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Contacting me

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You are allowed to use talk pages if you use them appropriately. If you post anything about Brighton/city status, you will be blocked immediately per WP:DROPTHESTICK. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:27, 23 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

I prefer to communicate via talk pages. Please only email me if there is a good reason not to conduct a conversation on a talk page. I do not respond to emails regarding link deletions and other issues that should be discussed on your userpage or the article talk page.

Why did you remove my external links?

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If you've come here because you want to know why I removed some external links you've added, please read Wikipedia's policies on spam, Wikipedia external link guidelines and conflict-of-interest first. Because of Wikipedia's popularity, it has become a target for folks looking to promote their sites, which is against Wikipedia policies. Wikipedia is not a free advertising platform.

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Notability references

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Potential repeated ban evasion

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Hi Jamie, I was just looking into some strange IP activity and noticed you previously issued bans on the IPs in question, so I was hoping you might be able to help. Today a collection of IPs have attempted to resurrect a speculative draft Draft:GPT-5 by making a couple minor edits and submitting to AfC, despite previous consensus and clear notices indicating the article shouldn't be moved to mainspace until GPT-5 actually exists. The IPs in question are: Contributions/62.74.32.95, Contributions/62.74.58.35, Contributions/62.74.32.77, Contributions/62.74.56.192, and Contributions/62.74.58.183. This looks clearly to me like sock-puppeting or ban evasion. Could you please take a look? I was also wondering if there was a way to withdraw the AfC submission, since it plainly will fail, but I'm having trouble finding a way to do that, so if you know how I would appreciate a pointer. Cheers! StereoFolic (talk) 19:51, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Upgraded that partial block to a full block, quite possibly the same person. I reverted the AFC submission tags; I think that should be sufficient? OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:40, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! StereoFolic (talk) 00:16, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Looks like they're at it again, this time with Special:Contributions/62.74.14.25. StereoFolic (talk) 15:28, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks; I dropped several more rangeblocks and sprinkled some salt. Let me know if you see any related disruption from Greek ranges. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:24, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Bleggen

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I assume you are aware Bleggen (talk · contribs) looks like a sock of Jacobkennedy (talk · contribs). 2600:1700:1111:5940:FCA7:2D25:D4E5:C28F (talk) 19:12, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I am not but you are WP:griefing me now because I disagreed with an edit of yours. You also only did a few edits of which one is a summary starting with the words "We have been over this many time" in the edit summary of your first edit, implying that you are an alt. Please let's just avoid each other and not bicker with each other. ThanksBleggen (talk) 19:28, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
You don't get to strike out other's comments on my talk page. OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:37, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, User:2600:1700:1111:5940:FCA7:2D25:D4E5:C28F, another sock back in the drawer. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:24, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
I appreciate people who fight the good fight, like yourself. A frustrating and often thankless job, so Thank You! 2600:1700:1111:5940:FCA7:2D25:D4E5:C28F (talk) 01:00, 4 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

A kitten for a admin :)

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yolo i hope you are having a good day (hope this makes it better lol), btw so much messages!, anyway have a great day and enjoy a picture of this adorable kitten!

ModdiWX (message me!) 14:39, 7 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:51, 7 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

User 23.245.44.64

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He has vandalized multiple articles including Mickey’s Mouse Trap (horror film), Kung Fu Panda, and more without citing a single source. He said March 22 for Mouse yet I searched everywhere and nothing. A couple of other users seemingly joined on this too. Can we ban him from editing? 98.144.64.54 (talk) 06:24, 8 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Vyond

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It seems they are at it again on Vyond-related videos regarding child discipline. Since I already reverted once, and NatGertler appears to be understandably busy on other parts of Wikipedia, I wonder if you can review the second attempt and help me make it clear to the editor that such content is not notable? Sometimes I feel that the whole article may not be notable at all. Best, --Minoa (talk) 12:23, 10 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you!

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Thank you for the IP blocks on the Todd Helton page. Much appreciated! Regards, Bringingthewood (talk) 22:25, 11 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

About block

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Hello, what was the reasoning to block Special:Contributions/204.111.207.134 with 1 month instead of the more typical 31 hours/a week? —Matrix(!) (a good person!)[Citation not needed at all; thank you very much] 18:18, 14 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

It's that IPs third block for vandalism; many admins such as myself will impose progressively longer blocks on IPs that disrupt frequently. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:20, 14 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Invitation to participate in Wikipedia study

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Hello, I have been contacting editors with experience in specific areas of editing to participate in a survey study. In order to limit access without forcing editors to disclose their identity in the survey form itself, I have been contacting them via email, which you have disabled for your account. If you would like to participate, please send me an email through Wikipedia and I will follow up with additional details and a link to the survey. Jonathan Engel (researcher) (talk) 13:08, 18 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Australian childish vandal

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Per Special:Contributions/Lets play a gsle today, I think this is another LTA that's worth adding (with said regex) to one of your private misc LTA filters. Habits are on this page on Meta. Codename Noreste 🤔 talk 05:12, 20 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

I've begun to experiment with some filters; no hits yet. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:15, 21 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reversion of French bulldog edits

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A remark that you made in the reversion of my capitalization edits in titles is incorrect. I recommend you read the Wikipeda Manual of Style section on it.

There you will find that citations should, in fact not follow capitalization that would be incorrect in Wikepedia articles. And that Wikipedia citations are under no obligation what-so-ever to match the capitalization in the cited original. To the contrary: Capitalization in all Wikipedia (English language) article citations should be "corrected" to follow Wikipedia standards, despite not being identical to the capitalization in the cited source. A classic example of this is excess capitalization in titles of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Only the title of the journal itself, or the newspaper, or magazine, or conference proceedings, is allowed to have full capitalization.

You might find it a helpful clue, that the full-capital titles are usually the fields that are automatically italicized by the Wikipedia "cite" template.

However, there are some cases for foreign language title capitalization that I'm uncertain of: For example all German language sentences have all nouns (whether personal or general) capitalized; it's just a language standard (e.g. "a man from Munich" is ein Mensch von Munchen, not ein mensch von Munchen) so I presume that the normal sentence capitalization is carried over into cited titles (but not into their translation, of course). But to the contrary, I notice that a lot of citations for French and Italian language book titles (neither of which I have any language training in) seem to only start with upper case, and then go lower case for the rest of the title. I'm not sure how to proceed; in edits I've made so far, I've just retained the lower-case in a book title, and applied capitalization only to the translated title. However I might be being deceived by some style used by the citing editor that isn't standard for French or Italian the language, or which might not be standard for the Wikipedia for those languages.

But other than that, I really would suggest that you read up in the W:MOS. After that, you might want to revert your reversion, unless you find other intolerable errors.
107.122.85.58 (talk) 21:12, 21 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

You may find it helpful provide links to the MOS policies you allude to. Where in MOS:TITLECAPS, MOS:ALLCAPS, or WP:CITESTYLE does it say that we should "correct" article titles to follow "Wikipedia standards"? The only prescription I see is that we should convert all caps to title case (quoting from MOS:ALLCAPS: Avoid writing with all caps (all capital letters), including small caps (all caps at a reduced size), when they have only a stylistic function. Reduce them to title case, sentence case, or normal case, as appropriate.) Furthermore, please note the discussion at Talk:French_Bulldog regarding capitalization. While the MLA does support the notion that "french bulldog" should not be capitalized, there does seem to be an existing convention in Wikipedia to capitalize dog breed names (e.g., Labrador Retriever; to systematically change all of those titles would require a policy or a consensus, neither of which I'm aware of. OhNoitsJamie Talk 21:48, 21 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Dholuo language guide

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HI Jamie, I had made the original Dholuo language guide J"https://www.freewebs.com/themulders/luoguide.htm" back in 2006 or so. This was on the wikipedia Dholuo site for ages (I didn't put it there, someone else must have seen it was very long/comprehensive and added it). I just noted that the freewebs is defunct and so I updated the link to a duplicate site that I had created years ago as a back-up - http://dholuo.weebly.com/ - but you removed this. I'm not sure why. I don't think there is a better more comprehensive language source out there. I have no interest in the website itself; you are welcome to copy the content and make your own. I just think that the information is helpful to have for the world so please consider re-adding that link in the wikipedia references for this. Helperlady2 (talk) 23:17, 21 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Weebly sites are not appropriate per WP:EL. Please do not add it again. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:18, 21 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

ok I won't - I have never edited any wiki page ever before and this was my first try to try to help; sorry i didn't know that rule. but if you care about people having access to this dholuo source please consider copying the content from that site and making a new site and adding that new link.

