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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thanks for all your help and the work you have put into this website! Cheers, 47.227.95.73 (talk) 22:47, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, my good fellow. Courcelles (talk) 15:19, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Oops

Please review the following edit you did, which reverted my vandalism clean-up: <diff> – 2804:F14:80B3:CB01:F07A:DFF9:38C3:787C (talk) 13:28, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Fixed. What did this fellow do, 50+ edits today to fuss at a referee! Courcelles (talk) 13:30, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
Just upset fans at a Grand Final I guess and I'm not sure on how common this is in Rugby, but news says the game had a 14-7 penalty count (and that he sent 3 Chiefs' players to "the sin bin").[1]. – 2804:F14:80B3:CB01:F07A:DFF9:38C3:787C (talk) 13:36, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
As an American, don’t get the chance to see much rugby, but, yikes, the vandalism. This makes me glad most college football refs don’t have articles, at least. Courcelles (talk) 13:49, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
In one of your recent comments I think has incorrect word, yikes. I think this word doesn't exist, because it is very similar to likes. I usually speak Spanish, so I may be confusing some English words. Leave me a message on my talk page if you think I made a mistake.178.95.99.242 (talk) 14:18, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
[2]. Courcelles (talk) 14:46, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't know earlier that word «Yikes» exist, thanks for bringing it to my attention. 178.95.99.242 (talk) 14:51, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
You have recently removed {{pp-vandalism}} in this edit from the article about Ben O'Keeffe, please restore the protection template. 178.95.99.242 (talk) 13:36, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
I reinserted the template. Tropicalkitty (talk) 13:39, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. 178.95.99.242 (talk) 13:41, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Undo edit request

Hello @Courcelles! Could you please take a look at the revision history for the page Bade Fateh Ali Khan whenever you get a chance? I believe the last 2 edits warrant an Undo -- I tried to do it but it won't go through for some reason. The entire Infobox has been removed and the edit itself is likely unwarranted. Would be great if the article could be restored to the version dated 23 August 2022. Thanks so much for your time and review. Priyanka2330 (talk) 06:52, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hi, Priyanka2330. I've reverted, since Courcelles hasn't edited for some hours. The IP probably meant no harm — they didn't remove the infobox, just didn't know how to handle the code. Also, yes, the edit was unwarranted as you say (no source, no article for the purported son). Bishonen | tålk 07:21, 25 June 2023 (UTC).
Thanks so much for your help, @Bishonen! :) Priyanka2330 (talk) 07:44, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, folks. And, @Bishonen is right, you caught me around 3 AM local! Courcelles (talk) 12:14, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
Thank you anyway, @Courcelles! :) Priyanka2330 (talk) 01:09, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

No range block for Honduras200010 IPs?

Hi, it looks as though you decided to block only the one IP for sockmaster Honduras200010, and that surprised me. See the previous range block history, consisting of three consecutive blocks, and note, as I'd explained, that the abuse picked up again almost as soon as the last block ended, a year ago, and it's been unrelenting since then. We have the 190.92s locked up for now, but then the user just comes over to this range and begins again. Can you please consider blocking this range to so maybe we can get a year of peace? Largoplazo (talk) 02:09, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Oops. Blocked the /20. Courcelles (talk) 02:11, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks! Largoplazo (talk) 09:30, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Another possible sock?

Road sign guy/gal Jermboy27 (talk · contribs) I've just noticed editor Wokingytp (talk · contribs) editing Stop and yield lines.

Sorry to dump this but I'm about to get some sleep, otherwise I would fill in the sock report. Knitsey (talk) 22:56, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

I was just going to file the report but you've blocked already. Thanks. Knitsey (talk) 23:02, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Blocked. Courcelles (talk) 23:02, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Piermark Sock

I noticed you protected the Piermark sock investigation. I have it on watch because I reported a load of socks at one point. There are 5 users with Piermark in their names that registered this morning which have since been globally locked (they appear to have posted on Italian Wikipedia. If I notice them in future should I report them even if they haven't posted on en.wikipedia? Thanks, Knitsey (talk) 14:33, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

If they’re already locked, don’t bother. A local block adds nothing. If they’re not locked, please do. If nothing else we can make sure the Stewards are aware. Courcelles (talk) 14:43, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
I put all 5 on my watch list but wasn't sure if I was being a bother if I asked about them.
If I spot more that are not lovked I will report them in future.
Ta, Knitsey (talk) 14:48, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
A locked account can’t even log in. It will take the password and just decline access, so if an account is locked nothing more will be coming from it, anywhere. Courcelles (talk) 14:53, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Block evasion by Bethsheba Ashe

72.105.28.178 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) at Gematria (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Skyerise (talk) 15:14, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Quack. Blocked. Courcelles (talk) 15:32, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Riddle me this

As my local CTOP go-to-guy, I have a question. At Template:Contentious topics/alert/first, there are four templates listed for gender-related disputes (({{subst:alert/first|gg}}, {{subst:alert/first|ggtf}}, {{subst:alert/first|gap}} and {{subst:alert/first|gas}}). All four have the description "gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them", and all four link to the same decision and topic specific subpage. So what's the difference between them? -- Ponyobons mots 18:14, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

They’re basically redirects. They all accomplish the same warning, and the differences is the CTOPS for this topic has evolved from the GGTF case, to GamerGate, to Gender and Sexuality. The scope evolved through a few cases to being the current broad one, so all the old case codes still work in the template! Courcelles (talk) 18:22, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
How very Department of Redundancy Department (sigh I miss DoRD)).-- Ponyobons mots 18:28, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

User talk:124.168.93.254

You may want to revoke talkpage access. Thanks. 2601:1C0:4401:F60:6827:5D38:B000:A130 (talk) 03:12, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Good call. Done. Courcelles (talk) 03:15, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Suspected Piermark socks (again)

AKC Metelkova mesto - Radio Študent and Radio Študent- AKC Metelkova mesto Knitsey (talk) 09:23, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Editing at HispanTV
User:AKC Metelkova mesto - Radio Študent and User:Radio Študent- AKC Metelkova mesto (I didn't link them correctly above) Knitsey (talk) 09:27, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
You came by on my overnight {I’m in the States}. Swept and blocked what I could find! Thanks for letting me know. Courcelles (talk) 11:39, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
Ops, sorry about that. I've had a look at the sock guidance and although I was ok filling in the report but I've kind of forgotten how to do it as I've not been editing for about 6 months.
If I find more I'm sure I can file a sock report to the existing report. Thank you, Knitsey (talk) 13:59, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
You can use Wikipedia:Twinkle to automate the paperwork of going to SPI. But I wasn’t complaining, just explaining why I took a while to answer you! Courcelles (talk) 15:06, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for erring on the side of caution

