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Kinldy Review Draft:Team_Hacktivist_Vanguard . Techrd2000cork (talk) 16:09, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You had blocked this IP range and the sock who abused is now back. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Observer1989#18 April 2024. He is also ranting about my reverts[1] the same way he did with his last IP range. [2] Thanks Ratnahastin (talk) 11:21, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any obvious reason for thinking this is the same person, and I do see one striking difference in their editing pattern. JBW (talk) 11:52, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would urge you to recheck. His writing style is the same i.e. failing to capitalize the letter after putting the dot and also not giving a space; "reliable.the author"[3], "available too.there are other".[4] He is hounding my edits on other articles too [5] just like he did earlier. [6] Ratnahastin (talk) 12:16, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ratnahastin: OK, I've looked again, and the difference I thought I had seen was not actually consistent: both IP addresses sometimes do things one way and sometimes the other, which makes it far more likely that they are the same person. I will block the new IP address. There's also one edit that I've seen from another IP address in the same range, seemingly the same person. It's too large a range to consider a total block on the whole range, but I'll partially block the range from the pages those two IP addresses have edited. Unfortunately, it seems likely that they will come back on another page, another range, or both. Please feel welcome to contact me again if they do. JBW (talk) 12:54, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here too. He is back to his 2409 IP and restoring the edits of his sock IP.[7] Ratnahastin (talk) 12:42, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I had not seen this message when I wrote my message above, but I'll have a look at it. JBW (talk) 12:54, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, JBW,

I see you just did a mass article deletion of pages created by a sockpuppet but, for some reason, the tool you used left behind all of the Talk pages (see here). It's not a big problem as I run a Quarry query that displays all of the orphaned Talk pages from all namespaces (except for User talk pages) so I took care of them. But you might consider switching to an option like Twinkle's Batch Delete which will take care of deleting not only the Article page but also the Talk page and any redirects that exist, too. It's kind of a powerful tool though, as I found out the hard way, but it is another tool that is available.

I hope you are having a decent week (it is lovely here in NW U.S.) and thanks for all you do here on the project! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:17, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Liz. I thought I had things set to delete everything in all namespaces except File and User, but evidently it didn't do that. I have found in the past that the mass delete tool doesn't always do everything, for no obvious reason, so I'll take up your suggestion of Twinkle's Batch Delete, in the hope that it may work better.

I thought it was British people who were supposed to always comment on the weather. However, since you have asked, in the last few days it's become cool and showery, sometimes hail showers. (April, with his shoures soote, the droghte of March hath perced to the roote. Except that I didn't notice March being all that dry.) You don't choose to live on a valley side in the Western slopes of the Pennines if you can't stand cool wet weather. JBW (talk) 21:36, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: It's just occurred to me. NW U.S.? so no longer NJ? JBW (talk) 21:39, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @JBW hope you are well , and I would like to request for undeletion of this Draft:FlexClip deleted under CSD G11 and think it is not promotion

. Please restore the page so that I can make edits to it Thank you Alimahmuttr (talk) 08:53, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The suggestion that it was not promotion is absurd: it was absolutely promotion. Also, you need to comply with the guideline on conflict of interest and the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use relating to paid editing. JBW (talk) 09:22, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please read WP:ADMINSHOP, and don't continue to post the same request in numerous places. Your requests to have your spam restored have now been declined by three administrators; continuing in the same way will not only be futile, because no administrator is going to restore it, but it will also result in your being blocked from editing. JBW (talk) 09:32, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. You recently blocked an editor for this spam at WT:List of paid editing companies. Another account is now there adding essentially the same material. Thought you would want to know. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:23, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bri: Thanks I've blocked the account. JBW (talk) 22:11, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Whoever is using this IP today has been daring admins to block them again.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 19:48, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see you deleted File:Paul huff pkwy.png as a copyright violation. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any discussion about this being a possible violation. What was it that made you think so? Bneu2013 (talk) 23:11, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bneu2013: I didn't "think" so, I knew so. Fortunately 0x 2x tagged it as a copyright infringement, with a link to a photograph on Google maps, and when I checked I found that the photograph you uploaded is identical to the photograph at Google maps, in every detail, right down to the same car in the process of driving out of an entrance, in exactly the same spot. Why do you ask how I knew? You must have known that you had copied the photograph. Why did you claim, when you uploaded the photograph, that it was your own work? You must have known that it wasn't. JBW (talk) 08:38, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

just to add, on the left side of the deleted image, there was a visible (though easy to miss, it was transparent grey) Google copyright text 0x 2x (talk) 08:49, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, 0x 2x. I knew that would be there somewhere, but I couldn't easily see it, and since the copyright infringement was blindingly obvious anyway, I didn't bother to search for it. Now you've told me where to look, though, I can see it. JBW (talk) 08:58, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]