I would think that anyone who knows how to use Wikipedia also knows how to use Google to find more info on Dholuo. Wikipedia is not a guide. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:26, 21 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sorry

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Hello its me Joey. I think we got off on the wrong foot. Firstly Im sorry for not listening to your warning originally from August. After your warning I stopped working on the Wikipedia page, but resumed in February and im sorry, I understand that the salted article rule is in place to prevent an article that has been previously deleted several times for not meeting notability to not be recreated. I should have listened to you.

Also sorry for the mess in the deletion discussion. I just was new at it and I kinda seemed a bit new to it, also you were right about the sources. I couldn't find many on him, their were only 2 kinds of sources, 1: Controversy about Jeffy which the Sun reported on and Good Morning America, but it is rather criticising the show rather than giving an indepth source and infromation and 2: The Tom Brady auction, well good sources on Logan that mention him, they only cover the winning really and not his channel career, just because Logan won an auction doesnt equal Wikipedia notability, I understand that indepth sources from third parties are what equals notability because first party sources could be biased in favor of that person. I understand that my arguements werent good arguments in favor of keeping said article.

I promise to listen to administrators warnings and only create articles using reliable third party sources.

PS: I like the serious business user box thing on your user page with that picture of Gary Busey, he is a good actor. Anyway OhnoitsJamie, I promise I wont recreate that page again, and I promise I will follow all adminstrator rules and take ever warning very seriously. Joey (talk) 01:19, 22 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Everyone makes mistakes, and I'm happy to hear that you've learned from yours and are ready to move on. Feel free to ask me questions if anything comes up that you're not sure about. Additionally, the Wikipedia:Village pump has links to a number of great resources including the WP:TEAHOUSE, and WP:RSP is a great place to check to see if a source meets our reliable sources criteria. Cheers, OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:42, 22 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you Joey (talk) 17:13, 22 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

LTA active on another IP after your block

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Take a look at their edits. Persistent disruptive editing from multiple IPs - WP:BIO concerns, adding unsourced ages of living people to articles, persistent disruptive editing/vandalism focussed on Joseph Yablonski, Longtail Aviation Flight 5504, Ronald Ryan, MK Airlines Flight 1602, etc. Shearonink (talk) 14:25, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello it's me again...I don't know what this disruptive editor's issue is and I don't care but please can something be done? This drip-drip-drip of persistent vandalism raids on articles is annoying & wearing & takes other editors away from actually creating & editing around here. Either a range-block for this IP or protect/semi-protect all their usual targets - Joseph Yablonski, Henry Lee Lucas, W.A. Boyle, various spree/serial killers, various violent events, etc., a range-block to include IP ranges around 197.157.3--(with Vodafone Egypt). In my opinion these IPs are the blocked editor/LTA https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User:Psydodo, otherwise known as https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Asura_Indra/Archive. Shearonink (talk) 13:49, 24 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
I've blocked another proxy range, but when persistent LTAs are employing proxies, there's no simple all-encompassing solution other than to block IPs/ranges as they crop up. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:59, 24 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wilson Medical Center

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Last month you gave a user a final warning "Third block for WP:SYNTH". Sadly, right after the one-month block ended he edited Wilson Medical Center (North Carolina). The citation he provided does not support the statement added, once again engaging in WP:SYNTH.

"Wilson Medical Center is owned by Apollo Global Managemen"LifePoint acquired by Apollo for $5.6B". Healthcare Dive. Retrieved 2024-03-16.

2a02:c7c::/32's block at AN

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Hi Ohnoitsjamie, I found 2a02:c7c::/32's block settings interesting enough to start a discussion about it; it's at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard § 2a02:c7c::/32 and your input would be welcome. I'm notifying everyone whose name appears in the block log as this is practically a review of a series of admin actions yours was a part of. I hope that, due to the amount of administrators who built the block to the current state, discussing this in a central location directly rather than asking everyone for input on their own talk page is okay. And perhaps there was a past discussion and this is completely unnecessary silliness of me; I apologize in advance if that's the case. Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:11, 25 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Massage in so-called "Turkish baths" and in the Hammam

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While I'm not prepared to go to the stake over your revert, I am interested to know your thinking. There is increasing unhappiness in the Islamic world about the use of the phrase "Turkish baths" as it implies that this originated in Turkey whereas it is an intrinsic part of Islamic culture worldwide, including Turkey, of course. Furthermore, today's use of "Turkish baths" in The West can include anything from Russian steam baths to gay saunas and day spas. This is one of the reasons why a couple of years ago it was decided to split the article on Turkish baths into two: 1. "Hammam" (about which this part of the massage article is certainly true); and 2. "Victorian Turkish baths", the hot dry air bath (about which the description in this paragraph was only true in a very few establishments, for a very short time, and is certainly not true today). I was merely bringing a specific phrase into synchronisation with current wiki practice. If you've searched wiki recently for "Turkish baths" you will probablyhave found a redirect to "Hammam". However, perhaps I should have taken even this small change to a talk page first. I did not do so since similar changes, with updating the wikilinks accordingly, has raised few objections in other articles. Best wishes, Ishpoloni (talk) 16:06, 26 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

It was a mistake and I reverted myself immediately. I'm not sure what else you want me to say. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:49, 26 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Nothing! I was actually apologising to you! Best wishes Ishpoloni (talk) 18:44, 26 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Conflict-of-interest/Refspam

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Hello. In February 2021 you warned an editor twice (1, 2) about COI/Refspam. In the second warning you called it the "last warning". It seems they haven't stopped, as they have continued adding their refspam. Would you be able to take a look at this?

Kimen8 (talk) 14:41, 28 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

CaseOh

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Hello! I noticed you added protection to this article awhile back. FYI, this [1] just happened, I asked oversight to take a look. @Stwalkerster, @Liz, FYI-ping to you too. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:40, 30 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi

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Can you provide real sources please Emirati08 (talk) 18:07, 2 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

You are very close to being blocked indefinitely. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:08, 2 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Hello dear Jamie, I worked with a freelancer to help to publish our VC&MD and CEO pages on wikipedia, and for some reason they were deleted, can you please help in fixing the issue and having the pages back? Or do I need to hire another free lancer to publish new pages?

Marco Arcelli - Wikipedia Raad Al-Saady - Wikipedia

Thank you for your support, Yahya Yahya.Hamidaddin (talk) 08:24, 4 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please take the time to read the warnings on your talk page regarding promotional edits, copyright violations and undeclared conflict-of-interest. OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:07, 4 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Meless13

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Based on CU data, Meless13 appears to be operating from a different location than the LTA. I base this on the assumption that 4.39.232.210 and 2600:8800:4182:4c00:b5e2:27ca:88b5:c24d are examples of that LTA, both of which geolocate to warm areas of the U.S. I'm not permitted to say much about Meless13 but can say they are not on the same continent and aren't using a proxy (based on spur.us and on my own port scan). --Yamla (talk) 17:32, 13 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, I will unblock. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:49, 13 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! --Yamla (talk) 11:12, 14 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Filter 1094

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Hi Jamie, while reading this I came across this filter hit and while the edit is unconstructive, I don't think it's the filters target. Thoughts? Nobody (talk) 12:37, 15 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Yes, that is a false positive; let me see if I can tune it a bit. There have been so many WP:SPA accounts disrupting that article (some of them likely socks that the filter targets), probably should just semi or EC protect that page for a long time. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:03, 15 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Vandalism

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Hi! Is it possible you could have a look at the recent vandalism to Josh Aloiai? Doctorhawkes (talk) 10:59, 17 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

I made some adjustments to a few IP range mitigations. OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:20, 17 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Hi, do you think 109.157.219.87 is the same person as some a few of the IP addresses you've blocked earlier on this year? Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 21:31, 18 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Regarding article 'Delhi University Students Union', redaction and page protection.

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Jamie

This is in regard to the article Delhi University Students Union. On [April 18] I made a request for page protection, the action taken on that was the blocking of the User by You. Thanks for that. Further, I made certain changes to the article on April 19, that changes were redacted by you. The imitation of same on my [talk page] has been replied to you, action awaited from your behalf. Pl guide me thru further course of action for both, undoing the redaction(s) and, page protection as the vandalism of the same content is still on.