Hey Courcelles. I wanted to thank you for being willing to take action on that CHILDPROTECT issue raised at ANI, despite the fact that it was an edge case: I 100% agree that all factors and red flags considered, it made more sense not to take the chance. I didn't want to spill the wp:beans, because I didn't have a smoking gun to prove my suspicions, but I was virtually certain that editor was a sock of one or another of the LTAs that habitually POV push with regard to certain articles: one just gets a sense for their modus operandi after a while. After getting RfC'd to a discussion related to some of the same articles and issues a few years back, I began keeping an eye on certain pages that are recurrent sites for CHILDPROTECT violations. It's without question the single least pleasant thing I've ever had to be involved with on the project (you honestly might not believe some of the hair-raising, stomach-churning things I've seen people be willing to say on these talk pages), but having seen how tenacious some of these sockmasters can be, I've just never felt right about leaving these articles un-monitored for too long, ever since. All of which is to say, an admin willing to draw a firm line and act decisively on these matters is really very appreciated. SnowRise let's rap 06:24, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Actually, I probably would believe how vile it could be, I was on Arbcom in the days when that body, not the WMF, looked into the worst of these issues. I think this case was interesting for the lack of a smoking gun diff, because ANI isn’t the best at “in total, this is creepy enough to just get rid of, because the consequences of blocking (and being wrong) are so much less than the alternative.” And that was the calculus here; while they also pinged my sock radar, I couldn’t tie them to anything specific. Courcelles (talk) 12:24, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Oh yes, fair enough: that cannot have been anything other than a terrible, draining area to oversight. Well, I will say this for dealing with those kinds of ghouls--and it really is the only silver lining: the amount of patience you feel is required for any other person on this project becomes a matter of much re-adjusted perspective. I mean, I think I can honestly say that I tend to take a pretty reserved tack here for the most part anyway, but once you've heard a sex offender complain that he is being misrepresented on Wikipedia because no one can prove those children didn't want to have sex with him.....I mean, everybody else's issues seem pretty minor by comparison after that. The worst nationalist, culturally chauvinist, ideologically-driven, pov pushing, incivil, original research-peddling, edit-warring SPA feels like warm company compared to that actual guy who said that actual thing.
Anyway, doesn't do to dwell on these topics when they aren't immediately requiring your attention. Suffice it to say that I think your theory as to why other mops might be a little slower to act on these cases at ANI is correct, which is why I appreciate your willingness to fill the gap left by that inaction. Don't get me wrong: when there's been need to raise these issues in the past, and admin always eventually comes through, one way or another, but sometimes it's just way more time-consuming and/or labour-intensive than it should be. Sometimes there is so little will to just block (at least at ANI on the basis of the precautionary principle you just described) that one has to leverage SPI to force the issue. SnowRise let's rap 16:00, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Tasty BURGER for you!

MM (Give me info.) (Victories) has given you a Cheeseburger! Cheeseburgers promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a Cheeseburger, whether it be someone you've had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy eating!


Spread the goodness of Cheeseburgers by adding {{subst:Cheeseburger}} to their talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cheeseburger on the giver's talk page with {{subst:burger-munch}}!


I’m spotting a pattern on my ANI closures (and SnowRise has kind of mentioned it above) and it’s that you’re doing most of the blocks! :P All this mop swabbing must be hungry work! It deserves a bit more than a cookie, so have a nice, hopefully-filling burger. Hoping somebody else will come along with a lolly, or a yogurt, so you get a nice dessert to top it off.


Keep absolutely killing it with the blocks, man. :) MM (Give me info.) (Victories) 22:46, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. ANI feels like an annex of SPI today, I don’t think I’ve made this many edits there in my 15 years here! Courcelles (talk) 03:41, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Sudanese Arabs article

Hello i am not a troll and the reason i got blocked was because i was trying to remove the link to a unverifiable website that Austronesier kept insisting to add its still there as i dont care about that anymore. But what im trying to explain is that there's a user who keeps editing the article of the Sudanese Arabs and changing the wording from " Some of them are descended from Arabs from the Arabian peninsula with varying degrees of admixture from Peninsular Arabs" to " Some of them are of Nubian and Arab descent with varying cases of admixture from Peninsular Arabs" and than adding links to books that cant be accessed and he is saying that source 9 right now which was originally source 7 mention that when it was there from before and it mentions that the many Sudanese are Arabized Nubians but doesn't mention that they are mixed. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 12:59, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Wasn’t talking about you, @Cookiemonster1618. Look at their block log. Courcelles (talk) 13:00, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
So i can block them from there block log? Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 13:03, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
You can’t block anyone. You’re not an admin. Courcelles (talk) 13:08, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Can you please get an admin that i can talk to who's actuve right now Thank you i would really appreciate it. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 13:09, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
What were they blocked for? Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 13:08, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello. It was simply a part of my user page that I changed to just the word "hello". Either way if I do get blocked, at least don't delete the pages I made, they're clearly not trolls same with my edits.
Thank you. Haskko (talk) 13:12, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

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  • Discussions
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  • Tool of the week
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    • The WikidataCon 2023 call for proposals is running until July 31st. If you have questions or need advice before sending a program proposal, join the program team during one of the office hour sessions (online or in Taiwan, in Chinese or in English). More information
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  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We finished the GetProperty endpoint with fields filter and Conditional headers (phab:T338141, phab:T338138)
      • We started working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356), phab:T338383)
    • Ontology issue survey: We put together an overview of solutions for the various types of issues and will share them this week.
    • mul language code: We are continuing to work through the language fallback issues that were uncovered.


