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25 January

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Old changes from 2024

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Special:Permalink/9814973 and Special:Permalink/9850667 for copying https://www.britannica.com/science/carpal-bone ⸺(Random)staplers 06:35, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Done - Apologies, I missed this request. Griff (talk) 16:05, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Inappropriate user-name

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This one. 2001:2020:311:B209:957F:EE2B:E48C:DDCC (talk) 18:10, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked. Thanks for the report. Griff (talk) 18:28, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The user started one article, this one. There might be a couple of reasons to nuke the article. If that general idea is helpful, then fine. 19:02, 27 January 2025 (UTC)/2001:2020:311:B209:957F:EE2B:E48C:DDCC -- 2001:2020:311:B209:709B:8139:A162:6C72 (talk) 19:02, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Already requested for a QD. 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴 ♡ 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 19:06, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RD1 request

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(Please let me know if there's a better way to request RD1s here.) Boreas and Zephyrus both need cv redaction. Special:Diff/9956329 onward is from [1], Special:Diff/9893548 onward from [2] and [3]. The account is blocked as a sock on en-wiki: [4]. -- Asilvering (talk) 04:46, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

While I'm at it, there are a number of articles by W;ChangingUsername that are copied from the NHS website. The text has been removed already, but it should also be RD1'd. Since most of their articles were created before they were warned about this, I expect the issue affects all of them. I got here via Copypatrol dinging Chlorphenamine. -- asilvering (talk) 05:13, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I started making a list of the articles by this editor that need revdel, but actually, they're all QD candidates, looks like. So you can save your erasers (and use dynamite instead). I know none of them look like much right now, but if you don't QD them, you'd have to a) rewrite the stub and b) revdel most of the history anyway. But there's still a bit of eraser-work to do:
Sorry in advance about your erasers. -- asilvering (talk) 06:26, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Some more:
  • Allergy, everything from their first edit on 2 June up to my edit
  • Diazepam, everything from their 1 July edit to Davey2010's first edit
  • Abdominal pain, everything from their first 1 June edit up to my edit
  • Hyperthyroidism, everything from their 12:22 edit on May 29 (ie, including the edit "Symptoms final" but not the two previous ones) up to my edit - this is from a variety of sources, incl [5], [6], possibly some non-NHS stuff (copypatrol dings [7])
asilvering (talk) 21:02, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok I didn't mean to do any more, but: Special:Diff/9548231 onward copies from [8]. -- asilvering (talk) 05:35, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Done - Quite a lot of work but thank you for catching it. Griff (talk) 14:05, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Famous last words... judging by the state of the copypatrol backlog, that's only the barest tip of the iceberg. -- asilvering (talk) 18:28, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Additional RD1 from CopyPatrol, already reverted/single revisions.
RD1 from CopyPatrol with multiple revisions.
Sennecaster (talk) 21:23, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Done - I used up several erasers getting through all of these :) Thank you (sincerely) for finding these copyright violations and presenting the diffs/information in an easy way to process. Best, Griff (talk) 01:38, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
asilvering (talk) 05:45, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Done - thanks for noticing. Griff (talk) 22:56, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What action would be appropriate in this case?

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So I was going through Category:Pages using the JsonConfig extension and found some user scripts that ended up in there. Due to the content of the pages, would null edits be appropriate (and if they are can an Interface Admin do that please?)?- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 17:21, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Christian Joy Bautista vandal is back

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The Christian Joy Bautista vandal is back, creating Christian Joy bautista (see [11] for a small taste of this if you don't remember) and adding her name to Santol, La Union and other articles. Accounts thus far are MIRUS Apasen Lalong (talk · contribs) and Template:IPUser but their previous pattern was creating lots of accounts after getting blocked and a variety of IP's. Would an admin delete any created articles and keep an eye on this to block as new accounts / articles appear? Thank you. Ravensfire (talk) 02:31, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Other articles they've created are James William Camba Escanilla and Cj Lorenzo Bautista thus far. Ravensfire (talk) 02:44, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate the history lesson (since my memory is not good enough to remember all of our friendly LTAs). I will keep an eye on things but please report any accounts you spot. Best, Griff (talk) 03:18, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, always appreciated! Ravensfire (talk) 03:42, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
New accounts created and pushing garbage. The article James William Camba Escanilla was created with grand sounding claims to notability - being the Governor of the La Unioin province of the Phillipines. Except he's not. The w:Governor_of_La_Union is actually Raphaelle Ortega-David. Before I started cropping the article, one of the sources was about her, not James. The other source is pure junk. From the article log, you'll see it's been created multiple times by Baustista socks. The two new ones, Mayrose Apasen Lalong and Issichar Rosete Dela Rosa need to be blocked and globally locked, as the previous Bautista socks have been as they will hit en wiki. Thank you. Ravensfire (talk) 03:55, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Local actions complete. If you can please report to Meta, that would be appreciated. I am mobile right now. Griff (talk) 03:59, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Absolutely - thank you!! Ravensfire (talk) 04:05, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gulf of America page protection

