User talk:Yamla/Archive 43

HaughtonBrit harassing and trolling other users

Here he is falsely calling unblocked users-Leviathan12 sockpuppets in his edit summaries-[1]. Someone needs to do something about this harassement and trolling. Southasianhistorian8 (talk) 14:04, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

@Yamla:He is the one falsely calling me sock of HaughtonBrit. You can investigate and it will be proven without any benefit of doubt that users Leviathan12 and Monabhaii are none other than socks of KamalAghan01 [2]. Same interest in articles that were vandalized by socks of KamalAfghan01. Quick check will prove it. Suthasianhistorian8 is quite familiar with these socks and deliberately trying to prevent from this findings. This user needs to stop his harassment of other users.

This is too big for me to reasonably handle. Please take it to one of the noticeboards. --Yamla (talk) 14:33, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Yamla. Done-[3]. Southasianhistorian8 (talk) 14:57, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

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Hello

Hello Yamla I would like to thank you for helping unblock me along with Deepfriedokra. I have started to make more edits. I just found a source and added it to John Spink's page. Thank you so much. PrincessJoey2024 (talk) 01:00, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Bizarre unblocks

How many times do we let Users not address their blocks before we remove tpa and send them to U T RS? -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 15:15, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

That was the third marketing person this week to deny being a paid editor -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 15:16, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

I figure 3. Somewhere between 3 and 5 anyway. At some point, it just gets silly. Worse is when they just use the exact same request, over and over again. It didn't work the last four times but surely it'll work this time! --Yamla (talk) 17:20, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

If I speak loudly and clearly, they'll understand. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 18:18, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

That really bizarre one that set me off, I figure someone's boss slid them out of the chair, slid in, and spoke loudly and clearly.. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 18:20, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

I think people just assume they can spam Wikipedia with their marketing material. When they get blocked, they assume it's a mistake. Surely they are allowed to spam, after all they are marketers. It takes a while for the truth to settle in. For some users, a long while. --Yamla (talk) 18:51, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

UTRS appeal #83752

I'm inclined to unblock, but Yamaguchi is not available. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 02:02, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Did you see any indication over on simple that they know how to properly source their edits? If so, I definitely support your decision to unblock. Otherwise, I'm neutral. In that case, I think it's worth a shot, but someone should watch them for a while to make sure they properly source their edits. --Yamla (talk) 10:36, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Yes. It lloks good their. Not sure why I posted to you. We'd a;ready talked. I'll blame it on 4:AM. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 13:23, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

I blame lack of coffee. :) --Yamla (talk) 13:25, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Ssg0786

This 2-days old account is gaming the system for extended confirmed right.[4] He is edit warrring[5][6] to restore edits of a sock which you blocked recently.[7]

Consider checking him, and nevertheless block for gaming of system.

The suspected sockmaster is back to abusing this IP range for making the same edits as above[8] and making other similarly repitive edits[9][10] after getting blocked on his another IP range by Materialscientist.

Both IP ranges are abused by this sockmaster as clear with these edits:[11][12]

Some of it's IPs are already blocked for block evasion.[13]

Kindly block this range too. Thanks! Ratnahastin (talk) 04:23, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

I've blocked Ssg0786 (which is considerably older than two days). Please take the rest to WP:SPI or to WP:AIV. --Yamla (talk) 21:00, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Aah, you mean Def151 is only two days old. --Yamla (talk) 21:02, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Disruptive article creation

Can you look at Ranjith001? They have been repeatedly recreating articles that have end up getting drafted. See Draft:Pulivalam (Tiruchirappali) 1 ,Draft:Pulivalam (Tiruchirappali) Draft:Ariyanadu ,Draft:Airyurnadu 1. Aswell as Draft:Malayan_Balakumar, see repeatedly recreated and now salted Malayan Balakumar. Ratnahastin (talk) 14:00, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Looking deeper into it, I think the account might be a sockpuppet, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Balakashyap, thanksRatnahastin (talk) 14:24, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Again, this is not the right place to report these. --Yamla (talk) 15:19, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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At User talk:LWANSTAR you said that zerogpt had told you that the unblock request was AI-written. It's not important, but I thought I'd mention that I think you meant GPTZero. ZeroGPT generates AI-faked pictures. JBW (talk) 11:53, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Ignore that. I was going on a summary that Google gave me, but looking at the actual page, rather than Google's summary, tells a different story. JBW (talk) 11:56, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