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Wikidata weekly summary #584

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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    • New requests for permissions/Bot: FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates (Task/s: Using information from Crossref: 1 - Add publication date to items where they are not present in Wikidata 2 - Fix publication dates where they are erroneous)
  • Tool of the week
    • Duplicity is a tool on Toolforge that helps find articles on Wikipedia that do not have a Wikidata Item, and match them to an existing Item, or create a new one. (example for English Wikipedia)
    • HasProperty.js displays presence/absence of specific properties (configurable) after the Statements heading. Clicking a property name will jump to that properties section. For absent property, clicking property name will jump to the end of the page.
  • Development
    • Ontology issues: We published the overview of solutions and are looking for input on them now.
    • mul language code: We continued work on it focusing on showing it in the right place in the desktop termbox (phab:T316767)
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356, phab:T338383)
    • Vector 2022 skin: We continued work on improving the search display (phab:T327510)
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This Month in GLAM: June 2023



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  • Indonesia report: Conclusion of Mini Grants; Second #1Lib1Ref Campaign; Wikisource Workshop in Bali
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  • Netherlands report: A new book, new Wikipedia articles, videos and further images on Africa
  • New Zealand report: Report on the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Conference 2023 and Auckland suburb updates
  • Philippines report: GLAM outreach activity at University of Nueva Caceres: Digitization, workshops and proofread-a-thons as future collaboration
  • Poland report: GLAM-Wiki workshops for the Czartoryski Library; Work on the GLAM-Wiki Project Page Continues; End of Internship within the "Praktykuj w Kulturze" Program
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  • Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programm
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  • USA report: WikiWednesday returns to Manhattan; Wikimedia NYC and Art+Feminism; WikiConference North America 2023; GLAM Wiki 2023
  • Special story: Flickr Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation partner to build Flickypedia
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WikiCup 2023 July newsletter

The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

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sock

Hi, there's a sock here: Special:Contributions/Martinfdo90

of this you blocked: Special:Contributions/NatalieDreyfuss87 Tehonk (talk) 01:39, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed and blocked. Courcelles (talk) 12:37, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Wrongfully Blocked

hello, why did you block me? 30MarB (talk) 13:00, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Because you’ve been acting like you have Wikipedia:Ownership of content of that article for years, reverting any changes and, quite frankly, turning it into a disaster. Courcelles (talk) 13:09, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks

Not sure if you're seeing the postings on my talk page, or noticing otherwise, but you've taken care of a couple things people have reached out to me about. Thanks for picking up my slack. I'm very occupied IRL and haven't had much of a chance to look into anything. Your work is appreciated. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:51, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Happy to be able to help take care of things. Courcelles (talk) 19:14, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

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ugh

Sorry about the COVID. I reckon I've had it two times and probably three (first time was before home testing) and with all the shots it's never been more than similar to seasonal allergies or a long weird-but-not-bad cold. I hope it's no worse than that for you! Valereee (talk) 19:29, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Well that blows. Happens to the best of us (i.e. I had it back in April - ha!). Hope it's not too rough.-- Ponyobons mots 19:48, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, it’s been sneezing, coughing, and oddly being totally exhausted after doing the slightest thing. Wore myself out the other night grating cheese! Not even a crazy amount of cheese… If it’s this annoying after four shots, I’m so glad I dodged it back in 2020! Courcelles (talk) 19:54, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
No shit. After my (ostensible) first, I had to sit down after climbing a flight of stairs, even though my only symptoms had been similar to seasonal allergies. It's all very weird. Valereee (talk) 19:57, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Zlatan Ibrahimović

Hey Courcelles, was there something specific that prompted the protection? Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:57, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Hmm… wonder if I got my tabs mixed up, because I don’t see it. Unprotected. Courcelles (talk) 17:27, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
The article was indef semi-protected until June 6, when it was extended-confirmed for a month. Now it's unprotected. Stay tuned for further development! Favonian (talk) 17:30, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
You’re right. That was it. Returning to status quo ante. My 8 AM self was smarter than 1 PM. I knew I had to have had a reason… Courcelles (talk) 17:33, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Sorry @Drmies,@Favonian. Going back to the original semi. I’m a COVID brain fog moron this afternoon. Courcelles (talk) 17:34, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Sorry to hear that, Courcelles. I hope you can still taste things. I was asking not because of whether it needed protection, but more because I had my doubts about a recent edit. Thanks, and take care--I really hope you get better soon. Drmies (talk) 21:08, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

2001:5B0:46C3:10E8:BC7D:FB3E:1304:131C

This IP Address vandalised own talk page. Probably talk page access needs to be disabled. 95.132.186.233 (talk) 13:50, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

I took TPA the same time I blocked the /64, due to that. Courcelles (talk) 14:06, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

The Marsh Arabs Article

You only locked it without reverting the vandalism of this troll DoingTheNeedful and his sockpuppets. He is adding irrelevant or outright made up sources for his claims. He is a self admitted racist troll (https://i.imgur.com/bb9R6EE.png) even his name has racist contentions. He is also bragging about it (https://i.imgur.com/ND8mkeG.png). He is now vandalizing the Zutt Rebellion article. I'd appreciate if you could fix both.

Thanks. Lorne Collin (talk) 22:18, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

That is not, I'm not a random guy from 4chan. DoingTheNeedful (talk) 22:23, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Buddy you literally use the same terms and post at the exact same time, I came to this article because you were bragging about vandalizing it, grow up. I warned you many times.
https://desuarchive.org/_/search/image/kP0270lQiDDunQIW3IgoHA/ Lorne Collin (talk) 22:28, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Honestly if you have something to refute my sources I would appreciate it. DoingTheNeedful (talk) 22:31, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
You have no sources.
You're using irrelevant or outright made up sources, and deleting genetic studies that disagrees with you. Because you have a racial prejudice against this ethnic group.
You should be ashamed. Lorne Collin (talk) 22:34, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
All my sources are from trusted academic sources and moderators can verify this. I help improve Wikipedia. DoingTheNeedful (talk) 22:39, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #584

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC)
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • Peuc bot 3 (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works)
      • MajavahBot (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from PyPI)
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata Recent Changes API (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog)
  • Development
    • Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (phab:T327510)
    • EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (phab:T339924)
    • Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
    • mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (phab:T340832)

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Women in Red 8th Anniversary

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Deletion review for 800 Pizza

An editor has asked for a deletion review of 800 Pizza. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Stifle (talk) 08:15, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

IP BLOCK EXEMPTIONS

Hello Courcelles. I am a regular user on the English Wikipedia. I often encounter difficulties while editing because I need to use a VPN to access websites such as Internet Archive and Google Books, which are not available in my region. Therefore, I would like to know what steps I can take to obtain IP block exemptions.–MinisterOfReligion (Talk) 18:22, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Long standing user with global IPBE? I’ll flag you locally. Courcelles (talk) 18:24, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
Thanks.–MinisterOfReligion (Talk) 18:26, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Please reconsider protection of Talk:Sound of Freedom (film)

Protection does not seem to have been appropriate, and is preventing good-faith discussion of RS such as https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66169916 and https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/sound-of-freedom-child-trafficking-experts-1234786352/ 73.115.150.77 (talk) 17:51, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Apparent sockpuppet of H3sam91

- LuckyLouie (talk) 18:44, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Already blocked. Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 18:50, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

My apology for my edit on Ponyo's talk page

I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused by my accidental edit to Ponyo's talk page. I was trying to warn Komsapa and I pressed the wrong button. I will not use Huggle until I gain more experience. Again, I'm sorry for any inconvience caused by my actions. Thank you. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 18:58, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

