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New special page to fight spam

Please help translate to your language

Hello, We are replacing most of the functionalities of MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist with a new special page called Special:BlockedExternalDomains. In this special page, admins can simply add a domain and notes on the block (usually reasoning and/or link to a discussion) and the added domain would automatically be blocked to be linked in Wikis anymore (including its subdomains). Content of this list is stored in MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json. You can see w:fa:Special:BlockedExternalDomains as an example. Check the phabricator ticket for more information.

This would make fighting spam easier and safer without needing to know regex or accidentally breaking wikis while also addressing the need to have some notes next to each domain on why it’s blocked. It would also make the list of blocked domains searchable and would make editing Wikis in general faster by optimizing matching links added against the blocked list in every edit (see phab:T337431#8936498 for some measurements).

If you want to migrate your entries in MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist, there is a python script in phab:P49299 that would produce contents of MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist and MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json for you automatically migrating off simple regex cases.

Note that this new feature doesn’t support regex (for complex cases) nor URL paths matching. Also it doesn’t support bypass by spam whitelist. For those, please either keep using MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist or switch to an abuse filter if possible. And adding a link to the list might take up to five minutes to be fully in effect (due to server-side caching, this is already the case with the old system) and admins and bots automatically bypass the blocked list.

Let me know if you have any questions or encounter any issues. Happy editing. Amir (talk) 09:41, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Please resolve Soul Eater VfDs

I really recommend dealing will VfD promptly so as not having to deal will the mess of some Soul Eater related articles. Can an admin check the WQ:VFD list and resolve duplicates. Thankyou. -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 08:45, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Plea to please manage deletion processes more promptly

I know I sound like an old gramophone record but can I please request administrators manage the deletion process queues promptly. I really appreciate the time you guys put in, I (probably as much as anyone) know people have RL priorities that must come first to avoid personal RL hell and if your in the northern hemisphere its summertime with longer daylight hours for many of us to do daylight things. I've ended up sending far too many articles to deletion processes over the past couple of weeks and its painfully apparent to me stuff has been there already for far to long adding to the clutter. I am particularly of the opinion articles on the VfD queue should normally be closed within the month and certainly no more than 8 weeks. There's alway's DRV to challenge an incorrect result. There's at least a couple of instances where excess time on the VfD queue has caused an issue, the most recent with duplicate VFD's raised. Not to mention the effect on the Unconnected pages in mainspace list which has gone from 3 to near 30. That makes it more difficult to spot de-sitelinks from Wikidata which I've challenged twice in the last week; I realise that is only an impact to me as most admins here don't operate in the Sitelinking zone. Thankyou if you can help in this regard. -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 22:30, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Disappointing response

Thankyou for efforts on the VFD queue but quite frankly its insufficient. The long standing items on the front end of this list need to be tackled. If there's a problem on Competency or Capacity to deal with this there needs to a call bring in admins to help either from on-wiki, a sister project, or from small wiki support. Thankyou, DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 07:15, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

@DeirgeDel: You do rather sound like an old gramophone record -- so -- can I please request that you stop using this page to plead with and then chastise our small administrative team? We are all volunteers, of course, so you have no more need to go along with my wishes than they have to go along with yours. HouseOfChange (talk) 15:01, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

@HouseOfChange:: I agree I sound like a old gramophone record and and I agree I shouldn't have to. My opinion is a VFD is stressful for the article contributors and the community (in this case it is the adminstrators) has a duty to decide such matters quickly. When a VFD is closed there is a community decision and a community precedent. It doesn't have to go the way I (or anyone) would like it to do and DRV exists to appeal any errors. The community keep/delete decision may also affect in a small number of cases whether a wikidata needs to be created or not. Quite frankly I'd prefer to be be working positively with campaigns and new users to ensure the're no misdirecting people to articles that will be corrected, but that to some extent is impacted on deletion processes being cleared quickly. I'm not chastising individuals but its surely reasonable they get on the're email group and see if there are ways things can be improved. -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 15:52, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

