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Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
• Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
• A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
• A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

• CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
• The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

ugh

here--Dlohcierekim (talk) 12:17, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Oh. Wow. I need more coffee. --Yamla (talk) 12:46, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Once again, thank you for your help. Stricer1990 (talk) 12:16, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

User:VPrakash

I am contacting you as the administrator who handled some of the previous blocks/unblocks. After all the blocks, unblocks, warnings and explanation this editor returns with this blatantly promotional edit. They are clearly WP:NOTHERE. --Muhandes (talk) 15:33, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Yeap. Blocked. :( --Yamla (talk) 18:30, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

User talk:Nerobjabin

Could you look at the code on that page? Everything disappears. I could not find the problem. --Dlohcierekim (talk) 15:34, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Looks to me like you got it. I think it was the includeonly bit, though I haven't verified. --Yamla (talk) 15:42, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Tripti Gupta page deleted

Hi yamla My article got deleted by u I don't understand the reason because when I recreated this article wikipedia told me that you can create this article but content should be different than y again my page got deleted please help me how I can recreate this article and make sure it's not get delete again

Please help me and Thanks Rahsin88 (talk) 12:22, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

That article was wildly in violation of WP:PROMO. It's also simply not true that the content was different. The content was largely the same, and still very inappropriate. Best you avoid such articles, but if you insist on wanting this article, WP:DELREV explains your next steps. --Yamla (talk) 14:07, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

I'll also note you clearly have been violating WP:COI and WP:PAID in some of your edits. I very, very strongly advise you immediately stop editing, read those policies, and declare all of your conflicts. You are very likely to find yourself indefinitely blocked otherwise. --Yamla (talk) 14:09, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Actually, forget that. You've been previously warned and have chosen to refuse to do this. I'm blocking you indefinitely now. --Yamla (talk) 14:11, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Bobby Kalotee

Hello Yamla kindly review my sandbox where I've edited my page on Bobby. Let me know if his passes all the Wiki tests and requirements. If possible kindly point what exactly conflicts and what needs to be edited. Your help is highly appreciated and will enable me to launch my first wikipedia page and contribute in a correct way to the world's largest encylopedia. Sagar vaibhav (talk) 20:50, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

I'm not the best person to review this. I'm not based in the US and don't really have the context necessary to review that article. Sorry. --Yamla (talk) 20:54, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Ruchi Damania

Hello Yamla kindly help me unblock my account [[1] . It's blocked saying sock puppet vandalism and abuse, which am not been doing. I have just one account made and I know I have not responded any of the messages, which I didn't know I had to as am new to wikipedia. I made articles because I thought about contributing to wikipedia, as a person from other agency was spreading wrong information about them and wikipedia is a place to contribute with correct information so I tried doing the same. Please help me re make them and if you can then unblock my account. Sorry fow whatever any mistakes I've done unknowingly. --Yamla 20:29, 15 March 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.91.32.192 (talk)

You are still engaging in block evasion via this IP address. Please stop. If you have grounds to be considered for an unblock, go request an unblock. You'll want to make clear you understand why your previous edits were inappropriate. Hint: I linked to policies which explain this. --Yamla (talk) 16:46, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Mail

Hello, Yamla. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

--Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 13:14, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Referring blocked or banned editors to ArbCom

Hi Yamla. Please be a bit careful who you refer to ArbCom regarding their block or ban. I noticed that you did this at User talk:StewieGriffin1998, but that editor does not fit within the categories of editors we accept appeals from. See this motion for details on which appeals we consider. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 19:58, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Acknowledged and understood. Thanks for the ping. --Yamla (talk)

SPI

No worries. Yours explained my worries much better than I did. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 13:41, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Yamla, I've started a general discussion about policy at WP:AN, in regards to User talk:Joseph2302#Edit request 2. To be honest, I agree with your action, but I think there are some ambiguities in our common practice regarding this situation that has been on my mind for a while, so if you have time I would appreciate your input there. Regards, Alex Shih (talk) 15:31, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Sure thing. --Yamla (talk) 18:43, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

• Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
• Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
• The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

• A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:23, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for your help on University of Miami Business School!

— Javert2113 (talk) 21:48, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

*Sigh*

Dear Yamla,

Please excuse me for the wall of text but I feel the need to write this to sufficiently convey to you the situation at hand.

