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Protection for Mary Shelley

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Vandalised many times.-Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Cactus🌵 Yum o.o 10:44, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cactusisme: Probably not too much use responding to it now but there was only vandalism from one IP across one day. In cases like these, a block is needed. Page protection is only used as a last resort. --Ferien2 (talk) 09:01, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Are you user:Ferien?, if your are, okay, thanks!! Cactus spiky ouch 11:13, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Cactusisme: yep sorry for the confusion, I couldn't access my laptop at the time. --Ferien (talk) 11:14, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, its fine, I just found a bit suspicious Cactus spiky ouch 11:15, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Cactusisme: If you see other users claiming to be people, you should take a look at their userpage to see whether the account they have claimed to be have linked to them. For example, on my meta userpage for User:Ferien2, I decided to just sign on their userpage in m:Special:Diff/21487714, and it's in a section on my userpage: User:Ferien#Other accounts --Ferien (talk) 11:18, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ohk, will look into that in the future. Thanks Cactus spiky ouch 11:20, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Ferien The vandalism stopped for now Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:21, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]


User:Sarcastic kshatriya

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This @User:Sarcastic kshatriya is vandalizing articles and creating articles without adding sources, Please remove the Descendants of Lord Krishna and Yadav Rajput articles created by him from the wiki and block this account. Thanks. 2409:4085:9C87:B19C:0:0:8149:5A00 (talk) 19:17, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(Note) Talkback sent, CU requested. MathXplore (talk) 13:31, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Administrator note: I have discovered one copyvio from this user. The revision is deleted and now they have a warning about this. MathXplore (talk) 13:47, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Administrator note: Level 3 warning sent for unexplained reference removal. MathXplore (talk) 01:17, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Administrator note: Final warning sent. MathXplore (talk) 15:03, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done MathXplore (talk) 08:13, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MathXplore should someone revert all their edits? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:15, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure about that, but unsourced and/or complex changes may need reverts (w:WP:BANREVERT). MathXplore (talk) 08:17, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
okay, will look into their edits Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:17, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Administrator note: User locked. MathXplore (talk) 08:29, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
okay Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:20, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The first creation of this page was deleted per QD G12. The page has been recreated, but is this an acceptable rewording of this website [1]? MathXplore (talk) 10:45, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator note: Discussion moved to Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Bernedoodle. MathXplore (talk) 12:04, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Flood flag request

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Hi, Could I be granted the flood flag up until 2am please as I plan to make mass repetitive edits, Thanks, Kind Regards, –Davey2010Talk 20:17, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010: Please be more specific about what edits you plan to make.
Also, when you say "2am", what time zone are you referring to? It's helpful if you can either specify UTC or say "for two hours" (or whatever period of time). Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 04:44, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies I forgot to remove this post, edits have now been done and the rest will be done tonight, Many Thanks, Kind Regards, –Davey2010Talk 10:46, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]


It has been 6 months since I've been active on wiki, so I think it is in the communities best interest that I ask a crat to remove my sysop tool. I came back to the wiki during covid when I was home often, and I fell back in love with editing here. I still have that love and appreciation for what we're doing here, but I once again do not have the time to offer. Tools are to be used, not held on to. As I don't see a future where I return to that same level of activity, I see no reason to hold on to a tool. I appreciate you all, and the work that you continue to do. I will always believe in the mission of this Wiki. Thanks. --Gordonrox24 | Talk 22:54, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I regret to hear that, thank you for your work on the Simple English Wikipedia. — *Fehufangą✉ Talk page 23:33, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Administrator note: WP:A updated (special:diff/9648369), MediaWiki:Gadget-HighlightAdmins.js update requested. MathXplore (talk) 01:46, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:42, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Cactusisme: Please stop marking things as done on the admins' noticeboard. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:28, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
ok Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:28, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The user has category-related edits that may need reverts despite w:special:permalink/1233818902#Category:Adventure and w:special:permalink/1233818902#Understanding_categories. Shall we continue to allow their edits? MathXplore (talk) 02:18, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not block me from editing. I may make wrongful edits but there are almost always just mistakes that I undo myself. QuantumFoam66 (talk) 02:26, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Administrator note: Level 1 warning sent. MathXplore (talk) 05:32, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]