Thank You. iAshwinDeshmukh Deshmukh.3851 talk 09:08, 20 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sockpuppet investigation

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Hi Jamie, Recently you blocked this account [[2]] for sock-puppetry; could you compare the IP address of that account to the IP user commenting in [[3]]. I'm finding what's on going on a bit weird and out-of-place. CeltBrowne (talk) 23:39, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

They both geolocate to the same area, but that's about all that can be discerned from those IPs. I don't have WP:CHECKUSER so I'm not privy to additional anon editing details. OhNoitsJamie Talk 00:40, 24 April 2024 (UTC)Reply


Editor you've dealt with before now leaving nonsensical edit summaries

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Back in October 2021, you stepped into a situation where User:Lynchenberg was, at first, making unfounded allegations against the band Mr. Bungle and Mike Patton within their articles, and ultimately making aspersions against me for not allowing their attacks against either.[4] Soon after, Lynchenberg stepped away from editing for the most part. When they returned in December 2023, they making minor disruptive edits to articles that they obviously saw I was active in.[5][6] When warned, their response was to request I delete my account.[7] In the meantime, and ever since, they've decided to leave nonsensical edit summaries to most articles that they edit.[8][9][10][11][12] Another editor requested an explanation for the most recent edit summary[13] and their response was more of the same nonsense.[14] At this point, it really seems obvious that Lynchenberg is WP:NOTHERE. Would you mind looking into this? NJZombie (talk) 03:04, 27 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

EFFPR

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Hi Jamie, as you may know, there's an Indian IP that keeps making reports without triggering any filters. Just in the last weeks there were at least four (IP 1, IP 2, IP 3, IP 4). I'm wondering if theres a better way to deal with this than just revert and ignore. Nobody (talk) 06:46, 29 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

(talk page watcher) Maybe they should add it to 1161 or 1242? Codename Noreste 🤔 La Suma 07:01, 29 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
I was thinking a range p-block might work, but not sure if theres a good range for that. Nobody (talk) 07:05, 29 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
I've partially blocked 2409:4043:4C00:0:0:0:0:0/40 from EFFP for a month. It's likely an LTA handled by 1242 whom I've thwarted from disrupting articles about political leaders. OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:29, 29 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks Jamie. BTW, do you think it would be possible to revive Filter 707 to stop edits like this? It's happened a few times and usually isn't picked up by 1151. (Feel free to Mail if there's some private specific concern.) Nobody (talk) 06:04, 30 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

About your block of JulbuEv

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Quack, quack.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 15:12, 29 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

A beer for you!

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Seems like you need a beer •Cyberwolf•talk? 14:55, 30 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Cliff Cash protection

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Hi, would you mind extending the move-protection alongside the edit-protection? There have been several messes made with pagemoves by this user and I don't see the page needing to go anywhere anyways. Thanks! Tollens (talk) 08:05, 1 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Done OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:14, 1 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Old Collegians Rugby Club

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Why did you revert all my changes to this article? You removed the cn template from the mostly unsourced history section and restored the controversy section with many unsourced statements and an unencyclopedic tone that I had spent time remedying using the one reliable source that had been present there that actually mentioned the article subject. The citations that I removed were only tangentially related and didn't mention the article subject by name at all. If you are reverting per WP:QUO, that's fine, but should probably indicate as such in your edit summary and should probably contribute to the discussion that I started on the article talk page.

The problem with this article is the various sock/meat puppets that have been trying to remove the controversy section entirely. Uhai (talk) 12:43, 2 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

The material I removed restored was sourced to this Guardian article. You are free to restore the cn template and adjust wording if you feel that it's unencyclopedic. OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:45, 2 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
You didn't remove this material, you added it back, and some of it is not adequately supported by said source and lacks sufficient inline citations. There's also concerns regarding relevance and WP:UNDUE (e.g. the whole thing about climbing the rafters and assessment scores). This is exactly why I started the talk page discussion: to discuss these things and modify the section as necessary. It honestly is WP:TNT material. Uhai (talk) 13:07, 2 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Meant to say "restored." OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:09, 2 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

reliable site

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Is an obituary a reliable website? Gymrat16 (talk) 02:26, 3 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

See WP:OBITUARIES NJZombie (talk) 03:46, 3 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Syntax error

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Hello OhnoitsJamie, I've been cleaning up Wikitable syntax errors for the last few months, and have gotten it down to the last one hundred and some pages. Ran across your User:Ohnoitsjamie/Box page today, which has some missing table closing tags and a few other WP:LINT errors.

As the page is Full protected and I have Extended Confirmed access, would you be willing to update the page to this? Just copy and replace the full page, it will add the missing table closing tags, and update the obsolete font and center tags to HTML5 compliant equivalents.

Thanks! Zinnober9 (talk) 15:07, 5 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

About your block of Grymbler

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Hello @Ohnoitsjamie,

I'm a user from Germany who mainly edits in the German Wikipedia. I am writing to you because there is a user that you have indefinitely blocked and who asked for help in the German Wikipedia (link). After the discussion was archived, he asked me for help again on my private discussion page. Of course, none of us can help him, since we don't know the case (and most of us aren't otherwise involved in English Wikipedia). But the way he asked us for help (instead of making an attempt with a new account) didn't give the impression that this was a case of block evasion. He seems a bit desperate and has no idea whose sock puppet he is supposed to be. The fact that he was a bit rude to you and used very undiplomatic language probably didn't make it any better.

Can you perhaps explain whose sock puppet he is supposed to be, where the suspicion comes from and whether it might be possible to unblock him? I'm only asking on his behalf because he asked for help. I have no idea if he's just taking advantage of my good faith. Bildungskind (talk) 16:11, 6 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

That user was engaging in WP:DUCK block evasion of an LTA that primarily edits from a number of IP ranges; they made nearly identical edits that a user from one of those known ranges had recently attempted to make. That's all I can tell you. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:18, 6 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Oh, I didn't know about the IP range. In the German Wikipedia it is allowed to say which accounts are linked as long as you don't mention the exact IP range. But I don't know if the policies are different here. Anyway, thank you for your answer and have a nice day. --Bildungskind (talk) 16:34, 6 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Question about 2409:40d0::/35 p-block

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Hi OhnoitsJamie. I've noticed in the past few days there's been a bit of deletion related activity which seems to be from a range you've p-blocked. I'm not to familiar with sock stuff unfortunately, but I was wondering it that range was known to be something specific and if there's anything else we'd be able to do (it doesn't seem like there's enough to get anywhere at SPI? But again, I'm not really familiar). Alpha3031 (tc) 05:42, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

That's a huge dynamic range in India that is likely to cover a wide mix of anon editors. The partial block was to minimize disruption to an article from a small group of socks. I try to avoid fully blocking large ranges, but IMO if 75% or more of the edits are non-constructive it's worth considering a full block. (For precedent, we routinely block large mobile ranges in the US). OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:43, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Editor with civility issue

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Would you mind looking into some of the edit summaries of User:GalaxyFighter55? They just left an uncivil comment toward me in response to an edit I made. This led me to see that they seem to have been leaving similar uncivil edit summaries in their recent history.[15][16][17]. Some of their talk page messages to users are also a bit much.[18][19] User:Centcom08 brought their edit summary behavior up to them back in January,[20] but it seems to continue to some degree. NJZombie (talk) 02:45, 12 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

@NJZombie: You can, but it's not necessary to snoop around as I’ve believed I have conducted myself properly since then. If you take offense to the comment even though I myself didn’t think it was much of a violation of NPA until you've taken note of it here, then sorry. Name calling was not my intention towards you. And FYI most of the links you’ve brought up since then are not really violations of uncivilly, but I will admit when I deserve to be called out for NPA.--GalaxyFighter55 (talk) 03:56, 12 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
I disagree, and that's why I've pointed those links out. NJZombie (talk) 04:48, 12 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Agree to disagree. Most are your perceptions of uncivil claims here are weak at best and are presented without much context behind them beyond what you linked at face value. It doesn’t matter anyways since I’ve already received an NPA warning from this user, so let's move on.--GalaxyFighter55 (talk) 04:58, 12 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

TPA may need to be revoked

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See Special:Diff/1223573078 - it seems they didn't want to peddle their keto elsewhere and decided their talk page 7 months after a block was the right place to do it. Figured I'd let you know if you found it appropriate to remove TPA. Thanks! jellyfish  01:17, 13 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

May you unsalt BiglyBT?

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We seem to have a rough consensus at Talk:Vuze#May 2024 to include a section containing BiglyBT now, so a redirect created on BiglyBT would be helpful.