I am not familiar with any WQ policy that declares it a duty of admins to close VfDs or do anything else quickly. I suggest you drop the stick concerning this issue, which is very unlikely to bring you satisfaction or to improve anybody else's experience. HouseOfChange (talk) 16:22, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

@HouseOfChange:: Suggestion noted. -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 17:18, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

I need to also note personal attacks and outing attempts on one VfD recently and failure to address those attacks and outing attempts. I am minded it should be patently obvious that those attacks and outing attempts should be dealt with by uninvolved parties. Shameful no actions have been taken on such abuse. Would you not agree @HouseOfChange:? -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 05:22, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

@DeirgeDel: Volunteer settings like wikis are rarely perfect. I guess I missed the ANI where an injured person described attacks to admins and admins took action or didn't. But in general, I don't agree that describing colleagues' behavior as "disappointing," "insufficient," or "shameful" is appropriate to a workplace setting, let alone one staffed by volunteers. HouseOfChange (talk) 13:30, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

I should have perhaps made it clear that I feel disappointed as the response which is acceptable for how I feel. That's a little different from me being disappointed at individuals. But the fundamental issue is I believe there is a problem because, and lets particularly concentrate on VfDs, are not being closed quickly enough. If we take the example of the site English Wikipedia of AfD's which are the rough equivalent of VfD's the mechanism get's these closed within 2, 3 or at most 4 weeks. The length here is indeterminate. And being open for a long time has detrimental effects: both from a contributor stresspoint viewpoint and also by making it harder to spot items from the Unconnected mainspace pages list (Such as [ https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Matia_Kasaija&diff=3329519&oldid=3328113 Kasaija yesterday] which had slipped through looking like an older page as it had been sandbox. If you looked at my contributions to wikiquote yesterday you'd think I was mostly about deletion processes: If you look at Wikidata constributions you'd perhaps see examples of the support given to a lot of the new articles coming through. The problem is that become increasingly time-consuming the unconnected pages list is kept unncessary long by not processing VfD's promptly. Thankyou. -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 10:58, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Noted. HouseOfChange (talk) 23:17, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Good job and thanks

I'd like to thank admins generally and @Saroj Uprety: in particular for participating and closing pages on the VFD list today; in at least one case taking significant unwarranted abuse for doing do. I'd like to say to Saroj I really appreciate the work he often puts in weekly to maintain the VfD list. In the interests of neutrality I rarely hit the thank log for VFD votes and closes but I might for some clerking and extremely rarely for e.g. policy/guidance analysis. Thanks again. -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 23:04, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Martin Luther King Jr. protection

This article was protected for about 15 years. I have unprotected it so an IP can edit. If anyone feels like this is a bad idea, please feel free to escalate protection. I'm inclined against indef protection in the main namespace, but willing to defer to someone else's judgement. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:39, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Sitelinking Wikidata.

@Mike Peel:: About three months ago you felt you could offer a tool to help with sitelinking Wikidata items. I realise you've been a little busy but can you give an update on this. I've tried to keep on top of things in the interim but there's very little appreciation of the effort I'm making here and very little being done to help. In my opinion in addition to regular vandalisation and socking we've also been hit, in my opinion, by what appears to be very poor directions, communication and support by WMF campaigns. I don't mean to rush you, and your pretty busy, and if you can't provide the tool that's OK. But please give an update. Thankyou. -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 17:27, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

@DeirgeDel: I'm ~90% of the way there, but hit an issue I can't currently solve. I have a script that fetches the unlinked items, and loads potential matches into a database. I have a Distributed Game drafted, the same as the Wikipedia one but working for Wikiquote. However, I can't get the Game to properly load the tiles, which might need @Magnus Manske: to fix something or tell me what I'm doing wrong, but tweets got no response. If I can figure that issue out, then everything else is pretty much ready to go/straightforward to do. I'll try to have another look through all of the code later this month, at least I could start creating new items for pages without search matches... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:30, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