This article should not be fully protected since I could not find a single autoconfirmed user vandalizing it. Frankly, this is not in line with the protection policy, so I suggest a reduction to semi-protection. Thanks, Cyclonical (talk) 03:03, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I sent talkback to the involved admin. MathXplore (talk) 05:33, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As the editor that made the comment on their talk page, I agree with Cyclonical's proposal. The policy doesn't allow the full protection of a page for vandalism.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 06:56, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
When I go through the history of this page and see hundreds of vandalizing changes this year, including some by named accounts, then I think temporary protection is warranted. Our policy is a guideline. If other admins are unhappy with me giving the article 28 days temporary protection to try and break the vandal editing cycle, then they can change it. I think this article has already had more admin involvement than it deserves. I also find some of the editing patterns very suspicious. Peterdownunder (talk) 23:23, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The vast majority of vandalism on this article is done by IPs or accounts with less than 10 edits. I would be surprised if you could even find an instance in which an autoconfirmed user has vandalized this article. Even still, limiting protection of the article for a short period of time does not even make sense, since vandalism is just as prevalent after the period of time is done. Limiting the number of people that can edit the article to 12 people on this wikipedia for almost a month because of vandalism is not a good reason to break policy. It would be far more useful to simply permanently semi protect the article. MrMeAndMrMeTalk 23:58, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As suggested by MrMeAndMrMe, a better solution would be to indefinitely semi-protect the article. As soon as the full protection lifts, IPs and new editors will start vandalizing the article as if nothing ever happened. Even if autoconfirmed users somehow managed to break through semi-protection and vandalize it, the chances of it slipping through are essentially 0%. Many people patrol recent changes for bad-faith edits, and some even have this page on their watchlists. Semi-protection will allow for good-faith users to contribute while keeping the bad-faith ones out, while still letting regular users edit. Cyclonical (talk) 07:39, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that the article should be protected, but not fully protected. This year alone, the article has more than 250 edits, but out of the ones that are vandalism, only a few are from registered accounts. Most never make it to autoconfirmed status. Indefinite semi-protection is definitely better here. — *Fehufangą✉ Talk page 07:46, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, indef semi protection would be the best route to stopping the vandalism of the page.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 07:47, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In view of the above comments, I have removed the temporary protection on this article, and have replaced it with an indefinite block on non-confirmed IPs. If there is further vandalism then I may add further restrictions as necessary. Peterdownunder (talk) 10:05, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Revdel req

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[2] I feel like this rev might meet RD2 so posting here.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 08:12, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done*Fehufangą✉ Talk page 08:25, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 08:25, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

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Please protect this page. Thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 02:52, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done MathXplore (talk) 01:36, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As explained in Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Bandkari, I cannot check if this violates copyright due to paywall, but if there is any admin who can read the estimated original article, then QD G12 deletion is welcome. MathXplore (talk) 02:00, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It has some pretty obvious copyright issues Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:19, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Cactusisme Such as? I don't see any violations just from the abstract of the article. copypatrol shows a 59% similarity with the linked source but I cannot see what it is comparing the article text with. I don't seem to have access to this article through the library. If you have access the full text of the article, please feel free to send me the text so I can compare it. — *Fehufangą✉ Talk page 12:22, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Fehufanga I mean some of it is just copied from the source. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:24, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Cactusisme Such as? Again, please provide specific examples that I can't see any direct similarity with the source that the article is allegedly violating. I can't just say that because the article is written in complex English, it has to be a copyvio. Please provide examples from the article where the article matches exactly or too closely with a copyrighted source. — *Fehufangą✉ Talk page 12:27, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The text is like differently phrased Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:29, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Cactusisme That's not an example. Here is an example of what I am looking for:
  • Example article text:

Johann Sebastian Bach was born in the town of Eisenach. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach worked as a trumpeter. Both of his parents died before he reached the age of 10. He was taken into the house of Johann Christoph, the eldest son of the family, who was then organist at Ohrdruf. Here the young Bach lived for five years, learning the clavier under his brother's tuition, and showing so marked an ability for music as to bring upon himself his instructor's jealous severity, to the point of injustice and hardship. A manuscript collection of contemporary music, belonging to his brother, was especially coveted by him, but was relentlessly kept from his sight.

  • Example copyrighted source:

Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisensach, Saxe-Weimar, Germany, March 21, 1685. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was one of twin brothers; a violinist; twice married and blessed with a large family—two conditions in which his son was destined to follow his example. Both he and his wife died when Sebastian was ten years old; and the boy, who had already acquired from his father the rudiments of the violin, was taken into the house of Johann Christoph, the eldest son of the family, who was then organist at Ohrdruf. Here the young Bach lived for five years, learning the clavier under his brother's tuition, and showing so marked an ability for music as to bring upon himself his instructor's jealous severity, to the point of injustice and hardship. A manuscript collection of contemporary music, belonging to his brother, was especially coveted by him, but was relentlessly kept from his sight.

