Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Current issues and requests archive 58

Bismillah

Can some one straighten that mess out? Thanks Nunabas (talk) 00:11, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Ditto. He's moved his talk page to a mainspace page. Hell of a mess. IWI (chat) 00:18, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

@Nunabas and ImprovedWikiImprovment: I see that the linked page has been deleted. Is anything else needed? For future reference, with requests like this it helps if you give more detail about what has happened and what is needed. Otherwise, the responding admin has to investigate from scratch instead of having an idea of where to start. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 02:06, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

@Auntof6: It was a page that had been moved from a talk page to the mainspace by an IP. The user whose page it was had also moved his user page to a "Wikipedia:" article. IWI (chat) 02:09, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

VIP Urgent

There is an IP on VIP that needs to be blocked urgently. IWI (chat) 00:39, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Globally blocked by meta. IWI (chat) 00:52, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for oversightership/Enfcer

Hi! It appears that every crat has voted in the above request (or is making the request), leaving none uninvolved to close it. As it's very obvious that the result would be in the affirmative, could one of the (involved) crats close it and post on m:SRP? Thanks, Vermont (talk) 04:52, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

I will write up the closing statement shortly. Chenzw  Talk  12:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

After looking through the !votes, I have placed the request on hold and initiated a crat chat to confirm the final result. Chenzw  Talk  12:33, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Ellie Goulding

Please temporary semi-protect. Reason: Vandalism --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:53, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Agreed. Three different IPs have blanked it in one day. IWI (chat) 21:53, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

 Done Semi-Protected for 1 week -- Enfcer (talk) 22:03, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Can an admin hide the summary of this page change please?

Resolved. Blocked indef. Chenzw  Talk  12:03, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

I did a very bad thing when I made this page and I don't want other people to see it. Thank you. Solace Chiere (talk) 11:51, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Elmar_Faber&oldid=6957027

I don't know what gave you the idea it was an acceptable thing to do, especially when you were previously warned for this on EN wiki in early-May. Suffice to say, it wouldn't a problem anymore in future. Chenzw  Talk  12:03, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

I had given the user some slack before because they started making helpful changes, but I agree with this block. They know what they were doing and were on a final strike. IWI (chat) 12:05, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Update - Per SRG report, this user is now globally locked as a sockpuppet of Skiyomi. theinstantmatrix (talk) 18:14, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Log need to be rd'ed still --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 18:16, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

@Chenzw and Thegooduser: I have a hunch that Sciana Reale may be a sock of this account. Similar editing style with some ok edits and then some blatant vandalism such as this. What do you think? IWI (chat) 00:51, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

IWI, Similar username too but I am going to assume good faith... They will be blocked soon anyways if they keep doing this --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:52, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Yeah really doesn't matter if they keep vandalising. DENY. IWI (chat) 00:55, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

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Not sure what log Thegooduser was referring to, but log entries are generally not subjected to RD unless there is a very good reason to. Chenzw  Talk  02:18, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Chenzw Log has spam link... --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:20, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Which log? Chenzw  Talk  02:23, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Chenzw The Creation log for that talk page Talk:Elmar Faber --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:24, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Alright, I have revdel'd the edit summary for that log entry. Chenzw  Talk  02:30, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

FYI, Sciana Reale was just globally locked per this report. – Aranya (talk) 13:58, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

LTA request

An LTA has left a message here and believes they have a legitimate request. An admin needs to sort it out one way or another. IWI (chat) 02:50, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

A response does not seem to be necessary. Vermont (talk) 02:57, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Sockpuppet

Wikibutor100 has been blatantly sockpuppeting using an ip address (2405:204:a198:ddf6:e105:ef93:c733:c451) by logging out to remove a QD template on Divyansh Mishra DM. The subject is not notable, and the enwiki version was deleted. IWI (chat) 06:40, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

and now 2405:204:a198:ddf6::19a4:e0ad. IWI (chat) 06:57, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Request for permissions

Just letting administrators know that I made a request for permissions a couple of days ago. IWI (chat) 19:14, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Semiprotect Talk:Adolf Anderssen and Adolf Anderssen

The pages mentioned above were vandalised by a banned user. Nigos (talk · contribs) 06:36, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

IP list disruption

IP 12.31.111.175 has been making disruptive changes by making monumental lists on pages despite many warnings. The pages are Bird flight and Walt Disney Animation Studios, among others. A block may be necessary purely to prevent further disruption, if not blocking them from editing certain pages. IWI (chat) 23:33, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for a month by Chenzw. IWI (chat) 00:21, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Sportscar