@Mike Peel:: Thanks for the update. While we'd love it asap I certainly understand you and Magnus will have higher priorities, let alone RL priorities. Thanks. -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 00:04, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Citation tools

The citation tools on this wiki have fallen way below the standards on other Wiki's. Are there any plans to address this? -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 17:29, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

citations made with ref markup tag can be archived I Propose switch to REF citations Baratiiman (talk) 17:35, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Linkrot

I assume there are no bots running here to avoid the curse of W:WP:LINKROT. Fundamentally this will lead to nearly all urls becoming dead and unverifiable with the passage of time. Thankyou -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 17:32, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

The Powerpuff Girls protection

Requesting page protection for The Powerpuff Girls. IP users repeatedly copy and paste entire episode transcripts in violation of Wikiquote:Limits on quotations, despite repeated warnings.

Spiritoftheeast1993 (talk) 23:16, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Y Done with some minimal protections. Let me know if it needs to be escalated. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:37, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Disruptive editing

Would you please block these two users for disruptive editing? These are the two I’m talking about:

Special:Contributions/70.24.31.104 Special:Contributions/70.54.151.104

Please have them blocked as soon as possible. AdamDeanHall (talk) 03:57, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Can you show me diffs that are bad edits? Looking at a few, no less than one is clearly appropriate: https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=It%27s_All_Gone_Pete_Tong&diff=prev&oldid=3320438. Actual diffs or some explanation would be helpful. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:01, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_%28TV_series%29&diff=3331587&oldid=3330825
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3331587
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3331588
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3331589
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_%28TV_series%29&diff=3312211&oldid=3282749
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3312211
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3312231
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3312235
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3312243
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3312268
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3312269
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3312270
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3312278
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3312321
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3312322
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3312686
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3312695
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3313155
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3313156
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3313241

These are the different that are bad edits. AdamDeanHall (talk) 04:27, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

There is nothing about this that is a bad edit. You are not being serious and wasting others' time. If you have something useful to write, please do so. Otherwise, this cryptic and inaccurate report is just not helpful. What is bad about these users' edits and why do you think they warrant blocks? If your complaint is about overly long quotations, that is a systemic problem here and I posted to their talk pages already. If it's not that, then what is the problem with this? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:32, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Please semi-protect Hercules (1997 film)

It has been vandalized many times since June. Count Count (talk) 07:21, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Y Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:30, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Overly long quotations

This user, Special:Contributions/Jaiquiero, just added an overly long quotation to the Femme Fatales page. Here is the difference:

https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3332214
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatales_(TV_series)&diff=next&oldid=3333310

Could you please inform the user never to do that again? AdamDeanHall (talk) 12:09, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Y Done. I'm hopeful that he'll be responsive. If this persists, please let me know. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:23, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

An ongoing case requesting for unblock has been post to our mailing-list

I've accepted the email so it can be showed in our mailing list.

The requester is User:Wheatfromchaff, since in their email they specially pointed me as a corrupted sysop, I'd like to say something about it.

Wheatfromchaff (talk · contributions) Firstly blocked by Ningauble for a month, then during the discussion for extending block, lots of puppets appeared on user talk:Ningauble, trying to disrupt the discussion. I suspected that they are IP socks from Wheatfromchaff and then blocked them indefinitely. Due to their edits on talk page attacked nearly every sysop, although they claimed in their email that it's just a matter of fact, I've revoked their talk page access.

