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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

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+IP Block Exempt

Hi @GeneralNotability: I will like to request a further extension on my IP Block exempt as the previous time has elapsed. You advised that after six months I could request for a further extension. Thank you in advance. MesutOzula (talk) 23:32, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

MesutOzula, sure, done. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:55, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Thank you. MesutOzula (talk) 08:04, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Well said

[7] Expresses what I've felt a lot better than I could. Vanamonde (Talk) 15:22, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Vanamonde93, thanks, that's probably the biggest compliment you could have paid me for that :) GeneralNotability (talk) 21:55, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Regarding Sheikh Asif

@GeneralNotability hope you are doing good. I am here to talk about a article tha you deleted (reason:created by banned or blocked user) but he article that was created has notability over web. I am starting to work on in. Adilazeezbukhari (talk) 06:02, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

The Gustin Kelly block

Thanks. Your help is always appreciated. Do you mind advising me? How do I handle that better next time? The user was clearly not being forthcoming from the beginning, and their purpose is arguable, if anti-transparent (my characterization). It troubles me that an obvious SPA can begin a process with disruptive intent, and their process may succeed in their clearly shady purpose. For a very brief moment, I considered userfying this material myself. Stupid, I know, since this material is easily readable by admins. There's a sort of style I'm recognizing with Gustin Kelly but I'm not a skilled sockhunter. If I spill my suspicion, and I have one, I'm at a disadvantage. I need to admit that I'm troubled about the direction of recent processes at MfD which remove userpages and subpages, which I find actually is a thing (e.g. WP:Ragpicking), when blanking seems the ready solution. BusterD (talk) 22:49, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

BusterD, wish I had a good answer for you - other than ANI, we don't really have a good place for reporting "this user is obviously not new and not here in good faith, but I'm not sure who they are and they aren't outright disruptive," and ANI is...well...ANI. If you see something like this, you're welcome to drop me a note, I am happy to look into these cases (though of course the answer may well be "yeah, they look a little off, but I don't see strong enough evidence to do anything about it"). I'll also add that this one was a pretty tough case, and I only was able to identify them from CU data because I've seen them before. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:11, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
And of course, I recognized your visitor right away as the same LTA but figured unless they edited elsewhere I had them watched. I don't want to give that abuser any clues, but they (aggressively) seem not to care, accounts being free. I should probably get with a SPI clerk and start learning the game. I'm not interested in any hats, but I should at least speak the language. BusterD (talk) 17:39, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

User:Colonel Notability

This doesn't seem like an edit you'd make. If it is you, my apologies. BilCat (talk) 09:03, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

BilCat, in fact, it was the LTA we were talking about in the section above this one. Thanks. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:35, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
You're welcome. BilCat (talk) 19:15, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

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Thanks Liz. No objection from me, looks like Labattblueboy has split the category into two more specific categories (nice work!), and I don't think it makes sense to have this as a super-category containing the other two. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:26, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

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Hemantha master

Hi GeneralNotability, you indeffed Hemantha back in July as a sock but I can't seem to find who the master was. I'm trying to put a bow on another sock [19] in the same family but I don't know what master to open it under (nor do I really feel confident without the larger context). Horse Eye's Back (talk) 16:36, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Horse Eye's Back, had to do some digging here...as far as I can tell, they're Walrus Ji. I'll note that I took a preliminary CU look based on the overlap and CU data is very, very different, so you're going to need some pretty solid behavioral evidence if you do think this is the same person. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:13, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

It's the guy from that thing in that place

The account User:Widr blocked today, User:Publicwhetsab, seems very much like this guy User:Gustin Kelly, who nominated this: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Vermont/BHGANI and you blocked as apparent LTA. BusterD (talk) 20:42, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Good eye, BusterD - it's them all right.  No sleepers immediately visible, with the caveat that there are technical things that make it somewhat hard to spot their sleepers. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:26, 30 November 2022 (UTC)