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New Accounts for Checkuser

My apologies for not pinging you that I added new accounts while you were checking. Sorry... reddogsix (talk) 17:15, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You're not the only one to do it (unfortunately). I just wanted to give you a heads up for the future.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:01, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Sanford Litvack

Hello, Bbb23. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Sanford Litvack".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the ((db-afc)), ((db-draft)), or ((db-g13)) code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 06:01, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

silly question

Never mine I obviously don't know what year it is.--Dlohcierekim (talk) 20:52, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You should seek help. Everyone knows it's 2012.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:52, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Check on account creation

Codename Lisa vanished [1] and I noticed her account was recreated. I indef blocked, taking away talk page and email access seeing it's likely some imposter (she was being harassed by an IP) but can you please run a CU to make sure it isn't her recreating her account for some reason? --NeilN talk to me 20:12, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@NeilN: They are not the same person.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:52, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, thank you. --NeilN talk to me 21:04, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Elseford

Can you please explain why you removed my report of 23 more likely socks from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Elseford? I don't care where in the report they go but I don't see why we should pretend they don't exist. (Obviously, I am not asking for CU on them.) —David Eppstein (talk) 00:58, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If it were just the wrong section, I would simply have moved it. The thrust of the case is to handle only non-stale accounts. We already had a slew of stale accounts, and at my request, everything was separated by Ivanvector. I then checked the non-stale accounts and posted my findings. Ivanvector is on top of things and will at some point move the SPI to the oldest confirmed account. If in the future, if any of the stale socks resume editing or new socks are created, you may reopen the SPI. In the meantime, the addition of stale accounts will not be permitted.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:53, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
(responding to ping) David, we appreciate your investigation but please don't do clerk jobs at SPI. These include renaming cases and changing the status flag, other than closing a report after performing actions as a patrolling administrator. There are extra steps involved with clerking that you and Joel B. Lewis both missed, not that they were problematic to fix but it's just making extra work unnecessarily. If you're interested in clerk training you can add yourself to the list at WT:SPI/C.
I didn't see your addition to the case before Bbb23 reverted it, but I noticed the crossover sockpuppetry at Ivan Fesenko from the CU results. I'm not going to block any of the stale throwaways because I'm familiar with this pattern and it's extremely rare for any of the throwaway accounts to be used again, the editor(s) behind this probably don't even have access any more. The behaviour pattern is obvious and we now have technical data to work from for future abuse, but I think we've gone a pretty long way to stopping this with page protection. We'll see I guess. I will have a look at the stale accounts you added to see if there are any more obvious crossovers, but nothing was obvious from the first two sets. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:01, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Ivanvector: where in the history do you see me renaming cases or changing the status flag? —David Eppstein (talk) 16:56, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
My mistake, I misread this edit summary. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:02, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

VJ-Yugo

Hi, after I reverted one confirmed sock of VJ-Yugo, this account was created and immediately reverted me. You blocked three other socks of VJ-Yugo a hour ago. Ktrimi991 (talk) 16:38, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Now the new account is blindly reverting me in several articles. Ktrimi991 (talk) 16:51, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

JonFX

You’ve deleted The page of JonFX, He is one of the most prominent record producers, especially in reggae, multi-platinum, multiple billboard charting, Grammy, member.

He is currently credited on the #1 album in the USA, on iTunes now.

I would need to know the steps to have a new page created by you and necessary cost. Mixahead (talk) 11:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How much did the last person charge you to write the article?--Bbb23 (talk) 12:47, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

CheckUser

Noted. Rookie mistake. Never done an SPI before, I'm just tired of all the vandalism. Thanks for clarifying. dannymusiceditor Speak up! 20:00, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen SPI-experienced editors make the same "mistake". Not to worry.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:29, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

AN/I

Hi, re your close of this case, I was just wondering why you said I wasn't entitled to re-instate warnings on the IP's talk page? Isn't this a clear case of WP:QUACK? Please see also this from 4 March and later. Cheers, BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 00:26, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to report the IP at WP:SPI, that's your prerogative. Otherwise, per WP:OWNTALK, a user is entitled to remove a warning. For you to persist to reinstate the warning, no matter how well-intentioned, is disruptive.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:13, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Like Malerooster, I too was under the impression that an IP address wasn't entitled to control of "their" own page, but thanks for the clarification. Regards, BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 12:53, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Question about ANI close

Hi Bbb23,

I see that you closed a thread at ANI about user Bastun, but noted that he didn't have the right to readd a warning to the ip's talkpage. I was curious about that. I know that registered users can delete things from their talk pages since it means they have read them, but I thought ips weren't or aren't allowed to do this because others might miss that? No big deal and also thank you for your efforts at ANI. Regards, --Malerooster (talk) 01:06, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oh crap, I am now seeing the above thread :). You don't need to reply twice. Cheers, --Malerooster (talk) 01:07, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Salted Ham

Appears to me a user left a message for you on the article page? Just FYI.--Cahk (talk) 07:37, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

All gone now but no big deal anyway. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:41, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Why call me silly?

edit of yours I strongly object to. Not only do I find this morning that I can not reply to the other users, but also the line with which the ANI request is closed I find almost insulting. Can you explain, and possibly un-close the ANI request? --Mathmensch (talk) 07:40, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In particular, I don't think everyone has the right to insult me on this online platform. --Mathmensch (talk) 07:52, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
First, I didn't call you "silly"; I called the thread silly. Second, if you think "everyone" is insulting you on Wikipedia, you might ask yourself why. Third, rather than prolonging this nonsense by leaving posts on various users' Talk pages, I suggest you either do something constructive, e.g., edit an article, or find an "online platform" that is more to your liking. If you continue the way you are, you risk being blocked for WP:NOTHERE.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:40, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

bypassing WP:SALT

The page Darshan Raval was salted by you as it was being repeatedly recreated. A user has recreated the same page at Darshan Raval (Playback Singer) to bypass that ban. Can you please look into it? Coderzombie (talk) 08:06, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I salted the article years ago. I'm not going to unilaterally delete the new one just because the creator bypassed procedure. If you think the new one is deletable, then use whatever deletion process you think best.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:43, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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