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Report concerning User:Leaderone22

Leaderone22 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism-only account XReport ―Riad Salih (talk) 22:33, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Not obvious. Could you please explain more? --Wolverène (talk) 04:27, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

@Wolverène His edits have all been reverted. Despite leaving him a warning on his talk page, he persists in engaging in vandalism. Riad Salih (talk) 22:26, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

@باسم: Hello Bassem, what do you think? Rather looks like non-consensus/disputable edits than a typical vandalism. Also my understanding of the Arabic/Maghrebi history is too superficial to be in the context. --Wolverène (talk) 10:13, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

@Wolverène: hello. I don't think this user intended vandalism, although he made some mistakes but would say its good faith. Best-- باسم (talk) 11:31, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying. In this case, I recommend to you, Riad Salih, to try to reach some consensus with Leaderone22 if you believe that the user leaves inaccurate information. Inaccuracy is not same with vandalism. Best regards, --Wolverène (talk) 11:49, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:2001:861:3700:2BC0:D0E9:F042:3556:7642

2001:861:3700:2BC0:D0E9:F042:3556:7642 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: removes valid sitelinks ―Samoasambia ✎ 04:34, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done for 31 hours. --Wolverène (talk) 08:06, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

@Wolverène: please use range-blocking when dealing with IPv5. This time I did it for you Estopedist1 (talk) 09:47, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

I often have troubles with determining the IPv5/IPv6 ranges. --Wolverène (talk) 09:53, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

w:User:TonyBallioni/Just block the /64. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 09:55, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. --Wolverène (talk) 10:04, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning 137.101.8.60

137.101.8.60 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) Sock of LiliaMiller2002 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)). Typical vandalism concerning dead people, e.g. [1] after final warning. Sjö (talk) 04:53, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done: Blocked for 3 months.--S8321414 (talk) 05:08, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:193.121.37.119

193.121.37.119 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Not sure if old vandalism should be reported (this was done back in February), but here you go - both of their only two edits are clearly vandalism. ―Fordaemdur (talk) 21:46, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

  Thanks for your concern, but the disruptive actions are not regular from the range to which the IP address belongs. Not necessary to report old vandalism edits, just eliminate them if they are still left like you did it at Q16988436. :) --Wolverène (talk) 09:57, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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Protection request

Hi. Please, protect Q12731153. Vandalisms after tonight's match. Spanish wiki already had to be protect because of the same reason. Lost in subtitles (talk) 22:38, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done: Protected for 1 month.--S8321414 (talk) 23:34, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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Systematic error related to patrollable edits

see Wikidata:Project_chat#Systematic_error_related_to_patrollable_edits Estopedist1 (talk) 06:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Faceofboe27

Faceofboe27 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism-only account XReport ―--Wüstenspringmaus _talk 08:30, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done: Blocked.--S8321414 (talk) 08:38, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:85.192.74.208

85.192.74.208 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: LTA XReport ―--Wüstenspringmaus _talk 09:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done:Blocked for 3 months.--S8321414 (talk) 09:21, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:AntoniMorali

AntoniMorali (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Possible scamming attempts. XReport ―Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 11:46, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Warned. Let's see if the actions will be recurred. --Wolverène (talk) 11:56, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Now globally locked. –FlyingAce^✈hello 15:10, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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Semi-protection for Coordinate Me pages

I’m asking for semi-protection of the following landing pages and closely connected project pages of a planned Central Notice campaign until May 31st, 2024:

• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Participate
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Tools
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Results and winners
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/de
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Participate/de
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Tools/de
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Results and winners/de
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/es
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Participate/es
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Tools/es
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Results and winners/es
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/fr
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Participate/fr
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Tools/fr
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Results and winners/fr
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/nl
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Participate/nl
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Tools/nl
• Wikidata:Events/Coordinate Me 2024/Results and winners/nl

These pages are likely to be affected by high traffic and potential vandalism. Thank you! --Manfred Werner (WMAT) (talk) 15:13, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done --Saroj (talk) 18:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:85.192.70.85