(for the purposes of this example, the text is not actually copyrighted. Source can be found here).
In the example above, the article text copied part of the copyrighted source directly, and would count as a copyright violation.-
Please provide a specific example so that I know that this is actually a copyright violation, and not a false positive picked up by copypatrol. — *Fehufangą✉ Talk page 12:34, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I managed to obtain the source from the Wikimedia Discord server. A section of the article is completely identical to a paragraph from the source, as such I have deleted the article under the G12 quick deletion criteria. — *Fehufangą✉ Talk page 13:48, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Protection request for Patrick Stewart

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I request for the protection of Patrick Stewart. It keeps getting targeted by an LTA making pointless edits. 50.175.193.50 (talk) 06:58, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done MathXplore (talk) 07:00, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please close a discussion which was ended

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Hello, I think that this discussion was made in a wrong place, because it was ended on 2nd July 2024, but no administrator closed it.

Today it had a reply of TechnoSquirrel69, but the discussion was ended a long ago. Therefore it was not relevant any longer. Please put a line upon the late reply, archive the discussion and remove the template in the page. Thank you, Dgw (talk) 12:59, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dorian Gray Wild: An RfD is not considered ended just because the indicated date has passed. Discussion can continue until it is formally closed. I can't close it right now because I'm on a mobile device, but I will check it later today in case it doesn't get closed before I can look at it. -- Auntof6 (talk) 20:01, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Auntof6. I came from another Wikipedia, where we have a nice administrator who closes every discussion which ends, and puts lines upon replies which were made after the closing time. Thank you again for handling the issue. Dgw (talk) 20:24, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dorian Gray Wild: Sorry, I should have looked more closely at it. I commented on it, so I can't close it. I'm sure another admin will get to it. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:42, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]


You've Been Dealing With Stress All Wrong, According to Neuroscience

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The user who created this page, which was deleted as a copyright violation, has claimed credit for it. See User talk:Amy Serin, PhD, BCN. 2601:644:9083:5730:699C:4277:F713:D4C3 (talk) 16:19, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Answered to the claim. MathXplore (talk) 03:14, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Adding heights without source

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The following IP range is blocked on En-Wiki: Special:Contribs/2600:1012:B000:0:0:0:0:0/40. The problem here is that they keep adding people's heights without a source. Should they be blocked here too? 2601:644:9083:5730:3110:5D04:B3C8:C7AB (talk) 19:29, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not an admin - I've reverted them and warned them, If they continue please report to WP:VIP, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 19:49, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Some of the heights they enter are outdated and wrong Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:29, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
They haven't stopped. Please block them. 2601:644:9083:5730:75C1:8003:5093:B95A (talk) 23:06, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done for one month fr33kman 23:14, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Death hoaxes

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The following IP's keep making new articles that claim a person has died today without evidence:

I warned the first one twice, but then the second IP did it again. See also: Special:PermaLink/9643947#Death hoaxes. 2601:644:9083:5730:3110:5D04:B3C8:C7AB (talk) 19:47, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hoax and QD A3 cases are deleted (except corrected pages), both blocked as same as before. MathXplore (talk) 03:09, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:45, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Suspicious user page

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Trustharri1 (talk · contribs) has copied the user page of Ricky81682 (talk · contribs), including claiming to be a former administrator. Is this allowed here? 2607:F140:6000:802A:61A5:9F91:5713:6924 (talk) 21:44, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Given they were warned by an admin today[3] I'm rather baffled as to why they'd copy someone elses userpage but either way they've blanked their userpage now, I'm sure they're not silly enough to repeat the same mistake for a third time and FWIW we were all newbies once so we should cut the guy some slack imho. –Davey2010Talk 22:17, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
But Davey, it is imperspnation right? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:29, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Meh it is however they're not going around the project pretending to be the admin, at a guess I'd say they're simply trying to find their footing here but maybe I'm just naïve and gullible, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 23:01, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
oh okay, will watch them for now Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:22, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done User blocked/locked per Special:Diff/9653873. MathXplore (talk) 01:58, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Eighteen articles created in one day by new editor

