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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Administrator changes Cabayi • Lee Vilenski Boing! said Zebedee Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT Money emoji → Moneytrees Bureaucrat changes SilkTork • WereSpielChequers

CheckUser changes NativeForeigner Oversight changes Someguy1221 Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news

• There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

• The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

Please take a look at this sort of agressive behaviour on Ivan Gundulić [1], calling out another respected senior admin @Vanjagenije: [2] + calling another senior admin "a clown"[3]. and general slurs and lack of WP:Civility [4]. Please note that this is an older editor, who has previously waged a full crusade over the same issue, some 5 years ago and than again ( WP:BATTLEGROUND). Thank you, Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 00:41, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
• The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration

• A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

You are being messaged because there was a bug in UTRS that made it look like you had access to no appeals in the system. This has now since been patched and will be tested more before fully implemented again. You can track the progress if you wish here. I appreciate your patience and wanted to stop by to say try again, and let me know if anything else is wrong. Please also ping me if you reply here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of -- Amanda (aka DQ) 05:15, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Administrator changes Malcolmxl5 John • TheCoffee • Tim! Creffett → GeneralNotability DeltaQuad → AmandaNP

CheckUser changes Bbb23 Interface administrator changes TonyBallioni

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

• Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
• The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

I think you meant to lift the block on Lemurs are the best. :) --Yamla (talk) 23:06, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Oops! Thanks. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 04:14, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

If you get a second can you check the page. There is a user who will revert any edit I do for personal reasons. I'd like to see if you agree with the reverts as I'm not going to edit war. Thank you. Samurai Kung fu Cowboy (talk) 18:04, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Absolutely untrue. Are you really taking this aggressive an approach on your first day back after a loooooooong-term block? Not smart, my friend. It's not about you, it's about the article, the same article you were banned for assuming ownership of. Now chill out. SolarFlash^Discussion 18:21, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

@Samurai Kung fu Cowboy: Find something else to do on Wikipedia; it is now possible to block you from individual articles, and I will not hesitate to do so. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 18:52, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

This guy's been messaging me all day long with rants. Now he's openly canvassing other editors [5] to join with him and "do something about" me. Can you do anything or is an ANI the better option? SolarFlash^Discussion 22:05, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

ANI is best. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 22:09, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thank you for blocking the vandal Mediati74. Bearian (talk) 17:07, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

This is to inform you that I have opened a dispute resolution concerning the Kamala Harris Talk page "Attendance" item. You have commented there. I believe that the "2019" section of the article should reflect the well-documented fact that Senator Harris missed 62 percent of Senate votes in 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Kamala_Harris Jab73 (talk) 08:05, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

Administrator changes

Red Phoenix

Euryalus • SQL

Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

GB fan

Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

• There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
• Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
• Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
• There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

Did it look familiar to you? I have a recollection of seeing these edits before--a combination of two fascination, accidents and terrorism, and LGBTQ celebrities. They restored an edit originally made by this account a while back, but that could just be a coincidence. Anyway, I'm having a hell of a time going through these BLP edits which just add poorly-verified stuff to articles, like slime. Drmies (talk) 15:27, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Feels vaguely familiar, but I can't pinpoint it. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 15:35, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Here is another one--geolocation matches, as do the edits (that Lost Island stuff, the celeb trivia material), but it's on a IPv6 range. Drmies (talk) 15:49, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Oddly weak, low level blecch. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 16:18, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

If the man talks for 2 hours about how there was a Holocaust then you can decide he is not a denier. It's as good a source as the others listed here which are just articles that mention his name and add the epithet denier without citing anything he has said. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AGoodPitch (talk • contribs) 14:10, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

,@AGoodPitch:, please read the article and review the reliable sources that describe him in exactly that way. I have no idea what his current views are (nor do you, actually, because people say all sorts of things they may or may not believe), but when he was younger he certainly became known for exactly that. Jayjg ^(talk) 14:48, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

You reverted some whitewashing. The user did it again. Then I reverted, and it was undid again. I don't want to get into a thing about it, but I think that one user has a bit of an agenda w/r/t the Mel Lyman page. Ideas on how to go forward? Jessamyn (talk) 20:33, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Oh hey looks like you were working to protect the page. That should work OK. Thanks! Jessamyn (talk) 20:34, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).

Administrator changes

Eddie891

Angela • Jcw69 • Just Chilling • Philg88 • Viajero

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
• A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
• A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
• An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:49, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

They're pretty similar. You think I should capitalize the JPG in my sig? jp×g 11:20, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

I sure don't care one way or another -- lots of us jpegs in the world. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 17:17, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Jpgordon, I am just writing to you to ask for your advice and assistance in resolving a continuing problem with a certain 'Kiengir'. I apologise for occupying your time but really require your help in enforcing some preventative measures against the relevant account. Though I have attempted to facilitate a dialogue numerous times and pursue a more diplomatic route, the user is disinterested until his edit is enforced, there is simply no room for a difference of opinion. This is becoming problematic as he consistently targets articles related to Ukraine, finding the term 'Ukrainian' and intententionally removing it. Upon further inspection of his page, it appears that Ukraine related articles are not the only to have been subject to this 'harassment', other ethnic groups opposed to by Hungarian nationalists have also been puntatively edited by 'Kiengir' including articles concerning: Croatia, Romania and Austria. It appears that the user is 'Not Here to Build a Wikipedia' but rather to channel potential nationalist inclinations through his edits. I am really struggling to deal with this alone and would be so grateful of your assistance. I am aware that you have had some experience with the user but within a few months he had returned to edit warring and other counter-productive measures. Engaging with the user as I said can be problematic not only because diplomacy simply does not work but because he is prone to 'gross incivility': "Don't you ever dare to modify my personal page", "Which part of this simple logic do you not understand?", "see, your problem is with the English language. You do not understand what means CONTEMPORARY. Check a vocabulary or talk with an English teacher,maybe the third time you won't make yourself again ridicoulus!", "Your grammar lesson is what you had to learn, since then you would not make the edit that you made, the rest is a useless trash talk. If you do not answer anymore", "B****s..t, if I would have wanted to hide anything from the Hungarian fans I would have make disappear half of he content that is heavily citing everything about Hungarians", "you have to ashamed about your behavior". He has been involved in edit warring up to 6 times, disruptive editing up to 3 times, canvassing 2 and being on the ANI page more than 4 times. As previously stated, he regularly 'harasses' and 'vandalises' articles related to Ukraine whilst bolstering the Hungarian cause across Wikipedia at the detriment of his broader political opponents, he is consistently engaged in 'edit-warring' and is "Not here to build an encyclopedia". I really dont see why this would not be enough rationale for a block at least on the topic of Ukraine, of which he regularly targets, not to productively contribute but to remove anything that happens to mention 'Ukrainian'. There have been instances whereby I have begun editing a page only to find he had intentionally found the page to undo my edits, not only does this breach Wikipedia guidelines but as you can imagine it creates a toxic environment in which one feels they cannot contribute to Wikipedia. For the wellbeing of Wikipedia and users I really hope this message reaches you and the relevant user can blocked.Thank you very muchDanielLerish (talk) 17:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC)DanielLerish

Take it to WP:ANI; I've got no particular insight into or interest in this user, and most of your examples of his "gross incivility" barely rise to the level of "slight rudeness". --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 22:41, 28 September 2020 (UTC)!