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Would someone mind putting semi-protection on Gulf of America please? There's still a large RFC on how to deal with this on en wiki that's on-going, and that's probably going to be the best option for us to follow here. Ravensfire (talk) 16:52, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done - Semi-protected for a month until either enWP or our project figure out what to do. I encourage anyone else reading this thread to please comment on Talk:Gulf of Mexico. Griff (talk) 17:04, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Update to filter 47 and to set it to disallow

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I went ahead and updated filter 47, and should we set it to disallow with the default disallow message? I looked at the log, and they were clearly bad changes that should not be allowed. The code is below: 

page_namespace == 0 &
!("autoconfirmed" in user_rights) &
(
    rx1 := "([^_:.*'|=}{0 -]{1,9})\1{7}";
    rx2 := "[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{9,}";
    
    (
        rmwhitespace(added_lines) rlike rx1 &
        !(rmwhitespace(removed_lines) rlike rx1)
    ) | (
        added_lines rlike rx2 &
        !(removed_lines rlike rx2)
    )
) &
!(added_lines rlike ("https:\/\/\S*(?:" + rx1 + "|" + rx2 + ")|(^|\n)[|!]")) &
!(added_lines irlike "number|spell|math|string|<br\b") &
!(page_title irlike "number")

Thank you. Codename Noreste (talk) 17:04, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I personally would favour running the new code on the filter without disallow, verify no unintended consequences, and then update the filter to "disallow" after a week. Griff (talk) 19:03, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Since no one else commented, I have updated the filter. Can you bother me in a few days to see if we had any false positives? Thanks, Griff (talk) 22:30, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism report (2025 January 29)

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Looking at Special:Contribs/2600:8805:D600:51C0::/64, it appears that nearly all of their edits are minor vandalism. However, because the IP's keep changing, it's difficult to see if they've been given enough warnings. I request an admin to review these edits and revert any if needed, then either warn or block as appropriate 166.107.163.31 (talk) 21:56, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, it has been addressed. Griff (talk) 22:02, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RevDel request

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Please RD3 Special:Permalink/10046302. Justarandomamerican (t • c) 17:57, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 17:59, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for also doing the second one. Justarandomamerican (t • c) 18:06, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, happy to help :).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 18:08, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Change filter/Mistakes

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Is there any particular reason that all the text is centered on Wikipedia:Change filter/Mistakes? None of the other pages are like this. 205.154.244.130 (talk) 23:05, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed! Justarandomamerican (t • c) 23:06, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
OK thanks. 205.154.244.130 (talk) 23:07, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection for Adolf Hitler

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Persistent Vandalism. Aqurs1 (talk) 18:50, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion, the level of vandalism on that article is not to the level that requires protection, at only about one vandal per week (on average), which is actually much lower than I would have expected. Griff (talk) 21:59, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Change filter/Mistakes

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Most of the comments here are rubbish, isnt there an archiving system? Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 04:55, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cactusisme: There is an archiving system: topics with no comments for 21 days are archived by a bot. 2601:644:907E:A70:5DE:2EFE:97F6:A9B5 (talk) 06:26, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
how about the ones with topics Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 08:30, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Cactusisme What do you mean by "the ones with topics"? 2601:644:907E:A70:85FF:1340:9A1E:D909 (talk) 21:27, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The ones with comments. Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 10:38, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Cactusisme That means they are archived 21 days after the last comment (unlike WP:Simple talk, where it's 10 days). 69.222.191.67 (talk) 22:12, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, alright. Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 07:15, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection for Palia Kolis

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Persistent vandalism by Sahitya Palia, Ved Singh Rajpoot and his ip address 2405:201:3033:F0F2:9D8E:7739:BFD2:5510.Mandit Patel (talk) 13:25, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Article was sent to RFD and user has been warned. Griff (talk) 13:53, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Review the articles created by User:श्रीराम खड्का