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It seems clear that brand new editor 213.55.233.112 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), who created eighteen new articles on July 14, is using copying, or given the subject matter of their contributions, more likely machine translation to create their articles. Mathglot (talk) 10:19, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot To be honest, this isn't the first time somebody has mass-created location articles (especially about French communes), especially in that range: see contributions, contributions, etc. This goes back for several years but it's not technically forbidden by policy. I'm sure another admin is more familiar with this, since they have been around before I was active here. — *Fehufangą✉ Talk page 10:25, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the quick response; I am admittedly not as familiar with simple policy as I am with en-wiki policy, so apologies if this is not an issue here. Nevertheless, the wmf:Terms of Use trump individual project policy, and if editors are not attributing their copied content or translations, then that is a problem. Mathglot (talk) 10:35, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting additional admin response on this. Regardless of any differences between simple and en-wiki on policies, the wmf Terms of use apply to all Wikimedia properties, and ignoring the requirements of ToU § 7b is not an option. What is the usual response at simple for unattributed copying or translation of content in violation of the ToU? Mathglot (talk) 01:21, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it is in principle illegal to copy another's writing without permission, although it may be trivial on some occasions. It has been decided that quantity of copying is a consideration, and the topic is another factor. Some innocuous topics are rarely tested in court. WP's boundaries are no doubt linked to the U.S. version of copyright. In our case I assume attribution is proper, but its absence in trivial cases might not offend. Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:06, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your response. To clarify: I am not talking about copying external items: books, journals, webpages under copyright protection; that would indeed by illegal in most countries. Rather, I am talking about copying from other Wikipedias (and other sister projects) and that is explicitly permitted by the ToU (and encouraged, to grow the encyclopedias' coverage). So, I'm not referring to illegal copyright violations, but rather violations of Wikimedia's Terms of use, which permits copying/translating among Wikimedia properties as long as it is properly attributed as the ToU calls for. Indeed, whether it would offend or not is perhaps the interesting question (and offend whom? is part of it) but the ToU applies to all projects. In theory, if you are non-compliant with Facebook or Twitter ToU, eventually you may get banned at their discretion, although most people perhaps are not. It seems to be a bit different at Wikimedia projects, as although the ToU are identical for all projects, it *seems* to be left up to the individual projects as to how they want to deal with non-compliance. That was basically my question: how is it dealt with here? Mathglot (talk) 09:23, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There is a related issue here, and it may help if I describe it. At the same time, I am also trying to improve the documentation at newly created template {{Missing credit}}, and the better I understand procedures here, the better equipped I will be to update it in an optimal fashion. That said, any updates to Template:Missing credit/doc by those who understand the ins and outs of Terms of use attribution issues at simple, would be very welcome. Mathglot (talk) 10:10, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Eliminating Module:No globals

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I have closed the RfD on this module as deleted. It looks like changes to modules are needed to replace calls to the module with something else. I haven't worked with modules, so I am uncomfortable doing it myself. Can one of my fellow admins help? Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:46, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Protection request for Joe Biden

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This article has received persistent and sustained vandalism from IP editors. The majority of edits to this article are either vandalism or the reversal of such. LV 04:35, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have semi-protected both the articles on Joe Biden, and Donald Trump for six months. Only aurtoconfirmed users can edit these articles. The U.S. presidfential election is important, both are highly visinble public figures. Vandalism will only increase until the election. Eptalon (talk) 08:46, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remove protection for Joe Biden and Donald Trump

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Remove the protection of Joe Biden and Donald Trump as people have added the real things about them 92.40.201.96 (talk) 11:39, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@92.40.201.96 You can request what you want to be changed in the article a autoconfirmed user would see if it is okay and do it for you. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:40, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@92.40.201.96 and what do you mean 'real things'? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:42, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
hello,I protected the two pages because there was an increasing level of vandalism. No one says all IP editors are bad. There is a very limited set of tools we have against vandalism, and when the vandalism is from different editors, protection is pretty much the only one. The protection lasts until after the election in over not to have to do things multiple times. And as outlined, use the article talk page to request a change. Eptalon (talk) 12:54, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Eptalon  Comment: the Ip is blocked for disrupting edits Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 05:52, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Protection of Alex Bickerton

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This article has received persistent and sustained vandalism from IP editors. The majority of edits to this article are either vandalism or the reversal of such Contrilab (talk) 12:12, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment: this page was just created and nominated for QD, and this is the user's firsts edit. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:14, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It’s should be protected from editors and I did meet him before alongside Linda Robson Contrilab (talk) 12:22, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
which editor? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:23, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
User blocked/locked, page has indefinite semi-protection from creation. MathXplore (talk) 12:44, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category change requests