I am the user who has been the victim of your wild reverting spree. You say I am a sock. Let's just touch on this for a moment. The Sockpuppet Investigation conducted by Berean Hunter concluded I was not guilty but blocked me on the basis that I was using on a proxy. This can be ascertained by the closing statement "Blocked as a Proxy for 1 month". This was all Berean Hunter wrote in her/his concluding statement. There was no mention of me being guilty of sockpuppetry and she/he made it very clear that the ip address I was using was being blocked because it is a proxy and not a sock. In spite of this you STILL reverted all my edits on the basis that I was sockpuppet. You were subsequently informed that the Sockpuppet Investigation did not find me guilty of sockpuppetry at all (See the Tom Barry (soldier) revision history). Despite me conveying you the ruling of the sockpuppet investigation. You not only blocked me again but you STILL reverted me.

I am now left scratching my head at the bizarreness of the situation we find ourselves in (caused by you I might add). You're queer actions can only be explained by three hypotheses. The first is that you are grossly incompetent. The second is that you do not give a damn about the ruling by the sockpuppet investigation which stated I am not guilty of sockpuppetry, and the third it is a bit of both. Either way common sense suggests that this is in violation of wikipedia policy and per wikipedia policy you have no right to do what you are doing.

I stated in the first paragraph this is the third time somebody will have conveyed this ruling. It will also be the last time it will happen. I have done my best here to get you to understand the ruling Berean Hunter made in the Sockpuppet investigation and are hereby issueing two requests. The first is that you apologise for the inconvenience, the second is that you immediately self-revert all those edits of mine you unjustifiably reverted. I encourage you to obey the sockpuppet investigation ruling, if you do not comply with it I will be forced to pursue the unfortunate action of filing a report. You yourself must know that this gross incompetence, blissful and flouting of the rules of wikipedia will have negative consequences for you. Do the smart thing and do not be stupid.46.19.206.30 (talk) 18:40, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

SPI don't comment on IP addresses. You were categorically not cleared of being an Apollo sock. I subsequently blocked the second IP address because it was a proxy. You are still using a proxy, but given your comments here, and provided you don't edit any articles, I'll refrain from blocking it. I will not undo the reverts at this time as I am convinced you are indeed an Apollo sock. Note I think you have confused Bbb23 with Berean Hunter; Bbb23 did the SPI investigation.

I suggest the most effective way to resolve this is for you to ping Bbb23. I would abide by any decision Bbb23 made. Specifically, I would undo my reverts if Bbb23 believed them to be inappropriate, for whatever reason. Bbb23 may plausibly have a hard time commenting, given the nature of the evidence here. Note that I'd also be willing to abide by any decision made by Berean Hunter, if you prefer. My reverts were as per WP:DENY and I believe Apollo the Logician is practically, if not yet actually, WP:CBANed. And I strongly believe you are that person, given the evidence presented. --Yamla (talk) 18:51, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Bbb23 did not state that ANYBODY was a sockpuppet in their closing statement. The word 'sockpuppet' or any of its synonyms was not used once in their closing statement. It was also not implied that anybody was a sockpuppet. Therefore your rationale as to viewing the ruling as justification to revert my edits is mystery.

"I subsequently blocked the second IP address because it was a proxy." Well now you are just digging yourself into a deeper hole. Are you saying that if I was not using a proxy you would not have blocked me? That is certainly implied in the statement I have just quoted.

I am "pinging" )had to look that one up) @Bbb23:46.19.206.30 (talk) 19

05, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Your use of proxies is sufficient to lead to a block. I'd have probably blocked that IP address anyway, given the obvious (to me) block evasion. Bbb23, happy to answer any questions you have. --Yamla (talk) 19:07, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Resolved with a block. See Bbb23's talk page and this IP address's block log. --Yamla (talk) 11:51, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

127.0.0.1

Hi Yamla. You sock blocked Tronald-Drumpf (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) becuase they apparently use the same IP address (127.0.0.1) as Wasabi,the,one (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). However, 127.0.0.1 is a loopback adddress, which either means it's spoofed, or the users are editing from Wikipedia's data center. Was there a check user done to check other technical traits (which I won't list per WP:BEANS)? Also pinging Alexf.- MrX 🖋 11:21, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

You think it's 127.0.0.1 (which, as you point out, is the loopback address) because of problems with the template. Wasabi didn't specify the IP address so the template picked the default. However, the fact that Wasabi asked for an unblock-auto, and given the overlap in editing, was sufficient evidence in this case. I'm not a checkuser so don't have access to that. Let me know if you have any questions and I'll be happy to answer them. --Yamla (talk) 11:38, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