This reminds me to spend more time playing around with AI image generation. :) --Yamla (talk) 12:26, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

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User Mondschein Block

HI, I am User Mondschein. I have been blocked since moving to California because, apparently, my "IP address range belongs to Forcepoint Cloud Services"... What does that mean? and what is so bad about "Forcepoint Cloud Services"? Isn't that new name of "Websense"? I get my Internet connection directly from Xfinity/Comcast... I bought a Router at Best Buy in order to have WiFi and direct the signal to all the rooms in the house both upstairs and downstairs... What gives? Can you please help me understand?

Mondschein — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:644:8E80:73FA:0:0:0:69 (talk) 23:12, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Forcepoint Cloud Services functions as a proxy. You need to disable your proxy and wait a full 24 hours for the block to clear. Note this IP address, 2601:644:8E80:73FA:0:0:0:69, is not owned by Forcepoint. This IP address is not blocked. --Yamla (talk) 11:49, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Alright, we are getting somewhere, thanks! How do I disablemy Proxy? And what is a Proxy exactly? Is it something that stops people from seeing where I am connected from?

User Mondschein98.37.10.192 (talk) 23:54, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Please contact Forcepoint for technical support. --Yamla (talk) 14:49, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Proxy?

Hi. I'm pretty sure that this is a proxy-[14]. It shows a bogus ISP of Agile Networks and is being operated by a well know block evader who is known to geolocate to Pennsylvania when he edits logged out. Southasianhistorian8 (talk) 00:56, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

I see no evidence this is a proxy, based on several services I use to check this sort of thing. It may have been when you made the report (I was away, without access to Wikipedia). --Yamla (talk) 14:53, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Declines

U R awesome. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 13:21, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I enjoy working with you, too. :) --Yamla (talk) 13:24, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

ANI Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 174.126.129.226 (talk) 09:49, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

@Yamla They got blocked, so no worries. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 12:32, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

O U 8 1 2 -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 13:25, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

@Deepfriedokra I'm starting to wonder what that means. Is that the Van Halen album lol? Or does it mean something else? NoobThreePointOh (talk) 13:37, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

I couldn't resist the allusion. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 15:39, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

So it IS the Van Halen album, am I right? NoobThreePointOh (talk) 16:21, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Potential sockpuppet

Greetings, Yamla. Unfortunately, there is an individual who I think is a sock puppet account of Entuziazm. Their name is NukeTheKatzapstan.

Aside from the obviously racist username (Katsap being an ethnic slur for Russians), they have joined one day ago and have made disruptive edits in regards to various Soviet figures. For example, in the Viktor Zhdanov page, he changed the nationality of the figure from Soviet to Ukrainian and removed the Russian-language form of his name.

Please investigate this individual whenever you have time. Thanks. 199.7.156.229 (talk) 18:11, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Please file a report at WP:SPI. Thanks! --Yamla (talk) 18:56, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mark Jhonny

Hi, I just blocked Hector Kennedy as a sock of the above. I stumbled across Hector and Viktor Kennedy when reviewing the speedy deletion request of Titto P Thankachen, an article previously created by a Jhonny sock. Based on both editors' involvement in the article and the obvious username similarity, I looked at their edits. I wasn't convinced they were the same person, but I was convinced the Hector was a sock of Mark Jhonny. Here is an EIA of the two users + Kelee Nayak, a Jhonny sock. Anyway, from my non-CU perspective, all the Jhonny accounts are stale, but I was wondering if you could compare Hector and Viktor to see if they are likely to be the same person? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:25, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Taking a look. --Yamla (talk) 21:50, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Completed. The two accounts are  Unlikely to each other, but see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mark Jhonny. --Yamla (talk) 22:18, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, particularly for your comments at the SPI.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:47, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Narayanan_Iyengar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Narayanan_Iyengar account has edited many articles with Hindutuva bias. Not sure how best to roll these back! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.198.125.102 (talk) 02:05, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