I may have started Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects#Redirect request: BiglyBT before realizing I could just contact an administrator... Thanks in advance! Aaron Liu (talk) 20:41, 14 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

I don't see a solid consensus there. OhNoitsJamie Talk 20:51, 14 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

45.88.200.238

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45.88.200.238 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

This IP is editing disruptively again after your previous block. Not sure who they are block evading as, but you may want to look at/revert their edits again. Thanks. 73.67.145.30 (talk) 17:06, 17 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, blocked again! OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:20, 17 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Springfield, Ohio

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You PC protected this article 11 years ago over an edit war that appears to have been long over. Do you think the protection is still necessary? Lynch44 (talk) 01:41, 19 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

These days I rarely protect anything for a time period of indefinite, and that certainly seems unnecessary for this particular article. Unprotected, thanks for catching that. OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:38, 19 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Regarding the user you warned

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Hi. Just letting you know that I have reported the user you warned, Kedar.pawarr (talk · contribs) to the Commons admins for repeated copyright violations. TornadoLGS (talk) 17:30, 20 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

They may have finally gotten the hint, but any further copyvios will result in a block here. Thanks! OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:43, 20 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
...or not. Blocked indefinitely. OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:23, 21 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

About my article deletion

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Please tell me why set my work for soeedy deletion? When it had all citations and references from a reliable source. Just send me a copy of my work please, that work was not saved. Miss Rosewood (talk) 16:53, 22 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please read WP:BIO and WP:RS. The references you added clearly do not meet reliable sources criteria. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:58, 22 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Animal Shelter

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Hello OhNoitsJamie. I am a patrollers in the german wikipedia: https://de.wiki.x.io/wiki/Benutzer:Davidgf86

You deleted my edit of the statics animal shelters of england. This is my second time, where i edit in the englisch wiki. Why you delete my edits? And why spam on animal shelter?


Davidgf86 (talk) 23:46, 26 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

For the reason I already put on your talk page. Your edits here (and on de Wiki) suggest a pattern of spamming links, which we don't permit here. If you continue to spam links here, you will be blocked from editing. OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:18, 27 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Source Assessment Page for Chandler

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Given the recent discussions on the 2024 Libertarian National Convention talk page, I'm wondering if it might be worth creating and whitelisting a Source Assessment page for Chandler. It would be something that could be easily referenced in the future to show why Chandler isn't considered notable. I'm not gonna create one until I run it by you since I don't want to trip the filter and I don't want to create said page if it goes against policy, but it seems to be exactly what Source Assessment pages are meant for.

Also, I want to apologize if I took over the discussion on that talk page, and if I took time away from your day by doing so. I understand that you get a lot of bad faith contributors wanting to reference Chandler on various pages, and I understand that it's probably just frustrating at this point. I'm sorry if I came off as one of those people, because I really try not to be. Thanks for your patience. Cerrathegreat (talk) 11:07, 29 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Per this, there are many better ways that you could be spending your time in Wikipedia. Focusing on Chandler will probably not end well. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:01, 29 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Biographical information of Rauf Mohammed

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Hi OhNoitsJamie,

I recently undid your reversion of an edit on Rahaf Mohammed and you re-reverted it. While the English language coverage is limited, it got considerable coverage in the Arabic language, and I listed five additional sources on the Talk page and tagged you there also.

I noticed that one of the sources was RT, so I'm not sure if there might be some political slant to this. However, all of the articles mention verifiable public statements made on social media by both the subject and her husband, and apparently the Canadian police were also involved in the dispute. Chagropango (talk) 18:30, 31 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

You'll find RT listed here; that is most definitely not a reliable source for WP:BLP. The others are also questionable; for WP:BLP, we always err on the side of caution. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:53, 31 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Citation bot triggering your misc LTA filter

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1094 (hist · log)

See Citation bot's filter log, where it triggered your misc LTA filter several times on Political impact of Taylor Swift. Is there any way to fix this or to possibly exclude bots? Codename Noreste 🤔 La Suma 00:24, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Strange, that filter should exclude bots. I haven't been able to figure it out yet. OhNoitsJamie Talk 01:35, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
This hit and this one too. It's not happening that often, but since it can affect even sysops it's not good. Nobody (talk) 09:36, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
That's a different one, and I'm not concerned about that. We don't need to have that individual's name in Wikipedia. OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:39, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I agree with that. But I wonder if the reason it got hit is the same problem. Nobody (talk) 11:43, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Right now I'm trying to determine if I have some of the parens nesting wrong. OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:49, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I tried debugging it earlier with adding/removing parentheses but I always ended with same result, so I tried changing the !contains_any but I haven't finished that attempt yet. Nobody (talk) 11:56, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I think I figured it out and fixed it; I think it had something to do with how irlike was normalizing IP addresses, or it could've been nesting, but the "test against past hits" looks good now. (The Kiwi Farms trigger was removed from this filter because it's covered by other filters). OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:58, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hmm removing the IPs, but leaving the irlike doesn't work so I think nesting was the issue. Nobody (talk) 12:17, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

"Not done"

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Hey there, I noticed at Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Reports that you are typing "{{rfpp|nd}}" while replying to reports. Do you mean "{{rfpp|no}}"? It's because these comments appear empty. ObserveOwl (chit-chatmy doings) 16:45, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I fixed 'em. Nobody (talk) 17:18, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! I guess I was a bit too worried that I'd violate WP:TPO if I did it. Just wanted to make sure. ObserveOwl (chit-chatmy doings) 17:40, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for fixing those; I must've been thinking of the "not done" template we use in the spam blacklist page. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:19, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

John Singer Sargent

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In "It was based on the Sargent and fashion exhibits at those two museums in 2023 and 2024, linked to below in "External links", you deleted the crossed-out phrase as "unnecessary." Perhaps it is not strictly necessary (what is?), but it is certainly helpful to readers. That is because the article on Sargent has no section on exhibits, so a reader who wants information on the two exhibits would find them only in "External links" but would not necessarily think to look for them under "External links." Actually, I can see a reason to delete the crossed-out phrase, which is that, if someone edited "External links" to delete the two exhibits, then the crossed-out phrase would also have to be deleted but might not be noticed by the editor. But it seems highly unlikely that any editor would delete the two exhibits from "External links," and I think that the helpfulness of the crossed-out phrase easily outweighs the likelihood of that occurrence. I will not revert your reversion, but I'd appreciate it if you would, or at least elaborate, in light of what I've just written, on why you still think the crossed-out phrase is unnecessary. My philosophy is that too much information is better than too little, unless, of course, the information is irrelevant or unnecessarily lengthy. Maurice Magnus (talk) 22:13, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

We don't annotate/comment on navigation in a Wikipedia article beyond standardized conventions. As you've already noted, making those sorts of comments in an article becomes especially problematic if the reference subject is modified or deleted. OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:17, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

OhNoitsJamie Talk (I pasted the foregoing because I was not permitted to click "Reply" to your comment.) I'm glad that I was able to provide you with a better reason for your edit than the one you offered ("unnecessary") :-) Maurice Magnus (talk) 22:43, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, glad that worked out. OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:50, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Block evasion by 95.147.145.134

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I noticed that the reason given for 95.147.145.134's block was "block evasion". I cannot find the name of the sock master from the IP's talk page or logs, but just a heads up, the long-dormant account Dqwyy made an edit to one of the articles the IP was blocked for shortly after the start of the 3-month block on the IP, and Dqwyy has the same set of very specific topic areas (e.g. Asian pornography) and only makes mobile web edits. Seems like a duck to me. Yue🌙 20:10, 9 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I blocked that IP for making similar edits to an LTA that I've seen use a variety of IP addresses; I'm not aware of a master account, though perhaps someone else is. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:17, 10 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Bubblemario is back

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I have a strong feeling that 91.75.6.80 is bubblemario based on his edits, and seeing his history of editing certain legal pages in the UAE. Please look into if he's another sock169.255.56.205 (talk) 07:47, 11 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Courtesy link: Special:Contributions/91.75.6.80 LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 07:58, 11 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I have a strong feeling that two IPs are blocked and an article is protected for awhile. OhNoitsJamie Talk 10:16, 11 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

46.184.90.237 and 2409:4088:818A:8E0F:4B16:EA41:91A9:55B

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Hi, I was just looking into some strange IPs activity on List_of_2_Days_&_1_Night_episodes page and noticed you previously issued a ban on the IPs in question, so I was hoping you might be able to help. Today IPs try making a couple of minor edits. They wanted to change the official rating from 6.1% to 9.2%. They want to add the wrong information. The IPs in question are: 46.184.90.237, 2409:4088:818A:8E0F:4B16:EA41:91A9:55B. Offical rating agency page - https://www.nielsenkorea.co.kr/tv_terrestrial_day.asp?menu=Tit_1&sub_menu=1_1&area=00 Raynen (talk) 04:44, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I partially blocked a large IP range for spamming lawyer sites; I'm sure this is unrelated. For situations with editors making unsourced changes, please give them "unsourced edit" warnings (e.g. {{subst:uw-unsor1}} {{subst:uw-unsor2}}, etc) and report to WP:AIV if they keep it up. I've given the IPs an initial warning. OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:31, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you for your tireless contribution to Wikipedia and for not allowing disruptive contributions Madeforall1 (talk) 15:21, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Another TVFT range?

