User talk:Geo Swan/archive/2019-12

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Proposed deletion of Esmail (Afghan leader)

The article Esmail (Afghan leader) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The administrative review board is a primary source, need additional sources to establish notability. I was unable to find any.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Cerebellum (talk) 10:08, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

A certain editor's history

In reply to your recent question: WP:LTA/BKFIP – community-banned for the kind of behavior you just witnessed. Favonian (talk) 12:35, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Featuring your work on Wikipedia's front page: DYKs

Thank you for your recent articles, including Helen Spitzer Tichauer, which I read with interest. When you create an extensive and well referenced article, you may want to have it featured on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know section. Articles included there will be read by thousands of our viewers. To do so, add your article to the list at T:TDYK. Let me know if you need help, _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:36, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

About Rui Pereira

Hi, Geo Swan! About your request for protection at RFP, I am going to decline it. As was pointed out there, an editor is within his rights to remove an unsourced sentence. And by repeatedly restoring it, you are the one who is in danger of violating WP:3RR and getting called out for edit warring. I suggest you stop doing that. Or else restore it with a source, at which point their removal would be disruptive.

You seem to feel that these IPs are actually a blocked user you are familiar with. In that case, I suggest you either report them at that blocked user's SPI investigation page (if there was one), or else mention the situation to any checkuser, who can quietly check them without the usual problem that they are not supposed to publicly link IPs to named users. There are two three different IPs here, but they all geolocate similarly. And I think I can guess who you are talking about. The one I noticed was blocked in July 2018 for having a promotional username, and then came back in August under their own name and edited the article to remove all the bad stuff.

My own reaction to that article is that I would be tempted to nominate it for deletion. I don't see how he meets GNG. But I see you wrote the article so you are probably not inclined to do that. However, the article does need much better sourcing. -- MelanieN (talk) 23:34, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

I see that you are still doing the reverts, accusing the other party of being a sock of a blocked editor. You are NOT ALLOWED to make that kind of accusation without any evidence and without taking any steps to get evidence or deal with the situation, such as reporting the issue and your evidence at SPI or to an administrator/checkuser. (Note that I cannot settle this issue since I am not a checkuser. See Category:Wikipedia checkusers.) I have locked the page for 24 hours, since the edit warring (noting that you were not the only one reverting) was getting disruptive and nothing was happening at the talk page. This kind of disagreement needs to be resolved at the talk page, not in edit summaries. Your best permanent solution to this situation is to prove that the IPs actually are the blocked user you accuse them of being. Otherwise you really have no justification for reverting them and restoring the unsourced content they keep deleting. -- MelanieN (talk) 18:10, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

• MelanieN, how much experience do you have with filing SPI reports?

  Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Renamed user 49274c4c204245204241434b/Archive. I initiated more than two dozen SPI investigations about this particular wikistalker, so far.

  My experience, so far, has been for administrators at SPI and semi-protection to pass the buck, and each tell me I should be using the other channel to address my wikistalker.

• WRT checkuser... Excuse me, isn't checkuser's use to look behind named wiki-IDs, and examine the underlying IP addresses they use? So, those with checkuser authority can compare the IP addresses used, and make an informed opinion as to whether multiple IDs are a single individual, or room-mates? So, since, my wikistalker's use of over 80 different anonymous IP addresses, suggests they are using some form of IP spoofing, do you really think calling for a checkuser would have any value whatsoever?
• As for documenting that the IPs were my wikistalker, you seem to have forgotten the effort I put into documenting their block evasion at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection here and here.
• There is something wildly off-balance here. Documenting my wikistalker's vandalism, has, over the last three years, consumed literally hundreds of hours of my time. I am not exagerrating. Hundreds of hours. Meanwhile, each instance of vandalism has cost them a trivial amount of time, maybe only 30 seconds each.

  You seem to be claiming I did not make enough effort to document their vandalism. However, am I incorrect to think you didn't bother to actually take a look at the documentation I did provide?

  Each of those over two dozen SPI investigations I initiated required a significant effort. And, frankly, those who monitor the SPI page can't be counted to read them thoroughly enough to justify the effort I put into them.

