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Unhelpful advice
Hello, I see a couple of my edits have been reverted as unhelpful, I thought I'd seen many people say stuff like that when replying to requests, sometimes even in the decline itself. So could I get insight on which part of what I wrote is the problem? N1TH Music (talk) 05:03, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Ask your mentor. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 05:37, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
She probably won't be online for another 10-12 hours. I don't see why just because she's my mentor, you, the person who reverted my edits can't be the one to tell me what's wrong. After all you were the one to unblock me in the first place, you aren't some random editor in my mind. N1TH Music (talk) 05:45, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
I do not wish to engage with you. Stick to editing articles, fixing vandalism, that sort of thing; you don't have either the experience yet to act in an advisory fashion to other editors. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 05:52, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
So there haven't been any problems with me editing articles or trying to fix vandalism, just don't give advice to people because I myself am inexperienced? N1TH Music (talk) 06:00, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
No, there have been plenty of issues with your editing, which basically is nearly as bad as before your block. But your "advice" is the most harmful and visible, so that's the part that gets reverted the fastest. The reintroduction of large sections based on either nothing, or maps, or misinterpreted sources, gets overlooked for longer. Enjoy your stay while it lasts, as it probably won't be for much longer. Fram (talk) 07:45, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
@FramThe reintroduction of those things is meant to be temporary before I can get on to rewriting everything properly, if you must, revert them, I won't complain. N1TH Music (talk) 13:15, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
"Content disputes are not vandalism."
Yes, while content disputes (e.g. associated acts) are, indeed, not vandalism, removing reasonable templates (e.g. "More citations needed") and adding rightfully challengeable content (e.g. an unsourced birthdate) is, and I'd like to know why you think otherwise. L337m4n (talk) 22:28, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
Even if misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, any good faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism. -- WP:VANDALISM. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 23:00, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
This reminds me of a similar situation involving a user by the name of EthanRossie2000, who kept removing the "More citations needed" template from Ross O'Donovan's article. Even though adding the birthdate may be in good faith, "citation needed" templates that are placed in the article for a reason must not be removed per H:TEMPREMOVE. L337m4n (talk) 00:07, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
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Yup. And it still not WP:VANDALISM. And unfounded accusations of WP:VANDALISM are personal attacks; the way the two involved editors were flinging vandalism accusations at each other is unseemly and if repeated will lead to further sanctions. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 01:40, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
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Geldof and Brenda Spencer
Hello - Geldof has said many different things about where he was when he heard about the "I dont like Mondays" thing. Last year he said he was in LA and heard it on the radio. I added "claims" after reading that the small college station did not have a telex machine. Thought I'd explain a bit. Fishplater (talk) 09:14, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
Then explain more in the article; casting doubt on a source by replacing "said" with "claims" requires support in the article for the doubt. Or it could just say "said" with a source. (This is also what edit summaries can be helpful for.) --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 14:19, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
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Immediate reversion would have been my knee-jerk reaction too, so you just beat me to it. But part of me thinks that maybe it should have been allowed to remain, to make it evident that we really are steering an NPOV course and not just being western imperialists determined belittle Asian perspectives. But it was pretty nasty so I'm certainly not going to put it back. Food for thought, though... 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:03, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
I guarantee you I will always revert comments ending in Nazi slogans. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 16:07, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for dealing with May1787
A real pain. I thought they must be a sock but hadn't a clue how to prove it. Doug Wellertalk 07:02, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
I noticed a newbie templating a regular, and it just stank of dirty socks. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 14:29, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
She is pretty wacky, isn't she? Ironically, just finished watching an old re-run of I Love Lucy.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:06, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
What do you think?
Is WhichUserAmI's username and his troll-like vote at the current RfA enough to warrant a check? To be clear, I'm not suggesting that the user is a sock of Athaenara.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:32, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
I kinda think any username like that and troll-like behavior warrants an immediate check, yeah. But, not being magic pixie dust, checkuser often instead shows that miscreants know how to evade it. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:39, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Heh, thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:00, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Looks like there is evidence of socking.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:07, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
A real WELL user?
I was reviewing some very, very old Signpost archives (as part of a project to reconstruct the entire history of the publication), and reading about the ArbCom election of 2006. In your candidate statement you mentioned having posted on the WELL. Cool! I am always on the prowl for people who have been involved with things like that (as my own posting career goes only back to 2003 or so, and all I know of times before that is fragmented from brief snippets I've read in my travels). Would you enjoy being asked a bunch of ignorant questions about it at some undefined future point? jp×g 19:06, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
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"Differences between versions of an article are highlighted."
Hi, in the "Openness" paragraph, in the caption, there is an end point. It's correct that captions end without a period, as has always been the case on every page. Thank you.
"Differences between versions of an article are highlighted."