The word sportscar isn't a correct spelling in English. Can "Sportscar" please be moved to "Sports car"? Grady240105 (talk) 16:59, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

I've moved it. Updating the exact terminology the page uses (sportscar -> sports car) will be up to you. Hiàn (talk) 17:19, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

IP bad pages

77.207.75.83 has came off their one year block and immediately started making similar bad pages as before. The user is currently blocked for two years on enwiki. IWI (chat) 20:27, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for a year by Vermont. IWI (chat) 15:43, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Ellie Goulding again

The protection expired and the vandalism continued again. Was previously protected for a week. Pinging Enfcer as they were involved in the previous protection. IWI (chat) 15:43, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Protection doesn't seem necessary at this point of time. I have already blocked the /64 IPv6 range for a month. Chenzw  Talk  15:46, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Yes. If it continues from other IPs or ranges we can reassess. IWI (chat) 16:15, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Afro-Asiatic languages page move

Could an administrator please move Afro-Asiatic languages to Afroasiatic languages, per the primary spelling and enwiki. I made an oopsie and accidentally created it not realising it already existed. IWI (chat) 21:26, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

 Done--Eptalon (talk) 22:33, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. IWI (chat) 23:17, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Large range block applied

I have blocked the following range for 6 months for IP users only: 217.164.0.0/16 (talk • contribs • CA • deleted contribs • nuke contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log). This is a large range that covers approx. 64,000 addresses. However, it seems to be only exclusively used by one vandal on Simple Wikipedia since November 2019. This is a long term vandal who changes birth dates, locations, and other BLP info related to animators, and introduces other false information to animation related articles. The user previously had edited with other IPs including User:2.50.79.154 and User:89.187.100.71. They have done similar things on English Wikipedia. It would be helpful if others could review the range's edits and make sure I've cleaned up everything.

As always, my blocks are open to community discussion and reversal if deemed necessary. Only (talk) 11:15, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Edit Warring

Long term edit warring on Peg + Cat by various IPs. Protection may be needed. Range won't cover all the IPs. IWI (chat) 12:42, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

The edits are spread out over a large period of time. Protection isn't necessary. Just revert when you see it. -Djsasso (talk) 14:25, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

I'll keep it in my watchlist in that case. IWI (chat) 14:29, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

@ImprovedWikiImprovment: That would be appreciated. However, be aware that addition of long tables from English Wikipedia is not the real problem. Adding tables is fine. The problem is that the data in the tables that keep getting added is bogus. --Auntof6 (talk) 11:50, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

@Auntof6: Yes, thank you. Also, sometimes we get non-existent templates being used. IWI (chat) 15:04, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

And that is fine, when that happens one of us, often me notices and imports them over. Ideally they would do all that, but the fact they don't doesn't necessarily mean it was vandalism. Often just people not being educated on what needs to be done. -Djsasso (talk) 20:05, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Of course usually in good faith, but disruptive nevertheless. In this case the information is false. IWI (chat) 23:09, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

I mean the references were dated at something like 2037. IWI (chat) 23:12, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Iggy Azalea

Can an admin go through this page up until around last December? A lot of revisions are pure attacks and need hiding. This is an ongoing issue. IWI (chat) 05:30, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

I don't think additional revdel is justified at this point of time. Per policy, "'ordinary' rudeness, personal attacks or conduct accusations" do not qualify for revdel. Chenzw  Talk  05:50, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for protecting it anyway. IWI (chat) 06:34, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Requesting flood flag for 1 hour

I’m going to be adding categories to articles in Category:Category needed and Category:Uncategorized stubs. This would really clog up new changes without the flood flag... --sithjarjar666 ^{(my contribs | talk to me | email me | see my enwiki profile)} 22:08, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Please note that this user is community banned on en.wiki[1] for widespread disruption and socking. 65.18.114.230 (talk) 22:23, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

More socking than disruption actually. I did make good edits, I just did them under illegal sock accounts, and I’ve stopped doing that... --sithjarjar666 ^{(my contribs | talk to me | email me | see my enwiki profile)} 22:31, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

You were indefinitely blocked for "Clearly not here to contribute to the encyclopedia"[2] and then you abused your talk page [3] by making no less then six unblock requests and being highly uncooperative when given a chance the be unblocked. The edits made from sock accounts/IPs were vandalism[4] as you admit to doing on your talk page. I suggest that anyone even considering giving this user any kind of permissions check with en.wiki administrators first. 65.18.114.230 (talk) 22:49, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