@Ponyo:,

this I was referring from this user in your talk, now the user is spreading his casting aspersions with fake and and manipulated contents to more users. Clear WP:NOTHERE, did not live the chance gotten from you after escaping almost indef last time.(KIENGIR (talk) 23:32, 28 September 2020 (UTC))

Thank you for catching my error - I made four bad edits yesterday in the space of 11 seconds. I could try to blame the software, but I think it is more likely that I nodded off with my finger on the mouse button! -- John of Reading (talk) 17:16, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Wow! Kinda like butt dialing. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 20:12, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

Ajpolino • LuK3

Jackmcbarn

Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

I have a suspicion that User:Tokyo Metro 6000 series is evading block and is back with a new account. What should I do? Enjoyer of World^💬 07:27, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

You can make a report on WP:SPI. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 16:22, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Administrator changes John M Wolfson Bduke • Nilfanion • Philosopher • Rspeer • Yunshui Interface administrator changes Ragesoss TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes EdJohnston • Oshwah • Yamla Yunshui Oversight changes Anarchyte Yunshui

Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

I went to comment on the editor's user talk and saw you had posted there as well... I really think they should all be reverted but a mass reversion might be above my pay-grade so wanted to discuss etc. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 19:55, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

I imagine there's a discussion somewhere about the inappropriateness of such things. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 22:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

How does this comment help anything? Why not delete the section and ask Futurist110 to restate if he really has a request for references? fiveby(zero) 16:33, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Because it's important to call out hate sites when invoked on Wikipedia for any reason. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 16:43, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

and Aw, how sweet. Making a racist argument, perhaps ignorantly,...? That is calling out the editor, not the site, and there is a place for that. A racist argument has no place where editors should be asking for references, if you believe that why didn't you remove the section? fiveby(zero) 18:31, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Noted. That editor sets me off... --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 20:12, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. —valereee (talk) 19:25, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

That would be Wikipedia:Blocking policy, A block for disruption may be necessary in response to: ... breaching the policies or guidelines ..., and of course WP:AGF is a guideline. You're right that an expired block makes this moot, but I'm surprised to see an admin question whether assuming bad faith is blockable. Levivich ^harass/_hound 19:16, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

I've answered this over at WP:ANI, per the note below. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 19:37, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

Izno

Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Hello there! Shearonink (talk) wishes you & yours the very best of the season!

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa,
Festivus (for the rest of us!) or even the Saturnalia,
here's to:
hoping your holiday time is wonderful
and - especially -
that the New Year 2021 will be an improvement upon the old of 2020.
CHEERS!

Share these holiday wishes by adding ((subst:User:Shearonink/Holiday)) to your friends' talk pages.

(Sent: 04:16, 18 December 2020 (UTC))

Hi, can you please inform me about this user, it appears that you blocked them. If this is so they are using a account that is based. Can you clear this up for me. Thanks Zongqi (talk) 12:10, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Interesting. I deleted a user page ten years ago. Can you provide some diffs demonstrating the problem? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 15:18, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

I see that I deleted a user page User:UU, that was created not by that user but by a another user who I blocked as a sockpuppet. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 15:19, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Administrator changes Hammersoft Andres • Brion VIBBER • Rkitko • Thatcher

CheckUser changes Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac Oversight changes Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration

• By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
• Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

Hi jpgordon, as you are an admin, where do I report copyvios, I was reviewing Chalmers Automobile for it's GA status and found it's highly copyrighted.

See here

RealLifeLorefan80 (talk) 04:49, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Copyright problems seems to be the spot. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 07:06, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much jpgordon RealLifeLorefan80 (talk) 20:48, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Could you please handle some reports on WP:AIV. CLCStudent (talk) 01:40, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:The Holocaust § RfC - First sentence in lede. warmly, ezlev. talk 17:51, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Administrator changes Hog Farm Mattflaschen • Nandesuka • Savidan • Wangi

CheckUser changes Berean Hunter • Xeno Oversight changes Someguy1221 • Xeno

Arbitration

• The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

I discovered you through your post on user talk:Ddum5347 and so discovered this. Quite a yard list! Craigthebirder (talk) 03:19, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, you're the first person since I put this up in 2006 or so who has mentioned it! --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 17:00, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Valentine Greets!!!

Hello Jpgordon, love is the language of hearts and is the feeling that joins two souls and brings two hearts together in a bond. Taking love to the level of Wikipedia, spread the WikiLove by wishing each other Happy Valentine's Day, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm love on the eve, Happy editing, D💘ggy54321 (xoxo😘) 03:52, 14 February 2021 (UTC) Spread the love by adding ((subst:Valentine Greetings)) to other user talk pages.

As well, please ignore my email, as I have resolved it. Thanks! D💘ggy54321 ^(xoxo😘)

Hi Jpgordon. As per this ANI case, (I knew it wouldn't be long) Drells is back making identical edits to the same article using an IP address. Could I trouble you to cast an eye or would you prefer I take this to SPI? Robvanvee 06:42, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

No reason to SPI, obvious is obvious. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 15:53, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Much appreciated! Robvanvee 18:19, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi again Josh. I've started a new thread here instead of continuing in the one above as this may be a long term problem and you'll want to archive at some point. OK, so our friend is back under the new alias of The kroll of Krolls. Here is a previously blocked IP sock's edit vs The kroll of Krolls identical edit (Note: edit summaries in the same broken English). Let me know if you require more diffs. If this is in any way an inconvenience, just say the word and I'll take it to SPI. Many thanks! Robvanvee 06:37, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Someone else got 'em first. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 15:08, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

😂😂😂. Damn! And I was rooting for you. Thanks again Josh and this may not be our last interaction. Robvanvee 15:28, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Can user:94.173.40.234 please be blocked ASAP? CLCStudent (talk) 01:45, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Sure, but why was this so important you couldn't use WP:AIV? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 01:48, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

I did, but this guy was not going to stop until blocked. CLCStudent (talk) 01:49, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

That's what AIV is for. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 01:50, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

It has been moving very slow tonight. CLCStudent (talk) 01:51, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Citing a Harvard prof writing in International Review of Law and Economics actually is a "legitimate reason." But where's your reason? Or do you not apply your own rules to yourself? If you insist on getting involved, may I suggest you either play the ball and address the issue or, if you see it as your job to play the man, then step up and block me instead of reverting me without feeling any obligation to explain yourself or otherwise justify your edits.--Brian Dell (talk) 07:01, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Why would I block you? You made an extremely obnoxious edit summary, as you are fully aware, and I slapped you with a trout. I didn't bother reading past the obnoxious part. I don't even know if you're right or you're wrong in this case, and I don't care. There's been a lot of problematic editing over the years on that article, obviously, and it's contentiousness has more than once drawn my attention, generally to the edit warring which got me involved in the first place (in the form of responding to an unblock request.) I'll admit I've got a long-standing annoyance with you, from some or another disagreement we had probably over a decade ago, and that contributed to an over-reaction on my part. I probably would have ignored it from someone else. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 08:20, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

