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Hello, DeltaQuad. The accounts you've listed here are probably related to the ones at m:User:Mathonius/Reports/Twin spambots and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Redwfm61. It might be useful to block a few ranges (see these log entries today on ik.wiktionary as well as CU-l for more information). Greetings, Mathonius ( talk) 10:24, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DQ, I'm ready for another run if you'd be so kind. Ϣere SpielChequers 11:20, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).
The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.
I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 19:52, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, DQ. In this edit I wasn't sure what you meant by "nuke". I decided to take it a meaning "close", but maybe you meant "delete". JamesBWatson ( talk) 19:52, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
DeltaQuad, I hope you don't mind, but I changed your block of 85.17.0.0/16 from {{ blocked proxy}} to {{ anonblock}}. The whole class B network does belong to LeaseWeb, but as a colocation provider it then subdivides parts of that range for its customers. Without my knowing any more information, a hard block of a class B network for five years seemed a bit excessive. I shouldn't think we've had disruptive contributions throughout that entire range. Please feel free to change or reinstate the block, however, if you have more information on activities in that range. Thanks! — madman 20:33, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey DeltaQuad, i thought to inform you about Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wnnse which i have restarted in light of discovering a new sockpuppet. I have given all the information and details on the sockpuppet investigations page. I think you should have look at it. Thanks! TheGeneralUser ( talk) 22:41, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, DeltaQuad, I need your opinion and would also like to update you, as you are investigating the SPI here.
As the Admin who place the editing restriction on John Foxe, can you please check out Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Edit_warring#User:John_Foxe_reported_by_User:ARTEST4ECHO_.28Result:_.29.
Online by any chance? I want to know if it is possible to delete an account? I created an alternate for use with my mobile, and managed to spell it incorrectly. The joys of being up three days straight :o) Darkness Shines ( talk) 16:26, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Due to the recent aggressive intolerable personal attack and vandal behavior, I had made some remarks here to continue the SPI. And honestly I believe that it is an immature foreclose of SPI. Regards :)-- Omer123hussain ( talk) 22:41, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello DQ. Per the result of User talk:John Foxe#Edit warring at Samuel L. Mitchill I am planning to replace the editing restriction now logged in WP:RESTRICT with the new one. That OK with you? Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 14:32, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Housewifehader needs to be blocked, as its IP, 68.37.29.229 has been blocked. Thank you. TBran dl ey 03:30, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :)
A couple of new things.
First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.
On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 16:01, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
DQ, please give all the diffs and IPs a 2nd careful look, especially the last two
(173.63.176.93 & 74.88.160.244). It's because of the history log of the IPs that I was able to pull UP NYC88 and MusikAnimal.
BTW, how did you know that MusikAnimal was editing from the same city? I never told you that, since I didn't know myself! According to MusikAnimal's user page, he is supposedly from Brooklyn, NY, a good 20 miles from Fair Lawn, NJ. I only added him to the suspected list because he showed an eerily similar editing pattern to Thmc1. Furthermore, nearly 100% of the individual articles edited by NYC88 were also edited by Thmc1. It's also no coincidence that the given diffs show all, or most of the suspected IPs & accounts making the same edits to the same section of at least 15 same articles. If you have extra time, PLEASE give these diffs another check as it needs a discerning human eye. They all look exactly, or nearly identical except that the IPs & accounts are different. And, of course Thmc1 is stale since he was blocked! That, however, did not stop him from getting back on WP.
P.S.: You were able to confirm sockpuppets of Munibmalik62 with only 2 diffs from one category as evidence. Surely you could do something with the 15 I gave you which aren't merely a set of coincidences?
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Hi DQ, I'm ready for the next run, thanks. Ϣere SpielChequers 16:22, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
I think this is a new suspected sockpuppet of Calvin Marquess: Liang Pengyuan ( talk · contribs) which was created few days of the latest one was locked. ༆ ( talk) 17:20, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
An RfC which you closed is being discussed in several parts of Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Floydian 2. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:48, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for your participation in my recent RfA, which I withdrew very shortly prior to the deadline. I appreciate your demonstrated interest in my candidacy and the thorough review you gave my statement and answers before coming to a decision on that basis. It shows that you are very attentive to detail and have good analytical skills.
By the way, I'm not sure if you noticed (I suspect you have), but I responded to the views you've expressed there. When you had said that there are "more important reasons" than vandalism for imposing an indefinite semi-protection, my immediate interpretation was that you were referring to biographical articles of people who would very likely be subject to a certain degree of libel in the event that their article remained unprotected. I just wanted to be sure I was clear on that, so as to alleviate any confusion in that area.
As an aside, now that I have a better understanding of your skill sets as a volunteer, I'm starting to think you would have been a good arbitrator after all. I opposed your candidacy last December on the basis that you struck me as more of an administrative, "maintenance work" sort of guy rather than someone who would be best suited for reading through cumbersome screeds of text and coming to a judgement based on careful analysis and consideration for all parties involved. If ever you run again, I might be more inclined to support you than I had been before.
Take care. =) Master&Expert ( Talk) 08:54, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I've no problem at all with the protection of my talk page but having just come back from the pub I have no idea what has happened, nor has history lent me any clues. Please could you let me know what has happened - by email if DENY applies - Cheers,
Egg Centri c 22:59, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DQ, just directing your attention to this section of the current discussion of PC. It seems likely that the devs cannot have PC ready to go on the schedule we originally set, and I'd like to see what you, THO, Blade, and James Forrester think about possible ways to work with that restriction. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! ( talk) 15:27, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Dear DeltaQuad,
I saw on the adoption page that you are willing to teach the procedural side of Wikipedia to users. Please would you consider adopting me? Please see my user page, contributions, and talk page for CV and references. Thanks in advance. Geraldshields11 ( talk) 21:50, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
See conversation at User talk:Tiptoety#Help. I'd have unblocked Shreyas.shridhar myself if Tiptoety hadn't explicitly given you the final say, and anyway I am not privy to the information you have. ~ Amatulić ( talk) 19:38, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
Just to let you know there's an IP requesting unblock from a range you apparently blocked - at User talk:46.246.21.87 -- Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 18:18, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice here on checkuser, I will continue to block per DUCK, tag accordingly and delete any articles. Regards, Giant Snowman 16:27, 28 August 2012 (UTC)