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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Bali Myna 0A2A9443.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:39, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Concentric temples of Kalna.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:43, 6 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello MER-C: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:26, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:26, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Noticed a recreated spam page (it was declined on AfC and was deleted a few times); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G5_Entertainment. It has also cross-wiki spam signs(was uploaded to Ukrainian wiki a few years ago and simultaneously to Belarus wiki and after one day to English wiki under this name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G5_Entertainment_Group but go deleted by GSS admin). And recently, it was added to Simple wiki. 2003:E7:5F18:53F5:90C9:4043:7CB0:638 (talk) 13:49, 16 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Sabella pavonina - Hippocampus hippocampus - Porto Cesareo, Italy (DSC2314M).jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 10:15, 19 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Merry Christmas, MER-C! Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969 TT me 15:00, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:00, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:035 Uganda kobs mating at Queen Elizabeth National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:06, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

~~~ Merry Christmas! ~~~
Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten!
¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua!
God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce!
Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством!
শুভ বড়দিন! ~ 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스!
สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành!
Весела Коледа! ~ Meri Kirihimete!

Hello, MER-C! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Chris Troutman (talk) 23:16, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:017 Great blue turaco at Kibale forest National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 03:15, 30 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Flussregenpfeifer im flachen Wasser 01.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 10:02, 30 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This page is a paid spam Buoy Health and I have evidence of it. 23.164.184.64 (talk) 19:03, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Blocked and quarantined. Thanks for reporting. MER-C 03:31, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi MER-C. I noticed that you previously G5ed BetterMe, so I just wanted to bring this to your attention. Cheers! Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 16:30, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Looks like a sock. Article is a clear derivative of the deleted text. Blocked, thanks for reporting. MER-C 19:29, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, please take a look on templates being deleted in Nick_Bilogorskiy by Максим Огородник in September Diff. Why would one do this without adding any content... Anntinomy (talk) 18:40, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It could be a WP:PROXYING thing - the Qq8 account dates back to 2007. I need more evidence than this to block. MER-C 19:36, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

ok, may be COI template then? since Qq8 is Ihor Markov Igor L. Markov, who is on the board of Nova Ukraine with Bilogorskiy and Ostap Korkuna. Anntinomy (talk) 22:28, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, MER-C,

I was looking at User talk:SergeyAntloy and noticed that there was no notice that this editor was blocked for sockpuppetry. I was surprised because this has been the practice for the checkusers and SPI clerks I have worked with in the past. If you are following up the closure of an SPI case and blocking sockpuppets could you take a moment and put a notice on the User talk page? It helps editors who are following up their edits with questions also a block notice tells the editor how to appeal their block and I don't think it will take more than a minute or two of your time.

I wouldn't make this request if I didn't think this was standard practice for admins who help with SPI cases but I think it is. You can ask your fellow admins if my perception is accurate. Many thanks for all of the work you are doing, especially with some of these very large sockpuppet cases. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:13, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I do a lot of blocking outside of SPI but will keep this in mind. MER-C 19:27, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi MER-C! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:34, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Graceful Pitta 0A2A8564.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:22, 14 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:024 Red-chested cuckoo at Kibale forest National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:20, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Faneca (Trisopterus luscus), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2022-07-29, DD 43.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:22, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Mango fruit Nam Dok Mai.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:23, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

https://xtools.wmcloud.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/NamanNomad/all#0 please review highly promotional articles. I know that this user is paid (I can share more details via email). 2603:7000:3FF0:9480:84BB:6445:F225:F5A8 (talk) 12:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Eva Nogales in 2023 06.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:02, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:044 Grey-headed kingfisher at Queen Elizabeth National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:07, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Palacio Belvedere, Viena, Austria, 2020-02-01, DD 93-95 HDR.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:10, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/G5_Entertainment_Group This page created by Bodiadub sock in Ukrainian Wikipedia was created by another sock (already blocked for socking) in English: G5 Entertainment, while A412 user is always there to defend the page. 80.139.9.212 (talk) 15:16, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NamanNomad/Archive 80.139.9.212 (talk) 15:20, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

G5 Entertainment = Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cassandra Grim, GuarantCo = Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bigneeerman. I quarantined two pages and blocked two historical sockpuppets. MER-C 16:23, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hm, there's some bizzare crossfire of two sockfarms, (one WP:FORUMSHOPPING different noticeboards / IP hopping, one apparently UPE), going on here. This is the fourth thread about it.