So you revert in order to "trout slap" someone? What would you think of an ordinary non-admin doing this, reverting cuz "I think that editor is obnoxious" and claiming no interest in the article? It's exceedingly obvious you could've locked the page but decided to revert because you didn't want to lock to what you felt was the "wrong" version. Which is fine but if you are going to take sides then get in the ring instead of putting on this neutrality act. The fact one side of a fairly evenly matched dispute considers you one of theirs shows others don't buy the pose any more than I do.--Brian Dell (talk) 09:19, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. I've had better months, that's for sure. But I'm on the road to recovery, and the whole "not dying" part I consider pretty important.--Calton | Talk 10:06, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
• A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
• There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news

• When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
• When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
• There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

• By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
• The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

Hey Josh. After your assistance here a few days ago, I thought Id ask you directly again instead of going the SPI route. I hope you don't mind. If so, just say the word. So our sock is back, making identical edits to the exact same articles from their freshly created account in the familiar broken English we've come to expect: sales figures from unreliable sites to Dom Omar related articles as has been their modus operandi all along. Here is their contributions page. Please could you take a look when you are able and shout if you need diffs or want this to go to SPI. Robvanvee 06:48, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

No problem. More detail than I need. Just point me to user and I'll check, this one's real obvious. Found one other in the course of this. It's quick and painless for me. Go to SPI and they seem to want to glorify the socks with tags; I'd just as soon quietly nuke them. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 06:54, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

My kinda admin! Thanks so much as always. Till next week...😂 Robvanvee 07:05, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Hey Josh! Guess who's back? Well, I'm damned sure. What do you reckon? Robvanvee 16:30, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Cheers! Robvanvee 16:41, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi again Josh. Sorry, I seem to be hogging your talk page. Here they are again, I'm afraid. Robvanvee 06:48, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

AmandaNP was faster than me. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 14:37, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Where I can report admins for blocking me for a bad reason?--84.108.7.2 (talk) 15:38, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Tell me what you think the problem is and I'll offer suggestions. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 15:42, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Okay, so an admin named Euryalus claimed that I was an IP address from school or a public place which isn't true and therefore I want to report him because my block reason wasn't ok, in fact, the IP Address is from home and only one person uses the computer. So, I want to report Euryalus for a bad block reason--84.108.7.2 (talk) 14:13, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Be careful. If this is not a shared IP address, if you are the only person to edit from that IP address, then you are personally responsible for the anti semitic death threats originating from that address. --Yamla (talk) 14:27, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Ok so where do I report him?--84.108.7.2 (talk) 19:11, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

WP:ADMINABUSE explains your options. Given the anti-semitic death threats, I'll warn you that I sincerely doubt anyone will see the block as inappropriate, and WP:BOOMERANG may apply. --Yamla (talk) 19:21, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello. Can my IP be blocked in a specific language zone? I can't even request an unlock through a template, and here you haven't even confirmed the lock of 31.28.13.208. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.28.13.208 (talk) 05:53, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

You gave as the reason 'Self-admitted ban evasion. Don't know who, don't care.' Could you point to where ban evasion was admitted. Blocking on suspicion of socking with identifying the puppeteer is a tad irregular. — Charles Stewart (talk) 07:49, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

[6]. Don't know, don't care. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 13:51, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi again Josh. Looks like our persistent block evasive editor is back. Previously blocked sock edit vs our latest iteration's edit. Could I once again trouble you to cast an eye please or shall we wait until more edits are made? Robvanvee 09:08, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Ok, after a bit more searching I have no doubt. This and this by previously blocked sock. This and this by today's accused. Robvanvee 11:29, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Zapped. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 13:36, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Gracias! Robvanvee 13:54, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

The references is confirme by the RIAA,the Richest, Billboard. Ross the World (talk) 12:48, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

What do you think of my new user box. Still needs a little work I know. SlightSmile 16:41, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Nice! Be sure to tell the original source, Tony Sidaway. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 17:15, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
• Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

• A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

Hi Josh. Here we go yet again. Block evasion by Drells, this time as Rodalnor. They are not trying very hard to avoid detection - note the name vs previously blocked sock Ronnaldor and the editing of a Don Omar article. Do you require more? Robvanvee 20:06, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

• yawn* this time I blocked the IP for a few months. Let's see what happens. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 20:29, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Yawn indeed! Thanks as always. Robvanvee 20:30, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Meditations and thanks for your question which I didn't feel competent to answer ... but you gave me the opportunity to rediscover this intense and lovely song. Nothing more to add, but Tom Jobim and Elis Regina. ---Sluzzelin talk 21:18, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

That's a delicious one. This came up because I'm taking a jazz singing class and decided to do the song in Portuguese, which I do not know at all. Or, rather, I didn't until a couple weeks ago. My favorite version is Gilberto live in Tokyo. I was lucky enough to see him in San Francisco on this tour. The liberties he takes with the phrasing and timing are amazing. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 03:19, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

... and yet calm and relaxed like no other. Meditation. Beautiful. Thank you. ---Sluzzelin talk 14:45, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Should be generally forbidden. Wikipedia is not a role-playing game. is the best quote I've seen on using multiple accounts in a while. It seems other projects have taken your view, if not ours... TonyBallioni (talk) 17:24, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. My other favorite is "WP:Wikipedia is not therapy", which is a very nasty thing to say to people so I don't, but I sometimes think Wikipedia would be better if I could get away with being the total bitch I want to be. One reason I'm an admin is to give me a good reason not to be that way. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 19:42, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

user @GoogleTheContributor: was blocked recently, I assume for sockpuppetry since you told them they owned another account? Is there a sockpuppetry case I can refer myself too? versacespaceleave a message! 11:00, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Nope, no open case. I saw it, I recognized it, I blocked it. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 13:50, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

User:OrpyFiddle has been abusing his talk page. Can you please remove access to the talk page? NightWolf1223 (talk) 19:14, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

No such user. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 22:55, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

• Ted Gunderson (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I note that the new WP:SPA had removed all mentions of Gunderson's involvement in conspiracist bullshit - including the McMartin case, where he was highly prominent. I've added it back today, if you see this on your watchlist I suspect it will be the SPA reverting again. Guy (help! - typo?) 12:02, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

• • Well done, Guy. I've been hoping someone more knowledgeable than I about Gunderson would jump in there. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 15:03, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

@JzG: I was actually responsible for removing most of it because it was terribly sourced. Thanks for providing robust sources for the claims, as I didn't find much while google searching previously. Hemiauchenia (talk) 12:53, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
• The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

• The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

I didn't even look at those links. Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. GA-RT-22 (talk) 22:35, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

flowers music images

Thank you for beginning quality articles such as Ruth Bernhard, for fighting "wastes of bits", for "I find myself overwhelmingly relieved not to be part of the governance of this operation", for images of life, for missing Sarah SV, - Josh, repeating from 11 November 2008: you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2593 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:03, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