This is irrelevant. The one strike rule applies here and they haven't broken any rules on simple. Please stop commenting on this editor. IWI (chat) 22:51, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

WP:ONESTRIKE applies to blocking, this is a request for a permission. 65.18.114.230 (talk) 22:54, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

I know, but there is no need to tell admins this as they are aware. IWI (chat) 23:03, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

I am just making sure that they know about this user's history before they give him a permission. While a user that is community banned on one wiki is free to edit other wikis, they should not be given permissions, especially if the disruption ended only a few months ago. 65.18.114.230 (talk) 23:09, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

There are <150 pages in those two categories combined. I don't think what you're describing is A. a significant amount of edits and B. a significant amount of edits of repetitive nature. I'll defer to others here for final determination, particularly Auntof6 as they have more experience in that categorization work to sufficient judge if that's flood work. Only (talk) 01:29, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

I agree with User:Only that categorizing is not a good thing to do under the flood flag. The flood flag is supposed to be used for a large number of edits that are essentially the same. The articles that need categories undoubtedly need different categories and different kinds of categories, so, to me, that is substantially different. I wouldn't grant the flood flag for that. Also, as Only said, the number isn't very high. --Auntof6 (talk) 07:59, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

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From SithJarJar666's request, it seems that the categorisation entails some form of human judgement (to determine the category to assign the uncategorized articles). As such, I think that granting flood would be inappropriate for this task. By the way, two different requests for permission shouldn't be in the same section. The editor who arrived later ought to create a new section on AN to request for their own rights, not hijack another editor's thread. Chenzw  Talk  03:48, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

I’m formally withdrawing my requests as I misunderstood the quantity of edits required for the flood flag, and its purpose. Sorry for wasting your time... --sithjarjar666 ^{(my contribs | talk to me | email me | see my enwiki profile)} 23:11, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Found this edit on WD

Just thought the admins should be aware. I'm not a big fan of filling CU requests on behalf on IP adresses nor do i know if the admins here are aware of whatever is going on. --Trade (talk) 02:40, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Nothing is going on except a long-term vandal harassing a good-faith contributor. Vermont (talk) 02:53, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Resolved. Nothing more to do here

LTA, Jasper Deng beat me to blocking on wikidata, already globally blocked --DannyS712 (talk) 03:44, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Malfunctioning Infobox

The infobox on Best European Goalkeeper (and all other award pages) is malfunctioning. Two of the parameters, which are properly formatted and troubleshooted, are not displaying. I'm quite sure this is because of some error in Template:Infobox award. You can see on this template page that the small prototype of the infobox on the right-hand side is incomplete based on the syntaxes provided by "Usage" section. I think only editors with special rights can access the problem's source. ClumsyMind (talk) 15:36, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Handled on Simple Talk page. Operator873^talkconnect 15:58, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Edit war on Talk:Katyn massacre

Lots of edit warring on this page (not quite three reverts today, but its been going on a few days now), as you can see in the revision history. Not quite sure what an admin would do here, besides either (a) blocking the people involved, (b) semiprotecting the page, or (c) all of the above. The admins will know what to do, which is why I brought this here... --sithjarjar666 ^{(my contribs | talk to me | email me | see my enwiki profile)} 20:46, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

It's the same long-term abuser as in this thread above: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Found_this_edit_on_WD. Just revert and ignore, or semi-protect is ok too. Antandrus (talk) 21:01, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Second Flood Request

Moving related posts from section above to here

I may also request to flood redirecting film pages to movie pages Naleksuh (talk) 22:23, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

@Only and Auntof6: What about film pages as mentioned above? Naleksuh (talk) 01:47, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

It's not clear what you're intending to do. Can you give examples of the edits you'd make? And please provide the category or set of articles you'd be working with so we can see the size of the "problem" you intend to fix. Only (talk) 02:01, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

I believe Naleksuh wants to create redirects from "NAME OF MOVIE (film)" articles to "NAME OF MOVIE (movie)". If so, I don't see this as necessary. Yes, leave redirects from moves, but it isn't that important to require a mass creation IMO. As for, SithJarJar666, I'm not sure. IWI (chat) 02:05, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

@Only: Redirect Last Exit to Brooklyn (film) to Last Exit to Brooklyn (movie), The Firm (1993 film) to The Firm (1993 movie), etc. Working with all disambiguate movie pages in this case. I would disagree that they are "not important", as it helps both readers trying to find the article from en and editors who avoid starting duplicates (which of course, is historically a problem) Naleksuh (talk) 02:08, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Like I asked above: please give us a sense of how many edits this would entail and where you're pulling these from. Only (talk) 02:12, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