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I have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:53, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
Simply, the captions must always end without a period. I was saying double check all the image captions on the "Wikipedia" page, because some have the period at the end. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.82.131.106 (talk) 17:03, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
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Please review the template you added here. It doesn't seem to have ended up in the right place. Thanks. General IzationTalk 02:33, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
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This user
You blocked this user User:AnimalEditor but you forgot to global block this user and still doing [1] cross wiki edits and also using multiple accounts [2]. 117.227.24.191 (talk) 09:56, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
I don't do global blocks. (No reason, just never have had a reason to do it.) --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:26, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
Danny Elfman Mystic Knights join date
Hey since you don't want to trust my sources, a quick look on Richard Elfman's Facebook shows a photo including Danny and it was taken in 1972. Jan Munroe also posted a promo photo of the group from 1972 with Danny in it. Danny also said in his most recent podcast appearance that he joined the group 6 months after formation. TitanicFog (talk) 04:28, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, I noticed you blocked User:Lively Toad indefinitely for vandalism. However, I can't find the vandalizing edits? Did you perhaps block the wrong user? Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 22:18, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
I also noticed this via the RfA and thought I'd ask about it. Is there an error here? Are they a sock-puppet who you accidentally tagged as a vandal, perhaps? Or did you simply not mean to block them? —Ganesha811 (talk) 00:18, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
I must have been moving too fast and blocked the wrong person, but I couldn't for the life of me tell you who it was supposed to be! I've unblocked and apologized. Thanks for calling it to my attention. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 01:09, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
JP, I don't think anyone ever notified you of WP:ANI#Jpgordon, which is now closed. Are we sure the user is not a sock?--Bbb23 (talk) 13:31, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Nope. But obviously I was doing some brain farting yesterday. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:16, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Well, your mistaken block turned out to be prescient.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:02, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
When jumping the gun turns out to be the right move! Also, I'm mildly flattered that LivelyToad apparently mistook me for an admin ("...after being pressured by at least two administrators"), but not too flattered since they turned out to be a troll. —Ganesha811 (talk) 20:59, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
It does speak kinda loudly to how quickly I put these trivial annoyances out of my mind; without the CU log I'd have no idea whatsoever why I blocked him. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 21:56, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm not too surprised he turned out to be a sock. (Actually, scratch that, I'm not surprised in the slightest.) I just wanted to verify the reason for the block since it didn't make sense. ;) Thanks for double-checking, even though he did turn out to be a troll! Reaper Eternal (talk) 00:49, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Block Baby
Just a heads up, they broke 3rr editing logged out (🦆), which is why I blocked. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:13, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hi - I noticed you made a review of a request to unblock of the above user. However, I'm a little unsure of the situation. Just wanted to indicate it appears however, they still have access to draft space. I just declined an article on an SS marching song they had been working on and resubmitted. You declined the unblock on 4 November 2022, the user resumbitted the draft for consideration on 5 December 2022. What confuses me is I can find no record in the block log either via the username or the block ID. Is the user actually blocked? Regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 00:37, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, that's an odd one. I've blocked it now. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 01:22, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Sockpuppet
Hello, I read your comment about the sockpuppet on Talk:Ronald Reagan. Is there any chance you could check if the IP editor is the same as the sockpuppeteer? I only ask this because the timing of their edits are close to each other. Thanks, Wow (talk) 21:26, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Checkusers aren't supposed to publicly link IPs to accounts. Hey, I'm about to revert the sock's edits; could you restore your own when I'm done? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 21:28, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Oh, you beat me to it, good. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 21:29, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
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Edit war
In the Monty Hall problem, where is your proof that there is an edit war? No one has posted anything disagreeing with my changes, except for user:MrOllie who merely said "previous changes are preferable" and did not respond to my points on the contrary. Did you look at the links I provided? The only reason my changes were undone was because of a typo. We confirmed this in EEng's talk page, so reimplementing my changes without the typo is not engaging in an edit war. If you could please revert your undoing, that would be appreciated. GabeTucker (talk) 10:15, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
You can discuss it on the article talk page. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:41, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I did, but nobody provided insight into the situation. GabeTucker (talk) 17:40, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Josh. I am hoping you'll be willing to help me update Adam Pritzker's article. Your broad Wiki interests, as well as your participation in WP:JUDAISM sparked my interest. I posted an edit request that is still pending several weeks ago, and would be grateful for your implementation of these changes. My COI keeps me from making these changes directly. Thank you in advance for helping me out. DCBPI (talk) 14:30, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
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YT
Why didn't you switch to the Russian article? it is also written there that he is 27... And the news says that he died not at 28, but at the 28th year of his life, which means 27 years and a couple of months.
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Socking
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Hi, I just blocked and tagged Biglangbuhos8 as a sock of Pinespunned, but I'm assuming there are other accounts. Can you tell me which ones? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:21, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
Regarding Supergabbyshoe, according to ceb.wiki, the account was blocked back in 2014 with this notation: "Vandalism (global sysop action): sockpuppet of LTA 2toy mora/Bertrand101". Any thoughts on whether these accounts should be connected to Bertrand101?--Bbb23 (talk) 20:44, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
No reason I see not to. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 22:24, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
Fine, I've tagged them all as suspected socks of Bertrand101. I realize that the four are probably confirmed to each other, but I'm too tired to double-tag, and it's not really all that important anyway. Thanks for your help.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:04, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
yeah, I'm probably one tick lazier than you. Thanks too. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 01:57, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
Thanks! First one in ages! --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 00:34, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
CU from a while ago
Is there any info still available about Magnoffiq, whom you CU-blocked on 11 October 2021 (either any stashed CU data, or who else was in the pool)? I see a recently-reactivated user that has some username and contribution similarities to Magnoffiq, trying to see what the situation is. DMacks (talk) 09:59, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
It looks like I checked User:Albertbelgium, then the underlying IP, then Magnoffiq, and didn't find any other interesting accounts. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 14:31, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
UTRS request for User:Seankelly2002
Hi there. I'm reviewing a UTRS request to unblock User:Seankelly2002. They were blocked 13 years ago by you, with loss of talk page rights due to persistent vandalism. In reviewing their request, I believe this was the work of younger person who to be blunt wasn't mature enough to edit here, and feel that they could be unblocked with no concerns at this time. I am conversing with them now on UTRS, but wanted to bring this to your attention that I may lift the block on your account. If you have a concern, please let me know. RickinBaltimore (talk) 13:29, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
Fine with me. Thanks for asking. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:04, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
puerile
um excuse my mr josh p gordon sir. what does this word mean????? 65.121.102.98 (talk) 16:08, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, JP. Did you see that Srj.cooldude denies using an AI to compose the unblock request you declined? "Everything I wrote was 100% my original and no third person or tools used, it's extremely sad to see entire appeal rejected on mere suspicion of chatbot disregarding the points raised in it." (What points? There were no points.) Also, they complain about you assessing their request too soon (some five-six hours after they posted it!), before it was ready. Yes, really. "I felt it was basic like a formal apology without going into the details and I was already in the process of revising and rewriting it but it got rejected before I could update the 1st appeal with description". It's all a very unusual way of proceeding. All I can say about the use of ChatGPT is, if they're telling the truth (frantically assuming good faith here) that they used nothing like that, then they're one of the world's worst actual human writers and thereby not a good fit for Wikipedia. Bishonen | tålk 11:30, 7 May 2023 (UTC).