It's nice to be appreciated -- especially by someone who seems to get what I'm doing here. Thanks. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 14:38, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Lovely, - it's easier to come to my attention by article writing than beneficial gnoming, but better late than never ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:24, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Hey Josh. I thought we had seen the last of them but unfortunately User:Drells is back after an extended break. Let me know if you need more diffs. Robvanvee 07:53, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

• borrrrring. bang bang. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 14:14, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

I see you have dealt with the editor BillCaxton recently. He has used my full name, and my private work email address in his post. I have removed my email address, but am feeling sick to the stomach with worry about the content of his edit. I hope there is some way to assure me that action can be taken to restrict or remove him from editing further. Regards doktorb _words^deeds 00:02, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

blecch. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 01:03, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi Josh, I know it's a holiday weekend, but I was wondering when you think you're going to get to the check. Also, unless Drill it shows up in the check of Sos, I suggest an independent check of Drill it. Sorry about being a bit of a pest; patience isn't one of my few virtues.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:41, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Tons of users, mostly innocuous, on the ranges of both. They're both on the same /16, but so are dozens of other editors. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 20:37, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. So, I take it you wouldn't feel comfortable saying the two users/accounts are socks of each other?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:12, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Technically, the most I can say is  Possible. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 23:15, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Right, perhaps the best thing to do is for you to post that finding at the Sos Talk page and clear the checkuser needed template. Then, I can decide what to do next, if anything. Thanks for all your help! --Bbb23 (talk) 23:46, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Greetings,

I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 27 June, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up your name under the appropriate section.

Thank you for your time.--BAnand (WMF) 15:06, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

I assume you also want to remove the sock tag from their user page? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:49, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

They can do it themselves, of course. But yes, I should do that. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 17:05, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks a lot for making wiki better. Muhammad Shafayet Hossain (talk) 18:13, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi Josh. So sorry to have to keep doing this. As before, here they are now. 🤭. Robvanvee 19:54, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

• Plink. Gone. No sorry necessary. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 21:39, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Josh! Robvanvee 06:05, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

May you please answer my question? You responded to the second portion of my post, so I would reasonably assume you read the first. If not, I included it (in bold) here:

"{unblock|reason=If WP:AIV is not a method to request review, I ask to be directed to the conduct noticeboard. I am using this unblock request to ensure my queries are flagged to the appropriate users for which this can be viewed and responded to.))" - MrloniBoo (talk) 01:57, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

You might find our dispute resolution policy helpful. Hint: you start with the article's talk page. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 01:06, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Dear Josh,

Thanks for intervening in this issue. I have tried to engage the other editor in discussion, to no avail.

This does lead me to a query… how does one, independent, bona fide, editor manage to sustain an edit when someone, possibly or probably acting on behalf of the subject of an article, keeps deleting the edit? Despite researching, I’m totally unclear as to how an article is submitted for mediation or a dispute resolved.

Incidentally, I’m happy to provide the citation required in my amendment, but don’t want to attempt any further edits in view of your notice.

Regards, 18:19, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

GreatRedFox (talk) 18:35, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Basically, you ask for more eyeballs. Our dispute resolution guidelines can be very helpful. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 18:58, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi Josh,

An interesting development… another editor has joined in to take the place of the individual who kept deleting my edit.

My view, this is a colleague from either the Dept of Defence, or the Public Service generally.

This is clearly an abuse of the system as the section involved can, presumably, simply line up editors.

I would be interested in any comments you have on this.

Regards,

GreatRedFox (talk) 15:55, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Your view is entirely incorrect. User:Bastun is an experienced editor, with fifteen years of experience and understanding Wikipedia policies. Your edit is not properly sourced; as Bastun said,Claims like this need an actual inline citation, not a body text "see this newspaper." See WP:V, WP:RS and Template:cite. Since I was just commenting on your the edit warring, not the contents of the edit, when I advised both you and Spleodrach to knock it off, I didn't look at the edit in question in any detail. You can build the inline citation easily enough, but you certainly do need to do so when you re-insert the material the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth time... --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 16:18, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Confirming I am in no way involved with the Department of Defence, the public service, or the Irish defence forces. Spleodrach and I often edit the same pages, but that's only to be expected, seeing as we're both Irish. I have never met them that I know of in real life, and have no idea who they actually are in real life. GreatRedFox, my edit summary outlined exactly what was wrong with the insertion, and also how to correct it. The verifiability policy is part of one of the main pillars of Wikipedia, and is linked from the welcome message on your own talk page, that you received when you started editing. We all had to learn the basics when we started, including how to Template:cite reliable sources. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 17:03, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi Josh,

I’m really impressed by your quick turnaround on these entries; unfortunately I can’t match your speed of response.

There is a non-sequitur in your arguments in relation to editor B, and I also think that both you and s/he have misunderstood the edit. However, as s/he has engaged in the conversation, it seems more appropriate to follow up on his/er talk page as opposed to occupying your talk space.

Regards,

GreatRedFox (talk) 17:06, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

190.154.39.173 is making the same changes to nationality that 157.100.74.34 and even using Freddy Mercury's birthplace as an example as he does. Notfrompedro (talk) 13:18, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Blocked (without the necessity for checkuser tools), obvious evasion is indeed obvious. --Yamla (talk) 13:26, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi. I recently edited a page but i forgot to login. Can you remove my edit revision by RevDelete. Thanks Modcheck2112 (talk) 01:42, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

No, and please stop creating accounts. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 02:27, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Jpgordon, I would like to request more information about your unblock here, and possible reconsideration. Putting aside the sock history, the unblock request itself was written to be deliberately misleading. The unblock request claims the issue was "possibly due to my addition of the intangible heritage infobox", rather than "allegedly saying that I was restoring edits made by sockpuppets of said user", then adding "the diff was here". However, what is linked is clearly not a diff, it is an oldid. This is to hide the actual edit, which is this one, of which the infobox is a tiny part. They even link to an actual diff later ("was also added by a user named "Robertsky" here"). On sock history, misleading edit summaries etc. are common with this case. There are also quite a few similar unblock requests/posts ([7][8][9][10]). CMD (talk) 10:41, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

If more problems arise, reblocking is simple. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 13:42, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Chipmunkdavis, is there any explanation as to why you're avoiding engaging in direct communication with me or address your response on that article's talk page, instead of vindictively engaging an admin in an attempt to get me reblocked? I'm not Ineedostopforgetting, I wasn't the one that harassed you, so I kindly ask for you to cease associating me with them, and actually assume good faith instead of thinking everything is all malicious here. The edit history of Hawker centre is a huge mess, which is why I had brought up Robertsky's diff that the infobox wasn't some sock's idea, which I had reintroduced. And forgive me for not knowing all of Wikipedia's jargon as I was previously not aware of the differences between "diff" and "oldid", which is why I wrote "diff". ThungKrug (talk) 17:19, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Hey Josh. Here we go again, I'm afraid. Robvanvee 07:01, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

"The source and information is reliable ".✌ Lrorboll (talk) 07:04, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Yawns are contagious. Or are they infectious? Or both? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 13:38, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

No less an authority that Dr. Seuss claims in his Sleep Book that they are the second most contagious thing in the world after the common cold :-) MarnetteD|Talk 14:15, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