That account was blocked back in September and it looks like most or all of their edits have been reverted. Why are you bringing this up now? --Yamla (talk) 11:11, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Philodemous

Hi, you confirmed the socks in Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Philodemous. There's a new account, Leftsupercazzola, who has edited Talk:Herculaneum papyri. I suspect they may be a sock, but there are some differences, making me reluctant to block without technical confirmation. See the latest at User Talk:Bbb23#Sockpuppet of Philodemous/VitoMocella68 for more on my misgivings. I do think there's enough to check, though. If you agree... --Bbb23 (talk) 16:35, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

 Confirmed:

• LeLouptPierre (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• VitoMocella68 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Philodemous (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Leftsupercazzola could either be WP:MEAT or the same person using a different browser. I'd say  Highly likely and more than enough to block. --Yamla (talk) 16:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

I've blocked. With "highly likely" I'd normally block as proven, but because of your MEAT comment, I tagged as suspected. Thanks very much for your help.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:46, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Reverts on Canadian politics articles

Hi Yamla, can you explain why you reverted changes on these articles (e.g. 35th Canadian Parliament, List of Canadian electoral districts (1996–2003), List of Canadian electoral districts (1987–1996))? It seems like it is related to a sockpuppet investigation, but your reverts instead have created tons of links to disambiguation pages. Courtesy ping to @Rodw: who has been doing these fixes. Natg 19 (talk) 18:43, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

So it seems that your reverts could "work" if we undid all the changes that the sockpuppet did but currently it leads to tons of dab links. Natg 19 (talk) 18:47, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

The reverts were to two abusive sockpuppeteers, one in particular (Moatassemakmal) who is known for deliberately introducing false information and who admitted to trolling this subject area recently (presumably with hard-to-find false information). I couldn't think of a better way than to revert all the contributions I found. Anything I can do to help with the disambiguation links? --Yamla (talk) 19:25, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

If you go to your preferences (drop down list top right) & then gadgets tab & scroll down to "Appearance" & then put a tick next to "Display links to disambiguation pages in orange" it will show you all the links to dab pages. Any help fixing them appreciated.— Rod ^talk 20:05, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll get a start on that shortly. --Yamla (talk) 20:06, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Did you mean Ebbedlila? I see no indication Moatassemakmal is involved with those pages. Natg 19 (talk) 20:34, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Ah, I see, there were IP editors on some articles adding information. Natg 19 (talk) 20:39, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

(ec; yes, IP address contributions) I assure you Moatassemakmal was involved with those pages, and is the central concern here. Basically everything coming from an Egyptian IP address to a Canadian politics site is him, and has been for the better part of a decade. See for example, this admission. I have a long history with this particular WP:LTA; nothing he contributes should be trusted. But yes, also Ebbedlila. --Yamla (talk) 20:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Ah, I understand now, there were IP editors on some articles adding false information. Unfortunately, the reverts also undo Ebbedlila's link changes to riding pages which need to be disambiguated. I was confused who you were saying as the sock master, as Ebbedlila also got blocked recently for sockpuppetry. I'll help with these dab changes as well. Natg 19 (talk) 20:39, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

For a list of the most affected articles see: Articles With Multiple Dablinks.— Rod ^talk 20:55, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Without any automated tools, it looks like this will take days to a small number of weeks to get through. I've started the process. What fun. --Yamla (talk) 20:58, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Heh, I was wanting to rewatch Babylon 5 so this actually works out okay. --Yamla (talk) 21:04, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Qwertyytrewqqwerty/DisamAssist can really help with multiple disambiguations.— Rod ^talk 21:08, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Unfortunately, that doesn't work for me. --Yamla (talk) 21:17, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks (both) for your help with this. The majority of links have been fixed and the last few will hopefully be sorted in the next few days.— Rod ^talk 08:43, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

I took a look at all the articles I reverted and all the articles I protected and found and fixed three more instances. I also took a look at articles with dab links. I think between the three of us, we've fixed all the links. Thanks, both of you. Please let me know if I missed something. --Yamla (talk) 10:13, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