I'd be curious to see just what it takes for a human to write something that the chatbot detectors think is AI. I've had some cases where I thought it was AI but the detectors disagree; I've not had any marginal ones I thought were human but detectors tagged as AI. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 13:31, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I sometimes monitor Wikipedia:Database reports/Ownerless pages in the user space noticed that User talk:Emergency-user-slap was there. I was curious and saw in the logs that it has been deleted four previous times, most recently by you. I wonder if it'd make sense to salt it and/or track down what's linking to that page? I fruitlessly did some searching. (I'm leaving it un-CSD tagged for discussion purposes but I assume I or someone else will CSD it soon.) Thanks. Skynxnex (talk) 01:35, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
Talk page stalker here. If I had to guess it's being linked from the template of the same name, specifically the template page itself. Maybe there's a way to fix it so that doesn't happen? SkyWarrior 01:42, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
@SkyWarrior ah yes, thanks. I had just looked at the source and hadn't quite connected the way it generated the destination URL will go to that user talk page from the template page itself. Skynxnex (talk) 14:23, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
Someone clever with such things could make it not work on its own page. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:04, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
Since I've never tried to do this level of template editing on Wikipedia, I decided to try in Template:Emergency-user-slap/sandbox to make it so it only renders those preloaded links if placed on a User or User talk page. I'll move it over to the main template at some point if there are no objections, in case either of you wanted to look. (And with this, I'll depart this talk page about this. Thanks SkyWarrior and Jpgordon.) Skynxnex (talk) 18:53, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
@Skynxnex and Jpgordon: I have a much simpler idea: maybe we could actually create User:Emergency-user-slap and use the user talk page as a sandbox for the template? I'm aware that a sandbox already exists, but we could also redirect that sandbox to the user talk (or vice versa). Of course, if someone with knowledge could "make it not work on its own page", then that's great too. I meant to comment this a couple days ago, but couldn't due to an erroneous global block placed on my IP (since resolved). SkyWarrior 01:22, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
Possible new sockpuppet
Back in March 2023, you blocked User:Pinespunned as being a sockpuppet of User:Bertrand101, and I believe there could be another sockpuppet, User:Bigbossgab, that has been editing some of the same articles that Pinespunned edited and started two weeks after Pinespuuned was blocked. Here is the Editor Interaction Analyser between the two editors, [3]. I never really know how to deal with sockpuppets and any help you could give me would help out. Aspects (talk) 18:49, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi JP, could you please run a check on the above account? See the claim of socking at the bottom of their Talk page. They've already evaded their block once with an IP who made the same edit to Talk:Adam and Eve as the master, but because of the dearth of substantive edits to any other article or article Talk page, I doubt I'll find any socks on my own.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:45, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
No useful evidence via Checkuser other than what you've found already. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 17:12, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
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One important moment: some people unironically cook dulce de leche by boiling a whole tin can, that may explode. Yet in 1940's, the Soviets used tin cans as bodies of frag grenades (see RG-42). A recipe-like bit of info is necessary to counter that meme. 2A00:1370:81A2:4AE2:707C:13AC:57F6:698B (talk) 09:12, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
And what does "unironically" mean here? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 13:26, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
Well, "Unironically" means not cooking a whole tin can for the thrill of it or the irony of cooking a tin of ready-to-eat condensed milk, but boiling a whole tin (not "tinful") without expecting it to burst if not handled with care. 2A00:1FA0:2E2:8FB4:0:4C:CD27:8101 (talk) 16:14, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
geez. Dunno. I mean, I did some pretty deep diving on the ancient history stuff, and if it's trolling, it's trolling and also writing about legitimate looking ancient history. (Legitimate looking only because I'm completely ignorant regarding sources for Middle Eastern history.) The "Wikipedian and the Vandal" story comes from Signpost in 2019, by the way. The Larpistan stuff? No idea. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 00:45, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, I knew you got a lot further on the sourcing than I did. (Google books would t show me ANY of the text of the sources, which is common for it and showing different amounts of content based on location.) Been a long time since I’ve seen apparently valid mainspace contributions combined with user space trolling (69 jokes get folks indeffed all the time, usually at AIV, after all). Just a completely bizarre case. Courcelles (talk) 16:12, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
One of the sources (Life and Land Use on the Bahrain Islands: The Geoarchaeology of an Ancient Society) was completely readable, which is how I concluded it wasn't utter trollery -- who the heck would research obscure histories of Bahrain for the purpose of trolling? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 16:27, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
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Oliveira e Costa
Unless there is another much less famous Oliveira e Costa, he's been dead a while. Bizarre. Doug Wellertalk 07:12, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
It's not an uncommon name. This one is historian João Paulo Oliveira e Costa (born 1962). Not, for example, José Oliveira e Costa, former CEO of Banco BPI (died in 2020), or the politician Rui Oliveira Costa (died in 2021). But I can barely see why Rosa should have an article in the first place. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 21:08, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
@Jpgordon Thanks, missed those, the historian seemed a relevant mention but dubious. Yes, I don't think they are notable. And I guess you know he keeps editing it. I worry that not enough people have him on their watchlist, and you know about my health. Good to see you there. Doug Wellertalk 07:01, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey, did you run a check against the user? Their edits scream sock. See also User talk:Drmies#You might wish to check. In case you're wondering, the user I mentioned is Freoh, and for the connection to that user, you'd have to look at the closure by Drmies at ANI last month that almost resulted in a block of Freoh. I can dredge up a link to that if you need it.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:00, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
