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Latest comment: 7 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion
I shouldn't have semi-indeffed Two-spirit, even though it needs the protection, as I edit the page. Could you please redo the protection so it's clean? I'd appreciate it. Thanks. - CorbieVreccan☊☼ 20:36, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
@CorbieVreccan Just to make sure I understand correctly, you'd like me to remove and then reinstate the indef semi protection. Alternatively, I think I could just "endorse" the protection by protecting the already-protected page and it would appear in the log (if that makes any sense). EvergreenFir(talk) 22:11, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
I have no opinion on the best way to do the tech. Whichever you think is best. I also forgot to log it as a gensex protection. - CorbieVreccan☊☼ 22:17, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
Feedback request: History and geography request for comment
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Page Protection Request
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May I ask if you could semi-protect Pachycephalosaurus and Triceratops for a while? They're being targeted by an anonymous editor using different IPs to rewrite the type species in order to introduce erroneous info while ignoring and deliberately changing the invisible comments explaining why the type species are not be changed. Mr Fink (talk) 14:33, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Assistance required regarding a user you've warned before
Latest comment: 7 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
อย่ามาตบะ is the user in question. I've been trying to resolve a dispute about how to go about dealing with the infobox for House of Representatives (Thailand) and his responses in my talk page have been extremely unhelpful. It has come to a point where I do not think WP:3O will be of any use. He has also persistently reverted what I've edited despite insisting that the article must stay frozen until we've come to a conclusion. I've been forced to undo his reversions because if I don't do so he would simply ignore my side of the discussion (I've waited in good faith and determined that he's actually not willing to talk without his version being struck down). I would like to ask for your adjudication on this matter and how to move forward with these kinds of incidents in the future since I've never participated in the conflict resolution process before. If my conduct in this matter has been sub-par I most certainly will welcome feedback and advice. KrebsLovesFiesh (talk) 07:14, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
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Latest comment: 7 months ago5 comments3 people in discussion
Hi, back in July you blocked Special:contributions/2601:152:5080:9D30:0:0:0:0/64 for 3 days for disruption and "likely block evasion/socking". I know it's been a while, but I don't suppose you remember, or can easily figure out now, whose block the IP was evading? I tried to figure it out myself but failed. I was thinking maybe MegaSmike46, but my knowlege of the subject matter is nil, so I didn't want to reblock the range (for a lot longer, they are prolific) without more. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:24, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
There are so many socks in the TV area I can't keep them straight. EvergreenFir(talk) 04:57, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
Ain't that the truth? Usually, I don't try. So, we have "my" range (Rockville, Maryland), "your" (blocked) range (Rockville), and Special:contributions/24.126.30.250 (Rockville) referred to in your blocked range...+ the block log of the 24. IP, which indicates it was CU-blocked for 6 months back in January 2023 by NinjaRobotPirate. That's enough for me to block my range for 6 months, which I just did.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:02, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
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November Articles for creation backlog drive
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Feedback request: History and geography request for comment
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Why was my edit for the film removed?