OK, that makes sense. Thank you.- MrX 🖋 11:44, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Ingraham Angle AfD

Since you struck comments from Wasabi, could you do the same for Tonald Drumpf at the AfD? Thanks. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 12:07, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Oh wow. He was active on that page, I missed the other cases. I'll go strike the comments right away. --Yamla (talk) 12:11, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For attending backlogs at CAT:RFU. Seriously, how do you manage! Cheers. Alex Shih (talk) 16:09, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Excellent! Thanks. :) It's largely due to a complete inability to sleep until a reasonable time, each morning. :) --Yamla (talk) 21:06, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Unblocks

Hi, maybe you want to act on Special:Permalink/835534495, given SQL and Tony are seemingly away? I guess one party unblocked while other party remains blocked doesn’t sound good. — regards, Revi 12:11, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

I'll take a look in a moment. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. --Yamla (talk) 12:15, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Letter to Yamla

Dear Yamla, Thankyou for reviewing my unblock request of User:Iampython i saw it’s declined. You’ve told there to addressed the confirm sock-puppetry between two other user account. If i was known about the unblocks and UTRS i wouldn’t file request after 4 months of getting blocked. Seriously i don’t know that two accounts and how can i be a sockpuppet of those accounts. :( I love to edit on Wikipedia. Please it’s my humble request to you to unblock my account. In Nepal there are similar ips mainly in Kathmandu peoples use Worldlink& subisu. These are the two main internet service providers. So i don’t have any idea about those accounts neither sockpuppet. Please please help me :) 110.44.115.235 (talk) 18:50, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Stop evading your block. Make your unblock request after signing in to your account. --Yamla (talk) 19:16, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for unblocking me!184.102.195.78 (talk) 18:13, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

A page previously been moved or deleted

Sir I want to write about a page that you have delet once Name of That Page - Ladugaon . Ladugaon is Panchayta of koksara block kalhandi dist. Tublu Nial (talk) 11:28, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

No. Blocked as a block-evading sockpuppet. --Yamla (talk) 11:52, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Yamla. You have new messages at RedRubyGuy's talk page.
Message added 12:00, 22 April 2018 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

—SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 12:00, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Your Accusation of Vandalism

You're accusing me of vandalism in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careem. I'd like to point out that I did not make the changes you are (rightfully) labelling vandalism. I merely corrected some obvious spelling errors and tried to make one sentence marginally more useful (although I did introduce a new spelling error, unfortunately).

The revision history of my changes: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Careem&type=revision&diff=837901629&oldid=837900384

The vandalism was committed in an earlier revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Careem&diff=837900384&oldid=837857352 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthias Winkelmann (talk • contribs) 19:39, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@Matthias Winkelmann: Ah. I tied you to that IP address. That was a mistake and I offer you my apologies. Would you like me to remove the warning from your page? Actually, I'm just going to assume you do, if you haven't already. --Yamla (talk) 19:42, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@Yamla: Thank you! I should have noticed the vandalism, but I was on mobile and didn't check the history. So there was something to learn for me as well. Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 19:54, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

edit conflicting

Looks like we're edit conflicting on the Anurag/Abhishek UPE group, I seem to be keeping the windows open for far too long before I do something! I'm done now, but I saw that you noted about removing tp access only after I removed it, so if you wish to undo my action, then please feel free. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 13:41, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

No problem. :) I'm a fast typist. That UPE group is a bit offensive in their complaints and unwillingness to abide by our terms of use and policies. Or even, to bother reading them. --Yamla (talk) 13:50, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

• The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

• AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
• When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
• The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

• Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

User:Kof4495

I have just noticed User:Kofi4495 and User:Kof4495 may be sockpuppet accounts because they have similar edits on the New Looney Tunes page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kof4495

Yay Dad (talk) 05:18, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Yeap. Blocked. Thanks! --Yamla (talk) 10:03, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

103.50.151.3

103.50.151.3 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Hi,

I'm not sure who this IP editor is, but you had recently blocked them for block evasion, and the most recent edits that they've made appear to be similar to those that you blocked them for. If this is indeed the same person could you block them once again? Thanks. 176.205.8.108 (talk) 20:53, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Blocked. --Yamla (talk) 21:07, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