See:

• User talk:Callanecc#the same blocked user is here.
• User talk:Liz#paid user
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1147#A user from an IP address is accusing my account of belonging to a sockpuppet farm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/141.136.89.195
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/80.139.9.212
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/89.151.38.106

~ A412 ^talk! 18:21, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I guess I'll reply to the accusation that "A412 user is always there to defend the page".

I have no relation to this page. I picked it up out of the NPP queue, and it's on my watchlist. Either new users love proposing deletion of this page, or someone's socking. (It pretty clearly passes WP:NCORP to my eyes, although to be fair to the IP, it is mildly promotional, probably UPE, though not more egregious than the average corporation article). It was AFDed by some new user, speedy closed as kept, then speedy deletion nominated earlier today. ~ A412 ^talk! 18:29, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@MER-C I think you forgot to quarantine G5 Entertainment 80.139.9.212 (talk) 13:07, 29 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@80.139.9.212 I am requesting you engage with me on any of the pages where you're trying to discuss this article instead of going on this admin talk page end run. What is the issue with the current version of the article? If you think it does not pass inclusion guidelines, please take it to AFD. It's not G5 eligible, and I contest the deletion in any case. ~ A412 ^talk! 16:18, 29 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Raya de arrecife (Taeniura lymma), mar Rojo, Egipto, 2023-04-14, DD 64.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:003 Wild Alpine Ibex Sunset Creux du Van Mont Racine Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:51, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have imposed the request of unprotection per Requests for page protection/Decrease (now archived) about the revoke of the padlock in Domain name, which is currently in protection to prevent further vandalism. However, when I check the date of Domain name, it was dated in 2017 or simply 6 years back from now. Would you mind granting access for anonymous users so that not everyone willingly disrupts, but can contribute to the encyclopedia? 2405:4802:64C7:BF70:B50C:773B:1A40:16BA (talk) 01:05, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@MER-C: I tagged you to know in advance. Thanks for your engagement. 2405:4802:64C7:BF70:B50C:773B:1A40:16BA (talk) 01:06, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The page was protected against random SEOs adding links. This page is a high profile spam target. No amount of time will make that problem go away. MER-C 17:32, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

No, six years is long enough to break the game. This encyclopedia is open, so unprotected seems fine. 2405:4802:64C7:CFE0:20BF:895B:4915:B58A (talk) 01:36, 6 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The spamming has been going on since 2006. It will take only days for the spammers to realise they can spam again. You can lodge a protected edit request on Talk:Domain name. MER-C 17:20, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have proposed a edit request in Talk:Domain name. 2001:EE0:4BC8:4F00:71D2:A29:A5C4:100E (talk) 11:13, 10 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The edit was made. MER-C 19:58, 14 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:The Wounded Angel - Hugo Simberg.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 00:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:King's Cross Western Concourse - central position - 2012-05-02.75.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 00:18, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Indochinese Green-Magpie (ssp. hypoleuca) 0A2A5802.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 15:42, 14 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Jorge Amado, gtfy.00010.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:54, 14 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi! I notice Skidmore-Tynan Independent School District was deleted due to copyright problems. Aren't there revisions of this article from before any copyvio content came up, or was the original revision a copyvio?

If the copyvio stuff came later, the original revisions should be restored (as in stuff before any copyvio stuff was added).

I know a user at Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2022_October_23 stated this was "foundational" but I recall a bunch of school district articles being created in the mid-2000s and I don't recall those having copyright violations in the initial revisions?

WhisperToMe (talk) 05:15, 16 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This article wasn't one of them. The first revision was written in the first person by Jdhenshall. MER-C 17:26, 16 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I see. Thanks for letting me know! I'll just write a new article for it. WhisperToMe (talk) 23:45, 16 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I see recently that you consolidated diffs from pages 50-62 into page 49. Since then, all pages after page 14 have been mostly cleared. I was wondering if there was any way you could consolidate the edits after page 14 again. Scorpions1325 (talk) 02:41, 17 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]