I'm inclined to decline this unblock request directly, but in the last paragraph, they told they will contact Wikimedia Foundation and considered this a huge problem if we didn't unblock them. More over, since I'm the involved party, I'm taking this case to the WQ:AN for more instructions. Lemonaka (talk) 12:56, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

As you wrote your above comment, I also responded on email. re: the WMF, whatever: the guy can write them and that's fine for him, but it's not going to result in a local unblock. Everyone working and volunteering has a million other things to do and they don't get involved in local disputes without some extraordinary qualities that this dispute does not have. As for instructions, I don't have any insight on what else you need to do now; we'll see if the email exchange has anything useful. I'm not holding out much hope, but I've been wrong before. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 13:06, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

I tried to find RS that could establish notability either for the author or the book in question, but came up dry. HouseOfChange (talk) 14:51, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

@Ferien I'm sending you an email regarding the issue I've found about this mailing list ownself. Also, @Koavf Lemonaka (talk) 10:07, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

@Lemonaka I just found out that this list exists and have submitted a subscription request DannyS712 (talk) 00:49, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

@DannyS712 Y Approved Lemonaka (talk) 01:08, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

Please block 168.181.122.43

168.181.122.43 is likely evading their global ban per w:en:WP:LTA/GRP. 64andtim (talk) 03:37, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

And 170.83.119.81. 64andtim (talk) 04:14, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Y Done Revdel and page protect. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:19, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Protect user talk:Jimbo Wales as indefinite

Hi, I'm proposing to protect this page indefinitely, since Jimbo seldom has a look on that page and nearly all edits on this page are something trolls or vandalism. Lemonaka (talk) 04:58, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. I went for it. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:30, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Propose to change Template:Blockedindefnotalk

Nowadays, since mailing list are set, the last sentence of this template can be changed to
If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please submit a request to the wikiquote-en-adminslists.wikimedia.org.

Instead of
Instead, you can create a new account (if allowed) to allow you to edit.

The sentence in used now may encourage some blocked editors to create sockpuppets, they may misunderstand "if allowed" in that sentence, and creating a new account to edit is usually not allowed in nearly every situation. Lemonaka (talk) 22:48, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Makes sense to me. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:20, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

I agree - seems reasonable. ~ UDScott (talk) 11:22, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

@Koavf@UDScott Done Lemonaka (talk) 07:04, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

Please block 72.135.248.71

They are placing really offensive material on the page Megamind. 64andtim (talk) 17:13, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Y Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:28, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

ConnieTheJesusLover

I'm not sure whether ConnieTheJesusLover (talk · contributions) was editing in good faith, they edited in a very suspicious way, taking Abuse filter logs into consideration, something really weird. e.g. their edits to SpongeBob topics, with huge amounts of content being replaced. Lemonaka (talk) 15:53, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

I don't see anything egregious. It seems like, based on this edit that Connie is copy/pasting from Wikia, which is allowed by the license, but should be attributed if it's actually a unique arrangement of quotations that rises to a copyright-able level. Do you have diffs that seem off to you? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:59, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

I've never heard about Sponge-Hab, Pat-Buck, Kenneth and Shake from Spongebob, looking at this one Special:Diff/3368161 Lemonaka (talk) 16:57, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

I can say with a high degree of confidence that SpongeBob never included the line "I want to do some porn." GMG^talk 17:18, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

@GreenMeansGo All edits reverted except Special:Diff/3368124, which is a helpful copy edit. Lemonaka (talk) 17:22, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Oh, yeah. That's way off. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:53, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Revdel request for incivil edit summaries at SpongeBob SquarePants/Season 11

I think edit summaries at special:diff/3376637, special:diff/3376636, special:diff/3376635, special:diff/3376634 need to be removed due to incivility. What do our admins think about these? MathXplore (talk) 05:39, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

I think I agree. Y Done and also blocked indefinitely. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:41, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

2600:1700:BC00:F8B0:0:0:0:0/64

I've blocked 2600:1700:BC00:F8B0:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contributions) for a month, their edits are the same as EdithGruFan (talk · contributions), especially the rants in their edit summary.
I'd like to rollback all edits from these range, but I'd also like to wait for advice from other sysops. Lemonaka (talk) 00:56, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Some of these edits are fine, but honestly, this person is all over the place and his edits have a problem that many, many edits have here which is excessively long quotations. I'd 100% support a mass revert and delete if you felt it was appropriate. Not necessarily what I'd do, but totally valid. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:11, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

