When I use the Wikipedia app to edit now, it says you blocked this IP for "Trolling; obviously not here to contribute to the encyclopedia", with an expiry of January 26, 2025. However when I use a desktop, as I am while typing this, there is no block notice, and I have no message about this. Can you please clarify? 198.48.143.196 (talk) 05:19, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 198.48.143.196. I can't verify, but most likely the device you're using the app on and your desktop computer are connected to different networks, so each would have a different IP address, and only the IP of your app device is blocked. I can't see what the blocked IP is, though. You're free to edit from this connection, but if you see the error on your app again and would like to resolve it, then make an unblock request on your user talk page while still using the app. I don't use the app myself so I'm not sure where to look for that. Please see the guide to appealing blocks (especially the section on shared IP blocks), and use the unblock template ({{unblock}}) to make your request; your "reason" can be something simple like "I am affected by an anonymous IP block", and you don't have to try to explain "what you did wrong" like the instructions say.

Alternatively, if you have (or create) an account you can request IP block exemption, but we can only apply that to accounts, not to logged-out editors. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 14:07, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A few articles you G5ed were at AFD - see e.g Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yannik Taniwel and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Julius Sohilait. Please can you close accordingly? GiantSnowman 13:33, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@GiantSnowman:  Done. I can't easily see if there are any others, but let me know if there are more, or go ahead and close them similarly. Cheers. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 13:36, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks for the speedy response. GiantSnowman 13:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

re this note As an admin duck blocking, can I close the request? I thought that had to wait for a clerk and/or CU. Happy to help with that backlog if I can do so. Thanks for flagging. Star Mississippi 02:13, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Star Mississippi. No, I misspoke. You can pretty much go ahead and do anything that needs to be done administratively in a case (adding evidence, blocking users, etc.) but you probably should leave it to a clerk to actually change the status flag. There are sometimes non-obvious things that need to be done. Thanks for your help anyway! Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 15:22, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, thanks for clarifying! Have a good day. Star Mississippi 03:03, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ivanvector, I got a notice that I have been blocked from making any further edits by you. I have been a Wikipedia user for almost 15 years and now I would like to contribute when I can towards topics I am knowledgeable of. Yesterday I began work on what would be my first page. Upon working a little bit on the page I gave it a break and thought I'd save it, it appears I in fact probably tried to publish it. At the time I didn't realize that would send it out to be checked over, I just didn't want the little I had done to be erased. I hope the block can be lifted, I will indeed further detail the page I was working on and include more references and information. This is all very new to me but everyone has to start somewhere and I really would like to continue this in the future. Maybe you could even give me a tip or two on how to correctly go about and improve my method. Thanks and I hope we can come to an understanding. -Sorger740 Sorger740 (talk) 05:05, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sorger740. Your account is not blocked, and as far as I can tell there are no IP blocks that should be affecting you. It could be that you were editing from a different connection when you saw the block message, but I would need some more information to look that up. As long as you're able to edit with this account then you should be fine, but if you see a message about being blocked again then it should also have instructions for how to appeal, or how to contact administrators if it's a dynamic IP or open proxy block.

I can see that you created the draft Draft:Brigitte Calls Me Baby, and it looks like you did submit it for review even if you didn't mean to, and another user has provided some feedback on how to improve the draft so that it might be accepted. We generally don't delete drafts unless they're abandoned for at least six months, so it's still there for you to work on if you'd like to.

Getting an article on a band accepted is a bit of a challenge, because new editors often submit promotional articles on small bands that they're affiliated with, and Wikipedia does not accept advertising. We have high standards for notability for bands; you can see the general criteria here. In order to be accepted your draft will need to demonstrate, through citations to reliable sources, that the band meets our criteria.

I hope that helps some. Good luck and happy editing! Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 15:46, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the response I will check into it then, maybe I was mistaken. I am not affiliated with the band at all, but I am knowledgeable about them amongst other bands and topics I plan to write about. Aside from good references and good writing are there any specific ways to have a better chance to be accepted as a new Wikipedia contributor? Thanks again Sorger740 (talk) 18:36, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I thought your explanation here was quite clueful, not unusual for a fifteen-year editor and admin like you. You elucidated a larger political point that some editors somehow miss when they go down the route of jot-and-tittle adherence to rules. Chris Troutman (talk) 13:43, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! But almost none of those words are mine. The WP:CAPITULATE essay was shown to me by another editor in a discussion only a few months ago. I do think it's good advice for a lot of editors, though. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 15:47, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ivanvector,