User talk:JudgeJake40

Hi Yamla, hope you're doing well. An individual claiming to be this user came on the unblock IRC channel. I reviewed your decline, and affirmed what you told him, but I was wondering if you could clarify what the other sock was that would be 6 months? I'm only seeing one in the category, and that was 6 months ago. Thanks for all the work you do with unblocks TonyBallioni (talk) 02:21, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Ah! There is only the one, as far as I know. But the last edit from JudgeJake40 (talk · contribs) was 2017-11-27, meaning it's not been six months yet. That'd be on 2018-05-27, in about two and a half weeks. Let me know if I didn't fully answer the question (or if I did the math incorrectly, haven't had my first coffee yet). --Yamla (talk) 10:39, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

No, I did the math incorrectly in my head (I did two months left in 2017, plus four done in 2018.) Thanks for clarifying. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:04, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Sockpuppets

I found two more sockpuppet accounts used to dodge bans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:M_Waner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kofi262017

I have labelled them as suspected sockpuppets. Yay Dad (talk) 04:20, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

The first one isn't immediately obvious to me. You should file an WP:SPI request for that. The other one is obvious and I'll block. --Yamla (talk) 08:27, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_animated_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States&diff=next&oldid=833709693

Shows that this user similar to User:Corinne le bouch inserts films that aren't even in the public domain in the United States without a source. Yay Dad (talk) 00:39, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

More socks

Could you ping me if and when you open a SPI on the 80.111.x.x Apollo sock, please? TIA, Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 22:01, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

@Bastun: Note that the IP address had already previously been blocked by Berean Hunter as part of the most recent Apollo SPI. As it was an IP address, Berean Hunter didn't specify this was Apollo and this was only clear to me in context. Specifically, the IP address said as much here (that being the only account I've tagged as such, recently). Given that it's already been handled by the SPI, I wasn't planning on relisting it but if you think it's worthwhile, I'd be happy to do so. As I'm sure you know, the checkusers are prohibited from commenting on IP addresses, but are allowed to make use of the information themselves, so there may be some value in me logging it explicitly. --Yamla (talk) 00:10, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Ah, right - I wasn't aware it'd already been blocked. If there had been an SPI I was going to comment that it was odd that an IP that had never commented on my talk page apparently had it on a watchlist, responding on its own page to this. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 08:36, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Puzzled

Howdy. I was having a productive discussion with User talk:Leftwinguy92, who I'd observed had been making largely productive and largely useful contributions to en.wikipedia since Feb 2018, when somewhat unexpectedly you blocked him as a confirmed sockpuppet of the blocked user, Torygreen84. Now I sympathise that socks are a pain in the arse and pathalogical liars, but I've been an editor for over 10 years, and this guy doesn't seem to fit the mould. Maybe he's a really good liar, but maybe he isn't. Can you please explain, on User talk:Leftwinguy92, why you are so sure he's a sock? Thanks in advance, Pdfpdf (talk) 13:53, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

The sockpuppetry was confirmed and documented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Apollo_The_Logician (though it'll soon move into the archive). Note that I didn't perform the checkuser (I don't have those permissions). Bbb23 did the work. --Yamla (talk) 14:11, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. (Pretty much the best answer I could expect from you.) Pdfpdf (talk) 14:24, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Note also that the Editor Interaction Analyser shows a level of overlap that cannot be explained by anything other than WP:SOCK (it's the most overlap I think I've ever seen between two accounts). --Yamla (talk) 14:30, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, this (and copyright) are areas I avoid as much as possible, so please forgive my simplistic questions. I'm interpreting that you are saving that User:Leftwinguy92 and User:Torygreen84, when plugged into Editor Interaction Analyser shows high overlap. When I do it, it tells me there's zero edits and zero overlap, so now I'm even more confused. Pdfpdf (talk) 14:52, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

It's not immediately obvious how to plug in the usernames in the correct format. I mean that sincerely, I still manage to mess it up from time to time even though I use it regularly. The link with the usernames already plugged in is here. Please let me know if that doesn't work for you. You should see several pages of overlap. --Yamla (talk) 14:55, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for waving your magic wand - I know I'm not always the sharpest tool in the shed, but it's nice to have someone else admit it's not obvious. Yes, your link worked. No, there are not several pages of overlap - there are many. I'm now even more confused, but now for different reasons! Pdfpdf (talk) 15:20, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Maybe you're not the person to ask, but never-the-less: Whatever his past, this guy now seems to be trying hard to make a useful contribution. As I said, maybe he's a really good liar and has fooled me, but it seems to me wikipedia might be better off embracing his useful contributions than blocking him. Or maybe I should stop wasting my time on an already lost cause and and dovote my efforts to someting more useful. Thanks for your patience & help. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 15:20, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