85.192.70.85 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: persistent vandalism ―. HombreDHojalata.^talk 18:02, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

 Blocked for 1 month. --Saroj (talk) 18:12, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Nabilla Benatia

Nabilla Benatia (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Continuous vandalism over the past 5 days. All edits have been reverted but user keeps going. ―Bricks&Wood (talk) 18:05, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:80.32.218.22

80.32.218.22 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: LTA XReport ―--Wüstenspringmaus _talk 07:20, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done:Blocked for 1 week.--S8321414 (talk) 07:34, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Enriquegarcio

Enriquegarcio (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism-only account XReport ―--Wüstenspringmaus _talk 13:23, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done, globally locked. Cheers, Hoo man (talk) 13:26, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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Karl Lagerfeld (Q76716)

Multiple vandalism by user SOYXANDER22 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) (vandalism only) and IP. Protection for this page and blocking of this user requested. Killerkürbis (talk) 14:14, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Blocked indef, page protected for a week. –FlyingAce^✈hello 14:28, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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Semi protection

Ongoing vandalism from IP's in Carla Jara Cádiz (Q2939029). Thanks Soylacarli (talk) 14:49, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done Protected. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 14:57, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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Bottedits without Botflag

Bot edits have been flooding the recent edits for a long time. the bot edits come from a few users and they don't have a bot flag and make up to 4 edits a second, so we don't have an overview of the recent edits anymore and there are often error messages from Mediawiki. i suspect this is due to the simultaneous edits. The edits are made by running several jobs simultaneously with the QuickStatements tool. I think we should stop this.Editing in this rhythm has too many negative effects on other users. The mass of simultaneous contributions must definitely be reduced --WikiBayer (talk) 14:57, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Users, including those with a bot flag, are ratelimited to 90 edits per minute, and it is widely accepted to run at that pace without a bot flag when using batch editing tools such as QuickStatements. The exception are admins who are not ratelimited, and who should be more careful with these tools (e.g. use the admin account for small batches only, and use a non-admin flooder account otherwise). Apart from that, this is a wiki with largely automated editing in large numbers, clearly beyond what is possible to monitor with the classical recent changes tracking tools. —MisterSynergy (talk) 15:47, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

@MisterSynergyYes wikidata is automated a lot. The problem is that there are hundreds of thousands of edits from 2 users and they are made for more than 24 hours. But it makes a difference whether you make 1000 or 500000 contributions. yesterday I had several times the message timeout in the last changes. There is also the possibility to request the pseudobot flag. WikiBayer (talk) 16:16, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:2A02:2F0E:5904:1D00:ACBF:9044:4816:EBCE

2A02:2F0E:5904:1D00:ACBF:9044:4816:EBCE (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport ―--Wüstenspringmaus _talk 17:33, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

@WikiBayer: I've blocked the /64 range, as it is showing a longer pattern of disruption (see en:WP:64). –FlyingAce^✈hello 18:17, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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Requesting for semi-protection

• Please semi-protect assassination of Anwar Sadat (Q2756743) due to persistent disruptive editing. كريم رائد (talk) 18:00, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

   Protected for one year (2nd protection) Estopedist1 (talk) 18:10, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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Request for protection

Please semi-protect Q97193048. Thanks --Wüstenspringmaus _talk 17:52, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

 Protected for six months Estopedist1 (talk) 18:11, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:37.222.78.127

37.222.78.127 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Sock of LiliaMiller2002 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)). Up to their usual vandalism in items about dead people. Sjö (talk) 17:56, 18 April 2024 (UTC) ―Sjö (talk) 17:56, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done: Blocked for 3 months.--S8321414 (talk) 23:23, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Report concerning User:82.77.64.13

82.77.64.13 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • SUL (for IP: GUC)) — Reasons: Vandalism, change statements to wrong information. ―S8321414 (talk) 23:31, 18 April 2024 (UTC)