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User:श्रीराम खड्का has created multiple articles simultaneously, all of which have been generated by an LLM and are devoid of references, while those that have been included are inconsistent. Additionally, complex words have been used. I have tagged them with the {{AI-notice}}. Review the articles User:श्रीराम खड्का has created, and I think they should be deleted. Zjui3r (talk) 19:28, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User notified, most articles deleted for various policy issues. A couple of the others do not qualify for QD, but should be cleaned up. Thank you for noticing these articles and noting them. Griff (talk) 14:40, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

162.156.70.174

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Special:Contribs/162.156.70.174 is using AI/LLM to write all their articles and comments. 2601:644:907E:A70:85FF:1340:9A1E:D909 (talk) 20:45, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion at Talk:2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico is just crazy. The ip is replying to themself, repeatedly, all AI generated. Ravensfire (talk) 21:18, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Blocked for a year to give time for AI to further develop and realise how not to talk to itself. Griff (talk) 13:54, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I needed the laugh this morning, thanks! Ravensfire (talk) 14:07, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Fotor-2024041210012.png

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Could an admin please reply to the message left by Mooresklm2016 at File:Fotor-2024041210012.png? The page should be deleted, but before that's done, communication should be started with that user. 2601:644:907E:A70:E489:BBF9:E45D:3FF (talk) 00:26, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done and done. Thanks for the note, Griff (talk) 13:54, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mohammed uzzal miah

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The following users at Mohammed uzzal miah, Talk:Mohammed uzzal miah, and Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2025/Mohammed uzzal miah should be blocked for violating WP:ONESTRIKE.

This is because User:Rukbv64bnn has changed other people's comments at the rfd (and they are already blocked on English Wikipedia).

They have admitted that User:Hbbbbbbkmnnnbb and User:Radikanardi also belong to them. 69.222.191.67 (talk) 22:11, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have indeffed the main account. Where did they state that the other accounts were also theirs? -- Auntof6 (talk) 22:43, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6 In these edits: [12]. They said "I want to clarify that both accounts were created by me" and also made the same comment from another account. 69.222.191.67 (talk) 22:44, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I am not a checkuser, so I will let the checkuser process handle the others. -- Auntof6 (talk) 22:45, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nautica Malone

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Would an admin mind looking into semi-protecting the article? It seems to be collecting more than a few trolls today and there are BLP issues given this is about a recent suicide. Ravensfire (talk) 15:22, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ravensfire, it looks to have calmed down some. I have added the article to my watchlist and will protect if vandalism becomes an issue again. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Griff (talk) 13:53, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Appreciated. Ravensfire (talk) 14:07, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request move of template

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Please move Template:For multi to Template:For-multi over the page that exists at the latter title. (Please move the doc page too.) The template has been moved at enwiki and new articles transferred from enwiki will likely use the latter title. 166.107.163.31 (talk) 23:00, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done ...and the website did not crash while doing it! Please let me know if you see any unintended issues from the move. Thanks, Griff (talk) 13:57, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:103.46.201.212 edit warring as an identical spammer of User:HistorianAlferedo

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It difficult to understand but this user which i tried to pinged first in the place have ruthlessly making an WP:Bad faith editorial styled quorums over every subordinate article letted with Jats clan such as [13] [14] [15] with some other related contentment while keep blanking the subliminal information related to Jat (caste) and miserably quoting Semi nomadic and other disgraceful term such as rural community while alleging his WP:Sock connection with an master account of User:HistorianAlferedo 2409:40D6:10E7:8EFF:48EF:1822:740D:E69F (talk) 07:20, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To me, the current version of the article is the most stable but it appears that there is a long-term revert war going on with it. I have semi-protected the page for 3 months until a discussion can be held. Please bring your concerns to the talk page for further discussion. Griff (talk) 13:47, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The edit done by this user seems more like a castecruft and povpush. Moreover, some of the information added was hate speech for two other communities of the Indian subcontinent. Also, the citations added by the user were irrelevant and raj-era sources. I request the user to add correct information along with better citations that too without ill-statements about the people belonging to some some other race, tribe, etc. Thank you HistorianAlferedo (talk) 14:19, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Looks like a duck to me , oh look like my quilled prejudgement come to real as he make his way out of here Lol 2409:40D6:10E7:8EFF:48EF:1822:740D:E69F (talk) 14:24, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For both of you, please have this discussion on the talk page of the article, not here, and focus your comments on the content issues, not the users making them. Thank you, Griff (talk) 14:27, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Griffinofwales If i am not wrong this guys which i plummet continuously editing sidewise to prevent over exposure his original master account as an part of such resiliency i would like to acknowledge are you the same suspect?? 2409:40D6:10E7:8EFF:48EF:1822:740D:E69F (talk) 14:29, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism from anonymous IP