If we assume the two user accounts belong to the same person, that means they've been violating WP:SOCK and lying about it. In order to be unblocked, we'd need to believe we can trust the person again, and we'd need to believe they wouldn't violate the policies again. It's hard to get there, given the (assumed) lying. WP:SO is often a path forward in such cases. That requires six months of zero edits, but I'm not claiming this is the only path forward. More concerning is the accusation this editor is a member of a white supremacist group and (implicitly) editing in violation of WP:NPOV. I want to be clear, I have not investigated that and have no idea if it is true. So, to sum up, the editor would have to come clean, stop lying, and rebuild trust. And would need to convince us (Wikipedia-the-community) they can be a constructive contributor. There's no time-frame for that, it could happen today. It could happen in six months, under the terms of WP:SO. It may never happen. --Yamla (talk) 15:35, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

And whatever, it's pretty clear I'm too trusting and out of my depth. A (talk page stalker) at bbb23 made this observation, which supports your summary of the situation, so I'm off to bed, never to return to this topic. Shame really; you've been a pleasant person to interact with. Best wishes, Pdfpdf (talk) 15:41, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

WP:SOCK stuff can be frustrating. Them and paid marketers, both sets of people are hard to trust. Regardless, sleep well and here's to more pleasant interactions. :) --Yamla (talk) 15:49, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for unblocking me!

Thanks for unblocking me! I'm new here, and wasnt aware that my username was wrong. Sorry! Benbt16 (talk) 21:28, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Not a problem. It's an easy mistake to make. :) --Yamla (talk) 21:37, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Re unblock

Thanks for your comment, that's why I ask in case other people see something I don't. It seemed too odd to me to be that simple. 331dot (talk) 15:09, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Yeap. :) These cases can often be quite difficult to figure out the full picture. :) --Yamla (talk) 15:11, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Suspected Sockpuppets

I would like to address that User:Cartoons555 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cartoons555) is editing the List of animated films in the public domain in the United States page, which they were originally blocked for under User:Corinne le bouch. The contributions are also evidence that User:M Waner is a suspected sockpuppet of Corinne le bouch. I have reverted all their unsourced edits. :) Yay Dad 02:00, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, they look likely. Blocked, and I partially protected the article page for a while. --Yamla (talk) 11:25, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

• A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

• In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:00, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

ZestyLemon

Not sure how to report, but looks like they're back again. Looked back at previous edits left on my talk page from him/her, they're identical and are about the same tv shows (love island, big brother etc). Not a coincidence.

This edit tonight: [2]

Similar to June last year: [3]

And others dating back further: [4][5]

Amongst others but I'm obviously not listing them all lol. ThisIsDanny (talk) 23:10, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Yeap. Let me know if I didn't block all the IP addresses involved. That's a shame, I was hoping that banned vandal had gone away. --Yamla (talk) 11:28, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for amending the block on this.... very nice gentleman (lol). It took me a minute, but I suddenly realized that the starting letters for each word came out to be my username... so it's an LTA ;-). I've modified the block (again) to add this; just figured I'd let you know since you changed the block. Thanks again - ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 11:38, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Not a problem. :) --Yamla (talk) 12:03, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Sorry - Zesty again.

Same IP, more disruptive edits. (Look at their contributions - involved in wars on numerous pages) Posted on my talk page in the exact same way Zesty and all the other accounts do again, here:[6] so there's no doubt who it's associated with. ThisIsDanny (talk) 09:57, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Interesting. Blocked for an extended period. Thanks for letting me know! --Yamla (talk) 11:06, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Concerning this confused newbie

Hello, Yamla!

I'm Brad, I'm (obviously) new to WP, and I noticed some of my edits to Uber and The Official Preppy Handbook were reverted. I understand why they were, but I'd just like to ask if you'd be able to direct me to a page that teaches a user how to cite books. The OPH statements were out of the book (I own a copy), but I find citing print a little complicated on this site. Also, I'd appreciate it on a super duper level if anyone could tell me where I could learn to make a more personalized sig. Thanks much!