Did now. Nothing interesting to be found. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 22:04, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
Thank you.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:07, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
Not a new user
Money Slot is not a new user: (1) their creation of a blank userpage and Talk page; (2) their posts to User talk:Ad Orientem's Talk page regarding Lloyd Bentsen, an article they've never edited; and (3) their posts to WP:RFPP regarding Nazi salute.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:10, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
Looks like zzuzz got it. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:19, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
(tps) Hi guys. So the history of Lloyd Bentsen, going back years, is full of CalebHughes. This is what he does. -- zzuuzz(talk) 15:20, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi, you blocked Manjuvenjaramoodu on April 30, 2023, as a sock but without identifying the master or any other socks. I'm thinking Bibin7 (created June 11) may be a sock of the blocked user. Can you check? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:00, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
@Bbb23, I blocked five (visible in my logs, Special:Log/Courcelles) “bibin” accounts at 15:15 and 15:16 today. All internally confirmed, and likely to Man. Courcelles (talk) 15:21, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
So, is Man the oldest account we know about? I'd like to tag everyone.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:00, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
I don't have any more than that either. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 16:18, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
Thank you both. Sometime today, I will tag everyone. I'm not going to worry about who's confirmed to whom, I'll just the tag the master as suspected and the socks as proven.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:58, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
CheckUser please?
Hi, Josh. I recently topic banned Starkex, and a brand new user, DeshJoShaheed23232, turned up on their page to shout obscenites in Sindhi. I've blocked the likely sock as NOTHERE, but hesitate about indeffing Starkex for the nasty insults (as well as other problems). I probably should, but I got what I thought was an obvious sock wrong a while back, so I'm a little nervous about it. Could you CU please? Bishonen | tålk 16:58, 24 July 2023 (UTC).
Well, DeshJos...32 is the same as User:ArdoSindhi and User:SindhiLatifiFaqir; I've blocked those for abusing multiple accounts. CU hasn't shown me anything interesting for Starkex. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 17:08, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
OK. Thanks very much. Bishonen | tålk 17:32, 24 July 2023 (UTC).
Galehautt
Don't you think it's a bit odd to unblock a user and decline their request to be unblocked all at the same time? :p Indeed, the language you use in the decline is accept language. BTW, on the merits, I don't predict good things to come from this user, but I suppose we'll see...or at least someone will.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:49, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I declined his original unblock because I thought he was being an asshole. I blocked him indef because I thought he was being an asshole. He promised to stop being an asshole, so I decided to give him a bit of rope. I figured it would be a little controversial. But since I was th original blocker... --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 00:59, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Not questioning your right to unblock, nor am I referring to your decline of June 30, but your decline you did today. See the section below this one. It just looks kinda funny, a little like those RfAs where someone puts the word Oppose in the Support section, intending to be funny, except I think your mistake was inadvertent, not an attempt at humor.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:37, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Oh! I didn't quite realize what had happened; I thought you were referring to my earlier decline. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 03:34, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Following this comment now, I don't have much hope anymore. Mellk (talk) 11:18, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi Jpgordon, I think that this comment — right after a ROPE unblock — is wildly inappropriate and a significant violation of NPA to warrant reimposition of the indefinite block. Regards, TrangaBellam (talk) 12:09, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Sir, you have accepted my request for unblocking, but you appear to have (by mistake?) declined to unblock in the same message. Just notifying politely Galehautt (talk) 01:02, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Pressed the wrong button! Thanks for pointing it out. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 03:34, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
And then you took the rope and used it. Sad. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 13:59, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Frontier CUN-MIA
Hey,
So I Was Gonna Add F9 CUN-MIA Since Its Not There. This Is A Bookable Flight As Flight 202. I Also Understand That You May Be Against It As CUN-MIA Is No Longer Bookable After September 5. Reason Unknown And In The Middle Of Investigating It. Please Add It. Thanks. Mmartinezmdr (talk) 16:59, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
why are you telling me this? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 17:34, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
since you restricted the CUN Page Mmartinezmdr (talk) 22:23, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
so put it on the article talk page. Someone will get to it if it's important enough. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 22:32, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, I am unable to access that account anymore I lost my password. I was told by an admin to use the unblock ticket system. When I sent it there they said I needed to put it on my talk page. What if I am unable to login what do I do then? I would like to be allowed back to edit if I do I would probably just create a new account as recovering is really hard I've read.
Also I apologize about the format of my request, I have had to repost it several different times including in the ticket area. I will make it more presentable. I keep getting denied but it seems to be how and where I am entering the unblock request. Everyone's making it seem like I got a chance to edit again, I'm just doing it wrong I guess. If there is no chance of being unblocked please let me know initially, that way I spare my time and yours 🙏🏻 99.242.158.198 (talk) 01:22, 14 September 2023 (UTC).
