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Take a look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Oriental Aristocrat. Thanks Capitals00 (talk) 19:23, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The SPI is stale for a month now. Can kindly you issue the block? Thanks. Capitals00 (talk) 15:49, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dunno if blocking 92.62.71.236 indef was a mistake, but I just want to ask you because I saw the indef strikethrough and got confused. Toketaa^talk 14:57, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I have unblocked them. PhilKnight (talk) 16:20, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Hi PhilKnight. Can I ask why you protected this indefinitely? That doesn't seem in keeping with WP:PREEMPTIVE. (Please ignore my mistake in changing the settings, I reset it back to indefinite right away, but I still am wondering about it being indefinite.) Thanks. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 08:18, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Daniel, that was a misclick. I have changed the protection to 3 days. Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 09:13, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick fix and response, PhilKnight. Much appreciated. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 09:21, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My edit war with him was tough. There are some very hardcore trolls out there.. Alon Alush (talk) 18:28, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please restore my nomination at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Aquaveo? I see no reason for censoring the information about COI allegations wrt a number of article contributors, especially given our policies on socking. You can leave out the Wikipediocracy link if you prefer. Cheers, — kashmīrī ^TALK 03:02, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The link to Wikipediocracy is outing, so there's no way I am restoring it. I have restored the text per your request. PhilKnight (talk) 03:18, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. — kashmīrī ^TALK 03:32, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I may or may not have been too conservative in making it three days, but please feel free to adjust as you feel necessary, you'll have no objections from me. - Aoidh (talk) 05:52, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Three days should be enough. PhilKnight (talk) 05:53, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey - could you block User:This needs to be free from editing their own talk page? They are posting offensive remarks about groups of people.

User talk:This needs to be free Staraction (talk | contribs) 23:14, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Done. PhilKnight (talk) 23:16, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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		The Admin's Barnstar
		For your good work quelling the edit warring at Wikipedia:ANI. Much appreciated. JeffSpaceman (talk) 16:21, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 16:23, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what the extent of the vandalism is since most of the edits have been redacted, but 172.97.196.182 appears to be the same editor as

• 172.97.243.207 (on a one month block)
• 172.97.203.125 (on a for six month block)
• 172.97.169.41 (blocked twice, both expired)
• 172.97.137.78 (blocked twice, both expired)
• 172.97.193.61 (blocked one, expired)
• 2601:648:8782:5BC0:2161:BA43:E83A:C5D (never blocked)

They seem to like to edit Talk:Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 as well as adding the useless leap year information to articles. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 17:47, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info. PhilKnight (talk) 12:09, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I saw that you recently blocked a user by the name of Guy2024 for block evasion. Looks like there's one or two more accounts here.

This user page (by Okidontknowwhatisapeeson) was recently created, mentioning the blocked accounts, plus one unblocked one at Bruhuse.no. Both Guy2024 (here) and the presumably original account RANDOMISEDTOOMUCH (here) commented on that user page. Similar weird English & focus on topics like Mickey Mouse & Elsagate, plus no clear reason the accounts should know the others exist. Schrödinger's jellyfish ✉ 17:54, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Okidontknowwhatisapeeson (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 999HUHU (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• RANDOMISEDTOOMUCH (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Bruhuse.no (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Guy2024 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

The checkuser tool confirms they are all related. All blocked and tagged. Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 18:18, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Have a wonderful weekend! Schrödinger's jellyfish ✉ 18:19, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello PhilKnight. Not sure if this will help, but I believe you blocked a few IP's that have had edits reverted due to the infobox flag. You must have seen them, they usually have Materialscientist, Yoshi and Escape Orbit reverted multiple times in the history. I'm not good at sending links to people. Maybe I can type IP addresses here and you can see if a block is warranted. Special:Contributions/2.51.9.182, Special:Contributions/2001:8F8:1361:53A3:318D:E62D:E986:AF2F, Special:Contributions/2001:8F8:1361:3DB7:38D3:3880:BA63:23B7,Special:Contributions/2001:8F8:1361:13D:DC1F:35EF:75DD:AF4 and Special:Contributions/2001:8F8:1361:3DB7:3597:3403:23D4:9FD8. This is not ending and multiple addresses continue to be made weekly and/or monthly. You can check my contribution page if that makes it easier. You'll know when you see a bunch of Pakistan related reverts by me. I'm working on cleaning some up now. Thanks for your help. Regards, Bringingthewood (talk) 06:33, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I blocked another range. PhilKnight (talk) 17:19, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, thank you! I hate to bother you with these. Hope you don't mind if I send a link when I see it. I could continue using this message, not to litter your board anymore. Thanks again! Regards, Bringingthewood (talk) 22:15, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I went through the revision of a page they were destroying and found a few more Special:Contributions/2001:8F8:1869:7A6:9494:8B38:B6AB:34F9, Special:Contributions/2400:ADC1:1F0:400:D097:2466:A1DB:8B3C and Special:Contributions/2400:ADC1:1F0:400:940:4FA7:C4D9:AF96. You took care of the rest of that page already. I went back to the beginning of 2024. If they use 2023 IP's, I'll be sure to see them. Thank you once again for all the help. Bringingthewood (talk) 23:29, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Range blocking 2001:8F8:1869:7A6:9494:8B38:B6AB:34F9 would cause too much collateral damage. I range blocked the other 2 IPs. I would recommend stopping there - going in to 2023 would be diminishing returns as they would be stale. Thanks again. PhilKnight (talk) 23:47, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Yeah, I was getting that overkill feeling, so I stopped. They'll probably find a way again I'm sure. I'll just keep it current. Enjoy your week! Regards, Bringingthewood (talk) 00:05, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Contributions/86.99.22.157 Keeping it from March on. Thank you. Bringingthewood (talk) 01:16, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Blocked. PhilKnight (talk) 01:21, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I believe Special:Contributions/2.51.9.182 is back. Reverting them now. Bringingthewood (talk) 01:05, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for 3 months. Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 07:42, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