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he's claiming youtube can't be used as sources despite the fact on several other pages there are videos and no one has did anything about it. 2603:6000:B800:EB4:5D85:A65F:224D:E373 (talk) 05:33, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
Also why is the context of the "cult following" written yet the actual sources not there? People are going to get confused when they read it and try to get to the sources from here. 2603:6000:B800:EB4:5D85:A65F:224D:E373 (talk) 05:38, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello! Youtube videos are usually not considered reliable sources unless they are about the person in the video or from a major news organization. If you can find a source like AV Club that says there's a cult following, that would help support your edit. As for other articles, unfortunately we cannot catch every instance of poor sourcing. If you know of them, I suggest either making an edit request or removing them yourself. EvergreenFir(talk) 20:51, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
EvergreenFir, please unprotect the Om Nom Stories page! 1.40.30.117 (talk) 05:44, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
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Latest comment: 5 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion
I was in the middle or partial blocking User:50.209.237.169 from Donkey Kong (character) for 1 year, which is about how long they've been making this same edit at this same article. Are you ok if amend your block? Or would you prefer to stick with the 31 hours?-- Ponyobons mots 18:28, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
@Ponyo - I am 100% okay with you changing it. Thank you for checking and sorry for the conflict EvergreenFir(talk) 18:29, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
Ok, done. Maybe they'll move on to another school or an elevated level of maturity by the time the block expires (she thought, simultaneously hopeful and doubtful).-- Ponyobons mots 18:34, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
List of presidents and vice presidents of the United States
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Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment
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Latest comment: 4 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
The 2000s version of Strawberry Shortcake came on dvd in 2003 and I think the Tv version came out 3, 2, or a year before. MickyGirl1234 (talk) 12:54, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Good evening,
Respond to this at your leisure, but I saw that you removed the Universal Kids tag from the Tree Fu Tom article, when it lists the networks it was on. Why, if I may ask? I know it hasn't aired on it for a while, and it was before it even rebranded, but I think it's still somewhat accurate. I'll eat my words if I'm wrong, but why not put it back, with perhaps more accuracy? Triviatronic9000 (talk) 03:01, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Latest comment: 3 months ago8 comments2 people in discussion
Hi; thanks for the block. You may want to take further action, as this user has accused myself and other editors of being "Nazi thugs" (diff) and is making threats to evade blocks (1, 2). Tol (talk | contribs) @ 05:44, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
@Tol because the user hops IPs so much, I just semi-protected the article. No point in playing wack-a-mole. EvergreenFir(talk) 05:49, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
@Gathol Please bring this up on Talk:January 6 United States Capitol attack. In my opinion, the second impeachment is directly related to the January 6 insurrection. Regardless, please stop adding "alleged" or other things that align with the various conspiracy theories around the 2020 election. EvergreenFir(talk) 00:06, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for blocking Peelover93, just wondering whether my report to AIV was the reason, or if you just found their edits through recent changes? -REDACTED403 (talk) 06:31, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
An Apology
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Hello again. Sorry if what I said on the last topic of conversation was bad in some way. I don't know what I said, but I'll try and do better, if I know what I said. Triviatronic9000 (talk) 01:25, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Malaysian IP rangeblock
Latest comment: 3 months ago4 comments4 people in discussion
I have been contacted by a Malaysian user who says:
You made that rangeblock two weeks ago which is why I'm bringing the request here. FYI. Binksternet (talk) 17:01, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
@Binksternet Thank you for relaying the message. I will update the blocks per the user's suggestions given they do seem to be correct. EvergreenFir(talk) 22:10, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
WP:BLPN#Luis Elizondo (see OP's talk page} which is related to WP:FTN#UFOlogy promoter BLPs We are getting new editors on these topics more or less every day. And given the attempt to dox an editor, I'm taking this all very seriously and it's a time swamp. Read the Reddit thread[10] if you have the stomach (and of course time and interest, don't if you lack these). And this one[11]. Thanks. Doug Wellertalk 09:49, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hello! I have just requested for page protection and i see you have done it just before i put in the request. Thank you very much. I have reverted multiple of the same exact edits from different users. Elvisisalive95 (talk) 05:53, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
@Elvisisalive95 great minds think alike! I reverted an addition related to rapping earlier and saw in the history that it's continuing so I added the protection. Hopefully that will stop the disruption for now. EvergreenFir(talk) 05:55, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
Yes they do! I appreciate it. I originally just added a short sentence about it under his personal life. Then it got turned into people adding an entire discography, including him in rapper categories, and most recently the changes to his occupation. Let’s hope this stops it! Thanks again & i’ll see you around. Elvisisalive95 (talk) 05:58, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Diligence