Am I somehow supposed to guess what account you are talking about? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 02:09, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
Thanks you for Unblocking
Hello, Jpgordon. Thank you for unblocking me. Actually, I requested that my account, Akevsharma, which has more than 5000 contributions and AFC reviewer rights, be unblocked. After that, I'll just be editing from Akevsharma only. Could you please unblock it? Best wishes. Farzanfa007 (talk) 02:32, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
OK, and I'll reblock this one! No problem. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 02:45, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I'm not super-familiar or experienced with sock-puppet procedures, but hoping you can expedite and take a look at Chiefofswatis. They added a similar list @21:20, 30 September 2023 to an article about a town and union council as Knightwithsword added to Swati tribe earlier the same day. wbm1058 (talk) 22:12, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm not entirely familiar with the guidelines for revoking tp access – would it be appropriate for the user you just blocked? Happy editing, Perfect4th (talk) 04:47, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
Entirely so. thanks! --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 04:51, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
WikiLovesEditing
That wasn't nice - now I won't get to see what they do next. Are they a sock, btw? --Bbb23 (talk) 15:43, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Quite so. Several other accounts doing the same nonsense. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:49, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Is there a known master? If not, what accounts do you know about? Might as well learn something today. :-) (I tried to post this a moment ago, and a new sock edited your page (now blocked by another admin).--Bbb23 (talk) 15:56, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
The last one is the senior account. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 17:19, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. Do you assume, though, that there is probably an earlier account? The common thread appears to be anti-semitism.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:13, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Any idea whose talk page were they copying from? That might provide a clue. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 19:19, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
and, yeah, almost certainly an earlier account. This is an experienced and smelly troll. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 19:21, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi – thanks for protecting Yahya Sinwar! You applied semi-protection based on persistent disruptive editing – shouldn't this article have extended confirmed protection based on WP:PIA? It "relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted" (and the disruptive edits related to the conflict). Joriki (talk) 18:37, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
Yup. I was doing it in a hurry, I figured someone would correct it if necessary. And Courcelles did. Thanks! --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 18:43, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
MarrakechGO
Hi, JP. Thank you for reviewing the unblock appeal of MarrakechGO. I just wanted to check if you saw the full text of their unblock appeal – they used {{unblock}} instead of {{unblock-spamun}}, which meant that the full text did not render properly. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:29, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
Oh ooops! Thanks for pointing that out. I'll revert. And correct the request --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 01:33, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
Declined unblock, checkuser confirmed sock
Can you help me understand your comment here? I had suspected this account as a sockpuppet before, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Jesteron27/Archive. But as far as I can see they have never been confirmed as a sock of another account. Is there anything public that I can see? ☆ Bri (talk) 16:34, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
I hadn't seen your SPI. I confirmed this as a sock myself. I'd be happy, as always, if another checkuser wanted to double-check my results. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 21:15, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Just trying to figure out what the sockfarm is since there's no SPI (or I missed one). I understand there's more than just InternationalPG ←→ InternationalPageant because Bbb23 said the CU data on those was too stale. I have a roster here of the beauty pageant sockfarms that I try to keep accurate. ☆ Bri (talk) 21:56, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Go ahead and file another SPI based upon my actions -- it will be good for the record. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 00:15, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
Forgive my confusion, I just realized that InternationalPG recently returned to activity. No further action is requested of you now. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:35, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Question
I noticed you declined an unblock request here as "checkuser verified abuser of multiple accounts". I'm assuming this means that the account is Confirmed to one or more previously blocked accounts, but you didn't specify the master or the other sock(s). Nor did you change the block to a checkuser block or indicate the master/sock in the block log. I feel like this makes it difficult for patrollers to keep track of which sock is which especially when reporting new ones. (The talk page is on my watchlist because I reported the account to UAA, but was curious if there might be an alternate explanation behind the name that I hadn't considered). If you're going to state publicly that an account is a sock, can you please be kind enough to also state whose sock it is? Thanks. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 17:56, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
No, in general I won't do that. I also almost never tag, especially in pure vandalism cases like this. But since you asked, this one includes User:9-11Attack and User:Pornhub2023; it eventually goes back to User:Timelash. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 19:49, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
I thought that any block based on checkuser evidence was required to be denoted in the block log? And this account didn't vandalize anything as far as I can tell, the only issue was the username. I'm not a particularly avid sock hunter and probably won't become one, but if there is no indication of the master, how are non-CUs supposed to be able to establish a paper trail for future reporting? Taking Out The Trash (talk) 21:12, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
I know of no such requirement. Perhaps I've missed something (in the almost 20 years I've been a checkuser); leave me a pointer to such a policy if that's the case. If someone happens to file an SPI to document this case, the paper trail will sort out there. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 21:56, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:CheckUser#CheckUser blocks states that Checkusers can block accounts based on technical (checkuser) evidence. They will make clear in the block log summary that they have blocked as a "checkuser action", usually by including the {{checkuserblock}}, {{checkuserblock-account}}, or similar templates. You declined the unblock request with the reason of "checkuser verified abuser of multiple accounts"; this, to me, indicates that your rationale for declining the unblock involves CheckUser evidence and therefore your decline is a "checkuser action" since non-CUs can't see the evidence/information that led you to make such a conclusion. Therefore the block log should be modified to indicate this. While I can't find any specific policy in regards to identifying the master, I feel like it's just best practice and common sense to make note of this, assuming a specific master is known/can be identified. It probably makes sense not to formally tag the user page in certain situations (especially cases like this where the username is inappropriate), but at least making a note of the master in the block log is helpful for non-CU/non-admins who might have an interest in a particular case for whatever reason.