SpongeBob related pages, high risk

Nearly all LTA on this project, especially unregistered ones make edit on SpongeBob related articles. You see, previous three topics are all about Spongebob, can we semi-protect these articles indefinitely? Lemonaka (talk) 15:17, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

I generally don't like indefinite protection, except for more sensitive pages, but I would totally support you doing so here, since for some reason, this topic seems to be a vandalism magnet. I will support indefinite or long-term (e.g. three-year) semi-protection. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:19, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

2607:FB91:22CB:E29E:AC39:B712:9D24:1E33

Please block this IP as they are doing test edits on Castle (deleting and partial undeleting with selected revisions might be useful). 64andtim (talk) 02:43, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

I already reported this IP to WQ:VIP. MathXplore (talk) 02:51, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Y Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:56, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

162.238.56.66

Vandalism. Please block this ip MdsShakil (talk) 07:57, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

@MdsShakil Done, please report to WQ:VIP next time. Lemonaka (talk) 08:32, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Baratiiman

Baratiiman (talk · contributions) edit warred on 2023 Israel–Hamas war, calling others as LTA without reasons, unresponsive to the invitation to discuss and get consensus but revert. Since I'm the involved sysop, I'm here asking for help.--Lemonaka (talk) 06:41, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

3 Question marks is not an explaination it never is specialy wikiquote . This isnt wikipedia Baratiiman (talk) 14:51, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Given your storied history on the Persian Wikipedia, I would recommend you tread lightly and play nice. GMG^talk 15:22, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Ehhh, I cannot quite catch you in this sentence. After consulting with @Ottawahitech, they believed your quotes added to article are not quotable. So you may discuss with each other, no matter here, on article talk page or user talk page.
But keep reverting without discussion is a term of edit war. Even you elaborate your edit on your edit summary will be better. Lemonaka (talk) 01:19, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello Lemonaka. Sorry for disturbing you in your diffrent discussion but it was important for me. Can you help me on writing in this Wiki? Quotes is most mis spelled words by me for lifetime and I write this perticular thing the most. Anyways this is not the main issue, Please see my concern of asking you right below and help me if you feel free. Thank you. 2409:4081:AE15:28D7:0:0:CC0A:CE09 22:51, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

@2409:4081:AE15:28D7:0:0:CC0A:CE09What can our sysops do for you? Lemonaka (talk) 07:54, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Can a blocked user in multiple Wikimedia accounts write in Wikiquote?

[Inform before deleting] Hello readers/users. I am in need of information about writing in Wikiquote while being myself a blocked allmost everywhere since I statred writing in other projects of Wikimedia.I am a writer who had started writing there with no technology knowledge and artificial modern writing tools using a computer language. Kindly help me know if I can and guide me further if I am eligible to write here. I can write anything but delete nothing. Please keep this in my case while performing any act be it helping or barring me. Thank you."Words are the only weapon which are made for every pericipant's win in a war,unlike others where one's defeat derermines another's win."2409:4081:AE15:28D7:0:0:CC0A:CE09 21:29, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

@2409:4081:AE15:28D7:0:0:CC0A:CE09 If you are not locked or blocked before, you can. If you are locked, go away, we are not a place for asylum Lemonaka (talk) 04:47, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

A search box for AN archive

Hi, I purpose adding a search box for AN archive, this will be much more convenient for searching historical discussions about this project. Lemonaka (talk) 14:59, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, but there is nothing at all on the village pump? Ottawahitech (talk) 23:57, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Today I see a search box the Village pump. Magic? Ottawahitech (talk) 16:50, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@Ottawahitech Done, but something looked weird Lemonaka (talk) 07:53, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

FYI reviving old discussion on the village pump

FYI: Wikiquote:Village pump#Connecting new pages to wikidata? Ottawahitech (talk) 23:55, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Pmlineditor

Pmlineditor (talk · contributions)

For whom has been inactive on this project for nearly two years, we may need to notice them about possibly desysop process. Their last action on this project was [1] On Nov 14, 2021. Lemonaka (talk) 02:37, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Revision deletion request