Thank you for your help most recently over at Ben Shapiro! And thank you for all you do. You’re appreciated. Elvisisalive95 (talk) 06:00, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hey so this diff. I had warned for removing content without accurately explaining why. This came after this edit by the IP in which they were warned by another user. Not to mention a plethora of other unexplained removals. Looking again at their repeated deletion here, where they gave the explanation “fake news” I can see how i overlooked that. But to the eye of someone patrolling recent changes and their talk page it sure seemed like it was constituting vandalism at the time. Just wanted you to see where i was coming from. Elvisisalive95 (talk) 16:51, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Moreover, they are continuing like behavior and removing sourced claims here & hereElvisisalive95 (talk) 17:03, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Update: They are now blocked Elvisisalive95 (talk) 17:04, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
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Deletion of the phones catergory in Google Pixel articile
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I apologize for that mishap, I intended on adding a new topic, But I accidently deleted the phones category. Sorry for that! 172.103.193.23 (talk) 15:40, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment
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TERF
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Moving this here because NOTFORUM things. But radfem seems to be a self-created label. TERF seems to be a label from one group of radfems to distinguish themselves from TERFs. Comes off a bit like old school splits in the Internacional. Because of course radical socialist are the natural enemy of capitalists, monarchists, socialists, globalists, anarchists, socialists, that neighbor who let's their dog crap on your lawn, oligarchs, socialists, and above all other socialists. GMGtalk 12:12, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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I don't know if it's legitimate information, but some recent content at Siliguri College of Commerce includes seemingly quite sensitive data. Appreciate if you could take a look. -- Fyrael (talk) 18:52, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
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Might want to revoke TPA from this address for the duration of their block, they're still slinging insults and claiming they're going to make a YouTube video targeting trans Wikipedians. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 11:33, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
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Reverts
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Is there a reason why you seem to be going through my contribs and reverting them, giving justifications that are, on face, rather weak? This all seems vaguely antagonistic, though, of course I will assume good faith. Peter L Griffin (talk) 01:10, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
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Good call on the prot, but changed to semi based on the fact that all of the disruption is anons, new accounts, and is pretty sporadic - Alisontalk 19:11, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
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Not sure you care for trouts, but why yes fixing the error is precisely what my edit did. – 2804:F1...BF:D56 (talk) 22:15, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Oh wow, you're 100% right. I'm not sure why but I had thought you reverted the edit including the comment's text for some reason. I definitely deserve a trout for that.
Latest comment: 1 month ago4 comments2 people in discussion
Just a heads up that guy you just edit blocked for us is just doing stuff on his talk page now. Id like to also take the time to thank you for doing that, definitely a interesting past 15-20 minutes for me. Good work.
Latest comment: 29 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion
In 2020, you had protected the page to permanently restrict edits to autoconfirmed editors and at the same time, indefinitely restrict moves to sysops only. Is it OK with you to have the move protection to be reduced to match the edit protection? – robertsky (talk) 03:56, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
@Robertsky I have no objections. I don't much care for the new naming convention though (not that it matters) EvergreenFir(talk) 06:10, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
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The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
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Hello EvergreenFir,
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Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
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My edit yesterday
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Your response was "?" You know more about revision deletion than I do, but if "normal" editing is not subject to revision deletion then hiding the edit is misuse of the tool. Please read the comment and let me know whether a "normal" administrator (i.e. yourself) would consider it to be
"Grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive material...long-term abuse...personal attack...troll".
Something else I discovered this morning: at Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy/Archive 24#Blocking IPs per request of school administration? an IP asked that where IT departments have procedures in place to ensure editing is constructive pupils should not be blocked from editing. This was seconded by Doug Weller. Seven hours and two minutes later, without any notification to the participants, an administrator blocked the IP for five years, claiming "long-term abuse". Again, I can see no basis for the call whatsoever. Another example I spotted this morning: IP 80.5.88.70, which appeared to be making really constructive edits, was blocked for three years eight hours after editing without any kind of warning by the same administrator. The reason given in the block log was "long-term abuse from this IP". Couldn't the administrator have engaged with the editor first? Judging by the amount of RD2 deletions on this page over the past decade there may be a lot of people watching who have an opinion on the matter. 92.25.133.126 (talk) 12:59, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
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