@Only: Apologies for the confusion, It covers all pages that disambiguate movies (either (movie) or (1337 movie) and such). There is a maximum of 1281 of those pages, however, the expected total number from this operation will be a bit less as some already exist. Hope this is clear! Naleksuh (talk) 02:31, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

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@Chenzw: See above, apologies for using the same section. I see you have commented that Sith's request is "innapropriate", but it seems you are neutral on my own? Naleksuh (talk) 04:13, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Are you talking about creating redirects from film to movie? I don't think we need such a mass creation of redirects. If you disagree, or that isn't what you're requesting, please explain. --Auntof6 (talk) 07:55, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

@Auntof6: Yes, that is the request however the creation of them is useful as ideally in most cases our title should be the same as English Wikipedia, with the exception being when our title is more simple. In such cases, the title on English Wikipedia should redirect to ours. This is better for both readers (getting a simpler title by changing en to simple) and editors who may try to start duplicate pages (several pages were at film titles before being fixed by me a few days ago. Ultimately, these pages are a good thing for the encyclopedia although not being created at the time, I would not see its use being lowered by automated creation. Is this reasonable? Naleksuh (talk) 08:16, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

As asked above, please provide a list of the ones you think need changing. You can put the list on a separate page (such as a user page) if you want. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:30, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

I believe specific examples were asked for, but if you want a list of all pages, here you go:

Above is our list of movie pages, with film being planned to redirect to movie. For example, Z (film) will redirect to Z (movie). Yours, Mine and Ours (2005 film) will redirect to Yours, Mine and Ours (2005 movie) and such. Hope this answers all questions. Naleksuh (talk) 08:36, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

We are a different wiki to enwiki. There is no obligation in any policy or guideline for us to have the same title, and thus there is no need for so many redirects to be created. IWI (chat) 08:51, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

@ImprovedWikiImprovment: Thank you. Policy and guidelines aren't necessarily the determining factor here. If you could keep your comments to a minimum, that would be helpful. You're causing edit conflicts as we try to work this out with Naleksuh. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:59, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

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Examples were asked for, but Only also asked "please provide the category or set of articles you'd be working with so we can see the size of the 'problem' you intend to fix". That unformatted list wasn't very helpful, so I've changed it to a list of the existing/proposed redirects so we can see which ones already exist. You're welcome to remove the ones that already exist if you want, so we can see how many you'd actually be creating.

Would you be creating the redirects manually, or using an automated process? If the latter, what would the process be?

On further consideration, I think this could be useful, because these films might be linked to by articles that are copied from enwiki. However, I'd like to hear from other admins as to 1) whether we want a mass creation done and 2) whether the flood flag would be appropriate for this. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:59, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

@Auntof6: They will be created with Node script if approved, which can be run every two weeks or so. Flood flag would be useful the first time with the creation of around 1000 pages, but in the future, only 3-4 pages would be expected and flood flag would not be necessary. Naleksuh (talk) 18:31, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

I think this is a valid use case for redirects, and they will definitely aid readers who "jump" between both Wikipedias by just modifying the domain name. I think this may be a task better left to a standalone bot account, however, especially since this will not be a one-off creation of redirects. Chenzw  Talk  07:07, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

@Chenzw: I personally would prefer a semi-automated tool since although the first run will produce around a thousand new pages, there will only be around 1-2 new pages a week on subsequent runs, and is also semi-automated (started by me). However, this can easily be changed, if a fully automated bot is truly what is best. Let me know! Naleksuh (talk) 22:54, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

What I meant to say is that since this is going to be an ongoing task, rather than a one-off, I think the approval should be granted to a specific bot account rather than a human editor. Bot accounts can also run tasks on a semi-automatic basis. Chenzw  Talk  01:36, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

@Chenzw: It is somewhat both - as 19 years of not doing this has created around a thousand pages of backlog, but we also will continue doing this with around 1-2 new pages a week, which is a number that is more than zero. If bot accounts are preferred in this case, I will look into creating one for this task Naleksuh (talk) 01:59, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Once we have caught up the majority there is probably no need for an ongoing bot account as I doubt the number of new ones per week is very high. At most I would think less than 5 a month as I doubt we have all that many movies created that require disambiguation in a given month. So after the initial run I would say it would likely even be able to be done by hand. (though semi-automated would of course be fine as well) -Djsasso (talk) 11:23, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