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41.228.0.0/16 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Possibly the case list needs expansion.41.62.55.98 (talk) 11:52, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Done, thanks. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:22, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I attempted to revert their edits but were disallowed. Please do something.102.159.199.12 (talk) 21:49, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
You'll need to be more specific about which edits you are talking about. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:58, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
They are disallowed by an WP:EDITFILTER, both the above IP address and this address I am currently on.102.158.132.236 (talk) 08:23, 13 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

They now seem to be editing on a wider range (i.e. /16), mainly targeting the page free TV (MENA). Please keep track on their contributions.197.26.147.50 (talk) 13:21, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

TV-related edits are going to be filtered on those ranges because of the LTA. Constructive users on those Tunisian ranges who wish to edit TV-related articles can create an account. OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:54, 13 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Dinner Party.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 11:14, 16 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reverting Edits

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Hi @Ohnoitsjamie: I have noticed you reverted a few edits, such as removing WP projects at Talk:Karni Sena or Talk:Pravin Togadia. I have added related WP projects to these articles. WP Discrmination and WP Crime Projects are added because in the main article, the organisation or an individual entity is involved in such heinous activity and it is properly described in the main body of the article page, moreover they're properly sourced. You can read the article properly before reverting my edits. For example you removed WP projects from Talk:Sudarshan News. Please read the main body of the article its clearly mentioned the news channel is involved anti-Islamic or discriminatory rhetoric. That's why I added. Thanks 2409:40E0:54:2813:A013:8080:43F2:1B54 (talk) 05:54, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

We don't add categories like "discrimination" based on single/minor incidents. Please stop trying to canvas categories like that. OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:05, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hi OhNoitsJamie - I actually reinstated the IP's edit at Talk:Karni Sena - the version you reverted back to had a completely messed up template on top, and (more concerningly) it had what appeared to be a real name and a phone number on one of the more recent comments. The problematic revisions have been suppressed now - would you mind reviewing and removing any wikiproject stuff that you don't think is appropriate? Cheers Girth Summit (blether) 14:12, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
OK, understood, I was wondering about the suppressed edits. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:05, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

"New Changes" from North Macedonia

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(So far)

An anonymous user who leaves the said edit summary while commiting edits on software- and company-related articles. Albeit narrower ranges are currently blocked, they seem to be editing at a wider range. most recent activity.102.158.130.25 (talk) 17:47, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

This doesn't look familiar, you're going to have to give me some more context as to why you're reporting this directly to me instead of WP:AIV or WP:ANI. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:43, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Suggestion to change the messages used on your private filters and some other suggestions

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On 1094 , 1202 , 1161 , and 1164 , they all use the standard disallow message, which can be bitey or discouraging to new users and/or non-vandal targets; I would suggest changing to MediaWiki:Abusefilter-disallowed-LTA since the latter message is less bitey.

Also, on 1164 and 1242, the tag is not required since the edits are going to be prevented anyway. Just the disallow action (and nothing else) works fine. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 17:35, 15 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, those are good suggestions and I've implmemented those changes. (I think I'd initially misunderstood the purpose of "tag" and thought it had to do with User:DatBot reporting). Cheers, OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:36, 15 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Possible block evasion

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Hi OhNoitsJamie. Could you please take a look at the recent activity here for possible action and a tweak? I think it may be this editor. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 22:48, 20 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Unrelated to that, {{User:Ohnoitsjamie/Talktemp}} doesn't seem to work well with the new dark mode. Much of the page isn't readable in dark mode. You might consider using the new background color variables instead of hard-coding specific colors. Regards. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 23:51, 20 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hi Daniel; I agree with you, but I got some pushback from here, so I'm just letting the edit filters do their work for now. Personally I found all of their RFPP change requests to be mostly pointless and disruptive. Thanks for the note about my talk template; I'll look into that. OhNoitsJamie Talk 03:41, 21 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. From what I've seen, their RfPP requests are generally busywork rather than helpful so I went ahead and tweaked. I'm less familiar with their history elsewhere so I don't have a strong opinion on blocking. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 06:01, 21 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

102.157.154.174 (talk · contribs), this might be an apparent evasion by either this user or this user. Any action?102.156.26.143 (talk) 05:18, 8 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Disruptive editing

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Hi, I just wanted to make you aware that User:Ahmad Shazlan immediately returned to disruptive editing at Klepon once your 31-hour block given on the 19th expired. GhostOfNoMeme 11:35, 21 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Question about special:redirect/logid/162490493

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Hello, I noticed that you blocked Special:Contributions/95.147.145.134 as LTA. Do you think simple:Special:Contributions/95.147.145.134 is the same user, and can you explain who this is? I look forward to hearing from you. MathXplore (talk) 12:08, 21 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Probably the same editor. I don't think there is an entry for them in the WP:LTA list, but I became aware of them using multiple accounts to edit-war stuff about North Korea into the Home Alone articles, and have an edit filter for that. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:38, 21 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Another whitespace vandal from India

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They are 2409:4085:E4F:5257:2C5C:F56:AEBB:94A9, and it might be worth adding the whole range(s) [such as 2409:4085:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 and 2409:4052:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 for example] to 1242 (hist · log), and for the whitespace code that they spam on articles, it's easy: get line 3 of 1215 (hist · log). You might wish to email me more details if it's too sensitive to discuss here, but it looks like you do not have email enabled. Thank you. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 21:19, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Done, thanks for the suggestion! (Tested it successfully against Juliet Macur). Regarding email, I thought I'd disabled it globally with a local exception for en.wiki, but maybe that didn't work? OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:53, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
About the email thing, on the local Special:Preferences page, where it says Allow other users to email me, check the button that says Set a local exception for this global preference below that and enable email access for it locally, and you should only have local email enabled that other users can email you for example, filter additions that may be too sensitive to discuss here. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 01:45, 24 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Another range detected, Jamie. 2409:40D4:1068:1EFD:CD81:6B58:17EB:70E1/32 to be exact, and they didn't trip the filter. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 07:05, 24 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Yet another range to add to 1242 in addition to the above, it's 2409:40D4:0:0:0:0:0:0/32. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 07:41, 31 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Müllerian agenesis

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Hi Jamie (or any tps), advice please. User:U feature is replacing a medical picture with 'artwork' which consists of a pair of knickers made of flowers, [[21]] which I think adds nothing to a medical article. I've reverted twice, if I revert again would this be a content dispute? Vandalism? I'm not sure where to go with it if they insist on posting their artwork? Many thanks. Knitsey (talk) 23:07, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Old picture violates "No sexual and shock content rules" from here. https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Medicine-related_articles#:~:text=Article%20titles%20use%20the%20scientific,info%20boxes%20and%20citation%20templates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by U feature (talkcontribs) 00:06, 24 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

No it doesn't. OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:28, 24 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Also it does reflect the essence on MRKH condition. Which Knitsey has no way of knowing. Flowers represent a missing uterus. Also there are no explicit rules that prohibit non technical pictures on medical conditions articles. The opposite is true. Unless you explicitly quote such rule. I would appreciate. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by U feature (talkcontribs) 00:08, 24 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Blocked. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:32, 24 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Hi! I was wondering if there was anything in my article, I could fix concerning Wind Zones of mobile homes to make it acceptable? It that was rejected in the external links. If not I understand, thanks! Have a great day! MobileHomeExpert (talk) 16:18, 24 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Yes; you can find a venue other than Wikipedia for promoting your article/website. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:19, 24 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Understood, Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by MobileHomeExpert (talkcontribs) 16:27, 24 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

WP:LTA/BBB

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Hi, could you restore the shortcut for the Blue Barette Bam page, since it was actually not made by a banned user. Thanks, Cyclonical (talk) 03:04, 26 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

(talk page stalker) They already restored that redirect. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 06:24, 29 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I put this before Jamie restored the redirect. Cyclonical (talk) 06:23, 2 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Disruption continue by IP user

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OhNoitsJamie This IP user was blocked by you for Sockpuppetry but same IP is busy in removing sources and sourced content from some tribe/community related pages. Please see their disruption here[22], [23], [24],[25] unsourced addition by same IP[26][27] [28][29][30][31]. 103.172.167.166 (talk) 19:01, 27 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