That’s good. I really couldn’t figure out how you did that, given experienced editors, certainly not admins and functionaries, don’t ever have their edits come through the Huggle feed. Like.y better to stay with more intuitive tools for now. Courcelles (talk) 19:40, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
I really don't know either. I'm still a bit confused. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 19:41, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

User talk:34.99.95.216

Could you please revoke TPA, please? Thanks. Amaury • 21:50, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Done Courcelles (talk) 21:52, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #585

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Yahya (RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (successful) Welcome on board \o/
  • Events
    • Upcoming
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      • Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on YouTube
    • Ongoing
      • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)
  • Tool of the week
    • Images near items - helps to find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can load a category tree of Commons images with coodrinates, and then find Wikidata items of a certain P31 with coordinates but without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs. (example link for UK red phone booths)
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when available (phab:T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (phab:T214885).
    • mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (phab:T340644)
    • Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (phab:T328149)
    • Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST API:
      • Retrieve all statements from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements
      • Retrieve a single statement from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id}
      • You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the existing /statements/{statement_id} endpoint

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SmallCat dispute case opened

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Uzbek.Patriot101

You're so bloody fast. I was in the middle of creating an SPI involving the above user when I noticed the block. I wasn't even aware of the master account, but was going to include the following: HazaraHistorian, Darkl1yy, and Gokturklerrr. For the last, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gokturklerrr. Gokturk is stale, but there might be helpful CU data. The others are not stale. I was also going to request a check. Perhaps you could save me the trouble?--Bbb23 (talk) 21:08, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Add User:AbsolutelyHistorian57 to Dark. Blocked both. HazaraHistorian is consistently coming off the wrong continent to match the others. Courcelles (talk) 21:24, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Well, at least I was right about one of the two non-stale ones. Do you mind if I tag, and if so, what's best - confirmed or something else? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:54, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
The three I blocked today plus the old Uzbek account are internally confirmed. I can’t tie them technically to any other master, so such a tagging would have to be something besides confirmed. Courcelles (talk) 23:30, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Of the four accounts, the oldest is Darkl1yy. If we make Dark the master, the other three are confirmed to Dark, right? If you mean reaching back to Gokturklerrr, I don't see why we have to tie these four back to Gok, which I would be reluctant to do anyway, particularly as the account isn't even blocked. So can I tag the four as confirmed?--Bbb23 (talk) 23:39, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Yep. That works! (I was digging through the CU archives towards finding a connection to that SPI. But the geolocation is all wrong). Courcelles (talk) 23:42, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Another one ruled out, thanks for digging. Tagging all done.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:58, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

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  • MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create en-ca and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [10]
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67.220.86.202 (talk · contribs) rev/del

Can I ask for rev/del on their two racist and obscene edits please. Knitsey (talk) 05:33, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

now 3 edits. Knitsey (talk) 05:35, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. Knitsey (talk) 05:36, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Yep. Blocked, deleted, swept for socks. Courcelles (talk) 05:38, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
@Knitsey Seems to me you should have a Wikipedia:Rollback flag to deal with crap like that quicker… Courcelles (talk) 05:41, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
I use Twinkle most of the time so I didn't really think I needed it tbh. Knitsey (talk) 05:44, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Let me know if you change your mind. There’s a few really useful things for vandal/sock work gatekeeped behind that user right, like the rollback all script. Courcelles (talk) 13:08, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Potential party to an ArbCom case

You have been mentioned as a potential party in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#BrownHairedGirl at CFD and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. As threaded discussion is not permitted on most arbitration pages, please ensure that you make all comments in your own section only. Additionally, the guide to arbitration and the Arbitration Committee's procedures may be of use. Barkeep49 (talk) 15:15, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Is this proper?

Hi Courcelles, about a week ago you semi-protected Talk:Sound of Freedom (film) for 3 months, in response to a request to stop "Rampant sockpuppetry and meatpuppetry from IP editors, who have descended on the talk page of a faith-based film en masse in order to push their POV on the various discussions."

What has now happened is that a user with an interesting history (created just two days ago, made several trivial edits like this, figured out how to tag articles for citation needed as their 3rd ever edit to Wikipedia, [12]) is desperate to get their comments on the (protected) Talk page. But since they didn't have the patience to wait the 4 days to get autoconfirmed, they have gone shopping for autoconfirmed users who will be willing to edit the page to put their comments in, circumventing the protection. Is this proper, in your opinion? Red Slapper (talk) 17:24, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

NO, I don't really consider that entirely proper. We have centralized places to ask for edits to be made, not a random editor's talk page. That account also seems very familiar with WP jargon. (All in all, this movie is bringing out a lot of opinions. And a good bit of SEALION type behavior. I'm really not sure how to solve all the problems around this page at the moment...) Courcelles (talk) 17:33, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. Red Slapper (talk) 18:33, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
I am... rather surprised to hear you say that Courcelles. Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Edit is not a particularly easy-to-understand page for new editors (and pretty hard to find if I am going to be honest). This user had already expressed frustration with understanding how to use it (being given very contradictory advice), and felt more comfortable coming to me directly. If they had went to someone else (especially someone involved in the dispute at the talk page), then maybe I could see why it wouldn't be appropriate for them to reach out. That's not what happened here though, and I am a bit disappointed with your response to Red Slapper here overall. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 21:59, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

July 2023

Hi. Just a quick question if you don't mind: if the contentious topics procedure applies to an article, can an IP or an editor with less 500 edits start a RfC on the concerned article's talk page and/or !vote in one? Thanks. M.Bitton (talk) 22:05, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

@M.Bitton, Which contentious topic? Only a couple have a blanket extended confirmed provision… Courcelles (talk) 23:11, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
The article in question is Arabs (which is related to the Arab–Israeli conflict). Best, M.Bitton (talk) 23:13, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
It’s related, but not so related to be ECPed. So can an IP make edits to the article? Yes, as long as they don’t actually edit about the conflict. The article covers a lot of ground that has nothing to do with the contentious topic, after all. Courcelles (talk) 23:18, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. For some reason, the "Warning: active arbitration remedies" gives a different message. Indeed, the article does cover a lot of ground, although judging what is and isn't related to the contentious topic is not always easy, especially when it comes to ethnicity as illustrated on the talk page of the Druze article (with some wanting to classify them as Arabs, while others insisting on describing them as Arabic-speaking instead). M.Bitton (talk) 23:24, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Deletion as Contentious Topic