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Repeated edits of vandalism on [[RuPaul's Drag Race season 17]] (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RuPaul%27s_Drag_Race_season_17&action=history) from User:62.64.224.62, including the addition of spam. Thanks. 213.78.252.2 (talk) 12:16, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Considering the linked IP has no edits here, I believe you may be at the wrong Wikipedia. For situations on the English Wikipedia, please go to the appropriate page on the English Wikipedia.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 14:05, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, I am using English Wikipedia, here is the contributions of the anonymous vandal. 80.44.240.123 (talk) 20:48, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is not the English Wikipedia however. Griff (talk) 21:04, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

TTYDDoopliss

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After being blocked for WP:NOTHERE and revealed as a sock of user WhereverWeAreNow on the English Wikipedia, this user has migrated to Simple English Wikipedia to continue making disruptive edits that led to the block on enwiki in the first place.

Per the WP:ONESTRIKE rule, TTYDDoopliss should be also blocked from this wiki indefinitely. theinstantmatrix (talk) 15:44, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for bringing it to our attention. I have blocked the user per ONESTRIKE. Griff (talk) 16:01, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

two (or more) promotional/spam articles, in one day

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Creating two promotional/spam articles.

See simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kayaliesmith

. I have asked for qd of the one article. Someone else might want to ask for qd of the other article, if not an outright block is out of the question. Good luck while i fix other articles. Thanks. 2001:2020:315:A7A4:6414:4835:B3BD:6B3F (talk) 16:10, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done - Thanks for the note. Griff (talk) 17:31, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Protection request

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Hi, Could someone protect Maan (caste) and Chandel please as there's an edit war between 2 IPs,

I'm assuming 103.46.201.212 is correct in removing the content as the person that keeps adding the content has been doing so under different IPs and an account, Thanks –Davey2010Talk 17:15, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

*heavy sigh* Thanks Davey, both articles are now semi-protected. If you notice edit warring on any other caste articles, please let us know. Griff (talk) 17:37, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey @Griffinofwales, No worries and okay will do - I've pretty much ignored whatever they were doing on the caste articles but 103s edit summaries caught my eye and yeah didn't want the wrong person blocked, Anyway no worries thanks for actioning this, Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 18:26, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

69.156.206.236

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69.156.206.236 is still copying articles from enwiki without simplifying the language, even after two temporary blocks. jlwoodwa (talk) 04:36, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the notice. The user has been blocked. Griff (talk) 22:36, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
2601:586:CC00:E0B0:7C6D:174D:855F:39E is doing the same thing, and with articles of the same type (e.g. animation studios). I think this is the same person using a different IP. jlwoodwa (talk) 09:46, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Blocked as well, thanks for the report. Griff (talk) 22:59, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kelly299 and 93.182.105.236 - block request

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So Kelly299 creates an account and immediately replaces images of tanks with Turkish ones and then starts replacing pizza images with Turkish pizzas as well as removing "Greek" from types of Pizzas[24][25][26]

Two minutes later 93.182.105.236 joins in in the edit war removing the same content[27][28][29][30],

In the edit war Kelly has claimed the content is racism and the IP is claiming "keeping Greek instead of Turkish is nationalist POV",

The IP has also made previous Greek-to-Turkish replacements:[31],

I'm assuming Kelly is the IP and I'm assuming the IP is an LTA or someone, Anyway could these be blocked please, Thanks –Davey2010Talk 16:32, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

93.182.105.236 has been blocked, imho Kelly should be too due to their unhinged POV editing, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 16:34, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Davey2010 the IP has been blocked already but Auntof6. Things were turning heated on a simple article, I was to the point of edit war was happening between me and the IP. I am more calmer now, I was kinda passive aggressive with the changes. But the IP is now blocked and it's done with. Thanks - Adelaide 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴 ♡ 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 16:37, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Kelly has stopped editing for now. Final warning given. Let us know if they resume editing in a problematic manner. Thanks for the report, Griff (talk) 23:06, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey @Griffinofwales, No worries and brilliant thank you :), Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 23:11, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Protection request

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Hi, Could someone indefinitely protect List of programs distributed by Qubo (block) please to match List of programs broadcast by Qubo (block),

These articles are LTA/sock magnets and are created by IPs who simply add made up content, Both articles redirect to the main parent article so there should be no need to edit them, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 18:39, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 18:44, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Brilliant thank you much appreciated :), Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 19:02, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

tampering of pages listing coups d'etat and attempts

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On the articles “list of coups and coup attempts by country”, “list of coups and coup attempts” and “list of coups and coup attempts since 2010”  a user by the name tgeorgescu (and possibly a few others) has been editing the articles to claim some some very recent political events are indeed coups, as well as some historical events, even tho there is nothing to corroborate these claims.