And just like that, in a move reminiscent of a Mortal Kombat fatality, the smelly sock is reduced to smouldering pile of ash (if only they would stay down!). Great job and thanks as always! Robvanvee 19:23, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Josh, sadly it would appear the bellend is back. Could I trouble you to cast an eye please. Robvanvee 09:32, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

My dog woke me up at 4am, perturbed probably by the presence of cervines wandering unacceptably close to the house. Or maybe skunks. Regardless, I'd never heard the term "bellend" before. Thank you. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 13:10, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

It was a favourite of Ali G. Tis I who thanks you! Robvanvee 22:46, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes Trialpears AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who Lacrimosus → Ikuzaf Interface administrator changes Ragesoss

CheckUser changes AGK • DGG Oversighter changes AGK

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
• An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

• IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

• The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

Am I being overly suspicious, or is MollyPollyRolly (talk · contribs) worth investigating here? The editor has 109 edits since March, 100 of which are Welcome messages on user talk pages. There are three (3) edits to Article space, and, oh, and two comments at WP:ANI [11] [12]. --Calton | Talk 15:29, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

It's peculiar, but I don't think it's harmful? Is anyone complaining about the welcomes? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 16:19, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

I don't know if it's harmful -- I haven't checked the editors being welcomed yet -- but yea, peculiar, since (almost) literally the only thing this editor has done from their very first edits is add Welcome templates. That makes me wonder how they knew about them immediately, and how they were also able to, almost immediately, tag and report a username violation. --Calton | Talk 05:47, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Oh, that's just Special:Log/newusers. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 13:31, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

The kotterdale sock is back again. Any chance you can indef page block the range 2601:741:8000:1A80:C444:D719:12B9:3887 is in from the article and talk page? I think that would reduce disruption while have minimal effect on other editors from that range. Also would that prevent an account from that ip range from editing the article as well? Thanks for your time. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:04, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

I don't think it warrants a rangeblock. It's basically just you and me being slightly bothered once in a while by this pest; I think we have it under control as it is. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 23:14, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Sounds good. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:22, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Fitzrex appears to be a new incarnation of Magnovvig (another previous pre-block apparently abandoned account was Magnoffiq). I don't have the time to do interaction checks and file an SPI today, but considering that you were the blocking admin and also a checkuser, I thought I'd leave a note here in case it's also obvious to you... The evidence for now: topics are politics, COVID, China, G5, the POV right-wing and edit summaries commonly include "ref name ...", with the new account created soon after the other was blocked. Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 00:24, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Yup. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 04:29, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, do you think that I should still file an SPI report for the records? —PaleoNeonate – 13:06, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

That's really up to you. I personally think WP:DENY is best, but that's more religion than policy. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 13:20, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

filed, —PaleoNeonate – 13:57, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Jpgordon. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the ((You've got mail)) or ((ygm)) template.Doug Weller talk 11:21, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

SIGH...Robvanvee 09:15, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

...shrug...--jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 13:11, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Sob. Robvanvee 15:39, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Hey jpgordon, I hope you're doing well. I noticed that you placed a CU-block template on Canadamax' talk, though they aren't blocked or tagged. Not sure what happened, just wanted to bring it to your attention. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:19, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! Forgot to click. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 18:30, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Administrator changes BusterD Kees08 • Nickshanks • Protonk • Schissel • Ultraexactzz • Wknight94

CheckUser changes TheresNoTime Oversighter changes TheresNoTime ST47

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

• Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

• Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

Hello I see you unblocked this user [13]. They seem to be back to using IP addresses to avoid scrutiny [14]. Its a norway IP again (see case [15]) and they're pasting similar content from the article in which I had a dispute with them [16]. The user even readded the content I removed on Yusuf's article that stated "he was a founder" [17] onto the Walashma dynasty article using an IP address. Magherbin (talk) 01:06, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Hm. The named account hasn't done anything at all, and checkuser doesn't find anything of interest. I suggest waking up the SPI page again, and the duckiness of it will suffice. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 02:04, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Ok done [18]. Magherbin (talk) 03:07, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Jpgordon, the case was closed and another ip (similar location) is active as well as the suspected master. [19]. Does this warrant another case? Magherbin (talk) 17:05, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

For a single edit? No. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 17:28, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Now multiple. Magherbin (talk) 17:41, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Hey, can you tell me who the master is?--Bbb23 (talk) 17:39, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

That would be User:Kaustritten. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 17:41, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, is it okay for me to tag the two accounts? If yes, do you have a preference as to tags, i.e., confirmed, etc.?--Bbb23 (talk) 17:44, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

No problem. Certainly confirmed, both by behavior and CU. I suspect this one will come back, but he has really really obvious tells. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 17:46, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much for raising questions in my recent "sockpuppet" blocking. I was blown away by the entire incident and very upset that my six years of Wikipedia editing were dismissed for reasons I could not understand. I am happy that TNT rescinded the block and I can get back to my GOCE work. It was difficult, but I thought everyone acted in good faith, were polite and were all just working to improve Wikipedia. Thanks again. Cleveland Todd (talk) 15:30, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. Be advised that, for whatever reason, another user is still keeping that SPI open for "behavioral investigation". --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 16:33, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

That's correct. Priceless.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:26, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

(Bowing.) --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 22:39, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

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Miscellaneous

• The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 00:59, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Wowza. 17 years! I still think it's worth my time... --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 01:51, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Josh. I hope this finds you well. I had really hoped that this was behind us but alas... Could you work your magic please. Robvanvee 18:01, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

yeah yeah yeah --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 21:58, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Josh. Robvanvee 06:31, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• AnnieAsjid (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

This new account (created August 18) wants to recreate Draft:Sheikh Asif, which has been recreated many times by socks, but they can't because it's extended-confirmed-protected. Compare also this request to be mentored with this blocked sock's request to be mentored. I think it's worth a check. BTW, there's also Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sardar Nadir Ali, which apparently shares the same focus.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:53, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

CU doesn't find anything worth mentioning. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 01:47, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

After all the work I put in reviewing their edits (sighing)...thanks for checking.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:57, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

well, you might want to ask for another CU who has worked Thamesinfotech to take a look. All I could say is "nobody else is there"; I couldn't say "oh, that's the usual pattern." --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 03:24, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

There are non-stale socks. See Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Thamesinfotech.--Bbb23 (talk) 03:31, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

 Confirmed to the first one I randomly picked from there. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 03:50, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! Blocked and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:33, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi I just see you tagged me here you can check my account also I am not any sock I found his article live before somedays so I thought will edit it as that was written fully promotional and nothing else after that I see it was deleted because the creator was blocked so I some comments and ask for help and anyone can ask for it but now I open wikipedia and found discusss Discussion about Sheikh AnnieAsjid (talk) 04:19, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

I did check your account. That was the whole point. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 14:18, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

The blocking admin shouldn't be reviewing unblock requests from a user who they themselves blocked. Also, you didn't specify who the sock master is, but that's less important than the conflict of interest unblock review. 199.8.32.6 (talk) 20:01, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

