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World's Lamest Critic

Hi, I just blocked Barshay11 as a sock. I'm 95% certain they are, but I'm less certain that they are a sock of WLC. It's up to you, but you might want to double-check (now there's an interesting pun). Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:16, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

Not sure if you're interested, but I've changed the master to Willwill0415, which, based on subsequent information, appears more likely.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:12, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
Bbb23, I see that I recently checked the range they're on as suspected Willwill, so sounds reasonable to me. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:31, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

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User:Arbitration Committee SPI Clerk

GN, I just wanted to let you know that I created this account to prevent impersonation by vandals and LTA's. I don't want vandals going around Wikipedia pretending to be SPI clerks/Arbcom members, so I decided to prevent them from even making accounts like this in the first place. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 23:47, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Shadow of the Starlit Sky, creating an account like that is basically useless. It requires that somebody want to impersonate arbitration and SPI clerks with that exact username (and that wasn't even one that's likely to be used, given that it conflates two different kinds of clerks). The clerk role isn't a particularly high-value role to impersonate in the first place, and if someone really wanted to impersonate a clerk, well, there are simpler ways than creating an awkwardly-named role account. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:53, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
Ok, understood. I will check more carefully before making doppleganger accounts to prevent vandalism in the future. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 23:55, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
Don't make doppelganger accounts to prevent vandalism at all. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:56, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
Understood. I will not be as impulsive in the future and will avoid repeating the same behavior. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 23:58, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

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Query

Hello, GeneralNotability,

Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TotalTruthTeller24/Archive was tagged for speedy deletion. You created this page which was moved from one title to another. But I don't feel comfortable deleting SPI cases unless they are tagged by a checkuser or clerk so I untagged it. Just thought I'd check in with you and if you believe it should be deleted, then you can do so. Liz Read! Talk! 23:39, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Liz, it appears that it was tagged for deletion because of the double namespace prefix. Looks like it's been deleted already, but I wouldn't have had a problem with you deleting it. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:58, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

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You owe me a new keyboard

I snorted at this and then spat my drink over my keyboard, so THANKS FOR RUINING IT ;-) — Trey Maturin 16:56, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Trey Maturin, I live to serve. GeneralNotability (talk) 17:29, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

RfIPBE per WP:IPECPROXY

Hi. Sorry to bother you. I'm a user from mainland China so I need to edit Wikipedia via proxies. My IPBE has expired and I would like to have the exception again.

Why am I still able to write here? Because I'm using some software that enables me to visit Wikipedia directly. However, it's not stable and I can't visit wmflabs etc. So yeah, I still need IPBE.

Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience. --魔琴 (Zauber Violino) (talk) 07:43, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

@魔琴 done. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:09, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

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About User:GeneralNotability/unreliable-rules.js

Even though this page looks like it was for personal use, this could be useful as a public add-on to Headbomb's script. Would you have any objections to this (or a public version) being added to WP:USL? Thanks. 137a (talkedits) 16:02, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

137a, well, it's not especially useful unless it's in your own userspace - I made a merge request to Headbomb's script to have it load Special:MyPage/unreliable-rules.js. There's probably room to expand unreliable.js to let the user customize the sources of their extra rules. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:44, 30 April 2023 (UTC)