This is probably worthy of a more general/broader discussion too, since I have a feeling that practices amongst different admins and CUs aren't the same, and it would be nice to have some uniform community-wide guidelines/expectations. This issue extends far beyond this one troll account. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 00:10, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
I was suspicious right on September 17, and checked it then, but didn't find any smoking gun. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 22:58, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
I looked farther and am sufficiently confident, so have blocked. Gave some (but not all) of the evidence in the block summary. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|she) 18:12, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Football socks?
Shiv5523, a brand new account, was trying add some unsourced blatantly promotional material to Ben Stokes a couple of days ago. CosmicEntity01, not so new but not very many edits, comes along and adds the same material, this time with a source (not a reliable one, so I've reverted). CE01 has made similar promotional edits to other footballers (I think that's all they do), but I haven't reviewed them for sourcing. They both use the same editing platforms. Socks or coincidence?--Bbb23 (talk) 21:07, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
They're in the same country but that's about all I can say; one uses just iPhone and the other just desktop, and otherwise are entirely generic user agent strings. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 21:40, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, Jp.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:07, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
SS United States top speed disagreement
Hi, if you feel that a claim for the reported top speed of the ship is relevant, then I'm not going to get into an editing dispute.
What seems to be your issue with the edit in question? Is it not reflective of accuracy? You arent providing any kind of sourcing etc to the contrary to label any of those edits as disruptive. I would argue your dismissal of the factual evidence is far more disruptive, so please explain your actions thank you. 65.93.214.95 (talk) 16:42, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
The article talk page is the appropriate place to discuss your repeated attempts at a WP:BLP violation. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 16:59, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
No ill discuss it here thanks. I didnt try and violate anything, the post was accurate, reflective of both sources and the only one who seems to have an issue with it is you. So what exactly is your issue? Was the edit inaccurate? did it lack context? the entirety of said Wiki on blackface lays it out crystal clear that yes blackface is indeed mockery of people of colour and extremely racist. So why ignore this exactly? The guy who made the video of Trudeau doing it literally was doing a video for comedy, literally mocking black stereotypes this is factual. So again what seems to be your issue? 65.93.214.95 (talk) 20:05, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
The article's talk page is the appropriate place to discuss this. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 21:15, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
The Sausage Grinder
Hi, I noticed you (understandably) removed the accusation of racism from Talk:Greg Abbott, posted by The Sausage Grinder. Although created on November 15, this is not a new editor:
Colorful username
Second edit created a userpage confirming the attention-grabbing username
Edited Virtuous Pedophiles, an article I'd never heard of - and would have been just as content to remain ignorant of it
I've asked TSG what other accounts they have. No response as of yet. If they answer, my guess is they'll say something about IP editing in the past. Enough to justify a check?--Bbb23 (talk) 17:49, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
Certainly not a new user. CU info is less helpful than it might be, but Blablubbs has CU-blocked possibly associated accounts. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 18:09, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the ping. This is Raxythecat (who has a somewhat unusual technical profile, cf. cuwiki). Blocked. --Blablubbs (talk) 19:02, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
Kinda thought so. Thanks. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 19:18, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
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Huh, that seems surprising. Loverofediting has a lot of socks, and I haven't looked at all of them, but after looking at a few, behaviorally they don't seem at all similar. In fact, Nesshunter's edits are so bizarre I don't see a behavioral pattern with any LTA I can remember. That said, I'd like to delete a lot of the rather weird pages Nesshunter created in their userspace. Based on your finding, can I do that per WP:G5?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:56, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Well, I'm not 100% sure, actually. I originally just denied the unblock request as "that's a lousy request", but followed up with a CU, and it popped up first on the same IP as a pile of Loveofediting socks. Agreed, the weirdness seems different and unfamiliar. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 23:02, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23
New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
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User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
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Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
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I must have edit conflicted you, sorry. Bishonen | tålk 22:27, 7 January 2024 (UTC).
thanks, that's never a problem. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 22:50, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Vandalism on article house of Romay
Hello @Jpgordon, I noticed a very odd page with bad grammar and little info, House of Romay. I was researching naval officer Ramon Romay. I realized it used to be a proper page but appears to have just been heavily vandalized by user @Giganoto48 that created the account today and only edited this article removing 90% of its contents and left the article in pieces, I assume hoping for it to be deleted. I looked at the previous version (before the three edits by this user Giganoto48) and there are real sources and content well written. I don't understand, I guess it must be a sort of targeted action to destroy the article as there were no efforts to add to it.
I quickly noticed a similar thing had happened before to this very page, and you @Jpgordon had the article House of Romay protected after encountering vandalisms by sockpuppets of a user with an entire investigation behind it: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alibarzanjilo/Archive. It seems it is happening in again with this new account, and since you were the protector before with the authority to freeze it, I thought I'd let you do the honors. it seems the previous edit on 4 December was the best final version https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=House_of_Romay&oldid=1188212676.
I also noticed the article has a Spanish version on Wikipedia, went on it and it was also aggressively edited/vandalised today by the same user Giganoto48: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_de_Romay
I suggest protecting it indefinitely or for a long period to allow for a proper investigation. Hope this was helpful. Not sure if the Spanish version can be protected too or if its a different jurisdiction. Benzeneshamus (talk) 22:45, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
I've protected it again. Spanish Wiki will have to do this on their own. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 00:16, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
@Jpgordon thanks. I came across this page as I was researching Naval General Ramon Romay, who is quite famous in Spain. I think I might have stumbled on a bigger issue at play with that page, as there seems to be a recurring effort to bring it down - smells personal, from what I gather. The last edits, by @Giganoto48, were very clearly vandalism, removing massive amounts of info without any attempt to improve what is clearly a decent article. Thankfully, you protected the page. That said, I saw another user now, @Mopertcasocp, chip in immediately after you protected the page, writing to push the negative edits. they have produced a series of very suspicious links that are very unprofessional, without sources (beyond one, which makes no sense and I debunk in the talk page). I couldn't resist researching this further, none of those pages are saying anything real, the pages seem fake (blogs passing as news), all have the same content (identical) and all were posted less than a 6 weeks ago.