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Strange user page creation

Hey, it looks like someone created a user page for a vandal blocked since October 2023 (with a long-inactive talk page) to add the banned user template. Made me raise an eyebrow and figured I'd drop you a message here, as the blocking admin, to see if it's anything worth checking out. Schrödinger's jellyfish ✉ 02:39, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I truly don't understand why users ever do this. A recently blocked vandal, sure, but why tag accounts blocked months or even years ago? --Yamla (talk) 12:28, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

This is probably just a touch of overzealousness on my end (and smack me if this isn't AGF), but the overlapping interest in sports mascots and interest in counter vandalism as a new user (but to be fair I got interested pretty early on!), plus the registration shortly after the block, got some gears turning. It's nothing concrete enough to file a SPI for, I think their only actual editing overlap was at Little Einsteins. Phönedinger's jellyfish II (talk) 02:53, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Maybe that gut feeling was right. Thank you for looking into this! Phönedinger's jellyfish II (talk) 03:00, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

It was indeed! Thanks. --Yamla (talk) 10:31, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

IP blocked for "disruptive editing"

Hey Yamla! You recently blocked the IP I'm at for making "disruptive edits". Would you be able to explain? The only edits I've recently made while not logged in have been small grammatical fixes, and have not been rolled back on their respective pages, so I'm having trouble with them being construed as "disruptive". Pecklesteiner (talk) 15:17, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

It is not possible for me to answer this without you telling me the IP address involved. --Yamla (talk) 15:21, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

OK. Is there any way to do that more privately than a talk page? Pecklesteiner (talk) 15:23, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes. You can email it to me. I won't respond to the email, but I will respond here without disclosing your IP address. --Yamla (talk) 15:25, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm not seeing the "email this user" button. (My apologies for the bother, and thanks for responding so far.) Pecklesteiner (talk) 15:38, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Try Special:EmailUser/Yamla. --Yamla (talk) 15:40, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

The IP address you provided me is not blocked and has never been. Perhaps you gave me the wrong IP address? I need the IP address specifically blocked for making "disruptive edits". You can see the block log by going to Special:Log/block and then entering the IP address in the Target field. --Yamla (talk) 15:55, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Definitely the right address. I submitted a block appeal too, and it's the same address. This is really curious. Now I log back out, it no longer says the IP is blocked.

I'm not sure what happened. Anyway, sorry for all the bother, and kudos to you for taking the time out of the day to talk to me about it! Pecklesteiner (talk) 16:16, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

No problem, sorry I couldn't help you get to the bottom of this! --Yamla (talk) 16:36, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

"IPSharkk proxy" block

I got an unblock request denied because "[the] IP address is part of the IPSharkk proxy network". However, this was the IP I got by a mobile phone sharing its data connection. The phone's owner does not know about any such proxy, so what is this about? Was it a device that previously got the address that is an open proxy? The address is part of the Elisa NAT range, so any IP assignment is probably short-lived.

Can you give me a pointer or explain how you came to the conclusion that this is an IPSharkk proxy?

- LPfi 19:54, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

(This is about this IP. - LPfi 20:02, 5 March 2024 (UTC))

I came to the conclusion using spur.us and possibly ipqualityscore (I forget if I checked the latter). These proxies are significantly problematic to us. I get several death threats a day due to their widespread abuse so am generally not inclined to lift the blocks early, absent evidence the proxies have been shut down. --Yamla (talk) 20:45, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Keeping the block after the IP has been reassigned doesn't seem very useful. Can you confirm that the address is still a proxy? If it is, then that phone owner has some tough thinking to do (so I really would like to know). –LPfi (talk) 21:27, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

My scans show it no longer is. When I checked earlier today, the tools I used (apart from nmap, which I didn't run) indicated it was functioning as a proxy. They no longer make that claim. Note that I occasionally see proxies shut down during the unblock request, only to fire up immediately afterward. As you point out, that's less likely to happen on an IP address like this, which is likely to be reallocated very quickly. I have lifted the block. --Yamla (talk) 21:31, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Can you check 85.76.43.80, which seems to be the phone's new IP? If it was the culprit, then we have to do something. –LPfi (talk) 21:38, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