2409:40D0:0:0:0:0:0:0/35 is a very large IP range that I applied a partial-block to because of frequent disruption to a particular article. Partial blocks only allow for 10 targets, so it doesn't make sense to add additional blocks unless it's repeat disruption from that range. OhNoitsJamie Talk 01:44, 29 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

User:JagritiLuthra

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Hi Ohnoitsjamie. Would you mind taking a look at User talk:JagritiLuthra#Roohani Sisters and the account's recent edits to the article "Roohani Sisters". Based on the account's username and their uploading of File:Dr. Jagriti Luthra Prasnna.jpg, they might be the same "Dr. Jagriti Luthra Prasanna" listed as the founder of the group. If they're not, then the username would seem to violate WP:REALNAME. FWIW, I'm asking you about this because you previously posted on the account's user talk page back in May to warn the user about disruptive editing at the same article. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:08, 31 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

I've reverted the edits as promotional and unsourced and given them a final warning. OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:16, 31 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for taking a look. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:28, 31 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I had already added {{uw-coi}} to their user talk page, two posts above yours. I can remove mine if you want since it seems a bit of overkill to add the same template twice. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:30, 31 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Ooops, I missed that somehow; I removed mine. Thanks! OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:21, 31 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

WP:NOTHERE

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Hi, please have a look at this, after your warning. Seems like a case of WP:NOTHERE and WP:UNCIVIL. Most of their edits are disruptive [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] including the t/p comments are off the tangent [38]. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 17:27, 31 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Looks like they wouldn't stop [39]. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 19:10, 31 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Valid Reason

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I gave a valid reason in the edit, (Defamation). Saying an 11 year old who graduated college with an advanced degree is just due to "hard work" is patently nonsense, and is tantamount to defamation.~ 68.189.2.14 (talk) 12:06, 5 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

That's a direct quote from the subject, and as such is not "defamation." If you continue to remove it you will be blocked from editing. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:23, 5 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
That seems like it's giving WP:UNDUE to a tabloid, that's was not a primary source either. Regardless the edit now seems fair ~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.189.2.14 (talk) 00:26, 27 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
It became a direct quote later, but was originally not a direct quote the original statement was "His early achievements may have been more due to endless hard work than to inherent intellectual capabilities.[1]" from a secondary source (Defamation) and then it became, "De Mello told Morley Safer that his early achievements may have been more due to endless hard work than to inherent intellectual capabilities." That's a huge difference, best regards 68.189.2.14 (talk) 00:31, 27 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
"Defamation" has nothing to do with the use of a secondary source. OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:18, 27 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Michael Saylor

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What is being whitewashed? I just added a lot more information. RohitPVS29 (talk) 15:52, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

You realise your contribution history is public, right? Anyone can see this is not truthful. See this edit which removed the entire "Bitcoin Advocacy" section. --Yamla (talk) 15:56, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Additionally, you need to address the COI notice on your talk page. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:59, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

I did not remove the "Bitcoin Advocacy" Section. I just created a new Header called "Bitcoin Advocacy" and updated it with the most recent numbers from MicroStrategy. Also, I just noticed that I removed the Quotes. I can add it back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RohitPVS29 (talkcontribs) 18:35, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply


UTRS

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Thanks for your comment at UTRS appeal #92074 about who the IP editor is. You were obviously right, and I have declined the appeal. JBW (talk) 23:40, 16 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

It's hard to keep all of them straight, but I recognized that one right away! OhNoitsJamie Talk 03:32, 17 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your addition of Knowbe4 to the spam blacklist

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I recently noticed that knowbe4.com has been added to the spam blacklist at MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist, so that no URLs containing that domain can be added to any Wikipedia article in any namespace. When I looked in the logs, I found that you added this site to the blacklist back in 2014 because a sockpuppeteer was spamming links to it. See MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist/log/2014#March 2014. I wanted to ask if you would consider removing the site from the blacklist given that it is not malicious but rather the website of a well-respected and legitimate security awareness company. Thank you. IntoThinAir (talk) 23:37, 19 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'm not interested in unilaterally removing it from the blacklist given the history. If there's a particular article from that domain that has relevant material not covered by any other reliable sources, you can make a request for a whitelisting of that link. OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:51, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Elongated Muskrat

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Hello, Jamie. You (understandably) salted Elongated Muskrat in 2018, but it now has a Wiktionary entry, so please consider unsalting it as a {{Wiktionary redirect}}. Thanks, Queen of Hearts (talk) 19:42, 24 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

I would argue against the validity of having a Wiktionary entry for that. Are we going to make wiktionary entries for every derogatory nickname of notable people? OhNoitsJamie Talk 01:19, 25 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Filer 1164

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Hi Ohnoitsjamie, looking at the filter and its hits I don't think reviewer and rollbacker are needed for it. Nobody (talk) 16:42, 30 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Why is that? I'm assuming that excluding those groups from the check makes it more efficient. Is there some redundancy I'm missing? OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:54, 30 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
The edit count on the first line. Nobody (talk) 17:56, 30 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Good point; could potentially get rid of all of the exclusions given that; I can't imagine where any of them would intersect with that count.OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:59, 30 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Probably, very unlikely that it hits one of those groups. Nobody (talk) 18:02, 30 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Question about Soot allegations

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Hi there - I submitted one edit for Wilbur's allegations and it says that you said on my talk page I 'continued to make disruptive edits' even though this is my first time editing Soot's article.

I have sourced the allegations with articles from MSN and Dexerto, alongside other news outlets.

Is there something I'm doing wrong here?

Cheers, RNGHit RNGHit (talk) 22:30, 1 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Get consensus on the article's talk page. We take WP:BLP very seriously here, and allegations being mentioned in a few media outlets does not automatiacally warrant inclusion of serious allegations in a Wikipedia article. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:57, 2 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Barnstar

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The Admin's Barnstar
4 expiring the uninspired at utrs. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 22:27, 6 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Regarding BookBrowse

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Just looked back at a comment you made to me around BookBrowse and seemed off topic in terms of what it said with it being a irrelevant look it seemed was your point from what I read. They basically have a section that shows media reviews which could be helpful in showing critical reception easier if the spot is empty or has lack of info or even if doesn't gives a more general idea like RT. From what I can recall, edits are case by case and less by whole from what I remember, and see many wikis that could use it and if you take issue with them you could revert and we discuss. I, for the moment, would love to discus the topic. Themashup (talk) 09:01, 8 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'm not interested in discussing whether or not it's appropriate to canvas links, as it's clearly not. OhNoitsJamie Talk 00:00, 9 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Having trouble adding reply (my apolgoies to thread so sending it here)

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As your not intrested and haven't explained throughly enough, I'm not sure how to take anythign you say seriously. You seem rather than good hearted clearly bad intentioned and lacking context. Hvaing had discussions already, it's clear why a source like for instance RT is used on the site. Rather than showing discussion or context you are ignoring it for quite rude and problematic judement regarding the understanding it seems of what a aggregator is used for. Themashup (talk) 00:07, 9 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

You are more than welcome to take your concerns to the reliable sources noticeboard or the external links noticeboard. OhNoitsJamie Talk 00:10, 9 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

A suggested fix to a regex line on filter 1094

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Hi Jamie, on filter 1094 (hist · log) in line 58 after the regex for Hailey Welch, where there are two capturing groups, you have to surround the beginning of the first capturing group and the end of the second capturing group (for the Hawk Tuah regex) with word boundaries (\b); doing that would have at least prevented this false positive.

