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Fantastic user name, btw. :) S0091 (talk) 22:48, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
WP:PROXYING by User:Veverve?[edit]
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Hi,
I'm still new, so didn't want to make a post on Ani if it'd be a waste of time. Similarly, I didn't want to issue any warnings in case I'm mistaken.
I noticed that User:Veverve has, despite being blocked from editing, sternly instructing other editors on how to edit on their talk page. Aside from the tone of it, which is rude but not worth raising a complaint, it seems like they're trying to effect edits while they're still blocked, which sounds to me like asking for the other users to effectively edit on Veverve's behalf. I'm hoping an experienced editor can either confirm that this is worth broader community attention, in which case advice on what I should do next is appreciated, or if this isn't WP:PROXYING, to let me know so I can make a note and avoid wasting more time.
Thank you for your time and attention! EducatedRedneck (talk) 18:34, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
- If you have a complaint against Veverve, either file it at WP:ANI or contact the blocking administrator. Using the adminhelp template is not the way to do it.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:53, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
- Roger that. It wasn't intended as a complaint, just trying to figure out if I understood policy enough to make one, but I see that it ends up being functionally the same. Thank you for the help! EducatedRedneck (talk) 22:25, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
"made a sock, copied their old task list, then realized that it was incriminating and tried to cover their tracks"[edit]
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The Invisible Barnstar | |
| For having the courage to file an SPI report. Identifying sock-puppets and meat-puppets is invisible to the readers and often invisible to many editors. And yet, your efforts help protect both the wiki and the integrity of blocks being circumvented in this manner. Please don't be too afraid of being mistaken. I didn't file because I bought the plausible cover story. Had you done as I did, the puppet would still be on the loose. Chris Troutman (talk) 22:36, 24 October 2023 (UTC) |
- Thank you! I felt a little bad after the explanation was posted, but I guess I was right for the wrong reasons? I appreciate the props; thank you! EducatedRedneck (talk) 15:02, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
Btw if you're interested[edit]
At WP:ANI, my username was on the list over that Timo Werner affair. I archived what was on my talk page earlier. Anyway, I feel as if I can trust you more. Please look after the Werner article. Peace, happy editing, Govvy (talk) 22:02, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you in advance[edit]
Could you help me get it into my head once and for all not to make any cosmetic edits? JackkBrown (talk) 00:13, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
- @JackkBrown If I can help, I'd love to! I do agree that the way Wikipedia's markup interprets things can be weird. Most of the templates I still have to use the "preview" button 3 to 5 times to make sure it displays correctly. (And even then, I usually have to look up the template instructions.) So I can understand wanting to add or remove whitespace to make the code look better. I guess where I ended up on it is, if I can't tell that something changed after I edited it, it's probably better not to change it. Does that help? Or, if you were asking for something else, then my apologies, and please let me know what would be more helpful! EducatedRedneck (talk) 01:11, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
- @EducatedRedneck: or, if I think I'm about to save a cosmetic edit, I can check for missing commas in the text, so that there are no problems if I save the edit. JackkBrown (talk) 12:59, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
- @JackkBrown Oh, I think I may have misspoken. While it is better to have some substantive change in an edit rather than not, what I'm getting at is that edits which change any whitespace (that is, parts which don't change how something is displayed) might be better to be avoided. For instance, in this edit, even if the change of redirects was good, there was no reason to also add all that extra whitespace. So if you have a choice between making an edit that A) adds some necessary commas, or B) adds some necessary commas AND changes whitespace, just skip the whitespace parts and do only edit A. Does that make more sense? EducatedRedneck (talk) 14:13, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
- @EducatedRedneck: or, if I think I'm about to save a cosmetic edit, I can check for missing commas in the text, so that there are no problems if I save the edit. JackkBrown (talk) 12:59, 21 January 2024 (UTC)