The tools, including Nmap, say it is clear. --Yamla (talk) 21:47, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. –LPfi (talk) 22:59, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thank you for helping me struggle out and cleanise evaded user, Toini Ivanov

2001:EE0:4BC7:BA00:49A4:5AB0:3C6E:D99E (talk) 14:37, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

March 2024

Hello, I'm Achmad Rachmani. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, List of football clubs in Indonesia, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please do not add a number of clubs for each province. Achmad Rachmani (talk) 15:05, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

@Achmad Rachmani This did need reverted, but you should probably check the page history for context and realize that Yamla was cleaning up edits from a banned user. Sometimes a little dirt accidently gets restored. -- ferret (talk) 15:26, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Suspicious account

Is the 2016 sleeper account committing random reverts that did <this edit> suspicious enough that you would be willing to check it?
Although sure the warning summaries are different, and the warnings are level 1 like earlier (not like the last couple sleeper accounts).
– 2804:F14:80C6:A301:70C8:DCC8:4027:D6BB (talk) 21:01, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Yeap, Hamish Ross. Tagged and blocked. --Yamla (talk) 21:06, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. – 2804:F14:80C6:A301:70C8:DCC8:4027:D6BB (talk) 21:14, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

MarcBgd

Good morning. Last year, you blocked Special:Contributions/MarcBgd. He is now editing as Special:Contributions/178.220.100.50, aas shown by the contributions history and edits like adding a file to commons at 13:45 on the 9th March and then adding it here: at 13:47 on 9th March. Thanks. Celia Homeford (talk) 10:07, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Yeap, looks to be obvious. Blocked, thanks for letting me know. --Yamla (talk) 10:11, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

spammy crap

I thought of it as crappy spam. Well, it takes all kinds, I guess. 😜 -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 07:00, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Howdy!

More trolling and borderline death threats, I'm afraid. See User talk:37.48.108.4, specifically one of the first revisions. 🇺🇲JayCubby✡ plz edit my user pg! Talk 00:14, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Believe me, you don't want to see this. Dealt with. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 07:09, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I strongly suspect my day will be better if I simply don't look. :) I appreciate you cleaning it up. --Yamla (talk) 10:21, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello! Asking permission to send an email about COI

I have high reason to belive an account is connected to a IRL person who wrote the page, but as I do NOT want to break WP:OUTING I dont want to post their full info. Can I send you an email? Thanks again and have a great day Ask me about air Cryogenic air (talk) 16:15, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

The best approach is to follow Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_disclosure#Reporting_undisclosed_paid_editors and send the evidence via the email address listed there. If you don't want to, you are welcome to email me but note that I would not block based solely on off-wiki evidence, so you may have better luck with the paid-contribution disclosure email. :) --Yamla (talk) 17:13, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Your message on my talk page

Hi Yamla, you put a Conflict of Interest box on my talk page. I haven't the slightest idea why, so I thought I'd ask directly? Thanks, --Steffen (talk) 17:08, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

In your UTRS request, you indicated you planned to write about a subject for which you were directly involved. I can't go into great detail as UTRS requests are private. There's no problem with your proposed edit, but you must declare your conflict of interest as per WP:COI. --Yamla (talk) 17:12, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Okay, that's interesting. I got a mail but didn't file that UTRS request and therefore didn't verify the appeal thinking somebody used the wrong username in his request. I'll have a look into this tomorrow. Thanks! --Steffen (talk) 21:55, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Your claim is bizarre but indeed seems to be accurate. This particular UTRS request didn't seem to be anything unusual, it's hard to understand why someone would have faked it. But again, this does indeed appear to be the case. My apologies. You are free to remove my warning from your talk page if you wish. :) --Yamla (talk) 22:00, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for looking into this! --Steffen (talk) 09:49, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

User talk:Reatom2

You may wish to remove TPA. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 17:36, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

I think no need just yet. --Yamla (talk) 19:44, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Please keep an eye on Rawsar6