I agree with you, or maybe you agree with me. Deletion discussions often become uncivil, and Arbitration Enforcement should be authorized to deal with disruptive conduct. By the way, the Portals case was also about civility in deletion discussions. Both Portals and the AFD case sanctioned certain editors, and called for a community discussion, but the community discussion fizzled out. So we are seeing incivility in discussions of deletion of portals, articles, and categories. They are all incivility in deletion discussions. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:50, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Add to who knows how many ANIs asking for some form of restriction on editors over AFDs… it’s clear trying to discuss deletion conduct at ANI fails often enough. A third month long case to issue a couple topic bans will be a waste of so much time… Courcelles (talk) 01:03, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Bolded, Support vs. Oppose, which was presumably initially intended just for ease of communication in a straw poll, has now seemingly turned into a us vs. them battleground pretty much anywhere its used. Perhaps we should discontinue its use... - jc37 01:52, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Voting replaces discussion in a lot of threaded discussions. AN/ANI can sometimes feel like WP:Votes for sanctions. I also feel like there used to be a better distinction between AN and ANI, but I may be dreaming of halcyon days there. Courcelles (talk) 01:59, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
This is the first time in Wikipedia history that "ANI" and "halcyon" have been used together in a sentence.-- Ponyobons mots 16:58, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

ECP protection

Hi Courcelles

Thanks for upping[13] to ECP the protection on Template:Is this a Dáil constituency article.

Please could you do the same for the other high-use parts of that set of tightly-linked templates?

The others are:

Thanks! BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:27, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Done all. I think a bot usually does templates these days, but given these templates are used on essentially every prominent politician of a country, I can see going for a slightly lower transclusion count than the bot. Courcelles (talk) 03:07, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Yes, since the last week's work of deploying the 123 navboxes in Category:Constituency Teachtaí Dála navigational boxes, each of the 6 templates above is now used on every article on a Teachta Dála (TD).
Thanks for upping the protection. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:24, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Krimuk2.0

While Krimuk2.0's edits to the ""Sound of Freedom" talk page is becoming a forum" thread on AN immediately after your unblock of them do not technically violate the terms of the unblock, they certainly seem to violate the spirit of the unblock. Yes, they stayed away from the Sound of Freedom (film) page and talk page, but they continued the argument about their actions there. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:15, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, Beyond My Ken, that wasn’t the kind of edits I thought they would go make, and for the most part, it isn’t, I mainly see edits in their usual topics of actors. @Krimuk2.0, likely best you just stay as far away from Sound of Freedom as possible, including that AN thread. Courcelles (talk) 13:24, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Noted. Krimuk2.0 (talk) 14:36, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

New sock of User:H3sam91

  • Canadianelite345 [14]

New sock pursuing same arguments in same venue as others. Refers to mainstream media as "MSM", a term that's unique to the sockmaster and their other socks.

- LuckyLouie (talk) 17:13, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Blocked and laid down some protections. Courcelles (talk) 17:16, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Request for protection of pages

I request you to protect the following pages so that they can be edited only by extended confirmed users: 1. List of highest-grossing Tamil films 2. List of highest-grossing South Indian films

A user named Kumareshwiki is always engaged in edit wars on these pages. I have already explained in their talk page that both Baahubali films are bilingual and must be included in both Tamil and Telugu films lists, but they never accept and always engage in vandalism by simply copying and pasting an old version of this page replacing updated correct box office figures with old wrong ones and unreliable sources, as can be seen from their contributions page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kumareshwiki . So please protect these pages as soon as possible. Thanks. Cinephile4ever 03:36, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Full protection, four days… or until someone who isn’t running on fumes at 1 AM figures out a better plan. Courcelles (talk) 05:06, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the protection. But, I'm sure that user will come back after four days and start vandalism again. They have been doing this for more than a month as you can see from their contributions page. Even though I have explained that bilingual films have been included in lists of films of both languages in many Wikipedia articles, they just don't want to accept so they keep on copying and pasting the old version of the pages with wrong old box office figures and unreliable sources. So, I request you to give extended confirmed users protection for those pages after the period of four days expires. Thanks. Cinephile4ever 05:14, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
If they do, and they don’t figure out what talk pages are? I’ll Wikipedia:Partial blocks them from article space… Their account is old enough to be extended confirmed, it’s just the edits they’re missing, so hence the full protection and formal warning on their talk page to stop edit warring. Courcelles (talk) 05:18, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. I will let you know if they repeat vandalism after four days. Cinephile4ever 05:22, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
That user Kumareshwiki has started vandalism in these articles again without using the talk page. Please do the needful as soon as possible. Thanks. Cinephile4ever 17:08, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Partially blocked from articles. This lack of talk page use is unacceptable. Courcelles (talk) 17:17, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. The reason they don't use talk page is because they don't have valid reason for their edits. They simply don't accept entries of bilingual films in those articles, even when I have explained that bilingual films should be included in list type articles of films of both languages as has been done in all other Wikipedia articles.
And one other thing I wanted to say was another administrator named Lourdes had already autoconfirmed protected those articles till 5th July 2024 because there is a sockpuppet vandalism. Even today, that sockpuppet did this vandalism edit which was reverted: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1166275165
And now I see you have given the same protection but not mentioned the period. Can you tell me if this protection will continue till 5th July 2024? Thanks. Cinephile4ever 17:30, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
With no expiration set, it will continue until another admin actively sees a need and changes it. That could be next week or two decades from now. (Technically we can only have one protection level set, so going to full “deleted” the semi.) Courcelles (talk) 17:34, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Oh ok thanks much. Cinephile4ever 17:38, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Another user named Bijzindia has started deleting the bilingual films from these lists:
1. List of highest-grossing Indian films, diff: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1166326407
2. List of highest-grossing Tamil films, diff: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1166334967
This user is also saying the same thing that user you blocked (Kumareshwiki) was saying. They're not accepting both the bilingual Bahubali films which were simultaneously filmed in Tamil and Telugu languages as Tamil films. So I think these 2 accounts may belong to the same person. Please do the needful by giving protection to all the 3 articles or otherwise, thanks. Cinephile4ever 01:05, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #587

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  • Tool of the week
    • osm.js will add a link to the navigation for items that have a Wikidata mapping on the OSM side.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
        • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements (phab:T339356) (new route)
        • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id} (phab:T338383) (new route)
        • GET /statements/{statement_id} (now supports statements on Properties)
      • We started work on a new route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)
    • EntitySchemas:
      • We worked on improving the termbox (the table of labels, descriptions and aliases) on EntitySchema pages to bring it more in line with the one on Items and Properties
      • We made sure that EntitySchemas are shown by their label instead of ID when available in Recent Changes and similar lists (phab:T339924)
    • Mismatch Finder: We added a language selector so you can switch the interface language (phab:T328149)
    • mul language code: We are working on showing more labels from fallback languags in the termbox (phab:T340832, phab:T338330)