True. I missed that one, thanks for pointing it out. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 00:28, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Here we go again. (Hi Josh). Robvanvee 08:22, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Just noticed that the relevant IP had been blocked without account creation blocked. Fixed. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 14:33, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Josh. Robvanvee 17:56, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

You are a kinder person than I am. You beat me to declining the unblock request at User talk:119.18.1.229 by seconds. I was going to revoke talk page access. However, I certainly agree that one more chance is the most. JBW (talk) 20:17, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure what came over me, but thanks. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 21:08, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Josh. Sorry to ask for help again. Robvanvee 10:24, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

...yawn... --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 14:22, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

You're telling me! Thanks as always. Robvanvee 17:24, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

User talk:Hiphopmusicindustry is opening up spurious edit requests. If you could pull their TPA I'd appreciate it. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:50, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

At your service. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 23:51, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you kindly. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:54, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

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Administrator changes Blablubbs Alvestrand • Black Falcon • Deathphoenix • Dppowell • Mark Arsten • JGHowes (deceased)

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Hi, How are you doing? I see that you have blocked User:Kudarathwatte for sockpuppeting. I filed an SPI on monday here. Would you be able to leave a comment there? so someone could close the case. Cheers--Chanaka L (talk) 06:10, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Josh. Hate to trouble you but could you do your thing here once again please. Cheers! Robvanvee 19:02, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

yawn --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 04:24, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! Robvanvee 04:51, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello again, I recently noticed that you have blocked Albertbelgium as well as the oldest known (to me at least) account, Magnoffiq (and you surely remember of the SPI). I was wondering if you were familiar with this editor before the Magnoffiq account? In any case, since per WP:BE sock contributions would be reverted, I looked a bit and didn't bother too much as most are now buried under others, at the same time noticing some apparently decent contributions like Special:Diff/1045363922. So far it seems to be some LTA who doesn't care, resets their IP address and creates a new account, perhaps since a long time. Like in this case, since they're not immediately discovered and that in the batch some contributions are good (and not citing disinformation sources as sometimes happens with this user), it's likely that a number of past accounts were also not reverted (you didn't seem to apply BE reverts either or to tag them so they can easily be grouped). So I wondered if other than DENY, if it was because it's a very old familiar LTA that I'm only recently familiar with? If so, do you think it'd be worth writing an TLA entry (and would you remember what one of the oldest accounts was)? Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 23:57, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Mostly a mix of DENY and laziness. Probably more of the latter. "It's a goddamn sock, I don't care whose, kill it, next?" --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 00:52, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

This relentless tosser who is up to their usual disruption. Pretty soon I'll be able to report them using only emojis! Robvanvee 06:01, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

do it --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 14:23, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

...goes to Darwinbish! darwin bish 14:26, 21 October 2021 (UTC).

Ha! You've got a long way to go before you become this irritating, Darwinbish. Thanks as always Josh. Robvanvee 19:38, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Looks like unblock-review ate up the unblock request reason here; probably non-standard formatting or something. Perryprog (talk) 00:56, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

thx! --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 00:57, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

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You declined the unlock request on this users talk page after I made a comment.

The user has now attempted to out me by linking to a reddit account with the same username and called me a pervert over the reddits account contents. Lavalizard101 (talk) 16:15, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Someone obviously took care of it. Such ugly people. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 16:40, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

The editor you reverted at Breakfast at Tiffany's (film) has started an edit war over his changes. When I reported him at AIV, action was declined with the comment that the editor is already partially blocked. However, that's only from one article and his two years of disruptive behaviour with constant warnings is being overlooked. Is there some way the decision not to block the editor fully can be reviewed? Sweetpool50 (talk) 12:28, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Looks like it's been done. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 14:31, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello @Jpgordon, thank you for responding to my post. You had mentioned I was edit warring. I apologize, I rarely get into disagreements and I publish my rational in the notes when I edit a post. Can you guide me on how I can address my concerns that I raised correctly? (talk) 05:34, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Lopbunny69, created a bit less than a week ago, immediate and rapid counter-vandalism, already racked up 247 edits. They came to my attention because of this on my Talk page. I mean I know I'm amazing (smile), but I never had any interaction with them. I also think the username is colorful.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:38, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, I suspect something there will blow up soon. Nothing malign yet. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 00:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:30, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi Jpgordon, you declined Khattab Lord (talk · contribs)'s unblock request as a CU verified sock. Mustafax10 has to be another sock; they created Draft:Khattab Al-Dhafiri with a photo uploaded by Khattab Lord, and judging from what I can see in Special:Log/Khattab_Lord, that draft is the same one Khattab Lord created. Could you wield the needful hammer? --bonadea contributions talk 19:07, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

CU isn't helpful, but this is WP:DUCK territory. Door ass bang. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 23:39, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

If you haven't looked at WP:AN, you should. Apparently, no one thought to notify you (pinging is not a substitute for notification). Welcome to the wonderful world of Ritchie.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:17, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

The unilateral reduction of the block strikes me as pretty anti-social behavior. But I'm not going to raise the drama level. Were it to happen again in the same circumstance it might raise my hackles, but at the moment I'm in I-don't-really-give-a-fuckistan. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 04:56, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot! Updated scripts SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn. Writ Keeper: massRollback.js has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue). ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

Pending requests Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek) ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests Miscellaneous Wikipedia:User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description. Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

New scripts

• Ahecht:
  • draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
  • massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
  • watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
• Awesome Aasim:
  • Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
  • Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
• Caburum:
  • UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
• Chlod:
  • CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's ((copied)) templates.
• DaxServer:
  • BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one ((cite book)) inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an ((Sfn)).
• FlightTime:
  • OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend ((Clear)) to the top of each section on the archive page.
• Jon Harald Søby:
  • diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
  • warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
• JPxG:
  • PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
  • CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
  • TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like ((track listing)) and get total runtimes.
• Nardog:
  • CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
  • IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
  • TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
• NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
  • ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
  • CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
  • LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
  • QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
• Novem Linguae:
  • DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
  • NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
  • UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
  • VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
  • WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
• P.T.Đ:
  • TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
• Qwerfjkl:
  • editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
  • RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
  • talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a ((talkback)) notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
• Rublov:
  • diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
• Rummskartoffel:
  • auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
  • generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
  • share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
  • show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
• Tol:
  • VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a ((citation needed)) tag.
• Venkat TL:
  • ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
• Vukky:
  • StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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Care to explain your hasty, unexplained and bizarre decision to revert my edit to the cream soda article? Bigga, DG, Solo and Old Jamaica (for further evidence, though I didn’t even mention that brand) are all clear vanilla-flavoured cream sodas from the Caribbean. ‘Champagne Cola’, though similar to cream soda, is arguably not even a type of cream soda. The ONLY evidence in the article for red cream sodas there is the mention of Fanta cream soda, so that evidence is MUCH WEAKER but I didn’t delete any mention of red cream sodas on that basis. Overlordnat1 (talk) 23:33, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

We don't allow advertising, that's all. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 04:20, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply but that does an odd justification considering that numerous brands are named, and even quite literally depicted, in the article. Now that your reversion has itself been reverted though (not by me), I trust you will leave things as they are. Merry Christmas to you! Overlordnat1 (talk) 10:26, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