Hi Yamla,

Rawsar6, an account you recently declined an unblock to for racism, has suggested they will edit via an IP despite their block. Please keep an eye on them, I feel like they may try to evade their block. Thanks, Mseingth2133444 (talk/contribs) 23:25, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

I saw that, thanks. --Yamla (talk) 10:41, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

User:That guy who plays games

You were the blocking admin for this user previously, you might want to revisit a longer block. See Special:Contributions/That_guy_who_plays_games for inspired page moves and unexplained section blankings. –Fredddie™ 16:32, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Essentially déjà vu all over again (sigh)... why won't they learn at all? NoobThreePointOh (talk) 16:40, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

I strongly agree they need a longer block, but I think it would be more useful coming from a different admin this time. If I block them, they'll just claim I'm biased against them. --Yamla (talk) 18:06, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm extremely confused on whether the edits they're doing are either disruptive or just simply edit warring itself. I can agree with a longer temporary block on edit warring (since that's the normal block policy for admins), but I don't know about the length of a disruptive block. I'm guessing that it would be indefinite. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 18:11, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

No. I was just reverting it to edit for later, aka responding to criticism. That guy who plays games (talk) 20:00, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

You don't respond to criticism by reverting. You're supposed to form a consensus on the talk page. If they say don't do it, follow their advice and don't edit the page they're talking about. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 20:21, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@That guy who plays games: My name is That Guy Who Plays Video Games1234 (fomerly That Guy Who Plays Video Games and originally OHIO 97876). Why do you say this on your userpage? There is no user called That Guy Who Plays Video Games1234 or That Guy Who Plays Video Games. OHIO 97876 is your original username, as you say, meaning you were renamed from OHIO 97876 to your current username.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:30, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

I submited a renaming request, but nobody ever accepted it. That guy who plays games (talk) 20:32, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

The username was a joke, but I wasn't going to vandalize anything. That guy who plays games (talk) 20:34, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

To add onto what NoobThreePointOh said, you don't remove a whole section of text so you can edit it later, you just edit it. –Fredddie™ 23:46, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

I didn’t have time to. That guy who plays games (talk) 00:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Then wait until you have time to do it properly.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:03, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

I try to do that, but I can’t always do so. That guy who plays games (talk) 00:06, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Then you shouldn't be surprised if you're blocked for disruption.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:13, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@Bbb23 Roughly half an hour ago, User:Elli already gave them a warning on edit warring with User:JJMC89 bot on the page List of toll roads in the United States. Just 8 minutes later, User:Tedickey also warned them to stop removing maintenance templates. So I don't know what we should do at this point. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 19:26, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Enough is enough. Indefinitely blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:51, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Inappropriate means of handling image removal

We allow limited use of copyrighted images per the WP:NFC policy, so your deletion of File:Clementine walking dead.png claiming it was a copyvio is inappropiate. If you do not believe WP should have such an image, you are supposed to take the image to WP:FFD. Do note that I have expanded the non-free rationale as over the years editors have whittled it down, it needed more support, but this is a completely reasonable case of an image we would keep. — Masem (t) 12:07, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Noted. Thank you for restoring the file and expanding the non-free-use rationale, I sincerely appreciate it. --Yamla (talk) 12:09, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Trying to edit a company page

Hi Yamla, you kindly dealt with my Username block a few days ago when I was updating the Simprints page. I wanted to ask for some advice please...

I would like to update the page of the company I work for - Simprints - as it is very out of date and there have been many developments that readers would find interesting and beneficial that are currently not included on the page.

I tried to make all the changes under the Username Simprints, which I didn't realise wasn't allowed and I also didn't know that I needed to declare COI and that I was updating the pages as part of my job (therefore paid to do so). This was my mistake and I appreciate the chance to learn how to use Wikipedia correctly. Thanks for your patience and help!

I'm now in a predicament... There is no one external person to our team who is likely to update the page. I had requested some edits but they are really far down the queue and I am worried that they won't be picked up for weeks. And then the next request can be added, and so on. Appreciate they are being worked on by volunteers (thanks, again, to the Wikipedia team).

