not seen this editor ever engage in talk page discussion on the article, and looking at the user talk page, response is there normally but not with people with whom there's a content dispute with. A common disruptive behaviour seems to be, decide arbitrary change, enforce it on all related articles (like Indian states) without discussion.

On my watchlist, I recall undoing the editor on these three geographic places: Kerala, Mumbai and Maharashtra. Looking at the user talk page for this month, doing such changes across places on such a national level has probably stepped on other's toes as well, here are posts by IPs regarding Delhi (I had the same problem in Mumbai) and another post which were ignored. There's probably more editors affected by the disruption and that can be dug up by looking through those articles histories. Let me know if I need to do that. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 07:08, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

That sock, I suspected was Kkm010, but apparently not. The behavior here isn't very different from Kkm010 but I don't think there's the topical link between them. —SpacemanSpiff 07:16, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you both, that's very useful. I've taken a good look and have decided to topic ban the user from India-related pages. I wish the disruption were confined to language issues, but it just isn't. Bishonen | talk 11:50, 31 January 2017 (UTC).

R u a tamil person

Hi

R u a tamil person — Preceding unsigned comment added by SenthurKumaran (talk • contribs) 12:13, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

• (talk page watcher) @SenthurKumaran: It is really none of your business, and in any case makes absolutely no difference to the quality of this user's edits. Please assume their actions are here to help, rather than hinder, the encyclopaedia. Many thanks. O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.} 12:17, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

It's My business I am asking since it is mentioned here his mother tongue is tamil

So it will be useful to discuss clearly

So ultimately its none of your business

MANY THANKS — Preceding unsigned comment added by SenthurKumaran (talk • contribs) 12:21, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

SenthurKumaran, the articles you're creating qualify for speedy deletion, whether in English or in Tamil. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi, the reason for asking that is because one of the deleted creations was in Tamil, I guess. —SpacemanSpiff 12:42, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Ok ji konjam help please for speedy deletion — Preceding unsigned comment added by SenthurKumaran (talk • contribs) 12:45, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Please see WP:N, WP:V, and WP:RS for what's expected in articles. —SpacemanSpiff 12:58, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for that; may I ask- since obviously I can't see the articles now!- what they were about? Indian actors, by any chance? O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.}

It's about a caste association, that's why I've left the user a GS/Caste notice. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 13:08, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks! O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.} 13:10, 31 January 2017 (UTC)