These include:

The 2019 Bolivian political crisis

The Romanian Revolution

The Abkhazian Revolution

Euromaidan

Claims by Serb Prime minister Vucic that there was a coup against him in 2024

Claims by Slovak Prime minister Fico of a coup against him

The 2024 Bangladesh Revolution

Coup allegations in Georgia

Accusations that the president of Romania is doing a self coup

All of these edits seem to be done for the purpose of a specific political agenda. I talked to Georgescu about his inclusion of Euromaidan, stating that it was a common argument of russian propagandists to paint it that way. he responded by claiming a revolution and coup are the same thing. I childishly responded by telling him to fuck off and that he was a tankie (disgraceful on my part). He kept repeating his claims in response.

A few days Before I learned of Georgescu’s edits, I noticed some vandalism of these articles, and then uprgraded the protection level for the last two articles I mentioned before. This has not worked. I contacted a user named Vrotsky who thanked me for an edit the other day, about the situation. He said the following:

"Hello, dear user. Yes, I've noticed the addition of controversial content to the various coup d'état wikilists - and it's much worse than it seems. These lists are recently receiving massive edits by IP users and sockpuppets. And it goes far beyond Euromaidan - they've added content about the Arab Spring revolutions, the 2000s-2010s 'Color Revolutions' and modern protests to the list. I'm one of the users who is trying to preserve the page's neutrality, but a lot of content was added in a short time. Well, there are several ways to combat vandalism on Wikipedia. In this case, you can use the WP:Coup argument or start a session on the article's talk page. If you suspect a user is making disruptive edits or vandalism, you can report them. A common behavior of this type of user is to reinsert deleted content without providing an explanation."

Another problematic user is Cobra Portuga, who is making the same sort of edits and only replies in Portugese when questioned about this.

I request that Georgescus and Cobra Portugals edits in general be reviewed, and for them to be banned. Sorry about the wall of text Bird244 (talk) 00:07, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are on the wrong project as I cannot find any of the edits you refer to here. This is the administrators' noticeboard for the Simple English Wikipedia. Griff (talk) 03:11, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Update to filter 42

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The filter should have the name changed to Adding links to other language Wikipedias. The tag should have the same name as the new filter name, and the tag article with links to other-language wikis? should be deactivated or deleted. I added another regex line to exclude changes that are logged by Special:AbuseFilter/115 (attempts to cite Wikipedia itself). 

wikipedia := "(?<!simple\.|simple\.m\.)\bwikipedia\.org\b";
reference := "<\s*ref[^\/]*>[^<]*wikipedia\.org";

page_namespace == 0 &
!("autoconfirmed" in user_rights) &
added_lines rlike wikipedia &
!(removed_lines rlike wikipedia) &
!(added_lines rlike reference) /* covered by filter 115 */

Thank you. Codename Noreste (talk) 02:39, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done - Thanks for flagging. Griff (talk) 03:14, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting semi-protection at Mongoloid

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Mongoloid has been vandalized by an IPv6 several times a week since Jan 16, see the page history. Rsk6400 (talk) 07:49, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done - Thanks for the report, now protected for 3 months. Griff (talk) 14:12, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Asking for an administrator to review an outstanding deletion request.

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Good afternoon. A request for deletion is currently open for Category:American_bisexual_people. It has been open since January 29th. If there is an administrator free to review it and possibly close it (or extend it if it needs more attention) could they please take a look at it. The link to the RFD is here:Wikipedia:Requests_for_deletion/Requests/2025/Category:American_bisexual_people. Thank you, DaneGeld (talk) 17:28, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@DaneGeld: I see your request, but I can't review it because I opened it. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:01, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Done, deleted and closed fr33kman 02:19, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I think Lumpadia$9$7 is a sockpuppet of Acalitri1200. jlwoodwa (talk) 06:31, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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