Dear Admins, The page Megamind: The Button of Doom and its talk page was being vandalised by User:2603:6000:B800:EB4:A81D:CF96:6E8A:300B. The Vandalism has been rolled back but the edit summary contains some abusive words. Kindly rev delete the versions. Aslo requesting a block for this. 511KeV (talk) 17:34, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Y Done ~ UDScott (talk) 17:42, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Block request for 187.251.154.244

Dear admins, The Ip User:187.251.154.244 is involved in vandalising David Louis Walker page. As such I am requesting a block for the IP. 511KeV (talk) 04:37, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Y Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:38, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Alert of ongoing xwiki spam including Wikiquote (Pabitra Banerjee)

Dear admins, the page, Pabitra Banerjee has some (unreferenced) quotes, may not fit to the speedy deletion criteria, but I would like to alert that this is a xwiki spam target, please see the logs at w:simple:Pabitra Banerjee, m:Pabitra Banerjee, s:Pabitra Banerjee, and n:Pabitra Banerjee. The author's activities can be seen at Special:CentralAuth/Barshaban, and a list of related accounts can be found at w:simple:Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser#Pabitra_Banerjee_accounts. I think our admins should decide what to do with the author. Thank you for your attention. MathXplore (talk) 08:50, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Deleted as vanity, unsourced biography. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:54, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

You may also want to take a look at Special:Contributions/RoHitMan45, new account with similar interest. MathXplore (talk) 07:04, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Good guess. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:40, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Gadget Clean Delete Reasons misfunction

For unknown reason, Clean Delete Reasons, MediaWiki:Gadget-CleanDeleteReasons.js is not functioning. Could some Interface Adiministrators glance on that? Lemonaka (talk) 12:24, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

What about now? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:26, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

No, still can't work Lemonaka (talk) 12:30, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@Koavf Sorry, I forgot to clear my cache, now it can work well. Lemonaka (talk) 12:41, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Nice. Let me know how else I can help. I'm thankful for you this year, my citrusy friend. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:42, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

I'd love to help when there's a need. Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got? ' but 'How best can we serve you?' Lemonaka (talk) 12:44, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Ask not what your wiki can do for you, ask what you can do for your wiki. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:52, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

This gadget hasn't worked for me in months. I tried asking for help on it but never got anywhere. ~ UDScott (talk) 23:06, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Now it may work. Lemonaka (talk) 23:50, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Let me know if it's not functioning. Sorry that I missed the earlier request. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:03, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, it looks like it is working now - thank you so much! It's been a source of frustration for a while until I finally decided to ignore it. Much better now. ~ UDScott (talk) 02:41, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Block request for ColonelRogers

The contributions make clear ColonelRogers is NOTHERE to improve Wikiquote by adding notable/quotable quotes. The long-winded, heavily bolded POV-pushing also strongly resembles the work of LTA sock-farmer aka Libraryclerk0191, GaneshaSis, WeNotMeC020, GreenMeansGo, WillSeymourIII, AlphaBravo2022, JulianVerdadCastro, and etc. HouseOfChange (talk) 13:39, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@HouseOfChange Y Blocked, obviously sockpuppetry. Lemonaka (talk) 13:51, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@HouseOfChange@Antandrus@Koavf@UDScott
Do I need to request a SRCU for this case? Is there any obvious sleepers? Lemonaka (talk) 13:59, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

To answer your second question: I don't know of any. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:36, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