@Djsasso: I am glad that you agree with this assessment. So, do I have the goahead from you to flood recent changes / create the first wave? After that, with the very low number of pages created, there will be little flood at all. Naleksuh (talk) 20:37, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Requesting flood flag again

I know my last request was declined, but I believe this one is appropriate. Using a search string found on Auntof6’s user page, I will go convert every use of the “external links” (or something similar) header to “other websites”. There are ~300 search results found for the string, so it’s probably a high enough number. It would take me about two hours to complete the task, so I’m requesting flood flag for two hours. And yes, to forestall that IP, yes I’m a former sockmaster/troll... --sithjarjar666 ^{(my contribs | talk to me | email me | see my enwiki profile)} 18:34, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Not comfortable giving this flag to a user new to simple.wiki when they are a former troll/sockmaster. I would be surprised if there are many that need fixing as Auntof6 runs through that list fairly often, most are likely false positives. I am currently doing a run through them and have only found two that need changing. -Djsasso (talk) 19:07, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

@Djsasso: l)inks|Related (W|w)eb ?sites|Outside (L|l)inks|Other (S|s)ites|Other ((W|w)eb ?pages)) ?==/|Look again. There is seriously like 300 search results, not two... --sithjarjar666 ^{(my contribs | talk to me | email me | see my enwiki profile)} 19:11, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Yes, that search brings up thousands of articles. But not all of them actually require a change. That is what false positives means. (and I said so far) -Djsasso (talk) 19:12, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

@Djsasso: Ah, I see. Yep you're right, not all of them need fixing. I guess I can still fix the ones that need fixing by hand... --sithjarjar666 ^{(my contribs | talk to me | email me | see my enwiki profile)} 19:15, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Edit warring

‎Andrew07111712 is edit warring by copying the full article from the English Wikipedia on Battle of Sluys‎. IWI (chat) 23:56, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

 Done indeffed by Danny. IWI (chat) 01:28, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Gadget-newpagesbox.js

I closed Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2020/MediaWiki:Gadget-newpagesbox.js, but don't see a link to delete the page. Does it require a crat to delete, or some other permission I dont have? --Auntof6 (talk) 20:43, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Nope - you should be able to delete it. Thats a bug; filing on phabricator --DannyS712 (talk) 20:44, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Danny. Same for Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2020/MediaWiki:Gadget-recentchangesbox.js. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:45, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Until its fixed, you can delete it by temporarily getting interface admin rights --DannyS712 (talk) 21:40, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

@Chenzw, Djsasso, Enfcer, and Eptalon: Then would one of the crats either give me the rights or go ahead and delete these? Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:11, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

@Auntof6: I have given you interface administrator rights (expiring in a day); feel free to delete them. --Eptalon (talk) 22:19, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

@Eptalon: Thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 23:48, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Peg + Cat

An anonymous user has violated the three-revert rule by continuing continued the long-term edit war on the page. Some kind of range block could be useful, if possible. IWI (chat) 20:57, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

2604:6000:1114:0:0:0:0:0/48 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · block user · block log)

Above range soft blocked. No or very low collateral on this project. Operator873^talkconnect 21:07, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

@Operator873: That should do it. Thanks, IWI (chat) 21:08, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Request for semi-protection on Kesha

Kesha (change · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)

The article just keeps on getting vandalized. Keeps getting vandalized. Can I Log In (talk) 22:45, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Seems to be the same few IPs (that have now been (range-)blocked). One of those IP blocks will expire in about 2 days, so I will keep an eye on the page and prepare a new and longer block if necessary. Chenzw  Talk  01:46, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Removal on QD Template

Hello, I have been tagging Indian Wiki for QD A4. The user keeps removing the template, despite my call to start on a discussion on the article talk page, and via a message on his user talk page. --Yottie ^=talk= 16:12, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

 Done Article is gone now. Chenzw  Talk  16:17, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Katyn massacre

Vandalism from LTA proxies returns as soon as protection expires. IWI (chat) 22:46, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

 Done Protected by Djsasso for a month. IWI (chat) 04:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Deletion of a user page

This user page looks like an article so it should be deleted. https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Himanshu_Jaykar_(musician) Pokai (talk) 12:01, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Got it. The user was globally locked for spam so no need for it to exist. Only (talk) 12:04, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Spam by Santoshp123