What would you advise is the best way forward to update the page quickly? Is it ok practice for another member of the team to declare their COI and update the page directly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sima Bodalikar (talk • contribs) 12:22, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

I would be so grateful for your steer on this. Once the page is up to date, it will be a valuable resource to people who are interested in the topic of Biometrics and impactful not for profit organisaitions.

With thanks in advance Sima Sima Bodalikar (talk) 12:16, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

You are taking the correct approach, suggesting changes on the article's talk page. I'm afraid these things take time. See WP:DEADLINE (which Masem indirectly reminded me of, above). Please don't have your coworkers set up other accounts to directly edit the article; see WP:MEAT. Note also that this is not your company's page, this is an article about your company. That's two very different things. If you aren't clear, please ask. --Yamla (talk) 12:21, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Also, all of the changes I made are in the history, so is it possible for someone to check those and revert them back? Happy to discuss anything you would like to verify if this option is possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sima Bodalikar (talk • contribs)

You should ask on the article talk page. Note that at least some of your edits were inappropriate so it's very unlikely all your edits would be reinstated, but possible that at least some of them would be, in time. --Yamla (talk) 12:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, @Yamla. I will wait patiently in the queue and I do appreciate all the work the Wikipedia volunteers are doing. Point noted about this being an Article about the company.

Is there a way to know when the Edit request has been picked up by someone? Or if it has been accepted/rejected etc? Sima Bodalikar (talk) 12:28, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

You can monitor the article and article talk page. On my desktop browser, I do that by clicking the star icon, it should be similar for you. You can then watch for changes at Special:Watchlist. --Yamla (talk) 12:33, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks so much, @Yamla Sima Bodalikar (talk) 12:37, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

UTRS appeal

If you feel like looking at UTRS appeal #86677, it looks to me in need of CU. JBW (talk) 12:49, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Looking! I'll leave notes there. --Yamla (talk) 12:54, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Reporting Saucenoappetizer

Saucenoappetizer (talk · contribs)

You have blocked for violating WP:LOUTSOCK, it's looks like they are still doing it by using this IP address. TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 08:15, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm afraid I'll need more clear evidence of that. --Yamla (talk) 09:23, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

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@Yamla Might want to block the IP or get someone else to do it ASAP. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 00:47, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

So I should be blocked just for pointing out their wrongdoing? 174.126.129.226 (talk) 00:51, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Yes. They have not done anything wrong, you have. It's especially considered trolling. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 00:52, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Already blocked by another admin. Thanks. --Yamla (talk) 11:13, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

UTRS appeal #86859

They say they are ready now. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:17, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I approve this message: Hey Yamla, you helped me with IP block exempt permissions in the past!

But I've been in talks with this user over the course of their block to get them on the right track, and to help them through the appeal process. I would like to assure you that they are not trying to pester; they are simply confused by the process at times. As am I... but it's new waters for me.

If you have any questions about the user, I'm here to answer them from a secondary perspective. Alternatively if you have any new specific details about where they are in the appeal process/what they still need to do, I can communicate that information to them. Panini! • 🥪 14:47, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Deepfriedokra, I have no objections to you restoring talk page access if they plan to appeal their ban in the near future. --Yamla (talk) 16:21, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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Is there an example in the Wiktionary entry for "own worst enemy?

If not, I think I may have a suggestion. Floquenbeam (talk) 20:34, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

I know how you feel. I must say, it's a lot calmer just looking on from the sidelines. --Yamla (talk) 20:35, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

I think I'll try that. Right now, I'm probably an example for the entry "unintentionally enabling someone to be their own worst enemy". Floquenbeam (talk) 20:38, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

I'm new

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Brijvasi200

Looks like user didn't accept the advice and decided to create a new account. SPI filed here but looks like DUCK in my opinion. CNMall41 (talk) 08:07, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Yeap. Thanks for filing the SPI. Results noted there. --Yamla (talk) 10:44, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

92.66.185.205

You said "inappropriate" here. I assume that was a mistake? I hope :) --Hammersoft (talk) 22:33, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Inappropriate only in so far as they still had talk page access and the block wasn't long enough. Really, what I meant was "good block, should be longer". Sorry if that context didn't come through clearly. :) --Yamla (talk) 11:18, 8 April 2024 (UTC)