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Tech News: 2023-31

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(t · c) buidhe 05:15, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Jesteron27

Is Jmxstrn a sock of Jesteron27? Only two edits, but seems to be the same stuff + the username similarity. The last edits Jesteron27 made to the draft was to add an entry and update the stats as of May 6. The only edit Jmxstrn made to the draft was to update the stats as of today and add an entry.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:49, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Yes. Confirmed. Courcelles (talk) 02:05, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
Is there a reason why you didn't block?--Bbb23 (talk) 12:14, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
Because… I’m an idiot? Truly, no, no reason. Blocked and tagged. Courcelles (talk) 14:09, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
You're hilarious sometimes.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:33, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Sock User:DefaultJBO012

Hello. That sock is back as DefaultJBO0112 with the same edits. Mike Allen 20:07, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Blocked and tagged. Courcelles (talk) 20:21, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Arbitration enforcement action appeal by BobNesh

As you're the blocking administrator, I'm notifying you of Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Arbitration enforcement action appeal by BobNesh per the instructions. I've copied User:BobNesh appeal request on their behalf. - Aoidh (talk) 03:55, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Joseph Williams (composer)

Pretty sure there won't be 63 socks here, but one look at the page history and there's already quite a few. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 03:59, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

@LilianaUwU Looks like 4 tonight. Blocked and tagged. Courcelles (talk) 04:21, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Joe Lewis (British businessman)

Are you sure it warrants pp? Seemed manageable enough with the little bits of vandalism without then need for protection. Govvy (talk) 19:58, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

I’m pretty much always sure BLPs merit protection… Courcelles (talk) 20:22, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Preach! Also, Courcalles, as an FYI.-- Ponyobons mots 20:47, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
@Ponyo, Thanks. Not me, so I’ve G3ed those user pages to remove the tags. Courcelles (talk) 20:50, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Duh, I should have done that. Sorry!-- Ponyobons mots 20:51, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
heh, guess I stand corrected! Morning from the UK btw. Govvy (talk) 08:14, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Ranger462 3

Who the heck is this? Do you know who the sock master is? Is there an SPI or LTA page for this user? :-) Thanks - ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 05:15, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

@Oshwah, There must be one, somewhere, because this “replace English with 40k of repetitive/vulgar Hindi” is something I’ve seen a lot on AIV lately. Can I find it right now… no. Courcelles (talk) 05:23, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
No worries; I thought you might've happened to know. I'll do some digging tomorrow. I've seen a lot of this user's shenanigans too; updates to some filters (cough 53) will be released as well. ;-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 06:59, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
@Oshwah After looking some more, I don’t think anyone has written this up? It’s just o obvious it just gets blocked at AIV, rather than SPI. Courcelles (talk) 20:51, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
@Oshwah: Master12112wp. Also consult filter 1231. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:55, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Zzuuzz, Courcelles - Thank you both! I appreciate it! :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 16:09, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

H3sam91

Still socking. - LuckyLouie (talk) 15:59, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I blocked it as a WP:DUCK EvergreenFir (talk) 16:01, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
Confirmed, you’re faster than I am, @EvergreenFir! Courcelles (talk) 16:02, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata

Please look at the history of White hole and the checkuser case at Wikidata. I'm not sure I follow Jasper's comments about a student project, and I've gotten in trouble in the past transporting CU-confirmed Wikidata cases to en.wiki. What are your thoughts?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:48, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

@Bbb23 I don’t think it’s anything but nonsense. Handing out some blocks. Courcelles (talk) 23:04, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
Always decisive. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:07, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
@Bbb23 I think I’ve got everything that’s not stale here, but the Wikidata list is larger than ours, but we each have at least one account the other project does not. School projects don’t create so many one edit white space only accounts serially, so I concur with @Jasper this is socking. Courcelles (talk) 23:10, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
For lack of a reason not to, I’ve tagged using the same master as WD. Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of 陳恩田 Courcelles (talk) 23:56, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
Sounds right.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:15, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Reminds me of someone...but who

See Nuclear Sergeant and WP:ANI#User:Nuclear_Sergeant. The specific kind of incoherence, both substantive and syntactic, of NS's unblock request reminds me of another troll, but my memory fails me.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:35, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

They’re on an pretty static, non-proxy IP that had never been checked (even the range) before I just ran them. So, technically, I got nothing. Courcelles (talk) 17:41, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
Maybe there's a troll website that instructs on how to write unblock requests. It's like they took a normal sentence and rearranged the phrases. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:46, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Galeb-class minelayer

   The Note has an error. In both sentences, the word "gun" is used when the correct word is "barrel". The first sentence is "L/45 denotes the length of the gun." That should be "L/45 denotes the length of the _barrel_ and is an indicator of the gun's accuracy and range when compared to other guns of that caliber." However, the actual text is apparently imported from somewhere else, when I go to edit it I don't see it.

   (I've actually seen this on another 'ship' page recently so I was looking for it, or I wouldn't have noticed it here.) SandyJax (talk) 21:41, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

I see it in the wiki text at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galeb-class_minelayer&action=edit&section=2
That said, no clue if you’re right about it being wrong. @Peacemaker67 wrote the article. I just pressed the protection button. Courcelles (talk) 23:10, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the direction. I walked over and asked him. SandyJax (talk) 00:15, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

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Mosery30 (talk · contribs)

99% sure this is BuickCenturyDriver (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) – 31 hours won't help. But thanks for the quick intervention! — Trey Maturin™ 15:07, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I just forgot to change Twinkles preset when blocking for disruptive editing. Already made it indef. Courcelles (talk) 15:08, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Smagzine aftermath

Huh, so they had a good hand sock. The Sam Williams case keeps getting weirder. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 12:48, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

And another sock to revert their good hand account. I wish I had this much time to waste… Courcelles (talk) 12:50, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
I mean, isn't Wikipedia a time waster for a lot of people? LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 12:52, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Well, yes, but we don’t spend it reverting ourselves! Courcelles (talk) 12:53, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Maybe you don't, but I did last night. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 13:04, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
But you didn’t log out, and then log into a different account to do it! Courcelles (talk) 13:22, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Chocholady

Does Special:Contributions/Chocholady look like Special:Contributions/Leocadii evading their block to you? I considered blocking and reverting edits, but it perhaps warrants a second set of eyes or even a CU. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 12:35, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Yep, that’s them. Pretty exact technical match. Blocking and tagging. Courcelles (talk) 12:41, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 16:39, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Possible socking from an anon you blocked

The behavior isn't enough for a SPI but the editing patterns seem basically identical to me. I just want someone else around here to maybe take a look and to be aware of the possibility. Heh, maybe I'm wrong but anyway...
Please see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/173.237.117.123

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/142.67.114.138

A couple of things:

  • Both ISPs geo-locate to the same area in the UK & the same ISP in UK.
  • Both accounts engage in identical editing patterns...adding the phrase "at the age of" and other similar age-related phrases to various articles associated with US Presidents & First Ladies & American politicians. (Utilizing the editor interaction utility, both did edit Martin Van Buren within 7 days of each other, in June).