Santoshp123 (talk · contribs) added three links to an Indian blog to Independence Day (United States) - diff here. That was their only contribution so far. At En, they are blocked indefinitely for spamming, see en:User:Santoshp123. I'd suggest to block them here, too. --Rsk6400 (talk) 07:11, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Indef'd. Hiàn (talk) 15:05, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

The Usual Suspect

The usual suspect. See here for diff. --Yottie ^=talk= 22:07, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

And this one and this one. They don’t look like proxies. IWI (chat) 22:31, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

And here --Yottie ^=talk= 22:47, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

And here.--Yottie ^=talk= 22:49, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

They don’t look like open proxies, but they must be. IWI (chat) 22:50, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

And again.--Yottie ^=talk= 22:59, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Yawn. --Yottie ^=talk= 23:01, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Zzzz.--Yottie ^=talk= 23:02, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

And another. How about a semi protect?--Yottie ^=talk= 23:06, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Likely closed proxies. I don't really want to say more per WP:BEANS. -Djsasso (talk) 12:11, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

One more, for the record.--Yottie ^=talk= 23:08, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Here we go again.--Yottie ^=talk= 10:47, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Revdel

This diff should be deleted under RD2. IWI (chat) 06:55, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

 Done --Auntof6 (talk) 07:03, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Next time when you think something needs to be hidden please email the oversite list or admin list as opposed to posting publicly which draws attention to it. -Djsasso (talk) 12:14, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

I didn't think it was serious enough to require oversight, but yes, matters like this should be done in private. Apologies. IWI (chat) 21:35, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Rat

The page Rat is a sock target and is recieving vandalism from numerous logged in sockpuppets. Protection may be needed. IWI (chat) 20:52, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Since the user has vandalised different pages, protection would not be effective. IWI (chat) 11:22, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Requesting flood flag

I am requesting flood flag so I can go through all of the UK motorway articles I have created and remove the year establishment category from all of them, per advice given to me on Auntof6's talk page to remove them. I shouldn't need it for more than an hour. There are roughly 50-75 articles that I will need to edit. IWI (chat) 19:23, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Auntof6 informed me of the 100 article rule of thumb and I went ahead and did all of the edits. Flood flag was not needed. IWI (chat) 20:42, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Help!

Can someone who is more competent than I am get my talk page back to its state as was yesterday? Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:07, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

@Macdonald-ross: I've restored to the revision as of the 7 July. Is this ok? IWI (chat) 18:09, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks! Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:22, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Emails by Lsthevictim

This user has sent me and Crasstun emails using the email address janlubekhere@gmail.com. He is still doing this despite his account being blocked with email access revoked and globally locked. I think an admin needs to look into this. See related discussion on Auntof6's talk page here. Interstellarity (talk) 01:43, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Interstellarity, thanks for mentioning this. I've added that email address to the global email blacklist, though it's likely he'll just use another one of his emails when he notices it's on there. He shouldn't be able to send anything through the Special:EmailUser feature while locked, as he can't even be logged in. Did you perhaps reply to his initial email? Doing so would have told him your email address. If so, I suggest ignoring him outright from now onwards and not replying to anything he sends. He is known for harassment, stalking, etc. (doing it on the internet since 1999) and has been banned by the WMF since October 2018. Best, Vermont (talk) 01:51, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Yeah I responded to it. I didn't know who he is or or what was happening, I just though someone needed wiki-help. Oops. --Crasstun (talk | contributions) 14:51, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

@Vermont: I have not responded to any emails he sent me as you have said hence we are denying recognition. I was told by another user the same thing. Maybe he will realize that sending emails will get him nowhere. I sent an email to T&S so they can look into this. I believe we need to get the WMF involved so they can put a stop to this once and for all. Interstellarity (talk) 23:49, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

He's already WMF banned. Not much more that they do. Vermont (talk) 00:31, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Jordan Mangan

Can an admin please delete this article and protect it from being recreated again? It has have already been deleted once. --Trade (talk) 17:19, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser#Chasehanens

 Confirmed Operator873^talkconnect 17:39, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Would you kindly protect the page so he doesn't recreate it again?--Trade (talk) 19:26, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

I don't know about other admins, but I usually wait until a page has been created three times before I will salt it. This one has been created only twice so far. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:35, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Help with updating Peakware references