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The title at the top of your user page looks beautiful 💕 AKK700 06:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! The moment I saw it I knew I had to try it. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 15:18, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

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Using a tool you just did substantial undiscussed deletions from about 100 articles within a few minutes. It was a section that particular artists had recordings destroyed in a fire. What's up? Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 19:55, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#2008 Universal Studios fire - how appropriate?. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 19:59, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the response and for doing. Looks like a good move. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 20:56, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

I approve, but this is not a minor edit. GA-RT-22 (talk) 21:05, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Ooops, you're right, I hadn't seen that box was checked on JWB. Thanks, fixed going forward. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 21:05, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Can I ask why you removed the text that you did, and what you ment by the edit tag "bulk removal. Thanks. Edmund Patrick – confer 23:00, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

See above, or the talk page edit notice. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 23:40, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

I'm almost certain that Anon3406, which was created today, is a sock of a known master, but I can't remember the name of the master or any socks. Several things struck me: immediately changing redirects to different targets, mostly of wild cats, later of flags; and later voting at a couple of AfDs. However, the most memorable tell was creating a userpage that lists his contribution history, which is rather distinctive. What do you think?--Bbb23 (talk) 03:18, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

I'd sure never seen the trick of transcluding the contributions onto the user page! I didn't even know you could transclude special pages. So I don't think I've seen this one before, or if I did, it's completely slipped my porous brain. Obvs not a new user. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 04:49, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

I tried super glue on my brain, but I think it made things worse.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:12, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi, since you're the one who granted unblock, can you please clarify if my ban on editing music articles is lifted now that 6 months had passed?

I'd greatly appreciate any response since I don't wish to break any rules — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jshpinar (talk • contribs) 01:14, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Yup. Be careful and have fun. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 03:04, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jshpinar (talk • contribs) 03:57, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Just courious, is there a discussion on this ? - FlightTime (open channel) 21:06, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#2008 Universal Studios fire - how appropriate?--jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 21:08, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you - FlightTime (open channel) 21:11, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

If there is a next time, Jpgordon, do you think you could put a link to the discussion in the edit summary? Cheers, --SVTCobra 23:28, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Not really. I didn't want to have 800 of those identical, very long links to the discussion showing up in my edit log. I'd rather answer a few redundant questions. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 23:30, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

I am glad you are so concerned about your edit log. I'd appreciate more consideration for 700+ page watchers. BusterD (talk) 23:43, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

All you had to do was create a shortcut. And BusterD is understating the number of page watchers. I only watch one of the affected pages and it took me a while to track it back to that discussion page. --SVTCobra 03:20, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry about that. I've not made large-scale changes of this sort before, and didn't do it quite right. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 04:32, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

I actually came here to give you a notification about not adding an edit summary. I noticed a few of these edit on pages on my watchlist and assumed someone had gone around deleting these again, and I re-reverted my edit on Nirvana only after I find the discussion in your edit log. Just a warning, you might see more editors like us popping onto your talk page about this. Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 06:56, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your work. For future reference (or if there are still more to do) for a significant edit being made to a large amount of articles, it would be good to include more of an edit summary. In this case for the thousands of page watchers on 700 articles. Again, thanks for your work. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 13:35, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Just returning to WP after a bit of a break and wanted to thank you for the clean up you did here - looks like it was a bit of a thankless task so far so wanted to give some encouragement. I think it was the right call. If ediotrs on individual articles feel it is notable enough to include then these discussions should and can happen locally. Thanks again. Vladimir.copic (talk) 04:45, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. The only real mistake I made was not including a link to the discussion. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 04:47, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wikiproject Music § Colin Larkin references. We could really use an experienced editor with this matter, and I hope you're able to provide some input. Thanks. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:13, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

User:Kotterdale99 ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 01:25, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Nail hammer bang. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 05:08, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you kindly. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 09:12, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

199.120.30.196 is probably the same person. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 01:23, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

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Hey JP, who's the sock?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:30, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

This dude? Oh wait, this is meant for the other JP.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:40, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Does either JP mind if I tag? And should it be suspected, proven, or confirmed? I think others besides me would like to know.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:14, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

I didn't run a check or anything, just peeked at the logs to get you an answer as Jpgordon hadn't edited in a bit. Best I leave this to them to respond.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 23:20, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry, shoulda made it clearer. Both editing about Electreon Wireless or Draft:ElectReon Wireless from the same IP. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 23:45, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

What about my wish to tag?--Bbb23 (talk) 00:47, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

I don't care one way or another about tags. But it is cu-confirmed that the newer account is a sock of the older. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 06:24, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello, the optometry page should be about optometry and optometrists not ophthalmology, opticians or their programs/training. Understand the desire to compare and contrast but this is not the place. Better place for is the "eye care professional" page. Ophthalmology is eager to point out they are the only eye care professionals with a general medical degree: look up webmd or most ophthalmology pages. Feel it is necessary to point out optometry is the only program that grants degrees in eye care specifically and leave it at that. If the general public want to dig deeper they can elsewhere. I am a USA trained optometrist, have worked in all areas of eye care for many years, both optometry and ophthalmology, and have a good grasp of training and practical similarities and differences. I also own/operate a private practice and provide comprehensive medical eye care on a regular basis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkeeper27 (talk • contribs) 07:21, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Take it to the article talk page. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 15:05, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

May I know if you have even try to use check User tool to confirm the socks, before deleting, it was very rude that you have deleted, I have provided diffs there. You might have unintionally defended the abusive user Louis Aragon. It was on Wikipedia talk because the page is semi protected for the ips . Thanks 37.111.218.25 (talk) 06:30, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Nope. Your diffs don't suggest anything that would allow checkuser; this is two veteran users with a combined 25 years and 100,000 edits who agree you are wrong, and your suggestion that they are socking without serious evidence constitutes a personal attack; I suggest you desist. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 06:41, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Now I have tried to move the content on Wikipedia namespace, can you please look at it, especially the second case where Louis Aragon editing the User page of Kansas Bear. 37.111.218.25 (talk) 06:54, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Either you're being malicious or you're being stupid. Regardless, stop wasting our time. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 14:59, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick review on this, but the block of User_talk:ALuckKyiv was actually a mistake on my part (two different unsigned edits were made to my talk page, and I miread which was which). Hope you don't mind me overwriting your response (which was entirely appropriate given the context). OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 17:09, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

No prob, ever. Thanks for letting me know. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 17:26, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

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Hi Jpgordon, a renomated user you blocked before has just made an unacceptable personal attack in a talk page. Can you please check it?--109.52.244.177 (talk) 18:32, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

I see no personal attack; I see some slightly annoyed and intemperate language, but nothing even vaguely like an attack. That I blocked him for 3RR has nothing to do with your complaint. And "renomated" isn't a word, at least not in English. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 18:46, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

As per WP:ADMINACCT can you please respond to my question on my talk page - I simply don't understand your response. Nfitz (talk) 05:59, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Hey there. I see you blocked User:The Smokin Enochian - they've been antagonizing another user on their talk page, and showing no indication they're going to request an unblock. The other user is obviously getting heated, and I've advised them to take a breather. Could you possibly please consider revoking their talk page access and save further annoyance? Tony Fox (arf!) 00:59, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

At your service. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 02:47, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! Tony Fox (arf!) 03:54, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

I am coming to you primarily because you were involved in past arbitration for biographies of living persons. I am working on the biography of Martin Kulldorff, one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD), a policy document related to COVID-19. The GBD is controversial and fringe/alt. COVID-19 is a polarizing topic. Therefore, editing can be challenging because MEDRS, BLP, FRINGE/ALT, sanctions for two separate topics, all converge.