I was looking into the situation with DIVINE that happened earlier today. I noticed some peculiar behavior at an AFD that seemed off but I didn't think it would end up as it did. Any way, in their talk page comments they mentioned SWAPD and I didn't know what that was. So, I did a search, found out it was a marketplace of some sorts and when I did a search for Wikipedia, I found this listing and then there was this. There were a few more. Maybe this kind of thing is well-known in functionary circles but this was new to me. Of course, there is no proof that these posts are being honest and are accurate. It's just so strange when editors you've come to know from working with just kind of implode like that. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:47, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I just digested the entire AN thread about this, which I hadn't seen when I posted this, and my observations now seem pretty petty in comparison with Usedtobecool's claims. But I'll leave my message here in case it is useful. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:58, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings Ivanvector, I write to you as an attempt to get a second opinion regarding my partial block on articles such as White Mexicans, the message on my talk page reads "During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection..." During the course of the dispute I did try to discuss as can be seen in the talk page [1][2], is the other editor who refused to discuss his changes. Besides that I invited the opposed editor(s) to discuss multiple times[3][4][5] and I also requested page protection [6][7], on top of this all I have to remark that I wasn't the one seeking to perform controversial changes but the one trying to keep the article on a stable/middlegroung version (as can be seen in the article's history, I'm not the only editor reverting Analyticalreview[8]). If I have reverted, it has been because the other editor(s) have been completely, deliberately irresponsive to Wikipedia's guidelines and they have left me with no other choice. To finish this message, after all this there's another sock account reverting without discussing anything already[9] and I say that it is a sockpuppet/puppeter because one cannot get more obvious than this [10], [11] with the later account being already blocked[12] (You may also find that the arguments the blocked sock uses are almost identical to those Analyticalreview and Uruguayan989 have been using in the last weeks). As I told to another administrator (Daniel Case) two days ago [13], the guy just switches accounts as if it was nothing. Pob3qu3 (talk) 22:54, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Pob3qu3: right above the warning you quoted it reads, in bold, "Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; Do not edit war even if you believe you are right." The page had already been protected because you were edit warring, and the very first edit after that protection expired was you restoring the content that led to the page being protected. You have also been edit warring on the same topic on other articles. So, rather than protecting multiple pages and making it so that nobody can edit them because of one or two editors' behaviour, I have instead blocked the editors most responsible from editing them. You can continue participating in the talk page discussion and working towards consensus. Also, please stop accusing everyone who doesn't agree with you of being a sockpuppet. If you keep that up you may be blocked from editing sitewide, and then you would not be able to participate at all. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 13:11, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings @Ivanvector, i would like to draw your attention at the Ahmedabad Titans page which is redirected to a Gujarat Titans, which is a team in IPL. To keep Ahmedabad Titans page doesnt make sense because the team were never been called by ahmedabad titans as such or it is never been used by that name. So if it is right to raise a deletion of this page or not, wants your view on this? If yes, could you please raise the deletion request for that? Curious man123 (talk) 09:52, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ivanvector,

I just came across four Draft talk pages from drafts you deleted earlier today. If you use Twinkle>CSD>Pick appropriate criteria, then Twinkle will delete not only the draft article but also the talk page along with any redirects that exist. It's not just you, by the way, it seems like there are several admins who periodically forget to delete the Talk pages when they delete the Article page. Hence, I'm posting this reminder in case you delete pages manually instead of using editing tools like Twinkle. Thanks very much! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:10, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Liz! I think that's actually from the CSD Helper script from User:Ale_jrb/Scripts. I might need to look at the configuration options, but it seems to get confused about talk pages. Sometimes it notifies me to delete a talk page that already doesn't exist, and other times it doesn't notify me at all, and then whatever happens it boots me back to CAT:CSD so then I have to go through my contrib history to follow up. I should probably just use Twinkle. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 19:15, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have created a page hours ago about a terrorist who has become active recently after 10 years. Therefore I created a page giving citation from three independent and famous news websites in our country. He has become active in the social media and asking for violence to his followers passively. So I felt there should be a page under his name so that people who don't know him should know his past.

I wrote nothing negative. Just wrote some neutral sentences with citing news articles, and thought of adding some more after sleep.

The page was deleted due to a speedy deletion under A7 tag. I was asleep so I couldn't challenge it. By visiting his talk page, it seemed to me that the person who placed the tag has a record of removing contents that lead to Islamic State.

What do you suggest? Kawrno Baba (talk) 05:58, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]