Another note, I appreciated it when you thanked me for implementing an edit that 1094 has stopped from doing so. Cheers. :D Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 01:30, 19 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I tested and implemented your suggestion, thank you! OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:08, 19 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Disruptive IP

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This IP is reverting sourced content and adding WP:OR, again and again. Requesting block. Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 14:24, 21 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Added that page as a target to an existing rangeblock. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:05, 21 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 16:21, 21 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
The above IP has this ID apparently. They have added the same 'personal analysis' against one paper here, which is nothing but WP:OR using random articles that didn't even test referred communities (Kashmiri Brahmins for example) for the said steppe EMBA ancestry. They even created an article Jat community in a with disparaging and unnecessary info, and fake/OR representation of DNA based ancestries, comparing them with Rajputs who weren't even tested in all those random researches added by the user. I believe it acts as a hoax/attack page. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 11:50, 22 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Mdj112233 again

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Following our previous discussion of Mdj112233 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) on my talkpage, Mdj112233 continues to engage in disruptive editing, particularly regarding the Chinese paddlefish, which was declared extinct by the IUCN in 2022 after an exhaustive survey of the river. Mdj112233 seems to want to downplay this based on WP:OR despite the highest conservation authority officially saying its extinct, this including re-instating the edits you reverted a few days ago [40] [41], and edit warring regarding taxonomic templates [42] [43]. At this point I don't see an alternative to blocking them, in my opinion they're hopeless and a indefinite block will ultimately be necessary, given that your 36 hour block didn't seem to change their behaviour. I'm sorry for getting angry in the edit summaries but I find their behaviour infuriating. Hemiauchenia (talk) 18:27, 21 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Yes, no point in wasting more time if they're not going to communicate. They'll have the oppportunity to petition for an unblock if they decide to start communicating. Let me know if you seen anything that looks like block evasion. Thanks, OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:11, 21 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
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She posted today (Wed Sep 25, 2024) on Snapchat, so it's weird to remove Snapchat but keep Facebook where she last posted Aug 29. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.162.225.49 (talk) 23:56, 25 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I've removed a few more per WP:NOSOCIAL. OhNoitsJamie Talk 00:00, 26 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I understand the policy broadly but not in this case: she is a social media star - linking to her social media seems essential.

She's primarily known for TikTok, and we're already linking to that. We don't have to link to all of them. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:12, 26 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Her wikipedia page lists two Snapchat shows in the Web Series section - [45].

Request to email me regarding to split off some regex code from 1094 and 1161

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See here. Maybe we could reuse filter 1165 (hist · log) after you email me to request the filter code, and I will email you back; I'm attempting to be vague here in public per WP:BEANS. Cheers. :) Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 05:21, 27 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Ohnoitsjamie: I've replied to your email. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 17:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Recruiting

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I'm following up on this discussion: Do you need help at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist? I'm willing to help find people for you, if you think that would actually be helpful. Perhaps a plea in Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter, or a reminder at VPT? Let me know what you think. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:18, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I wasn't aware that there was a backlog; I didn't realize that requests were archiving after a week, though I see that GreenC has lenghtened the archive interval. It wouldn't hurt to have a few extra eyes on that page, but I don't feel like it's that demanding. I don't pay attention at all to the whitelisting counterpart; that side probably needs more help than the blacklisting side of things. OhNoitsJamie Talk 01:21, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
Whitelisting might be an easier place for folks to start, as they shouldn't have to create an regex directly. I'll see if we can find you a couple of folks to help. Just having it on a few more watchlists wouldn't be a bad start. IMO we have a bus factor problem on that page: if you get hit by a bus, we don't have a lot of folks ready to step in. (So please watch out for buses. ;-) ) WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:34, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

BTS article protection.

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Hello. I saw that it has been three years since you protected the BTS article as extended-confirmed users only. Do you think there is still edit warring or not anymore? ScarletViolet tc 01:53, 4 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Yes. There is zero chance of me unprotecting that article. You are welcome to petition for a change in protection level at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection/Decrease; if you can convince another admin that a reduction is warranted, I will not dispute it. OhNoitsJamie Talk 10:25, 4 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Susovan Sonu Roy / Draft:Susovan Sonu Roy

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Hello, I noticed that you have admin-protected this page and its draft page for re-creation. On d:Q117305113, there are actually 21 entries on different Wikipedias. Do you think all of them actually should be deleted or should the English Wikipedia page rather be undeleted. All images of the person seem very selfie-esque and promotional. Do you think it's some kind of extensive promotion or should the subject actually have a Wikipedia page? Jonteemil (talk) 12:00, 6 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

That's a self-promotion LTA; that individual doesn't come close to meeting WP:BIO notability here. The creator should be globally blocked, but I'm primiarily concerned with English Wikipedia. OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:30, 6 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Okay, thanks.Jonteemil (talk) 19:39, 6 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Most of the pages have actually been created by trusted users, that's what I can't wrap my head around. I would suspect that the pages have been created by the same user but that's not the case. Strange.Jonteemil (talk) 19:43, 6 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
I'm not interested in investigating the users on other wikis, but I can tell you there is zero chance of that article being unprotected here. I looked at the one on the German Wiki, and it's using the same vanityspam/press releases as sources. OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:18, 7 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
User:Jonteemil I'm curious; how did you happen to notice that this draft was protected in the first place? OhNoitsJamie Talk 21:28, 7 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
I patrol c:User:SteinsplitterBot/Previously deleted files and some files with this guy as subject popped up and that eventually led me to the deleted article and draft here on enwiki.Jonteemil (talk) 22:14, 7 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Vyond

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If users continue to disruptively (self-edit: that was not the right word for all cases: the correct phrase is "using weak sources to") add so-called "grounded" videos against consensus, amid poor sourcing (I just removed two sources that did not mention such trend by name), then I think we may have to increase the protection level further. --Minoa (talk) 21:07, 9 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Did the content you just reverted mention "Grounded" videos? The notability/WP:WEIGHT of the parody videos sentence was debatable, but I wouldn't call that a level of disruption that requires protection. I think Vyond will need to be semi-protected indefinitely, but issues beyond that can be dealt with on the talk page and at a per-user level. OhNoitsJamie Talk 21:27, 9 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Understood. The sources I removed either did not establish notability or mention such videos by name: I have been cautious due to the article's history of questionable edits. --Minoa (talk) 22:15, 9 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Frigg

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Hello, you recently blocked Klay29 (talk · contribs) for edit warring on Frigg, the IP 73.124.146.73 (talk · contribs) that was restoring their edits on the page is continuing to do so, so could you block the IP or altenatively temporarily semi-protect the article to prevent the likely socking? Thanks in advance. TylerBurden (talk) 20:33, 12 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Let's reach a consensus

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Hey friend, how are you? I hope so. I would like to ask you to stop reverting my edits, because I am not violating the WP:DP rules. Furthermore, all the sources I added in my edit are scientific articles, organizational sources, and a news site from The Guardian. I would also like to point out that it took me a while to create that edit. And if you think I am wrong, then I ask that you review each link in my article and if you find any link that does not comply with the WP:DP rules, let me know and I will quickly correct it. Thank you for your understanding. I wish you all the best! 😉🙏 Wiki7Hell (talk) 17:57, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

I will continue reverting your edits if they don't follow our style guidelines or violate other policies such as WP:SYNTH. OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:20, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

IP jumping "help me" person

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Now at User talk:126.89.29.105. Is there a backstory to this? Sam Sailor 21:51, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

This LTA. I have infinite patience; they have finite proxy IPs. OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:06, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
ain't that the truth.---- Deepfriedokra (talk) 22:09, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
(talk page stalker) Jamie, it's time to bump up the protection here, and Deepfriedokra, we have a global filter that protects constantly harassed users. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 02:01, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Not necessary yet. OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:02, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Let 'm burn up his autoconfirmed accounts.-- Deepfriedokra (talk) 02:05, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
(in Fonzie's voice): "Exactamundo." OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:07, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Heeeeeeeeyyyyyy. FWIW, he's also raiding UTRS-- Deepfriedokra (talk) 02:11, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Right pew

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Hi. I have a difference of opinion with an editor over an editing issue.

He is insistent on deleting a (long-standing) "see also" from various articles. Because he has created a new "see also" that, though not coterminous, he believes requires that he delete the long-standing "see-alsos".

I know. This will end up on some list of silly WP disputes.

Any way, efforts at discussion on my part have only led to him saying he does not want to discuss it with me.

Certainly not an ANI issue by any means. But could you perhaps point me to the best conflict resolution approach, under the circumstances? Thanks. 184.153.21.19 (talk) 08:12, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

I have no idea what article you are talking about, but for disputes that you don't want to take to an admin board, there's Wikipedia:Third opinion. OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:15, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Quick query

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Draft:Shai Davidai has been locked, while being worked on, for alleged copyvio issues pending a copyvio investigation. But it is in the midst of being worked on. Any copyvio issues will be addressed. And it will only then be offered up for consideration as an article (and presumably then only made an article if there is not a copyvio concern). But the locking of the article prevents this from taking place. Thoughts? 184.153.21.19 (talk) 20:36, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

You can wait for the copyvio investigation to conclude. I'm not sure what you expect me to do. OhNoitsJamie Talk 20:38, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
If that was jumping the gun, I wondered whether perhaps you could open it up to editing - which it was in the midst of - rather than have it continue to be locked down mid-edits in draft form due to possible copyvio. It's not an article, nor has it been proposed for article status, and it was being edited the day it was locked - we can remove anything linked to the indicated ref in the meantime, and allow normal editing to begin. I would hope. This struck me as inimical to the interests of the project, given the timing, and I don't see what would be lost by the suggested approach, while the gain would be work on an article that may well be of interest to readers. --184.153.21.19 (talk) 02:34, 18 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
What makes you think it's locked? I looked at the material myself; while it wasn't a direct copy/paste, it was very closely paraphrased, which is still a copyright violation. Do not do that again, please.OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:24, 18 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Some block evasion

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FYI, Wiki7HellSecondary (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is clearly evading one of your blocks. MrOllie (talk) 23:50, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

An IP address used a trick to do this...