The 173. 237... editor popped up on my Watchlist yesterday and somehow just seemed so familiar... Shearonink (talk) 15:32, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

That looks like the same person. I’m just not sure blocking after 3 days will do much… but I’ll do it and see. Courcelles (talk) 15:44, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. The obsession with adding age-related phrases to American politics-related articles about historic subjects/people (mostly US Presidents & First Ladies) just jumped out at me. I'm not a coder so I had to manually poke through a ton of my recent edits to find the apparently related IP... I have a fair amount of these types of articles on my Watchlist, I'll keep an eye out for any more "At the age of..." edits. Shearonink (talk) 22:05, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Good plan. It’s a unique enough string we could set up an edit filter for it, but it would be a lot of conditions and have a decent number of false positives. It certain sounds like student writing when they’re below the word requirements… Courcelles (talk) 23:36, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you

Thank you for reverting the "GA review." David notMD (talk) 06:21, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

No problem. Making the article not lose its place in the queue is important with how long the GA backlog currently is. Courcelles (talk) 12:08, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

My SPI re LTA user: TheCurrencyGuy

Would it be helpful to the clerk if I were to point out TCG's (and his socks') previous edits to MOS:CURRENCY and pound sterling, to help identify his "fist"? Btw, an amusing snippet: at talk:pound sterling, I replied to him saying "as I've explained to you before..." and he replied to the rest of my comment without any denial that we had ever crossed paths before.

In any event, you may consider his edit warring and disinclination to comply with wp:brd protocol merits at least a short term block? --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:20, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

I think the edits he’s made since that check were much more clearly TCG. I blocked as a suspected sock, but I’m fairly confident it’s him. I also semied the article to cut down on nonsense. Courcelles (talk) 17:33, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
TYVM. I feel I have to tiptoe around him: another editor got so frustrated with him that they nearly got blocked themselves, so I feel I need to play it by the book. His abuse is rarely blatant, most of what he has to contribute is worth having but he has no sense of perspective and the concept of WP:DUE is alien to him. He seems completely unable to work towards consensus or accept when the consensus disagrees with him. A real pity. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 18:28, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, we have at least two broad categories of sockmasters; the pure trolls, and those who could be useful contributors if they got out of their own way behaviorally. I’d absolutely put TCG in the second category. Collaborative editing, however, is not optional here, so we end up here… Courcelles (talk) 18:40, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

RfPP/Decrease from possible sockpuppet

WP:RFPP#Dafina_Zeqiri looks a lot like Dealer07. Could you please do a CU on 62.74.14.3? Thanks! Daniel Quinlan (talk) 01:15, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

@Daniel Quinlan The global privacy policy won’t let me connect IPs and accounts… but I would not grant that request. Courcelles (talk) 01:23, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
@Courcelles: I imagined the new IP might be connectable with one of the IPs mentioned in the archive (not sure if that's allowed, though). Regardless, I'll go ahead and reject it. Thanks! Daniel Quinlan (talk) 01:26, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
They geolocation identically to the archives, but that’s just geolocating, not using CU. Anyways, I didn’t turn up any sleepers. Courcelles (talk) 01:37, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

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Revdel

Hey, Courcelles. Could you revdel this? Thanks — Golden call me maybe? 16:09, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

@GoldenGone Courcelles (talk) 16:10, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

July music

July songs
my story today

Listening to Siegfried from the 2023 Bayreuth Festival, third act, Andreas Schager as Siegfried waking up Brünnhilde, reminded me of this discussion. Was there anything in it demanding arbitration? - A few weeks later, three participants were admonished, - for what still remains a mystery to me? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:29, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

A decade old case? Couldn’t tell you much of anything about it without refreshing my memory, and, well, that’s not what I want to do on a Saturday. Courcelles (talk) 20:37, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
It's a short discussion, and without memory you could tell me if there was anything wrong with it, or battleground. Tomorrow will be Götterdämmerung. Today - in 2023 - we have Richard Wagner, and I doubt that these repetitive discussions are really what the arbs wanted to achieve ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:56, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
That discussion? No, it’s not deserving an arb case. But that’s, of course, not the reason there was a case. Courcelles (talk) 21:10, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
Thank you! - The reason there was a case is that my friend Ched thought that I and other friends had too much trouble by resistance to the then new {{infobox opera}}. - Today I remember Jahrhundertring (written in defiance after the case), and I'm listening to Götterdämmerung from the Bayreuth Festival, close to the scene pictured, - the image (of a woman who can't believe what she has to see) features also on the article talk. - Infobox opera is transcluded 1,667 times by now, - mission accomplished. Do you have an idea to end the "infobox wars"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:09, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Are there even still "infobox wars" anymore? I'm not being sarcastic, I've been away for a few years from those ends of the project (and during COVID and grad school, most of the project at all) so I've not even thought about infoboxes for a long time. Courcelles (talk) 19:38, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Good question ;) - I actually asked the arbcands that same question last election. My view is that "wars" never existed. When WTT - who wrote the infoboxes case, remember? - inserted the compromise box I had suggested for Beethoven in the workshop phase, I was sure that whatever there was came to an end, 2015 that was. Well, not quite. But in 2018, a wise woman said there had been no disputes in a long time. There was not a single RfC in years until end of 2022, and that's why I asked. Mozart, now (open) Wagner and Mendelssohn. Just take a look at the preliminary dialogue for the latter ;) - I stay away as much as I can, but I feel that this is such a waste of everybody else's time. Maddy from Celeste made a lovely script which transforms an infobox into just the image with caption, - you'd think that could solve it. But some still argue. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:15, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Another rev/del please

[23] Thanks, Knitsey (talk) 16:33, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Done. Courcelles (talk) 16:35, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
I didn't realise the latest spate were all similar, too many to rev/del. Sorry about that. Knitsey (talk) 16:40, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
@Knitsey, yeah, from what I see last night was an awful mess. Courcelles (talk) 16:43, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
There are going to be some of those edits hanging around for a while I guess. Captcha is up again for unregistered? Knitsey (talk) 16:45, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, at least it was last time I pursued ANI. Courcelles (talk) 16:51, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Would you mind revdel-ing this diff (and this diff) from my talk as well? I'd rather not have this in the page history, for obvious reasons :) Thanks, Schminnte (talk • contribs) 21:39, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Done. Courcelles (talk) 21:40, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. Good to see the vandals seem to have stopped... not to jinx anything. Schminnte (talk • contribs) 21:46, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

The information you left me on my talk page regarding contentious topics.