I am trying to work through a conduct issue with another editor (Alexbrn) and I have exhausted all attempts to work directly with the editor and that is where I could use your advice or direct assistance. I posted a summary on their talk page (following the dispute resolution recommendations) that explained what actions of theirs I felt were disruptive. Their response was simply "Take it to an admin board."

My question to you is can you assist in resolving this matter or is it more appropriate to take it to the ANI (or other)? As you'll see in the summary, I have tried repeatedly to de-escalate and work through our differences but the other editor is not interested in dispute resolution and continues with what I consider disruptive editing that is negatively impacting the biography for readers (for example, reverting to what I and others consider unverified content on a biography).

I'm trying to keep this brief and there is plenty you can read from the summary and the links provided there (lengthy discussions on talk pages, notice boards, etc). I have sought wide consultation in persistent content disputes. The underlying issue, I believe, is there is a group of editors who think I am editing in a biased manner and who I believe are editing in a biased manner and we have simply not been able to resolve those issues very effectively without impacting the biography. While I don't want the drama of this, I also believe very firmly that a group of editors should not be able to drive off another editor (they have at times been explicit in that desire to drive me away). I do believe that wikipedia is still an important source of information for readers. But the quality of that information is dropping and in this case, I believe it's caused by a lack of adherence to and respect for policy in regards to biographies. I think this issue is exactly the type the arbitration described, especially in the section titled "Problems with biographies of living persons".

Your advice and/or assistance if you chose to help, would be greatly appreciated.

Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Edits) 01:39, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Take it to ANI. I'm not going to dive into a 14-year old arbitration. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 01:48, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice.

Is there more recent and hence more relevant arbitration that would help inform me? The primary reason I brought up the arbitration is because of the ((Ds/alert|blp)) banners that get placed on user and article talk pages that link to that old arbitration (that's how I found out about it, another editor placed the banner on my talk page). The still-frequent use of those banners makes it seem like the arbitration is still relevant. But if it has simply become 'old news' and is no longer really relevant, I will stop referring to it myself.

Thanks again for the feedback.

Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Edits) 02:18, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

I really don't know; BLP isn't one of my particular focuses, so I'm not particularly informed regarding current "case law". --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 04:14, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

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fantastic that you had the opportunity to play in the boingo good on you this makes you, however, a focus of the article, making your pov suspect. so, dig up those sources, and add them before adding the claims. thanks in advance. SkidMountTubularFrame (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 00:11, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Feel free to discuss this on the article talk page. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 03:59, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Hahahaha! So simple! Or, at least, the user apparently thought it would be that simple. Bishonen | tålk 21:56, 29 April 2022 (UTC).

Hello Mr. Gordon, I was wondering if you had any more info on Musti Faun who you said was in The Mystic Knights Of The Oingo Boingo with you? I don't think I know anything about this person but I have a hunch "Musti Faun" is a stage name? Thanks, TitanicFog (talk) 02:12, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

I don't know much about her. She was our choreographer and appeared with us during our runs at the Century City Playhouse and at the Daisy in Beverly Hills from '73 to '75. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 02:33, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Oh how excellent - The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo! I have not heard those words for a while. May I help out? Netherzone (talk) 02:39, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Sure. We're having a real hard time actually documenting the membership of the band from that period; there's a ton of rumor and word of mouth and a paucity of reliable sources. I only know of two reliable sources with names of the members: an LA Times review from March 26, 1975, and a Variety one from April 7 1975. (There are pointers to my own copies of them at Talk:Oingo Boingo.) There are also a lot of photos, but the attributions of some are dubious. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 02:48, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

I will have a look at these and to see what else might be out there. This is a busy time for me at work but things will lighten ups soon, and there are no deadlines in WP, thankfully! Netherzone (talk) 02:53, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much sir! And actually Danny, Charlie Unkeless, and Jan Munroe helped me identify the members! TitanicFog (talk) 02:58, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Sure, and that's exactly word of mouth. See WP:V; unpublished personal communications of any sort don't work as sources. I'm not questioning the validity of any of this, just the suitability of it given Wikipedia's strict rules. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 03:30, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

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Precious

One year!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:14, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

I don't much care whether you answer the user, but I'd like to know if possible. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:59, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Let's see, User:(SONIC Unleashed)and-Chip, User: Flawed WRKD (made, not used), User:Love12many. But it could well be instead a schoolblock situation -- same users were using an IP (other CU info also matched) that was subject to a single article rangeblock on a high school article a couple of months ago. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 16:23, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Ah, that explains this. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:39, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

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• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
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Hi Josh, while investigating some old archive messes, I fixed your first archive (see its history). As the text I added was quite substantial and you're still active, I thought I should let you know. Before the creation of that archive it seems you used the history archiveing method ... I'll let you do what you will with that text. I've also updated the bot name in your archive header; hope you don't mind. Graham87 12:42, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Hey JP, can you tell me who is the master? BTW, when you review an unblock request, don't indent - it screws up the template, but don't ask me why. :-) --Bbb23 (talk) 12:41, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

I don't do that, but if for some reason the user puts indentation before the unblock request, the semi-automated unblock review tool doesn't remove the indentation, which is what causes the problem. Firekong808 is another sock in the MegaMack02 farm. There's some silly stuff going on there, and it's possible there are a couple of middle school kids going back and forth on the same computer. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 13:32, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks...for both explanations.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:40, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

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I just spotted (due to their talk page being added to my watchlist with my commenting on it) that you had G3 deleted the talkpage for User talk:160.2.59.92 about 20 minutes before they returned and mass pasted their 9kb "creations" from a past IP address's talkpage from Nov 2020, and pasted it verbatum. I blanked the page, but you may wish to G3 delete it again. Before you do so however, do have a look at User talk:98.36.244.15 (who has not edited since Nov 2020 when they were blocked for 6mo for the same type of talk page editings) as they appear to be the same person, just so you have some foresight with how they will likely respond. The amusing part first though is they think they are still? newly? blocked, and are asking for an unblock (with dubious reasoning), but (from what I can see as a normal user) they have no current blocks. Zinnober9 (talk) 06:17, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

annoyances... thanks. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 12:57, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

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• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

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"Both parties, I would hope"? You might need my support someday. Don't bother asking me for it, as I think you'll likely not get it. GoodDay (talk) 19:05, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

I'm sure I'll keep that in mind. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 19:15, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi JP, can I know what other account(s) are operated by the this person? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:26, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

User:Kunzil; dunno why I didn't block that one. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 18:32, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

No worries. I've blocked and tagged. :-) Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:59, 17 July 2022 (UTC)