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See this diff, where they used a special character to get around your filters. Also, only 1202 should take care of that, instead of 1094 and 1161 combined. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 15:48, 19 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

I've consolidated those targets into one filter; I don't expect to cover all permutations, but it's pretty clear when people write like that that they are evading a filter, and as such will be blocked quickly anyway. OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:09, 20 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Ohnoitsjamie: there was a Spanish Wikipedia LTA via Special:Contributions/Iddoignaciozuñigarojasthechildren09, in which they add a Spanish-language phrase. Do you mind if you can add it to 1161 (hist · log) (since it covers some namespaces)? Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 13:37, 22 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Yes, please do. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:37, 22 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Go ahead. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 13:39, 22 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
I added it to 1161. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:41, 22 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
There is one more filter change request for 1242 (hist · log) that I've sent you through email, see Special:Contributions/2607:FEA8:E340:C100:2021:9145:94DD:F474/64. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 04:40, 24 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Is that the only range we've seen that particular disruption on? (I haven't seen the email yet; I only access that email from one of my computers, and will be on that one later today). OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:45, 24 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
So far, it is the only range (/64). Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 19:23, 24 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Query

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@Ohnoitsjamie

Can a party who is going to contest 69+ assembly constituencies out of 81 assembly constituencies and is one of the two parties who are going to contest 50+ assembly constituencies be added in infobox election? Ritwik Mahatat@lk 08:47, 23 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

This is a topic I'm not particularly familiar with. Are there established conventions regarding these elections on a WikiProject? OhNoitsJamie Talk 09:46, 23 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Middle school: How was that NOT an improvement?

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Why did you delete my contribution to the Middle school Wikipedia page? Semantism2 (talk) 19:43, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

The WP:LEDE should be a succicnt summary of the topic; you made it unnecessarily complicated. Details of middle schools by region are already discussed throughout the body of the article. Please take any further discussio to Talk:Middle school. OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:49, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Alchetron.com

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Hi Jamie, since it's clearly a SPS shouldn't we consider putting Alchetron.com on the blacklist instead of in the filter 1094 (hist · log)? Nobody (talk) 06:20, 28 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Unfortunately, there are a lot of extant uses of Alchetron, so blacklisting it now would result in a fair amount of disruption. Until those usages are cleaned up, the filter prevents further additions of it. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:01, 28 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
(talk page stalker) Either that source is used by an LTA or various spammers, and perhaps we can move it to line 1 of 1094 (that uses ccnorm)? It does not make a difference when you move Alchetron from line 2, but I highly recommend using ccnorm. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 14:04, 29 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Done, but why is ccnorm important for filtering a domain? It's rare that spammers will use non-Latin characters as doing so breaks the link anyway. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:12, 29 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
ccnorm also catches spammers who use numbers instead of letters to spam these two types of websites, probably. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 14:22, 29 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Protection to Sussy

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Hi Jamie,

What is happening here?? Pending changes is still here, even after I updated the template? Myrealnamm's Alternate Account (talk) 13:41, 29 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Or should it be like this, so Pending Changes can resume after a year? Myrealnamm's Alternate Account (talk) 13:45, 29 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
I didn't see that it already had pending changes; I removed that. The tag is strictly informational; applying or removing tags does not affect the actual protection level. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:48, 29 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Okay, thanks for sorting that out. The same situation is occurring on Uno (card game) it seems, could you fix that as well? Thanks! Myrealnamm's Alternate Account (talk) 13:51, 29 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Edits on Alwar Balasubramaniam

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Hi! I noticed some problematic edits on the article Alwar Balasubramaniam by the user Kiranslomka2, went to their talk page and it seems you notified them about some issues with other edits they tried to implement on the page. I've reverted their exhaustive, very poorly sourced exhibitions list twice now, but I don't want to keep reverting their contributions and imply an edit war. Any advice on how to move forward? Already tried pinging them on the article talk page, no response. Thanks! 19h00s (talk) 21:24, 29 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi @19h00s,
It's always tricky when dealing with problematic edits, but you are handling it well by seeking consensus and explaining your reversions.
Since Kiranslomka2 has not responded to your pings or messages, here are a few steps you might consider:
  1. Clarify in Edit Summaries: Make sure your edit summaries clearly state why the changes are being reverted, pointing out issues like poor sourcing per WP:ES.
  2. Broaden the Discussion: If you haven't already, you might want to notify relevant WikiProjects or use noticeboards to get more community input on the talk page.
  3. User Talk Page: You could leave a more detailed message on Kiranslomka2's talk page explaining the issues with their edits and suggesting how they might improve their contributions.
  4. Request for Comment (RfC): If there's still no response, starting an RfC can help gather broader input and reach a consensus.
  5. Administrator Assistance: As a last resort, seeking help from admins with a detailed report of the situation might be necessary. (I see @Ohnoitsjamie have already warned the user)
It's great that you are aiming to avoid an edit war and maintain constructive dialogue. Good luck, and feel free to reach out if you need further assistance!
Best regards, (A friendly tp watcher) Macrobreed2 (talk) 11:12, 8 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Vandalism

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Hello,

Just noticed you have blocked the account ApolloBurningEarth as LTA; [this report] I have made at AIV is another account and an IP of the same user. Thanks! CoconutOctopus talk 12:35, 2 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

General Tinio page

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Hello Jaime,

I am new to wikipedia and have been updating the page of our town. Please don't delete what I have been updating. Everything is sourced and if there are items that I failed to put citation, just let me know but no need to delete it. I constantly update the site and later repeat the citations. Just let me know if you think I should add citations and don't delete them. TheRealBasti (talk) 06:39, 4 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

I will continue to delete anything that violates the policies I've already outlined several times on your page. Please take the time to read about them. OhNoitsJamie Talk 11:48, 4 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

About your partial block of 2409:40C4:0:0:0:0:0:0/32

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Would it be possible to block them from Travis Head as well?   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 15:27, 7 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Done OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:47, 7 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Disruptive editing by User:TillyFavoured742

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Hi Ohnoitsjamie, an editor by name TillyFavoured742 has been deleting sources and sourced information with with no explanation or edit summaries. This has been prevalent on pages such as Kente cloth since 14 October. I have addressed him to at least, provide edit summaries or an explanation. I have also informed him on his talk page, to raise issues on the talk pages of articles, of which he has an issue with. But my plea on his talk page has not been respected as he still continues to delete content and sources without any explanation. His edit contributions show similar attempts on other pages as well. Kwesi Yema (talk) 21:25, 10 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Blocking oversight

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You posted a block message at Johan jani (talk · contribs)'s talk page, but didn't actually block the account. He's still trying to spam his blacklisted site, just now with nowiki tags. MrOllie (talk) 15:34, 11 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for catching that, fixed! OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:36, 11 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Aditya Mondol2013

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Hi, entirely up to you, but when you blocked this account I wonder if you took into account that (Redacted)? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:57, 13 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

(talk page watcher) sending to oversight.-- Deepfriedokra (talk) 16:05, 13 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, I missed that. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:10, 13 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Filter 964 change

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Hi Jamie, could you change admin to sysop on line 2? I don't think hits like this are needed. Nobody (talk) 14:04, 15 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

 Done OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:34, 15 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

"The B" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Maps on the western world page

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Im asking again politely remove the map from the western world page! Do you understand that you dont do a correct job? You make this page not neutral and valid at all! Already 2 people disagree with this map and you dont care at all! You use a map that just express an a person's opinion! This map isnt based on facts and history books! So if some people want to help you to improve the pages in wikipedia they cant do anything because you dont listen to them and just remain to your opinions! In this way why you picked this specific map and not another one? Why you insist in this map that its just an opinion??? Really i cant understand you all the editors in wikipedia! The quality of your work is really low! Alikakii (talk) 17:29, 18 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

As I've already told you, you don't get to make unlateral decisions here, per WP:CONSENSUS. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:30, 18 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

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