So, I also reviewed the edit history, the edit warring that took place some time ago (for the exact same reason as now), and the eventual protection of the page. The accounts before were all discovered to be sockuppets trying to vandalize the page, and were all blocked with the page protected: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alibarzanjilo/Archive. It looks like this is a second round of the same, as BOTH these users are new accounts that have only edited the House of Romay page. I am relatively inexperienced here, so was hoping maybe someone more high up could review these users and perhaps place the page on a longer protection until all this could be reviewed. Looping @MusikBot II as they are also being mentioned in the talk page. Benzeneshamus (talk) 22:57, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
SPI blocks
Hello, Jpgordon,
I was looking at User talk:VonLumina and noticed that when you blocked this editor for block-evasion, you didn't post a block notice on the editor's talk page. That seems to be standard practice for other checkusers and admins who help out at SPI cases and I'd like to ask that you do this as well. If you use Twinkle to impose a block this happens automatically so that might make things easier. I find that I use Twinkle for admin and editor tasks continually when I'm on the project, it really helps because you don't have to go looking for the template you need to use. If you haven't used it, I encourage you to try it out as it makes doing admin tasks so much easier. Thank you. LizRead!Talk! 00:18, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
German language sock
I saw you blocked Mrfritz2000 and a bunch of others that had been active at Talk:Israel saying that German was an official language. I just blocked Baleteesman and Schamuel345 as obvious ducks. I didn't see any tags, and I don't know if you actually CU'd them, so I figured I'd pop by and let you know they're still at it, and you might want to take a peek for any more. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:33, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
oh! I meant to checkuser-block all of those. I did CU-block the new ones today, though. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 00:17, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
I blocked two more today that seemed to have slipped by. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 00:20, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
Wardell Gray
FYI, the numbers that you (appropriately) removed were reference numbers to the former discography which was largely removed in Sept, 2023, but the references were *not* removed. I have written to the editor about what discography issues they thought were problematic, because a lot of important releases are no longer included. I did reinstate the publication years of the "Further Reading" section.Finney1234 (talk) 01:40, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, I knew what they were, but they made no sense in context. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 01:41, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
Oh! I hadn't realized what had happened, and my regex eliminated those years while it was doing the other things. Faulty proofreading on my part; thanks for catching it. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 01:29, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Responsibility for the Holocaust
Your edit to "internationalism" from intentionalist is entirely incorrect. The debate is called the intentionalism-functionalism debate. Yes, these words seem odd to non-historians or people without expertise in this subject matter. It centers on the manner in which the Holocaust developed and who was responsible for it. While I realize you're an administrator, I am a subject matter expert, who provided most of the content for this page. Please review the change more carefully, as what you are introducing will only create confusion. Yes, I realize it was wrong in the Summary paragraph, but that likely stemmed from somebody making a similar change to what you did based on their unfamiliarity with the terminology. How it went unnoticed, well...we are only human and busy with other matters. Obenritter (talk) 20:43, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
I think you have this backwards. I was fixing this piece of vandalism. I did step on one of your edits in between; I apologize for that. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 06:54, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
Oh -- LOL. It happens. Sorry if there was confusion. Thanks for staying on top of the usual drive-by unregistered user crapola. :) ...--Obenritter (talk) 15:26, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
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--jpgordon Hello, sorry to bother you, but this is a clear violation of the rules Wikipedia:Harassment by this person @WikiEditor12345671231, 2 For my violations, I have already been punished enough and am in an eternal topical ban. In this case I did not violate anything, this is an unfounded accusation. Sincerely. Товболатов (talk) 15:56, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
That another editor chooses to monitor your adherence to your topic ban is not harassment, in my eyes. That you don't think adding or deleting Chechen ethnicity from an article is a violation of that ban is the actual problem. Feel free, however, to bring this to WP:ANI if you truly believe you have a case. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 16:54, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Had a look, cos I couldn't resist, and you have my sympathies. — Usedtobecool☎️ 11:53, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Oh, I don't give a damn about the content there; I'm just reacting to thrash. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:01, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Please check on these challenges with Wikimedia Commons legal
The 46 second video of the Vietnamese patient exhibiting purported symptoms of hydrophobia is legally problematic for two reasons, and intellectually for a third.
First, it is reuse of CC A4 licensed materials contrary to licensing requirements, specifically, that "anyone may copy, redistribute, reuse, or modify the content as long as the author and original source are properly cited" [See journals.plos.org/plosone/s/licenses-and-copyright.] This video does not properly attribute itself to/cite its source; the author and original source appear nowhere in direct connection to the video. (It is insufficient to expect a connection be understood to apply indirectly, through a Wikipedia editor's or otherwise experienced user's following the video to Wikimedia Commons, and thereafter to its source.) The reasonable expectation of those signing documents assenting to this licensing is that proper citation involves presentation of the PLOS citation in the article, in the legend of the image, or something similar.