Hi all. Sadly Peakware, a wealth of data and key reference on mountains, is dead. The operator decided to pull the plug and now it contains only a splash page. We have Template:cite peakware which I have now updated to use the Internet Archive versions of the pages, instead of peakware.com. However, we have some articles that do not use "Cite peakware" but use "Cite web" with the url instead. An example is Aiguille de Chambeyron. I am looking for a way to find these and fix them by switching the citation to Cite Peakware, thus preserving the reference via Internet Archive. I'm not sure how to search to only catch those and not ones that properly use "Cite peakware" or the Internet Archive. Is there any tool to produce a list, so I can go through and fix them? Desertborn (talk) 18:09, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

I think AWB will be able to assist with the replacement, while taking the template parameters into consideration. Let me take a closer look at this later in the weekend. Chenzw  Talk  01:52, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Done, please take a look at my recent contribs (edit summary: migration to cite peakware template). It doesn't seem like there are a lot of affected articles. I have preserved the template parameters that were previously passed to {{cite web}}, just in case future versions of {{cite peakware}} need to use those parameters. Also, some articles did not cite Peakware itself, but referenced it as an external link: Matterhorn, Monte Fitz Roy, Pontic Mountains, Breithorn, Dhaulagiri. Chenzw  Talk  14:06, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Copying my own user page failed

Hi, I'm Skye251. When I tried to copy and paste my user page from standard Wikipedia it failed. Can u guys help me out? Thanks. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skye251 (talk • contribs) 13:41, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Block request

Hi, Vremeradno has emailed me asking me to revert this and to reinstate this,
I'm assuming they're a sock of someone given the amount of IPs on both pages, I'm also assuming they've emailed every rollbacker here asking for everyone to join in on the revert-war,
Anyway given the apparent disruption the IPs have caused I'm under the impression this is the same person as the IP(s) and probably should be blocked, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 22:27, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

I can confirm that you are not the only rollbacker who received an e-mail requesting this. I've received several now. (I've not responded.) I suspect this is related to the globally banned user mentioned in some earlier posts here. If an admin would like the text of the user's e-mail messages, please contact me via the e-mail function as I haven't been terribly active here lately, and might not see a reply here or on my talk page right away. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  01:52, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Yeah he does these on a pretty close to daily basis. Really you just have to ignore them. -Djsasso (talk) 23:11, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Ah okay, Seems a rather pointless thing to do but hey ho each to their own!, Anyway thanks all, –Davey2010^Talk 21:09, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

The user was blocked, with email disabled, literally 3 minutes before your post here, so that should take care of that. Only (talk) 11:49, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks Only, –Davey2010^Talk 21:09, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

I was trolled by an Administrator for false accusations of trolling and abuse

There is an administrator on the Wiki site that deleted my articles and banned me for no reason. I contested it and he continues to troll my page and edits. I am request a full investigation into this situation please. I was treated unfairly when I did nothing wrong. I abided by all the rules and he accuses me of false allegations and name calling. I dont see how this is professional at all. I understand we are in trying times but I can feel the bias feelings through my computer screen. He deleted all of my pages and with false accusations as well. I need help from someone who actually take the time to listen without being bias or discriminating against me. Please and thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TikTokJournalist (talk • contribs) 21:08, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

@TikTokJournalist: Hi. Are you talking about your block on the English Wikipedia, or are you blocked here? This is the Simple English Wikipedia. If you are blocked here, this would be block evasion. IWI (chat) 21:14, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

He’s made his way over there and is being handled. Only (talk) 22:36, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Katyn massacre

Abuse from LTA has resumed a day after a previous 1 month protection expired. IWI (chat) 21:43, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Protected by Macdonald-ross. IWI (chat) 22:51, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Import

Hi, can someone please import Template:Infobox toy? Naleksuh (talk) 04:26, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Done. -Djsasso (talk) 04:28, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Pitbull (rapper)

Is it possible to have the page semi-protected from IP-only editors? It gets vandalised almost every week from different IPs. For 3 consecutive weeks now. — Infogapp1 (talk) 20:55, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Can someone please look into this request? It's getting blanked again by IP users. Many thanks! — Infogapp1 (talk) 13:39, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay, I have placed rangeblocks for the time being - the blanking is believed to be activity from one person using a range of dynamic IPs. You might find the page histories of Kesha and Ellie Goulding interesting. Please continue to report similar blanking of the articles of musicians to VIP, even if they have not been given level 4 warnings yet. In fact, you might want to consider not engaging in reverts, since the blanker can be rather persistent (see page histories). Chenzw  Talk  14:24, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

@Chenzw: Interesting patterns, indeed. Thanks for sharing. I'll take note of the best course of action for future similar cases. Thank you. — Infogapp1 (talk) 14:34, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Page merge or move

