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First I'd like to say I appreciated your detailed information at the top of you talk page and your seeming interest in being civil. I'm simply curious why you imposed sanctions on me. To my remembrance I have not made any edits related to either of those topics. The topics I've made edits on and am interested in are biology, modern American politics, modern Canadian politics, American History, Climate Change, media, and economics. So really I'm just confused. Thanks, Viktory02 (talk) 09:29, 29 November 2021
Thanks, I haven't been doing this a long time Viktory02 (talk) 15:50, 29 November 2021
Why did you undo my edit in Biblical Cosomology-Teertrevo[edit]
Hi Mr. Weller!
I noticed you removed my edit on Biblical cosmology, where I removed the incorrect interpretation of Revelation. Is there any reason for you doing so?
Thanks!
-Teertrevo (talk) 15:50, 29 November 2021
User canvassing editors to a RFC and making personal attacks[edit]
Hi,
There's an user canvassing or attempting to canvass editors to an RFC, see Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard#The Wall Street Journal. The RFC is here.
The problem, as I see it, is the non-neutral message and the selection of audience, notifying only FTN (that problem has been mitigated by others).
The same user is also making personal attacks against other editors in the same FTN discussion. I have trouble deciphering what "ordering milkshakes" means. Is that some kind of physical threat or culinary advice? Cheers, Politrukki (talk) 12:22, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
- Non-neutral wording in a noticeboard notification is not good, nor are personal attacks, but it's not canvassing. Calling it "canvassing" implies that readers of the notification, i.e. regular watchers of FTN (who can take note of the notification and – being mature individuals – just ignore the caustic phrasing) are inherently biased. –Austronesier (talk) 13:29, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Politrukki: posting to FTN isn't canvassing, and of course anyone else is welcome to post elsewhere. Pretty sure this has been discussed before. Doug Weller talk 16:52, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
- That is not what I said. Should the combination of targeting a specific audience with biased messaging and lodging egregious personal attacks, likely threating the target with violence, be considered okay? Politrukki (talk) 14:19, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Politrukki: I don't know why you've chosen to post here, but I'm not getting involved. As you know, there's always ANI. Doug Weller talk 17:09, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- That is not what I said. Should the combination of targeting a specific audience with biased messaging and lodging egregious personal attacks, likely threating the target with violence, be considered okay? Politrukki (talk) 14:19, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Editing from behind a VPN/proxy[edit]
Hello, I'm contacting you as per WP:IPECPROXY because you are listed as a Checkuser. I use a VPN service to circumvent internet censorship in Russia. Usually, I turn it off to edit Wikipedia, but this is inconvenient, and makes it especially difficult to cite web sources that are blocked in Russia. My account is over a year old and in good standing. Is there any chance of having the block on VPN/proxy-editing removed for my account so that I can edit using a VPN? Many thanks, Akakievich (talk) 20:40, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Akakievich: sometime I must find out how and when to do this, but I don't. Could you go ahead and email checkuser-en-wpwikipedia.org please? Sorry for the delay, I've been busy. Doug Weller talk 17:07, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- No bother at all, will do. Thanks for your prompt reply! Akakievich (talk) 15:40, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2021[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
Administrator changes
A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid
Technical news
- Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
- The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
- The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.
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Hey I just want to let you know I am not trying to be enemies with you. I want the same thing with Wikipedia as you do, a free encyclopedia. If you feel like I’m being a bigot please let me know.Teertrevo (talk) 17:52, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
Duck?[edit]
I'm wondering if you think this new SPA's behavior looks like a duck for Mikemikev? To my far less experienced eye it seems to be, based not only on the unrelenting racialist POV-pushing but also the pattern of hectoring opposing editors on their user talk pages [1], [2], [3], [4]. Folks are currently spending time responding to this user's demands for attention and it seems to me like a waste. Thanks, Generalrelative (talk) 01:51, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- Also makes the same claim that race being a social construct would be some fringe American view... —PaleoNeonate – 03:28, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Generalrelative and PaleoNeonate: looking into it. I've also consulted someone else. Doug Weller talk 15:02, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- Blocked along with Absolute Plonker. Green Substance, Jumble Sale Hat and Bald Vegetarian are part of the same stable. Doug Weller talk 16:57, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- Many thanks. Generalrelative (talk) 17:37, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- Hi Doug. Given the current time-wasting sock edits to talk pages covered by DS/R&I, might it not be time for admins/arbs to consider semi-protecting some of those talk pages again? The notice {{Trolling}} seems to have had the opposite effect. Cheers, Mathsci (talk) 14:15, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
- Many thanks. Generalrelative (talk) 17:37, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- Blocked along with Absolute Plonker. Green Substance, Jumble Sale Hat and Bald Vegetarian are part of the same stable. Doug Weller talk 16:57, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Generalrelative and PaleoNeonate: looking into it. I've also consulted someone else. Doug Weller talk 15:02, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that this is Mikemikev as well: [5]. Their contrib history begins with this comment at ArbCom yesterday: [6]. Thanks, Generalrelative (talk) 16:08, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Generalrelative: the name and the big duck going QuackQuack on his userpage were also clues. Same sock farm. Thanks, well spotted. Doug Weller talk 16:41, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Collapse request at J.K. Rowling Rfc[edit]
Hi Doug,
Not sure if the ongoing Rfc about J. K. Rowling's views on transgender-related topics is on your radar or not. It started 28 November, and is already very long. Being on a controversial topic, it's not surprising that the discussion has become heated in places, and there are already four portions of it that have been collapsed by various editors (not me), for good cause in my opinion, in order to keep the discussion on track.
There is another portion of the discussion that I believe should be collapsed, but as I am involved I don't think I should be the one to do it. It can be found in subsection #Response count. This subsection was initiated 21:52, 3 December 2021, and includes a table of editor names, and how many times each editor has contributed to the Rfc. As a result, one named editor has quit the Rfc, "and the entire topic area", in a huff. The rest of this subsection is about and among editors, and not about the Rfc topic. In my opinion, this subsection, or parts of it, richly deserves collapsing.
Can you have a look at the #Response count subsection of this Rfc, and see if you think any action should be taken? Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 21:02, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Mathglot: sorry, I've looked at that and although I don't like the table, I'm not happy about doing anything right now. I'll look again tomorrow. Doug Weller talk 20:31, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled[edit]
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)