Second, and a more serious concern, is whether applicable interpretive frameworks regarding the CC A4 apply to the secondary use of a video in a widely disseminated encyclopedia after its appearance in the PLOS source, given only the statement of informed consent that appears with the video in the original cited article. It is a reasonable ethical concern that the informed consent statement assents to the appearance of the video in that scientific article, without understanding (and therefore without consent) that it might be more widely disseminated as it currently is (e.g., with a thumbnail still of the deceased patient appearing in the article, per se). I am virtually certain this would not be allowed in the West under HIPAA-type privacy interpretations, and so I think it reasonable to question it in this case as well. Hence, this requires someone at the Commons with legal and ethical expertise related to the international equivalents of standard privacy, informed consent, and HIPAA-type patient protections, and review of the wording of that original informed consent statement, and whether it is in compliance with and justifies consent to the release of the medical image and video, as it now appears, in the context of applicable international laws and regulations.
The third, entirely scholarly reason, is that this use is actually a misuse of a primary source, and without indicated support from one or more secondary sources. The interpretation that the symptoms being displayed are of "hydrophobia" from a rabies exposure are those of the primary source author, in a case study. As an assertion of a single primary source, we are to view them as possibly correct, but possibly not; that is, under WP guidelines regarding sourcing, as an assertion of a single primary source, it should not by itself, absent other supportive sourcing, hold a position of significant persuasive power (i.e., regarding how the symptoms of hydrophobia present) as this video presently does.
For any of these reason, the video might be best hidden from view. But until the Commons provides a formal legal perspective on the privacy and informed consent issues raised, until such allows its use, I believe the video should be removed from view.
Wikimedia Commons has its own policies and more to the point its own set of administrators; I have no authority or any influence there. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 23:42, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Can you tell me who the above user is confirmed to? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:46, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Srimonbanik2007, as you suspected. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 00:37, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:18, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
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A new user, SigmaGamerBro has been white-washing the article. They were reported to WP:AIV, but it was declined because of insufficient warnings. I left a 3RR warning on their Talk page but did not revert their last edit because I wanted to be able to act administratively had they continued edit-warring. However, another editor reverted them. Then, Bongo0819 reinstated SGB's edit and added some additional white-washing of their own. Bongo is not a new editor, but they have only a handful of edits, and up to now, all their edits have been gnomish and none to controversial articles such as Visegrád 24. Could you check it out (so to speak)? Thanks. Addendum: while I was writing this, Raiden5255 has rather extensively rewritten the article (and not very well). Doesn't look like a sock to me, but I just thought I'd mention it.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:40, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
Nothing interesting (CU-wise) to be found. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 17:20, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi! A little over two months ago, you unblocked Logosx127. This unblock was came following their indef for socking (having previously edited at Br Ibrahim John). I initially did not intervene to prevent this unblock despite receiving a private message from an editor who participates on both EnWikipedia and Malayalam Wikipedia which expressed that I should reiterate my concerns regarding Logosx127 (I can post the contents of that message upon request and I can contact the sender to determine if they are ok sharing their identity). Logosx127 has returned to edit warring and adding unreferenced/poorly referenced content–exactly what got their original account blocked. I remain unconvinced that they did not participate in other instances of socking during their extended vacation, particularly since Logosx127 almost immediately reopened a debate on Syro-Malabar Church previously litigated by a sockpuppeteer that harassed me for months in 2022. I regret not speaking up earlier and request your opinion on what I should do about this. ~ Pbritti (talk) 22:50, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Let's see what the original blocking guy's opinion is. Bbb23, do you have any thoughts on this? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 05:49, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Looks to me like Logosx127 and Pbritti don't get along, but I'm not going to do a full-scaled investigation into whether Logosx127 has done anything sanctionable, and Pbritti hasn't presented much evidence. In addition, I'm a bit hazy on your unblock. Was Logosx127 denying that they were a sock or promising they would stop socking? In other words, what were the implied conditions in your unblock and is Pbritti saying that Logo violated those conditions? If Pbritti is saying that Logo should be reblocked having nothing to do with socking, then they should bring the matter to ANI with evidence as to why. I hope this makes sense because when I reread it, it sounds a bit convoluted.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:51, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
@Bbb23: Don't worry, you're making sense. I wanted editors involved in the unblock to take a look. If neither of you see something right off the bat that screams "we shouldn't have made that unblock" (not something that would need a longer investigation or ANI discussion), then I'm sufficiently convinced there isn't something worth pursuing here. Thanks for taking the time to check! ~ Pbritti (talk) 15:55, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Sorry for interfering here, but it seems fair to do so since the discussion is about me. I just want to get you informed that I am not involved in edit-warring but simply trying to protect the article from an apparent attempt of taking over/hijacking of the article by the complainant. I have been repeatedly trying to bring the user into discussion and consensus making but what I have received in return is threats, bullying and complaints against me. I request you to take a look into the talk page of the article to avoid getting misled by the said user's malicious allegations. Yes, I agree that I am at times at odds with the user, but that's purely based on the article pov. Honestly speaking, I really don't want things getting this way around (I mean to say I just don't want this dispute getting worser and lengthy). So I opened many discussions in the article talk, though sadly in a futile attempt, for dispute resolution. Hope a third opinion from you or someone else who likes to offer it can contribute to a solution in the same way as it did recently regarding the renaming of the article. Thank you. Logosx127 (talk) 18:34, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
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Confirmed to one or more previously blocked accounts, but you didn't specify the master or the other sock(s). Nor did you change the block to a checkuser block or indicate the master/sock in the block log. I feel like this makes it difficult for patrollers to keep track of which sock is which especially when reporting new ones. (The talk page is on my watchlist because I reported the account to UAA, but was curious if there might be an alternate explanation behind the name that I hadn't considered). If you're going to state publicly that an account is a sock, can you please be kind enough to also state whose sock it is? Thanks. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 17:56, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
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