Thank you for the information you left me regarding contentious topics. However, I didn’t edit the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. article at all. I just put forth my point of view on the talk page. (For one thing, had I edited the article to my point of view, the edit would have doubtlessly been reverted in less time than it would have taken me to make the edit. Also, I recognize that before any significant change is made to an article, there should be a discussion of the proposed edit on the talk page to see if the change could achieve a consensus among editors and should not be effected otherwise. So I think I was doing exactly what I was supposed to do.)

I feel strongly that the total objectivity of Wikipedia should be maintained and that Wiki should never act as the arbiter of what is fact. In cases where there is a significant public and/or expert opinion within a field that a view is not factual then, as I stated on the talk page discussion (such as it was), I have no objection that such be pointed out within the article which would essentially achieve the desired result of those editors who oppose me on this point without surrendering Wiki’s claim to encyclopedic objectivity and neutrality. In this case, I certainly concur that Mr. Kennedy’s views on the merits and risks of vaccinations, antedating the covid pandemic, are problematic at best. That is my opinion and I have no special expertise as a Wiki editor to transform that opinion into an authoritative pronouncement of fact.

Thank you again for the information you sent to me, and I shall review such as time permits.HistoryBuff14 (talk) 21:11, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Just remember that CTOPS applies to all namespaces. Folks can be, and are, sanctioned for talk page edits. Courcelles (talk) 21:17, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Delete one more edit? (Loserfruit)

Hi Courcelles, good to see you back! Thanks for blocking Ubdead575, who was vandalizing Loserfruit, and for deleting the mentions of the subject's address. There is one more mention of the address on the talk page Talk:Loserfruit (not from a vandal, just someone asking to remove it from the regular page). Could you delete that one as well? Thanks! Sportsfan77777 (talk) 19:02, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Redacted and deleted. Thanks for letting me know. Courcelles (talk) 19:06, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

University of California, Berkeley unnecessarily protected

You recently semi-protected University of California, Berkeley due to a request at RFPP. You may want to double the article's recent editing history - it doesn't come close to meeting the bar for protection. It's only been vandalized once in the past week or two and there's been a small disagreement about some material added to the lede (which seems to have been cleared up with the most recent edits). Protection was requested by a new editor who is a party to the content dispute and semi-protection is not only unnecessary but would also not address the content dispute (which doesn't rise to the level of requiring protection anyway). ElKevbo (talk) 13:58, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

I admit I likely run on the lowest bar of protection of any admin active at RFPP, but I still think there’s enough general nonsense going on there to semi, given everyone involved in that dispute is autoconfirmed, semi does nothing on about that. What I see is occasional vandalism, and a decent amount of test nonsense that has to be undone. Courcelles (talk) 14:10, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick reply.
I am certainly autoconfirmed but other editors are not; the two most recent editors are both really new with only a few dozen edits between them. It's not a really big deal given that one of those editors explicitly asked for the article to be protected and, more importantly, they finally found and added some good sources supporting their assertions. They put little effort into trying to resolve this dispute even after I opened a discussion in Talk but I suppose if they want to prevent themselves from editing the article then they can do so. ElKevbo (talk) 14:20, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
Autoconfirmed is 4 days and ten edits. I think you’re thinking it’s a decently bit higher bar than it actually is? Courcelles (talk) 14:29, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm confused. The root of my confusion is that I thought that the popups tool included "autoconfirmed" among the editor permissions/attributes displayed when hovering over a username as it does for many other similar permissions/attributes. It's odd that it doesn't so I'm off to the tool's Talk page to ask about it. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 15:19, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
I think that’s because autoconfirmed isn’t revokable, doesn’t create a logentry (unlike automatic grants of extendedconfirmed), and can essentially be assumed by edit count. Courcelles (talk) 15:29, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

SPI archive

I have realised that in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/FYE31 I wrote "...has not edited since January", where I meant to write "...has not edited since January 2022". I suppose it isn't desperately important, but I thought it better to get it right, and judged that this would be one of the rare occasions when editing an archived investigation would be reasonable. However, my edit didn't go through, and I got a message asking me not to edit an SPI archive unless I'm a CU or clerk. Perhaps you may like to consider doing it for me. JBW (talk) 19:16, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Done, but as it’s just an edit filter warning. You can continue and save the edit. Courcelles (talk) 19:19, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
That's what I thought, but I preferred to be cautious just in case someone might object. I suppose I was being a bit over cautious, really. Thanks anyway. Anyway, now I know what an edit filter warning looks like, which I didn't before. JBW (talk) 19:43, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #589

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
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      • Wikimania 2023 (16–19 August, Singapore and Online) program is out: wikimania:2023:Program
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 18, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
    • Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #104, Police
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding and replacing statements on Properties (phab:T339363, phab:T340006)
    • EntitySchemas:
      • We continued working on making the mobile termbox from Items and Properties work on EntitySchemas
      • We fixed a missing warning for non-logged-in editors and license note (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
    • IP Masking: We are investigating what implications the upcoming IP Masking changes in MediaWiki have for Wikibase (phab:T328454)

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WikiWednesday (Aug 23) and Governors Island Wiki-Picnic (Sun Aug 27)

August 23: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
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All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.

August 27: Annual NYC Wiknic @ Governors Island
Group photo from 2012 Governors Island Wiknic

Additionally, you are invited to the picnic anyone can edit on Governors Island, at Colonel's Row by ArtCrawl Harlem house, as part of the Great North American Wiknic celebrations (and Wikimania satellite events) being held across the continent.

This is the first big summer Wiknic since the 2019 edition and will feature an edit-a-thon focused on Governors Island and ArtCrawl Harlem, Depths of Wikipedia (recently of perpetual stew fame), as well as plenty more food topics drawing on the potluck ethos. All are welcome, new and experienced!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct, and don't forget your sunscreen!

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:51, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Request rev/del please

Mike Chen [24] Knitsey (talk) 05:27, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Handled. Courcelles (talk) 05:28, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
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