Tycho's Supernova was created, but it already existed at SN 1572. The page should have the title "SN 1572" per enwiki. The only two options are either to merge the page histories or delete SN 1572 under G6 (which was recently changed into a redirect). The latter doesn't seem favorable, as the page history goes back as far as 2012. IWI (chat) 19:51, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

It should be noted that the newer article is of much higher quality, and so deleting it as a duplicate would not be helpful at all. IWI (chat) 19:55, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

It is already redirected, this situation as it is, is fine. Ideal would have been to expending the one that already existed. But just redirecting is a typical move when there are duplicate articles. As history remains in tact on the redirect. I would also point out our naming doesn't always follow en.wiki. Just because an article is named something on en.wiki doesn't mean it has to be named that here. Now it quite often is, but it is not a requirement. I suspect knowing the article creator, that they feel this name is more simple than just using numbers and that is a completely valid reason on this wiki. -Djsasso (talk) 20:43, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

That seems fair enough, although I still think the article should be at the enwiki title. No we don't have to, but typically we only deviate if the title is simpler. I appreciate the extra work involved in such a page move might mean it could be better off staying as is. This is a special circumstance; usually a redirect would solve it, but not if the page should ideally be there. Perhaps the alternate name could be considered simpler, although "SN 1572" doesn't seem massively complex. If it is going to stay as is, the wikidata item will have to be switched. IWI (chat) 20:54, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Having a title which attracts the young reader is more relevant than just keeping an alphanumeric title which is opaque until the article is read. Our readersip is low, about 50x lower than en wiki. Over there the astronomy gang are mostly university-based and very competant. They make decisions which suit their readership, and we need to do the same for our younger and non-professional readership. Macdonald-ross (talk) 07:52, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

I suppose that is true. In that case I will switch the Wikidata item. IWI (chat) 10:58, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Well a user had already beat me to it. It’s important to remember that while children (and anyone else who would require things to be simpler) are part of our readership, they are not the only part. For example, we may have a university student in astronomy from another country learning English. Here, I can see merit in using the new title instead from the standpoint of a child. There is certainly no harm in keeping it this way. IWI (chat) 11:04, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Valkyrie dimension

What's up? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valkyrie dimension (talk • contribs)

@Valkyrie dimension: Did you have an issue for a sysop to look at? Operator873^talkconnect 14:18, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

no, just saying hello. That's all. (My changes here | Drop me a line) 15:06, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Pls salt Barakah The Prince

Barakah The Prince has been repeatedly recreated; please salt it. Thanks, --~Prahlad balaji (t / c) (remember to {{ping}} me) |email me/talk page 21:56, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Salting is not appropriate here. -Djsasso (talk) 22:03, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

@Djsasso: how? ~Prahlad balaji (t / c) (remember to {{ping}} me) |email me/talk page 22:38, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Generally we almost never protect on this wiki. And in this case it wasn't that the page was being repeatedly recreated, it was that it was moved a couple of times. -Djsasso (talk) 23:39, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Ok, thanks --~Prahlad balaji (t / c) (remember to {{ping}} me) |email me/talk page 18:29, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Homosexuality

Edit war over whether pictures of homosexual sex should be included on Homosexuality. Personally, I think they should not be included at the top of the article. Enwiki does not have them there. Maybe they can be at the bottom. @2601:644:300:4740:bdd3:a5b9:b4d9:4f2d: @Superpes15: Naddruf (talk) 01:53, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

User:Superpes15 has violated the three revert rule. 2601:644:300:4740:BDD3:A5B9:B4D9:4F2D (talk) 01:55, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

You're not innocent yourself. You can't add text like "Homosexuality is wrong and should be illegal". That is considered vandalism. Naddruf (talk) 01:57, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

I was just reporting the IP among the "vandalism in progress". He adds the sentence "Homosexual behavior is wrong and should be illegal" hiding it by removing two images (normal btw). I warned him about the edit war and the contents removal (I use SWViewer for global patrolling and there is no vandalism warning there on simple.wiki but only "content removal" and "edit war"). I didn't violate the 3RR rule because imho it was clear vandalism.--Superpes15 (talk) 01:58, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

It's not edit warring on the part of Superpes15 as the anonymous user added the phrase "Homosexuality is wrong and should be illegal" repeatedly. This is obvious vandalism, and thus the 3RR does not apply to such an edit. --IWI (talk) 00:19, 29 August 2020 (UTC)