• I am not the vandal here, and I question whether the implied admonishments you have left here are in order. What I would prefer would be for the project's administrators to present an united front, with me, to counter this wikistalker. Your reaction at semi-protection is not the only time an administrator's first reaction was to side with the indefinitely blocked vandal. It is really disappointing. Geo Swan (talk) 19:10, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

OK, I can see how this would be frustrating, and you aren’t getting much/any help from admins. One thing that might have helped us would be: WHO is the blocked user you say these are all socks of? You kept pointing to IPs and accusing them, but we have had nothing but your accusation to go on. That is of no use to a non-checkuser like me, and you never said who you think the parent is. You did give me a clue this time, mentioning User:Renamed user 49274c4c204245204241434b, so thank you - at least now I can do a little detective work. That name was created in February 2017 and indeffed for sockpuppetry in November 2017 by Berean Hunter. Their SPI discussion led me to also look at User:CommotioCerebri, which was apparently the original name of the “Renamed user”. That account is now blocked and globally locked. I also saw a mention of LTA User:Cebr1979, but AFAICT checkusers did not find a connection. That account was blocked in May 2017 and continued to have recognized socks until December 2018. Apparently that LTA mostly uses IPs now. I don’t know which of these people, if any, you accuse the current IPs of being. If you don’t want to say here, you could email me. But we can see how effective it is for someone to edit only as IPs - it’s much harder for an IP to get identified as a blocked user. I also noticed an admin comment that since the addresses can change often it is almost hopeless blocking them. Rangeblocks can be imposed, short term, in cases of disruptive behavior. But maybe we could use geolocations plus editing behavior to treat IPs as WP:DUCKs. The two IPs currently at issue [1] geolocate to the same place. User:Berean Hunter, can you tell me where the blocked users 4927…. and Commotio… geolocate? Or if I ask you if it’s a certain location, can you say yes or no? -- MelanieN (talk) 02:51, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

MelanieN, I can't disclose locations due to the checkuser and privacy policies. We can but only in the event of very serious LTA abuse and this wouldn't measure up to that level. One thing that I can do which may help is that I have requested that the stewards undo the courtesy vanishing so that we should soon only have to deal with the account by name and not the renamed user's name. I may be able to look into this more tomorrow but it is getting late here and I'm headed for bed.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 03:43, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Regarding the IPs, I have put some blocks in place. No accounts found. Regarding the undoing of the courtesy vanishing, that will happen but there is a new technical problem with global renames that will mean that it is delayed. That problem is being addressed at phabricator here.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 16:57, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

The courtesy vanishing has been reversed. You may want to update any documentation. I have requested that the SPI case and its archive be moved back to the original name.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 16:03, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

• Berean Hunter, thanks for the reversal.
• Thanks for trying the checkuser tool. I last requested the use of checkuser last April, when they made the mistake of using a newly created ID VballJohnny, for their harrasment.

  I still don't really understand the limits of checkuser. Some of your colleagues carry being circumspect as to its results to obfuscating how it works. April is too late to check, now, correct? Geo Swan (talk) 17:23, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

• FWIW, they are at it again -- 100.15.60.125 Geo Swan (talk) 17:29, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

• April is too late to check. We have a 90 day window for data retention within the system. If that account pops up again then they could be checked. 100.15.xxx.xxx is not the same person as that IP is in Virginia and not a proxy.
   — Berean Hunter (talk) 17:42, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

File source problem with File:HMS Endurance 3 copy.jpg

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• Wikiacc, Apparently I uploaded this in 2006, when I was newbie. I looked for the original. And only kind of found it - here [2]. I think it is clearly the same image, although it is lower resolution, and black and white. It identifies the photographer, and the date. Geo Swan (talk) 22:54, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
  • Thanks! I agree that this is enough to know the source of the image. I removed the no source tag. Wikiacc (¶) 23:00, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
    • No, let me thank you. I'll port it to the commons. Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 02:20, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Diane Webber (disambiguation)

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	Rosguill (talk)	47,395	Patrol Page Curation
2	Onel5969 (talk)	41,883	Patrol Page Curation
3	JTtheOG (talk)	11,493	Patrol Page Curation
4	Arthistorian1977 (talk)	5,562	Patrol Page Curation
5	DannyS712 (talk)	4,866	Patrol Page Curation
6	CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk)	3,995	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	3,812	Patrol Page Curation
8	Boleyn (talk)	3,655	Patrol Page Curation
9	Ymblanter (talk)	3,553	Patrol Page Curation
10	Cwmhiraeth (talk)	3,522	Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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Merry Merry!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!

Hello Geo Swan, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Happy editing, ★Trekker (talk) 21:58, 25 December 2019 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.