???@HouseOfChange Are you sure GreenMeansGo is a sockpuppet? Lemonaka (talk) 14:08, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I would agree that a review of this user is warranted - and no doubt a review of all of the recent contributions is needed as well (especially ones that seem to be from biased or dubious sources). ~ UDScott (talk) 14:19, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@Lemonaka: Oops, my apologies to GreenMeansGo!!! I was collecting familiar names from histories of LibraryClerk-targeted pages and mistakenly added GMG. Striking that name from my original comment. HouseOfChange (talk) 14:22, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Is there any recent account besides this one? All accounts being list are stale. Lemonaka (talk) 14:30, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Another similar recently-active is CarmenEsparzaAmoux (contributions) whose first edit was to create the article California genocide. HouseOfChange (talk) 14:48, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Unlikely per editing pattern. Lemonaka (talk) 14:54, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@Lemonaka: I misunderstood your question, thought you (per UDScott above) were asking about recent heavily POV-pushing accounts. HouseOfChange (talk) 15:06, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@HouseOfChange I definitely can request a check, but likely it will be refused by steward. Lemonaka (talk) 15:08, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you all for taking care of this. I also think that CarmenEsparzaAmoux is a different person from the LibraryClerk0191 sockmaster. Antandrus (talk) 18:23, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

The Amazing World of Gumball

Please protect The Amazing World of Gumball: Edit war. --Leonidlednev (talk) 18:10, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Y Done, protected for a year. Saroj (talk) 19:34, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

@Leonidlednev@Saroj Block extended to /64, more edits reverted. Lemonaka (talk) 07:16, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Am I "Proxy editing"?

One of the more recent admins who joined this project has warned me on my UTP that I am "Proxy editing". They claim that an edit I made is an "obvious sign of your proxy editing for a banned user". I take this warning very seriously since I believe all my previous 6 indef-blocks on other wikimedia-wikis have been inflicted by similarly good-faithed but misinformed admins. I like this place and do not want to be blocked here, but not at the cost of having to say "yes sir" every time someone make egregious complaints about my volunteer performance.

Here is my stance on this issue:

1. When it comes to content contributions I believe I have a right to undo an erroneous edit even if the person who made the edit is a functionary.
2. I also believe that edits made by banned/blocked/globally locked/whathave-you users should not automatically be removed from content, unless there is consensus to remove made by the ENWQ community.
3. If all edits made by "bad" users were removed tomorrow, this wiki will most likely shrink to less than a half its size today, and many pages will completely disappear from public view, I think?
4. I have been participating semi-actively trying to help build a page on a controversial issue created a little after October 7, 2023. There have been accusations made on the Talkpage that this article is not neutral point-of-view (what's new?), but to this day few users have jumped to help make this page NPOV. As always, it is much easier to criticize and remove content added by others than to add quotes that create more equilibrium.

I have posted my objection to being cast as a meat/sockpuppet on Talk:2023 Israel-Hamas war#Am I "Proxy editing"?, but ask all ENWQ-admins to step back and watch patiently and let regular users have their say first instead of jumping right in. Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 00:24, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

I added a comment on the other page - I know you asked for us to wait, but I believe you may be correct that the edits in question seem suspect (and the accusation of being a proxy seems unwarranted). I merely asked for some explanation by the other party. ~ UDScott (talk) 03:39, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

@UDScott: After @Lemonaka: blocked the obvious LibraryClerk sockpuppet ColonelRogers, it was clear somebody should do a cleanup of the many pov-pushing edits that had been made by ColonelRogers. Therefore, on Nov 25, Lemonaka undid edits to multiple articles that had been illegitimately made by a banned user, including to War crimes, Crimes against humanity, Benjamin Netanyahu, etc. HouseOfChange (talk) 01:08, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Was the edit in question one of those removals? First, if this is the case, it would have been helpful to tag it as such. Second, if the quote is legitimate, relevant to the page's topic, and from a reputable source, why remove it? I'm not accusing Lemonaka of bad behavior (I too find that this user is a good contributor) - I just wonder if the removal of the quote should be reconsidered. ~ UDScott (talk) 01:52, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Looking at page histories, this kerfluffle arises from Ottawahitech's edit, and POINT-y edit summary "Undo revision 3411415 by Lemonaka (talk) this is not a cleanup -- this pure censorship." More history, the "proxy editing comment was made at 23:57 and withdrawn 20 minutes later at 01:17. There was no name-calling, no "meat/sockpuppet", etc. Less drama please, everybody here is a volunteer, and nobody is going to pick up pitchforks or torches to march against Lemonaka, who is a very constructive editor and admin. HouseOfChange (talk) 05:48, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for making this kerfluffle observation, @HouseOfChange:

• I did not intend to make a POINT-y edit summary, but yes I can be blunt sometime.
• re: "More history, the "proxy editing comment was made at 23:57"
  • Yes, this comment was made by User: Lemonaka on my Usertalkpage at 23:57, 4 December 2023. This is what it said:
    • "Special:Diff/3411846, this is obvious sign of your proxy editing for a banned user. There's nothing about censorship, so I'm leaving this warn to you. "

Shall I continue?

Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 16:57, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

@Ottawahitech: On the contrary, I wish you would stop hounding Lemonaka in multiple forums, of which this is only the most recent. On November 22, you started a criticism of Lemonaka at the long-defunct Wikiquote:Admin accountability poll. On December 3, you started Talk:Benjamin_Netanyahu#Misuse_of_the_rollback_button_by_an_admin?, asserting that "original edits which were rolled back by our admin were done prior to the block of user Colonel Rogers, so could not have been done in defiance of their block." On the contrary, ColonelRogers was clearly a sock from the LibraryClerk sockfarm, so every single ColonelRogers edit was by a blocked/banned editor. Your defense and re-instating ColonelRogers edits at Benjamin Netanyahu on December 3 was probably an added reason for Lemonaka to see your defending and re-instating ColonelRogers edits at 2023_Israel-Hamas_war on December 4 as proxy editing. On December 6, you started Talk:2023 Israel-Hamas war#Am I "Proxy editing"? in addition to this thread right here. Lemonaka has withdrawn the mistaken "proxy editing" comment. But rather than similarly apologize for your uncivil edit summary and its failure to AGF ("this is not a cleanup -- this pure censorship"), you complacently tell us that "I can be blunt sometimes." So please stop, I'm bored. HouseOfChange (talk) 05:29, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Okay, seemed the place for discusssion is here, I'm copying my previous answer here.

• “@UDScott
  Sorry for being late, I was checking the edits from these puppets and I found a quote they added to the content page so I decided to remove it. I misjudged it as a POV-pushing. Regarding this case, I regret that it was a wrong judgment on my part, and I admit that this is my fault. After they submitted this question today, I also asked Koavf, Antandrus and Ferien for advice.
  I have to admit that losing enough judgment and acting hastily is indeed my problem. But I've been a little stressed recently because this user kept mentioning me, from Wikiquote:Admin_accountability_poll, to the recent accusation of problematic rollbacks, to today's situation. I'm trying my best to explain my actions to them, but it seems a little bit difficult. I'm not censoring any quotes as they accused.
  I have never thought of myself as a ruling class, instead I always thought of myself as a helper. In previous conversations, I have also mentioned how I should better serve rather than manage. I could withdraw my warning and apologize, none of that would be a problem, my only question would still be, "how can I do better?"
  I'm quite sorry, but I really don't know what's more I should explain. ” — 8 December 2023 (UTC)

-‎Lemonaka‎ 12:40, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

@Lemonaka: It is fine to treat this as a learning experience. Recall that, despite any errors you made, you never said anything to another editor as inaccurate and offensive as "this is not a cleanup -- this pure censorship." People in this discussion (other than Ottawahitech) did not pile onto you for one mistaken comment but instead defended you as a good contributor. Likewise, when Ottawahitech accused you in Talk:Benjamin Netanyahu of abusing rollback, his undo of your rollback was quickly undone by @Philip Cross:, and you even got a nice compliment from @Koavf: as "a long-term user like Lemonaka who is a trusted member of the community." There is no consensus here that you deserve rebuke or reproach, if anything-- as the seasick Frenchman said when asked if he had dined--"Au contraire". HouseOfChange (talk) 03:12, 10 December 2023 (UTC)