There is an IP who is posting personal attacks on their own talk page. The IP is already blocked so reporting to AIV would be of no use. Would you consider removing their talk page access?

Thanks - TLJ7863 (talk) 23:58, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TLJ7863, thanks I have deleted the page and revoked talk page access. PhilKnight (talk) 00:04, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! 🇺🇲JayCubby✡ plz edit my user pg! Talk 00:04, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for deleting the words, but a similar expression still exists in the page from yesterday. Is it possible to delete it? Egeymi (talk) 12:16, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. PhilKnight (talk) 12:23, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for deleting nonsense, hateful words which violate the spirit of our work here, --Egeymi (talk) 14:47, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please have a look at User:Cailoumarstan/Talk. You seem familiar with this. -- Whpq (talk) 13:36, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Blocked. PhilKnight (talk) 13:42, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Phil. In line with your note on your user page, I'm letting you know that I've unblocked Editing222 (talk · contribs). Thanks, Sdrqaz (talk) 21:52, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. PhilKnight (talk) 21:54, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

to say "Hey!" It's nice to see a name from the Olde Days, still active. Joyous! Noise! 05:39, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for stopping by. PhilKnight (talk) 05:50, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, could you delete the offensive edit summaries [1]? Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 19:38, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it has already been done. PhilKnight (talk) 21:46, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, can this be added here, the behavioural evidence confirms it [2] [3]. The IP range and the new user has been harassing me in en.wiki and the commons. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 15:33, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, sorry, but IPs are not usually tagged as socks. PhilKnight (talk) 15:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings Phil, I am requesting your attention to this obvious case of sock puppetry. Also please check your mail for some private evidence. Regards.   Maliner (talk) 08:53, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Received your email. Have commented on the SPI. PhilKnight (talk) 11:34, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much, Phil, for being so helpful once again. It seems Apaugasma is familiar with this sock master from the onset. I think their evidence might help to close this case sooner. Requesting Apaugasma to send their evidence to PhilKnight. Regards Maliner (talk) 12:49, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

E-mail sent. Kind regards, ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 13:27, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - I have received your email. PhilKnight (talk) 13:29, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you once again, Phil. Regards. Maliner (talk) 21:25, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi PhilKnight! We're conducting a series of participatory workshops with Wikipedia editors, administrators, researchers, and Wikimedia employees to discuss, and hopefully improve, Wikipedia's structures for online research (see meta research page). In an effort to get the right people in the room to discuss these topics, I'm reaching out here to see if you are interested in participating as an active administrator. We'd work with you to ensure this workshop can fit into your schedule, but are targeting end of April/early May. I'm happy to discuss any of these topics further here or on our talk page. Zentavious (talk) 14:26, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Zentavious, no thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 14:27, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about the tone of it, I do not know why I was in that mood in that moment. I hope no one else read/reads it Hey, and thanks for always keeping watch.

Usually, I leave detailed advice on the talk page but I saw you didn't, which had me wondering, there's nothing identifiable public right now, and maybe they'll not even return. So, maybe it's better to just watchlist and wait and see if something happens again. On the other hand, they may come back when you and I are both not watching and make the same mistakes. — Usedtobecool ☎️ 15:14, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I have watchlisted their user talk page, and will wait to see if they edit again. PhilKnight (talk) 15:18, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! — Usedtobecool ☎️ 16:23, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You deleted redirect Oil terrorists as an alleged attack page. Mainstream media sources such as [4] have discussed the use of terrorist to describe the activities of that group, so this doesn't meet the threshold of an attack page/redirect. WP:RFD could have been used, but speedy deletion seems incorrect here. Please could you undelete this? Joseph2302 (talk) 16:30, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have undeleted the page. PhilKnight (talk) 16:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Hi, firstly my english are badly because I'm from Hong kong. Hopefully you don't mind. I want to ask you for help because user Monerals delete some information in United States at the Summer Olympics. His edit behavior same as 89.23.108.177 and 185.42.163.210. I'm not sure nor they're the same person. But I think he did a disruptive edit and ask for your help. Thanks. Stevencocoboy (talk) 03:01, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Steven, I think you need to use the talk page more, and be prepared to ask for a third opinion. I don't think Monerals is a disruptive editor; he seems to be a cting in good faith. PhilKnight (talk) 06:32, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reply. But he did a disruptive edit and delete references in United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics just now (Special:Diff/1218006903), United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics (Special:Diff/1218006753) and United States at the Winter Olympics (Special:Diff/1218006616). Stevencocoboy (talk) 07:08, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]