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Please move the following pages from Category:Wikipedia to Category:Wikipedia administration:

per Category talk:Wikipedia. OurRisingTide (talk) 01:19, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@OurRisingTide: The first two aren't in that category. The third one was already under policies, which is already under WP admin, so I just deleted the plain Wikipedia category.
By the way, thanks for the work you've been doing to organize all this. -- Auntof6 (talk) 03:01, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Auntof6 The first two don't appear in the category because they use the <includeonly> code. It's Wikipedia:Simple talk and Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress that appear in the category, but it's actually written on the header pages. OurRisingTide (talk) 03:04, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@OurRisingTide  Done -- Auntof6 (talk) 03:50, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Trolling

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This is just an embarassment for the simple wiki: Special:Contributions/92.40.201.58/16. 2601:644:9083:5730:75C1:8003:5093:B95A (talk) 22:57, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Enfcer, Eptalon, and Ferien: (pinging active bureaucrats) I think IWI has zero edits in 12 months (Wikipedia:Inactive administrators). Please check their edits and decide if their rights should be removed or not. MathXplore (talk) 07:16, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator note: Already  Done by Eptalon, I have updated WP:A. MathXplore (talk) 10:57, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! This user obsessively changed most instances of "White Americans" to "European Americans" and is now changing other race/ethnicity related terms as well. Can an admin, possibly an American (US) one, or maybe a Canadian one, look at this?

From my understanding, in some contexts, White American and European Americans mean the same thing, but not every European-American is considered (by the American society) white. Think about Roma people. I do not want to make mistakes, so I only reverted their edits on Ku Klux Klan and only gave them one warning, because I know the history of the KKK. I am not sure about the other articles, and I do not want to be tragically wrong. This is why I am asking here instead of reverting and warning that IP multiple times.

I really hope this does not sound racist. Please note that I am Italian and we have a very different view of race/ethnicity here (similar to Germany due to our shared dark past). ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 11:58, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't checked all of their edits, but w:Special:Contributions/95.147.145.134 and w:special:redirect/logid/162490493 imply LTA involvement. Once I have enough details I will consider applying WP:ONESTRIKE and/or w:WP:BANREVERT. MathXplore (talk) 12:11, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MathXplore: thank you very much, as always! ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 13:12, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment: I reverted them for the 3rd time in 24 hours on Ku Klux Klan, I need another user to do it for me from now on or I'll be in a change war. ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 17:50, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Fehufanga: Can you check the abuse filter logs of w:Special:Contributions/95.147.145.134 and figure out who is behind these edits? MathXplore (talk) 00:59, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MathXplore I cannot determine who that is as the filters are too general and do not state any specific LTAs by name. — *Fehufangą✉ Talk page 12:48, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MathXplore and Fehufanga: The same user is now edit warring under other IPs, see Ku Klux Klan's revision history. ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 14:17, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Theorically they did not go against the 3RR rule, because they waited more than 24 hours, but they persist despite the fact that three other editors reverted them and despite the fact that I added a source to the article proving IP wrong. ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 14:22, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Own userspace protection request

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Requesting my subpages FusionSub/AdminsChart and FusionSub/CratsChart to be semi protected as I would prefer to avoid any vandalism on these charts due to their content.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 08:03, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done MathXplore (talk) 08:07, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
danke.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 08:07, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MathXplore sorry, but I forgot to put FusionSub/AdminsChart/pre-2010 with them, can that be protected as well?- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 08:21, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done MathXplore (talk) 08:22, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
thanks.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 08:23, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Revision deletion request

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This reverted diff needs to be revision-deleted. CopyPatrol says it was copied from http://confocal-manawatu.pbworks.com/w/page/154253988/Trucks?mode=embedded Randomstaplers (talk) 01:34, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thx fr33kman 01:37, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Being targetted by GRP, little reason for new users to edit administrative report archives. Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 15:50, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When dealing with pages that are GRP targets, we've got to be careful not to push him into highly viewed areas or worse, harassing editors on user talk pages. Protecting that archive could easily result in that. While there's no reason for anyone to edit the archives, there's also not much damage in him being able to keep an edit there for a few seconds, compared to harassment of editors or vandalism of highly viewed pages. Therefore, this is  Not done and I'd like to request other admins to contact me first if they are considering protection on any archives such as these. (There's only so much I can say here per WP:BEANS.) --Ferien (talk) 16:00, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio

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North Chinese leopard. Looks to be mostly copied from https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-north-chinese-leopard-panthera-pardus-japonensis - Copyvio report Randomstaplers (talk) 01:17, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Randomstaplers Deleted. — *Fehufangą✉ Talk page 01:58, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Revdel?

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Not sure if these meets the RD criteria but posting here to be safe. Special:Contributions/172.58.142.139 went around making disruptive edits on user talk pages, saying "This user wants to die" and rubbish like that. Can these revs get deleted?- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 06:02, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]