BradLindforth (talk) 18:14, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor

Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

• Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
• Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

• Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:22, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Suspected block evasion

The anonymous user 182.239.88.16 is suspected to be avoiding block evasion of 113.255.79.138, just reporting.140.0.7.171 (talk) 05:46, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Yeap. Block extended and applied to the new address. --Yamla (talk) 11:12, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for keeping an eye on the XC40 article. Recently random IPs have been trying to add all sorts of nonsense details and changes to various Volvo articles. Can be frustrating. 2A04:4540:904:E500:7895:5E8C:F41C:6CC1 (talk) 12:46, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

No doubt. Some of the details are unsourced but possibly accurate, but quite a number of the details are just objectively false. It's very frustrating. --Yamla (talk) 12:52, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

An IP is back!

Hey, I saw you were the reviewing mod for an IP's unblock request (the one that talks about killing women); someone should know they're back to their old disruption. Here's the contribs (contribs). Cheers, originalmess^{how u doin that busta rhyme?} 19:37, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Yeap. Combined with the previous trolling, it's clear this person isn't up to anything good. Blocked for six months. --Yamla (talk) 19:43, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Create a Protected Page

Hello, I would like to create a page that is being protected by you. The subject is notable and I think that was created by a marketing company earlier which violated the wikipedia policy. I believe it meets all the criteria and the guidelines as of now. The page is called Aditya Powar. I would like to make helpful contributions regarding this subject. Aa015 (talk) 21:00, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

I think that's a bad idea. That page has been repeatedly recreated by the subject of the article themselves, or by people working for them. The previous contents were totally inappropriate, clearly violating WP:PROMO. What is your interest in that page and what exactly is your relationship, if any, with that author and with any marketing/promotion company? I'm not saying no, but I'll need you to be open, honest, and complete in your statements. --Yamla (talk) 21:03, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Sure. To be honest, I'm of no relations with the person or the marketing companies working for the person. Aditya Powar is an author and a filmmaker, and I'm just a fan of him and would like to help editing this page. Aa015 (talk) 21:12, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Okay, I'm willing to unprotect that page if and only if you state you have read and understood WP:COI, WP:PAID, and WP:PROMO. My earlier questions were to make sure you weren't in violation of the first two policies, and I'll happily take you at your word. But the last one's really important. That page must not violate WP:PROMO and I'd hate to unprotect it, only to have to delete it, reprotect it, and hand out blocks. Really, I don't want to do that so I have to be sure you have read and understood the policy. Once you have done so, just say so here and I'll unprotect. Note that I'm almost at the end of my day now, so this might not happen until tomorrow. --Yamla (talk) 21:23, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Oh, one more question. Is your name, "Aditya Arun Powar"? --Yamla (talk) 21:29, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Yamla, I hate driving a stake through the heart of AGF, but I just checkuser blocked the account.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:32, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Ah ha ha. I was wondering if I should request a checkuser here. I figured I'd catch it for violations of WP:PROMO. --Yamla (talk) 21:34, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

This is WP:UPE through and through. It never ends. --Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:41, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

The "fan" already requested unblock, inquring what they had been blocked for. Apparently didn't notice your checkuser note, Ponyo, or the template on the userpage. If there's another unblock request, I'll be glad to drive a stake through the heart of talkpage access, provided I'm still awake. Bishonen | talk 21:56, 6 July 2018 (UTC).

Even without the CU the socking was pretty obvious; they even triggered a sock edit filter upon account creation.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:03, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

You know, My Little Ponyo, I see reports of triggering a sock filter quite often at WP:UAA, and I never understand what it means. What does the filter look for? Bishonen | talk 22:08, 6 July 2018 (UTC).

@Bishonen: The filter the sock tripped (527) logs possible sleeper account creation (being purposefully vague). The filter mentioned at UAA is probably 499, which logs possible spam/promo accounts.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:22, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Congratulations. You are better than McAfee

You or someone blocked me from editing because of an IP address. Something loaded an AnchorFree TAP on my machine and was using a proxy IP address. You found it and McAfee did not. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 20:27, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Ah ha ha, well I'm happy to hear that. :) I quite like Trend Micro Housecall, and we are experimenting with SentinelOne at work at the moment. In all fairness, I found this just based on your reported IP address, nothing more. --Yamla (talk) 20:30, 16 July 2018 (UTC)